So when did you stop beating your wife?

Yes, well i’ve given up on the notion of figuring out ‘who the powers that be are’. Most days it can be the newscycle that repeats the same info until its imprinted on our mind. Gossip works like that.

It reminds me of a story of a former US Secretary of Labor who was indicted, tried and acquitted who said : Yes, but where do I go to get my reputation back?

I know fear of being ‘marked’ or ‘branded’ by my now x husbands drug problem accelerated my divorce by at least a few years because I didn’t want to be painted with the same brush.I was terrified that people would think I was like him and unable to perform my job in a trustworthy manner (this is my capricorn)

How much can we control considering the speed of information dissemination and the lack of competence and integrity we see in so many areas of our lives.

That’s sad how you were slandered and that’s what it was.

I think my Neptune is 19 degrees Libra.

Yeah. Mercuy conj Neptune.

I’m sick of going grocery shopping and wondering if the product I want to buy is going to give me the trots.

Neptune on the midheaven – happens all the time…I’ve learned to ignore it unless it could damage me in some way…what’s most frustrating is being told that I’m LYING b/c what I’m saying simply couldn’t be true (b/c of their assumptions about me)…Makes both my Aries AND my Aquarius bristle like mad!!!

Thanks, Dan. It is actually a surreal situation where nothing can be done about anything other than entertain myself by writing about it.

Also good to marvel at. The phenomena and all. I don’t mind getting smarter and sometimes this is how it happens.

I am misunderstood quite often, but I peg this to sun/saturn/ascendant pileup more than my Neptune. But I’ve got Sun/Saturn/Asc in Gemini opposed by Moon/Neptune in 7th house Sagittarius. I figure people are going to see what they see, and there’s not much I can do about it. I just speak my own truth(Gemini joke there)and know that the people who matter will take the time to know what’s real and what’s not.

I don’t know how much misinformation I get. I had one ex I don’t consider to be a liar, but he was really really overly optimistic and everything he would say was looking on the bright side even when uh, things really weren’t going to go his way on that. (Example: expecting to get a loan from relatives who have loaned so much money to other relatives who never paid them back, after the relatives have stopped loaning out money. Truly thinking it will happen.)

And one weekend my friend’s boyfriend came to visit along with her and told me all kinds of horrible things about the aforementioned boyfriend. Supposedly everyone in his town was mad at him. Turned out that guy just liked to make up crap for fun, and the supposed people he cited as being mad at my boyfriend were just no longer speaking to him.

Neptune in second, trine Saturn and Mercury.

In my first fulltime job (in an advertising agency, I should have known better), I was going along doing my job. And I was doing a good job. There were lies and rumors, but I assumed that the people in charge would be able to see through all of that. That the people in charge had character and could therefore tell integrity and lack of integrity.

The lies became the truth, and I was actually in danger of being fired! And, mind you, not once did anyone, at any level of the company, actually sit down with me to verify anything. This whole time I am literally just doing my job. Working overtime, in fact.

I did not get fired, but only because the higher-ups started fighting with each other instead and eventually the company went down. But I learned an important lesson.

My neptune is in Sag in the 5th. I always chocked it up to moon in aries in 10th opposite Pluto in libra in 4th square Mercury/Saturn in cancer in 12th. Work has been a total pain in the ass for as long as I can remember.