Today I was thinking about a family I know that has been destroyed. The family was strong at one time, very strong. It stood for something but the fact is there is nothing left of it. It has been completely decimated.

You see this sometimes when the patriarch or the matriarch dies or becomes dis-empowered due tragedy or the like. Perhaps it is a devastating illness or maybe they lose a child and can’t recover and it can all be traced to that. In whatever case you can look back and see that this one person or maybe two people were holding the thing together, carrying on traditions and values maintained for generations and when they dropped off, that was it. The family fell apart. Continue reading Pluto In Capricorn: Family Destroyed

It’s like being thrown to the lions…

This came up in a consultation…

When I decided to include my sister in the Clearcut Astrology crew, I explained if we used her name, people would search her out and contact her. I let her know I had about a gabillion enemies and the lengths some of them go to to mess me up.

For example, one of the obsessed comments on other astrologer’s blogs using various screen names. They flatter the astrologer and appear clueless and fawning in order to groom them for future operations that target me. Others have contacted satori, tried to befriend her in order to extract personal information about me… you get the idea.
Continue reading Astrology And The Moon: Family Bonding And The Power Of The Feminine – “You can’t turn blood on blood.”

My son is a Taurus, he’s 7. Screen name, Vidroid, he was watching TV before school, eating yogurt.

“You have writing on your head,” I said. The way the lines were drawn on he looked like Frankenstein. “You probably ought to get that off before school.”

“No. People love me like this,” he said.

“What?”

“They love me with this on my head.”
Continue reading Two Years Ago On The Elsa Blog: Taurus, Famous For Their Self Esteem

Came across this the other day…

SaDiablo asked on the Single Mother blog:

“Elsa, you said in your response, “…I assure you that your daughter has the right mother, not the wrong one.” Does this mean that you believe sometimes a child *does have the wrong mother? Just curious, as I’ve kicked this question around myself a few times. I’d like to hear a mother’s perspective.”
Continue reading Astrology and the Family – Can A Person Be Born To The Wrong Parents?

s writes on, “he’s coming to get us, I better get up…”

Intruder scenarios as bedtime stories-jeez, now that IS a Plutonic household! Loved this.

s – My son (with his Sun conjunct Saturn) has had a lot of fear around someone breaking in the house. For years, I mean. In fact he has a nighttime ritual, he asks if all the doors are locked…. twice. He wants to know if is (somewhat) okay to go to sleep at night and the soldier has overheard this on the phone for all these months.

Continue reading More Black Comedy Re: The Phantom Intruder

My son has a Libra Moon (home). The soldier has a T-square involving Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Mars and Saturn in aspect (especially hard aspect) has a terrible reputation in astrology.

When you put the charts together, there is a tight grand cross in the Cardinal signs which by all rights would raise an astrologer’s eye. The question would be, what is going to happen to this kid’s home (Moon) and mother (Moon) when this man moves in with this wicked t-square? But it just goes to show you that there are people out there who make grand lemonade of their lemons as well as people who squander their gifts (their trines).  Because this was the conversation last night… we were all three hanging out in the bedroom.

“I love this home now,” Vidroid said. “I love it!”

The soldier and I looked at him. “You mean with the soldier here?” I asked.

“Yes! It’s great. Before you got here this was a home but now it’s… it’s great! Now it is super sonic!”

The soldier was moved. Vidroid’s mother agrees so here we are supposed to be crushed by that T-square but instead we are feel as if we are moving (Mercury), supported (Saturn) and invigorated (Mars).   Damned impressive.

Anyone out there know they make art of their hardship?

I’m back with a story related to the Lights Out Pluto Moon blog. Some years ago I was driving around with a man, it was about this time of year and we were parked on a neighborhood street to drop my daughter at a friend’s house and he noticed a house that still had Christmas lights up.

“Look at that,” he said. “Talk about lazy. They’ve got Christmas lights up and it’s almost May.

I looked at the house I just didn’t see what he did.

Continue reading Christmas Lights Still Up In May: What Do You Make Of That? And Witch Hunts? What Do You Make Of Those?

“Don’t you do that again. You don’t ever have to keep anything from me, ever. I don’t care what it is that you need to tell me. From now until forever we’re going to be together and I’m going to love you no matter what. So whatever happens, you just tell me what it is, okay, P.”

“Okay.”

“Yeah, doesn’t matter what it is. I will always love you. Let’s say you become a secret alcoholic? If that happens, that’s okay,” he said with a grinning grin. “I’ll still be here and I’ll still love you.”

I laughed.

“Or if you see some guy and you want to fuck him? If he looks good to you, a neighbor you see… someone around here you like, then no problem with that either.”

Continue reading Voice Of Mars: “From Now Until Forever Plus Relationships And Birth Order In Families… Hero, Scapegoat, Lost Child, Masot

The current T-Square in the sky hits my chart hard and I wrote the Marsy story in a effort to expend some of the energy but I can’t say that it helped. ::smirks::

Men, (Mars, Aries) women (Venus, Libra), couples (Libra) and their families (Moon, Cancer) are caught in a vise where any resolution is going to be way off. For example, I know someone who can’t make it home for Thanksgiving this year. No matter how much he wants, it just can’t be done. His family is hurt, therefore he is hurt and when is he going to make it up to them? Next year? Next Thanksgiving? What’s that do for this Thanksgiving? People are sad.

I have a similar rock and a hard place in my own family and can see plain as day that the fix is way off. It’s the retrograde Mars… in Cancer no less which moves sideways as it is! Egads! There seems no choice but to retreat and fight it out another day. But it’s not just me. It’s me and you and you and you and her and him and them and…

Take the situation with the soldier and the judge. What’s he supposed to do? Quit his job, go home and take up arms against her? It’s as if everyone, everywhere is in similar straights (especially if you have planets at mid degrees of the Cardinal signs) and I have more examples…

Take my newly sober alcoholic friend. She’s got some fights to fight, attacks to fend off but what’s more important today? Beat the person back, or protect her sobriety? She has no choice but to stay hunkered down and go day to day, one day at a time. It’s the holidays, right? Everyone knows they stress people out and are prime time for relapse. I could go on and on but why don’t you guys take it from here.

What are you dealing with right now? Do you have your version of this story?