Ye Olde Office Politics Blog

I'm listening to a book on tape now where a Business Guy tells you how to communicate. Some of it's annoying but it sure beats reading heavy Western Philosophy. Business people talk in the colloquial and each sentence sort of coughs up the Bottom Line. Anyway, he works mostly with sport celebrities, whew can't remember his name. In one part he discusses how difficult it is to both give and receive Criticism and Praise. The advice he gives is really good but I was listening to it while driving, the other cars are so selfish about not sharing their lanes. Here's good old Rex Bills listings for:

Critical persons: Virgo (Uranus)
Friendly criticism: (Aquarius)
Critics, criticism, literary criticism: Mercury, Virgo, H3 (Jupiter, H9, Mars)

Praise: Jupiter (Aquarius)
Praise received: 10
Compliments (sp?): not mentioned

So, overall Praise and Criticism are Aquarius topics with Mercury-Virgo basically ruling Criticism and Jupiter ruling Praise. Praise is a religious thing so I guess it makes sense that Jupiter would rule it.

The author discusses the problem of seeming sincere (Jupiter) when giving praise (Jupiter) due to the fact that Praise often makes the recipient feel Uneasy (Uranus). The best Praise (Jupiter to receive is when you hear from a third party that someone thinks you are doing something well. Don't know what rules "Third Party" type of relations. That's an interesting one. "Triangularity" is mentioned in Rex Bills as ruled by (Uranus). It's best to give Criticism (Virgo, Mercury (Uranus)) in private. Private Chambers (Libra).

I also was wondering about the rulerships for the difference between the two words:

Vindictive (Saturn, Pluto, Scorpio)
and
Vindicated (Jupiter).

It's interesting that these problems come up in successive signs, kind of like the chart is telling you that once you have learn to be Vindictive, 8th house lesson, you can move on to be Vindicated (9th House lesson). If you go overboard with this you have to move on to Saturn's House, the 10th, to learn more lessons about being Vindictive.

Ew, I'm in a negative mood. Can you tell?

In Finale, here's one last word to get you through your Monday Morning:

Gossip, Gossipers: Mercury, H3, Gemini (Moon)