To 25thDecan

I read that you also had an aqua mother. Out of curiosity, what was it like growing up with her, especially being a virgo and all? And what is your relationship like with her now? Sorry if this seems a little personal; I'm just really curious because I have an aqua mother, and I've always wondered about the relationship between an aqua parent and a virgo child and if my upbringing was similar to others.

Lol I'm sorry. I meant to reply today, but I've been outside in the snow most of the day.

There were aspects of your mother that you mentioned that reminded me of mine, especially when you mentioned the high expectations. During my pre-teen years, we stopped seeing eye-to-eye on a lot of things, especially after my brother left for basic training and that left me under more scrutiny. Abandoned is an interesting word to use; when I was going through a number of hardships that I won't go into detail about, I felt abandoned by her too, mostly in an emotional/metaphoric sense. But once I moved out to go to college, our relationship improved immensely, and we're quite close as well.

As for your mother taking you everywhere, I found that quite cute lol (if that's the right way to put it). I don't know how similar this is, but my mother has a remained a single parent most of her life, even during her military career. She had my brother while starting out in the military and left him with our grandmother while she was overseas, but eventually she went to get him back. Then she had me overseas. At that point, my mother took us everywhere with her; she had no intentions of dropping us off with a family member. I remember my mother also tried to get me actively involved in anything that seemed to expand me mentally or creatively, whether I suggested it or she suggested it herself.

I think I was speaking to someone before that the virgo/aqua relationship, especially familial/platonic ones seem to start off rough in a sense, but over time, the two reach an understanding.

My mom is an aqua, and she did the same with me as a kid, taking me all over the place in the city. We were really poor and she was a single mom for a while, but it was important to her to make sure I got the best start possible. I was also a gifted kid and they didn't have many 'programs' for that in my run down old school. So mom took me to the symphony, museums, public markets, zoos, etc. Any place she could get in with discounts for poor folk etc. Instead of being stuck in the ghetto mentality like so many of the kids I grew up with, my siblings & I grew up knowing there was a huge world out there that we could take part in with a little effort and ingenuity.

My momma is an Aqua too. Total earth woman. Homesteading, gardening, animal husbandry, cooking. Beadwork, tanned her own leather, made her own cheeses and yogurts. Sewing, pen and ink, watercolor. Music, always that. Plays piano. Canned and froze anything you could want. She's hilarious and warm and very kind. One of the best women on the planet.

My mom is very handy; she can fix anything if she puts her mind to it; she's very into home furnishing and she alway says that she'd love to go down to the south to fix up old, abandoned victorian homes. She has so many projects that sometimes she doesn't finish them all completely. I have the same problem, lol. She's a very eccentric, independent woman. Even if her and I haven't always seen eye to eye, there is one thing that has never changed: She has always done the best she could for me and she is always there to help.