I wrote this in 2006.  My views have changed since, but I still think this is an interesting topic.  The picture is from when, Ben and I met, right when Saturn entered Scorpio, 28 years ago.

I was talking to Ben last night, my very close friend of 20 years +. Ben is a Scorpio with an Aquarius rising. He a gay cello player / teacher of mixed race and an iconoclast.

“Someone in Wichita told me I had an old soul” he said. “And I suppose I do. I imagine I’ve wandering around these halls for awhile.”

Continue reading Astrology and Old Souls, Lightweights, Blank Slates and Various Other Sundries

From 2007:

I called the man in the last advice blog, who left his lover of 2 years without explanation an “empty vessel”. Several people have posted to disagree with me which is fine. There is nothing I like better than diverse opinions but since so many argued for this man, I thought I’d explain my thinking.

If you are in a long-standing intimate love relationship, and you want to leave it for any reason whatsoever, that’s fine. It’s your life. But I feel it is common decency to face the person who has been your lover and tell them something.

This is a person who has loved and cared for you, and shared their body with you.  If you can walk away without so much as a word, to leave them high and dry, wondering and traumatized… well as far as I am concerned this is a soulless thing to do. It’s horrible. It’s horrific. It’s shameful. It’s putrid.

Continue reading Regarding The Man I Called An “Empty Vessel”: Dumping Your Lover Without Explanation: POLL

On the topic of Astrology and a Person’s energy in a room, separate but related, when I was pregnant with my first baby another astrologer told me that when a baby is born, their energy comes into the room in a profound way.   She said if I paid attention, I’d be able to feel it.  Who is this baby? Who is this new person coming into the world?

She said it was rising sign of the soul that would fill the room. The rising sign is the first handshake and this seemed to compute.  As I mentioned in the last piece, it’s the Jupiter on my ascendant that fills the room, initially.

Continue reading 3 Years Ago On The Elsa Blog: Childbirth and the Rising Sign

Last night in the bathtub the soldier and I were talking about Einstein and his brain. We were talking about his remark around the idea a person should be able to explain something to a small child if they really understood it and soldier who has studied Einstein extensively said that he himself failed at this.

“Yeah, he tried it. He tried to explain things to the kids in his family but they didn’t know what the hell he was talking about. They just acted like they did because their parents told them to.”

I laughed but here was the interesting thing…
Continue reading The Soldier And P And Einstein And His Brain

“I don’t think you could survive without wandering,” I told the soldier. “I think this is part of you the same way a person’s hair grows in a certain direction.”

“Well you’re still going to love me, aren’t you, P?”

“Of course. Yes of course. In fact it occurred to me this is why you want to get that burrito. You know the burro you talk about riding around? I think you want that burro so he can wander you. You think you’re going to go blind and you know for sure you are going to get old if you don’t die so you’re going to set yourself up. Have a burro that can wander you around.” Continue reading What About The Wandering Gene? Do You Have One?

Massage therapy is (relatively) new here. We can thank other cultures for its introduction into the American culture, but back when I was a kid there was no such thing as going to get a massage. There were no massage therapy schools… it just did not exist. Now this has changed. Massage and it benefits are well and widely known. You can buy massage oil anywhere however…

However when I re-hooked up with the soldier, I found to my shock he had never had a massage in his life. That may be hard to believe but it’s true. He has not been with women who care all that much about him and seeing as he has spent most his life in the jungle… well all these cultural changes took place unbeknownst to him. So long story short, I was of course going to introduce him to massage.

And that right there was new territory. He was going to be touched in a way that was not familiar to him but I’ll tell you what happened… fourth or fifth time out. Continue reading Merging Souls – It Happens Because It Happens And Here Is How It Happens

Regarding this soul merge thing (Merging Souls? Who Would Want To Do This?) I think the concept is ethereal but the mechanics behind it are not and I thought I would record some of this stuff. For you, because I think it’s interesting and for me so I can have more clarity.

Now the soldier read my book which is about my life or at least part of it and the book ends at a Fleetwood Mac concert. I didn’t intend it to end there… it was HQ’s genius that ended the book there but in whatever case, I would describe this day as significant in my life. And I wrote the truth of that day as I understood it but then the soldier read it.

And some months later he was doing his psychic thing… he had his antenna and he (for the time ever) tuned into me on this specific day in my life and he could feel my feelings.

So he told me about this. He told me what I felt… what was going on inside me that day and the fact he was right was undeniable. I do think people know the truth when they hear it but beyond that, once reminded the feelings came back in a rush. And this was hard for us.

It was hard for him… very hard for a plethora of reasons and it was hard for me because here is someone poking around gaining access to information you didn’t know was there. And we related this to sex at the time.

If you’re our type you can and do stumble across things about the partner during sex. In fact when I was young and more cowboy I used to say it just like this:

“You don’t know anything about a person until and unless you sleep with them, yep! If you want to know someone, get in the bed otherwise you have no idea what you’re dealing with.”

I will come back with this story, but do you agree with this?

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