Transit Lab: Saturn in Virgo and Mercury in Scorpio on Ceres - What Did I Just Eat?
Saturn in Virgo is squaring my Sagittarius stuff in the 3rd, and Mercury is in Scorpio in my 1st, on Ceres and my anti-Vertex.
Today, therefore, it was time to learn and accept that my favorite strawberry jelly contains high-fructose corn syrup. How did I fail to see this before? Am I not ruthlessly self-defined for these last many years as “hypervigilant food label reader?”
A portion of my satirical writing at one time was devoted to exposing everyone as “corn eaters,” unwittingly consuming the nation’s #1 secret food ingredient. If you can’t say your food is made from corn or isn’t loaded with corn syrup, corn has somehow found its way into your life as one of the major nutritional elements, I insisted.
I wrote that you have no idea how much corn you actually consume, and that the government wants it that way for its own secret corn-elevating purposes. I privately labeled everyone unconscious of what they put into their bodies corn eaters, and would laugh out loud when someone started talking to me about eating corn. I was finally able to laugh at the trillions of corn kernals I consumed (consciously) while growing up, as corn was for many years my father’s favorite vegetable. It is the only vegetable that my GI tract is fundamentally opposed to and rebels against, however, so I spent many years of my youth clutching my gut in clueless misery…all due to the eating of corn. Part of me suspects that it’s not actually a vegetable at all but is some cruel manufactured joke, some spontaneous, after-market addition that the Creatrix unleashed on humanity to make unsuspecting children everywhere dread dinner, or develop all manner of senseless aversions to various foods, or think that all food is probably out to get them.
But now that Saturn’s in Virgo, and with that Mercury on Ceres, I get to be a little humbled because I didn’t actually read the labels on the foods I bought last week.
The peanut butter I consume with the strawberry jelly in question, for the record, contains peanuts and salt, and no corn whatsoever, which pleases me deeply.
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September 29, 2007 By Tom Jacobs