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From Freewill Astrology:

Virgo Horoscope for week of March 1, 2007

In May 2005, while floating in a heated, heart-shaped swimming pool in Milan, Italy, Andrea Pedrani and Federica Di Venosa kissed underwater for 87 seconds. That's got to be a world record, right? If their mark is ever broken, I bet it will involve at least one Virgo and will happen in the next few weeks. By my reckoning, your tribe is in a phase when you're capable of peak performances in both the erotic arts and oceanic emotions; you're primed for transcendent acts of sensual pleasure and rich amusements in warm, watery depths.

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Now, I know I've got a lot of skeptical friends out there and I'm cool with that. All I'm saying is that now is the perfect time to try and debunk it. :)

later
Tom

Virgo:

"If you are going through hell, keep going," said Winston Churchill. Let that advice be your inspiration in the coming week, Virgo. But wait: Before you jump to conclusions about what I'm saying, know this: Your tests and trials will be far, far less hellish than the ordeals Churchill faced as he led England through World War II. It's true that you may feel a bit tortured in the heat of the moment, though. So don't you dare slow down to feel sorry for yourself or scream at the chaos-makers. Keep plodding forward, secure in my assurance that you'll cross the border and exit out of the infernal regions well before you're exhausted.

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[insane cackling]
Tom

Ugh.

Nothing but meetings today. I couldn't even get any goofing off done, let alone actual work.

But Brezny says things are looking up:

The ancient Greeks had words for love that transcend our usual notions, writes Lindsay Swope in her review of Richard Idemon's book Through the Looking Glass. Epithemia is the basic need to touch and be touched. Our closest approximation is "horniness," though epithemia is not so much a sexual feeling as a sensual one. Philia is friendship. It includes the need to admire and respect your friends as a reflection of yourself--like in high school, where you want to hang out with the cool kids because that means you're cool too. Eros isn't sexual in the way we usually think, but is more about the emotional gratification that comes from merging souls. Agape is a mature, utterly free expression of love that has no possessiveness. It means wanting the best for another person even if it doesn't advance one's self-interest. The phase you're currently in, Virgo, is providing you with opportunities to explore the frontiers of at least three of these kinds of love.

Three of four, huh? Hmmm...tough call. They're all really good. However, one of the foundations of magical theory is that you make active choices and then put those choices out there to the universe so that it knows what you want.

So I'm choosing: Epithemia, Eros, and Agape.

I hear the derisive snorting from the peanut gallery already. However, I figure that if I'm having sensual, soul-merging, non-possessive love with someone(s), they're probably alrady my friends. (OK, they might be hires, but I think that's a different greek word altogether).

So now the universe (and you know). Bring on the Greek lovin'!

later
Tom

From Free Will Astrology last week:

Virgo Horoscope for week of July 7, 2005

For a time, my new book Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings was #12 on the bestseller list at Powells.com. Right behind it at #13 was James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. That snapshot of book buyers' schizophrenic inclinations has a resemblance to your outlook, Virgo. Half of you is overflowing with a talent for cultivating intelligent hope, while the other half is always preparing for the worst. Being as objective as an optimist like me can be, I firmly believe you should adjust the ratio. According to the astrological omens, the right approach is to be 90 percent devoted to expecting the best and 10 percent invested in guarding yourself against trouble.

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I find this amusing because guess which book I have on my shelf for reading right after I finish what I'm chewing through now?

Yup.
Tom