"Everything You Make Is Beautiful" in My New Life
Revised: 10/09/2023 10:34 a.m.
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As I’ve mentioned before, I was a Chef for a lot of years working to get back into school. I loved what I did for the most part. Working in Hospitality and Hotels had amazing moments. Where I am, the Automotive Industry brings in a lot of Europeans and other people from around the world. German, namely. Many of my American counterparts can be prejudice about Europeans. I am Diplomatic so I revel in the experience. I used to speak German philosophy (Nietzsche) with some of my guests. Once, I tutored and helped one of my guests with her English on her Fashion Consultant website. She was Brazilian and she was married to a rich German. It was an Extended Stay hotel so many of my guests would stay weeks on end, fly somewhere like Switzerland for a few weeks and be back at the hotel with me.
I always had great experiences with my German guests. Once I was working late at another hotel in the same town and I heard a knock on my kitchen door. When I opened it it was a German. He had brought me chocolates from all around the world, and he told me, “Everything you make is beautiful.”
My popularity with my guests has always added an element of jealousy with my co-workers who are actually from down here in The South. My GM from New Jersey didn’t mind while I was chatting up the pretty woman from around the world. After all, “Engage” was our thing. And Engage I shall do.
I enjoy world traveller fashion, and I enjoy looking nice. Another time, I had on a stylish scarf and sleek looking jacket and of course my Chef Beret. The German staying that time was up early for coffee when I arrived at 4:30am and he said ecstatically when he saw me, “Nice outfit!” Sincerely too. Literally, later that day I came in looking the same and there were a bunch of Bass Pro looking guests wearing plaid and they were giving me the stink eye. Like, real intimidating like. The sentiment their body language was saying was “You don’t know where you are, boy.” I spent almost every morning for years with world travelers engaging in conversations. I can greet people in almost 25 different languages. Plus, I read a lot of world literature so I generally have something to engage with. I had guests from Hungary, Italy, Greece, France, all over Germany, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan, and that’s how my mornings were spent. I had a wonderful time too. We were voted the best Hotel in town that year up against Embassy Suites.
I’ll most likely move to Europe one day. One of my Brazilian friends from college was a tour guide in Prague the last I checked.
Last updated October 09, 2023
TL ⋅ October 09, 2023
So... Are you a Libra? I get Saggitarrius and Gemini vibes also.
Zampano TL ⋅ October 09, 2023
Taurus on the cusp of a Gemini. I follow the same star, Venus, as a Libra and Gemini. My ole guitarist is a Libra, my Greek drummer is a Sagittarius and at least two of my ex-girlfriends are Gemini, so you are freaky-close, spot-on.
TL Zampano ⋅ October 09, 2023
I sensed a strong Venus influence. I haven’t ruled out Gemini yet. Maybe it’s your mercury or you have prominent 3rd house placements. 8th or 9th house placements wouldn’t shock me at all. Any idea what your rising sign is?
I’m a Capricorn, my chart is pretty much 50/50 Capricorn/Scorpio. My rising is Taurus. Venus rules my chart. My chart is pretty potent.
Zampano TL ⋅ October 09, 2023
I'm not quite as savvy as you are on the topic. I'm not familiar with mercury or house placements, risings and potency. I do find it fascinatingly interesting though.
TL Zampano ⋅ October 09, 2023
Can I peak? I just need your social security number… I kid! Birthday, birth place and the birth time. The birth time unlocks the horoscopes. Needs to be within a ten minute window. It can make all the difference. What it does is unlock the houses, which means nothing to you but the sign rising in the east at the time we are born is what we are rising into. It’s our personality and appearance. It’s called the 1st house.
The birth chart has a Skelton, so to speak. A blank chart, to keep it simple. Like the crosshairs of a sniper rifle but it has 13 wedges. Each is a house owned by a sign. Each sign has a planetary ruler. The houses tell us how we influence the world. The birth time takes a screenshot of the sky. Signs and planets land in the houses which gives us the whole picture. Without the houses, we can still get the “personal planets.” The current transits.
We look at the planets as characters. Each governs an aspect of ourselves. We then look at the conditions of the signs and at how these planets fair in them. The sun sign we know all about. However, it’s just a piece of the puzzle.
The sun is the soul, our character. The moon is our mind, how we process emotions. Mercury is information and communication, how we process information. Venus is partnership, how we bond. Mars is action and conflict, how we fight and what motivates us. The outer planets function a little differently. Jupiter is the great benefic, it tells us where the universe doubles down for us. Saturn is great malefic, it tells us where we need balance, boundaries and discipline. The rest are generational planets, no big reason to get into it.
An example, the moon, which is the mind and moods. It’s home is in Cancer. It’s comfortable there and people with cancer moons are emotionally intuitive. When the moon is in the opposite sign, Capricorn, it’s the furthest from home. Capricorn has the longest nights. It’s cold and dry and ruled by Saturn (harsh ruler) The moon exalts in Taurus, Taurus is stable and abundant. It’s debilitated in Scorpio, the opposite of Taurus. It’s deep and dark, it’s death and transformation. People with Scorpio moons go through a lot of darkness and transformation.
Zampano TL ⋅ October 10, 2023
Lolol!
Is there a book you can recommend for astrology?
Speaking of which, have read Catcher any further?
TL Zampano ⋅ October 10, 2023
I don't have a book I can recommend for astrology. I took the long way and taught myself. Started with just studying my own chart. Here is a birth chart calculator. This one lists them so you can just search it piece by piece. Astro Future is a great app for it as well.
https://astro-charts.com/tools/new/birth-chart/
Our boy just got to the hotel, that's where I'm at. I misplaced it and only found it this morning. He's horny and trying to get some. He gives me December Capricorn energy. Tall, bony, salt and pepper hair.
Zampano TL ⋅ October 10, 2023 (edited October 10, 2023)
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Nice!
The part where he gets in a fight with Stradlater and says something like, "All morons hate it when you call them a moron." That was the first sentence I ever laughed out loud about from a book. I just remember that strange feeling from inanimate letters on a page arranged in a particular order actually causing a physical reaction in me. From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be a writer. I ended up going to college for English based off that one sentence.
Zampano TL ⋅ October 11, 2023
Also, in Catcher, it is important to take note of important events he mentions almost in passing. The stream of consciousness is easy to slice through without picking up on subtle character developing remarks.
TL Zampano ⋅ October 10, 2023
Say you do look up your chart, I want to make some predictions. I'm okay with being wrong! Mercury in Gemini (or 3H), Venus in Taurus (or 2H). Prominent placements in the 6H (or Virgo rising or descendent).
Zampano TL ⋅ October 10, 2023
I will get around to it. I have exams at the moment so they are sort of occupying my concentration at the moment.
Zampano TL ⋅ October 09, 2023
What about you?