Anna Patrick's Blog, page 155
May 7, 2016
Scorpio Writers
The Haunted Mythologist. The past looms crucially as both treasure and trouble for many Scorpio writers. Whether personal or historical, realistic or surrealistically rendered, the workings of the Scorpio mind reach out to grasp some of the most difficult events of the past. Scorpios love to mine grand scale ethical quandaries for redemption and glimmers of magic and humor. Although not always able to fully extricate themselves from their own complex histories, Scorpios are passionate, dedicated writers. They love nothing more than to translate personal hardship into the universal registers of art. One shortcoming of the Scorpio arises when the urge to redeem the past leads to decadence or self-indulgence.
Sylvia Plath October 27, 1932
Maxine Hong Kingston October 27, 1940
John Keats October 31, 1795
Stephen Crane November 1, 1871
Margaret Mitchell November 8, 1900
Anne Sexton November 9, 1928
Neil Gaiman November 10, 1960
Fyodor Dostoevsky November 11, 1821
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. November 11, 1922
Robert Louis Stevenson November 13, 1850
Chinua Achebe November 16, 1930
Margaret Atwood November 18, 1939
Nadine Gordimer November 20,1923
Voltaire November 21, 1694
Some of my influences are bolded. Forever questioning my worthiness as an author if I’m neither a scorpio nor do I have a piscean moon.
I’d love to see a piscean moon author list like this.
May 6, 2016
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
"How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself?"
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
May 5, 2016
Given the mix of photography and meditation on your blog, have you experimented with Miksang? Pretty fascinating discipline.
No I’m not familiar with it! Thanks for giving me something to research, sounds up my alley.
"You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you."
- After You
sjovris:
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, tr....
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, tr. Andrew R. MacAndrew
My favorite book of all.
