Wine and Horses and Rejection 3

Eat more white and purple foods to strengthen your psychic abilities.

Does red wine count? It looks purple. What about food that was white (rice noodles) until I put sauce on it? Oatmeal is white-ish, right? Or is it more taupe?

Suddenly a career in brain surgery sounds like just the thing -- even though you've been trained in accounting. It's time to change horses, right here in the middle of the stream.

Vraiment? Fine. Looking for my next horse. But what the heck am I going to do? I have no skills and I'm too tired and sore (see previous post) to learn any. Is there any sort of compensation for training for a marathon? I'd ride that horse.

Your dreams about where your career path is leading can be derailed today as someone challenges your capability.

I am TOTALLY prepared for this to happen when I go in to work today. I'll be surprised if it doesn't. Horoscope, I'd like you to be wrong.

There's a precious reward hanging in the balance. There's also a difficult maze you must maneuver to reach the goal. You will feel agile enough to pull this off.

Horoscope! Haven't you been paying attention? I'm stiff and sore.

Career plans slightly derailed but only because I have NO idea what's going to happen in the next few months and have to convince someone to see me differently and he's not cooperating. No maze, no reward.

Horses in the stream 3

Growing dissatisfaction with the status quo can create a rebellious atmosphere. To break the monotony you might consider changing horses in midstream, but be careful you don't end up in over your head. (Detroit News)

So I'm rebelliously mixing metaphors? Though, I guess if you are changing horses midstream and the stream is kinda deep you could end up in over your head. But if the stream was that deep, would you really try changing horses in the middle of it? And why would you change horses midstream anyway? Why not just get across the stream then....

OK, just had to stop myself and google the origin of that phrase. This is from The Phrase Finder:

Meaning
Don't change your leader or your basic position when part-way through a campaign or a project .

Origin
From an 1864 speech by Abraham Lincoln, in reply to Delegation from the National Union League who were urging him to be their presidential candidate. 'An old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

I still don't understand it, and suspect that whoever writes the horoscopes for the Detroit News is still all caught up in the Obama/Lincoln thing.