2005 November : Big Sky AstroBlog

Nov

28

Sometimes, the Sun in aspect to Uranus (such as today’s square) acts like a truth serum - especially with the Sun in ethical Sagittarius. Case in point: Scandal-plagued San Diego Congressman Duke Cunningham resigned today - with honor and grace - from the House of Representatives.

It’s a first step. First, get them to resign with honor. Then someday - dare we hope? - get them to serve with honor.

November 28, 2005 | Comments Off

Nov

26

For this. I’m going to stock up on canned pumpkin so I can make this on a fairly regular basis in the coming year. Because oh.my.God.

Thanksgiving was cool. We schlepped to the high desert as usual to share an excessive feast with my siblings. This year, for the first time ever, we celebrated on Wednesday, Thanksgiving Eve, so my sister and her family could visit her in-laws on Thursday. We weren’t sure how we’d feel about it - Thanksgiving has always been sacred to my sister and me, enshrined in complex, precise, and non-negotiable ritual - but celebrating a day early ended up being completely fine. Other than getting stuck in horrible traffic coming home to San Diego on Thanksgiving Day, the trip was a complete success - nice weather, great food, a complete avoidance of political conversation.

Plus I came back with this little gem, courtesy of my brother. I think I saw Evil Dead back in 1983 or something, against my will (I sang in a band with a bunch of horror movie freaks and they made me sit down and watch it), and actually enjoyed it, but that’s not why I asked to borrow the book. I’m just a sucker for amusing books about the behind-the-scenes world of moviemaking, and Campbell is a pretty funny guy who’s had a singularly strange career. Good fun.

Now that the hideous Santa Ana winds have died down and Thanksgiving is behind us, it finally feels like fall (with only a few weeks to go before the winter solstice). The nippy weather is invigorating, and last night we enjoyed our fireplace for the first time this season. But these shorter days… oy. It’s getting dark by 4:45 pm, and this is San Diego, latitude 33 north; in Scotland it must start getting dark at, what, noon or something? By 7:00 I’m ready to hit the hay. It’s pathetic. My 94-year-old neighbor stays up later than I do.

The skies are changing as well. The Sun has sneaked into cheerful Sagittarius (although it probably has a few surprises in store for us on Monday, when it squares Uranus), and Saturn has gone into retrograde remission for awhile. Mars and Mercury are still retrograde, but not for much longer. The isometric tension of the current transiting fixed-sign configuration (Mars, Saturn, Neptune), which came to a head with the Sun moving through Scorpio, is beginning to feel a little less like a pressure cooker, a little more like a popcorn popper: hot, but effervescent. A bit of a relief, I must say. Enjoy - and be thankful.

November 26, 2005 | Comments Off

Nov

14

The lovely Ethereal Girl has posted a wonderful essay on her personal blog, Amethyst. Girlfriend nails that itchy, melancholy, “put me on the road to anywhere, pronto” mid-life angst. The feeling that it’s too late to have the life that you want, and that if you had it to do all over again, you probably wouldn’t do it any better.

Fear. Of failure. Of success. Fear. Of feeling. Of longing. In my head, it reverberates a foolish unbidden mantra: Just drive. But I won’t. I won’t because anywhere I go, I’ll arrive with myself and the nagging longing and the unanswered questions and the half-over life in tow. And I can drive around the world a million times over and never be rid of it. If I can’t accept the path of least resistance and I can’t bear to drive right over the cliff of uncertainty then I’d better find a path that leads somewhere deep inside to the heart of this matter and turn shape this wanderlust and unanswered longing into something that will bring me purpose and peace.

November 14, 2005 | Comments Off

Nov

14

In honor of tomorrow evening’s Full Moon in Taurus, I’ve posted a new article titled “The Tao of Taurus” at my website:

It seems whichever way we turn we meet resistance, and the impulse is to dig in our heels and then charge, full speed, at the brick wall in our path. But with Mars moving backwards, the forceful approach is not working. The harder we push forward, the more resistance we encounter, and the angrier and more frustrated we become. So why not follow the Tao of Taurus, the cow standing in the pasture, mooing contentedly? Why not just let things be for awhile?…

full moon, astrology, Taurus

November 14, 2005 | Comments Off

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