House: Elevators keep crashing. Is Mercury in retrograde? Mercury in my chart is retrograde natally, and being in Pisces (the sign of its detriment and fall) and in the 12th house, is about as undignified as it is possible for…
Monthly Archives: August 2009
When Near Enough is Not Good Enough
by Jo Tracey • • 4 Comments
Virgo gets a bad rap. The perfectionist, the clean freak, the nag, the nit- picker, the martyr, the critic. With this post, however, I really was trying to avoid the clichés. Virgo deserves better than that, and my Virgo friends…
Saturn and I- Irreconcilable Differences?
by Jo Tracey • • 11 Comments
Last month on Facebook, I changed my relationship status with Saturn to “deregistered”. Astro pals, Facebook friends, and Twitter followers would know that this separation has been a long time in the works. If asked, I would cite irreconcilable differences.…
How to Speak Scorpio
by Jo Tracey • • 4 Comments
Welcome to Planet Scorpio Scene 1 Date Night. Four Foot Nothing (FFN) has been deposited at Camp Grandma and Scorpio Hubby (SH) and I are walking up and down the line of restaurants trying to come to an agreement on…
The Emotional Overdraft
by Jo Tracey • • 10 Comments
The alarm goes off way too early, but I have high and healthy hopes for the day. The diary is organised, and emails taken care of by 9am. I have high hopes of a walk in the sun at lunchtime…
Blame it on the Moon- Pisces
by Jo Tracey • • 10 Comments
(part of an occasional series on Moon signs) I don’t know whether it was the red wine (I had a few), the vodka/tonic (just one), the altitude (I was in a Boeing 777 at a few thousand metres) or the…
Does My Bum Look Fat in These Jeans?
by Jo Tracey • • 2 Comments
Mercury in Virgo August 3- 25 I have the absolute worst possible Mercury in history. And, given that Mercury is about how you communicate, the way in which you process information, and how you think, it is actually a miracle…
So Does This Mean We Are Getting Married?
by Jo Tracey • • 4 Comments
Venus in Cancer 2-26 August There’s this little piece of astro humour (see Sex, Lies and Bodypaint on my Fun Stuff page) about the one line which each of the signs might say after a one night stand. For Cancer…