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Cancer for the week

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There’s a place in Venezuela where lightning storms rage 10 hours a night, 150 days of the year. It’s where the Catatumbo River flows into Lake Maracaibo. Humans put their lives at risk to be near this persistent storm. The upside of the phenomenon is that it generates a significant portion of our planet’s ozone, and produces so much light that it helps ships navigate up to 250 miles away. If you encounter anything with a metaphorical resemblance to the Catatumbo lightning in the coming days, I suggest you enjoy it from a distance. That way, it’ll provide you with all of its benefits and none of its dangers.

I’m always amazed at the descriptions he comes up with. Sure don’t want to be struck by lightening but I certainly do enjoy a good show. Think I’ll keep to myself a bit for the next week. Which is what I planned to do anyway. I have no plans this weekend so creativity reigns.

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Cancer for the week

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In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, prayer flags are sets of brightly colored sacramental cloths that are inscribed with holy words and images of deities. They’re not designed for indoor use in solemn ceremonies, but are hung outside where the wind blows their blessings to the heavens and all over the world. I recommend that you draw inspiration from this practice. It’s a perfect time to take your spiritual yearnings out of the closet, away from the church and temple and mosque, and beyond all sheltered, temperature-controlled trappings. Build a shrine in the wilderness, Cancerian. Sing a hymn from a mountaintop, shower money on the river goddess, or create your own homemade prayer flags and hang them from a tree.

Oh yes indeedy!! Making lots of flags and banners I am.

Cancer for the week

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“Never play cards with a man called Doc,” said Nelson Algren in his book A Walk on the Wild Side. “Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.” Whether or not you generally heed cautionary advice like that, I suggest that you adopt a more freewheeling approach in the coming weeks. In fact, given the frontier-prowling, rules-breaking, fun-erupting nature of your current astrological indicators, you may benefit from experimenting with a host of exploits that at any other time might seem iffy or dicey or itchy.

I would have done a lot more than play cards with Doc…

Rule 62! Don’t take yourself so seriously. Guess I need to get out and party.

  • Birthday party this Saturday, check
  • Pagan meetup group this Tuesday, check
  • Friend over on Wednesday, check

Not much else going on, gotta work on that. That’s it for the whole month of March really. Oh, OLOTEAS on the 29th.

Perhaps letting go of lists for the next while is a good idea…

Cancer for the week

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Some religious traditions don’t motivate you through the threat of punishment and don’t make you scared of God. Some corporations don’t rip off their workers, don’t despoil the environment, and don’t have tyrannical bosses. Some politicians don’t lie constantly, haven’t sold out their ideals, and aren’t power-mad narcissists. In light of these facts, Cancerian, please try to keep an open mind about them all in the coming week, as well as about any institution, idea, or person about which you have made dogmatic generalizations. It’s a perfect time to shake up and even purge some of the personal biases that you have enthroned as absolute truths.

Very timely advice.

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Here’s my Valentine message for you, Cancerian: The sea inside of you is not just at high tide, it’s at the highest tide possible — like what happens when the moon is full at the same time that it’s at its closest approach to Earth. To intensify the drama, the sea inside of you is stormy, with torrential rains pouring down from the heaven inside of you as winds bluster and lightning cracks. There are even water spouts rising up now and then. Yet from my perspective, it’s all gorgeous and majestic, a marvelous spectacle worthy of celebration. And since I’m confident no harm will come to you during this elemental interlude, I advise you to just enjoy the ride.Free Will Astrology

Wow. It’s funny. From the outside this is certainly what appears to be false. But inside, while I’m reading and nesting and watching Horatio Caine, things really are bubbling around in my heart and my mind. Designs, projects, possibilities, all kinds of things really. I predict a huge creative flooding very soon.

Ideas/concepts/designs I’m working on : Two wall hangings, one with the Goddess and one with the God. So far three designs are flitting around in there, haven’t settled on any one. But they all involve black felt in the background. I think. Charm bracelets and neckaces

Some new clothes made from several of the fabrics on hand, black rayon/linen blend, natural hemp knit for starters

A hanging (or two) inspired by the artword of Mary GrandPre whose work I first saw, I thought, on In the Land of Winter.

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