To rejunvenate a thread is really magical ... and I think it truly an honour to start this thread again ...

Thanks to you, dear Thomas, for evoking this wonderful idea in seeing Linda through her works or anecdotes ... it is wonderful to look through her works and see her bloom over and over again ...

Thank you dear Rainbow and Essence and Michael for your lovely comments and would love to hear your angles too ... on Linda as seen through your eyes ...

Thanks to Greg, for giving me another chance ... ...

So do come here and share the Magic of Linda ... know her and feel her in you ... once again ... LINDA LIVES ... !!!

love to you all
druid

So glad to see this thread back! Thank you.

Robert Chancellor

OH YES - so Inspired to SEE this Magic Again, As Always we are Honored to have You Here !!!

Much Love
essence

I'm so glad you liked the idea of this thread enough to restart it.

One of my very favorite passages in any of Linda's books was her poem "How to Love a Colored Man" in Gooberz. It was brilliant, poignant, and hilarious.

Linda took a remarkable step, in my opinion, in Star Signs in revealing her comtemplation of suicide. A famous and best-selling author, she could have simply been content with her celebrated image. But, she chose to reveal a very personal moment -- and her true vulnerability -- in the hope that her experience might help others.

Linda provided constant inspiration for me through Star Signs, my favorite of her books. Her "Labor of Love" chapter is powerful and compelling and falls in line with my beliefs: Do, and only do, what you love for a living. Her counseling in that chapter runs counter to what most young people are told by parents, teachers, and other adults. We're always told to choose our professions by money or position. Happiness rarely comes up. Right now, I'm in the process of changing my circumstances to that I'll be truly happy, something I haven't been in a long time.

Remember Linda's lesson on ordaining lost items and parking spots (mine don't usually manifest; gotta work on my faith). I've applied this particular principle to a number of other situations in my life. When it was important, my Higher Self came through every time.

Linda's closing lines in Star Signs, the message flashing across her television -- "We bring you the world as it is; Imagine what it could be -- really describes one of Linda's greatest qualities: her optimism.

Yes, Linda is Linda -- poet, vulnerable human being, counselor, motivator, optimist . . . Thanks, Linda, for being who you are.

Thomas

Essence ... you always make me SHINE ... you are truly a Being Divine ... your smiles speaks volumes to me ... it touches me so...deeply ... I'm so happy to share the coolness that refreshes ... of your Neptunian Sea ...

Thomas ... I am so glad to see the initiator here ... you truly evoked such deep feelings in me when you started the "Linda is Linda" thread ... I felt your love for Linda and you suddenly I realised it too ...

I can see you truly feel Linda in thee ... like I feel her in me ... It is such a joy to see the world through Linda's eyes ... and realise that Love is All ...

She leaves everyone coded messages on their path for enLIGHTenment ... and still continues to do so ...

Her optimism is so brimming and full and innocent ... and if you open up to her ideas and views ... and allow it to flow through you ... you watch Magic manifest ... this is so true ... But you already knew ... thank you for sharing Linda with us ...

I find her poems in VENUS TRINES AT MIDNIGHT hold so much of deep, pure, true Love and hence ...

Dear Knowflakes ... this is truly a wonderful thread ... do come here and share the magic ... and re-live LINDA again and again ... feel her open you to so much in the Universe and feel your love grow and grow ... more and more ... thank you Thomas, once again ...

love to all
druid

Dreams are the Mother of reality, and Linda, even above all her astrological knowledge and metaphysical understanding and brilliant commucative skill, was our Beautiful Dreamer -- and for that we love her dearly, and benefit endlessly from her continuing legacy.

Thank you for your stirring message on Linda ...
You really presented such a warm vision of Linda ... this is wonderful ...
May her legacy continue ... forever ... !

love
druid

From VENUS TRINES AT MIDNIGHT ...

What really strikes me in these soulful poems ... is that Linda becomes each of us ... we identify easily with the "lover" in her ... even though we may be Virgo or Leo or Libra or Scorpio ... whichever our sun sign ... We are LINDA ... it is as if Linda is telling us that we each are all these signs when we fall in love ... that love is all-powerful ... we become so highly tuned that no longer are we any "particular" sun sign ... we become all of these sun sings ... we are as innocent and brave as Aries, as patient and stable as Taurus, as versatile and delightful as Gemini, as caring and sensitive as Cancer, as lovable and generous as Leo, as pure and true as Virgo, as idealistic and fair as Libra, as passionate and sensual as Scorpio, as honest and free as Sagittarius, as dependable and wise as Capricorn, as crazy and inventive as Aquarius and as spiritual and intuitive as Pisces ... yes, she is all of them in each of her love poems ... and we know that we are all of them too ... when we love ... truly, deeply, eternally ...

Soar with her enthusiasm and fresh imagination, basking in the carefree Aries spirit of Love in "SONG OF THE RAM" - "I might actually literally find myself on the Champs Elysees with nothing to do but make love to you in an attic...or lying on the grass...or I could just as easily wake up in the Highlands drenched in an uncanny, golden glow mingled with the spray of a fine Scottish mist like the one I ran through...I might fly down the aisle of a wildflower church in the Alps ringing its bells for joy..." and the inevitable Aries romantic idealism ... "you'll be reading to me from Robert Burns under Edinburgh skies" ... and her eternal belief in the magic of Spring ... "So far, she's pulled off a few splendid sparklers...a real Block Buster Sky Rocket miracle...maybe this year, unexpectedly" and the reiterating in ECHO OF MARS UNAROUSED "...My dreams are made of sterner stuff and Spring will be here soon enough"

Feeling the power of Aries pulsating through her and you in "ARIES IS ARIES" ..."Mars crescendo, pounding, pulsing, thrilling, wild... and the drums are beating frantic and loud while my heart leaps in tempo with the roar of the crowd..." and the unswerving passionate loyalty to herself and her courage to be her "the challenge was sharp and unexpected but I felt an instant flame rise up to meet the danger...You're wrong! (I)t's (am) alive and strong and real (I)t's (am) exciting and (I)t's (am) honest ... (I)t's (am) just that (I)t's (am) brave and true ... So, it it's all the same to you, I haven't thrown (I)t away".

And in ECHO OF MARS UNAROUSED ... "I am still me...I remain myself with courage still to face the sun...why should I grieve ? No self-pity here for Linda, no self-pity here ... Just brave and true ... just so brave and so true ...

In Love and Light
druid

Continuing the Linda essence on Love in TAURUS ... again from VENUS TRINES AT MIDNIGHT "...

The beginnings of summer ... after an impulsive and carefree spring ... the weather is ripening ... a slow, sensual awakening of the golden glow of summer ... the emotions are calmed after the sudden outburst ... the calm after the storm ? ... a realization of the depth of emotion ... after the warmth and fire ... a deep powerful physical depth of emotion ... reaching out ... touching ... Is this real ... is this love real ? ... the earthy depth of Love in Linda guided patiently by Taurus in TAURUS ... "Is it you? Or is it just that I've made you wear those love robes I've been saving since the days when my sand castles were big enough to walk around in and strong enough to stand against the tides?...Supposing I climb all the way to the top of the tree and then find out it's not really you...How do I get back down again all by myself? I've always been afraid of heights" and the Taurean stubborness displayed "CONMBUSTIBLE BUT COMPATIBLE" so very typical of true lovers ... reaching out for attention ... in a way that seems reverse and so illogical ... "...and sat there through dinner like a stony Sphinx - when you wanted to leave I wasn't ready to go so I stirred my cold tea for at least half an hour watching you sputter ... it was .... Silent between us as we walked back to the car in a drizzle..." the heightened Taurean sensuality in "SCORPIO SILENCE IS GOLDEN" ... "...see how close we lie, in the slow, naked warmth of our first morning of waking together while our hands and our lips lazily practice the intimate secrets they learned...even our toes explore this strange country of total love even our noses the smell of your skin and your hair is you, just you so familiar I would know you by that alone as surely as I would know thescent of the woods we walked from pine incense or sherry from scotch ... how quiet it is between us our sleepy, sunrise kisses are not enough now the strong circle of your arms tightens around me ..." such wonderful imagery ... Oh Linda she is heightened in every being of each Sun Sign ... Oh the depth of her sensuality ... the ambrosial depth of her sensuality ... even further deepened in "THREE GALAXIES TWO" "... that smell and feel of us ..." her aching need in THREE GALAXIES - ONE .."Maybe that's why I always run against the light it's the only time we touch" and the slow gentle rhythm of love in THREE GALAXIES - THREE "We hated gently, carefully, as if we were someday to love..." and her speaking through an earth-sign lover ... in SUN IN EARTH - MOON IN AIR OR WATER ... "I can't write you love songs that make you cry or understand your fascination for things that fly...but I'll butter your bread and make your bed...I'll walk with you halfway up the hill feed you vegetable soup when you're feeling ill and I never forget to take the Pill I'm not the careless or flighty type...I'll never leave curlers in the bathroom sink or chatter..."

Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn ladies nod their head in unison and approval of the never-failing common sense to be applied even when things noticeably seem lopsided in a love affair ... "you haven't said "I love you" since...but tonight you said "I need you" just before you fell asleep...afterwards I lay awake...to sit in your chair awhile and think about you and me. Then I remembered a verse I read when you were away so long last fall...it said (at least the lines that mattered) "Being needed is as good as being loved sometimes - even better"...

Yes, Linda is Taurus too in "VENUS EXPOSED" ... Frigidity melted forever the moment you touched me" ... see the Taurus layer of the "depth of physical" as shown in this hauntingly beautiful sensuous line ... yes, she was the epitome of the "vulnerability of touch" as in Taurus which each lover experiences even if they are Aries or Gemini or Pisces or Virgo ... when one truly loves ... one intensely feels and needs the physical ... the touch ...

The summer must begin in its sensuality... to grow and bloom into the wonders that behold us ... The Taurean touch is required at the beginning of this luscious season ... the awareness of touch ... once appeased ... leads to full blossom and a higher consciousness ... within this earth-realm ... the way to the higher is through the physical ... so be it ...

Linda's love revells in the birth of innocence of the Aries ... a wild, carefree, spontaneous, warm spirit ... touched by the magic of love ... impulsively soars off and then a slow realization ... of 'can this be a dream ?' ... "Is this real?" reaching out and touching, slowly, wonderingly, carefully only to find the richness of the touch ... and now loses itself again in touch ... going deeper and deeper ... appeasing in the depth of touch ...

Aries and Taurus ... LINDA and US as we explore this magical adventure ...

Love
druid

What does the bubbly Gemini hold for us within the love-quilted folds of VENUS TRINES AT MIDNIGHT ... the summer is in full bloom and the rollicking lover chuckles in glee ... so full of the love that surrounds ... now to verbalize those feelings ... realizing that love is there to stay and away and away does Peter Pan fly ... a never-grow-old-in-love Gemini ... sparkling wit and chivalrous word-knight fit to steal a lover's heart away ... with the words ... the emotional ... the physical ... and now the mental ... for love to set its infant foundation ...

The mental ... the mental ... the mental of a Gemini love and the freedom from the chains that of emotion ... that can clog ... a free soul ... enough ... let try maturity in GEMINI-GEMINI ... "I'm sorry I kept you waiting, Look don't cry, It was only an hour or two, couldn't you find something to do ? I would have if I had been you" developing the s-elf here ... Love does not get obsessive with Gemini ... and if does ... and stifle their airy dreams they walk away as so touchingly expressed in "SAGITTARIAN'S WIFE LAMENT" - "Into the dream you came and across the soft carpet of my reverie you walked with hobnail boots"

Enlightened Linda sees through all of Gemini word-twists ... the mental game ... of a confused Gemini not really sure about this intoxicating hold that Love has over him/her ... her clarity in seeing through the Gemini trouble in MERCURY SURVIVAL KIT ... "if you ever get caught in a round or two of the head shrinkers' current favourite game called "Truth confrontation" prepare yourself for a possible shock that can lock a heart and screw a mind uptight...all players sock it... to peel away layers of self pretense...for the desparate manoeuvers of self-defense or stragtegies...but if you really want to win and cut straight through the lies remember that you don't play "truth" with words you play it with your eyes" Socking the Gemini right back in with a Sagittarian arrow of truth ...

Gemini sparkles with their words ... enchanting but they can change their words to swords too ... in ARIES IS ARIES ... "it cut deep and left a few minor scars...later you said you were teasing...you're a cool, clever liar, you know" Again her understanding of the Gemini ... in ... ANY PLANET IN GEMINI CAN BE DECEPTIVE ... "as for me everything I do I do with everything I got" ... said a Gemini to her ...but she distinctly (Gemini word here) remembers the "obvious blending of his heart and his mind and his soul but his body was not there at all" that is so clearly the Gemini in Love ... the lack of the physical ... the airy love Gemini delicately showers ... "no matter, my point is made...you do not always do everything you do with everything you've got"

And further Mercury glibness in "YOUR MOON CONJUNCTS MY MARS IN GEMINI"..."Your name...emblazoned in the Hall of Fame of verbal dexterity immortals for outstanding achievements...I truly consider that one of your finest efforts not to communicate the lie of the truth you didn't say, Touche ?"

No matter all the glibness and "verbal dexterity" ... their sometimes sarcastic invective ... The Gemini Soul knows all about Love ... That is why they need to be free periodically ... so as not to lose themselves ... they may appear amused and cynical sometimes ... why even detached ... look deeper ... and the evolved Gemini in VENUS EXPOSED ... "Detachment, I guess is permanently lost, now that your smile brings a lump to my throat I can't swallow ..."

That is Gemini in Linda too ... and in each one of us ... maybe Peter Pan-lovers are scared of an end ... the summer is blooming and love must not be stifled to lose its glorious hues ... that is Gemini logic whispering ... stay away ... let the words make our day ... for if I lose you ... I can wipe these words away ... see they were never there at all ... no you and no I ... just the words creating by and by an mirage ... the toddler's thinking is still evolving ... lost in the truth of the lie s/he couldn't communicate ... or doesn't way ... whatever they may say ... touche ? ...

Love
druid

Somehow the verbal dexterity of Gemini fades away ... the longing to feel the intensity of passion comes through, slowly, carefully, peaking its little head ... as if to say ... enough of the words ... I've had my fill ... do caress me ... I need to feel all comforted and at peace ... still ... the feelings are richer and the emotions are tender ... stripped with word-swords ... and needing to feel that physical-emotional is there, the lover looks and waits with Canercian tenacity ... to grab on to something familiar ... to feel that all is real and not a passing illusion as the Gemini painted it to be ...

The heart is really at a very vulnerable stage and seeks the loving ... so sensitive ... so aware ... seeking and feeling the infinite despair that one feels when love isn't there ... in CANCERIAN CRY ... "rescue the lonely...walking in and out of bars with robot eyes that won't shut...they sit around in the purple-white neon light dropping dimes into a slot to a dial a number that never answers. They stare at the deserted streets...and nurse a glass of lukewarm champagne, with no fizz, listening to the flashbacks of tired memory stamped in the grooves of a record...lonely...reading the newspaper upside down" isn't this so Cancerian-aware in Linda ... love is a haunting melody...to a Cancerian...who instinctively keeps the other always in the memory ... in THREE GALAXIES - TWO ... "The odd-shaped things I save, that smell and feel of us...a crumpled book of matches from the pizza place...some wilted flowers, picked outside the door...a bleached and crooked twig washed ashore...where you...were lonely and surprised me into tears. A hotel room key, stuffed inside an airline ticket envelope, a button you lost from your coat (who sewed a new one on, I wonder?)... yes, so beautifully and hauntingly expressed in Cancer-love ... the comfort...the mother-touch...the familiarity...and the memories...

A safe and secure soul ... with the poignant memories of Home...the yesteryear...is a Cancer in Love ... in CANCER RULING THE CUSP OF THE 4TH HOUSE ... "this house on 8th Street in Parkersburg, West Virginia where my grandparents lived...there was a rope swing with a board to sit on upstairs on the back porch...there was this chest, in the attic...scraps of lace from ball gowns covered with shimmering mother-of-pearl sequins, a white nurse's veil with a bright red cross on the front faded, yellowish kid gloves...my aunt Peg's wedding veil, trimmed with tiny orange blossms...the most important thing about that house was the crystal chandelier...it hung over the oval table in the dining room downstairs..." what beautiful familiar cosy memories of sensitive Cancerian...the call of the familiar and familial is for Cancer ...

Have you been loved by a loony-moony bird ... whose senses are heightened and thereby able to spread moonbeam imagination ... when in love ... in PLUTO IN CANCER EXPLODING ... "Now come over here lie down - touch me feel the grass it's green with wet and new no, not with dew. Those sparkling drops are diamonds and part of the wet is me and you. Your eyes are bursting with colors and twinkling lights and star shine...listen do you hear all the love pouring out of the sky like music? What a glorious, bell-ringing sound..."

That is a secure loony-moon Cancerian in Love who realises the wonder of climbing out of his/her shell to expand their feelings and imagination on the world at large...and only this kind of evolved Cancerian can answer the other's call of loneliness and help the other cancer see ..."it could really blow your mind whipping in and out of the breeze that's tangling your hair. Hey, doesn't the air smell like Vanilla? It's such a fiercely gorgeous high, are you sure you want to smother it? The cancer-coded message to the other one is so beautifully persuasive ... gently urging the other to climb out and see the wonders ...

This kind of Cancerian is ever sure...of Love...and the cardinal essence of how to go about it ... the knowing of their offering of such a secure love ... no more the uncertainty and the fears that beset the Cancerian ... only an awareness of their magic and their love and their moonlit softness and firm tenacity in INCANTATION OF A MOON CHILD ... "I'll have my madcap moonlight way...I'll leave my trace upon you like a witch's hex streaked through your hair lingering in your silver eyes. I'll sear your palm with an eternal scar so all will whisper...there goes one... visited by a vagrant solitaire singing a morning sonata...wheedled by a will-o'-the-wisp from the midnight moors...kissed by a flickering firefly, burshed by the touch of a wild gypsy spell...has heard the cry of a loon...has been loved."

So beautifully and stirringly said ... that is our Cancerian-Linda in Love...the victory of fear has been won ... the confidence role has begun ... the summer is deepening and an awareness now comes a-creeping of oneself...the joy of being...of loving oneself...stand up straight and tall...superior and regal amongst all...that is Cancer matured and wise...sure and safe...no need to hide...

The Moonlight in Summer is rich and warm and full...the moonbeams reflect the Sun...and shine on everyone...Moonlight never looked and felt so good ...

love
druid

Anyway, I think my post went something like this:

I do KNOW Linda! How could I not? I've known her since 1975....and even though it was a one way correspondence, she became my friend, baring her heart and soul in so many ways...
and her revelations were so imapactful, so life changing...that she can't possibly be gone......that she still LIVES.....her words are still there for me every day...advising me, amusing me, entertaining me, and enlightening me.....yes, even though they say she is gone, I KNOW SHE LIVES....
in the eternal now......

Linda, trail blazer that you are, you opened many new and wonderful doors for me.....

YOU GO, GIRL!

Peace and Love,
Rainbow~

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And something in Thomas' post (above) got me thinking how, for me, Linda was part of a generation of artists trying sincerely and passionately to increase the power of love in the world. I don't so much associate her with other book writers but with song writers like Neil Young (Do it in the name of love, Love and only love), John Lennon (All you need is love, Imagine, Mind games) and Cat Stevens (Oh, very young, what will you leave us this time? You're only dancing on this earth for a short while...) Ah, you know.

I think Gregory asked me back on the old incarnation of this thread to say something about my writing. But I was away from home on a borrowed computer. Now I'm back. And I guess the truest thing I can say about my writing is that I'm trying to join the noble bunch I've mentioned above! What they have given I love deeply, and I want to give from that level of soul, to provide the same type of nourishment. I am writing a story of transformation (all good stories are about transformation, aren't they?), and as I write I remind myself that to write well I must love the reader. Kind of the way you run this website, Gregory. With love for the members.

Cheers,
WriteOn

Dear RAINBOW - so Beautifully and TRULY Said!!!

Dear druid - Mon dear, you've been such a busy, Dazzling, SHINING, Bee!!!

My very Favorite [and I do love them ALL] from VENUS TRINES:

URANUS-NEPTUNE-PLUTO-
and Reincarnation

I'd like to give the world a Christmas present before I have to go

a pair of glasses
with multiple lens
to help the eyes see long ago
then you would know
the reason for the music

I JUST ADORE THIS ONE...

And speaking of the music - ALL MUSIC makes my thoughts Spiral.

Does anyone remember the song that has these lyrics -

I'M WISHING ON A STAR
TO FIND OUT WHERE YOU ARE ...

LINDA IS HERE, NEAR AND EVER DEAR

I FEEL HER ALL AROUND US AND HEAR HER SMILES

Much Love
essence

Good to see you Back!!!

Transformation is the Real ALCHEMY, so sounds like you've got QUITE a Book coming along ...

I used to LOVE Cat Stevens, he wrote many Beautiful and Deep Songs.

Much Love
essence

In its simplicity - here it is....

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TO LINDA

To Linda~~~~~~~~~
Goddess of the ethereal;
Empress of the Knowflakes;
My Guiding Light!

I humbly honor ewe
Grand Lady
who brought me out of the
darkness
and into the light
when
I was just me - wallowing in metaphysical
ignorance
existing in a ho hum life
when by chance -

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Now I'll admit - it looked interesting
and I was curious about signs
so I thought to my ho hum self,
Okay, so I'll read it and get a few hours of
entertainment, probably never to read it again.
Oh! Was I off the mark!
I did not know
that your magic book would change
my whole "ho hum life."
For trail blazer that you are -
Empress of the Rams and Ewes
ewe and your magic book
opened many doors for this
ho hum unknowflake person

Now after digesting all the
enlightening ingrediants of
that magic book
I could hardly wait
to learn how to do those
magic charts
which would reveal even more
For your magic book
piqued my third house
Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter,
curiosity
(although at the time -
this knowflake knew nothing
about third houses
or first houses
or any kind of house at all)

My teacher said that the 12th house
was the house of karma
Now pray tell, what is karma?
If you want to know about karma
read some books about Edgar Cayce
is what she said.......

So dear Linda, Empress of the Knowflakes
another new door is opened for me
and all because.....
I went through the door
that ewe opened for me
FIRST!

And oh yes, there is no doubt about karma
AND reincarnation, either.
It was all there in the many books
I read about Edgar Cayce
a man I never knew existed
until I enrolled in that astrolgy class
because of ewe

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THE ULTIMATE FRONTIER
(more about brotherhoods, and reincarnation and even Atlantis and Lemuria - and oh yeah,a couple sons and I even packed up and went to live in their spiritual community - for awhile)

THE SECRETS OF MENTAL MAGIC
(how to make your mind work better)

THE POWER OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS
(ditto)

and many many other books filled with
new and wonderous information
so now I was getting closer to getting
my Knowflake Degree.

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Empress Linda...Ewe've brought
so much fullness to my life
(I bow down to you)
and now - I've come full circle
For ewe presented me with more
and more magic books.

LINDA GOODMAN'S LOVE SIGNS
LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS
and the beautiful and magical
GOOBERZ

I knew I should be north
if I wanted not to lose
and to manifest a lost thing
if I seeded my mind
I felt your sorrow losing
the guy who rhymes with cider
and I can see ewe now
on that foggy Laguna beach
when he seemed to appear
and I felt your joy
at the love you found with the lion
I felt your lonliness
when he went away
for a long long time

RELATIONSHIP SIGNS
VENUS TRINES AT MIDNIGHT
and parts of your
TWELVTH NIGHT SECRETS
(and if I mind, maybe the rest will matter)

I thank you dear Aries!
for opening the door
so that I could enter a whole new world
a world that might not have been
if I had not come upon that first
magic book
which changed my ho hum life.
Thank you Empress Linda, Goddess of the Etheral

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Peace and Love,
Rainbow~

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Oh no, oh no! Why did I do that? (sometimes that goofy Mars in the first house makes me act as impulsivly as an Aries!!!)

I tried to go back and "clear the fields" but couldn't....oh dear....

When I wrote this big long thing about Linda, it seemed to make sense (to ME), cuz it was my life.....but I went out to dinner, and came back and looked at it, and felt awful, cuz I think it is awful...and not only is it awful....but there is SO MUCH of awful.....

Gregory if you want more room on this thread, be my guest and delete those six posts. (Before sombody really inspired and talented sees them), and thinks oh no! how corny....nobody WOULD tell me that, cuz everyone is SO wonderful here, but I know.

I feel like jumping in bed and pulling covers over my head...I mean if you're gonna make a boo boo Virginia, please don't do it in front of the world..or the world wide web....yikes!!!

*sigh*

peace and love
(rainbo)

It's hard to write this at the same time that I am imaging, praying, and wishing with all my might that Gregory will do no such thing! Corny?! Sacre bleu, je suis fou a lier! (Oops, sorry. Slipped out. Means, "Lord in butter, I am fit to be tied!")

Now please come out of those covers. That
sharing you did, those sparkling words, those
thoughts that stir. . .

What was it that Linda Goodman said in Star Signs? Oh, yes. That's it! Thank you, thank you, higher Elf!:

"Why, Rainbow! You're a bloody miracle! Could anyone among us have an inkling or a clue. . .what magic feats of wizardry and voodoo you can do?"

What you wrote, "corny?"! Why then, so are the Sistine Chapel, and the Mona Lisa, and Mozart, and Shakespeare! pshaw!criminy!
I cherished EVERY word.

Robert Chancellor

RC

LEAVE VIRGINIA ALONE!!!

Girlfriend, that was SO EXQUISITELY, HARMONIOUSLY, HEAVENLY AND QUITE - PERFECT!!!

I know I shouldn't 'speak' for all, so I'll only tell ya' that you took everything in MY HEART & in MY SOUL and put IT into Your Wonderful Words.

Your Inspiration & Devotion SHINE!!!

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You -

I Bow To You...

Much Love
essence

Of course your heartfelt pOeM is not long ... especially as its a sOng from your heart ... and it echoes mine too ... so thank you for your beautiful feeling so poignantly expressed in your words addressed to Linda ... certainly this belongs here for its all about Linda ... and you ... and us ... for you brought our how each knowflake felt in this "ho hum life" with nothing but strife ... till Linda walked in with the Love and Light ... dear Rainbow, never ever think anything you write may be trifle or trite ... because your simple, innocent and Magical soul touches me so ... and all the other Knowflakes you and I know ... Resplendent ... I love the description of you ... Robert sees you true ...

love you
druid
and a BIG WARM HUG for sharing such precious feelings and knowings with us ...

(At least, I can sigh in relief that I have a partner who writes a seemingly looong sooong ... )
This is the 1000th post ... Hip!Hip!Hurray!!!
oops ... 1001 ... I see dear wonderful essence around ... Hi there ... Essence ...love to you ... you witch

So noo, they're not going anywhere ... except straight to the heart. Or as one of WriteOn's (and my own) favorites would say, the "Heart of Gold." That IS what we're all searching for, isn't it? And here it is, beating so strongly ...

And WriteOn, I loved what you said about Linda being "part of a generation of artists trying sincerely and passionately to increase the power of love in the world." Right on, WriteOn!

All you WONDERFUL knowflakes have made me feel so very much better....truly you moved me to tears. Pisces tears....it's true I'm a goat, but I have Pisces stelliem, which includes the Moon....You are all SO wonderful!!! And I know you are sincere, which (*sigh*) gives me a little more confidence...

But truly, I did look back at what I'd done, and thought omigosh! This is not good at all, it's - well, as I said before corny. And if I could have taken it off the board, I WOULD have - truly! Lord knows, I tried...Thank you all so much for making me feel better about it......

and Robert.............to compare my childish jottings to the work of those MASTER artists..... Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Mozart, Shakespeare.........Oh Robert, I know you were trying to make me feel better, and you did....but you know what? Our dear Linda would be in league with them....don'tcha think???.....thank you for the encouraging words...you are a sweetheart....

Essence..............always there by my side, dear Pisces friend.....with the most wonderful compliments....How could I not feel better with the likes of you, and Robert and druid and Gregory here to boost my morale? Thank you so very much......

druid.....my cappy sister word druid.....you too, always so graciously accepting everything I scrawl or scribble....like Essence...always there by my side.....but then great mentors, always try to help their protegee to their feet when they stumble. Yes?............Thank you....

and Gregory.................so wise...giving more encouraging words to help restore my confidence....thank you, Gregory.....

Everyone's kind words gave me courage to go back on the board, and "fix" some stuff that needed fixing............might as well, since Gregory is going to leave it there....thank you Gregory....

Peace and love to you all,
an appreciative RAINBOW~

Calling your writing, "Childish jottings. . ."?!?!?! Jumpin' Jehosophat! Heavens and skies of the WISE and ALMIGHTY! (Sputter, splutter,double-take shudder!)

". . .And Jesus saith unto them,'Yea; Have Ye Never Read,' 'Out Of The Mouth Of Babes And Sucklings Thou Hast PERFECTED Praise?'"

Not my words, Rapturous Rhapsodical Rainbow, but His. (That you may see it yours-Elf, and not have to trust a bumbling bore such as I, please see Matthew 21:16 KJV.) I, for one, don't want to argue with that, anymore than I want to cross a Scorpio! Heaven forfend!

Robert Chancellor

We LOVE YOU and ALL that You WRITE

How could WE Not

YOU are Our RAINBOW QUITE !!!

Much Love
essence

Love & Peace,
Rainbow~

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Dear Seamistress

It never ceases to Amaze me the way all the Knowflakes express themselves - so Deeply HEARTFELT and Beautifully written at the Same time ...

And You, SPECIAL SEAMISTRESS, are no exception, you are TRULY TALENTED.

I just have to comment on your Precious pOst to SWEET RAINBOW because it is so WELL SAID, TRUE, LOVErly and pOetic, just like YOU ...

Much Love
essence

Hi There !!! Are you still Here ???

It is QUITE True - Such a SYMPHONY ...

Thank You For All YOU Do !!!

Much Love
essence

Looking through the eyes of LOVE ... LINDA on LEO in VENUS TRINES AT MIDNIGHT

The golden sun is shines down ... blazing in all its regal splendour ... the soul feels the warmth and reciprocates ... confident ... sure ... the soul walks out into the sun ... no more the uncertainty ... the phobias that came out at night is seen in all the bright light of Leo ... as nothing but mirages of a soul who didn't believe in himself/herself ...

The gait is elegant ... the air is regal and now the mastered look of the 4 stages of development clearly glows in this soul ... The lessons are learnt ... there is nothing more but to teach ... the soul is generous in forgiveness and feels a glow at the nobility that this soul carries ... well, quite like vanity ... well, almost ... Wearing the garbs of Leo with such grace ... this soul expects respect and admiration and most certainly love ... playing the casual lover with this soul just wont do ...

In LISTEN, SHY PUSSYCAT, THIS IS WHERE IT'S AT ... watch the typical Lion not mince words with perhaps ... Sag ... in "Let's get one fact straight, I didn't begin this charade in the shade this game...this unpredictable roundelay...this put-on...this pure and remarkable friendship upon which we're decidedly hung up in this particular century...You took me along to a three-ring circus and promised to buy me a pink balloon ... then you tricked me inside the funny house..." Although Linda may have aimed these remarks AT a Leo, her word clearly reflected the Lion in her ... ... nevertheless ... the message is clear ... No-one plays with regality and gets away with it ...

But Linda does ... as always ... the visionary sees through gentle (?) Lion's disguise, by looking into the Lion's eyes ... as in THREE LIONS ... "Eyes of an arrogant, but gentle stranger, eyes I once knew so well ... smile of a proud and intimate stranger..." that is Leo ... through Linda ...

Maybe so ... the Lion can be arrogant ... proud ... behave as a Stranger ... squashing any intimacy that once had been ... appearing cold and frigid ... yet, the Lion is made for Love ... and yes Lives for Love ... and can generously die for Love ... as did the Nazarene ... Linda knew the inner beauty of a seemingly ferocious Lion ... and the latent wisdom ... that is why she dedicated a truly powerful poem to Leo ... in A VALENTINE FOR LEO, WITH LOVE ... "Once upon a time there was this awfully ferocious Lion with a beautiful mane of long, curly hair, " What a splendid regal beginning ... and yet gently reminding with affectionate humour " who maybe was not always right though God knows he was never wrong" ... his royalty and his leadership "he didn't roar often, but when he did the stars hid behind the clouds and every animal in the jungle shivered and shook not only with fear but in awe of the King's majestic dignity" and so powerful was this Lion and so looked on by the others as a Leader ... all the animals decided to fight each other to the death for no special reason.. so, of course they had to have a leader who was courageous... and confident and ... noble ... who had "compassion for the weak" ... such is Leo Love and wisdom and nobility ...

(Just an important aside : This special pOeM ... A VALENTINE FOR LEO, WITH LOVE ... revolves around Jesus Christ ... a Leo ... )

That is Leo for all of us ... dear Leo ... in love ... is love ... doesn't this say so in by the word druid in LOVE ... LEO ... the EvOLved LEO in "VENUS EXPOSED" ... the LessOn of LEO finally understood through loving Venus ... "Pride, I impulsively tossed out the window when I called to tell you I was sorry" ...

The golden sun of the Leo heart brightens ... and lightens ... the summer is rich and rosy ... like LOVE ... the soul experiences the full bloom of a summer adolescent ... young, full of "joi de vivre" ... wise among the children soul ... the Lion rules ... regal and true ... so full of love for the self ... so full of pride in the I ... the soul realises with great depth ... his/her beauty with his/her reflection ... In LOVE with the self as Narcissus once was ... LEO ... do you hear the Lion's ECHO ? ...

love to you all...
druid

How wonderfully humbling it can be to see
something so beautifully put. It's like looking at the Grand Canyon or the star-filled night sky; beautiful and humbling.

Your servant,

rc

THANK YOU dear druid!

would Virgo be next!?

LOVE
Michael

OH YES, I Do hear the LION'S Echo ...

BELLA, BELLA, BELLA !!!

MUCH LOVE
essence

Our Quint-Essence (that's you, Essence, and don't you doubt it! ) has really said it. Thank you for the serendipitous words you share with us. They mean so much, perhaps more than you know.

Purposeful Peace,

Robert Chancellor

Thank you so much for this thread! I have had to think long and hard to try to put into words what Linda Goodman means to me.

She enlightens me to astrology, when I scarcely knew the word.

She teaches me Numerology when numbers were not heard.

She shows me "lexigram" and before I know,
I AM.

My "lion" does retreat, because she teaches me "LEAVE MEAT!" I left it then and there, and oh! what joy you share!

Thank you, rarest RAM. You teach me who I am. You teach us who we are...

Galaxies that see a single star.

(dear donating Druid33,
I am doting on this, thanks to thee!)

rc

bravo robert.. that was great.. truly echos your sentimental feelings about linda.. very encouraging to hear that you have left meat.. i should be doing that shortly..

did they put all the eggs in one basket when they made you..?? even if they did, i guess this one time they will be wrong about the adage of "putting all eggs in one basket"..

cheers..

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harmony with the universe

The soul has basked in the glory of love and the self ... the peak of LOVE has been recognised and the soul revels in the self ... now the climax subsides ... the soul gently glides back to fulfill other obligations ... there is so much love to share ... there is so much to be done and the soul seems to be anxious to make up for the "loss of service" to others ... The soul has satisfied the "ego" or the self in LEO ... now it is time to enter the polarity of the "self" - the "selfless" and as the soul progresses in this new light, the soul feels more joy in giving of love so selflessly by servicing ... a kind of justification or "full circle" to the earlier "phase" ... quite appalled at the earlier behaviour of revelling in the self and flamboyant love ... this soul must make up for the flaws ... must cleanse the self ... all pure and spotless ... so spotless as to see the reflection of the soul in another ... all Virgo ...

LEO the LION in LOVE tends to satisfy the passions of the flesh ... VIRGO the VIRGIN in LOVE seeks to purify those passions so as to blend the spiritual with the physical ... this time round, the soul is determined that the "animal" instinct must be removed at all cost ... the soul senses the existence of a higher plane than the physical and the clear imagination knows the joy of transcending and blending the two ...

Yes, Linda so flawlessly understands the evolved soul in VIRGO love especially in relation to the physical aspect ... as in "VENUS IN VIRGO OR VENUS IN ARIES" - just listen to LINDA's Virgo logic and purity towards sex "People who learn passion from a book ... can develop cardboard hearts and paper emotions which fool ... people ... but not anyone real ... I mean love has a rhythm too" and "to look at pictures of people reaching for the miracle of sex is like learning grief from watching Coretta King's face on television ... I look the other way" Pure and Passionate Virgo here on Sex. To Virgo Sex has to be blended with Love ... so intricately that you cannot separate one from the other ... it is Love that teaches one the miracles of sex as in "People teach each other sex and all those zones if love was meant to be between them to learn the words and music of their own, alone and private song together" Can you see Linda sparkling pure and true with such clear Virgo love ... just how many people feel this spiritually passionate where sex is concerned in today's world? No wonder dear Linda spread her magic of true love and spiritual sex - revealing her own love story for us to see and know and feel this love to be ETERNAL ...that one cannot love otherwise ...

Yes, most ofetn ITS NOT EASY TO PLEASE A VIRGIN since they seem to be looking for such perfect passion, such pure love ... but Linda appreciates and gently with subtle humour, makes us realise how we can Love the sterling qualities of Virgo and impart lessons to them as well, since all Virgo souls are sensitive to the truth they are so aware of this word druid themselves ... listen to Linda affectionately speak to Virgo ... "since you grumbled your way into my life with your Venus-in-Virgo slide rules and scales and measuring sticks of perfection" feel the transformation into a near-perfect soul as guided by Virgo ... "I seldom get excited unduly ... I'm on time for appointments ... my ego is smaller ... I've stopped smoking and eating bread ... I go to bed earlier and wiser. I don't argue with rude waiters, get impatient with slow elevators or know people down in the street to grab the first taxi ..." and yet, Linda gently urges us to convey to Virgo-in-Love about the "myth" of "perfection" ... for no matter what the imperfections be ... Virgo wants more than anything and that is ... honesty ... so "I'm sorry about falling a little short like that, its just that I have to save some pieces of myself in case I ever get bored with being so beautiful and clever and good and have to put the old me back together again" but also realising how much a Virgin can bring out the perfection in another soul "this me is maybe the most me of me I've ever known ... to be absolutely honest, as you've carefully taught me to be..." Linda so knew the Virgin and his/her love of the perfection ... so perfect that one has no more to look forward to ... no more to learn ... which can be no fun at all ... "straining emotions through a sterile sieve" that is Linda's message to each Virgin soul and sensing their worry or anxiety to perfect this flaw ... she gently adds ... "but you're improving" ... no flattery, no excess words, undue no emotional flow just a simple down-to-earth clear-cut message which Virgo will know and feel powerfully for and trust ... much more than he/she would ever do otherwise ...

If you are beginning to wonder if a Virgo love be sterile, just read what Virgo has to say about pure love and physical passion in "VENUSIAN VIBRATIONS" ... "couples prancing around nude ... are the last word in throbbing, sensual passion ... I saw two people in a crowded, noisy coffee shop holding eyes and touching hearts and knowing how soon and how deep but waiting just a little while longer ..." how much more passionate can passion get ... how much more clear and pure can love be other than in Virgo ...

Do you think this Virgin soul will ever catch fire ... yes, as in VENUS EXPOSED .. the gentle message from a passionate Virgo truly in love ... "frigidity melted forever the moment you touched me" ...

The Soul experiences the first stirrings of Autumn ... the sun has dipped far below ... there is a coolness and gentleness ... that clears and soothes ... the soul senses satisfication in a clear vision ... in perfection ... in the flawfless picture that is viewed ... the extreme left of the scale of "self" in the last incarnation is dipped to the extreme right of the "selfless" ... an atonement is made ... perfection never ends ... the soul of Virgo is ever-cleaning the debris ... but in the generosity of service, the Virgo further serves to emphasise the beauty of the last incarnation ... as LEO ... isn't then VIRGO a soft and pure echo of LEO ?

love to all
druid

I SEE the SHINING Scholar has Gently and Graciously waved her Wand, AGAIN ! !

Mon Dear druid,
How do YOU find the time to EVER and Always SHINE ???

Much LOVE
essence

Your posting on Virgo is as fresh, pure, brilliant and dazzling as virgin snow. How beautifully you write and KNOW.

Abundant Appreciation,

Robert Chancellor

In Love and Light
druid

I REALLY loved your composition on Virgo!
The purity of your prose appealed so much.
"It's not easy to please a Virgin" is a perfect example of the lessons Virgo can learn from Aries.
I remember the truth of that poem clicking in my mind the first time i read it,..my Virgo Asc doesn't mind hearing the Truth,..especially when it helps to bring me closer to prefection,..really though! I am improving!!!

Once again (it's TRUE!) you have the best of both worlds!

THANK YOU twice over,for the wonderful prose,..which speaks to the HEART,..just like Linda did!

Please do continue this cycle

Love
Michael

love to you, dear one
druid

What have we here ... after the karmic evolutions of the material ... coming full circle in Virgo ... the soul takes yet another spin on the wheel of Love... this time taking the essence higher ... with an idealistic soul such as Libra ...

Through the passionate courage of Aries and the patience and stability of Taurus into the verbal lightness of Gemini and the caring affection of Cancer with the generous warmth of Leo and the purity of Virgo ... the Libra soul in Love must balance to find true harmony ... The soul has borne witness to the extremes that Love can be ... constant stimulation can exhaust, routine stability can bore with lessons no more, constant verbal communication can confuse, Tenacity can tire and wither, Too much regal ice can freeze as too much of regal heat can scorch and too much rules and regulations can dour ... the soul sees it all ... the tipping of the scales wrings the nerves and produces one-sided souls ... Love is chaos then and to this enlightened Love is Peace ... beauty, peace, tranquility ... this is what this soul seeks to fulfill ...

As did Linda in her beautifully written pOeMs in VENUS TRINES AT MIDNIGHT... Venus, ruler of Libra, Goddess of Love, Aphrodite, Juno, you name this essence any word-druid and you come up with the same picture ... Love in its all its peace and beauty ... Love in all its harmony ... Love in Libra ...

Reaching beyond the realms of the material, the soul now searches for more of this wonderful gift, aware of the rich experiences awaiting and the rewards of infinite bliss ... yes, for this the soul must see further, must take a higher step into the realm of the spiritual ... it is entrancing ... and beckoning, the soul hears this siren's song and takes the first step ... the spirituality of Love is glimpsed ... and the chains of a restricted material life breaks ... yes - breaks ... even this Sign of Beauty and Harmony can break in the wake of Freedom ... and open Love's blinders as Linda says in "URANUS IN LIBRA CAN SHAKE UP MENDELSSOHN" "Marriage went out..not only that, it's a flop...a legal paper can't bind our hearts or keep them from breaking when one of us wants to go or when one of us plays the fool...by this time you should know that the indecent show of a wedding can't make you more my own that you are now..." yes, the Libra freshness for new ideas can stretch this soul's boundaries to fascinating yet logical territories ... yet, with all this spiralling freedom, Libra believes in the "two-makes-one" theory" ... and the logical wisdom behind this ... "I can teach you a lot about the dynamics of a relationship, like two people who don't have a mystical bond will run out of things to say to each other and that's the end of line with or without a license to make a mistake..." Linda through the Uranus-Libra evolved soul logically speaks to our hearts with a beauty one can't resist ... the Libran's "iron fist in a velvet glove" ... and the delicate-yet-spiritual truth that Love enlightens to this Libran soul ... "two people who have loved each other for centuries can never run out of emotional empathy at least, not during one lifetime and they make it through without anything borrowed or anything blue..."

Presenting this fragile spiritual truth that the soul experiences can be confusing to to the people who receive such wisdom as well to this soul ... Linda's awareness of this facet of the Libran comes through with a humourous touch in LIBRA IN LOVE - DECISIONS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS ... From the leap taken to enter the higher realm, this soul experiences the joy of pure idealism ... that stirs the heart more than any fiery passion or earthy practicality ... this soul loves the heart-warming touches of love and yet ... one must balance and not be rash ... idealism but not impatience and yet ... how impatient this Libran soul can get trying to decide the truth ... "Giving that man a job and a reason to live...was kind...I like you, setting that bird's broken wing...was beautiful, I love you...arranging the pose of a strange nude is crude...I hate you...Will you please send back my friendship ring and take your foot off my scales?"

However, when decision come to rest within the Libran soul in Love, the soul only enhances the beauty and sentimentality of true love ... so tender ... so touching AS Linda portrays in MOON IN LIBRA, GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY ... see this Libran evolved soul who truly believes in the other half and the beauty of change and sentiments that can stir a lover's heart ... with just the idealism ... pervaded with Libran charm and grace ... "when I think of you, I don't need the crutch of cigarettes or coffee to face the morning, when I remember you, I scold the dogs more gently if they climb upon my bed against the rules, because of you, I buy a bunch of violets every Tuesday...since knowing you, I haven't felt it necessary to win each game of chess I play, I notice lonely people more on holidays - like Christmas...I'm more compassionate and patient with fools who bore me even with one who ignore me." Yes, that is Libra ... growing wise with Love ... and the Magic that remains unseen yet deeply felt ..."I can't find any mention of this magic in the songs of Solomon, the sonnets of Shakespeare, Montaigne's essays or Walter Benton's poems...they wrote of friends, of lovers..."

Experiencing this spiritual aspect of Love, Libra senses, though confused, that Love is not just physical ... that the bond can touch deep within, without ever touching the lover's skin ... "We cannot call this love...we've never touched each other and perhaps we never will...we have only come as close as resting elbows on a sill...nor can we call this friendship...friends share tragedies and joy...our last communication was a postcard in July. Why, one of us could even die without the other knowing..." Yes, Libra not only senses this bond but also understands the meaning of being ... of Love still being and never changing when its true and ever-blue when experienced by Libra ... "you told me once if we never saw each other again it wouldn't make any difference, you didn't say it wouldn't matter, you said it wouldn't make any difference and did you know I understood the nuance? It was so long ago but did you know? ... The Libran soul comprehends the nuances of spiritual love...as so beautifully expressed by Linda ... and her Libran promise to all soulmates in URANUS IN LIBRA..."stop crying, I have a secret to tell you, you're not alone anymore ! Truly lovely heart-soaring words of peaceful joy for this Libran's soul belief in Love - the eternal idealistic kind !

The Autumn is beautiful with the beautiful hues of red, yellow and gold ... of a warm love and the cool winds just so the warmth doesn't get out of hand ... warm and cool in Autumn ... in the pink-gold of an evening sunset ... the heart of Libra soars with idealistic wings ... Love is all, this soul sings ... Love is truly all that this magical earth does bring to each living being ... Love ... honey-dipped and cream-whipped and topped with cherries a-plenty ... who can resist this ?

love to all
druid

Who can resist YOU, WISE SISTER !!! Naturally, I return to SEE that YOU, MON DEAR have only continued to SHINE SO FINE

I MISSED YOU SO, Pal O'Mine

Much LOVE
essence

Hello dear Knowflakes ...

Once more ... from VENUS TRINES AT MIDNIGHT ...

After all the Llibra love the soul experiences, the soft warm idealism, the peace, the tranquility, the airy spiritual essence ... the soul is tempered enough for passion ... yes, the soul hungers to feel the height and depth of such soulmate or twin self love ... the soul is so overfilled with the sensuality of the physical (as earlier experienced by Taurus) that the soul feels the need for spirituality and sensuality to blend ... to experience one-ness ... coupled with the Taurus sense of touch and Libra sense of beauty cleansed in Virgo purity, nutured by the Crab, elucidated by the twins, fired by the Ram and regalized by the Lion, this soul rises again, with a new awareness of LOVE ... Now in the water element, the soul must feel and explore this great mystery, though equally aware of the pitfalls one can experience, the soul ventures slowly but surely as the soul undergoes the new transformation ...

PLUTO MOVES SLOWLY BUT SURELY says our ever-knowing Linda, of passionate planet and her people, so aware and "enmeshed" in the soul's earlier incarnations of love, that now the approach is slow and sensitive ... yet passionate ... "I'd like to skip this passing storm with its violent thunder of knowing between lightning flashes of guessing and intermittent torrents of hurt..." Look at the expressive words that tell of this passionate soul ... "storm", "violent thunder" and "torrents" ... yes, this soul wishes the extreme experience ... losing the balance ... plunging into Love ... so much that at times ... the soul can become obsessed and suspicious ... "we're in that dangerous manic-depressive phase of giving each other emotional ink blot tests on public couches..." such be the case with the soul in Scorpio ... yet because of such an extremely passionate nature ... the soul underneath is very vulnerable (as it be the case of the powerful ... where the more good one is the more bad s/he can become ... the opposite holds in as much effect) ... the soul wields power in Love ... so far not experienced ... and with such commanding passion that brings awe and "forced" obeisance, the soul feels secure ... though is aware that this security be false and must constantly be alert like the "watchdog" to see that love doesn't fall ... "when one of us makes a Freudian slip we switch roles like two charming, but knife-sharp clever diplomats, each unwilling to commit himself for fear of an unexpected coup de grace..."

Such emotion, Linda wisely knows must be handled with fresh honesty to clear the clouds of obsession and clogged drains of suspicion which the soul experiences because of the extremes of this kind of Love ... for any other approach would be mild as this soul abhors weakness ... simply because the soul feels such under the clever guise of power ... "call me when it's time to surrender my strawberry always love ... I think I'll pass this next round of Russian roulette with words ..."

But such Love, as that of the Scorpion Soul, experiences the strange, the mystical and the spiritual ... in this "strange country of total love" (SCORPIO SILENCE IS GOLDEN) ... this soul reaches beyond ... and knows Love ... without a doubt ... "I would know you ... as surely as I would know the sent of the woods we walked from pine incense or sherry from scotch..." the sense of Scorpio is beyond ... in the unsaid ... the mysterious ... yet the knowing ... "...and I answer yes without words, I like this language, it's so honest an simple ad pure, we've spoken it with our eyes since the beginning " Dear Linda knew the experience of Scorpion Love ... for she felt this word-druid too ... just like each one of us, when we truly love ...

When Scorpio can gift a soul this kind of love ... then there is no doubt that Scorpio is vulnerable and fears being rejected for such immense passion ... that is why the soul is also over protective of the "spirit" within ... as Linda so knew ... of a hurt Scorpion and the need to "punish" the lover who has accepted such "LOVE" as a matter-of-fact ... taken for granted ... in "BUTTERFLY WILL GET HER REVENGE" ... "it would serve him right to reincarnate one fine day as a Virgo or a Pisces with an afflicted Venus and get mixed up with Butterfly again who, hopefully would reincarnate as a Scorpio with the Moon in Scorpio and Venus in Scorpio and a Scorpio Ascendant and Mars in Aries ... that would teach him a karmic lesson or two...

That is Scorpion outrage against unrequited love ... one rarely knows the depth of Scorpion hurt ... not even the lover who walks away ... who cannot cherish or even begin to understand the passion and reverence of such fierce and deep love ... that is why Scorpio has to deliver the same pain ... not in provoked retaliation, not in storming anger ... nor in hate, for a Scorpion is wise and s/he who is wise and has loved completely and passionately, knows that the opposite of love is not hate but indifference ... yes, this cool unruffled person outside with the burning rejected heart inside silently delivers the deadly "STING OF THE SCORPION" ... "your icy voice put out the starts, it cracked my heart and broke it in splinters, your tone as cold as Colorado winters...but I promise to soon forget...you'll feel the swift response of an equal...I'll drown you in pseudo-kindness and a casual friendly glance, I can almost imagine your blindness as I watch and wait for the chance to suddenly-cruelly-make you know how easy it was to let you go."

Yes, Scorpio may let go of Love at a very high cost, but the spirit remains unbending ... the spirit is strong and proud ... and passionate ... the soul has experienced such passion and power ... but the soul must learn to trust and let go of this passion, which has been acquired and understood after many incarnations that it is difficult to let go ... easily ... but a Scorpio weeps within ... alone, afraid to display weakness for the love of a Scorpio is deep, enigmatic and powerful ... and yes, total ... as Linda did feel for her twin, never you mind she is Aries ... she truly loves ... see her feelings Scorpio-explode in THREE GALAXIES-THREE ... "we hated gently, carefully as if we were someday to love. And now that you're gone, I'm free to cry at last and to know that I will be lonely for you and you for me through all the eternities before us..."

Such is Scorpion love, deep, total and passionate ... the revenge or the retaliation or the indifference of a Scorpion to Love is because of a rejection ... or a casual acceptance without understanding this soul's depth and beauty of a spiritual love ... there is no need to be afraid of Scorpio ... for if you look with sensitivity and true Love into A Scorpio Soul ... "you would know the reason for the music" ... of Love ...

Yes, the cool winds may have set in ... in tune with the soul's deeper search for a richer Love, that must face pain ... to gain ... but a Love in November will eternally remain ... if nutured with a few golden sunshine drops of trust ... then the Scorpio becomes an Eagle and soars ... taking love to places, never visited before ... revealing mysteries that remained since hidden ... crossing all territories forbidden ... by man ... not the universe ... who joyously welcomes such spiritual passion ... of a Scorpio-Eagle in Love ... yes, Miracles take place ... amidst the swirlings of a frosty November Morn ... at dawn ... if you look closely enough ... tingling-aware ... you'll know "where Eagles dare"...

love to all you knowflakes ... druid ...

Well? For the heaven's sake, don't leave us dangling! I trust Sagittarius is next?

rc

Hurry back! ! !

Love and peace,
Rainbow~

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miss you druid

Lots of Love
Seamistress

druid.. we are suffering Withdrawal Symptoms!

Hurry Home!....Wherever you are, I hope you are having a WONDERFUL TIME.

An Abundance of Blessings
Crystal.

All this DESIRE, for you to appear, will surely bring you nEAR, altho I do reCAll that all along yOu have been right HEAR !!!

MUCH LOVE PAL O'MINE
I DID Miss the way yOu
SHINE
essence

DEAREST ROBERT, RAINBOW, CRYSTAL, GALI, SEAMISTRESS AND ESSENCE ... ITS SO WONDERFUL TO BE BACK AND THANKS FOR REACHING OUT !!! ... though if I go missing for a couple of days ... I WILL BE BACK ...

AND MY DEAREST ESSENCE ... I AM HEAR ... BUT YOU KNEW IT AND I KNOW THAT YOU KNEW IT ... YOU ARE TRULY DIVINE ... WITH ALL YOUR SMILES AND EMOTIONAL SUNSHINE ...

Love to you all ... druid

WWWWWHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

IIII'MMMMMM FFFLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYING!!

MAGNIFICENT! I see and hear Linda in you all. OPTIMISM AND DREAMING.........

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

How DIVINE. THANK YOU ALL,
Annie

Hi Galadriel!!

Funny you should say I'm silly/crazt. Generally, I'm QUITE serious. But with all those LOVEly words on TRUE LOVE....well, I just got swept away!!!!

I do love to DREAM and can sometimes get a bit down, you see I'm a Pisces, with a Libra moon, and Venus, Jupiter, some say Mars in Pisces and a Pisces ascendent.

So there's nothing like a tale of TRUE LOVE to spiral me UP UP and AWAY. Sometimes I forget to come down at all!! Who could blame me, though!!

Back down with my feet on the ground,
Annie

LOVE to ALL

Mon DEAR druid

I for ONE and ONE for ALL am awaiting you to SHINE on Sagittarius, like only yOu can, with BELLS ON

MUCH LOVE
essence

thought this poem would belong here as well after all..

well here's one version from me about
WHO ELSE BUT THE LADY HERSELF..

-'--,--{@ "LINDA GOODMAN" @}--,--'-

IN A LAND LAID IN DOOM,
Where MAN DID MOAN,
Came the MAID of the MOON,
With her DOGMA of NO DOOM..

IN MIND we did GAIN
GOOD, as our AIM MAIN..
Us, she DID AID,
By the stars DOGMA she LAID..

I was in mind a NOMAD
She said, fear not my LAD,
You ain't MAD
As says your DAD..

This is but a MAN made DOMAIN
In which you shall not remain
Once your destiny you O'DAIN
And your fears you have slain

Let your heart not AIL,
Your DOOM you shall NAIL
In this you shall not fail
If you read your MIND's MAIL

Think and act as a GOOD MAN
Rather than a so-called GODMAN
Don't let them your spirit MALIGN
With yourself you must ALIGN

LOAD your MIND's GLAND
And into yourself travel INLAND
Fear not my LAD
You shall but be GLAD

happy LANDING..

Cheers
Hach Winik

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harmony with the universe