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I was wondering what else I could blog about, and I realised that some of my very early reviews which can only be found on Amazon have never made it to this blog. Now I am not going to go back and repost ALL of them, but some of them I think certainly need to be on here for posterity and by the fact that I like things in some sort of order, everything can be found in one place then.
One of these books is The Help by Kathryn Stockett, which I read way back in Jan 2010 (this blog was started in August of that year). I recall picking it up on a whim in the bookshop and reading it with great delight, even more so when it became more and more popular and was a must read book. It sometimes gives you a great feeling knowing you have read a book before all the hype.
Of course I learnt of the film version, but never actually got round to seeing it at the cinema. So when at the end of last year, I spotted it being premiered on the BBC, I set the magic box to record and there it sat until I decided one Saturday night recently with not much else on, to watch it.
I am glad I read the book first, as they are inherently better but I was pleasantly surprised by the film, but could see some things which were clearly left out and/or added in. The only problem was the language, I struggled with the book and in the end I decided to imagine reading it out loud, ironically when I heard it spoke on the film I had to resort to subtitles. However, that aside it was a good adaptation of the book and got clearly across the message that the book portrays much more strongly.
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This is the story of three women, Minny and Aibileen and Miss Skeeter. All three women are fighting their own battles and come together to fight one particular battle that of changing opinion in the mid 1960s. However there is a difference between Miss Skeeter and Minny and Aibileen. Miss Skeeter is white and the other two women are Black maids, employed to look after children and keep houses clean and tidy – but these women are not to be trusted and they could quite easily be stealing the silver and they could also be using the same sanitation facilities as the white women that they look after.
Miss Skeeter crosses into their world when she tries to discover what happened to her family maid Constantine, by putting to paper all the stories of the black maids in the area, and how they are really treated by their white employers. However Miss Skeeter has her own problems, her height has been a disability to finding a suitable husband much to her mother's vexation and without the suitable man on the arm, she finds it difficult to slip back into the life that her friends are all living. Married, husbands, children, weekly bridge meetings, League Meetings (similar to the WI, I imagine) and making sure that everyone follows the correct rules and obeys them to the letter.
Aibileen provides the initial story to Miss Skeeter and to us the reader of the sort of life she has led being a help. The current family The Leefolts have one daughter, Mae Mobley who spends more time with Aibileen then with her mother, who just sees her as a nuisance but a necessity to fit into a particular type of world. Mae Mobley and the subsequent brother which is born during the story rely on Aibileen for everything, and Mae Mobley does not see the difference between colour and does not understand why everyone is set on changing her mind about someone who she obviously treats more as a mother than her own biological one. Children are the innocent ones and can see no wrong in the world; it is the adults which are teaching them their ways be them right and wrong. This comes across very strongly in the book and is definitely the underlying theme throughout. Aibileen gives us an insight into the other maids in the area as she convinces them to tell their stories to Miss Skeeter, putting her own job and livelihood on the line.
Minny is the maid that says too much, think it but do not say it. Minny says it how it is, and despite being kept as a second class citizen this has lost her many jobs. In particular the job she had with Miss Hilly, a friend of Miss Skeeter's. Her new job with Miss Celia sees another world which these Black Maids are working in. What happened when she left Miss Hilly's is hinted upon and becomes finally the core of making sure that all the maids who have given their stories despite their names being changed keep their jobs. Do you want the world to know really what your maid did to you?
There is so much to this book that I could go on quite happily and end up telling you exactly what happens. Needless to say this is a book which must be read, it will make you laugh, it will make you cry as you realise that such prejudice existed less than 60 years previously and that some of the so called 'rules' actually make no sense whatsoever. You may find difficulty in the reading of the book, as Kathryn Stockett's uses very colloquial language in Minny and Aibileen's stories, do not let this put you off, persevere it is so worth it in the end. A must read, in fact an education wrapped up into a wonderful and daring novel. A fantastic debut for Stockett worthy of 5 stars plus.
First reviewed on Amazon January 2010.
Even though I watched the film some five years after the book, I knew there were some differences although I could not quite put my finger on them exactly – a few are mentioned below. (Thanks to googling the differences between the book and the film)
The portrayal of Skeeter in the book is more like a misfit, 'big and tall'. The film has her much slimmer and of average height, with very little need to beautify.
The film has Skeeter's mother already ill, in the book we discover she has cancer after having tests done.
In the book, Hilly is described as dark-haired and somewhat plain and stocky, her weight increasing over the course of the year covered by the story. The film portrays Hilly is slender and her appearance does not slip into sloppiness except on the occasion she tries to confront Charlotte over Skeeter's actions.
So much is glossed up or over for screen adaptations, but I think if you have not read the book or seen the film – start with the book, you will not be disappointed. Correction you may well be disappointed but only with the behaviour of humans.


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Is your company one company? Or is it like most of the ones I encounter, including my own: a messy, chaotic mash-up of products and services managed inefficiently and independently by a handful of your key people. Yup – that sounds familiar, right?
My friend Adam's company was exactly like this. His family business, which employs about a hundred people, distributes flooring products to retailers and contractors around the country. He carries all the major brands and all the popular types from vinyl to hardwood, laminated to carpeting and a good many specialty lines too. And, like Microsoft, he was organized by division, primarily based on product line. He built up groups of sales and service people who specialized in specific products and served only those customers who purchased those products. He had three managers who were in charge of each product line. They competed against each other for business. They had their own budgets and their own objectives. They shared little information for fear of cannibalizing sales. They offered little help to each other. This is how Adam ran his company. For years. He did OK. But he suffered from the weaknesses of this type of organization. And the weaknesses were significant.
For example, each division had their own database of prospective customers. They operated in a vacuum. There was no cross selling. A salesperson who couldn't close a deal moved on to the next deal. He wasn't incentivized to sell any other flooring products outside of his product line. He couldn't even offer up services unless they were provided by the employees in his division. So he never considered other options the company offered. Why would he? He, like the managers above him, was only paid on the sales and profits generated by their division alone.
Does this sound familiar? It certainly would if you're an employee or even a partner of Microsoft, like me. We only get paid on the Microsoft products we sell. We are only certified in certain Microsoft competencies. That's fine. But we have no financial incentive to sell or recommend other Microsoft products. And I've found that most of the Microsoft employees I work with (who are generally direct sales people way down on the sales and marketing food chain) are compensated the same way. If they can't sell the specific Microsoft product that's included in their commission calculation, why do anything more? And why develop solutions for others if it's outside of your specific product line?
And even if there was interest in selling another division's products, most of Adam's salespeople weren't educated to do so. They never received training about these products. They weren't prepared to offer alternatives if their product didn't fit the needs of the customer. They couldn't provide the answers needed if a customer asked about the company's other products. They didn't even know the questions to ask. They weren't familiar with people in the other divisions. It's as if the other divisions were another company. Not one company.
And not one Microsoft either. I've found that many people in the Office or Windows divisions had little knowledge of what the Dynamics products do. The database guys don't really understand the business uses of the applications. The SharePoint experts in the company are oftentimes hard pressed to explain how their own product truly integrates with CRM. The Visual Basic programmers defer on Visual Studio reporting questions because it's not their thing. From the viewpoint of a partner and a customer, Microsoft was never one company. It's always been a bunch of little companies with pockets of experts who didn't truly understand what most of the other people (and products) in their own company did.
A couple of years ago Adam made a bold move. He reorganized. He ended the vertical, industry/product specific focus of his company and instead turned towards a more horizontal approach. He set goals for the company, not just for each division. He cross-trained. He incentivized sales, service and even the engineers on the work that was done across all product lines to reach those goals. He compensated senior management on the profits of the company as a whole, not just a division. And he's seeing the results. "There are no more fiefdoms," he told me over lunch recently. "We are all sharing the same objectives and working better together. Now when a customer calls us we're getting better at not only identifying their needs but matching them to whoever in the company can help them. This would never have happened a few years ago."
And now there's Microsoft. "We are rallying behind a single strategy as one company – not a collection of division strategies," said CEO Steve Ballmer in his message to his employees last week. "We will see our product line holistically, not as a set of islands. All parts of the company will share and contribute to the success of our core offerings. All parts of the company will contribute to activating high value experiences for our customers."
In other words: it's horizontal, stupid! It's about moving away from managing by product line and instead managing by function. It's about moving towards the goal of complete unification, better integration and cooperation between all areas of a company. Microsoft is a company that's been around for more than thirty years, employs 98,000 people and has a market cap of approximately $300 billion. These are smart people. And this is what they've realized: managing by vertical product line does not work very well.
Microsoft's reorganization last week has made me look at my own little, ten-person company. I have people who specialize in certain products. But shouldn't they know the strengths and weaknesses of all the products we sell? Shouldn't they be compensated by helping our clients find the right solution for them, instead of just the one with their expertise? Shouldn't the guy who's implementing one product at a client be able to draw on others in my company who may have the technical know-how to help, even if it's not their main focus? Even a small business like mine isn't behaving like one company.
Adam figured this out. Microsoft figured this out. Microsoft's reorganization isn't about their technology. It's about how they manage their resources. And recently they haven't been doing this very well. Poor management is about the poor allocation of resources. And this problem is something all business owners suffer, regardless of our size.
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Benefits by Eating Fruit Seeds
Fruit seeds are harmless when eaten in moderate quantities. Myths like apple seeds contains small amounts of cyanide and grape seeds grow vines in your stomach are not true, also because you already eat seeds without thinking of it, like strawberry seeds to name one.
Many fruit seeds contains high amounts of fibers, antioxidants and vitamins, including B-17 and many have anti-cancer properties. Some unripe fruits seeds can cause unpleasent stomach effects.
Examples of nutrient seeds are:
Apple Seeds…rich in vitamins, minerals,phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron and sulfur. Treat acne, psoriasis and other skin issues. Dietary fiber to lower blood cholesterol levels.
Grapes seeds…popular to use in beauty products because it works againts acne and moisturizes the skin. Great to use grapes seeds in scrubs, makes skin soft and shiny. Contains vitamins A, E and C.
Watermelon seeds…rich in natural fats, proteins and 8 amino acids. Contains vitamins, minerals, riboflavin, niacin, foliate, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium. Chew them before swallowing, then you do not loose the nutrients.
Avocado…high in potassium and antioxidants, one of the best sources of fiber.
Blackberry…good source of omega-3 oils, protein, fiber and antioxidants.
Kiwi…vitamin E and omega-3 fatty acids.
Benefits drinking water with Apple Cider Vinegar
Apple Cider Vinegar, ACV, contains the same nutrients as apples. Apples are one of the most nutritionally rich fruits available, filled with all kinds of vitamines, amino acids enzymes, antioxidants, and minerals such as beta carotene, calcium, iron, pectin, silicon and potassium.
1 glass of water with 1 tsp ACV
Drinking ACV with water on regular basis reduces bad cholesterol, lowers cancer risk, cardiovascular disease, and promotes overall health. ACV purifies the blood, clean vital organs, prevents diarrhea, prevent diabetes, stop hiccups and cures sore throat. It is also good for women with menstrual issues by reducing cramps, shortening duration and blood flow.
Drinking a mixed glass in the morning helps digestion during the day, reduces risk of food poisoning, and reduces dental caries, whiten your teeth and fights mouth inflammations.
Choose organic, unpasteurized and unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar for best health benefits.
How to drink ACV:
1) 1 glass of water with 1 tsp ACV
2) 1 tsp honey, 1 tsp ACV in warm water before you eat
3) If the taste do not bother you, take 1 tsp raw ACV
4) For sore throat: warm up ACV and water, gargle every hour


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Ep 320 – Infants on SHONE Pt.1
Glenn pitches an idea for reviewing the book "A Short History of Nearly Everything." Tell us what you think. Is this something you'd like to hear more of, or not?
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We made them from a double layer of merino with extra long cuffs. The cuffs can fold up to cover that chilly gap babies sometimes have between their pants and footwear, or fold the cuffs down for no gap.
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The Booties are part of our nui BODY range.
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Penguin and Pumpkin, by Yoon, Salina
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When Penguin and Bootsy plan a field trip in search of Fall, Penguin's little brother, Pumpkin, wants to come, too. But Pumpkin is heartbroken to find out he's too little to go! How can Pumpkin still be a part of the fun? As they discover the magic of Fall at a farm, Penguin and his friends put together a very special surprise to bring back to Pumpkin at home.
Countless readers and reviewers have already come to love the adorable Penguin, and Salina Yoon continues this still-growing series with a timeless story of friendship, family, and discovery.
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2009 Renegades Chinese New Year Information
Gong Xi Fa Cai!
The year of the Ox is upon us! The Renegades are ringing in the New Year by participating in the annual San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade, and we want YOU to join us! If you've ever been – or wanted to be – a Renegade, now is your chance!
Rehearsal will be held from noon to 3 p.m. at Treasure Island in San Francisco.
The uniform for the parade is a red long-sleeve shirt, black pants and black shoes and socks. The cost to join the Renegades for this fantastic event is only $25 and includes a free patch to commemorate your time with us! You can pay by credit card, electronic check or Paypal.
If you'll be joining us from out of town, check the Chinese New Year web site – www.renegades.org/chinesenewyear – for music and videos of guard work for you to download and practice with before you come to rehearsal. The Renegades have also reserved a block of hotel rooms in San Francisco (check the website for more details).
After the parade, we'll have our traditional post-parade celebration/fundraiser at Chevy's Embarcadero. 15% of the money spent at the restaurant will be donated back to corps when you include a fund-raising flyer with your bill! (provided at the parade)
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Kotdwara: Taking a dig at the BJP`s poll
slogan `Khanduri hai zaroori` (Khanduri is essential),
Congress leader Harish Rawat on Wednesday said Chief Minister B C Khanduri is instead BJP`s "Majboori" (compulsion) in the
upcoming Assembly polls in Uttarakhand.
"Khanduri is not Jaruri, but has become Majboori
(compulsion) of BJP," Rawat said, addressing a poll rally at
Bhabar area near here.
Attacking the party, he asked, "Why Khanduri was not
necessary for BJP when he was removed from chief minister ship
He said, just before the elections, Khanduri became
necessary and was brought back as the people of Uttarakhand
has been suffering from the corruption and inefficiency of the
BJP government.
"BJP has been exposed in the state for its corrupt
behaviour. Just for face saving and to fool people, Khanduri
was brought back. If Khanduri was that necessary for the party
then why he was removed in first place?" he asked.
For the Congress, he said, not a person but the
development is necessary.
Campaigning for Congress candidate from Kotdwara Assembly
seat Surendra Singh Negi, Rawat, who was accompanied by Union
minister Sachin Pilot, appealed to people to vote for party
for corruption free governance.
Addressing the rally, Pilot slammed the state government
for not using the central funds for the development work in
the region.
He said that to hide its inefficiency and neglect, the
BJP government is accusing the Centre.


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Welcome to The Pantry, Newmarket…
Looks good mate, mmmmm mmmm, making me hungry 🙂 xxxx
Hi Anne-Marie You may remember us from Loch Fyne–Jean &George Hammond? Really looking forward to seeing you when October comes & we would like to wish you & your partner the very best of luck!
Hi good food nice night out
Thank you for my lovely duck and smoked chicken rillette ,excellent customer service will be back for more ,see you thursday night :~)
It's quite a joy to find a wonderful place like The Pantry in the middle of Newmarket; it's been needed for so long. I had lunch there about a month ago which was excellent. I feel Newmarket may begin an upward trend now….. Long may you reign 🙂
Thanks for the brillant meal, 10 star treatment on Friday (lunch). Well done and wish you great success in 2012.
Had a wonderful lunch today with my Mum, will be spreading the word about your scrummy food and drinks. Really good quality, fresh food. Will be back with the rest of my family x
Super eatery for Newmarket lovely atmosphere & warm welcome thank you.
Can I see your wine list? … So looking forward to meeting my date for the first time, I've chosen your place as the venue, I'm thinking a glass of Prosecco after work …
Rebecca and I would like to thank everyone at the Pantry for the fantastic picnic you provided on our wedding day. We have received nothing but glowing comments from our guests about quality of the food and the friendly service.
Hello! Someone in my Facebook group shared this website with us so I came to check it out.
I'm definitely loving the information. I'm book-marking and
will be tweeting this to my followers! Exceptional blog and wonderful design and style.
I left on Saturday without paying for my coffee !
Really sorry, will drop by soonest and catch up.
Had my head up my ass thinking about my new kindle.
Kind regards
Was just wondering if you were open today not sure were I I could go o eat as it is easterbsunday ?
Came all the way from Cheltenham, excellent food and drink, friendly service will definitely visit again.
Thanks for a lovely meal last night. Just the job after a day's racing. Great food and atmosphere. Excellent customer service. We will be back.
Thanks for a lovely evening last night. The ladies loved the cooking class and had a delicious meal afterwards. Thanks again for your hospitality, friendly atmosphere and professionalism. We will be back 🙂
Hello there my parents shall be in town at the weekend amongst a party of four celebrating there wedding anniversary. I was wondering if you had any lunch time tables and if you offer anything special ie special cake , bubbles, something different that you may be able to recomend to add a personal touch to there meal?? I am a chef in Aldeburgh an have heard good things about your place. I look forward to hearing back from you.
Many thanks,
Lovely food and pot of t at the pantry. Love those teapots! Where can I get one!!
Hi hope to be coming in soon to meet friends and have a catch up. Do you have some teapots in, and how much are they please. Would live one in baby blue if you do. X
Thank you very much from the table for 26! Food was great, service was fab….everything was very well organised and serving the children first was much appreciated. Thank you from all of us x
I don't live in Newmarket but I am so impressed by all the positive feedback by all your
Came in while visiting from USA what a great place. First class food and served beautifully. Good luck on ur expansion. Newmarket needs this kind of excellent cuisine.
Simply Superb Coffee. Keep the Secret, wouldn't want The Pantry over run with customers LOL. (Sadly I have an egg intolerance so keep to coffee).
Had lunch here today….Brilliant! Smiling service, hot food and not overpriced.
Just back in Essex after photo shoot in St Neots then super eats at "The Pantry" lovely food , smashing cakes, staff so pleasant and lovely with children, will definitely return when next up your way . Kind regards Cathy


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Breaking: Nurses Union Was Behind Illegal Alien Maid's Attack on Meg Whitman
The California Nurses Union was behind the last minute attack on Meg Whitman. The radical union pushed illegal alien Nicky Diaz in her accusations against Republican Meg Whitman.
Illegal alien Nicky Diaz lashed out at Whitman for not buying her baby a present.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported:
One of the most tantalizing mysteries in California's 2010 gubernatorial election involved the connection between one of the state's poorest women and one of its wealthiest.
How did an undocumented, Mexican-born housekeeper, Nicandra Diaz Santillan, end up in the national spotlight, boldly confronting her former boss, billionaire GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman?
The short answer: with the help of a union.
The longer answer is that at the height of the gubernatorial race, as campaign ads blared on Spanish-language television, the aggrieved housekeeper was determined to tell Californians her story of being abruptly fired by Whitman after nearly a decade on the job.
In early September, Diaz turned to a friend who knew a member of the powerful, Oakland-based California Nurses Association, The Chronicle has learned.
The union called in two lawyers for Diaz: Marc Van Der Hout, a longtime immigration attorney in San Francisco, and celebrity feminist attorney Gloria Allred, a fierce workplace rights litigator who arranged for Diaz to tell her story in a live-webcast news conference.
Asked to confirm her organization's role in Diaz's case, Rose Ann DeMoro, the nurses union executive director, said Monday, "I won't deny it, but I prefer not to comment directly on the case.
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Box office side of parking lot
One of the first projects from the 2016 bond that's turning dirt...actually in this case it's turning asphalt, is the Rutledge Stadium parking lot. If you've been to any event at the stadium over recent years and driven across the parking lot, you know it's needed work. Well, it's underway with some of the work preps already finished on the box office side, while the end zone area has been excavated with the old surface being ripped up and will be resurfaced next. The box office side at least is scheduled to be finished by the beginning of football season with the end zone following soon after that. The last part will be the lot in front of the gym. Each one will feature a beefed up composition and structure.
We'll soon bring you more information and photos during the summer of other bond projects that are underway. Be looking for updates periodically showing progress of the work. It'll give you an idea of what's going on.
Below: work going on at the end zone part of the lot


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A contemporary 3 level, 5 unit development on a 730m² site in suburban Brisbane. Each of the 3 level units consisted of: either 2 and 3 ensuited bedrooms on the top floor; kitchen, living, dining and outdoor living areas on the first floor and individual ground floor laundry and garages.
The exterior design used a mixture of lightweight materials and colours to provide articulation and depth to the facade.
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8i Architects is a Brisbane based architectural design practice specialising in innovative, functional and sustainable design solutions. Our focus is on design excellence, providing quality spaces that are unique to the site and the client's needs.Read more
Thank you for designing our much-loved family home. Through your meticulous investigation of our needs, you've created a home far more functional and aesthetically pleasing than our initial visions. Thank you for your patience, particularly John, for sifting through our numerous suggestions and input, and formulating outcomes that were often more cost effective and practical. The whole build was surprisingly seamless, given the often negative stories associated with home renovations…
Adam Annfield and Tina Doan
Constructions Group has been working with 8i Architects for many years and have engaged them to undertake the design on many of our Design and Construct Projects. 8i are efficient and lateral thinking when it comes to resolving design issues and without compromising the integrity of the design are able to come up with cost effective solutions for our clients. We would highly recommend 8i Architects to design and construct contractors and developers alike.
Murray Creevey, Director, Constructions Group
I've worked with 8i for 10years. They have done half a dozen schools for us, the most recent an award winning $30 million school. I will only work with 8i in this space as they are like no other architecture firm. Charmaine and Hieu are low maintenance, which is so important when time is so precious. They understand the scope, they meet the timelines, they get it done, they make no mistakes. Whatever you ask of 8i they get it right!
Sean Snowden, Estimating Manager Construction FKG Group
Charmaine is incredibly practical, bright, organised and picks things up quickly. She always visits the facilities, understands what is needed to be in what space and the intricate workflow of the business. 8i do not give a template solution, they customise and personalise the service and outcome to make it work for the customer. Risks are thought of ahead of time and are addressed up front. Charmaine speaks the lingo of the other professionals and gains their respect really quickly! She drives collaboration, listens, educates and breaks things down in laymen's terms! She has an in depth understanding of the building regulations, town planning and what is needed to get the appropriate licence to open. 8i have taught me the value of spending up front to always save in the end!
Dr Adrianne Pope, Adrianne Pope Consulting
We required an architect to provide us with an optimal design for a large medical centre. We chose 8i as they had a reputation of being client focused and delivering quality work. 8i exceeded our expectations by being able to turn our "wish list" in a practical designed work space. The entire process working with 8i was positive as they have a collaborative approach with excellent communication through every step. We have already recommended 8i to another medical colleague planning to build a new clinic.
Dr Martin McGahan, Practice Principal, North Shore General Practice
Hieu & Charmaine drive and complement each other's strengths and weaknesses. They provide a great sounding board, think outside the square, and get better results than other architects. They work well with the client and other professionals, allowing them to get hands on, have a robust discussion, and criticise each other's ideas to get the best solution. And, when the project hits the intense stage, you want to kind of own the architect, and with 8i they are always there, when you need them, at short notice and move quickly on things!
Bruce Woodroffe, Director, Chatham Property Projects
Hieu is an excellent communicator, he is proactive, good to work with, and calls a spade a spade! A lot of architect and design guys are the arty flowery types, just good at conceptualization. Hieu gives more than that, he can demonstrate how he is going to make it happen, which is why we look to work with him.
Steve Watkins, Senior Project Manager
Hieu's honest and straightforward approach meant we were able to candidly discuss issues and resolve them quickly. I trusted Hieu's judgement in resolving issues as he was always looking out for Department of Education and Training's interest. I was always able to ring Hieu at anytime (even after hours) to help resolve any issues. Hieu would always return my calls and emails quickly, usually within a couple of hours.
Roy Hiscock, Senior Project Co-ordinator, DETE
I enjoyed working with Hieu Nguyen at 8i Architects. Hieu's knowledge of Department of Education and Training's (DET) guidelines, technical requirements and design detailing has produced DET facilities that becomes the benchmark for future DET designs.
Roy Hiscock, Senior Project Co-ordinator, DETE
I have relied on 8i Architects on several occasions to rectify projects that have developed cost issues and time delays. They have been able to take over the project and bring it back within budget and deliver the works on time. We ended up with a better building as a result.
Roy Hiscock, Senior Project Co-ordinator, DETE
I having worked with 8i Architects on many projects in south east and regional Queensland over the past 5 years. The quality outcome and delivery of every project undertaken by 8i Architects has exceeded the Department of Education and Training's expectations.
Roy Hiscock, Senior Project Co-ordinator, DETE
I would recommend Hieu Nguyen and 8i Architects to any other government departments and commercial clients who are looking for honest, approachable architects with high quality design and extensive practical construction knowledge. They always meet our timeframes and our projects have consistently been within budget.
Roy Hiscock, Senior Project Co-ordinator, DETE
My experience of working with 8i Architects and Hieu Nguyen made my job easier and less stressful. I knew when Hieu was on the job, that Department of Education and Training was going to have a high quality designed building that was going to be delivered on time and within budget. Hieu was always able to add value to all our projects and keep it within budget.
Roy Hiscock, Senior Project Co-ordinator, DETE
Sigma Pharmaceuticals is developing their first major automated temperature-controlled distribution centre. During the design phase it became apparent to me that we were very fortunate to have 8i Architects on the project. The thoroughness in developing the solutions, the desire to design something that was both practical and impressive. I worked closely with Hieu and I found him always accommodating to my requests, and willing to suggest an alternative if he believed it would be a better result. I would gladly utilise the services of Hieu and the 8i Architects team on my next project.
Michael Shirbin, Programme Manager, Sigma Pharmaceuticals
Once again the 8i team have delivered. I've challenged them over the years with some interesting food projects and now they have successfully completed the Southpoint Woolworths Metro store fitout at the base of Flight Centre's new Global Headquarters at Southbank. With the project design team at capacity, 8i Architects seamlessly joined the team to deliver a separable portion that was lagging behind. Their prompt and considered responses allowed the construction and services coordination team to proceed with confidence. I challenge you to visit Southpoint Woolworths to see the finished product.
Doug Kedacic, Design & Services Manager, Watpac Constructions
I have worked with Charmaine, Hieu and the team at 8i Architecture for the past 6 years. I can honestly say that if you want no nonsense, non-ego based, well thought through and sensible architecture then let 8i manage your project for you. In my opinion 8i are big enough to handle projects up to the value of around $100m but small enough to provide the level of service that you won't get from the larger architectural firms who will give your project to a junior architect to manage. I find everyone at 8i easy to talk to and extremely customer focused which reflects Charmaine and Hieu's ethos. There is only a hand full of Architects I would recommend in Brisbane and 8i are right up there.
Michael Page, Project Officer, University of Queensland


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Marcel Zamora and Sofie Goos win Challenge Costa Barcelona Maresme
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Today Marcel Zamora from Spain, and Sofie Goos from Belgium, won the inaugural Challenge Costa de Barcelona Maresme. A dominant performance saw Zamora smash the opposition on the run finishing with a time of 8:15:37. Sofie Goos also produced a strong run and finished in a time of 9:08:1. The costal course saw the athletes compete over the Ironman distance of a 3.8k swim, 180k bike and a 42.2k run. The swim took place in Calella, the bike, which was two and half loops, went along the fast and closed road from Masnou to Calella and the run took place between Calella and Santa Susanna.
Zamora finished the swim among the top contenders and took the lead during the bike entering transition in the lead. During the marathon he built on his lead to win his third Ironman distance event of the season having already won Nice, Embrunman and now Challenge Costa Barcelona Maresme. Mikka Luoto from Finland finished in second place in a time of 8:22:56 and the German athlete, Bernd Eichhorn, rounded off the podium in a time of 8:26:03.
Similar to in the men's race the Belgian athlete, Sofie Goos, broke away on the bike and extended her lead on the run. Katja Konschak had a strong run making up several places to finish in second, in a time of 09:23:08. Hillary Biscay (USA) finished third (9:32.47).
Race director Jordi Gonzalez said the race, from an organizational point of view, was a great success even though the competitors had to battle with high temperatures and humidity.
Felix Walchshöfer, CEO of the Challenge Family, thanked the support of the local people and the general public for supporting the event, "today we witnessed the first of many Challenge Costa de Barcelona Maresme. The location for the event is perfect and of course we are lucky to have great weather as well - all that on top of great support from the local people".
Josep Jo, President of the Maresme Council and Josep María Juhé, Major of Calella, have supported the Challenge Costa de Barcelona Maresme and commented on the fact that they were delighted with the event, "it is a great event to showcase Maresme as an all-year-round destination for sports training and competition".


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Wednesday, 15 April 2009
June Phelps
This is the chart of the elderly lady I have elsewhere called 'Bethan June Phelps' when describing the tangled history of our friendship. Birth-data has been withheld for confidentiality. You may want to follow the link above to get a sense of my view, at least, of her nature and the events that passed between us, before going on to see how this is reflected in the archetypal underpinnings of her horoscope. Her view of the matter, no doubt, would be somewhat different. Please note that I have permission to discuss the chart in public.
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The chart is very earthy: five planets are in earth signs, plus the ascendant and midheaven. Only one planet, the Moon, is in fire. A lot of planets, however, are in cardinal signs. According to the most basic of astrological theory, then, this is someone who is intensely driven towards concrete achievement, towards having an impact on the physical world around them, but whose capacity for vision, imaginative play and excitement, for 'seeing the bigger picture' is not all that accessible to consciousness. Earth at its worst can be remorselessly unimaginative, self-entrenching and depressive, so it's interesting to look at the way that someone with a chart so oriented towards concrete achievement in the world has seemed to stall for decades in a kind of melancholy stasis. To give a concrete example, in the ten years that I knew 'June', she only spent a single night away from her home.
The chart also has two large aspect-formations: a grand cross between Mercury, Uranus, Pluto and Mars (the red square with the diagonals put in), and a grand trine between Mars, Venus and Chiron in air (the blue triangle). Grand crosses are difficult, though often very productive: the four planets concerned are all forced to 'talk' to one another whether they like it or not, and the energy grates and nags and is awkward. They need work to integrate healthily and productively, and this tends not to come easily. In contrast, with grand trines, it is easier for the three planets to come to an understanding, even if their intrinsic natures are not very compatible.
The Moon conjunct Pluto (out of sign) in the 4th is one of the fundamental base-notes of June's chart. The Moon denotes what makes us feel comfortable, and 'at home', as well as our sense of the past and our immediate familial roots. With the Moon in Leo, we sense that June was by nature a dramatic child with a strong need to be the focus of parental attention. But with Pluto conjunct the Moon in the 4th, I suspect 'home' was felt to be rather a dangerous place--shark-infested waters, as it were, a domestic atmosphere glowering with suppressed tension and thick with family secrets. The 4th is the house, amongst other things, of the father (or the archetypal father-image projected onto the actual father), and Pluto is acting here as a major father-significator. This is a useful instance of the way that one cannot be sure in advance of the level on which an astrological symbol will operate: Pluto in the 4th could suggest a father who was cruel and abusive, or just a secretive individual who spent all his spare time in a shed at the end of the garden. In June's case, her father was a coalminer--Pluto rules the subterranean, darkness, dangerous professions, and the generation of power. (For all that I bang on about astrology as an archetypal 'poetics of the human', it is often strikingly literal in just this way.) The key to Pluto in the 4th here, I think, is the sense in June's childhood that father isn't safe: a pit-prop could collapse at any time, or there could be a gas leak 200 feet below ground-level. There was a very real threat of death and disaster hanging over her childhood. June was fond of reminding me of fascinating mining superstitions, such as the custom that one never argues with a man who is about to go down the mine, which were still observed in her family.
The presence of the Moon loosely conjunct Pluto also suggests a lot about June's mother. By regressed motion, the moon would have been conjunct with natal Pluto at conception: this suggests that pregnancy was experienced by June's mother as in some way cataclysmically disastrous, a dramatic and disturbing event. (June was an only child.) There are a number of scenarios which could be possible here: the most obvious is that the pregnancy was medically fraught, and that there were serious fears for the health of mother and baby; perhaps it came after a series of miscarriages. More luridly, it could even indicate that conception was the result of a sexual assault. Less disturbingly and more probably, June's mother might have felt horror and depression at the thought of having to take a enforced break from her career as a schoolteacher and its associated freedoms. I have no idea: June and I never discussed it. Again, the chart gives the archetypal background, not a 'fated' or literalised transcription of events. At any rate, this Pluto aspect suggests that pregnancy was no 'happy event' for June's mother, but a viscerally disturbing disruption of her life.
Further to this--and as an example of the way that family life chez Phelps seems to have been charged with plutonian secrets--June was raised until she was in her teens to think that her mother's younger sister (whom I will call 'Joanne') was her own elder sister. There was an age-difference of less than a decade between them, and at least 15 years' age-gap between her mother and Joanne. This strikes me as suspect, to say the least. Of course, June's mother's mother might have had another daughter unusually late and then died, leaving a her own grown-up daughter to look after her much younger orphaned sister. It's not inconceivable. But on the other hand, one wonders if 'Aunt Joanne' was not, in fact, June's mother's biological daughter from a teenage premarital liaison, happy or no. June's mother had, it seems, adored Joanne with a sunny and uncritical devotion, which would make more sense if the latter were in fact her daughter rather than her younger sister. If so, it is unclear how June's father felt about all this: the swirl of events is certainly murky and charged. (The pattern continued, incidentally: June's first cousin, Hilary, was apparently convinced that she herself was in fact Joanne's biological daughter. That's rather a lot of ambiguous parentage for one family.) June often said that her mother has always been distinctly cool towards her, signified astrologically by June's Moon square Uranus and Mercury in the 10th opposition Pluto, suggesting her mother's inability to get close, verbal cruelty and a certain festering resentment, even jealousy of her daughter. Or we should say, rather, that June perceived her mother's behaviour in those terms: the Pluto and Uranus in question are June's, not her mother's. The little Moon~Pluto child may possess an unnerving, dark intensity which might well unsettle, even frighten, the more conventional, 'nice' parent.
Despite the link to Pluto, the Moon is warm in Leo, which is fond of big gestures and is made comfortable by self-dramatisation. June had considerable talent in this direction, especially for vocal mimicry, campy self-mockery and coming the comic grande dame. If she found something for which she had been looking in her tumbledown, filthy house, she would invariably exclaim in a surreal outburst, '"Aha!!", she cried in Spanish, as she waved her wooden leg!'. She once came up with the plan of wheeling a friend's new baby up the road in his pram to the village shop, where she would explain to the puzzled masses that she 'had just come back from seeing those nice doctors in Rome.'
The dramatic monologue was June's preferred conversational mode, and as I have noted elsewhere, she was a remarkably gifted storyteller. For example, I first met her when I was in my early teens, when she would explain, with solemn outrage, that she lived in poverty. And indeed, she was pretty short of funds, existing on the basic state pension of £95 a week: not a sum I'd care to live on myself. Her house--her parents' house, in fact, and her childhood home--was quite amazingly dirty, with every wall the colour of toffee and a greasy film of nicotine on all the surfaces. The upstairs front bedroom had a collapsed ceiling, a keyboard, half a dozen ancient hat-boxes, two sewing machines, three wardrobes, several card-tables, a suitcase full of lurid kaftans, baskets of wool, a typewriter, plastic bags stuffed with papers, a collection of pictures of cats, and bowls of disarticulated doll-parts. June would decry the obscenity of it all, bitterly regretting the fact that she was still paying off her former partner's credit card debt, a few pounds a week, and would be doing so for the rest of her life. In a distinctly Pluto~Moon in Leo story (tragedy, malign fate, and explosions), she told me that she never inherited her partner's wealth because he had not signed the new version of his Will when he was unexpectedly blown up in a tank in Beirut. This gives you, reader, a good sense of the way that the internal logic of June's stories could give one pause. Outstanding debt, as I understand it, is not personally transferable, but payable out of the deceased's estate; however, the cards might have been in both their names, I suppose. But the incident of the unsigned Will is just too melodramatic to be true--it has an equally ludicrous sequel, according to which June's late partner's sister came round to their shared flat after her brother's death, and before June's eyes snatched all her expensive clothes out of the wardrobe as hers by right.
June would tell these stories with great weary sighs at life's cruelty toward her, and at the penury in which she lived: all the while she would be chaining cigarette after cigarette. She smoked at least a pack of 24 Royals a day, and at £5.54 a pack, her material poverty might have had more to do with her spending half her pension on rough ciggies than it did with ancient debt and operatic misfortune. June's autobiographical tales were always rather Terry Pratchett-meets-The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, if you'll forgive that bizarre juxtaposition.
The general love of drama is accentuated by her Sun~Jupiter conjunction in Capricorn. Jupiter is not terribly at home with Capricorn's characteristic cynicism and gloom, but with the Sun this placement might suggest a drive to succeed and build lasting structures in life which can embody the best of one's values. ('If you build it, they will come', as June was fond of quoting from Field of Dreams.) The conjunction is in the 9th house so Jupiter is thus 'at home', and thus we can be sure that June's dreams were expansive and had to be meaningful. Jupiter~Sun is a placement which looks above all for meaning, for philosophical sweep. A teacher's aspect, Jupiter~Sun can signify the sage or the professor, or indeed the counsellor, a role which June regarded as particularly her own, in a somewhat exaggerated fashion.
Sticking with Sun~Jupiter, Mariana over at Gatochy's Blog has a marvellous description of what she calls 'Lady Catherine Syndrome', and Jean suffered badly with this maddening need to emphasise her own wisdom and expertise in every possible field--'[t]he implication being', as Mariana says of Austen's Lady Catherine de Burgh, 'that, next time, as indeed in all times, it was wiser to see her before taking any step, in any direction.' June claimed a formidable back-catalogue of careers and skill-sets: she had been a Cordon Bleu cook, a jeweller, a men's tailor, a drug and alcohol counsellor, a dancer, a pilot, a director, a chairwoman of the WI (complete with Leo Moon speech in the Albert Hall, an incident, ahem, 'borrowed' from Calendar Girls) and, last but not least, a white witch. She had also worked for a time as a legal secretary in a firm of solicitors, and in a classic example of Jupiter~Sun's tendency to inflation, not helped by Moon~Pluto in Leo's intense need to self-dramatise, she let me believe for years that she had in fact been a lawyer. (She would talk about having 'defended people in court' and 'her clients', and so on.) In reality, she had been a member of the firm's typing pool.
June created an elaborate and increasingly densely-woven fantasy world around herself, and it's very informative to look at the astrological signatures of this. Astrology certainly can't diagnose mental illness, and no astrologer worth their salt would ever presume to do so. But it can give us an insight into the archetypal background and the individual's resultant intrapsychic stresses, those places where two or more primal needs clash and raise painfully contradictory demands.
Most fundamentally, June's Sun, Jupiter and Mercury in Capricorn represent a need to achieve, to build something. Capricornian self-respect depends on creating something solid and the status gained thereby. All the earth signs require something tangible, but Capricorn needs to do as well as to be. it knows that 'nothing can come of nothing', to quote Lear. But for whatever reason, in June that need was somehow never met: despite her high intelligence and obvious giftedness, conventional tokens of personal achievement--marriage, children, property--consistently eluded her. Why?
Astrologically, three factors are at work here, I think: the Saturn~Chiron~Neptune T-square, the heavily-aspected Uranus in the 12th, and the fact that there is only one planet in fire.
To start with the last of these, it's a commonplace of both astrology and Jung's Analytical Psychology that the conscious and unconscious sides of the psyche are self-compensating. ('Sides' is the wrong word--the Unconscious is vast and the conscious mind's 'circle of candlelight' quite small in comparison.) If one function or element is weak in the chart, then it's not the case that the person somehow just 'doesn't have' that element: rather it will function unconsciously, often with enormous strength and at a rather primitive, unsophisticated level. So June's fire, that is, her capacity for enthusiastic imagination, for creative vision, for risk-taking, was unconsciously tremendously powerful, to a degree of which she herself was probably completely unaware, seeing herself as the responsible, down-to-earth ol' dame who was 'as old as God'. (She was saying that in her early sixties, and indeed looked much older than she was: at 58 she looked 75.) She had no conventional imaginative creativity at all. Her writing, for example, was hidebound by a style which I used to think of as 'decorated rural gothic'--she would write 'one's paternal parent' when she meant 'my father'. She was also fond of those painting-by-numbers pictures, whereby you get a line-drawing with its subsections labelled with a number to tell you which colour of paint to use. This was a woman who clearly believed she had no originality as a creative artist: and yet all that fiery imagination was running loose from the ego's control behind the scenes, building fantastic, vivid imaginative structures, whole cathedrals of confabulation.
So, again in a psychological commonplace, that which we do not make conscious returns to us as fate. Important principles of life which are left to languish in the Unconscious meet us in outer life through projection, often with a nasty smack, or, as here, will rise up in an autonomous way and flood the conscious mind. Like Walter Mitty, June now lived in a fiery realm of vivid make-believe, in which she danced with Bob Fosse, had dinner with the Kray brothers, addressed the Albert Hall, hobnobbed with the rich and famous, prosecuted criminals and flew aeroplanes. Tales of personal tragedy and triumph mingled, but the scale was always large and she was always the centre of the story. Whether she herself believed her confabulations or not I really couldn't say: I always had the unnerving feeling that there was a kind of 'filter' around her, so that she only saw what she wanted to see and heard what she wanted to hear. She was quite capable of talking of someone who had stopped speaking to her 20 years before as a close friend, or of saying, without irony, that she wasn't too worried about the alarming flea infestation 'because fleas will only live in a clean house'--even as she sat squalidly surrounded by thick dust and fly-egg-encrusted saucers of catfood. (She approached but never reached the outer stages of Diogenes Syndrome, and was without doubt in the category of compulsive hoarder, a distorted, pathological version of her Taurus and Capricorn accent on the physical world and material security.)
Our second factor, Uranus in the 12th, is hugely tense in June's chart. It receives aspects from every other planet except Venus and Saturn. In a close square aspect to the Moon, it suggests a Promethean rage at the body and its fallibility, a hostility to the lunar realm of instincts and physiological rhythms. June's health was a disaster, and she blamed her body for most of her misfortunes, regarding herself as suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, apparently self-diagnosed. (This is also a reflection of Chiron in the 2nd, with its associations of chronic pain and the unreliability of both the body and the physical world.) But again, some of her stories about her physical health were unusual, to say the least. She claimed, for example, to have gone through the menopause at the age of 36, as a side-effect of painkillers administered in A&E for a broken arm. She also claimed multiple allergies: she apparently became ill if she smelled hyacinths or sandalwood, took antibiotics or any painkiller including morphine, or, bizarrely, ate pork. (Some of these were later proved to be fictitious--given morphine under a different brand-name in hospital, she was observed to have no allergic reaction whatsoever.)
As often with strong Uranus aspects, June found fitting into to everyday life difficult. She ate poorly, and usually slept in until 3pm. Prone to superstitiousness and fearful intuitions, she would often claim that somebody somewhere had a 'poppet' of her, into which they were jabbing pins. It was very difficult, if not impossible, to point out sensitively that some of the undoubted difficulties of her life could be ameliorated by different choices, so I usually kept quiet. A Uranian misfit, June used to describe herself as 'one who hears the beat of a different drummer.' With the planet's placement in the 12th house, I wonder how much she was channelling ancestral patterns here: it's interesting that in later life she chose to identify with the archetype of the witch, the ambivalent, marginal old woman who sets herself against society and pleases herself, in league with mysterious powers. I've no doubt that in choosing this self-image, she was telling a profound symbolic truth about herself.
The trouble with Uranus here is that it is a placement of intense idealism. Uranus likes vision (like Neptune, and indeed Jupiter) but its vision is of cosmic perfection, abstracted from messy human concerns and the needs of the body--a ruthlessly electrical blueprint. Uranus cannot tolerate imperfection, and June's Uranus, closely aspecting both the Sun and the Moon, is very powerful. I saw this side of June's nature quite frequently: she would dream of perfection, but sabotage any attempt to actualise that dream. So, for example, she would talk regularly about how desperately she longed to visit Paris again, and in particular a certain magasin de parasols, talking about the city with great fervour. But, should she visit, she would have to be back the same day (she insisted) because she had to sleep in her own bed: and although she lived only twenty minutes away from the main Eurostar terminal, she refused to use the Channel Tunnel, which thus made the journey impossible and effectively ensured that her dream was unfulfillable. At 28, I now realise that her feelings were ambivalent beneath her idealistic language: what if the city had changed, what if she herself had changed so much that she could no longer enjoy the place, and so spoiled precious memories? Further, she would have been relying on an adoring teenage boy (probably something of a nuisance) to finance every aspect of the day out, and even June--who could be spectacularly exploitative--might have felt uncomfortable at such overt freeloading. Being pushed into that feeling of dependence might have made her feel very angry indeed. Compromise was impossible, and in the end, June wanted the beautiful, melancholy ideal of Paris more than she wanted the actuality.
As the walls of her physical world shrank, her imaginary world seemed to grow more florid. On several occasions, she would announce that long held dreams had suddenly come true: having always said how much she would like to meet Sir Derek Jacobi, she announced one day that she had in fact met him, quite recently, on a painted sacking 'street in London'. (June could hardly get herself to ASDA under her own steam, let alone to London.) Similarly, after the Hell's Angels tore through our village, she proclaimed that one nice man had given her a ride all the way to the coast on his bike. The sadness of all this wish-fulfillment is striking: all June's stories created a parallel world in which she was recognised as remarkable or special, or in which she had pregnant encounters with remarkable or special people whose glamour thereby rubbed off on her a little. Ultimately, I think it is a rage at flawedness, a sense that this is not how things should be, which fueled June's confabulations, and, in part, prevented her from actually making anything concrete of her life. As with Paris, there was always some fatal and fated flaw somewhere, some fly in the ointment which, though never her fault, meant that she had never completed her training, never gone to university (though she--of course!--had been offered a place at Cambridge), never married, never had children, never emigrated to Canada, never bought her house, never saved any money, never wrote her novel...the feeling-tone seemed to be if something isn't perfect, or isn't perfectly timed, then I won't have it at all.
It's all very sad, as well as being an object lesson in the ambivalence of astrological symbols. But the route of confabulation and the 'histrionic' symptoms are not merely Uranian. After all, someone else could have exactly this brand of paralysing idealism and instead of fantasising an elaborate alternative biography could merely have come to the conclusion that life is shit and there's an end on it.(We all know the kind of person who loves poking holes in other people's dreams.) This takes us to the Chiron~Neptune~Saturn T-Square, which shrieks across the chart like iodine in an open wound.
I've noted above that negative aspects are difficult to integrate because two planets are permanently grating against each other: even if, as planets, they basically 'get on' (Mercury and Uranus, Venus and the Moon, the Sun and Jupiter), in square or opposition aspect they will be by definition in non-complementary signs, and so will be working in ways which are difficult to combine. Very often, especially with the opposition, the tendency is to identify with one 'pole' and to project the other. (And, that which we do not make conscious returns to us as...etc.) The close Saturn~Neptune opposition in Jean's chart is of this nature, I suspect. She indentified very much with Saturn--which, with all those planets in Capricorn, she would be wont to do--seeing herself as a hard-bitten, practical realist. (She was actually one of the least practical people I've ever met: she lived with a collapsed ceiling in her front bedroom for years because she never got around to moving the piled-up boxes of useless junk so that the landlord could come in and repair it.) And yet Saturn in Pisces can suggest a deep sense of disillusion and emotional inadequacy, of life being very cruel and tough just where one is most tender. At its best, this placement can suggest and emotional realism born of suffering, and June certainly felt that that was a good description of her work as a counsellor: work, needless to say, which I am not at all convinced was real. I suspect that she herself may have had counselling after a breakdown at some point, and merely switched the roles. She was fond of remarking that she had had to have counselling as part of her training, and I find it very unlikely that any counsellor worth the name wouldn't have picked up fast that something was pretty wrong somewhere.
This means, of course, that June was likely to project her Neptune in Virgo: identifying with pragmatic Saturn and the world of matter, the world of dream and fantasy was kept powerfully unconscious. It's interesting that she should have represented herself as the sage counsellor (Saturn) to those mired in Neptunian addictions, whereas in reality she had a very strong drive towards hazy escapism herself, as seem in her fantastical delusions, or perhaps self-deceptions. By projecting Neptune, it came to dominate her. None of this is a moral issue: Saturn~Neptune oppositions are often very painful, because the two principles are so wholly incompatible. Like Elizabeth I, June's motto might have been semper eadem, 'always the same', imagining herself as a rock around which the sea of chaos beat and surged. One of her favourite catchphrases was 'this too will pass', a motto of weary Saturnian patience.
But, as always, we encounter that which we project through the outer world. In particular, Saturn~Neptune encodes various varieties of Victim/Redeemer patterns, which occurred again and again in June's relationships. She constantly gave the impression that innumerable people depended on her, people who were usually referred to vaguely as 'Ooofie-Doofie' or 'Madam Flanjan', as if to underline their anonymous contingency. Unlikely mercy missions included midnight flits to the the beds of dying AIDS patients in London, or helping agoraphobics to go shopping. Certainly with me it was unclear who was playing the victim and who the redeemer. I met June by chance for the first time one day on the bus coming home from school; in later years June took to telling people that my grandmother had asked her to look after me. In fact, no more absurd request could have been possible, as my grandmother loathed June and strongly disapproved of our friendship, seeing her as a manipulative bad influence--an interesting example of June's Neptunian ability to rewrite reality to something she preferred, and then to believe it.
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What can psychological astrology do for someone like June? Being realistic, the answer is not a lot. Now in her seventies, these are patterns of being which have been laid down over a lifetime, and there are serious mental health issues which are far, far beyond the competence of a counselling astrologer to deal with in the normal two sessions. She is, to put it bluntly, barmy, and underneath all the confabulation lies a defeated person. She needs help beyond the sort that astrology can give. Perhaps depth psychotherapy might have helped, but perhaps also it needs to be accepted that there are people for whom nothing can be done, though of course it's never to late to change or begin some kind of honest encounter with one's unconscious drives: the chart keeps on changing and growing throughout one's life. Hers is certainly a difficult chart: with a grand cross and a T-square, there's an awful lot here which doesn't come easily, a lot of incompatible archetypal principles yoked for a lifetime and forced to interact. Saturn (form, limit) would rather not speak to formless, oceanic Neptune at all; the instinctive, body-focused Moon is terrified of Uranus' chilly, dirigiste cerebrations. There's the psychologically hard childhood to consider, felt to be undemonstrative at best and poisonous at worst, filled with dark familial undercurrents to which our sensitive little Moon~Pluto girl would have been all too alert. ('Why does Daddy love me and Mummy doesn't? Why does Mummy love Joanne when Daddy seems to hate her?') But there's also a lot of strength here: Sun~Jupiter in Capricorn is an aspect which does see life as a banquet, even if it regards itself more as the beggar Lazarus looking to catch the scraps which fall from the rich man's table than the rich man himself. It can also bring enormous determination to achieve: one of the saddest things about June's chart is that she genuinely could have been any of the things which she posed as: she had the intellect and dramatic flair to have been a successful barrister, and the patience and experience of personal suffering to have made a sympathetic counsellor, for example. The thing that makes the difference, that has locked her into this 'fated' victim-redeemer complex, is hard to pinpoint astrologically. It is, in part, down to one's degree of consciousness, that is, to one's willingness to take honest responisbility for one's own complexes. No one, least of all me, can deny that this is very hard indeed, and that the primrose-path of least resistance often seems infinitely more tempting.
2 comments:
- Mariana said...
That friend of mine I mention in that post, she was a spiritualist who believed in reincarnation, and occult sciences, and all that. Her ego self, that I know only too well, would be delighted if anything bad were to befall me, and if I ended up a loser in her estimation -- you know, it would confirm her vane assumption that after her it's chaos. But sometimes I like to imagine that all those spiritualist things were true, and if she were to visit me in my dreams, stripped from all her ego, her inner self would shine as fundamentally good and would say "Don't let me have this kind of negative power over you. Think only of the good stuff you got from me, and throw away the rest." I like to think that's the fundamental truth about people. But if (some) people really are bad, and really do mean to harm us, all the more reason not to let them have their victory, all the more reason not to care. One can still love and cherish the memory of the good person we perceived them to be, and continue to honour that.
- 16 April 2009 at 21:36
- Bo said...
Yes, that's very true and wise. One can do good without realising it, just as much as one can do ill.
- 17 April 2009 at 00:05


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