I have on general terms never been a believer in the "power" of horoscopes, never bought all that mystical "Gosh, it says I'm going to have a bad day, damn!" kind of stuff. At the same time however, I have been numerously confronted with cases where general "sign" descriptions have been quite accurate. I don't know whether this is because people have the tendency to find themselves in anything they're presented or that it really makes a difference. However end of the line is I don't think its complete nonsense. What I found interesting was that my dear friend said she looks for hope and comfort in her horoscopes. Hope and comfort?
Doesn't every single person on this planet inevitably have a religion they follow and trust in? A shade of grey of their own reality, their own comfort zone and blanket? Horoscopes might provide the people that believe in them the exact same comfort, guidance and answers to confusing questions such as talking to priests in wooden cubicles might do for Christians. Another socialite of mine, I realized, lives according to the party religion. When she dresses up in fine fine clothes and designer jewelry, sits at the bar with her JD and coke, it's then that she find comfort and security. It's her form of prayer. It's just a matter of perspective.
So why do people disagree when a person with a high threshold and affinity for marijuana says it's his/her religion? Same can be said for books, music, writing, clothes, meditating or climbing up mountains because the one up above told them to. Why is it so difficult for people to believe that all these things can be felt and taken from a very spiritual perspective? That people can truly feel divine intervention when listening to a beautiful tune or reading a touching excerpt. If religion and faith are supposed to serve the purpose of being there for the person, being a comfort blanket with which they can wrap themselves in in times of need, then this assumption and claim shouldn't be difficult to understand at all.
However, the opposite is true. If it's because of the way history has presented us with and developed the concept of religion or just basic human intolerance, many people struggle to take such concepts seriously. As for me, there is nothing that believe in more than the individual, in myself. A horoscope might say I'm supposed to be having passionate sex and the moment or crying over spilled milk, but it all comes down to what I feel, provide, receive, need, feel, want and share. If there is anybody in this world that can comfort me, provide me with guidance and change the course of my life, it's me. And although I hesitate to state so, because of the inherent egoistic connotation, I am a pracitioner of the religion of self. I love, function, receive, tolerate, dislike, act, breathe, move on, believe. I am me, without wooden cubicles and fancy horoscopes. I am spiritual.
So my advice? Look around you and feel the imminent power of security and comfort than is all around us, that people will always search for in different ways and receive it in different ways. Accepting differences in belief should be just as easy as accepting differences in appearance and personalities of mankind.
"See, now I'm thinkin', maybe it means you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9 Millimeter here, he's the shepherd protectin' my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. Now I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo, I'm tryin'"
sweetness.
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