Fishing Guide to the Stars
By Kramer Wetzel
(c) 2008-2009 Kramer Wetzel for astrofish.net
For the week starting: 9/10/2009
“Thou wear a lion’s hide! Doff it for shame,
And hang a calfskin on those recreant limbs.”
Shakespeare’s King John [III.i.128-9]
Mercury indirect. Questions are always free, some answers require a cash deposit. The e-mail line is always on, “31” (24 and 7).
Virgo: My first instinct, looking at your chart. Right now? My gut reaction was to tell you to hold on, as it will be better in another few days, like about ten days. Ten days from the beginning of the horoscope. However, I realized that “Just hold on,” that’s absolutely the worst advice I can dole out. And if I were being paid, or if I were paying for this advice? I’d suggest that “Just hold on,” is the wrong way to see this energy. This is clearly a “Just let go” kind of situation.
The most common expression is “Let go and let god,” but that has a frankly victimized tone to it, and I’m not thinking that you’re a victim these days. However, there is an issue, a situation, and the easiest way to resolve this problem? The difficulty? The quickest and most expedient route through this mess?
Let go. Instead of holding on? Instead of grasping and then feeling your grasp slowly slip away? Instead of that? Just release the issue. You’ll find that it’s easier now. The stars and planets (and the Moon) are going to align is such a way as to assist you in this endeavor. Let it go. Quit trying to hold on.
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Libra: I was looking at the Libra chart, that Mercury and a host of other influences, and my mind started to drift. I was thinking about a singer/songwriter I knew. He made a CD. Played gigs. Toured around, was on the radio and then slipped into obscurity. I looked him up. He was back on an oil rig in West Texas, making money to cut another CD. He didn’t quite have what it took to be big, although, to his credit, as an artist, he was plugging away successfully. More or less.
When the money ran out, money dried up? He went back to roughnecking, only other work he knew. Which, in its time, can be good money except that it can be hard on a body. But he was banking cash so he could get back out, tour and promote another CD. And work on material. Working alone isn’t always bad. Being the only one in charge isn’t always bad. Doing it all by yourself? That isn’t always bad. Consider that, as an artist, that old boy will have complete control over his own music production. Which might be better. Or worse. However, with this influence? A time out of some sorts, like his six months on an oil rig? Might be a good idea.
Scorpio: I tend to slip into allegory and metaphor to explain what’s happening. And that usually works. But with Mercury retrograde? I’m a little unsure that my intended message will get across to the Scorpio friends. It’s about change.
See, I was telling this one Scorpio, a female, that she would be best served if she changed one thing. I won’t mention what the change was, it’s not like it was a really big thing. It was but it wasn’t. Just one change. I’ve been insistent, for the last seven, maybe ten days about this change. I finally gave up, because, well, I know no Scorpio will change unless the change is deemed proper. I finally quit nagging that one Scorpio.
Two days later, bring me up to almost two weeks? She made the change. Like it was her own idea. Like I had nothing to do with it all. Since I liked the change? And since I’m not a Scorpio? I just let it go. However, I don’t know that the singular difference would be that big of a deal. Except that it was, as long as it was, or appeared to be, her idea. If only I’d thought of that before. Anyway, to spell out the message: there is change underfoot. In Scorpio. With Scorpio, and maybe, just maybe, this isn’t of your own choosing. Pretend like it is, if need be. But see about implementing the changes.
Sagittarius: I got a “thank you” note from someone. Not quite anonymous, but almost, just an e-mail note. The part that bothered me, though, was not knowing what I did that deserved the thanks. In my own mind, I can spin up a number of reasons that I should be thanked, but I doubt most of the reasons have anything to do with the real world. Not that I’ve ever claimed to have more than the thinnest, most tenuous grasp on consensual reality such as it is. Never mind that now.
I keep seeing people getting all whacked out for no reason. Well, for no apparent reason. And rather than let that ruin my day, or, for that matter, any Sagittarius day? I’d let it all slide. Easiest way to work around what’s going on. Someone isn’t doing what our Sagittarius selves know is the right way to accomplish the task. Hardest course of action? Don’t correct that person. They have to figure out that the paint is, indeed, wet. Or the plate is hot. Or the contents might scald. While I like to hear, “Wow, you were SO right!” — I’d settle for a nice thank you.
Capricorn: Where I live, on the south side? Latin Rhythms can often times be heard wafting in on the gentle summer breeze. I can’t tell a Cumbia from Durangoese from plain border music. I can, sort of, identify Norteno’s elctronica variation, Nortechno, which is an obviously the happy marriage of Norteno and Techno. Imagine, it’s mariachi music looped like mash-up and DJ dubbed. I got sidetracked with music because I was swaying to the music — probably a neighbor who, last time I talked to her, she was learning Spanish, and listening to the Mexican Radio was a quick way to assimilate.
When I borrow a car, I tend to listen to a predominately Spanish channel, not because I understand one word, but because I like the flavor it lends. On hot afternoon window down, rolling through the hood? Yeah, that’s what should be on the radio. It’s also a language I don’t really understand too much. Makes it better, while Mercury is backwards. Try it. It’s less about understanding a culture and more about picking up stray pieces of conversations that make no sense. But they do, at least, for the next week or two. Or, like me? I get to make up what I want, since Mercury is retrograde. Write your own Capricorn Mercury Music. Retrograde musical tales.
Aquarius: New rule, for Aquarius? “If the facts don’t conform to the situation, then the facts must be changed.” This isn’t a hard and fast rule, although, in my family, it’s been treated as such, But this isn’t about family dynamics. This is about Aquarius and the coming week. Weeks. Next few days. One of those, anyway.
The trick is, that what you think you know? While you know what you know? You don’t know everything, and more information will become available. So the facts aren’t all facts, not just yet. The situation requires that you be willing to learn a whole new way of perceiving this situation. You could very well have some errors in what you’ve been told. You could have observed a measurement wrong. That could easily change the outcome of the situation. Which, if you go back to my original premise?
If the facts don’t support the situation, then the facts must be changed. I’ve seen it work for a number of years, and I see no reason why you shouldn’t borrow this from tidbit from my family to help you in the near future, like the next 7 to 10 business days.
Pisces: If you would only pay attention, especially in the last 3, maybe 4 months? You can see where this is going. Saturn is providing punctuation to a Pisces problem. I know, you think that both letter P should be capitalized because it’s a big problem, or it seems like a big problem. And yes, it is a big problem, but then, it’s not really.
The foundations of your faith might have been shaken, but is that really bad? There’s tremendous amount of unstable energy that is out to rock the hand that feeds it. Run-on sentences, dangling modifiers and mixed metaphors are a specialty of mine. That’s part of the problem, even now. The other part of the problem, even though you’re normally really good at divining what the message means? You haven’t figured out what the last couple of months was really about, not yet. Therein is your trouble. You might, if you seek some outside assistance, you could very well figure out this time around. But remember, Mercury — along with Saturn/Moon/Sun &c. All of those might confuse you a bit.
Aries: Mercury is a retrograde, still in Libra all week, and Saturn/Sun conjunct oppose Uranus turning retrograde. Venus opposes Jupiter, too.
Aries: From what I’ve gathered, there’s supposed to be an arc to a story’s line. Problem, conflict, resolution, reconciliation. Some sort of catharsis should occur at the conclusion. Bad guy gets his just desserts, the good guy gets the fair and virtuous girl, and they all live happily ever after. “Curse, I’ll get you yet,” mutters the bad guy, as he’s doomed to live in a self-perpetuating hell. What he deserved.
But that’s the way it goes in the story, whether it’s a horoscope like mine, a story, a novel, a movie, even a TV show. However, you knew this would happen, rarely — if ever — does real life make as much sense as a piece of fiction. The average sitcom has to wrap up in under 23 minutes. Not a lot of time for background and character development. Hence the problem. Hence the problem in Aries. There’s arc and there’s resolution, but counting on this to work out like a book? Is that even reasonable?
Taurus: It all depends on your ability to to turn a small and relatively insignificant item into a big deal. The pressure really isn’t on your Taurus self so much, but there is pressure, just elsewhere. How much you let this pressure get to you, that’s the real issue.
I was reeling in a small spoon-type of fishing lure. Lake, around the corner from me. I felt something tap the lure, that’s what we say, “I felt it tap it.” But there was a strike so I just pulled the lure up and looked. It had been through a school of bait fish and the shad had tried to eat the lure, which, obviously, was too big. But the little fish had gotten itself hooked.
Must’ve been a Taurus. Or was it me, acting like a Taurus? Here I was, making a big deal out of a fish that wasn’t much longer than the lure itself. Which is what I’m warning you about, making big deals out of little deals. Don’t. Save us all the trouble.
Gemini: I’m not much up on the current theories, like the chaos explanation. I don’t really get that, but the last time I listened while a pundit expounded exponentially about the “Chaos Theory,” I was intrigued. Sounded just as plausible as any other theory I’d ever heard. But I always thought that chaos was supposed to be utterly random and almost malicious. Apparently, after listening to that one proponent, there’s an underlying schemata. Which, I suppose, makes it less chaotic since, as long as there’s an underlying plan, it’s not truly random.
This can devolve into a tautology.
Or we can see how the chaos and chaos theory has an impact on the Gemini life at the moment. In part, this is Mercury’s apparent retrograde behavior, but then, too, there’s another, possibly more important, influence. Saturn, and Saturn is triggered by several instances and occurrences. Saturn’s relative motion and symbolism is more important than what’s kicking with little Mercury, too. More so than ever before? Attention to spurious details, most important, especially for Gemini.
Cancer: I chronicled this in another place, the difference between a local band’s promotional material, and the actual fact. The fabricated backstory, here’s a part I always liked, “The singer was a child TV star in Mexico City….” What makes the story even more amusing, to me, anyway, the whole band was from a small coastal town in Texas, all from the same neighborhood, not really far-flung stars of long dead mediums.
All fabricated. None of them were from New York, or Europe. Or anything. All from the Nueces Strip — Rio Grande Valley (Texas Side). Not a big deal. The stage banter used to include some of the fabrications, too, and that’s a problem. Now on the band’s website.
See, if there’s something you’ve fabricated, an outfit cut from the whole cloth of your imagination? The approaching oppositions will render illusions clearly what they are. I’m not saying it’s bad to fabricate a backstory, but it doesn’t hurt to clearly identify the fiction as just that: fiction.
Leo: I have a small office, more like a corner rather than a real office. I can crank up the music in here. That’s good. I can rock out. Again, this is a good thing. I can dance. That’s bad. I can dance and not be seen. Good. There’s a plus and minus to every action and concomitant reaction. It’s a matter of doing so safely. When the law reads, “In the privacy and safety of your own home,” that means, the sub-text that is implied? It’s means you’re supposed to do so with the blinds closed, the door shut, or the lights out. Or any combination of such matters that will prevent the neighbors from being able to watch.
I’m a white male and straight: no rhythm and poor fashion sense. Way I goes. So when I decide to rock out? I make sure that the drapes are drawn. No windows are open. Makes for a better experience. For me, for the neighbors, for assorted innocent bystanders who might casually glance in the window. As the mighty Leo? Yeah, you usually want to be on display. As the result of a number of influences, this next couple of days? Maybe not the center of attention is better place to be. Like me rocking out.
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