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Planet Waves Monthly - November 2007

Jealousy Cheats Us All | By Vera Hell
I believe in love, but not its narrow interpretation. Why must a marriage, which is primarily a financial arrangement, involve holding your partner's sexuality and social life hostage? I do not understand this culture's insane compulsion toward monogamy and permission to act on feelings of jealousy. With all of the divorce out there, and families in ruins, I challenge everyone to take a deep breath and consider why couples are cheating each other out of personal freedom and happiness when they accuse each other of cheating.

Our Not So Solitary Sexual Lives | By Eric Francis
You have a solitary sexual life. You may not think of it as such, but there is that partition in your mind where you are the one who knows yourself in a Gemini-like twinship. Perhaps this is a theory of personality; but at the core of ourselves there is that mirrored room.

Goodnight, Mr. Faithful | Norman Mailer's Astrology
All I really knew about Norman Mailer before today is that he told the truth about the death penalty. I think he would agree, two people who are in accord about the value of human life are on the same page and that's most of they need to know about one another.

They Know They're Hot | Writers' Strike Astrology by Eric Francis
You have heard me say a lot of times that TV sucks, and now its writers are on strike. Hearing that, I immediately forgot my silly old grudge and wrote to Jeff Apter, my union president in Paris, and asked him whether I had to walk off the job in support of these talented Hollywood scribes who provide so much of the material that we and our children use to educate ourselves about the wild world. This article looks at the astrology of the Hollywood strike.

Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity | The Onion
WASHINGTON, DC—According to a groundbreaking new study by the Department of Labor, working—the physical act of engaging in a productive job-related activity—may greatly increase the amount of work accomplished during the workday, especially when compared with the more common practices of wasting time and not working.

The Waterboarders | Psychsound by Steve Bergstein
Waterboarding is simulated drowning. The point is that the guy being waterboarded will tell all to avoid drowning. He'll tell us about the next terror attack, or where bin Ladin is hiding. Except that experts tell us that torture does not work. It creates false leads that waste resources as specialists try to confirm the prisoner's confession. It also creates blowback. We torture them, they torture our brothers and sisters in Iraq and elsewhere. Torture may sound good if you're angry about international terrorism. But it probably doesn't work. And anyone familiar with the months prior to 9/11 knows that old-fashioned detective work and administrative competence could have derailed the plot.

Jealousy and the Abyss | By William Pennell Rock
Relationships -- and jealousy in particular -- provide an opportunity to come to a fundamental understanding of the self. Jealousy is the eruption of attachment. It can be transcended only through awareness. As we move with awareness into the core of this phenomenon, we pass through ungrounded expectations and beliefs, projections and delusions, envy, guilt, the loss of self-esteem, and the threat to security. The core is an existential problem; it has to do with illusion and the essentially fearful nature of the ego. In possessiveness, ego defends itself against nothingness. When we come to know and accept the nothingness at the core, jealousy and the pain of obsessive attachment cease.

Planet Waves Astrology News | By Eric Francis
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The Spiral Door from Planet Waves | Now Free for All Readers!
In anticipation of the 2008 annual horoscope edition called Small World Stories, the 2007 edition is
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Astrology as the Art of Bullshit | The First Planet Waves, by Eric Francis
Astrology is based on the idea that there is some relationship between human existence and the model of the solar system. For some people, this is a stretch longer than fitting nylon pantyhose on an elephant. For others, it's obvious that we live in one reality and that the whole show is not just connected by some ideas and theories, but that in actual fact, life is one holistic experience of planets, bugs, people, trees, computers, rocks, thought, and everything else with which we share existence.