Rob tells me:
My old philosophy professor Norman O. Brown would periodically interrupt his lectures, tilt his head upward as if tuning into the whisper of some heavenly voice, and announce in a mischievous tone,”It’s time for your irregular reminder: We’re already living after the end of the world. No need to fret anymore.” The implication was that the worst had already happened. We had already lost most of the cultural riches that had given humans meaning for centuries. All that was going to be taken from us had already been taken. On the bright side, that meant we were utterly free to reinvent ourselves. Living amidst the emptiness, we had nowhere to go but up. What remained was alienating, but it was also fresh. Use these ideas as seeds for your meditations, Virgo. You can apply them to both your personal life and the world at large.
It really is time for me to reinvent myself.
H’m, I was just thinking the same thing these days.
SPecifrically, it’s time to reinvent myself the way I had meant to be years ago but that slipped away from me. Just… with an added layer.
“Ogres are like onions… they have layers.”
Rob says if you like a different horoscope go ahead and steal it. Or are you a virgo too?
Nah, I’m a gemini. Like my brother:P
And I’ve never paid a lot of attention to horoscopes.
I’m a Gemini as well. This week he tells us to stop being satisfied with old goals, and expand them 🙂
In her song “Deeper Well,” Emmylou Harris says she’s “looking for the water from a deeper well.” Make that your assignment, Gemini. And if you’re feeling brave, extend your search to an even more challenging quest: what Harris refers to as searching for a “holier grail.” According to my reading of the omens, your biggest, brightest dream isn’t as big and bright as it could be. Raise your standards.
I’m not huge on horoscopes, but Rob gives good advice. For bad-but-entertaining advice, I prefer The Onion’s horoscopes. I’d quote it, but I don’t think I’ll subject to it 😛
I’ve been going through something similar lately. Not so much re-inventing exactly as I’ve been trying to act like the person I want to become, and I’ve noticed lately that it’s starting to really stick. I just may become Me when I grow up after all.
So…not knowing you all that well…what do you want to leave behind, and what to you want to identify with?
Well, given that you are not on all my super angsty OHMYGAWDMYLIFESUCKS filters (I try to spare people who have not done hideous sins in a past life so therefore don’t deserve punishment) you aren’t aware that there has been a serious melt down with my bio family in the past week. I really need to leave behind a lot of the abuse and angst and drama and bitterness. It’s past time.
I need to start seeing myself more as the people who love me see me. That I *am* basically a decent person. That I am not malicious or mean or cruel. I want to see myself as good and hardworking and kind.
It’s all complicated and shit.