Where’s the Rest of it?

Where’s the Rest of it?

By Francis Joseph LaManna

Horror, Short Story Fiction

The night I passed out from fear is one I’ll never forget. It was late at night, or rather early in the morning, probably around 2 o’clock. I was working an overnight shift, and I just left the building for my lunch hour.

The place I worked at was located in a busy district of large city that seemed to be open around the clock, and that just added to shock of what I saw. There are some things you never expect to see in place that heavily populated all hours of the day and night.

It was the third week of October and those warm summer breezes that swept through the city were long gone. The air was brisk with a slight chill to it-not exactly coat weather, but sweatshirt or long sleeves for sure.

Knowing I only had an hour for lunch, and ten minutes of that break was spent getting out of the building, I was basically speed walking. Through the darkness of the early morning and the crowds of people still out for a good time, I walked with my head down. I hated that I needed to rush. The city was illuminated with antique gas lamps, which gave it a colonial look. It was nostalgic and beautiful.

There was a convenient store two block away, and that was my destination. Wasting no time when I arrived there, I barreled through the doors avoiding the comments from the customers who were on their way out.

“You don’t have to be so rude,” they yelled.

Whatever. I didn’t take long for me to pick out my order because I usually get the same thing every time I go there, iced tea, a turkey sandwich, and a bag of potato chips. Some people say I’m a creature of habit, but I think I’m just superstitious.

So, here I was, back outside in the store’s parking lot enjoying my turkey sandwich at 2 o’clock in the morning. When I was finished eating, I put all the garbage into the bag my order was placed in, and I was about to toss that bag into the dumpster. Like I usually do.

The convenient store had one of those 10-yard roll off containers on the premises. It was the kind of dumpster that was open at the top with a big heavy door on the side, which was always closed..

but, not tonight.

As I got close to the container, I saw a sneaker sticking out from the side. The heavy metal door was ajar. I continued to approach the dumpster because from where I was standing, it looked like someone threw a sneaker in the box and it fell out of the side.

Well, I paused dead in my tracks. A leg was attached to the sneaker. I was terrified, and for a second a thought about turning around to get someone from inside the store, but I was frozen. I couldn’t move.

A brisk October morning suddenly turned bitter cold, and as I stood there shaking from fear, I was hit with the bug of intrigue. Shall I go further? I thought about it for a second, and because I was already so close to this leg, all I had to do was lean forward.

I did, and that’s all there was! It was a sneaker with a foot in it that was attached to half of a leg.

“Where’s the rest of it,” were the last words I muttered before passing out.

The End

Where’s the Rest of it is a short story fiction written on August 24, 2023 by Francis Joseph LaManna, and published for the first time on Nooz Buffet dot com.

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That Time of the Year Already?

Sun in Virgo

Astrologically speaking, Mr. Sunshine has officially began his transit of Virgo. I checked several hours ago, and the Sun was on the zero degree of the Starry Maiden. I just love the fall, and a lot of time traveling can be done between September and November, but that my friends, you did not hear from me.

The Sun is our force for life and creation, for without it, life would not exist.

Astronomically, the sun spends 45 days in Virgo, but astrologically, the sun is there for about 30 days. Naturally, the 6th House is Virgo’s domain, and the energy there manifests into the areas of health, wealth, work, and service. Health of of great important here because the 6th House focuses more so on service-those we serve, and those who serve us. Without our health, we’re limited and ultimately, service is affected.

Today, Mercury, the planet of communication, commerce, and the fast mental energy associated with everyday decision making is the ruler of Virgo. Now, there’s some controversy surrounding this, but even so, we’d be doing ourselves a major disservice if we didn’t act like Virgo and gather as much information as we could about Mercury’s identity.

Mercury was a a Roman God in the Roman Pantheon. Mercury incarnated was known as “The Good Shepard,” but Mercury the God, acted as a guide for souls during the afterlife. The God ruled over things like communication and commerce, divination, messages, finance, travelers, luck, and trickery.

As we trace Mercury’s origin, we find that the Greeks called him Hermes, and the Egyptians called him Thoth.

Personally, if the astrological sign of Virgo was given to the Goddess Astraea, I don’t know why Virgo wouldn’t be ruled the asteroid, 5 Astraea, thus, allowing Mercury to become the ruler of only Gemini. Perhaps, I will incorporate Astraea into my readings and see how that works, but, so we’re all on the same page, we’ll continue using Mercury.

Virgo is feminine earth, mutable and sensual. Those who were born when the Sun was in Virgo will display the qualities of Virgo most prominently, but Virgo qualities will also be highly noticeable in the personalities of those who have Virgo on the ascendant.

Virgo is know as the perfectionist, which is why you’ll sometimes hear people call her the technician. It’s a very conscientious sign, and Sun/Virgo people strive to do what’s right. When it comes to work, they are very thorough, but modest and humble. Virgo isn’t the bragging type, she like to let her work speak for itself.

She’s reserved and modest and doesn’t view herself as better.

When I was in school, the school year always began when the Sun was in Virgo, which in hindsight, is interesting because Virgo loves reading and gathering facts, as a matter of fact, the personality type is more of a detective. They love gathering facts to look for truth. The truth is super-important to Virgo. Virgo is well organized and she understands the importance of planning time.

Happy Birthday to all the unique individuals who were born during the sun’s transit of Virgo!

Virgo 8/22-9/21

Retail Theft

After an audit, store A, was said to have $50,000.00 is merchandise unaccounted for.

That’s $50,000.00! That’s approximately $1,000.00 per week that’s; either stolen, damaged and not scanned out, or just lost.

Here are the reprecussions of that:

*If that much stealing is going on in your store, that means the average customer is a criminal. If your average shopper is a criminal, good people who are educated and honest are not going to want to shop at your store because of the low-life low-element trash that shops there. Good people don’t want to be in the company of that type of trash. So, the customer that’s actually going to spend a lot of money in your store, will go to another store in a safer neighborhood.

*So, not only is your store losing money from theft, but the thieves are actually pushing the people with money away to other stores. You lose on both ends.

*You tell your employees that aren’t enough hours to spread around, so some people are working 10 hours per week, while others are working 45. The problem isn’t a lack of hours, it’s no money in the budget to pay for labor because you’re losing $1,000.00 per week.

You see, you think you’re a good manager, but like every other manager I’ve met in this state, you’re shit.

I’ve been working in retail for a very long time, and this is how you deal with theft.

Acknowledge and greet the customer. If a customer realizes you’re actually paying attention to them, they’re less likely to steal.
If you see a customer in the store or in an isle for a very long time, turn up the heat. Ask them if there’s anything they need help finding, basically you want to pester them to get them moving along.
Doing those two things right there will cut the theft in half.
To get continue reducing theft, a small loss prevention team might be necessary.
Place cameras in the store, and in highly visible places, post consequences for customers who are caught stealing.
Don’t allow them back in the store.
Have designated areas for damaged and empty packages, so you can keep track of what’s actually missing and what’s damaged.

What you’ll begin to notice is the atmosphere in your store will change. Eventually, the good customers will come back, and they’ll spend money.

In a store where everything is cheap, you don’t want the nasty customer who gives you a hard time and spends $3.00. You want to the quiet customer, who appreciates the shopping experience and spends $50.00.

This is just another battle of good versus bad.

Golden Secret

You know, I was going to keep this to myself because, after-all, I can’t divulge all my great secrets.

But, what the hell. If nothing else, this will help you, and you’ll get a glimpse into how deep my mind gets when it comes to astrology.

So, if someone wants you you to interpret their birth chart and they don’t know what time they were born, you can use the constellation coordinates for their moon placement.

Example: I was born at 3:52 PM, but if I didn’t know that..

My moon is on the 2nd degree of Scorpio, in the constellation Serpens. The coordinates for Serpens is, 15h, 45m, 00s. So, I would use 3:45 PM for my birth time, which happens to only be 7 minutes off.

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I’m sad to see them go, but perhaps, this will open up a new avenue for us here at N.B. to better serve you-our friends, fans, and followers.

Interception! But We Won’t be Running This One Back For a TD..

This topic concerning the interception in astrology was given life by a conversation started by a friend of mine, author and astrologer, Bernie Ashman. In 2018, he wrote an online article covering the topic, and to be honest, I never heard of the “interception” until this conversation several days ago.

I was definitely intrigued, and more so when I recognized one in my own chart.

So, let me explain, and expand a little bit.

An interception, first of all, can only occur in certain house systems, specifically those where the size of the houses vary in degrees. For example, if you use astro.com, and you run a birth chart analysis using the geocentric model with the tropical zodiac and the default house system, you’ll see that certain houses are larger than others.

Okay, so, a sign only represents a 30-degree portion of the 360-degree circle, therefore, a 30-degree sign can be engulfed in a house that’s larger than 30-degrees in size.

And, that’s what an interception is-it’s when a sign is completely engulfed in a house.

In my chart, for example, the Gemini/Sagittarius axis is intercepted. My 12th House cusp is 0 degree 36 Cancer, and my 11th House cusp is Taurus 23 degrees-well, in between Taurus and Cancer is the sign Gemini. Gemini is intercepted in the 11th House, and its polar opposite, Sagittarius, is intercepted in the 5th House.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

Wow, so, follow this..it means that energy that’s intercepted in unavailable to you, and in a sense, blocked.

Imagine this; Imagine yourself in the center of your birth chart. Your belly button is the dead center point. Your belly button is the spot where all the house spokes emanate from.

All the energy in your chart travels along the house cusp lines straight into your belly button, but the signs that are engulfed in a particular house, have no access to the cusp line.

So, for me, the Gemini energy is stuck in the future (11th House), and the Sagittarius energy is stuck in the house of creation (5th House). Therefore, for me, there’s a block that’s preventing me from pulling what I need down from the 11th House and bringing it into the 5th House.

In the heliocentric version of my chart, the earth is on the 18th degree of Leo in the 5th House, so this is about the manifestation of heaven on earth. This is about the energy I need to bring the hopes, dreams, and wishes of the 11th House, down into the 5th House-to integrate them and create a pleasurable life for myself.

For everyone else, including myself, don’t panic and don’t worry about this. They said that energy is unavailable to us because that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We would be incapable of living our best lives if we had access to that energy, so consider it a blessing instead of a curse.

Look at your charts, and see if you have signs intercepted!

Here’s the crazy part.

What if you have planets in those intercepted signs? Is the energy of that planet unavailable as well? Unfortunately, for me, I have a Neptune conjunction with the Galactic Center in Sagittarius, and a bunch of stars in both Gemini and Sagittarius that have lead me all the way back to the Persian Empire!

Alexander the Great wasn’t so great..

Nooz Now

August 17, 2023 Edition

Friends, Fans, and Followers, thank you for visiting N.B., and welcome to this August 17, 2023 edition of Nooz Now!

I’m your host,

Francis Joseph LaManna..

📢 I would like to give a big shout out to MEDIOQ, and all the hard working people in Sri Lanka. I just found out Nooz Buffet is on their directory and that’s good nooz! Thank you!

👊 The beef between UFC Superstars Connor McGregor and Michael Chandler is definitely cooking at this point, but Chandler is now questioning McGregor’s sincerity. In an article posted on MMA Junkie, and written by Farah Hannoun, Chandler claims to be ready, but he doesn’t think their fight will take place this year.

Personally, I think it will be a good fight, and after seeing McGregor’s face during his face off with Chandler on their final day of filming the Ultimate Fighter, 🤣 he looks like he wants it.

🌑Last night (8/16/2023), we had a brand-new Moon Cycle begin in the astrological sign of Leo. I posted a Moon Scope for this celestial event, so I won’t get deep into it, but I would like to briefly mention the importance of it. It’s important! 🤣

No, but seriously, the summer is coming to and end soon, there’s 135 days left in the year, August is almost over, and the sun’s visit in Leo is about to end. With all these endings, we get an opportunity to start something new with the new moon cycle, and if we could just get into that lunar flow, you’ll see how much the universe supports our ritualistic nature in things.

🛸 For all of us Rick and Morty fans.. the latest news is that a Season Seven teaser trailer has been released, and this upcoming season will be Rick and Morty’s first without its creator Justin Roiland.

Here’s the thing about this situation that we as people need to keep in perspective; they say we’re all innocent until proven guilty, but it sure as hell doesn’t feel that way. Roiland’s situation is just another example of how a person’s career could be destroyed by accusations. Serious charges were brought against Roiland in 2020, and Adult Swim decided to part ways with him earlier this year.

Roiland plead not guilty, and in March, all charges against him were dropped because of insufficient evidence. So, he’s INNOCENT, but Adult Swim is standing behind their decision to let him go. And, now, you can see how this works, and it’s really not fair.

📖 It always made sense to me that the Great Sphinx was designed or made in the image of Leo the Lion from the constellation Leo, and because the star Regulus, which is the heart of the lion, is located where the lion’s front paw would be, it made sense that the star was an indicator that something important was in that location on the Sphinx.

Here’s what it says Edgar Cayce said about the Hall of Records and the Sphinx:

“Located in a small tomb or pyramid of its own, it lies between the right paw of the Sphinx and the Nile River and is a kind of “time capsule.”

Alright everyone, thanks for visiting. Don’t forget to check out my books and the merchandise we have for sale; the links are at the top of the page.

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I think I Just Woke Up the Aquarian in Me!

I’m sitting here at my desk going down the long list of books I would like to have one day, and for the heck of it, I decided to search for books written about Sedna (Mythological, astronomical, or astrological).

It was surprising to see that a book was written about Sedna going as far back as 1984, and there have been many others written over the years, and I say surprising because I just discovered Sedna on my own last year when I saw it pop up as a planetary option in the astrological birth chart section on astro dot com.

It’s kind of like that Rick and Morty episode when Rick says, “You know the worst thing about inventing teleportation? Suddenly, you’re able to travel the whole galaxy, and the first thing you learn is, you’re the last guy to invent teleportation.”

Wow, so, the real question is where have I been, because people have been writing about Sedna since 1984, but here’s the crazy part.

They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but there was a book on Amazon’s list titled, Sedna Estimulador e Multiplicador de Consciencias. On the cover of this book was a double helix DNA structure under the water.

I got excited, because in the Numerology System I created, Oculus 13, the numerology for Sedna was 6,5,4,1,1. The last three letters had the numerical values of 411-that’s the old telephone code for information-and DNA is information.

I wanted to buy the book after I saw that, but I couldn’t buy it because it was only written in Portuguese! My left shin, the part of the body ruled by Aquarius began to tingle.

“Language is such a barrier,” I said to myself. How much further advanced would we be if we had immediate and total access to people in other countries who spoke and wrote in different languages?

And, the tingling subsided..

Moon Scope; It Begins in the Sign of the Lion

August 15, 2023 Edition

Thank you for visiting N.B., and welcome to the August 15, 2023 edition of Moon Scope!

Leo is a creative sign, and it’s the sign of Leadership. There’s a proudness and regal nature about the Lion, and it was said once that Leo would rather be the kingpin of small group than a follower of large one.

The new moon tomorrow brings a fresh start with it, which I feel, is exactly what we need right now. It’s the middle of August, the summer is beginning to wind down, and there’s about 138 days left in the year.

In the grand scheme of things, I think we received all the information necessary at the time of the last full moon, which was on the night of August 1st. In Leo now, the reflective and reactive moon takes in the emotions dealing with love and creativity and leadership.

Let’s not forget that Leo is expansive, that means it covers a lot of space. However the Moon choses to react here, the arena will be open to great distances and heights. That could be the top of the corporate ladder, that could mean starting your own business, or it could mean traveling to new territories. Think expansive, think branching out, and think bigger.

I feel like the mood right now is light hearted and fun, and that’s what the creative in us needs to blossom.

Let’s talk about the Moon for a second. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Artemis, as the personification of the Moon, was known as the Goddess of the hunt, nature, wild life, and wild animals. In an emotionally charged fire sign like Leo, it wouldn’t be surprising if the sacred feminine in all of us decides to embrace the hunt. It’s a hunt for a better life, a hunt for fun and enjoyment, and a hunt for all the things our lives are lacking right now.

Either way, I don’t think there could be a better sign to have a new moon in at this moment, and we should learn to trust in the divine timing of things.

Disturbing the Peace; Uranus Squares the Sun/Venus Conjunction

This evening’s square between the Sun and Venus conjunction in Leo in the 5th House, and Uranus in Taurus in the 2nd House presents a conflict concerning the enjoyment of love and sexual pleasure as it may distract us from the task at hand.

Uranus in Taurus in the 2nd House signifies a major awakening and possible transformation when it comes to possessions-especially money, but the willful Sun wants things his way as he basks with Venus in the warm beautiful rays of sunshine.

Some of us react differently when the pressure is on and when there’s an emergency. We all know money is important and the majority of us have to get up everyday to earn a paycheck. We get it.

The point here is that sometimes we reach a point when we’ve done all we could do, and the more evolved mind recognizes when certain things are beyond its control. Some people will see the Sun laying with Venus and say, “What’s he doing? Doesn’t he know there’s an urgent call in the second house?”

But, the Sun, in his blissful state of affection is fully aware of his situation and he knows what must be done. He choses not to let certain things bother him.

Some people walk in circles and let the anxiety in their bodies run wild-they stress over things that are beyond their control even though they’ve done everything necessary.

Although Uranus doesn’t see it this way, the Sun’s conjunction with Venus reminds us of the importance to still find time to love and partake in the pleasures of life despite the seriousness of our realities.

Squares, unlike oppositions, can be resolved. When two planets are squared, there’s definitely friction and stress between them, but squares present opportunities for growth. There’s always a lesson involved, and if you can recognize it, common ground can be reached.

If you can imagine, two boxers are in a ring; the referee rings the bell and the two fighters come out of their corners and square off with one another.

Two heavenly bodies are in a conflict, but it doesn’t have to come down to fists being thrown if they can figure out why they’re mad at each other in the first place.