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Horoscopes by Rob Brezsny


Week of February 3rd, 2011

♐ SAGITTARIUS

(November 22-December 21)
I saw ex-Poet Laureate Robert Hass read and discuss his poem "Etymology." He said that while many of the fluids of the human body are named with English words, at least one isn't: the moisture of a woman who is sexually aroused. The Anglo-Saxons did have a word for it, he noted: silm, which also referred to the look of moonlight on the water. "Poor language," Hass concluded, bemoaning a vocabulary that ignores such an important part of human experience. Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to correct for any problems caused by poor language in your own sphere. If you've been lazy about articulating your meaning or needs, then please activate your deeper intelligence. If there's a situation in your life that's suffering from a sloppy use of words, reframe its contours with crisper speech. You could even coin some new words or borrow good ones from foreign tongues.


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