On My Ascendency

‘It is … only in the state of complete abandonment and loneliness that we experience the helpful powers of our own nature.’

Carl Jung – Modern Man in Search of a Soul

I AM so good at being on my own I sometimes wonder how far down the road to becoming a hermit I could actually travel – an easy journey for some Capricorns, and not an excessively difficult one for this goat.

WE are ambitous, practical, determined, earthy, capable of achieving anything we set our minds to and we get younger as we get older both in looks and behaviour having been born…