T: I'm losing you.

The title of this post comes from a song by John Lennon, so there's no need to read into it. Or, hell, you may if you'd like to, it's a free country, right?

Thinking a bit about astrology, and I'm thinking I believe in it, just not in the astrologers themselves. With no scientific way to prove they're wrong, they run amok giving out wild predictions we must either accept blindly or completely ignore. Usually I choose the latter. In fact, I make it a point not to check my day's horoscope until just before bed, so I can look and see "hm, was that my day?" And I'd say that 60% of the time it at least loosely fits. But the proof of astrology, I think, is all around us.

For nearly 2400 years the dominant star in the sky has been Polaris (what we know as the "North Star,") and the dominant constellation has been Pisces... hence we are living in the "Age of Pisces." But this is an ongoing rotation of constellations, occurreing roughly every two-and-some millennia. And within the next decade or so, the Age of Pisces will give way to the Age of Aquarius. What does this mean? Well, I could get into the spirituality of it with you, but I couldn't even begin to make it sound plausible. The direct impact of this transition on us as human beings is basically what we're seeing now... hurricanes blow with more force, earthquakes occur more frequently, tsunamis... hell, maybe even avian flu for all we know. It's a turbulent time, but it will not be representative of the next two millennia... just a decade or so. Maybe our entire lifetimes. I don't know. All I do know is that mankind has weathered such transitions before (Ancient Egypt stood through the Age of Aries, and the dawn of mankind generally occurred within the Age of Taurus or earlier,) and we will continue to. I can't believe CNN is actually running entire items, wasting valuable broadcasting time and space with stories like "Is this the apocalypse?" How stupid. If it is, I don't want to know until it gets here. And then this failed experiment called humankind will be erased from the history of the universe once and for all, leaving Earth a beautiful, untouched sphere ready for the sun to expand and engulf it after countless millions of years.

The Age of Aquarius, apparently, will begin in late 2012. We will see, until then, how this supposed transition will take place and affect our lives.

"So," in the words of Andrew Largeman, "there that is." I just went on a whole big rant about astrology and the Age of Aquarius. I just think it's neat that this is set to happen in our lifetime.

It at least distracted me from my own life. I had an experience this morning with a girl that left a sour taste in my mouth because, pleasant as it was, it reminded me that I am fated to be left in a bitter coldness, alone, time and again. I know, I know, "shut up you whiney little punk," but hey, it's my blog. Harvey Pekar never had to deal with such hard criticism when he printed numerous such stories in his American Splendor. And people paid to read that. Anyway, I've gone and depressed myself... or rather, contributed to my depression, along with the rain and greyness of the sky.

What a life. What a weak way to begin my week off. I'd also like to comment on the lameness of that unintentional half-a-pun, but hey, it was unintentional.

Well, there we are.

Thanks everybody.

Keep on rockin'
-Williams