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Topic: What book are you reading?
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vansio Knowflake Posts: 2887 From: the outskirts of Delphi Registered: Dec 2017
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posted December 19, 2019 11:33 PM
😊 Would love to share and discover more... I tend to read more than one book at once as a relief to the other (which typically is exhaustive piece of critical theory--astrology included in this genre)... I also try to be nondiscriminating “can’t judge a book by its cover” lover and will peruse anything. which brings me to, any other bookworms here on LL?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 (good excerpts potentially included in future comments) IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 190432 From: I hold a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) and a Legum Magister (LL.M.)! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted December 20, 2019 12:50 PM
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Lexxigramer Moderator Posts: 9319 From: Here since March 24th.2005/..& Have been Lexagramming going on 2/3 of a century to date! LEXIGRAMMING.♥is my Passion! Registered: Feb 2012
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posted December 25, 2019 06:09 PM
Dictionaries as usual! ![](http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/love.gif) I keep finding new ones online! Love the internet! So many kinds of dictionaries! PS. Also have been reading/studying various editions of works by Charles Dickens; including http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm ------------------ Click here to read My Lexigramming Biography: over 1/2 a century to date ♥ Lexigramming ♥ }><}}('>IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 190432 From: I hold a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) and a Legum Magister (LL.M.)! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted December 26, 2019 05:01 PM
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Lexxigramer Moderator Posts: 9319 From: Here since March 24th.2005/..& Have been Lexagramming going on 2/3 of a century to date! LEXIGRAMMING.♥is my Passion! Registered: Feb 2012
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posted December 29, 2019 08:39 PM
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Sibyl Knowflake Posts: 927 From: Uranus Registered: Dec 2010
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posted January 10, 2020 06:09 PM
Sadly I now mainly read for work. Change is happening so fast everywhere, and I feel the constant need to learn new things and keep up on things changing for my job (technology-related).IP: Logged |
Sibyl Knowflake Posts: 927 From: Uranus Registered: Dec 2010
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posted January 10, 2020 06:12 PM
If you want a fun and surprisingly insightful read, try the short "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives" by David Eagleman. It's imaginary tales about what happens when we die (like where do we go?) and most of it is really absurd - but it reflects upon how we live. A favourite story about what happens when we die is that we see our lives pass before our lives - indexed. That means we first sleep for 24 years, eat for 6 months, hiccup for 10 days, shower for two weeks (all based on statistics), and then all the tedious tasks or annoyances we spend our lives on that seem totally unnecessary. It's a great book, warmly recommend it for everyone. IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 190432 From: I hold a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) and a Legum Magister (LL.M.)! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 11, 2020 06:01 PM
Wow! Sounds like an interesting read!IP: Logged |
vansio Knowflake Posts: 2887 From: the outskirts of Delphi Registered: Dec 2017
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posted February 19, 2020 12:51 PM
Richard Idemon, The Magic Thread; Astrological Chart Interpretation Using Depth Psychologypg.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. Earth also gives us boundaries. People without Earth do not feel grounded. Oliver say in his biography that his wife Vivien Leigh was in love with Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire. To play Blanche DuBois, he says, she disappeared into the part and never came back. She was actually consumed by this character, who obviously was carrying around something from her own unconscious, and the play was by Tennessee Williams. Who was Blanche DuBois? Blanche Dubois was one part of Tennessee Williams, also with missing Earth, so it's interesting how these things tag in. The author deals with his compensating functions by creating a character who taps into just the right actress who was destroyed by it. Isn't it amazing how these things happen?" IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 190432 From: I hold a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) and a Legum Magister (LL.M.)! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 20, 2020 02:53 PM
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vansio Knowflake Posts: 2887 From: the outskirts of Delphi Registered: Dec 2017
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posted March 19, 2020 12:25 AM
Ross Rosenberg, The Human Magnet Syndrome: Why We Love People Who Hurt UsIP: Logged |
teasel Knowflake Posts: 27873 From: Here Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 19, 2020 01:05 AM
Oh, thank you for starting a book thread! I'll be back - I have a pile of books that I had hoped to read, when I was feeling more relaxed and hopeful. One now has large fees on it, because it was a new book, but it shouldn't be accruing any more, now that the library is shut for a while. I really need to get into a better headspace and read the whole thing (It's called "The Starless Sea").I'll post about the others, as I read them. IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 190432 From: I hold a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) and a Legum Magister (LL.M.)! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 20, 2020 01:05 PM
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vansio Knowflake Posts: 2887 From: the outskirts of Delphi Registered: Dec 2017
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posted March 23, 2020 09:30 AM
Liz Greene, Saturn: A New Look at an Old DevilIP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 190432 From: I hold a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) and a Legum Magister (LL.M.)! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 23, 2020 07:31 PM
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vansio Knowflake Posts: 2887 From: the outskirts of Delphi Registered: Dec 2017
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posted March 25, 2020 01:36 AM
Merlin Stone, When God Was A WomanJane Spiller, Astrology for the Soul IP: Logged |
vansio Knowflake Posts: 2887 From: the outskirts of Delphi Registered: Dec 2017
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posted April 06, 2020 09:11 AM
Alison A. Armstrong, The Amazing Development of Men: Every Man’s Journey from Knight to Prince to KingAlison A. Armstrong, Celebrating Partnership IP: Logged |
MonteCristo Knowflake Posts: 528 From: Registered: Jun 2009
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posted April 06, 2020 05:12 PM
Currently reading The Prince by MachiavelliIP: Logged |
vansio Knowflake Posts: 2887 From: the outskirts of Delphi Registered: Dec 2017
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posted April 22, 2020 07:37 AM
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teasel Knowflake Posts: 27873 From: Here Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 13, 2020 03:51 PM
The Bond, by Lynne McTaggart. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005EGARYY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 *edit. That picture was much too big. You can read the first page here: http://i.imgur.com/aeTsaVL.jpg
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vansio Knowflake Posts: 2887 From: the outskirts of Delphi Registered: Dec 2017
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posted May 13, 2020 10:17 PM
Miyoko Schinner, The Homemade Vegan PantryMartin Herbert, Tell Them I Said No IP: Logged |
teasel Knowflake Posts: 27873 From: Here Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 24, 2020 05:47 PM
Braving the Wilderness. Brene Brown.IP: Logged |
vansio Knowflake Posts: 2887 From: the outskirts of Delphi Registered: Dec 2017
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posted July 10, 2020 02:41 PM
Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved ParentsIP: Logged |
BlackSwan Knowflake Posts: 69 From: Vancouver Registered: May 2020
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posted July 10, 2020 06:04 PM
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Daffenbaugh Was actually recommended by another user on another forum and its given me a new outlook and meaning to how I relate to plants and flowers <3 IP: Logged |
teasel Knowflake Posts: 27873 From: Here Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 20, 2020 11:32 PM
This was written by a friend of mine. Not my sort of thing anymore, but it wasn't too expensive, and I pre-ordered it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1951952030/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 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. Both arrived today. I need to finish another book, then start on these. I also found a book by James Herriot, when I was looking for another one upstairs. IP: Logged |