posted August 02, 2008 05:15 PM            

Attractiveness ~ page 4

Books on Astrology I like ~ page 1

Cinderalla transits ~ page 4

Emotional Pain, strategies for dealing with ~ page 4

Jeff Buckley's Chart ~ page 2

Jupiter's blessings (by sign) ~ page 2

Karmic Moon ~ page 1

Mars Return ~ page 2

Marriage, denial of ~ page 4

Marriage, calculation of when ~ page 4

Octile ~ page 4

Out of Bound planets ~ page 4

Peregrine ~ page 4

Planets by house ~ page 3

Planets by sign ~ page 3

Planets in synastry ~ page 3

Receiving Love/11th house ~ page 2

Sesquiquadrate ~ page 4

Singleton planets ~ page 4

Sun sign quotes ~ page 1

Yod ~ page 4

posted August 02, 2008 08:04 PM            

For those who are too young to know of this song, here's the lyrics

Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Blue Moon
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold

posted August 03, 2008 05:27 PM            

Feeling the need to get it right is the Mercury in Taurus effect. MOO! I can't remember who put it up but a quote on the astrology forum about Mercury in Taurus cracked me up. It was about 'having to feel the truth of something before committing to it'. It made me laugh because it is so true. Of me, anyway.

posted August 03, 2008 05:40 PM            

The material quoted in the book includes previously unpublished autiobiographies, and anecdotes sent to her in letters from the general public. It is a heartfelt account of the lives of women deeply effected by the aftermath of a war that left them as one of 2 million 'surplus women'. In some cases they would have wanted to be single anyway, but many were bereft of a fiance or boyfriend and never found anyone else. Once such was Vera Brittain, whose poem is quoted in the book:

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Perhaps
(to R.A.L Died of Wounds in France, December 23rd,1915)

Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
And feel once more I do not live in vain
Although bereft of You.

Perhaps the golden meadows at my feet
Will make the sunny hours of spring seem gay,
And I shall find the white May blossoms sweet,
Though You have passed away.

Perhaps the summer woods will shimmer bright
And crimson roses once again be fair,
And autumn harvest fields a rich delight,
Although You are not there.

Perhaps some day I shall not shrink in pain
To see the passing of the dying year,
And listen to the Christmas songs again,
Although You are not there.

Perhaps some day I shall not shrink in pain
To see the passing of the dyaing year,
And listen to the Christmas songs again,
Although You cannot hear.

But though kind Time may many joys renew,
There is one greatest joy I shall not know,
Again, because my heart for loss of You
Was broken long ago.

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That's not quite true, as Vera Brittain did go on to get married and have children many years later. Her daughter from this marriage became a famous politician (Shirley Williams).

As a piece of social history this is pertinent to most women. It identifies the achievement made by women obliged to make their own way in the world. Opening the way for us to have choice is one of them and is a strong theme of the book.

As an aside, apparently this was a great time for women wanting to throw lesbian parties as

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they could dance together unafraid, knowing that the shortage of men made this a common sight

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posted August 05, 2008 08:19 AM            

I thought it was about time. If I get my act together I might even manage to put some photos up at some time.Glad you liked the poem. I thought it was evocative of what many of us have felt, after losing someone we love and wondering if we will ever be happy again. Yes, but in my case I no longer celebrate my birthday out of respect. Just with my parents, quietly (or they might get more upset).

Right now I am going to use it to put up a link to something I put on the astrology forum I while back. I hold a copy of this paper by Linda Rankin, I can't find it on the 'net any more. It was in my drawer for a long time in paper format so could be up to 10 years old, who knows? I'm a bit of a squirrel.

Anyway, the links are:

Gifts from the Future: Karmic Moon
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/017424.html

Gifts from the Past: Karmic Moon
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/017401.html

But I'm going to put it up here, as a link for me, and to share with my LL friends. What follows is abbreviated, it is more detailed on paper, and when time allows I will try and fill them out so they are more helpful.

posted August 05, 2008 08:19 AM            

SUN
Your life path encompasses the lessons and values of leadership and will power.
Developing a healthy sense of indentity and inner faith will empower you to make the most of your life.

MERCURY
You will empower yourself by taking your gifts from the past and bringing them into the world through your communications, your ability to disseminate information and subsequently to teach. The world becomes a learning adventure.

VENUS
You seek to bring spiritual essence into the world through the heart.
Creating peace and harmony in your own environment is an important goal that subsequently reaches out into the world.

MARS
Your life path is learning how to fight for your beliefs, needs and dream.
You'll empower your life when you learn to focus, centre, and keep your goal reaching under control.

JUPITER
Your destiny is to support, nurture and bring into the world a sense of shared spirituality and beliefs.
When you apply your gifst to the ability to inspire and enlighten those around you and the world your sense of self will fall into place.

SATURN
Your growth and building needs to be done by its structured guidelines.
As the path to the future, Saturn gives clear messages on how to build. It empowers through teaching how to live and build in the real world keepin the reponsibilities we have to our world, ourselves, and our lives as focal points.

URANUS
Being open to the unexpected changes of missions, paths and purposes brings you consciously into an awareness of your role in the world. Your input changes ideals and enlightens beliefs.
Embracing the lightning that is an inherent part of life and making the most of what it deposits serves as an empowering way to greet the future.

NEPTUNE
As your life path this takes you beyond the structured and channelled elements of traditional wisdom and encourages you to find your own answers within.
You seek an elusive and compelling sense of the etheral, ofent first in the world before finding it within.

PLUTO
Your path is learning to trascend experiences. Learning to see the light and the dark that co-exists within life.
It liberates from ingrain fear patterns and restrictions. It brings extremes of passion, feeling, and experiences.

posted August 05, 2008 08:23 AM            

Your ability to:

SUN
Apply will and inner light to reaching your goals objectives and projections.
Leadership qualities.
Express your inner child.
Bring the light and warmth from your past to nuture the present.

MERCURY
Understand and assimilate your needs through your thought processes and your reasoning power.
Teach, share and communicate with the world with ease, bringing this into your present and emporing your future by sharing your thoughs, expanding your ideals and reaching out to others through communications, words and exchanges.

VENUS
Artistic outlest and expressions provide nourishment to help you centre and move forward in life.
Strenght and comfort are brought to the present through the grounded passions of the world and the refined and altruistic passions of the heart.

MARS
The warrior is your strength, driving you forward with inner convictions and focus that overcomes obstacles by will power.
Important needs and growth may come by fighting to make your way or your stand.

JUPITER
Integrity of spirit acts as a supportive anchor and exapnsive belief allows you to find safety within it.
You empower your present oand future within the Jupiterian realms of spirituality, religion, law and/or sportsmanship.

SATURN
Inherent strength from an immense reservoir of stability, perseverance and a deep understand of your responsibility within the world.
Guided foward and inspired by inner conviction and stamina.

URANUS
Your mind processes and filters change and growth and re-orients it to fit in new societal ideals and beliefs.
Go with the flow, appreciate and embrace the perfection and imperfection of the universe.
NEPTUNE
Ability to tap into a current of faith trust and belief that rises above and beyond the boundaries of traditional religion, bringing you inner peace.
Process society's spiritual changes, acting as a guide along the way.

PLUTO
Strength personified.
Transcend situations, crisis and life issues, taking on an ever growing and ever expanding spiritual journey through life.
Life will be a serious of transformations, brining deeper understanding.

CHIRON
The strength of healing, the ability to nuture life and heal its wounds.
Gentle but strong energy radiating a sense of safety. Understanding and tolerance that draws people in.

posted August 05, 2008 08:40 AM            

Well I really relate to this one. My Moon is three degrees separating from Pluto, the chart ruler. It is a powerful part of my chart. In the sense of Karma of the past this speaks to me of my defining years with a mother who is, shall we say, emotionally non-standard. With good cause, and here we are entering the unknown from times long before I was born, and about which I can only piece together with intuition and some sketchy information from relatives now passed over.

posted August 05, 2008 09:09 AM            

Any books on astrology to recommend to me?

Sory to hear about the overwhelming sh!t factor in life mate.

posted August 05, 2008 11:49 AM            

Mr blue moon did tell me at the time that the chair incident was a version of a comedy classic ~ but as he had kept me up all night with his incredibly loud snoring I was feeling grumpy.

James Braha's "How to Be a Great a Astrologer" is one of my all time favourites. He goes into depth on all the different aspects.

I also like Lyn Birbeck's "Do it Yourself Relationship Astrology". He does cookbook formulas but also gives helpful guidance on blending it all together. I dip into this every now and then. O.K, quite often.

The ephemeris for 2000-2050 and 1950-2000 get a lot of usage.

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BELOW

My attempt to express the archetypes of the zodiac. A bit of self-indulgence on my part.

Some of the contents have appeared in threads I have put up before, at a time when I got irked at the amount of posts along the lines of "Geminis are shallow" and "Librans are false".

posted August 05, 2008 12:05 PM            

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

“Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.” ~ Emile Zola

"Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others." ~ Seamus Heaney

"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." ~ Rene Descartes

posted August 05, 2008 01:59 PM            

"I'll not budge an inch" ~ William Shakespeare {The Taming of the Shrew}

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." ~ Bertrand Russell

“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” ~ Sigmund Freud

"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself." ~ Florence Nightingale

posted August 05, 2008 02:00 PM            

“I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments”

"My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve! "

"Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer."

"The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains." ~ Josephine Baker

posted August 05, 2008 02:02 PM            

"I had the inclination and inspiration 10 years ago to make that, I don't have that inspiration and inclination now ... My work is very personal, which people know, so I can't create that emotion again — it's impossible." ~ Tracy Emin

quote:

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Emin took a phlegmatic view of her work's destruction, saying, "The news comes between Iraqi weddings being bombed and people dying in the Dominican Republic in flash floods, so we have to get it into perspective.

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“ There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.” ~ Nelson Mandela

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
~ http://www.dalailama.com/page.41.htm

"Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny” ~ Diana, Princess of Wales

~ Gustav Klimt

posted August 05, 2008 02:02 PM            

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, "the Invitation"

~ Andy Warhol

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever" ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

"Love is the only gold" ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

"A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly." ~ Emily Bronte {Wuthering Heights}

quote:

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She had inherited a world in which royalty had been defined by the ramrod rigidity of the previous monarch, King George V, who even in private habitually played a record of "God Save the King" before bed. Into this court life Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - the first "commoner" queen since the days of Henry VIII - introduced a new warmth and informality. Royalty went out into the real world.

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Visiting the blitzed EastEnd in full bling, WWII. She refused to evacuate the city and go into hiding.

posted August 05, 2008 02:03 PM            

"I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." ~ Elizabeth I ~ the Virgin Queen

posted August 05, 2008 02:06 PM            

"We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" ~ Oscar Wilde

“The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.” ~ Christopher Reeve

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, Conquer him with love.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

posted August 05, 2008 02:08 PM            

"Music is my mother...and my father...it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love." ~ Jeff Buckley

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” ~ Marie Curie

"Life is not fair; get used to it.” ~ Bill Gates

posted August 05, 2008 02:10 PM            

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~ Winston Churchill

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens" ~ Jimi Hendrix

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." ~ John Milton

Aim at heaven and you get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither. ~ C.S Lewis

posted August 05, 2008 02:11 PM            

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." ~ Martin Luther King

"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing." ~ Simon Wiestenthal

“If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.” ~ Dolly Parton

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Country superstar Dolly Parton swapped her high heels for wellies today as she "travelled through" South Yorkshire to open the first UK branch of her children's library in Rotherham.

The star launched her Imagination Library programme, which gives books to children from disadvantaged backgrounds, at the Magna Science and Adventure Park.

Founded by Parton in 1996 as a way to inspire children in her hometown of Sevierville, Tennessee, the literacy programme gives registered children a new, age appropriate book each month from birth until they are five.

A local sponsor in each community pays for the books and the cost of posting them while Parton's Dollywood Foundation covers the overheads, selects the books and negotiates the cost.

Rotherham metropolitan borough council is sponsoring the programme for which around 15,000 children are eligible. Penguin will provide all the books and the Royal Mail will post them.

The first book in the 60-volume collection in the UK is Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Children will get their first books early next year.

Parton said: "I'm just thrilled beyond my wildest dreams at how my Imagination Library has grown from my home county in the US, all the way across the pond to the UK.

"I can't say enough about the kind folks of Rotherham who invited us here, and I look so forward to working with our local partners all across the UK to give books to as many kids as possible."

She said she hoped the library would fit in with "the many other wonderful programmes here that do so much to help children. Together, we can make a huge difference in the lives of so many little ones".

The Imagination Library already operates in more than 700 communities in 43 states in the US as well as Canada. To date, 417,000 participating children receive books, with 4.5 million books mailed this year and 11.6 million since the start of the programme in 1996.

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posted August 05, 2008 02:12 PM            

~ Jackson Pollock

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!" ~ Charles Dickens {Bleak House}

“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.” ~ Charles Darwin

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." ~ James Joyce

http://www.horoscopes.hm/famous-aquarius.htm

posted August 05, 2008 02:12 PM            

“There's more learning than is taught in books.” ~ Lady Gregory (poet, folklorist, dramatist)

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."

Painting by Long Tz Chan

Words by Anais Nin

“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”

Painting by Chen Xi Nan on the-gallery-of-china.com

Words by Albert Einstein

posted August 06, 2008 01:32 AM            

I hope I am not too late in replying, and I hope you don't mind my response. I don't think you were overboard at all in getting mad that your husband laughed when you fell, and I don't think you need anger management. I personally think it's not funny to laugh when someone falls and/or injures theirself, no matter how slight. I think because I am older and realize the consequences of injuries, and how serious what may seem like a "small fall" can really affect your back. The injuries we have in our lives affect our backs cumulatively. I also personally think it is not just nice or polite to laugh at someone when they fall. That's just me.