Astrology
Astrology | Week of October 18
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: When Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro laid waste to Peru in 1532, his soldiers found green stones on the land. Were they emeralds? A priest who was traveling with them gave them bad advice. He said that the way to determine whether they...
Astrology | Week of May 30, 2013
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Back in the 1920s, the governor of Texas was determined to forbid the teaching of foreign languages in public schools. To bolster her case, she called on the Bible. “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ,” she said, “it’s good enough ...
Astrology | Week of August 16, 2012
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: These days you have a knack for reclamation and redemption, Aries. If anyone can put fun into what’s dysfunctional, it’s you. You may even be able to infuse neurotic cluelessness with a dose of erotic playfulness. So be confident in your ...
Astrology | Week of June 13, 2013
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Irish poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan didn’t confine his lyrical wit to well-crafted poems on the printed page. He used it to say things that would advance his practical ambitions. For example, when he first met the woman who would eventually ...
Astrology | Week of June 21, 2012
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Swans, geese, and ducks molt all their flight feathers at once, which means they may be unable to fly for several weeks afterwards. We humans don’t do anything like that in a literal way, but we have a psychological analog: times when we shed...
Astrology | Week of February 7, 2013
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible,” said poet Theodore Roethke. For the foreseeable future, Aries, you could and should be a person like that. I’m not saying that you will forevermore be a connoisseur of amazements...
Astrology | Week of October 4
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “In a full heart there is room for everything,” said poet Antonio Porchia, “and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.” That’s an important idea for you to meditate on right now, Aries. The universe is conspiring for you to be visited ...
Astrology | Week of March 27
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: I have coined a new word just for your horoscope this week. It’s “zex,” short for “zen sex.” Zex is a kind of sex in which your mind is at rest, empty of all thoughts. You breathe slowly and calmly, move slowly and calmly, grunt and moan ...
Astrology | Week of October 31, 2013
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Once when I was hiking through Maui’s rain forest, I spied a majestic purple honohono flower sprouting from a rotting log. As I bent down close, I inhaled the merged aromas of moldering wood and sweet floral fragrance. Let’s make this scene ...
