Tag: dailyprompt
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Revenge of the Swedish Chef
“What did the flour say to the starter?”* Unknown Sourdough bread making is all the range of late, but I’ve been at it for a while. To be fair my bread making slowed to a crawl for too long, but then I had dinner with a friend. She served the most amazing bread for dinner.…
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Healing and Archery
“I see only the eye of the fish.” Arjuna I can still recall the bow and arrow that I got for my birthday when I turned 7 (Saturn’s opening square). The strangest thing came over me. I knew I’d had a bow and arrow before, but didn’t pay any mind to that thought because all…
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Mission Viejo
Nuevo Camino How to Start a Revolution “Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is really an Old Mission. You are to start a revolution in the way people learn and discuss astrology.” A powerful Saturn Station occurred on November 15 at 12♓︎42’ which marked the end of the apparent backward motion or retrograde…
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FOREVER YOUNG
“Do you really want to live forever?” ~ Marion Gold The first thought that comes to mind whenever I hear the issue of longevity come up is that Claudius Ptolemy the extraordinary polymath from Ancient Greece, discussed techniques for predicting the end-of-life in his book Tetrabiblos. Ancient astrologers identified a point called the proragator along…
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Be What You Become
“True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.” ~ Sri Aurobindo If you find yourself driving anywhere in Dutchess County, New York in the beautiful Hudson Valley, you might get stuck behind a transit bus. Just before blaring on the horn in frustration and anger you…
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Break on Through to the Other Side…
“Error is the price we pay for progress…” ~ Alfred North Whitehead The big hullabaloo in astrological circles these days centers around multiple outer planets changing signs. When a planet moves into the next sign we say it is making its “ingress.” There is an impressive array of ingresses beginning with Pluto, which recently moved…
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Simultaneity of Time
“Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment.” ~ Ticht Nhat Hanh When I first reached for a representative quote to encapsulate the difference between the past and future, I thought of the book called The Power of Now. I mistakenly…
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Nobody’s Fool!
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” — George Bernard Shaw Sitting in a class room many years ago, I was an unlikely academic. My persona then wore a tough guy scowl, hidden behind long waves of blond hair that hung down in front of my face.…
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Be the Light!
“Identity is a radiant work in progress, a journey of self-discovery.” Hudson Valley Astrologer Immediately what comes to mind when I consider what the greatest gift someone might give me is to think, “well, life itself, of course.” I guess this makes me pro-life which I’ve never thought about in just this way. But if…
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Credentials are Overrated!
What colleges have you attended? O.K. this is a funny prompt. Why? Because I’ve “attended” more colleges than I can count. I once “attended” Wellesley College and was a “guest” living in The Quint for about two weeks. This would have been 15 years after Hilary Clinton attended Wellesley, so I didn’t see her. But…
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