Instead, I will wish you something more manageable and enjoyable: that you will be loved with respect, sensitivity, care, and intelligence. So, dear Leo, I won't wish that you will be loved to the point of madness in 2022-even though I think the coming months will be an interesting and educational time for amour. Why would we want to be loved to the point of madness? A person who "loved" you like that might be fun for a while, but would ultimately become a terrible inconvenience and ongoing disruption. 22): French poet André Breton wrote, "Je vous souhaite d'être follement aimée." In English, those words can be rendered as "My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness" or "I wish you to be loved madly." That's got a romantic ring to it, but it's actually a curse. Please adopt Mandela's approach as you make creative use of your new freedom.
About leaving jail in 1990, he wrote, "As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison." Although you haven't suffered deprivation anywhere close to what Mandela did, I'm happy to report that 2022 will bring you liberations from limiting situations. After his release, he became President of South Africa and won the Nobel Peace Prize. To the degree that you celebrate and enhance the fortunes of others, your own fortunes will thrive.ĬANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian political leader Nelson Mandela was wrongly incarcerated for 27 years. In 2022, it will be vital for your physical and mental health to cultivate Binchy's perspective, not Vidal's.
She felt her magnificence was magnified by others' magnificence. On the other hand, Binchy had a generous wish that everyone would be a success. The misery of his fellow humans intensified his satisfaction about his own accomplishments. He was fond of saying that it wasn't enough for him to succeed he wanted others to fail. Vidal was interesting but problematic for me. They were both famous, though Bincy sold more books than Vidal. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 2012, the writer Gore Vidal died the day after Gemini writer Maeve Binchy passed away. Support local, independent media with a small monthly or one time We depend on your support to help fund our coverage. Make it your guide as you, too, become fully and richly yourself. My work, my love, my time, my face: gathered into one intense gesture of growing like a plant." I invite you to adopt Sarton's poem as a primary source of inspiration in 2022. "It's taken time, many years and places I have been dissolved and shaken, have worn other people's faces." But at last, she said, "All fuses together now, falls into place from wish to action, word to silence. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus author May Sarton wrote a poem celebrating her maturation into the person she had always dreamed she would be. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding." The best of the traditional storytellers are those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, sea, wind, and weather. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers.
Now study these words by storyteller Ruth Sawyer: "To be a good storyteller, one must be gloriously alive. Bonus: The experiences that come your way will provide raw material for you to become even more interesting than you already are. You could ripen your ability to express the core truths about your life with entertaining narratives. Is there some humorous version of this ritual you could enact that wouldn't involve even mild punching and kicking? I recommend you dream one up!ĪRIES (March 21-April 19): You may become a more audacious storyteller in 2022. If my friend and I have had a personal conflict during the previous year, we would punch and kick each other-but not too hard-until we had purged our spite and resentment. People gather at the town center to fight each other, settling their differences so they can forget about them and start over fresh. 19-March 20): In the Quechuan language spoken in parts of Peru, the word takanakuy means "when the blood is boiling." Every year at this time, the community of Chumbivilcas stages a holiday called Takanakuy. But I do expect that your luck with money will be at a peak. I'm not saying that 2022 will bring a financial event as dramatic as that one. A short time later, the bowl was sold at an auction for $2.2 million. It sat on a mantel in their home for a few years until they got a hunch to have it evaluated by an art collector. About a thousand years later, a family in New York bought it at a garage sale for $3. 18): Sometime during the Northern Song Dynasty that ruled China from 960 to 1127, an artisan made a white ceramic bowl five inches in diameter.