• adverse childhood experience,  astronaut,  human psychology,  maternal introject,  personal development,  UFOlogy

    The boy who wanted to be an astronaut

    Despite Natalie’s habits of drinking, smoking, and popping pills when they were available, Natalie had brains. She also had a passion for astrology, and had taught herself how to  chart people’s destinies from data she would get from magazines. “Your moon is in Scorpio, and your ascendant is in Virgo,” she would say, and go on to make a prediction that occasionally came true. People would say it’s bull, or get excited, or be afraid. She liked them to react, which in turn got her obsessed. Sometimes she would stay up half the night to finish someone’s horoscope.  “It’s retrograde Mercury, be careful, nothing’s going to go right for a…