Most Common Titles submitted to the "Virginia Quarterly Review"

The Virginia Quarterly Review put out a list of the most common titles for stories that have been submitted over the past two years.

Found this over at Kottke.org.

http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/04/20/top-ten-titles-3/.

By far the most common title is "Untitled." Wonder what that means about the quality of the work that's submitted to this magazine. I suppose one could simply call the story "Pulling a Blank" or "Don't read this shit."

Seems like the Terror related to Pluto in Capricorn and Saturn in Virgo is taking over the Uranus-Neptune mutual reception energy and creating a big blank in the creativity of America's Finest Intellectuals. That's good, a little clean-out, a Grand Pause, will make room for something new. Perhaps, for now, writing's not the ticket. We need to just get back to the real world through our bodies and not our minds and dance for a while.

I looked at the titles in terms of Astrological Rulerships and was surprised by how they reflect the lower half of the Astrological Wheel. Have no idea what "Aubade" means. I suspect that one writer is very persistent in trying to get one story published and just keeps resubmitting it.

Moon, Pluto, Neptune will always be related to Writing and the Arts because they represent Receptivity, Sensitivity and all the crap that can't be explained otherwise through words. It looks to me like they are influencing the themes in these titles a whole lot.

Rulerships from Rex Bills and then from my owned cracked brain.

• 1.Untitled - Titles, according to Rex, are ruled by Jupiter. Lack of Titles - Who knows, maybe Neptune-Pisces?

• 2 Aubade - What the Hell is This? Definitely chock this up to the incomprehensible Uranus-Neptune mutual reception. Maybe some Pluto in Capricorn snob thing. I don't know -- what the Hell is it?

• 3. Gravity - not listed. Saturn-Pluto thing? Need for Gravity would come from having 5 Full Moons in a Month. Perhaps a result of the Saturn-Pluto trine?

• 4. Prayer - Jupiter, 9, Sagittarius

• 5. Homecoming - not listed, 4th House would be connected along with travel, H3 or 9

• 6. Night - not listed, Moon? Bottom half of chart.

• 7. Drowning - Neptune

• 8. Home - 4th House, Moon

• 9. Sonnet - Venus

• 10. Sleep - 12, Neptune, Pisces, Moon (Pluto)

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And so, now, below is the same list from 2007. What a difference a couple of years makes. I still don't know what Aubade is. I can really feel the difference between the Pluto in Sagittarius energy and the Pluto in Capricorn energy. Interesting how much more varied the subject matter is back in 2007.

"The ten most common titles of submissions that we’ve received in the past year" (which was 2007):

1. Remember - Moon? Cancer?
   
2. Smoke - Fire plus Air plus kindling (7th House?)
   
3. Revelation - (Uranus, Neptune)
   
4. Work - 6, Virgo, (Saturn)
   
5. Grace - Venus, Libra (Moon) (from Bills)
   
6. Waiting - Saturn
   
7. Insomnia - Aries, Mercury, Moon
   
8. Voyeur - not listed in Bills, I'd say this is a Uranus-Pluto thing with some Virgo-Pisces but that's only my opinion
   
9. Butterfly - Gemini, Mercury, Neptune (I'd add Libra, Venus)
   
10. Reunion - Bills says (Saturn).

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Okay, I looked it up on Wikipedia.

Aubade:

An aubade is a poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn.

Aubade has also been defined as "a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak."

Well, that's certainly outside of my 200 word vocabulary. This is how we know that the outer planets are out in the outer signs: the intellectuals are naming their stories for love songs that no one has heard about in the last 500 years.

At any rate, since an Aubade happens at Sun-Up just when the Sun is rising over the Horizon it is interesting that I noted that most of the subject for this past year looks to represent the lower half of the Astrological Wheel. This is metaphorical stuff for the big changes that are currently taking place. Cool.