Friday, August 25, 2017

Another Accurate Horoscope Reading

Today, I went back to Astrology.com to read another days Horoscope, and again I felt like it was very fitting to me. It's a little bit longer than usual, but this is what it said...
The array of stars in your heaven will occur in your very own sign-- which means you're going to be so darned emotional , you probably won't recognize yourself. You're also going to be feeling extremely rebellious, so anyone who tries to challenge you or test you -- well, they'll soon learn it wasn't the best idea they ever had. You'll let 'em have it with both barrels -- as well you should. No more Mr. Nice Guy (or Gal)!!

Yeah, I really like that one because it was very well said and written. I agree, I have been feeling emotional yet rebellious lately. I still haven't gotten to tell anyone like it is, though. I feel like people who would even want to try to "challenge me" are too scared to anyways, and they won't. So, I doubt that's going to happen.
So, on Astrology.com, you can read different horoscopes like "Daily, Monthly, and Daily Couples" but this time around, I clicked on "Daily Quickies" (sexual joke intended,) but basically the quickies are a short version of your horoscope. They're usually only a sentence or two long, and mine for today says: Your creativity will be sparkling today -- express yourself.  And I really loved this one. This is funny, because I was actually being creative today by helping mamma paint some rocks for the Kindness Rocks Project. You paint something on a rock and you hide it somewhere for someone to find, then they are supposed to hide it for someone else to find, and so on. I painted like 5 of them, so I think that counts. Painting the rocks was really fun.
I painted the black and white, lace looking one, the Alabama A, and the swirly one. The quotes are the ones my mamma did. 

My Horoscopes are like always accurate. It's crazy! I may be nuts for believing in Astrology, but that's perfectly fine with me. Another one I just read says this: Your operatic chorus sounds great to you-- and might be affecting to certain others as well. See if you can get folks going with you or at least make sure they sit quietly and pay careful attention to your art. I guess I just liked the sound of that one.
And then I read tomorrow's Horoscope, and I liked it even more! "You should pay attention to your dreams, Pisces, but tonight your subconscious might send you some garbled information that means next to nothing. If the message is obvious, pay attention to it, but if you have to preform too many mental gymnastics to discern what the symbols mean, they might mean nothing. Sometimes a dream is just a dream. 
This was particularly interesting, because I have dreams every night and they are always so clear and my dreams always seem so real. It can sometimes be hard to tell if I'm dreaming or awake, because when I'm asleep and still kind of living life because I'm still doing things, going places, and moving around in my dreams, I sometimes don't know what's real or what's a dream. The yearly Horoscope I read directly mentions this (again, same as another last month.) I was kind of shocked when I read it, honestly. It said... 
2017 is a year of pure magic! Take the time to distinguish between what's real and what's illusion and you'll safely navigate any and all situations. 
With the Mars-Neptune conjunction in Pisces that opens 2017, you can use charm rather than be charmed, hold true to the loftiest of ideas, and dispel any deceit or deception.
The January Sun-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn brings intensity to all your efforts for success. It intensifies your feelings and passions, too.
A February solar eclipse in Pisces opens another door. Your modern planet Neptune is conjoined with the eclipsed Sun. If the outside world is in disarray, you'll see through the fog and be a beacon for others to realize what is best.
Your traditional planet Jupiter spends most of the year in Libra and is incredibly powerful. It starts in opposition to Uranus in Aries. This puts a lid on too many or too wild desires. 
When the Sun enters Pisces in February, Jupiter will still be opposed to Uranus, but now Mars and Aries are involved. Rash actions or impulses will be recognized in time. Pour extra creative energy into more constructive channels. 
When the Sun enters Pisces, it will be together with the Lunar South Mode. Memories, feelings, and emotional ties are strong this year. Catch yourself if you fall back into any old habits and benefit from what the past has taught you. 
So this could be applied to both my dreams and real life. I looked up the Pisces Strengths and Weaknesses and such, this is what it said. All of this is just spot on to me. This is just crazy how spot on these are. Without a doubt, I believe in the Zodiac. I just don't believe that my desire to escape reality and dream should be considered a weakness, though. Sure, it's true, I love to dream and love the places I can go and the things I can do in my dreams that I can't do in reality, but I definitely don't feel like that weakens me. Sometimes, my dreams are just better than my reality. 

I also picked a tarot card and I picked the Temperance. This is what it told me.. Patience is your secret weapon to face down all obstacles today. Take your good old time to make sure you understand what needs to be done, for whom, why, and how. The methodical approach may not be your natural or favorite one, and it might annoy someone who has a different opinion on how urgent the issue is. Nonetheless, patience will get your through the day with fewer, if any, mishaps. 
As I've said before, if I continue to blog about Astrology, I will be here all night and I don't feel like that, so I think this is all for now. 

Thursday, August 10, 2017

Understanding Walt Whitman

Lately, I've been doing lots of reading and trying to understand poetry better so while I was at Books a Million with my mom, she told me she would let me pick out a book and she would buy it so I was really happy about that. I decided to get Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and I don't think I could've made a better decision. So for the passed month or so I have been doing lots of reading. The poems in Leaves of Grass are really interesting and well written. My favorites so far are Song of Myself, Song of the Open Road, and Perfections. Song of Myself really speaks to me because it's about doing things for yourself, and understanding other people's point of views. One of my favorite lines goes like this:
"I exist as I am, that is enough.
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content."

Meaning I don't care if anyone acknowledges me and I don't care if my existence means anything to anyone else, because I'm not seeking approval from anyone. I have filled up tons of pages in my inspiration journal with quotes and poetry by Walt Whitman. Song of the Open Road is another one of my favorites, but like Song of Myself, it is a very long poem with way too many lines to recite right now. So I will just recite one line that meant something to me.

The north and the south are mine, the east and the west are mine. 
And to me, this means that when I'm driving, I can go anywhere I choose. Every direction of the open road is mine. I don't know if that line is 100% correctly quoted, because I don't have my copy of Leaves of Grass with me right now, so I'm trying to only go by my memory. I have highlighted all of my favorite lines in the book that I've read so far and I wish I could write them all down on my blog but I don't feel like going to get it out of my car right now.

Unlike Song of Myself and Song of the Open Road, Walt Whitman's poem Perfections is very short. In fact, it's only 2 lines long, so I can recite it really easily. It goes like this...
"Only themselves understand themselves and the likes of themselves,
As souls only understand souls."
And I just really liked this one because it seems fitting to say that souls only understand souls. People really don't understand each other the way we should. We only understand our own perspectives and our own reasons for doing things.