Oppositions are far and away my favorite thing in astrology.
This is a story about people on separate sides with something in common.

Genius and criminal mind, Arie, joined Special Forces as a teenager. He retired after one term (or whatever you call it) and went to work as a detective for the San Francisco Police Department for the next 30 years. One day he got a call.

Apparently some person or persons was in a gas station restroom, creating some kind of problem for the other customers so the owner of the station called the police.
Continue reading Oppositions in Astrology: Shot In The Chest By A Whore!

From 2008 – What is the relationship between free will and pathology? Can a person opt away from what is stereotypical?

From 2007 – More hi-jinks of the soldier’s Venus in Gemini (clever but bored) vs his 9th house Jupiter in Sagittarius (higher education)…

“I was in this class once the professor didn’t like me so much which was okay because I didn’t like him at all.”  I laughed. “Yeah, he thought something was wrong with me. This was pretty soon after I got out of the military and I guess I hadn’t quite assimilated back into regular culture. I still haven’t but I was even worse then and I messed up on the word association.”

“What were you studying?” Continue reading The Soldier and The Professor – They Didn’t See Eye To Eye

From 2007: I was talking to the soldier, post a majot screaming match:

“P, you’re not the least bit afraid of me are you?”

“No.”

“Well that’s good. And it’s strange because I’m a dangerous bastard,” he said.  We both laughed.

Continue reading Astrology and Mars: How Big Is Your Dog and Can He Hunt? POLL

(from 2008) Virgo and Pisces often spar but are inexplicably linked. Does everything matter or does nothing matter? What if your life is at stake?

Coach John Wooden has a opinion… A Critical Detail, The Feet
Wooden : A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

Something along these lines came up today and made me think of this old blog from 2007, so here it is.

The soldier’s Scorpio Moon talking to my 8th house, circa 2007:

“Yeah, well she must have thought I was going to die,” he said talking about his wife when he was in Special Forces. “Everyone else was dying. I think she was banking on it. Get the insurance money, you know? But I just kept coming back, still alive.”

I didn’t answer.
Continue reading Rooting For Someone To Die? Gambling On Life Insurance…

This is from 2007 when Pluto was turning direct in Sagittarius. It’s a Pluto-themed story (Sagittarius) and on topic for the current discussion on this blog which I intend to wrap up today.

Everyone in this story (including the motel guy) was a criminal. It was just that kind of day where you throw the dice and they land how they land…

So HQ was tossing me cards, I was playing them and eventually others started to show up. I got some new friends and I started to build relationships with them. The friendships I already had got stronger and people in the gym started talking to me. All of this was slow. It was so incredibly slow.

For example, I went to the gym 4-5 times a week for almost 2 years before I lost a single pound! This is true. But once I got the weight to come off… well I was looking damned good underneath it, so big shock! I was still in the bad relationship though. I just couldn’t get out and no one could believe this.
Continue reading The Power Of Love and Friendship – Part 5: Liberation

The soldier has been stopped for a day and a half. He is getting his truck serviced.

He happened to run into a fellow ex-missileer. I was aware of this because he has a framed poem, Missileer by Capt. Robert A. Wyckoff. He had me read it to him over the phone, as he repeated the lines for the other man who was standing by.

There are not that many missileers out there so I thought it pretty grand they ran into each other. Understanding that, maybe you can imagine my surprise at this:
Continue reading Voice Of Mars: Missileer (Especially relevant with North Korea threatening a missile attack)

Running with a divergent crowd the way I do, there are times you find you have friends you respect with opinions at opposite ends of the spectrum. For example, take Scott and genius, Arie (a pseudonym). They are both derangedly intelligent men, who are fully actualized. By that, I mean they,ve both developed into distinct people. Neither of them is going to get blown around all that much.

Scott believes that redemption is possible for all human beings. He believes in miracles, he has seen them occur. He has seen people come from the depths and turn their lives around.
Continue reading 3 Years Ago On The Elsa Blog: Scott vs Arie On People Changing Their Natures