layers of precise isolations
- i love to use the skills of bellydance to translate movements - into thoughts - into movements........
it is my prayer/meditation........ soft undulations, split second stillness, and
seemingly impossible slowness coupled with moments of defying gravity.......

There is rarely anything lofty or stuck-up in Aquarius's nature. She is detached from the desire for status, preferring to be of the people, for the people, one who has seemingly let go of all worldly or material concerns. Fittingly, the sign is associated with the age group 70-77, a time of life when one is resigned to her own imminent eternal communion with the great beyond, having little to prove or be concerned with on the earthly plane. Her preceding sign, Capricorn, starts this ball rolling: Letting go of material concerns, she takes up an ascetic lifestyle, a way in which she distinguishes herself as better than others. To the Aquarius, however, whether one meditates and eats vegan, or chows fifteen bags of greasy chips while smoking and watching porn, is all the same to her. She's beyond making judgments, and best of all, she doesn't try herself with expectations of perfection. Aquarius takes herself as she is, and it follows she expects others to do likewise.

This living embodiment of a renewal goddess is naturally forgiving and considers her fellow human beings deserving of absolution, mercy, grace, and ultimately salvation. More than any other astrological character, she wakes up thinking how she might help make others happy. As a nod to one of her patron goddesses, and to coin a classic Rolling Stones' lyric, "she's like a rainbow": her raison d'etre, indeed her very presence,

seems designed to inspire and encourage.

Open and forthright, her "funny face" and whimsical style can't help but brighten a person's day. Proving herself a great listener, she'll pick up a conversation right where it left off, even if months or years have elapsed. One soon realizes that she's democratic to the core, doling out her sunny-funny disposition to anyone with whom she comes in contact. She may at first seem like the soul mate on has been waiting for, but in keeping with her archetypal patrons, those messenger goddesses who make it their business to appear, showering grace, to mere mortals, Aquarius woman is the spiritual mascot of the zodiac: that is, one who brings good fortune; but mascot also shares its etymological origin with the word mask. Her infamous love of costumes notwithstanding,

Aquarius probably doesn't realize that it is her birthright to don the proverbial red rubber nose and floppy shoes.

She is the zodiac's, and thus humanity's, comic relief. Aquarius lives all her life as if in the throes of second childhood (70-77 years old), literally taking every opportunity to dress up and play act. Even her everyday wardrobe suggests a bit of costuming. Metaphorically speaking, next to being a clown, cheerleader is Aquarius's favorite guise of all, both roles ensuring she'll bring joy and inspiration to others.

Some say she does so to make up for her own sadness and disappointment, which isn't strictly true: Rather, Aquarius channels her personal grief and grievance into encouragement for others.

"When you can truly face your faults without developing an attitude of inferiority, you will become free to change them."

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You will find it less easy to uproot faults, then to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults; still less of others' faults; in every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong: honor that; rejoice in it; and, as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. Ruskin

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"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls." - Joseph Campbell 1904 - 1987

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"All power is from within and is therefore under our own control." - Robert Collier 1885 - 1950

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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." - Buddha

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"Whether you think you can or you can't either way you are right." - Henry Ford 1863 - 1947

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Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me--
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.

Shel Silverstein

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"Honesty, courage, and integrity are beautiful and sexy."

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at which door are You staring?

When one door of happiness
closes, another opens;
but often we look so long
at the closed door
that we do not see the one
which has been opened for us.
-Helen Keller

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"......Or they are right brained--terribly artistically creative, but cannot compose a complete sentence to save their soul. So I cut 'em some slack on that, too......"

From the book Sextrology - Starsky + Cox

<< Aquarius woman is an inspiration. Her natural disposition is to see the joy in every situation, and she's able to make even the dreariest of events seem like fun. To her the world is painfully beautiful, and she greets every day with an unscripted childlike awe, open to what cheery serendipity might cross her path as she whistles through her routine. She cares little for worldly trends or the trappings of supposed sophistication -- that proverbial square peg who can't be fit to social convention. Aquarius can be an eccentric with a taste for the outlandish , and she is not in the least precious about herself or her appearance. She is the zodiac's finger painter, unafraid of rolling up her sleeves and getting messy in the expressing of her heart's content.....

I Don't Have Favorites...........I HATE the favorite question, since I was very small if I was asked my opinion on my favorite *__whatever__* it would twist my brain all up in knots!! I can never pick a favorite.... sometimes I have a most likable at this moment in time..... but my opinions and interests are so varied that I can hardly keep up with them myself! I luv so many different things all at once! How can I be expected to pick a favorite, when I start to think about it the subject can be split into so many many subcategories each with a favorite for it's own reasons..... lol and there is usually ends up being only one item per subcategory.........

Aqua Destiny

<<However, they belong to the sign of Destiny, and their idea of freedom is not about running away, but an essential need to make their own choices, and to follow their own personal Star, wherever it leads them, and at whatever the cost. Those who cannot, or will not, be true to themselves, pay a far greater price than any other sign, for the earthly security they try to retain can eventually trap them in a self made prison of depression and despair.

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"Yeah, ever notice how an aqua will quietly wander off when something they've offered is snubbed or overlooked. That's a hurt and rejected aqua, they may come back and smile to your face but something in their eyes will have changed, they will remember what one said or did or how they acted."