This post is a PS to the Bridezillas post where I acknowledged I have various skittish behaviors.

My husband and I were talking over Christmas and one thing that came up was my tendency to get pissed off, (irrationally so) in certain circumstances.   The main scenario that sets me off is when his schedule gets out of whack which throws my schedule out of whack.

Continue reading Venting Anger – MARS!

Mars in combination with Saturn has a bad reputation in astrology. Namely, it’s associated with cruelty. Now before people who have this in their chart get upset, my husband has this aspect in his chart and I have written many positive posts about it. (tag – Mars Saturn)

The aspect is associated with cruelty but when you see it pop up in the sky or in a person’s chart it leaves a lot of questions. Is the person cruel, the victim of someone who is cruel, have they been exposed to cruelty or studied it?

Continue reading Transit Watch: Mars Square Saturn – December 29, 2010 – Cruelty And Resolutions For The New Year

Mercury rules the hands among other things, and Mars rules metal, sharp objects, burns etc. Anyone who has Mercury in aspect to Mars is most likely going to have stuff going on with their hands. For example my hand was so badly burned one time, there was a threat of amputation.

The soldier has shrapnel in his hands and the other day I turned his hand over and saw a prominent black line, like a large dark splinter across the surface of his palm. “What is that? Did you get some sort of splinter?”

“No, that’s shrapnel. It moves around.”
Continue reading Mercury in Aries vs Mercury in Libra With Mars Involved: Talking About Shrapnel In Hands

You might remember a week or so back the soldier met a missileer. He talked him for two days without mentioning he was a missileer himself. I wrote about because I thought it was interesting and a week or so later he had cause to call this guy who happens to live in Denver.

“He said we ought to take the wives out to dinner,” the soldier said.

(swearing below the break)

Continue reading Voice Of Mars: Braggart

Saturn (and Uranus) is square the Sun and Mars and many of you know Mars Saturn has a horrible reputation in astrology.

If there is one thing I would like to accomplish in this world, it would be to get people to see that every gift is a curse in exact proportion and vice versa. I am sure this is the case which is why I react so strongly to negative interpretation of various aspect or transits.

Regarding today’s Mars Saturn square I’ll offer up something the soldier said to me this morning. He’s got this aspect natally and we were talking about some difficulty we are having in tandem with others in our inner circle:

“You don’t pick schlups for the work that needs to be done in life and in the world,” he said.

This is a bad day for schlups but the rest of us just do the job.

It’s been about 10 years since someone wanted to argue the validity of astrology with me. I’m glad because I am at a total loss when they do. How is someone supposed to (un)convince me of something I have seen validated on daily (hourly) basis for almost 40 years?

Today’s evidence?

The soldier has that Mercury, Mars, Saturn T-square, yes? He’s spent his life around artillery, motorcycles, missiles, shrapnel, trucks, steel, machining, knives and guess what he’s up to now?

As of today he’s become an apprentice blacksmith.

::snorts::

Yep. He’s going to bang some hot metal around just for the hell of it. An older man (Saturn) will be teaching him but you could have guessed that right?

maureen asks:

“I wonder if he knows how much he’s liked by so many of us on this blog…”

maureen – The soldier has no idea that anyone likes him and in fact thinks hardly anyone does or ever will. He thinks his mother loves him but only because she’s his mother and does not seem to be able to fathom what is obvious to me. People clamor to be around him because his energy is so good. He is funny and smart and just plain inexplicable and a delight.
Continue reading Humility… It’s Attractive, And The Bad Reputation Of Mars in Aspect To Saturn In Astrology

Today is the anniversary of the soldier’s father’s death, so pulling this up to commemorate…

“The woman is always right,” he soldier said. “This is what I was taught. My father taught me and my brother that you never hurt a woman. No matter what she does you can’t do anything back and this is just the way it was. And my sisters took full advantage, believe me. They did all kinds of stuff to my brother and I, but we could never do anything back to them.”

“I see”

“Yeah and if we complained, he just started singing,” he said with a grin.

“Singing what?”

“Oh he’d sing that song, “Downtown”.

“Petula Clark?” I snorted.

“Yeah. Downtown!” he sung. “Things’ll be brighter there! Downtown…”

“Yeah, I know it. Forget all your troubles… oh my God, that’s hysterical. You couldn’t be any funnier, shut your kid right up!”

What were you taught about the genders?

The soldier and I have that Mercury opposition with Mars involved on both sides and we challenge each other almost mindlessly. We both think very little of the direction this (the US) is continuing to move in and we like to talk about what we might do in various circumstances. You know. Like if I get famous and nosy people show up, he is going to shoot them.
Continue reading The Soldier Deals With P’s Doomsday Scenarios