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Salut les copains!

Not a great deal more to tell about my time at my parents' place...
Except this:

on Sunday morning I caught the tail-end of a Christian broadcast and there was an interview with Jim White, son of a Pentecostal preacher, recovered heroin addict and now alt.country singer. The interviewer asked him 'If you did find God, would you be surprised?'
Jim White replied: 'I don't think you find God, I think you disappear into God. And if I disappeared, how could I then be surprised? There'd be nothing left to be surprised.'
The interviewer, whose mind was too small to wrap itself around a concept of such beauty, giggled nervously and made some remark about White's 'off-the-wall' ideas, but surely all serious theologians throughout history have come to the same conclusion...

And Nietzsche's theory of Eternal Return isn't so different...

So, yeah, I was so impressed with this comment, I wanted to go out and buy White's new album, but I am trying to cut down on CD purchases.

My profligate spending habits were brought home to me when, upon arrival back at chez moi, I had about five different packages of internet shopping orders waiting for me: CDs by Count Basie and Fennesz, a 6 DVD box set of films by Jean-Luc Godard that I got at the absurd price of something like 10 euros ( = $10 - yes, really!) and no less than four DVDs of films by Clint Eastwood to contribute to the next great cutriver project. These were: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, True Crime, Blood Work, Mystic River. The late work, told ya.

But I also got a copy of a book called Sun Sign, Moon Sign. Now I have wittered on about my interest in astrology on this site before, but last time I was staying at my parents', I came across this book in their tiny village library and was astounded by it. It offers personality profiles for the 144 sun-moon combinations, and the description of my particular match (sun in sagittarius, moon in aquarius) was so accurate I almost couldn't believe it. Here are some highlights:

'intellectual, visionary, seeker of truth... philosophical... high ideals... benign patriarch... a humanitarian at heart... sincerity and idealism... somewhat overpowering at times... affection immediate, if somewhat cerebral... you live in a world of your own... Utopian... awkward intensity... tend to spread yourself too thin... lofty compassion... natural for teaching and academia... intimate relationships somewhat problematic due to large appetite for experience and need for independence... even the most passionate relationship will have a brotherly-sisterly quality about it...

They also have this 'Image for integration' - not sure what this is, as I haven't read the introduction/instructions, but for me it says 'On a tour of primitive lands, a university professor goes through a tribal initiation and becomes a blood brother of the chief.'

Famous sagittarius/aquarius luminaries have included: Woody Allen, Philip K. Dick, Margaret Mead, Rainer Maria Rilke and, wait for it, Britney Spears!!!


OK, so maybe I'm flattering myself, but it sounds pretty spot-on to me...

If anyone would like to know what the mighty-oracle book has to say about their own combination, I will need your exact date and time of birth to work out your moon sign (unless you know it already, of course).

Go on, you know you want to...


Dear all - Thanks for your comments - I keep being overtaken by social engagements will but will respond with full astrological profiles v. soon (hopefully tomorrow). Bisous! crx