Fishing Guide to the Stars
By Kramer Wetzel
For the week starting: 8/27/2009
"The general so likes your music that he desires you, for love’s sake, to make no more noise with it."
Shakespeare’s Othello [III.i.11-3]
The clown to a group of musicians. Like something from a band the other night.
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Happy Birthday! Some of my dear little Virgo friends are doing pretty well by now. It’s been a long year, and if I were to glance back, I’d be glad that it’s pretty much behind us. But there’s still a little bit of work on the horizon that needs your Virgo attention.
Some concentrated effort, between now and the end of September? I’ll promise some good results.
This week? There’s a small party brewing, a smaller than usual Virgo birthday celebration.
That’s okay, with a smaller party? You can enjoy everyone.
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Libra:
I was looking through an older text, a book I’d used many years ago. Truthfully, I was really looking for something else, but that one text caught my attention. I had post-it notes, some blank, some with cryptic notations, all making references to a topic that I could no longer fathom. Pretty interesting stuff, from a localized archeology purview.
I wasn’t even sure what some of the old notes referenced. Not that it matters. I left the post-it bookmarks in place, along with the scribbled notes. Might mean something to me at some point. Might not. The notes, the bookmarks, the text itself, none of this takes up too much shelf space. It’s easy to store, even if I don’t know exactly what I was looking at — at the time.
That’s kind of what this week is like, a little delving back into the Libra Library. A little look at where you’ve been, and whatever it was that you were looking for. Or maybe not what you were looking for, but what you find? It’s what you’re were supposed to find. Some days, like this week? It’s less about what you were looking for and more about the journey and process of discovery.
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In a history book I was reading, I found a reference to the first use of a railroad explosive as a guided missle. It was a railroad engine, packed with explosives, and sent down the track into the enemy territory. Civil damage, infrastructure damage, and casualties, all from a tactical point of view? Successful that first time. Pioneered in the Mexican Revolution in 1911. What the book said. I’m not sure. However, it does make a good antecedent. Historically, anyway.
Then too, the celluloid and television versions are dramatic. However, as a really valid form of war, I doubt it’s useful these days. Too easy to disrupt. As I was looking at the Scorpio charts for the coming week? I was thinking about the term "train wreck." And from that term, you can easily see how I got sidetracked with the historical footnote about the exploding trains. Which is how I got to my warning for the Scorpio friends.
While it’s relatively easy to derail that train, packed with explosives, that doesn’t exactly defuse the situation, and there’s still a problem. The best way to avoid the train wreck, train explosion scenario? Get far, far away. If you can’t stop it, and if you can’t prevent it, then why hang around and wait for the inevitable?
Sagittarius:
The Moon motion suggests it’s party time. The relative position of the Sun Sign Virgo, placed against out Sagittarius relative points, though, suggests it’s more a time for reflection. We can do both, reflect back on our last few years and party at the same time. Although, just an idea, I’d tend to make this a little more somber kind of a party. Could just be me, too, but I’d stop and think about what it is that we’re going to think about.
Reflection is one kind of an action, or really, since it can be all mental, reflection can also be a kind of inaction. That’s the problem. Pause long enough to reflect, pause long enough to make an educated guess about a problem, pause long enough to plot a couple of past points, and see if that doesn’t make a new trajectory a little more clear.
I’m Sagittarius, too, and I tend to see the bright side, the upside, the good news. As long as we’re taking a moment to pause and reflect, with that Virgo influence hanging over our heads, as long as we’re waiting? Plot carefully. Like, if, see, if you can detect a downward spiral? See what can be done to prevent that from going from bad to worse. If there’s an upward spiral that could send you into outer-space — too quickly? Again, think about a course correction, Then, as long the moon is lending it’s energy, make those necessary corrections. Action, not inaction, after the pause and reflect. Call it all a "Virgo thing."
Capricorn:
A lot of research has been done on Mars. Astronomical, cosmology, exploration, and so forth. Makes it a better understood planet. However, in my terms, when Mars moves into a position where it opposes the Capricorn slice of the chart? There’s a different kind of energy. There’s friction, there’s sleepless nights, there’s tension, and sometimes, there’s a quietly bubbling kind of anger. Only, there’s not always a source of the frustration, and with Mars in this mix?
Sometimes the outrage is greater than the original infraction. Herein is the caution, and I’d like to think, a solution as well. When that anger boils up, stop. Use a little Capricorn brain power to ascertain the exact and precise nature of the problem. Just a generalized "over there," and "that thing," those types of expressions don’t cut it. With typical Capricorn precision, it might be necessary to slice through the Mars-infused haze in order to pinpoint the source of the problem.
Instead of outlandish and grossly inaccurate statements? Use a little bit of Mars for inspiration, move towards detecting, isolating and getting an accurate read on the single source of the discomfort. Be a much better way to use that rather than pointlessly blasting everybody.
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There is an image, I’ve passed on the way to the post office, maybe a hundred times. I’ve tried to capture this image with a phone camera. A cheap digital camera. An expensive digital camera. And I’ve published some of my efforts, but I’ll admit, freely, that I never quite caught what I could see with my mind’s eye as I passed this particular scene.
It’s in an empty field, next to a railroad right-of-way, backing up to an abandoned, or very under-used, light industrial center. Typical of what one might expect to find laying in just such a field. No big deal. I’ve tried when the grass is green and lush with spring rain, I’ve tried when it was brown with the winter’s cold, and most recently, I tried with the dry, straw look of an August Sun in South Texas. I have never successfully captured that image. Doesn’t mean I haven’t tried, cheap camera, phone camera, expensive camera, tripod, in passing, sunset, sun rise, mid-day. Cloudy, sunny, I think I tried them all. Every possible combination.
To me, I have never succeeded in accurately capturing the feeling that I get from this particular image. Doesn’t mean I haven’t tried. There’s a pervasive sense of loneliness combined with some sense of abandonment sort of rounded out with hope for the future, but maybe, a sense of the past, too. That’s the best way I can describe the image. Maybe if I use real film. Or maybe, it’s an image that I can never capture with a camera. However, as an Aquarius, you know that you have to try and grab that image, no matter how elusive it might appear to be.
There comes a point when covering up spontaneous artwork — there comes a point where the cover-up is more artistic than the artwork that’s being covered up.
I was thinking about a spot where there was a gang-related tag on a building, and then, the way the graffiti was painted over? Much nicer than the original paint, and nicer, too, than the tag’s artwork. While I’m certainly no art critic, I know what I find pleasing to my eye. And after all, that’s all that’s really important, to me, anyway. Which is sort of what this is about, this week.
This next few days. Inadvertent art is a beautiful thing. Can’t set out to make it happen, and sometimes, in the urban landscape, the cityscape of the Pisces soul, there’s a piece of ugly graffiti that’s been artfully hidden. Respect and enjoy the accidental nature of how this works. It’s not the first pass or the second pass, but sometimes, that final time when you’re trying cover it up.
I’m going to deviate from the original script here. Not that it’s a problem for me, to skip the instructions, but I’m going to nimbly jump from one bit of the script to the next, with no follow through. In other words, you’re getting a horoscope that wasn’t scripted this way. It’s not according to the "the plan," and frankly, the way things have been going, maybe "the plan" wasn’t such a good idea. Although, at the time, it did seem like a good idea.
The deal is that you’ve got change your direction. You’ve got to change the way you perceive what is happening, and you’ve got to make a significant course correction.
Now.
Look it, see, my fine little Aries friend, there’s got to be some changes. You got stuck doing it one way, and then, here’s a chance to change, that one way doesn’t seem to work. It’s more arduous than it needs to be. The longer you put off this simple change? The harder it gets. At this point, you’ve created more work than is necessary. It’s a simple solution to what’s been a complex problem.
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Taurus:
I was looking at your chart and I was thinking about the best way to express the energy contained therein. I was working on a theory that fit with a Fixed sign (Taurus) and the way that Jupiter is in Aquarius, making a tension angle to Taurus. Then, too, the Full Moon, and it just goes on and on. I was thinking about that, and then I got to thinking about a certain situation that has changed, irrevocably and forever, never going to be the same, not ever again. I was thinking about that one example then I realized, the little mental gymnastics I got into?
That was the perfect example. It’s about getting stuck with an old thought, a situation that’s been analyzed and dissected to a sub-atomic particle level, and nothing’s changed. Outcome won’t be any different, and anyway, that’s history, can’t change it now, right? Put that thought process aside. See, it’s all about day-dreams. Night dreams, fantasies — one of those. And it’s about not spending too much time in dream land. Options, there are some options, and it’s matter of taking some of those options — now. Less day dream, more reality.
Gemini:
Ever watch a movie, or a TV show, and on the screen, the character walks from one room to another, and the shirt is instantly clean again? Or the pattern on the shirt varies from scene to scene? One time, it’s a striped shirt, and in the next scene, same suit, or same color suit, but the shirt is broadcloth with no pattern?
There’s a whole bunch of web pages dedicated to such problems on screen. In literature, Western Literature, I recall a cowboy who got off his horse on page 158 and dismounted the same horse on page 160 — without ever getting back on. This is called, I believe, "continuity." Fast shot TV or low-budget movies? This is a fairly common problem. First novels, or sloppy horoscopes, can be a problem here, too. But that’s not what this week is about. This week is about you, the Gemini, finding loopholes and glaring inconsistencies in a number of places.
Important note: Have fun with it.
There’s a fine line between madness and genius. Equally, there’s a fine line between brilliance and insanity. More over, there’s a delicate point, a balance between trash and treasure. Sadly, I’m guessing that you’re going to step over one — or more — of those fine lines. This week. Now when it comes to matters of taste, decorum and style, I obviously don’t have much room to be a judge. I tend to err on the side of bad taste and poor judgment: I almost revel in it.
Well, truthfully, I do celebrate my lack of good tastes and my exceptionally bad judgment. But that’s me. I’m not sure you want to infect this on your own career, your friends and family, your loved ones. No, might not be the time to inflict and infect us with your poor judgment calls. I’m not saying that you always have this sort of ill-timed, ill-conceived, perhaps ill-mannered ideas, but you know? With Mars and so on? Maybe this week isn’t the time for it.
The Leo:
Against a stark, bright, South Texas sky, blue, with that faded corn-silk blue, there’s the heat. It comes in waves, and then, the faintest amount of gulf coast moisture seeps in, too, and that adds warmth to an already hot day. The grass is mostly brown, but last month’s scant rain, it left vestigial shards of green at the base of the grasses.
Hot summer in the city. Hot summer at the edge of the escarpment. Hot summer on the prairie. Just how it all goes. This is the dogged days of Leo-time. The only respite, and it’s not very much, is the morning star.
Arise early, my fine Leo friend, and in the East, there’s a single planet visible. Venus. She’s in Leo, right now, and that early morning light, from that star, first thing — last thing — before sun-up? Sunrise is your time. Most of my Leo friends deplore sunrise. I’m with them on this, unless it involves a fishing pole. Then sunrise is a beautiful thing. But no, despite what you think you want, you’re best in the pre-dawn cool. Best time for you. Avoid the heat and realize that Venus is the only cooling agent. Use that wisely.
