A Lot Of Living To Do
Life's a ball, if only you know it.
And it's all just waiting for you.
You're alive, so come on and show it.
There's such a lot of living to do.
MONDAY'S ECLIPSE
Astrology is all about cycles. If a major transit is bringing events or changes to your life, chances are (if you are old enough), you can look back and find a parallel event.
Take for example Monday's Solar Eclipse (Oct 3, 2005, 10 Libra 19). Many people are already noticing the changes it has begun to bring into their lives. An eclipse brings your focus to a particular area of your life (depending on your own chart)...and demands change. Sometimes something is actually eclipsed out of your life. Sometimes, it is temporarly put aside so you can focus on other things. But always, it brings about long lasting changes.
And for some, the eclipse follows on the intense changes precipitated over the past year or so, as Pluto was hanging around 20-23 Sagittarius (culminating in the Pluto Station in early September.) Pluto comes along and, in some way, strips you naked, vulnerable. Oh, in the long run, it is for your own good, but it can hurt like hell, especially if you try to hold on tight to what is being ripped away.
We can certainly lay claim to living in interesting times.
But remember, Astrology is about cycles. This week's eclipse was not unique at all. In fact, an eclipse remarkably like this one occurred on October 3, 1986 (at 10 Libra 16.) If you can remember what you were going through then, it will better help you understand what is going on now. What was eclipsed from your life then? What changes did you make back then?
And even Pluto had a parallel influence back then. In October 1986, it was in the middle of its travels in the vicinity of 7 Scorpio. Every part of your chart that has felt the conjunction, square or opposition from Pluto in recent months felt a semi-square or sesquiquadrate back in the fall of 1986. Can you find a parallel between then and now, and your feelings of losing something....or of being completely vulnerable?
I suspect that such parallel astrological events occur because we have a lot of lessons to learn....and there is no way we could learn them all at once. So the Creator, in his infinite wisdom, only gives us so much to deal with at one time.
If you are old enough to remember 1986....what lessons did you learn then that could help you better deal with the lessons you need to learn now?
And if you aren't old enough to remember 1986, don't feel left out. There is another Solar Eclipse in 19 years (October 2, 2024, 10 Libra 04) that you will call upon you to use the lessons you are learning now, in 2005.
As a general rule, people see things only through their own eyes. It's the way we are built, I guess. And of course, people remember events the way they saw them. It is not logical to expect otherwise.
Of course, when there are two people involved, each seeing things through their own eyes, you can end up with two memories that bear little or no resemblance to each other. This makes a lot of sense when you consider the comment, "Let me tell you my side of the story." On some level, even if only in the subconscious mind, we often realize that their are two different ways of looking at the situation...and neither one is 100% correct.
Sometimes, though, a person is so upset/hurt/enraged by a particular situation that they paint the picture of what happened, not as "my side of the story", but as facts. Their hurt/anger comes through in the way the tell the story, sometimes with so much vehemence that the listener is totally stunned that the other person could have been so dispicable!
I have two friends....I will call them Larry and Anna. They were married, seemingly happily, for several years....but when the breakup came, it was terribly dirty. Anna painted Larry as someone so awful, Hitler would have idolized him. Larry painted Anna as so low and vile that the listener would almost expect her to be the female incarnation of Lucifer. And when they each discussed particular events that stirred their rage.....it hardly seemed they were talking about the same event at all! (On the few occasions where they were discussing an event I was there for, I noticed how each had conveniently left out some details as they told the story....and without those details the events painted the other partner in a much, much worse light.)
Anna's friends believed her. They think Larry is an evil, selfish bastard.
Larry's friends believed him. They think Anna is a slut, a whore, and worse.
I'm in a difficult position. I was friends with both Larry and Anna for fifteen years before the divorce. I like them both. Neither one is perfect, both have done stupid things, in and out of the relationship....but hey, I don't know anyone who is perfect or hasn't done stupid things.
So I never mention Larry when I talk to Anna. And never mention Anna when I talk to Larry. If the ex-spouse is ever brought up, I listen patiently, and then try to move on to another subject. (The world should consider it lucky that the two of them have moved halfway across the country from each other, instead of in the same town.)
The point of all this, I guess, is that I've learned that no matter how bad a picture someone paints of another person, it is based on only their own perspective, and colored by their hurt/anger/rage.
No wonder the Arabs and the Israelis will never have peace....and no wonder each sees the other as being spawn of Satan.

After my last blog entry, I had so many friends telling me that they didn't want me to leave Tribe, I couldn't go. (I even had one person tell me, in no uncertain terms, that I was NOT to leave. OK, you can put the whip down. I promise....I'm staying!)
I also received a few posts from friends who said stuff like, "Hey, I always reply when you write to me!" And that's true....some of my Tribe buddies are wonderful that way. I'm sorry if it seemed like I implied that no one was answering my notes.
The truth is, though, that there ARE several people that I really care for who never answer my posts anymore. I see them posting on various tribes, they are still part of my network, but any notes I write to them might as well be lost in space. It would be different if I didn't care for these people so much.... If they'd at least drop me a brief note, or even msg me on Yahoo, I'd be a much happier camper.
So anyway, I guess you all are gonna be seeing me around Tribe, discussing astrology, flirting with the ladies, and in general looking for what mischief I can get into. I'll keep on moderating my tribes, too:
And as long as I'm mentioning this tribe, I want to say that, even though Tina and I did not work out, I think the world of her, she is a wonderful, very special lady, and I hope to always be able to call her friend.