Sun Signs (3 page)
Any questions?
Okay, ready, set, go!!!!!
Kaleigh—the bossy one
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From blondeshavemorefun
To: cosmicgirl
Subject: just one question
what if one of your loyal subjects doesn’t wear pj’s?
blondie
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From: cosmicgirl
To: blondeshavemorefun
Subject: Re: just one question
R U SERIOUS? No cuddly warm flannels? I live in mine! Never mind, reflecting in the nude is perfectly acceptable.
Your Highness
PS. I used to think you were a girl. I know they say blonde girls have more fun. Is it true about guys?
Kaleigh
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From: blondeshavemorefun
To: cosmicgirl
Subject: Re: just one question
what makes u think i’m a guy?
blondie
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From: cosmicgirl
To: blondeshavemorefun
Subject: Re: just one question
I don’t know. Maybe because you sleep in the nude. That seems like a guy thing. So what are u?
k.
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From: blondeshavemorefun
To: cosmicgirl
Subject: Re: just one question
that’s for me to know and you to figure out!
blondie
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From: cosmicgirl
To: blondeshavemorefun
Subject: Re: just one question
Forget it! That will drive me craaazzzyyyy!
k.
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From: blondeshavemorefun
To: cosmicgirl
Subject: Re: just one question
crazy is good! LOL
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From: cosmicgirl
To: B.A. Stargazer
Subject: Science Report
Hi Ms. Stargazer,
Remember me? I’m the student doing a report on astrology. Even though you haven’t had a chance to reply to my last letter, I felt like writing to you again. I hope you don’t mind. I realize now that the question I asked you about writing horoscopes for each sign was unfair. It’s so complex! You would have to write a whole book to explain that to me, wouldn’t you? Lol.
I’ve been doing some more reading, and I think I finally understand what birth or natal charts are. I’m also beginning to understand that it is by reading the transits that the astrologer figures out how the cosmic energy affects us. Unfortunately, there are still LOTS of things I don’t understand. You must have studied astrology for years and years before you became an astrologer! Is there a School of Astrology that you have to attend?
I always read your horoscopes. This month you mentioned that Uranus is moving into Pisces for the first time in eight decades and that Uranus is “seldom lucky, but always interesting.” You said there would be “unpredictability overall.” You also said that this would affect Gemini by shaking up our inner worlds. This does not sound like a good thing!
I have to admit, this forecast has me a little worried. I have had some seriously bad luck in the past year—healthwise—and my life has been anything but predictable. Can you tell me anything more about what this forecast could mean for me?
Your loyal Gemini,
Kaleigh Wyse
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From: cosmicgirl
To: 2good4u
Subject: Let’s get started!
Any time now, my furry little guinea pig, you can get started on the experiment. Are you still squealing?
By the way, do you know if blondeshavemorefun (blondie) is a girl or a guy?
Kaleigh
And what is YOUR real name? Rumplestiltskin?
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From: 2good4u
To: cosmicgirl
Subject: Re: Let’s get started!
no, i’m not rumplewhatshisname, but you’ve made an interesting observation. mr. rumple solved the fair maiden’s problem in the fairytale, right? didn’t he turn straw into gold or something?
so it would follow that since i solved YOUR problem (a topic for the science project), u need to guess my name correctly or you’ll have to turn your first-born child over to me, as decreed in the fairytale. :)
Maybe blondie is a eunuch.
2good
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From: starlight
To: cosmicgirl
Subject: Collecting Data
Kaleigh,
Have I got news!
But first I must tell you, this data collecting is too much fun. (I’m using my best English here, girlfriend, but seeing as I don’t actually go to school, please excuse me if I screw up occasionally. LOL.) Anyhow, I’ve printed off the yearly, monthly and this week’s Leo horoscopes. Wooeee! I can’t believe I never thought of following this horoscope stuff more closely before. This Stargazer babe is cool. It’s too soon to tell whether everything is going to come true in the long term, but after reading what she said about the coming year and this month of January, I sure hope so! My love life will be hot hot hot. LOL. As if that could happen here! (Although after what happened yesterday, you never know. But I’m getting to that.)
For this week, she said, “People notice you more than usual now and you’re in fine form.” Well, seeing as I live on a remote little island with only a handful of neighbors and almost no other kids, I thought that was totally not about to happen and maybe she wasn’t so smart after all.
But (and you’re not going to believe this, Kaleigh), just after lunch yesterday, I was sitting at my kitchen table looking out at the ocean, wishing I was just about anywhere else and wondering how on earth I was going to get noticed. Out of nowhere a yacht pulls up to our dock and out piles a whole family—a dad, a mom and two guys—aged 15 & 17! I thought I must be dreaming. I blinked my eyes a couple dozen times and shook my head hard, but when I looked again they were still here! LOL! Apparently this family is taking a year or two off from their regular lives to cruise the west coast, but they were having some engine trouble so pulled up to the first dock they spotted. Both sets of parents tinkered on the engine most of the afternoon, so I was left with the guys, Matt and Chris. They are home-schooled, which is quite different—I found out—from taking correspondence classes like us. The biggest difference is that their dad is their main teacher. Can you imagine?
Anyway, I can’t decide who I like better, Matt or Chris. They are both cute, super nice, smart and definitely not shy. They seemed about as happy to meet a girl roughly their age as I was to meet them! We spent the afternoon comparing notes about our various “schools,” played computer games and hiked across the island. By the time the yacht was fixed it was getting dark, so they stayed for dinner and slept here (on their boat). After breakfast they sailed away (sob), but I have their e-addresses so we are going to stay in touch.
Kaleigh, it was the most fun I’ve had in weeks! It made me all that much more determined to get off this stupid little island and get a real life complete with boys, movies, sports, parties, music lessons, friends, more boys — you know — all the stuff most kids have every day.
Anyhow, that is my first report for your science project. Now I’m wondering how you’re planning to tabulate this information. However you decide to do it, give Ms. Stargazer a big
from me this week!
Shari
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From: cosmicgirl
To: starlight
Subject:
Re: Collecting Data
Wow, Shari, that was a good day. But I can’t help thinking that it was all the eye-blinking/head-shaking that got you noticed. LOL
So that’s why you’re a distant learner—you live on an island. I can see how you might not like it, being so removed from everything, but believe me, there are definite advantages. For example, imagine going to school with a couple of thousand other kids and having to watch which hall you walked down because each one is owned by a different gang. Walk down the hall of a gang that doesn’t like your particular color (skin or hair)/religion/sex/grade/sexual orientation/mother/father/brother/sister/ astrological sign :) and you’re in big big trouble. I should know. I’ve been to that school. And sports are not so great either. If you’re not one of the best on the team, forget it. Coaches play the best players and everyone else warms the benches, if they haven’t already been cut. I tried dance classes for a while, but all those hours in front of mirrors … yuck. And besides, I’m not into looking like a toothpick, which is the right dancer look.
What else do you think you’re missing? Parties? Oh yeah. Well, there’s not as many of them as you’d think. Maybe certain crowds party more than others. Music lessons. I had them, but practicing every day can get a bit annoying. Boys, on the other hand … Sounds like you met a couple of good ones yesterday. Can’t wait to hear how your e-relationships go with them. I’ve heard some e-relationships get pretty steamy!
So why do you live on an island anyway? Let me guess. You’re marooned and no one has ever found you? No, I guess that family from yesterday would have rescued you if you wanted rescuing. How about … one of your parents is a prison escapee and has to hide for the rest of his/her life. No? Are your parents hippies with a grow op on the island? Hmm. I’m making myself—as Alice in Wonderland would say—curiouser and curiouser. A mystery.
Speaking of mysteries, do you happen to know 2good’s real name, and whether blondie is a guy or a girl? And what’s his/her real name?
My science report has actually become fun — go figure! I emailed Ms. B.A. Stargazer (the astrologer) with some questions. I told her I was thinking of becoming an astrologer myself — which isn’t quite true — but I thought she might like to hear that. (Shh! Don’t tell!)
Anyway, can’t wait to get data from you again soon. Your English is very “good.” LOL. Keep up the good work.
Kaleigh
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From: starlight
To: cosmicgirl
Subject: Re: Collecting Data
Hi Kaleigh,
The truth is—I am a prisoner on this island and it sucks, big time. Let me explain.
My father is a marine biologist and is studying ocean currents and the migration of jellyfish. These studies take YEARS to complete. It is dead boring. My mom is a so-called “successful artist” and has a studio at the side of the house where she goes to paint, sculpt and do all that other good stuff. I didn’t mind being here when I was little because I didn’t know what I was missing, but NOW I KNOW! There is a ferry that comes to the island a couple of times each day and brings us the odd visitor and our mail. It would even take me to and from school on the mainland, but my parents are very happy to keep me isolated from the real world. What they don’t understand is that I am TRAPPED and will ESCAPE at the first chance. They say I don’t know how lucky I am to live in such a safe environment. Yeah right. It’s a good thing I’ve got my books—they let me order as many as I want, and it’s the highlight of my life when a shipment arrives. It’s an even bigger good thing that there is email and chatlines so I know what is happening OUT THERE. I will never do this to my own kids!!
So now you know why I am a distant learner. What is your excuse?
Shari
P.S. Sorry, but I don’t know anything about 2good and blondie except that they’re Leos.
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From: cosmicgirl
To: B.A. Stargazer
Subject: Science Report
Dear Ms. Stargazer,
I hope it’s okay that I keep writing to you. I know you must be way too busy studying the stars and writing all those horoscopes to answer email from a person like me, but I like writing letters and will keep sharing stuff about my science project if you don’t mind.
I finally got the first bit of data from one of my Leo subjects.
She was very excited because her horoscope came true that day. I think she, too, is going to become a big fan of you and your horoscopes.
There’s one thing that really puzzles me about astrology. I’ve noticed that almost all astrologers agree on the personality traits that describe people in each of the signs. But what they don’t agree on is horoscopes. They are often contradictory— two astrologers forecasting completely different things. Aren’t both astrologers reading the same set of stars and planets? I better get busy and find out why this is, because I just know my teacher is going to ask me about it.
Your loyal Gemini,
Kaleigh Wyse
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From: cosmicgirl
To: jselenski
Subject: Progress Report #1
Dear Mr. Selenski,
It has been two weeks since you first gave us this assignment, so I decided it was time to turn in my first progress report. (See? Even if I don’t do so great in science, I AM competent at math!)
As you may recall, I am studying astrology so that I can understand the formation of horoscopes better, and to figure out why they always seem to come true, for me anyway. (I suspect it may be a different matter for you!) So far I have selected three Leo subjects who are reading the same horoscopes (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) to determine whether the forecasts match what is actually happening in their lives.
I have contacted the astrologer whose forecasts we are using. She hasn’t responded yet, but I hope she will.
I have collected some data from one of my subjects, and it clearly showed that the Leo forecast for that week had come true for her. These early results are very exciting!
I’m having a little more trouble with the Gathering Information portion of the project. Astrology is way more complicated than I imagined. (I’m sure you’d be shocked, Mr. Selenski, seeing as you don’t even believe in this stuff.) There are all kinds of words and terms and other stuff that I just don’t understand. For example, have you ever heard of a Saturn opposition? Or how about a Jupiter transit? It’s all very mysterious, but I’m doing my best to decipher the information so I can write a proper report. I will keep plodding away, but I expect the Record and Analyze Data portion of my report will be way more interesting than the Information portion. (Just thought I’d warn you.)
