an article that sort of changed my life
I stumbled upon this during a particularly rough patch in late Spring
http://www.aplaceinspace.net/Pages/JMOuters4.html
"Pluto asks more of Outerplanetary People than any of the transSaturnians: He asks to let go and trust while everything we value is ripped away from us..."
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and now going back to read in depth. Thanks for posting! 
Thank you for sharing this!
runs the board software. I posted an example but it was glichy too. That must be on the to-do list.
That's how you use html on DU. Put brackets with a b, like this (b) this would be bold (/b) and this wouldn't be bold -- if those were square brackets. I'll do that here:
this is bold and this is not bold
There's something called headings, but I can't remember how to do that. And then there is the quotation box, which is, if I can remember, (div class="excerpt"
text here (/div)
That would look like this:
why my signature line isn't working on DU3?
I haven't been able to find ANY kind of information about USING blankity DU3 
With Scorpio rising, 8th house Sun and Pluto currently transiting my natal Moon, I am grateful for coming across this article today. I think Pluto has been pretty much kicking my butt most of my life, it's so good to find out who the culprit is
Wow what a great link too, with many juicy articles to get into!
Moon facing down Pluto all the time (controlling parent) and the duel between 10 and 4? Going out and staying in?
It may be I can't hear it because I need to hear it, but it's going in one ear and out the other.
Is the controlling parent the moon or Pluto? My parents were so not controlling! My mother was controlling in a general way, of my father, certainly, of the world, which she wanted to change, but not of me. My father was utterly detached, Aquarian. Mom Aries.
In her struggle with my father, she was indeed controlling. We children stood apart from that.
I was a very good little girl, very good little student, never made any trouble. At least, not that she knew about. Of course, as soon as I grew up, I started getting myself into trouble!
The way I feel about all this is that my troubles lie somewhere with the interface between my personality and the group -- the 11th house. I feel totally misunderstood by all groups, always the outsider, and when I do work up the nerve to speak up, I'm always taken wrong, misunderstood.
I used to be an actress, and I was really very good at that. People liked me on stage. And I usually get along well with people individually. I get along very well with people from other countries and cultures. But I never really fit in with the home group. Have always been an outsider when it comes to the group.
There was a fellow once, he was the manager of the local amateur theater group in my home town, and then later the local professional company, which he started. At my very first performance in a play at that theater, when I was 17, he attacked me one night after the show, tried to force himself upon me. I shoved him off, rejected him. Basically kicked him off of me, off of the couch, where had literally thrown me down. From that day on, but unbeknownst to me, he blacklisted me in the theaters he controlled. I sometimes wondered at roles I didn't get that I thought I should have, but I never fussed about it. And I still got plenty of wonderful roles. Years later, a director finally told me that he had been forbidden to cast me in a particular role. It was okay for me to be cast in a bit part. And I poked around and found out, yes, he had been doing that all along. He couldn't keep me down completely, but he certainly did interfere.
He recently sent me a friend request on Facebook. !!!???!!! I never responded. I was tempted to expose him. He has always had a bad reputation regarding females. He exerted control over me and interfered with my career in a way that may have finally shut it down. Certainly reduced my horizons. But I was unaware of it while it was happening.
So, all my angst these days still seems to be between me and the group. And I have a great need to do work that does some good somewhere. I stumbled into a brief career at the UN (11th house, yes?) -- cut short by my health -- and what I did most successfully while I was there was to help individuals through the bureaucracy, people from NGOs, or indigenous peoples, other outsiders who were there to try to accomplish something.
I would really like to figure out how to help my daughter improve her health. I'm quite clear on your strongest recommendation to me, but I am physically not up to it. I can't walk very far, but I am not in a wheelchair, which might actually be good for me. It could be liberating, oddly enough. When I do do something, pretty much anything -- go to the grocery store, or do any shopping, or prepare a special meal, or take my daughter to New York, or go to the doctor -- I end up in bed for days and days and days, and just can't get up. The most basic, essential things that need to be taken care of, I cannot take care of.
Boy, I'm making it sound so awful. I apologize. Lately, I have been very marginally more functional, so maybe I shall manage to do something to change this situation after all.
I'm always left with this big feeling that there is something I am just not getting. Synchronicity used to be a very big part of my life, and then one day it went away.
Really, I think the most important thing for me to do at the moment, as I can only manage one thing at a time, is to be here for my daughter. But she is soon to be off to college, and then I will have less to do with the little bit of get-up-and-do-anything that I have.
Enough!
Edit to say: Many thanks, Rick. And may you have a delightful holiday, solstice and new year.
(I wish I could get my astrology books out of the attic, but the ladder to the attic is broken and we can't get up there!)
