“How do I find meaning and beauty in life?” A Pluto Square story
I came across this advice column in the New York Times a few weeks ago, asking deep and important questions:
I’m nearly 40 and I find myself at a crossroads that feels more like a dead end. I’ve spent much of my life and thought and income in pursuit of beauty in one form or another: design, fashion, the beauty or “wellness” industries. This is very much a professional hazard: My career in glossy magazines and advertising as a photo editor is all about making beautiful […]
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Librans, of which I am one, are famous for not being able to make a decision. We easily see all sides of a situation, and in a discussion over a point we can convincingly argue for one perspective as well as another. In my house a conversation like this with my double Pisces husband, who dislikes taking a stand of any kind, is very common:
There are some planetary cycles that visit all of us at around the same time of our lives. Many of you are familiar with the Saturn Return, the first one of which occurs around age 28-30 and brings with it the call of responsibility, Saturn’s baileywick. The outer planets, being farther away from the Sun, have bigger cycles. Uranus, for example, takes 84 years to orbit the Sun to the Uranus return occurs at around age 84.
A survey by the British social networking site “Friends United” concludes that more people were happy at the age of 33 than at any other time. Evidently 7 out of 10 respondents “over the age of 40” selected age 33 as the time when they were the happiest. I was unable to find anything that outlined the methodology of this study. Were respondents given a list of every age between birth and death and 7 out of 10 selected 33 at random? Or were they given a selection of ages 
Last night I went to a birthday party for someone I have known for over 30 years, since I first moved to North Carolina. A large group of us that were involved in the same meditation group relocated to North Carolina at the same time, but because I left that group in the mid-1980s there were quite a few people I haven’t seen for many years, so there were people at this party that I hadn’t seen for years.