Fishing Guide to the Stars
By Kramer Wetzel
(c) 2007-2008 Kramer Wetzel for astrofish.net
For the week starting: 10.9.2008
"The skies are painted with unnumber’d sparks,
They are all fire and every one doth shine,
But there’s but one in all that doth hold his place."
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar [III.i.71-3]
Mercury becomes "un-retrograde" during the next couple of days.
Libra: Couple of factors are at work here, but this isn’t a good time to try and work it out. If there’s a problem? Best solution is my favorite, "Can we deal with this later?" It’s a cheap way out, or it could be expensive. There’s a cartoon up at one sporting goods store, shows a guy’s wife with a full shopping cart, the guy is talking to a buddy, "I think this is going to be a very expensive fishing trip."
What was the clue? However, consider that it’s a better way to work out problems, like, by avoiding mentioning the problem itself. Talk around it. Talk in circles. Circumloquation? I wonder if that’s even a word. Choked the spell-catcher. Anyway, while we all have to deal with the leftover Mercury debris, and while there’s still a birthday or two in Libra (Hi Baby), there’s still a small amount of unattached problem-energy.
Instead of trying to work something out and having the best efforts go horribly wrong? Why mot just sort of motor around the problem for the time being? Makes for a much happier birthday, and you deserve that much.
Scorpio: Mars and Venus are still in Scorpio for the time being. Will be moving on, before too long. Venus will be out shortly after this scope runs out, but Mars is in the for long haul. And that’s what it’s going to be. Fortunately, as a Scorpio, you’ve got the gift of an ability to foresee long range problems. And you can also work on solutions.
I’m not sure which problem is going to play out individually, but I do know that you’ll be able to see a viable way to work around the problem.
As long Venus is with you, rest of this week? Keep pushing forward. Keep working on the way you’re going to get around the problem that you can see coming up. In fact, with the last Venus-kind influence? Consider how to package up your solution to the problem, think about how to make is come across as a winning situation for everyone. It’s really an illusion, the only one who wins is Scorpio, but please, allow the rest us our illusions.
Sagittarius: "A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him." (Mae West – Leo) That’s the secret. That’s twice now I’ve used her, Ms. West. But it was worth it. She was imminently quotable, and that’s some mighty fine advice. It has a lot to do with that Sagittarius Magic ™.
Saggy fire, according to Ms. West? Maybe so, but we’ve got our fire, much to the ire of others. Not that it matters, and not that this is going to get in the way. It’s matter of rekindling the zeal that’s normally present in a Sagittarius demeanor, and then, keeping that flame lit long enough to accomplish a single goal.
It’s not a big thing, could be something simple. And it’s not about appearances, as pointed out by Ms. West, it’s about that special spark. We have it. Use it. If it’s been extinguished? Rekindle it. Spark. That’s all it takes, a single spark, and it’s started all over again. Even us short, balding, middle-aged guys, we can "work it."
Capricorn: A friend of a friend knew someone who recently had a vasectomy. So when whomever was queried — I was told it was the doctor — but this far removed? Might’ve been a nurse. Or anyone. The question was what was the best way to treat the vasectomy.
The answer? "Try frozen peas." Begs the question, or so it seemed, won’t they run all over the floor? If I hadn’t heard this while I was traveling with a buddy and his wife, I might not believe the story.
True story, though. I just repeat the parts that I heard. However, like old steak used to be the preferred cooling treatment, apparently, frozen peas — still in the bag — might work. In case Mars does anything to you.
Aquarius: "On the road" is a euphemism for me. Usually. The term implies travel, which I’ve done a lot of in my line of work. I like the travel part. But usually it’s planes and trains, with the odd bus, once in awhile. Depends on what I can hitch my star to, at any given moment. Which was odd, then to find myself traveling in the front seat of large truck.
I’m not opposed to trucks, just not a usual form of transportation. Headed somewhere, I think, for work. I noticed, at one point in the trip, a big guy in a big truck, next to us, about even with us. Big guy, big hat (cowboy hat), big truck. The guy was calmly eating a cupcake Easily discernible through the layers of tinted glass, the hat then the cupcake. The kind of cupcake with the frosty filling.
Can’t be upset or let casual observation, incongruities, and such? Can’t let that derail your Aquarius direction. Wherever you’re headed.
Pisces: It’s really binary, but trying to reduce a Pisces situation to a binary equation usually doesn’t work. I was giving directions, which is an amusing thought, being directionally challenged as I am, but a tourist (appearing) person stopped and asked where something was. I pointed in one direction, suggested that it was "that way," and left it at that.
A few steps later, there was a corner where the tourist, I know, I just walked back from there, and I paused long enough to encourage that the tourist follow that direction. All but a "Turn here" sign. Nodding, pointing, all but pushing the tourist along. Trying to be helpful. Tourist paused again, wanting to see a map that would surely confuse the situation because in the canyons of downtown? Hard to figure out true north versus what appears to be north, and this all really just about a binary decision in Pisces.
Single situation. Take a left. Follow advice. Go the way the sign points. "Oh, for the love of god, for just one time, follow the damn directions." You can easily and gratefully thank me later. It’s easy. Just take a single step in the correct direction, as indicated by the sign, the guide, the map.
Aries: I had an old t-shirt that I was particularly attached to. 50/50 cotton/poly blend, originally black with a screen-print opera logo on it. I liked that shirt. Despite it being an unlucky shirt, I liked to wear it because I would call it my "heavy metal" shirt. Wagner. Opera. Heavy Metal, get the joke? Therein was part of the problem, very few, if any, of my friends ever got the joke.
The other part of the problem was that it was, straight up, an unlucky shirt. Wear it to the post office? Nothing but bills that afternoon. Wear it to work, like, under a dress shirt? Not my usual amount of business. And so on. Wore in a casino and did nothing but leave money behind, all being told, I think that was part of the plan. I finally let that shirt go. Tossed it into the "take to (name of charity)" box. Let it go. Let go of the bad luck associated with the shirt, too.
I’m not overly superstitious, but I do notice patterns and correlate that to matters of luck and stars. Unlucky shirt is gone. I’ll miss it, but I won’t miss the bad luck. Mercury, Sun, opposite you, lining up nicely — time to let go some comforting bad luck.
Taurus: Previously, New Mexico State University, NMSU in Las Cruces, NM, over the line from El Paso, previously, they had the hottest pepper ever recorded. It was a blend of something from India, grown in the pepper patch of SE NM. Hotter than a jalapeño, hotter than a Scotch Bonnet, hotter than a Habanero, supposedly, hotter than anything else that was grown.
I think a perky pepper like that would be great to cook with. I doubt that I’m ever going to try and prove my virility by eating one of those peppers. It’s all about limits. Last batch of chili I made, I put in a whole carton of chopped jalapeños, three Habanero, and that was it. Had a whole shank of venison, lean and sliced right, so it was good. The peppers cook out a little. The fresh-sliced peppers are deadly, especially the Scotch Bonnet, so I’m careful. If those new peppers are really "ten-X times hotter" than the Habanero? I can skip it. It’s all about knowing what the limits are. And aren’t. What borders good tastes and sick masochism, disguised as a hot pepper?
Gemini: The Full Moon on Monday? Looks like it’s your 11th House. I might have that wrong, too. Depends on what time of day you born as to actual placement of the Full Moon. But its affects? That I’m sure of. Pushing, gnawing, just like a little race pony, stuck in the chute, waiting for the gate to slam open so you can bolt the hell out of here. There. Wherever you are and where you’re at that you don’t want to be, confined and constrained, and come Monday, you’re ready to shoot out in anew direction.
Hold on there, little Gemini friend, there’s something you can watch out for. It’s being to active in one direction, or worse, taking off before you know where you’re headed. I was using the idea of a race horse, a race pony, and the chute opening. If you’ll pause, there’s a shortcut here. Everybody else is gong to long way to get to the end of the track. You know, if you just turned around, no really, look over your shoulder, you can see that’s where we’re all headed. And it’s right behind you, not a hundred paces. Think about going the opposite direction and see if that doesn’t get you there faster.
At least look before you bolt out of the gate.
Cancer: Got a choice, like always, and you can choose. Choose to stay on track? Choose to veer off in a new direction that might not be nearly as easy as it looked at first? That new direction, while it appears to be a softer, more gentle route, is it really? Just seemed like a little detour.
There’s two basic routes I take to get to the coast. One is a little longer, straight down Interstate 37. 127 miles from San Antonio to Corpus Christi. From Corpus Christi? Right goes to South Padre and left goes up the coastline towards Galveston. I’ve wandered the back roads through the area, and it’s really very pleasant. But not always the most direct route. Shorter? Yes. Direct? Yes. Quicker? No. Decide. Choose.
Cancer, you’ve got a chance to take a shortcut. But is it really a shortcut? One a foggy October morning, going down to the coast for a quick trip? Is the shortest route the fastest? All I’m suggesting, in times like these, you might want to stick to the safest route that you know about. All about choices, you know.
Leo: Just because Mercury is heading out of its pernicious little pattern, that doesn’t mean you’re out of the problem zone. I understand that’s not what you want to read, but I’ve got to be fair about this, there’s a lingering part of the Mercury influence, and it’s like a bad smell. It’ not so bad that you want to move, or get a fan, but the aromatic remains, to me, smells like a dead and partially decayed carcass of something, those remains? And the air around you?
Best way to avoid this, other than hold your nose, squint, fan your hand briefly, notice that everyone else notices the problem? Time to gently move yourself away from the area that’s afflicted.
While it could be something as harmless as a gas leak? It could be, potentially, as dangerous as a gas leak. No need to hang around. And how to otherwise escape this Mercury unpleasantness? Just scoot over, just a few feet, to the left. Or right, or back. Or forward. Just a few feet, though, you might notice the air is cleaner.
Virgo: Reel in on your ideals. I’m not saying that you don’t have a very valid position. I’m not saying that you are not right. No, that’s not it. It’s how you express your ideals. These are near and dear points. Look: I have pretty strong beliefs. However, when I’m traveling, for example, when I’m outside of Texas, I don’t bother to gloat about how Texas is bigger and better than (insert state’s name here). We produce/refine more product, bigger places, larger stuff, weirder people, whatever.
But when I’m outside of Texas? I don’t belabor those points. Follow my lead on this, don’t be preaching about your ideals, even though, you and I, we both know you’re right in your position. It’s about not preaching, not making a stand, and the easiest way to consider this is that Mercury is backwards. That’s not really the influence, but for right now, just consider that you’ll be misunderstood. Maybe making a stand isn’t the way to go. Even though you are right.
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