Astrology-Based Advice: Divorcing Aquarius Woman Meets Scorpio Man
Dear Elsa,
My marriage is ending, which is a very good thing. I am seeing someone else though (a Scorpio), who is adding to the confusion in my life.
He is foreign, ambitious, passionate, and exciting. When I am with him, everything seems so effortless and my problems seem manageable. Because we both are very busy people, we do not spend a ton of time together – but the time we do spend is very fulfilling. He is very demonstrative and affectionate physically and verbally, and tells me he loves me and such. However, this is all tempered with days when he is not exactly cold or ambivalent, but close to that.
He’ll be distant for days, and then jump back to being adoring and attentive. It will seesaw like this. Days that are so lovely… then days that are upsetting, because it seems like we are wasting what precious time we have together. This confuses me.
Is this all just a huge mistake? He has been patient and supportive for the most part, but there are those times when he gets almost fatalistic. There are a million other things going on in my life that make every day a trial, and he has been the one place where I feel calm and like I can be myself for better or worse. But then there are those days when his distance adds to the pressure.
I am so confused, I don’t even know what my question is. Is this worth it? I do absolutely adore him but are we just too different? Is this just crappy timing, or could this work?
Signed,
Overwhelmed
Dear Overwhelmed,
Let me read this back, simplified and from my perspective:
You have met someone new, and your life is in flux. This new person is supportive and has you energized; however he is a human being, with various patterns and quirks. The bastard doesn’t go left, left, left, left. He goes left, left, up, down, left, left…
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My Hope For Changes In Society With The Influx Of Planets Into Aries
Astrology in real life
I had a very frustrating conversation with a gal last week, this was in my personal life having nothing to do with my blog. She’s young and not that bright I am sorry to say. I have been waiting for her to figure things out for the better part of a year and this is starting to occur mostly because I am so forceful.
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Regarding The Chat Now – Live Feature On This Blog
Behind the scenes @ ElsaElsa
A few days ago we launched Chat Now – Live and jo asks:
“elsa- i have a question… i’ve never seen the chat module on the sidebar, and i’m on here pretty often. im using google chrome… is it only compatible with certain browsers, or.. am i just always on when you’re not?”
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Wants an Amicable Divorce: Astrology-Based Advice
Hi Elsa,
I am going through a divorce and would like to settle things as amicably as possible? Any suggestions?
Good Intentions
United States
Dear Good,
Yes! Your Moon is in Libra, the sign of balance so you inherently know what is fair. That’s a help, but Libra can also be subtly controlling which can definitely piss people off.
It’s up to you but knowing what is “fair”, you might consciously decide to let your partner have slightly more than s/he is entitled to, for the sake of peace and ease of negotiations. This might not be the easiest thing, but it’s doable if you think in terms of transcendence.
Many people spend their lives locked in conflict with an ex. To me this seems a perfect horror and a waste of a person’s time and energy on this planet. If you feel similar you can see how giving up a little more than what is fair is a bargain in the long run.
Supporting this tack is Neptune transiting your seventh house (relationships). Neptune is concerned with what is good for “all”. It suggests you can be soft and yielding in negotiations, trusting that what you give will come back to you… in spades.
Good luck.
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Sagittarius Woman Wants Her Virgo Man To Tell Her What Is In His Head: Astrology-Based Advice
Dear Elsa,
I have been in love with a Virgo man for two years and we have been talking about living together because we have had a great relationship until now. The only way we can afford to live together is if we move to the East coast, near my family where rent is cheaper. He tells me that he is going to move with me but when I try to make plans and discuss dates and details he acts like he’s not going to move .
This is very frustrating because I am a dedicated Sadge and I feel like he’s not being honest with me about his feelings on moving. How can I get this Virgo to let me know what going on in his head? Or should I just break up and move as hard as that would be?
Sagittarian
United States
Dear Sagittarian,
It sounds to me as if he is telling you what is in his head but in a passive aggressive way that is not your preference.
You have Saturn conjunct your Sun which indicates your serious nature and your desire to plan towards a goal. It does not sound as if this man has a goal in common with yours so yeah. If you are looking for a live in relationship, I think you’d do best to move on.
I’m sorry and good luck.
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Virgo Wife, Battered And Cheated On, Worries About Signing Lease With Mercury Retrograde: Astrology-Based Advice
Hi, Elsa,
I found out my abusive Aquarian husband was cheating on me on Xmas day. I was already prepared to leave him for all of the horrendous physical, emotional, financial abuses he’s heaped upon me throughout our relationship, but this other woman really threw me for a loop. To my knowledge, he’s had over 40 extramarital relationships in less than 5 years with me. We have no sex life whatsoever, and he always blamed me for that. I tried therapy with him, but he was never sincere and each session became an attack on me – and I was paying for it!
Unfortunately, we work for the same organization and the other woman is in his building. She is married with kids. I feel totally humiliated by his flagrant affairs all over the neighborhood where we live and the company where we work. It feels so debilitating to face this every day.
So, I’ve decided to get out. I’ve found an attorney and a place for me and my children to live. But here’s the problem: Mercury turns retrograde next week and I have to sign the lease and move in the middle of it. I already put down a deposit and filled out an application, contacted the mover, etc. I have to get out of here. This man is dangerous. He has assaulted me severely and is a pathological liar. Will I encounter difficulties signing the lease and moving during the retrograde? The intention has been there for weeks. Also, I keep fixating on why he wants this other woman and not me. I am an attractive woman, vibrant, intelligent, respected professionally, yet he’s never been there for me at all.
Is this a real relationship with her or another con? And how do I stop obsessing about him and get over all the pain and humiliation?
Beleaguered Battered Wife
United States
Dear Wife,
I would not worry about Mercury retrograde. Sign the lease and get the hell out. Some things trump other things and this is a case of that.
If you want some more astrology for reassurance, there is a sweet little thing called a Jupiter Saturn trine aspecting your Mars and you should have no doubt you are doing the right thing and will be supported by the universe. Your other challenges are also paper tigers, let’s get real (Saturn) about what is true (Jupiter).
A man who assaults women and has an affair a month does not meet some gal at work and transform into Mr. Wonderful. You know who and what he is and she will find out I’m sure. The guy sounds like a sociopath to me and it is not uncommon they be charming.
As for why he wants this other woman, he does not want this other woman, are your kidding? He wants to meet people, mess with them, ruin their lives. and move along. She doesn’t know this yet but you do.
Keep your head, keep your focus. You have your evidence, Virgo – now get out, get out, get out.
Good luck.
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Cancer Woman Getting Divorced And Has A Flighty Gemini Boyfriend: Astrology-Based Advice
Dear Elsa,
For the last few months I have become involved with a Gemini. We get along fantastic but we are both in the middle of other things. I am in the middle of a divorce and he says he is in a “shaky” relationship and doesn’t know which way it is going. But he very much wants me to be a part of his life… which is questionable to me, being that I sometimes can go a week and a half and hear nothing from him, and then he calls like he just saw me yesterday.
I don’t understand the flightiness. It makes no sense to me – but when we are together it seems so comfortable and easy. I am hoping for a future with him but I have read so many “Bad” things about Gemini I was wondering if I would be smarter to bail now while I have some wits about me or trust this man – I have major trust issues.
Cancer Stellium
United States
Dear Stellium,
It makes no sense to you that your boyfriend who had another girlfriend is not around all that much? Well it makes nothing but sense to me. He’s with the other woman!
I would definitely recommend you bail but not because of anything he is doing. Bail because you are 45 years old, not yet divorced, have self-proclaimed trust issues and you are possibly dating someone else’s man 0 – who it seems can ultimately do nothing but give you even more “trust issues”.
I am sorry to be blunt, but it doesn’t sound as if you are ready for a new relationship in any way, shape or form. Shouldn’t you take a minute, a week, a month, or a year to ponder what went on in your marriage and what might be the root cause of your “trust issues”?
I would not make this kind of judgment if you were involved in something that seemed even remotely reasonable but dating another woman’s man and calling him “flighty” because he is not around smacks of someone profoundly confused. I think your best bet is to stop what you are doing and face the real thing you are doing – getting divorced. And the astrology?
Saturn is transiting your natal Pluto. Time to learn just exactly what is driving you.
Good luck.
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Pisces Man Getting A Divorce He Does Not Want
Dear Elsa,
I moved out of my home a month ago and filed for divorce 2 weeks later, all because that’s what my wife wanted. There has been physical and mental abuse from both parties and my wife has a court date in 2 weeks due to a domestic violence issue. We stopped sleeping together about 4 years ago.
My wife met another man online 2 years ago and went to meet him in person about the same time I filed for divorce. She claims she is too confused right now and wants to cut him out of her life, but not before she tells him that she loves him. I want us to get back together, but all she wants right now is to go full speed ahead with the divorce – even though she claims she doesn’t know how she will feel down the road.
I called her several times a day to beg, plead and reason with her for the first 3 weeks but it’s been a week now since I talked to her. I just wanted to back off and give her some breathing room. I want nothing more than to win my wife back but I am afraid it might be too late. How can I tell if she will ever take me back – or if it’s time for me to move on with my life?
Pisces Husband
Mexico
Dear Pisces.
It sounds to me as if you are serious and it also sounds as if you have a chance to win your wife back – but you are going to have to revolutionize your way of being. And if you are not willing to do this, I am sure a separation is in both your best interests. But so long as you’re willing to really change, here is a map. These are the steps you can take and and with a Capricorn Moon and rising I am sure you know how to follow a plan.
First withdraw the petition for divorce if you can. If she wants a divorce, let her file it. You don’t want a divorce, so what are you doing getting one?
Next, whatever the issues of abuse are, solve them. Don’t care what she did to you. That’s her problem to solve. But you’ve got to stop hitting her, yelling at her, or whatever else you are doing – and you have got to stop it completely. If you find this a challenge, get a therapist and figure out why but you must do this 100%. This is non-negotiable.
You must also use your dick! For Godsakes you cannot let your wife languish and go without sex for 4 years! Are you crazy? Are you drunk? Whatever you are, fix it! Women need sex from men to thrive! PERIOD. You are in your early forties for Chrissakes. There is no excuse!
So there you go. If you hit your wife and deprive her of sex, as far as I am concerned she ought to go find another man! And so she did. But in this case, even though she may love him, she apparently doesn’t want him or she would be gone! So it does seem she may be trying to make a point and you may have a chance… and if so I hope you use it.
But from one Capricorn to another, I can tell you right now: if you keep doing “the wrong thing”, you’re going to do nothing but continue to roll down the hill.
Good luck.
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Ex Husband From Hell: Pluto Transit to T-Square Involving the Sun, Moon, Ascendant, Mars
Dear Elsa,
I feel that I am up against a brick wall when it comes to shared parenting of my two kids with my ex-husband. He wants to be pulling all the strings, while having control over me and my affairs with the girls, and constantly telling me I must do things his way, “in the best interest of the girls”.
No amount of advice from solicitors, or suggestions of communication and remedial help for “us” as a “parenting relationship” will open his mind to realize he can’t have everything his way.
I really feel I am at my wit’s end. Everything falls upon his deaf ears and I am trying hard not to let it show to him. I don’t want it to be a tug of war.
Can you see any slackening to the entrapment and constriction I feel? Even any rise above ashes, so to speak?
With thanks,
Wit’s End
Australia
Dear Wits,
Yes and no. You’re going to get out of this but you have two years to go. Pluto is transiting your T-Square which involves your Sun, Moon, Ascendant and Mars – and I can’t think of anything more hard core than that! So what you need is a new strategy and I can offer one.
You’re in a power struggle with your ex and it’s one you’re not going to win. At least not now and definitely not the way you’re going about this. And please don’t take that as criticism because it’s not meant that way. You sound very sane to me. You sound reasonable. But the way your chart is set up and considering the Pluto transit, I just don’t think you’re going to get anywhere fighting him – as your experience has proven. Instead you will have to do something much harder. I’ll tell you what will work and you’re going to hate this. But you may as well give it a try. Because you’re at your wits end, remember?
You’re going to have to go super yin. You are going to have to let this fire consume you. Change your stance to “Bring it on!” And I don’t mean, bring it on, because you’re going to fight it. I mean, bring it on because you can take it. You can take everything he can deliver and then some. He can pound you into the ground in any of the stupid little ways he knows and you will still be here! He will not kill you. You will not be destroyed.
But I’m not kidding. You must stop being aggressive in any way. Pull your horns in… all the way in. Lay low. Be still. Work with your emotion. Handle it. Let it burn inside and survive it.
And don’t misunderstand. This is not some kind of flippy trick. You are headed into what will no doubt be the most painful transition of your life. But this is unavoidable. And you are not going to be able to rise from any ashes until and unless you are ashes. And you’re not ashes if you’re still fighting, are you?
Let go. Let him try to burn you down. Let him try to destroy you and I promise you’ll find out he’s powerless and you’re not. He cannot kill the mother but no one will find this out until you let him try. I am very sorry. Super yin. Remember that.
Take care and good luck.
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She’s Getting Divorced and It’s Completely Unexpected: Leo Sun, Pisces Moon
Dear Elsa,
After 20 years together, I am in the early process of a surprise divorce. I have 3 young children and want to try and work out any problems. My husband is unwilling and can’t get out of this marriage fast enough. He claims we have always been incompatible and he has been very unhappy a long time. He has been very hostile lately. He is not having an affair, he just wants to be alone without responsibility.
Because of financial reasons, we are trying to handle our own divorce. We are trying to be friendly for the kids sake, but I can hardly handle his hostility and the hatred he has going right now. He refuses to discuss any divorce issues and I am afraid he is going to continue to get more and more selfish and leave us with nothing.
I can’t seem to get over him even though he is treating me like crap. He has agreed to talk to me about this relationship in about 6 months. Meanwhile he has promised to take care of us… but how can I trust him when he seems to be out for his own interests only? I also can’t get over him, I seem to want to protect him, he and I were each other’s first loves. I even want him back and that will never happen.
Being Abandoned
Dear Abandoned,
I feel very sorry for you and wish I could make this all go away. However, the astrology is very clear. Your husband wants out. He is having a Uranus transit (so are you) and damn the torpedoes, he’s going to do what he’s going to do. However, I do think some of your fears are unfounded and I think I can see a way to ease your pain by offering you a detached perspective.
First regarding your security fears for you and your children: although it is perfectly understandable to have them, he is telling you that this is not what he is trying to do. And I don’t think your husband is a liar. So I think you should listen very carefully to what he is telling you, because there’s gobs of information there in the midst of this chaos.
See, you’re scared to death and it’s no wonder. You’ve been hit by a train. But listen to what he’s telling you. He is telling you he is having an extreme urge for freedom. And astrology supports this, believe me. He is having a ‘throw the baby out with the bathwater” sort of time, so just imagine being him. Imagine all the sudden being hit with an incredible sense of being restricted and finding it impossible to endure. Because this is where he is at. “I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!” And he doesn’t even know what “IT” is. And further, I would bet that on some level he is as surprised as you are.
But he is also telling you he cares about his children. And you! He is also telling you he is willing (wants) to talk to your about your relationship in six months… and I believe him. I also think this is very telling.
See, I play cards. And sometimes… well, most times people give a “tell”. They tip their hand with a look or some kind of gesture and your husband has done this with you. I think he wants to go. He needs to go. But personally, I think odds are he will be back. But not if you don’t let him go! So this is my advice:
Open the door. Open it as wide as you can. Give him total freedom. You can do this. You love him, it’s obvious. And when you love someone, there is really nothing to do but give them whatever they want anyway.
And you have a Pisces Moon. So it’s not like you don’t understand this kind of thing. Faith, that is. You have a deep knowing that things work out best, which probably explains why you can’t get over him.
You can’t get over him because he’s not going anywhere. Where’s the other woman, huh? Where is the woman he prefers to you? There is no other woman! Your husband is basically going insane but it’s not permanent. And he is giving you clues all over the place if you will only pick up on them. So try this:
Transcend your fear and act in a way that is totally loving. Give him whatever he asks for. Give him all the space he needs.
Then ask the universe to give you the best outcome for all involved and I bet you get exactly that.
Much love and good luck.
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