posted May 28, 2003 11:15 AM              

Write 2 paragraphs about any topic of your choosing. Any style, format, grammar, or even language.

We will examine each students' sample and analyze how Mercury functions in the practical world.

posted May 28, 2003 12:33 PM              

I would love to do the homework, but I don't quite understand what you are looking for. Are we supposed to write something that demonstrates the characteristics of our mercury? Are we just writing about random subjects? What exactly are you looking for in the two paragraphs? What is the objective of the exercise?

(How's that for Mercury in Capricorn in the 12th????) Capricorn + Pisces influence = organized chaos.)

posted May 28, 2003 12:39 PM              

I'm just back from a good day at work and I'm very relaxed at the moment. Sometimes I think I spend way too much time at the computer but never mind that right now.

I've taken to using my glasses less because I've decided to get rid of my number through regular eye exercises and someone here mentioned that using glasses all the times actually weakens your eyes because you don't exercise your muscles at all. So I'm giving it a shot.

Does anyone else here find that they work better after office hours? I hate getting to work on time, but I have no problem working late...I love the peace and quiet of the office after everyone's left and my brain seems to work more clearly once the sun has set. I'm somehow less restless, less jumpy, more inclined to sit my backside down and actually get something done!

The people I work with are wonderful...I think it's important to enjoy the work you do and the people you work with. It just makes every day a living joy.

But I really couldn't hang out with colleagues all the time, I'd just be so fed up! I don't get Ally McBeal and all her weirdo friends....I don't get how they can spend the day at the office driving each other crazy and then go down to that bar place where the screechy lady sings and hang out some more! I couldn't! And
definitely not if I had Nell or LLLing for colleagues!
I could hang out with Glen all day though!

Do you find that sometimes you insert a smiley where you didn't intend to because the text just looks sooo boring otherwise? Take a look at my second paragraph, see that smiley, just sitting there, doing nothing really? He's one of those poor creatures.

This is way more than two paragraphs so enough faffing for now, see y'all later!

posted May 28, 2003 06:37 PM              

"Nebulae"
by Aphrodite Sky

A lonely star, this minutiae thing
Slumbering amidst Nebular dust, forever unseen
Twinkling, glittering, casting brief glints
Never fully knowing the lights' greatest hints
As I sit here on Earth, staring into this lovely star
Its blinking messages never got far
A cryptic code, blissfully forgotten
By the blank hustling and bustling
. . . of the Windchimes nearby
This lonely star subtlety hummed
Its radiating warmth into the Nebulae
For all who wanted to Know, this glowing wish it had yet to see
The hope for a Twin Star, together with . . . it always wanted to be

posted June 03, 2003 04:25 PM              

SunShyne

posted June 03, 2003 04:28 PM              

Music generation is a rather interesting subject. As far as i've been experimenting so far you can either use totally synthetic peices of equipment (either coded for a computer with a programmable soundcard or a hardware unit) to generate including, but not limited to, a number of synthetic organ-like effects.

posted June 03, 2003 10:51 PM              

It's ten (10) minutes until 11:00 here right now. I can't sleep a wink (as usual). I lay on my back then I switch to my side. I swear I can hear the digital clock running!

My mind wonders. I think of the engineers at work today. Especially this one old guy that decided bermuda shorts and a hawaiian shirt was stylish. He also wore a long trench coat! When he turned around and walked down the hall he looked like a flasher!

Oh, now I've got myself tickled. I can't sleep. I just get up out of bed, walk down my stairs, get a glass of milk and flip on the computer. Now I can't believe I'm typing this as tired as I am.

posted June 03, 2003 11:02 PM              

I have my milk in hand, and you know something? I have been drinking this skim milk for so long that I've forgotten what a good cold glass of whole milk taste like. I think "man, cookies would be good right now"!

I walked into the kitchen, looked in my cabinet and all I have is reduced fat oreos. However, I've become so accustomed to this card board food that I rather look forward to a chocolate flavored treat. My refrigerator is the same sad story. Lean, fat-free, reduced calorie, etc.

I just want a juicy hamburger with cheese, pickle, onion, mayo and ketchup! Is that so much to ask? I have to keep at my treadmill and weights like a religion. Or do I? I don't really know, as I've been with this routine for so long, I don't know what would happen if I stopped.

posted June 04, 2003 02:11 AM              

<look right><look left>

(come join the vegetarian/vegan thread going in health and healing! we're beginning to swap recipes!)

(pssst! you too, 1scorp... i think you're hungry!)

posted June 04, 2003 02:24 AM              

A concern with meter, concrete items over abstract concepts... that's earthy... sense of rhythym, beauty/poetics, the celestial and spiritual... that's Neptunian... yet broken up playfully, unexpectedly, kind of Uranian... a driving force of communication, so to me that's cardinal...

This is tough, as part of me feels really wrong at trying to analyze a lovely poem to death to extract the Mercury! Yikes!

Nope, I'm getting themes, have no clear idea, but I'm gonna guess wrong, so here goes anyway... Merc in Cap in the 12th House, or Merc in Aries with Neptune/Uranus aspects...

Fun to have the freedom to be totally WRONG!!!

posted June 04, 2003 07:52 AM              

Yes I saw my mercury in Cap/12th house in my short little paragraph. I had it in mind as I was writing my paragraph.

posted June 04, 2003 11:27 AM              

Further Mercury analysis:

Aphrodite,
I would love to do the homework, but I don't quite understand what you are looking for.

Yes, you do understand! Read carefully, I never I was looking for something The assignment is to analyze how Mercury functions in the practical world. Yours is navigating along what the stated or unstated possible standards are . . . think . . . as a result, although you are doing something as instructed, unless you fill out the 12th house space of an imagined void, you will not think you have completed something.

Are we supposed to write something that demonstrates the characteristics of our mercury?

Nope, that was not the assignment and there was no such indication of it in the post. Think Heidi, what is Mercury in Capricorn operating under? What structure or pretense is it communicating with?

Are we just writing about random subjects?

Note your use of the word "random." What does your Mercury make it mean?

What exactly are you looking for in the two paragraphs? What is the objective of the exercise?

Meditate on this. This is very revealing of Mercury. How do you communicate with other parts of your life? Does it have to have a set structure before you go after it? What are you afraid of? How do you feel when you create an "Unknown"?

posted June 04, 2003 11:43 AM              

Further Mercury Analysis:

Hello, well let's get this string started.
I'm just back from a good day at work and I'm very relaxed at the moment. Sometimes I think I spend way too much time at the computer but never mind that right now.

Mercury is communicating what it is not happy with. What would you prefer to do?

I've taken to using my glasses less because I've decided to get rid of my number through regular eye exercises and someone here mentioned that using glasses all the times actually weakens your eyes because you don't exercise your muscles at all. So I'm giving it a shot.

Mercury comes up with a solution---to be able to stare at the computer for a long time and not wear glasses so much. Virgo tosses in some healthy eye exercises

Does anyone else here find that they work better after office hours? I hate getting to work on time, but I have no problem working late...

Mercury communicates yet another situation he is not happy with.

I love the peace and quiet of the office after everyone's left and my brain seems to work more clearly once the sun has set.

Mercury communicates and uses justification why coming into the office early is not as good as coming in later. Virgo is rationalizing an attempt to work away from people and from following the status quo.

I'm somehow less restless, less jumpy, more inclined to sit my backside down and actually get something done!

Virgoan Mercury offers actual health data why not going into work early and working in quiet peace is more productive.

The people I work with are wonderful...I think it's important to enjoy the work you do and the people you work with. It just makes every day a living joy.

But you work more productively after they leave! What a way to rationalize why you prefer quiet solitude.

But I really couldn't hang out with colleagues all the time, I'd just be so fed up! I don't get Ally McBeal and all her weirdo friends....I don't get how they can spend the day at the office driving each other crazy and then go down to that bar place where the screechy lady sings and hang out some more! I couldn't! And
definitely not if I had Nell or LLLing for colleagues!

Virgoan Mercury yet again unhappy and begins to introduce other people into her story and is curious as to how others can manage to be productive working with others and SunShyne can't. Mercury is judging and analyzing another work situation similar to hers, unbeknownst to her.

Do you find that sometimes you insert a smiley where you didn't intend to because the text just looks sooo boring otherwise? Take a look at my second paragraph, see that smiley, just sitting there, doing nothing really? He's one of those poor creatures.

Mercury here is being highly self-critical. She is the only one judging herself.

This is way more than two paragraphs so enough faffing for now, see y'all later!

Mercury becomes conscious again of the original assignment. She was caught up in homework and lost track, and has abruptly ended her thoughts. She criticizes herself and ends it lightly thinking nobody will notice. A sly getaway plan

posted June 04, 2003 11:53 AM              

Further Mercury analysis:

Two years ago I re-embraced music back into my life. I don't remember how it was I came to lose so much of it along the way; I have sung in choirs, bands, and performed in a lot of places, and even without a public stage, my shower has reverberated to solfège and Céline-Dion-worthy bellowing. Yet slowly, after great projects, great trials, and grim recovery, all the music I had left was what I heard on the radio, the same playlists rotating over and over again.

Mercury communicating that it got bored with radio songs and now creating its own stuff--singing her own songs!

A dear friend helped lift me up back up into the excitement of music, and all the life and warmth it contains, and gives, and gives, and gives. He took me to a U2 show, where the whole audience danced and sang together in a loving, unified bacchanal. He took me to see Depeche Mode, where the fan(atical)s and devoted also sang and danced, but with the pure intent of true worshippers come to commune ecstatically with the High Priest in a synthesized wash of atonement.

Mercury explains how someone helped her get out of the routine boredom by seeing other people perform their own stuff.

I started buying music again, playing it, borrowing it, dancing, and feeling it again.

Mercury is saying how she is applying the music. Not just listening to it.

My shower curtain is thinner from all the new vibrations it's been going through, and I sing in the street again -- to myself, to stray cat and dogs, to the sky under all weather.

Mercury is communicating with us how she is applying herself with others now. What she is doing makes her feel alive.

There is nothing like music to bring you back to your spiritual home again, the one you had inside of you all along.

Mercury says it was just asleep for a little while, and is now bringing herself out now.

Aphrodite

posted June 04, 2003 12:03 PM              

Further Mercury analysis:

Music generation is a rather interesting subject. As far as i've been experimenting so far you can either use totally synthetic peices of equipment (either coded for a computer with a programmable soundcard or a hardware unit) to generate including, but not limited to, a number of synthetic organ-like effects.

This Mercury likes to tap into the unknown and create with it, make it real for the rest of us to see. Mercury likes to catch the invisible and make it visible.

A second way of generating music is wavetable synthesis which involves capturing samples or a sound and mapping the frequency envelopes to alter the pitch, tone, resonance and sustain.

Mercury is communicating how he takes the visible, and mundane and tangible---and transforms it into something completely new and unknown in the recurring world we live in. Mercury even says to us how it is completely possible to achieve such feats. Try saying this 200 years ago, and people would scoff at the idea. Very inventive!

Using this technique it is possible to generate almost any sound imaginable, which can then be mapped onto any programmable electronic device (electric violin, keyboard, computer etc.)

Reiteration of the above, Mercury offers tangible proof to the mundane world (US plain folk ) that such things are completely possible, and names instruments we are familiar with---which have the possibility of becoming transformed.

posted June 04, 2003 12:22 PM              

Further Mercury analysis:

So my 13 year old daughter marches up to me the other evening and announces that she has decided to become a vegetarian. She has decided that it's wrong for humans to kill any of God's creatures. I simply said, very hesitantly "Okay".

Mercury shares with us how it is facing a completely new situation unencountered before. Let's see how this Mercury thinks it through. First, Mercury on the surface says a simple Yes.

I figure this is the beginning of her "asserting her individuality" which teens are programed to do.

Mercury becomes introspective and begins to investigate the possibilities from historical patterns. Mercury is using past conversations to cope with the new change. She is looking for comfort in some "known" idea thinking may be it will cushion the possible new changes to come.

Besides, I couldn't see it lasting. She's a huge Donair/Hamburger/Steak etc fan.

Mercury hesistates to accept the new transformation. Referring to past references and using that as background impetus for her daughter to go back to the way things were.

Well, it's been over 2 weeks now and she hasn't touched a speck of meat.

Mercury acknowledges the transformation's resilence to the past.

Her father's family gained their livelihood as beef farmers for generation after generation, so they really started to tear into her about it over the weekend.

Mercury communicates how outside forces are attacking the new transformation, and using the past to mold an individual back to the way they were.

I think they only made her more determined about it. She is a Taurus, Scorpio rising, Cappy moon.

Mercury here is examining the consequences of such attack on transformation, and begins to acknowledge and possibly allow the transformation to "just be."

I have to respect her wishes, and accept her as the unique individual she is. So I'm cool with it.

Mercury communicates that it accepts the transformation and will not use the past to knock down new possibilities.

My problem is...I'm having such a hard time coming up with meal ideas for her! We've always planned meals around the meat dish in my family, so I'm truly stumpted by this new circumstance. I've been feeding her alot of pasta lately, mostly with cheeze and cream sauces. But she's getting tired of that.

Mercury is transforming itself to adjust to new possibilities her daughter has presented. Mercury is examining how the past was played out, and now generating new ideas to keep the transformation alive.

Thinking I'm going to let her start fending for herself soon. What do you all think about that?

Mercury chooses to stay the way it is, allow her daughter to make her own choices. Mercury is asking for public affirmation.

I LOVE THE WAY YOU THINK LIONEYE!

Aphrodite