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Astro-Query: Family Dinners

February 26, 2010 in Astro-Query by Mystic Medusa | 98 comments

Let’s do this thus: You have to say “I Am A Pisces…” Or whatever your sign is…”And I think family dinners are…”

Eg; “I am a Leo and I think family dinners are the ideal opportunity for me to show off my grasp of gourmet trends and fine wines.”

Or “I am an Aquarius and I think family dinners are hell on earth because they usually get in the way of my current regime.”

Or “I am a Taurus and I think family dinners are the common ground of decency and nourishment upon which our civilisation is based.”

Or “I am a Pisces and I think family dinners are fine if i can drink because I still haven’t gotten over the Festen style farce that were family dinners in my childhood.”

Or “I am a Libra and I think family dinners need a divine, radiant and inspirational table setting. Can there be candles? It’s all about the lighting.”

I am mostly just thinking of this because i keep reading articles (from the Pluto in Leo baby boomers?) linking the decline in families eating together at home to all sorts of dysfunction but barely anyone I know actually does it on a regular basis.

Astro-Query: Elegant Eating Alone…Which Sign?

September 3, 2009 in Astro-Query by Mystic Medusa | 69 comments

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Wow, I was SO impressed when i saw this book, as in it is a cool concept & beautifully realised but my 2nd thought was eggplant? Are they all bullshitting?  Maybe it’s because my classic Eating Alone thing is more like this:

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Although, I can do an awesome “healthy” version which involves pan – not deep – frying, organic spuds, olive oil and garlic whatever…But you see, the author of this book – the Eggplant Lady, Jenni Ferrari-Adler – is a Gemini! Yes, i looked. And I have often noted that Geminis ARE the most elegant eaters, even when alone. They genuinely enjoy salads & left to their own devices, they will not – unlike our Virgo – fall upon a polygamist-Mormon-sized-family bar of chocolate with avid glee whilst chortling at crap tv and then indulge in an orgy of guilt shortly afterward.

So Gemini Eggplant Lady WOULD think wow – here i am, alone in the kitchen and hungry, I’ll do something chic with eggplant. Taurus, Aqua and Leo would carb up – though the Taurus and Leo would ensure it was something gourmet. Scorpio would prob stalk off to self-pleasure first and then figure out if still hungry later. Aries and Capricorn would fulfil what was nutritionally necessary to maintain life/their chic physique. Pisces would quickly have something angelic such as Tofu and THEN  hit on the jelly snakes or chardie. Sagg would have a smoothie and Libra would NOT eat alone. I am thinking that kataka would definitely cook themselves something “proper” but it would be a well-exercised mini-banquet for one such as Macaroni & Cheese.

Geminis, are you at ALL like Eggplant Lady?  Other peeps – am i right or am i wrong?

Oh and Aquarius has secret bread binges, I think. Stoneground, sourdough or based on ancient grains that make some tribe live for several thousand years but bread nonetheless. And then they flip as they’re so anti-wheat and it sedates them so that they can’t conspiracy-theorise straight.

M.F.K. Fisher: Ultra-Crab

July 3, 2009 in Astro-Cliches, Astro-Fiends, Celeb Fluffery, Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 27 comments

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Today is the birthday of   M.F.K. Fisher – to call  her a food writer is an understatement. She was fabulosity incarnate, amazingly talented and inspirational.

“You can still live with grace and wisdom, if you rely on your own innate sense of what you must do with the resources you have to keep the wolf from sniffing too hungrily through the keyhole.”

This is from a book she wrote during the wartime food shortages in 1942, called How To Cook A Wolf , that apparently saved many a woman from utter insanity & desperation.
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Beautiful and sensual – with a fascinating love life – she was an idiosyncratic writer who would come up with little gems such as:

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.”

“Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.”

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures . . .”

Her practical tips are still excellent AND she wrote Not Now But Now – a weird but utterly absorbing book about a time-travelling, utterly amoral femme fatale sort of gourmet nympho who managed to cross into other dimensions via some kind of cosmic warp she disovered on a particular express train.

Her chart:

Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune and the North Node all clustered together in Cancer! Opposed by Uranus in Capricorn. And then a Moon-Jupiter in Leo…But all that Cancer & to be so interested in elegant forms of nourishment & the lives of the emotions…If you are not familiar with her works, do look at some of these links…

I DO think Cancerians are often the best cooks, btw.

Saturn In Virgo & Wheat Sensitivity

May 20, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Metaphysical Quirks, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 33 comments

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Yes,  I do live in an area populated by the Wankerati & so I know it’s easy to make fun of this but I don’t care. I am convinced that the whole sensitive-to-wheat thing has been gaining pace since Saturn went into Virgo. More cafes have gluten-free or at least wheat free offerings & more peeps i meet or read about (Tilda Swinton, most recently) – who are not coeliac – say they have stopped wheat as it bloats them/drugs them/makes them flatulent etc. And that’s before you even get onto the scary wheat shite; the DAY Saturn went into Virgo, this lady in a health food shop showed me a photo of a baguette lovers intestines that looked like triffids had taken over.

Anyway, Virgo is symbolically wheat & ye olde fashioned pics of the sign oft depict the maiden with the wheat sheaves to show wholesomeness & purity. Virgo is also about digestion – sometimes it seems as if half of our official food is apparently indigestible. And Saturn in Virgo seems to have raised awareness of the whole food thing to a whole new level…Even just a few years ago, peeps with intolerances or preferences were oft sneered whereas now it’s way more  normalised, except perhaps amongst the hardcore gourmet set.

Your Moon & planets in Virgo are most likely to affect all this – citing your Moon and/or Virgoan influences or anything you like really, are you a high-qi & delicately calibrated macrobiotic type, for the most part? Or do you cheerfully eat a baguette for brek with whatever the hell you want on it and look amazing regardless? If wheat is such a sophoric why are peeps permitted to drive after eating toast or pasta????

Sagg L’Uomo Nouvelle

February 24, 2009 in Astro-Cliches, Astro-Passages, Astro-Weird, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 30 comments

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So how does our Sagg guy* feel, emerging from the long journey that was Pluto through Sagittarius? *Note that the Sagittarius male is always a guy, no matter what age.

No doubt he’s excited, thrilled at the prospect of embarking upon a new trip, sans that super-heavy Plutonic vibe. Even if he is one of those rare Saggos who hasn’t had a fling with “this amazing new age chick I met on the beach who told me i was The Seeker Of Truth”  etc, he will sense that the new era is nigh & that it feels fantastic.

But what if the lengthy passage of Pluto thru Sagg (since the mid-90’s!) has caused him to forget a few key elements of being a Sagg guy? Here is a handy reminder…

As a Sagg Guy, you’re even MORE hyper-Sagg post-Pluto than before. You are now L’Uomo Nouvelle Saggo.

YOUR FAVE MUSIC:

You like all genres, depending on your mood. You like music that expresses the sentiment of “love the one you’re with” or “where-ever you lay your head.” But, honestly, whatever.  The point is that you’re always invited backstage with The Band. Because you know them. Because you like music the best when it is live. Because you’re a Saggo Guy. If you are actually in The Band, you are The Drummer.

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YOUR FAVE FOOD:

The Deep Fried Scorpion Fricasee with mango & green peppers that you had in Hanoi the other month.

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YOUR PREFERRED TRANSPORT:

Rollercoaster…

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YOUR RELATIONSHIP STATUS:

You always have a girlfriend – or a guy friend – but he/she is nearly always somewhere else. Depending how things go here, there or with someone else dimly specified, you may/may not be hooking up with the Official Partner to go surfing/snowboarding soon. You also have a LOT of friends.

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YOU READ:

Self-Help books, especially the ones that don’t bang on too long and yet  give you enough info to help motivate your less well-read friends.

863-1YOUR PHARMA:

If massage, cannabis and a surf don’t fix the problem, you will resort to some powdered-sea-urchin & monoi oil capsules you got on your last trip. You didn’t understand what the dude who sold them to you was saying, but they sure worked on you. If that fails, you may see a doctor.  Or ask that really hot chick with the sexy accent at the health food shop where you buy your protein shakes.

yokohama_chinese_medicine_sea_cucumber_1YOUR MOTIVATIONAL MANTRA:

Something in Swahili but you don’t remember what it means. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway would be a vague translation only it’s way more cosmic than that.

Taurus Moon

February 2, 2009 in Moons by Mystic Medusa | 16 comments

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Got so carried away with the thrills of Venus in Aries square Lilith-Pluto, the looming Lunar Eclipse and another Saturn-Uranus Opposition that I utterly forgot about the MOON. Luna is in Taurus, the sign in which she is Exalted (ie; functions brilliantly) & this favours all things green, loving thy plants, the wisdom of the body, truly good food, earth goddessy themes, massage & sensual pursuits. Then, at 13.15 on Weds (Sydney time) Luna-the Moon-Diana scoots into Gemini, for a more Mercurial & skittish backdrop.