SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Paris Review interviewed Mexican poet Octavio Paz. “Just how much revising do you do?” the interviewer asked. “I revise incessantly,” Paz replied. “Some critics say too much, and they may be right. But if there’s a danger in revising, there is much more danger in not revising. I believe in inspiration, but I also believe that we’ve got to help inspiration, restrain it, and even contradict it.” You’re ripe for an intense revision phase. Inspiration has visited a lot lately, but now it’ll subside so you can wrangle all your raw material into graceful, resilient, enduring shapes.
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