Changes of Signs/Changes of Times

OK, so I'm going to venture out onto one of those limbs

just flowering with hypotheticals

and propose

that all the Scorpios in the world

who just found out they may now be

Libras, or -- heaven forbid --

Virgos, had better bite the bullet

and be it.

The times they are a changing,

the earth is moving,

and so must you

and me ------

I've always prided myself

on my balanced sign,  Libra

(with Aries rising, an 

astrologer once told me,

and I liked that too),

and now I'm being asked 

to give up balance and yield

to chastity.
(Virgo, the virgin, ergo, chaste?)

But I think I still have my

Aries rising, unless

that has become

a Pisces,

which really isn't all that bad:

Virgo with Pisces rising may give me

a new kind of balance, 

one that doesn't procrastinate as much

as I've done as a Libra.

(sciencedaily)

Indeed, I see 

real optimism in 

this celestial realignment:

we can all adopt the positives

of our new position

and keep the best of our former

selves, as well. 

This is not to say

we won't all have our flaws,

but by adopting our new signs,

we may

take strides towards a new empathy

towards the perspectives of Others.

Perhaps even the very Other

who, astrologically,

six months ago

was the very sign with which we were told

we were least compatible

is now the very sign

we must become.

So, dear Scorpios,

as I said at the beginning

of this meandering entry:

try your hand at a little 

balance, peacefulness, and justice,

and I'll be,

well,

whatever a Virgo
is supposed to be
within reason.

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