Virgo:: If you use email, you have a spam filter. You block out the sales pitches, fake information, and random noise that constantly flow toward your inbox. In the coming week, I urge you to expand your concept of what constitutes spam by shielding yourself against all the other junk food for thought that besieges you. Be ruthlessly discerning about the toxins that spew from the radio, TV, Web, newspapers, and magazines. Minimize your contact with narcissists who think "conversation" consists of you soaking up their compulsive self-revelations. You might even erect a psychic spam filter to repel the fearful images that sometimes bubble up from your subconscious mind.
A scorpion wanted to cross a river, but she could not swim.
"Frog!" she said. "I want to cross the river - give me a ride on your back."
"If I let you ride on my back, you will sting me!" the frog replied.
"Of course I won't," the scorpion said. "If I sting you, I would die too."
The frog considered this, and saw the truth of it, and agreed to ferry the scorpion.
Halfway across the river, the scorpion stung the frog.
"Now I will die, and you will drown!" the frog cried. "Why would you do this?"
The scorpion was silent a moment. Finally, with a shrug, she replied, "It's my nature."
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