Message for Tuesday 4 June 2024
\Identity in Flux/
Is there a difference between being alone, being lonely, and being lonesome?
I'll wager two cents: Alone just means alone. Lonely means alone plus feeling sadly alone, uncompanioned and missing companionship. Lonesome can be that, but also can be a state of mind which actually welcomes being lonely (at least for a while), like someone sipping a drink at a bar who doesn't want a stranger to start a conversation. He is lonesome, wanting to be alone and even appreciating the melancholy of it.
I just listened to a set of tunes concocted by Spotify for me based on my listening history and they were all lonesome songs, in a good way. Even AI, it seems, is responding to the sun-and-Venus-square-Saturn aspect at its peak this week. I've already described it: "Nobody loves me" or "I don't love anybody" or "I sure wish I knew what my purpose is because nothing seems to be going my way," and so on.
Maybe there are clues in the symbols for the day, compacted into a sonnet:
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A rapid inland stream, a narrow river, is turbulent.
A woman following it is shallow and self-willed.
She holds a bundle of faggots, her hair disordered by
The wind. She's versatile, eccentric, attempting too much
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In confusion. Opportunities she has lost she regains
In imagination. Fluid maturity leads to
Reformulation. Two Dutch children are talking about
Their common background and skill-set, gaining a
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Childlike clarification within everyday ease.
One man observing them is intelligent but egoistic,
Dictatorial, precise without flexibility, a Goth.
Another observer is something else, a dark moving
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Column standing very high, content to enter a stranger and
Depart unknown. The children are rapt into his mystery.
{Tuesday} /Identity in Flux\
Cosmic Piper
Moon in Taurus
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