Common Reader Question, and Other Email Queries

 

April 1, 2006

 

http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/apr1.html

 

Dear Eric

 

Tell me about me.

 

Yours truly,

 

Amanda in Arkansas

 

 

Dear Amanda

 

You're from Arkansas? What a coincidence. I know your cousin Mike! Please tell him I said hi.

 

Now Amanda, I really wish you had sent your birth data with this question, but since you asked me to tell you about you, you were born May 14, 1975 in Little Rock, at 5:31 pm. Am I good, or what?

 

From your chart, I can see that you work at Kentucky Fried Chicken and have a part time job at the Little Bark Veterinary Clinic. You drive a blue 1994 Honda, which burns a little oil, however, it's from the valve guides and seals, which are not usually worth fixing. However, the contradiction between working in a chicken fast food place and for a vet is not something that has escaped your awareness, and part of what you have come into this lifetime for is to embrace this very contradiction.

 

But what you really want to be is a mountain guide in the High Sierras. I'll come back to that later.

 

You live in an apartment on Clinton St., I won't give the address for privacy. You're on the third floor and I can tell your neighbor is really weird. He is constantly playing Led Zeppelin backwards at odd hours of the morning, which is annoying because a) this kind of thing was seriously passé about 10 years before you were born and b) you have to work the morning shift at Little Bark which usually means getting up at 6 am.

 

You know your neighbor from sixteen past lives, beginning in 455 BC and the most recent being in 1956. They all have one thing in common -- he is noisy and you are quiet. I know you feel that maybe you've done something terrible to him in a past life to deserve this, but, no, I assure you: he is simply noisy and he always has been.

 

So don't worry about your bad karma holding you back. Any that you had, you worked out in the third grade, when you refused to tell on those snitty girls for hassling you the day before Easter vacation. Remember that? You could have made their lives hell and in particular, you may have saved Nancy a lot of trouble because her father was a real piece of work and would have definitely over-reacted if the school principal called him up.

 

Now, as for your fabulous destiny as a mountaineering guide. In two years you will take a vacation in Nevada, and you will plan to go to Las Vegas because you've heard it's really weird. However, you will get bored in approximately 51 minutes and by accident wander down a side street where you will discover the office of Big Rock Adventures, which has not opened yet, and which will strike you as funny because you are from Little Rock and this is your chance to see the big rock.

 

All that's delaying this is this guy Wally who has this dream of starting Big Rock Adventures, but is still stuck in his job as an exterminator and hasn't had the guts to ask his rich aunt to swing some cash his way to help him get this pretty much guaranteed to be a successful business going.

 

You will run into Wally several times in these two years, purely by coincidence, but you won't know who he is and you probably won't recognize him when you see him that day in Las Vagas. But, this meeting that sunny afternoon will prove to be the one that sets you on the true road to your destiny.

 

Please let me know how things work out!

 

 

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Dear Eric

 

Is there an asteroid named Betty Dodson?

 

-- Extremely relaxed in Wichita

 

 

Dear ERW

 

No, but there should be.

 

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Dear Eric

 

Is there an asteroid named for Mick Jagger?

 

-- Freak

 

 

Dear Freak

 

Not that I know of, but these days you never know.

 

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Dear Eric

 

Are there too many asteroids?

 

-- Still Counting

 

 

Dear Still Counting

 

Yes

 

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Dear Eric

 

I lost my virginity at 3:07 on January 19th 2004 in a bus stop at Charing Cross, London. I know it was 3:07 because the number 14 bus came at the same time I did and it was seven minutes late.

 

Would it be possible to tell from a 'first time' chart what sort of a sex life I am going to have? I am a Virgo with Testosterone rising.

 

Yours very sincerely,

 

Dennis

 

 

Dear Dennis

 

You do have some Virgo tendencies, for sure. Also I've looked at the chart carefully and it does seem you also have a propensity for the Great Outdoors. However, I really think you need to get yourself to Wales for a week or so where there is a lot more fresh air, sunshine and better meadows to frolic in than in London.

 

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Dear Eric

 

Do you consider yourself weird or normal?

 

Gerry the Gemini

 

 

Dear G-G

 

What a nice thing to say!