I recently read this article in the UK newspaper, The Guardian, that the cohort born in 1948, in England at least, may be the ‘luckiest’ ever:
Free healthcare, free schooling, free love – and now early retirement free from the financial woes that plague the rest of us. Could there be a luckier year to [...]
Archive for the ‘Thinking’ Category
Astrology of 1948?
Posted in Astrology, Thinking on 9 November 2009 | 8 Comments »
The mad woman leaves the attic
Posted in Astrology, Buddhism, Perception, Responsibility, Thinking, tagged madness, reason, Saturn-Uranus opposition on 1 October 2009 | 6 Comments »
My Sun-Mercury-Saturn in Gemini and Moon in Capricorn frequently struggle to understand insanity. I don’t mean clinical insanity (though maybe it’s not exempt!), but the calculated insanity imposed upon moderate people — crazy-makers, rather than crazy people per se. Just look at all the loonies shouting and crying out against Obama’s ‘death panels’ and ’socialism’. [...]
Relocation charts
Posted in Astrology, Thinking, Travel, tagged invisibility, relocation chart on 6 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’d always been vaguely aware of astrocartography but never thought about it much even though I now live something like 6,000 miles away from where I was born, until Neith suggested I should do a relocation chart for myself. The results were fascinating.
A relocation chart basically casts your natal chart for the place of [...]
Doing nothing: When and where
Posted in Poetry, Thinking, Wonder on 24 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
I spent most of a three-day weekend at a friend’s place (two hours away from me) not doing very much… It depends on what you mean by ‘doing’ anything, of course.
It occurred to me that doing ‘nothing’ at home is not quite the same experience as ‘doing’ nothing someplace else.
Why don’t we have a name for it yet?
Posted in Astrology, Thinking on 15 August 2009 | 6 Comments »
As the Sun in dramatic Leo opposes the Jupiter-Neptune-Chiron conjunction in Aquarius, the astrological show of 2009 in spite of all the others, I find myself wondering why we haven’t found a name for it yet.
Months after its first pass (in May, I think), we are still reeling from its effects and wondering about [...]
Poll: Are people feeling better yet?
Posted in Astrology, Thinking, tagged eclipse, poll on 12 August 2009 | 3 Comments »
As we leave the crazy summer of eclipses behind us, we are reminded that their effects will be felt for weeks/months/years to come. Nevertheless, I feel the mood lifting slightly, if only like one surveying the rubble after a storm!
However you’re feeling, enjoy the lull now. In September, we will have the Saturn-Uranus opposition to [...]
Aural textures
Posted in Aversion, Cinema, Thinking, tagged aura on 9 August 2009 | 7 Comments »
Is it possible for auras to have textures? Words use to describe auras tend to be visual: clear, bright, dark, murky, and so on; sometimes even in colours. Is it possible to come into contact with someone whose aura feels slimey? Where coming into contact with them makes you feel the need to scrub it [...]
Après l’éclipse: Sisyphus goes on strike
Posted in Astrology, Thinking, tagged solar eclipse, Sisyphus on 22 July 2009 | 6 Comments »
Whatever I expected from the solar eclipse, I didn’t expect this.
I have been putting off the revision of an article for weeks. It is due to the journal at the end of the month. As I opened it on my computer this afternoon and began to type a few lines in response to [...]
To Twitter or not to Twitter?
Posted in Blogging, Thinking on 17 July 2009 | 5 Comments »
Okay, all you Twitter-bugs out there, I’d like some advice.
Shall I Twitter or not?
Saturn in Gemini is resisting, wondering if it’ll add to the white noise (what with blogs, Facebook, email, texting, news feeds, and all) but Sun-Merc thinks it might be fun.
If you’ve had a positive or negative experience, please share in [...]
Not playing the ‘Who’s the bigger victim?’ game
Posted in Annoyance, Aversion, Thinking, tagged emotional vampires on 13 July 2009 | 6 Comments »
One of the types of people that feed off my energy and whom I am slowly weaning off are the ones who play what I like to call the ‘Who’s the bigger victim?’ game. These are the people that appear to connect with you quickly from the start by sharing their problems. Because of [...]
Sheldon Kopp’s Eschatological Laundry List
Posted in Awareness, Thinking, tagged book, Sheldon Kopp on 8 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the end of his book, If You Meet Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!, Sheldon Kopp offers ‘A Partial Register of the 927 (or was it 928?) Eternal Truths’, 43 items in total. This list exists elsewhere on the World Wide Web, but still worth reproducing here:
Adventures of the Invisible Girl
Posted in Astrology, Perception, Thinking, tagged invisibility, projection on 25 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
While I’m still mulling over issues of projection, I thought I would try and make some sense of my apparent invisibility. I mentioned this once to Mercury in Virgo (MV, from now), that I often felt like I was an understudy for a role I didn’t ask to play. He retorted by saying that I [...]
