I haven’t really worked out for close to three years. I did spend one summer walking but that’s it. This is marked contrast to my prior habit or working out four or five times a week.

I went back to the gym today. It wasn’t quite as bad as the time I took off 5 years when I had small children. Back then, the room was spinning after 6 or 7 minutes on a treadmill. It was not like that today but it’s still pretty bad. I’ve got what you call a lard-ass at this point, when it comes to carrying it here or there, against resistance. Gone are the days that I could spend an hour on a cross-trainer @ level 20, cracking jokes the whole time!
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From 2007.
Rox asks:

“You say that Scorpios absorb other people’s energy and being one I can say this is totally correct. I find I’m a magnifying glass. Whatever emotion is floating around I tend to mirror and magnify it. So my question is, with all of this absorbing, when do Scorps get to have their “own” energy?”

Rox – I think it’s Pisces that absorbs energy. Scorpio exchanges energy which is a different phenomena. Scorpios have their own energy which they use to attract other people’s energy into their lives whether they are aware of this or not. I’ll explain the difference since I can access both scenarios. Continue reading Open Question: Scorpio Energy… vs Pisces Energy

This is entertainment from 2008. Hit the links at the bottom of each post and be amused at my husband in public…

“More gym problems , P.”

“Oh no!  What happened this time?”

“Well I was going to weigh my fat ass and there was another guy with a fat ass on the scale in front of me. I was standing there in a towel waiting to see just how fat my fat ass was and this other bastard wouldn’t get off the scale!”

“No? Well what was he doing there?” (swearing below the break)

Continue reading Voice Of Mars – Rhino In The City (Gym) Getting Weighed

Yesterday, some guy made a comment about my body as I was leaving the gym.

Talk About Blunt

Whatever weight I had gained I would say it was less than 5 pounds. The soldier had this to say about the incident:

(swearing, all swearing below the break)

Continue reading 2 Years Ago On The Elsa Blog: Voice Of Mars Regarding The Big Mouth At The Gym Yesterday

So HQ was tossing me cards, I was playing them and eventually others started to show up. I got some new friends and I started to build relationships with them. The friendships I already had got stronger and people in the gym started talking to me. All of this was slow. It was so incredibly slow.

For example, I went to the gym 4-5 times a week for almost 2 years before I lost a single pound! This is true. But once I got the weight to come off… well I was looking damned good underneath it, so big shock! I was still in the bad relationship though. I just couldn’t get out and no one could believe this.
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Your progressed Moon changes signs about ever 2 1/2 years and in my case there is always a shift that stuns me. My Moon recently changed signs and what happened is I stopped going to the gym.

I am a gym rat and I have been for YEARS. I have gone to the gym 4-6 week (prefer to go every day) for the last 6 or 7 years. Prior to that, my kids were young but before I had kids, I was also at the gym most days.

Before I joined a gym, I was a very physical job with Frito Lay and you get the idea – I have always worked out in one form or the other but my progressed Moon changed signs and I am now making it to the gym about twice a month which is the same as not going at all.
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First thing to say is this is not my idea. I got it our of Caroline Casey’s book, Making the Gods Work for You: The Astrological Language of the Psyche which is an excellent book for inspired, ethereal or Jupiter types. While the title of the book implies “control”, her premise is not like this. She offers very good (and innovative) ideas around aligning with the various energies. It’s a book full of stuff you’ll not find anywhere else.

In the case of Saturn or Saturn transits, she suggests anyone feeling oppressed consider lifting weights. The idea is to push back against what is weighing you down. She points quite correctly the worst that can happen if you lift weights during a Saturn transit is you’ll wind up stronger but fact is if you actually do this you are apt to wind up with a variety of benefits… for example, your body looks and feels grand and exercise wards off depression that is characteristic of Saturn transits.
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“Yeah, I went in the steam room today and the whole thing was full. There was just wall to wall mf’ers and there was some guy lying down in there.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah, he was just stretched out, no place for me to sit.”

“What did you do?”

“I went over to him, stood over his like this,” he said with his feet apart and his hands on his hips. “You comfortable?”

I roared. “What did he do?”

“Oh, he got his ass up like this, all looking round like who me?” He looked around as if he were bewildered. “Dumb ass. What the hell is wrong with these people, guy lays down in there and other men come in and go stand in the corner because there is nowhere to sit. I don’t get it, P. I just don’t get what people are thinking. Get your ass up, son of a bitch! That’s what I’m thinking.”

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“Yeah, I’ve got plans for those people who think they’re going to have social hour in the pool, stand around and lollygag right there in the lane when I’m trying to swim.  You’d think they’d be able to figure it out. Look at that fat bastard, the old Koreans ladies should be saying. We better get out of here to so that jerk can burn some calories because if there were ever someone who needed to get some fat off their ass, it’s me!”
Continue reading Voice Of Mars – Rhino In The City (Gym): Dealing With The Social Club

And then there was the guy in the sauna who expected the soldier to get up and pour water on the sensor to trigger the steam. The two of them were sitting in the sauna, sweating.

“Do you want some steam?” the guy asked the soldier in passive aggressive style. aggressively.

“Yeah,” the soldier said, not looking up.

The guy sat quietly, no doubt wondering, what the hell.  A few minutes later he asked again. “So do you want some steam?”

“Yeah,” the soldier said. “Yeah, I’d like some steam. Uh huh, some steam would be good, I said just sitting there on my ass.” (swearing  below the break)

Continue reading Voice Of Mars – Rhino In The City (Gym) Sauna