From Chronogram Magazine 4-10.
The first night, in New Paltz, we were at this funky yet inviting coffee shop. I was ready to crash after the road-trip and the long intense hike, but we needed to wait for the battery to get charged. Even though I was offered a laptop, I did not have the energy to ‘connect’ with the world. I just knew I needed some quiet time. While having a decaf-nonfat-extra hot-vanilla latte, I started flipping through a local magazine. I stopped at the Horoscope section which seemed unusually vast, and was touched with what I read. I must confess that I am not a horoscope-follower, much less a believer. I read them occasionally out of fun and curiosity, only if I spare the time.
At that moment, I felt somehow identified. Now in perspective, I am baffled too. If you have been following the blog, you will be baffled too. And as time goes by from that night, my astonishment only increases. Timely revealing or sheer coincidence?
“Aries (March 20-April 19) You’re getting a lot of bold messages to be yourself, but you also seem to have way too many choices for who that self is. Beyond all the seemingly tangible possibilities is a chaotic realm where you simply don’t have the answer. Every time you seem to get a clue, something changes. We’re accustomed to plastering those unknowns over with labels and other assumptions, rather than leaving the question open. While a mystery like this can be uncomfortable to live with, I suggest you stay in a state of uncertainty for as long as you possibly can. Consider it a kind of meditation. Embrace the chaos of who you are, who you are not, and who you might be. This is designed to help you have greater access to your potential rather than pretending it doesn’t exist. At the moment far more is possible than you’re likely to be aware of. As the next two months progress, you’re going to get a taste of what this potential is; yet in order to have this potential be real you need to keep your mind open and make sure you’re ready to change, adapt, and go on a new adventure at all times. Stay loose. Notice the game of pretend that we’re all taught to play the moment we’re confronted with an unknown. Unknowns are your best friend right now, and I suggest you keep them near and dear to your heart.”
[by Eric Francis, Chronogram Magazine – 4/10]
2 comments:
I too read horoscopes just for the fun of pretending to believe in magic although I'm convinced there is no science of planetary influence and no magic. And yet, what bigger magic than life itself?
I do not believe in miracles but then again, I have always loved this quote from C.S.Lewis:
´Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.´
And so I come this conclusion, I believe a lot of things happen which cannot be explained in hard facts and numbers, and yet, they exist even in spite of the fact that we may not understand or even be aware of them.
Maybe somebody made that horoscope up but what about the rest of the 'coincidences'? I have always loved to believe that there are no such things as 'coincidences' and I have also quit trying to reason why. I just do.
I could not agree more, Florencia... And even if someone made up that 'horoscope', then it was a timely -and sustainably timely- creation!
When those 'coincidences' happen, i just take them as messages -maybe as you (or CS Lewis) say, i wonder if i was not reading other messages so that these had to come in such an evident and blunt way- and I smile to myself in gratefulness to the Sender. :)
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