"In a YouTube video, I watched Korean artisans make hanji paper in the same way their predecessors have for 1,300 years. It was complicated and meditative. They peeled off the inner bark of mulberry trees, then soaked it, cooked it and pounded it into pulp. After mixing the mash with the aibika plant, they spread it out on screens and let it dry. I learned that this gorgeous, luminous paper can endure for a thousand years."
"Legendary jazz musician Sun Ra was a Gemini who claimed to be from the planet Saturn. He aspired to live in a state of "cosmic discipline"-not just in his musical training but in his devotion to self-improvement, aesthetic exploration and a connection to transcendent realities. He fused outrageous style with sacred order, chaos with clarity. I invite you to draw inspiration from him. Put your personal flair in service to noble ideas. Align your exuberant self-expression with your higher purpose. Show off if it helps wake people up."
Aries: Practice Tonglen meditation by visualizing breathing in others' suffering and breathing out relief, healing, or compassion; use the practice personally to transform tension and stress into courage, vitality, and healing. Taurus: Observe hanji papermaking — peeling mulberry bark, soaking, cooking, pounding, mixing with aibika, spreading on screens, and drying — and apply steady, artful persistence to soften what feels unyielding and shape raw materials into durable beauty. Gemini: Emulate Sun Ra's cosmic discipline by fusing flamboyant style with sacred order and aligning exuberant self-expression with higher purpose. Cancer: Introduces the Inuit concept qarrtsiluni, "waiting in the darkness for something to burst forth."
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