05/20/2010-2nd

Posting another blog from Starlight News:


Fe-that thought of how much of our lives come in plastic bottles,eased with petroleum gels,etc is a shuddering realization. And I know what you mean about the blunting by the divinity of the damage-this is so far beyond cutting benefits for education or other social outrages-this is on the level of trying to blow smoke in god’s face.
I have for years now been using simple olive oil, not extra virgin,for my skin and I am slowly increasing glass and pottery items for frig storage and canisters-here in my region Safeway store bottled salsas come in wide mouth jars that are excellent for all types of storage needs for instance. I eschew the expensive storage containers advertised in glossy magazines/catalogues because I don’t have extra money AND I don’t need it if i pay attention. This is by way of pointing out how we can change in order to honor our grief and outrage and change now. Small ways add up and also can lead us to bigger ways.

This is in honor of Saturn transiting my natal 6th house soon to be trineing all my 2nd house Gemini planets and heavenly bodies such as Vestia,etc and sixtiling my natal fourth house Saturn,Moon, Pluto. Natally I have Neptune in the 6th-no doubt referring to lifetimes in ashrams and convents and monastaries,etc and judging from this lifetime no doubt have many commitments and vows to poverty. Well in defiance to the piece just posted by Sky Writer: there is a place for poverty especially in cultures with an excess of riches.
Having an 8th house S Node I cringed at the piece SkyWriter republished about how to get rid of moochers in your life. I recall Beth saying"you are a moocher,Clymela after I had stayed with them for 3or4 weeks following the break-up with Roland. This is by way of saying that I have often relied on the kindness of friends and lovers for getting by although I was never one for "forgetting" my wallet and then being unable to pay for my dinner. NO!! with me it has been ever extended poverty so that I could never afford to eat out so I would say when the subject came up "I can't afford to eat out today and then my more affluent or better organized friends would say "oh come on I'll pay". To this day I often have to borrow money to get by due to my over eagerness to "take care" of others. Anyway Beth's judgement still hurts although I can say she even left her spouse Pat for a more wealthy woman because "she just didn't want to scratch anymore"to which Pat said "scratch" as they were property owning middle-class women in their own beautiful home with two generous incomes.but as they say...I digress.
Now to prove my superficial Gemini bonafides: I picked up "1876" by Gore Vidal which we had in a bookcase. I needed something to read that is not about god or politics or astrology,etc. WOW o WOW!! what a writer!! Really ignored I am sure due to his "communist" tendencies. I am loving this book and knowing absolutely zilch about history I am enjoying the book just for the elegant beauty of Vidal's writing. Of course I also share his slant politically although I could never be a mean as my dear Mr Vidal.
Yesterday I made the most delicious white bean soup in celebration of our grinding poverty following the expenses of inoculations and "procedures" for three 9 month old kittens (male). Their sister had her surgery three months ago when the kittens were six months old. Oh! yes and I had a $300 bill for Kaiser for bad checks (that pesky 8th house SNode again-gambling-SNode in Sagittarius in the eighth) one was for $5 from 2005 and there were a couple for $10 and one for $25. Yikes folks are making a fortune on suckers like me-although my fault my grievous fault. Steve and I have resolved to no more check writing regardless of the crisis. We will find other ways.
I can just imagine readers turning away in disgust over the fargility of my honor and character and I can only say Yep!! that is sure true of me not the whole truth but definitely true in part.
Back to the soup: white beans at least a pound. I preboiled them in the 6 quart pot but for cooking I had to transfer them to the 12 quart pot. I drained them ( I know throwing away all the nutrients but better that than the gas) and then cooked them with water and a quart or so of homemade chicken stock. when the beans were soft I cooked minced green pepper and onion and lots of garlic in bacon drippings-someone took my six pieces of bacon saved just for this soup-and then stirred this into the beans and cooked for sometime more. I also squashed the beans with a potato masher just so that they would thicken the soup-not all the beans were mashed. I salted and peppered the soup and served it up. Everyone who had some loved it and it cost about a dollar twenty-five to make and there are leftovers today. Nothing fancy but this is a classic.