When I was young, 23, I went to a famous Writers’ Workshop in the Mid-West. I was a poet. My undergrad teachers went there (or taught there), including Donald Justice, who took me under his wing. I was in awe of him.
After graduate school, nothing much happened. I published a little in literary journals, but couldn’t get The Book published. Papered my walls with rejection slips. For years, I saved handwritten rejections from The New Yorker. Editors seemed to like to discuss my poems more than publish them. I once got a note from The Yale Review detailing the arguments one particular poem had caused!
Some years later (after I was derailed by my mother’s death and my escape into Orthodoxy), I tried again to get The Book published. Didn’t happen. And then I started writing plays which I may or may not continue doing. I never stopped writing.
So here’s my question for you: what is that ONE THING that you never stopped doing, no matter what? No matter how it, or you, changed. Something that made you YOU maybe more than anything else. Maybe it’s partnering. Or travelling. Or dancing. Or… hell, I don’t know, but I’m curious how it is for others. Maybe some other lifelong writers out there.
What am I talking about here? Obsession. Devotion. Pluto.
Where’s YOUR Pluto? How is it aspected? Does it aspect that ONE THING you have to do in this life?
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21 thoughts on “What Is That One Thing You Can’t Not Do?”
I also can’t spell…”niche”
Hey, anyway you want to spell niche is fine with me 🙂
Yes, sort of a career gal….without a paying or acknowledged position 🙂
Looking for my “nich” amidst trying to advocate for “family” and healing/finding individuals’ joys. I don’t seem to fit in anywhere.
Hmm perhaps something remains unfulfilled. I have to ask: where’s your NN? I don’t remember (if you told me before)
Got busy and couldn’t get back to this. We finally have blue skies and I need to get my three weeks of sun, before the grey rainy days begin again. 🙂
Yes, I am keenly unfulfilled and have wasted opportunities being caught in responsibilities of my own making. My NN is Libra, 11th house, conjunct Jupiter. I’ve always had social phobia and it interferes with my career aspirations, along with my other health issues (which I’m currently addressing, gotta appreciate transit Jupiter in 6th). Thanks, MoonPluto, I’ll pay attention to NN area again…
anita, I’m sorry you feel unfulfilled. Thinking though with NN in Libra, other people’s business is indeed your business… Perhaps it’s been in your choice of partners/partnerships. 11th House is a collective house…. away from you and about… the bigger picture, groups… I hear you about the social phobia, too. I’ve always had very extreme shyness and then moods where I burst out of my shell and people say “Oh you’re not shy!”
I think the nodal axis is key… I guess every astrologer has their thing that they always talk about, and that’s one of mine 🙂
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I have always tried to find the root of why I am who I am. What makes me react the way I do. Why other people are who they are.
This led to a lifelong study of astrology and genealogy. Tried to root out why my family communicated (er, did NOT communicate) as they did. Or was it all my own dysfunction?
History leads us to the present.
Hmmm. My Pluto is in the 9th at 0 degree Virgo. A wide orb conjunct with Midheaven…some astrologer’s considered it conjunct, but it seems like an awful wide orb…11 degrees. And it’s got an out-of-sign trine to my Moon, 3 degrees orb. I think that explains my early interest in family disturbances and trying to regenerate healing through the generations.
are you a career gal, Anita? I’d look to the manifestation in your life, but I’d prob give that the conjunction too. Just a gut reaction.
My Pluto is in Virgo in the 2H inconjunct my 7H Pisces Moon. I come from very humble beginnings and have always fantasied that I would one day be a person of means. No matter what career or new money making scheme I have been involved in, I have always thought it would bring lots of money. What I failed to realize until more recently in my life, is not the value of the dollar bill but the value of my thoughts and ideas. The value of ME!
The New Moon in Leo, which will occur in my 12h house is opening my subconscious and granting access to that which has been hidden. A gateway has been opened and I am discovering a new found freedom and a new perspective about value(s).
My dream of means is secondary to my dream of making a difference in people’s lives. While money is important in the paradigm in which we live, I now understand that for me and my astrology, I have been putting the horse before the cart. Championing my thoughts and ideas, rather that slaving away to make money via “hardwork” usually at something that I am good at but have co compassion for is not the ticket.
While I hope financial success is a part of my future, I won’t be mad if it ain’t. My joy depends more and more on my personal interactions which are limited because I never give myself, thought or ideas credit enough to express. The real ME is now standing up and getting engaged.
Thank you for your thought provoking post which literally created an “ahhh haaa” moment for me. I enjoy your blog.
Hi Adiaha! Thanks for reading 🙂 That inconjunct is a toughie for sure 🙁 Any good aspects to that Pluto? I hope financial success IS part of your future. And mine too!
Pluto is in my 7th House Leo. Squares my Sun-Scorp and Merc and Chiron in the 10th. Trines Uranus in the 6th I keep writing about the dramatic ways of crash and burn as a way to heal in unexplanable ways. No choice, just transmit, transmit, transmit.
:::waving::: to mokihana. Sounds fascinating.
wait are you talking about Iowa?
Hi hrae! Nice to see you. Yes.
amazing!
Eh. The experience was amazing. But it didn’t get me where I wanted to go.
I can’t stop riding a bicycle!! Mars sextile chart ruler Jupiter.
Ooooh nice! I have those in square.
My Pluto? Well, I’m very okay with it. I have Pluto in the 1st house, like yourself. 😉 I know I’ve always known that renewal is what i want — top to bottom. I think i my use my career as a tool in that…
My Pluto squares my Sun, North Node, & MC (i think)
It sextiles Venus, Neptune, & Saturn.
…Conjuncts my (Scorpio) Ascendent. Trines my (8th house) Chiron.
OHH WOW, I did not realize it was that much Pluto until I typed it out. Lord, lol. But I’m going through it right now so I should probably get more friendly with Pluto right now.
Yay Pluto in the 1st House 🙂 Renewal. Love that word.
Oh and that’s good too “getting friendly with Pluto” –