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[shadowkat]

1. Finished watching The Night Manager based on the John Le Carre novel and starring Olivia Coleman, Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Fred Darsham, and Tobias Menzies. It was quite good. And more than lived up to expectations. Heavily rec'd by my flist and my mother.

The story is about a British Iraq Veteran who agrees to infiltrate an arms dealers business after the arms dealer in question has the woman that he loved beaten death. After watching this, I can well understand why they want Tom Hiddleston to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond. Hiddleston reminds me a great deal of Craig, similar look and acting styles.

Like most Le Carre stories, it's far more convoluted than it appears. While Jonathan Pine, the veteran is working to take down the arms dealer, Dickie Roeper, Olivia Coleman's Angela Burr is fighting British intelligence heads who are aiding Roeper and lining their own pockets in the process.

2. All week long I felt irritable, until today - so I think there was something buzzing in the air.
A negative energy of sorts...which has now dispersed. According to astrologers, four planets are in retrograde at the same time.

Now Neptune is in Retrograde. I honestly don't know what it means. I'm not an astrologer.

Either that, or I need to tweak my diet and eat less nuts with salt. Could be too much sodium?

Weird dream last night, woke up yelling at my brother in my head that he shouldn't care what others thought of what he watched or enjoyed. If he loved a certain television shows over others. In the dream, he was a teenager, and had a collection of DVDs, but was getting rid of them because he was afraid of what others might think.

3. I need to buy a new arm chair, but I keep procrastinating. Any one living in NYC know a good place to look at armchairs, preferably not IKEA? Mainly because IKEA often ships them disassembled and I require it assembled. Also, I can't get to IKEA easily. And IKEA intimidates me...it's the Costco of furniture stores. Or Walmart. I don't do Costco or Walmart, I find them overwhelming.

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I know you actually don't care, but I can't help myself

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

From astronomy (I presume it's the same in blithering nonsense astrology). All the currently approved 8 planets go the same way around the sun in a flattish disk like Saturn's rings. For most of the year from the Earth they appear to be traveling the same direction across the background of the distant stars. However, the outer planets, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, have much longer years than Earth. So every Earth year, the Earth passes between each of those planets and the sun. While the Earth is passing, those outer planets appear to be going backward compared to the distant stars (so-called retrograde motion). When the Earth has moved far enough ahead those planets appear to be moving forward again.

When people were insisting the Earth was the center of the universe, apparent retrograde motion required some pretty complicated explanations for how it worked. Once Copernicus was brave enough to insist the Sun was at least the center of the solar system, it became a fairly simple matter of drawing circles for the planets' orbits on paper and using a straight edge to show how the line of sight from the Earth affected what it looked like the outer planets were doing.

So 'in retrograde' is a fancy way of saying the Earth is passing between the sun and those planets.

RE: I know you actually don't care, but I can't help myself

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Well, it's more than that actually... it's about energy or a more scientific way of putting it, the gravitational pull between planets. When the Earth passes between the sun and those planets, there's a difference in the gravitational pull, or physics between them, which granted is rather slight. Similar to the phases of the moon and tides, and the pull on the tides. Some people are sensitive to this stuff, some aren't. I don't know why. It's like changes in the weather, some people are sensitive to changes in the weather, some aren't.

I'm not an expert in this. So that's a rather loose interpretation by memory. And I'm too lazy to hunt for a more detailed explanation on the internet.

Yes, astrology sounds silly, mainly because the people who write it think metaphorically not literally, and if you think literally not metaphorically well...it will seem like nonsense. But it's really about energy and the view that we are all connected to each other and the universe and all life on this planet, and when things shift and change, that has an effect on us as well. (Sigh, effect vs. affect still makes me crazy.)

As for my own irritability? It's that time of month. ;-)