Tea drinkers buried their eyes in books–An Unlikely Prophet, Sydney Omarr’s Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for Libra. Seagulls squealed from a speaker perched atop a bookshelf. Jasmine was in the air.
Nature moves in cycles, Stone explained, flashing a diagram of the moon’s phases. We have 100 cycles within our bodies, he said, among them the actual-potential balancing cycle, the cognitive-emotional cycle, and the alternating nasal-airflow cycle. “Not only do cycles apply to Western psychology, they also apply to Eastern philosophy,” he said. “Yin is attracted to yang, yang is attracted to yin. In the Tao Te Ching Lao-tzu says the motion of the Tao is to reverse.”
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Everyone sniffed.
A professional astrologer raised his hand.
“To see a politician this conscious, it’s really encouraging,” said Craig Schuenemann, who wanted to know where Stone was running. When he heard the ward included Ukrainian Village, Roscoe Village, Wicker Park, and Bucktown, he looked pleased. “That’d be a good ward,” he said. “There are a lot of spiritual folks in that neck of the woods.” He left with a window sign.
