posted December 19, 2019 11:33 PM            

Just finished: Liz Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet <<enjoy how her books are usually transcriptions of lectures

Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society <<this book found me—i love when that happens... at the bottom of a thrift bin after a long journey... which means I will covet it more than read it, taking longer

with a side of Joyce and Barry Viscell, Meant To Be: Miraculous True Stories To Inspire a Lifetime of Love <<just picked this up today, very sweet and quick

posted February 19, 2020 12:51 PM            

pg.42-44 "Now, I am going to mention some people that are super-achievers whom you would never guess have either a singleton or a missing function in these qualities, and you'll see how they're of a particular type.

Earth people: How about Adele Davis with her diet books and her obsession with eating the proper foods? Gloria Swanson who became obsessed with sugar and wrote books about diet, nutrition, renewing the body, and so on. Mozart, who is the typical archetypal dominant-in-Air function, has missing Earth. He was ungrounded completely. He ended up starving to death. He never knew how to make any money out of anything he did. How many of you have seen the movie Amadeaus? He was obsessed with body functions, doing "poo-poo, ca-ca" talk. He and his wife called each other "poopy," "sh*tty," and "ca-ca," and seemed obsessed with smelling bottoms and body odors. It's quite bizarre and off. How shocking it was that the man who makes this sublime music talked this way and didn't know how to make any money in his life time.

Marilyn Monroe, the divine body, the Aphrodite, has the missing Earth function, but she had Taurus on the Midheaven, so she projected outward to the collective something that internally she didn't feel and didn't have. That, in itself, creates great crisis. When I was driving a cab in Hollywood in my young actor days, Marilyn Monroe got in and I took her out to Malibu. She was very warm and wonderful. we had a lovely conversation and I told her that in six months I was going to New York to study acting. I knew that she had just returned from studying at The Actor's Studio, so I said, "I'm really scared, going to New York, it's such a big, lonely city." And she said to me, "When you don't know who you are, every city is a lonely city." That burned a hole in my consciousness and I got the feeling of this poor woman trying to live up to carrying this load of archetypal Aphrodite, Taurus on her Midheaven, when she's getting close to 40.

Another quality that happens with missing Earth is the tendency to deal with the uncomfortable of the body through drugs and alcohol. That's why you find people like Rita Hayworth, Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, Jackie Gleason, and Richard Burton. All of these famous alcoholics and drug users have nothing in Earth. They don't feel grounded in the body. They need something to get them out of it, or even back into it. Tennessee Williams was another alcoholic and drug abuser; so was Dylan Thomas and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Mark Twain, interestingly enough, was condemned in his life for being so earthy. Do any of you know what his last work was before he died? It was published posthumously because it was so scandalous. It was called Letters from Earth, in which he has a dialogue with the devil. Emile Zola also was condemned for the earthiness of his writing. Then there's Billy Graham, and here is a perfect example of some heavy-duty stuff going on with things of the flesh and the body. Graham said in his autobiography, "When I was a young man driving the back hills of North Carolina I used to take girls out and we'd kiss and kiss. I'd come back with my lips so swollen that I'd be like Ubangi. That was before I got saved." So you see a compensating mechanism, how the things begins to shift? Now, of course, flesh becomes evil. When Billy Graham is talking about sin, he's not talking about financial or political corruption, he's talking about sex. He's talking about touching those things in those places and doing that kind of stuff. That's what he means. Also think of Hugh Hefner, publisher of Playboy magazine, and Larry Flint, publisher of Penthouse magazine.

There's a clutch of astrologers---Rob Hand, Marc Edmund Jones, Dane Rudhyar---I'll let those go by without comment except to say Rob is a wonderful cook. Michelangelo, Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision,---huge, theoretical, transformative ideas about how the earth was formed. Joseph Campbell, the mythologist, goes back to the archetypal, Taurean, primitive world and brings it out. Ingemar Bergman, Norman Mailer, and Zsa Zsa Gabor, with her singleton Venus in Capricorn in the 4th house. "Darling, you never love a man who does not give you diamonds." Rodin, the sculptor, had a singleton Mars in Virgo in the 8th. Cellini, who was the most famous artisan of the Renaissance, and other artists like Renoir, Rafael, Corot, Gaugin, Surat. Many artists are compensating through their work. There is Nijinsky, the dancer, and you find, interestingly enough, a lot of athletes, and body-builders---Arnold Schwartzeneger, Charles Atlas, Johnny Weissmuller. A whole clutch of Olympic stars and people like Jackie Robinson, O.J. Simpson, Hank Aaron, Ray Campanella and Jack Dempsey with no planets in Earth who manifest and obsessive need for making the body do its maximum, and Charles Darwin with his The Origin of the Species.

posted May 13, 2020 10:17 PM            

Martin Herbert, Tell Them I Said No

posted July 20, 2020 11:32 PM            

A Taurus friend of mine, sent this to me: http://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-James-Clear-audiobook/dp/B07RFSSYBH/ref=sr_1_2?crid=24DCARXYKZW5Q&dchild=1&keywords=atomic+habits+james+clear&qid=1595293074&sprefix=atomic+%2Ca ps%2C336&sr=8-2

He said that it was a gift, but I still want to think of something to send to him in return.