Scorpio (October 23-November 21)
Actor Cary Grant said he didn’t necessarily advocate making love constantly. “Who can do it all the time?” he asked. “Though I do try.” Your assignment in the coming weeks, Scorpio, as revealed by the astrological omens, is to attempt what Grant aspired to: Do the wild thing as much as possible. Get busy before breakfast on the kitchen table and on your mid-morning break in the closet. Duck out of work early so you can get your freak on. Get a hundred more strokes and licks and kisses in before bedtime. Et cetera. And if you don’t have a lover to help you out in this noble cause, then boink the wind, screw the sky, hump your dreams, make love to the universe.

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Ya know…..I’m not even going to touch this one, unless it involves copious amounts of violence.

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)
Poet Sylvia Plath said she wasn’t much impressed with the “photographic mind which paradoxically tells the truth, but the worthless truth, about the world.” What she really loved was the “synthesizing spirit, that ‘shaping’ force, which prolifically sprouts and makes up its own worlds with more inventiveness than God.” That’s the aspect of your psyche I hope will be in full bloom during the coming weeks, Scorpio. It’s a perfect time for you to enter into an unprecedented phase of building. You’re ripe to dream up a host of creations for yourself — to improvise and design and compose.

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I’m going with my ETs interpretation: “your world is what you make it, and you have the power of creation like mad”. I’m too sick to come up with my own interpretation, right now.

With that said, I have teh kittehs on the couch with me, and they’re not hissing at each other (regularly).

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)
Happy Valentine Daze, Scorpio! After extensive meditation about what advice would be most useful for your love life in the coming months, I decided on this gentle rant from the South African poet Shabbir Banoobhai: “Love is a mystery. And the reason why it is a mystery and should remain a mystery is that knowledge of it would give us mastery over it — would enable us to manipulate it — and love, truth, God, cannot be manipulated. Hence the Prophet exclaimed, ‘My Lord, increase my bewilderment in Thee.'”

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I totally agree with this, hence why I accept love when I feel it and express it as it feels the need to be expressed. Hell, it’s one of my life’s endevours, because once it opens up in your mind’s eye, you love the world and everything in it, not just one thing. And suddenly, not only does loneliness disappear, but the connections to everything take root and grow.

On the other foot, can we get off the Val’s day stuff?

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

One goal of meditation is to empty the mind of its obsessively generated thoughts, rationalizations, and images. Alas, much of the media functions as a reverse meditation machine. Not only does it stir up your own mental clatter, it also floods you with the seething surge of other people’s private pandemoniums. Furthermore, it delivers this rattling racket with entertaining words and brilliant color and crystalline sound, driving it as deeply into your psyche as your own flotsam. Keep this in mind throughout February, which is Clean Out Your Brain Month. Cut way back on your media intake. Snack lightly rather than gorging continually.

FreeWill Astrology

How amusing. Though, I think cleaning out my brain would be a good idea, not just in the media intake, but also in paring down the things that I have to pay attention to on a daily basis. Simplification, mostly in my schedule. Now to just get sleep.

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Internet pundit Ariana Huffington realized she was working too hard when she got so exhausted she passed out and broke her cheekbone on her desk. Resolved to give herself more slack, she decided to carry just two Blackberries with her at all times instead of the three that had been her constant companions. I request that you perform at least two similar acts of self-care in the coming week, Scorpio. They could come in the form of either eliminating complications, as Huffington did, or else adding luxurious treats. For example, you might want to arrange to be massaged in warm water by a team of charismatic healers singing you love songs and lullabies.

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Well, outside of the fact that I can’t stand Huffington, it sounds like a good plan. Though, I’m voting for the luxurious treats, the complications are subsiding. 🙂

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Why does human anatomy include the organ known as the appendix? For centuries, doctors have been unable to determine its purpose. Most have decided it’s unnecessary, a vestigial structure left over from an earlier stage of evolution. But recent research suggests the conventional wisdom has to be revised. In fact, the appendix seems to protect and regenerate the good bacteria that live in the intestines. I predict that you’re on the verge of a metaphorically comparable discovery, Scorpio. Something you have always considered to be useless or irrelevant will reveal its value.

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ponderous, really ponderous man. Now to figure out, which thing I’ve always considered useless or irrelevant will reveal its value.

Will have to think on that one….

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

“Dear Rob: Here are my New Year’s resolutions. (1) I vow to Siamese-twin together my bad-ass, no-hype, wide-eyed self with my tricky, strategic, puzzle-loving self. (2) I vow to rage on like a dancing warrior in the urban wilderness, keeping peak experiences and total slaphappy victory at the top of my priority list, while at the same time I play hide-and-seek with the dark delicious secrets that fuel my soul’s lust for wicked meaning. (3) I vow to deepen the collaborative efforts of my suck-out-the-marrow-and-spit-out-the-bones craziness and my listen-carefully-to-the-flow-of-the-underground-river caginess. -Double Intense Scorpio.” Dear Double Intense: Scorpios everywhere will benefit from hearing your resolutions, which is why I’ve made them 2008’s first horoscope.

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While all my other horoscopes are telling me next year is all about giving of myself, I don’t think I’m in a spot to really do that, yet. Oh yeah, and the damned things talk about relationships…..

That said, I know I’m a few days late on this, but I’d like to thank everyone I got to see and talk to on NYE. I’ve missed you all very much and I’m sorry that my time was cut short. I hope the issues that came up were limited, as I was hoping to not involve as many people as possible. Yeah, I’ve got issues, compounded by the issues of other people. And eternalredneck, thank you. moonbird, tea-time, very soon. 🙂

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)
I meditated on the perfect holiday gift for you. What might inspire you to be in closest alignment with the cosmic currents in 2008? I decided that if I could, I’d buy you a costume shop. That way you could try on a thousand different masks and disguises. And that would put you in the proper frame of mind for the assignment I hope you will carry out all year long, which is to play with your identity and experiment with new self-images and maybe even treat your life as an epic theatrical extravaganza.

FreeWill Astrology

Hrm. While I’m not a big fan of masks and costumes, I am a big fan of exploring who I am, and this could be something that would be fun. 🙂 I see many layers to peel back and explore, and I think I’m slowly dissolving all the issues that are preventing me from doing that, currently.

Scorpio for this week:

For reasons too silly to go into here (involving romance, of course), I once spent six months making thrice-weekly three-and-a-half-hour roundtrips from Chapel Hill, NC to Columbia, SC. The back roads I drove on were sparsely traveled and my ancient pick-up truck didn’t have a radio, so I passed the time by reading. I became quite skilled at continually darting my eyes back and forth between the road and the open book resting on my steering wheel. In this way I got through James Joyce’s Ulysses, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain. I don’t advise you to try something so dangerous, Scorpio, but I do believe it’s a perfect astrological moment for you to master the art of slipping back and forth between two starkly different realities.

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Yeah, I need to get back to doing this. My realities have really sucked, of late. Most of them include pain and depression, but I have a slight break from it all. It’s currently on the other side of the country, and over here, it’s nothing but all about me, right now. Least, till tomorrow. I fight at 10am. I have one fight, and it’s a girl I know I can beat if I’m smart about it. The nerves have finally passed, so I’m doing much better.

Also, I have my Whiskey, from the Isle of Skye, it makes my tongue tingle. And it makes me think that the gods are on my side, I just have to take advantage of it and do what I need to do. The signs have been there, that it is finally my time, now to just rise up to it and face it, without fear.