I waited to buy my Iphone. I waited over a week actually, for several reasons.

FIRST: My astrological philosophy is that when something is hard to do - IE you must wait 6 hours in line to get your hands on a coveted iPhone device - then that is a BAD aspect and I don’t want to buy a phone at that time.

SECOND: As an Astrologer, I know that electronics croak when they are getting bad aspects from Neptune or to one’s own natal Neptune. I could regale you with sob stories about the PC that I had which crashed and burned like clockwork every few weeks until I finally had to force it back into Circuit City’s reluctant hands and demand a refund. But you get the idea.

Once that PC problem was solved I had a flash of insight: why not look at my own compatibility with the endlessly troublesome Microsoft/Windows platform. OHhhhhh, lookie, lookie - it couldn’t possibly be any MORE INCOMPATIBLE for me. Specifically we clashed in all directions Neptune related. Yep, that was it for me - no more Windows. My Mac and I have been living in digital bliss ever since.

Soooo, the moral of the story is that I waited to buy my iPhone until any pesky Astrology aspects that might threaten my lust affair with my new iphone were irrelevant. Even better, I made sure I was getting GOOD aspects. And it already paid off.

You see I went to court today to fight one of those new fangled camera snap-shot traffic tickets (we can all thank Saturn in Virgo for these). Ultimately the only way to fight this ticket is to create a shadow of a doubt that the grainy traffic enforcement picture might not actually be YOU, driving YOUR car. You must create this shadow of a doubt even though the snapshot strongly resembles YOU and has technical timestamps proving six ways to Sunday that yes, the person in the drivers seat did actually enter the intersection AFTER the light turned red. Things looked bad, they looked real bad. But I had an ace up my sleeve - I had my trusty iPhone.

Above is the “alleged” photo of me running a red light.

You see, there on my iPhone was a picture of someone who looked enough like me that she could have been a relative who had just happened to drive my car. Basically the court just wants to see proof. It worked to my advantage that I gave proof in a way that the court had never seen before. Both the prosecuting officer and the Judge we so distracted by the sleek beauty and glossy appeal of my iPhone that she ruled in my favor. Or at least that’s the story I like to tell myself.

It’s probably closer to the truth to say that she had doubts and thought the woman in the photo might be mistaken for me. But, for my part, thanks to Neptune, I’ve fallen a little deeper in love with my iPhone. I know it’s not healthy, I know people will condemn our love - but I can’t help it, I’m a geek.