tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post8096724870431192376..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Mercedes de Acosta - Writer, Lesbian, Lover of the Stars.Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-47464612927111368772015-03-02T13:36:28.797-06:002015-03-02T13:36:28.797-06:00Sonny - a slight divergence on your astrology is t...Sonny - a slight divergence on your astrology is that your sixth house of health is highlighted favorably right now, even though it's involved in the Uranus-Pluto square.<br /><br />Might I once again recommend you consider magnesium supplementation? It has been strongly correlated toward alleviating depression, bipolar, ADHD, and other mental conditions. Most daily vitamins do not contain the daily requirement...most have about 10 to 15% MDR...most contain magnesium oxide, which is the least absorbable. Stomach acid reducers inhibit absorption of magnesium. If your sleep pattern is disturbed, 2-5 mg of melatonin prior bedtime is also recommended.<br /><br />This supplementation may help reduce the sharp edges of your anxiety.<br /><br />https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/201106/magnesium-and-the-brain-the-original-chill-pill<br /><br />http://www.wikihow.com/Treat-Your-Depression-With-Magnesiummike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-7987987696914143972015-03-02T00:30:51.731-06:002015-03-02T00:30:51.731-06:00mike (again) ~ Re Dorothy Parker - yes, I had mea...mike (again) ~ Re Dorothy Parker - yes, I had meant to mention her in the post, then forgot. I used to be very keen on her poetry - still am - haven't read any for a while though.<br />:-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-48117615407935265202015-03-01T20:57:08.948-06:002015-03-01T20:57:08.948-06:00Thanks for the Mae West information, Twilight! I ...Thanks for the Mae West information, Twilight! I knew she was a supporter of sexual rights for gays and women in general. I didn't realize she wrote a play, "The Drag" and punished.<br /><br />Related information to Acosta, is that according to Wiki, Dorothy Parker was her classmate. Both share the Neptune-Pluto conjunction. Parker was a great influence of social and political causes (and blackballed for it during the McCarthy era). I see that you have several posts on Parker.mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-29292871426152248642015-03-01T17:26:49.469-06:002015-03-01T17:26:49.469-06:00mike ~ I've just noticed while curiously look...mike ~ I've just noticed while curiously looking to see who else had that close Neptune/Pluto conjunction - and had it linked to a personal planet - there's Mae West...lol - at one point she ended up in prison on morals charges, then having written a play about homosexuality, tried to put it on Broadway but was prevented from doing so.<br /><i>Her next play, The Drag, dealt with homosexuality, and was what West called one of her "comedy-dramas of life".[35] After a series of try-outs in Connecticut and New Jersey, West announced she would open the play in New York.[36] However, The Drag never opened on Broadway due to efforts by the Society for the Prevention of Vice to ban any attempt by West to stage it.[37] West was an early supporter of the women's liberation movement, but said she was not a feminist. She was also an early supporter of gay rights</i><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West<br /><br />Maybe a kind of mirror image of Mercdes de Acosta?<br /><br />http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/West,_Mae<br /><br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-56883024130678829732015-03-01T12:10:27.007-06:002015-03-01T12:10:27.007-06:00Sonny ~ Hi there! Nice to see you - even through ...Sonny ~ Hi there! Nice to see you - even through that bit of misty fogginess. :-) <br /><br />The link sent me back to an older post of mine, where you'd entered it previously - but I did eventually get to your astro.com detail.<br /> <br />Rather than reading the astro blurb there I set up a chart from my own software from birth data, to have a quick look.<br /><br />The most important point (as mike had mentioned in that previous comment thread )- it's here<br /><br />http://twilightstarsong.blogspot.com/2014/10/dylan-thomas-born-century-ago-today.html<br /><br /><br />- the crux and core of your present and recent difficulties has been that pesky multi-hit Uranus/Pluto square in cardinal signs.<br /><br />For anyone with personal planets in the middle degrees of cardinal signs ( Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn, )<br />the period from around mid-2012 to this month, March 2015, will have seen some extraordinarily challenging events and situations.<br /><br />There was a hit (6th of the set) in mid-December. The seventh and last of these pesky aspects/hits will form this month, exact on around 17th March, at 15 degrees of Aries and Capricorn. You have personal planets in mid-sign in Capricorn and Cancer, though not exactly on 15 degrees. Your natal Sun isn't close though, but if your time of birth is accurate natal Moon is within range, so it's not surprising you are feeling another "swipe" currently - but this is the last one of the series. Things should start to improve for you as the square aspect dissolves gradually. So hang in there luv, strong and determined to keep on keeping on, into easier and brighter months ahead.<br />Hugs.<br /><br /> Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-69422727611755760792015-03-01T11:31:04.941-06:002015-03-01T11:31:04.941-06:00mike ~ Oh good for GiGi! Very pleased for her, a...mike ~ Oh good for GiGi! Very pleased for her, and for you! Fingers crossed. :-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-24752679468417663262015-03-01T10:12:55.614-06:002015-03-01T10:12:55.614-06:00A good, solid movement from GiGi today and she ate...A good, solid movement from GiGi today and she ate breakfast! I'll keep my fingers crossed that this episode has come to an end.<br /><br />Hello, Sonny...wishing you the best!mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-83782459066312255452015-03-01T09:58:30.696-06:002015-03-01T09:58:30.696-06:00Hi Annie..
I'm still working on my health is...Hi Annie..<br /><br /> I'm still working on my health issues and these meds have me slightly foggy of mind and emotions..<br /> I know you said to post the link to my chart a few weeks ago but I forgot to..<br /><br />here is it.. if you have time could you look through it and see if you find anything of importance for my life..thank you<br /><br />http://www.astro.com/cgi/atxgen.cgi?btyp=apx&lang=e&nhor=1&cid=msjfileBtWkEk-u1414273780Sonny Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06926830309207639536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-49196626190112824442015-03-01T00:38:06.577-06:002015-03-01T00:38:06.577-06:00Jury is out on GiGi...we've gone to the other ...Jury is out on GiGi...we've gone to the other extreme of no waste output! We just came back from one of many walks in the light rain today, but still no output. No Pepto-bismol yesterday, so that isn't the cause of the clog. She's had a good appetite and eating. I'll assume tomorrow morning will bring relief.mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-49781887821204480112015-02-28T23:56:09.370-06:002015-02-28T23:56:09.370-06:00mike (again) ~ Hmmm - I'm sure you're rig...mike (again) ~ Hmmm - I'm sure you're right on this. Perhaps Mercedes' biographer, Robert Schanke was actually confusing "her generation" with the homophobia of the 1950s, when critics probably turned against her in her later years and fell into denigrating her in writing and gossip.<br />I guess her generation was still considered a part of the 1950s.<br /><br />Interesting astrological correlations, thanks for pointing those out.<br /><br />Yes generational Nep/Plu conjunction for Mercedes links to personal planets, (as I mentioned), so more applicable to her than to many others of her generation.<br /><br />PS - How's GiGi doing now, mike? A little better I'm hoping?Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-43456216385171614772015-02-28T20:21:04.112-06:002015-02-28T20:21:04.112-06:00Acosta is a member of the Neptune-Pluto conjunctio...Acosta is a member of the Neptune-Pluto conjunction...her conjunction is less than one degree. Obviously, there were many individuals born with that conjunction, but it's significant:<br /><br />http://www.historicalastrology.com/planetary-synodic-cycles/plutoneptune/mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-14448143435681157742015-02-28T19:47:14.034-06:002015-02-28T19:47:14.034-06:00I still think that homosexuality was better tolera...I still think that homosexuality was better tolerated from late 1800s until about 1930. 1920-1930 started a decline in acceptance and various legal aspects were enacted against homosexuals, predominately males. We know that the Nazis didn't approve via the pink triangle movement coincidental with the Jewish eradication of the 1930s and the decadence of Berlin was subdued.<br /><br />Astrologically, November 2 and December 2, 1899, had the stelliums in Scorpio and Sagittarius, with only Neptune & Pluto in quincunx (Nov) or opposition (Dec) in Gemini. The roaring 20s had Uranus trine Pluto. This led to the Uranus-Pluto square of the early 1930s and the decline of social-cultural tolerance of gays.<br /><br />Turing outed himself to the police in the 1950s, due to a burglary at his residence. The early 1950s were peculiar for extreme social-cultural conformity (anti-gay). Here in the USA, we were under the guise of McCarthyism, anti-communism, and anti-socialism. This era coincides with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, Uranus square Neptune, and immediately followed by Saturn square Pluto. The dust settled waiting for the winds of the Uranus-Pluto conjunction in 1966, which brought many changes, the sexual revolution being one.mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-35444989691338151992015-02-28T14:56:11.131-06:002015-02-28T14:56:11.131-06:00mike ~ I'm not very well informed on the homo...mike ~ I'm not very well informed on the homophobic atmosphere of that period - but what immediately sprang to mind as I read your comment was the current movie "The Imitation Game" - I haven't seen it yet, but the story of Alan Turing is quite well known.<br />http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Turing,_Alan<br />Turing didn't move in the right circles, obviously. I suppose that if one were part of the arty-farty crowd (whether in music, literature or art) one was accepted, in fact often celebrated. Outside that sphere though, in everyday life for ordinary folks, it'd be cold comfort.<br /><br />I agree - sexual orientation will not be indicated in a natal chart in my opinion. In some cases it might seem to be, but however it seems to be indicated (signs, aspects) could equally apply to some other area of life. I believe seeing sexual orientation in a chart is nothing but wishful thinking on the part of the interpreter.<br /><br />In Mercedes' case, due to her rather extreme carryings-on with the brightest, best and most beautiful of her era I'd expect there might be a hint of something in the chart - she was certainly not yer average everyday Lesbian - more of a predator I'd say...just happens she was gay.<br /><br />Jesus? No idea. Doesn't matter though, any more for him than for anyone else. Just another shade of being, I've always thought. Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-28669412773154530542015-02-28T10:57:50.794-06:002015-02-28T10:57:50.794-06:00There was something peculiar in the air or water b...There was something peculiar in the air or water back then! Schanke provides that there was "a deep homophobia of her generation", but I disagree. From the late 1800s through about 1930, there were many homosexual artists and authors providing definitively homosexual materials as their creations for public display. Isherwood, Wilde, O'keeffe, Stein-Toklas, et al...way too many to list. Berlin was the hotspot, but most large cities around the globe were centers of gay culture. The gay era coincides with the decline of the Victorian into the art nouveau and Art deco periods...decades of rather decadent sexual behavior and openness whether hetero or homo. <br /><br />Lesbianism has always been more easily digested than male-male, I suppose it's because hetero men are titillated by the notion and find it sexually exciting. It's been socially fashionable since around 1900 for women to don men's attire or some variation.<br /><br />I can't say that there is any astrological indication of homo-hetero behavior, except for the generic relational aspects predicated mostly on Moon-Venus-Mars positions and aspects, with all other planets and aspects to a lesser degree...some say that Uranus and Pluto play a strong role, too. Genes, nature, and nurture, as is said. Sexuality is such a private and personal endeavor, that it's very difficult for individuals to discuss possibly embarrassing or guilt-ridden details. Bisexuality is probably more common than openly accepted. History is replete with individuals that have expressed their sexuality on one side of the coin, but are known to have flipped for the right person.<br /><br />Jesus' sexuality has been questioned, if he existed at all. If he did, I suspect he had a sexual proclivity of some form, and fluidity of sexual choice was accepted in that era.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_of_Jesus<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Romemikenoreply@blogger.com