Did you get your taxes done and filed? Hope things turn out OK for you. IRS can really be a hassle. And lawyers can really be expensive. Jail can really be boring (I hear).
It has been an interesting month. April usually is for me. Spring is awesome; I love flowers that smell good like orange blossoms, gardenias, wisteria, and all. It is very windy though. Wind makes my cat act weird and it makes me feel strange if I try to avoid it. It feels good if you allow yourself to get into it. It cleans your aura. In some ancient societies, if a crime was committed when it was windy, you'd get a lesser punishment.
The shock jocks. Hmmmmm... I absolutely support freedom of speech, except when trying to cause harm and in cases of treason (gee, none of those lately, eh?). Having said that, the details of the Imus uproar call for a closer look. I personally don't like to listen to hateful, chauvinistic, racist slop. The world would be a better place without it. But if there's a buck to be made, someone will exploit it. Imus has said weird things during his entire career. I think Howard Stern and Greaseman, for two examples, have gone further down the road of tastelessness and insult. Imus and company got popped because so many were watching or listening. I'm not saying some of these things aren't funny, but it goes too far.
I would like to think that society is "evolving" and finds name-calling, racism, and gender put-downs intolerable...finally. I tend to be such an idealist and so naive, that experience tells me "don't hold your breath, woman". Take it from this woman, I hate to hear people using the kind of talk that I'm speaking of. Racists and woman-haters are a dying breed.
My political astrology group has mentioned the rape charges against the college students being dismissed, in addition to the Imus flap, as coinciding with Pluto moving through the Galactic Center, and Jupiter is on his way. The "conjunction" of those two (when they are in the same degree of the 360 in the zodiac) could include a large effort by society to establish the expectations of ridding ourselves of the outworn, old instincts of fear of those who are different. Useful for survival thousands of years ago, it is doing more harm than it's worth these days. The integrity of the word of law and use of the justice system is being more carefully defined, too. What a waste of resources to pursue criminal charges when the evidence is not truly there. As a woman, I would like to see rape charges brought against those who clearly are guilty. It can be argued that all women have to deal with the fallout of false charges of sexual abuse or sex crimes. It is interesting to me to see the charges of sexual harassment being levelled by guys in the workplace against females, too. Fair is fair.
So Jupiter is pushing us "up" into the self-improvement, enlightenment area, while Pluto is reaching way, way "down" to the very instinctual roots of our collective psyche to let go of the outworn and unnecessary. As the old wisdom goes, As Above - So Below. Or "will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven" might sound familiar since it's from the Lord's Prayer. I was raised Catholic until confirmation, too, like so many of you reading this. We can be looking for signs that the Jupiter-Pluto duo is working in our own lives, too. It may very well be. Change is inevitable and is made so much more pleasant if we let go of the old stuff that doesn't work any more. I need to remind myself of that often! Sometimes it's hard to see or admit at first but you will be better off in the future.
Pick out your favorite songs about change, new life, and spring (love??) and "dance through the changes as heaven rearranges". It's not my own saying but I heard it used by Ken Kalb of Lucky Star in Southern Cal. Wise saying from wise man.
