It’s The Full Moon – Hunter’s Moon 2019
Dear seekers after truth,
For centuries, an October full moon has been called a Hunter’s Moon, so named because the fields have been harvested and cleared and the fattened deer are easy targets—though I’m sure that won’t stop the president from calling for a full-scale investigation.
Anyways, here we go.
HOROSCOPES
Aries
This month, you will click to download the new Mac operating system. The “tech vacation” that follows will be a breath of fresh air.
Taurus
This month, a four-year-old will ask you if jellyfish are made of jelly and you will be just plain stumped.
Gemini
This month, you will get in an argument at a Dunkin Donuts drive-thru that will lead to a pumpkin spiced third-degree burn.
Cancer
This month, you will accidentally throw out your favorite thermos in a trash barrel too disgusting and public to even think about retrieving it. Sorry.
Leo
This month, after taking a quarter of an Ambien, you will sleep-Uber.
Virgo
This month, your Halloween will get so out-of-hand that you end the night burying a borrowed tuxedo in the Fens.
Libra
This month, you will invest heavily in Facebook’s new digital currency because it shares a name with your astrological sign and that must be good luck; a week later, you will explain to baffled employees at CubeSmart that nothing in the contract explicitly prohibits you from living in your storage unit.
Scorpio
This month, while idling at a red light, you will figure it all out—the meaning of life, the origins of the universe, all of it.
Sagittarius
This month, while visiting a pumpkin patch, you will turn your ankle on a gourd and teach a handful of kids a brand new vocabulary word.
Capricorn
This month, you will be so hard up for cash that you will drive two towns over to dump your child’s trick-or-treat candy into a Coinstar.
Aquarius
This month, while driving to work, the scent of roasted nuts will transport you back to the Fenway Park of your childhood, just before the car breaks down and you discover that squirrels have filled the engine with 200 acorns.
Pisces
This month, after running out of candy on Halloween night, you will turn off all the lights to pretend no one’s home—that’s when the ghost gets you.
WRITING NEWS
Vermeer Through a New Lens is currently on view at MIT’s Rotch Library where it will remain through November 29th provided no art thieves take a shine to it.
As you know, Halloween is approaching, holding a bloody knife. Every year I try to write something ghoulish to propitiate the various evil spirits that will be abroad. Please check my website at the end of the month (or follow me on Facebook) for a link to an otherworldly radio piece that will be airing on October 31st on WVIA.
—WD
Song of the Month:
Sturgill Simpson - Make Art Not Friends