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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson. That’s my first suggestion. Now, at the energetic peak of your astrological cycle, is a good time to learn to identify the specific gift that each day has to offer you. Here’s another Emersonian gem: “Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.” Where does your purest enthusiasm lie? How will you use it to fuel your ascent to a series of great and commanding moments?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “In the human heart new passions are forever being born,” wrote Francois de La Rochefoucauld. “The overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.” I suppose that’s true. We all have longings that come and go as we evolve. But here’s an equally valid and contradictory truth: In every human heart there are a few passions that last a lifetime. They’re with us from the moment we’re born, and nothing can dilute their intensity. Our destiny revolves around them. These are the passions I hope you will define with precision and nurture with alacrity during the next eight weeks.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you have trouble resisting the urge to stay current on news about famous actresses, you may have what a team of psychologists has certified as “Celebrity Worship Syndrome,” an actual psychiatric condition. Now please listen closely: It is imperative that you stifle this malady during the next 25 days, even if you have a mild case. Your fantasy life needs to soar into unknown frontiers where more of the details of your own personal talents will be revealed, and you can’t afford to be weighed down with fantasies about people you don’t know.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Brother Rob: Our sweet, holy, and pious dog Magdalene told us that she feels you are a direct descendant of Melchior, one of those famous Bethlehem astrologers/magi who brought gifts to the baby Jesus! That’s so cool! Raucous peace to you! — Gabriel and Deana.”
Dear Gabriel and Deana: I’m honored! Give my thanks to Magdalene. Does she have any messages for my Cancerian readers? I’ve been having visions that they will soon be getting gifts from the past and revelations about their heritage and updates concerning their birthrights.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): We all tend to project onto other people the unattractive aspects of ourselves that we refuse to acknowledge. We’re also drawn to anyone who expresses the fully activated versions of our own sleeping potential. Everywhere we go, then, our vision is clouded by the disowned psychic material floating around our unconscious minds. That’s the bad news. The good news is that in the next eight weeks you will have an enhanced ability to access the liabilities and powers buried beneath the surface of your awareness. As a result, your ability to see the objective truth about the world around you should grow dramatically.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The ermine is so fastidious that he will allow himself to be caught by hunters before he will take refuge in a muddy spot,” wrote Leonardo da Vinci in his Bestiary. The legendary behavior of this small mammal has a resemblance to certain Virgos. Let’s hope you’re not one of them. To avoid getting trapped in the coming days, you will have to be willing, even eager, to get dirty. Here’s your motto: The miracle is in the mess.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A friend recently asked, “You really try hard to avoid conflict, don’t you?” That surprised me. In my own perception, I’m pretty combative, at least in my own imagination. The injustice and suffering I see in the world make me mad, and I’m constantly plotting to overthrow the ignorant forces at the root. It’s true that I almost never express naked hostility or engage in outright combat. But that’s because I think the best way for me to fight the ugliness is to whip up lavish doses of beauty and truth and love. Sorry to be talking about myself so much, Libra, but it’s in a good cause: I urge you to be like me in the coming week.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I don’t usually recommend text-messaging a cohort sitting a few feet away or using your cell phone to call the person you’re lying next to in bed. But this would be a good week to do things like that. It’s an excellent time to experiment with how you communicate, to try alternate methods of conversing, to awaken unfamiliar responses as you engage with familiar people. You might want to write a letter in longhand to a comrade you see all the time or sit down and exchange messages by drawing pictures rather than talking.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In my astrological opinion, you should adopt a miscellaneous and serendipitous receptivity in the coming week; you should be extra responsive to the primal flux as its odd luck whisks you through in-between zones and fascinating gray areas. And yet you should be profoundly picky about which stimuli you allow to grab your full attention. In other words, make your mind wide open and allow it to wander freely, but give your favors to only the most piquant twists and tasty bits.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): To advertise its upgraded features, the search engine Ask3D.com rolled out a marketing campaign with a seductive catchphrase: “Instant Getification,” as in immediately acquiring your desired results. I’m borrowing some of that mantra for your horoscope. Your getification levels will be way up in the coming weeks. You will not instantaneously and automatically obtain everything you crave without effort. Rather, it suggests an enhanced power to summon the will and ingenuity and resourcefulness that will help you get what you want.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re entering a phase when it makes sense to expand and dramatize your ego. In light of that poetic license, I’d like to introduce you to the concept of enlightened bragging. It will allow you to tout your own brilliance while disarming anyone tempted to sneer at you for doing so. The playfully self-mocking tone of your enlightened bragging will demonstrate your high opinion of yourself without guilty or defensive feelings. To get started: Make yourself a t-shirt or bumper sticker that reads “I am a Jenius.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Every now and then when the garbage I generate in a week’s time exceeds what one trashcan can hold, I make a special phone call to the refuse and recycling service to ask that they pick up an extra can. If I’m reading your omens correctly, this is one of those times for you, at least from a metaphorical perspective: You need to get rid of more than your usual amount of useless junk and residual wastes — much more, probably, including a backlog of stuff you may not have even realized was garbage.
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