Dear Elsa

I wonder whether a worrying nature shows up in charts, and in particular, a type of worrying I’m subject to. My all-time favorite saying is: “I have been through many terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” I see this as a subset of worrying: imagining something going wrong (when there isn’t any particularly strong likelihood, just a possibility) and then “living” the experience in your imagination as opposed to worrying about real things that are actually happening.
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Venus, Mercury, Mars and Saturn are all in Virgo right now, a sign prone to worry. I’d be willing to wager most are worried about something right now so what is it? What are you worried about *right now?

I realize that worry is fruitless (for Godsakes spare me a lecture) however there is way too much Virgo in the sky and this stuff does constellate. My idea is that we air this stuff out and I’ll go first…

I am worried about the end of the United States as I have known (and enjoyed) it.
I am worried about the soldier having an accident or some sudden event due what I can see in the charts… mine, his, his son’s and his sisters.

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The soldier tells me not to worry all the time but I think he worries at least as much as I do. Pisces rising, he has Virgo on his seventh house so projects this energy but sometimes it’s owned…

“I wouldn’t worry about that,” I said. “Look. We are in impossible conditions, trying to have a life. I have been in impossible conditions myself, for 9 years. The conditions are completely impossible but I have still managed to have some kind of life.”

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