Urban Carnival
Dreamt of a post-industrial city, all iron and steel, intermittently illuminated with the erractic flash of aging neon, populated with grime-covered clowns looking for love. In the midst of it all, I am talking with someone, trying to work through my feelings of grief and longing.
Man in the Moon
Under the night rug, the star rug, moon as lantern, man in the moon watching over us, dog star at his heels, we lay.
The planets are bodies in the solar system and so are we. You and I in elliptical orbs circling life. It is life we want, but we daren’t come too close for fear it might burn us away, this life in its intensity.
— Jeanette Winterson, “Disappearance I,” The World and Other Places
Free Will Astrology
Sometimes Rob Brezsny simply frightens me. For the week of June 19th, he has this to say:
LIBRA [September 23–October 22] Now that we’re at the halfway mark, Libra, I’m hoping that six months from now, you’ll look back and make the following declaration: “It’s so funny that, in order to find out where I truly belong, I had to change my ideas about where I truly belong; that in order to feel at home on this planet and in this life, I had to be cured of my delusions about feeling at home on this planet and in this life. I had to lose some of my certainties in order to gain more security.”
And for those of you who say the Sun Sign is only part of the picture:
AQUARIUS [January 20–February 18] Now that we’re at the halfway mark, Aquarius, let’s take stock: By now, you should have banished at least half the ghosts that were pestering you. By August, you should have neutralized, dissolved, or rendered irrelevant a load of weird karma, and said goodbye to parts of your past that were bogging you down. By January 1, 2009, I hope you’ll have laid to rest a broken dream, escaped a dead end, and ended your relationship with a lost cause. If you’ve spent the last six months earnestly engaged in this tough, messy work, it won’t be anywhere near as tough and messy during the next six months.
Contradictions
One of the most attractive characteristics of a person is the way in which they live out their contradictions.
— Karim Ainouz
Four Stories
Jorge Luis Borges once said that there are only four stories to be told:
- a love story involving two people
- a love story involving three people
- the struggle for power
- a journey

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