I want to explain the post that caused all the stir, Astrology Blogging: Faith and Destiny. That post was an attempt (that was aborted) to throw some light on what drives me to write this blog. It’s a large topic but I was going to isolate it by focusing on some of the reasons I write about the soldier so much.
That was still too large a topic so I decided to focus primarily on the current piece, “The Soldier and P’s Blog“.
I got writing and found it was still to large so I made the post into what I did and I added the graphic even though I had second, third and fourth thoughts about it.
There have been several illustrations of the Little Match Girl on this blog. There is the one I selected and there are other ones where she is huddled in the cold, dying. She is depicted in other ways as well… they have made a doll of her, she is blond in some of the illustrations, Asian in others, Android or cartoonish in others still.
I did not want to choose the picture I did because it has religious overtones but unfortunately it was the best available to go with the piece. Because the Little Match Girl does see wondrous thing as do I, though the things I see are not religious or angels and the like.
Anyway, the Little Match Girl become relevant in the Soldier and P’s Blog story, I’ve just not got there yet. But I did want to share the fact that when I tell these stories I am SO up to something. In fact, it boggles the mind what I see in my own story and what I am trying to give you so on that note, I will offer this bit, which may be the the tip of the iceberg but might illustrate at least this much: There is an iceberg.
That story on one level is about Scorpio and as Scott would say, it is boldly wrought. Scorpio is a very private sign as I stated in the story. The keep their cards very close and when Scorpio does let someone in, they do it in degrees.
You can think of this in terms of concentric circles. They let you in closer and closer so as you read this story you can see this happening with the soldier. He is revealing more and more of himself as months… and ultimately years pass until we get there and find ourselves poised on the head of this needle.
Now I don’t know if my writing is poor, or if I imagine things no one else can see but I think this is real and I think it is a real offering.
If you are a Scorpio yourself perhaps you can see yourself. If you are with a Scorpio perhaps the story is instructive. Maybe you’re just a voyeur but I am definitely trying to give something by writing this stuff.
The story is full of love and trust and faith and while people say it is personal (and it is), it also has to do with every single one of you if for no other reason than you live in the world with people like us. We are your friends and your neighbors, your brothers and your sisters, your parents or whoever, so there you go. One way or the other this has to do with you and this is one of the reasons I have taken the time to write that story, I am trying to give.
If you read the story, even if you don’t understand any of this consciously, I believe it leaks into you subconscious and feeds you in ways you may not be aware of, perhaps for a very long time. In fact you may never become aware but that doesn’t matter because the stuff is in there.
I know it is in there, because I put it in there. I am afraid in that story. I am scared. It is not particularly fun to write. It is embarrassing for the most part. It is revealing but I decided to anyway because if I don’t who will?
I guess you could say, the story is in my pile of matches so you know what that means. I’ve got to light them.
In whatever case I was going to try to show you some of the things I can see in that story so that you might see them too and learn astrology, etc. etc.
For me it’s like having some magic and wanting to share it but people think all you’ve got is a bag of rocks and that is the hard part. Here comes Elsa with her bullshit. What she doin’ lighting all those matches?
This is very hard to answer because to me, 8 years and 12,000 posts later it seems it should be very obvious.
17 Responses to “The Tip Of The Iceberg…”
From Russell Hoban’s book The Moment Under the Moment:
“…the flickering of seen and unseen actualities,the moment under the moment, can’t be put into words;the most that a writer can do–and this is only rarely achieved– is to write in such a way that the reader finds himself in a place where the unwordable happens off the page. Most of the time it doesn’t happen but trying for it is part of being the hunting-and-finding animal one is.”
I remember reading this and immediately thinking of the writer’s who I enjoyed, and who I didn’t. For example, the book Shantaram that was so popular a few years ago…someone bought it for me and I couldn’t get beyond the first 100 pages because there was so much fore-shadowing I felt the author was undermining my intelligence!
An astrology question, on topic yet off topic : do you limit the scorpio quality to sun in scorp and moon in scorp? What about scorpio rising? Or a first house or prominent pluto?
“you are a highly imaginative and sophisticated teacher.”
kash, I appreciate that but I don’t know if it is real. I don’t feel that on top of it, see.
I feel more like a slave. I have things come to me almost like an assembly line of them and I just have to do as much as I can and not only that, I have to put everything I have into whatever the thing is.
I really have to try to do justice the things I am shown and given to share and I have to do this in spite of my limitations which are profound.
I really can’t be rid of my imperfections, I am a human being. I really can’t work 16 hours a day and hit every note, every time, either and people who have expectations like that are just going to be disappointed no matter what.
moon pluto – personally I find Scorpio rising VERY different then the Sun or Moon in the sign.
Moon conjunct Pluto or in the 8th has much in common with the Moon in Scorpio though. Pluto on the IC deserves a look at well.
Scorpio rising is not a scorpio, it is a scorpio facade. The Sun is who the person is.
*cyber hugs* I’m here. I’m listening. I’m enjoying and contemplating and learning.
“I don’t know if it is real” well…me neither:)…all I have to go by is my feeling I am gleaning information in a way I never have before and I really do appreciate your work.
Elsa, your response to kashmiri explains the compulsion aspect of it REALLY well.
And thank you for the scorpio response.
This is on my mind because I betrayed a scorpio moon (who has moon square pluto). I see her as manipulative/controlling but don’t see myself that way. Could be my Neptune again, lack of clarity…
Anyway, as for this particular post, I feel like I’m digesting it. And do feel very much that it is tip of the iceberg-
I feel the frustration in the blog of trying? Wanting? To tell something that is BIG.
“{I feel the frustration in the blog of trying? Wanting? To tell something that is BIG.”
moonpluto you’ve been dialed in all day, haven’t you? I could not have said it better myself. This is a recent convo I had… few weeks ago.
“I would like to be able to say this. I would like to be able to write this stuff, I swear to God, I am the only one who can but if I do, will anyone understand me? You would not want to write stuff like and wind up with nothing but misunderstanding and fires to put out. Can I say stuff like this?”
“I’d say not,” she said. “I mean, look. You you put the simplest concept and a war breaks out. You have to fight an entire fuckin’ war just to get a simple idea across, I can’t imagine how you’re going to get this other stuff across…”
She’s right but I have not given up. Maybe in five years, see? Maybe I will find something else like the vids that give me credibility or something I lack that I am not aware of. Maybe 10 years? 20? Never? Next life?
All I know is I have a lot of motherfucking matches, so many I wish I were dead when I see how much work is ahead of me.
On that note, did you catch the convo with my sister. She says, “You don’t care if you die but I do..”
We were about 11 and 9 in that anecdote. I have been like this for so long. 
I mean I may have this one life but by God I was drawn boldly and that’s all there is to say.
I found out about my destiny when I was 8 years old and I cursed God, you better believe it. Fuck you, God! FUCCCCCCCCCCCK YOU!
See, I was mouthy when I was 8 too. In fact this is the least mouthy i have ever been in my life because come on. Everything I say nets me a problem!
Yes, even before I had the reading with you (people, it is SO worth it to consult with Elsa) I started reading the blog more consistenly, started commenting more, got on the boards and now I FEEL, like, hooked in. Don’t know how else to put it. And yeah, my daily life and work put me “on the road” so with the Blackberry I keep coming back to the site to see what’s new? Anything new? Compulsive sometimes
The blog also increases in pleasure when you stay hooked in and follow all the threads (rather than be an occasional reader).
And the frustration, I think, is very much a writer’s frustration. As for the wars, people crash their cars in here. Don’t know why. I don’t know if it’s an overall blog/internet thing or if it happens more in here, but it surely does happen in here– sometimes I feel like a voyeur and I think uh oh, there goes another one, she’s gonna crash her car now…
Well if you’re me you can see the car careening weeks in advance. I try to stay out of the way because I don’t think it’s my issue. My job is to produce content but as I have said before, if you have a problem with every single thing I serve here, you should probably find a new restaurant. God knows there are a trillons of them out there.
I really don’t want my hair fixed you know. I am OLD.
Well, I have let you all know, I have both Scorpio Rising, and Scorpio Moon – and when you say that you have told God “fuck you”, well, I so get that. I too have screamed that at the top of my lungs. I am proud of the way I have survived my childhood – won’t bore everyone here, but my mother should have been under a psychiatrist’s care. She did the best with the little mothering skills she had, but I survived, and I was always determined to be the mother to my children that I never had. And I do so appreciate your wonderful blog, and the energy here, and I hope that I have never come across otherwise.
That’s so true about the car crashes… many written at night. I often think … wow… someone really got into the box of wine tonight cause I hate to think people could read what is so clearly written and draw those conclusions without being impaired.
Thank you for your matches. And I completely got that picture was about what the little match girl saw/sees.
I’m sure that a personal story can very well embody values that are common to all of us, for instance trust and faith. This is also the reason why classical literature is so valuable, because it reflects our archetypes. However, there is always a step between the reading and the understanding of these values or archetypes, and it depends on the readers if they are able to distill the meaning or not. The writer cannot do anything but offering the story and doesn’t even need to be concerned about the ability or the reaction of the readers. Many great stories (or art work) only got understood later and/or not by the author’s contemporaries. That’s the tragic.
What astrology does is presenting this archetypes in a way that’s easy to understand, so people don’t need to distill the values from your story but go directly to interpret their own story, and that’s why -I think- it’s more popular.
Elsa- keep on lighting your matches! Your writing continues to shed a powerful light for me.
‘At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.’ Albert Schwietzer
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Thank you for having the courage to write what you do. It is so fascinating, not just from a creative angle but also a *ding ding* astrological angle.
I have always had faith in your story telling abilities, but then again I don’t require every detail to be explained to me. I appreciated what you wrote about not wanting to (paraphrasing here)_______ of the people who are able to just listen to a story! Someone wrote in the comments ‘story time with elsa’ (maybe it was Dorothy).
That was a good comment for me to see, because I was read to, by my dad as a child before bed, and by my mum while we all ate breakfast before we went to school in the morning. That was how I first read the Diary of Anne Frank…my mother read it to me. If I started quizzing her ‘what next’ or ‘what about the blah blah’ she’d say ‘wait til tomorrow.’
but I have Mercury in Taurus and am comfortable with whatever pace…opposing Uranus, so if the direction changes I’m okay with that.
You are not bullshit to me…you are a highly imaginative and sophisticated teacher.