Astrology

ARIES March 21-April 19: In December 1915, the California city of San Diego was suffering from a drought. City officials hired a professional “moisture accelerator”...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Once upon a time, Calvin of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip made this bold declaration: “Happiness isn’t good enough for...

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “Art cannot be modern,” said Austrian painter Egon Schiele. “Art is primordially eternal.” I love that idea. Not all of the artifacts called “art” fit that scrupulous definition, of course. Katy Perry’s music and the film Wreck-It Ralph may ...

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ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Here’s the curious message I derived from the current astrological configurations: It’s one of those rare times when a wall may actually help bring people together. How? Why? The omens don’t reveal that specific information. They only tell me...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Imagine you’re one of four porcupines caught in frigid weather. To keep warm, you all have the urge to huddle together and...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Until recently, no cricket had ever been observed pollinating a flower. All the evidence showed, in fact, that crickets don’t help flowers — they devour them. Then one night last January on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, ...

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: In the sci-fi film trilogy The Matrix, the heroes are able to instantaneously acquire certain complex skills via software that’s downloaded directly into their brains. In this way, the female hacker named Trinity masters the art of piloting a...

ARIES March 21-April 19: A critic described Leonardo da Vinci’s painting the Mona Lisa as “the most visited, most written about, most sung about, most...

ARIES March 21-April 19: In his poem “Litany,” Aries poet Billy Collins testifies that he is “the sound of rain on the roof.” He also...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Golden orb spiders of Madagascar spin robust webs. Their silk is stronger than steel yet able to bend and expand when struck by insects. Here’s an equally amazing facet of their work: Each morning they eat what remains of yesterday’s web ...

ARIES March 21-April 19: On May 4, 2019, my Aries friend Leah woke up in a state of amazement. During the night, she felt she...