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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you secretly long to learn to speak Norwegian or Navajo? This is a fine week to begin. Have you fantasized about sampling exotic cuisine in a quest for a new favorite food? It’s the perfect moment to act. When you were younger, did you want to become a professional juggler? It’s not too late. Can I interest you in imagining you’re a zoo animal leading a mass escape? I hope so. Have you ever devoted an entire week to being insanely curious and experimenting with serendipitous sensations? This is the time and place.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): My 11-year-old Taurus daughter Zoe has completed her first book of poetry. She calls the collection Secret Freedom. I have asked her to expound upon the meaning of her enigmatic title, but she has so far demurred — perhaps wanting to keep her secret freedom secret. Still, I’m driven to speculate on its implications as I meditate on your current astrological omens. They suggest you’re now communing with a liberating mystery, and that the best way to nurture it is to keep it private. What exactly will this mystery liberate you from? Your “mind-forg’d manacles”— poet William Blake’s term for the way we enslave our own imaginations? A trap that snared you due to a cohort’s karma? Maybe both.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Acting on the authority vested in me by the messenger god Mercury, I hereby present you with a cosmic license to celebrate the radiant, fertile glory that is you. That’s right, Gemini. In honor of your birthday, several restrictions on your self-love have been waived. In fact, the Lords of Karma have promised not to exact retribution if you decide to create the First Church of [Your Name Here]. May I suggest the first worship service begin with readings from Gemini poet Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”?
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Once a year or so, you need me to peer into your past rather than your future. Now is such a time. Ruminating on astrological omens, I’ve become aware of old, half-buried residues re-emerging as a force in your life. I’ve sensed the return of dreams you abandoned prematurely and a showdown with feelings you’ve been faking for so long you’ve forgotten they’re fake. Here, then, is my “postdiction”: Your future will be postponed until you update your relationships with those residues, that dream, and those feelings.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A melodramatic prediction for you, Leo: Quiet bursts of low-key but useful intuitions will erupt from your heart (not your brain). If you pay them reverent attention, you will be rewarded with a ripening of your emotional intelligence. This will give you bold ingenuity to gently smash an obstacle that has always interfered with your ability to know and be yourself. The opportunity to move into closer alignment with your soul’s purpose will scare the hell out of you, but somehow you’ll plow through the fear, and soon will be basking in the most delicious sense of uncertainty you’ve known in many moons.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you enter a bubble-gum bubble-blowing contest this week, you’ll definitely win. A 14-incher is within your grasp. Your chances of succeeding at other activities involving expansion are also at a peak. I doubt if anyone will mind if you allow your ego to swell a bit, for instance. You’ll have excellent luck whenever you branch out or overflow. The only potential downside of the current archetypal trend is that you may blow small problems out of proportion. Fortunately, your billowing imagination may provide ways to dissolve the resulting karma.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Forty-nine percent of all childcare is paid for off the books, as well as 63 percent of lawn care and 71 percent of astrological consultations. I mention this, Libra, because you will soon have a ripe opportunity to channel your talents into activities outside the reach of mainstream customs. In other words, you can expect a proposition from the underground economy or the cultural fringe or the unregulated frontier. Are you game? Do you have the nerve to play on the edge of respectability?
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My astrological studies weren’t enough to decode your destiny this week. I had to add a novel form of divination: videomancy. Prostrating myself in front of my blank tv screen, I prayed I’d be guided to turn it on at the right moment to receive an omen about you. When I felt the spirit rise within me, I pushed the “power” button on the remote and pressed the “channel” button seven times. What came on the screen was a scruffily dressed mother and toddler in a thrift store. They bought a bedraggled baby doll. When they got home, the mom removed the doll’s costume to wash it. A wad of $100 bills fell out. Bingo! Here’s my interpretation of this videomantic oracle, Scorpio: An underprivileged aspect of your psyche will soon make a valuable discovery by accident.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s time for your unbirthday, Sagittarius, that nervous holiday halfway between your birthdays when you suddenly acquire the power to read your own mind. To celebrate, I suggest three actions: Try to see the world through the eyes of people who are most unlike you. Aggressively mess with mysteries that have always threatened to make you feel like a failure. Pull off a ballsy new rebellion against yourself every day. During your unbirthday season, you should ask millions of questions, especially this one: How can you know what you are unless you experiment with being what you’re not?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Dear Dr. Good Vibes: I’m sorry to report that your bright and cheery predictions for my future did not come true. The gods have laid the cosmic smackdown upon me. My metaphorical buttocks are still smarting. I don’t blame you — it is entirely my fault. My wishes were different from what the gods wished for me; I was utterly out of sync with the Grand Scheme of Things. My question now is: How do I break the habit of desiring pleasures that are good for my ego but bad for my soul? — Contrite Cappy.” Dear Contrite: Not blaming others, but rather taking responsibility for your actions, is the best way. And you’ve just done that.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Congratulations! You have an astrological mandate to commune with states of ecstasy this week — not just mildly diverting happiness or goofy pleasure, but real over-the-top rapture. To assist the cosmos in bringing you the fullness of your juicy fate, take a few moments to brainstorm about what adventures would deliver the delight you so richly deserve. These should not be impossible-to-attain fantasies like hang-gliding over the Serengeti tomorrow. Stick to experiences that are distinctly possible, even if they are at the frontiers of your ability to create.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your key symbols for the coming days: a night sea crossing, Jonah in the belly of the whale, a treasure chest dislodged from its hiding place by a flood. Most reliable source of information: your dreams. Totemic animal: octopus. Special number: 44. Secret password: superconductor. Methods for building soul power: taking ritual baths, being naked for hours, singing songs you consider sacred. Inspirational model: Dante Alighieri on his way out of the Inferno. Pop culture book likely to be most helpful: Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
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