I was reading statistics to my husband last night from a book published in 1966 that cited studies done in the mid and late 50′s.  The statistics were interesting on several levels but what prompted me to share with him was the fact the researchers were considering both race and religion as factors.

The book said that Jews were like this, Catholics like this, Protestants fell in this range. It also said, Irish were prone to alcoholism, Italians were not but they did tend to be involved in organized crime more than other ethnic groups. It said American children of native born and foreign born parents were diagnosed sociopaths at the same rate and various other things along lines of this ilk.

Continue reading Media, Publishing And Storytelling: Life After Pluto In Sagittarius

“I am unable to motivate myself to do things I am not motivated to do.  And my motivation, I admit, comes from things that are illogical.  Er… my motivation is derived from ethereal things. I just wake up one day or more precisely something happens or a series of things happen that make me feel I am supposed to do something and when that happens I respond. I always respond even though I don’t understand it.”

Continue reading Jupiter: My Faith And Philosophy, Publishing, Luck, Adventure, Etc.

There have been a lot of interesting, thoughtful, passionate comments on the Robert Hanssen piece and I am glad of it. I feel very strongly about things like this and I feel so out of sync. I think what Pluto though Sagittarius has shown (among other things) is the press is crap.

“Truth” (Sagittarius) is manipulated (Pluto). People publish (Sagittarius) to gain power (Pluto). People’s beliefs (Sagittarius) are manipulated (Pluto) by what is published (Sagittarius) and if you don’t know this by now – Well you should. Oprah tricked by James Frey who wrote a book that would sell and who here is clean, hmm?
Continue reading Elsa P Rant: The Press Is Crap… Publishing To Manipulate, James Frey, Beanie Babies and What Do You See On The Horizon?

How is this for Pluto In Sagittarius?
“An obituary of very-much-alive Apple founder Steve Jobs has been accidentally published by the respected Bloomberg business news wire”

Matthew Moore writes:

“The story, marked “Hold for release – Do not use”, was sent in error to the news service’s thousands of corporate clients.

• Extracts from Bloomberg’s premature Steve Jobs obituary

The stock obituary was published “momentarily” after a routine update by a reporter, and was “immediately deleted”, Bloomberg said.

Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003, but there is no suggestion that the news wire has recent news on his health. Most media organisations regularly update their pre-prepared obituaries of newsworthy figures..”

Read the rest – Telegraph

This morning I updated the soldier on the news around Obama’s choice for Vice President. As I mentioned, we both think the choice of VP is going to be critical in the election.

“Hilary does not seem to be on the screen at all,” I said. “As to what is being reported.”

“Hmm.”

“Thing is, we really have no idea what is going on. They do not report in actual news. The job is to put something up there that provokes people, and whether or not it’s based in reality is irrelevant. Just churn something out and next day, do it again. It’s come to a point where it’s pointless to read the news, it’s pretty much meaningless.”

“It’s as bad here as it has been in the UK and their press is notorious…”

This is where I think we are post Pluto’s rout through journalism (Sagittarius). There is no way to get real news at the moment. There is no standard, ethics or any other damned thing.

Do you agree or no? Is there a news source you trust? (And by the way, who is your pick for VP to Obama?)

Tomatoes not alone on FDA’s radar

“As salmonella cases continue to climb, the government is investigating whether tainted tomatoes really are to blame for the record outbreak — or if the problem is with another ingredient or a warehouse that is contaminating newly harvested tomatoes…”

There was been an outbreak of salmonella in the US, starting in April. It has been attributed to fresh tomatoes which were of course pulled from all the grocery store shelves. Interested in this sort of thing, I followed the story.

The tomato industry has been devastated of course. The way things happen to inanimate objects (like tomatoes) is exactly the way things happen to people. One day you’re fine, business a usual, the next day you’re in a crisis with no idea when it will end.
Continue reading Tomatoes Blamed In Salmonella Outbreak… In Error?

satori writes on Pluto’s Last Gasp:

“It seems interesting to me that juno is traveling right alongside Pluto along the sagg/cap cusp. it’s even turned retro at the same time. might be the herald of what you’re talking about re traditional marriage. “

satori – Good catch. That is definitely possible but does not feel personal to me. Having a 7th house Uranus, I don’t think in “traditional marriage”.

I mentioned men, women and parenting in the blog and my comment in the comments was in regards to something else – namely the fact that everything old is new again… eventually.

Continue reading Astrology And Social Trends: Pluto Conjunct Juno – Will Traditional Marriage Comes Back From The Dead?

Here’s my (most recent) rant on state of publishing, gossip etc. – Jupiter And Pluto Leaving Sagittarius For Capricorn: The Paparazzi, George Clooney, Dead Babies, Cocaine And The Shadow Side

Seems Stephen King has similar feelings on the situation – From Time.com : Q&A – Talking with Stephen King

Here are some quotes:

“You guys are just covering – what do they call it – the scream of the peacock, and you’re missing the whole fox hunt.” Like waterboarding [or] where all the money went that we poured into Iraq. It just seems to disappear. And yet you get this coverage of who’s gonna get custody of Britney’s kids? Whether or not Lindsay drank at her twenty-first birthday party, and all this other shit.”

and

“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don’t know who their f—— Representatives are.”

Plenty more where that came from -> Stephen King on Time.com

photo credit: Jon Mahoney / Bloomberg News / Landov

This is a photo-shopped Faith Hill on the cover of Redbook.

Jezevel.com exposes the transformation in their series “The Photoshop of Horrors” and check the title of the piece:

‘Redbook’ Shatters Our ‘Faith’ In Well, Not Publishing, But Maybe God


Shadow side (Pluto) of publishing (Sagittarius) anyone?

All this book talk is disturbing me! It figures with the Moon in Sagittarius (publishing) in uncomfortable aspect with the outer planets.

But Sagittarius is about your beliefs. The Moon in Sadge would indicate beliefs that are personal and conjunct Pluto, make that your “deeply held” beliefs.

Factor in the aspect to Uranus and perhaps those deeply held beliefs are eccentric, but so?

The fact is I do not believe in pushing the publication of my book. I just don’t! Continue reading Publishing My Book and Today’s Disturbing Jupiter Moon Pluto Conjunction In Sagittarius