posted February 10, 2008 08:06 AM              

People I work with (my work is of primary importance in my life to me, by the way) have been complaining (unreasonably - i.e. no logic can be applied to their complaints) about my work and throwing what seems like hissy fits - the sh*t mainly seems to come from (surprise, surprise) fixed signs like Leos and Scorpios. They expect me to do things which are not actually practically possible.

For example, the Scorpio, who can't draw himself (so I draw his designs) says to me, can I draw something smaller than it is in real life, on the to-scale plan, because he can sell it better to a client then. I point out that I can't because that would be misrepresentation and the fact is that the area we're dealing with is a certain size and you can't really get around that. So he goes away and picks all sorts of faults in my work and says it wasn't as good as I did last year - which is CRAP - because it is miles better than what I did last year - and wonders if I am *too busy* to *do a good job*. I emailed him back, countering that I did everything I promised I would, always do the best I can, and assume his complaints are due to *personal aesthetics*. And do, by the way, expect to be paid for my time.

Second scenario involves an industrial link we are incorporating into our work from college. There are certain things that are possible and not possible within the area that I am working in. It would be a waste of my time to pursue impossible options. The college does not have the equipment I need to carry out this work. The industrial link (the ONLY one which can do the work for me, and which is actually bloody good) has been rubbished by the lecturer for no good reason other than he thinks the makers lack imagination. He says I should do all the work by hand - which I refuse to do because firstly, it would give me Repetitive Strain Injury after a while, and secondly, it is just not economically viable. Said Leo lecturer had absolutely no sensible response to offer me when I challenged him during a class review - opening and shutting his mouth like a fish. And then had the AUDACITY to call ME arrogant when I was looking bored later on at someone's project which was based around women's embarrassment at their periods, or some such lazy art-school sh*te that the thicker or less talented people are steered towards so as to have something to hang their hat on. I emailed him afterwards and told him I wouldn't tolerate being called arrogant and especially not humiliated in front of the whole class. Like I said in an earlier mail, I don't frankly care if I get expelled. I have been so angry over the last two days I haven't been able to work properly - I am writing 2 books (which is a project of my own outside college) which need to be ready by May and this is the only project I seem to be able to make any sense of right now.

I think my response was perfectly reasonable in the light of their unreasonableness, but I appreciate it probably won't do me much good. Still, if I had let it fester I would be even more upset. I don't know what it is about London, but people seem to live in these sorts of fantasy worlds and they don't have a clue about real life and everything is so hyped up and shrouded in industry-speak gobbledegook. I feel like saying, "F**k the BS, go and harness yourselves to a plough or something, you useless don't-know-what-to-do-with-yourselves wastes of space. Yah!"

I try to think of some good things in my life, even though I want to escape to somewhere like the South Pacific and just be anonymous. At least, being single, I don't have some stupid boyfriend p*ssing me about, so that's at least one thing I don't have to worry about.

My mother's a cow, but at least she is several hundred miles away and quite frankly I don't HAVE to talk to her (and I save masses on phone bills by doing so).

posted February 10, 2008 08:57 AM              

Birthtime/date 18/04/74, Bristol, England.

Any insights? Any aspects from hell?

posted February 10, 2008 11:43 AM            

tVenus in Cap is hovering on the cusp of your 5th house of creativity, squaring nChiron in Aries 8th (other peoples’ resources, among other things).
You mentioned the tMars Gemini 10th trine nUranus Libra 2nd, an easy flow of energy between the areas of your career and your personal resources.
tJupiter in Cap, the ruler of your 4th, is squaring nMerc in Aries 8th.
tJupiter’s also coming up on a square with Eris, the Planetoid of Discord – but I don’t know much about Eris effects in the chart. Since it moves so slowly, everyone alive, except people over 80, has Eris in Aries. tEris is conjuncting your nChiron in Aries 8th, but I don’t have a good feel for what this portends.
After it goes direct again, tSaturn in Virgo 12th will be opposing nJupiter in Pisces 6th.

Possibly tUranus on your DSC shows your desire to be free of the tossers who’re trying to fit your artwork into their little preconceived boxes of “what it should look like.”

I would recommend concentrating on your books!! But you say your “work” is of primary importance – well, if that is so, then you must attempt compromise towards the demands of the Fixed signs. My wise Saggie dad once told me after a session of me p!ssing & moaning about the unfairness and stupidity at work, “during your career, you will not always be blessed to work with people who have either brains or common sense. Just do your best to follow your superiors’ directions and let the chips fall where they may. It's just Work -- it's not Life.”

posted February 12, 2008 02:04 PM              

Spoken like a fellow Moon in Pisces!!

I think Cap rules my 5th, so years ahead should be interesting with Pluto in Cap. Of course, Cap also squares my Sun & Merc - I find transits of inner planets in Cap generally more comfortable than outer-planet transits. Mars Return also seems to have been going on for ever (and ever, with the retrograde).

It seems like Fixed signs, or those with a lot of Fixed in their chart, control everything, and generally get what they want (particularly Leos). Most of the people I come into contact with have a lot of Fixed in their chart, which I find very difficult to deal with. I have no Fixed, all Cardinal and Mutable, and often feel as though they are attempting to trample me - I feel I have completely different energies from those I associate with and feel resentful at them bossing me around, as I am as strong as any of them - BUT more flexible, which they pick up on, which is why they try to pull one over on me.

Aaargghh!!!!!

Great quote:
*during your career, you will not always be blessed to work with people who have either brains or common sense. Just do your best to follow your superiors’ directions and let the chips fall where they may. It's just Work -- it's not Life*

Thanks again!!

posted February 12, 2008 06:24 PM            

About 33% of the planet are born under fixed sun signs so you are going to run into quite a few of them, too.

posted February 14, 2008 11:51 AM              

Dream Believer - God, this rings so true...I feel for you too...I hate *managers*!!! One thing I've noticed about people working in the higher London echelons is that they never give any praise - it's either *get it done by then or else*. There's no grace or encouragement, such as "we'd like this done differently, but the rest is looking great". Not a bean.