Scorpio for this week:

Mountains are not always as static as they seem. Due to the collision of two tectonic plates, for example, the Himalayas are growing at the rate of about a half-inch per year. And in 1972, the flooding of an underground river moved a mountain in the Caucasus range over a mile in eight days. Likewise, Scorpio, a situation you have always believed to be fixed and inert is now susceptible to change.

FreeWill Astrology

Wow, for once the boy might be on time. Thank the gods for awesome friends. Speaking of, I find it interesting that the caption for my image this month is “Total Commitment”. Looks like my plans have changed and it’s time to focus inside again. I need to go to the mountains again.

Also from FreeWill:

Many people believe that happiness is a rare commodity attainable only through dumb luck. “One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness,” said novelist Willa Cather. “One only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere.” I disagree. My perspective is the same as the Buddhist researchers Rick Foster and Greg Hicks. In their book How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People, they reveal that the number one trait of happy people is a serious determination to be happy. Bliss is a habit you can cultivate, in other words, not an accident that you stumble upon by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere.

Very true. And it’s one thing that so many people forget. Everything must come from inside, we cannot gain it externally.

Scorpio for this week:

When I saw the grandmother of one of my friends dancing exuberantly at a party in a San Francisco warehouse, I was confounded. “Isn’t she 80 years old?” I asked my friend, who was one of the DJs. “82, actually,” he said nonchalantly. “She’s in great shape.” But my amazement wasn’t based merely on how much energy she had; her agile movements were stunningly sensual. I’ve rarely seen young dancers display so much erotic abandon. I decided that she’s a rare example of a person whose aging process has not made her rigid and cautious, but just the opposite: It has lightened and liberated her. She’s a good example for you right now, Scorpio. You should be cultivating the kind of maturity that will loosen your inhibitions and banish your fears.

FreeWill Astrology

Hrm, maybe that’s what the PFC who opened the door for me on my way to the Apple Store was smiling. And it wasn’t because I was acting like one of the shadows in an iPod commercial (yes, I danced my way through the train station and the mall).

Scorpio for this week:

At Tufts Educational Day Care in Somerville, MA, kids from ages three to five have to sign contracts guaranteeing their good behavior. “I know how to listen to my teachers,” they promise. “When my teachers talk to me, I will not scream, try to hit, or say, ‘you’re not my boss.'” I’d like you to ask both your inner child and your inner teenager to make a similar vow right now, Scorpio. There are valuable teachers hovering in your vicinity. Some may have educational techniques that are less than adroit, but they all deserve your close, sincere, and humble attention.

FreeWill Astrology

Also stolen from FreeWill:

Tantric sex practitioners say an artful lover never makes love the same way twice.

Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh has the last word: “Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.”

That tantric sex comment makes my giggle, for multiple reasons that only a couple people will get.

Scorpio for this week:

Introducing Adrienne Rich at a poetry reading in San Francisco in 2004, Frances Phillips turned to her and said, “Thank you for your lovely, irreverent, unsettled, curious mind.” It was a fitting tribute to a poet who for 50 years has stirred up good trouble with her rowdy yet disciplined work. By the end of this week, Scorpio, I would like to feel justified in saying the same thing to you: “Thank you for your lovely, irreverent, unsettled, curious mind.” Now get out there and pull off the most healing mischief you can imagine.

FreeWill Astrology

Methinks there is danger in telling me to go start mischief. But at least I’ll have fun. 🙂

Scorpio for this week:

In my astrological opinion, you need to take a long, relaxing excursion down a sun-drenched stream of consciousness. So please consider interrupting your slog through the shady swamps. Stop poking around in the mud and slime for the treasure you imagine is there. Leave your props and accessories behind, head out into the open, and scout around for the best natural flow you can find. It’s high time for you to float and muse as you gaze into the vault of the great unknown.

FreeWill Astrology

I see more riverbeds in my future…..

Scorpio for this week:

In my astrological opinion, you need to take a long, relaxing excursion down a sun-drenched stream of consciousness. So please consider interrupting your slog through the shady swamps. Stop poking around in the mud and slime for the treasure you imagine is there. Leave your props and accessories behind, head out into the open, and scout around for the best natural flow you can find. It’s high time for you to float and muse as you gaze into the vault of the great unknown.

FreeWill Astrology

I see more riverbeds in my future…..

Scorpio for this week:

The only secrets you have to worry about are those you’re keeping from yourself. It might be helpful to know what other people are hiding, true, but the only way their covert agendas and sneaky maneuvering can hurt you is if you continue to lie to yourself. Besides, there’s just one sure strategy for exposing the secrets that others are keeping: Tell yourself the naked truth about your own feelings and motivations.

FreeWill Astrology

Yeah, been working on this, and working on this, and working on this….and it all started 3 years ago when my therapist asked, “Why do you feel the need to act like someone other than yourself?”

Scorpio for this week:

Scientists are on the verge of recovering the lost treatises of Archimedes, ancient Greece’s most brilliant mathematician. The words were originally inscribed on an old parchment, but were mostly erased in the 12th century by a Christian monk who wasn’t interested in math and needed a fresh surface on which to write his prayers. Fragments of the ink that conveyed Archimedes’ original thoughts remained, however, and now physicists at Stanford are using a particle accelerator to discern them beneath the newer text. Let this be your guiding metaphor in the coming week, Scorpio. Look for ways to retrieve precious information that has almost disappeared or that is hidden by a source with little meaning to you.

FreeWill Astrology

Hrm. And this goes along with my therapist’s commentary about my 5th chakra being blocked and what was it that I wanted to say, but wasn’t getting out. Maybe I just need to go into my room and scream and throw a 2-year-old tantrum, maybe I’ll put that on the plate for next week. I just feel somethings aren’t worth vocalizing to the general public, or even to people in specific. Mainly, because half the time I live in the little fantasy world that is my head, and the crap that goes on in there does not always equate to what is going on in reality.

Otherwise, I also need to get over my nerves when calling some people. I don’t know why I do that, but every time I call the whipping boy I have this overwhelming desire to talk to his voicemail. We talk just fine online, and we do ok when others are around (or at least I do when there’s someone distracting me on my end of the phone), I clam up face-to-face and resort to silliness – which, thankfully is ok because he’ll follow suit. I really don’t know why I do this, and it’s not like we don’t have things to talk about, and neither of us has to tip toe around the other to avoid sensabilities. Strange.

In other news, today is WT time. Yay! Distract me from no Zoomie time.

Scorpio for this week:

One of Sesame Street’s most recognizable characters is Cookie Monster. After years of feasting on all the cookies he wanted, the fuzzy blue puppet has recently been forced to limit his intake. In an effort to teach kids better eating habits, the show’s producers even require Cookie Monster to sing a song called, “A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food.” I vociferously protest this action. Born November 2, Cookie Monster is a Scorpio, and Scorpios shouldn’t be compelled to tone down their desires as long as their desires aren’t hurting anyone. You’re on this earth to explore your cravings, to be led by your cravings to the frontiers of understanding. That’s the only way they can teach you all they have to teach. Now go and commune with as many cookies (or your personal equivalent) as you need to.

FreeWill Astrology

Hrm. All the “cookies” I want, eh? That could be dangerous. Otherwise, I agree with some of the insight regarding life’s lessons.

Scorpio for this week:

Here’s your dream dictionary for the coming week. If you have a dream of walking through the mist at dawn and coming upon flamingos nesting in a rusty red 1959 Cadillac convertible in a junkyard, it means you should expand your ideas about where you might find beauty. A dream of baking a birthday cake for Buddha in the kitchen of a ship passing through the Panama Canal means you’re primed to upgrade your skill at expressing generosity. A dream of finding traces of marijuana in a seventeenth-century pipe found in the house where William Shakespeare lived means you should rethink your ideas about where your best inspiration comes from. A dream of a driver who doesn’t use his turn signal means you shouldn’t follow anyone too closely. (P.S. Even if you don’t have the dreams I described, you should still heed the counsel they provide.)

FreeWill Astrology

Again, the boy is behind. I think someone needs to get him some kind of upper, legal or otherwise.