posted May 14, 2009 03:54 PM            

You're welcome to come address me in my thread if you like. No playing victim, though, and no convenient ways of looking at things. If you weren't voyeuristically eavesdropping because it's a public board, then neither was I was talking behind your back because it's a public board. And Kat's right, I say far worse to you straight to your face all the time.

Don't bring your political irony here either. "Playing Devils Advocate doesn't include libeling political figures just because you don't like them." This is something you do constantly, and now you want to try to preach to someone about it? Really?

posted May 22, 2009 12:26 AM            

No wonder we hang out with the crowd we do in the Godzala thread(s).

My Venus/Neptune conjunction in the 7th is tied to my Moon/Pluto conjunction in the 5th, which I think is responsible for my really creative nature. I think getting all the water planets together in good aspect is always helpful for creativity.

As to the idealization of partners, for me it doesn't seem so much like idealization so much as it seems like acceptance of the parts of the partner's nature that might be thought of as unattractive by other people. I think I can fairly easily be with people who have issues, and to be honest I think I could logically and objectively make a case that anyone I've been with in my adult life has been a genuinely good person. Furthermore, I know I haven't been let down by a person's true colors to the extent that other people have. Could still happen I suppose. I've heard all kinds of stories of people being tremendously betrayed by their partners, and I don't know if I'm just aloof to having that kind of relationship with someone, or if I'm too nice for anyone to ever feel like screwing me over, or what. Just, so far, it hasn't happened. I was thinking on this recently, and I almost asked for opinions in Godzala, wouldn't Venus conjunct Neptune also buffer someone's fall from grace? I mean if we're the people who see people through rose-colored glasses, and if we're the people with a real faith in humanity, then it would seem like we'd also be the people catching the people as they fall off their pedestals.

I do get disheartened by cynics. I don't appreciate when anyone tries to lose faith, or tries to close their minds to more optimistic possibilities. If I hear someone saying that they have some cynical rule about life, and it's appropriate for me to comment I will suggest that they not be so cynical, that they keep themselves open to the more positive possible outcomes. It's not to say that people shouldn't keep their eyes open to dangerous possibilities, but if there's a reasonable possibility of a positive outcome not to prejudge based on a bad experience.

posted May 23, 2009 08:47 PM            

Hidden Sexual Fantasies of Rat Men

This woman whom you wait for is somewhat your sister. There's nothing incestuous here, be reassured! No, the one who haunts your dreams is your double, your twin, your accomplice, your alter ego. Yes, it's the one who resembles you; the one who will guess your moods and go ahead of your desires; the one who will know how to laugh and play with you; the one who will take you by the hand to pull you into a universe of childlike loves, which are of course sensual but also dreamy and free, a universe where everything is permitted because, actually, when one is a child, nothing is really important, nothing is really perverse, nothing is really forbidden.

The woman of your fantasies resembles Columbine. Light, young, even very young, slim, and somewhat androgynous, she is one of those laughing, ironical adolescents, who provoke without meaning it, who excite as one plays, and who go into raptures with reticence as if they guessed that by letting themselves indulge in pleasure they would lose this freedom and this lightness which make up their charm. She is the soubrette who hides her wild laughters behind her roguish hand, or the cool and attentive student who wears round glasses in order to study an old text. She is also the beginning journalist in quest of a scoop, who masks her inexperience behind sophisticated manners; or the pretty bookseller who blushes while selling you impudent texts. She is young and shy, but you'll know how to tame her, to reassure and initiate her, you'll know how to make an ideal lover out of her, even though you may have to model her according to your desires.

Dual Signs Rat and Capricorn

You're a nature which is cerebral, very much interested in ideas and all that's located beyond appearances, the known, and the concrete. Your intelligence is quick, analytic, but also capable of synthesis.

One can say that you're rather easy to live with, all the more so as you've a well developed sense of humor. But you stay aloof from all that can hurt or inconvenience you, and your overdone critical sense can put obstacles or enmities on your road. Your youth is often marked with bereavements, which strengthen the serious aspect of your temperament.

In your work, you always try to pull strings or resort of subtle combinations so as to make a fortune. You're gifted for an intellectual career, for research, science, pedagogy, or for all jobs related to teaching and the transmission of knowledge.

posted May 23, 2009 09:27 PM            

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I do get disheartened by cynics. I don't appreciate when anyone tries to lose faith, or tries to close their minds to more optimistic possibilities. If I hear someone saying that they have some cynical rule about life, and it's appropriate for me to comment I will suggest that they not be so cynical, that they keep themselves open to the more positive possible outcomes. It's not to say that people shouldn't keep their eyes open to dangerous possibilities, but if there's a reasonable possibility of a positive outcome not to prejudge based on a bad experience.

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