althera wrote thoughtfully about the video I posted where the two kids were killed…

“It’s just that the thoughts were not expressed as compassionately as they could have been. (As a note – I don’t mean to imply that this lapse in expression of compassion is evidence of true lack of compassion, just that this particular lapse in communication of compassion was noticeable.)?”

This is only part of the comment and the rest is worth reading… Selfishness and Greed

I want to respond to this not as a defense because I don’t feel this is an attack but just to remark on sociology of the situation as well as the astrology. This is absolutely not directed at athera or anyone else. It is a comment at large. (swearing below the break)

I understand this thinking but you ought to try being me. It wears on a person to put out as much as I do and try to cross every T.

“That bitch didn’t comb her hair today!”

At some point it’s more about the person calling out the person then it is about the person. I don’t know where that line is but I am pretty sure there is one and I’d just challenge my critics to put out a blog like this for just a week, never mind going on 10 years and see how fast they find their ass in a sling.

There is no perfect since the individual has tastes and since those tastes change… well this is an unwinnable game.

“Cross that t!”
“Leave it as it is!”
“Cross it!”
“Leave it!”
“Now that I think about it… yeah, I guess you should leave it…”

::sighs::

I have learned to bend when the wind that blows on this blog rather than snap and when the wind dies down I go back to form. I have Mars conjunct Mercury and I am BOUND to piss people off, challenge and provoke them. With the conjunction in the 9th house, I am bound to expand the reader… to push boundaries, take chances and so forth. This stuff is HARD WIRED and there is a lesson here as far as relationships go.

People are always trying to control each other. They just can’t see to give up this game. They just can’t seem to accept a person’s limitations or their flaws which of course has not a thing to do with the person they are observing.

So I stand here with Neptune on my midheaven, with all my flaws exposed whether they be flaws in my personality or lapses in judgments or whatever else that YOU might spot. What you do about this has nothing to do with me but I can guarantee you this:

What you do to me / with me / around me is going to be exactly what you do to others. If you judge me, it’s because you are judgmental. If you cut me slack, it’s because you cut people slack. If you attack me, then I guess you’re attacking and if you are kind and compassionate, then you are kind and compassionate.

If you love me but wind up hating me, guess what? I guarantee you this is your pattern with others. So maybe you see what a service it is to stand here and be your mirror.

I put that video up… people didn’t like it. Is it me you don’t like or is it something much larger they put my name on? It it my imperfection that is troubling or is it your own? Is it my lapse of judgment or the fact you have these lapses yourself?

There are tremendous opportunities on this blog. It is what you call a potent son of a bitch and I produce it but beyond that?

Beyond that, nothin’. Beyond that you’re on your own with whatever you are.