Leo (July 23-August 22)

A Florida woman, upset that her local McDonald’s had run out of Chicken McNuggets, phoned the 911 emergency service line for help. In an unrelated incident, a Florida man took the same action when Burger King told him it had no lemonade to sell him. I recommend that you not indulge in similar overreactions in the coming week, Leo. The Drama Queen or Drama King archetype is threatening to possess you, and I suspect you’ll have to act forcefully to keep it away. If you’re successful, you’ll be visited by a far more congenial archetype — the Social Butterfly. And that would prove to be amusing and productive.
 

Uh oh. I do tend to lean toward the dramatic. It’s not my intention to be that way, but it is my nature. It is something that I try to avoid all the time, a trait that I have worked on at length.I take a deep breath, but I’m pretty sure that there is an eye-roll before the the breath, so even that could be interpreted as dramatic.

I have a man who is wonderful and sweet, but sometimes he’s not easy for me to understand. Sometimes I just don’t get it.  I really have to curb my dramatic tendencies around him. I can’t get offended if he’s only teasing me and I misconstrue his sometimes dry sense of humor for seriousness. He loves me, his intentions toward me are always going to come from a place of love. I know that.

Learning to get along with people, to relax and just roll with it, those are issues that I work on all the time. I used to be a bit prickley. Now I do my best to be prickle-free.

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Leos Can Be Such Drama Queens

“The Amazing Race” is a reality TV show in which two-member teams compete for money and prizes by doing odd feats in exotic locales. One especially stupid and awesome task they performed was carrying 50-pound wheels of cheese down a slippery hill in Switzerland. Everyone started out hauling the wheels on cumbersome wooden backpacks, but hardly anyone was able to make it to the bottom without falling, breaking the backpacks, and having to manually herd the runaway cheese the rest of the way. I foresee a similar fate for you, Leo. You’ll be asked to do things that are both fun and frustrating, all in a cause that in the long run will be worthwhile.

Hhmm. My life is already fun and frustrating. I want sexy! exciting! or at the very least something along the lines of, “…you will enjoy a good long nap.”  I do love to sleep.

I am a fan of  The Amazing Race show and they end up doing some crazy tasks. One involved counting the slats on a very long fence. You think it would be easy, but it wasn’t. I think I remember a bunch of costumed people trying to mess them up. It was some sort of local custom. Very odd, but also oddly entertaining.

If I had to guess on this one, which I guess I do, I’d guess that the “fun and frustrating” would be making room in my house for another person to someday move in. I need to get rid of a good amount of my stuff, because I do not want him looking around thinking, “Oh there’s no way I can fit in here.” 

I have a hard time letting go. You would not believe how hard it is for me to part with something like a paperback book (books are my friends!!). It has to be done. It is going to be worth it “in the long run.”

Frustration, here I come!

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Fun and Frustration Ahead For Leos

I picked up one our local weekly papers and this is what my horoscope said:

Happy Holy Daze Leo!

If I could give you one gift for the holidays, it might be a magic object to add to your love altar – something like a pomegranate resting on red velvet, or a golden heart-shaped magnet or Pablo Neruda’s book 100 Love Sonnets. What?  You don’t have a love altar? Well then please begin creating one as soon as possible, and continue building it throughout 2009. For the next 12 months, the time will be right to get smarter, wilder, and kinder in your approach to creating an intimate connection.

Wow, that sounds exciting!! (Read it like this, “X-cite-TING!) 

I’m going to get to work on my “love altar” right away. Any suggestions? Candles, of course, I can probably find something great from my favorite soy candlemaker.  I like to keep sea shells (another fish in the sea?) and plants close to my bed, so they seem fitting.

Possibly a picture of Robert Pattinson?  No, that’s probably pushing it, aiming a bit too high. I wonder if Robert Pattinson has a slightly older brother, or an uncle?

I’d love to hear your ideas. Please share them with me or better yet, start building a love altar of your own. Even you non-Leos. If you are intersted, you can see your horoscope here.

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Ever Hear Of A Love Altar?