Yesterday I was talking to a pal about this pregnancy… it’s his wife having the baby and I told him I felt a woman has to die to give birth. The woman dies and is reborn as a mother as her child comes into this world.

And if you think this strange, just try to find a woman with a child who tells you the experience did not impact her. Find me a woman who says she is the same person going in as she was coming out the other side of this odyssey.

And this is a Pluto / Scorpio concept of course. That birth and death are inexplicably linked so on that note, check this from John Townley’s profile of Bob Dylan.

Townley writes:

“…And a final look at that solo water Mars afflicting Sun and Jupiter might come from what else happened under that aspect the day he was born: the famed Nazi battleship Bismarck unexpectedly sunk the H.M.S. Hood with a single shot in the Denmark Strait with appalling loss of life (1416 sailors), and 5000 people drowned in a sudden flash flood on the Ganges. The price of incoming talent on earth, perhaps?”

Very interesting…

Do you feel something must die for something to be born?

As reported on John and Susan Townley’s Astro*News:

The Telegraph of Calcutta, India reports: Birth-fixing to beat Mars – Astrologers, not doctors, determine time of delivery

“…Over the past two months, more and more would-be parents in the state have been opting for “birth by appointment” – that is, manipulating the time of delivery to suit astrological charts.”

20 years ago, my sister, who is also an astrologer was pregnant with her second child. She had a c-section with her first and knew her second baby who also be delivered by c-section which meant she could have some say in what her child’s chart would look like. And she didn’t necessarily have to clue her doctor in either. She debated.

It was a hard decision too. She had all kinds of angles on it. What’s the right thing to do? Do you leave it to some doctor to decide your kid’s life when they can’t even read a chart? Or do you step in and try to control the situation?

In the end, she decided to stay out of it. The doctor scheduled the C-section and she showed up… on time.

What would you have done in my sister’s situation? Elect the chart, or take your chances? And why…