Given that it’s the last week of the calendar year, I think it’s a good time to do what many of us do at year’s end, which is take stock of the year that’s past and a preview of the new one ahead.
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Being with family or away from them; reminders of holidays from youth; estrangements and losses that ache like an arthritic shoulder in cold weather… we may celebrate the holidays or not, but we can’t easily separate them from the legacy of family.
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It’s fashionable to blame Mercury retrograde for everything from lost car keys to traveling mishaps. But its real message is about the value of occasionally stepping out of frantic, schedule-driven time and surrendering to the full experience of the present.
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few years ago, just before a Sagittarius New Moon, our indoor cat Spike escaped the secure confines of our home and went walkabout. I soothed my anxiety by imagining him on a kind of exciting Spirit Quest, possibly involving medicinal-grade catnip. When he returned 36 hours later, Spike seemed calm and fairly mellow, if ravenously […]
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Scorpio really shines when we need to look out for ourselves against falsehoods, manipulation, or sabotage. I’ll bet you’re better at detecting those than you were a month ago. Thank Scorpio for it.
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As the Sun approaches Jupiter, newly in its own sign of Sagittarius, a tiny candle has at last been lit, emitting faint but growing warmth. It’s the day of Thanksgiving; prepare a meal and eat together, and remember the old times. Set a place for the departed, and be thankful for what you have left.
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In the same way I can hum certain songs from my youth without recalling more than a snippet of the lyrics, I could not tell you what the adults at that table spoke about. It didn’t matter to me in the least. It just mattered that the voices I loved were swirling around me like a protective cloud. It meant that the grownups were on the scene, and I was safe.
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It’s risky to share the tender underbelly of one’s imagination, but riskier still to let it wither away in the airless dark.
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There’s something weirdly pleasant about longing. If we’re being honest, there are times we might prefer it to actually having our wishes granted.
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We’re reminded at the Scorpio New Moon how easily accidents, illness, and murderers can take our bodies, at any moment. But when we love another person, we have the sense of creating something deathless.
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