The Tea Bag Said It: Capricorn, Libra and Relationships Misunderstood

I’m writing about Pluto in Libra tonight, settled in for a cozy astro-inspired night at home. I remembered that a friend gave me a few tea bags of what is certainly the finest, most wonderful, greatest and otherwise superlativest tea ever created. It’s made by this company that has inspirational messages printed on the bag tags.

You know the one. They’re always pithy notes aimed at gently opening your eyes to a higher level of love and light. Or bringing you back to your already very elevated consciousness after a stressful commute full of screaming at all the ignorant people who shouldn’t be allowed to drive but inexplicably apparently are. Or reinforcing your entrenched self-definition as someone who trafficks in a Cali-style, new agey pithiness that your Midwestern relatives are continually stunned by, telling each other when you’re not around that you probably joined a cult.

I’m usually down with what the tea bags have to say to me. The messages tend support my chosen self-definition, and I even sometimes share with others what the tea bag told me if it was particularly poignant or Cali-licous.

The message tonight: Live for each other.

Can you blame me for running over to trusty Computor to get my reaction down on virtual paper?

I’ve been sitting here teasing out the blind spots and unchecked assumptions of Libra, and the criticism that Capricorn can offer if Libra will listen. Libra makes the other its business, and Capricorn makes building the structures needed to care for people en masse its business.

Each sign’s energy defines itself in terms of what it can do or how much can get done for the other, yet the criticism of Libra from Capricorn has to do with the reality of working hard toward something concrete, and not just remaining focused on a person and the (to-Capricorn) petty concerns of defining the self in terms of interpersonal human relationships.

But living for each other?

No, tea bag, no! Living for each other is how we malfunction. That’s how we get away from being able to offer each other our best, from being able truly to share life in the superlativest ways.

People, don’t listen to the tea bag. Don’t live for each other. Live for yourself. Get yourself to the point where being with others becomes a celebration, and honors your life and their lives and your choice to experience them with each other.

I can’t yet advocate never listening to any tea bag, but you need to root it out and slam the door in its face if it sneaks into your life. And let’s all just be a little critical when tea bags offer easy means to deludedly derail ourselves from our path of compassionate awareness, or whatever other Cali-licious path you might be on.

Tom is available for private intuitive astrology consultations. See his website for more info.

February 29, 2008 By Tom Jacobs

Last-minute thoughts before Pluto splits Sagittarius

1. Thirteen years might be a long time in human consciousness years, but might not be enough to rreeaallllyy intuit the truth. We’ve been trying on for size different versions of Truth, as well as different ways of arriving at it.

2. I’m pretty relieved now that I can stop trying to figure out what’s true. My job now is clearly to start building stuff - no more of this sitting around and checking in with my intuition, no more digging behind how things work. I mean, do you know how tiring all that fluffly perhaps-not-work is?

3. In honor of Pluto, I’m considering building a ladder down to hell.

Once I collected months’ worth of hair a roommate had brushed from her divinely adorable and wonderful cat and carefully rolled it together, a la dreds. I displayed this freak show entrant on the livingroom mantle, and when visitors asked what the disgusting snake-like lint thing was, I told them I was building a ladder to heaven from the cat’s hair, since she was so divinely adorable and wonderful, etc.

But now, it’s time to get serious. No more cat hair-as-joke lying in wait for unsuspecting visitors - no more frivolous games. Now is the time to earnestly build mental, physical and emotional structures to reflect what I learned from sitting around checking in with my intuition all those years (and preaching the truth left and right as I was deciding I was getting it). And one of the major things I learned during Pluto’s trek through Sagittarius is that doing spiritual work isn’t getting me anywhere if I’m not also doing soul work.

In depth psychologist and ecotherapist Bill Plotkin’s terminology, the former is ascension. While it has its place in our lives and journeys, integral to wholeness is also engaging in descension. I see we’re getting here and there better at ascension, for which we have some examples in our culture, but we don’t have acceptable, sanctioned models for descension, and so people don’t always know how to deal with that. I recommend Plotkin’s work to get a handle on this stuff - it’s conscious of how people and the world really are, and in it he suggests and explains numerous doorways to undertake the journey to gain consciousness of your most inner workings and, as I understand it, make friends with and reintegrate anything hiding down there that we’re afraid to look at. It’s a smorgasbord of shadow work.

Hence, a ladder down to hell.

Coincidence that I’m doing this waxing Pluto square thing?

Of course not. Why, I’m this week spending time with some monsters that’ve been under my psycho-emotio-spiritual bed. Probably I won’t report the encounters in detail, but suffice it to say that I’m learning just tons about stuff I think, feel and do that I’ve never been able to see before. And, of course, I’m happy to report that the reality is never as bad as you think - as bad as the fear of it. But something I got today when writing an e-mail to someone is this: One of the fears about coming to work with Pluto energy consciously at the waxing square is that in each of us, there’s a part that’s afraid to become the agent of change we so desperately want to become.*

*Pluto in evolutionary astrology, depending on whom you ask, represents the soul’s deepest desires/intentions or the soul’s deepest wounding. I work with it as representing both: To get to the desire and become that agent of change, we have to heal the layers of pain that inform our fear of living our lives in the ways we truly desire.

Tom is available for soul-centered consultations. See http://tdjacobs.com for more information.

January 25, 2008 By Tom Jacobs

Pluto into Capricorn: The Will to Authority, part I

There isn’t a person alive who hasn’t been shaped by authority structures related to Saturn/Capricorn. This energy is that of the normalization of groups and the coherence of all systems: filial, social, educational, governmental. And anyone alive who’s paying attention to the energy of the present moment will notice with the ingress, if they haven’t already with the hinting at major Capricornian shifts that Jupiter’s recent ingress offered, that something important is happening.

An evolutionary astrology e-mail list I’m on received a note today from a member asking about source referrals for understanding the collective impact that Pluto’s ingress into Capricorn will have. She ends the e-mail by saying that it feels like quite a shift and she’s drawn to do some research.

Of course she’s drawn to do some research! The energy of Capricorn is that of authority - gaining, becoming and holding authority.

Natally, Saturn for anyone represents the urge to develop and be an authority, for mastery in order to, in the long run, develop security. Along the way, we adopt other people’s ideas of what authority is until those ideas clearly don’t work for us. Even without a natal retrograde Saturn, there comes a time for most people when they must develop their own ideas of what authority, discipline, sacrifice and hard work mean.

The first Saturn return (around age 29 1/2) is the pre-wired opportunity, the most convenient time for this. Earlier than that there isn’t sufficient experience to tackle this maturation (Saturn hasn’t made a full circuit around the birth chart until around 29 1/2, and so hasn’t made all possible aspects to natal bodies and points), and much later than that we lose the Saturnian understanding that the return offers the opportunity to capitalize on (though following through on the lessons made apparent by the return can take a few years and/or be ongoing).

But regardless of your age (where you are in your Saturn cycle) at this point, if you’re paying attention to how things in the air feel, Pluto into Capricorn will stimulate your own urge to develop authority. You’re going to want to do some homework and answer some questions for yourself. But it’s not just that you might start to get all Saturn on yourself. It’s that getting more Saturnian will likely feel of great import - we’re talking about Pluto here, after all.

(To be continued.)

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January 7, 2008 By Tom Jacobs

Transit Lab: Sun conjunct IC

Tonight I’ve packed up my stuff, prepping for my move to a new place tomorrow. I’ve been renting a room from a friend while helping her renovate her property & house. She told me when she offered the room that I’d be moving into a construction zone, and my hyper-Sagittarian self decided that a little adventure was welcome.

And then I moved. The house did turn into a construction zone, and I remembered that while my Moon is in Sagittarius in the 3rd, my South Node of the Moon is in Cancer. What’s happened is, in short, a fairly animated (and sometimes gruesome) conflict between the desire for adventure and change and the need for stability and security. It’s the conversation between the 3rd and 4th houses, Mercury/Gemini and Moon/Cancer, but also that between Moon (what we need to do to make ourselves happy) and the South Node of the Moon (our habits and comfort zone - all based in our emotional memories).

As I type this, I’m getting a handle on those dialogues: I seem to enjoy adventure as long as I have a firm home base, and I’ve had something less than I’m used to here. If there’s no stable home base, I’ll marginally tolerate the notion of adventure, but try to avoid it. Interesting.

I think I was coping well until the kitchen sink went away and we started eating on and with disposable things. There’s something about that that sets my emotional innards to rotting. I was fine with postponing sprouting and juicing until I moved, but the entrance of disposable things made me feel a bit like I’d begun punishing myself.

And I didn’t mind taking showers outside while the bathroom was being redone. And I haven’t once minded the toilet being outside - See?, I want to ask, haven’t I just been a trooper?

So, as the Sun hits my IC (the beginning of the 4th house) at 13 Capricorn 59 tomorrow, I’ll be hauling boxes into an adorable little guest house in LA. It’s Capricorn, though, so you can probably guess that I’m pretty sparse at home. And my North Node is not far from it. I see in this that, for one thing, doing the 4th house home/roots/stability thing has not been on my list of priorities in the past and I’ve set myself the challenge of figuring out how to, as well as if I’m willing to do that new thing that the North Node symbolizes for any of us. (And as the Sun hits my NN in a few days, I expect I’ll be confronted with just how much I don’t know about setting up a comfortable, suitable home space.)

Not only do I not have much stuff to move, but virtually none of it is homey. The IC ruler Saturn is retrograde in Gemini in the 9th house. Guessed yet what most of my stuff is? You got it: books, notebooks, pens, papers and paper items (including arty things I always hope might defray the lopsidedness of the ratio…).

Tonight I remembered that I need to turn on the electric and gas, and went to the LA Department of Water and Power website to initiate a service order to get electricity going. The first thing to comment on is that electricity is called “Power” - I’ll be paying them for power, as it turns out. I’m not sure I’ve ever paid anyone for power. I wonder how my Scorpio Sun and Venus-Pluto life will change once that starts up.

But what you have to do is fill out the online form called ”Residential Turn On Service Form,” which, I’m pretty sure, is going to turn out to be quite a letdown when it’s all said and done.

They really need to come up with a better name.

Tom is available for soul-centered astrology consultations. See his website for more info and contact details.

January 3, 2008 By Tom Jacobs

Mercury Retro and The Languaging

I received the following text in an e-mail today:

Hello, at me was the holiday. Today has returned. You spoke, that looked for work. Not a problem. I work in the large company. The company looks for new employees. Freely about 1600 vacancies. You can be in time. I work with this company three months. I earn much. For three months has bought to itself the new car.
The company sells electronics. Now it is a lot of orders. Therefore the company has not time to send the goods to buyers.
I wait for the house. I receive the goods and I send its buyers.
I earn 40-60 dollars for each package.

Write more rapidly on e-mail [e-address] and the manager will register you. If you have friends they too can work here.

In a week you will receive the first package.
Registration will be till November, 10th.

I used to study and enjoy linguistics, and as someone like that, I love looking at the language in junk mail, the few times every few months that I read them.* This fits no convention I’m familiar with, it actually looks like a translation of some automated dictionary, and, you know, whatever, but then I caught these two lines:

1. For three months has bought to itself the new car.

2. I wait for the house.

And I knew right away that I was not going to be able to sleep tonight until I shared it with someone.

Good night!

*I admit to answering the so-called Nigerian scams with personal e-notes built around outrageous claims and demands. For instance, if the note offers to pay me $400,000 for transfering five million, I write back telling them I’m insulted and will accept no less than $900,000. If they offer 40% of the total, I write and demand 85% - etc. Also, I let them know in the interests of honesty that I’ve been convicted of a laundry list of crimes related to what they’re doing and just about everyone I know knows they can’t trust me, but I insist that I’m totally running a clean show now and have none of my compulsive lying and stealing urges active on the surface, but that they’re all stuffed down so deep in a tiny little box deep inside me that I doubt anyone will ever be able to find them if they tried.

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October 23, 2007 By Tom Jacobs

Mercury Retro and The Vehicles

I just ran into a dude on a motorcycle that wouldn’t start. He was practically less than a waif, and outfitted as though he thinks he’s riding a 125 CC somewhere in Central Europe in the 1970s. No gloves, a thin leather jacket not done up, a canvas courier bag over his retro sweater.

But he’s riding a 900 CC Harley.

As it wouldn’t start, he wanted help pushing it so he could try a rolling start. I almost just learned some about this from my stepdad, who’s always looking out for me and my vehicular adventures, but I wasn’t sure it was an answer for a dead battery - a totally dead battery. I guess I’m fessing up when I say that I didn’t so much listen to what he was telling me as appreciate that he wanted to…

This bike is brand new (= shiny shiny shiny! I was afraid to touch it for fear of ruining the blessed sheen), which made me ask him how long he’d been riding. “About three months,” he said kind of sheepishly, internally kicking himself in the metaphysical rear for buying this huge bike. I realized that he felt like a moron enough without me getting on him about buying such a big bike right out the gate. I helped him push it (meaning that I pushed it) out of the street and into a parking lot.

I told him that I’d bought a 250 CC when I started because I thought I wouldn’t even be able to pick up a monster like this one if when I dropped it. But this little guy couldn’t really even maneuver it! He said it was okay if I dropped it, he does it all the time. I asked him if he took a training course, and he said he did, so I dropped the big brother worry bit. See, I’m pretty strong, maybe even two of this guy, but I’m so conservative in my driving habits (10th house South Node + rx Saturn in Gemini/9th) that I would never start out with a bike like that. Also, I’ve been in enough actual bicycle and car and car-and-bicycle and bicycle-and-ice and dog-and-bicycle accidents (yes, it’s been as ridiculous as it sounds) to be by now fully formed as a stick-in-the-mud driver, perhaps to be mistaken for a driver twice or even three times my age.

And then a few months I sold my car and got a small bike. I was pretty clear I didn’t need a vehicle as large as a car, and also that I didn’t need a car payment on a car I didn’t need. I had no idea it would offer nifty opportunities for assertiveness training, loving the feeling of wind (which equals freedom), and an enjoyment of speed.

Assertiveness training: Mars-Uranus in the 1st house, square the nodal axis. I’m someone in need of figuring out the right place and use of self-assertion, the taking and having of freedom, and boundaries that allow me to be with others yet have enough room to get done what I want. Sometimes it seems like a confusing set of symbols - Mars-Uranus in the 1st square the nodes, seemingly about a rather loud self-individuation, yet in Libra, which means it’s to take place a lot of the time within relationship.

The feeling of wind: Sagittarius Mercury-Moon on the cusp of the 3rd house. Holy expletive pileup, do I love being on that bike and going going going.

Speed: I have a 250 CC, a small bike. It maxes out at 65 MPH, so I don’t take it on the highway. Also, I’m not in my view experienced enough to do that. This speed I’m al about loving is 40 and up. (It feels much faster when on an exposed vehicle. Remember when you took your bicycle down your first big hill? It’s like that, but with a throttle you can pull on as much as you like (until, um, of course, 65 MPH)).

I’ve been thinking about writing a post on self-assertiveness training that the bike has brought, and I’m taking the time now, during the Mercury retro. The Sun’s hit Scorpio, Mercury’s about to hit Libra, and they’re together on my Anti-vertex and Ceres in the 1st. And now is when I admit that I have no idea how to end this post.

I could tell you that I’m half expecting something interesting to happen with that combo on that conjunction. I watch transits to the Vertex axis, and stuff does happen now and then. Okay, that’s how I’ll end it - a total let-down, I know. That’s what you get for reading blogs during Mercury retro in Scorpio, when everyone’s obsessing about the secret emotional turmoil they’re unwillingly experiencing full-force and trying like mad to cover up and seem normal, if that’s possible, if that’s even possible.

Or maybe I’ll –

No, no I don’t think I’ll tell you about that.

Tom is available for consultations and lessons. See http://tdjacobs.com for more information and to book a consultation.

By Tom Jacobs

Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio: See, Hear and Feel Your Limits (and/or Dead People)

Tonight I went to my second spirit rescue circle. The opportunity came up last month for the first time after a couple of years of scattered personal experiences in assisting earth-bound spirits leave this plane (and other general psychic wackiness that I wanted to understand and learn more about). At the time, I thought it would be good exercise for my channeling/intuitive skills, as practice connecting with spirit in an environment other than my work.

What I’ve found is something so entirely rad that I kind of can’t describe it in human language well enough to give it justice.

But since I’m determined to stay on track with this post, I offer this: Mercury retrograding can bring us ideas and information, and memories, to which we normally don’t have access, for whatever reason. In a water sign, these can be of an emotional nature and, you might have deduced from your living this week, can affect us emotionally. In Scorpio, these can be of a difficult nature that can frighten us, and this is totally normal - Scorpio energy contains a lot of what we’re afraid to see.

The opportunity for people on the planet during this retrograde period includes being willing to look at some scary stuff. Finding one’s limits in this area is a prime topic for exploration. Not just seeing but experiencing our limits in fresh ways tells us where we are. Being honest with ourselves about why we have these limits is important, and represents the next step for the proactive earth-bound human interested in seeing life as a series of growth opportunities (hey, lookie! - you can bring a dash of Southern California to your state!).

So, here’s what a spirit rescue circle is: A group of people assemble to provide a place of light/love to help disembodied spirits cross over into the next place, or phase of existence. There are those who have died suddenly and traumatically who may not even know they’re dead, and others who don’t believe that there is another place, or that they don’t belong there/deserve to go. Others are hanging around in order to accomplish something specific, and are bent on remaining here until it’s done. The stories are endlessly variable, but the point is that being here after death in this way can be disorienting, uncomfortable, and can contain a measure of unnecessary suffering (not to mention the connection-with-living-people attempts that can mess with the living and create tension all around).

These circles pick a place where a tragedy of some sort or other has occurred, and focuses on that place, scanning it to see if there are spirits stuck there that could be helped to cross over. Tonight, the circle was focused on a place where a gruesome crime occurred, and it was difficult for a number of us to tune into the feeling of dark energy that is associated with the scene and the folks who committed the crime.

I sometimes admit to being a Scorpio…and to having Pluto in the 12th house. This stuff fascinates me, almost endlessly. I happen not to believe that I’m in danger when I sense dark energy, and so I’m willing to look. My curiosity (my, um, Mercury is with Neptune in Sagittarius, on the cusp of the 3rd) runs deep, and I want to know how things work. In this case, before the spirits there could be helped to cross, a situation involving them being kept there would need to be changed. And this brought up some objections from some in the group, who emphasized that being intentional in doing such things is important. But what I heard in the main, between the lines, was this: “This makes me uncomfortable. I’m afraid of doing this. I’ve never done it before and that darkness that’s accessible, that I can see and feel, frightens me. I’m afraid of being hurt and getting damaged.”

One person in particular had met her limits, and openly stated them to the group. The Scorpio in me wanted to roll up sleeves and investigate just what was going on behind the scenes, and gather as much info as possible. The rest of me accepted that there was real fear in the room (and resolved to write this post as an educational offering). In my work and travels in these spirit-based circles I often meet people who had psychic experiences as children and shut their faculties down because of negative, painful experiences. Many times this kind of seeing and knowing isn’t supported by our family or social environments, and so here’s the time in the post when I invite you and everyone to just go ahead and lose the religious and societal conditioning that you use to keep you from yourself. There’s nothing wrong with you! The way you’re wired is no accident!

It could be said it’s natural to fear the dark, but I offer that it’s natural to be the dark. As long as we’re afraid to look at the dark, we’ll be creating shadows and stuffing parts of ourselves into them, fear of which we can use to run our lives. And I seem to be here to remind you that you are both light and dark, you are every energy. We need Scorpios and other Plutonian types to remind us to look into the dark, and we need Mercury retrograding in Scorpio to show us the hows and whys of our resistance to the dark.

In short, when Mercury is retro in this sign, everyone gets the chance to see and think like a Scorpio. Mercury’s transits are in general an opportunity to try on other ways of thinking (other than our own natal Mercury placements/configurations), and this time in general can be useful if:

1. you’re willing to look in the dark, or

2. you’re willing to look at why you don’t want to look in the dark.

Either way, you gain something from it. Anyone willing to share what they’ve been seeing about the dark or their limits in willingness to look?

And when Mercury retros into Libra…I’ll be sure to write here about the old-school manners lessons I get from disembodied spirits.

Tom is available for consultations and lessons. See http://tdjacobs.com for more information and to book a consultation.

October 19, 2007 By Tom Jacobs

Mercury Stationing Retrograde in Scorpio

More so than at any other time of the Mercury cycle, there is now a chance that, at the end of an argument with someone on the phone, when you hang up on him or her in disgust and/or utter rage, he or she is doing the same to you, and will call to apologize and not know that you hung up on him or her, relieving you of the idea that perhaps you could apologize for being so fully obnoxious.

May you all experience such Scorpionic bonuses of this station!

Tom is available for consultations and lessons. See http://tdjacobs.com for more information and to book a consultation.

October 11, 2007 By Tom Jacobs

Transit Lab: Everything transiting everything else (or so it seems)

Mercury’s stationing on the cusp of my 2nd…the new Moon tonight is on my 1st house Uranus, squaring my Cancer/10th South Node, opposing Rx Chiron on the DSC…Mars is transiting the 9th opposes my natal Jupiter in 3rd and squares Pluto in 12th…

Which seems to have resulted in me choosing to take a long-distance trip for reasons I would not have possibly guessed I might (the Mars t-square), but choosing my desired method of transport, no matter what anyone says (Uranus in 1st).

Okay, I’ll just tell you: I’m sailing back to the Midwest for a family funeral in my boat made out of drinking straws.

That wasn’t so hard.

For some reason, I’m just very sure I’m not flying for this trip. Also, piloting my straw boat through the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississipi always helps me calm down, stay focused and ground, and that’s needed now.

A couple of days after I received the news, I did an interview with another evolutionary astrologer about a new archetype I’m working with, Arjunsuri (asteroid 20300). She’s producing a podcast regularly, providing a forum for some cool ideas. You can find the podcast here: http://www.denadecastro.com/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html.

I listened to it and was shocked at how clear I am. How together, how with-it. Apparently, I work well under pressure. Can you tell I’d just heard about a death in the family? It never occurred to me to postpone it - how’s that for a good little 10th house South Node?

A woman called me today to wish me well in my work, and to tell me that if I want to, I “can rise above astrology.” She meant the stereotypes and negativity so prevalent in the field. I thanked her and told her I’m doing just that. I guess she found an ad of mine, or my site - I didn’t ask. That’s Mars in Cancer/9th opposing Jupiter in Capricorn/3rd - why, I’m very sure I already do that, thank you was the unconscious impulse.

But isn’t that nice? Someone calling just to wish you well?

When home, I’m going to reconnect with some friends I haven’t kept up with in a long time - oh, I just got that it’s the Mercury Rx - in Scorpio - reconnecting with friends because of a death. And also my sister, who seems to find me inexplicable (though she’s a Pisces/3rd Moon, it’s sextile 1st house Mercury in Capricorn on my North Node - she springs into dedicated action at the drop of a hat, and doesn’t get why I can get in emotional circles sometimes and be, um, somewhat less than productive). And my step-father, who thinks I’m crazy because I choose not to have the kind of job that everyone he ever knew had. And former teachers…and who knows who else who shows up to the memorial service. I think I’m going to tell them I’m an acrobat with the circus, and that I got in with my little belly and not-buff physique because of affirmative action.

When I was a kid, I was asked no fewer than eighteen hundred thousand million times if I was going to grow up to be on the radio, be just like my dad. I had the precociousness, but unfortunately not the prescience or vocabulary, to tell them no (but not that I have retrograde Saturn inconjuncting my 2nd house Sun, and that I probably would not choose to do that).

But, there’s that podcast…that fun podcast…the opportunity-to-get-your-ideas-out podcast…

Given the amount that my mouth moves and emits words and/or ideas in order to alleviate the crowding in my brain, maybe that’s a good way to go? Let me know what you think after you listen to the podcast.

Tom is available for consultations and lessons. See http://tdjacobs.com for more information and to book a consultation.

October 10, 2007 By Tom Jacobs

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.

Tom is available for consultations and lessons. See http://tdjacobs.com for more information and to book a consultation.

September 29, 2007 By Tom Jacobs