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"Caps for Sale" by Esphyr Slobodkina. I remember a simpler story. The peddler naps under a tree. When he wakes, a troupe of monkeys has stolen all his caps except the one he's wearing. He yells at them to give them back but they don't understand. Frustrated, he lectures them while shaking his finger at them. They shake their fingers at him in return. Even madder, he waves his arms about. Monkey see, monkey do - they wave their arms around too. He stomps one foot, then both feet, and they mimic him all the way. Finally, in a fury, he throws his cap to the ground, and the monkeys immediately throw theirs to the ground as well. Then he picks up the caps and heads off.
"Caps for sale! Caps for sale! Fifty cents a cap." Years ago, when my now adult son was a 6 year old, he got the lead in the school play. The students were acting out several children's stories. The first grade performed Caps for Sale. As a mom volunteer, I made some of the costumes. Somehow, I formed newspapers into derby type caps and then painted them all in a variety of colors. I painted a mustache on Jacob, and he balanced the caps on his head with a certain panache. The script called for him to break the 4th wall and walk through the audience, which little Jake did with an aplomb of a talented veteran actor. Other than the plays he created at home, this was his acting debut. On opening day, I got up extra yearly and drove the 20 miles to the home where my beloved mom was being cared for because of dementia. Jacob was her favorite grandchild, so she perked right up at the chance to be in his audience. It took a lot for my mom to be there. While she was exhausted by 3pm, her heart and mine and Jacob's were warmed. Two decades later, this day is one of my cherished memories. Within months, my mom was gone. But she had gotten to see her little grandson be the star of the play, get a standing ovation, and hear adults come up to him at the end of the play and encourage him to keep acting. From my perspective now, I realize that to my mom it must have seemed that in the blink of an eye, she had gone from listening to Captain Kangaroo read Caps for Sale to me as a little girl to watching my son perform it. This, my friends, is the power of the arts. So, if you are so inclined, keep making it. Follow your muse. If you don't have a muse, make art anyway. Muses come and go. Did Jacob pursue acting? No. He's on a cancer research team. With Mercury in his 5th house, he certainly could have been an actor or a writer. But. he wanted a steady job. Both Jacob and I have Saturn in our 5th house, so we take fun and creativity seriously, sometimes too seriously. We become perfectionistic, which can be stressful. I'll be traveling across the country to share Thanksgiving with him. His ascendant is Libra, mine is Leo, so thanks to Christopher's excellent report, I'm even more confident that we'll have a wonderful time together. As always, Christopher, it's your storytelling skills that make you such a pleasure to listen to. Not many astrologers are also good storytellers. Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing that tidbit, making astrology live for us. Looking backwards and acquiring insight from past events also a journey in retrograde Mercury.
42:08 Virgo Rising: I feel that the time has come to end my work as an Art Director. This thought has been on my mind for months. I work full-time in a management position while still taking on clients as an artist and designer. For some time, I’ve noticed I’m not making progress, constantly working overtime, and despite all the effort, the financial returns are no longer worth it. My personal life is suffering, and I have to admit that I no longer want to create art for others, just for myself. Now, with Mercury Retrograde, I depply feel it's time to close this chapter once and for all and stop holding on to it painfully.
I am a teacher and I can only hope that my students when they grow up can share the books that I've read to them the same way you retold the book. The love and joy in your eyes melted my heart. I love reading books to my kiddos and I hope they can remember the books fondly and enthusiastically like you do. The books is "Caps for sale" and I read that book to my students too. I could see my kiddos faces through you. I love everything about how you communicate the information. I'm hypnotized every time. ❤
Genius. Always such a pleasure to watch and learn from. Christopher, you're a true Master - thank you for sharing this space with us!!!! So grateful! 🤩🙏
I love the voices you use when you get into character to act out the story. Laughing at the peddler and the monkies😂 Also the words you choose. “Muck up,” as a response to mercury retrograde mishaps Is entering my vocabulary. Not just mercury Rx but because it’s more polite than an expression that rhymes with but I don’t like to use the other expression. Brilliant!❤
Wow... first time coming across your channel and you described my current Pisces ♓ sun mindset and emotional posture about disappointments in life sooo accurately. 💯🎯 Spot on point! 👍🏾💜
With my natal mercury in Pisces squaring my transiting mercury …this explains a lot about how I am already starting to feel. Add on one of the worst days for technical and communications aggravations ….on top of what is happening in the country ….this helps me to understand better the energies I am personally dealing with. Thank you
"Aquarius & Scorpio is very good at hiding rejection with a smile." This is 💯 me! I'm Aqua Rising & Scorpio moon! You're speaking to my soul! 😭😄 Thank you! I love how you explain astrology!
Im just dropping a line to say this video is accurate for myself and others I know in different signs. What a great video to understand what EVERYONE is going through to help navigate this retrograde with others and hopefully find compromise or better circumstances. Wow. wow. wow. Thank you kindly for your work and your objective and thoughtful delivery. :)
Hello Chris! I've been following you since living in New Mexico and then moving to California. I must say that this was a brilliant analysis especially the one for Pisces. i have 3 planets in Pisces in the 9th house and you just described what no one else has been able to with very little information. i thank you and bless you for the gift of today's video and all your work.
Cap here. Yes, feel like I had to do it all. Right now things not going well with simple tech item, dryer acted up again after running just fine and now we need to replace our truck before I can get supplies to finish another project before it gets too cold. Feeling Stuck! All a bad time with what I need to do. No contracts, no high priced items, no tech 🤦♀️ Ugh!
I recall reading Caps For Sale to my little daughter, who is now 54! A lovely memory. Thank you Christopher . 💓 And I am totally up for making a game of outsmarting anyone who engages me in a challenge. I have one particular monkey in mind! 🙂 My natal Mercury is in Sagittarius ♐
Christopher ... wonderful as always to learn from you. I wonder if you wouldn't cover retrograde in detail one day in all of it's faces/influences, houses signs natal and transits ??? Would you could you?
It is called “Caps For Sale”. I used to use it as an anchor story to teach a drama lesson with it. Thanks for the memory! You would get an A for retelling it so well by the way…. 😉
"Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster." The trouble with the film versions of A Christmas Carol, is that you miss Dickens' wonderful turn of phrase.
😁 With Mercury in virgo, and Jupiter, I relate to expanded story telling. I create fantastic stories to amuse myself (they are in 12th house in placidus). Thank You C.- The Super Story Teller🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 But cant really relate to this virgo stuff. I dont suffer people who take me for granted.
I don't think I have ever heard someone describe a scorpio so on point as you ..thank you For knowing who we are..we get a bad wrap sometimes .. Even when people just knew jerk respond to SCORPIO oh run they are so nasty I have had strangers say awful stuff ..but trust me we do love deeply and make allowances with deep compassion .we strike at injustice yes but defending others and self..never offensive ..anyhow thank you ❤
When I read to my kids now, I think "How would Christopher read it?" To much delight from my kids. Especially Frog and Toad books. My toad voice is Louis Armstrong meets Christopher Renstrom 🐸
Sag rising here. Well this Explains why I suddenly had the urge to call my ex after not speaking with him for 3 months. I gave into that urge and we had a pleasant conversation. He even stopped by and visited for about 1/2 an hour. Interesting enough for him, he also Has been drawn into a family situation with his Previous ex. She's been having Cognitive issues and moved into a facility. He's trying to be supportive during this difficult time in her life. Perhaps he is a sag rising too , and I just never knew. Anyway, I enjoyed your video and I am hoping that by the end of the retrograde I will have more peace of mind regarding our break up earlier this year.
Wow Im a gemini sun and I definetily feel like a close relationship moved around my picture today (day of the Rx!) and DEFINETILY does not want to talk to me about it. All that was Said in this gemini reading was very personally resonant…..unfortunately. But I have trust in the process and tiiny bit better from hearing this, thank you 🙏🏼
If you are born in a mercury retrograde is it still not a good time to sell something or is there a different level of communication or connection due to the stars when you were born?
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24:38 Taurus. 32:48 Cancer. 38:13 Leo. 59:08 Capricorn. 1:04:43 Aquarius. Thank you!
"Caps for Sale" by Esphyr Slobodkina. I remember a simpler story. The peddler naps under a tree. When he wakes, a troupe of monkeys has stolen all his caps except the one he's wearing. He yells at them to give them back but they don't understand. Frustrated, he lectures them while shaking his finger at them. They shake their fingers at him in return. Even madder, he waves his arms about. Monkey see, monkey do - they wave their arms around too. He stomps one foot, then both feet, and they mimic him all the way. Finally, in a fury, he throws his cap to the ground, and the monkeys immediately throw theirs to the ground as well. Then he picks up the caps and heads off.
"Caps for sale! Caps for sale! Fifty cents a cap."
Years ago, when my now adult son was a 6 year old, he got the lead in the school play. The students were acting out several children's stories. The first grade performed Caps for Sale. As a mom volunteer, I made some of the costumes. Somehow, I formed newspapers into derby type caps and then painted them all in a variety of colors. I painted a mustache on Jacob, and he balanced the caps on his head with a certain panache. The script called for him to break the 4th wall and walk through the audience, which little Jake did with an aplomb of a talented veteran actor. Other than the plays he created at home, this was his acting debut. On opening day, I got up extra yearly and drove the 20 miles to the home where my beloved mom was being cared for because of dementia. Jacob was her favorite grandchild, so she perked right up at the chance to be in his audience. It took a lot for my mom to be there. While she was exhausted by 3pm, her heart and mine and Jacob's were warmed. Two decades later, this day is one of my cherished memories. Within months, my mom was gone. But she had gotten to see her little grandson be the star of the play, get a standing ovation, and hear adults come up to him at the end of the play and encourage him to keep acting. From my perspective now, I realize that to my mom it must have seemed that in the blink of an eye, she had gone from listening to Captain Kangaroo read Caps for Sale to me as a little girl to watching my son perform it.
This, my friends, is the power of the arts. So, if you are so inclined, keep making it. Follow your muse. If you don't have a muse, make art anyway. Muses come and go.
Did Jacob pursue acting? No. He's on a cancer research team. With Mercury in his 5th house, he certainly could have been an actor or a writer. But. he wanted a steady job. Both Jacob and I have Saturn in our 5th house, so we take fun and creativity seriously, sometimes too seriously. We become perfectionistic, which can be stressful. I'll be traveling across the country to share Thanksgiving with him. His ascendant is Libra, mine is Leo, so thanks to Christopher's excellent report, I'm even more confident that we'll have a wonderful time together.
As always, Christopher, it's your storytelling skills that make you such a pleasure to listen to. Not many astrologers are also good storytellers.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing that tidbit, making astrology live for us. Looking backwards and acquiring insight from past events also a journey in retrograde Mercury.
42:08 Virgo Rising:
I feel that the time has come to end my work as an Art Director.
This thought has been on my mind for months. I work full-time in a management position while still taking on clients as an artist and designer. For some time, I’ve noticed I’m not making progress, constantly working overtime, and despite all the effort, the financial returns are no longer worth it.
My personal life is suffering, and I have to admit that I no longer want to create art for others, just for myself. Now, with Mercury Retrograde, I depply feel it's time to close this chapter once and for all and stop holding on to it painfully.
I'll never think of Mercury in retrograde the same way again. Thanks for the story. 😁
I am a teacher and I can only hope that my students when they grow up can share the books that I've read to them the same way you retold the book. The love and joy in your eyes melted my heart.
I love reading books to my kiddos and I hope they can remember the books fondly and enthusiastically like you do.
The books is "Caps for sale" and I read that book to my students too. I could see my kiddos faces through you.
I love everything about how you communicate the information. I'm hypnotized every time. ❤
Pisces ♓️ 1:09:48
Genius. Always such a pleasure to watch and learn from. Christopher, you're a true Master - thank you for sharing this space with us!!!! So grateful! 🤩🙏
I love the voices you use when you get into character to act out the story. Laughing at the peddler and the monkies😂
Also the words you choose. “Muck up,” as a response to mercury retrograde mishaps Is entering my vocabulary. Not just mercury Rx but because it’s more polite than an expression that rhymes with but I don’t like to use the other expression.
Brilliant!❤
Christopher, your words are poetry in motion.
Signed,
Aquarius tempest in a teacup 🌪️ ☕️
Wow... first time coming across your channel and you described my current Pisces ♓ sun mindset and emotional posture about disappointments in life sooo accurately. 💯🎯 Spot on point! 👍🏾💜
I adore your presentation style!
This is why we "describe," "ascribe," "prescribe," "proscribe," and scribble."
You are such a great storyteller❤❤❤
Caps for Sale! I read it to my kids all the time!
Thanks for sharing your brilliance ✨
45:23 ♎️ ⚖️
Thank you Christopher!!!
💓🪷💓
With my natal mercury in Pisces squaring my transiting mercury …this explains a lot about how I am already starting to feel. Add on one of the worst days for technical and communications aggravations ….on top of what is happening in the country ….this helps me to understand better the energies I am personally dealing with. Thank you
You started quoting my favorite children’s book. I couldn’t love you more Christopher. I hope you have a wonderful retrograde. Thank you so much.❤
its hard to put into words, but the book hidden manifestation completely changed my life and it's not new age bs
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I can not begin to explain how much you've healed some big fears for me with this. Biggest thank you from this 🦁 🌤
Thank you, Christopher 🌷
wonderful video! listened to all my placements very healing ❤
"Aquarius & Scorpio is very good at hiding rejection with a smile." This is 💯 me! I'm Aqua Rising & Scorpio moon! You're speaking to my soul! 😭😄
Thank you! I love how you explain astrology!
Aqua sun and scorpio rising, i concur. But behind closed doors, I'm crying a river
Im just dropping a line to say this video is accurate for myself and others I know in different signs. What a great video to understand what EVERYONE is going through to help navigate this retrograde with others and hopefully find compromise or better circumstances. Wow. wow. wow. Thank you kindly for your work and your objective and thoughtful delivery. :)
Love your Scorpio digression :) We are so loyal...even to our exes we're trying to release! ugh.
Omg yes, how do I make it stop? Fuuuck 😅
Hello Chris! I've been following you since living in New Mexico and then moving to California. I must say that this was a brilliant analysis especially the one for Pisces. i have 3 planets in Pisces in the 9th house and you just described what no one else has been able to with very little information. i thank you and bless you for the gift of today's video and all your work.
I'm a Sagittarius rising you are always spot on! I'm helping a friend.
Thank you Christopher
It is as enlightening as usual 🙏🏻
Thank you Christopher!
“Caps For Sale” is the name of this famous children’s story book. I remember it well from childhood… amazing how mercurial it was!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caps_for_Sale
So good!!
I read this book to my children all the time❤📚
One of my favorites books as a child. Sag 🌞
I never heard of this story
You’re one of my favorite astrologers !! So good 😊
Taurus ♉️ 24:38 Thank you, Christopher!
Cap here. Yes, feel like I had to do it all. Right now things not going well with simple tech item, dryer acted up again after running just fine and now we need to replace our truck before I can get supplies to finish another project before it gets too cold. Feeling Stuck! All a bad time with what I need to do. No contracts, no high priced items, no tech 🤦♀️ Ugh!
♏️@ 49:36 Thank you Christopher!
I recall reading Caps For Sale to my little daughter, who is now 54! A lovely memory. Thank you Christopher . 💓 And I am totally up for making a game of outsmarting anyone who engages me in a challenge. I have one particular monkey in mind! 🙂 My natal Mercury is in Sagittarius ♐
Wow, thanks so much for an amazing Pisces forecast. ♥️✨🕊️
Hi Christopher, watching the replay. Thank you.
Oomg! I also loved that book!!! "Caps For Sale"
Christopher you're a master piece ❤
Thank you, Christopher. I truly appreciate all that you share.
I'm a Pisces rising and have been laid off and unemployed for WAY longer than I expected. Love your guidance. 🙏
Spot on!! I love how you described Aquas! Aqua Sun and Aqua rising here. Im a late degree Aqua rising so I listen to Pisces as well.
I vaguely remember this story from childhood...
Caps for Sale is a children's picture book, written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina and published by W. R. Scott in 1940.
54:22 Sagittarius
Love this thank you!!
Appreciate the Yin/Yang reference. Reflective/action oriented. ❤
Captain Kangaroo read this book on TV. (Or was it Mr. Green Jeans?) The monkeys took the peddler's caps while the peddler napped against the tree.
Christopher ... wonderful as always to learn from you. I wonder if you wouldn't cover retrograde in detail one day in all of it's faces/influences, houses signs natal and transits ??? Would you could you?
It is called “Caps For Sale”. I used to use it as an anchor story to teach a drama lesson with it. Thanks for the memory! You would get an A for retelling it so well by the way…. 😉
20:50 Aries
Thx, mate.
Christopher, 100% accurate 🎯Wow, I came back to relisten, happening already, Pisces here.
Thank you Christoper. Virgo rising here and moving forward crossed my mind. Big thanks 😊
i love this guy
"Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster."
The trouble with the film versions of A Christmas Carol, is that you miss Dickens' wonderful turn of phrase.
Thank you. Sun in Sag.
😁 With Mercury in virgo, and Jupiter, I relate to expanded story telling. I create fantastic stories to amuse myself (they are in 12th house in placidus). Thank You C.- The Super Story Teller🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 But cant really relate to this virgo stuff. I dont suffer people who take me for granted.
Aquarius ♒️ 1:04:47
1:09:50 You are 💯 on the mark for Pisces rising. Most everything you said happened in my life and I’ve felt and thought those thoughts! 👏
I don't think I have ever heard someone describe a scorpio so on point as you ..thank you
For knowing who we are..we get a bad wrap sometimes ..
Even when people just knew jerk respond to SCORPIO oh run they are so nasty I have had strangers say awful stuff ..but trust me we do love deeply and make allowances with deep compassion .we strike at injustice yes but defending others and self..never offensive ..anyhow thank you ❤
1:09:47 ♓ 20:51 ♈🌙
54:22 🏹 ☀️+ Natal Mercury 🏹 and @ 9° the 🏹 NM degree.
Thanks you Scorpio here
Gemini 👯♀️♊️ 28:45
When I read to my kids now, I think "How would Christopher read it?" To much delight from my kids. Especially Frog and Toad books. My toad voice is Louis Armstrong meets Christopher Renstrom 🐸
I can't wait to hear that! 😊
@christopherrenstromastro I will get my oldest to film it for you! I would be delighted for you to see their reaction 🥰
incredible. thank you
Thank you💖 you are fantastic💖🙏🌟
Can we apply this to our moon sign as well, or just sun and rising? The enthusiasm in you telling that story had me laughing!
Scorpio understands and embodies Transformation.
We hope others will decide to Transform through the hard stuff.
Unfortunately- it’s not that simple.
Was the book “caps for sale “? I remember that book and loved it too!!!
Thankyou x
Sag rising here. Well this Explains why I suddenly had the urge to call my ex after not speaking with him for 3 months. I gave into that urge and we had a pleasant conversation. He even stopped by and visited for about 1/2 an hour. Interesting enough for him, he also Has been drawn into a family situation with his Previous ex. She's been having Cognitive issues and moved into a facility. He's trying to be supportive during this difficult time in her life. Perhaps he is a sag rising too , and I just never knew. Anyway, I enjoyed your video and I am hoping that by the end of the retrograde I will have more peace of mind regarding our break up earlier this year.
Wow Im a gemini sun and I definetily feel like a close relationship moved around my picture today (day of the Rx!) and DEFINETILY does not want to talk to me about it. All that was Said in this gemini reading was very personally resonant…..unfortunately. But I have trust in the process and tiiny bit better from hearing this, thank you 🙏🏼
⚡️💫🌚💫⚡️ never miss the masters update and you will do just fine 😊❤
How funny the story about your mothers friend and the picture on the wall
Capricorn 59:11
Oof, Libra sun will do well, but cancer rising not so awesome until feb 4! Patience and tracking communications etc, thank you!
Caps for Sale! Oh how I adored that book too!!! 🎉❤
28:48 ♊️ Or Gemini rising
It sure would’ve been nice to have this time stamped…🙄
Thank you for doing it ❤
Scorpio is 49:43 :)
If you are born in a mercury retrograde is it still not a good time to sell something or is there a different level of communication or connection due to the stars when you were born?
Capricorn Rising Chiron 21' This is right on the money for me. Hopping for Korea to be one again in a resolution to this in- justice.
I lovè youŕ story and your telling it😂❤
Is it me? What are the dates of the retrograde please? Thanks
What dates are you referring to please for this retrograde?
Oh Nov 25th to Dec 17th 2024?
I don’t see the link for the 2025 forecast and when I try to type in the link, it doesn’t work. Please advise. Thanks!
I found the link. A little slow on the uptake. ;)
The book is called caps for sale
I love you I always look forward to seeing you Gemini ♊❤
Mercury retro doesn’t scare me . I was born under a mercury retro in Gemini and my Sun is in Gemini so I actually do well with it
Interesting! I was born during a mercury retrograde as well with a Gemini rising and find that it works well for me too!
42:51 spot on !!!
Libra 45:27
I wish yall would tag the timestamps in the video. I have to pull up UA-cam on my phone to find my forecast. (I watch in roku)
Caps for sale! That’s the book!
Tauras Tauras ♉ and Aqualius aqualis♒raising. As I am processing of re finance mortgage... waiting for the offer.
Hope, to hear the good
News to sign.
Sagg sun here, does the relationship mean it can be a sister?
I worked in NYC in the 1990's. I get it about the subway.
Caps For Sale !!!! You Monkey You ❤❤❤
♑️ @59:08
gemini has been so real and it’s only the shadow period ..
Virgo 42:09
Thank you ❤
@@sherrensteal2635youre welcome ! 😊❤