Letters from Luna

July 9, 2011

My Dearest Friend,

It’s been a while since we last talked. I’ve missed you, and not a day has gone by when I haven’t thought of you…

The last few years of my life have been challenging – a divorce, a move, reinventing myself as a single mom. I find myself physically and emotionally exhausted, deep in the heart of an astrological mid-life crisis.

Mid-life crisis – (n.) a wild urge to shatter the life you know. A clarion call resounds deep in the psyche, and we must embark on a quest for meaning and purpose. On the well-trod pathless path, we find utter chaos and breathtaking beauty. Dante’s Divine Comedy begins thus:

When I had journeyed...

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July 15, 2009

My Dearest Friend,

Where is the summer going? Can you believe the ISAR astrology conference in Chicago is only five weeks away?  I can’t wait to see you and our other astrologer-friends!

You know I adore Chicago – the restaurants, the planetarium, the museums. My husband was just telling me about the new glass balcony at the Skydeck of the Sears Tower, where you can stand on the glass floor and see 1,353 feet straight down. A news story I read said the idea to build...

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July 10, 2009

My Dearest Friend,

This morning before dawn I sat at my desk, bleary-eyed, waiting for the tea to steep. I was contemplating the astrology charts for the day’s lunatweet. A Moon-Jupiter-Neptune triple conjunction in Aquarius, what does that say to the world?

As I let my mind wander, I remembered a scene from my childhood. When I was 11 years old, I set the school record in archery. Only thing is, before that day, I’d never picked up a bow.

It was a school fitness day; races and other athletic contests filled the schedule. Archery stations were set up on one corner of the playground. It looked like fun, so I wandered over to try it. The gym teacher showed me how to hold...

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June 22, 2009

My Dearest Friend,

I’ve just careened through another crazy-busy week. Just a few items on the to-do list: incorporate the Astrological Society of Austin, launch an astrology news website called Astroluxx, and plan the Living La Vida Luna astrology class. There’s been a flurry of meetings, paperwork, lawyers, emails, marketing reports, phone calls, text and IM messages. Plus all of life’s other daily dramas. My mind whirls.

At the end of the week, exhausted, I curled up on the bed for an afternoon...

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June 14, 2009

My Dearest Friend,

In a near-universal suburban ritual, my husband and I leave the house in the morning to our various destinations – he the commute to work, me to drop off our daughter at school then back home to my office.

One morning last week, we left the house at the same time. As we drove down the neighborhood thoroughfare, cars side-by-side, my daughter could see her dad waving at her from the truck.

“Daddy!” she cried.

At the stoplight came the inevitable parting of the ways.  I blew him a kiss.  He turned left and I turned right.

In the backseat, my daughter burst into tears.

“What’s wrong sweet?”
“Daddy went away!”
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