Dear Planet Waves Reader:
Today’s podcast is done. Note, I’ve redone the audio, archiving the previous one — when you click it will go directly to the new version.
In this edition, I look at the Aries Full Moon, part two — there was one a month ago. I also describe Mars square Chiron and Neptune, which is a complex aspect in full force right now. Mars square Chiron is a kind of opposite energy of Mars square Neptune. One gets stuck in its boundaries, and the other struggles to keep them. So it’s an interesting mix of energies.
Most of what I cover in this podcast is the Venus-Vesta conjunction on Saturday, which takes place in Scorpio. I describe the goddess of fire and her servants, the Vestal Virgins, and how this translates to our experience now. I describe the themes of fire worship and how the Vestals were honored in ancient Rome, and how this imagery represents honoring the inner creative and sexual flame that is the organizing principle in a person who is actually alive. This fire needs to be tended continuously, with love and devotion.
Venus conjunct Vesta is also about older women reconnecting with the passion and energy of younger women, leaving their envy and resentment in the fire pit where it can be safely burned off. The conjunction is Saturday, the night after the Full Moon, and I am planning to cover the topic more thoroughly in Friday’s subscriber edition of Planet Waves.
Nice comment, awordedgewise!
Who among us can say what kinds of resentments we are carrying around? We may recognize a negative response but might not correctly identify where it is coming from.
I wanted to comment in the first place on two scores: one is that I notice I’m getting LESS narcisstic as I get older, not more (which is great, and a relief since I spent much of my earlier life worrying about how I looked), and
two, I’ve been nicely surprised to discover that being 50-ish, and having friends in the same age group, is really brilliant!
I am much smarter than I was even 5 years ago in terms of how to handle tricky emotional or ego-driven situations. And my peers are also quite savvy on this score.
Plus, they — and I — have learned that it’s okay to make mistakes, in fact mistakes are the preliminary steps to getting what you want (or think you want) and, if you pause before you open your mouth and consider your options, you can turn your whole life around.
Ha. Well maybe I exaggerate a bit, but suffice to say there are big rewards to getting older.
Like you, wordedgewise, I’m in better physical shape than most in my age group and this makes a big difference. I notice that among the older set, those who enjoy and accomplish and make personal progress are usually those who actively manage their own health.
So keep up the good work and the good word xo GG
GG and Eric,
Personally, I seen more envy and resentment between young-er or young minded women than in matured individuals any day. This is no different from what I have life-long observed at my every age.
But I got the drift from each of you. And I know that I am fairly unique in my outlook and approach to life. And yes, I am generally mistaken to be younger than my years, until I open my mouth anyway.
I must add to you GG — nearing middle life, I am not so different than when I was younger (aside from being waaaaaay smarter:) — only now the people “my age” around me are overweight, gray and unhappy. That statement can include those slightly younger and with makebelieve “young” lifestyles. Lots of emotional cosmetic surgery going around.
I find it most difficult to find companionship – on any level – with like-minded adults, who are not resentful of life, than anything else. It’s fun to have fun with many kinds and ages, but at the end of the day – finding comfort with even one who is not bogged down in status quo and resentment is not an easy find.
But then, maybe that’s what makes all those ‘mature’ traits so valuable.
xo
ok, I can see where you’re coming from.
But as you sort of suggest, shyness at being photographed can, but doesn’t necessarily connect to being jealous of the young.
I personally am really grooving on being middle-aged and I know other middle-aged folks who feel the same. I’m so much smarter and more in control of things now than when I was younger, that I’m having a lot more fun.
I don’t dwell much on my looks. I’m aware that younger women can do things on the dance floor that I can’t do so well — dance is my hobby, and I am certainly jealous of them being able to jump higher and move faster than I can now.
But it’s okay. I think I’m less narcissitic than they are, which is my compensation. That means I’m wiser than them. Not their fault, just a fact of life.
It’s a relief not having to be obsessed with the length of my eyelashes or the silkiness of my hair. 😉
Of course it helps that I’m basically in good health, and as I continue to age, I’m sure my body will begin to fall apart no matter what I do. And that will be tougher to cope with.
It may vary from place to place, GG, and obviously from person to person. Nothing happens everywhere except maybe some depth of breathing, among the living. I was just stating something that I’ve noticed occasionally enough to mention; though I will look for my bias. Mainly I’ve seen it in conversations with older women about being photographed, when they assume it’s all about glamor and beauty, when in fact it’s not. There is a quality of having counted themselves out. Some of the resentment I see in the wider culture is that so much attention goes to the young.
I enjoy your work, Eric; I subscribe and often buy products.
But I think your introductory comments were a bit wide of the mark.
I don’t think older women feel envy and resentment toward younger women, as a general rule. I”m 53, and I don’t find that’s a common thread among women friends who are in my age group.
I think what tends to happen for women as they get older is that sex and romance move away from center stage. Those things are still important, but they can take a backseat to the stuff that many women only get to do when they’re older, and freed of parental duties, and have a lot of work experience under that belts.
It’s an age where many women get to explore leadership and creativity for the first time, or for the first time in a long time.
We’re less focused than you think on how pretty or sexy we are, or on how we stack up in those departments versus younger women.
I do think that younger women tend to compete with one another in the categories of looks and sex appeal, and the competition can lead to envy and resentment.
But it’s not much of a feature in the older women / younger women zeitgeist.
cheers, GG
Kelly:
Zumba is a blast. I know. I started with three classes a week, now I’m up to five.
My mum, 64, a Virgo, suddenly has joined a gym and is doing zumba! We haven’t seen this zesty side to her personality for well over a decade.
I’ve just listened and it’s a juicy podcast ‘fer sure!
I think Vesta has been making her presence in my home this week, because I decided to start lighting a candle each morning, to give my mediation some warmth and light, and if it hasn’t gone and unleashed some pent up horniness, oh me oh my……heh heh!
Oooo, it time to get some hot, sexy Jim into the mix!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_yWyBjDEaU
Fan fan.
😉
damn, fe! sounds like you’re channeling some serious mojo!
anyone else listen to this podcast, yet? i haven’t had a chance today. maybe i’ll make it my bedtime story. or is it too stimulating???
🙂
e.:
I really looked forward to your podcast this morning. Even bought myself a new speaker for my computer to amplify it and true up the sound.
All this female energy in Scorpio makes me bubble inside with an odd joy. I feel a strange mix of optimism and mystery, a little surge of poderosa (power), and my clairaudience is up.
I am also finding the modality of my voice has an effect, which has been getting stronger by the day. I feel as though I don’t need to shout.
I guess this all may have something to do with my Pisces Ascendant, Jupiter-Uranus in Cancer and Scorpio Juno. The water is FINE!!