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The latest horoscope for this week, for SAGS:
You feel happier, now that Mars is in Leo. It is stirring up a part of your chart that brings the chance for more excitement and adventure. But the Sun, Saturn, and Mercury remain in Cancer, making sure you don't forget your financial obligations, and that you are keeping your nose to the grindstone. The Sun does make a trine to Uranus on Monday, which could be a little wacky, and could encourage you to go off and do something really silly. Pay careful attention to this time, as you might also receive a wonderful piece of information right out of the blue, which will help you with your financial crisis. If you aren't in crisis, it might also help you to make some sound and very lucrative investments, especially where property is concerned. Venus turns direct on Tuesday, which is equally good news for you and your partnerships. If things have been dragging along very slowly, they should begin to pick up shortly. Dating should also be a lot more fun at this time, especially if you do manage to travel somewhere exotic. A Full Moon in Capricorn highlights your personal finances. A bit of retail therapy might be in the cards.

Piffka and I expect to be dancing at full moon (though a Capricornian one might be a bit conservative)

Hi Clary... Hi All.

Yes, we will be dancing with the full moon -- hurrah. According to my sources that's the Blessing Moon: a time for Magic, like when a friend halfway around the world can share the same dance!

The Blessing Moon refers to the blessings of the sacred marriages of earth and sky, or dark and light, or the King and Queen of summer, but it is also the Oak moon according to the Celtic calendar so you should find a small cluster of oak leaves to take with you.


Clary, what did you decide to put on Simon's headstone? I didn't see that you said here. Just in case you haven't found any yet... here are some favorite quotations regarding Truth... some are awfully long. Gosh, I love that Frank Zappa one. Do you know his music? He's known mainly for Suzy Cream-Cheese but he wrote one of my favorite marches, Peaches en Regalia, which you can hear on Amazon.com's music sampler from Zappa's Hot Rats album.

Anyway, here are some versions of the Truth.

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered." - Sir Isaac Newton, 1727

"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best." - Frank Zappa

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd." - Flannery O'Connor

"Trust one who seeks the truth, but never one who has found it." - Taoist aphorism

"The truth seems contradictory." #78 Dao De Jing, C.Muller translation

Piffka!
You're back!
Hooray!

Oh, I LOVE this:

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” – Flannery O’Connor

That's the closest thing to my approach to life I've come across!

Lovely to see you, Piffka!

Yes, yes, Yes, Yes, Clare!

Be wacky, do something silly!

YAY! We haven't decided about the headstone yet. It is an ancient stone that was put up for his great-great-great grandmother, where his ashes are, and there isn't a whole lot of space. He wanted his relationship to her put there too. So I think
'The truth shall make you free' would probably be the most appropriate, since he believed that in his working life (dealing with the Chinese govt, for example) and it also has a Christian origin which the church people will approve... after we don't have to tell them that we have a different idea of what truth is, do we? I like the others too, and agree about the seekers of truth - the Taoist one - when someone proclaims they have 'found the Truth' it's time to reach for the stun gun.

Oak leaves, right. I must get the exact time here... presumably late afternoon - which doesn't seem so magical somehow!!

It's nice to see you again, Piffka! Where have you been; busy?

I like them all. It's sad that the truth does not make one free at all. Having the truth is, perhaps, one of the biggest reasons that people have been killed since the dawn of man...

My horoscope.. completely inaccurate so far...

Today is an excellent day for you, Drom, in which you will discover many opportunities in your daily routine. You would do well, when working with others, to tune in to your intellectual nature, and add your solid reasoning powers to the energy of the group. This is exactly what is needed to give order to the fluctuating and indecisive minds you are working with.

True. But we can dream! And maybe in one's mind, one is free - I think Arthur Koestler and Solzenitsyn have said so.

Ah, I liked Solzenitsyn a little, despite the drabness of what he was writing about in 'One day....'

If what they were saying was true, then it's a case of 'your dreams will set you free.'

Pisces Horoscope for week of June 24, 2004

In his poem "The History of My Life," John Ashbery poignantly refers to the death of his brother as a child. He quickly follows it with self-mocking humor about how fast that sad event forced him to grow up. "Ashbery is always vacillating between the unbearable heaviness and unbearable lightness of being," Fred Moranarco writes in The American Poetry Review, "as if moving between the two make both extremes bearable." I expect this will also be your forte in the coming week, Olga: the ability to flow gracefully between profundity and frivolity, between penetrating explorations of complex mysteries and sweet celebrations of breezy delight. (P.S.: Unlike Ashbery's experience, your dive into the depths won't involve death.)


Hmmmmm .... Nothing's ever simple & straight-forward is it? Always the heavy stuff for Pisces!
Just for once I'd like:
"Msolga, this week you are going to become very, very rich. You will have enough cash to pay all your bills, travel extensively & pass on many $$$ to your good friends. You need never work again unless, of course, you choose to.
Your cat will stop following you around the house demanding food, pats & attention day & night.
You will have a surprise reunion with the object of your affection from primary school days & a beautiful relationship will bloom. But only if you want it to, of course!"

<sigh>

Horror-scopes is a bait and switch game invented by bored Ukranian witches of a rainy day, long, long ago . . .

Sure you didn't actually mean to post that to the Insult thread, Setanta?

Hello! Hello! Hello!Lovely to see you all, too.

MsOlga -- I loved your horoscope. That beloved one from primary school days? <heehee> I happened upon a website yesterday that reminded me of you and your love of cats. You might like it...

Tao of Meow

Drom! What? Not traveling???

I took some time off for a trip to the midwest and the east coast. When I returned at the end of last month, I became very busy on a project I started. I spend most of my time on the IMDb website and others, researching films. A friend and I are running film programs at our local library. Ahhh, you know how films can affect people? Well, we are trying to do the right thing by choosing important films that will make people think. Of course, we want them to be wonderful to watch, as well. It's been a struggle to get financing and get everyone involved "on board." We have five parts to the programming, children's films, Anime for young adults (as they're called), foreign films and showcase films, plus a film study group. (Apparently they are the newest thing -- like a book club.)

Clary! Yep... oak leaves. Gotta have 'em! This website...

Royal Observatory of Edinburgh

...should help you find the exact timing for your full moon. I'd say, when it rises on Friday it will be full, but you could enjoy it just as well on Thursday evening.

Here's another website that shows a calendar of moon phases:

Moon Calendar


Setanta -- Ukrainian witches? How interesting. Never heard that. Let's see, you used to be a Scorpio, but now you're a Gemini, right?

Clever Setanta, moving signs!

American History X would be a film to make people think; I'm not sure how it's regarded your side of the Atlantic but my boys thought it brilliant (so did I, but it is violent) and very provocative. Old now, of course.

Oooh, thanks Clary. I don't know the film but checked it out on IMDb. It looks like a powerful film but we're not likely to show anything that is too graphic, either with violence or sex.

I was really glad to see that you'd already read between the lines and seen that I was interested in film ideas you might have! I was taking my walk this morning and realized I should have asked (even knowing that it would be off-topic!) so I am pleased that you've already started. Please keep 'em coming!

Besides the usual decisions of what to watch, because this is a public performance we need "public performance rights." Many otherwise great films end up being outside our planned licensing agreement, American History X is one of those. We also only have DVD capability right now, so first we think of a film, then we check to see if it is on DVD and then if it is "covered" by our agreement.

So far, this is what we've got lined up for our summer series on war: La Vie de Château, Gallipoli, King of Hearts and The Best Years of Our Lives.

And for this summer's foreign films: Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity, Marooned in Iraq, Rage of Placid Lake. The first and last are part of a purchased series called "Film Movement" where we receive first-run releases at the same time as the teeny tiny art houses that may also show them.

We're still looking for comedies for our fall series, recommendations on foreign films and special films for Halloween and the holiday season.

Night of the Hunter or The Hauntings are possibilities for Halloween. The holiday film is really hard -- I'm torn between Life of Brian (which we don't have rights to and is too sacriligious for this community) and Elf (which my co-chair thinks will be too stupid). We are sort of thinking that A Christmas Story would be OK, but we see that on TV every year.

Are there any traditional British Christmas Holiday films that might not be so well-known in the states?

The comedies we've been looking at are Night at the Opera (because Marx Bro. films always are well-received "they" say), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Some Like It Hot (1959), Roxanne. Two of the Film Movement foreign films we plan to show are Inch Allah Dimanche and Raja.

I hope your travels are wonderful and productive, Drom. So glad that I happened back here before you left so that I could wish you Bon Voyage. Armenia? Goodness. Are you going as a translator?

Thank you for your suggestions -- I will copy them to share with my co-chair. She is wonderful and has a wealth of film knowledge whereas my strong point tends towards administration. We start our first film on July 24th. The study group won't begin until mid-September.

It's a Wonderful Life is a well-loved tradition here, as you probably know. I am surprised that it is also a tradition in the UK. I don't know these Carry-On movies, perhaps just as well, though I am a confirmed Britophile and would probably like them. Maybe there is a French film that is frequently shown during the holidays... or one from Italy?

As for my travels -- it was good to see family and friends, (really very, very good to see them) but I was surprised at how much nicer my own home seemed in comparison. Our public areas are cleaner, we have better weather and much more beautiful landscapes. I came back with a renewed love of my own bit of paradise.

Thanks and I will keep your offer in mind re. talks by a bonafide screenwriter. And good luck with your dramatisations. I do have a line on a psychologist who talks about film houses as the new church (dark & mysterious where we group together, facing the altar and learn about life), but so far, we've been busy with the logistics and legalities of getting the film on the screen.

That's a beautiful (& new to me) avatar -- I'd like to hear about it when you have time.

Piffka, Ukranian witches was a gentle poke at Our Dear Ozzian Puss, Ms. Olga, who is of Ukranian descent. Rather like the random stops i make in her kitty thread to do a little growling . . .

Olga - your preferred horoscope....


Piffka - wonderful to see you back. I'm surprised you've snuck an Australian film into your programme (Gallipoli - in case you weren't aware!)

We make some great and quirky films here - I'm not sure just how some of them would be received over there. I was thinking of "The Castle", about a person's right to his own home. Very funny in Oz, but may not travel. Or "The Dish", from the same group, Working Dog.. A great line.... "you're bullshitting NASA!"

What am I doing here? This is Olga's area!

Ignore that Setanta dog...he's just a meanie!

Yeah, he is!