*+-Two years. It took me two years to write a book, a novel. I didn’t realize it was a novel at the time. And I finished it the summer of 2022 and then queried agent after agent, jumping through the necessary literary agent hoops and probably queried nearly a hundred agents […]
Aliza
570 posts
*+-Every day another update. My usual refrain: the world has changed. No, I don’t want to install the latest version of blah blah blah. I want to think about the sky. Commercial break! Subscribe to my Substack where I also write about astrology, tarot, magic, and psychoanalysis. I stopped blogging […]
*+-I want to talk about a few things. I’ll make it quick. About how my analyst wants to know more about my daily life and about my feelings about this. About the new book I started writing and am working on it again today. About how I’m wondering if it […]
*+-I’m on the verge. And then there are the feelings. But I’m on the verge. My chart: Sun Mercury Mars in Cancer with a Moon Pluto conjunction in my First House. Once upon a time, when I was studying astrology (when I was in my 30s), but not reading charts […]
*+-I’m feeling awfully angsty. I’m on a search for authenticity: my own! But it’s a quiet angst. I had a good walk today. Got some energy out. Had a lovely time this morning with a fire sign friend who was on a mission, a caper, and I got to be […]
*+-The heat. It’s getting to me. And I’m writing to you from inside. In the a/c. And I was supposed to get out tonight but I might not so here I am thinking about the VERY HOT North Node in Aries. Commercial break: Find me on Substack! Paid-Subs get ALL […]
*+-I’m a writer but maybe I was a helper before I was a writer — able to contain the pain of others. A job given to me but also my nature. Yesterday with my cousin, her pulse speeding away, I felt in my element, completely calm, soothing, even distracting her […]
*+-I was washing the dishes just now wondering if there was an anniversary that I was forgetting. My Kitty died in the late fall/early winter season, as did Cleo. Neither my father’s (nor mother’s) birth or death dates were summer dates. And then I remembered: Goldy. And I dug around […]
*+-I have to spend some time every day in another world. I have to. For sanity. Meditation, trance state, dream state, creative state. Call it flow. Call it gone. Call it away. Call it far far away. Travel. Journeying. Hyperfocus? Dissociation? Creativity? Imagination. I create therefore I am. And I’m […]
*+-Life update: I’m blogging a lot these days, here and on Substack. You can subscribe to my Substack – for free — but also as a paid-subscriber. Paid subs get MORE posts (i.e. all the posts) including the WRITING PROMPTS. New one coming up this weekend. I have it scheduled […]
*+-I’ll try to break it down for you, make it so you don’t need to know any astrology to know what’s going on in the sky (and thus with you). (Plus a reminder that I’m blogging here and on Substack because sometimes I write so much that I got to […]
*+-I’m blogging too much to put it all on Substack. When I do too much over there, people Unsubscribe so… maybe I’ll split my time. Put the overflow over here. Here is the Substack link though… where I mostly am, writing about astrology, tarot, magic, and my psychoanalysis life. It […]
*+-Find me on Substack for more astrology, tarot, magic, psychoanalysis, daily life in the big city. To book a reading, email me: moonpluto@gmail.com or look here. xo
*+-60 minutes (if we are in a good groove, then we can extend the hour 15 min extra) $326 is the investment Phone OR typing back and forth/text/DM. No Zoom. I don’t record readings but don’t mind if you do. Booking/scheduling these for July or August. In September they go […]
*+-Blogging more over here on Substack but hmm maybe I’ll write some here and some there? Not sure yet. Just wanted to make sure I put the link here. Still writing about astrology, tarot, and magic but also my adventures in psychoanalysis. On Substack, there are paid-sub only posts and lots […]
*+-As always you can book a Reading. LOOK HERE: It’s gonna take some time to get used to the Substack but here’s the link. I think this is the link? Haha. You can support my work/my writing by Subscribing there and/or you can always make a PayPal recurring payment without […]
*+-Grief is so hard because people don’t wanna hear about it, mental health “professionals” included. They will try to talk you out of it, out of your feelings, offer platitudes, stupidities. Well-meaning friends will assume you haven’t found God or your potential. There are all kinds of ways to invalidate […]
*+-It’s been such an honor to do this work. It’s always been more than “chart reading.” I don’t even like doing natal chart readings. What I like and what I do… it’s always been deeper. There are some clients I’ve been working with since… 2011/2012. I’m so much older than […]
*+-I need to write another book. There are a few things I need. I’m not sure a Substack is one of them, but a German shepherd might be. I actually started a new book but before I even started it (slowly writing the introduction to it, for a book proposal) […]
*+-It’s shocking to me to look in the mirror and see my maternal grandmother’s face staring back at me. I think this is her nose. Is this her nose? Please, Bubby, come take it back, retrieve it. It doesn’t quite fit my face. Thus goes my morning panic which has […]
*+-This morning I realized I was doing it all wrong, that I had put all my eggs in one basket or the wrong basket and I realized I was doing it all wrong. Doing my life wrong. Can you relate? This figure of speech, this eggs idiom is probably familiar […]
*+-I’ve got all these decisions to make. Or maybe it’s just one decision, and I’m more open on my Patreon than I used to be. My boundaries are less rigid. Used to be a time I wouldn’t accept a gift from a client. For most of my career I was […]
*+-Crossroads can be frightening. Something about the summer, its slowness. And it’s not even summer yet. We’re in Gemini Season. We had our eclipses. We’ll have more in the fall. Now it’s the in-between time. Today’s Sun Saturn square feels like a shadow. Don’t blame yourself if you can’t get […]
*+-I’ve been blogging for over a decade (wow) although I deleted years of blog posts a few months ago. And I just heard the news that the legendary Tina Turner (a Sagittarius) has died and I’m looking at the class options for fall 2023 as I continue my psychoanalytic training […]