How many (sign) does it take to change a light bulb?

• Aries: Just one. You want to make something of it?
• Taurus: One, but just “try” to convince them that the burned-out bulb is useless and should be thrown away
• Gemini: Two, but the job never gets done – they just keep arguing about who is supposed to do it and how it’s supposed to be done!
• Cancer: Just one. But it takes a therapist three years to help them through the grief process.
• The Leo: Leos don’t change light bulbs, although sometimes their agent will get a Virgo to do the job for them while they’re out.
• Virgo: Approximately 1.0000000 with an error of +/- 1 millionth
• Libra: Er, two. Or maybe one. No – on second thought, make that two. Is that okay with you?
• Scorpio: That information is strictly secret and shared only with the Enlightened Ones in the Star Chamber of the Ancient Hierarchical Order.
• Sagittarius: The sun is shining, the day is young and we’ve got our whole lives ahead of us, and you’re inside worrying about a stupid light bulb?
• Capricorn: I don’t waste my time with these childish jokes.
• Aquarius: Well, you have to remember that everything is energy, so…
• Pisces: Lightbulb? What lightbulb?

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Thoughts and Prayers

To all those husbands who told their spouses,
“I’ll get to it when I have some time…”

Shelter in place — virtually quarantine?

I’ll keep you in my prayers; stay strong, my brothers. Best of luck.

Where

“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”

• Lawrence J. Peter

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Quarantine Quote

“A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.”

• Herbert Prochnow

Excerpt From Pink Cake: The Quote Collection

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Seven Ages

From a podcast about a sonnet (Sonnet 63, Shakespeare Sundays, highly recommended), to twitter, to my tattered copy of Ptolemy, to Shakespeare’s As You Like It (seen here).

Now, not unlike Shakespeare, I purloined most of this research, from a comment about the 7-year cycle, see Saturn Return, through a podcast, to questioning the author, back to Ptolemy, and from thence to As You Like It, and it is a circuitous route.

All of that, and I didn’t even cite the Sonnet 63. Which, I might add, is where it started. I’ve listened to that one podcast about it, three or four times, so far, good stuff.

Hint: don’t look up Climacteric without including “Greek” and “astrology,” as the results tend to be, well, not safe for work or young children. Just annoying for me.

However, as a notation, and from that previous work having to do with Saturn and its cycles, I favor the 7-year cycle, especially punctuated with Saturn at its conjunction point, roughly a 28-year cycle, so that means, Saturn Return at 28 then 56, with the last piece of that second event falling into place at 63. Years are approximate and in various charts vary.

My first real astrology teachers insisted that Saturn was a 28 (and a half) year cycle. Hung me up when I was looking art charts in old Austin and seeing Saturn Returns at age 31.

However, for Greek Astrology, let’s echo back to the 7-year cycle, and how that does line up, rather nicely, with Saturn and its cycles. Not perfectly, but close enough.

Seven Ages

I wanted to delve deeper into the 7-year cycles, as I understand them, disagreeing with that old Greek text, which, I might add, I couldn’t locate quickly, but I did have the Ptolemy on my shelf. Looked that one up and it does correspond with Jacques’ speech in As You Like It.

Two-Meat Tuesday

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Ownership

“It’s possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.”

• Lee Segal

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