It arrived on Monday, and my reply to her contained a copy of that horoscope.

The I Ching “told” me the same thing, so I had some advance notice.

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A few years earlier I asked the I Ching if I should marry a girlfriend, and the reply was …

When you drink from a river it is not necessary to submerge your whole head.”

He lived in Sparks, Nevada, 540 miles away from where I was in Carpinteria, California, and I considered myself lucky if I saw him once a year.

Perhaps I’m an archetypal Aquarius?

Rob Brezsny’s horoscope column predicted I would sell my home on a specific day, and I sold my mobile home on that exact day.

“Systemic candidiasis is a myth: According to Dr. Ray Peat, most of what people believe about candida is wrong, but candida can become a problem for sick people. IgA is the main type of antibody on surfaces and secretions and should protect against candidiasis. But IgA is deficient in hypothyroidism, so hypothyroid people have more susceptible membranes, and the yeasts thrive on sugar that can appear in the secretions in diabetes/stress, but they adhere to any cell with estradiol in it, thinking they have found a fertile yeast. Eating sugar and fruit is helpful, rather than harmful as the cultists say, because well nourished yeasts aren’t harmful in the intestine. But starved yeasts need sugar and so they project invasive filaments into the intestinal wall, and can get into the blood stream, at which point — if they aren’t quickly destroyed by white blood cells — they can grow and quickly kill the person. In a typical year, a few people in the world get invasive candida and quickly die, but millions of Americans will insist that they ‘have candida in the bloodstream.’ Eating sugar (fruits, fruit juices) lowers cortisol, keeping the white cells working, helps to increase thyroid, and keeps the yeast from becoming invasive. PUFA (polyunsaturated fatty acids or omega-3 and -6 oils) are yeast stimulants, unlike saturated fats. The white film on grapes is a layer of yeast cells, that live there because of the PUFA in the waxy surface of the grape.”

“Jing is the foundation of the Qi. There are over 30 different kinds of jing. I just open the keyhole.”