From 2007 – Can astrology help you be happier?

Sonja Lyubomirsky Ph.D. Professor at Stanford University and happiness guru

Dear Elsa,

I liked your happiness posts. I would love to see more astrology on this. What do you look at as a happiness base?  Jupiter? Moon?  Difficult or easy Saturn, Mars, Venus?  Probably everything but do you have a standard procedure for a basic  happy-meter?

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“P, people are going to do that,” the soldier said. “They see we’re happy so they’re going to try to get between us and mess us up. They did it to us when we were kids, it’s just the way people are.”

“Why? Why are they like that?”

“Because they want you to be as miserable as they are. Miserable people want other people to be miserable. Oh he’s doing that. Oh she’s doing this.”

I laughed.

Someone called the soldier once trying to get me in trouble. Told him I put his picture on my blog. The picture was of Boom Boom Mancini, the soldier was flattered.

“They know me so well, they don’t even know what I look like,” he said.
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I was talking to Ben about how I’ve changed in the last couple years due what I have gone through with my daughter and my association with the soldier. Ben is life long friend… 10th house Scorpio Sun with an Aquarius rising.

“But I’m happy,” I said. “I am happy.”

“You’re either happy or you’re in a snit,” he said.

I thought a second. “That’s pretty much it, isn’t it?”

“Yep. If I’m not happy it’s because I’m in a snit. Got my panties in a wad. Got to get those panties unhinged, they’re riding right up my crack…”

Could it be this simple?

Are you happy… or in a snit?

Today I got 3 tips. I got a tip in my tip jar for doing nothing different then I did yesterday, people suggested I sell t-shirts that say, “I have Libra and I can’t decide” and satori told me I should write a book on how to keep a man happy.

I have to say, I feel pretty damned good and weren’t we going to have a happy blog once a week or so?  Something light fare?  Well this is it.

Jupiter is opposing the Sun and Venus in Cancer so tell us something happy.  Maybe even boast a little… while it’s still legal, ha ha ha.

Tell us something happy before they come tell us that laughing makes you fat, it causes cancer, it makes you smoke and further, it creates problems for the depressed so stop it already you lousy not PC bastard!!!

What good thing happened to you today?

Most people had a problem yesterday. If not an out and out conflict… well maybe they got their mouth cut.

The grand cross was jarring and while the sky is still very acute the conditions are improved today and focusing on that can limit your downside.

Here are a bunch of happy people to cheer you up… Accentuate the Positive by New Rhythm and Blue Quartet – Enjoy!

Happiness Is In The Genes, Say Scottish Scientists

Jamie Beatson writes:

“Psychologists at Edinburgh University found that inherited genes control up to half of the personality traits that keep us happy.

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The group were able to identify evidence of common genes that result in certain personality traits, which in turn predispose people to happiness…”

Continue reading Astrology And Happiness: Is Feeling Good In The Genes?

So to flesh out my theory… I asked myself why people would not be happy for the slaves that are freed. Because the slaves are going to be happy for sure. They will be giddy like the soldier and I. So why isn’t the collective happy for the slaves?

Is it because we need slaves? Is it because we need some people oppressed so that others can feel superior? Maybe that’s it. Maybe there are 100 reasons but as I got thinking about this I arrived at the one I liked the best and this is it:

Continue reading My Theory Around Freed Slaves And People Who Begrudge Other People Their Happiness

Besides her happy nurse, my doctor is pretty grand. We like each other and always end up exchanging information and perspective. This time I told her about the happiness study / the set point of happiness (The Psychology of Happiness) and she told me about some of her patients.

“I have some people who have just been through the ringer. They’ve had cancer or something like that so they’ve really just seen so many doctors and been through so much. And they’ll be in for something and say I’m running late and they have to wait. They are always so nice. And I just figured it was because they’d seen so many doctors. But maybe they’re just that kind of person,” she said.

“That’s what I think.”

“Because others come in and there is nothing wrong with them. Something minor and they are just awful. And I want to say, what? Can’t you see I am taking care you here?”

I told her I used to think that people who faced life-threatening illness or had been in a terrible accident always had an enhanced perspective but I’d learned this was not the case.

“When something like that happens… when a life goes acute all it does is make the person more of who they are. So if they are transcendent, they will become more transcendent. But if they are otherwise, they will become more of whatever that is. And I think you can change your tendency through effort but I used to think that a heart opening was automatic after intense experience. Boy was that misguided. Happy people stay that way and miserable people stay their way. So if I ever come in here whining?”

“I won’t worry about you. I’ll say, oh she’s going to be fine. Her set point is high.”

“Yeah. I guess I’ll be smiling just like this when they put me in my grave.”

What in your chart do your blame or credit?