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When Jupiter Aligns With Mars

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Things are happening here this week in an alarming way. Yesterday the downspout guy came and cleared out the final downspout his brother couldn’t get cleared out last week. Today the flood fixer people are coming to remove the large dehumidifier and two remaining fans in the basement. Tomorrow the roofers arrive to replace the hail damaged shingles from last year.

I am somewhat alarmed by what is happening at the end of our street. Our whole neighborhood is receiving upgraded gas lines, which means large holes in the sidewalks, driveways, and streets as the old lines are removed and new ones are replaced. They are even putting a new gas line in the backyards. The streets on either side of ours are done, and now it looks like it is our turn. I saw the utility construction trucks just a block down from us yesterday.

When the roofers are here we can’t park in the driveway. When the utility people are digging up things in front of our house we can’t park on the street. I do hope they aren’t here at the same time, or things could get difficult.

When have too many things happened at the same time for you? Did you like Hair, either the musical or the movie? Ever been follower of astrology?

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  2. We left Taiwan at the end of July in 2018 and bought a house in Holland, MI within days. In December of that year, we learned that our street was due for a complete infrastructure replacement beginning as soon as things would thaw in the spring. It was chaos from sometime in April until sometime in November as pavement, curbs, sidewalks, water mains, storm drains and sewer pipes were replaced in one massive project. The gas lines had been done 10 years previously, so those were worked around. We lost all the trees on one side of the street for several blocks. But it’s pleasant now, though not at all shady in summer months.

    I saw Hair, on stage, in 1969, in Hollywood. I was 17 and wanted to impress a girl, so I bought tickets, not knowing what we were going to, but knowing that it was popular.

    My beliefs have gone through some wild swings, but astrology has never been among them. Some knowledge of what people are referencing is helpful, but my faith is elsewhere.

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  3. Hair’s film sequence of the troops marching to the transport aircraft and being “devoured” by them, brings out mixed feelings of sadness and powerlessness in me. I’m not sure how or even if that scene is shown on stage.

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    1. I work for the Theatre that did a production of Hair back in the 80s. It was the Theaters first sold out production. It was a really fun show. I ran lights for it, set up on a scaffolding just off the side of the stage, but in full audience view and I had lava lamps on my platform.

      We didn’t do the naked bit. And no, we didn’t have troops marching. I don’t remember anymore if it’s not in the original script or the directors skipped that part.

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  4. Saw live performance of Hair at university of Colorado in Boulder in 1972. All I remember is the naked scene. But I think I liked the music. Had eaten “brownies” before so memory is a bit hazy. Never saw the movie.   Cynthia “Life is a shifting carpet…learn to dance.”

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  7. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    I am having a high self-esteem day. I got the WORDLE puzzle in two guesses today. WooHoo.

    In the late sixties, early 70s there were the rock operas popping up, and Hair was one of them. Also Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar were on the list. However, the nude scene in Hair was the one everyone talked about.

    Too many things happening at once? How about right this minute. When I left town last week Iooked at my neatly weeded garden and sighed with pleasure; then I viewed our cherry tree,with the berries pinking up, thinking “UhOh.” The timing was bad. Not only that but it is a bumper crop. We picked 1.25 gallons of them Saturday, pitted them and got those in the freezer. Yesterday, my son came over a picked the high up ones. Another gallon and there are that many left that I gave my neighbor permission to glean. We leave again tomorrow for Iowa for mom’s Memorial Services. That combined with an active puppy, a garden now sporting big weeds, untended all last week while I was away with mom, and a visit from my son’s niece who is so delightful, makes for busy days. And while picking cherries I got a bee sting, chigger bites, and skeeter stings. So I itch. Then there are business items from mom’s estate and the banker.who.will.not.return.my call despite the fact she initiated it.

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  8. April and May seemed like everything at once – there were a lot of UU events and the Book Sale, but we managed to spread them out over several weeks, at least. Summer is manageable, but it will all start up again in mid-August.

    I could wax eloquent on Hair The Musical for a long while, but I’ll try to summarize – before I saw it, I was pretending to be a hippie for my summer in San Francisco between jr. and sr. year at Iowa State. After seeing it I understood what were the underlying social forces driving the desire for change.

    I don’t completely discount astrology, partly because I’ve seen an awful lot of coincidences involving it with people I know. But I’m not completely convinced either – just one more thing for which I leave the door open for the possibility.

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  10. Right now every thing medical is happening to me still 2 appointments to go with only 3 days in month. Got a sort of report but getting too close to duct and maybe now entwined with
    Pancreas. He did not talk to me
    Yesterday supposed to call this week so I guess that is 3 appointments
    Clyde

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  11. I started a correspondence course in astrology–it was my chosen Druidic study when I was a new member of the Order–but it taught chart-casting by hand rather than getting the chart from a computer program, and I got bogged down so I never finished. Astrology seems to appeal to more mathematical minds than my own. Astrological magic, which features in the Arabic and Renaissance traditions (also South Asian, though Vedic astrology is its own thing), is very interesting but very finicky about timings, and making anything but paper talismans gets expensive. Chris Warnock does that on RenaissanceAstrology.com, and he’s welcome to it!

    The person who wrote that song had no idea what the Age of Aquarius is actually going to entail–universal love and world peace is the guiding delusion of the Piscean Age. Aquarius is eccentric and individualistic, so fragmentation is a lot more likely than any brand of union/universalism. I also find it hilarious that one of the traits of having “the moon in the seventh house” is co-dependency…

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    1. Astrology and ancient faiths are part of a world conquest game I enjoy, Civilization 6. I am currently winning a Religious victory as the Wesleyan faith. No, not Methodist. Just me. My gurus have done very well healing casulties among Warrior Monks, Missionaries and Apostles. Islam, Buddhism, Shinto, and Zoroastrianism have converted to Me. Eastern Orthodox and Catholicism remain. I shall smite ’em!

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  12. Never saw the movie or play, but I loved the album! Almost wore out the needle listening to it over and over. I especially like “Aquarius” because I am one. But I don’t believe in astrology much. Fun to play with, but I’d never take it seriously.

    Writing and publishing are stressful when there’s much to do (as in the past few months publishing the new book totally on my own). But I always remind myself the only deadlines I have are self-imposed, and if I don’t meet them, NO ONE CARES BUT ME. 🙂 **said the author who may never break even selling books in his lifetime**

    Chris in Owatonna

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  13. I saw Hair in Chicago in the fall of 1969, but honestly, I don’t recall that much about it. There was so much going on at the time. We had sort of recovered from the Democratic convention the previous year, but tension was mounting about the war in Vietnam and other social issues. It was time of a lot of inner turmoil for a lot of us. It seems like so long ago.

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  14. There is a lot of road repair going on all at once—so much that it isn’t always certain I can get to where I want to go.

    I’ve never seen Hair, either as a movie or a musical. I’ve never listened to the album. I suppose I heard songs from it on the radio back in the ‘60s.

    My only experience with astrology is noticing the horoscopes in the newspaper but I never really paid them any attention.

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  15. OT – Husband is forever losing his baseball caps, despite, or possibly because, he has several of them. So, with some regularity he goes looking for a new one. Being bald, I guess, he doesn’t want to be caught hat-less.

    He recently found one that he liked the shape – and ever frugal – the price of, so he sent away for it. It arrived yesterday. It’s a nice enough hat without anything emblazoned on it anywhere, BUT it’s MAGA hat red! He took one look at it and decided he didn’t wan’t to risk wearing it.

    He just texted me a message with a photo of a yellow post, somewhere in downtown St. Paul wearing the brand spanking new red baseball cap. Hope it finds a good head to rest on.

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    1. OT – Follow up to the baseball hat story.

      On his way home from downtown this evening, husband walked past the yellow post where he had left his baseball cap. The cap was gone, replaced by one of those old fashioned seed caps vented on the sides by mesh fabric. That cracked me up. Someone saw his chance to upgrade his cap with newer one.

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  16. Mankato down by the river is more than a century hold, especially the sewer and drain lines. So all the streets have to be dug up and rebuilt underneath, a multi year project. I drove down to my bank to sign papers. I Had to do a 12 block detour to go 4 blocks and then learned there is no parking anywhere near my bank right now, don’t know why or for how long. They will mail papers to me and late will be explained. Employees are parked 6 blocks away.
    Clyde

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  18. I’m going to be having one of those days tomorrow. Made the eye exam appointment months ago and now my favorite food truck is going to be at work over lunchtime and then we’re celebrating all the June birthdays at 2:30 and then YA and I have tickets to go see The Little Mermaid at the Lundstrum Performing Arts Center because my little next-door neighbor is in it. I was kind of hoping to make it to the glasses store after the eye appointment as well but I’m not sure I’m going to fit that in.

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  19. I am just at the age where I was still under some parental control when Hair came through St. Louis in the early 70s. I was not allowed to go see it because of the nudity. I was allowed to see Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar when they came through. Not because my parents are particularly religious at all, in fact, my dad was an atheist, but because there was no nudity. Sigh.

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  20. Many people are more acquainted with astrology than they realize. Noteworthy are the Wise Men from Babylonia (The East) who saw Jesus’ “star”. They were astrologers. And as a bubble burster, they first went to Jerusalem and were subsequently led by the “star” to Bethlehem, acting as dupes for the purpose of supplying information to Herod who wanted this King of the Jews dead. That “star” is not as benign as typically portrayed.

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  22. I have had too many things going on at once for a major portion of my life and so my challenge has been to organize it. The Franklin day planner helped me figure out how to separate the important from the urgent from the stuff that you wanna do for fun and that seems to be the key as for hair I loved the musical. I saw the movie and thought it was fine and really enjoyed the play hall three times should I shot? It’s amazing that that was more than 50 years ago. Time does fly when you’re having fun.

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