Introverted and Intuitive (INFP)
Sunday, November 30, 2003
Do you recognize the Praying Hands? They were painted by Albrecht Durer, the buy who did the bunny rabbit (!) and I've just posted a new article about him. DURER, THE FIRST MODERN MAN ... the astrological interpretation will follow. But you might like to read about the Magic Square and visit some of the magical mathematical sites.
I think I figured out why only males can be "great chefs" and why gourmet cooking/Chefdom (!) is one of the two remaining bastions of male supremacy ... that and architecture. In the collective, cooking by a woman is a very intimate thing. It is intimately connected in a man's mind with his mother and with nurturing. These are two things he will usually only take from a few women his entire life, and only two if he marries right away, so, his mother and his wife. I have personally seen men have their eyes fill up with tears when being reminded of their mother's cooking; whereas sex is not in this category.
Here's another thing. As you know if you've dated as an adult, it's pretty easy to get a guy to sleep with you but try getting one to come over for a "home cooked meal". Psychologically that is considered ever so much more intimate than sex and even threatening on a few, second or third, or ninth, tenth date! If women are monogamous sexually and not emotionally; men are monogamous emotionally, not sexually. So, to eat another woman's cooking is the ultimate betrayal LOL
You can teste this theory yourself. How many men do you know at the office who must NOT go out for drinks after work or have a snack or hors d'oeuvres because their wife would be mad since she had dinner ready. Few men will face that kind of reception, were they not to want dinner when they got home because they had "eaten somewhere else". It's almost a euphemism for sex, as in the old saying, "I don't care where you get your appetite, just so long as you eat at home/"
You can test this yourself as well. Try to offer a married guy something you've cooked yourself. It's like throwing a cat in a swimming pool. The exception will be if they are completely nontrheatening, such as someone who is working in your yard or home for a few hours.
So, to fuss about and worship another woman's cooking would be a difficult thing for a man to do emotionally, knowing that it would trigger immense jealousy with his wife. If it totally safe to admire a MAN's cooking and everyone is happy.
Notwithstanding the above, there is one really excellent female chef here in San Diego. She wins many awards and is breaking new ground.
Saturday, November 29, 2003
I've written an article about the philosopher Nietzsche from an astrological perspective at this website Friedrich Nietzsche, Uebermensch, Schizophrenic, Introvert and Renegade and from an introverted/schizophrenic viewpoint at this website SCHIZOPHRENIC OR INTROVERT Many introverts are unclear as to the difference between the two and this article includes one by Dr. Al Siebert that is just fantastic at pulling these areas apart gently and looking at them. At the current time, schizophrenics and survivor personalities make up about 1 % to 2 % of the personality. This is the same composition as some of the less frequent introvert types.
Friday, November 28, 2003
I had one of the best Thanksgivings I can ever remember. Hope yours was wonderful, too. We had turkey, stuffing, potatoes and green bean casserole, a wonderful pear salad with cranberries (!), and pumpkin pie for desert or brownies. We had some great coffee, too. Odie played out in the backyard and enjoyed some new sights and smells.
Now it's the fun time to start on holiday things ... baking, wrapping, looking at the lights and listening to the music. We have our favorite Christmas movie as well, since we celebrate Christmas. After Christmas, it's off to Chicago to visit the Sunhealer.
Thursday, November 27, 2003
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We had a little dinner tonight and then played UNO. I won two of the three games. My daughter and her husband are going to Disneyland tomorrow while I have dinner with a friend. Odie's invited, too! It's cold here now and beginning to feel like winter. We took the dogs to Balboa Park this afternoon and almost all the Christmas things were up. Afterwards, we enjoyed a latte from Starbucks, for lack of a place to find some hot chocolate. The grocery shopping wasn't as bad today as you'd think. The grocery strike is still going on. I hope you and your loved ones have a warm, fun day with lots of good things to eat, see, smell and experience.
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
What do you think of Schopenhuaer's dictum?
"Up to the age of forty-two the life of each one of us in like the text of a volume, the rest of which consists of commentary. The commentary may be ever so profound, but it does not add to the stock of original material."
I met the love of my life in my 42nd year. Of course it didn't work out, what with my cursed love life, but it did occur at that time.
This is a version of the I Ching that one of my students recommended. She has sworn by it for years. I remember that we sold a lot of these at the bookstore as well. Amazon.com: Books: The I Ching or Book of Changes: A Guide to Life's Turning Points
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Microsoft fires worker over weblogInteresting article about someone at work getting fired because of their personal weblog. At Microsoft naturally.
Monday, November 24, 2003
I was wrong. The American Press is handling the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination. Since I have always felt there was something quite wrong with this person, I am passing along information that became public about this time last year. This is from the Jim Lehrer Transcript. Physician Jeffrey Kelman discusses the extensive health ailments President John F. Kennedy suffered during his lifetime. The point is not that he was sick but that he was heavily medicated. Click here for a detailed report. Online NewsHour: Pres. Kennedy's Health Secrets -- November 18, 2002
Here is an excerpt of the most pertinent parts.
RAY SUAREZ: And this was a guy who had to do what just to get through a day?
DR. JEFFREY KELMAN: By the time he was president, he was on ten, 12 medications a day. He was on antispasmodics for his bowel, paregoric, lamodal transatine [ph], he was on muscle relaxants, Phenobarbital, Librium, Meprobomate, he was on pain medications, Codeine, Demerol, Methadone, he was on oral cortisone; he was on injected cortisone, he was on testosterone, he was on Nembutal for sleep. And on top of that he was getting injected sometimes six times a day, six places on his back, by the White House physician, with Novocain, Procaine, just to enable him to face the day.
RAY SUAREZ: Now, in the late '40s he was diagnosed with Addison's Disease.
DR. JEFFREY KELMAN: Right.
RAY SUAREZ: Which is what exactly?
DR. JEFFREY KELMAN: Addison's Disease is adrenal insufficiency. The adrenal gland makes corticosteroids and other hormones that are used for salt metabolism, response to stress, response to inflammation. In '47 he was officially diagnosed in England, as being adrenally insufficient, and from that point on, at least that point on, he was being treated with daily corticosteroids of some form or another. There is some evidence he was actually being treated earlier, with a form of [inaudible] implanted under his skin. But at, from '47 he had to receive daily steroids to survive.
RAY SUAREZ: Now whether this was Addison's or simple adrenal insufficiency, this is still pretty dangerous?
DR. JEFFREY KELMAN: It's always dangerous; without being supported, patients die. And the steroids themselves have side effects, including susceptibility to infection. Kennedy needed multiple courses of antibiotics, he had urinary infections, skin infections, he had respiratory infections.
I take it back. The American Press is observing the Kennedy anniversary. For an update on this person, try Access to new medical records
RAY SUAREZ: And this was a guy who had to do what just to get through a day?
DR. JEFFREY KELMAN: By the time he was president, he was on ten, 12 medications a day. He was on antispasmodics for his bowel, paregoric, lamodal transatine [ph], he was on muscle relaxants, Phenobarbital, Librium, Meprobomate, he was on pain medications, Codeine, Demerol, Methadone, he was on oral cortisone; he was on injected cortisone, he was on testosterone, he was on Nembutal for sleep. And on top of that he was getting injected sometimes six times a day, six places on his back, by the White House physician, with Novocain, Procaine, just to enable him to face the day.
RAY SUAREZ: Now, in the late '40s he was diagnosed with Addison's Disease.
DR. JEFFREY KELMAN: Right.
RAY SUAREZ: Which is what exactly?
DR. JEFFREY KELMAN: Addison's Disease is adrenal insufficiency. The adrenal gland makes corticosteroids and other hormones that are used for salt metabolism, response to stress, response to inflammation. In '47 he was officially diagnosed in England, as being adrenally insufficient, and from that point on, at least that point on, he was being treated with daily corticosteroids of some form or another. There is some evidence he was actually being treated earlier, with a form of [inaudible] implanted under his skin. But at, from '47 he had to receive daily steroids to survive.
RAY SUAREZ: Now whether this was Addison's or simple adrenal insufficiency, this is still pretty dangerous?
DR. JEFFREY KELMAN: It's always dangerous; without being supported, patients die. And the steroids themselves have side effects, including susceptibility to infection. Kennedy needed multiple courses of antibiotics, he had urinary infections, skin infections, he had respiratory infections.
Sunday, November 23, 2003
The party was fun. I met some wonderful people. The food was catered by a local restaurant (The Greek Sombrero ... yes)and they had a band that sounded like Janice Joplin. I never did meet the host and hostess but they had a beautiful ranch ... black bottom swimming pool, pool house, jacuzzi and even green grass out here in Jamul. Too bad it got so cold tonight. I'm going to go join Odie by the fire!
Saturday, November 22, 2003
This makes me so sad, in Georgia. This is the mystery of all things Russian. They look so much like me but they are so very different. It is also a sobering reminder that the Third World is always an option when politics and economics decline. My Russian teacher, Sofia Rozenblatt, is from this area and so is my friend Anya.
P. S. I'll let you know how the Jamul barbecue goes! My eclectic taste ... .
Lets's see ... where did I put my cowboy hat and boots?
History and My Father
The BBC is covering the anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination. The Europeans are so dutiful about anniversaries, especially even of births and deaths. For example the 100th year after someone's death is celebrated. It keeps these historical figures alive in a way that we don't do over here. I like that approach but then they have so much more history than we do. As you all know, though, I'm an Anglophile. When President Roosevelt said that the Europeans were nations that always warred, you knew he would live to eat those words. Churchill thought that war was the natural state of man. (Aries!) My daughter is specializing in American history in spite of herself, malgre soi, and keeps me more informed that I would be otherwise. My father had Abraham Lincoln as a hero and I followed my father around the battlefields at Gettysburg and Appomatox. He had wanted to become a general. He studied the battle plans and we walked the areas. Thus my interest in military history, though so far, not American military history. We were fortunate enough to be living in the vicinity of those battlefields at the time as he was with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. click here I wish he had lived long enough for us to do this in Europe as well. He would have enjoyed some of these organized trips so much. He was in the Battle of the Bulge and wrote me letters when I was traveling in that part of Europe describing some things that he wanted me to be sure not to miss, particularly the cathedral at Brussels which remained standing through the war.It amazed me at the millions of dollars of restoration the Russians have done with their palaces that were destroyed by the Germans. It can be said that a good imitation is better than the real thing in many areas of life, not just love and parenting. The restorations are flawless and beautiful without any of the warts and moles of real antiquities. When it was known for sure that the Germans were coming, caring people, curators, etc., carried a chair here, a table there and now faithful copies have been made. Peterhof was -- I've said it before and I'll say it again -- the most beautiful palace I've ever seen.
THE PLUTONIC LIFE
My reading of Tristan Chord is like a series of shock waves. Most of all I think it is because it describes the inner process of a very creative person in a very intimate way. Wagner's wife Cosima kept a diary for fourteen years and made very faithful entries every night. Wagner read the 1,000 pages or more of Schopenhauer's book The World as Will and Representation [sic]over four times in one year. At the time he had Saturn, Pluto and Uranus transiting his 12th house and over his Mercury. After having his worldview changed this radically and permanently, he had to return to finishing the last two operas of the ring, to composing the music. The libretti had already been written and published. He also had to go against every public statement he had made in the last decade. This is the Plutonic life. We sometimes return to families, careers, husbands and parents that are like strangers to us, things we created in a twilight time. We complete out of obligation and necessity. And yet in the process, we pour creativity into the situation and transform it as well as ourselves. In some cases this is not possible, such as the biographical statement of an editor I recently read who left a wife and three children to pursue a more meaningful path in life.
Here's a fascinating piece of astrological puzzle, too. In the year 1854 Wagner had had only one or two operas produced. He was for the most part vilified and derided. His recent concerts in England had produced critical fury. He had devoted most of his life to a project that seemed hopeless (the Ring). He was physically ill and his marriage had failed. He was worse than penniless. Having been hounded by debtors most of his life, he was deeply and hopelessly in debt. He was living in exile in Switzerland and his latest petition to return to his homeland, Germany, had been turned down.
Then onto the stage walks King Ludwig, a true life fairy tale for Wagner and an inspiration to all who have lost hope. God works in mysterious ways. This is something of the order of Churchill's mother Jenny finding true love and impressive wealth at 65.
THAT NINTH HOUSE
Here is an interesting statement I read about the 9th house person.To my understanding there is no house larger than the ninth, for it is boundless, stretching farther than the naked eye can see, one reason why "vision," "prognostication," are considered ninth house activities, xrays and telescopes ninth house objects, where mythology and story abound. Imagine a house where activities take place in realms rather than rooms. When I find myself at once transported without accompanying feelings, I dare say I've not quite made the trip. It appears to me that the ninth house is so large and complex that us mere mortals struggle through it. People with ninth house consciousness have more to say than we sometimes can or should afford to hear, sometimes a double-edged sword. It is the house of the dreaming mind and of dreams, the expanding consciousness, the prophet and philosopher, the visionary. Madame Aionia
As a thoroughly ninth house person, I can identify with the "more to say than we sometimes can or should afford to hear". Furthermore, I am aware that there are some things I should not say and also some things that people should not hear or know. A wise psychic reader in Alabama taught me to say that ... "There are some things God doesn't want us to know," she would say in her fast Spiel at the beginning of her reading. I amend that to say, there are some things about our future(s) it is better not to know.
Another reason I'm enjoying Tristan Chord so much is that it is working deeply in area between philosophy and religion. Had Schopenhauer not tried to graft his Buddhist revelations onto the dualistic Judaeo-Christian family tree, the world would have been a very different place. I'm studying Wagner also as the Gemini Magician, the Metaphysician if there ever was one. Always elevated Geminis are dualing with light and dark. Like the metaphysician in Tales of Hoffmann and my German professor.
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And secondly, I loved this ...
Influence is something which it is rarely possible to quantify and put sharp edges round, or even to located with pinpoint accuracy. Wittgenstein had a telling parable about this. If, he said, we knew a man who had lived for many years on bacom and potatoes we should recognize at once the absurdity of pronouncements about which parts of his person derived from bacon and which from potatoes; and yet all the time we make equivalent pronouncements when it comes to people's intellectual and artistic nourishment. The chief reason, I am quite sure, why Wittgenstein himself notoriously refused to give sources is that he did not want his work to be treated reductively in this way. Creative people in general are markedly reluctant to acknowledge influences, and this is not only, as so often seems to be assumed, because they do not want to admit their indebtedness to others, but even more, perhaps, because they want their work to be viewed in its organic wholeness and as authentically theirs, they having metabolized any influences there may have been into their living tissue and made those influences part of themselves, all the bacon and all the potato having been transubstantiated into their own person, their own flesh and blood. And they want responsibility for their work to be seen as wholly theirs, not as partially someone else's. It may be that in their apprentice works, when they were learning their craft, they were following or imitating someone else, but their mature work represents what they themselves have become.
As a creative person, I agree with this one hundred percent. My mature work is my lifework and it represents my wholeness and integrity.
By the way, this is why I like to make websites for mature people. It is an organic process and a merging of energies that is co-creation at its finest.
I consider every article on my website to be creative, unless it is something I have attributed to another source, such as the Rodden Ratings I recently included for convenience of those wishing to improve their research skills. All my introverts work is original.
OOps, almost forgot, the source of this quote is Bryan Magee, The Tristan Chord.
Friday, November 21, 2003
I've been reading The Tristan Chord off and on all week. It discusses the influence of various philosophers on the work of Richard Wagner and vice versa: first anarchists like Mikhail Bakuhnin and then Feuerbach, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. It is absolutely fascinating. I have never taken the small minded view that Wagner had anything to do with Hitler although the reverse may be true. His use of mythology and Greek drama was too obvious to indicate a small minded prejudice such as he is accused of. For the most part, he is exhibiting in his youth the mind set for most young Europeans. I found many of my thoughts substantiated in this book, which I'm halfway through and will probably read again right away which is unusual for me.
Another point of interest is Magee's comment that most Europeans in the end of the 19th century were completely out of touch with German literature, culture and art -- only their music transcended language barriers. I had this experience when I finally began to study German and Austria language, and therefore, history and culture in my fifties. I felt it was about time!
What I discovered, among many things, was the enormity with which their culture differed from those influenced by the Romans. Magee has yet to mention that fundamental difference. Secondarily, I discovered the artist Albrecht Duehrer and his school of German Renaissance Art. And thirdly, many poets, including the incomparable Goethe. One of my reasons for taking German in the first place was to read Goethe. I was not disappointed. I was able to read Faust with the Perfect Uwe, my German tutor, who was patient, dramatic, deep and as interested as I was in the play. We usually met at The Living Room on El Cajon Blvd. One day, we had the place to ourselves and there is a little stage. We took turns reading parts on the stage.
Not to compare myself in any way with a genius of the order of Richard Wagner, but I couldn't believe it when I read that Schopenhauer considered music the language of the Will. Pure and simple. In astrology we equate astrological symbols with the notes of music. With it we are interpreting (?) reading (?) divine Will, hearing the Music of the Spheres, I think. Music, like the music Schopenhauer referred to and Wagner composed. At one point it looked like what was being spoken of "was" Uranian but I am waiting to see if I have that feeling again. Schopenhauer himself was Piscean, dismal and depressed as they are when combined, especially, with Capricorn and the 10th house. He had Saturn conjunct Sun and Mercury in Pisces in the 10th. Getting back to the music, this is a case where one has thought the same thing but not quite articulated it. Well, there it was in black and white.
I had read Eduard Hanslick's treatiseVon Musikalisch-Schoenen (On the Musically Beautiful) in English ... when I was studying Austrian history and should have known not to stop there. It asserts, to simplify, that music is more thought than emotion. This is the dialogue between Aquarius and Pisces, the 11th and 12th houses. Wagner's music expresses the Will. It is so beautiful sometimes it is painful, unbearable is I think how Magee describes it. He has a wonderful way of understating things that makes them more believable. Wagner often pushes people to outrageous superlatives. It's true but it doesn't help comprehension because it begins to sound like it's inflated. Nothing could be that good.
I've signed up in hopes of getting tickets to the Ring being presented at the Chicago Lyric Opera House in 2004. Wish me luck and wherewithal to get seats.
I have also read Nietzche's essay on Dionysius vs. Apollo, The Birth of Tragedy, a fundamental piece of writing upon which much (?) most (?) literary and aesthetic critism is based, acknowledged or unacknowleged. Here is an online summary by H. L. Mencken DIONYSIUS AND APOLLO
Tomorrow I'm heading off to a barbecue at a ranch in Jamul with Jean Rouse, a fundraiser for the fires out here in SoCal.
Something that really interests me in the returns on the book survey is answers to the question, How did you learn to read? Here are the answers. After you read them, if you're going to, I'll make a statement as to why this interests me so much.
1. First grade
2. I don't know. Preschool maybe
3. My aunt taught me at home before school started (now it would be preschool) so I was really excited to get to first grade and see the alphabet letters on the ceiling around the room and to sit in the reading circle.
4. in school, by the sounding method
5. My parents taught me before first grade. My father read to my brother and me every night from as young as I can remember.
6. Very young, the family myth is I was 2 years old. I've always known how to read. So has my daughter. In the genes.
7. in school, I think
8. dont know
9. My mother taught me
10. I suppose my mother taught me, because I could read before I got to school.
11. My mother began to teach me before I entered school...
12. School - alphabet
13. My aunt taught me.
14. My mother read to me extensively, and I simply absorbed it. There was never a need to be formally taught.
15. I don't remember that far back
16. Sesame Street
17. My sister taught me when I was about 2 and she was about 7.
18. Catholic nuns
19. I don't remember.
20. Self taught
21. I don't remember exactly, although I have dim memories of sitting on my father's lap sounding out Beatrix Potter.
22. At school
23. In school
24. elementary school
25. Mother, grandmother, pre-school
26. school..don't remember not being able to
27. Don't remember learning at all so I must have learned at home before I went to school.
The reason this intrigues me is the number of times someone will say their mother taught them to read. OF course there are hundreds of thousands of people whose mothers didn't teach them to read and also there are hundreds of thousands of people who could hardly be said to be reading, regardless of having passed through the school system.
The ability to read is a highly developed brain activity. It has come along at the end of a great deal of evolution and I've noticed in my compassionate work in National City with the very disadvantaged, that that area of the brain has not developed and the capacity to read is too abstract and conceptual of take place in any meaningful sense of the word. The next higher demanding intellectual capacity is to write. To write, one must hold concepts in mind and organize them conceptually. It requires the ability to "hold a thought in mind". I can't help but think this is related to the ability to postpone gratification. Someone who recounts their day-to-day experience line by line is like someone who can't get through graduate school because they don't want to put off buying the new stereo and getting married. For example, don't you owe it to your audience to wrap that up in some interesting way or come to a conclusion or link it to something meaningful?!? Is this asking too much? When I ask you, "How was your day?" I certainly don't expect to hear what happened at 8, 9, 10, etc. though sometimes to my horror I have found this response in strangers. Is it any wonder we introverts dread small talk so much!
Language fascinates me, having gifts in reading and writing all language, but difficulties in speaking any, including my own, English. Because of my interest in foreign languages, I have met people who "pick up" spoken languages like they were pebbles in the yard. I "pick up" understanding languages because of natural telepathic abilities and also, as an empath, I am always willing to throw a lot of grunts, aha, unhuhs, clucky oh nos, raised eyebrows, dramatic facial expressions and just good old plain body language to get across to and understand people from other countries. This is the way I taught my daughter to speak. Her first word was "doggie" and she said it with such emphatic expression because of the way I had been dramatizing the excitement of language for her! Mommie and Daddie came several months later, a lifetime in childtime (!) She spoke her first word very early ... at 7 months.
I have often thought -- and this first occurred to me learning German as an adult -- that one's ability with language correlates to one's relationship with one's mother. As an intuitive, I am now willing to bet that "reading problems" correlate almost one hundred percent with disruptions in the relationship with the mother.
Test it out and see if you agree. Who teaches us to talk if it is not our mothers? When mother is distant, absent, cold, disinterested, disconnected, how can we learn? Next time you're out and about, watch mothers with their children. Some of them will engage their child frequently with intense eye contact as they touch and point and label things in the environment with words. There is excitement, empathy, love, care and nurturing in this quality.
Other mothers will stare straight ahead, though they may be pushing a carriage or holding a hand. They deal directly with salespeople, look at other adults, etc. The child can hear and observe what is going on but it is a far cry from the excited involvement other mothers convey in the process of learning to speak. Labeling one's environment is a powerful, empowering activity. In the Bible, Adam was allowed to name the animals. He was given dominion over them. This is symbolic and metaphysical.
And then there are those darn moms on their cell phones. Blah blah blah.
Here's a great mom. Can you feel her connection with her child? As she touches the fruit, the child watches intently. This is a good moment for language learning, as well.
See how exciting this mom is making the experience of reading a book?
Here's an opposite example, from a Christian website that teaches people in Bangladesh to read by giving them Bibles. Bibles are good to read but not an exciting way to learn. Contrast the children in these pictures.
This next section I got from a website about learning to read. Engaged moms will point out things in the environment as they drive by or walk by. Every moment is a learning moment of great excitement ... but you can't do this with your child if you're on the cell (!)
Here's the description that came with the picture.
[quote]Environmental print is all around us and is key to helping young children get a jump on becoming good readers.
Texas A&M education professor William Rupley says environmental print is anything around us that contains a logo or printed words. "It can be the golden arches, which a child associates with McDonald's, as well as the menu listed above the cash register. The whole idea is to make the child aware that print is everywhere and that it communicates meanings," says Rupley.
Research conducted by Rupley and fellow Texas A&M education professor Victor Willson found that the more a child knows about how words are constructed, the better start the child will have in learning to read. Willson noted that once you account for the differences in a child's knowledge about words and print, early knowledge about words and print comes more from the home than it does from the school.
"Our study shows that virtually any child can learn to read," said Willson, "and the way to help the child is to point out those kinds of things that help them gain meaning." Parents need to help their children associate reading words and letters in their homes and other surroundings.
For more information, contact William Rupley at 409-845-7093 or by e-mail
I'm glad I discovered the I Ching relatively early in life. My friend Michelle taught me at her modest kitchen table. She had a copy of the I Ching that she had taken across the country with her backpacking. She lived in a small apartment in Mission Hills. Because Michelle loved the I Ching so much, I was introduced to it with great love as well. One day I I brought my friend Norm over there too, to learn. Michelle was an introvert of the first order. Norm was a very open minded person for a CPA (!) Later one of his children died tragically and I lost touch with him.
This is the hexagram I received today. My dearest friend ButterflyMoonGirl sent me to this site. It's just beautiful. I have never found better ways to describe energy than in the words of the I Ching. Reading the I Ching gave me a language to talk about the things I saw and understood with my third eye. Some of the hexagrams I couldn't really understand when I was twenty five, such as Darkening of the Light, but now I do because I have lived through such times and understand them. The I Ching speaks the language of introversion and is excellent counsel in the conservation of energy which is so important for us all. When there is nothing to do, do nothing. When the times are against you, relax and bide your time. When times change, as they invariably do and will, then you are rested and ready to go.If there is one book of wisdom I would recommend, it is the I Ching.
This is my hexagram for today: Truth involves establishing an aware relationship between your inner core and the circumstances in your life. Centering in truth involves the ability to perceive a fundamental wisdom, reflected within yourself - and also in others.
Truth is transformed into power when you disperse all prejudice and make yourself receptive to the world as it really is. This power can be a remarkable force indeed - yet is rarer than generally imagined. It can be maintained only by cultivating a genuine openness to things as they are - a willingness to see, rather than merely look.
Whenever your inner life is clouded, your influence in the world is under a shadow. If you are fearful, you will be attacked; if you cloak genuine mysteries in dogma, opportunities for new insight will be lost. If you vacillate in upholding your principles, you will be tested. Yet, when you are firm and strong, the power of truth can break through even the most stubborn minds.
In any debate, the power to perceive the truth in the other side's argument is essential to achieving success. It is possible to influence even the most difficult people, or improve the most difficult circumstance, through the power of universal truth - for truth is something to which all things naturally respond. Get in touch with that part of yourself that is aware of this universal force of truth. Cultivate this inner resource, and you will become adept at using it to bind others to a common purpose.
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Thursday, November 20, 2003
I'm going to Chicago after Christmas! I'm going to the theater and also will get to visit my father's grave. I'm so excited!!! I will be the guest of The Sunhealer, Margaret Loris. I'll keep you posted. I already have a great winter coat from my visit to Omaha and Chicago last year. I'm ready to go.
You can't imagine, probably, how fun it is to go to winter weather when you live in Southern California. The sun actually gets a bit oppressive at times.
Here's the Windy City. It won't look like that at the end of December!!
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
The new photos from Tim Meyer are here. They haven't been officially touche up yet but I'm pleased.We went to the Vet again and as you all know, it's not because I have a crush on Dr. K! He always calls my dog "he and she's a "she" but we love him anyway. Odie's doing a lot better and has a whole new bunch of medicines to bring her back into the super normal range.
We've received some more matches from eHarmony and will keep you posted. One delightful gentleman is from Tennessee and likes music. The other is from Santa Barbara and manages rest homes.
Tonight in the astrology class we did George Washington contrasted with Thomas Jefferson. Washington won hands down.
Monday, November 17, 2003
Here's what Alice Meisels said about my eBook, You Can be an Introvert and Win: "“I would add that your book asks and answers questions and raises issues no one else, to my knowledge, has raised and made accessible to others. Your insights are unique and remarkable. I am confident that the book and the work you and I will do together will equip me to restructure my life and use my gifts in ways that feel right for me.“ Thank you, Alice! It is very rewarding to work with introverts as they discover the fun and positive attributes available to us! You can order this book at YOU CAN BE AN INTROVERT AND WIN .
Here's the new logo for my ezine.
I hope you don't think there's anything wrong with my using art and graphics in my BLOG. I know not too many others do, but I thought it was perhaps because they didn't now how.
I had dinner with an old friend tonight. We went for Mexican food at El Torito's and reminisced. It was a nice thing to do on a slightly cold and rainy evening, for Southern California. They make the best fresh gaucamole dip at your table. After work tonight, I'm going out to the fireplace to finish Kane &and Hugh Grant for having an affair and even getting into terrible trouble for it where I would not forgive Bill Clinton or John Kennedy?" I think I know the answer!
This novel is returning me to my childhood ... either to say hello again or good bye once again. My life changed dramatically at the Saturn Return, age 28-30. I left behind a lifestyle that included private clubs and the Old Boys' Network. It's very different out here in the country in SoCal. Noone has heard of Murray's(sp?) or the Wiffenpoof's song ... at least not that I know of lately. Tomorrow I write the article on Killing Ground.
Saturday, November 15, 2003
This is what one person has to say about You Can be an Introvert an Win, my eBook which you can order here ORDER YOU CAN BE AN INTROVERT AND WIN OR FIND OUT MORE I've asked her for more of an endorsement and to use her name, but for now, this is it! "I have spent the last several hours reading You Can Be an Introvert and Win. It is invaluable."
I'm so glad because you CAN be an introvert and win.
I took the day off today, baked chocolate chip cookies, did some ironing (who loves to iron but me with my Mars in Virgo!) and read a great book in front of the fireplace. Pretty close to heaven. The book I'm reading is one I meant to read for a long time. The BOOK SURVEY reminded me. You can take the survey and I would love your feedback.
The book I'm reading is Jeffrey Archer's KANE and ABEL.
It's a simply written tale but about the socioeconomic interplay between the Americans and the British after World War I, a time period I enjoy. Two boys are born on the same day, one to a life of privilege on Beacon Hill and the other to a life of hardship in the woods in Poland. I was thinking, if anyone were to pick a place in the world, a place of tragedy, it would be Poland. One of my favorite writers, Guenther Grass, the German Nobel Prize Winner in 2000, said in The Tin Drum -- "Poland ... beyond the Moon." Just the name of Poland evokes such pathos.
Whereas The Tin Drum is real literature, Kane and Abel is light entertainment ... just the thing to relax with before the fire after a very hard week's work. I hope you're having a good weekend, too.
I've gotten another match on eHarmony. This is a man in the music business in Nashville. I think there are some nice Earlier this year Lord Archer was on trial for perjury in connection with an earlier trial involving a prostitute. Shown here with his wife and son, Lord Archer's mother died during the trial.
Lord Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail for perverting the course of justice and for perjury. He had earlier taken advantage of lenient sentencing. He seems incorrigible and is a good writer.His second trial resulted from information given by a friend when he ran for Mayor of London. Here is Lord Archer's life in pictyres. ARCHER'S LIFE IN PICTURES His lifetime peerage resulted from gratitude by the conservative party. He has led an interesting life.
Kane and Abel was included in the top 21 books that the British love the most in their recent contest, The Big Read. The countdown continues on the BBC for the best loved book of that nation.
A visiting astrologer is giving a report Tuesday night to the Astrology Class on George Washington. She is including the charts of Thomas Jefferson, the United States, Alexander Hamilton and hoped to find a chart for Martha Washington as well. I've been searching several months now on the internet for a copy of Nick Campion's Book of World Horoscopes.
Friday, November 14, 2003
Kybalion has been put on the website and is ready to read. This is a free eBook, an important little classic in metaphysics. Be sure and visit the alchemical pages as well.
The Kybalion
Here are a couple of my favorite alchemical symbols.
Wait a minute, I think I dated the guy on the left one summer in Denver. You can find out why these symbols may feel vaguely familiar to you, or why someone like Sir Isaac Newton would study them.
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Here is the photo essay I loved from Ben Ames.
Wild Nights - Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile - the Winds -
To a Heart in port
Done with a Compass -
Done with the Chart!
Rowing in Eden
Ah! the Sea!
Might I but moor - Tonight -
In Thee!
Emily Dickinson
This reminds me of the real beauty of some poetry. As an infp introvert, our "type" is called the Healer by Keirsey and the Poet by Myers-Briggs. And, yes, we are very poetic.
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
In our Astrology Class last night we had a presentation of Ann Sullivan and Helen Keller's charts. We've also done J. R. R. Tolkien and Bill Cosby. These are presentations by the students who are becoming whizzes at chart interpretation. It makes me feel wonderful as a teacher to see how great they're all doing. I think it's been less than one year. We meet every Tuesday evening for three hours and they attend faithfully.
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
If you're following KYBALION, it's taking longer than I thought because of the stunning graphics. Keep checking back please.
This is how Chapter 2 begins. Chapter 2 is about the 7 Hermetic Principles. I also have an article about them THE SEVEN LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE. I give good examples in the article that show you how to apply these principles to your life right away.Monday, November 10, 2003
Today is Memorial Day and I remember my father, a veteran of World War II and my grandfather, a veteran of World War I. My grandfather is buried at Memorial Park in Skokie, Illinois, with his mother and father and a baby in the family who died of cancer. I have created a website in memory of my father which has a page about his military service during World War II -- RAY GARRETT, JR., WORLD WAR II VETERAN and today I ordered the evergreen blanket which goes over his grave every year at this time. Since he is buried in Chicago, it gets cold in the winter and a blanket of snow covers the grave. When I put the evergreen blanket on top of his grave, I am returning the comfort, warmth and protection he provided me as a child. Here is a picture of the evergreen blanket.
EVERGREEN BLANKET that I ordered today. I also ordered the special red bow this year. I just found out about it. Because he was the warmth and light of Christmas to me. He was the very color red of Christmas. Every Christmas I gave him a red scarf and now, a red bow. My father was the sun that rose in the morning and set in the evening and gave my life warmth and meaning. He died in 1989 and I miss him very much but he is always with me.If your father, husband or son served in one of the wars, please accept my respect for their devotion to their country and any sacrifices that they and you had to make.
This is a photograph of my grandfather in his army uniform from World War I.
My grandfather was an introvert ... can you tell?
In DreamGroup tonight we read about one of Jung's dreams right before he was dying. This is from Marie Louise von Franz' book Dreams: A study of the dreams of Jung, Descartes, Socrates and other historical figures. Marie Louise von Franz is my favorite Jungian writer. She worked with Jung -- younger than he, she did not die until the 1990's, I believe -- and he bequeathed the development of many projects to her. Jung was a gifted intuitive and as such an active, profound dreamer. I like von Franz' style because she is a rational personality type, factual, unembellished prose style; therefore more credible to me. As an introvert, I prefer low-key rather than hype, white light and so forth.
"This service of the psyche to which Jung dedicated imself, like a knight to his Mistress Soul, was rewarding for him; he had deeper and more impressive dreams than other people, and at the end of this life, a few days before his death, he had a dream which he was able to communicate: He saw a round stone above him in a high place -- the Stone of the Wise -- and on it were engraved the words And this shall be a sign to you of Wholeness and Oneness. [p. 32]
I certainly recommend this book to anyone. I also have a list of books I recommend for advanced level Jungian reading. Many of von Franz' are included, Please Great Jungian Books For Level II click here. I have quite a few lists of interest with amazon.com If you love to read, try some of Nancy R. Fenn's Listmania
Kybalion
This is the book I've talked so much about and it's free online at my site. I have three chapters up and will continue to add to it during the week ahead. If anything will ever come close to right brain physics, this is it. It's readable, understandable and will meet you at whatever level you introduce yourself. Every time I read it, I learn more in contemplation. My gift to you. This book is now in the publc domain.Sunday, November 09, 2003
Christopher Walken, the Continental ... with champanya.
I know you love him, too. But you should know, Christopher Walken wasn't the first to do a parody of The Continental. In 1953 or 1954 I found out on a blog somewhere, Chuck Jones directed a Pepe Le Pew short which begins with a quite clear parody. Well, no matter, no one could do it like Chrstopher Walken, an Aquarian dream. Christopher Walken was born March 31, 1943.fSun News says, "No matter how evil the roles he's played, Walken has been an American cinema icon for almost 25 years. His acting style is unforgettable and his voice is so famous that everyone from comedian Jay Mohr to actor Kevin Spacey has imitated it. His films are cult classics and his appeal stretches across all ages, from suburban parents to college students. Even though he's almost 60 years old, Walken shows no signs of slowing and seems geared up to share his acting talent with generations to come. Perhaps Walken himself puts it best: I got a fever -- and the only prescription is more cowbell." Perhaps no less remarkable, he's been married for 34 years. Here is Christopher's astrology chart.
We don't have the exact time but he has one of the two most irresistible mail combinations. One is Aries/Pisces and the other, which Chris has, is Aries/Aquarius, double that with Moon conjunct Mars Aquarius. If you understand astrology, you will see why it is so perfect for him to parody The Continental. He's actually learning something by doing it. Anyone figure out why? Please email me with your answer.
If there is any public personality you'd like me to take a look on here at the BLOG, just let me know and I'll try to fit it in. It's the best way to learn intermediate astrology.
I'm finishing an article about Sir Isaac Newton tonight. He was a quintessential introvert, the Mastermind type. Other Masterminds are Dwight D. Eisenhower and Niels Bohr. It was hard not to veer off into his alchemical studies so I'll probably write an astrological article about that part of it.
Sunday: The article is finished now and can be read at WOULD YOU HIRE SIR ISAAC NEWTON, THE INTROVERT WITH THE BUBBLY PERSONALITY?
Here is Sir Isaac Newton clowing bubbles. He was learning about light. He learning about the Laws of Motion by jumping over things :-)
YOU KNOW YOU LOVE THEM
I listen to ABBA a lot late at night when I'm typing my articles. It's such great energy and the songs are so positive. This is one of my favorites. What girl hasn't felt this way at one time in her life?
GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT)
(B.Andersson/B.Ulvaeus)
First release 1979
Half past twelve
And I'm watching the late show in my flat all alone
How I hate to spend the evening on my own
Autumn winds
Blowing outside the window as I look around the room
And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom
There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase these shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Movie stars
Find the end of the rainbow, with that fortune to win
It's so different from the world I'm living in
Tired of T.V.
I open the window and I gaze into the night
But there's nothing there to see, no one in sight
There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase these shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight...
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight...
There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase these shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase these shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
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Another prize for the strangest place a book was read ... at night sitting in the car waiting while a policeman filled out a ticket. Go, Princess M!
I got a handwriting analysis from Penelope Blanchard for a world famous person -- unknown to her -- and it was just fantastic. I hope you will give Penelope Blanchard a try when you would like to have handwriting analyzed. Here's some more detail about her. Handwriting Analysis . I feel this is such an important contribution to understanding family members. So often we never even knew our grandparents or great grandparents, although we remember them vividly from childhood, yet we have mementoes or letters in their handwriting. Penelope can describe someone to you in a way that makes it come alive and helps you draw a picture of your family background. At the present time, you can only contact Penelope through me. She doesn't do a lot of general work anymore but concentrates on these readings for my clients.
A handwriting analysis by Penelope Blanchard can also clear up some family mysteries. Here are some examples: A family member of mine died tragically at 29. This was over 40 years ago. No one is alive to compare notes with that really knew him. In my generation we often felt it was a death wish. He left a wife and two children but we didn't think his marriage was very happy and that perhaps he couldn't think of any other way out, as they say. I gave the letter to Peneloope without any comments.
Penelope's comment was that he was a very optimistic person and very much looking forward to his future. That's one mystery solved. Do you have one in your family?
Princess M hardly knew her paternal grandparents. Penelope Blanchard gave her a very honest profile of them, not flattering, but somehow it made all the pieces fit together. Do you have a family mystery? Let us help you with it. You can have the complete FAMILY READING and/or a handwriting analysis by Penelope Blanchard.
Saturday, November 08, 2003
I thought I would blog this page from Joe Butt's webpage about the eight different types of introverts. This is the page about the Healer/Poet type. INFP Profile
Sometimes Joe's definitions are a little different, for example, most people don't have Jackie Kennedy as an infp (!). That's a stretch. Lovely lady, but selfless she was not. Hard to imagine John Kennedy as an infp either. They were more likely Composers and Promoters. Someone wrote me an email with a real edge on it because of a type designation I was making on my site. Let's remember to focus on raising consciousness about introversion as a legitimate personality type and not divide amongst ourselves. I often take my type authority from Keirsey because of his willingness to give type designations and the user-friendly nature of his site. Also, I usually agree with his designations. But the important thing is to raise consciousness about introversion and not quibble about differences in interpretation.
This woman was also impatient with me because I spelled
Carl Jung's
nameKarl Jung
Actually, I alternate betwee Karl and Carl for this reason. I explained to her that the "c" and "k" are interchangeable in German names used in English because there really is no "c" in German names at the beginning of the words. You find "c" in the "ch" but for the sound of our hard c, one uses "k" in German, like Kaiser , king, and Koerper, body, and Kirche, Kuche und Kinder (an old German phrase ... women who tend to church, cooking and children). I have an associates degree in German language and history, together with degrees in French and English literature.The interesting ones in the infp list by Joe Butt are Mother Mary and Shakespeare. Also Laura Ingalls Wilder. So many introverts in the Book Survey have mentioned The Little House on the Prairie series as a favorite.
The Velasquez Madonna
The latest addition to the strangest places a book was ever read ... #23, Princess M. says "In the car at night waiting for a cop to write up a ticket (I was 19 or 20 yrs old)". Take part in the BOOK SURVEY
Try the new dog survey. Please click here. But I warn you it's very challenging. And the stakes are high ... $25 gift certificate to amazon.com for the winner. Introverts love their pets. Sometimes a dog is our best companion.
Friday, November 07, 2003
We are awaiting word about Trishna's trip to India to visit her Guruji. Here she is and her article is coming soon. Trishna says I should tell you I helped her manifest this trip. She has a wonderful sense of humor, also calling India, "the only diet there is". Trishna practices the healing arts in Omaha, Nebraska.
British Evacuees.
Could this sweet picture possibly be real? Yes, they do look very British and obviously they are trying to be brave. These are some of the British children who were evacuated from the environs of London during the bombing in World War II. Many studies have resulted from the effects of separating these children from their families. They were a generation caught between a rock and a hard place. When their fathers returned from the war, they hardly knew them; often their mothers had moved on emotionally as well. Many marriages fell apart. Many fathers never came home at all.
The Battle of the Bulge, which lasted from December 16, 1944 to January 28, 1945 was the largest land battle of World War II in which the United States participated. More than a million men fought in this battle including some 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British. The German military force consisted of two Armies with ten corps (equal to 29 divisions). While the American military force consisted of a total of three armies with six corps (equal to 31 divisions). At the conclusion of the battle the casualties were as follows: 81,000 U.S. with 19,000 killed, 1400 British with 200 killed, and 100,000 Germans killed, wounded or captured.
These are the children, of those men. This is the age group, who paid the World Price for War. These children grew up with 911 Towers exploding in their back yards almost every night. They were not children ever at all and now they are turning 58-60 years old. See my website Austrian Children and Other Children of War
These children are experiencing their second returns right now, along with peers such as Sylvester Stallone, Liza Minelli, Priscilla Presley, Rod Stewart, poor Roy Horn, Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas. We remember those who didn't make it to their second Return.
If you're in this group, born between June 1944 and August 1946 while most of your fathers were fighting in the Battle of the Bulge (!) (email me if you want me to check your date and see if you have Saturn in Cancer and are part of this group), I have a special article for you. Famous People with Saturn in Cancer It's called "More for Turtles" because it is addressing those with Saturn in Cancer who are currently experiencing their FIRST Saturn Return as well. Thy are turning 28-30. The Saturn Return comes every thirty years.
In this article, you will find your kindred spirits and catch up with their lives. Hopefully you will find inspiration as you visit those who had Saturn in Cancer back through the ages, all the way back to Michelangelo.
Others in this illustrious company are Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth I, Nostradamus, Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, plus many more you will find in the article.
You might also be interested in the Full Family History Reading. Visit FULL FAMILY HISTORY READING to learn more and bring pictures!!
Ok, I decided to get real with the book survey and added a category, "Where's the strangest place you've ever read a book." Replies so far: in a meeting and on the toilet.
TIM MEYER PHOTOGRAPHY in Escondido, California
This is the link for Tim's photography -- Tim Meyer Photography -- Hollywood Glamour Photography at its finest.I had my professional photograph today taken by Tim Meyer. He seemed possibly even more interested in the philosophy behind his glamor photography even than the photographs ... my kind of guy. I bet he's a Sag. Anyway, here's the deal and it's very interesting. He calls his style of photography Hollywood Glamor but I call it classy, classic dramatic black and white photographs. I'm waiting for permission to put one up on my site.
They remind me of the photographs of Katherine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich and other film stars from my aunt's era. She was slightly older than me and had old movie magazines stored at my grandmother's house where I poured over them on those long hot Texas summer afternoons on the sleeping porch when there was nothing else to do. (Those and Donald Duck Unca Scrooge comic books. Being a Sag, Unca Scrooge was a real favorite of mine!)
Anyway, in these magazines, it was the era of Shirley Temple. Katharine Hepburn was featured constantly. Here's a great shot of Katherine Hepburn.
Katherine Hepburn is the quintessential introvert. I spent a chapter on her in my eBook, You Can be an Introvert and Win. Click here to order your copy of this book. I guarantee you will be inspired and fascinated.
And one more favorite of mine.
Tim told me that the original photographers of this type of image have all passed on and there is no one to carry on the tradition. He became interested in it himself and took about a year to perfect the tecniques he uses. He is now traveling all over America teaching it to others who want to learn.
Perhaps more importantly, he feels this reflects a change in attitude toward women. "Classy," I replied. Also there is something cerebral in this approach. Certainly the woman is seen at arm's length. Perhaps she's more of a challenge. Also she isn't "performing" for anyone. And her whole body is shown with equal emphasis. Tim says there was something about the women of that era ... they were really goddesses. I know when Katherine Hepburn died, many newspaper articles proclaimed she was the last of the Hollywood film goddesses.
Now, I'm not a man and I don't really care about this from a point of view of whether or not women are sexy. I've been around long enough to know that between the ages of 15-25, all women are sexy to all men of most ages. Actual sexual attraction, the thing that would eventually drive two people into each other's arms, in real life is a coat of a different color. For example, I have read for several men for whom it seems only Uma Thurman would be acceptable, only to have them abruptly marry a little brown mouse, I suppose because she was available to them and Uma wasn't able to return their phone calls at the moment.
Anyway, this could be a step forward, or backward as the case may be, chronologically. The pendulum swings... . Personally, I'm tired of wiggling, bouncing anatomy and that peppy extroverted look. Undeniably Katherine Heigl is a beautiful woman but I'm tired of having it shoved in my face (?) Does that makes sense? She's athletic looking, extroverted .... It's nice to have that cool distance these glamor shots provide that allow me to catch my breath.
Another contrast, the childlikeness of these women. They are like little girls. They're so cute but they look like each other's teddy bear.
More contrast. This is a very young Lauren Bacall, who was frequently photographed this way, in dramatic black and white.
and this photograph, my favorite, of Bette Davis from a Latin American website
I'm trying to put into words the difference in what it says about women. "Class" comes to my mind. That would be refreshing. But it could also be that these women are introspective and in the case of at least one of them, introverted.
COMEBACK FOR INTROSPECTIVE AND POSSIBLY INTROVERTED WOMEN?
IN THIS GROUP, HEPBURN IS AN INTROVERT (SEE "KEIRSEY.COM) AND THE OTHERS, I DON'T KNOW.For those who are further interested, here is the website of George Hurrell who Tim Meyer told me was one of the foremost photographers of this genre in Hollywood. His gallery includes dramatic photographs of Carole Lombard, Jane Russell, Clark Gable and James Cagney.Collectible art: Photographs of famous Hollywood stars of the 30s and 40s This is the more or less official website, but a far better collection, which the website author says he "shamelessly gleaned from all over the internet just for enjoyment" is GEORGE HURRELL. This is worth visiting if you have an interest or training in art, aesthetics, balance and the reemerging image of the goddess. Here's a parting shot of Norma Shearer, one of my favorite artists. She was a ballet dancer, "discovered" to star in The Red Shoes, one of my favorite movies. See my article Loved Real which treats this film from the introvertred perspective in a general discussion of Hans Christian Andersen. Shearer was famous for her long flowing red hair (Titan) but in this shot, it's the dress and the photography that catch your eye.
P.S. I'll let you know how my photograph turns out. It will take about three weeks. I was wearing a business suit.
Hey! Maybe grunge is over!
I for one would love that.
I guess it wouldn't really be over if I didn't put a photo of Scrooge McDuck here.
Thursday, November 06, 2003
It's been a late night tonight. I have a fire going in the fireplace. It's starting to get cold out here in Jamul. I interviewed Margaret Loris, the Sunhealer for an article that I wanted to get online tonight. Tomorrow I head up to Escondido to have my professional photograph taken. We took Georgie and ODie to dog park in Balboa Park this afternoon and had a great time. Odie just watched now and Georgie ran and visited all the people not dogs.
Turtles - Your Saturn Return with Saturn in Cancer: "If you were born between August 2, 1973 and May 14, 1976, you're experiencing one of the most important transits of your life, your first Saturn Return. The planet Saturn was in the sign of Cancer when you were born. "
The Saturn Return
More about Saturn in Cancer ... for the rest of your life, Saturn will be trying to tell you there's more to life than the material. It will encourage you to have a family of your own or become part of a family that really feels like a family to you. Many of you did not incarnate into families where the other people feel familiar to you. Some even incarnated into families where other members had been enemies from paste lives. Genetics and past lives aside, now begins the journey to find your real peeps.During your life, many of you will give your tender and devoted touch to the frail elderly or to vulnerable newborns … to those most at-risk in the human family.
Many of you are born empaths and healers. Under the spreading tree of your kindness many lost and struggling souls, old and young alike, will gather for rest and shade before continuing on their way. You will be like serene lakes in the moonlight to your friends, who will drink from your wisdom and be refreshed. You have the broad shoulders and soft breasts your friends will cry on when their lives crash against the shore and your door is always open. You, yourselves, who have been so often orphaned in this weary world will provide safe haven for all the world's lost and lonely travelers. It is because of this and for many other reasons that I'm writing these articles for you. Because you are the Earth Parents.
Many of you will make some of the best natural parents in the world, as well. But not if you forget the part about getting married and having kids!
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
AN END TO CELL PHONES AND SMALL TALK IN OUR LIFETIME!
Today's busy parents need to remember to spend less time on the cell phone and more time relating to the person who is there in your physical presence.
I just found another well known astrologer has passed on this year, Gina Ceaglio. It's a new generation what with Zip Dobbyns and Lois Rodden also passing on. I was looking for Richard Idemon's tapes, which Gina used to sell. Richard Idemon is possibly the very best practical astrologer I ever had the pleasure of hearing.
Tuesday, November 04, 2003
I changed my listing on eHarmony today. I said I would exchange care, nurturing, cooking and homemaking for financial security. We'll see if this stirs things up a bit. Secretly, I think men need to be needed. What do you think? It's time to reexamine the feminine, once again, with Venus taking new shape in the skies. My research on introvert online dating continues with this experiement in humor and good spirits.
Prepare for the transit of Venus across the sun next June. It's a once in a lifetime event. Venus Transits and Powerful Women by Nancy R. Fenn Read about some powerful women in history, across cultures, across all barriers. Reinvent your idea of the feminine. (I did.)
VENUS TRANSIT ACROSS THE SUN NEXT JUNE and you can see it with your own eyes.
I'm so proud to have my article published on Skyscript. My specialty is the big perspective, including historical research, since at my age, we tend to this of history as the family scrapbook. I love reading about what our progenitors have done. In this article, I found some spectacular woman of all cultures and all times. This transit is about women who have temporal power, queens, empresses, bassilisa's, concubines, Khan-makers and many warriors for women, power, land, country and god. I try to avoid astrologese in this article as it is of interest to anyone who likes to see the world unfold.
This is a picture of Queen Boadicca (spelled several different ways), one of the few Celts who revolted against the Romans, male or female.
The weather is pretty good right now for Leos, wouldn't you say?
Except for that little thing about fighting to the death for what we believe in!I found a Virtual Assistant today. I'm thrilled. I hope she can bring me right up to date so I have more time to do the thing I love most, writing articles in astrology, metaphysics and about introverts.
I'm finishing up an article on Saturn in Cancer. I'm also researching for an article on the New Venus, in preparation for the eclipse in June of next year, a once in a lifetime event. And I'm also bringing the free online Tarot class up to date. I have a waiting list for those interested. Please email me if you'd like to be notified when it's up again.
I got my first article accepted on STAR IQ. I'll let you know when it's up for sure.
I've been meeting the nicest people working on my introverts Discovery Course. This week it was Daryl Sharp, the editor and publisher of Inner City Books, also a Jungian analyst. He gave me permission to use some of the definitions from the Jungian Lexicon. Elephants mean a lot to this man, so here's a beautiful elephant in his honor.
This is The Story Behind Inner City Books
Inner City has published some of my favorite books on serious Jungian analysis. They include Phallos, The Scapegoat Complex, Alchemy, Aion (Lectures), The Unravished Bride, Descent to the Goddess (FANTASTIC!!) and Puer Aeternus. They published Marie Louise von Franz who is my favorite Jungian writer.
Sunday, November 02, 2003
I have eighteen replies to the book survey now and the most interesting variant is how people feel about dog earring books or writing in them. Here are the responses:
How do you feel about writing in books, dog earing, etc.
1. Writing in books and underlining is ok if neat. Dog earing defaces.
2. I have found and English professors teach that writing, underlining, etc. is a sign of engagement with the text and is very positive.
3. I absolutely write in my books. I get very familiar with them. I write notes and comments to the author, puts stars and exclamation points, notes to myself. I tiurn the pages and also they usually get in the tub with me so they are a little damp at times; swimming pools and sunlight. I take my books with me everywhere. Naturally these are paperbacks. That's what I love about paperbacks. I never go back and read the things I've written but if I like something, I underline it and read it over slowly for emphasis as I'm underlining. It puts it in my mind permanently. I have a photographic memory. I don't understand why there are "rules" against this. I think it is the most natural way in the world to love something, to put your hands on it, like bathing a baby. Never someone else's though, of course!!
4. If it is something I think is very important or strikes a chord, it's my book so I will mark it. I would not think of writing in a borrowed book.
5. Fine. I write/highlight in non-fiction books all the time. Dog ear all my books.
6. n/a
7. I never write in books. It was instilled in us to always respect and care for them.
8. havent thought about it
9. If I'm going to keep it......doesn't bother me
10. NEVER to a library book. My own books, writing in pencil only, unless it's my name in the cover. I no longer dog ear, I stick little pieces of paper between the pages I like.
11. violent. Seeing someone else's notes is like someone talking to
you when you are listening to the author.
12. i like to keep them clean unless i put a note at the front
13. I use my books. I underline. I often read in the hot tub and I don't worry if they get wet.
14. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
15. Ack! No!
16. whatever floats your boat
17. If it's my own book, and it will help me to understand or remember things, I don't mind writing notes or highlighting key words or phrases. I only dog ear magazines.
18. I love clean books. I never could deface a book becuase I had to keep it in perfect condition for resale.
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