Astrology
Astrology | Week of Dec. 17, 2009
ARIES March 21-April 19: I don’t understand why the astronomers responsible for naming new-found objects are so devoid of flair. Here’s a prime example: They found a blazar, or blazing quasi-stellar object, in a faraway galaxy. It’s powered by a supermassive black ...
Astrology | Week of Feb. 11, 2010
ARIES March 21-April 19: “Hate leaves ugly scars,” wrote author Mignon McLaughlin, but “love leaves beautiful ones.” If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, Aries, you’re scheduled to receive at least one of the beautiful kind of scars in the coming months...
Astrology | Week of April 4, 2013
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 ...
Astrology | Week of March 31, 2011
ARIES March 21-April 19: This is an excellent time to study the book Assholeology: The Science Behind Getting Your Way — and Getting Away with it. In fact, the cosmos would not only look the other way if you acted on the principles described therein; the cosmos is ...
Astrology | Week of Dec. 30, 2010
ARIES March 21-April 19: “Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed,” said writer Irene Peter. That should be cautionary advice for you in 2011, Aries. From what I can tell, it will be relatively easy for you to rearrange the way things...
Astrology | Week of December 27, 2012
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...
Astrology | Week of August 18, 2011
ARIES March 21-April 19: Time magazine asked Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough why he started writing a biography of Pablo Picasso but never finished it. McCullough said it was because the famous artist turned out to be boring. He attracted a steady...
Astrology | Week of Oct. 14, 2010
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, ...
