Most creative people know that feeling when the material seems to come through you, rather than from you. When I get in a storytelling mode I can sit and type all day,  having no idea what I’m doing, I just do it.   I have no outline.  I have no agenda other than it’s occurred to me to tell some story. I don’t have a reason to tell the story and don’t feel I need one.  The impulse is there and I obey it.
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“I think you’re more of a writer than an astrologer,” the soldier said.

“What? Are you serious?”

“Yes, I think your talent is a  writer. That is your true talent. You can be an astrologer but if you ask me, your talent is writing.”

“Tell me how you figure that.”

He elaborated and I listened carefully and tried to absorb.

“If you could be paid for writing stories then you’d write them but you won’t publish a book so you can’t get paid. They pay you to be an astrologer so you’re an astrologer.  You’re probably a good astrologer but if you ask me, my gut sense is your true talent is writing. I mean, that’s why people come to your blog. It’s because you can write. They like that you are an astrologer but you hear what I am saying, Your talent is as a writer.”

I write this stuff less to talk about myself and more to make people more aware of their own desire for challenge, their need to assert themselves and act heroically. If this sounds foriegn to you, it is safe to assume your Mars function is repressed which is the case for many women. The energy still plays, it just plays in a perverted manner.
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Lupa writes on Mercury and Minds:

“I agree with you Elsa. The idea that you send your ideas, thoughts, communication out there and let it be received or not can be an excuse for poor communication.”

Well my writing has been through the wringer. As I mentioned on one of these posts, when saturn transited my 6th house (writing / mercury / virgo)… this is when HQ helped me put my book together. He was the first person who told me that I wrote in code. I of course had no idea what he was talking about.

Eventually I got to see I had this 9th house writing style. I’d just go and go and go. MY writing was full of jokes only I (and perhaps people very close to me) could understand. I took the readers knowledge for granted which was WAY off base.
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max writes on Pluto Was Not Very Good…

“…of course you won’t stop writing. Never happen…”

Boy, I think that’s wrong. People stop writing all the time. They also stop acting, stop singing… they stop all kinds of things and it has nothing to do with whether they are good at it or not.

It’s just energy and it can be expressed a million and one way especially if you’re me. I prefer conversation, I always had.

I have never had the ambition to be a writer. It’s just something I’ve been doing because I’ve felt I should. I was compelled you could say but I don’t have that feeling anymore so it now becomes a choice and the difference is stunning if you happen to be in my body / psyche.

Basically I feel as if I have just about to be delivered out the end of a very long tube – Kerplunk! Birth analogy? Well yeah. So who in their right mind would climb back in the tube? I don’t think Capricorn is so inclined.

Can writers stop writing?

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Today I re(read) the first chapter of my book as I contemplated sending it to the soldier’s son. I haven’t read it in a long time and it made me laugh out loud. That’s pretty good, huh?

Yeah, I was laughing at my own jokes as I am known to do and that was it. Really, that was all I could do because the scope of my writing (publishing) is so vast, it is more than I can comprehend.

When Pluto went into Sadge, like I said, I was pregnant. My daughter was born with Pluto in Scorpio (conjunct her ascendant) but when Pluto was in Sadge and I was all swelled up, my first (ex) husband stopped by and gave me a computer. “I thought you might like to write,” he said.
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Well this is par for the course. I start a story with no idea of what I am going to say and invariably it becomes far more involved and demanding than I intend. Apparently I like these sticky problems, if not I suppose I’d make an outline.  These are writer problems and the challenge suits my Mars Mercury conjunction.

My current problem with the Vid story is this:  There is a (strong) psycho-sexual component to this story so should I include it?  If so the how, when and why?

Continue reading Astrology And The Challenge Of Writing About Everyone’s Un-Comfort Zone – Children And The Psycho-Sexual World

foxxy writes on Disturbing Scorpio
“Well, you tell some pretty visceral stories. I’ve had to go walk around after some.”

foxxy – that’s interesting. Because although HQ worked on editing it with me (a slow painful process w/ Saturn in my 6th), when it was done and he read it through, he did so while walking and/or riding the subway around NY.  I wonder if this has to do with my Mars Mercury. You’ve just got to move.

Continue reading “What Am I To Do With My Power?” Saturn Transit To Pluto In Virgo Wants To Know

Venus (vanity) is conjunct Mercury (writing) in Aquarius (shocking / proactive / progressive). This conjunction opposed my natal Venus in Leo… which really likes it’s own hair.

“Well the whole blog is provocative,” I said. “There are 3 or 4000 posts I have written on this blog alone and every single one of them is going to provoke or shock someone. Oh my God, how can she say that?!? The astrology alone is enough to make most flip their lid and what am I supposed to do?”

Continue reading Voice Of Venus In Leo… Creativity Rules!

Wordsmiths, avoid these words…

Here’s an excerpt.

Andrew Stern writes:

“…The contributors gave first prize to the phrase “a perfect storm,” saying it was numbingly applied to virtually any notable coincidence.

“Webinar” made the list as a tiresome non-word combining Web and seminar that a contributor said “belongs in the same school of non-thought that brought us e-anything and i-anything.”

Similarly, the list-makers complained about the absurd comparisons commonly phrased “x is the new y,” as in “(age) 70 is the new 50″ or “chocolate is the new sex.” “Fallacy is the new truth,” commented one contributor.”

Read the rest – Reuters

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Phrases I am sick of? “It’s a good thing” and/or “It’s all good”. Also telling people what they neeeeeeed to do! And here’s my rant on the subject – Please Help Save My Sanity – A Saturn in Virgo Rant -

What phrase(s) are you sick of?

pictured – Inspiration (Self-Portrait), Jean-Honore Fragonard, 1769.