A delightful horoscope …
For the last ten years, or since I have moved to Austin, I have read the Free Will Astrology column in the Austin Chronicle every week. The astrologer who writes it is Bob Brezsny and he is based somewhere around San Francisco, CA. His horoscopes are the most eccentric and vivid I have seen and always make me think. I got this one about a month ago and thought it was worth saving …
Virgo (August 23-September 22)
Writing in The New York Times, Joyce Wadler captured the essence of a genre that has lost its once-heady repute. “Poetry, if we may take a moment to explain to the young people,” she said, “is an art form somewhat like rap, only it does not sell, and since the death of Lord Byron [in 1824] there has been a paucity of bling-bling.” At the risk of nudging you toward a cultural dead end, then, Virgo, I’ll ask you to expose yourself to concentrated doses of poetry this week. In my astrological opinion, you need to have your brain scrambled and heart flushed in a lyrically healing way, which good poetry can do. Here are some excellent sources: (1)James Broughton, (2) Mary Oliver, (3) Pablo Neruda, (4) Rainer Maria Rilke, (5) Daniel Ladinsky, (6) Lots of poets.