Hijacked Astrololgy

I'm a Saggitarius, but I'm claiming Scorpio's oracle this week from Freewill Astrololgy:

SCORPIO: A drunk dominatrix sidled up to me at a party and said, "Reverend, please absolve me of my sins." I'm not officially a priest, but in the spirit of fun and games I replied, "Why, my dear? Have you seen the error of your ways?" She spread her arms wide as she bowed, hissing like a serpent through a toothy smile. "Not at all, Reverend," she said. "I just want to clear the docket so I can go out and commit a slew of fresh, new sins with crazy abandon." I sprinkled a few drops of her Heineken on her head and channeled William Blake: "You'll never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. If the fool would persist in her folly she would become wise." And now, Scorpio, I'm channeling the same blessing for you.


Sometimes, as a Queen of Swords, I look back and regret the times when my foolishness led to excess.

Today, I claim the wisdom that I gained from allowing myself to be foolish and excessive -- and reserve the right to commit errors of foolish excess in the future.

Samhain

This is not the day I had planned.

It's been nice -- don't get me wrong -- but it's been far less focused on spiritual/devotional activities and more on practical ones. I've spent much of the day trying to compose a class proposal and bio blurb for a pagan convention that had a submission deadline of today. Since I only started thinking about doing something on Sunday night, it's been a bit of a rush job.

It didn't help that the daughter's school gets out at 1:30pm every Wednesday -- so I had her energy bouncing around the place as she did the after-school stuff, came in and out several times, and started working on getting dressed up for trick-or-treating. (She's going as a wolf-human biomorph, a character she played in _storyteller_'s game last year.)

So it looks like I'm just going wait until she goes out for good this evening (under the supervison of another parent), then put candy in a bowl outside the front door, and then go up to my room and celebrate my Samhain rites. I have a Grail Mass to do, and a visit with one of my patron goddesses planned. We'll see what else happens.

I made the right decision staying home from work today. I would never have gotten the proposal finished, much less enjoyed a massage this morning or gotten some minor chores done if I'd tried to be a good little worker bee.

Thanks!

Thank you thank you to queenofhalves for the psychedelic skull!