I find a lot of creative content, exhausting. It finally dawned on me, why this is. Nearly everything we see or watch or read is degraded in one or more ways. The first thing that comes to mind, is the way entertainment is used to influence people. T…
Tag: happiness
On The Verge Of Happy (Saturn in Pisces)
The Astrology of Life’s Unhappiest Year
Happiness throughout life is generally seen as an inverted bell curve. We start out relatively happy as children, then happiness steadily declines until mid-life, after which it begins inching back up. By the time we’re in our 70’s, we’re back … …
Keeping Promises, Following Through On Threats & Lack Of Consistency
This is an old post, from 2009! I think about it a lot and I don’t think I wrote it very well so I’m going to try again. It’s related to something I wrote in 2007 – Keeping Promises. I was … Read More…
Joy, Pleasure, Happiness and Chocolate
As you tuck into your Easter egg this morning, you may want to as yourself this: what is the difference between joy and pleasure? This week I listened to the writer Anthony Seldon talking on the radio, distinguishing between pleasure, which we might get from eating chocolate, happiness which we might get from sharing chocolate with friends, and joy which is transcendant. (He starts at around 24 minutes). Accordingly, pleasure is a passing thing, where some of us get stuck: eating another chocolate bar, reading another trashy magazine. You might associate that with the sign Taurus, the most sensual of […]
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Jupiter, Perspective & Happiness
Astrology in real life
Finding Happiness Inside Yourself
Astrology in real life.
Your Philosophy Determines Your Happiness
My eye on the sky.
The Astrology of Happiness vs. Unhappiness
(Astrology Explored) In the United States we even have it in our “Declaration of Independence’: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that … Continue reading →
How To Be Happy In Life
I’m deleting old posts to clean up my database. I found this, written in 2011. It references, Pluto in Capricorn and now here we are… ~~~ eva writes on Why Are People Unhappy: “You know honestly I think people in … Read More…