Scorpio (october 24 - november 22)
It's time to start thinking big. You may not have completely lost your sense of ambition but you may have temporarily mislaid it. You have become too embroiled in the negative aspect of a positive situation. Somehow you have started to settle for second best. You have allowed yourself to be bound by restrictions that really deserve to be challenged, not kowtowed to. You must decide, this weekend, whose laws and limits you are willing to accept and why. The adventurer in your soul won't rest till you have rewritten a few unnecessary rules.
Sometimes I can't decide whether I'd like to be kissing or killing this man, afterall these are his words but my life he is supposedly reiterating. I have to remind myself that Jonathan Cainer owns no portal into my world (nor any one else's for that matter) yet he writes with the quiet observations of a close friend and the juxtaposed biting candor of a bitter enemy. Cainer's astral observations are more than just predictions, they wield a magnifying glass, extracting for close examination the finer points of our lives. His daily musings are poignant with the ability to suitably distress or reassure the reader. They cause us to look past our mundane lives and remind us that no matter how carefully constructed our paths are, they will envitably deviate. I'm reminded that I need to be a conscious modern child and respond like an active partcipant in this cryptic, newfangled world. Today Cainer reminded me that the optimism I had as a child/adolescent is in dire need of rediscovery. As I get older there are more and more things I believe I cannot change. Why do I believe such things? Perhaps it's an intrinsic part of me, stemming from my patented desire for control. Cainer would say this is what it means to be Scorpio. I think the desire to control our surroundings is what it means to be a woman in the modern world. Love is a perfect example of how our need to control can be tipped on it's head. In loving relationships we often loose control, this is at it's most intimidating when we realise we cannot control the person we love just because they love us, nor can we control who we choose to love. Love chooses us. Recently I suffered a friend who'd fallen in love. When she realised she might have to wait or be patient in order to receive reciprocal love, she opted out. Love was no longer convenient - infact it threatened her sense of an immediate world. This particular love was too ambitious, it seemed to weight too heavily on 'perfect' timing. Yet today as I read my daily horoscope, Cainer's words sparked a cord of reminescence. My friend had chosen to settle for another's laws and limits. Without even discussing the matter, and overwhelmed by the possible negative outcome of her situation, she walked away. I wonder how many of us do this, every week - perhaps every day. In our throwaway world, we live by the rules we are presented with. When a relationship becomes 'hard work', we walk away. Love is as disposable as a chocolate wrapper. What so few of us understand is that alike our plastic world, rules are incidental. Today all I'm doing is taking someone's advice - it's never too late to unwrite what's been written.
Here are some more words for the journey.
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