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Cancer this week ~ Twisted

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Visionary philosopher Buckminster Fuller said that “Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.” If that’s true, Cancerian, you’ve got a lot of resources available to you right now, although they will have to be converted from their smoggy and effluvial state. So for example, if you’re a songwriter, the noxious emotions floating around could be raw material for a sparkling tune. If you’re a lover, the peculiar vibes you’re dealing with could inspire you to prevent a dumb pattern from repeating itself.

Whoa.  That last sentence kinda floored me.  That couldn’t be closer to the truth if you tried…  Talk about peculiar vibes.  A certain someone ended his doomed to fail relationship last week.

Peculiar vibes indeed.

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Jupiter

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And what planet is that in the southern sky?  I’m sleeping on the back porch to try and beat the heat.  I awoke in the middle of the night to see this HUGE planet shining it’s light down on me. I mean HUGE.  Without my glasses it was intense.  I grabbed them wondering what the heck.  Is it a plane?  a UFO?  A planet? That big???  I think it’s Jupiter.

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Astrologically Jupiter is the planet of expansion. Thursday is Jupiter’s day. My first date with Jeff (yes, a nice simple uncomplicated name) is on a Thursday. My 3rd interview is on a Thursday. And Jupiter is smiling down upon me while I sleep under the moon and the stars, expanding my life, my potential, and all the things that have been getting ready to align very soon.

And suddenly, here I am crying. Good tears. Tears of Gratitude. Because good things are really coming. I can just feel my life expanding even now and very soon it’s going to burst open and my wings will unfurl and I’ll be flying. I can feel it. I just don’t know what day. 😉

Its symbol represents the crescent of receptivity waxing as a focus of material activity.

Astrologically Jupiter is known as the greater benefic as it has a warmer nature than Saturn but is not as hot as Mars and, with the addition of moisture, is fertile and thus beneficial to the Earth. It represents wisdom. It is a planet of freedom, tolerance and plenty.

From this planet all good things come and it is seen as avuncular, jolly, moderate and kind. As Jupiter takes 12 years to orbit the Sun, it spends one year in each Sign. Therefore, its influence in the horoscope is more inclined to the collective rather than personal.

My weekly Rob Brezsny horoscope:

It’s Freedom from Want Week! For Cancerians only! During this uncanny grace period, you might actually feel perfectly contented. It’s quite possible that you’ll be free from the obsession to acquire more security, more love, more proof of your greatness, more chotchkes, more everything. You may even make the shocking discovery that you don’t need nearly as much as you thought you did in order to be happy; that maybe you have a lot to learn about getting more out of what you already have.

I feel very excited.  Very hot.  Very content.  I don’t need a bunch of things right now.  Things are starting to work up to a nice simmer in a few areas of my life.  I do want a job. I want a lover/partner/best friend.  And I know that Jupiter is bringing it.

So Mote It  Be

P.S.  Off to buy some Burts Bees bug repellant so sleeping on the porch isn’t so difficult.  That is one thing I do want.  But it’s really a need.

Cancer This Week

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The coming week may be one big Ethical Test for you. Maybe today the cashier at the cafe will accidentally give you $10 too much in change. Tomorrow you could be baited with a chance to gain personal advantage by betraying a friend. The next day you may have to decide between doing the right thing and doing the kind thing. It has been a long time since your integrity has been pushed and probed and pricked like this. As you wend your way through the gray areas, Cancerian, remember that sometimes being moral is not about saying no, but saying yes. In fact, one of the most high-minded acts you could make is to open your heart to a righteous temptation.

The challenge is being kind instead of right.  It happened yesterday twice.  It will probably happen again. So far I’ve opted for kind.  I hope to keep doing so.

I’m having a crisis of faith. Perhaps not faith so much. I believe in the good green earth, the energy, the feeling I get when I connect with it. But I’m finding that I don’t now and perhaps never have believed in magic. Not in the sense of working magic.  Magic happens. I do believe that.  But I am not convinced it happens because I am pushing it to do so.  It isn’t about how many times I chant this chant or dance this dance or light this candle. It just does.  And that means it has nothing to do with what I want or attempt or will.  It is less about finding the perfect job or partner or home or this that or the other.  It is about noticing as Aquila ka Hekate says this morning:

Gazing at a Douglas Fir back-dropped by the blue Highveld Winter sky – home to Pied Crows, Indian Mynahs, assorted rodents and myriad unicellular organisms – I am in full possession of the Reason. The reason we keep coming back to this Earth – whether as Crow or Human, wavelet or virus, blades of grass or rambling ivy – the pull and wonder of this place we call Home is irresistible. I am swept by a feeling of deep and rooted Love, coming from me, coming from the tree, and radiating from the sky. It’s all around again, and my sometime anger and angst at being submerged in a Wetiko culture is washed away.

That is the only magic I’m willing to believe in at the moment.  And that’s good enough, it is indeed.

When I do get a job, no matter how perfect it is for me, I’m going to have a very hard time believing it was magic or the law of attraction.  It just happened, just like anything else.  Because ?  I don’t know that I can forgive this past year and the years that are coming as a result of it. I’ve forgiven other things that I thought I couldn’t forgive so I’m probably just pissed at the moment.   Could it be worse? Yes.  Did magic keep things from being worse?  Perhaps.  But there is a part of me that really fucking hates a belief system that blames me for not having enough happy thoughts or doing the right action as the reason for how things are right now.

The Week In Cancer

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I believe that when you chatter carelessly about a big change that’s in the works, you’re in danger of draining it of some of its potency. So I don’t want to trumpet or gossip about the gift that’s on its way to you. I’ll just mention that it’s coming, and urge you to prepare a clean, well-lit place for it to land. Here’s a hint: It could, among other things, help you convert one of your vulnerabilities into a strength or inspire you to start transforming an area of ignorance into a future source of brilliance.

Well this could be cool. Lots of places to land, they’re pretty shiny clean, and I’ll go check the lights. Cuz I got a lot of empty spaces…

I was sitting lying in bed this morning thining about a potential job that I have a phone interview for this morning.  This is my second phone interview in a week.  And while I’ve not received any invites for in person interviews, I have to say that there has been more activity in the past month either with jobs to apply for or from interest that I’m actually starting to feel hopeful again.

This interview today may or may not come to much.  It depends.  It’s with one of my head hunter agencies and the guy could just be sussing me out since he doesn’t know me.  BUT.  These positions from the head hunters pay a lot more money than the usual work I do.  Twice as much in most cases.  And I found myself wondering how I would feel with a little monetary success.  And part of me was really excited and part of me was scared.

Ah, well. Future tripping is not typically a good use of time.

So, off to my acupuncture appointment later today then a couple hours work organizing someone’s office.

Gorgeous full moon last night.  Rites tonight.

This Week in Cancer

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The ancient Chinese sage Lao Tse said, “People of the highest caliber, upon hearing about Taoism, follow it and practice it immediately. People of average caliber, hearing about Taoism, reflect for a while and then experiment. People of the lowest caliber, hearing about Taoism, let out a big laugh.” Now substitute the words “your splashy new ideas” for “Taoism” in Lao Tse’s quote and you’ll have your horoscope for this week, Cancerian. For added punch, remember what he said in another context: “No idea can be considered valuable until a thousand people have laughed at it.”

Laugh on people, laugh on…