I used to read "Free Will Astrology" with Rob Brezny all the time back when it was called "Real Astrology." It only came out once a week, unlike Jonathan Cainer's daily/weekly/monthly site. (I still type bubble.com to get there instead of the newer URL cainer.com.) I never really understood Brezny's somewhat esoteric writing and predictions, and I don't know if I do now. But someone mentioned it today and I looked mine up -- I've been pondering it ever since.

Scorpio Horoscope for week of May 24, 2012
In some Australian aborigine cultures, a newborn infant gets two names from the tribal elders. The first is the name everybody knows. The second is sacred, and is kept secret. Even the child isn't told. Only when he or she comes of age and is initiated into adulthood is it revealed. I wish we had a tradition similar to this. It might be quite meaningful for you, because you're currently navigating your way through a rite of passage that would make you eligible to receive your sacred, secret name. I suggest we begin a new custom: When you've completed your transformation, pick a new name for yourself, and use it only when you're conversing with your ancestors, your teachers, or yourself.

but it's SO CLOSE!

go vote for Leslie Knope!

I'm in the coffeeshop, working. Trying to find the right background music and i stopped iTunes for a moment and can hear what's playing in the room.

"In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel.

aka the "Doorway to a Thousand Churches" song.

Either you are reminding me that I'm a slacker or taunting me into finally finishing something, as i never finished that fic.

I See What You Did There, Universe.

I wouldn’t even consider myself on the outskirts of the Sherlock fandom — I love, love the series and the characters and the actors but I just haven’t really sought out discussions (aside from a very interesting, and packed, panel at Dragon*Con). i’m not well-versed in the ACD canon at all, and I’m just not smart enough to do more than react to the brilliantly thought-out posts I’ve read so I haven’t offered up my own ponderings.

Yet, i’ve been SO ENTHRALLED with all the posts and discussions and such that have come out over the past season/series — ESPECIALLY for The Reichenbach Fall. I do love everyone in this bar, and just want to hug everyone involved. Oh show, you have a most delightful fandom.

i so rarely do these, but this cracked me up and i needed to share.

Pick up the nearest book to you.
Turn to page 45.
The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

"In addition, the show often plays with eroticised triangulations and other polymorphously perverse erotic combinations."

Scorpio,Saturday, 7 January 2012

Your Week Ahead: We can't rewrite history. That's what they say. The statement, though, is only partially true. You may not be able to rewrite it, but you can remember things that have previously been forgotten. If your revise any story with a sufficient number of additional facts, you will soon start to draw a different conclusion about its meaning. Often, no matter how long ago an event took place, you can effectively alter the consequences that it had, simply by understanding it better. If you want to embrace all that's good about 2012, you must start by forgiving the past.

Jonathan Cainer http://www.cainer.com/

i think my biggest wish for 2012 is to stop being so insignificant. both to myself and other people.

i posted this in facebook, reposting it here for posterity:

I'd like to partake in the Airing of Grievances properly tonight but really, I'd just rather celebrate the truly *amazing* people in my life, especially those who have had a hard year and have come through it with such strength and beauty.

because, friends, this has been one fucking rough year. i don't know if i haven't gone through a single week -- definitely not two in a row -- where i haven't heard something shitty happening to a friend. and that's just my small world of people, not including the horrible things that have happened outside of it.

i'm so tired and i really have had a pretty good run of it (the depression withstanding), so i can't even begin to imagine what it's like for everyone who is dealing with far more intense and difficult trials. and yet, people soldier on and whether they know it, are such inspirations to others having trouble on their own paths.

there seems to be problems with a correct attribution to this quote, but it doesn't make it any less true:

Jesus Fucking Christ 2011, quit fucking with people I love.

You have one week left, shut it down and go to sleep.

2012, you are on notice.

A super short piece i wrote over on tumblr one day for saucydiva's prompt Leslie/Ann, swings.

( Parks and Rec mini-fic )