10 October 2007

New Moon

Every week I get a horoscope e-mail from Rob Breszny (www.FreeWillAstrology.com). I've read his column since college. If you check him out you can see where I get some of my lofty-headed storytelling. He preaches the case for pronoia (the belief that the world is conspiring to shower you in happiness, i.e., the opposite of paranoia) and uses devices like Pyrrhic victories and name-drops koyaanisqatsi to get his point across. The e-mail usually makes its way into my Inbox every Wednesday, but Mr. Breszny was a bit precocious and too eager to share his news so I got it yesterday. This is what he has to say this week to us Libras:

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "The future is already here," says science
fiction writer William Gibson. "It's just not very evenly distributed." Your
job in the coming weeks, Libra, is to locate hotbeds where the future is
concentrated, and put yourself in the midst of them. It's time, in other
words, for you to escape from the wan, sludgy places where the past is
masquerading as the present. You're ready to thrive on the delightful
shocks of the new.


Yesterday I was also delivered some news which made made Mr.

Brezsny incredibly poignant and eerily spot on: I am being

transferred. Starting next week I no longer work at the store

where I got my start and stayed on-and-off for the past three

years. Most of my good friends are there. A lot of customers I

built great relationships with, including my own Deaf contingent,

will remain there. People who are dear to me and much better

staff than me are being left behind. It sucks, but at the same time,

it's great. I'm working up the Corporate Ladder there, and this

move shows their trust in me to take on the next challenge. It's a

new store with new staff and new customers, so I can start over

completely fresh and new. All of my old jokes are relevant and

usable once again.


I'm being given a golden ticket yet again this year. Why must it

always be a difficult gift to receive?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I usually abhor sun sign horoscopes but Breszny's is pretty spot on for you when taking into consideration a few configurations currently playing with your chart. The new moon is just the tip of the iceberg so get ready.

Bonne chance, mon cher.

Anonymous said...

Lacey told me about your transfer last night. At first I was really sorry to hear about it, but if you're happy, I can suck it up and be happy for you :) Are you starting assistant manager training at the new place? I'll be in Chicago next weekend, so I'll be sure to stop by and check out the new store.

Always On Stage said...

I know the New Moon just opens the door. It's a fresh journal now. Anything can happen.
Anything will happen.
Again.

I'm not gone from there. Can't be. Too attached. You guys are there. I'll be around.

Always On Stage said...

One caveat: Just because I'm being positive about the change doesn't mean I'm happy about it. I'm just trying to make it something better than it actually is.

Wish I had more time to prepare.