Archive for November, 2005
November 30, 2005 at 6:38 pm · Filed under Astrology
Did you know that the world has become dramatically more peaceful in the last 14 years? The 2005 Human Security Report documents how wars, coup d’états, and genocide have declined 40 percent since 1991. Weapons sales between countries have dropped 33 percent, and the number of refugees has diminished 45 percent. I hope this shocking data, which should have been trumpeted on the front page of every newspaper, will inspire you to throw yourself with rebellious exuberance into this week’s assignment: Ignore the cynical masochists who preach doom and gloom, and take up the cause of zoom and boom. The astrological omens say this is your special time to explore the frontiers of pleasure, harmony, integrity, and freedom.
November 23, 2005 at 2:26 am · Filed under Astrology
In 2000, I named “Free Will Astrology” the Official Horoscope Column of the Sydney Olympics. This year I dubbed it an official sponsor of the Warped Tour, a festival of 135 alternative music bands that traveled throughout North America. In my own mind, “Free Will Astrology Stadium” is now the name of the ballpark where baseball’s San Francisco Giants play, though only a few of my readers have joined me in believing that. I invite you to follow my example in the coming weeks, Aquarius: Dream up out-of-the-box approaches to promoting your own brand or product or service. It’s a perfect astrological time to do as media coach Susan Harrow recommends, which is to sell yourself without selling your soul. Hey, for the right price, I might even consider letting one of you be the official sponsor of the Aquarius horoscopes for December.
November 17, 2005 at 5:12 pm · Filed under Ramblings, Thoughts
I’ve been thinking recently. You know, those random thoughts about nothing. Where is my lunchbox? I mean, it was one of those things growing up as a kid that I was so terribly attached to. In the young days (yes, I used to be shorter than I am now :-)) I used to have a He-Man or Thundercats lunchbox, you know, the kind made of tin with hinges and opened up like a briefcase?
Then as I got older, I started carrying a mini duffle style makeshift lunchbox. I don’t really remember how I transitioned into that lunchbox, but one semester my mom packed my lunch in there and I took it with. My mom :-). Just the thought of her makes me smile. I miss waiting for her to finish packing my lunch so I could leave for school. My friends were always envious of the extravagant lunches I used to take with me. Maybe that’s why i love food so much today. I mean, all I talk about is food, and how good a cook my mom is, and how good this restaurant is and how great the food is in Hong Kong.
Then as I progressed into Community College, I started taking a flask. You know the kind that keep your food nice and warm. The best food you can take in a flask has got to be my moms spaghetti mixed with soy. I can still picture myself in between classes or at lunch breaks with a real fork, not one of those fake plastic things, just chomping away, content. I can taste it now. Maybe I’ll ask my mom to make that for me next week, you know, for old times sake. She used to pack everything, a fork, a napkin neatly folded diagonally, and a frozen bottle of water. Lunch for one.
In college it was easy living on campus. Food at the cafeteria. No problems. Didn’t taste great but who’s complaining.
Now, it’s mainly buying lunch. Oh how I despise buying lunch every single day. I do make myself lunch once in a while, but it’s not the same as mom’s packed lunch. If I do take lunch, it’s usually wrapped in tinfoil and shoved into a ziplock bag.
Where is my Lunchbox?
November 17, 2005 at 12:20 pm · Filed under Friends, Ramblings, Thoughts
I make it a point to write something every day, even if it’s only to myself. In fact, it is mostly to myself. How else do I get to know me? And how else do I get to know what I know until I hear what I have to say? The most important conversation in all our worlds is with ourselves. One way to converse is to take two words and then let your mind flow into them, around them and through them, and then out through your pen on to a blank white page. It doesn’t matter what comes -but be sure that you will reveal yourself to yourself, and if you keep doing it I can guarantee you will be astounded by revelation. Start your journal today.
November 16, 2005 at 8:08 am · Filed under Astrology
A few weeks ago, a teenage Chinese boy put on a blindfold and walked backwards across a 650-foot steel cable suspended over the lairs of lions and tigers at a zoo. If there is an equivalent feat you’ve been dreaming about trying, Aquarius, you might want to schedule it for the coming week. Luck and magic will be available to you in abundance. Please keep in mind, though, that you’ll still need to perform your special skills with an excellence that surpasses anything you’ve managed in the past.
November 14, 2005 at 5:48 pm · Filed under Friends, Thoughts
A good friend of mine sent this link to me a while back. What questions would YOU ask God if you had the opportunity?
The Interview with God
November 14, 2005 at 5:05 pm · Filed under Thoughts
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
- Ellen Goodman
November 14, 2005 at 8:57 am · Filed under Thoughts
Artist: U2
Song: With or Without You
See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait….without you
With or without you
With or without you
Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I’m waiting for you
With or without you
With or without you
I can’t live
With or without you
And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away
My hands are tied
My body bruised, she’s got me with
Nothing to win
And nothing left to lose
With or without you
With or without you
I can’t live
With or without you
November 2, 2005 at 7:38 am · Filed under Astrology
Isaac Newton was one of the most influential scientists who ever lived. He developed the theory of gravity, and made many other revolutionary contributions to physics and mathematics. And yet his consuming interest for the last 20 years of his life was alchemy; he wrote thousands of pages on the subject, most of which hasn’t been published. Similarly, Arthur Conan Doyle is renowned for his stories about Sherlock Holmes, but in his own mind his most important gift to the world was his research into the paranormal and his ideas about spirituality. What about you, Aquarius? Is there a gap between the way the world perceives you and how you see yourself? This is a perfect moment to do something about it.
