Sunday night note…I plan to have the Monday edition (astrology ahead for the week as we sail into the Capricorn Full Moon) posted by noon Eastern. It may be earlier, but not later. Meanwhile, here is a Comedy Central video that I’ve had to watch about four times: Make Your Own Daily Show.
Catch you a bit later (closer to 10 am, actually). — efc
PS, anybody not a Deadhead out there? Here is a fun one from a kind of “unplugged” series of concerts in New York and California circa 1980 (not sure where this one was, but the NY shows were at Radio City Music Hall). These were the shows that were made into the indispensable CD “For the Faithful,” alternately called “Recknoing.” Let it be known there is a fountain / that was not built by the hands of men.
PPS, I’ve received about a dozen responses to our article on Bucky over the weekend, giving me a big clue about the Planet Waves audience. Here is a fun one.
Dear Eric,
Thought this might be of interest to you: years ago I had the chance to cross with Bucky Fuller an a couple occasions. On one of those occasions, I asked him what his birth time was. His answer was interesting: “You know, I always regretted not asking my mother that…”
Ray Grasse
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Editor’s Note: Saturday was the birthday of Buckminster Fuller. Friday’s Planet Waves Astrology News was devoted to him, his work and his chart. We received many reader comments, though this one, I think, needs to be broadcast. In honor of Bucky, if you’re not a subscriber and would like to see the full edition, please write to me today at dreams – at – planetwaves.net with the subject header Bucky and I’ll send you the whole edition. –efc
Eric (& Chelsea, and anyone else at PW who might find this interesting :^),
One of my favorite, most inspiring stories about ol’ Bucky isn’t about any of his ideas or inventions; it’s about a Defining Moment of Truth that set a completely new course in his life, one which led him to start creating all those amazing, ahead-of-their-time ideas and inventions of his and offer them to the world in the first place:
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In the winter of 1927, a 32-year old Bucky Fuller stood at the railing of a bridge downtown, preparing to jump into the frigid Chicago River below. He was bankrupt and unemployed, living in a squalid cold-water tenement with his wife and newborn child, and they had just lost another daughter to polio and spinal meningitis. Distraught and driven to drinking, feeling absolutely helpless and hopeless, he found himself on that bridge, preparing to end his life.
At that moment, it occurred to him that since he was about to throw the rest of his life away anyway, rather than just let all that remaining time and potential to go waste, he really had nothing to lose by instead doing something quite daring with the rest of his time on Earth. Right then and there, he decided to treat the rest of his life as an experiment, to discover “what the little, penniless, unknown individual with a wife and family to support might be able to accomplish in changing the world for the betterment of humanity.”
Inspired by his example, and having endured my own, destitute and jobless Dark Night of the Soul during my early 30s, my life objective now is to be able to look back on my life as an old granddad with confidence in the knowledge that I had contributed my own, unique combination of talents and skills towards the benefit of humanity — even if I never get any fame, fortune nor even credit for what I had contributed (though those would be nice as fringe benefits anyway :^) — just so long as I’m satisfied with myself for having contributed something to make a positive difference. Also in his honor and as a reminder of my own newfound mission in life, I wear a lapel button my friend Crystal found and gave to me that says, “Better living through reckless experimentation”. :^D
Thanks, Eric, for making your own contributions towards the betterment of humanity. Now that I’m finally in a job that lets me do what I’m really good at, better yet by helping other people make their living doing what they’re good at (http://www.e-junkie.com/ if you’re curious), and which also pays my bills with ease and even leaves me money to spare, I’ll finally be ponying up for a real subscription. Thanks for the long-standing Comp and for sticking with me all these years.
Warmest Regards,
Tyson F. Nuss
Saturday 12 July 2008
Sun (20+ Cancer) quincunx Chiron (20+ Aquarius Rx)
Venus (29+ Cancer) sesquiquadrate Great Attractor (14+ Sagittarius)
Eros (27+ Cancer) sesquiquadrate Ixion (12+ Sagittarius Rx)
Venus (29+ Cancer) quincunx Pluto (29+ Sagittarius Rx)
Apollo (19+ Leo) septile Hades (27+ Gemini)
Mercury (2+ Cancer) quincunx Hylonome (2+ Sagittarius Rx)
Pallas (21+ Taurus) conjunct Sedna (21+ Taurus)
Sun (20+ Cancer) semisquare Saturn (5+ Virgo)
Apollo (19+ Leo) semisquare Kronos (4+ Cancer)
Mars (6+ Virgo) square Pholus (6+ Sagittarius Rx)
Eros (28+ Cancer) septile Logos (19+ Virgo)
Venus enters Leo (direct)
Venus (0 Leo) trine Aries Point (0 Aries)
Eros (28+ Cancer) sextile Amor (28+ Taurus)
Ceres (13+ Cancer) quincunx Nessus (13+ Aquarius Rx)
Vesta (4+ Taurus) sextile Kronos (4+ Cancer)
Apollo (19+ Leo) septile Sisyphus (10+ Libra)
One of the first books I read by Buckminster Fuller many years ago contained this story, which remains a favorite (wording of not exact quote):
Two men talking on the elevator on Monday morning.
#1: “How was your weekend?”
#2: “We’ve been on vacation. Went to the Cayman Islands. Second gentleman then describes the vacation.”
#1: “Sounds like a lovely place. Where are the Islands located?”
#2: “I don’t know. We went by plane.”