, which is often called"the astrology of place," uses the location of the planets at the time when you were born to determine which places carry energetic significance for you. On an astrocartography map, this looks like a bunch of criss-crossing lines in various colors, each representing a particular planet and demonstrating where in the world you’re bound to feel its influence most powerfully.
While there, a journalist friend gifted us all-access media wristbands to one of the most sought-after music festivals of the year. We were almost in tears of happiness when we got the tickets and even more so once we entered the festival through a side gate and floated past packed crowds to front-row seats for some of our favorite bands. A lucky break, indeed.
The next evening, I went out to dinner with my cousin, and in the middle of finishing a calamari dish, I began to feel lightheaded and short of breathe. After several hours in the emergency room, I was discharged at 3 a.m. and prescribed an EpiPen for what appeared to be a developing shellfish allergy. This was a misdiagnosis for who knows what, I would later learn. But that’s just another example of Neptune’s smoke-and-mirrors game.
A friend of mine happened to also be in Lisbon at the time, so we decided to have dinner at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, where we made friends with the restaurant's chef and finished a few bottles of wine among the three of us. When we finally called a taxi, our driver, an older woman who excitedly shouted each time we pronounced a Portuguese word correctly, added to our already blissful energy.