Monday, December 24, 2007

Dharmaruci's Christmas Posting

I’d never heard of charity gifts as Christmas presents, but apparently there are such things. You give something to someone in Africa, and your present to Aunt Agnes is a card telling her that this is what you have done on her behalf. Presumably you have to find an original cause to give to, rather than something old hat like starving children, to make the present interesting. Actually I’m not that cynical about it.

The hypothetical example that the BBC website used was giving a goat to a tribesman in the Sudan. This was perfect for Jupiter’s (generosity) recent entry into Capricorn (goats).

Actually the main point they were making was about how to be polite when you open a present you don’t want, and that however hard you try, your first response will give you away.

Speaking of goats, they are a symbol for the devil. With Pluto entering Capricorn, maybe we will see a resurgence of Satanism. Maybe, at last, the anti-Christ will come.


The other day I went into an Ann Summers shop – this is a chain of sex shops that you find in the UK. I hadn’t been in one before, and I wanted to see what they had at the back, beyond all the lacy lingerie. Sure enough, it was full of vibrators, handcuffs, whips etc, which still slightly surprised me, as it was a high street chain store. What interested me, apart from all the paraphernalia, was that it was full of people, and none of them looked furtive – unlike if you’re looking at the porn mags on the top shelf at the newsagents, where no-one wants to be seen. They were acting like they were in any other shop. One middle-aged woman pulled down a large, dead-flesh coloured vibrator and showed it to her daughter, who must have been in her early twenties. “This one’s good,” she said knowledgeably. There was no exhibitionism or coyness around it, it was like she was showing her a can of baked beans, and no-one else took any notice. This was in Taunton, the heart of yokel country.

So it seems that sex and its taboo side (Pluto) is now normal (Capricorn).


Happy Christmas everyone!

15 comments:

elsa said...

When I was 22 I used an actual man. Things have changed, I'd say. Merry Christmas, DR. :-)

ASTROTABLETALK said...

Beats using a goat, I'd say.

Anonymous said...

Merry Christmas to you and a very happy New Year.

Sincerely, Pepper

elsa said...

DR - me and you, we're incorrigible!

Kenna J said...

The image of Santa on the cross is marvelous! I think it is the perfect visual expression of Pluto in Capricorn.

Surely loving all the pictures you put in your blogs these days.

Annabel said...

Hey Elsa! I was using a man until even the viagra stopped working. Ann Summers has some nice pink ones that are OK!!
Merry Xmas everybody!
Annabel

ASTROTABLETALK said...

Annabel, just you leave those goats alone!

Annabel said...

LOL, DR, LOL!!!!

Anonymous said...

I must go and put a goat on (possibly misheard!)

ASTROTABLETALK said...

Now you're getting (Capri)corny.

Anonymous said...

Baaaaaaaa Humbug!!!

solquartocrescente said...

I read with much interest one of your previous posts on the 2008-15 transits.
Could you provide the data for the natal chart of Portugal, uou used, if you have available?

I have done these studies as well, and it all seems to make sense, lets see what will happen.

http://astrotabletalk.blogspot.com/2006/12/astrology-of-2008-2015.html

Kenna J said...

Have you all considered that maybe the women were buying the dildos to put INTO their men?

ASTROTABLETALK said...

Hi Solquartocrescente, the data I use for Portugal are from Nicholas Campion's Book of World Horoscopes. You can either use 4 Oct 1910, 11am, Lisbon (start of the insurrection against the king) or 25 April 1974, 5.15pm Lisbon for the military coup. In both cases, however, there was a series of events, each with a different significance, so it is hard to say that there is just one horoscope.

solquartocrescente said...

I see. Thank you much foryour reply.
Anyway, as a portuguese and aware of the nation's history, I prefer to consider the date refering to the birth of the country, dating back to March 1143 which gaves a pisces sun and cancer rising, which for many represents well the nature of the common portuguese people. It also shows good correlation with the national events.

I use the chart of 1974 or 1910 to see more recent trends and energies refering to the current political and social structure, but not much for showing the nation essense and most important events.

Maybe this is of also critical consideration for other nations, wouldnt you think so?

Thanks anyway, and curious to see whay the years ahead may bring.