Moon in Cancer or Why the Crab is Moody

They’re very ordinary sorrows
That mark my todays and tomorrows
Some pain must befall us all
There’s nothing you or I can do
Short of asking time to stall
I watch the scudding clouds
Sometimes white and sometimes grey
And in my darkest hour
Console myself with the promise that I’ll pray
There are some things no one can fix
Sometimes I wonder
How hope and [...]

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Pisces retreats

Me, I’m going deeper in
Going back to places I’ve been
Me, I’m gonna look at the smoke
And see what images it evokes
Me, I’m gonna do some crying
It’s been no use, all this trying
Me, I’m gonna chant me a Vishnu mantra
Though, I confess, I don’t know any tantra.
Me, I’m gonna find some peace
Give this life a new [...]

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Pisces to Scorpio

I’m going to write you a verse
Don’t frown so, darling,
It could have been much worse.
As you try and take on the universe
Don’t be hasty and don’t go forgetting
That many who know say it’s a multi-verse.

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Fire signs and heartbreak

In losing you, I turned around
And looked for solace
Looked for peace
I looked at sunsets longer
And admired the colors
For about five minutes, then I got bored.
At the beach, I lingered nearer the shore
To feel the ocean spray on my face
And came home with tangled hair, I hated that.
I lit incense sticks
Let the smoke swirl around me
Then [...]

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Venus square Pluto: The Darker Shades of Love

Behold! Here are the darker shades of love
Here there is no harmony
Blanketed by the wings of a dove.
Here there is concentrated hate
Potently, poetically mixed
With this flagrant need to mate.
Here there is the desire to give pain
To hurt, to rent , to tear, to scratch
And then count every wound given a gain.
Here there is a roaring [...]

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Synastry: Mercury connections

I love talking to you
When over one last drink, you tell me,
That love and beauty can’t be dissected
And I tell you thoughts are things.
Over my favorite bowl of soup
While you bemoan your Faustian failures
And I relate my endless despairs
I love talking to you.
I love talking to you
Over the last shared cigarette
Before we go to bed
And [...]

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Uranian heartache

My natal Uranus is sorely afflicted, you see
I understand why you can’t keep loving me
My hair’s messy and my mind’s always humming
So I don’t always hear the notes you’re strumming
I would like to be like you: safe and sound
But I can’t forget about the wonders to be found
At times, I can’t be earth-bound, I look [...]

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Outer Planet Transits

Sometimes Saturn casts
Its coming shadow on me
Prognosticating sorrows I know
Will eventually befall me.
And Uranus doesn’t let up
He rifts and rives my soul
Tears me away from the known
And plunks me on an alien shore
Where I find myself all alone.
Neptune also plays his invidious part
I can no longer tell who lies
Is it me or it is you?
And [...]

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I fell for Pluto, too

I was charmed, my dark lord,
By your armor, by your sword.
Your need to always be armed 
Caught my fancy, had me disarmed.
I was much taken by your unsmiling face:
It had no expression that I could trace.
Swept away by your mystery
Long I wondered about your history.
And was rewarded by the few times you let me peek
Beneath the [...]

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Transit: Pluto conjuncts the Moon

I’m just standing here quietly,
peacefully.
Watching the dust settle down.
If you wanted to know,
this is what I’m doing:
I’m standing quietly
with everything lying shattered around me.
I’m not crying now.
I cried before when I thought
it was going to shatter,
to collapse in a heap.
Now I’m just picking my way
through the rubble.
There, in running colors,
lies my dream.
Here, shattered like terracotta,
lies [...]

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