Zodiac Musings By C. Ravin, Esq. last updated ~ July 1, 2005

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Various Quotes On Astrology


As we all know, science began with the stars, and mankind discovered in them the dominants of the unconscious, the "gods," as well as the curious psychological qualities of the Zodiac: a complete projected theory of human character.

~ Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy










Poems by Maryjane Mosh
Virginia Beach, 1996,
Moon in Aries, Sun, Venus, & Mars at 15° Aries opposite Jupiter, Saturn, & Pluto in Libra, Mercury in Pisces, born in New Orleans








High School

As the teacher walks down the hall, she looks at everyone.

She sees them happy as they joke with their friends, but

She doesn’t see what I see.

I see the girl with the wristbands who goes to the bathroom during class to watch herself bleed;

I see the nerdy boy who is in love with the popular girl, and likes to look at her picture he keeps in his wallet, which he secretly peers at when no ones looking;

I see the girl with her boyfriend, holding her stomach, afraid that last night was a mistake;

I see the boy with his friends bragging about last night;

I see the girl stuffing her face only to see it in a toilet thirty minutes later;

I see the teacher admiring the happy students as she's walking down the hall, but

She doesn’t see what I see.

I see the boy who thinks the only way to be accepted or happy is through weed;

I see the girl who found no way out except for at the bottom of a bottle of pills;

I see the boy whose only problem are the fists constantly flying at him, and he is unable to stop them;

I see the good girl who is giving her boyfriend head only because she thinks it's expected;

I see the teacher delighted with her happy students as she's walking down the hall, but

She doesn’t see what I see.


~ Alisa Smith, Aries Sun, Aries Moon, age 15


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"Mars is the ruler of Aries"
"Nothing rules Aries"
"Mars is the ruler of the first house"
"that's better"

~ Linda Goodman, Venus Trines at Midnight

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So, Shannen, you have a reputation as a bad girl. Would you say this is fair?

"I have done things that have not been good," she begins. I've maybe gone out one too many times and I have made mistakes, but I chalk that up to youth. I try and lead my life as good as humanly possible, and I believe in karma. But it doesn't mean I'm perfect. So I'm not going to lead the perfect life. I will still make mistakes."

What's the baddest thing you've done?

"I don't know I don't think I've ever done anything truly malicious..."

What about smashing that bottle on a stranger's car outside a bar?

"Oh. Well, yeah, that wasn't good. Thanks for reminding me. I basically just told somebody to back off because they were threatening my best friend and throwing spitballs at us, and calling us really atrocious, foul, crude names. We all got in sort of a verbal yelling match and it all got blown up from there, and the press blew it up to be...and suddenly I'm like, cracking people over the head with a beer bottle, which I definitely never did."

You got 500 hours of community service for that incident. How many old people's fences did you paint?

"None. I paid a lot of money instead. They make you wear orange jumpsuits. Orange is really not my color."

~ Aries Queen Shannen Doherty, from an interview with Loaded, July 2001





You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

~ Nelson Algren, Detroit-born American writer, 1909-1981;
Sun, Mercury, and Venus conjunct at 7 Aries (midpoint), Mars in Pisces.

His trans-Atlantic love affair with the French writer Simone de Beauvoir lasted with intervals for 17 years. De Beauvoir dedicated her book The Mandarins to Algren, and kept his ring, but never left Jean-Paul Sartre, her life's companion, who was no good in bed.

********* ~ All's Well That Ends Well, I.i.

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Arrogant. Pompous. Vain. Cruel. Verbose. Show-off. I've been called all these things. Of course, I am.

~ Howard Cosell, Sun in Aries

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I've been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, volatile, and oft times disagreeable.

~ Bette Davis, Sun Aries

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Fight the Good Fight!

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

~ Ephesians vi. 12





Heavenly Glory...stuck upon him, as the Sun
In the grey vault of heaven; and, by his light,
Did all the chivalry in England move
To do brave acts.

~ King Henry IV.

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Chekhov! Chekhov! Chekhov!

~ Tennessee Williams, Sun in Aries, asked to name his favorite authors

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Hell - My Aries Sun sits right on the Aries Point in the 11th house (there is enough of me for everyone!!!) and my Mars is camped in the first just ready to start some fun new fun thing at the drop of a hat!

With A Sag Moon and Gemini Rising you know how hot the fire can be - hot, hot and the oxygen just keeps it burning and burning only ending with steamy encounters when combined with my watery planets of love and sex!!!!



~ letter from a randy 0° Aries Sun girl with Venus in Pisces


Regard most earnestly your own heart. For through your own heart comes the one light which can illuminate life and make it clear to your eyes. Study the hearts of men, that you may know what is that world in which you live and of which you will be a part. Regard the constantly changing and moving life which surrounds you, for it is formed by the hearts of men; and as you learn to understand their constitution and meaning, you will by degrees be able to read the larger word of life.

~ the needed lesson for all Fire Signs; from Light on the Path, (Theosophical Publishing House, 1970). This classic of Eastern Wisdom offers guidance and instruction to those who aspire to tread the path of spiritual unfoldment. Its sources are very ancient yet its message is timeless.




God, give me hills to climb
And strength for climbing!

~ Arthur Gutterman, Hills

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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us,
but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

~ Benjamin Franklin, On True Happiness








Helena: Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star.

Parolles: Under Mars, I.

Helena: I especially think under Mars.

Parolles: Why under Mars?

Helena: The wars hath so kept you under that you must needs be born under Mars.

Parolles: When he was predominant.

Helena: When he was retrograde, I think rather.

Parolles: Why think you so?

Helena: You go so much backward when you fight.

Parolles: That's for advantage.

Helena: So is running away, when fear proposes the safety. But the composition that your valour and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well.




Double Aries Alyson









Mother of God! no lady thou:
Common woman of common earth!

~ Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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Let us make hay while the sun shines.

~ Cervantes, Don Quixote

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Is it you?

or is it just that I've made you wear those love robes
I've been saving
since the days when my sand castles
were big enough to walk around in
and strong enough to stand against the tides?

I can't remember who first said
that "what you don't know can't hurt you"
but whatshisname was wrong

Supposing I climb all the way to the top of the tree
and then find out
it's not really you

How do I get back down again
all by myself?

I've aways been afraid of heights

~ Linda Goodman, Venus Trines at Midnight





To Sappho...

I love you, Enchantress!
So much, it’s true, yet
I must hie, for my home
Will remain the sea.
‘Tis not for the beauty
Of the maidens of Sicily;
Nor riches undiscover’d;
And no, my sweet Poetess,
Neither ‘tis it for any lost
Wonder or brilliance
Or the Sun’s radiance in
Your smile, your eyes, your kiss;
Nor anything about you
My Beloved, I swear.
As the Cyprus-born is our witness,
I shall dream fondly always
Of our passionate embraces
At our little Latmian cave, as
Nightingales sang for us, as
The gods and the fawns
Looked on, my blessed girl;
I swear, nor ‘tis there
Any distraction in my head
At you near thrice my age,
For you are the Tenth Muse,
And how could any man,
Whither slave or sailor or king
Or Endymion,
As I am all, at once, since you
Forever more; and yet
How may I stay on,
The sea is my home and craft,
Just as the blank page is yours.
Please be happy, for I
Will always be, for having
Loved you, gentle maiden.
There shall be no
Higher treasure for me
As I ply, yet our love
Shall remain sweet
Within my breast,
A miracle cherish’d
Until I die.

Love,
Phaon

~ Carlo Ravin, Love, Phaon, Winter 2001; a poem that may have saved Sappho’s life had she received it from her Phaon before he departed Lesbos without bidding her farewell; upon realizing the next day that he stole away the evening before, so the myth goes, she went to the Leucadian Cliff, and drunken with love, dove into the white-crested waves. In your author's opinion, the dark-haired Poetess, whom Plato elevated to the Tenth Muse, was a Taurus, perhaps with a Scorpio Moon and Venus in Pisces, which might help to explain her imaginative love nature in general, this fairy-tale romance with Phaon when she was 55, as well as to explain astrologically a mythical watery ending.

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Immortal Sappho, maid divine,
Thou sharest with the heavenly nine
All honor. Shout through all the town
That on her head we place a crown.
Hasten with the chaplet green,
Greet her one and all as queen;
The Lesbian, a tenth muse we name,
And prophesy that her bright fame
Shall spread o’er all the world.
This title till the stars do fall,
Nations yet unborn shall call
And glorify her name.

~ Lucy Milburn, circa 1900

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Bring Summer flowers, bring pansy, violet,
Moss-rose and sweet-briar and pale columbine;
Bring loveliest leaves, rathe privet, eglantine,
And myrtles with the dew of morning wet:
Twine thy a wreath upon thy brows to set;
With thy soft hands the wayward tendrils twine;
Then lay them lightly on those curls of thine,
Sweet is the breath of blossoms, and the Graces,
When suppliants through Love's temple wend
their way,
Look down with smiles from their celestial places
On maidens wreathed with chaplets of the May;
But from the crownless choir they turn their faces,
Nor heed them when they sing nor when they
pray.

~ J.A. Symonds, The Garland-Bearer (After Sappho), 1884

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Somebody, I tell you, will remember us hereafter...

~ Sappho of Lesbos, 600 B.C

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In the elder days or art
Builders wrought with greatest care
The unseen and hidden part,
For the Gods see everywhere.

Built to-day then, firm and sure
On a broad and ample base,
And ascending and secure
Shall to-morrow find its place.

~ Longfellow

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My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it is through Earth's loveliness.

~ Michelangelo

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Desire possessions above all. Yet those possessions must belong to the pure soul only, and be possessed therefore by all pure souls equally, and thus be the especial property of the whole only when united. Hunger for such possession as can be held by the pure soul, that you may accumulate wealth for that united spirit which is your only true Self.

~ the needed lesson for all Earth Signs; from Light on the Path (cited in the Aries section)

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There can be no peace of mind in love,
Since what one has obtained
Is never anything
But a starting point for further desires.

~ Marcel Proust (1871-1922), Sun in Cancer, Venus in Virgo trine Pluto in Taurus

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Sitting quietly doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

~ Zen poem

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Were we not born under Taurus?

~ Twelfth Night

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You, the dearest of men; was ever the like of you created before?
And why is it that I have not been able to touch
the wellsprings of your heart?

With such tender, far-reaching eyes as yours,
a voice so soft and musical,
that in my dreams angels flit about me;
and your dear face is seen through an aureole resplendent with beauty,
and I cannot think through what means I am to win the only star,
that will prove the guiding one of my life.

I feel convinced you never have realized
how fully you are all in all to me,
or you would have quenched the thirsting of my soul ere this;

and now I shall await impatiently your reply,
while assuring you of my undying fidelity.

~ in general, any Taurus or Pisces girl with an afflicted Venus in Aries or a Venus-Pluto square (from Adele Sarpy Morrison, Benvenuta, 1914)

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Yet love I most these floures white and rede
Such that men call daisies in our toun.
To them have I so great affectioun!

~ Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

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Taurus, Taurus
Please don't bore us
Just give me pleasure
In the fullest measure.

Sensual lover
You should be
Lasting long
And strong
You could be
If you would only
Not act so lonely
Lay off the chocolate
And American Idol
Make loving me
A little more vital.

For I can't bear
Nor deal with an air
Of self-indulgence
Such narcissism
Much materialism
Unbending
Unrelenting.

Yet I am willing
To overlook it for now
You silly brown cow
Just crawl back
Under the sheets
Devour these sweets
Come on, Bull
Now stop the whining
And start refining
Your...
That's it, don't rush
No, please, now hush!
I don't want to hear it
I just want to feel it.

~ C. Ravin, Taurus, Taurus, Summer 2003,
inspired by a woman who claimed she could not recall
her separate experiences with two Taurus guys in bed.

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I mark stern Taurus through the twilight's gray
The glinting of thy horn
And sullen front, uprising large and dim,
Bent to the starry Hunter's sword at bay.

~ Bayard Taylor, Hymn to Taurus

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The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is "What does a woman want?"

~ Sigmund Freud, Sun in Taurus

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The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing, then marry him.

~ Cher, Sun in Taurus

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Women find men boring, and men have no morality. If men get the feeling that women want them to wear green ears, they will wear them. And they'll say "I'm just my own man," all the while they're wearing 'em. And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him. A woman needs a sense of danger in a man, whether it's fake or real.

~ Jack Nicholson, Sun in Taurus, Moon in Virgo opposite Saturn, and Pluto square Venus in Aries, born in Neptune, New Jersey.










Wait a minute...
(I know that's not always easy
for you to do)

I waited until 1:14 a.m.
To kiss that cute Cappy
and get her work number
So the Moon striding into Taurus
Would trine her Sun and mine.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen
You planned to go rock climbing
With her husband
Later today.

By the time I dropped you at home,
it was 2:30 a.m.
It's 9:30 a.m. now.

You mean to tell me
That in the time I slept
and got to work,
you have your car packed full
and you're moving to Virginia to do roofing
for $600 a week?

Guess I'll see you in a year
or less
I must confess:

Nobody but a double Gemini
Like the four of you
Could do that.
Most Earth signs need a week
Virgo, maybe three days.

And you never fail
To leave me in a daze
With your ultra-Mercurial ways.

Just make sure
that you call that kid and say
that you've left and flown away
like your Gemini brother Peter Pan,
yet again.

Call him from Tahiti or something.
Oh, you called him already?

~ Carlo Ravin, True Story




Gemini Queen Nicole
Venus Conjunct Jupiter in Leo


I'm sorry I kept you waiting
Look, don't cry
it was only an hour or two
Couldn't you find something to do?

I would
if I had been you

~ Linda Goodman, Venus Trines at Midnight

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Thy judgment, therefore, sound and cool preserve,
Nor lightly from thy resolution swerve.
The dazzling pomp of words dost oft deceive,
And sweet persuasion wins the easie to believe.

~ Pythagoras, Golden Verses, #22





Kill out all sense of separateness. Do not fancy you can stand aside from the bad man or the foolish man. They are yourself, though in a less degree than your friend or your Master. Yet if you allow the idea of separateness from any evil thing or person to grow up within you, by doing so you create karma which will bind you to that thing or person until your soul recognizes that it cannot be isolated. Remember that the sin and shame of the world are your sin and shame; for you are a part of it; your karma is inextricably interwoven with the great Karma. And before you can attain knowledge you must have passed through all places, foul and clean alike. Therefore, remember that the soiled garment you shrink from touching may have been yours yesterday, may be yours tomorrow. And if you turn with horror from it, when it is flung upon your shoulders, it will cling the more closely to you.

~ the needed lesson for all Air Signs; from Light on the Path (cited in the Aries section)

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I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

~ Tony Curtis, Sun in Gemini

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Well-behaved women rarely make history.

Marilyn Monroe, Sun in Gemini

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Tender Gemini in strict embrace
Stand clos'd and smiling in each other's Face.

~ Manilius

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Ye wild-eyed muses! sing the Twins of Jove,
Mild Pollux, void of blame
And steed-subduing Castor, heirs of fame.

~ Homer, Hymn to Castor and Pollux, (translated by Shelley)

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Gemini Poetess Cyndera and her literary stylings

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Now the two primal spirits, who reveal themselves in
visions as Twins, are the Better and the bad in
thought, word and action. And, between the two, the
wise ones choose aright, the foolish not so.

~ Zend Avesta

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Even as an arrow which smiteth the targe ere ever the cord be still, so sped we to the second house [Mercury]. When my lady had placed herself in the light of that heaven, she forthwith became so joyous that the very planet shone the brighter for it. And if the star itself was changed and laughed, what then did I, who of my own nature am ever variable in every kind of way!

So did I see more than a thousand splendours draw nigh unto us; and as each one approached [even] the shadow [in it] was seen to be filled with joy, by the clear radiance that streamed from it.

In so short a space...I saw the sign that followeth the Bull, and was within it.

O glorious stars! Light full of mighty power, from which I gratefully acknowledge [that] all my genius, such as it is [doth flow]! He who is the Father of every mortal life, [the Sun], was appearing and disappearing together with you, what time I first drew breath in Tuscany; and, further, when grace was granted me to take my place in the Great Wheel [of the Zodiac] which turns you round, it was your region that was assigned to me.

~ Dante, Il Paradiso, Cantos v. 88, xxii. 109

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I fought with my twin,
The enemy within,
'Till both of us fell by the road...

~ Bob Dylan

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Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

~ Vacnel Lindsay, The Chinese Nightingale

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O Queenly month of indolent repose!
I drink thy breath in sips of rare perfume,
As in thy downy lap of clover-bloom
I nestle like a drowsy child, and doze
The lazy hours away. The zephyr throws
The shifting shuttle of the summer’s loom,
And weaves a damask-work of gleam and
Gloom
Before thy listless feet: The lily blows
A bugle-call of fragrance o’er the glade;
And, wheeling into ranks, with plume and
spear,
Thy harvest-armies gather on parade;
While, faint and far away, yet pure and
clear
A voice calls out of alien lands of shade, –
“All hail the Peerless Goddess of the Year!”

~ James Whitcomb Riley, June, from Afterwhiles, 1887




Gemini Princess Anna











Out of Water all life comes.

~ The Koran


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"Feelings, nothing more than feelings...woe, woe, woe, feelings..."

~ in general, Cancer girls most mornings, to their reflections in the mirror

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Writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painfull illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon one can neither resist nor understand.

~ George Orwell, Sun in Cancer

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Love is a journey between water and a star.

~ Pablo Neruda, born July 12 1904, Parral, Chile;
Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Neptune in Cancer (stellium)

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Lives there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
"This is my own, my native land"?
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned
As home his footstep he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?

O Caledonia, stern and wild
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land of mountain and the flood,
Land of my Sires! What mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band
That knits me to thy ragged strand.

~ Sir Walter Scott

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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

~ Hunter S. Thomson, Sun in Cancer

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Heaven is my Father. He it was who begat me. My family consists of all this heavenly company. The Great Earth is my Mother.

~Hymn from the Vedas

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The only thing a man knows instinctively is how to weep.

~ Pliny the Elder

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I would flood your pathway with sunshine
I would fence you from all ill;
I would crown you with all blessings
If I could but have my will.

~ Adele Sarpy Morrison, Benvenuta





Desire peace fervently. Yet the peace you shall desire is that sacred peace which nothing can disturb, and in which the soul grows as does the holy lower upon the still lagoons.

~ the needed lesson for all Water Signs; from Light on the Path (cited in the Aries section)

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A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
The prophets prophesy falsely,
And their priests bear rule by their means;
And my people love to have it so:
And what will ye do in the end thereof?

~ The Prophet Jeremiah

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All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.

~ Marcel Proust, Sun in Cancer

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

~ Phyllis Diller, Sun in Cancer

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Set not your house on fire,
To be revenged by the moon.

~ in general, any Cancer wife to her Scorpio husband when she is angry at him

( from Adele Sarpy Morrison, Benvenuta)

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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

~ Jessamyn West, Sun in Cancer

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Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

~ Ernest Hemingway, Sun in Cancer opposite Moon in Capricorn

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God made thee perfect, not immutable.

~ Milton, Paradise Lost



Venus in Cancer Liz & Sun in Cancer Pam
(as if there is any question, Cancer rules the breasts)


Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want one who pretends that you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.

~ George Sand (1804 -1876), Sun in Cancer, Moon in Aries trine Venus in Leo














Don't let the teardrops rust
Your shining heart.

~ Holly Cole

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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

~ Mae West, Sun in Leo, Moon in Gemini




Have we not all amid life's petty strife,
Some pure ideal of a nobler life?

~ Adele Sarpy Morrison, Benvenuta

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My Fire, hers
Blazes evermore
And more, high and
Higher.

Stoked, no doubt
By anticipation
And the breath
Of eager lovers.

Wet, of course;
Her Moon splashes
And I trine it,
Grandly.

Earthy, yes;
Her morning birth,
My inner essence,
Steady, clear;
The stuff on which
An empire is built.

Air, way;
Breathe, again,
Once more for balance
And learning, knowing,
Whispering
Lacking none.

Yet the passion!
Ever more brightly
White-hot
That's it, conflagrate!
The rest is there, so
Flame on!

The only way to Love
And to be Loved.

~ C. Ravin, Red Elemental Blast, Summer 2001





O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O Sun, thou everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the Moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou myself movest alone. The oaks of the mountains fall, the mountains themselves decay with years,...but though art forever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm...Exult then, O Sun! in the strength of thy youth!

~ Scottish poet James MacPherson, Ossian

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Oh, light that followeth all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to thee;
That in thy sunshine's blaze its day
My heart restores its borrowed ray
May brighter, fairer be.

~ Adele Sarpy Morrison, Benvenuta

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A fearless lioness
Pads and paces
Surveying her domain
Contemplating her mane.

For all time
She reigns and she rules
Benignly, with compassion
Respected and revered.

The day came
When she saw
That she had developed
A thorn in her paw.

Dauntless and courageous
And steadfast she remained
For the thorn
Was not withdrawn
Right away.

The lesson for you
For me, and for all
Is that, like the lioness
You can heed the call
Find that well of strength from within
And hold up high
Your resolute chin.

The lioness can teach us
And through her we see
That truth contains hurt
And it shall set us free.

When trouble arises
In your kingdom, your life
Know that pain, discord
Discomfort, or strife
When confronted with strength
With confidence, with power
Will bring you through
To a much finer hour.

Like the lioness
Discarding that thorn
And regaining her throne
A newer and stronger you
Will soon be reborn.

~ C. Ravin, It's Only A Brief Paws, Summer 2003,
dedicated to a Leo woman facing chemotherapy in one week.

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I make it up all different every time I'm asked.

~ Andy Warhol, Sun in Leo

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With pride the Lion lifts his mane
And takes a look at his wide domain.
He knows that he must rule with might
Yet ever so gently with Love and Light.

~ Alan Oken

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Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea change,
Into something rich and strange.

~ Shakespeare, The Tempest





Ay, every inch a King.

~ Shakespeare, King Lear

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Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.

~ Steve Martin, Sun in Leo

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It's very hard being one of the most beautiful people. Having this kind of beauty is actually a burden. Sometimes I go to a party and not one of the other 49 most beautiful people is there. That makes me feel very solitary and alone, because I am the most beautiful person in the room.

If I'm going to a party where I know there will be "less-beautiful people", I try to "dress down" in order to hide my beauty. But this seems to have a counter-effect of actually making me more beautiful. I guess me and dungarees are a pretty potent combination.

I try not to lord my beauty over others. This is very hard. I try not to mention that I am one of the most beautiful people, but somehow it always comes out. I will usually only bring it up when I'm asked to do a task, like open a garage door. People seem to enjoy my beauty and are genuinely happy for me, because after I mention it, they always say, "How nice for you."

~ Steve Martin, Sun in Leo, on the occasion of being chosen for People magazine's The 50 Most Beautiful People issue, May 2003. Notice how he gives sublime form and effortless enunciation to that feeling, that utter knowing, that all Leos have, one day or another. The ancients logically suggested that any Leo Sun who does not have this feeling at least once a day should seriously consider application for a new Sun sign. This concept, called fauxleòn by the French, meaning "not enough Lion" or "faking the roar", has been largely lost in the modern astrology of fin de siecle America. Yet at least your author maintains that it may someday again hold popular appeal, for example, in the extras casting business, or in local cable access programming.

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I have never loved another person the way I love myself.

~ Mae West, Sun in Leo

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I didn't have a television when I was growing up.

~ Laura Leighton, Sun in Leo

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You must write every single day of your life. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books upon your heads for hats. May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

~ Ray Bradbury, Sun-Jupiter conjunct at 29 Leo, Mercury-Neptune conjunct at 12 Leo

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The glorious planet Sol...whose med'cinable eye corrects the ill aspects of planets evil.

~ Troilus and Cressida

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Pussy rules the world.

~ Madonna, Double Virgo with Sun in Leo, Grand Trine in Fire

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Liberty protects the person from unwarranted government intrusions into a dwelling or other private places. In our tradition the State is not omnipresent in the home. And there are other spheres of our lives and existence, outside the home, where the State should not be a dominant presence. Freedom extends beyond spatial bounds. Liberty presumes an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief, expression, and certain intimate conduct. The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.

~ Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, born July 23, 1936, Sacramento, CA, Sun-Mercury-Venus Conjunct in Leo Sextile Moon at 01° Libra, delivering the historic 6-3 opinion, John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner, Petitioners v. Texas, on June 26, 2003.

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From the forests and highlands
We come, we come;
From the river-girt islands,
Where loud waves are dumb,
Listening to my sweet pipings.
The wind in the reeds and the rushes,
The bees on the bells of thyme,
The birds on the myrtle bushes,
The cicale above in the lime,
And the lizards below in the grass,
Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was,
Listening to my sweet pipings.

Liquid Peneus was flowing,
And all dark Tempe lay
In Pelion's shadow, outgrowing
The light of the dying day,
Speeded by my sweet pipings.
The Sileni and Sylvans and Fauns,
And the Nymphs of the woods and waves,
To the edge of the moist river-lawns,
And the brink of the dewy caves,
And all that did then attend and follow,
Were silent with love, as you now, Apollo,
With envy of my sweet pipings.

I sang of the dancing stars,
I sang of the daedal earth,
And of heaven, and the giant wars,
And love, and death, and birth.
And then I changed my pipings—
Singing how down the vale of Maenalus
I pursued a maiden, and clasp'd a reed:
Gods and men, we are all deluded thus!
It breaks in our bosom, and then we bleed.
All wept—as I think both ye now would,
If envy or age had not frozen your blood —
At the sorrow of my sweet pipings.

~ Hymn to Pan, by Percy Shelley, Sun-Venus Conjunct at 12° Leo Opposite Pisces Moon, Mars-Jupiter Conjunct at 24° Libra. Published by his widow in Posthumous Poems, 1824. Mrs. Shelley had Sun, Mercury, Mars, and Uranus in Virgo, Sag Moon, Venus in Libra. Mary ran away from home at age 16 to be with Percy, who was 21. She wrote Frankenstein at age 19.




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There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love...

~ Sophia Loren, Virgo Sun, Aquarian Moon, like Carlo

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The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificient world in itself.

~ Henry Miller

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For I am the first and the last.
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am the mother and the daughter.
I am the members of my mother.
I am the barren one
and many are her sons.
And I have not taken a husband.
I am the midwife and she does not bear.
I am the solace of my labour pains.
I am the bride and the bridegroom
and it is my husband who begot me.
I am the mother of my father
and the sister of my husband,
And he is my offspring.

~ Thunder, Perfect Mind

from the Nag Hammadi Library
Fourth Century gnostic text

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Beautiful lives are those that bless;
Silent rivers of happiness.
Whose hidden fountains but few may guess.

~ Adele Sarpy Morrison, Benvenuta

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For a KNOWFLAKE who cares about the TRUTH
With Virgo Clarity, he proceeds forsooth
Many a lesson he has learnt at what seems a great cost
You think that could stop him ? No, he is not lost!
Emotions he respects but feels that can deter one
If you could just keep those aside, he believes, you have won
For then, with objectivity, you call a spade a spade
Courteous yet firm, he believes, you've got it made
His vision is encompassing, he wants ALL to KNOW
With Clarity and Truth, you can stride forward for more
Undeterred by human obstacles that can cause you to miss
The "truth-hurt-set-you-free" remedy for eternal bliss
Yes, He is even more sensitive to such apparent human flaws
He is "Virgo-for-perfection", ruled by Vulcan's truth-abiding laws
And what with the Leos who walk through his chart
He has to be right and voice his truth from his teaching heart
Now at times this may not set well with a Knowflake or two
But really, if one knows a Virgo, he's upset as much as you
He's aware that distortions, however slight they may be,
Can halter the slow-progressing foundation of truth you see
So be it a person, a religion, a creed, a view that comes by
He scans and studies and filters - he can't afford a lie
With his Moon in Aquarius be ready for some quirky zig-zag posts
That may topple you off your seats - its like you're seeing ghosts
Explanations ? He has them a-plenty for he's ahead of you
In analysing his own statements - are they false? Do they ring true?
Not born Virgos, it does take most of us quite some time
To realise that idolization of Self is akin to a crime
But by and by we'll learn to hear the clarion call of a Virgo's song
Our Higher elves have recognized their devotion to Clarity all along
Now that we understand this Knowflake for following his quest
Its HAPPY BIRTHDAY from us - we wish for you only the best!

PS
When you Virgo-read the lines right to the end
KNOW that these word-druids are written by a friend

~ Miss Melina Macbeth, aka druid, On Count Carlo, August 1999



Virgo Queen Salma


The difference, friend
Between boy and man
Came clear as day
When she took my hand.

Soft, supple, she
Eager, two hearts quiver
Fateful, yes, eternal, two
From she to me
Now me to you.

Forget me not, no Truth be higher
Smoldering amidst a Fire
Possess'd only by a virgin, she
Who never touched a man, you see,
Nor had manly embrace
Until me.

Believe it, friend,
For Saturn gave her
His prize assur'd
As we've had ours;
Her first Man.

Blessed be my being now
To have eased open the petals
Of enduring bliss, this flower
As no one could, not ever;
Truth! Dare not disbelieve it.

Where it leads
Is far too plain
And also why
You just cannot see
For, my friend
A boy, you remain
And when you are the first
To show a girl to her Womanhood
You'll know
And e'er recall
My promise.

~ C. Ravin, Making Woman, Summer 2001

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Strong, steady,
Earth essence;
Free flowing Water,
He,
Times three!
Three for me,
Airy;
Fanning the flames of
My desire
For him.
My Twin!

The missing elements.

~ Joy Ravin, Bubbles of Grandeur, Summer 2001

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Flames red hot,
Let's go! she says
Things to be done
No time for me.

Relax
Slow it down
Things...
take...
time...

Understand?

Earth kisses her
grounding
and takes her hand.

Fire under control
She breathes
At long last.

Their eyes meet
She's flooded
With memories past

Strong, solid foundation
Her Virgo Man

Teaching her patience
As only he can.

~ Joy Ravin, The Lioness and the Virgin, Summer 2001

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I don't like to think of myself as neurotic, but I do like things clean!

~ Barbara Eden, Sun in Virgo

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Instead of those harsh cleansers, I use baking soda. Cleans every bit as good. It's cheaper. Baking soda's dirt cheap.

~ Ed Begley, Jr., Sun in Virgo

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But modest Virgo's rays give polished parts,
And fill men's breasts with honesty and arts;
No tricks for gain, nor love of wealth dispense,
But piecing thoughts and winning eloquence.

~ Manilius

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The simplest and shortest
ethical precept is to be served
by others as little as possible,
and to serve others as much as possible.

~ Leo Tolstoy, born August 28th, like Goethe and Carlo

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Truly, my Satan, thou art but a dunce,
And dost know the garment from the man;
Every harlot was a virgin once.

~ William Blake, The Gates of Paradise

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Hidden talent counts for nothing.

~ Suetonius, Lives: Nero

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A place for everything and
everything in its place.

~ Samuel Smiles, Thrift

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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony and the deep power of joy, we see into the heart of things.

~ William Wordsworth

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Blessings come to the non-inflated personality.

~ Edward Edinger, Ego and Archetype

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

~ Grandma Moses, Sun in Virgo

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I pray thee, chide not she whom
I love now,
Doth grace for grace, and love
for love allow.

~ in general, any Virgo or Jupiter in Cancer man to his family members about his new romances (from Adele Sarpy Morrison, Benvenuta)

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Virgin August! come in thy regal state
With soft majestic grace and brow serene;
Though the fierce Lion's reign is overpast
The summer's heat is all thine own as yet,
And all untouched thy robe of living green...

~R. J. Philbrick, Virgo











Two souls with but a single thought
Two hearts that beat as one.

~ Adele Sarpy Morrison, Benvenuta

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If I knew what poets know,
Would I write a rhyme
Of the buds that never blow
In the summer time?
Would I sing of golden seeds
Springing up in ironweeds?
And of raindrops turned to snow,
If I knew what poets know?

Did I know what poets do,
Would I sing a song,
Sadder than a pigeon’s coo
When days are long?
Where I found a heart in pain,
I would make it glad again;
And the false should be true,
Did I know what poets do.

If I knew what poets know,
I would find a theme
Sweeter than the placid flow
Of the fairest dream;
I would sing of love that lives
On the errors it forgives,
And the world would better grow
If I knew what poets know.

~ James Whitcomb Riley, Sun in Libra, Venus Conjunct Jupiter in Virgo;
If I Knew What Poets Know , from Afterwhiles, 1887

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His greatness weigh'd,
his will is not his own,
or he himself is subject to his birth;
He may not, as unvalu'd persons do,
carve for himself,
for on his choice depends
The safety and the health of the whole state.

~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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Then he began to work in and out,
And soon sent a sweet rivulet into
The Shrine of Venus.
I also felt unspeakable delight
And nearly fainted with lust.

~ Aloysia Sigea, 17th century

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Oh my darlink, you are the amour that one seeks
when they are far out and away...
you are the star that one follows
when they are at sea...
you are the Sun that warms the day and opens the new flowers...
you are...MY COUNT CARLO!!!!!!!!

*wink*

>^..^< meow!

~ GoldDust, Leo Sun, Venus In Libra, composed June 19, 2001, under a Gemini Moon.





She Who Is Known By Many Names, Libra Sun, Capricorn Moon. Libra is the sign of fall for the Sun, likewise Capricorn for the Moon, so you kind of have to fall to your knees and submit...

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I can resist anything...except temptation.

~ Oscar Wilde, Sun in Libra

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Day and night are weighed in Libra's scales,
Equal awhile, at last the night prevails.

~ Manilius

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Forget what you need and only think about what you desire.

~ Donna Karan, Sun in Libra

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The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink
Together, dwarf'd or god-like, bond or free:
For she that out of Lethe scales with man
The shining steps of Nature, shares with man
His nights, his days, moves with him to one goal.
. . . But work no more alone!
For woman is not undevelopt man,
But diverse: could we make her as the man,
Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this
Not like to like, but like in difference.
Yet in the long years liker must they grow;
The man be more of woman, she of man;
He gain in sweetness and in moral height,
Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world;
She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care,
Nor lose the child-like in the larger mind;
Till at the last she set herself to man,
Like perfect music unto noble words.
Self-reverent each and reverencing each,
But like each other even as those who love.

~ Tennyson

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Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

~ T.S. Eliot, Sun in Libra

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There is a melancholy which
accompanies all enthusiasm.

~ Lord Shaftesbury, Characteristics

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It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.

~ Cheryl Tiegs, Sun in Libra

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Giving that man a job and a reason to live
in spite of what everyone said
was kind

I like you

Setting that bird's broken wing
and teaching him how to fly again
near the foot of that ancient tree
was beautiful

I love you

Spending your precious moments lighting the angles
and arranging the pose of a strange nude
is crude

I hate you

Will you please send me back my friendship ring
and take your foot off my scales?

~ Linda Goodman, Venus Trines at Midnight



Brigitte Bardot, Sun in Libra
Born Camille Javal, September 28, 1934 in Paris, France


Old October’s purt’ nigh gone,
And the frosts is comin’ on
Little heavier every day –
Like our hearts is thataway!
Leaves is changin’ overhead
Back from green, to gray and red,
Brown, and yeller, with their stems
Loosenin’ on the oaks and e’ms;
And the balance of the trees
Gittin’ balder every breeze –
Like the heads we’re scratchin’ on!
Old October’s purt nigh gone.

I love Old October so,
I can’t bear to see her go –
Seems to me like losin’ some
Old-home relative, er chum –
‘Pears like sorto’ settin’ by
Some old friend ‘at sigh by sigh
Was a-passin’ out ‘o sight
Into everlastin’ night!
Hickernuts a feller hears
Rattlin down is more like tears
Drappin’ on the leaves below –
I love Old October so!

Can’t tell what it is about
Old October knocks me out! –
I sleep well enough at night –
And the blamedest appetite
Ever mortal man possessed, –
Last thing et, it tastes the best! –
Warnuts, butternuts, pawpaws,
Iles and limbers up my jaws
Fer raal service, sich as new
Pork, spareribs, and sausage, too. –
Yit, fer all, they’s somepin’ ‘bout
Old October knocks me out!

~ James Whitcomb Riley, Old October, from Afterwhiles, 1887.




The Hempy Queen, Sun in Libra, Grand Trine in Earth











Very Scorpio lyrics from Wendy Rule, the sultry Scorpio Australian singer/songwriter and Wiccan priestess...cop a hear...

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Here we may reign secure,
And in my choice
To reign is worth ambition
Though in hell:
Better to reign in hell,
Than serve in heav'n.

~ Milton, Paradise Lost

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Your icy voice put out the stars
it cracked my heart and broke it in splinters
your tone as cold as Colorado winters

But I promise to soon forget
the contract we almost made
You'll feel the swift response of an equal
as the dream begins to fade

I'll drown you in pseudo-kindness
and a casual friendly glance
I can almost imagine your blindness
as I watch and wait for the chance
to suddenly - cruelly - make you know
how easy it was to let you go

~ Linda Goodman, Venus Trines at Midnight

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If the hidden sorrows of each of us,
Were written on our brow,
How many of those who are envied,
Would win our pity now?

~ Adele Sarpy Morrison, Benvenuta

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The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

~ Jung

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The only way out is through.

~ Robert Frost

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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

~ Kurt Vonnegut, Sun in Scorpio, discussing writing

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Und so lang du das nicht hast,
Dieses: stirb und werde,
Bist du nur ein trast
Auf der dunklen Erde.

(As long as you do not contain
The truth of death and of rebirth,
An alien wanderer you remain
Upon a dark and troubled Earth.)

~ Goethe

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You know that when I hate you
It is because I love you
To a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

~ Julie-Jeanne-Eleanore de Lespinasse (1732-1776), Sun in Scorpio; Letter, 1774

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I'm on a bus, on a psychedelic trip
Readin' murder books, and tryin' to stay hip
I think of you and you're out there, so
Say your prayers, say your prayers,
Say your prayers.

~ Billy Idol, Eyes Without A Face

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If I had a little humility, I would be perfect.

~ Ted Turner, Sun in Scorpio

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I'm tired of all these wussy guys, wringing their hands.

~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sun in Scorpio

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Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

~ Ruth Gordon, Sun in Scorpio

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I have no responsibility to be politically correct.

~ Demi Moore, Sun in Scorpio

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Bright Scorpio, armed with poisonous tail, prepares
Men's martial minds for violence and for wars.
His venom heats and boils their blood to rage,
And rapine spreads o'er the unlucky age.

~ Manilius

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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

~ George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

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It is not enough to conquer,
One must know how to seduce.

~ Voltaire, born François Marie Arouet in Paris, Nov. 21, 1694. On that day, the Sun changed signs from Scorpio to Sagittarius, and the Moon moved from Capricorn to Aquarius. Baby François came into the world, so to speak, by a narrow margin: his mother did not survive his birth; and he was so puny and sickly an infant that the nurse did not give him more than a day to live. She was slightly in error, as he lived to almost 84; yet throughout his life his frail body tormented with illness his unconquerable spirit, like fellow Fire sign, Leo Percy B. Shelley. Voltaire's work certainly had much Scorpio/Sagittarius cusp power to it. He also had Mercury and Mars in Sag opposite Uranus in Gemini, and Venus in Scorpio. In your author's opinion, Voltaire was a Sag Sun with Moon in Aquarius. I take logical support from Will Durant's biography of France's greatest son:

And yet, darkly as we see him through the glass of time, what a spirit! - "sheer intelligence transmuting anger into fun, fire into light"; "a creature of air and flame, the most excitable that ever lived, composed of more ethereal and more throbbing atoms than those of other men; there is none whose mental machinery is more delicate, nor whose equilibrium is at the same time more shifting and more exact."

Was he, perhaps, the greatest intellectual energy in all history? Certainly he worked harder, and accomplished more, than any other man of his epoch. "Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing," he said. "All people are good except those who are idle." His secretary said that he was a miser only of his time. "One must give one's self all the occupation one can to make life supportable in this world...The further I advance in age, the more I find work necessary. It becomes in the long run the greatest of pleasures, and takes the place of the illusions of life."

Voltaire also said "God created woman only to tame mankind," and "Woman will be the last thing civilized by man." Sociologists would side with Voltaire; man is woman's last domesticated animal.

~ Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy - The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers (New York, 1952), citing J.M. Robertson, Voltaire, London, 1922; Taine, The Ancient Régime, New York, 1876; Voltaire, Romances, New York, 1889; In Sainte-Beuve, i; and Tallentyre, Life of Voltaire, third edition, respectively.

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We all live in the city.

The city forms - often physically, but inevitably
psychically - a circle. A Game. A ring of death
with sex at its center. Drive toward outskirts
of city suburbs. At the edge discover zones of
sophisticated vice and boredom, child prostitution.
But in the grimy ring immediately surrounding
the daylight business district exists the only
real crowd life of our mound, the only street
life, night life. Diseased specimens in dollar
hotels, low boarding houses, bars, pawn shops,
burlesques and brothels, in dying arcades which
never die, in streets and streets of all-night
cinemas

~ Jim Morrison, Sagittarius Sun, Taurus Moon; The Lords and the New Creatures, 1969

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Now that these wings to speed my wish ascend,
The more I feel vast air beneath my feet,
The more toward boundless air on pinions fleet,
Spurning the earth, soaring to heaven, I end:
Nor makes them stop their flight the direful end
Of Daedal's son; but upward still they beat.
What life the while with this death could compete,
If dead to earth at last I must descend?
My own heart's voice in the void air I hear.
Where wilt thou bear me, O rash man! Recall
Thy daring will! This boldness waits on fear!
Dread not, I answer, that tremendous fall:
Strike through the clouds, and smile when death
is near,
If death so glorious be our doom at all!

~ Giordano Bruno, The Philosophic Flight

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Would you know from a glance
That within the heart of a girl
Born in mid November
Can rage an intensity
Unequalled and
Oft misunderstood
And that it can frighten
Weaker hearts?

Well fear not, true believer!
Because if you don't front
Fake, lie or play
If instead you're true blue
And come real with it
She might just let you stay
Spend some well-spent time
It could be most sublime.

The best a Scorpio can be
Is not like a scorpion, you see
They can soar high
Yes, they can really fly
Just like an eagle in the sky.

Remember these words
For if you step on or hurt her
You will be stung
And maybe repeatedly.
So don't make the Eagle land
And force her to crawl in sand,
Keep her soaring up in the sky
Where she can fly real high
And you'll get no regret
Just the finest company
Of the November girl.

~ C. Ravin, Have No Fear of Flying in the Fall, Summer 2003


I welcomed you, Lord Hades, as would
An infernal Proserpina, hell-bent on leaving
The beauteous world of Light and Love -
A weary-worn child of field and meadow who
Thought perhaps the acrid stench of sulfur
Romantic, rising off the moor uncouth.
Not knowing that the pomegranate
Contained a sharpened serpent's tooth.

So when the field and meadow were laid barren,
And red juice of berry stained the soul,
The sovereign of Dis unleashed his daemons
And created smoke to hide his faults -
The torment was intense yet Proserpina
Believed in death that meant reprise -
Was a Scorpion not an Eagle -
Did the Phoenix not also rise?

The fire laid waste to all save conscience,
The water tossed on embers cruel,
Creating smoke that fogged the wasteland
Leaving all save one small root
That led your Proserpina back
To Heaven, and rekindled put-out blaze -
Nevermore will Proserpina
Venture down the Scorpion's maze.

~ Lord Hades, Summer 2000, by a Taurus girl scorned by her Scorpio lover;
from the Connecting with Your Opposite Series

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The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

~ Eve, Genesis 3:13

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I know all about the Sphinx –
I know even when she thinks,
Staring with her stony eyes
Up forever at the skies.

For last night I dreamed that she
Told me all the mystery –
Why for æons mute she sat: –
She was just cut out for that!

~ James Whitcomb Riley, The Sphinx, from Afterwhiles, 1887.

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Seamistress' Fabulous Mythical Musings

~ by Aussie Scorpio Queen, Seamistress

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~ Cool All Things Scorpio Website!




Scorpio Queen Wendy













Nothing more certain than uncertainties;
Fortune is full of fresh variety:
Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

~ Richard Barnfield, The Shepherd's Content

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No one knows what he can do till he tries.

~ Publilius Syrus, Sententiae

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I've only had one husband
but he had two heads

He was a Gemini
and my astrologer warned me that we were square
to each other
or something-

Boy! You can say that again!
Before he broke the news, he killed a quart of booze
all by himself
(He found the bottle on the shelf behind the china piggy
bank where I should have known better than to hide it)

But in spite of all that rye
he didn't even slur his words when he said goodbye
or seem to be grieving
He sounded like Basil Rathbone
"So long, dear Duchess, I'm leaving"

I said "Good Riddance"
and I meant it
who needs all those charming lies?

(he had such gentle, dark brown eyes)

So he took his LP of Der Rosenkavelier
the shells we gathered last Summer at the Pier
his golf clubs - his copy of Roget's Thesaurus
and split

That was last night

Today I was cleaning the garbage out of his desk
(I don't know why)
and I came across this verse he wrote

He was probably on a vodka high
I mean he must have been really smashed
as drunk as a skunk
to write that kind of junk
It doesn't even rhyme
Just listen

"Into the dream you came
and across the soft carpet of my reverie you walked
with hobnail boots"

~ Linda Goodman, Venus Trines at Midnight





It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce:
It's fitter being sane than mad.
My own hope is, a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;
That, after Last, returns the First,
Though a wide compass round be fetched;
That what began best, can't end worst,
Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.

~ Browning

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Your truth is not my truth and my truth is not yours.

~Bruce Lee, Sun in Sagittarius

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First time they fuss, I'm breezin'...

~ Jay Z., Sun in Sagittarius

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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

~ Gustave Flaubert, Sun in Sagittarius

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

~ Mark Twain, Sun in Sagittarius

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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

~ James Thurber, Sun in Sagittarius

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Eros' arrows
are dipped in fire.

~ Hesiod

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Your arrows do not carry because they do not reach far enough spiritually. You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off. For master archers, it is a fact of common experience that a good archer can shoot further with a medium-strong bow than an unspiritual with the strongest. It does not depend on the bow, but on the presence of mind, on the vitality and awareness with which you shoot. In order to unleash the full force of this spiritual awareness, you must perform the ceremony differently, rather as a good dancer dances. If you do this, your movements will spring from the center, from the seat of right breathing. Instead of reeling off the ceremony like something learned by the heart, it will then be as if you were creating it under the inspiration of the moment, so that dance and dancer are one and the same. By performing the ceremony like a religious dance, your spiritual awareness will develop its full force!

~ Eugene Herrigel, Zen and the Art of Archery

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I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all of its blossoming.

~ Bruce Lee



Archer Queen Britney Jean
Sun in Sagittarius, Aquarius Moon, Mars in Virgo Rising


"How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?" asked Dorothy.

"I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?" answered the Scarecrow.

~ The Wizard of Oz

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...glorious in his Cretian Bow,
Centaur follows with an aiming Eye,
His Bow full drawn and ready to let fly.

~ Manilius

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Adults are only kids grown up.

~ Walt Disney, Sun in Sagittarius

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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

~ Mark Twain, Sun in Sagittarius

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Fuck the plot.

~ Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and pacifist
Sun in Sagittarius, born December 15, 1932

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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

~ Muriel Rukeyser, American poet
Sun in Sagittarius, born December 15, 1913

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I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

~ Mark Twain

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I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky.
And when an hour with calmer wings
Its down upon my spirit flings -
That little time with lyre and rhyme
To while away - forbidden things!
My heart would feel to be crime
Unless it trembled with the strings.

~ Edgar Allan Poe, Romance

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I keep the subject constantly before me
and wait till the first dawnings open slowly
by little and little into a full and clear light
[so that] if I have done the public any service this way
it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought.

~ Sir Issac Newton

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Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

~ Gustave Flaubert, Sun in Sagittarius

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When I was yet young, or ever I went abroad,
I desired wisdom openly in my prayer.
I prayed for her before the temple
and will seek her out even to the end.
Even from the flower till the grape was ripe
hath my heart delighted in her. . .
From my youth up sought I after her. . .
My soul hath wrestled with her. . .
I stretched forth my hands to the heaven above. . .
I directed my soul unto her, and I found her in pureness;
I have had my heart joined with her from the beginning,
therefore shall I not be forsaken.

~ Ecclesiasticus li, 13














Wist ye not that I must be
about my Father's business?

~ St. Luke ii. 49

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How old am I?
I'll be 92 next Christmas
though I won't admit to one day over 20

Even after all the birthday cards
are cut and shuffled
it's hard to figure
I've aged at least 500 years
since I stumbled into you
Yet I still believe in fairy tales
like "The Princess and the Frog"
perhaps I'm really only 3 or so?

You'll never know how old I am
but I'll tell you anyway
I was born the hour we met
and died today

~ Linda Goodman, Venus Trines at Midnight





What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water

~ T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland

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Come, O Dithyrambos,
Enter this, my male womb,
Zeus to Dionysos

~ Euripedes, Bacchae

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Stern daughter of the Voice of God!
O Duty! If that name thou love
Who art a light to guide, a rod
To check the erring, and reprove

Stern Lawgiver! Yet thou dost wear
The Godhead s most benign grace;
Nor know we anything so fair
As is the smile upon thy face:

Give unto me, made lowly wise,
The spirit of self-sacrifice;
The confidence of reason give;
And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live.

~ Wordsworth

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It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

~ Anton Chekhov, Sun in Capricorn, to Alexei Suvorin, May 30, 1888

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I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer;
Feed where thou wilt,
On mountains or in dale;
Graze on my lips,
And if those hills be dry,
Stray lower,
Where the pleasant fountains lie.

~ William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, 1593

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There is no end, there is no beginning, only the infinite passion of life.

~ Federico Fellini, Sun, Moon, Mercury in Capricorn

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Are not the mountains, waves and skies a part of me
And of my soul, as I of them?
Is not the love of these deep in my heart
With a pure passion?

~ Lord Byron

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Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

~ Thomas Edison

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Love it is a queer thing;
Love it is a dizziness;
Love it drives the young man home from his business.

~ Adele Sarpy Morrison, Benvenuta

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I'm a workaholic, and when I'm not working, I'm hiding in my basement.

~ Howard Stern, Sun in Capricorn

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It's a good thing I was born a woman, or I'd have been a drag queen.

~ Dolly Parton, Sun in Capricorn

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Show love to those who come real with it
Life's a bitch but I deal with it...
I'm free to do what I please, little lady
I was born at night, but not last night baby
I've been around
Seen some things
I've slept in dumpsters
Got high with kings

~ Kid Rock, Sun in Capricorn

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..only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

~ Anton Chekhov, Sun in Capricorn

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A slave is he who cannot speak his thought.

~ Euripides

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It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.

~ Frank Zappa, born December 21, 1940. On that day, the Sun moved into Capricorn, and the Moon moved from Virgo into Libra. In your author's opinion, this quote is more of a Moon-in-Libra thing to say than a Sun-in-Sag or a Moon-in-Virgo quote. Do you agree? Was Zappa a Sag or a Cappy? This is why an exact birthtime is so important...

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...pitiless
Siroccos lash the main, when Capricorn
Lodges the Sun and Zeus sends bitter cold
To numb the frozen sailors.

~ Aratus

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In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

~ Albert Einstein

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There are women of talents
In these days as those of yore,
But a love of pleasure causes them
To abandon self-advancement to sensual gratification,
And no thought is given to one's aggrandizement.
I love them all in their natural grace and beauty
And behold them oftentimes with pleasure,
Then again with pity,
For their strong points are dominated by weak ones,
And God's endowments are hidden beneath
The veil of never-ending pleasure seeking.

~ in general, any Capricorn male about the Taurus women in his life

(from Adele Sarpy Morrison, Benvenuta)

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Critical articles, even the unjust, abusive kind, are usually met with a silent bow. Such is literary etiquette. Answering back goes against custom, and anyone who indulges in it is justly accused of excessive vanity. ... The fate of literature (both major and minor) would be a pitiful one if it were at the mercy of personal opinions. Point number one. And number two, there is no police force in existence that can consider itself competent in matters of literature. I agree that we can't do without the muzzle or the stick, because sharpers ooze their way into literature just as anywhere else. But no matter how hard you try, you won't come up with a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. People have been at it since the beginning of creation, but they've invented nothing better.

~ Anton Chekhov, Sun in Capricorn

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The best direction
For protection
Against the heat
Is but to drink
And clink and clink
Your liquor, very neat.

~ Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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I have never written for [the public's] pleasure.
If they are pleased it is that they chose to be so.
I have written from the fullness of my mind,
from passion, from impulse, from many motives,
but not for their "sweet voices".

~ Lord Byron, April 6, 1819

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A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

~ William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan

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The Athenians do not mind a man
being clever, so long as he does not
impart his cleverness to others.

~ Plato, Euthyphro










Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.

~ Aristotle

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For Mercury has a human heart,
Pity a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.

~ Blake, Songs of Innocence

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The ideal should never touch the real.

~ Schiller, To Goethe





Lovers all use the same script
when they play their final scene

"Well we almost made it, didn't we?
It's really better this way
I'll call you someday"
after a love affair ends
and they know it's time they parted

With you, it was
"Can't we be friends?"

"Friends?"

That's how the whole thing started!

old chum, old pal, old Water Bearer buddy of mine
my comical, blundering, lost and lonely Valentine

~ Linda Goodman, Venus Trines At Midnight

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Start the day with a smile, and get it over with.

~ W.C. Fields, Sun in Aquarius

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I'm Aquarius - destined for greatness, or madness.

~ from the rock opera, Hair

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I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways it won't work.

~ Thomas Edison, Sun in Aquarius

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And now the Book emerges
From the long and distant Time
And everyone that reads shall declare,
This is Mine.

And that shall be the truth of it.

Writ in Stone and Art and Song
Passion into form and then reside
Measured upon this Spirited Earth
Harmonize with the message inside.

This measured Heart
Shall regenerate the Soul,
For those who may have faltered
A start toward becoming whole.

Take your impulsed spirit
Express the neighbored word
Call the distant citizen
Your exhortation must be heard!

Let them know, the one - the all
We are recharged and heartened
The time is now, and now is Love
We are committed, we are one!

Hope which is brightened into deed
And love spent, but not from need
The Truth we always knew is now formed
No longer that saddened heart shall be mourned.

The praises impel us to a promised state.
And the Being expands at a rapid rate.
We join in chorus, and sing the World Song
We've been empty and apart for much too long.

~ Bernard Pietsch, Sun in Aquarius, Our Ancient Monuments, October 26, 1984




Aquarius Queen Jennifer
Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn in Aquarius


Restless at times with heavy strides,
He paces his parlor to and fro;
He is like a ship that at anchor rides,
And swings with the rising and falling tides,
And tugs at her anchor-tow.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Dutch Picture

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In my view, the world would be pretty cold and dull without surprises.

~ Neil Tillotson, the 102-year-old owner of the Balsams resort in Dixville Notch, NH

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She [Venus] beats her heart,
whereat it groans, that all the
neighbour caves, as seeming troubled,
make verbal repetition of her moans.

~ William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

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Cutting away...
Makes in stone craggy and rough
A figure comes to life
And grow the larger as
The stone grows small.

~ Michaelangelo

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There is no fixed law, no established knowledge of God set up by prophet or by priest, that can stand against the revelation of a life lived with integrity in the spirit of its own brave truth...

~ Joseph Campbell, regarding Perceval's strength, from Creative Mythology

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...Service to that Great Orphan, Humanity.

~ Isabel Hickey

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There is no greater love than this, when a man lays down his life for the sake of his friends...

Henceforth, I will not call you servants, because a servant does not know what his Master does; but I have always called you my friends, because everything that I heard from my Father, I made it known to you.

~ John 15:13-15

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Beloved Pan, and all ye other
gods who haunt this place, give
me Beauty in the inward soul;
and may the outward and
inward man be at one.

~ Socrates, from Plato's Phaedrus

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The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit in general, requires [a] kind of freedom which may be characterized as inward freedom. It is this freedom of the spirit which consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudices, as well as from unphilosphical routinizing and habit in general.

This inward freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy objective for the individual...Only if outward and inner freedom are constantly and consciously pursued is there a possibility of spiritual development and perfection and thus of improving man's outward and inner life.

~ Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years

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Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

~ Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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The sun his locks beneath Aquarius tempers,
And now the nights draw near to half the day...

~ Dante, The Inferno

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Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate.

~ José Martí, Cuban poet and freedom hero, Sun Conjunct Mars at 8° Aquarius, Moon in Virgo, born in La Habana, January 28, 1853

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The greatest pleasure in life
Is doing what people say you cannot do.

~ Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), Sun in Aquarius

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From within him
there shall flow rivers of living water...

~ Gospel of St. John 7:38

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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

~ John Barrymore, Sun in Aquarius, born February 15, 1882





and born 93 years and one week later...




Pisces Queen Drew

Venus & Jupiter Conjunct in Pisces










I am a Pisces.
Pisces ruled by Neptune, the planet of illusion.
Pisces is the planet of the actor.
And the design of it is two fishes,
One going upstream and one going downstream.
Pisces is very dual; also filled with empathy for others.
It is the sign of compassion.

~ Anaïs Nin, Sun in Pisces, born February 22, 1903, Neuilly, France.

Sun & Jupiter Conjunct in Pisces, Venus in Pisces, Mars Retrograde Conjunct North Node in Libra, Capricorn Moon. See Anja's Anaïs website

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I had a little Sorrow,
Born of a little Sin,
I found a room all damp with gloom
And shut us all within;
And, "Little Sorrow, weep," said I,
"And, Little Sin, pray God to die,
And I upon the floor will lie
And think how bad I've been!"

Alas for pious planning -
It mattered not a whit!
As far as gloom went in that room,
The lamp might have been lit!
My little Sorrow would not weep,
My little Sin would go to sleep -
To save my soul I could not keep
My graceless mind on it!

So I got up in anger,
And took a book I had,
And put a ribbon on my hair
To please a passing lad,
And, "One thing there's no getting by -
I've been a wicked girl," said I:
"But if I can't be sorry, why,
I might as well be glad!"

~ American poet and Pisces Queen Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sun in Pisces trine Uranus in Scorpio, square Neptune-Pluto conjunction at 6° Gemini; Mars conjunct Moon in Sagittarius; Venus in Aries, Mercury in Aquarius Rising, born Feb. 22, 1892 in Rockland, Maine. Allegedly, a randy girl...here is another very Piscean poem by her, titled Exiled, where she dreams of returning home...


...a poem of tribute to her return...

I.

I want to drown in good-salt water,
I want my body to bump the pier;
Neptune is calling his wayward daughter,
Crying, "Edna, come over here!"

I hate the town and I hate the people;
I hate the dryness of the floor and pave;
The spar of the ship is my tall church-steeple;
My soul is as wet as the wettest wave.

I'm seven-eighths salt and I want to roister
Deep in the brine with the submarine;
I speak the speech of the whale and oyster;
I know the ways of the wild sardine.

I'm tired of standing still and staring
Across the sea with my heels in dust:
I want to live like the sober herring,
And die as pickled when die I must.

II.

My neighbor is a goose girl
And tends her silly geese;
But I love the rakish earl
And hunt the golden fleece.

My neighbor lives on bread and milk
And shuts her door on show;
But I would rather fall in silk
Than rise in calico.

My neighbor goes to bed at eight
And never sees the moon;
But I never stir till late,
And go to bed at noon.

My neighbor, fearful of a fall,
Was wed before her prime;
Bt I never wed at all
And have a better time.

What do I care if people stare
Or care what people say?
Th golden dogs I'm going to
Are handsome dogs and gay.

~ Samuel Hoffenstein, Miss Millay Says Something Too, 1926


...and a poem by a Pisces princess about another very Piscean theme...


Alexis Rescues Horses





Keep What You Catch, by Carlo Ravin
from the Connecting With Your Opposite series
Reprinted from the NCGR - Boston Chapter newsletter, September 2000.

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How to treat your Pisces, By MoonCat

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Westward, and further in the South wind's path,
The Fishes float; one ever uppermost
First hears the boisterous coming of the North.
Both are united by a band.
Their tails point to an angle
Filled by a single goodly star,
Called the Conjoiner of the Fishes' Tails.

~ Aratus

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..."clouds in my coffee" are the confusing aspects of life and love. That which you can't see through, and yet seems alluring...until. Like a mirage that turns into a dry patch. Perhaps there is something in the bottom of the coffee cup that you could read if you could (like tea leaves or coffee grinds)...

~ Carly Simon, May 2001, from Q&A at her website

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Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow.
The world should listen then
As I am listening now.

~ Shelley, To a Skylark

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, 1939 (over 18, please)

~ by Irwin Shaw, Sun in Pisces, born February 28, 1913,
the same day as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807) and John Steinbeck (1907)

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Endymion by Longfellow, who had seven planets in Water, like Neruda, born 93 years later ~ the sweet song of Venus in Pisces from the lips of a randy Ram

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree;
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossom'd many an incense-burning tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolded with sunny spots of greenery.

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me

Her symphony and song
To such a deep delight t'would win me,

That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! Those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
and all should cry, Beware, Beware!

His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

~ Samuel Coleridge, Xanadu

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Women might be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake entire relationships.

~ Sharon Stone, Sun in Pisces

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It's not who you know, it's who knows you.

~ Lew Wasserman, Pisces Sun square Gemini Moon-Pluto Conjunction, Mars and Uranus in Aquarius, regarding Hollywood to his Leo dining room hostess, circa 1996

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An example of why it is said that Pisces, more than any other sign, should watch their consumption of mind-altering substances. From Sail On, a Triple Pisces with Mercury and Venus also there, all in the first house

Sat, 15 Apr 2000 01:33:26 -0700 (PDT)

hi carlo
i am a bd girl, i no write e emiel
i8 am now, ots going on, i wilol ahve to fill u in
lat4r on. i am fdrubk, going to casino withn rose,
axizona rulesa...
i have to bo better with e mailk, i have been bed,
nnnasn i prob have new, job , pay more, i will takl 2
u more about it later, have to go now, bye byee\

~ Carlo Ravin, True Story

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We have traced the stream
From the blind cavern whence is faintly heard
Its natal murmur: followed it to light
And open day; accompanied its course
Among the ways of nature, for a time lost sight
of it bewildered and engulfed;
In strength, reflecting from its placid breast
The works of man and face of human life;
And lastly, from its progress have we drawn
Faith in life endless, the sustaining thought
Of human Being, Eternity, and God...

~ William Wordsworth, The Prelude

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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

~ Jack Kerouac, Sun in Pisces

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Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

~ Luis Buñuel, Sun in Pisces

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I'd like to give the world a Christmas present
before I have to go

a pair of glasses
with multiple lenses
to help the eyes see long ago
then you would know
the reason for the music

~ Linda Goodman, Venus Trines at Midnight

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