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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of October 1, 2009
The coming week will have something to offend and agitate everyone -- except you. Whines and moans and yelps will ring out across the land, even as you're emanating poise and aplomb. You may be tempted to brazenly exploit everyone's vulnerability and seize control of your corner of the world, but I think that would be shortsighted of you. A better strategy for capitalizing on your advantage would be to dole out large doses of mercy, making sure that the people who will be important to your future don't lose their way.
The problem is that too many people seem to think that the anger and rage they have now is the best tool in the box. Me?--I have rage fatigue. It's like asking a metalworker who spends eight hours of every working day next to the blast furnace whether he cares about the hot air generated elsewhere.
This kind of ties in to that story of the hanged Census worker in Clay County, Kentucky. I did that work here in Tennessee ten years back, and one of my RL friends (on FB too) did the job in Florida, and I never told my parents how hazardous I thought the job was getting in some areas because I needed the cash too bad. (What's even more chilling is another of my RL friends/classmates, also on FB, knew the victim personally.) Now, the general circumstances are pointing to the man running into some sort of criminal activity--but what if it HAD turned out to be politically-motivated? I could imagine that myself, as when I did the job in '98 it was "hang the Clintons!" and "none of your CENSORED business!" Scare a man too much, stoke his fire too high, make him think there's no way out, enemies are all around and he can't trust anybody, and rage can KILL.
I'm personally not in a position to "dole out large doses of mercy", but you can understand my desire to stay out of the fray and try to douse the flames before something explodes. Water is getting expensive, so don't be surprised if all that comes out of the bucket is sand.
The coming week will have something to offend and agitate everyone -- except you. Whines and moans and yelps will ring out across the land, even as you're emanating poise and aplomb. You may be tempted to brazenly exploit everyone's vulnerability and seize control of your corner of the world, but I think that would be shortsighted of you. A better strategy for capitalizing on your advantage would be to dole out large doses of mercy, making sure that the people who will be important to your future don't lose their way.
The problem is that too many people seem to think that the anger and rage they have now is the best tool in the box. Me?--I have rage fatigue. It's like asking a metalworker who spends eight hours of every working day next to the blast furnace whether he cares about the hot air generated elsewhere.
This kind of ties in to that story of the hanged Census worker in Clay County, Kentucky. I did that work here in Tennessee ten years back, and one of my RL friends (on FB too) did the job in Florida, and I never told my parents how hazardous I thought the job was getting in some areas because I needed the cash too bad. (What's even more chilling is another of my RL friends/classmates, also on FB, knew the victim personally.) Now, the general circumstances are pointing to the man running into some sort of criminal activity--but what if it HAD turned out to be politically-motivated? I could imagine that myself, as when I did the job in '98 it was "hang the Clintons!" and "none of your CENSORED business!" Scare a man too much, stoke his fire too high, make him think there's no way out, enemies are all around and he can't trust anybody, and rage can KILL.
I'm personally not in a position to "dole out large doses of mercy", but you can understand my desire to stay out of the fray and try to douse the flames before something explodes. Water is getting expensive, so don't be surprised if all that comes out of the bucket is sand.
