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"It's so tempting to look at your present life situation, at whom you're with, at where you work, at what you have and have not, and think to yourself, "This was obviously meant to be... I'm here for a reason." And to a degree, you'd be right. But you are where you are because of the thoughts you used to (and may still) think, and so you are where you are to learn that this is how life works -- NOT because it was meant to be. 

Don't give away your power to vague or mysterious logic. Tomorrow is a blank slate in terms of people, work, and play, because it, too, will be of your making. You will again have that sense that it was meant to be, no matter who or what you've drawn into your life. Nothing is meant to be, except for your freedom to choose and your power to create."

your thoughts become things. create the life you want.

i am still learning, i am still growing. this endless lesson called life.

advice for an aries

does all this sound like sound advice for an arien woman such as mineself?
because i would totally sell my soul on ebay, and have chain-smoked (after exercising)...

- Don't make nasty comments about yourself behind your own back. 

- Do play soccer in bunny slippers at dawn in a supermarket parking lot with a gang of sadomasochistic stockbrokers who've promised to teach you the Balinese monkey chant. 

- Don't decorate your thigh with a sloppy tattoo of the devil pushing a lawn mower. 

- Do wear a t-shirt that says, "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." 

- Don't glide into a bar, scout around for the person whose face has the most pain etched in it, and ask that person to come home with you. 

- Do eat ripe organic strawberries that have been genetically modified and irradiated, and do chain-smoke Marlboros as you peddle your exercise bicycle, and do wander through a garbage dump while listening to Mozart on your iPod. 

- Don't get hooked on the fantasy that there are only two kinds of people, those who align themselves with the forces of light and those who align themselves with the forces of darkness. 

- Do start an organization called POMP (Proud Owners of Multiple Personalities), dedicated to erasing negative stereotypes about healthy non-schizophrenics who enjoy being a community of many different selves. 

- Don't lie on a floor surrounded by wine-stained poetry books, crumpled Matisse prints, abandoned underwear, and half-eaten bowls of corn flakes as you stare up at the ceiling with a mad gaze, muttering gibberish and waving your hands as if swatting away demons. 

- Do run along the tops of cars during a traffic jam, escaping from bad guys as you make your way to a helicopter that takes you to a spot hovering over an erupting volcano, into which you drop the Buns of Steel video. 

- Don't put your soul up for auction on eBay. 

- Do write a cookbook filled with recipes you've channeled from dead celebrities. 

- If you come upon a lamp with a genie in it, don't wish you had a magic wand. 

oracle

horoscopes are fun to read sometimes. this is an astrologer's forecast for aries this week. this shit just sounds out-of-this-world exciting, especially "...a trip to the moon in a gondola powered by firecrackers and wild swans."

-May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years.

-May you wake up to salsa music one summer morning and start dancing while you're still half-­asleep.

-May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses.

-May you mix stripes with plaids, floral patterns with checks, and yellowish-green with brownish-purple.

-May you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds and one extrasolar planet.

-If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

-May you dream of taking a trip to the moon in a gondola powered by firecrackers and wild swans.

-May you actually kiss the earth now and then.

-May you find many good excuses to say, as physicist Niels Bohr once did, "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."