Mars retrograde: Surveying the rubble.
How is the Mars retrograde treating everyone? The last Mars retrograde in late 2005 kicked my butt, even if it took a month or so to gather steam; so although I’m toddling along pretty happily at the moment, I’m pretty sure I’m not out of the woods yet. Jonny’s getting …
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Mars/Saturn lessons
We’re only a few days into Mars’ interminable journey through Cancer (until MAY 9, people. MAY 9! – okay, with January and February off for good behavior, but still), and already I’m feeling defensive and prickly. Someone owes me money (Mars is conjunct my natal Venus), a situation that never …
Read MoreKnocking us down
It is I, your absent friend. This Mars/Pluto opposition (exact September 21 at 1:33 a.m. PDT) is kicking. my. ass, people. And Jonny’s. No matter how hard we swim, the waves keep knocking us back down. (Also, commuting is extra-horrible the past couple of weeks. People are driving like maniacs, …
Read MoreStuff, trivial and sad
I’m thisclose to finishing my beleaguered site renovation – just have to go over everything and make sure the links and forms are all working, and convert some more articles to the new template. It is beyond tedious – real Venus retrograde in Virgo stuff. I’ve been looking at the …
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Moving into Scorpio time
If you’ve been wondering why everything is taking about three times longer than it should these days, look to Mars in laconic Taurus, gathering static electricity as it reluctantly scoots toward a showdown with Neptune in Aquarius (July 24) and Saturn in Leo (July 31). Frustrating! Hereabouts, I’ve been hammering …
Read MoreMeltdown!
Okay, last night, just as transiting Mars in Pisces exactly opposed my natal Mars in information-loving, technically proficient Virgo, my long-awaited Mars meltdown finally happened: I sat down to check my email and my laptop computer began… smoking. Immediately grasping the perilous nature of this turn of events, I quickly …
Read MoreI hate it when people…
To celebrate my upcoming transiting Mars opposition, I invite you to join me in a mean-spirited, spleen-venting bitchfest about about the things people do that make us cranky. I’ll start! 1. I hate it when someone jaywalks into traffic without looking and proceeds to move along at a glacial tempo …
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Watch your mouth
Just when I’m ready to throw Don Imus a bone for at least admitting his comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team were offensive, he keeps coming out with the kind of tone-deaf comments that only make the situation worse. Basically, his message seems to boil down to this: “I …
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Thursday Thirteen Vol. 23
This Saturday (2:00 am PST / 5:00 am EST), Mars and Pluto collide in their last conjunction before Pluto leaves Sagittarius. When irresistible force (Mars) meets the cold, dark collective heart of darkness (Pluto), the result is almost always the ultimate defeat of Mars’ shadow side of reckless, self-destructive temper …
Read MoreWhat the…
Maybe it’s a byproduct of all that Virgopalooza/eclipse action from Friday – an eclipse within shouting distance of my natal Mars if you use a six-degree orb (which I wouldn’t, normally, although I’m rethinking that) – but the Aprilian Rage is very close to the surface these past few days. …
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