October forecast
From Susan Miller’s AstrologyZone for October, part of my Capricorn forecast:
This is a key month when so much of what you have worked toward will be rewarded. For decades, Saturn has been inching toward your mid-heaven, which is located at the very top of your chart, and will reach this pinnacle point on October 29.
It is also important to note that Saturn does not come by this part of your chart very often, only once every 29 years. The last time you hosted this planet in your tenth house of career achievement was 1980 to mid-1983.
What particularly hits me about these two sections of my forecast is that it was between 1980 and ‘83 that I quit college and later returned on my own dime. It was a huge turning point in my life.
Bring it on 
Bye-bye to ‘normalcy’
Boy, did I love writing this Game Plan column. All it took was one guy at a cocktail party expressing an assumption about life coaching and I was off and running. Effortless, channeled writing. Check out Breaking Out of ‘Normalcy’ and let me know what you think.
On Safire
Maureen Dowd remembering esteemed conservative wordsmith and New York Times colleague William Safire: On Safire.
Just terrific.
Monday
Such a productive day. Love that. Sets the tone for the week.
No need to stop it now while I’m on a roll. The torrential downpour outside my window will be nice accompaniment.
The tale of the manifested shoe
I am the queen of manifesting!
Back in March I wrote this about Diane von Furstenberg in a Game Plan column:
Truly, I could write this entire column about the shoes Diane von Furstenberg was wearing at Florence Gould Hall Monday night … From the third row in the auditorium, dead center, I could see her well-defined cheekbones, a black-and-white butterfly print dress of her own making, her long perfectly crossed legs made even longer in smooth black tights, and those delicious shoes. Let’s at least give them their own sentence. Picture sleek, black suede slingbacks with a red platform and a dizzyingly high red octagonal-shaped heel.
Fast forward to today and me in Manhattan running an errand in T.J. Maxx. My mission is the housewares department and then out. I am right on course heading for the exit when I take a tiny detour into shoes. Immediately I see a pair and think, “They look like the shoes Diane von Furstenberg was wearing that day, but they can’t be … ”
I pick them up. They are indeed DVF and they are an all-black version of the ones I drooled over in March. My size. Seriously good price. I try them on and despite their towering heels they are easy to walk in.
You know I own those shoes. It was like The Universe hand delivered them. And for that, I say thank you!
Streisand does The Village
Mamma mia. How did I miss the lottery for tickets to see Barbra Streisand at the Village Vanguard tomorrow night?
Well, her new album will be released this week and, according to The New York Times article on her, it is filled with “mellow, jazzy, intimate reflections on love.”
I’ll take solace in that.
You’ve got to start somewhere
One of my favorite things about the 2009 Emmy Awards seems to have gone unnoticed — host Neil Patrick Harris introduced presenters using some obscure role they had before they “made it.”
For example, at one point he introduced Jimmy Fallon as the guy who once played Photographer No. 1 in episode 42 of Spin City. That approach instantly brings home what too many of us forget: the accomplished among us started somewhere.
To read the rest of today’s Game Plan: You’ve Got to Start Somewhere.
Late-night Barbra
So glad I stayed up to catch the 1 a.m rerun of The Oprah Winfrey Show tonight. I was with a client earlier and missed the incomparable Barbra Streisand when the showed aired at 4 p.m.
Babs was a delight. Oprah asked meaningful questions, at least to this onlooker who enjoys hearing how people from modest means handle turning their gifts into real life wealth and the spiritual component that comes with that.
It was also wonderful to see and hear a seemingly relaxed Streisand perform. Ah, the velvety voice.
Come back to the Garden, Babs. I’d love to see you a third time.
The always insightful Paulo Coelho
Terrific quote from author Paulo Coelho, taken from his book Warrior of the Light: Short Notes on Accepting Failure, Embracing Life, and Rising to Your Destiny, which came to me courtesy of my friend Kathi:
“When I draw my bow,” says Herridel to his Zen master, “there comes a point when I feel as if I will get breathless if I do not let fly at once.”
“If you continue to try to provoke the moment when you must release the arrow, you will never learn the art of the archer,” says his master. “Sometimes, it is the archer’s own overactive desire that ruins the accuracy of the shot.”
A Warrior of the Light sometimes thinks: “If I do not do something, it will not be done.”
It is not quite like that. He must act, but he must allow room for the Universe to act too.
She ’sees’ your dream job … really
Writing Game Plan affords me the opportunity to meet the best, most fascinating people. Today’s column is about Sue Frederick, whose book I See Your Dream Job captivated me from page one. Check out She ‘Sees’ Your Dream Job to learn more about this phenemonal intuitive career coach.
