Well, I'll just crawl back in bed then....Not.

For kicks and giggles and not for any real advice at all, I have my horoscope on my Google homepage. It is always entertaining and sometimes even freaky.  I named this little blog "retroscope" because I like to make fun of "horoscopes".  So, if horoscopes are supposed to predict the future, then my retroscope will report the past.  I know that I have the advantage here because, obviously, the retroscope is just a recap of the days events.  However, I can skew them to sound mystical and mysterious just as well as the horoscope people can...with 100% accuracy too. For instance, yesterday's retroscope would go something like this, "Today, your freaky house of Mars will be pouncing all over your Terra Firma because two of your offspring will constantly argue and cause your inner carma peace thingy to be askew"...Translated:  "Your daughters will fight as usual and make you want to lock yourself in a tiny padded, sound proof room and sit clutching your knees and rocking back and forth....so just stay in bed."  But of course, I couldn't do that.  I had to go to work.

Which brings me to the actual horoscope for today and what prompted this blog.   It says:

"Somber Saturn and your key planet Venus may issue you a harsh reality check today. Normally, you get along well with others at work, but now it could seem as if they are on your case as tenderhearted Venus runs up against stern Saturn in your 6th House of Employment."

Now, I don't know just how many houses of employment I have, but I'm pretty sure that I've had more than 6 jobs in my life, and in each one, reality checks were part of the day.  On the days that I go to work, (with a caseload of usually at least 16 patients for a case manager depending on who I'm working for that day), I figure I have at least 16 chances to have a reality check which can sometimes not be so good. The other day, the horoscope said I would have a great day at work...which turned out to be just an ordinary day. But what aggravates me about horoscopes and why I like to poke fun at them so much is because I think they are deceptive...and I mean deceptive in the biblical sense. Anytime I start focusing on "what could happen" instead of the fact that God is on my side and no matter what happens, that won't change, then I am setting myself up for hurt. Wouldn't it be more beneficial to my soul if I took stock in these words?

"If you make the Most High your dwelling - even the Lord, who is my refuge - then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent.  For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.  You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.  Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.  With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation."  Psalm 91: 9-16

I'd rather put my faith in something like that instead of some mystical "6th house of employment". God has saved me so many times I have lost track.  Just the other day, I was almost t-boned on the road, but I wasn't hurt.  Sometimes, there have been jobs (maybe those were the 5th houses of employment) that I thought would have been just awesome, but turns out, they would have been horrible. So, you can have the horoscopes...I'll stick to the retroscope and look to the "biblicalscope" for encouragement. Some parts of it are just as mystical, but I don't care.  What I don't understand, I guess I'll ask the Lord in Heaven someday.

And with that kind of back up, (in other words, "if God is for us, who can be against us?"), then I can now go to work confident that no matter what happens, God is with me and will take care of it all. That's a reality check that won't bounce.