Astrology
?Don?t Let Reality Get in Your Way? ~Caroline Casey
Dear Isabelle~
It?s been so long since we wrote! I?m so glad we finally caught up with each other, and our lives, and that you finally sent me your new friend?s chart to analyze. I thought it might be good practice for me, as an ?aspiring astrologer? to try to interpret Tomas? chart--or maybe just to question you about it.
You seem quite ?taken with him? if I might say?in the old fashioned way. But when I look at his chart I worry a little for you. OK, so he?s a charismatic assertive Aries, with a secretive (and sensitive!) Cancer Moon with Scorpio Rising. Sounds like he?s a charming alpha male the stuff of romance novels?but?really? Look at his Moon conjuncting Pluto and Pluto ruled Scorpio rising, and all that 8th house energy?again ruled by Pluto.
I think I would find it hard to trust him. All those square aspects between his Aries Sun, North Node and all those 5th house planets?(?give me love!? I can hear them screaming?or at least, ?listen to me!? and they are all squaring his Cancer 8th house planets. Feels paradoxical to me: can?t seem to reconcile that ?me first? Aries nature and the ?you first? Cancer nature, which are squared and not as ease with each other in his chart. Isn?t there a sensitive/puer/?Peter Pan? quality of those Cancer planets that doesn?t want to grow up?
Oh, I don?t know. I?m glad you like him. But again, I have reservations. When you say he?s a spiritual man, and I see Neptune in his 9th house at the top of his chart, I can agree?but Neptune also has a saying ?Don?t let reality get in your way.? And with so much of the ?underworldly? Pluto in his chart?well, Isabelle, you must know what you?re doing!
Let me know what you think of all this Pluto, will you? How?s your new place? Have you heard from your daughter Sophie? Last I heard she was still in Switzerland with your ex, dear Alistair. He sounds so different from this Tomas?interesting how you are drawn to both! Alistair sounds so much more---oh, I don?t want to say---you tell me?..
Love,
Kendra
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Astrology
"Don't Let Reality Get in Your Way" ~ Caroline Casey
?Don?t Let Reality Get in Your Way? ~Caroline Casey
Dear Isabelle~
It?s been so long since we wrote! I?m so glad we finally caught up with each other, and our lives, and that you finally sent me your new friend?s chart to analyze. I thought it might be good practice for me, as an ?aspiring astrologer? to try to interpret Tomas? chart--or maybe just to question you about it.
You seem quite ?taken with him? if I might say?in the old fashioned way. But when I look at his chart I worry a little for you. OK, so he?s a charismatic assertive Aries, with a secretive (and sensitive!) Cancer Moon with Scorpio Rising. Sounds like he?s a charming alpha male the stuff of romance novels?but?really? Look at his Moon conjuncting Pluto and Pluto ruled Scorpio rising, and all that 8th house energy?again ruled by Pluto.
I think I would find it hard to trust him. All those square aspects between his Aries Sun, North Node and all those 5th house planets?(?give me love!? I can hear them screaming?or at least, ?listen to me!? and they are all squaring his Cancer 8th house planets. Feels paradoxical to me: can?t seem to reconcile that ?me first? Aries nature and the ?you first? Cancer nature, which are squared and not as ease with each other in his chart. Isn?t there a sensitive/puer/?Peter Pan? quality of those Cancer planets that doesn?t want to grow up?
Oh, I don?t know. I?m glad you like him. But again, I have reservations. When you say he?s a spiritual man, and I see Neptune in his 9th house at the top of his chart, I can agree?but Neptune also has a saying ?Don?t let reality get in your way.? And with so much of the ?underworldly? Pluto in his chart?well, Isabelle, you must know what you?re doing!
Let me know what you think of all this Pluto, will you? How?s your new place? Have you heard from your daughter Sophie? Last I heard she was still in Switzerland with your ex, dear Alistair. He sounds so different from this Tomas?interesting how you are drawn to both! Alistair sounds so much more---oh, I don?t want to say---you tell me?..
Love,
Kendra
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