Please note the date of my last blog, and please note the topic.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Neptune...consider the retrograde on May 28.
When I think of Neptune, I smile because of the dimension, this planet adds in our lives.
I smile? Have I lost my mind?
Little did I have a clue that I was going to get the Neptunian clobber of a life time. Perhaps, that is an exaggeration. Let's try; the strongest Neptunian hit I have every experienced.
Somehow, stupid me, felt somewhat immune to these transits at my wizen age. Neptune rarely hits me hard.. Wrong again. Astrology has a way of ringing the door bell, whenever we make those type of assumptions. It broke down my front door literally and figuratively.
By last night, I was about to contact Elsa, of Elsa, Elsa and Astro Dispatch to scream help. Elsa and I see eye to eye in areas many people, past astrologers do not. We can talk without mincing words. I didn't call rather...
In my Nepotunian haze, I poured a glass of wine, and thought: These events only have the attachment I put on them and nothing more. Neptune hits again in my thinking.
To preface what happened, and certainly i will not reveal all :> , I need to explain that I have a predominant Neptune in my chart. It is in mutual reception with my venus in my career house, lives in my Fifth House and is part of a Yod (Finger of God .translation: anything that can happen will!..forgive me-it is part of our life lessons learning how to adjust to not necessarily congruent energy).
On May 27, the day of the last blog, my world felt perfect. Between us guys that usually spells trouble.
On May 28, my site got hacked unknown to me. Neptune went retrograde.
On May 29, I started to get client emails to the effect..they could not get into my site.."what did you do?" I heard about a Trojan worm. Then the rogue site message- I kept sending them on to my webmaster, knowing full well I am a novice in this area.
That same day, I went out to several servers and put in my name..to find out...I was not only a ghost site, but also with shadow somethings...and be aware of entry, rogue ...
I am an Aquarian. The words ghost, rogue and shadow do not displease me. I like the mystical mischievous connotations....I sat there in a Neptunian haze, glossing over all this and dreamily thought: I have been called worse.
Then in a moment of lightening clarity, I thought OMG!!!! I sent what I found to my webmaster who of course is another Aquarian and cannot find out what is wrong.
May 31, in the late day, the webmaster declares: you have been hacked.
Dreamily I ask: why? Then smacked by reality, I think: why, you ask why? who cares? get it handled,. She assured me that it was handled, but remember she too is an Aquarian not seeing straight either , helped along by Neptune and his friends..
Meanwhile my personal life takes twists and turns that no one could of foreseen, and my friends, Neptune is in the sign of friendship, conjuncting Jupiter (a lot of) with chiron (healing). ..decide to more or less move in with me to protect me and make sure nothing gets more out of control in my personal life. (and believe me events there were stunning, coming in from left field)
A week later,I love them dearly, but my home is now tipsy turvy, and I am behind the ape ball with work, and when they leave late Saturday night, June 6 , I thank them profoundly for everything, explaining I have major deadlines, so please, I need to work Sunday and perhaps forever to make them.
It was a grand old time with my friends, sponsored by Neptune. The party was so good, they re-appeared, the following day, and then the following day etc. I am still one week and 2 days later, cleaning.
After I barely made my deadlines late Monday, I realized something else. I had not had email off my site since I was hacked. OH DEAR. genius here says: this is trouble.
I try to contact my server. I have been chasing them around for awhile, trying to get a bill (also Neptune here) and low and behold the Neptunian fog subsides, and they appear. Thank Goodness. I see help..
Over 12,000 html coding errors, etc,,email issues beyond the imagination....
Clients and once more friends helped. They emailed me from my site. ..if they could. but Yahoo people could not. This realization came yesterday with Jupiter going Retrograde, one of Neptune's pals.
We are still correcting. .
I have had some splashing side effects too. The funniest is when doing a search for my site in Yahoo, this past Saturday, Sunday and today you find me, but oh oh...oils for enhancement---- and items for enlarging....(use your imagination),. Pray Neptune makes that vanish. I am doing my best to help here.
Amplify that story about 4 times, and you have my life for the last 2 weeks.
Still no email..
I can be reached at JacquelineBigar@aol.com.
I will pop in a phone number on this blog Thursday after installation.
Long term, I need to rethink Neptune, how to harness its energy, and reframe much like the discussion in my blogs of the last six months about Venus, and Pluto.
At the moment, I am detaching, and reframing.
The problem lies there I suddenly becomes so neptunian....(detachment is supposedly the answer with Neptune....)
Ah, My thoughts are meaningless and I only draw what I want from these situations....our past colors our present, so we cannot now see the now....
8 comments:
Sorry to hear of your Neptune smackdown! Hope some boundaries have been reinforced.
Are there perhaps some midpoint structures involved, to trigger such a overt expression of this transit? Neptune is usually sneakier.
BTW, I noticed your site had been hacked ten days earlier. My records show I emailed your webmaster about it on the 18th. I never heard back from her.
AND, I'm very disappointed to see the Republic has stopped carrying your column! Substituting Holiday Mathis who has just been dropped by the Sun-Times.
I know because I read the Sun-Times online every morning, and your columns work out better for me than hers -- that's why I found your site.
I don't understand why they would drop you. You're local! Is it a case of "no prophet without honour, except in his own country"?
If it would help I would be glad to contact the Republic about it.
Cheers,
Tante Lynn
WOW are you saying my site was hacked on May 18? I have ALL THE ACCOUNTS NOW under my jurisdiction- I will look for the note.
The Republic has a financial man now at the helm to choose the columns and she was cheaper. He did not worry about content.
If you want you can write, I heard from a lot of people I knew when in Phx they did too. I am not sure it makes a difference to a financial man. I thank you for your thoughtfuln ess.
Jacquie..under what name did you write me on May 18??? I am going to look.
Dear Tante Lynn,
I must say your writing style reminds me of one of my dearest friends, -very colorful. So colorful, at one point I tried to imitate it.
Your Neptune question: are there perhaps some midpoint structures involved, to trigger such a overt expression of this transit? Neptune is usually sneakier
Neptune is not exactly sneaky.
It is just a planet, but it does tend to induce unconscious states to those who are under its influence.
People in general only see what they want, but with Neptune they are helped along. hence the "rose colored shades" expression.
Cheers.
Hi, I tried to send this once before -- sorry if this is a duplicate.
Thanks for your kind words about my writing, didn't realize it came across that way. I think you write very colorfully.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you said, but your account of recent experiences sounded Plutonian to me.
Hack on May 18th: there were ads for prescription meds along the top of your "About" page that looked out of place.
I sent a message to admin@jacquelinebigar.com, which I assumed went directly to your webmaster. The From name would be Lynn, the Subject line "About Page Issue".
The note said, "Heads up: Rx spammers have found a way to hijack Jacqueline's About page."
The ads disappeared, so I assumed she had handled it (it is a she?).
Glad to hear you're back in charge! :^)
You don't live in Phoenix anymore? I live in Prescott.
Cheers,
Lynn
Hi Lynne,
It depends I think on your outlook. An event happens. It is just an evemt. It is us who put are interpertation on it.
For me I found the event illusive and hard to diagnose. I kept telling people , emailing them and it took awhile to get my message through.
I feel it was Neptunian because I found it difficult to find, sort of evasive or illusionary. Also it was not one issue but multiple issues just for the email problem alone. And they are hard even for a programmer to anchor. I feel as if there will be glitches for awhile.
The deception. Pluto is not deception. It is transformation. In life, it can be plumbing etc,
How do you feel it is Plutonian? I am curious.
Thanks for letting me know. For one the webmaster did not take me seriously, which is one of the biggest problems I encounter yet I trusted her judgment. That was an issue.
Jacquie,
A web designer writes the code that tells the browser how to display your pictures, text, and interactive elements.
Someone can be very good at web design while knowing little about website management, i.e. keeping a site secure. That requires staying informed about server software (the server is the computer on which your site's files are stored).
Any interactive element, like a comment form, needs "back-end" software to make it happen. That's what gets exploited. It can range from a bit of code in a text file which operates a single interactive feature, to a full integrated program that operates many different features.
The bad hacker (there are good ones) finds vulnerabilities in operating systems, browsers, or server software. They use search engines to find other sites with the same software. That may be how they found you.
It used to be that only high-profile sites were attacked, or those connected to a hacker with a grudge. Not anymore. They post their exploits on discussion groups. They share software that automates the process.
The hosting service (the ones who are selling you the server space) usually tries to keep security holes plugged on their end, but they may not keep up with the particular back-end software your web designer has used.
To evaluate your webmaster's management skills, it might help to ask what back-end software is being used to power your site, and ask if your webmaster is signed up to receive email security alerts for that software.
A good webmaster knows what kind of trouble to expect, and tries to stay ahead of it, or at least catch it quickly. Any anomaly should be investigated right away.
What first made me think "Pluto" was "It broke down my front door literally and figuratively." That's violation, which to me is Pluto.
Also, in the 80's and 90's we thought of "hackers" as socially isolated, one guy living in his mom's basement, getting a sense of power by looking for opportunities to create mischief (Uranus?). It's not like that anymore, it's organized crime on a worldwide scale. That also says Pluto to me.
Condolences on having Neptune in the 5th - so do I. I usually don't know what I feel about anything until it's too late. :^)
Cheers,
Lynn
Actually the comment form which you mention is new, and is a necessity with many people coming from different web browsers. Some people cannot configure on a link like "write jacquie".
Understand what you said about Neptune in your 5th. You do not know after the fact ...
That is how Neptune impacted me and my former webmaster on the website. Knocking down a door...I had to get clobbered to see and do something about it.
I see you are not understanding that I am looking at the experience I had with the website, It was neptunian. That is where I come from. The experience,
I do not give a planet the ability to do anything but travel in circles around our sun. How we experience its energy is different,
Pluto is your context is someone coming in to rape you...in real life. Hopefully you would know as it was happening.
Look at your neptune in the Fifth again, read all the different interpertations...and learn to feel which if there is anything that neptune brings to the chart of an individual with it in the fifth-- is the capacity to experience deep feelings and romance. Your defenses must be big to prevent its work.
Dear Tante Lynn,
Your extensive knowledege of webpages reminds me of my x husband now friend. Only I know his credentials.
Could you email me your credentials, --I am sure you understand,
Thank you,
Jacquie
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