and for a new moon in sagittarius (that almost slipped my mind)

"Attention to the qualities of things resurrects the old idea of notitia as a primary activity of the soul. Notitia refers to that capacity to form true notions of things from attentive noticing. It is the noticing on which knowledge depends..."

(James Hillman, Anima Mundi)

bibliomancy for the end of an era...

'magician' d sinclair '08

"...'the death we speak of in our culture is a fantasy of the ego,' and from that perspective we lose touch with subtlety. 'For us, pollution and decomposition and cancer have become physical only.' He notes that in the great art of other cultures there is a different kind of sensibility with respect to dying, one that has faded from our attention and become part of the modern unconscious and of the psychic underworld..."

(Stanton Marlon, The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness, 77)

...and for a patch of blue in an otherwise cloudy sky

"Let the sun come. I shall have to take nights more slowly. For now its enough to find a tiny pattern, faithfully every day, that begins to spell my name..."

(Jeanette Winterson in Gut Symmetries)

bibliomancy for a full moon in taurus

"So you make Reason and Justice and Wisdom?"
The Serpent laughed. "Reason and Justice and Wisdom are not things one makes. They are qualities that make life better. I do my best to further those qualities in the world."
"Tell me again what they mean. I remember Reason, it's using your mind to figure things out."
"The use of the intellect - the mind - rather than the emotions."
"Justice?"
"Justice is what is fair and right."
"And Wisdom?"
"Wisdom is made up of knowledge, judgement, and insight. Knowledge is what you know, judgement is how you make decision; insight is being able to feel and understand a situation intuitively, going beyond the facts. When the three are combined, you have wisdom."

(Elsie V Aidinoff, The Garden)

maybe its Uranus opposite Saturn...

...but I just don't feel like writing or drawing. I don' t feel like washing dishes or sweeping the kitchen either. All of these things usually make me feel productive and good. I just want to goof off. Go walkabout.

I don't even have the energy for a full-length sentence.

Take yesterday - the kid and I wandered around Ikea looking for things we might need (even though I don't particularly like that flimsy flat-packed-impossible-to-assemble stuff), ate a dissatisfying cafeteria meal, and went home with a $6 pack of candles, vanilla scented . Then, while she napped I read - or I should say 'sucked down' - a Nora Roberts paperback instead of writing the brilliant article that's been banging around inside my head.

Days like these, I just love Nora Robert's novels. They're chocolate for my mind. Don't tell anyone. Seriously, the woman is brilliant and by my reckoning as rich as Zeus, or at the very least JK Rowling. I'm tempted to google her and find out just how many thousands of books she's published, but that might be too much effort right now. I've read maybe two dozen of them, just for research purposes you understand, and they're all the same but still manage to draw the reader in and deliver that delicious thrill all the way through.

You gotta admire a writer who can do that. Even if she never wins the literary prizes she gets the Prada prize. I know which I'd rather have.

Anyway, I'm a little restless and at the same time completely happy to do nothing else but anything that makes me feel good.

I encourage you to do the same.