Mandy Patinkin And Bernadette Peters At Pete’s Tavern In New York.

“I was the product of an affair.  My father had sex with my mother once, and she hadn’t even told him about the pregnancy.  So he never knew I existed.  I was an only child.  I was desperate to connect with my identity.  But I had no way of finding him because my mother remembered his name incorrectly.  It wasn’t until I became an adult that I was finally able to track him down.  The first time we met, he sat in a chair, pulled out a cigar, and said: ‘I was expecting you to be a boy.’  It turns out that he’d had a son while he was in college, and he’d given that child up for adoption.  Somewhere out there, I had a brother.  I grabbed a napkin and wrote down all the information my father could remember.  But it wasn’t enough.  I couldn’t locate my brother.  Soon I got busy with my family and my mind moved on to other things.  Then two years ago I was on Ancestry.com, and I got a ping.  It wasn’t like: ‘Oh, here’s your brother.’  But it was a match of some sort.  And I’m really good at investigating that stuff, so I found him on Facebook and sent him a message.  After we confirmed things with a DNA test, Eric and I hit the ground running.  We call each other ‘brother’ and ‘sister.’  We’ve visited each other’s families.  We look alike.  We think alike.  I’ve shared my poetry with him.  He shares his music with me.  We’re both divorced, and middle-aged, and experiencing similar things.  So there’s so much to talk about.  We have these text conversations that last all morning.  I’m not that same teenage girl anymore—desperate for connection.  I don’t have a void that I’m trying to fill.  But he’s just been such a nice addition to my life.  I love having a brother.” #quarantinestories

QUICK RANDOM BREAKDOWN

MARS PC PLUTO CONJ. ASC SAGITTARIUS

Ego has been boosted today

SAGITTARIUS RISING

- by first glance people might find your legs/thighs/butt sexy

- exuberant and sunny disposition that people find attractive (girl next door type)

- big dazzling smile/playful smirk

- playful and teasing when first meeting people (especially people your attracted to)

PLUTO CONJ. ASC

- sexy, deep, alluring stare

- when first meeting people you have an noticeable intense presence (especially to people who are attracted to you)

- rbf

- dominating or you just simply demand respect in your glance and how you present yourself

- bratty

PLUTO 12H

- being private about your sexual experiences/sexuality

- people might be curious as to what you’re like in bed

- dark secret sexual fantasies

- very passionate behind closed doors

- potential imposters syndrome when it comes to how you preform and how you appear sexually

And yes this is my placement in my chart 💋

- ⚜️💫⚜️

“My parents split up when I was seven, so my grandmother was the one stable thing in my life. She’d cook me dinner, tuck me in bed, then put on her nurse’s uniform and go to work. She was already 65 by then, but somehow she’d still find the energy to cook me breakfast when she came home. She understood me. We shared secrets. Both of us tended toward melancholy, and she made me feel OK about that. We also had similar weaknesses. Oma put everyone else before herself. My grandfather was abusive and abandoned her. But when he got cancer in his old age, she told him: ‘Come back home Joe, I’ll take care of you.’ She nursed him until he died. That’s the kind of person she was. Christmas was always a huge deal for her. It was the main reason she kept working. She’d save up all year for it. Each of her grandkids would get twenty presents, and they’d be stacked to the ceiling. Unfortunately her health was never great because she smoked her entire life. And when I visited her in December of 2017, she was in horrible shape. She couldn’t walk more than a few steps without gasping for air. I remember carrying her up the stairs and putting her to bed. I read her books from my childhood. And she hated every minute of it, I’m sure. Because she hated being cared for. When our time was finished, and I was walking out the door, she told me: ‘Nick, I love you so much. And please don’t tell anyone, but this is the last time you’re going to see me.’ I cried the entire way to the airport. And three days later she died. It was the week before Christmas. My entire family flew to her house for the funeral, and there were tons of presents, for every child and grandchild, perfectly wrapped and placed under the tree. But I was too heartbroken to go. And I think she anticipated that. Because on December 23rd I received a package. It was postmarked the day that she died. Inside was a bottle of holy water, a rosary, and a card that said: ‘Right now you probably feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders, and it’s going to come crashing down. But keep going. We all have a purpose in life. And one of the reasons you are here was to bring some happiness into mine.’”

Pluto conjunct/opposite ascendant - the invincible child

I did an overall pluto-ascendant in obs. 4 and this is a more in depth observation. pluto-ascendant is strongest in conjunctions and oppositions (up to 10°). It directly influences the native's character and life journey. Whatever the ascendant is, the native may appear or act like a scorpio rising but even more visibly especially if they have scorpio placements elsewhere. These aspects give so much inner strength and stamina, depth of character and unique wisdom. Pluto natives possess a lot of power that may be displayed outwardly even if the native is quiet, or if other placements reduce or balance the intensity, people still intuitively sense that there's more to them. But no information will ever feed their curiosity. They’re smarter than they show, darker, more wicked, wealthy, addicts, royals whatever it may be others think there gotta be something hidden.

In reality, it’s the complexity and different traits that the native mastered or will through hard life lessons. The extreme deaths and rebirths of their character, perspective, and appearance. Whatever you see in their intense eyes and presence is interpreted differently. They may hide parts of themselves that others won't comprehend, but because they lack the capacity to do so, their life journey is much different from theirs. Though they themselves can easily understand others, they see right through you, they understand your pain, and share their secret healing formula with you. Pluto won't allow the native to be narrow-minded or comfortable or will cause destruction. No room for escape or pretendence of change. Those people learned and relearned the darker parts of themselves and others, faced their toxic traits, and faced the hidden and broken in the world. 

They likely been through many changes in life that inevitably built their wisdom, invincibility, and power. They may gain more power through money, status, control, or any other tangible means. In terms of traits, they are intelligent, calculative, obsessive, instinctual, passionate, cunning, humorous, truthful and loyal. These people have a sort of intimidating magnetic aura that can draw or repel others depending on how healed or familiar they are with this energy. 

In the houses

Pluto can be in the 1st, 7th, or 12th house, where natives learn lessons about controlling their conscious and unconscious minds, the thoughts, actions, and memories that they need to let go of and transform to strength, to something of a better value. In the 12th they are dealing with these things alone, feeling trapped and broken, feeling deeply alone. People leaving them in the dark. Their mind isn't letting them have peace, it's uncontrollable. They want to detach from it or possibly throw it off the window, it's a burden. Trapped in a mindset, reflected through their nightmares and fears, their triggers, self image, limitations and doubts. They're discovering the power they have over their subconscious, whatever is controlling them, even the collective consciousness. It shouldn’t hold them back, but fly them to the top. They are leading the way but it's never easy.

In the 1st, they encounter people and places that trigger their shadows. People that want to break them, take their power, and show them a false version of themselves. What they think they are, they're not. They may be arrogant and overly protective. In their darkest times they may even feel like they can't tame themselves or actions. It's an aries house so they act immaturely and selfishly but they see it later. As they control their impulses they learn that they don't need to prove anything, to control everything, they are already powerful. They can use it with ease, it's not a fight it's a blessing, no one can take it. They may have trust issues because others have attacked them and betrayed them. They learned to only depend on themselves because everyone seems manipulative. They want and can attract someone as deep, passionate and honest as them who will love them as intensely.

In the 7th the traits and fears they don't see in themselves are reflected to them through others, they are a damn mirror and not a pretty one, one that reflects what others are trying to hide. They meet people that trigger their fears and strengths, some with nasty intentions and weak egos, jealous, and deceitful, wanting to see them fail, trying to gossip, and project their insecurities. Connections are a nightmare, no one is trustworthy. Others see their power more than they themselves do, hungry to feed off of it. Once they see it and unapologetically embrace it, the weak ones can’t reach them and they build better connections with people as confident and genuine. They gain a better perspective, a wisdom to discern who's lying and who's real. A healthy balance of trust and distrust in people. They crave an intense connection like pluto 1st, and they get it but through learning those lessons. 

Rock On

ASTROLOGY OBSERVATIONS

(not professional, just what I’ve seen:)

• many Earth Venus’s (especially in men) may find it difficult to commit to solely one person or are very picky in who they choose to have a relationship with.

• a LOT of cancer risings I know and have seen always have prominent beauty marks or moles on their face, or have some sort of fixation with beauty marks.

• it’s so easy to spot a Leo rising because they always have such beautiful hair

• All Earth Rising signs have beautiful hair and prominent facial structure

• People with aquarius and Capricorn mercury have a beautiful way of speaking

• All 3 water rising signs have beautiful eyes

• Whenever I see Mars - Ascendant aspect, these people always have either a magnetic or aggressive demeanor to them (or both).

• Venus- Neptune aspects tend to always be in their heads, and they usually prefer that!

• Many water signs in someone’s chart usually indicates to me that this person is very good at convincing others.

• Though only one singular placement, Scorpio Lilith is such a strong placement, and because it’s such a strong placement many people with this aspect tend to show it more than some major placements depending on other placements in the chart.

• Those with Chiron in cancer may have been especially sensitive as a child and the mother influences this individual through life (could be in a positive way or negative way).

• I have also noticed that people with cancer rising and Leo rising share a lot of qualities (appearances and personality) because they are right next to each other. For instance those with Leo rising have few but quite noticeable cancer rising qualities and same goes for the other way around. I haven’t really noticed this with any other two signs close together besides these 2.

•Fire rising signs have contagious smiles

Holy shit.

Don’t I Get a Dream for Myself ? – Bernadette Peters and the 'Gypsy' Saga

Gypsy. It’s perhaps the most daunting of all of the projects related to Bernadette Peters to try to grapple with and discuss. It’s also perhaps the most significant.

For someone notoriously guarded of her privacy and personal life, careful with her words, and selective of the questions she answers, the narrative around this show provides some of the most meaningful insights it is possible to derive in relation to Bernadette herself. The show’s ability to do this is unique, through the way it eerily parallels her own life and spans a large range in time from both Bernadette Peters the Broadway Legend, right back to where it all began with Bernadette Lazzara, the young Italian girl put into showbusiness by her mother.

The most logical place to start is at the very beginning – it is a very good place to start, after all.

(Though no one tell Gypsy this, if the fierce two-way battle with The Sound of Music at the 1960 Tony Awards is anything to be remembered. Anyway, I digress…)

Gypsy: A Musical Fable with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and book by Arthur Laurents, burst into the world and onto the New York stage in May of 1959. After closing on Broadway in March 1961, Ethel Merman as the world’s original Mama Rose herself led the first national tour off almost immediately around the country. Just a few months later, a second national touring company was formed, starring Mitzi Green and then Mary McCarty as Rose, to cover more cities than the original. It is here that Bernadette comes in.

A 13-year-old Bernadette Peters found herself part of this show in her “first professional” on-the-road production, travelling across the country with her older sister, “Donna (who was also in the show), and their mother (who wasn’t)”.

The tour played through cities like Philadelphia, Chicago, New Haven, Baltimore and Las Vegas before closing in Ohio in 1962. Somewhat uncannily, its September 1961 opening night in Detroit’s Schubert Theatre even returns matters full circle to the 2003 revival and New York’s own Schubert Theatre.

Indeed this bus-and-truck tour was somewhat of a turning point for Bernadette. She’d later remember, “I mostly thought of performing as a hobby until I went on the road with Gypsy”.

But while this production seminally marked a notable moment for the young actress as well as the point where her long and consequential involvement with Gypsy begins, it’s important to recognise she was very much not yet the star of the show and then only a small part of a larger whole.

Bernadette was with the troupe as a member of the ensemble. She took on different positions in the company through the period of nearly a year that the show ran for, including billing as ‘Thelma’ (one of the Hollywood Blondes), ‘Hawaiian Girl’, and additional understudy credits for Agnes and Dainty June.

The above photo shows Bernadette (left) with another member of the ensemble (Sharon McCartin) backstage at the Chicago Opera House as one of the stops along the tour. Her comment on the stage of the Chicago theatre – “I’d never seen anything so big in my life!” – undeniably conveys how her experiences were new and appreciably daunting.

Keep reading

My Venus is in the 9th

classic actresses that share your Venus sign/house

VENUS IN THE 1ST HOUSE

Anna May Wong (Aquarius Venus) & Ingrid Bergman (Virgo Venus)

VENUS IN THE 2ND HOUSE

Eartha Mae Kitt (Aquarius Venus) & Linda Darnell (Scorpio Venus)

VENUS IN THE 3RD HOUSE

Lillian Gish (Sagittarius Venus) & Cyd Charisse (Taurus Venus)

VENUS IN THE 4TH HOUSE

Elizabeth Taylor (Aries Venus) & Gina Lollobrigida (Leo Venus)

VENUS IN THE 5TH HOUSE

Maria Montez (Gemini Venus) & Joan Crawford (Aries Venus)

VENUS IN THE 6TH HOUSE

Rita Hayworth (Libra Venus) & Katharine Hepburn (Aries Venus)

VENUS IN THE 7TH HOUSE

Diahann Carroll (Virgo Venus) & Raquel Welch (Cancer Venus)

VENUS IN THE 8TH HOUSE

Gene Tierney (Capricorn Venus) & Eva Marie Saint (Cancer Venus)

VENUS IN THE 9TH HOUSE

Marilyn Monroe (Aries Venus) & Brigitte Bardot (Virgo Venus)

VENUS IN THE 10TH HOUSE

Dolores Del Rio (Gemini Venus) & Lupe Velez (Cancer Venus)

VENUS IN THE 11TH HOUSE

Jane Russell (Taurus Venus) & Natalie Wood (Virgo Venus)

VENUS IN THE 12TH HOUSE

Ruby Dee (Sagittarius Venus) & Grace Kelly (Libra Venus)

I guess the reason why I created this post was because I kept on seeing people say that they wish they had Venus in the 1st House, Libra Venus, or Taurus Venus because of their beauty and allure, but I just wanted to remind you all that every Venus sign and every House your Venus is in is beautiful - it’s not only Venus in the 1st, Libra Venus and Taurus Venus (although those are as wonderful as the rest). And I also made this simply because I love actresses.

🥵Scorpio Mars🥵

💥Knew about s3x from an early age

💥Secret s3xal encounters

💥everyone is attracted to them secretly

💥Naturally a bad a$$

💥Don’t fck with them, bc THEY WILL go off with out pause (natural fighter)

💥Ooze s3xuality with out even trying

💥Knows how to make you O (just knows)

💥Obsessed with their object of affection and WILL obtain them no matter how long it takes (seriously willing to obsess for over two decades)

💥Oh you broke up with them? You’re dead to them now. You never existed.

💥SKILLED AT EVERYTHING

💥NATURAL RESEARCHER will find out EVERYTHING on their crushes

💥Knows everything about your crushes, too.

💥Knows everything about everyone

💥Naturally psychic

💥Acts on instincts

💥Not afraid to act

💥Has no fear

💪One of the most powerful mars signs, so watch out 💋