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This Modern World—week of August 27
More news than the human mind is capable of processing
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Womb With A View
My stork got run over by a bus en route to my house
Womb With A View My friend constantly talks to me about her baby on the way and asks me to help her pick out furniture and clothes for it. This is very painful for me because my husband doesn’t want kids and I agreed not to have any. I didn’t realize I’d have this deep […]
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First They Came for the Mailboxes…
After USPS boxes are removed, other equipment begins to vanish.
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Free Will Astrology—Week of August 20
Be bold in rising to the challenge; be practical and strategic in winning the challenge.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible,” says Leo politician Carol Moseley Braun. I agree with her, but will also suggest there’s an even higher magic: when you devise a detailed plan for achieving success by challenging the impossible, and then actually carry out that plan. Judging from the current astrological […]
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Catty Litter
It appears we women evolved to help ourselves by “helping” other women
Catty Litter I’m a woman who just turned 30, and so is my best friend, who just got out of a three-year relationship. She’s now on the rebound hard — hitting on her co-workers, going on multiple dates every week, hooking up with different guys all the time, etc. I can’t decide whether to admire […]
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Free Will Astrology—Week of August 13
Magic is the science and art of causing practical changes to occur in accordance with your will
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the dictionary, the first definition of “magic” is “the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand and deceptive devices.” A far more interesting definition, which is my slight adjustment of an idea by occultist Aleister Crowley, doesn’t appear in most dictionaries. Here it is: […]