Dear Reader,
Today marks a Full Blue Moon in Sagittarius.
May is held by two full-moons, like mirrors, bookending the month. So I have put together a book list for you based on what your sun sign is asking for this full moon, along with a little horoscope.
I dedicate these Sunday notes to Theodor Adorno.*
Until soon,
Sam
ARIES: I know you’re smart and so does everyone else, but you can’t know everything all the time. As Hannah Arendt said, “No one can see the future.” Take the leap you’ve been afraid to take, the universe will hold you. Or, as Forster writes, “Let yourself go.”
E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
TAURUS: It’s time to let go of what you’ve been holding onto so tightly. When you release your grip on that thing, that person, that project, you’ll finally feel the freedom you’ve been longing for. It’s okay to receive, even when you aren’t trying to make things happen.
J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country
GEMINI: Real love doesn’t ask you to hide. If it’s not you, let it go. Feel the inch of air around your own skin and be in your own energy. You might be accommodating others and making yourself small in ways you haven’t realized. This full moon is an invitation to move closer to yourself. Feel your being in your desire.
Marguerite Duras, The Lover
CANCER: Oh routines. Routines can change your life. Or, interrupting them can. It’s time to shake yours up! Forget the idea of what you’re supposed to do to be successful and do what feels good to you in your body. When you start doing that, your routine will bring you magic.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
LEO: This Blue Moon is an opportunity to ask when the act becomes a way of hiding your true self. It must be hard knowing how much power you wield when you enter a room. It’s okay to be the vulnerable one sometimes. You’ll still be a star.
Patti Smith, Just Kids
VIRGO: Instead of asking where home is this blue moon, ask where you feel the most love. Love is where your home is on this green earth. We need you to challenge our conventional notions of place. Show us how we can imagine other ways of living together.
Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
LIBRA: Speak! Speak! T.S. Eliot said. Let it out. You’ve been holding it in for so long trying to please everyone. Yell, shout, scream if you must. Your body needs the release. Being assertive won’t undermine your equanimity. We need your voice to cut through all the noise out there right now.
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
SCORPIO: This full moon is an invitation to dismantle your personal productivity myth. Your value is not tied to your output. Hand off the baton and stop running for a minute. You work so hard, it’s time to rest and put some of that energy into healing yourself.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
SAGITTARIUS: Sometimes you just don’t feel like yourself, and that’s okay. It just means you are shedding an old identity. Let your old self rest. She worked so hard to get you where you are. Sometimes, it is necessary to return to the mountain and enjoy some solitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
CAPRICORN: (I’m writing my own horoscope): Please, let yourself do nothing. You don’t need to carry that thing you keep obsessing about. Put it down. And remember, rest does not have to be earned. Go read a book and don’t write about it. Not everything has to be useful.
Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
AQUARIUS: Write your name on a sheet of paper and then write the name of everyone you know in your orbit. Cross off anyone who isn’t helping you evolve onto your highest path. Be ruthless. You aren’t meant to be constrained, and some people can only hold you down.
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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PISCES: What is your definition of creative success? Not the world’s, yours? Where have you been holding back? You achieve so much, all the time. But why? Who is it for? It’s time to let go of the definitions that don’t belong to you and write your own.
Mary Oliver, Upstream
*For entertainment and reflection only to inspire people to read good literature.
I'm an Aries, I've ordered my assigned reading! Thanks <3
As an Aries, I've read every book on this list EXCEPT "A Room with a View." Time to add it to the reading list!