TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Week of December 28, 2000
In his book, Letter to Saint Augustine, Haniel Long muses
about the lingering traces of old wounds. He writes that when
his friend was a boy, "he caught a carp embedded in which were
the talons of an osprey. Apparently years before, the hawk had
dived for its prey, but misjudged its size. The carp was too
heavy to lift out of the water, and the bird of prey was
pulled under and drowned. The fish then lived as best it could
with the great bird clamped to it, till time disintegrated the
carcass, and freed it, all but the bony structure of the
talon." I offer this story as a talismanic meditation for the
new year, Taurus. Like the carp, you still carry the remnants
of an old attack. Unlike the carp, you now have the means to
rid yourself forever of those remnants.