Astro-Gaga; Which Sign Is Running This Book Group?
It’s probably just me & my South Node in the 11th House but i have always found book groups to be cesspits of cattiness, oneupmanship & petty merde. Okay, I went to only one. Once. Still I love this pic as it made me think of a really whacko book club run by an over-caffeinated, control-freaky Virgo who would have been hoovering up the Times Literary Supplement, stalking authors and rehearsing her pithy little bon mots re the latest novel in the bathroom mirror.
And the scene above occurred because she was outdone by a cheekboned Capricorn academic who’d just returned from a writers retreat with authors she’d “really rather not name” due to their superstar status in the lit world and who said that she honestly could only bear to read Goethe in the original German.
This would of course also be an ideal opportunity for the lower Gemini Delia Antwerp Aaars to wear her designer hair skirt and attempt to start her own splinter group. There’s a booky Piscean in the room but she’s just been skulking up the back sipping gin and reading Georgette Heyer.
i’d love to know which sign’s running this book group!
but don’t give it away
as you can see, i mainly meet myself here
gees, that pic looks a bit like my house at the mo.
*LOL* That all rins so very true! You crack me up Mystic – just what I needed this afternoon.
Okay, maybe that’s a piquing Virgo, but she has Scorp rising and Scorp moon and the horizontal readers are Scorp Taureans checking out Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’.
They want the next book to be Nick Cave’s new novel as they’ve just gotten through ‘And The Ass Saw The Angel’, but Delia’s thrown a spanner in the works. She’s shown up in her hair skirt, disappointed she won’t be able to pick up because there are no male book groupees. HER suggestion for the next book is L Ron Hubbard’s ‘Battlefield Earth’ because she liked the film. She’s also brought CHABLIS.
Understandably, the convenor is throwing a hissy.
The fracas doesn’t seem to bothering Niccers, demurely reading The Year My Voice Broke.
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look, it’s a growth curve. gomen, ne? thank g*d for those who wish their oppon*nts love & light!! i experienced so much love & light lately man, lucky for my highly evolved oppon*nts!! blees$ bless$ bless$!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06mbBCdmFCg
there are a few genei around here
em, haven’t heard someone say ‘gomen, ne?’ for ages… bless you, kawai thing you !
It looks like a book club Bernard Black might convene . I wouldn’t be surprised if Bernard was a Capricorn–a very frustrated Capricorn.
It’s me. I was extremely excited about my book club phase and the thing became so small minded and bitchy. I said to one woman (aquarius) that i didn’t like white teeth after the first chapter and she said “you can’t say that.” They are so stupid. the whole pleasure with books is reading them when one actually has time, not discussing them.
Hilarious, MM. There would have to be a debate in there about reading anything other than Virginia Woolf as being a ‘hate crime’ too, I feel. Dunno why. Oh – and thingy’s hair skirt would have merlot spilt on it, giving rise to WW3.
Ha! I was going to write that it was definitely a Leo having a tanty, because of a diff in opinion, but the Leo Socialite beat me to it! My Leo moon has known to be very argumentative and “right” about things, including books. Have never done a book club though. Also, I couldn’t imagine a virgo making a mess like that. Actually, on second look, the girl in the pic having the tanty, looks awfully like my Leo housemate.. thin with lots of hair.
think that would have to be a Virgo with a Leo Moon…
I second that.
Never been in a book club. But as a Virgo with Leo Moon I can identify with the image very much. dramatic pose, perfected by throwing the subject of discussion/hysteria. Life is a stage…
She probably has Aries Rising with a Scorpio or Leo Mars.
Not sure but it could be the northern NSW writers group that i joined. Twenty women and me ! it was a total disaster. After i read them the story of my first sexual encounter at 6 in the classroom (the sweet girl next to me who delved into my pants) they all looked at each other like ‘as if’ and you could hear a pin drop..D’oh
writers groups of course are even more weird than book clubs..shudder..
Thank you for such a good belly laugh, just the thought of the looks on their faces, lol. Brilliant.
at least you were in there to shake them up…jeez and writers are mean to be so open minded! lol.
agh not mean…meant!
Have just come home from an impromptu beer with Cancerian friend and her Virgo spouse…and there has been mad happenings at the bookgroup the Cancerian friend has gone to for years. This all happened a few months back. Cancerian friend introduced Taurean friend to the bookgroup. In the first week the cat landed squarely in amongst the pigeons with her choice of book, explanation of why she loved it and much profanity regarding other people’s choices and or opinions. After a few months she attempted a Coup d’état to give everyone a right sort out. As that didn’t take, she then was going to set up another book group in the local irish bar…this didn’t happen and now she still goes to the old established ‘boring’ one and everyone is looking at my Cancerian friend sideways for her part in introducing her to the group.
lol ‘who brung you?” my mum would say
ahem.
Never been to one however the one above does look interesting! lol
Haha! I have Virgo Sun, Scorpio rising, Scorpio Mars and Leo Moon and that is me, and my house alright!!
i’m just wondering why a capricorn “would really rather not name”? i thought caps = unashamed name droppers.
Oh my goodness, I swear I have been to the same bookgroup, Mystic. I only went the once, but the clearly-a-virgo convener was driven bats by my leonine need to be the centre of attention and hog all the best comments. She was particularly infuriated because I hadn’t finished reading the set book of the month. I mean really, who’s got the time.
o.m.g. thank you – i just got it. A Virgo is wigging as one of the mutables has just airily confessed to not having read the book, despite having just spent the last half an hour crapping on about it.
Lib-Rising Ramzilla, Capricorn saying the people are just too unbearably THING to name is just the foreplay.
It could also be because someone (maybe a Gemini) has just pretended they had read the book when clearly they’ve been rehashing the dvd version…that would send a Virgo into full wig mode.
Leonine I have to agree, that would be a lower Gem move too lol… specially the airily wafting in dropping knowing innuendos as if they have an IN on the story line/writing of the book, and see, you can get it downloaded on the new thingamafaddy app on their latest 3G Iphone… whilst the Virgo is seriously feeling as if they are being skinned alive by the sheer presumptuousness!
thanks mystic. zee foreplay, je comprends! plus, oh shit, that mutable crapping on is me (i’m not that mutable tho – only jup in gem) but crapping on w. authority about something despite not having gotten past the cover/first page/chapter is moi all over. i was famouse at skool for kicking arse in english exams without reading the books. i’ve never been to a book club tho. given school performance p’haps i should try?!
is that an aries talent LRR? I once wrote a book review after reading the blurb on the back of a book, the teacher and other kids knew i was doing it, which made it all the more hilarious and showy. A grade lit kid all the way!! you can tell by my amazing punktuation and use of kapitals…hhhehe, I reckon you do the crapping on thing because of the aries! I certainly do…as does my dad and my step mum and every other aries i have ever met… bang on for hours and hours… talk shiz non stop, especially stuff we know nothing about.
i couldn’t bear to go to a book club, just watching the abc program makes me vomit! pretentious wonkers. I have read the second book of Faust by Goethe, in English, but hey, how many book club mo fo’s have done that! Not bloody many. It is a really wanky way to show off, just like art viewers who ponce off at the art they are looking at ( as an artist so find it ultra annoying) it is a fricken painting… not the juxtaposition of anything….. never been to a book club, just guessing it would suck. but then I show off by climbing poles and hanging upside down, drawing pretty pictures on pavements and wearing loud obnoxious clothing, sheesh, what a tosser!!!!!!
Faust is excellent for curing insomnia…..in any language
never been to a book club because I figure that it would be time wasted that I could be reading a book of my own choice.
I think the central figure in Myst’s pic was so bored with proceedings that she shredded the book and spontaneously burst into her own karaoke version of Celine Dion’s “I’m Alive”
Wow. You go to some interesting book clubs. The only one i ever participated in was when i was in high school. I was the youngest person there. The guy leading it was a Cancer. Most people were like senior citizens and fairly placid earth types or had some earth in the chart. It was like serotonin land. I recommend it for people with insomnia. Instant cure.
the one on the bottom left hand corner looks like me! im guessing scorpio-picses rising!
OMG my school play opens tonite! IM SOOO NERVOUS! my long wavey hippy hair has been tranfigured into a Mohawk!
OMG IM SOO NERVOUS – BUT MOON IN LEO TOMRO NITE WILL HELP (IT GOES OVER 3-4 NIGHTS)
MATT
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Matt I’m sure you’ll be better than fine. Remember to breathe and if you can have a bottle of water back stage in case the back of your throat dries out a little… or you could have some arcane herbal mix (twinings lemon and ginger) that you ponce about with for your ‘chords’.
Much support MATT, remember keep smiling(unless you’re meant to be madly fierce looking with the mohawk in which case smile on the inside)…
Choockas Matt *two thumbs up*
You’ll be fine. Saggos are amazing thespians!
Trust in your work, Matthew, I’m sure you’ll wing through it.. best of luck!
OPENING NITE WAS AMAZING!
I DIDNT STUFF UP! THANKS EVERYONE!
BUT I SWEAR MY CHARACTER – A “METALHEAD” BLACK EYELINER, BLACK LIPSTICK AND THAT BLOODY MOHAWK! SOOO MUCH FUN TO PLAY!
THANKS EVERYONE!
MATT
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That’s a play in itself…transforming long wavy hair into a Mohawk.
SOOOO TRUE!
OMG IT KILLS – IT TOOK LIKE 2 HOURS TO TEASE EVERYTHING! THEN THE GEL! OIMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
IT FEELS LIKE THEY WERE RIPPING MY HAIR OUT!
GOD THE THINGS WE DO FOR ART!
MATT
I’m the girl in the left hand corner placidly reading whilst WW3 occurs around me. Long been noted for reading anywhere, at anytime. In cars, buses, walking to school, at parties, on the adventure playgrounds…..
Matt – break a leg, and rock the mohawk.
I think she just doing her vocal scale and threw her music sheets in excitement…
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