<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Little Readings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Little Readings]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:02:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Sample Reading]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is an example of the initial $60 written reading. Darkness illuminates your path forward. Be curious, versatile. You have business in the tribe - a message for others - but to learn what you need to know you must make sure your goals align with your genuine curiosity and your most heartfelt dreams.  You must be sure to face the psychological wounds that threaten to blot out your sense of direction.  Perhaps your intelligence and versatility of mind make you susceptible to the larger...]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/post/sample-reading</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a78e2fe7e238b0b8ae42780</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:32:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0c21f_2b8e520c8ac14c51ab8c134970fd105c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lthell3</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marianne Moore &#38; Saturn's Perseverance]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a type of fortitude that entangles. The spider silently spinning her web has it. Or the grape vine, in Marianne Moore's poem, Nevertheless: “a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times - so the bound twig that's under- gone and over-gone, can't stir.” This terrifying tenacity suggests the over-dependent relationship between Moore and her mother, Mary. Mary’s invasive presence was described by Alyse Gregory, a family friend: “Mon dieu! What a mother, so large, pale,...]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/post/marianne-moore-saturn-s-perseverance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f8864496864d77249730f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:06:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0c21f_4c6b4472b03e497591126eae71482400~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lthell3</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mary Oliver and "the sublime and the common" on the Pisces/Virgo Axis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mary Oliver’s take on Emerson always surprises me. She describes him as “unbelievably sweet.” I don’t find him so. I find him upright, vigorous, rigorous and entirely admirable, but not sweet, an adjective she never gives evidence for, that I can see. She may simply be grateful to his open-mindedness, as he “opens doors and tells us to look at things for ourselves.” He takes us beyond our assumptions and invites us to explore. It’s an act of generosity, providing a steadying hand while...]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/post/mary-oliver-and-the-pisces-virgo-axis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f8864496864d7724972bf</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:26:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0c21f_0314e96a76f0499f8ea9b18c33816777~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_680,h_986,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lthell3</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aries: Enlarge Your Soul with Acts of Courage]]></title><description><![CDATA[For Aries, life is a proving ground. It takes you to your edges, tests your courage, and sometimes shoves you in the chest and dares you to do something about it. This is the energy of the Warrior, the Pioneer, the Daredevil, the Bodyguard.  With Mars and his Ascendant in Aries, poet Walt Whitman’s warrior energy was apparent in his explosive bursts of temper. Once as a youngster, Walt was fishing when a neighbor boy threw stones in the water and rowed over his fishing line. Walt thrashed the...]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/post/aries-enlarge-your-soul-with-acts-of-courage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f8864496864d772497353</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:24:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0c21f_c3d01e830cb34f0c80a3291bd32b6f50~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lthell3</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.H. Lawrence and the Virgo/Pisces Tension]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marianne Moore was often characterized as a spinster, yet she learned from frequently-censored D.H. Lawrence that there's "dignity and mystery even in carnality," writes Moore's biographer Linda Leavell. And when Moore heard that some of Lawrence's poems were going to be cut by his publishers, she wrote him a letter of support: "In person you could instruct me in many things... I shall always be a learner at your hand." With Mars in Virgo, Moore needs feisty mentors who inspire courage — a...]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/post/d-h-lawrence-and-the-virgo-pisces-tension</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f8864496864d772497352</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:01:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0c21f_fce3ffb7d87b4cdaaa7443a85777bce6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lthell3</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Hardwick &#38; Capricorn's Sustained Creative Effort]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Hardwick’s essays are filled with quiet insights, so quiet that I had to read them in the mornings, when my mind was fresh enough to pay attention. She sifts plot and character to reveal truth with wry humor: “Heaven is not likely to send a desperate, strong-willed woman of thirty an interesting, unmarried man.” As Hardwick explores numerous works of great writers, she is always sensitive to the challenges women have faced, but she resists blaming sexism. In the essay on Sylvia...]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/post/elizabeth-hardwick-s-essays-the-desire-and-discipline-of-artmaking</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f8864496864d772497330</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:04:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0c21f_16eeb72d32f4492887106e1866e02b39~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lthell3</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scorpio Syllabus: Muriel Spark's Memento Mori]]></title><description><![CDATA[There aren’t many likeable characters in Memento Mori. I counted three. But death comes for the likeable, the despicable and everyone in between, and the way aging adults cope with (or try to deny) that grim reality drives the plot of this book. Some try to shore up treasure in this life, some cling to relationships, some maintain a scientist’s neutrality, while others let their pain bring them closer to their God.  In the introduction to my Virago edition, A.L. Kennedy writes that the book...]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/post/the-first-of-the-four-last-things-muriel-spark-s-memento-mori</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f8864496864d77249730d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 14:36:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0c21f_4dcf61915975405d9b286dc362ec1f72~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lthell3</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sagittarius Syllabus: Benjamin Taylor's Chasing Bright Medusas: The Life of Willa Cather]]></title><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Taylor’s brief biography of Willa Cather serves as a useful companion piece to Cather’s novels and letters. Taylor offers insights into Cather’s development as a writer, the themes that brought her into her full power, and her carefully guarded relationships with Isabelle McClung and Edith Lewis. Conscientious about labeling his hypotheses as unprovable, he considers Cather’s private emotional life with respectful percipience, honoring a woman who is protective of her own home life...]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/post/the-thing-not-named-benjamin-taylor-s-chasing-bright-medusas-the-life-of-willa-cather</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f8864496864d772497350</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 22:39:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0c21f_20b1a0ba3f66450c83aaade817d01864~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lthell3</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cancer Syllabus: Alice Munro's Family Furnishings]]></title><description><![CDATA[This collection was my introduction to Alice Munro's work and it taught me that the true pleasure in reading short stories is to take them slowly, reading no more than one a day to let each wash over me. Munro's technique is immersive. Instead of cramming the narrative with descriptive words which bring the reader's mind to the story, her best stories (at least the ones I like best) somehow convey a feeling, an atmosphere. Often as I began reading a story, I would try to resist, but like the...]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/post/immersed-in-life-munro-s-family-furnishings</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f8864496864d7724972e7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 20:27:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0c21f_dcf25d27e7074a5fa06f622612c4879d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lthell3</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great Work of Saturn: Grave and Persistent Effort]]></title><description><![CDATA[“ A Worn Path ” is one of Eudora Welty’s most powerful short stories, and if you've read it, you know the epic journey Phoenix Jackson...]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/post/the-great-work-of-saturn-grave-and-persistent-effort</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f8864496864d77249730c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 16:10:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_686f514f67486634503530~mv2_d_7617_2922_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lthell3</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning from Clichés: The Trite but True in Astrology]]></title><description><![CDATA[In one of Steven Forrest’s books, he mentions that every astrological sign could be reduced to a few clichés. That cliché might be a perfect motto if you’re under the heavy influence of that sign or its ruling planet, but it won’t serve you very well when a different sign or planet is impacting you. Reading Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, I’m thinking a lot about aphorisms that have become cliché, because Jane’s brother Benjamin was - as most Americans learn at some...]]></description><link>https://thellastrology.wixsite.com/littlereadings/post/learning-from-clich%C3%A9s-the-trite-but-true-in-astrology</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f8864496864d7724972e5</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2022 14:42:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c0c21f_beb7e5f6b59c4e949106adbbba6bd807~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lthell3</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>