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So last night was a lovely birthday party at

rougemacabre's, who was a marvellous hostess as always. The dinner was marvellous, and I had curry for the first time.

I'm gradually coming out of Internet detox, though it shall be some time before I can catch up on all my friends' pages. I've been moving slowly through, but I'm about two weeks behind for everyone.

I've been mostly procrastinating, but I am still ahead on my Shakespeare course, and I've been playing around with a fantasy short story that wants to grow into a fantasy novel. Trying not to get too far ahead of myself, since I still have another novel to revise once all the feedback comes in, but it's just too tempting to go ahead and write ^_^

Looking forward to seeing

terren_divided on Saturday, and to our first game in many an age on Sunday. I'll give advanced warning that there will be no game the week after, because I have to work the first weekend every month.

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Smack him upside the head if he doesn't say hi to you from me as I told him to :P

:p

(Smacking people upside the head isn't really my style. I'll probably at least give him a warning...)

I know whose compuuuuuuuuter you're on :P

God. I remembered to do this, didn't I?

lol

You came up many a time in conversation, always longingly and regretting our distance, lol.

Lol awwwww. Wish I could've been there, I miss you guys lots.

Wish you'd been there, too.

Maybe next time you're in this hemisphere...?

Maybe, but it'll likely be years till that happens again, too. :(

:(

It'll be a long time before I could ever afford to go to Europe :/

(And I made the same mistake again...)

I'm always at this computer :p

(Nearly made the same mistake while writing this, this time!)

It was a pleasure to have you. :-)

Incidentally, did you happen to leave "Endymion, The Man in the Moon" at my place? I found it on the coffee table last night and thought the most likely candidate for ownership was you.

A copy of mine did go missing last night. But are you certain it isn't Shiva's...?

When might be a good time this weekend to pick it up...?

Whenever you'd like. If we're not here, I'll leave it in my mailbox and you can get it out. Else, you can knock on the door and get it directly from me.

I came by a couple of times, but you weren't in.

But I got it just now from Matt, so thank you ^_^

Hey, since you're caught up on school and are unjustly cut off from the Internet for a while, is it time to ask you for my chart again? ^^ You did promise me one when you weren't so buried.

I have no idea how to cast a Western chart, so if it's a good time, let me know what you need and I'll unearth my birth certificate or whatever. ^_^

As far as I know (and I know, since my mom was majorly into this -_- ), you'll need to prepare date of birth, location of birth and exact time of birth, and tha's all >_>

Oho, that's easy. Born September 9, 1981 at 8:39am Eastern, in Bon Secours Hospital in Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts (Latitude: 42.73 N, Longitude: 71.18 W).

If you are interested in numerology, you may find it amusing to note that my birth certificate is littered with nines. Born on 9/9/81, recorded with the clerk on 9/18/81, parents 24 and 30 at time of birth, and my registration number is 999. Math teachers think this is cute; palm readers give me the oddest possible looks.

It further entertained me to find that I am not the only person to have a bad case of snowballing nines; the first biography I read on John Lennon mentioned something similar. The remastered version of Walls & Bridges includes a demo track of "Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out)" which starts with him asking what take it was, and upon being told "nine", he replies with, "Nine? That's m'lucky number." The discovery substantially postdates the start of my obsession with him and came almost two decades after I first noticed it happening to me. Synchronicity is really cool, sometimes. ^_^

I wrote a long response, and LiveJournal ate it :/

I just wrote that I usually need a few weeks to meditate over a chart to fully understand it, but here are some highlights. The four most important parts of a chart (and where you have them):

Sun (in Virgo, 5th house)
Moon (in Capricorn, 10th house)
Rising Sign (Taurus -- Rising Signs don't have houses)
Chart Ruler (in dispute)

I say "in dispute" because traditionally, the ruler of the Rising Sign in Taurus (and thus the chart) would be Venus, but fewer and fewer astrologers think so. Many astrologers have been experimenting with Earth as the ruler of Taurus, which would make it Chart Ruler (in Pisces, 11th House).

Other interesting details -- you have an astonishing number of planets in Libra, in the 6th house.

jenjoou and

montrealais both have a load of Libra in their charts, being born near your birthday, but they have it in different houses.

D: I feel oppressed by all those Virgos and Libras around me. I just have everything in Taurus. Wahhh!
*runs away crying*

I have Taurus and Virgo prominent in my chart (as well as Scorpio).

You never did tell me your rising sign. I've always wondered. :)

It's Cancer. Which is why I'm so whiny instead of assertive =P

I like Cancer. I have the two planets least-suited to Cancer in Cancer (Saturn and Mars), and the three signs most powerful in my chart -- Taurus, Virgo, and Scorpio -- are all on friendly terms with it ^_^

Cancer's like Virgo and Scorpio -- it has such an odd reputation, out-of-step with the reality of most Cancerians. All the astrology books paint such a silly image -- they make all Cancers sound like housewives with bouffant hairdos and husbands who putter around in workshops. All the Cancerians I've ever known have been the artsy kind and genuine individualists -- creative and interesting people.

It shouldn't be too much of a surprise. Cancer is the opposite of Capricorn, the zodiac's most self-controlled sign and the most conscious of what society expects of it. Not surprising that the relationship of Cancer to the world should be reversed.

That's probably why Cancers traditionally feel more comfortable in the home -- the world isn't always friendly to an individualist, especially a sensitive one.

Both my mom and my sister are Cancer, so I have my own sweet lifelong experience with them ;)
I have something else in Cancer, I think it was Moon. I know the 'whiny' part is a 'silly image' thing, it's just a quality you notice, that they're much more soft-spoken than others, and much more sensitive.
It's kind of funny, except for my family, I know no Cancers at all.

As I said before, all the Virgos are popping up lately :P looks like I need some reason and distance in my life.

Virgo is heavily associated with geek culture -- I'd say at least 80% of anime fans have Virgo powerful in your chart.

I believe that the ruling "planet" of Virgo is Chiron -- contrary to the old tradition of Mercury. You have this planetoid smack dab in the middle of all that Taurus -- conjunct your Mars, Mercury, Sun, and possibly moon as well ^_^

That's very strange about Virgo.
Does it make me less of a geek and/or anime fan that I have no virgo at all in my chart? ;_;
At least I think I don't.
Also, the first Virgo I ever got closer to is a friend I met a year and a half or so ago, who has nothing to do with anime whatsoever ;)

Ah well. Still fun to observe general trends :)

I checked up on that- I do have a weird Virgo, it's in something that's called Immum Coeli- I once knew what that one meant, I really don't anymore. And well, only Virgo there is :P
I've got Sun, Moon, Mercury AND Mars in Taurus, rising sign and Venus is Cancer. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are in Sagittarius, Saturn and Pluto are in Libra. Chiron is in Gemini.
Yeahhhhhh. As you can see, I'm totally... not balanced. :P

Nope -- you've definitely got Chiron in Taurus. It was in Taurus all of May, 1983 -- at about 27 degrees.

(Source: American Emphemeris for the 20th Century: 1900 to 2000 at Midnight. Fifth Edition. Double-checked at astro.com.)

I can't be sure of the Moon's degree without a precise time, but it looks like Chiron conjuncts your Sun, your Mercury, and your Mars, injecting Virgo traits into all three, as conjunctions are wont to do ^_^

I'm getting better -- now I'm anonymous.

And I meant to say "about 27 degree on May 11."

Ueh? But. But.
Ueeeh?
Are you sure that wasn't only in North America?
Oh wait. I think I mixed up Chiron with the north Lunar node... Chiron isn't even in that silly chart I looked at.
Time is 8:43, by the way.

Silly conjuctions >_>

I'm guessing Munich...?

(The birth location affects the Rising and the houses, but not the position of the planets.)

Yep -- your North Node is in Gemini, 12th house -- at least if you were born in Munich, and if we use Koch, which is my prefered system of House placement.

In Koch, that huge cluster of planets looks to be in the 11th house.

(Goddamit -- did it again. Damn mercury retrogrades :p)

Nyahaha :P You do that damn often lately.

No, not Munich, my birth town is actually called Prien am Chiemsee.
Not that far away from here though. I don't think it'll change a whole lot.

How fascinating! I have NO idea what any of that means. ^^;;; Other than the 'Virgo' part, which apparently indicates I am doomed to forever approach things over and over with rational and practical solutions until everything breaks down such that I am forced, in the immortal words of Eddie Izzard, to "bash it with a hammer."

My Chinese horoscope is apparently Rooster/metal, metal, metal, fire. Judging from the sniggering, this probably means exactly the same as the above.

Out of curiosity, where is Mercury sitting? I have a minor run of Mercury similar to, but thankfully lesser than, the run of nines.

Mercury is sitting among the run of Libra, between (and conjunct) Saturn and Jupiter in the 6th house. It's sort of an odd trio -- Jupiter and Mercury don't get along, and none of planets are too friendly with Saturn, but Jupiter especially dislikes the connection.

Mercury was traditionally associated with Virgo. I tend to prefer Chiron, like a growing number of astrologers.

"Planets" (including things like the Sun, Moon, Chiron, and Pluto, which astronomy doesn't consider planets) are like aspects of the psyche. Each represents a part of the human equation. Their relationships by angle to one another indicate difficult or easy relationships between aspects of the psyche.

"Signs" are the position of the planet against the backdrop of the heavens -- relative to the position of the Earth in its orbit around the sun. They indicate the flavour a planet takes on -- its style, its focus, the aspects of that part of the psyche that are emphasized, and those that are de-emphasized. There are 12 "planets", and they each have two signs they like, and two signs they detest, and 8 that they're neutral in. Just because a planet's in its worse or second-worse sign isn't necessarily bad -- it indicates a more difficult life, but people with difficult lives tend to be the kind who achieve the astonishing things.

"Houses" are the position of the planet relative to the position of the Earth on its axis. They're counted from the eastern horizon at the latitude and longitude of birth, and in the best system of house calculation (Koch) take excruciating care to factor in the curvature and obliquity of the earth. This eastern horizon mark is called "The Rising Sign", and many astrologers consider it the most important part of the chart.

(There's an old argument as to whether the sun or the rising sign is more important -- which signifies the truer self, and which the surface. I favour the Rising Sign as the deeper self.)

Houses indicate the area of life where the planet most readily functions -- the arena of human life where that part of the psyche focuses its energies.

So, for the planets, we have:

(The big ones)

Rising Sign -- Self (the Self that looks outward at all this)
Sun -- Ego, Identity, adult Personality, one's own Core Myths
Moon -- Personal Subconscious, childhood Personality, Emotional Needs

(the smaller ones)

Mercury -- Logic, Reason, Intellectual Interests, Memory
Venus -- Harmony, Social Skills, Artistic Sense, Sense of Justice
Mars -- Assertiveness, Aggression, Selfishness, Competitiveness
Jupiter -- Paradigm/Worldview, Religious/Political/Philosophical belief
Saturn -- The Inner Adult, Maturity, Responsibility, Hard Lessons

(the outer planets)

Chiron

The bridge of mind and body, logic and emotion, individual and collective. The connector. The desire to improve one's self and one's environment. The experimenter with other ways of thinking, acting, living, and being and the practical application to daily life.

Uranus

The defender of our individuality. The creator of quirks and eccentricities -- the diversifier of the planets.

Neptune

Our connection to the Otherworlds -- whether afterlives, the dreamworld, ideal worlds we want to build, fantasy worlds that encapsulate the myths of human existance -- or even just the "other worlds" of other people's lives. Empathy, Magic, Genius, Poetic Madness, and Self-sacrifice. The reminder that human beings live not only for ourselves. Universality.

Pluto:
- The shadow-side of the psyche. Our dangerous instincts. Our ability to deal with the ugliest and most frightening underbelly of human existance. The ability to pull meaning and purpose from the nothingness. The ability to live a meaningful life. Real, complete, historical change, and the way in which history affects our lives as individuals.
  
  That should do for a first lesson ^_^

Hey - was great to see ya and get dinner and catch up! If you're ever around Toronto again do be sure to let me know, as much as neither of us travel a whole lot, lol. I'll keep ya posted on art stuff, good luck with the last couple months of your masters ^^ *hugs* take care and I look forward to reading ya here, lol

You, too ^_^

I'm rarely in Toronto -- I think the last time was for Anime North, and I'm occasionally there for political things, though lately my only Ontario-time has been in Ottawa.

*hugs*

And thank you for wishing me luck :)

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