... And a Happy New Year!

And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain…

No, scratch that. This is the end of the year, and a new one is just around the corner.

I would like to take this moment to thank all of you for your interest in what I write, and your patience.

God bless you all.

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I usually don’t do any end-of year predictions (I keep forgetting it. I promised myself I’d try this time and here we are).

This time, however, I still haven totally given up. I asked my Portuguese readers what would they like me to write about the most — which areas, etc.

I extend that to you: what would you like me to investigate for the next year?

I must warn you that I am not that guy — I will not say anything about an area that does not seem important, “nothing much” is always an answer I’m willing to give.

Send me a message — respond to this email, for example — and I’ll do my best.

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Temperaments and psychologists don’t seem to mix very well.

I recently had a client that had his temperament determined by two different psychologists. They had suggested he read some books on the subject, to understand his own — “obviously choleric” — temperament.

One look at his chart and I knew he was anything but choleric. Strongly moist, a bit more cold than hot.

When I told him, he just laughed in disbelief. I could see why they thought that about him, by looking at other things in the chart (the manners and wit, and some other points), but it still didn’t convince him, he had already visualized himself as choleric.

Then I started talking about health problems, and things associated with too much moisture in the body, and he just nodded in disbelief.

Modern therapists (and psychologists are no exception) have a wrong idea of what the body is, of what the soul is, of what the spirit is, and the relationship between them.

They also have no clue of what temperaments are, and mistake them for psychological types. Not only they are not psychologic, they are not types — they don’t divide people into four different species according to how they behave.

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I have finally edited and published my Course on Basic Celestial Mechanics. It’s on Gumroad, so, if you’re interested:

Buy Basic Celestial Mechanics here.

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Marcos.