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Dear Raymond, here is your Weekly Horoscope for Dec 10 to Dec 16, 2001
You may feel out of your element this week, with the emphasis being
placed so heavily on the fire element. Your work and daily routines
continue to be emphasized, and contacts with those from other countries
continue to be very strong. In fact, there is a real likelihood that you
may even get to visit some of these people and get to know them a lot
better. One way or another, travel is indicated, and this will bring you
a new lease on life. As Mars has moved into the sign of Pisces, you may
find that people are more agreeable to your plans and ideas, and seem to
warm to your ways of approaching issues. Right now no one is really in
the mood to act in an overt and up-front way, even though there may be
some very unsubtle things going on around you. When it comes down to it,
you know that charging ahead with everyone else to demand an immediate
share of the pie is not going to get you where you need to be. You will
have to resort to the way that you know best, and that is to undermine
those who think that by being first means they are the winners.
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Seven years ago I was in a production of Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest". But for some reason I'm only just now 'getting' the title phrase.
One of my most influential friends and mentors in high school was youth group counselor named Laura Jordan. (I'm posting her full name, because if for some reason someone DOES know her or she does stumble upon this, I would be thrilled to reconnect.) And more recently I've been thinking a lot about her and how she would interact with folks, and how I could possibly emulate her more. She has a remarkable ability to be honest and earnest and thoughtful, and even though she might not be the "coolest" or "hippest" person since she doesn't ridicule or deconstruct or make hyper-clever casual remarks, she has a unique ability to make someone feel like an asshole without making them feel like an asshole. By that, I mean she was always someone who could stop me in my tracks, make me see the other side of what I was saying, without making me feel unworthy or stupid or even excessively mean. But I would see any "error in my ways". My mother was sometimes really good at this as well.
I mean, Laura was smart and funny and intelligent and definitely had the capability to be clever and witty and wicked. She just didn't use it excessively or as a response to every situation. And that is the talent I would like to learn more. For two reasons. One, to shut myself up sometimes. Two, to respond appropriately to other people. Sometimes people say something that I find too demeaning or negative or critical, or even just plain mean. But I don't necessarily know how to respond without being negative and critical and mean as well. I need to work more on being reflective, not accusatory.
Irony-free, eh? What is expected anyway?
You may feel out of your element this week, with the emphasis being
placed so heavily on the fire element. Your work and daily routines
continue to be emphasized, and contacts with those from other countries
continue to be very strong. In fact, there is a real likelihood that you
may even get to visit some of these people and get to know them a lot
better. One way or another, travel is indicated, and this will bring you
a new lease on life. As Mars has moved into the sign of Pisces, you may
find that people are more agreeable to your plans and ideas, and seem to
warm to your ways of approaching issues. Right now no one is really in
the mood to act in an overt and up-front way, even though there may be
some very unsubtle things going on around you. When it comes down to it,
you know that charging ahead with everyone else to demand an immediate
share of the pie is not going to get you where you need to be. You will
have to resort to the way that you know best, and that is to undermine
those who think that by being first means they are the winners.
__________________________________________________________
Seven years ago I was in a production of Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest". But for some reason I'm only just now 'getting' the title phrase.
One of my most influential friends and mentors in high school was youth group counselor named Laura Jordan. (I'm posting her full name, because if for some reason someone DOES know her or she does stumble upon this, I would be thrilled to reconnect.) And more recently I've been thinking a lot about her and how she would interact with folks, and how I could possibly emulate her more. She has a remarkable ability to be honest and earnest and thoughtful, and even though she might not be the "coolest" or "hippest" person since she doesn't ridicule or deconstruct or make hyper-clever casual remarks, she has a unique ability to make someone feel like an asshole without making them feel like an asshole. By that, I mean she was always someone who could stop me in my tracks, make me see the other side of what I was saying, without making me feel unworthy or stupid or even excessively mean. But I would see any "error in my ways". My mother was sometimes really good at this as well.
I mean, Laura was smart and funny and intelligent and definitely had the capability to be clever and witty and wicked. She just didn't use it excessively or as a response to every situation. And that is the talent I would like to learn more. For two reasons. One, to shut myself up sometimes. Two, to respond appropriately to other people. Sometimes people say something that I find too demeaning or negative or critical, or even just plain mean. But I don't necessarily know how to respond without being negative and critical and mean as well. I need to work more on being reflective, not accusatory.
Irony-free, eh? What is expected anyway?
