The Truth of Gracen's Stars

I’m a Libra, an October baby. Unlike Sierra, I do not receive a daily horoscope. In fact, I rarely check mine in the newspaper. So, as research for my blog today, I located my horoscope for Thursday, May 29, 2008, and decided to see how accurate it was.

Here was my horoscope for Thursday:

“A minor aspect from the moon is likely to have you craving a little space today. The irritating influences will fade by the start of the weekend, but in the meantime spreading yourself too thin or too many minor distractions will irritate you. Close the door this evening and settle down to watch your favorite movie!”

I didn’t read my horoscope until 11:38 p.m. Thursday evening, so the day was almost over. As far as accuracy went, well, it was eerily dead on.

Boy was I craving space! My six-year-old son—we’ll call him Avery to protect the guilty—has been sick with the stomach flu for the past two days. By nature Avery is a drama king anyway, so when he’s really sick and not just faking it, the drama reaches epic proportions. So bad that he wanted to call my friend and tell her he was sick. Seriously, how much sympathy does one person need?

So, today, Avery is all better, not throwing up, but—and this is a big but—he’s been sick, so now it’s irritation city. We’ve had the same conversation about karate fifty times today alone—a bit dramatic, I know, but I learned from the best…Avery—and he still fails to understand what is going on. Even though it is the same routine at every testing cycle. Now, I do not expect any of you to understand that cycle, but we’ve been doing karate for four and half years, so I definitely expect him to understand the testing cycle. And truly that wasn't even the beginning of it. He wanted to misbehave while waiting for his brother at the orthodontist. Anything I said, he thought he could argue me into submission. By the end of the day, I was worn out and ragged from arguing with him.

If I’m labeling Avery as my “irritating influences”, strangely enough just like the horoscope predicts, it will most definitely fade by the start of the weekend! His grandparents are arriving today to take Avery with them tomorrow for a week long vacation at their house. WOW! Spooky!

You might be wondering what the “minor distractions” that “will irritate me” are? That one is easy…Supernatural TV forum! I swear if I don’t stop talking to them, I’m never going to finish writing my book. Just when I say I’m done, I get a “topic reply notification” and I’m SUCKED right back into the void of endless debates. *sigh* I'm so weak.

So, the final part of my horoscope…“Close the door this evening and settle down to watch your favorite movie!” Oh…my…God! Can things get any freakier? I shoved my laptop aside (I loosely assumed that was the doorway to hell...um, rather, I mean doorway to the forum) and watched a movie with my oldest son!

Just in case anyone missed it in paragraph one, I am the skeptic when it comes to horoscopes. I think they can be accurate, but only if it is a reading for a specific person. The horoscope above was for all Libras yesterday. So, what do you think? Was it prophetic or could I have applied it to my life on Tuesday or Wednesday or even today?

Have a great weekend everyone! Don’t forget to check back tomorrow to enter for your chance to win a pdf copy of Terry Spear’s e-book!