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FUCK!

Just had to let you know that. Don't ask why, because then you'll get one of my grouchiest blogs ever.



Rebecca, you horrible friend, you never read my blogs. So you won't read this. You were my best friend tonight. You buttressed a temple that tilts. You were unusually fair and objective, as much so as anyone put in your position could hope to be. Thank you.

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You know, I don't put much stock in horoscopes, they're mostly a collection of vague platitudes, but I still enjoy reading them. Which in itself I find rather odd, insomuch as I never could stomach them before this past couple of months.

My Google front page has many custom widgets on it, such as the weather, various news sources, my stock ticker, my calender and to do list (I'm very organized), and a few other odds and ends, and one of them is a daily horoscope. When I set up my personalized Google page, it was one of the 4 or 6 default widgets that were already installed. I kept it, the weather, and the daily quotes. So now I read it almost everyday out of curiosity.

Now before you get all excited if you are a creationist, or get puffed up if you're not, please note that I don't have much faith in horoscopes. Never have. For those skeptics in the bunch, I propose that, unless you seriously subscribe to crystals and pyramid hats, any jumble of words could account for just about anything happening in your life, statistically speaking, just as the saying goes, "eventually a room full of monkeys bashing away randomly on typewriters can come up with the complete works of Shakespeare". On the other hand, for the God fearing in the crowd, how do you know that God himself does not inform those who write these silly paragraphs, for He does work in mysterious ways after all, and who am I to say how He will and will not communicate with his flock? Who are you, in fact, to do so?

At any rate, the point is moot, but I do enjoy the metaphysical argument. Especially when humans deign to know how God goes about His business, because I know for a fact *I* don't know. I'm sure He keeps his own council on the running of His affairs... just my humble guess though. I could be wrong. It's happened before, and it will happen again...

The thing is, more often than not I can ascribe what is in the horoscope to something in my life. To be expected. Often these things that are referenced build upon each other day after day. Less expected, but as I said before, you can make just about anything in a horoscope fit your life. Now, I've come across some observation from the horoscope about my life that I've encountered before.

Many weeks ago, it referred to a difficulty (forgive me for being vague myself here, but sometimes I'm guts-exposed in my blogs, and sometimes not. It's MY blog after all, so shut it up) that I was currently going through and that it related to something that had happened in the past, and to be mindful of separating the two. Not bad advice in and of itself. But it turns out that was actually a very good observation, for a bunch of words, about what was really happening with me at that moment.

Now, I've come across a similar bit of advice from the mighty tome of nonsense, telling me to work through my fears, which come from a pain experienced in the past. Quite accurate for me right now, this day. I won't say exactly how that ties into the first one, but trust me, it does. As much as I choose it to of course. It continues by telling me not to bury myself in accomplishing external goals, but to allow the changes that need to be made inside of me to take place, to in fact, face this inner turmoil and let it work itself out. This is indeed something happening for me that can be explained in so many words, right now. And I can assure you, these are great changes taking place within me, some I hadn't anticipated, as if I could smell the rain coming across the land, but have up til now, spotted no storm clouds....

Coincidence? Sure. Fact? I don't know. Voice of God? None of my business. Scribblings of a purple monkey dishwasher? Quite possible.

But the really cool thing about today's horoscope is it used the word 'ameliorate'.