outlook. What would life be like
if I didn’t look up my horoscope every morning?
If I didn’t rush to an astrology web site to
enter someone’s birth information and glean
all the dark secrets of their soul? What if I decided
to just excise this whole habit from my life, once
and for all? Would I feel helpless and lost without
my astrological compass? Or would I feel freer, unshackled
from the need to consult the stars for my every move?
So one afternoon I decided....
enough. No more astrology for me. Cold-heatedly, calculatedly,
I deleted all the astrology Web sites from my Internet
browser’s “Favorites” section. I
unsubscribed to the Astrocenter newsletter that bounded
into my inbox every month, promising to tell me what
April had in store for me (in return for $9.99, which,
I am ashamed to admit, I fell for more than once).
Now, when I open the morning
newspaper, I glance cursorily at the horoscope section
(hey, it’s right next to the crossword and the
cartoons, which I am not about to give up no matter
what). But I try to screw up my eyes so that all the
words look blurry and I can’t really read what
it says. Like they say at Alcoholics Anonymous, “One
Day At a Time”. In the case of astrology, you
just try to forget what day it is.
It's been two weeks now, and
it feels weird because I've been a slave to astrology
for so long that I've almost forgotten what it feels
like to live without it. We'll have to see if I'm
successful with it, but I don't even see it as a habit
I've given up, like smoking or alcohol (no, no I don't
smoke or drink... it was just an example).
I just thought, "Why should I
let myself be limited by this kind of
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