July 30, 2005

Decision Time

The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things....

Today, I made a momentous decision:  I plan on moving to Atlanta, Georgia, next year, some time after I get my income tax refund (assuming I don't come into an unexpected windfall before that.)

Why Atlanta?  To explain that, I need to give a little background first.

I've been contemplating moving for quite a few weeks now, and talked of a lot of possibilities.
I used astrology as one of my tools, relocating my birth chart to see how life would be for me in each of the cities I was attracted to, such as St. Louis, and New Orleans.  I joined several tribes on  tribe.net, one for each of my possible choices, and asked people there to tell me about their homes.

And I talked with my good friend and favorite astrologer, Debbi Kempton-Smith, who proceeded to make arrangements to have a very special astrological chart done for me called Cyclo*Carto*Graphy.  And it was this last that helped me to make my final decision.

(Debbi, by the way, wrote my favorite astrology book, Secrets From A Stargazer's Notebook.  If you haven't read it, you really should! It's got lots of great info and it's fun too.)

This chart is an extenstion of something called Astro*Carto*Graphy, designed by Jim Lewis.  In laymen's terms, it is taking our birth chart and seeing where your planets fall around the world to see how happy or unhappy you might be in different cities and coutnries.  In the Cyclo version, you also look at the current planetary positions and progressions to see how happy you would be moving to each area NOW.  

Anyway, Debbi knows how to read these things far more easily than I do, so I bowed to her expertise, and she came up with two places that would truly feel like home for me now and in the future.  The first is in Northern California....and I'm not interested in that.  But the second is around Atlanta.  So that was the deciding factor.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that I have a wonderful friend there name Beth, and so I would not be entering a new world blindfolded.  (By the way, Beth has a son named Zane.  No relation to me...but we met because one day, she had put her son's name in a search engine and found my astrological website, contacted me, and we grew to be friends before we even realized it was happening.)

Anyway, I'm not taking any action today, with Mercury still retrograde.  But once it goes direct, I'm going to begin to explore the job market in Atlanta.  And, the universe willing, I will be picking up a Southern Accent before the end of next summer.

I told Tina that she'd be happy there too, and that I'd love it if she decided to move there.

Many years ago, I was in Atlanta for a few days.  But I didn't get to see much of it then.  I plan on getting to know it real well after I get there!






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July 26, 2005

Time Warp

OK, you can't go home again.  That's what I've been told all my life...you can't go back to an earlier time, and you can't recreate the past. 

But sometimes, various parts of your past seem to coalesce to present you with a doorway to a new future. 

When I was in my last year of high school, I fell in love for the very first time. Her name was Joan, and she was born January 23, 1953.  Aquarius Sun, Taurus Moon, and the sexiest Venus in Pisces I'd ever seen in my life. (20 degrees Pisces, closely square my 19 Gemini Mars.)  Can you say head-over-heels-in-love? 

Like most people, I've never forgotten my first love.... she had a profound influence on how I felt about myself, and also...on all future relationships.

Over the years, I've dated, been infatuated with, dreamed about and taken to bed a number of women, each in their own way beautiful, each in their own way very sexy.  In fact, I've slept with 11 out of the 12 signs.  (Why I've never taken a Cancer woman to bed, I can't begin to say.  I've met some very, very hot ones!)

I decided recently to look at the charts of all the women who've shared my bed, or who's bed I have shared, and found that, like everything else, my love life has astrological patterns.

First, I've had more Aquarian lovers than any other sign.  Aside from Joan, there were five other beautiful Aquarians ladies, each one totally different than the one before.  Second place has been Pisces with four women, one who became my wife for fourteen years.  Three Sagittarians next, including the woman who I loved deeply who is now married to her high school sweetheart in California.  Every other sign (except Cancer), there has only been one each.

So Aquarius Sun Signs dominate.

Next, I checked Moon Signs.  As I mentioned, Joan had Moon in Taurus.  Four other women also had this Moon position, including the Sagittarius I mentioned above, and one of the other Aquarian ladies.  No other Moon sign dominated like that.

Aquarius, Taurus Moon..... 

And recently, I've met a very special lady online, and hit it off.  Didn't find out her chart until recently (some astrologer I am!), but was amazed to find that she was born January 23, 1961.
Yes, same date, different year as my first love.  But there is more.

The two are 8 years apart.  Every 8 years, Venus returns to the same place it was on the same date....so these two ladies have basically the same Venus in Pisces square my Mars.
And, amazingly, this new woman also has Moon in Taurus.  Yes, I'm crazy about her.

But there is more.  One thing that didn't show a major pattern was the rising sign.  A couple of this, a couple of that.  And none of my loves were born during Sagittarius Rising

But this lady was.....with her rising sign almost exactly conjunct my Moon.  No wonder I feel so comfortable spending time with her!

I'm planning on flying out to see her for the first time in August.  Time to check our synastry in person. 

The above astrological analysis may sound analytical.  And when I started it, that was my intent.  But my relationship with Tina is anything but analytical.... just talking with her makes me feel like I took a bottle of Yohimbe all at the same time.















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July 10, 2005

Doorway Out

Today, in our local paper (The Columbus Dispatch), was an article which really made me think:

"New York gains reputation as safer city than Columbus"

 I've been contemplating relocating anyway lately, but this only firmed my resolve. 

"In the past decade, Columbus has gone from a homicide rate about two-thirds that of New York City to nearly twice the rate."

I'm not sure exactly where I want to go yet, but I'm considering a lot of places. Astrologically, I'm looking at the prospect of moving to my Moon line.....that is, relocating to where the Moon in my chart will move out of my 9th into my 10th house, very close to the MC.  I have a natal Moon in Sagittarius trine Jupiter in Aries, so putting the Moon near the MC will move the Jupiter into my 2nd house, which should be great for career and income.  As well as greatly expanding my library! (2nd house is possessions as well as income, and Jupiter, among other things, rules books.)

Some of the places along my Moon line included the St. Paul/Minneapolis area, Little Rock, Arkansas, St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana.  Of those places, I've only been to St. Louis, but loved it both times I was there.

The other possibility is moving along my Venus line, and there is a part of Texas, west of Dallas, I'm also considering.

My natal chart will experience Pluto stationary direct on my MC in September.  My progressed Sun has been moving toward natal Pluto, and will be right on it in September. 

I wasn't planning on moving that quickly....but the MC is opposite the 4th house (home, foundation, roots), and I may find I need to go as a result of whatever events will be happening in September.

If I do 'get out of Dodge' sooner than originally planned, I may need a temporary base of operation until I get myself together in the new town.  So if you'd like to offer me a port in the storm, I'm definitely happy to consider your offer.




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