The Good Ship SuperStar Virgo & Astrological Cruising
Every now and then I see an advertisement for the cruise ship SuperStar Virgo (there is a sister ship named SuperStar Leo) and my mind meanders to how all the different signs would behave on board a cruise.
As well as, of course, the differences between SuperStar Virgo and SuperStar Leo: The former would be Amish in design & feature gluten-free organic cuisine with the occasional illicit chocolate binge by special arrangement. There would be an aide-de-camp specificially just to deal with allegations of fraying on the edge of the blankets or miniscule cracks in the basin. SuperStar Leo would be more ornate, loads of gilding & 24-7 performances & brass bands.
But on an actual cruise ship – our imaginary trip round the world on SuperStar Zodiac or whatever:
Aries would be up the top attempting to tell the Captain where/how to pilot the ship and/or going WAY over the top in a deck game of croquet.
Gemini would be like some Trickster character – going between ‘worlds’ as he/she acts as ostensibly the Entertainment Manager but more of an information and gossip broker.
Pisces & Saggo would be in the bar regaling one another with tales of astral travel (Pisces) and ‘real’ travel (Sagittarius).
Leo would be rehearsing for karaoke and perfecting his/her outfit.
Libra would stay in the spa the WHOLE time with occasional forays around the deck with the purpose of pulling.
Taurus would be compiling a dossier of all the food/buffets available in between lounging/meditation by the pool.
Cancerians would be holed up in their cocoon like bunk bed and/or leading some sort of a trippy encounter group scenario.
Aquarius would be gazing existentially out at the ocean and/or reading some futuristic tract.
Virgo & Capricorn would be networking/using the ‘free’ time to schedule up their next phase of transcendental accomplishment.
Scorpio? It would be a secret at the time but everyone would talk about it for years once they found out.
Am I right or am I wrong?
You are spot on and hilarious. I love the distinction between astral and ‘real’ travel – made me giggle.
Sorry to spoil the fun but I wonder what star sign Dianne Brimble’s cruise ship was. Low Scorpio?
YICK! That whole story so sleazy – be good to link it so people internationally know of what we speak…
Of yes of course. Thanks Mystic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Dianne_Brimble
I Love your imagination!! lolol
lol Mystic I can see it now “cruising by the stars” … the piscean ship would definitely be heading for the Bermuda Triangle or trying to find the lost city of Atlantis.
And I posted this a few threads back but it was sorta buried so I’ll re-tell here as vaguely appropriate. I was helping the Virgo client-neighbour-friend-not-sure-about-crush-person set up his new dining room suite and he had a tape measure out to measure – get this – the angle of the walls and the distance from the walls of the table legs and the distance from the walls and the table legs and the rug the table was sitting on top of it so that the geometric patterns in the (minimalist of course what else?) rug would line up with both the table legs and the wall. Of course everything had to be angled perfectly – rug to walls, the pattern in the rug, the table legs to wall, rug, rug pattern. Fuqin hell that went on for at least 10 minutes and of course I was pissing myself laughing. He also bought a new bed (for the purposes of clean bed qi) which had a chip in the bedhead which meant he could not possibly sleep in it until the chip had been Fixed Properly – which did not include gluing the chip back in place with araldyte as the manufacturer had tried to do – and THEN one of the dining suite chair legs was off by a couple of centimetres and he was quite honestly flumoxed by how anyone could possibly have the conscience to sell something not 100% correct. All this chip, leg shortage, angle dramas had me quite honestly pissing myself laughing – Virgo with Cap Asc and Venus Virgo.
So could you imagine the carryings-on at the SuperStar Virgo?? The bloody thing would never leave port. It would be permanently docked outside Bunnings. heh
That is brilliant. That much analness has to be admired!
Prowlers you had ME laughing too. That behaviour would make me so bored/angry that I would just be “see ya”! You were laughing so you obviously could make light of it. Do you still think he’s sexy after that. I do agree with Shell. 10 points for precision and overall vision!
well …. I never really did think he was exactly “sexy”. He’s more cute than sexy … but I reckon he’s a bit of a quiet style dark horse that rocks between the sheets
“quiet style dark horse that rocks between the sheets ”
… all Virgos are.
frighteningly my aries mother in an episode of TMI did indicate that my Virgo Dad had his own quiet style…..ewwwwwwww…but go dad at the same time …and then ewwwww
euwwwwwww…. hehe. I shouldn’t have said that. As you know LL, my dad is also a Virgo… eeeuwww
we so often share the same pain SR..heh
sheet rockin aside prowlers – the tape measure sitch WOULD DRIVE ME SO CRAZY – whoops – who’s yelling??
I would love to share space with your Virgo client-neighbour-friend-not sure about crush person prowlin. Too bad you’re in Perth otherwise I’d seriously consider hiring him to do my place (multiple planets in Virgo).
lol ff … not sure if I should mention that to him lest he get the shits with me for writing about him on this blog! He’d probably be secretly chuffed that his virgoan nitpicking obsessiveness was appreciated by someone!
feelers – hire me – I work by eye, not tape…… years of schlepping furniture / art / object – tis an addiction of sorts – getting it right for the inhabitants as much as satiating mon eye. Tape measure PSHHHHHT. at least prowlers has her priorities WELL sorted (teeheeehee) xox
anytime rockstar BUT reckon i’d be seduced by you and go so *off* topic and just revel in your company – just to clarify i’m straight so you know what i mean – i suspect you’d be dangerously seductive in all the right/wrong ways (hello confused)??
that’s a nope re confusions Feelers – Disco Inferno goes down here @ rock central several times a week – hook in & laugh like yer life’s depending on it….. as said MANY times here – BLESS MY NIEGHBOURS – for sharing my taste in music, or, for being deaf!!
BTW rearranging abode / space / wall be occupational hazard here…….
SEE how exhausting it is being Virgo? We should be given some sort of award for our tireless pursuit of perfection.
I imagine the Superstar Virgo has a whole deck set aside for free for all nitpicking. Now that’s my idea of a holiday.
… and a HUGE cargo hold, 1500 industrial washing machines running 24/7, a separate laundry just for bleaching, 24 000 cleaning staff (6 for each passenger), a Perfect Placement Crew equipped with tape measures, and an on-board Private Hospital with hygiene far superior to the mainland…
To enable the Superstar Virgo to leave port they sensibly installed their own Bunnings (well, actually, a neater version).
Ditto prowln: Virgos. Bless.
You forgot the ironing competitions on D deck. Bliss!
Ah yes, and what fiercely contested competitions they would be!
I’m guessing that One would have to pack One’s own Special Iron in order to do the job just so.
What would a true Virgo Ironing Superstar like to win as a prize (apart from a freshly scrubbed Brendan Fraser in a fig leaf)?
I’ve said this before but the ultimate prize would be a day or even an hour where everyone did as they were told.
Otherwise I’d settle for Brendan. He’d make a wonderful exfoliant/body scrub, don’t you think?
Yes, I have turbo charged iron.
oh Uber you make me laugh, you Turbo Charged Virgo you! Brendan as exfoliant… mmmmmmmmmmm!
There’d be no dead skin on either of us by the time I finished with him.
Lord! I really need to get back to work. Mystic! Stop distracting me, you temptress!
There’d be no Brendan left either! lol
BTW Prowlers – Fish Cruiser to Bermudish Triangle – meet me in the Libby pick up bar??
ps. Is something really active in Virgo at the moment coz I feel like I’m stuck in some parallel universe of administrivia hell.
last days of Saturn in Virgo…
hee hee. as a virgo with libra rising that is EXACTLY how I would want a spend a cruise (in the spa and networking). Fantastic!
Prowling – it is the END of Saturn in Virgo…
Yes it goes back next year for a bit but it is covering the last degrees of Virgo right now….
So admin stress should be prompting us to do a deeper re-organisation…Esp in this Dark Moon
oh and what a dark moon it is. Can’t wait to do my New Moon wishes on Sunday!
but of course! *slaps head*
Is it also a little bit of the last Virgo new moon cycle? I caught myself fastidiously straightening the crinkles in my yoga rug in class last week & was like “You’re a Leo, what’s with that?
re: Leo cruise-shipping…posing/gazing at sunsets ala Leonardo & Kate in Titanic
Re: leo shipping ala leonardo and kate..I’d be worried we’d all be vying for the top spot to throw our arms at ala king of the world style… it could get bloody…coup d’état every second minute…unless someone organised distractions like pretty shiny things/mirrors to distract us.
You are, as always, spot on and hysterical with this Mystic.
Can I just add – being stuck on a Cruise ship is, like, my version of personal hell. Kind of neck and neck with Westfield shopping malls. I am only a good person so that I don’t end up on one of these when I die.
Cap Sun / Virgo Asc + Moon.
(PS, as you suggest above – I have recently returned from ‘Holiday’ where I brokered a new sponsorship deal, completed a couple of overdue reports and applied for a PhD… Am i that transparent???)
Not transparent Lexi – Mystic is tres brilliant. Me too re personal hell – cruise ships and Westfield shopping malls *shudder*.
My sagg daughter calls one particular westfield shopping centre the seventh layer of hell…
Lexi – Le Turd (aka Aries Ex) & I had pact. NEVER to a boat party. unless it was a surf venture with friends…….
LL is the 7th level of hell located in what stylists refer to as ‘WBJ’??
or is it Chadstone………..?
LL lives in SEQ rockstar and I can probably guess which one LL’s daughter is talking about (but to me they’re all hell). I remember one City to Surf weekend (i go and stay at Bondi almost every August for it) – i ditched the run and went shopping at WBJ – regret it forever, still have 2 items from spendathon with tags on (wtf). Had way more fun alley shopping after race with ex-bestie Aries bitch only days before found out what she was up to behind my back.
Oh – so Feelers be speaking of Chirmside?? Tell me is NOT Pacific Fair (not that I can shop round the world blind folded or anything……!!). Yeah WBJ be entrapment for sure, but beats the hell outta heading down town!!
Seesh forgot bout yr Ex-Aries sitch!!
Any updates there or it it past history?
Yep Chermside it is, NOT PF – i avoid the GC at all costs! I’m closer to I’pilly but Chermside is Mega – getting a headache thinking about it.
Aries sitch is very past history although i do get regular phone calls with no-one on the other end (and “private number” message when checking who ’twas) and always think of “her”. Happy to let her stew in her own self-created shit.
I think that’s a pact that should just be considered a blanket social grace. Went to a birthday party on a boat recently, that dropped us on an island in the harbour for 4 hours, then picked us up again, drenched with rain, wind swept and desperate to get away from the drunken bores. TWO PEOPLE vomited on the return trip.
That was hard enough, can you imagine a 2 week cruise?!?
Eeewww Lexicorn – another form of hell
I just woke up from the scary continuation of a dream from last week and popped here for some wisdom, that made me howl! Laughter is indeed the best banishment cheers Mystic
Ick!! I’ve finally sorted out my tax affairs properly that I had been side-stepping for too long now. As sun, merc, venus in Aqua person I loathed every boring minute of it but so relieved now.
Damn I love being a Scorp – I dream of plotting something that no one knows about but that gets talked about for years.
But I’m with Lexicorn – a cruise ship would be vile – I’m much more a catamaran kinda girl…. or a good old fashioned yacht.
Aries would be behaving exactly the way you *should* on a cruise – not making a scene. We’d be power-relaxing, in glowing white toweling bathrobes.
i wanna work on a cruise ship and now all of sudden there is a lot of cruise ship talk everywhere. mystic you were on the syncronicites!
I would like to board one of those ships when i’m 75 years & never leave,
just disembark at exotic ports.
The never ending world cruise, enough water to last the rest of my life,
with a Pisces to talk to at the bar.
you did say Librans’d be in the bar pulling lol??
teeheeeheee xox
or the disco!!
Tell ya how me (Aries) and the Pisces behaved on our cruise ship to Ensenada Mexico one weekend in 2003.
First off, drinks on deck had at least 3/4 booze in the glass. Later bopped to reggae while watching other drunks dance/bop/stagger around.
Smoked pot in the bathroom of our itty-bitty room.
Gambled upstairs and I won the progressive on a penny machine….$600
Not bad for a typically dysfunctional weeked with the Pisces (and me
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Did though have a massage each. They suck on cruise ships as far as I’m concerned and they also try to sell you stuff. Tacky…
Sharing a table with our eating companions in the dining room, they ordered a bottle of wine and the woman companion sniffed the cork. They handed it to me and I sniffed too, but didn’t really know what I was sniffing for…lol
Ha! Astral vs real travel! That made me laugh so much, and they’d be trying to top each other’s stories and hardly listening to each other too. Then pisces would get pissed all of a sudden, (anyone else notice that they can hold their drink reeeally well for quite some time, and then bang, they are slurring and staggering all over the place in seemingly a minute flat?) and Sagg would gallop off while they were in the loo, to find someone else to talk big stories to. Or to hook up with Libra.
Yes yes yes to the Taureans and mapping out food destinations and timetables too.
Hilarious, and so spot on Mystic.
Starstokes I always line my yoga mat up exactly square and can’t stop playing with tis till it is. Not a jot of virgo in me.
So me thinks the good ship Leo would not get out of port unless all the beds were checked for the correct softness, the pillows correct plumpness, correct bonking music, lighting, detakify the whole ship of gaudiness and make sure the bar is well stocked with the best alcohol.
Love the idea of naughty scorpios slinking around causing havoc. Bit like a game of on board real life cluedo.
I was just thinking that a cruise line staffed by Virgo suns with Leo rising would be fantastic for the Leo cruise line, because the luxury and attention to detail would be out of this world.
Going on a cruise is absolutely the last thing this Aries would want to do. Stuck with nowhere to go, nothing but shuffleboard or gambling to while away the interminable hours – aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!
My idea of hell – except for bingo. I love playing bingo when I go on hols at Christmas – going to a crusty RSL or similar type venue and having a scotch and soda at 10am! Bliss.
As per someone above (lexi? prowlin?), cruise ships for the 75+ age group – just imagine us all then. Actually don’t – too depressing.
Hee hee, speak for yourself FF! I am SO not going to be depressing at 75!
I have a good role model in my Nana, who had more fun with life the older she got. She got slimmer, flirtier, funnier, happier and did more travelling around the world after 60 than she did before 60. She raised 7 kids and wore out 2 husbands. What a gal! She was Vice Pres of CWA in QLD for many years, president of the bowls club and dozens of other community & charity groups. She was so funny talking about teaching craft to the “old folks” who were usually a decade younger than her. She was an Aquarian but I am sure there was a lot of Leo going on and maybe some Gemini – always organising fashion parades, acting in plays and singing.
Not sure if I have told this story here before or not… but I literally “ran into” her in an airport in Zurich one day. I was on my way back from a conference – plane delayed 6 hours or something. I was enjoying pacing around the airport and was walking across a black & white chequered floor and in the corner of my eye registered a lady in a red coat. As I had the fleeting thought that it was something Nana might wear, she walked toward me, chatting away to her group, I realised it was Nana!
“Hello Nana! What are you doing here?”
“I’m on my way home from Russia of course! This is Father so and so and these are my girlfriends Dulcie, and Pat, and…” They had organised the local minister to chaperone them to Russia and several other places in Europe. They were out there having fun and loving life.
Who knows how we might feel about a cruise ship then? I kind of liked Peg’s idea of one day getting on one and never getting off… Maybe we will have simplified our needs so much by then? All we might want is some company, a nice bar and some cute deck hands paid to amuse us
That’s so cool Nat. Stories like your Nana’s are what we need to remind us that life is life at whatever age you be. Actually my mum is 76 and goes to gym and does yoga (has done yoga forever – before it was cool) and she’s spritely and active. I think of myself as 33 forever (not sure why but my theory is i had first child at 32 and a half) and when hear stories in media mentioning ppl my age – think them middle aged – then go, hang on that’s me, wtf. Personal Leo vanity moment – no one thinks i’m my age – always get shocked surprise when i tell and i do tell. Most recent compliment was from 28 y o barrister who thought i was in my late 20′s LOL – that’s going a bit far and he may need specs but still no thinks i’m over 40.
Fantasy cruise – all of Mystic’s subscribers board the “Naughty Neptunian” when we’re all retired for an astro cruise to remember.
All Aboard the SS Naughty Neptune for Mystic’s Astro Cruise….
I am so there! It could have special areas designed for each Sun Sign. Would be tres interesting to see just who hung out at who’s Sun Sign areas wouldn’t it?
I know which ones I would be heading for, but as Scorpio Rising of course I won’t be telling!
that is me Nat above.
Oh I’d be visiting the Virgos first – organised, earthy sensuality and then the Scorps – don’t have to explain that one. I’d visit them all – Fish rising – can blend in everywhere!
Alright – will list the no parties on boats for “SS Naughty Neptune for Mystic’s Astro Cruise……”
well played, again, Nat!! xox
*lift the no parties on boats ban *….. (!!)
don’t worry rockstar, I knew what you meant. The SS Naughty Neptune won’t be listing (unless on the stock exchange)!
Oh I love that idea FF. The Mystic M cruise. It could be an alternative to an Astro-Coven, where all the subscribers hang out and flit between separate sun and rising sign chat rooms. Could be staged over an entire long weekend – OR – maybe that’s what we do when Mystic takes summer holidays??
Yes please – Myst are you listening?
I need to start doing thing rather wacthing for ther windows, see pople walk and so on