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No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. Watch for the rest of the signs during the coming weeks.
Taurus Though your typical reaction to stress is to quietly hunker down until the chaos and shelling subside, during the holidays that will only result in more and more chores, tasks, and issues being strapped to your back–and you ain’t nobody’s beast of burden! So what do you do? You’re not a fan of confrontation, and plugging away at all those tasks in the hope of finishing and freeing yourself is a pipe dream that’ll never materialize–but acting like you can’t retain a message or instruction just might. Combine this with sudden restless feet and uncharacteristic activity: you must move, dance, run, play charades (at which Taurus can be very good), walk, leap, spin, and make yourself absent when chores are being passed out. And if you are spotted and told to do, give the impression that you can’t be trusted to remember, or to get it right, with a “Did you want 5 pounds of flour and candied citron, or is that 5 pounds of sugar and fresh lemon or . . . did you say something about shrimp and muffin cups?’ See what I mean? Your Nemesis this holiday season: Aries, Gemini, or Scorpio/ Your secret angel: Capricorn/ Your own personal elf or cherub: Virgo
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Julie Demboski's ASTROLOGY 
Hilarious!
Simply hilarious!
DD
Thank you, DD!
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well Julie this taurus looks like an easy mark, today for instance….on the way to my regular dentist for a crown I found a dollar bill floating in a puddle, then I found out the implant wasnot completed and so I was told to contact my DDS., On the way home I stopped to cash a check from my mom, the check was a repay for curtians, smoke dectectors, security lights ordered and installed in her house. This was to prevent a heist and actual gutting of her basement by a family member, who continues to fume and scheme. The bank teller shorted me by 100, (counted his drawer and fixed it.) The secertary at the oral surgens’. said they’d sent me $700 and needed it back before they’d make a appointment. (I’d payed a huge amount up frount, Of course there wasn’t a check for $700….when I called them back and asked if I might help them find it, they said they’d stop payment, credit my account and they made the appointment! ( thinly covering the reciever, conferencing w/ my son who’s booming voice sounds like a 50 y/o cop helped, )
So Julie do you ever feel like you’re stuck in a strange movie or spell that needs to run dry?
all I can say is thank god for home…they take my side while the tornado dissapates. They also find it funny, …i mean in guise of vulnerability the bull isn’t. and definatly all horns about a rip- off
Hi Lucy!
What a day! Yes, sometimes it feels to me like I’m stuck in a portion of time that must run dry–in my mind it’s like a current–you’re being carried and pushed from side to side and are really helpless–and then if you struggle it really does feel as if you’ll drown! This was on the protected page, and I think describes a portion of your experience:
“The Moon enters Taurus at 6:34 AM PST. The Taurean Moon starts off with a sextile to Chiron with Uranus at the midpoint. Sounds like grabbing an electrified wire–but with the heavy grounding influence of Taurus, the current might end up charging rather than wounding, bringing forward a unique, and possibly healing, response to circumstances.” So it sounds to me like the potentially wounding material (Earth) energies were translated by you into positives–as if you were able to indeed charge yourself and your interests in a positive way. Sounds like you’re ‘playing’ the energies just right (and like you’re in your element–with Moon in Taurus, maybe so!–and using your understanding of energy flow to thwart what sounds like could’ve been a bunch of Merc retro fiascos. Good for you, Lucy–I love to see it when people rise above and handle perfectly all the cr*p that gets thrown our way. I wish you an excellent rest of the week–somehow I think you will have an exceptional one!
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a later call came from the DDS, they want me to have the appointment and $700! can’t wait for the check as they said it was cut 11/ 21, my guess is today’s date. I profit and you’re a prophet, julie!
for awhile I found wallats, now I confront people. that particular teller deposited a greater amount from an earlier check, returning me short, it was less than $20, different from the deposit slip and all the money going to me,.. so I let it go…
when I was 5 my grandfather game me a purse, I opened it and cried, it was empty. He dropped a 50 cent piece in. and I was happy.
It seems libra, scorpio need some solar in their lives, like the sun rising over turbulant seas.
Hi Lucy–Our experiences with money are really telling about our energy relationship with the Universe, aren’t they? Financial advisor Suze Orman talks about our first ‘money memory’ and how it shapes our attitudes toward getting, giving, and what we believe we deserve, for ever-after. And yes, I agree about both Libra and Scorpio needing some solar in their lives–maybe it comes from the way sunlight seems so precious that time of year.
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yes aries knows how to avoid christmas if they want to… (work a good excuse actually)
hate it. Its so in the way. Tho do realize it’s holy and all, just… so inconvenient
and quite a burden jesus put on me getting born at this time…. why not february or something? not like the whole universe revolves around Him, sheesh… you’d think it did..
,, um,,
peace,
guru
Thanks for sharing more of your always-wry ruminations, guru! As to when Jesus may have been born, there’s lots of speculation–most of which places his birth closer to February–how’d you know? 😉
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Well for what it’s worth,,,here’s a story from “nemesis of Taurus”:
Last Thursday, I walked out to get some groceries from my fav market. Decided to splurge on a nice bottle of pinot (it had such a great writeup–“liquid happiness”) and a beautiful hunk of chinook. On the long walk home, I had a bit of buyers remorse for my spree. When I got home, I looked at my receipt and discovered that the friendly checker had charged me “2 @ $16.99” for the ONE bottle of wine. Then, I couldn’t find the salmon. Called the store–they found the salmon on the counter and said I could come pick it up at the fish dept, but I said I couldn’t come back and was assured there would be no problem getting a refund for that and the wine overcharge.
That afternoon I was listening to my regular chat/music radio show–one of the DJ’s had worked in store security, and they were talking about how shoplifters were almost always middle aged, educated white women–which may explain why every time I look at the artisan cheese, a clerk seems to come over and hovers nearby me. Now it appears that I’ve got the racial profile of a shoplifter??? Me, who has never stolen anything in my life? (my Taurus mother who worked as a drugstore clerk would chase teen girls down the street to retrieve a nabbed lipstick–she told us girls she would skin us alive if we ever did that–lesson learned!).
On Sunday, went back to the store with Hubby to buy more stuff and get my refund. It was weird. The (yes, Taurus) manager was called over and he said “are you sure maybe you didn’t get some other fish, blah..blah blah….” so I had to tell my story over again…again using the the name of the manager I had spoken to on the phone! Yes, “the friendliest store in town” did give me my money back, but what a bummer…and I won’t listen to that radio show ever again.
Oh, and then, I pick up my community newspaper only to see the headline, “Graffiti Vandals are all Ages”…Egads! What next? Middle aged white women are taggers now too? “Cause they better not tempt me, that’s all I’m sayin’! (haha).
And, it turns out that wine wasn’t that great after all and not worth the price! I guess my wine days are over…so, per the Holiday guide, please pass the Absinthe bottle–I guess I need something stronger! My neck hurts again!
Elisabeth–thanks for sharing–and I’m sorry to hear your neck is back at it.
Unfortunately a lot of people accept stereotypes as fact, and the one that claims affluent, educated middle-aged white women have nothing better to do than steal cosmetics, power tools, or salmon in the middle of the day (oh! It’s because they feel neglected, don’t you know!) is one of the most insidious. It’s funny, I thought I was getting better attention and service with age because they thought I had some money to spend, not ’cause they thought I was going to stick that flat screen under my raincoat!! The part of your story that struck me as the worst was the part where the manager questioned you as if he was assuming you were too dim to know exactly what fish you’d bought–that is insulting, and another stereotype, that M-AWW (‘Ma’s, as in ‘Hey Ma, are you going to join all the other Mas at ‘Mommy and Me’?) are incapable of thought and the only way we survive is through the grace of men! Of course, the worst is when women themselves believe that.
And as to the ‘wisdom’ that DJ shared, both my children work in retail, one at a major warehouse store and one at a major, high-end department store, and the assumption that M-AWW are overwhelmingly the shoplifting culprits does not mesh with the stories they tell at all. All we can hope is that, being in the Pluto in Capricorn era, we may find old standards destroyed–or will they simply spring up anew, re-shaped, but just as ugly and inaccurate?
I hope you’re having a better today than last Thursday!
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Did I miss how a Cappy is supposed to survive the holidays???!!!
No–all twelve first appeared in issue #17–I’m just putting them up one at a time here, my own ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ 🙂
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Gotcha’!
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