Rick DiClemente's January 2011 Starself Astrology Newsletter

[Ricochet21]

No, you can't get rid of me that easily!

Happy New Year Everybody!

(I have to take the time to write these things! Lol)

A New Astrological Year From an Old Astrological Seer

As this next year draws near
Passing the old calendar year
With resolutions at hand
Will they make my life clear?

Did you cast your natal chart?
Memorize your symbols from the start?
So, are you an incarnation
Of Napoleon Bonaparte?

Will a new planetary formation
Bringing peace to my nation?
Will the planets play nice?
What are the indications?

So much corruption, Hail Mary
Help us maintain the discovery
As we cure from within
In hopes of recovery

Oh, how full is my plate?
Isn’t something rising of late?
To guide my nativity
From my misaligned fate?

Just what’s made us think?
On the Milky Way’s brink
That only we aren’t in space?
Like some special missing link?

This science of stars
Needs to visit the name-czar
For a more fitting term
Than the Sun-sign that you are

To think it could be so neat
Lined in a dozen discrete
Filed and contained
But so far from complete

Planets always point true
Not in the stead of Mon Dieu
A séance of mystics
Somehow guide us through

Just how long will it last?
This empyrean impasse
Will I find some accord?
Or another smartass?

Oh, the question of the blues
Solely designed just for you
Oh how we do strain
To find ourselves in the clues

And then it gets hard
Like we need just one more card
What matter could it be?
If it’s Venus or Mars?

What difference does it make
If Pluto causes quakes?
Can Saturn’s icy-cold-rings
Numb my pains and my aches?

The second house Moon
With my birth-time near Noon
Does it matter so much
If I were born in Rangoon?

This crazy Astrology
With its flaky terminology
Often sounds so befuddling
Takes a Masters in Theology!

Just what’s in your head
When you rise from your bed?
Has the Moon just turned full?
Or did Neptune dream you were dead?

Well what is the prediction
For our latest predeliction?
Will Jupiter intercede?
Or more Saturnian restriction?

It’s just maddening to try
To make sense of any sky
Or find guidance from the stars
As once did Captain Bligh

O, now “What is your sign?”
That ole sad pick-up line
Do you get a leg up?
Ending up entangled & supine?

Exactly where is my soulmate?
The man of my fate
Can you see, is he handsome?
How about a reduced rate?

I just read my horoscope
I tell ya, I feel like a dope
For taking this seriously
Guess I’ll just have to cope

Mercury is retrograde
Will my travels be swayed?
Maybe miss my connection
And end up in Belgrade

Of course there’s the Moon-void-of-course
A disjointed lunar force
If I get started now
Will I be filled with remorse?

What of my transits and my progressions?
During this endless recession
Am I destined to toil?
And face repossession?

Or will my karma keep me tied
To these chains from inside?
Am I doomed to repeat
Like Jeckyll and Hyde?

Or will my Yin start Yanging
Feng Shui, Sturm und Dranging?
What of my Chi and my prana
Woo-woo talk, New-Age slanging?

Just what of my insurance?!
Don’t test my endurance!
Before I start my own bid-ness
I’ll need reassurance!

You see I need a signed guarantee
That my future will be free
From surprises and worries
What if I get hepatitis-B?

Found an unscrupulous psychic
Said all would be fine without my old sidekick
As the meter kept ticking, the fee it kept rising
Cost more for each mouse-click!

Can it be found in the I Ching?
Or in tea leaves from Bejing?
Is my secret in my numbers?
Don’t say the Born-again Right-wing!

Simplicity somehow has been lost
And I wonder, just what’s been the cost?
I think we might have been better
When we just kept our fingers crossed

Well, it’s been a pretty good reading
I hope I wasn’t misleading
When I said there was promise
I do hope your family keeps breeding

Yet we look up to see
The latest heavenly decree
Still the Sun rises and sets
On this archetypal jubilee

They tell us and they shout
Of inner truth coming from without
And we hear but we’re deaf
Still resigned to our doubt

Just think, explaining and teaching
And calibrating and reaching
And all just to find
It’s “Be yourself!” I am preaching!

Just for ONCE I would likey
Some peace in my psyche
For it sure has been futile
During my latest sympathy strikey

So, from I to my quill pen
I entreat unto heaven
And verily offer you blessings
For two-thousand eleven



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[OneGrassRoot]

1. That poem totally ROCKED!!!

I thoroughly enjoyed that -- soooooo witty you are!

:yourock:

:applause:

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:


HAPPY NEW YEAR, DEAR SIR!

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[Ricochet21]

3. Thank ye Grassrooter

happieth neweth yeareth to youeth tooeth

I need a drinketh!

What the helleth, we hafta hav funeth once in a whileth too!

Toot toot! I love your worship gif!

[Saokymo]

2. That poem is truely awesome.

Thank you for taking the time to write it! ^_^

Happy New Year, everyone! Something tells me that this will be a very interesting ride for us all.

[findrskeep]

4. Well I guess this answers....

Kimmerpixelated's question as to where Rick's been...LOL. I would have been gone for YEARS trying to write THAT! Bravo Mr. Rick and Happy New Year everyone!!!

[Ricochet21]

5. Bravo to you the brav one

How is it up yonder?

Happee Noo Yeer too yoo! :hi:

[findrskeep]

6. It's almost tropical up here....

47 degrees! And the snow is a meltin' lol.

[glinda]

7. Awesome. Thanks for that gift! 2011 is going to be wild.

[Howler]

8. OMG!!!!!

That was magnificent Rick!!!
I so can't wait for you're book!!!!!
You writer you poet, you author you.:headbang: :yourock: :applause: :woohoo: :patriot:

[Ricochet21]

9. It's all the

power of the tie-dye tshirt

[Howler]

13. NO Rick!

Its your pure talent! ERRRRR TALENTS.
You wove questions and conversations on this board into a wonderfully universally wise poem that was witty,warm,and healing.
DUDE! You channel the BIG light !!!

[Howler]

14. UMMMMMMMMMMM.............

Though I can honestly say My Tie Dye does rock! LOL!
Thanks for the nod Rick.

[kimmerspixelated]

10. Oh, empyrean impasse!!!!

Greetings Ricochet Poet!

This is wonderful! It appears you may have gotten some things off your chest! No kidding, this is truly fine.

Happy NY to you, too!... I HAVE to tell you something that happened to me, hopefully not a long-winded story, but here goes:

We were shopping, browsing a book store when we came to a bin of pretty journals on sale. Well, I hesitated because I have a few at home for various serious writing projects I'm working on. Sequel to my children's book, collection of poetry(The one I'm really excited about), novel in progress, ...you get the idea..well, I picked out the one with the most beautiful colors, and when I brought it home, I first didn't quite know which project to continue with or new project to start,and I didn't really want to use it like a personal diary (I know, weird, huh?) and then Rick-IT HIT ME-I hate to say ton of bricks, being cliche, but it was big and loud!

KIM: WRITE A LONG LOVE POEM TO YOURSELF!! All the missed love, spent on pleasing others.

And... I have been devoting a most luxurious time to MY LOVE POEM (or collection) and I am struck by the fact that this seems to be exactly what you were saying about this sweeping change that started, right? Ahhh! Synchronicity, etc., you gotta love it!

[Ricochet21]

12. Great

It's all hitting us in different ways. And this is one reason people don't believe in astrology. I don't blame them.
They don't back up far enough with a wide-angle view to see the commonality in the archetypal shift that is happening. It is easy
for me to see because I see it everyday and it is my specialty.

I like the love poem to yourself
How wonderful that is
Happy New Year! :smoke:

[kimmerspixelated]

15. Yes, I thought you'd like that!

Cheers!

[Cleita]

11. That needs music.

Awesome and Happy New Year!