Many of you know, I was elected President of the local Woman’s Club in my city for this next season. Our club was founded in 1924 and a one time, 40% of the women in this city belonged to this club. Can you imagine?
The club has been shrinking for years. It’s going to take a lot of effort and every trick in the book to bring this club back from the brink of extinction and that is my job.
Last night, we had a Happy Hour meet and greet were we brought the old (elderly) members together with younger women who were interested in possibly joining the club. We had the older women talk to the new women about the club; some of these women have been in the club for decades.
One gal is not only knowledgeable but particularly eloquent and she was telling us about the club in it’s heyday. This club actually collected books and started a lending library out of one of the gal’s homes. Eventually they had 3000 books, 2 bookcases, and a table which they donated to the city to start the public library here. Can you imagine that?
She said it was at about that time, there was a shift in our society and people stopped joining. They no longer wanted to be associated with an organization and she said that this nor only impacted the Woman’s Club, but that clubs of all kinds lost membership. It’s gone downhill since.
She thinks people benefit when they band together to do something important. We going to try to foster this feeling and restore the club to it’s former prominence.
How do you feel about “joining”. What were you taught about joining a club?” Got Aquarius?
23 Responses to “How Do You Feel About Joining?”
I don’t like to feel coerced into joining. I also don’t like conformist groups where security is based on individuals compromising more than is worth for the greater good. But in groups where the leader is actually in service to the group’s purpose,and where the purpose is truly for the greater good and not just the good of special entities, I’m quite happy to join. I believe in collaboration and in order for that to happen, diversity has to be promoted.
I love joining in especially when there’s a cause involved. Aquarius rules my 5th house plus I have mars there too. I was vp of a society at uni and faught causes, I still do on Facebook in my own way. The downtrodden, abused, marginalised and discriminated get all of my energy (mars).
I’m a loner by nature. But I’m trying to revitalize my more outgoing side because my Libra Sun is unhappy. It’s funny that I’ve started doing this with tSaturn conjunct my Sun. lol
Anyways, I might be slightly reluctant to join clubs, I prefer small groups over big ones. Makes me more comfortable.
Aquarius is on the cusp of my 7th house. I have Mars in the 11th, maybe that’s why I’m not so comfortable with groups and prefer to do my own thing
It depends on who is in the club. I like environments where people are lighthearted and equal. If there was a big-boss, overbearing kind of person in the group, I might be apprehensive to join.
I like Saturn types, and flourish under their wing, but control-freaks….freak me out. I have 1st house Uranus and have a hard time being bossed or pinned down. But I also have 11th house Venus and love to be part of clubs/communities. Clubs should be fun, right?
Joining a group of people with a common interest can be really enjoyable. I think your book club has the potential to expand a lot of viewpoints not only on literature, but on the members’ possibly preconceived ideas of the differences between them. As they get to know one another, watch those differences melt away and be replaced by the joy of sharing books with one another. Elsa, if you even bring 1/10th of the enthusiasm to this club that you bring to this blog, I think you’re going to see a true revitalization happen here! Bravo!
I like the idea of having something on the schedule outside of my own little bubble.
I was in girl scouts and athletics and art club and honorary fraternities during school days. I miss that stuff.
The Interwebs and EE.com fill that void, somewhat, but I only get to “steal” time here and there…not the same.
Many social groups require a membership fee that is out of my reach, and none seem to do fundraisers in lieu of dues. Even joining the health club or yoga is money I can’t seem to justify these days…hopefully, Venus will re-direct the income flow in my life, and SOON! 
PS-yes, aqua moon. Lots of libra too, so socializing is candy!
We charge a whopping $10 a year.
I am enthusiastic, the women are all very colorful and we have a good time.
It’s nice to get off the internet and interact with your neighbors. I like it, anyway.
“Lots of libra too, so socializing is candy!”
I feel like that too! I even like interacting with the waitress, lol. I just doooo.
Have Aqua on the 6th house cusp and a Pisces moon and Chiron in there. Leo Jupiter in the 11th.
I like groups and tend to lead, have ideas and such. I gave someone here the advice that if you don’t know of any group you’d like to join or are not meeting people you like, just start a group. Then people come to you, right? problem solved!
I could start a group or two easily, am thinking about it. Plus I like the party planning aspect, so it’s kinda natural.
My parents, esp my mother, were on all the committees in our church. My mother even has a medal from the Pope. We had all the parties and meeting and gatherings at our house, ’cause it was big. It was a lot of fun being around all that. I give my mom a lot of credit for using her energy that way. She was friends with all the priests and there was always one at Sunday dinner. In retrospect, it was a very intellectual and interesting environment, and being Catholic in such a more involved way than any of my friend’s families was fun and probably very influential to my development. Our family was connected to a lot of people. Odd that things are so different now. I liked the social part, but the church part now is just…gah, tiring. It’s too bad.
We were also all scouts and I joined clubs in school.
my mom is treasurer etc of a women’s club she belongs to here.
i started a sister’s circle at one time but it didn’t have committed leadership. i would probably do it again at another point in life.
i’m in an aquarius with 3 planets in the 11th. i love community. it doesn’t have to be formal in the sense of a club though.
I am Queen Joiner of the Western Hemisphere. I’m always in clubs and classes and stuff like that. I find it weird to be unscheduled!
Yes Aquarius in 10th – spent my first 20 years of adulthood setting UP CLUBS like these then passing them over to others to run. ha!
Last 10 years have been way out of the limelight in that way, became a real loner, but almost everytime I look over my shoulder there is a small group a-forming lol.
There are loads of Women’s Groups here, Spiritual, Business. It does take a mature leader though to make it work, grow and remain successful.
I agree, nothing pushy, just rich, wise humanity.
Go ELSA go!
I’m both a loner and a joiner! – that sounds mad but if you look at my chart, it kinda makes sense.
I have an out of sign stellium in H11. I do join things – social clubs, societies, web forums etc. I’m still a member of two London clubs, and the village History Society etc etc.
But I’ve not yet joined the local ‘Women’s Institute’ which is the equivalent here to your Women’s Club – I don’t feel particularly comfortable in all-women scenarios. I was always more likely to be found as the only woman in a group of men lol. I’m not one of those women-hating gals, but I do like male company when I’m out and about. I think I prefer to be with women one-on-one’.
Dont have any Aquarius, just 11th H Pluto. I would associate depending priority. #1 is time.
I have an Aquarius rising so I have Aquarius but I am very busy with family trying to get them back to their independent status in this economy. Right now even if I wanted to join a club. I don’t have time to participate but hope to soon.
I have Moon in the 11th, in Gemini… and have been a member of several diverse groups in the past. If I lived there I’d want to join your Women’s Club.
The only time I’ll leave a group is when it’s been taken over by power-trippers out to serve their own egos. I seem to get targeted by these types. It happened to the theatre group I was on the board of for many years, and the group disbanded sometime after I moved away.
Interesting post. Many of us think we are loners by nature but I don’t think this is so. We’re just so busy (especially women!) and work has taken over so many of our waking hours that leisure time has been completely curtailed and restricted, so much so that whatever we have of it is reserved for immediate family. Also, we connect with people online now instead of in person and a tweet is considered a meaningful interaction. The book Bowling Alone (can’t remember the author’s name but it came out of Harvard) documents the downturn in social clubs in America and the reasons why. I think it would be a good read Elsa if you are trying to understand how to boost club membership.
I’m a “born follower” or so I’ve been told, I like to go with the flow in groups but I hate when they are disorganized or overly emotional. I used to be in a singing group and a community group but since I got married, started working on my career and beginning a family there is just no time anymore for groups. And no time for myself either!
I joined the Fire Department, but I don’t see that as a club.
I like joining clubs (more than I did before), but I always worry about time constraints/responsibilities to the club and have some commitaphobia there.
For that reason, I have never held a designated position in a club, although I’d like to.
Pluto in the 11th
Joined a lot of clubs early on, but only sparsely join clubs now. (Uranus rising)
Got Moon in my Aries 11th house. I would definetely join and mother over my fellow clubmembers by bringing in food. But I would also expect some free food to be over there. Then I would definately come! My Moon is in Taurus trine Jupiter in Virgo. Also if there was some collective coupon clipping going on so that we good get more free food to use within the group I would be in for sure.
I feel being an active member in my community is very important but I have Jupiter and Pluto in the 3rd so my communitylife tends to be rather intense and I have contacts with a looooot of neighbours. But I also have Uranus in the 3rd so I can suddenly get up and quit. In despite of my mothering I am also the odd one out, never really belong.
With my Jupiter in the 3rd I would also be very interested in having my own library and I would be active within the group to get that going. In fact I was pondering the idea yesterday that when I would have enough astrology books I would do just that to spread the word.
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I am not a joiner by nature. I am a loner. But I live in a rural community and so I am more involved than I would be in an urban or suburban setting. I think that community involvement is a great thing. It helps create a sense of community. I used to help at the elections. Most of the members were elderly ladies and I learned a lot about the local history from those ladies. As I said, I am not a joiner by nature. But I think that most people would benefit greatly from more involvement with clubs and other community groups.