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Horoscope for week of March 19, 2009

Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt drew up an index to categorize the discomfort caused by stinging insects. The attack of the bald-faced hornet is "rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door." A paper wasp delivers pain that's "caustic and burning," with a "distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut." The sweat bee, on the other hand, can hurt you in a way that's "light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm." In bringing this to your attention, Gemini, I hope to inspire the rebel in you. Your homework is to create an equally nuanced and precise index of experiences that feel good. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be able to call on tremendous reserves of intelligence as you identify the numerous modes of pleasure that are available to you, and define them in exquisite detail.

1. laughing hysterically. laughter comes from a divine place, that I have been somewhere and back and when i returned the sky or air from that someplace that had settled into my lungs from when I inhaled. it was when I pushed through the fire, through the ring and eviscerated into something else - seeing and feeling, becoming powerful and deep and dark and igniting. my laughter is its bright evidence; its bright spark. yellow on the edges. white at the core.