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Topic: Giddyup!!!
The Horse Story...
In the summers during high school, my sisters and I got to stay at our grandparent's in Wisconsin. It was a beautiful little resort town and we lived just up the highway from a beautiful little resort-Lake Lawn Lodge. There was a stables there and an old friend of my grandfather's ran it with his daughter and son-in-law. There were about 32 trail horses, and guests of the resort would get a 45 minute ride for about $7. To me, that was a small fortune. Lucky for me, the people who ran the stables let me stay there and hang around the horses and me and one of my friends would spend all day (7am-6pm) saddling, feeding, brushing, petting, getting the horses out for the guests to ride, and putting them back when they were done. At some point in the afternoon, we would get to go out on one of the trail rides. That was our pay. It was all I wanted. Work was play. My favorite horse was this ornery old paint named Hombre.
This last year, a friend of mine and I were looking at my astrological chart. I have my sun in Capricorn-the house of public standing, but I have 4 planets in my 5th house right next door-in Sagittarius (the Centaur)-the house of learning and philosophy in the position of creativity (and sex). She told me that in order to get to the point where I make my work play (and stop trudging around on the burro-at the little bull)I had to get that Capricorn sun to jump the fence and join the happy-go-lucky Sagittarian horses.
Well, imagine how happy I was yesterday, to see on the FRONT PAGE of the local newspaper, on my last real work day, a line of 5 horses-1 brown, one paint, and then three more brown, parading across the page!!! The caption above the photo said "GIDDYUP AND AWAY!!!". The paint was doing this little bucking bronco move, and it looked so playful-I knew this was my Capricorn horse, making a break for it!!! Why, yes, if this was anyone else's life, I would say "that's just crazy!!!" but since it is the way things work in my life all of the time, I just giggle at the cosmic commedians, and say "GOOD ONE!!!" ;) THANKS!
Posted by mandalafly
at 12:01 AM PST
Updated: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:31 AM PST