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featherynscaleWhile I'm posting other people's content, I thought I'd toss this up here. This comes out of this week's Free Will Astrology e-mail newsletter thingie. I enjoy the hell out of FWA, not because I'm all that excited about astrology (though I am a Leo, and I do occasionally use astrology as an excuse to be attention-seeking or proud), but because it often prompts me to think about things that are inspiring or encouraging. Frankly, I can use all the inspiration and encouragement I can get right about now, because children, I am **tired**.
So anyway, below the cut is a list of twenty questions from Rob Brezny. Some of them are interesting to me. Some are not. I'm planning on answering the interesting ones, and leaving the other ones alone. I thought I'd drop the whole list up here in case the questions might be interesting to somebody else. The words below the cut are all Brezny's, not mine.
Please answer as many of the following questions as you can. Work with
ferocious intensity and/or gentle reflection. Don't push on till you're
exhausted, but try to come as close to total combustion as you can.
Be innocently truthful and spontaneously thoughtful, or else gratuitously
sarcastic and recklessly flippant. If you find yourself responding with ideas
that you used to believe but don't any more, abandon them and start
over.
Take advantage of this rare opportunity to be creative and authentic for
no reason. Don't save yourself for "something better."
Send answers to sacreduproar@sbcglobal.net.
1. What did you dream last night?
2. What image or symbol represents the absolute of your desires?
3. In what ways has your fate been affected by invisible forces you don't
understand or are barely aware of?
4. Tell a good lie.
5. What were the circumstances in which you were most dangerously
alive?
6. Are you a good listener? If so, describe how you listen. If not, explain
why not.
7. Compose an exciting prayer in which you ask for something you're not
supposed to.
8. What's the difference between right and wrong?
9. Name something you've done to undo, subvert, or neutralize the Battle
of the Sexes.
10. Have you ever witnessed a child being born? If so, describe how it
changed you.
11. Compose a beautiful blasphemy that makes you feel like crying.
12. What do you do to make people like you?
13. If you're not familiar with the Jungian concept of the "shadow," find
out about it. If you are, good. In either case, give a description of the
nature of your personal shadow.
14. Talk about three of your most interesting personalities. Give each one
a name and a power animal.
15. Make up a dream in which you lose control and thereby attract a
crowd of worshipers.
16. Name your greatest unnecessary taboo and how you would violate it
if it didn't hurt anyone.
17. Give an example of how smart you are in the way you love.
18. What ignorance do you deserve to be forgiven for?
19. What was the pain that healed you the most?
20. Make a prediction about yourself.
EXTRA CREDIT
In the ancient Greek epic, Odysseus and his men become stranded on an
island belonging to the sorceress Circe. In a famous scene, Circe uses
magic to turn the men into pigs. Later, though, in an episode that's often
under-emphasized by casual readers, she changes them back into men --
only they're stronger, braver, and more beautiful than before they were
pigs. Tell an analogous story from your own life.
EXTRA EXTRA CREDIT
Discuss and act out the following:
To survive war, you must become war.
- Rambo
To survive love, you must become love.
- The Televisionary Oracle
So anyway, below the cut is a list of twenty questions from Rob Brezny. Some of them are interesting to me. Some are not. I'm planning on answering the interesting ones, and leaving the other ones alone. I thought I'd drop the whole list up here in case the questions might be interesting to somebody else. The words below the cut are all Brezny's, not mine.
Please answer as many of the following questions as you can. Work with
ferocious intensity and/or gentle reflection. Don't push on till you're
exhausted, but try to come as close to total combustion as you can.
Be innocently truthful and spontaneously thoughtful, or else gratuitously
sarcastic and recklessly flippant. If you find yourself responding with ideas
that you used to believe but don't any more, abandon them and start
over.
Take advantage of this rare opportunity to be creative and authentic for
no reason. Don't save yourself for "something better."
Send answers to sacreduproar@sbcglobal.net.
1. What did you dream last night?
2. What image or symbol represents the absolute of your desires?
3. In what ways has your fate been affected by invisible forces you don't
understand or are barely aware of?
4. Tell a good lie.
5. What were the circumstances in which you were most dangerously
alive?
6. Are you a good listener? If so, describe how you listen. If not, explain
why not.
7. Compose an exciting prayer in which you ask for something you're not
supposed to.
8. What's the difference between right and wrong?
9. Name something you've done to undo, subvert, or neutralize the Battle
of the Sexes.
10. Have you ever witnessed a child being born? If so, describe how it
changed you.
11. Compose a beautiful blasphemy that makes you feel like crying.
12. What do you do to make people like you?
13. If you're not familiar with the Jungian concept of the "shadow," find
out about it. If you are, good. In either case, give a description of the
nature of your personal shadow.
14. Talk about three of your most interesting personalities. Give each one
a name and a power animal.
15. Make up a dream in which you lose control and thereby attract a
crowd of worshipers.
16. Name your greatest unnecessary taboo and how you would violate it
if it didn't hurt anyone.
17. Give an example of how smart you are in the way you love.
18. What ignorance do you deserve to be forgiven for?
19. What was the pain that healed you the most?
20. Make a prediction about yourself.
EXTRA CREDIT
In the ancient Greek epic, Odysseus and his men become stranded on an
island belonging to the sorceress Circe. In a famous scene, Circe uses
magic to turn the men into pigs. Later, though, in an episode that's often
under-emphasized by casual readers, she changes them back into men --
only they're stronger, braver, and more beautiful than before they were
pigs. Tell an analogous story from your own life.
EXTRA EXTRA CREDIT
Discuss and act out the following:
To survive war, you must become war.
- Rambo
To survive love, you must become love.
- The Televisionary Oracle
