Taurus 18° (May 8)

I will work tonight, grabbing a bit of chili as my stop-gap meal. It’s funny I really don’t eat anymore and yet I’m the same weight I’ve been now for ages. I feel like I need to step up and change some habits to jump start my metabolism, just as I need to jump start my existence. There is something I was talking to Clemons about—that I have to reclaim my nineteen year old self as that was the year I thought I made the best decision in my life to last forty years but it turned out to be the stupidest move of my life and I should have ran for the hills. Other guys would have done so but I was such a sucker for a wounded animal. My love always was wrapped up in some need to rewrite another person’s history, to help them be the best, fullest iteration they can be. Doug and Paul come into work and ask for me by name.

Sagittarius Man

Sagittarius man has the most unbridled energy of anyone in the zodiac, and he must come to handle himself as one would a prized thoroughbred, minding, harnessing, his signature cyclone of fabulous ideas and outsized inspirations. He is at once totally at ease in his skin and yet jumping out of it. His is the sole mutable-fire sign, symbolized by lightening, that proverbial wildfire in the sky; and his sign is ruled by Jupiter, for the omnipotent chief god, like Thor, of thunder and lightning. Lighting is the most immense natural power there is, metaphorically pointing to strikes of genius. The sign’s motto is I See or I Understand, hinged on the notion of a third-eye perspective of existence. The physical seat of the third eye is the pineal gland, so called because it resembles a pinecone. The wildly ecstatic god Dionysus bore a staff topped with a pinecone. He and his father Jupiter together comprise the sign’s main archetype as, unlike his other hundreds of sons, Dionysus is the heir apparent, inheritor of his supremacy. The largest planet, Jupiter’s brand of power is expansive—and so is the Sag man’s m.o., for better or for worse. The male population of the sign is replete with figures who’ve gone to great lengths and/or too far. They are born with an ex prefix, driving them to experience, explore, experiment, express, expose, expand, and explode onto any given seen; but potentially also to excess, expense, exhaustion and early extinction if not mindful. If he is, he will more readily master meditative, mind-expanding practices than most men. He is typically an extrovert and unapologetic in the extreme. Even though Dionysus is a chip off the old block, he is also a rebel nonconformist who shakes, and perhaps breaks, the traditional order. Sag is likewise a mini-me of sorts, particularly at ease in the patriarchy regardless of sexual or gender identity, and yet he is bound to shatter the mold he so easily fits. Sag tends to work in the same line of biz as his pop, but does him one better there, at the very least, still expanding out from an existing formula.

            With his unique, expansive perspective Sag breaks on through to the other side of whatever his field of interest may be. It is little wonder that so many satirists and comedians are born under the sign, but whatever his profession, humor is one of Sag’s superpowers. He always brings the funny, points out the absurd, if not rattles nerves and cages, exposing what others fail to see. He can be stream-of-consciousness incarnate. Mark Twain, a pen name meaning the “point between”—that third eye—a Sag satirist of the first order, also exposed societal ills and, thus, altered global perception. Sag is at once uber-demonstrative and ultra-detached, expressing affection with grand gestures, likely overcompensation for emotional lack. He is all over the place in relationships, whether due to diverse preferences—he’ll try anything trice—or sheer quantity of experiences. He’s of two minds about most things, wanting his cake and to eat it too. 

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