Astrology
Astrology | Week of Dec. 8, 2011
ARIES March 21-April 19: What’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen in your life? To answer that question is your first assignment. It’s OK if you can’t decide between the three or four most beautiful things. What’s important is to keep visions of those ...
Astrology | Week of March 3, 2011
ARIES March 21-April 19: “The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. So for instance, if you’re the United States government and you invade and occupy Afghanistan in order to ...
Astrology | Week of April 26, 2012
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “True life is lived when tiny changes occur,” said Leo Tolstoy. I agree. It’s rare for us to undergo rapid, dramatic transformations in short periods of time. That’s why it’s delusional to be forever pining for some big magic intervention ...
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, ...
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 Sept. 22, 2011
ARIES March 21-April 19: “I have a simple philosophy,” said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a self-described hedonist who lived till the age of 96. “Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” That’s not an approach I recommend you pursue all the ...
Astrology | Week of June 30, 2011
ARIES March 21-April 19: When astronaut Buzz Aldrin flew to the moon and back on the spacecraft Apollo 11 in 1969, he was paid less than $8 a day. That has to stand as one of the most flagrant cases of underpaid labor ever — far worse than what you’ve had to ...
