Transiting Mars in Cancer (home) is in aspect to my natal Mars Mercury. My kids are home for fall break so lots of action around here. My daughter clicks off from talking to her friend on her cell phone.

“Mom, did you know my friend can recite your conversation talking to the soldier?”

“No. Do you mean I am loud?”

“You’re yelling.”

“Yeah, I know. It’s loud and he’s hard of hearing.”

“I know.”

“Well I don’t care if she can hear me. Just tell her I’m crazy. Say, my mom is crazy, it’s not my fault.”

“I do. I do tell people that.”

“Well okay then, is there a problem? I don’t think there is. I think their mother should entertain you as well as I do them so how about that? This is worth something.”

She just laughed.

I could tell she had more material for her book, but whatever. As all people who have Leo in their chart say, “So be it.”

Our 8th houses commune here.

The movie played on and people continued to get killed in booby traps. There were a lot of impaled people. There were an “over lot” I thought, and there is one scene where the soldiers come upon dead people impaled or strung up on a fence.

“Now I know you’ve seen that,” I said. ‘Exactly what do you do think when you see something like that? How does it feel?”

“Oh, well it feels horrible. It feels awful when you see something like that and this is how I learned to put things aside the way I do.”

“What do you mean?” (swearing below the break) Continue reading The Soldier and P and John Wayne’s Movie, “The Green Berets”: Coping With The Psychological Trauma Of War

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cj asks:

Elsa, what about Neptune’s station direct today? Isn’t the hall of mirrors tripled or something? Plus it’s Halloween… what about the spooks?

cj – I know, but I pay attention to what other astrologers write and so many addressed this… I try to take an innovative angle. Neptune turning direct is a very big deal but I am preferring to address it in a Neptune (indirect) fashion via the story I am telling. The Green Beret story, but also the rest of the music stuff on the blog in the last days.

I like this method. It is mine. It is a Venus in Leo (entertainment) square Neptune (diffuse) way of doing things and I will leave the more direct approaches to the people who are better equipped to deliver that.

On Halloween / Scorpio season, same thing. I am writing all about death in a way that is concentrated and potent so you get the idea. It’s all here, it’s just fuzzy.

Do you have a game? Do you know what it is and more importantly, do you play it?

Shell writes:

“Now, about telling somebody the truth about their chart so things are not sugar coated…..
I have Scorpio ASC and I’ve read on 3 separate occasions from 3 separate sources that Scorpio ASC usually marry twice because they are widowed with their first spouse. This has bothered me to no end! I’ve even cried about it a few times. I know we will all lose people in our lives but the thought that I may be predisposed to lose my best friend KILLS me. I wish I had never read about it…and I wasn’t looking for it, it just was there, as I was reading. Elsa, or anybody, how do you not let this get you down? It’s easier said than done.”

Shell – Personally I would discount theses sources, all three of them. There are a lot people not equipped to read a chart or counsel people and I can tell you right now that you ran into 3 of them.

First of all, there is no way they can know that. Secondly, it is simply not true. Taurus on the descendant makes a Venus house, Venus ruled. That’s good. Further, Taurus is stable and smacks of a permanent love. Taurus is not involved with death!

It is very important to scrutinize the source of your information and in your case… well I’d say that you have been hosed. Someone was being dramatic at your expense.

Scorpio rising? I say purge! Write their names on a piece of paper and burn it if you have to. This stuff is trash. It’s an infection and it does not belong in your psyche so get it out and get it out now.

Anyone else?

Venus looks itchy. Inherently uncomfortable in Virgo, Venus is also being agitated by Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto which smacks of having too many Gods in the pot!

Thankfully, there is still a grand trine in the water signs. Neptune is also beautifully aspected so escape is on offer for those who know how to lie back in the pool but make no mistake. There is some catty stuff going on out there.

“I have pictures of other traps I have found,” he said. “I have one I took with my boot hanging over a punji trap.”

“You thought that was funny?”

“Uh huh.”

“I would like to see that picture. I would like to see all your pictures.”

“Well, I’ll show them to you. But I sure wish you were a man. It’s too bad you have to be a girl,” he said.

“What? You just told me yesterday how glad you were that I was a girl.” (Note the Pisces here… two fish, two directions) “You specifically said, I sure am glad you’re a girl, P.”

“Well yeah. I want a girl to sleep with but I want another man when it comes to looking at war pictures. War pictures are something men should see ,” he said.

“Well I’m sorry about that. But I would like to see them if you want so whatever. You decide.”

“Well I’m going to show them to you, you know I am. I just wish… oh, never mind, P.”

“Yeah, okay. And mourn my femaleness on your own time, would you? I’m not changing and I don’t want to listen to complaints about my sex. It’s not going to kill you if a girl sees your pictures. I am pretty sure you’ll survive the horror, won’t you?”

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Dear Scorpio,

I am not positive what is going on here but I have some guesses. First, it may help to understand your friend’s nature. As a Cancer she is going to withdraw at times. She can’t help this anymore than a leopard can help the fact it has spots, so it might help to ease some of the conflict if you became aware of this.

Secondly, although you have a stellium in Scorpio you have an Aquarius Moon and you like quirky women. So in essence part of this problem lies in you. If you were pure Scorpio this would be a much simpler equation but there is conflict between the needs of Scorpio and Aquarius and they are reflected in your relationship with your friend.

Now here’s my advice: get hip to the fact this girl has moods and I don’t mean she has one or two moods, she has twelve! Keep an eye on this and you will see what I mean, each mood last 2.5 days (the length of time the Moon stays in a sign).

Armed with this information, learned to recognize which moods don’t jibe so well with you (for example if she wants / needs to be alone she is going to push you out) and when they come along, use your innate ability to detach (Aquarius) to protect your more tender Scorpio side.

Scorpio can also deal with this because it can be like a science experiment and you are not just studying her. Because what will help you most is getting to know yourself better and frankly, this girl seems a perfect vehicle on that front.

Good luck!

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This is a Neptune bit on various levels. Movies are Neptune-ruled for starters and the other themes will emerge as I go (I think) In whatever case, Mercury (writing) is trine Neptune at the moment, so this seems a good topic. Jupiter is involved, so this calls for a story, I guess…

We wound up watching that old John Wayne movie, “The Green Berets” this weekend. I didn’t really want to watch it and either did the soldier but it wound up in our hands anyway. Continue reading The Soldier and P… and John Wayne’s Movie, “The Green Berets”

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Virgo, yes this absolutely happens. I was just telling a friend last night about this guy who came to me for a consult. His wife had left him, took his kids out of state, blah, blah, blah. He was hurting. He was in so much pain and it was obvious via his chart that his life was going to positively suck for the next two years and I had to tell him.

Some people think you should not tell people bad things…. it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, but I think you should not tell people things are going to be looking up when they are not. They are going to find out you’re full of it pretty rapidly, anyway.

Have you ever had an entirely bad (or good) year? What happened?

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