{"id":3422,"date":"2004-12-15T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2020-09-01T22:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T02:37:41","slug":"horoscope-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3422","title":{"rendered":"Horoscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment -->TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have you heard of the book, *Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry?* How about George Orwell&#8217;s science fiction novel, *1984,* in which the government trumpets the slogan, &#8220;War is peace, freedom is slavery, <SCRIPT><!--D([\"mb\",\" ignorance is strength&quot;? If I could, I'd give you these books as holiday<br \/> gifts, Taurus. I'd also present you with an altar made of fine wood. With<br \/> these foundation materials, I'd ask you to begin building a Truth Shrine in<br \/> your home. This source of power might help you stay alert for and<br \/> immune to the elevated levels of BS you'll be called on to fend off in<br \/> 2005. Maybe it would also inspire you to be in service to us all as you<br \/> earn the title of &quot;Radical Truth-Teller.&quot;\n\n GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As I meditated about what would be the<br \/> perfect holiday gift for you, I kept coming back to the fantasy of a<br \/> thousand doughnuts. Nothing pleased me more than the mental image of<br \/> your living room floor covered with boxes of Bavarian cream, chocolate<br \/> frosted, jelly-filled, glazed, and apple crumb doughnuts. Here's the<br \/> astrological explanation for my intuition: I think fate plans to blow your<br \/> mind with sweet extravagance in 2005. Receiving a thousand doughnuts<br \/> would be a metaphorical rehearsal.\n\n CANCER (June 21-July 22): Over the centuries, numerous ships carrying<br \/> treasure have suffered mishaps and sunk to the bottom of the world's<br \/> oceans. Most have remained there undisturbed, their gold and jewels<br \/> seemingly lost forever. In the last decade, though, teams of treasure<br \/> hunters have developed high-tech recovery equipment that allows them<br \/> to locate and extract the sunken riches. I believe that there will be a<br \/> comparable development in your life in the coming months, Cancerian.<br \/> You'll find ways to access valuables from the past--stuff you had always<br \/> assumed was irretrievable. Your first project will become apparent soon.<br \/> Here are a few symbolic holiday gifts you might consider buying yourself:<br \/> sonar, a diving suit, a treasure chest.\n\n LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Many spiritual teachers say you're most likely to<br \/> succeed at meditation if you sit quietly in a sanctuary. They believe you<br \/> need to retreat from the world in order to develop compassionate<br \/>\",1]);\/\/--><\/SCRIPT>ignorance is strength&#8221;? If I could, I&#8217;d give you these books as holiday gifts, Taurus. I&#8217;d also present you with an altar made of fine wood. With these foundation materials, I&#8217;d ask you to begin building a Truth Shrine in your home. This source of power might help you stay alert for and immune to the elevated levels of BS you&#8217;ll be called on to fend off in 2005. Maybe it would also inspire you to be in service to us all as you earn the title of &#8220;Radical Truth-Teller.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have you heard of the book, *Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry?* How about George Orwell&#8217;s science fiction novel, *1984,* in which the government trumpets the slogan, &#8220;War &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,38],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-livejournal","tag-quickie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-Tc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6366,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions\/6366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}