Mortal Madness

Mortal Madness

Mortal Madness - by Sandy L. Crowther CVA

I got to reflecting on the characteristics of how enlightened people seem to exhibit a presence of peace, and handle themselves in such a dignified and respectable manner. It was then that I had a real light bulb moment about how unfair being burdened with a certain lagna can really be. Is life fair?

Enlightened people do the enlightened thing…They deal with the provocations in life by concentrating, undisturbed, on their own work. They leave others alone and do not waste their time challenging them. They never get involved in any battle with those who lack the mannerisms to behave themselves in a decent manner.

Now me, being a Pisces rising and the owner of a chart invested with 5 (potential) planetary troublemakers, I still have the tendency to gravitate toward the “self-medicating” approach of dealing with life’s little provocations. So since my chart has me dealing with 5 inimical choices, versus only 4 auspicious choices, sometimes it’s just easier to let the side with the most weight win the battle. So here is my formula for dealing with any malfunctioning manic mayhem that occurs from time to time in life, and my choice for micro-managing my malefics:

Make myself a latte (either french vanilla or hazelnut)
Get out the jar of Jelly Belly’s (gourmet jelly beans) and attack with a vengeance, while selectively picking out the juicy pear, toasted marshmallow, and buttered popcorn flavors.
Malfunction big time for the next 24 hours, while simultaneously exhibiting maniacal behavior towards my spouse for even innocently and accidentally digesting a juicy pear jelly belly and then making a comment about how he likes the tutti-fruitti flavor the best.

So astrologically – here is my take on my lifelong challenges with Venus:

Venus is a functional malefic in my chart. Venus likes to feel good, likes pleasure, luxury, gourmet items, and particularly loves and is very attached to sugar, but anyone with half a brain knows that excessive sugar is poison. The 2^nd house rules food and Mars lords my 2^nd. Mars is a functional benefic, but rendered powerless to help me out because he is weak and badly placed in the 6^th house of struggles, associated with natural food lord, Moon, and disposited by my debilitated Sun - who gives no soul help to me when it comes to sugar because he is disposited by the sweet little troublemaker, Venus. So although the Sun is weak and uncomfortable, he acquiesces to the rules of the lord and master’s house, Venus, (because he’s too old to argue about it - Sun in old age) and goes ahead and eats what he is served.

Sugar.

Now Venus knows better. She is disposited by the master of knowledge, high ideals, and wisdom, Jupiter – but because she is a chart functional malefic, she just won’t listen to good sound advice. She wants the final say and power – so she has nicely positioned herself in the 10^th to assure herself of that position and final say. So when Mercury (who is malefically combust) starts putting ideas into the Sun’s head about going after the sugar to self-medicate, the denigration of strength fully begins, and a full blown sugar coma is induced.

This is especially difficult to deal with at those times when the transiting Moon is aspecting Venus, transit Venus is conjunct the EBM (equal bhava madhya - midpoint) of the 1^st, and transiting Mars is conjunct it’s dispositor and current bhukti lord, Sun. Then there’s the divisional charts – but I won’t go there today.

So please bear with me – If I seem a little on edge on certain days, feel free to ask about my sugar intake. I may not answer or I may jump down your throat – but remember its all in the spirit of dealing with life’s sweet little pleasures – Venus.

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