Yes,I am gap-toothed;it suits me well I feel,
It is the print of Venus and her seal.
So help me God I was a lusty one,
Fair,young and well-to do,and full of fun!
And truley,as my husband said to me
I had the finest quoniam that might be.
For Venus sent me feeling from the stars
And my heart's boldness came from Mars.
Venus gave me desire and lecherousness
And Mars my hardihood,or so I guess,
Born under Taurus and with Mars therein.
Alas,alas,that ever love was sin!
I ever followed natural inclination
Under the power of my constellation
And was unable to deny,in truth,
My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
The mark of Mars is still upon my face
And also in another privy place.
The Wife of Bath's Tale- Chaucer
Good Morning PoYi,
The tale continues.
Who called the lion savage?Do you know?
By God,if women had but written stories
Like those the clergy keep in oratories,
More had been written of man's wickedness
Than all the sons of Adam could redress.
Children of Mercury and we of Venus
Keep up the contrariety between us;
Mercury stands for wisdom,thrift and science,
Venus for revel,squandering and defiance
Their several natures govern their direction;
One rises when the other's in dejection.
So Mercury is desolate when halted
In Pisces,just where Venus is exalted,
And Venus falls where Mercury is raised,
And women therefore never can be praised
By learned men,old scribes who cannot do
The works of Venus more than my old shoe.
These in their dotage sit them down to frowse
And say that women break their marriage-vows!
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Glad you like your VE/MA,PoYi.
Above all other men may God confer
His blessings on that wise astrologer
Sir Ptolemy who,in his Almagest,
Has set this proverb down: "Of men,the best
And wisest care not who may have in hand
The conduct of the world."
Jerry.
Thank you for this thread,Ptolemy.
[SIZE=-1]"I don't believe in astrology - I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical"ARTHUR C. CLARKE[/SIZE]
First cause of motion,cruel firmament,
Driving the stars with thy diurnal sway
And hurling all from east to occident
That naturally would take another away,
Thy crowding force set in heaven in such array
That this her first,fierce journey must miscarry
Any Mars will slay this marriage,if she marry.
O thou unfortunate oblique degree
Of the Ecliptic,whence the cadent Mars,
Thrust from his proper angle,helplessl
Falls into Scorpio,darkest house of stars!
O lord of war,whose influence debars
All hope!O feeble Luna,vainly knit
To him,thrust forth from where thou shouldest sit!
And O imprudent Emperor of Rome,
Is one time like another in such case?
Haddest thou no astrologer at home
To chose the favourable time and place
For journeying? For one of such high race,
Whose hour of birth was known to thee? But O,
We are,alas,too ignorant or too slow.
The Man of Law's Tale- Chaucer
Good Evening PoYi,
You said
"How come the things you wrote here constantly reminding me about my whole chart?"
There are more things in heaven and earth,PoYi
Shakespeare
I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are DREAMED of,or can be DREAMED of,in any philosophy.
J B S Haldane - Possible Worlds and other Essays.(Scottish mathematical biologist)
Mars return,Pisces rising,your natal 7th comes to Ascendant,natal Asc on return 7th.
Jerry.
Good Evening PoYi,
You said
"How come the things you wrote here constantly reminding me about my whole chart?"
There are more things in heaven and earth,PoYi
Shakespeare
I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are DREAMED of,or can be DREAMED of,in any philosophy.
Jerry.
Poyi,
I am interested if you ever come into contact with the indigenous people of Australia?
A time to plant,and a time to pluck up which is planted;a time to kill,and a time to heal.
Solomon
Jerry.