Astrology – Short and Sweet: One Man’s Ace Is Another Man’s Rocket
Astrology in Real Life…
I have Mars Mercury conjunct. A trickster. My husband has Aries. This is from 2007.
“Well they don’t know about me,” I said. “I’m… well, I’m your ace in the hole.”
“Ace? You’re a lot more than that. You’re my 155mm cannon in the hole,” he said.
“What’s that?”
“Big gun. Big, big gun. P. Take out nearly a whole square with one of those.”
“Oh, well that sounds like something good to have.”
“Yeah, it is if you’re a soldier. When fighting someone you’re always better off if you’ve got the bigger gun. And you, P, are as big a gun as they make.”
What Were You Taught About Competing?
Astrology in real life.
I spent most of yesterday thinking and talking to my husband about how the effort you put into something might intersect with the satisfaction you get out of it. He thinks it’s important to note that just because you put a lot of effort into something, it doesn’t automatically mean that you’ll derive satisfaction from it. This goes against concepts that linear-thinking types preach about but it’s just a fact.
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If You Say It When You’re Angry, Does It Count?
Ask the collective.
Last night someone told me that what they said didn’t count because they said it when they were mad. I disagreed, feeling a person is responsible for what they say, regardless of your mood. Having Mars (impulsive, angry) conjunct Mercury (speech), I have learned this the hard way. Matter of fact, every single regret I have is over something I said when I was hotted up and angry that I didn’t mean.
Having suffered profoundly over what came tumbling from my mouth when I was younger I have learned to make sure I say what I mean and mean what I say. Having the conjunction in the 9th house, I better believe (9th house) what I say (Mercury) or I am going down.
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Literal Mars Mercury Neptune Aspects: Disappearing Hand Tools
“Where are the Adirondacks? Well if you put things back when you were done using them I’m sure you’d be able to find them.”
–a Father’s Day card I once gave my Dad
Every time the wind blows more of my fence comes down, so frustrating. This week I wanted to get working on getting it back up but I couldn’t find either of my two hammers. In a house full of children that’s not so strange but I can usually find one if I keep searching. Not this time. I asked the kids if they’d seen them and one said, “Hammers? We don’t have any hammers.” Ugh.
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I don’t know if this will be relatable but I am going to try. I write a lot about brainwashing on this blog. I write about protecting and maintaining your mental health and about exercising your intellect, doing you own thinking, striving to understand things and the like. These interests are shown in my chart by a Mars Mercury conjunction in the 9th house but recently I came up with what is probably the root of my passion and I was surprised.
“I have several children who I’m turning into killers. Wait til they grow up.”
Serial killer, David Berkowitz aka the Son of Sam wrote that. Reading it, I realized that most people don’t know there are people who think like this, plan like this and who are just in general, this diabolical. If they did know it, I don’t think they would be so lax about leaving their intellect and psyches unattended.
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Mars Conjunct Mercury, Trine Pluto exact @ 7 Degrees – Tactical Mind
Astrology in real life
With natal Mars conjunct Mercury, I do have one hell of dirty mind… and mouth for that matter. I also have a tactical mind but nothing like my husband (who also has Mars and Mercury in aspect) or maybe it’s just we think about different things.
In whatever case, I often have thoughts that are very pointed and sometimes (like today), alllll my thoughts are coarse (Mars) and not fit for sharing. I don’t like days like this but they do come and then my husband told me that he could get rid of all the gangs in LA if they would give him, X, Y and Z, which are very minor things. Extremely minor considering LA has been fighting gangs for decades.
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Styles Of Thinking, Your Purpose And Philosophical Debate
Astrology in real life
Mercury and Mars are conjunct and part of the large stellium in Aries opposing my natal Mercury Mars conjunction in Libra. Jupiter is involved on both sides so there has been a lot of philosophical debate between my husband and I over these last days. We’re not been fighting which is sort of miraculous given the conditions. Instead it’s been mind-expanding in both directions. One thing that is becoming very defined is how differently we think. In the past this has been irritating at times but we seem to be grasping at least some of what this means now.
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Mercury Rules Hands In Astrology: Mine Are Cut, Burned and Various Other Sundries
Astrology in real life
I burned my hand today… again! The red hand-truck story recounts my most famous burn but with the Mars Mercury signature so pronounced in my family, there’s no end to the Mars (cuts, burns, etc.) problems with the hands. I talk a lot my fiery, aggressive, sexual mouth and mind but the hands take beating with this combination as well. Besides the burns my hands are almost always banged up, cut, calloused, something.
I once stuck my finger in a blender. It was the same finger I burned this morning when I stuck it into the outrageously hot sugar I was melting to make flan today. I was distracted, talking to Annalisa on the phone while I cooked and the sugar looked to good, I stuck my finger in it on impulse. Big mistake!
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Mercury Conjunct Mars: I Want Red Wheeled Things… Fiercely
Astrology in real life
This post continues the story of the red wagon…
I coveted that red wagon and brizo mentioned in the comments, I also coveted my red handtruck and she is certainly right about that. I also used to own the red truck, pictured and in all three cases, I was spellbound by these objects from the moment I laid eyes on them.
I told my husband I felt the same way the first time I laid eyes on him. To me, he was a red wagon and the minute I saw him, I coveted him and knew he was mine.
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You Can’t Change Anyone And This Includes Yourself!
Astrology in real life
The obvious dawned on me last night, I hate when that happens. It was in regards to my life but my life is no different then yours so here I am.
The idea you are going to help someone or fix someone or change their life may be noble but I think it’s doomed to fail on a certain level. We all have ways of being or characteristics that are hard-wired and shown in our charts. In my last night, I was jarred by something my husband said and then I realized I was jarred in general.
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