The Folly of Feeling Human

"Man - full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert, who because of a lack of external enemies and opposition was forced into an oppressive narrowness and regularity of custom - impatiently tore himself apart, persecuted himself, gnawed away at himself, grew upset, and did himself damage - this animal which scraped itself raw against the bars of its cage, which people want to "tame", this impoverished creature, consumed with longing for the wild, had to create in itself an adventure, a torture chamber, an uncertain and dangerous wilderness - this fool, this yearning and puzzled prisoner, was the inventor of "bad conscience". With him was introduced the greatest and weirdest illness, from which human beings up to the present time have not recovered - the suffering of man from his humanness, from himself..."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

PISCES [Feb. 19–March 20]
"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's," wrote visionary poet William Blake. I suggest you write out that quote and keep it in plain sight throughout 2008. The coming months will be prime time for you to design a highly organized, richly disciplined approach to living the life you want to live, and doing it with such rigor and vigor that you will never again have to be controlled by or pay constant homage to someone else's life plan.





-- my Horoscope via The Village Voice