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Sunday (5:11 am PDT/8:11 am EDT) brings us a New Moon in Gemini, and prompted my latest article, entitled “Brothers and Sisters”:

Brothers and Sisters
Few people in our lives get the opportunity to influence us when we are so malleable as in childhood, when brothers and sisters leave their handprints on us as they might in wet cement. But the truth is that while the emotional connection may be less compelling, we share similar bonds with people who share our neighborhoods, our communities, our alma mater, our mother tongue, the country of our birth. Ask any expatriate about the thrill of hearing his native accent or language spoken while in a foreign land. And the next time you’re at a party with a lot of people your age, introduce a tag line from a commercial or television show that was popular when you were in grade school. Suddenly, you’ll find that you’re among siblings who understand something about your history and who speak your language…. read the full article

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NR May 21, 2009 11:44 am
This one is just fabulous!
Anne Whitaker May 26, 2009 8:28 am
Dear April

I have just joined toplisted, and found you there. I really, really like your writing – the article on siblings I found very moving since it made me feel my own situation very keenly – with Jupiter in the 3rd sq Saturn in the 12th, I have a very close, loving bond with my brother who lives with his family just up the road from us – and have not seen my sister (for reasons I do not wish to disclose publicly) for over sixteen years.

Thank you for articulating the sorrows, joys and complexities of the sibling relationship so beautifully.

Anne Whitaker
“Writing from the Twelfth House”