November 28, 2006
My computer started acting like a cheapo version of
Times Square with the flashing popups during the Merc. Rx and we have
spent the past day trying to resolve a variety of issues including a
completely obstructed email system and the kind of viruses that would
occasion the use of the National Guard were they happening in a town. I
was reminded of the Influenza Epidemic of 1918, which basically put the
cap on the first miserable war of the century and carried off anyone
young or old. One thing about having been a geology student is being
able to see deep history and tossing off tens of millions of years
(those comparatively brief epochs of the Cenozoic after the stately
triad of the Mesozoic (Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous) as if they're
small change. Anyway, I'm tired of miscommunication in general although
all this Sagittarius stuff in 2007 is going to make the fire sign
people even more (thoughtless and) unpredictable than ever.
Sometimes I wonder if family or friends are reading this -- I'm not
getting posts and I don't have the technology to monitor the page
views. Someone does, though.
Tonight Little Mr. Dai picked up an ibuprofin off the floor and
cheerfully remarked. "It looks like a penis. Just like a penis. Look at
that, a little penis." And I know enough about being a parent to keep
my face completely neutral until I could step out of the room and
silently double over in laughter.
November 26, 2006
Friends at
Stratton Players
in Fitchburg, a community theatre in north Worcester County are
presenting a sublime production of Sondheim's Into the Woods in a
96-seat theater an hour west of Boston. I went tonight and was
tremendously impressed with the level of talent on view and the
imaginative staging of this fairy-tale extravaganza. Director Cheryl
Miller and her 19-member cast have done gloriously with a difficult yet
irresistibly beguiling musical that's still emotionally complex and
lyrically surprising. It runs for the next two weekends. . . .
Matt Timms
just got a tattoo on his left forearm. It's a "to do" list with blank
lines to write on. In his own handwriting (his tattoo guy is a real
pro). His parents,
Peter and
Romayne
have been very encouraging of Matt's creative projects thru the years
although Ro made me laugh tonight when she said the most frightening
thing about Matt telling her about the tattoo was accompanying the
announcement by saying "this is the smartest thing I've ever done." . .
. Waxing moon in Aquarius. Escapism is the only escape...Don't forget,
info on readings, calendars and other activities at
moonsigns.net
November 20, 2006
My dear friend and beloved ex-husband Larry Silverman has made this amazing documentary about a guy who lives in Arizona who makes surgical amendments to people's bodies. This is kind of beyond piercing, the way that alpha centauri is beyond our solar system. It's gorgeously told and completely mesmerizing -- a horror-film for grownups, Mr. Dai says. My brother Hal has done the music for it and it's a stunning piece of work. Larry needs to get this to film festivals (he's talking to some major cable providers) but we think this movie, now called "Flesh and Blood" needs a buzz first. So any thoughts on how to do this?
Astrological forecast: finally, a new moon. About time.
November 15, 2006
I feel compelled to write more than the usual entries here (Thanks KATTTHTHTY for the comment further down). I still find this template slower than molasses in january for me to type in (I type 100 words a minute and hopefully think faster than that). Anyway, I have this great Shadow Puppet Theater we've been doing (Button Box Shadow Theater) and if you read this and work at a library we do an excellent performance/workshop with our 5 x 6 foot theater. It's HUGE and designed by my friend Amy who remakes gorgeous furniture and whose stuff should be in many stores in and around Boston but she's just an hour a way and the prices are BARGAIN-FRESH
Oh, right astrology. God I miss caffeine. Virgo moon -- checking off those details. Notice people around you have been anal recently? Good!
November 13, 2006
I got this really great coffee maker a month ago. An "Aeropress" (sorry no link), and it makes DEMONICALLY great coffee. The problem is that 4 cups of espresso adds up, volume-wise to about 2 cups of my moomintroll coffee cup set. So it was easy to drink tons of this. And tons obviously wasn't enough because I got an Athena-in-the-head-of-jove-style headache on Friday and only woke up (for good) today after deathdealing pain. Now, I come from a loooong line of Yankees who say nothing before stroking out in their 90s and this was NOT fun. And coffee drinking was one of my last great pleasures! And I was reminded the time I got Robert Polito's girlfriend Kristine smashed at the MIT bar in the late 80s. We were drinking tequila and I could have sworn that an 8 oz. glass of mezcal was THE SAME as a similar size glass of beer.
Whoops! Someday I will write my memoirs but only after many, many people have passed on. What's this got to do with astrology? Last quarter moon in Leo -- we had a swell birthdayparty at my beloved inlaws tonight and my little Leo offspring partied to the point of removing his shoes in the car and telling his feet: "I want to give babytoe a bath. No, not you other toes."
November 10, 2006
November 09, 2006
Happy birthday Chuck and Joyce Linehan! Scorpio has had a great year w/jupiter and later this month it's Sagittarius's turn. Scorpio can only stand so much attention anyway...
November 07, 2006
I just wrote this at my friend Kathy's site. She'd been musing on faith and god and those big questions...:
re: faith. God is an astrologer, I think, who sets up complicated games of soul Sudoko across the universe and it's up to us to read the signs (in others and ourselves) and make the best choice possible given available information. I'm convinced there's some kind of afterlife that is like that static between dials, most of the time. Otherwise, I wouldn't feel like "I've been there" when I read about places in New England in the 1840s or London in the 20s. I think having a punishing demanding rigorous god is best if you're inclined to be a jerk. But those people usually have the god that says, "Hey, you, you're fabulous. Go rip pu the world some more."
I think god is a genius chemist because I'm looking at a Selenite crystal on my desk that's a genuis piece of sculpture. And just back from the Grand Canyon, it's clear god is a geologist because every possible geological phenomena is explored at great length.
But mostly I think God gets bored easily and is always curious to see just how ingenious humanity can be at destroying one another. God rewards imagination -- Michelangelo, Beethoven, Picasso, Emily Dickinson and Sarah Bernhardt all received ample doses of genius to the point where they didn't get bored with their palette. Some people get a little genius and explore it for a while before settling into a pattern of repetition and boredom.
November 06, 2006
I read a lot of blogs, which are helpful research as I know when the writers were born so it's easy to see the astrological stresses. But what I'm continually amused by is the perfect synchronicity between my collection of hermit crabs (arboreal, not oceanic) and the phases of the moon. They have been falling over themselves to get to the salt pond, climb into the food dishes, and turn over shells. As much as I hate seeing these little critters for sale in beachfront novelty shops, they are my favorite invertebrate pet thus far, and great for teaching patience to a 3 year old. I grew up handling all kinds of insects and crawly things and my mother is less squeamish than I (she handled my brother's tarantula, astrid the arachnid without gloves, which I couldn't quite do). Being able to pick up interesting animals is something all children should learn and I hate seeing parents show their anxiety about insects around their small children.
Anyway, the crabs have been living it up in their Beckett-esque terrarium. How come no one's posting?
November 05, 2006
Sometimes I find the full moon very useful for cleaning and putting clutter away, a perpetual problem for two people who work at home. I vacillate between thinking about insulating the barn and saying the hell with it, putting these shirts in chromatic order is fun!
Anyway, some musings on the full moon. The Episcopalians, who can be completely maddening in their waffliness have elected a female bishop which I thought happened years ago. Yay us!
Movie star breakups, makeups whatever. When I looked up Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon's birthdays I thought, "Wow, amazing they made it to 7 years." She's 1 degree of Aries, he's a solid Virgo and those are two signs that not only have nothing in common, but aren't exactly opposites, so that opposites attract thing isn't as strong as it might be. She'd be better off with a sadge or even a late Capricorn who could enjoy her genius at picking star vehicles. I think the best part of having a job that made you $20 million a year was thinking of the community revitalization you could enable.
Election day soon. Healey's an early Taurus, Deval Patrick's a Leo. Leo's are genius campaigners (as we've seen), but don't count her out. Even though I can never remember if her name is Kerry or Sherry or Sharry. At least the moon isn't VOC but Mercury is still Rx.
November 04, 2006
man it's WAY too late, this is what happens staying up w/tivo'd CSI and curtains to make. Also fresh pipecleaners because Tiger Dai needed red pipecleaners and now I'm making little cats out of them. When I was little I was extremely crafty for someone who didn't sew well, embroidered intermittently, never finished a crewel or needlework project that was larger than 3 x 3 inches and my medium was pipecleaners. I made little chairs and furniture and even jewelry and this is back in the 60s which was a great age for toys (Odd Ogg! Creepy Crawlers! Magic flower film) but one in which chenille pipecleaners were still the width of actual pipecleaners.
What's your medium?
November 03, 2006
Oh, look at that, a Taurus moon. Now I have to BUY SOMETHING! Seriously though, I just updated my profile at matchbook.org, which is the directory for Massachusetts performers. I'm probably in my own little category over there. Need an astrologer for a party? (Wow, gibbous moon AND stealing my tiny child's hallowe'en candy has interesting F/x!)
November 03, 2006
Belated thanks to the ladies who attended my Cambridge Center classes, "Understanding Your Horoscope" and "The Moon and You." Some even came for both classes which was very gratifying.
I'm behind in all my correspondence while I finish forecasts for ... 2008. Yes, I do not "live in the now." Thank goodness for understanding editors -- it's a lot of work to look at a year's aspects, over and over and see the patterns and connections and potholes and so on. It's a great year for Capricorn but they will have to "break their pattern" of slow-and-steady (procrastinate!).
I'm thinking about the next class I want to teach at Cambridge center -- I'm thinking something that explores YOUR aspects with other people's -- a variant on a synastry class. I'm sure there's a sign that you always get along with or seldom get along with. As a Libra I get along with nearly everyone EXCEPT fellow Libras. We just don't seem to provide anything essential for the other. My favorite Libras are born at the end of September or near the beginning of November.
