In honor of all the planets in Pisces – here’s a (Neptune) tick to cure addiction…

While I love it, if I eat sugar I become desperately depressed. It puts in a state of despair. Over these last few days I have been talking about baking cookies for the soldier and some emailed me to ask how I was managing to make all these cookies but not eat them.

It was an excellent question because I love cookie dough, specifically and I had a quick answer that represented what I think is one of the smartest ideas I have ever had in my life.
Continue reading Curing Addiction Via Astrology: Might Be The Smartest Thing You Have Ever Read On This Blog…

I have a client who is currently recovering from a relationship where she was deceived. Pulling this up for her benefit. Venus Neptune On The Prowl… Look Out! (from 2007)

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Saturn is in Virgo and I learned recently I have to avoid sugar. I am off it a few weeks now and want to stay that way.
This song came to mind this morning and amused me so here it is for all you people out there who are trying to quit… anything.

What are you trying to quit?

With Venus squaring Pluto some are finding themselves in relationship triangles. This does not mean it’s nasty, for example the soldier, his son and I are triangulated at the moment with good result. However some of you are not faring as well so take this lesson from my gal, Betty if you need too. And keep in mind the other entity is not necessarily another woman. Could be porn… cocaine, his mother… you get the idea.

Lola asks on the Freedom From Repetition Compulsion:

“This may sound like a strange question, but what happens when you recognize your pattern? For me, it was always angry, selfish men…”

What a great question, thank you.

Once you know you’re up to something, trace it back as far as you can. See if you can identify when and how it was set up… generally this happened in the childhood home and it is often obvious. For example, was your father an angry, selfish man? Point is, information is power so get all the information you can.

Armed with the information, I’ll tell my thought process: I don’t like being a cocaine rat. You know how they did those tests with rats? They would addict them to cocaine and watch them go back and back for the cocaine, starving themselves in the process.

Continuing to operate in these patterns once you are aware of them (provided you want to quit) makes you a cocaine rat. Are you a rat? I am not a rat. I am rebel, by God!

So based on this I start making different choices. And as I have told many people, many times when you do this you can expect resistance. For example, I used to date Scorpios with Leo risings. I dated like 9 of them in a row, each relationship disastrous. Gee, man. Maybe I ought to give this up.

So I decided to do exactly that and who do you think I met? More Scorpios with Leo risings. I met several of them and I had to make a choice, see? Do I go with the pattern, or cut a new path. I cut a new path. Three Scorpios with Leo Risings dodged and the universe sent me something new… success!

Anyone else want to share their process?

I was faced with this question over the weekend. I have an alcoholic friend who recently hit bottom and found her way to AA. This is the first time she has ever shown up at their door. She has been in denial about the severity of her problem but when she hit bottom, she did so with such a thud, she was in a meeting the next day and she has been going regularly ever since.

I am very proud of her and understand enough about addiction to know her sobriety is precarious and I feel very protective of her. Actually, I feel very protective of anyone who is trying to right their life so when I found out someone in this gal’s inner circle was blabbing on her… well, what to do?

The gossip was revealing highly personal details about this gal’s last night drinking and the person who told me about it was snickering. He was mocking her which told me a lot about how this information was shared. It was catty. So do I call her and let her know?

I thought about this long and hard. You don’t want to jeopardize a person’s sobriety and I wondered if this was a case of, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.” But on the other hand she’s got a fox in the henhouse, you know?

In the end I called her and she was terribly hurt. She told me she had been warned about this girl before but had overrode her better judgment… we all know how that goes.

It’s a few days later and today we spoke again. She said she dipped down pretty low, having the information but had steeled herself and said she now felt stronger and more resolved to be sober. I was greatly relieved.

I really don’t know that I did the right thing. But I realize with Mars conjunct Mercury in the righteous, up front and blurting 9th house, I really don’t have the capacity to look at a friend and withhold information that is pertinent to them. What about you?

If you know someone is talking (nasty) behind someone’s back, do you tell them? Why or why not?

The soldier calling:

“I’m on the vegetable cookie dough diet,” I said.

‘Yeah?” He laughed.

“Uh huh. I eat some vegetables… lots of them all saut©ed, some parmesan cheese, olive oil all healthy and then I have some cookie dough, cookie dough, cookie dough! Cook-Kee Dough!”

“I’m with ya, P. I wish I was there with you. I’d be eating that cookie dough too. I love that stuff.”

“Yes, it’s grand. But I can’t stop you know. I finally baked the cookies to try to reduce the appeal. Because a cooked cookie is not as good as cold cookie dough.”

“Agree with you, P.”

“Yeah, so I eat a half a slab of dough… a half a pan of cookies and tell myself it’s my health shake.”

He laughed.

“Uh huh. You know how those muscle guys eat shakes with raw eggs in them? Like Charles Atlas? Well that’s what I am doing except I have my raw eggs with some cookie dough. How do you like that?”

“I like it. I want to have some of that cookie dough too.”

“Yeah, yeah. I’m getting away with it so far. I’m looking okay. You know. I’m looking curvy and all but I do think I better stop this so I baked all the cookies and now my dough is ruined.”

Meet Jodie Perkins. She wants to go to jail to kick her cigarette addiction. How Neptune is that? She’s got to be a Pisces or a 12th house Sun.

Funny thing, I did the same thing. Hearing of a 30 day inpatient program for smokers (back when I smoked) I called my insurance and begged them to pay to lock me up for 30 days…

Jail Me So I Can Quit Smoking, Says Iowa Woman
‘I Would Do Anything in the World to Quit,’ She Tells ABC News

CHRIS FRANCESCANI writes:

“An Iowa woman who smokes two packs of cigarettes a day became so frustrated with her addiction that she called the sheriff’s department last week and asked officers to jail her for several days – just to help her kick the nasty habit…

Unfortunately, the jail won’t take her. Read the rest here: abc news

Whenever there is an opposition in the sky or in a chart, you can see it play in relationships. Someone is on one end acting one energy and the other person acts the other end. With the current Saturn Neptune opposition this has been wildly apparent not only in my life but in the lives of everyone around me and it looks like this:

The Neptune person disappears or becomes incapacitated in some way. Could be mental illness, could be addiction… could be any number of things but for whatever reason this one person leaves the scene and becomes inaccessible.

This leaves the Saturn person confused and feeling rejected. They may try to control the Neptune person which causes the Neptune person to become even more evasive which causes the Saturn person to feel depressed and accept (un)reality… that is, that they suck and the Neptune person hates them.

But then the tide turns!

Now the Neptune person is back, typically oblivious to the Saturn person’s duress but so bewitching the Saturn person shrugs and says “Oh what the hell…” They let the Neptune person back in. And is this a mistake?

Hard to say. We aren’t going to know until this opposition breaks apart this summer. Until then, if you’re feeling sorry for the Saturn person, don’t. They are learning from Neptune. They are learning their boundaries are penetrable! They may swear this person off and try to block them out but their feelings melt their walls. Turns out they are human, capable of compassion after all.

On the flip, Neptune is learning from Saturn. Because Saturn keeps going. Drunk and beaten bloody, left in a heap on the side of the road, Saturn is still going to work and don’t think Neptune doesn’t notice. “Jeez, man. Maybe I ought to get myself out of bed and do the right thing like Saturn over there…”