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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of August 4, 2016
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The Adamites were devotees of an ancient Christian sect that practiced sacred nudism. One of their central premises: How could anyone possibly know God while wearing clothes? I am not necessarily recommending that you make their practice a permanent part of your spiritual repertoire, but I think you might find value in it during the coming weeks. Your erotic and transcendent yearnings will be rising to a crescendo at the same time. You will have the chance to explore states where horniness and holiness overlap. Lusty prayers? Reverent sex? Ecstatic illumination?
The problem I have is, why attempt sexual relationships with anybody you don't really get along with in the first place?
Petrarch was an influential 14th-century Italian poet whose main work was Song Book. It's a collection of 366 poems, most of which are dedicated to Laura, the woman he loved. For 40 years he churned out testaments of longing and appreciation for her, despite the fact that he and she never spent time together. She was married to another man, and was wrapped up in raising her eleven children. Should we judge Petrarch harshly for choosing a muse who was so unavailable? I don't. Muse-choosing is a mysterious and sacred process that transcends logic. I'm bringing the subject to your attention because you're entering a new phase in your relationship with muses. It's either time to choose a new one (or two?) or else adjust your bonds with your current muses.
My morale has been very low lately, and I have to apologize to the human race that I've been very poor company to keep. I'm mulling over re-configuring Chillin' Out for a possible Kindle Store, and other news in my life has me trying to figure out the usual depression and demoralization from outright self-loathing and anger. I don't know what would make me feel better.
FreeWill: Want Not, Waste Not?
May. 27th, 2014 01:40 pm"Longing, what is that? Desire, what is that?" Those are questions Louise Gluck asks in her poem "Prism." Does she really not know? Has she somehow become innocent again, free from all her memories of what longing and desire have meant to her in the past? That's what I wish for you right now, Sagittarius. Can you do it? Can you enter into beginner's mind and feel your longing and desire as if they were brand new, just born, as fresh and primal as they were at the moment you fell in love for the first time? If you can manage it, you will bestow upon yourself a big blessing.
Just when you are grateful for what you have, life throws something new at you?
FreeWill Pushes The Envelope
Mar. 19th, 2014 01:13 amThere should be nothing generic or normal or routine about this week, Sagittarius. If you drink beer, for example, you shouldn't stick to your usual brew. You should track down and drink the hell out of exotic beers with brand names like Tactical Nuclear Penguin and Ninja Vs. Unicorn and Doctor Morton's Clown Poison. And if you're a lipstick user, you shouldn't be content to use your old standard, but should instead opt for kinky types like Sapphire Glitter Bomb, Alien Moon Goddess, and Cackling Black Witch. As for love, it wouldn't make sense to seek out romantic adventures you've had a thousand times before. You need and deserve something like wild sacred eternal ecstasy or screaming sweaty flagrant bliss or blasphemously reverent waggling rapture.
The problem is normalcy has a very tight grip here. What's weird, isn't. Which way is down?
Sagittarius Horoscope for week of December 26, 2013
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FreeWill Declares Dependence Day
Jul. 2nd, 2013 02:07 pmWho was Russia's greatest poet? Many critics say it was Alexander Pushkin, who lived in the 19th century. His abundant creativity was undoubtedly related to his unruly libido. By the time he was 31 years old, he'd had 112 lovers. But then he met his ultimate muse, the lovely and intelligent Natalya Goncharova, to whom he remained faithful. "Without you," he wrote to her, "I would have been unhappy all my life." I half-expect something comparable to happen for you in the next ten months, Sagittarius. You may either find an unparalleled ally or else finally ripen your relationship with an unparalleled ally you've known for a while. One way or another, I bet you will commit yourself deeper and stronger.
There is only one woman in the world right now that even approaches that description...and it would be me in the role of her muse, rather than her being mine. *shrug*
Will Don't Come For Free
Jun. 27th, 2012 09:44 pmFrom the 14th through the 18th centuries, many towns in England observed a curious custom. If a couple could prove that they had gone a year and a day without ever once being sorry they got married, the two of them would receive an award: a side of cured pork, known as a flitch of bacon. Alas, the prize was rarely claimed. If this practice were still in effect, you Sagittarians would have an elevated chance of bringing home the bacon in the coming months. Your ability to create harmony and mutual respect in an intimate relationship will be much higher than usual.
If only I had an intimate relationship with anybody. I'm such a social electron. I spark far more often than I bond and even when I do, I can't help my negativities.
Mom's Messing With My Muzak
Apr. 30th, 2012 06:37 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOhnrjdYOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2mbGP6vFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx6_-urg5fo
Three of these four Eighties classics played over the Muzak in recent days, and I just have to give the credit/blame to Mum's ghost. I'm linking rather than embedding just because I have too much other stuff to do.
A Parable About The Circle Of Life
Apr. 24th, 2012 03:25 pmI was reminded of the time back when we were children, when Lynn's first cat Fluffy died. Lynn was so upset and hurting that she wrote the news opinion commentator of a local TV station--and he responded by reading some of her letter on air and expressing his condolensces to her for everybody.
On a whim I did a websearch for the name of the cat and the name of the TV station together: THIS is what came up.
The Circle of Life is a very real thing. Sometimes the next world is Heaven or Paradise, and maybe we don't see loved ones again. Or maybe we just come back to this one, in a form that befits us better and fated to find love and happiness. You know love can endure--and you know it will!--one of Mum's favorite songs from Crosby, Stills and Nash.
Dangerously Close To TMI
Apr. 21st, 2012 09:23 pmIn other words, my emotions through Mom's medical situation are steadier than my actual physical condition, tho' I'm doing what I can.
Her recovery is much like the economic recovery: it could use a lot of help, and while we're seeing progress, it's nowhere near a done deal.
I had a long day today, I'm looking at a longer day overmorrow, and probably a long lost weekend after that.
Quantums Of Solace
Apr. 4th, 2012 12:23 amResearchers report that the typical man falls in love 5.4 times over the course of his life, while the average woman basks in the glow of this great mystery on 4.6 occasions. I suspect you may be close to having a .4 or .6 type of experience, Sagittarius: sort of like infatuation, but without the crazed mania. That could actually be a good thing. The challenging spiritual project that relationship offers may be most viable when the two people involved are not electrifyingly interwoven with every last one of their karmic threads. Maybe we have more slack in our quest for intimacy if we love but are not obsessed.
I've never actually met anybody I could even consider a .1 let alone a 1.0. But even a .05 could be a welcome experience for me, as right now I realize that I've been depressed for a long time now and ANYTHING that busts this funk wide open would be "good".
FreeWill Shells It Out
Feb. 8th, 2012 01:47 am"The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress," said a character in an Arthur Miller play. He was referring to the idea that if you're obsessed with sex and romance, your level of worldly accomplishment may be rather low. It jibes with what a friend in my youth told me when he noticed how much of my energy was engaged in pursuing desirable females: "They don't build statues in parks for guys who chase women." I realize you may not be wildly receptive to ruminating on these matters during the Valentine season, Sagittarius. However, the omens suggest I advise you to do just that. It's a good time to fine-tune the balance between your life-long career goals and your quest for love.
Since neither my career goals nor my love goals seem to have worked out very well, maybe I just need to reset all my priorities.
Writer's Block: National Hugging Day
Jan. 21st, 2012 01:36 pmI hug my mother every evening as she goes to bed.
Writer's Block: Secret love
Nov. 2nd, 2011 11:09 pmShe scared me to death at a time when I was super-paranoid (for good reason; the local government was spying on me!). I broke it off as quickly as I could because I couldn't trust her and didn't have any idea what she saw in me that was so attractive.
