Most creative people know that feeling when the material seems to come through you, rather than from you. When I get in a storytelling mode I can sit and type all day,  having no idea what I’m doing, I just do it.   I have no outline.  I have no agenda other than it’s occurred to me to tell some story. I don’t have a reason to tell the story and don’t feel I need one.  The impulse is there and I obey it.
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Currently Venus is conjunct Mercury in Sagittarius placing a lot of emphasis on a person’s beliefs and principles. Because Venus is involved, the beliefs and principles of “the other” or your partner come into play.

My husband and I have inordinately strong beliefs and principles that we intend to live by. Neither of us are prone to compromise our principles. There are lines we are simply not willing to cross. This is asset rather than a problem in our relationship, right up until we run into a conflict that requires that someone concede something they’re not going to want to concede.

Personally, I will go down for my beliefs. I will die for them because I’m done like dinner with compromising things I know I shouldn’t compromise. My soul is not for sale!

How readily do change your standards or compromise your principles, assuming you have some defined? Would you compromise to save your life? How about your child’s life?

I have been mentioning the Mercury Mars conjunction and blunt speak over these last days and then I wrote this in the Colosseum:

“I do have two charts where it will take an absolute miracle to see these people partnered which apparently they both want in spite of their histories…”

I see now that what I wrote was very coarse.  It made people feel bad but this was not my intention.

I do mean what I wrote but want to qualify it to say, I think miracles are common. I know they are, I see them take place all time and if you think about it you probably see them take place all the time as well.

Specific to this case, I was referring to two women who are just not going to get what they want, doing what they are doing and the miracle part comes in when they run into someone who tells them.  The blunt message (Jupiter) in this case is a benefit (Jupiter).

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I use the phrase, “great fortune” quite a bit.  I see all kind of things in my life and the lives of others to be a great fortune but I don’t think this is usual.

Matter of fact where many see themselves as set upon, I see them as “greatly fortunate”, which is as “Jupiter” a concept as you can get.

Jupiter also rules perspective and while I do not deny pain and suffering and hardship, my perspective is decidedly upbeat and I think this invites favor.

How hard is it for you to see the silver lining or the opportunity in your life?

pictured -Albrecht Dürer,(1471‑1528) Germany, Nemesis (the great Fortune) engraving

Charlotte wrote on Can Happiness Be Learned?

“There are a lot of happy people on this blog, it’s just the general theme and mood of the comments and entries, which just confirms that like attracts like…”

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I agree with Charlotte but I think there is another angle, or separate phenomena that goes on here. One that can’t be stopped because it’s a law of nature.

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When it comes to happy people, I’d say you’re going to see Jupiter strongly placed across the board. It is very hard to take Jupiter down. Matter of fact it is damned near impossible.

If you do take them down, they will be right back up the next day which is why Sagittarius beats the hell out of Scorpio. (All the signs are battered by the one that follows them… including Pisces which is followed by Aries)

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