Week of 10/11 in Cancer: What remained couldn’t be the best part. And yet you imagined it was. There is no way into the heart. You put it all out there.
Maya Angelou was assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend when she was seven. She told her brother, then her abuser was found beaten to death. So she became mute. She did not speak a word for five years, because she believed her words could kill a person.
We’re losing the ability to read beyond what is explicitly said. Context, subtext, implication, nuance, tone, these used to be things people naturally considered when interpreting communication. Now everything has to be taken literally and explained in the most explicit terms.
Week of 8/23 in Cancer: Some sweetest emotion. And in a vice a kind of knowledge of it all. So that you could see things as they are. With a world in-between.