Venus and the Art of Gifts

© 2012 by Joyce Mason

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When the Sun is in Libra, our thoughts turn to love and relationships. I’m glad I get a little dose of Libran friendship—and sunshine—any time of year. Here’s what I mean:

The other morning, I reached up and grabbed one of my favorite coffee mugs. It has a big, bright sunflower on it and it holds enough wake-up juice for a real caffiend. (Guilty.) I’m a slow starter in the morning without a stimulant jumpstart. The mug was a gift from my dear friend, Dana.

Over 31 years of friendship, Dana has given me many gifts from small to large, some of them breathtaking in the generosity they reflect. However, it’s this inexpensive but cheery mug that probably brings me the most joy of all of them. It reminds me not only of the Sun outside, which I work too hard to see often enough, but also my astrological Sun in the 5^th house of creativity. I live and breathe to be creative. How well she knows me. Every morning it isn’t in the dishwasher, that mug wakes us both up—my creativity and me. (“We be mates,” to quote Crocodile Dundee.) My sunflower mug warms my heart with rays of friendship. What a fabulous way to start the day.

What’s so great about this mug is how well my friend gets my essence and reflects it back to me in her choice of gifts. She knows what cheers me up and on. Just using her coffee mug reminds me of her support ongoing.

We’re rounding the corner of the time of year when we start to think about what to get our loved ones for Christmas, Chanukah, Winter Solstice—or whatever winter holidays you celebrate. I started out talking about what people give me, but I’m told my own talent for giving gifts is A+. How can astrology help turn you into a gift-giving genius? Giving gifts engages our Venus. This being Venus’s time of year, what a perfect time to wake up your love planet before you have to take her to the mall—or out on a Google gift search.

Venusian Qualities – Their Gift for Gifts

Venus as a planet is about our one-on-one connections with others, so the art of gift giving has to do with observing those we care for and making mental and physical notes of their needs. If it doesn’t come second nature to you—and it doesn’t for everyone—here’s a trip around the Venus signs with tips on how to polish yours to gift-giving perfection. Apply the suggestions, with minor modifications, to relationships of all kinds.

Don’t know or forgot your Venus sign? Go to this link on astro.com to generate your free natal astrology chart.

Venus in Aries. You’re passionate and showy in love and probably the spontaneous gesture is easier for you than the planned Christmas or Chanukah present. Ideas: Start with the loved one whose affection matters most to you. For a week or more, focus on the things he or she casually mentions or admires. “Wow, look at that great gray sweater she’s wearing. I’d love to have one like that.” Look at what she looks at while window shopping. Notice his comments on certain TV commercials. “The new iPhone looks fantastic.” Take notes, and set a reminder in your computer now to review and buy from your ongoing list you’ve been making. (Works for birthdays, too.) Use the Aries quality of getting there first to shop as early as possible and snag bargains. By Halloween, you need to be on it! The skills you develop in this practice are likely to make you lucky in love! With Venus in a Mars-ruled sign, I know you won’t mind if the results are a frisky recipient.

Venus in Taurus. You probably enjoy receiving gifts as much as giving them. Still, sitting in the lap of luxury is no fun alone! As long as your beloved is even a dash as sensuous as you are, aim your gift cards toward tactile pleasures you can enjoy together like couple’s massage or a special dinner at a gourmet restaurant. (There’s always Stone Cold Creamery or Baskin and Robbins cards for stocking stuffers. Or See’s candy.) Along with Venus in Libra, Venus is in one of its own signs in Taurus. Thinking of others is easy for you, especially if there’s mutual enjoyment involved. Notice what rings your bells together, and make note. Does she gasp when you’re together at an art gallery? Does he love movies so much; “first run” in his case refers more to how fast he sprints to get to the latest release? Buy that painting or theatre gift card.) The best part? You’ll be giving yourself a gift, too.

Venus in Gemini.  You like your gismos and gadgets. So many things catch your eye—so many interests. The issue is to capture them in the notes section of your smartphone or on your digital recorder. Set a reminder to start observing your beloved’s “wants mentions” starting this month. Make it recur once a week so you don’t get side-tracked. Make a “drop dead date” to go shopping, whether in a store or on your keyboard. The drill is the same for every sign—observe, record, and shop from the list. Some signs have a little more trouble with focus and follow-through. That (ahem) might be you. Since there’s a little trickster in every Gem, try involving them in one of those circulating notes on Facebook. Make it up, for example, 10 Things I’d Most Love to Have and What They Say about Me. These exercises to get to know our FB friends better are routine. They’ll never suspect your fishing for gift ideas till they unwrap something on their list.

Venus in Cancer.  Since you love the home version of just about anything, fix a special dinner for your honey and just happen to mention your concern about what to get for several people this holiday season. Get his or her ideas. People often think in terms of what they’d like themselves, so take mental notes to write on a recipe card when your unsuspecting loved one leaves the room. (Everyone has to go to the bathroom sometime.) Mention the wonderful gift catalogs you’ve gotten lately. Ask your beloved to take a look at some of them after dinner. It’ll be fun to each look at different ones and share your favorite finds over coffee and a platter of still warm chocolate chip cookies. Now, as your guy or gal hits those pictured pages, make note of any comments, especially enthusiastic responses like I just love this! He or she won’t know what hit, and being the innate nurturer you are, you’ll have discovered several fabulous ideas that will come as a big surprise when fulfilled a couple months later. The love of your life will have long forgotten the night of catalog and cookies—well, maybe not the cookies.

Venus in Leo. The king or queen of showy gestures, your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to find something that will make your loved one gasp at your generosity or creative genius—preferably both. You sometimes have trouble putting down your mirror long enough to look at someone else, but I’m telling you—same as Aries—this will pay off!  One caution: You need to gauge your tendency toward big gestures to the individuals in question. If they’re on the shy side and you’re the one who plays the social one between you, don’t send a singing Santa to their office. What will mean the most is that you focused on their needs by taking the time to observe their wants and what delights them. Since you are a kid at heart, you’ll have more fun if you can bring their inner child out to play with you. (Everyone has one. Everyone needs to express it, usually more than they do.) Show them how lucky they are to have a pro Big Kid in their lives. You can buy gift cards for Disneyland at the grocery store, and since you know how to play, think up a perfect weekend road trip that’s chock full of amusement parks, carnivals, food festivals, etc. And since you love the Sun, a shared gift trip somewhere sunny will recharge you and leave you less concerned about the charge on your credit card.

Venus in Virgo.  I don’t have to tell you about keeping lists. I do have to remind you that you have to give up from the get-go the idea that there is one perfect present. You’ll have plenty of holidays for gifting those you love. Aim for the possible—something they’d really enjoy—not the illusive ideal. Take a tip from a Virgo Sun about organization. I make a file with the list of all my gift recipients. It has columns with their name, gift ideas, places I’d buy them and a place to check off—done! I put a shortcut on my desktop in fall, and I add ideas to it as the weeks inch toward December. In a good year, I’ve got all my shopping done by Thanksgiving so I can relax and enjoy the festivities, rather than having shopping still hanging over my head. The great part is that I have a record of what I gave people in years past so I don’t duplicate. I can just copy last year’s file, delete the content and rename it Christmas List 2012.  I trust this tip will keep you from making yourself sick with worry about getting just the right thing!

Observe, record and buy from your list are the words that make their dreams come true, regardless of your Venus sign or theirs.

Equinox Poem: “Autumn Me”

 

© 2012 by Joyce Mason

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Cool breezes call me

to the autumn of my soul

farmer’s market of inner bounty

so overdone;

it’s almost obscene.

Colors so wanton

they put rainbows to shame.

I drink it all in

from gourds of change

smell the fall flowers of my bloom.

Flashbacks come

vibrant as the market scene

and leaves starting to burnish.

Déjà-vu: I see who

I was last winter

the seeds of becoming

planted in spring

the summer growth

and now, the yield.

I yield to my ripeness

bow to the Libra Sun

the new balance in my being

until I shed my autumn leaf skin

for winter hibernation

become another New Me

once more

nature’s loving 

recycling loop.

Autumn is Me in Living Color

bursting with the courage

and accomplishment

of another year of living

from life’s full

palette of possibilities.

~~~

Photo Credit:  © cienpiesnf - Fotolia.com

Sextilegenarian! Astrology and Aging

 Medicare and Other Facts of Long Life

© 2012 by Joyce Mason

All Rights Reserved

I’ve never hidden my age on The Radical Virgo, but I haven’t highlighted it, either. Time to come out of the closet and celebrate my Medicare card—and to talk a bit about the how increasing longevity affects us, astro-wise and otherwise. Since this somehow relates back to my favorite planetary archetype, Chiron, I’m celebrating not only turning 65 but also one of my favorite personal aspects, Chiron sextile Moon. I think my emotional resonance to Chiron has helped me embrace growing older. After all, mythical Chiron is at least 3,000 years old! I’m barely a glint in my father’s eye by comparison.

Lately, I do more readings for people fifty, sixty and beyond than any other age group. There’s more to it than all those baby boomers reaching Social Security age at once. There’s the gift of extra time.

One of the top concerns of these individuals, often their main question, is what to do with the rest of their lives. What’s the next leg of my journey? How do I express my passions and purpose? Most of them no longer have a “regular” job, and they now have time for other pursuits like never before. They don’t know quite what to do with themselves because we’re the first wave of pioneers with the privilege of an extended lifespan. There are few models for this exciting elongation of a single incarnation, especially if you're looking for not just anything to do but the thing you were most meant to do.

Nearly all these young-at-hearts, like me, have Pluto in Leo. The majority are baby boomers. We’re living up to our long history of personal redesign and rebirth in dramatic ways. We’re the generation whose images of family life, from children to early adults, spanned Ozzie and Harriet to Meathead and Gloria. We’re “off our rockers” and onto doing something meaningful with our golden years.

Past generations, if they were lucky, lived to retire, collect Social Security, rock a little in their chairs or hammocks, play golf or pursue a few hobbies. Then, in a few years, it was ashes to ashes. Today—not! The average life expectancy of the typical American has increased to 78.7 years [1], and that’s just the middle of the bell curve. I have relatives on both sides of my biological family who have lived well into their 80s and 90s, and one who almost made it to 100. And if you aren’t an American, you’re probably even luckier! A most interesting publication from the Central Intelligence Agency [2], of all sources, says that the US is only #50 in life expectancy. Monaco is #1 at 89.68 years. Apparently, it pays to gamble—or live in a country where it’s the primary industry. (Who knew the CIA was spying on old people? When doing surveillance in Monaco, did they take bets on when folks would finally keel over?)

When I turn 65 this month, I can say I’ve lived and dived into the banquet of life, as advocated by my heroine, Auntie Mame. I have no intention of stopping.

The Maturity Transits

Just a few generations ago, people were lucky to live a bit beyond their second Saturn Return at approximately 60. The Uranus Return at 84 was a rarity. Now, living to 100 is happening with increased regularity. It’s clear that 100 is next “normal,” if we take decent care of ourselves.

This is a reference to the obesity epidemic in America and all its costs. The first generation of children in the U.S. is growing up now that may not outlive their parents due to diabetes, heart disease and other fallout from fast food—fries and being a couch potato. What we’re reaching for, then, is for the Second Chiron Return to become commonplace, if we have the common sense to overcome food addictions, lack of exercise, and other habits that could throw a monkey wrench into this longevity evolution.

Before I go on, I thought it would be interesting to look at current and future possible “saging” transits. Could be, at some point, that the Chiron Return and the Second Saturn Return aren’t even considered marks of advanced maturity but rather the new midlife transits. [3] Clearly, if you live to 100, the first Chiron Return at 50 is literally right in the middle of your lifespan.

The Transits of Saging, Current and Evolving

50 - Chiron Return

60 – 2^nd Saturn Return

84 – Uranus Return

90 – 3^rd Saturn Return

100 – 2^nd Chiron Return

120 – 4^th Saturn Return

126 – 2^nd Uranus Opposition

150 – 5^th Saturn Return

          3^rd Chiron Return

165 – Neptune Return (for extreme optimists)

168 - 2nd Uranus Return (wizened and wired)

248 – Pluto Return (for those with way too many fixed signs)

(Did I forget any?) Apparently, we have to repeat Saturn, Chiron and Uranus major transits a lot before we can move onto Neptune and ultimately Pluto at age 248. I certainly can state unequivocally; I’m not ready for that!

From where I sit, anything beyond a 4^th Saturn Return (120) seems too mind-blowing to contemplate, though I can’t say how I’ll feel after my next birthday. It reminds me of the time I attended a UFO conference where I experienced so much strange, negative energy; one of my friends can’t stop laughing that I finally found something that was “even too weird for me.” Living to 165+ feels like that, an alien congress and concept I’m not yet sure is friendly.

What can we expect as the Uranus Return, 3^rd Saturn Return, and Second Chiron Return ultimately define the transits that make us elders in our tribes? In her book on midlife transits, The Liquid Light of Sex, Barbara Hand Clow talks about what an ideal time 84 is to leave the body, to pass on, helped by the rising kundalini at the completion of the Uranus cycle. Reminds me of the title of the Ray Bradbury’s short story collection, I Sing the Body Electric, and the song is Om Sweet Home.

What if we don’t stop there? What if we keep on having brilliant breakthroughs, recharging our minds and bodies, and learning at new levels? This will also apply to medicine and healing, too, allowing greater longevity.

I’m sure it’s no coincidence that my first novel is about a longevity organization and people who look 20 years younger than their actual ages and easily live to 100. As a natal Sun square Uranus, I have a close resonance to changing currents.

Do You Really Want to Live to 100?

I wrote a thoughtful post on this topic on my other blog, Hot  Flashbacks/Cool Insights, a few years ago. Certain aspects of being a diehard have changed for me in their appeal over the years, but one part of it is certain. As long as I can enjoy reasonable heath and a functioning mind, I’m “in” for the long haul. As long as I can feel useful and have fun, I’ll continue to love being a Triple Earth on Earth.

Depending on the quality of your previous outerplanetary transits to themselves, you might have varying degrees of enthusiasm about reprising some of them several times each. One thing I’m sure of. As long as you keep learning, the transits get easier and more rewarding with every pass. They aren’t always fun in the process, but in retrospect, I’m thankful to each archetype for moving me along the ever-spiraling Stairway to Heaven.

I can honestly say I wouldn’t give up an iota of the wisdom I’ve gained in six decades of living for the beauty and other physical perks of youth. However, if I were redesigning how life works, I might opt for the unusual characteristic of Mearth, Mork & Mindy’s son, played by Jonathan Winters. He aged backwards—started old, and grew young.

Scratch that. I think I’d rather hotrod around in one of those motorized wheelchairs than look forward to diapers, rattles and a lot of kitchy-coo in my face. Or cheeks pinched. I hated that.

A Few Pearls from My Lunar Sage

In my Summer Cardinal Quarterly newsletter (see top of sidebar if you don’t already subscribe), I talked about navigating the sometimes choppy waters of the Uranus-Pluto square on your own S.S. Pluto-Uranus. I suggested people rename and christen their imaginary vehicle for cruising through these changing times. I decided to call mine the S.S. Lunar Sage because of the conjunction of T-Pluto to my Capricorn Moon at the apex of a transitory T-square. Pluto is helping me like never before to overcome issues with unhealthy habits, to trust my intuition, and generally speaking, to rebirth myself at a primal level.

No matter what our ages, we’re all trying to figure out the same thing: how to live so well on Earth, it feels like Heaven. Then the Ultimate Return Transit will hardly feel like a change.  I’d like to share what I’ve learned about being “senior,” so far. I’ll limit myself to seven insights, one for every decade plus one for good measure.

Seven Insights on the Cusp of 65

Joyce as  Virgo - August 2012

1. Love is still the only answer to every question. To love and be loved has always been the best thing on Earth. Expressing love beyond the personal, in creations and sharing talents, completes the circle to make us part of something bigger than ourselves. Experiencing love in all these forms is my proudest accomplishment and greatest joy.

2. No matter how feisty you are, I have to agree with Bette Davis, “Old age is no place for sissies.” There are aches and pains, sagging, wrinkling and creaking. There may be significant health challenges. These things force you to reorder your priorities, especially about being beautiful from the inside out. Inner beauty has always been the only kind that counts in the end, anyway. If that rude Arthur comes calling, as my mother used to refer to her arthritis, it’s a reminder that a bit of stiffness in the body is nothing compared to rigidity of the mind and spirit. The latter must be avoided at all costs to enjoy this trip.

3. Maintenance of a senior body takes a lot of time—but it’s worth it. Accept it, decide to make the commitment, or suffer the consequences. I’d say I spend at least 40% of a typical week on exercise classes, cooking whole foods, yoga, qigong, meditation and visits to the chiropractor, doctors and acupuncturist, as needed. I try not to whine, considering the fact that I used to spend much more than that at a “regular job.” Not only that, but the 60% I have left is high quality because I’m willing to put self-care first.

4. Fight for what you believe in, right injustices, but the longer I live, the fewer things I feel are worthy of getting my knickers in a knot. Someone sent me an email recently that catalogs all the changes that have taken place in a typical baby boomer’s lifetime. It almost blew my circuits to contemplate. If I haven’t seen it all, damn near! I’ve seen that the more the world changes, the more people are the same at heart. We might email instead of writing letters, life may be a lot faster on its way to transpiring at light speed. We grow and adjust and those who care just keep getting better. We find new ways to cope with old problems, and karma keeps taking care of those who have the misguidance to harm others. When I was in my twenties, a man I knew used to refer my current state of mind as “mellowing,” almost as if it were a bad thing or a weakness. I actually think it’s one of the best things that has ever happened to me.

5. A bad day or two—or even a bad year or two—doesn’t constitute a bad lifetime or any reason to give up. If astrology teaches us anything, it’s that things are constantly shifting. We live on a moving planet.

6. Given the powerful nature of the transits of Saturn through Pluto to themselves and how they keep honing us to be better versions of ourselves, I actually welcome more of them. With the 1^st Chiron Return as the new midlife point, we can get a glimmer of what wholeness is, what our holes are that need filling, what blocks and parts of ourselves we’ve denied that we still need to integrate. We get to move onto do just that with half of our life left to live. It’s like a mid-term report card and review on what subjects we need to better apply ourselves, as well as which one’s we’re acing.

7. Laughter is still the best medicine. We’ve heard it, we know it—but how many times have you laughed today? Probably too few. I’ve always loved the metaphysical double entendre, Lighten Up.

Something I learned writing my novel. The longer we live, the more we become our own future generation. When we play Earth for keeps, as long as a century, we’ll treat it and ourselves differently. What we do matters more, because we’ll reap the consequences of our own deeds, often for decades to come.

So I don’t sound too pie in the sky and Jupiterian to a fault, I will say that if it’s in the cards that I live the average lifespan or less, I will be pissed—at least temporarily. I have too much left to do. Fortunately, my Vedic astrologer told me I’m good for at least a couple more decades. I hope he’s right.

Whatever day my number’s up, I hope it will be one of a long line of days of laughing, loving and learning. I hope my memorial is a big party where people remember me with delight—what we learned together, how we supported each other, and how we laughed. I will die, if there’s not laughter at my funeral!

But I’m also OK with tears. As my wise husband Tim often says (we’re the same age), we’re lucky when we’ve loved someone so much, we miss them when they’re gone.

I’d write more, but I’m on the way to the chiropractor—or the Pop Doc, as one of Tim’s 57 first cousins is known, who happens to be a member of that profession. I’m glad I’m going. It gives me an opportunity for one last metaphor.

The transits of aging (I prefer to say saging) are simply Great Chiropractors, realigning us until the day we no longer need bodies or the spine it takes to live on Earth. My first teacher used to say that no matter how hard it can be sometimes Down Here, souls learn so much on Earth, they’re lined up to get a crack at another lifetime with all its rich learning opportunities.

That’s one crack I’m grateful for—to the Big Pop Doc in the Sky.

~~~

Photo Credits:

65 - © style-photography.de | Fotolia.com;

With Age Comes Wisdom © Rinderart |Dreamstime.com

Owl Moon - © matamu | Fotolia.com

Joyce as Virgo - © Barbara Hadley-Crow. Taken at NCGR-Sacramento Area open house in August 2012. Not as young as she looked (age 22) dressed up as a Virgo on the left side of the Radical Virgo logo, but not bad for a sextilegenarian.

Notes:

1. Health Beat: Average American Life Expectancy Has Increased http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/health&id=8499474

2. CIA: The World Factbook, Country Comparisons on Life Expectancy https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html

3. Currently, the midlife transits, which occur from approximately 37-47 are considered to be transiting Pluto square natal Pluto, transiting Neptune square natal Neptune, and transiting Uranus opposite natal Uranus. Some astrologers also include transiting Saturn opposite natal Saturn—the halfway mark between the First and Second Saturn Returns.

Chiron: Wounded Healer, Wholeness Weaver

A Sneak Peek at My New Book,
Keywords to Unlock Chiron

© 2012 by Joyce Mason
All Rights Reserved

The word collage you see above is called a Wordle. If you’ve never had the joy of playing in this sandbox of making words beautiful, click the link and dig in! I think Wordles are one of the coolest things ever invented.

I decided I wanted to add a Wordle to the PDF version of my upcoming book. This is a picture of the 50 keywords or phrases related to Chiron that I’ll be covering in depth.  I “loaded” the word list to have what I considered the four most important words pop out bigger. Lo and behold, that’s when I discovered a new tagline for Chiron that’s just an expansion of the old: Wounded Healer/ Wholeness Weaver. Even with my passion for words and considering how much I play with them, I never “got” that particular combo. Now it seems so right; I couldn’t wait to share it with you!

I hope the other Chiron aficionados who read this blog will be as excited as I am to have finally found a balanced phrase that describes Chiron. I can’t tell you how many new things I have learned in writing this book. One of the most exciting things about writing: it forces you to sort things out lurking in your mind, sometimes in the deepest recesses, so that they make sense to you. Then maybe they’ll make sense to someone else! Even more exciting is the chance to connect the dots and find that there have been new discoveries floating around in your head all this time.

I have long objected to “wounded healer” as (forgive me) a lame description of somebody who was so much more than a limping teacher, surgeon and herbalist. Yet in writing Keywords, I recognized that this is the description people glom onto. I started thinking about why. I suspect it’s because the world needs healing more than anything, and we are all wounded in some way. In writing this book, I decided that, by popular demand, I should no longer fight that phrase …

… so imagine my joy in finding a complementary add-on that also gives Chiron its rounded due and depth on how it acts in a chart. The fact that it almost rhymes will make it even more memorable. Rhymes and songs are known to “stick” where other streams of words slide right out of memory.

I still love Bill Pratt’s winning One True Alchemist in last year’s Chiron tagline contest! Variety is the spice of life, and you’ll appreciate Bill’s title even more once you read Keywords. Since wholeness is the ultimate Chiron keyword, it won’t be surprising if we discover a whole lot of other good taglines, including those great contest runners-up.

I’m making great progress on the book. I’m 60-70 percent done and still hoping for a fall launch while unwilling to kill myself if it doesn't fall easily into place by then. You’ve seen some of the words covered in the Chiron’s Keyword Corner feature on this blog before, but the book will have so many more words, plus expansions and edits of many of those articles. So far, I’m very happy with how it’s turning out, and considering I’m a classic Virgo about being my own worst critic; what a nice surprise.

Let me know what you think about Chiron’s new tagline! If you’re excited about how the book sounds, I should let you know that my muse runs on enthusiasm. Cheerleading really makes me work faster!

Quotes for the Signs #9

         An ongoing feature on The Radical Virgo

ARIES: The first quality that is needed is audacity. 
 

~ Winston Churchill

TAURUS: Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
 

~ Mariska Hargitay

GEMINI:  There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. 

~ Frank Howard Clark
 

CANCER: They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

~ Princess Diana (Cancer Sun)
 

LEO: A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

~ Wesley Snipes (Leo Sun)

VIRGO - We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

~ E.B. White

LIBRA - Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. 
 
~ Carl Reiner

SCORPIO – The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

~ Jane Roberts

SAGITTARIUS – Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 

~ Gandhi

CAPRICORN – Respect yourself and others will respect you.   

~ Confucius, Sayings of Confucius

AQUARIUS  - What is a rebel? A man who says no.

~ Albert Camus

PISCES - The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. 

~Elbert Hubbard

~~~

Photo Credit: Zodiac signs, © Evilin | Dreamstime.com. Wise Skies quotes collage by Joyce

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