posted March 29, 2013 10:00 PM            

Most of my books are about...

(can you guess?? )

alternative medicine. Doesn't that make perfect sense?

posted March 29, 2013 10:21 PM            

Because I have domicile Mercury, I love the internet so I am an informationaholic on the internet. Wikipedia is my Achilles heel and biggest time waster.

I'm probably one of the few people who don't look up porn simply due to a lack of interest hahaha

posted March 29, 2013 10:32 PM            

Language books, art textbooks, war studies, International politics texts, french literature, romantic poets, revisionist fairytales, cinema books, some Shakespeare plays, psychology books etc.

posted March 29, 2013 11:00 PM            

My library consists of philosophy and poetry.
Classics like Thoreau, Whitman, emerson etc. Transcendentalist authors in general.

I have all of Shakespeare's work for some reason.. He's is okay.. Too melodramatic for me thou. I think my grandmother gave them to me.
My mercury in cancer mother use to shove him down my throat when I was young

walt whitman is my favorite poet.
I Sing the Body Electric is my favorite poem
aka why I fell in love with LDR just for referencing that poem:3

I have all the the doctor seus books from when I was a child and I still read, I LOVE children stories. I use to love Poe when I was kid he was so fascinating to me. Some of his stories gave me nightmares.

My reading level was way ahead of my age.. so yes, I had a lot of nightmares...

posted March 29, 2013 11:03 PM            

Most of the books I own deal with art. Have one astrology book and one about the tarot, some manga (Japanese comics.)

Other than that, I love informational books/articles. I could waste an entire day researching something online. That's probably due to my Gemini moon though.

posted March 29, 2013 11:06 PM            

However, I read basically anything that interests me. The internet is usually the most accessible source.

posted March 29, 2013 11:08 PM            

7H is the house of LIBRA after all.

posted March 29, 2013 11:42 PM            

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Originally posted by Faith:
@moonlightx

7H is the house of LIBRA after all.

The Latin phrase for Book is Liber Libri.

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posted March 29, 2013 11:46 PM            

-conjunct Gem Sun (7 degrees), Ceres (4 degrees), Nessus (1.5 degrees) and MC (4 degrees)
-trine to Aqua Mars (1 degree) and Mean Node (exact)

Where to start...

What's currently on my shelves or on my Kindle:

-Sci fi--my great literary love affair
-Science
-Language references/texts for a couple dozen different languages from Navajo to Gaelic to Swahili to Indonesian
--Fiction/poetry books in the languages I'm studying
-Shakespeare--both his works and several book on his works
-Poetry
-Music books
-Some history, classic lit and other fiction

Books in storage (in boxes taking up 1/4th of a two-car garage )

posted March 30, 2013 01:15 AM            

0* sextile 3rd House Scorpio Mars 1* sextile 3rd House Scorpio Pluto - semisquare 1* 3rd House Scorpio Saturn

bQ 9th House Taurus Moon - quincunx 9th House Chiron and 10th house Gemini (MC) both by 2*

wide trine Virgo ASC Node (sxt to Pisces DSC Node) -1h/7h rulers cnj
North Node 10th House Gemini Quindecile

Capricorn cusp of 5th.

------- first editions, too may encyclopedia sets (some quite out dated but I cannot let go of them, no surprise there). eclectic cultural and religious literature, linguistics - etymology, catalogs for everything from animals to artillery, mythologies - folk lore, ghost tales, some fiction (epics/adventure/fantasy/sci-fi), archaeology (mostly Egyptology/Classical archaeology, that's what I was supposed to go to school for), culinary/cooking (dated/regional), romantic era literature (poets, fiction, and the more obscure finds/translations/collections) vocabulary, historic figures, and too much to really give a full list... >.<; (To be expected with Mercury ruling 1st, 10th-NN, Scorpio in 3rd, Aqua in 6th, and all those aspects, sharing 4h Sag with SN, but under the 5h ruler, which trines 9h Moon itself. I'm all over the place with literature.) web-chart... all roads lead to Mercury-Jupiter. lol
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I don't keep anything I don't read or intend on reading - so, despite the volume of things in my "libraries" - I kind of force myself to remain selective.

I think my most valued books are out of print, I treasure two in particular from the early 50's (American), one is actually on house management (written for women of the day, details everything from budgeting, appliances of the era, clothing, and a lot of tips that still work today.) Another is a rather lengthy paperback detailing the different people of Russia and modernization up into the Soviet era (this book got me into reading Russian authors when I was only reading Western European authors.)

It was only the last 15 years (the last 10 in particular that I began reading Japanese), and Japanese literature. I tend to gravitate towards post-war literature, but I think it is mandatory as a Japanophile (in the Hearn sense) to read some of the classics. I appreciate the simplicity of early song and haiku, and of course the legends- but, in general... I do not like literature on war/politics itself and there has always been a focus on these things in Japanese literature (much like the US) - so, although I did enjoy the philosophical and spiritual lessons that came from, say, reading Five Rings; (and I of course love the ridiculous creatures of the Kojiki, early folk lore) - I am a bigger fan of more modern stories, and the works of Kenzaburo Oe. ^^; It could be that the literature of the 50s in all corners of the world just appeals to me in some way - idk! lol But, it does seem that way... 13-14th century - 17-18th - 30s or 50s... definitely.

I have my quaint stash of comics from when I was a kid, and manga from when I was a teenager (well, The Walking Dead is new... but... lol shhhhh) - I'll be giving my paleontology collections to my son once he's old enough... maybe another year... but that alone use to take up an entire wall in my bedroom. Recently, I let him have two of my earliest favourite books, and he loves them, both have seen better days, one is a sort of... I guess, play?! lol Mexican Jumping Beans, another is very basic Dinosaur/paleontology facts (it is dated... Brontosaurus... lol) - But, it's a good starting platform, right!? <3

See - my mother... she use to say that she could never me punish me like other kids whose parents would take their toys away and ground them to their rooms... It would have taken her a week to clear my room of all the books, magazines, pencils, crayons, pens, markers, paints, paper, folders, binders, and the techy learning gadgets I had back then! - (if she left one piece of paper behind, I would have probably used it for origami, written a long protest of my punishment on it using one of my barely there (down to the eraser and knuckles) no. 2 pencils, and likely would have drawn rude caricatures of her on the reverse side, keeping myself amused for quite some time!)

My library here is much smaller. I did mean to have all my books shipped up here when we had our old apartment; but it never happened, and I'm glad it didn't. There'd be no where to put them here. ; ; I have trouble finding safe places for the books I do keep here or have shipped here. bahhh

posted March 30, 2013 01:30 AM            

Does it make sense that I have Astrology books. I also have a lot of Sci-Fi books.

posted March 30, 2013 07:55 AM            

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Originally posted by SaturnineMoth:
I think my most valued books are out of print, I treasure two in particular from the early 50's (American), one is actually on house management (written for women of the day, details everything from budgeting, appliances of the era, clothing, and a lot of tips that still work today.) Another is a rather lengthy paperback detailing the different people of Russia and modernization up into the Soviet era (this book got me into reading Russian authors when I was only reading Western European authors.)

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These sound great...will you share the titles?

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Originally posted by SaturnineMoth:
See - my mother... she use to say that she could never me punish me like other kids whose parents would take their toys away and ground them to their rooms... It would have taken her a week to clear my room of all the books, magazines, pencils, crayons, pens, markers, paints, paper, folders, binders, and the techy learning gadgets I had back then! - (if she left one piece of paper behind, I would have probably used it for origami, written a long protest of my punishment on it using one of my barely there (down to the eraser and knuckles) no. 2 pencils, and likely would have drawn rude caricatures of her on the reverse side, keeping myself amused for quite some time!)

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posted March 30, 2013 08:03 AM            

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Originally posted by k e p h x i:
I have a Scorpio Mercury in the 3rd House. So, what does that mean?

Does it make sense that I have Astrology books. I also have a lot of Sci-Fi books.

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To me it, makes sense. Scorpio wants to get to the bottom of things. Most Scorpios I've known are interested in astrology. 3H Mercury might be so active that usual topics seem too limited, hence the sci-fi...branching out into time and space, other realms.

posted March 30, 2013 08:49 AM            

I don't read books..

Am I the only one?

Always hated reading books.

I like the way they look and all, but reading them.. no.

I only read stuff online.

posted March 30, 2013 09:12 AM            

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Originally posted by Faith:
To me it, makes sense. Scorpio wants to get to the bottom of things. Most Scorpios I've known are interested in astrology. 3H Mercury might be so active that usual topics seem too limited, hence the sci-fi...branching out into time and space, other realms.

I have 3H Pluto and also love sci-fi; makes me feel like I'm tapping into the secrets of the future...I feel like I have to keep a close eye on it.

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Ah, yes. Yes, yes, yes!

OMG. I do feel limited. Always. Especially with Astrology.

posted March 30, 2013 09:19 AM            

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Originally posted by Doux Rêve:
Scorpio Mercury Rx in 6th.

I don't read books..

Am I the only one?

Always hated reading books.

I like the way they look and all, but reading them.. no.

I only read stuff online.

Topics that interest me most are astrology, psychology (not that much anymore though), relationships, spirituality, alternative healing methods, and basically anything that has to do with the human psyche/behaviour and self-help /development topics.

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Yeah, I'm very selective about the information I intake. I like anything that has to do with the human psyche/behavior and self-help/development too. I also have a big thing for Philosophy.

I saw so many books not too long ago that I wanted to purchase. Most of them were Philosophy books.

posted March 30, 2013 09:21 AM            

I like to read philosophical,psychology,metaphysics,sociology,political science and stuff like that.I have books like musashi 5 rings, machiavelli-the prince, sun tzu strategies, robert greene mastery,power,seduction,war etc

posted March 30, 2013 09:21 AM            

~ http://www.cafeastrology.com/articles/inconjunctaspects.html ~
You end up confused at times because you read more into communications than are there. It's good to be able to read between the lines - just make sure you are also reading what is on the lines. Your expectations and imagination are assets as soon as you are able to develop a method for expressing your true feelings. Since many of your feelings are hidden from you, self expression becomes a path of self discovery.

posted March 30, 2013 10:17 AM            

History books, Ancient civilization books, cosmology books, romance novels, dark poetry volumes, horror novellas, philosophy books and Psychology textbooks from the Net.