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The sky’s the limit. rain- g , bowmama, 61, #106896 Interesting creative adventurer, fun dynamic,intelligent attrac- tive femme, fast paced, rule breaker, wild imagination, suc- cessful disposition soft surreal, casual companionship, comforts delicious wine intimacy playful, sexy strong, curvy volumptious, powerful, abundance. g , Jadelotus, 34, #106878 HONEST, CREATIVE, TENACIOUS Attractive, fit, SWF. I like nature, biking, dancing. I love books, movies, music. B.S. in Sociology. Self-employed for 12 yrs. Sophisticated yet easygoing. Self-reliant, okay alone, better together. Meridian, 54, g , #106863 CREATIVE, SPUNKY, DESERV- ING. Looking for my man. Finding only impostors. Not giving up yet. You’re handsome, funny, kind, simple. Dog owner? Want to cook for you, look into your eyes. Please find me! dragongirl, 39, ☎, g , #106715 HONEST FIT FIREFIGHTER I have a passion for the moun- tains/forests. I’m honest, hard working, compassionate, and kind. I desire a companion for talks, walks, travel, and exploring whom is kind & compassionate. rowdy, 58, g , #106890 NEVER FORGET GOOD MAN... THOROUGH. GREENEYED REDHEAD Me - 47, 5’9” Handsome, bald, loyal fun, hardworking, country living, country store business owner. You - 30-40, attractive, fun, honest, loyal, debt free, friendly, clean. Can play/learn to play ping pong. No cigaretts. thewaltonstore@yahoo.com FUNNY-SINCERE-OVER THERE I’m thinking there might be some fun and fine woman out there to be a friend or perhaps more to enjoy the moment with. Let’s cook a meal and hang! ZenJah, 48, g , #106917 UO 4th year. Raised in Texas, play basketball, rock climb, read/ write, backpack, am mellow. Don’t mesh well with over-the- top personalities... no offense, y’all. I’m a Scrooge. But loveable? Got2Thumbs, 21, ☎, g , #106905 AWKWARDLY CHARMING, AWARE Student, musician, morning per- son, lover of cycling and vegan cooking/baking. Looking for a fella who is smart, active, fit, health-conscious, and cute. Popugai, 24, g , #106759 MADE OF MEAT. DES I change everyday. Like a chame- leon, i adapt to whats around me. I’m also a Libra, and very true to it :). Des, 20, g , #106906 Free Will Astrology Moving back to Oregon in about a month. It would be great to meet a woman who who has a great sense of humor, eats healthy and loves well. Jorgb, 62, ☎, g , #106892 JOSEPH I am sorry. The mice skulls are hungry. Samara When: Saturday, December 3, 2011. Where: California. You: Man. Me: Woman. #902362 TAKE A CHANCE... Two passing strangers, exchange fleeting glances, an impassioned impasse, captivated but silent, anticlimactic acquiescence. When: Friday, January 20, 2012. Where: out and about. You: Woman. Me: Man. #902361 LANE BUS RIDER I love to commune with the ocean, the universe and share secrets and communicate with other humans. psychoalche- my, 39, g , #106895 KIND ADVENTUROUS PLAYFUL You: white hipster cowboy shirt, rolled cuff jeans. Me: retro flower dress, flaming red hair and heels. Where: Steelhead, Sushi Pure, and a moonlit river stroll. When: August 2, 2010. When: Monday, August 2, 2010. Where: Steelhead. You: Man. Me: Woman. #902363 ATYPICAL YET DELIGHTFUL I am mostly looking for intimate platonic friends, enjoy depth, possible casual dating. I tend to be philosophical, psychological, analytical, honest, “interesting” and have a good sense of humor. :). FemmeV, 32, ☎, #106873 Noon. We sat across from each other. You picked up my umbrella for me. Your eyebrows intrigued me. Thanks for the brief, bright, spot in an otherwise gray day. When: Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Where: #82 bus from LCC. You: Man. Me: Woman. #902359 AT EDISON SCHOOL CORNER on bike w/child on extension. You repeatedly run the stop sign at full speed. Extremely irresponsi- ble towards the child. BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The coming week is likely to be abnormally free of worries and frustrations. I’m afraid that means you’re not going to have as much right to complain as you usually do. Can you handle that? Or will you feel bereft when faced with the prospect of having so little to grumble about? Just in case, I’ve compiled a list of fake annoy- ances for you to draw on. 1. “My iPhone won’t light my cigarette.” 2. “The next tissue in my tissue box doesn’t magically poke out when I take one.” 3. “I want some ice cream, but I overstuffed myself at dinner.” 4. “I ran out of bottled water and now I have to drink from the tap.” 5. “My cat’s Facebook profile gets more friend requests than me.” 6. “When people tell me I should feel grateful for all I have instead of complaining all the time, I feel guilty.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The state of California was named after a storybook land described in a 16th-century Spanish novel. The mythi- cal paradise was ruled by Queen Calafia. Gold was so plentiful that the people who lived there made weapons out of it and even adorned their animals with it. Did the real California turn out to be anything like that fictional realm? Well, 300 years after it got its name, the California Gold Rush attracted 300,000 visitors who mined a fortune in the precious metal. Your assignment, Taurus: Think of the myths you believed in when you were young and the fantasies that have played at the edges of your imagination for years. Have any of them come true, even a little? I suspect that one may do just that in the coming weeks and months. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Bill Moyers’ DVD The Language of Life, poet Naomi Shihab Nye is shown giving advice to aspiring young poets. She urges them to keep an open mind about where their creative urges might take them. Sometimes when you start a poem, she says, you think you want to go to church, but where you end up is at the dog races. I’ll make that same point to you, Gemini. As you tune in to the looming call to adventure, don’t be too sure you know what destination it has in mind for you. You might be inclined to assume it’ll lead you toward a local bar for drinks when in fact it’s nudging you in the direction of a wild frontier for a divine brouhaha. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Renowned comic book writer Grant Morrison claims he performed a magic ritual in which he conjured the spirit of John Lennon, who appeared and bestowed on him the gift of a new song. I’ve heard Morrison sing the tune, and it does sound rather Lennon-esque. The coming week would be a good time for you to go in quest of a comparable boon, Cancerian: a useful and beautiful bless- ing bequeathed to you by the departed spirit of someone you love or admire. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time,” said Oscar Wilde. “The reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.” I predict that sometime soon, Leo, you will prove that wisdom true. You will finally learn the brilliant question whose crucial answer you got years ago. When it arrives, you will comprehend a mystery that has been churning in the semi-darkness all this time. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Shedding is healthy — not just for cats and dogs and other animals but also for us humans. Did you know that you shed thousands of particles of dead skin every hour? And just as our bodies need to shed, so do our psyches. I bring this up, Virgo, because you are in an unusually favorable phase to do a whole lot of psychic shedding. What should you shed exactly? How about some of these: old ideas that don’t serve you any more, habits that undermine your ability to pursue your dreams, compulsions that are at odds with your noble intentions, resentment against people who did you wrong a long, long time ago, and anything else you carry with you that keeps you from being fully alive and radiant. To paraphrase Thomas Jeffer- son, the price of freedom and aliveness is eternal shedding. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to research published in the journal Psychological Science, many people are virtually allergic to creative ideas. When asked to consider a novel proposal, they’re quite likely to reject it in favor of an approach that’s well-known to them. (More info here: tinyurl.com/3oor4nq.) This could be a problem for you in the coming weeks, Libra, since one of your strengths will be your ability to come up with innovations. So it won’t be enough for you to offer your brilliant notions and original departures from the way things have always been done; you will also have to be persuasive and diplomatic. Think you can handle that dual assignment? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away shadows,” said St. Francis of Assisi. I’m afraid that’s an overly op- timistic assessment. In many circumstances, just one ray of light may not be sufficient to dispel encroaching haze and murk. Luckily for you, though, there will be quite an assortment of sunbeams appearing in your sphere during the coming weeks. Here’s the complication: They won’t all be showing up at once, and they’ll be arriving in disparate locations. So your task will be to gather them all up and unite them so they can add to each other’s strength. If you do that successfully, you’ll have more than enough illumination to chase away any dark- ness that might be creeping around. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet Elizabeth Alexander says that in order to create a novel, a writer needs a lot of uninterrupted time alone. Poems, on the other hand, can be snared in the midst of the jumbled rhythms of everyday chaos — between hurried appoint- ments or while riding the subway or at the kitchen table waiting for the coffee to brew. Alexander says that inspiration can sprout like grass poking up out of the sidewalk cracks. Whether or not you’re a writer, Sagittarius, I see your coming weeks as being more akin to snagging poems than cooking up a novel. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “A true poet does not bother to be poetical,” said the poet Jean Cocteau. “Nor does a nursery gardener perfume his roses.” I think that’s wise counsel for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It’s important that you do what you do best without any embellishment, pretentiousness, or self-consciousness. Don’t you dare try too hard or think too much or twist yourself like a contortionist to meet impossible-to-satisfy expectations. Trust the thrust of your simple urges. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Collectors prefer wild orchids, says William Langley, writing in the UK’s Telegraph. Orchids grown in nurseries, which comprise 99.5 percent of the total, are tarnished with “the stigma of perfection.” Their colors are generic and their petal patterns are boringly regular. Far more appealing are the exotic variet- ies untouched by human intervention, with their “downy, smooth pet- als and moistened lips pouting in the direction of tautly curved shafts and heavily veined pouches.” Whatever your sphere or specialty is, Aquarius, I suggest you model yourself after the wild orchid collectors in the coming days. Shun the stigma of perfection. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): While doing a film a few years ago, actress Sandra Bullock stumbled upon a stunning secret: Rubbing hemorrhoid cream on her face helped shrink her wrinkles and improve her complexion. I predict that at least one and possibly more compa- rable discoveries will soon grace your life. You will find unexpected uses for things that were supposedly not meant to be used in those ways. Here’s a corollary, courtesy of scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, that describes a related talent you’ll have at your disposal: “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” HOMEWORK: When they say “Be yourself,” which self do they mean? Testify at http://FreeWillAstrology.com Go to RealAstrology.com to check out EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. 26 JANUARY 26, 2012 EUGENE WEEKLY WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM
