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Horoscopes, lol, and an idea.

October 7th, 2007 | by gene |

Maybe that should be horrorscopes, depending on the perspective. The Internet is full of psychics, and it has always been an interest of mine, seeing into the future. But I wouldn’t take the word of someone who alleged psychic abilities, yet couldn’t identify me by name to start with. Not suspicious in the slightest. Practical. I like to know what I’m dealing with before I deal with, which is where my habit of finding out as much as I can about a thing, any thing, before approaching it comes in. I’m most uncomfortable with nebulous ideas, thoughts and people. I define that as uncertain, unconfident, or overly broad. So this morning as I have been going through my ‘scopes, I have been looking for common themes. Just to see if there are any. And what possible use any such could have.

Virgo Horoscope (Aug 23 – Sep 22)

Your level of anticipation is high, but you aren’t confident enough to trust your impulses today. Instead of taking a risk, you’ll probably play it more conservatively for now. After all, you aren’t interested in a flash in the pan; you would rather build on what you already have, while waiting for the real stuff.

This one is introduced by this statement:

Where one person hurts, so does another. That’s the empathic power of Venus, connecting single hearts with the global heart. As Venus moves into Virgo today, the insensitivities of humanity don’t go unnoticed. Some say we’re spiritual beings learning to be human. As she graciously gilds our imperfection with kindness, Venus surely agrees.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Relax! Molehills tend to resemble mountains right now, but your problem isn’t as taxing as it appears.

Virgo Horoscope (Aug 23 – Sep 22)
You have a lot of creative energy today, yet it may be difficult to find a way to express it. Your most original thinking may have to stay within your mind for now, as words may fall short of conveying your thoughts. Don’t fret about this, though, for your best ideas will continue to mature until they are ready for sharing.

Sunday, Oct 07, 2007

Your worries and concerns could span a wide range of issues today. And you might find yourself a little lacking in self-confidence right now. Don’t be afraid to be a little skeptical today. Just remember that if something sounds unbelievable, then it probably is.
And be sure to avoid any kind of speculation or idle gossip the best you can right now because it’s only likely to bounce back in your direction. Just be aware that other people might not fully understand your intentions today.

You still may be feeling a little uncertain about a few issues and might find that you’re having a bit of a hard time making certain decisions right now. Give yourself a break and just hang in there until the obvious answers start to present themselves.

Welcome to Your Daily Forecast for Oct 7, 2000

You’re wired for sound, and not feeling at all patient with anyone who’s dragging their heels, especially if there’s work to be done. Here’s a tip: to avoid confrontation, work alone.

That crowd forming around you consists of fans, all of whom are lining up to catch a glimpse of you. It’s up to you to keep them at bay while still holding on to their everlasting love and admiration.

Even if you’ve always worked a certain way, you’ll need to rethink that now. Try what you’ve only dared to think of before. Bet it works.

Whether they’re nice about it or not won’t matter. You’ll know if you’re being rejected, and you won’t take kindly to it.

Then this comes from a dear friend:

“The Paradox of Our Time”

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more but enjoy less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences but less time; we have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgment; more experts yet more problems; more medicine but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life, we’ve added years to life not life to years.

We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things.

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; big men and small character; steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses but broken homes.

These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.

Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent.

Remember, to say “I love you” to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there. Give time to love, give time to speak, give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind. To all my friends in my life, thanks for being there!

Yesterdays were all the same. All about something coming. Now all my life I’ve been happiest when anticipating something arriving. I don’t know why but when that isn’t true, I feel empty from within, the world goes gray and so do I. Which is why I need the actual ‘SAD’ lights my in home or the gray of winter’s short days worms its way into my very soul. Despite the cheery words of horoscopes though, what I feel within is that grayness. I’m not sure reading about Mother Teresa’s struggles with the darkness is actually helping, I’m finding I can only take so much of that in one sitting and then I need to set it down and find something of greater cheer to balance the feeling I absorb from her writings. I know these next two years are important for me but I am having a difficult time connecting that spiritual feeling with the reality of the world around me. I suppose that is some sort of balance thing, but patience has just never been my real strength. And it isn’t now either. I don’t feel a sense of urgency because of my age, I don’t really feel my age at all, but I have grown weary of this “something” Jenna talks so much of, always being coming, never being actually here. And I am not sure what to do with that, it is that unsureness that is producing this feeling of ennui of late. That, and the reality I live in, that I see reflected around me. Maybe I’m just a little depressed because I see another campaign season coming with those endless attacks on our soul from the anonymous right wing and their ceaseless little ads that just eat away at ones heart because they attack in such insidious ways ones psyche. Another year of “swift boat” attack ads on people who only want to make our world better for all of us from people who only want to pile up more money and power for themselves.

Wouldn’t it be a miraculous world if we could get past all that, and get all of us pulling in the same direction? We can quibble on the details as we need, but to at least get us all facing the same direction on issues that shouldn’t be controversial. I mean how can anyone be against children’s health care, how can philosophical questions about the “wisdom” of government operated health care be used to prevent so many people from having ANY health care. Employers, even large ones struggle with this issue now, in my own situation, health care costs are rising 12% for 2008. If large employers struggle with this, and they do, how can smaller enterprises hope to deal with such on their own? Employers have been THE main source of health care for Americans for 60 plus years, and now the costs are so ridiculously high, their answer is to shove more of those off onto their employees who already struggle with the cost of prescriptions, copays and family coverage premiums? Yet “socialized medicine” is made to sound the like greatest evil ever invented. Michael Moore’s documentary, Sicko, shows that this system WORKS, all around the world. Yet here we resist it as if it were the devil himself offering it up in exchange for our souls. And we already know that isn’t true, or at least I do. There is no devil, and there is no hell, but we can certainly manage to create conditions here that emulate the worst of the lies that are told about that on Sunday mornings. Those conditions exist in many places around the world. And we, here in America, don’t even care about reducing our environmental poisons in the slightest. We make the most heavily polluting cars on the planet and all we care about it is selling more of them.

Where are the people who would put people before profits hiding? Why can’t they find a common voice and teach the American public the truth. We MUST lead the way in this area, Kyoto is just the smallest of beginnings and we have to be part of it. Medicare works, it isn’t perfect, but it works, and to extend it to the rest of the country would not be the evil that the republican party insists it would be. It would make health care available to all of us. There are MANY successful models around the world to emulate, we do NOT have to invent the wheel to do this. We only have to acquire the will to do this. How can such a church-going nation care so little about so many people? How can this nation so consistently put dollars before people? It is enough to make one a little disillusioned from time to time. Just once in my life time, I’d like to see the stock market react badly when a new ceo famous for cutting jobs is installed at some fortune 500 company because it recognized that all of those jobs that are now in immediate jeopardy represent PEOPLE not stock market numbers. That though the company may struggle to redefine itself and become more profitable it must do so in ways that do not harm its workforce. Putting people on the street is NOT good management and that the stock market rewards such behavior is evidence of the sickness of soul that lies at the heart of the American economic model. I am not advocating socialism or communism or anything of the sort. I am advocating humanism. People before dollars. We CAN do this, we need simply begin thinking in a new way, rewarding those whose conscience requires them to first protect the people who produce the products and find new ways to make production more profitable, whose first reaction to a crisis is not to fire people, but reorganize the way they do business, in ways that protect their workforce. THAT is how business will regain the loyalty of its employees, when it begins to demonstrate, as once it did, that they CARE about their employees first and foremost. When they engage their workforce in finding solutions, they’ll find their workforce able and willing to help them. It is a mistake of gigantic proportions to think that ideas can only be found in boardrooms and in firing the people who make the products that make the company profitable. America needs to find its soul. And remember that it is our relations with each other that are important, that when one of us succeeds, we all succeed. We ARE in this life together, we need remember that and starting living that truth. Unity is what we need, not separation. Get us all pulling on the rope in the same direction and we can move the world. I hope we find one candidate next year who can bring that idea to the forefront and help our country recover its sense of national purpose and dedicate our efforts to helping all of us, not just some of us. Who will work to bring us together, not work to deepen the differences we have now. If we keep deepening those valleys between us, eventually we’ll split this planet in half, and none of us survive that. I believe the rest of the world is waiting for our leadership in human terms. And I think it is time we showed them that we are not people of war but people of love. The world will respond to that sort of leadership. Let’s make the “paradox of our times” 2008’s campaign platform. We’ll all win if we do, I promise. much love, :^) gene

If today brings even one choice your way
choose to be a bringer of the light :^) gene