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Free Will Astrology—Week of April 22
I recommend the begging bowl approach to you as you launch the next phase of your journey
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some traditional Buddhist monks sit on city streets in Asia with a “begging bowl” in front of them. It’s a clay or iron container they use to solicit money and food from passers-by who want to support them. Contemporary American poet Mariannne Boruch regards the begging bowl as a metaphor that […]
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The Establishment
The 1950s and ’60s: Referred to the largely Republican, white, wealthy military-industrial complex (a.k.a. “Squares”)
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Free Will Astrology—Week of April 15
Please be sufficiently loose and alert and brave to take advantage
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Today I feel the whole world is a door,” wrote poet Dennis Silk. In a similar spirit, 13th-century Zen master Wumen Huikai observed, “The whole world is a door of liberation, but people are unwilling to enter it.” Now I’m here to tell you, Aries, that there will be times in […]
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Buddy Heat & Last Manchild Standing
You don’t want to get all emotionally attached and then find that sexually, you go together like peanut butter and a repeating saw
Buddy Heat I’m dating an awesome woman I see a future with. However, there’s a hurdle: She doesn’t want to have sex until we’re committed, but I don’t feel right about committing without knowing we have sexual chemistry. A previous relationship ended because the sex was subpar, and I don’t want to go through that […]
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Flush To Judgment
Wondering whom you’re with?
Flush To Judgment At my boyfriend’s recent high school alumni gathering, it came to light that he had bullied a student (holding his head in the toilet, etc.). We’ve been together for almost two years and have discussed marriage. However, I’m truly unsettled that he was capable of committing such awful acts. It makes me […]
