Last week I mentioned Judge Roy Bean and Lillie Langtry, the woman he idolized. The soldier told me he related to Bean’s personality (he was he hanging judge) and that his love for me is as enduring and all encompassing Roy’s love for Lillie whom he’d never met (Venus Neptune).

He thought we should see the movie so I got it so we had it on hand today… the day it’s star, Paul Newman died.

I have always liked Paul Newman but I have never in my life been as impressed with a philanthropist as I was the day Newman went on the Oprah show (about 10 years ago) and explained he’d be dying. Yep. He told Oprah he was getting old and asked her if she might take over his charities when he died. Now how cool is that?

It was one of the most heartening things I had ever seen in my life. Turns out some people not only know how to live well, they also know how to die (well) and seeing as this has been my ambition since I was 8 years old… well if he can do it, I can do it and that’s all I have to say.

What do you have to say about Paul Newman?

Many of you know that my grandfather and double Capricorn, Henry built houses. He built adobe houses specifically and I built them with him.

Consequently I have never picked a man who cannot build things and the soldier is no exception.

He landed here and started drawing plans on day two.  He is now building.  That’s the beginning of a sawhorse which will be heavy-duty, multi-purpose and necessary so he can build his next ideas.

Continue reading Stephen King’s Quote On Illiteracy And The Army vs (The Saturn) Reality

“Well I am his legacy,” I explained the soldier regarding my father. “I inherit his energy whether I like it or not. It is no different than you and your son. Your son is your legacy… doesn’t matter if he wants it that way because it is that way. See him on that video and whose grin is that?” I asked.

“My grin.”

“Right. And regardless who my father is or what he’s done, I look just like him. I have his hair and the guy had charisma you know. He had no shortage of charisma so I can thank him for mine. And because I am his legacy, the older and weaker he becomes the stronger I become. I believe this. His energy is passing to me.”

Continue reading Manipulating Energy – Legacy And Inheritance: Pluto, Scorpio And The 8th House

My daughter and I, talking in the car as we drove across Nebraska after spending the weekend with the soldier…

“Sometimes I wish I had your life,” she said. ‘To write about because my life is not as interesting as yours.”

“What?” I laughed. ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. Look at the characters in your life. You’ve got one… he stands there holding a cigarette in his hand, blowing smoke out his mouth and says he’s not smoking.” I snorted. “You don’t think you can write about that? And how many times have you nearly died? You’ve spent years almost dying don’t you realize?”

“I do realize,” she said. Continue reading Pluto Transit To The Moon – Mine: Empowering My Daughter – Legacy, Scorpio and the 8th House And Oh Yeah, Death, Dying and Writing

Simstim left this interesting comment on the legacy blog:

I think the ‘sins of the father’ is that which causes affliction in the sons that must be resolved by the new generation in order to live a fulfilled life. The most blatant examples of this IMO is child abuse, addiction or an absentee father. Now a son must resolve those sins of the father in his own life to be liberated from them.

The comments on that blog were interesting in general because everyone seemed to parse “sins of the father” in their own way. So with Simstin, the sons pay the price of the father’s sins that are very directly perpetrated upon them. But what about the father who is terrific to his children but perpetrates against the community at large? Take the Enron scandal for example.

Say these fathers ripped off a bunch of other fathers and families. Do the sons suffer for that? What about the son’s sons? Do they have hell to pay too? What do you think?