Verticle Oracle cardCancer (June 21-July 22) In the beginning of his novel The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk offers this meditation: To imagine that a person who intrigues us has access to a way of life unknown and all the more attractive for its mystery, to believe that we will begin to live only through the love of that person—what else is this but the birth of great passion? How do you respond to this provocative statement, Cancerian? Here are my thoughts: On the one hand, maybe its not healthy for you to fantasize that a special someone can give you what you cant give yourself. On the other hand, believing this is true may inspire you to take an intriguing risk that would catalyze invigorating transformations. Which is it? Now is a good time to ruminate on these matters. Need more help in figuring out the questions life is asking you? Crave more support in your efforts to build your courage? Check out your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE. * SACRED ADVERTISEMENT. The oracle below is excerpted from my book PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings. * Dont make nasty comments about yourself behind your own back. Do play soccer in bunny slippers at dawn in a supermarket parking lot with a gang of sadomasochistic stockbrokers whove promised to teach you the Balinese monkey chant. Dont decorate your thigh with a sloppy tattoo of the devil pushing a lawn mower. Do wear a t-shirt that says, Of all the things Ive lost, I miss my mind the most. Dont glide into a bar, scout around for the person whose face has the most pain etched in it, and ask that person to come home with you. Do eat ripe organic strawberries that have been genetically modified and irradiated, and do chain-smoke Marlboros as you peddle your exercise bicycle, and do wander through a garbage dump while listening to Mozart on your iPod. Dont get hooked on the fantasy that there are only two kinds of people, those who align themselves with the forces of light and those who align themselves with the forces of darkness. Do start an organization called POMP (Proud Owners of Multiple Personalities), dedicated to erasing negative stereotypes about healthy non-schizophrenics who enjoy being a community of many different selves. Dont lie on a floor surrounded by wine-stained poetry books, crumpled Matisse prints, abandoned underwear, and half-eaten bowls of corn flakes as you stare up at the ceiling with a mad gaze, muttering gibberish and waving your hands as if swatting away demons. Do run along the tops of cars during a traffic jam, escaping from bad guys as you make your way to a helicopter that takes you to a spot hovering over an erupting volcano, into which you drop the Buns of Steel video. Dont put your soul up for auction on eBay. Do write a cookbook filled with recipes youve channeled from dead celebrities. If you come upon a lamp with a genie in it, dont wish you had a magic wand. Verticle Oracle cardLeo (July 23-August 22) Canadians Tommy Larkin and Stephen Goosney are biological brothers, but they were adopted by different families when they were young. They lost touch for almost 30 years. Once they began looking for each other, it didnt take long to be reunited. Nor did they have to travel far to celebrate. It turns out that they were living across the street from each other in the same small town in Newfoundland. I foresee a metaphorically similar experience in your future, Leo. When you get reconnected to your past, you will find that it has been closer than you realized. What fresh blessings will life bring you? What questions should you be asking? To explore the ripening trends further, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE. * SACRED ADVERTISEMENT. The oracle below is excerpted from my book PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings. * Every fundamentalist divides the world into two camps, those who agree with him and like him and help him, and those who dont. There is only one right way to interpret the world -- according to the ideas the fundamentalist believes to be true -- and a million wrong ways. The fundamental attitude of all fundamentalists is to take everything way too seriously and too personally and too literally. Imagination is a sin and a crime. Correct belief is the only virtue. Every fundamentalist is committed to waging war against the imagination unless the imagination is enslaved to his or her belief system. And heres the bad news: Like almost everyone in the world, each of us has our own share of the fundamentalist virus. It may not be as dangerous to the collective welfare as, say, the fundamentalism of Islamic terrorists or Christian politicians or CEOs who act as if making a financial profit is the supreme good or scientists who deny the existence of the 96 percent of reality imperceptible to the five senses. Our fundamentalism is not as virulent as theirs. But still: We are infected, you and I, with fundamentalism. What are we going to do about it? I say we practice taking everything less seriously and less personally and less literally. freewillastrology/horoscopes/20131107.html
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