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For me astrology is a philosophical system. It is also a taxonomy and it helps organize and focus my thinking. They only limit it has is those the practitioner brings to it.

Thank you, Delano, for taking the time to analyze the info I shared with you. Your feed back was very thought provoking. In the meantime, I have been doing some deep soul searching, ever aware of how long I have lived and how at my age, how little time I have left. I find it interesting that after I mentioned how I was troubled by not being able to describe myself in one word, or to pinpoint a time in my life when I was happiest, that suddenly the anwers to these 2 questions popped into my head. The one word I'd use to describe myself is "skeptical". And in all honesty, nothing in my life has ever made me deliriously happy. Any elation I have experienced can be measured in minutes, and oddly enough such brief euphoria is always inspired by things or events but never people. (The answer to something that eludes me suddenly popping into my head, is how my brain is wired.) The only time my feminine side surfaces is when I interact with a male I find appealing. I am not domestic, nurturing or maternal. When called upon out of necessiity to be these things, I consider it an obligation. I am also very hypercritical, especially of people who I am expected to be in awe of. I appreciate anybody who is articulate and witty. I am intrigued with irony andn the power of words. I dislike superficiality and materialism and maudlin sentimentality. I love bargains. I am at my creative best when I am called upon to improvise. I am content living alone in close quarters where everything I need is within arm's reach and this is how I now exist in the cave I have forged out in my daughter's home. Finally, I am very aware that nobody gives a damn about hearing all of this about me.

I like life a little on the edge, Delano. When my husband was away in the Air Force, I lived right down the street from an American Legion club. On week-ends, when I didn't feel like watching TV and wanted to wiitness some live action, I would often go there and sit at the bar.The atmosphere was rowdy, the chicks brazen, and the dudes sly. I never had to buy a drink. They were always bought for me. I encountered a broad selection of people and the conversation I engaged in with the street "niggas" was just as interesting as that of the better class patrons. Any time things got too out of hand, I would get the hell out of there and beat it back to where I lived, racking up another fun night out on the town. Later on, while curled up in bed it wasn't unusal to hear police sirens and occasionally gun shots emanating from this hot spot. "No fools, no fun", I always say.