Eighth House Journal

September 4- October 14

Sign: Scorpio
Co-Rulers: Mars and Pluto
Key Phrase: "I analyze what I desire"

The Eighth House in the zodiac wheel is the house of joint resources. It deals with corporate money, inherited money or property, insurance and taxes. It also deals with the dissolution of material structures back into energy.

 

1953

The Water Snake - inquiring, money oriented, a thinker, motivated by "insight" and is "patient".

Ruler of the hours 9am to 11am
Direction - South/Southwest
Season - Spring/May
Fixed element - Fire negative

Obviously I don't remember a thing about this year

1993

 

1997 - Working at the Large University still in my first assignment for Large Software company.  things aren't going well at this time  I'm caught in the political cross hairs.

A Justice Year

 

 

 

1998

 

 

1999

 

2000

Jobs come and go but this is the first time when I've known that I not only had to leave for my own sanity as well as the sanity of another.  My boss and I were sitting in the airport and she made the comment under her breath -- "how do you stand it?"  I was shocked that she said anything -- after all she never struck me as a person who would confront things directly.  What she told me was that I was making her life miserable.  It wasn't that I wasn't doing an excellent job but that I had spoiled her own little piece of paradise -- there was another queen bee in the hive and that simply wasn't going to work out.

September 7, Question: my emotional outlook for staying at my current position got 6 conflict going to 47

This situation was the embodiment of deep seated conflict.  I made the decision that it was absolutely imperative that I leave both the company and the job.  During this time I actively interviewed with two companies in the PNW and took the management job rather than the consulting job. My reasoning was based on which job I felt was more stable

According to some views of reality in a 5 year you can experience the tarot cards as a lesson or as an opportunity.  This was a clear case of the 5 of cups. The 5 of cups holds the hidden teaching of the lovers within it.  The teaching of choice and decision.  Grieving over the spilled cups solves nothing, but the choice to grieve is given to each of us.  The choice to turn around and pick up the cups is also there.

2001

October 13, 2001

Sometimes an event happens in a "5" year and it takes just a little while for it to come to fruition.  I ended up parting company with my place of employment a few days after the beginning of my 6 year.  Since the plans had already been made I still count it a 5 occurrence.  Now that the loss has happened I find myself wondering what I was so concerned about.  I've actually been laid off for the first time in my life and I've survived it.

2002

Actually hard at work so things just seemed to roll by this year

2003

Not the best time - I've found that 50 is troubling me more than I expected.  I've also been in writers block and consumed with family issues (of the death and taxes kind).  I found out that Sting and I share a birthday - but he's two years older.  I think the lesson is if he can still hang in there as a rock star I can still do what I want to do.

Solar Return Theme

"New studies of the brain suggest that play may be as important to life as sleeping and dreaming," writes Stuart Brown in "National Geographic." In other words, science is on the verge of confirming what we play activists have always preached: To be a healthy master of reality, you have to play every day. This is always true, of course, but it's twice as true for you right now. To make sure you know exactly what we're talking about here, Libra, study Brown's definition: "Play is spontaneous, pleasurable behavior that has no clear-cut goal and does not conform to a stereotypical pattern."

My Birthday I-ching is 25 going to 23 

2004

Actually not much happening this year but I was very busy.  Spent a lot of time trying to figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up and also made the decision that I wasn't particularly interested in continuing to work with the individual I was working with.  I was suppose to go down to Southern California and I simply made sure I was too busy.  A group of us were meeting weekly during this period to prep for the PMP and we were also developing a focus on SOX.  Did a lot of traveling as well.

2005
The summary of this period is extreme disruption.  We went on vacation to Hilton Head partially to let me have a better solar return and what ever it was I was escaping found me anyway.  On the flight back I was in touch with the office to find that I had been added to the lay-off list.  It seems no one is really comfortable that I should be laid off but the jury was out as to what they should do with me.