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BY ROB BREZSNY
(March 21-April 19): Your next assignment is to inject more
fun into your job — or into anything that feels like work, for that
matter. You’ve got a head start because lately you’ve been playing
harder than usual. That should give you creative momentum as you
reinvent your approach to activities that push you to your limits
and test your resolve. For best results, be open to the possibility
that you really don’t have to keep being bored and cranky in places
where you’ve assumed you will always be bored and cranky.
ARIES
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The advantage of the incomprehensi-
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): After studying your astrological
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The 19th-century American philosopher
omens, I closed my eyes and asked the spirits for a psychic vision
that would symbolize your imminent future. The scenario that came
up was a pair of toddlers dressed in fine purple satin garments and
wearing golden hats. They looked like a prince and princess, and
were wandering around inside a ritual circle about ten yards in
diameter, drawn with white chalk in a green meadow. Vases of cut
flowers and statues of gods and goddesses ringed the circle. So
what does my vision mean? Maybe this: Two magnificent possibili-
ties have recently been born or will soon be born. You should cast a
protective spell around them, letting them amble and dally within a
proscribed area as their magic ripens.
Henry David Thoreau accomplished a lot. Among his voluminous
body of work was Civil Disobedience, a book that inspired Tolstoy,
Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. In the two-million-word journal
he kept for over two decades, he wrote about nature with a preci-
sion and care that prefigured modern-day environmentalism. But
Thoreau also knew how to relax, and he was free of anxiety about
living up to other people’s standards of success. One passage in his
journal reads, “For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of
snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I
never received payment for it.” He’s your role model for the rest of
2008, Libra. May he inspire you to give yourself the slack you need
and compete with no one but yourself as you become more of the
unique work of art you were born to be.
GEMINI
(May 21-June 20): Some spas are now offering their
clients “butt facials.” The cost for smoothing and toning your skin
in the lower realms can range up to $800 per session. At that steep
price, I can’t in good conscience mandate the procedure for you.
But the astrological omens are favorable for you to take special
care of things at the bottom of your life, even if they are more
metaphorical in nature. So please brainstorm about how you could
upgrade your ballast, strengthen your foundation, and give your
center of gravity a boost.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Studies show that 58 percent of us
think our IQs are higher than average. That can’t be true, of course.
But maybe one sign of a person with a below-average IQ is the
delusion that he’s pretty intelligent. Having said that, however, I
confidently predict that at least 58 percent of all Cancerians will
exceed the mediocre norm in the coming weeks. The figure may
even rise as high as 75 percent. The astrological omens suggest
you have the potential to be smarter than you’ve ever been. Use
your acuity constructively!
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22): Was there a dream that you abandoned
some time ago? Was there a power you recklessly gave up? Do you
ever think longingly about a knack or skill that withered away
because you stopped wielding it with the regularity and excellence
it demanded? It’s time to revisit defeats like those, Leo. According
to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re in good shape to
reimagine the original experiences in ways that could help you
recover what was lost.
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ble is that it never loses its freshness,” wrote French poet Paul
Valery. From that perspective, Virgo, I bet you’ll be sparkling and
brisk in the coming days. You will be cheeky and saucy, crisp and
rosy, bright and well-ventilated. There’ll be so much delightfully
hard-to-understand novelty flowing your way that you will be awak-
ened again and again and again, rising to a higher level of aware-
ness each time.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Everyone’s life is a hero’s journey,
yours included. You have been on an epic quest ever since you first
realized that your destiny is unlike anyone else’s, and that you have
specific tasks to master as you pursue the long-term dreams that
are uniquely meaningful to you. But like all the rest of us, you
sometimes lose sight of this big-picture view for months at a time.
You may even be fairly happy as you focus on your daily details
without any thought of where your you’ll be years from now. If
that’s the rhythm you’ve been in lately, Scorpio — and I suspect it is
— it’s about to change. Your immersion in the next major phase of
your hero’s journey will begin soon.
eye.” He goes on to say that when a person leaves the light and
enters into the shadows, his vision in perplexed, being unaccus-
tomed to the dark. And when he moves from the murk into the
brightness, it takes a while for his sight to adjust to the dazzle.
According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Capricorn, you
had to deal with the first kind of temporary blindness about three
weeks ago, and will begin experiencing the second kind any day now.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In addition to food, air, water,
sleep, and love, every human being needs stories. No one can psy-
chically survive without the continuous flow of narrative through
his or her imagination. And just as there is a big difference
between the physical nourishment provided by a salad or by a
candy bar, so is there a wide range of quality in the stories you
expose yourself to. Soaking up the adventures of über-playboy
Hugh Hefner and his three girlfriends on the TV show The Girls
Next Door will probably deplete your energy and lower your intelli-
gence, while reading Tom Robbins’ novel Jitterbug Perfume may
enhance your mental hygiene and sharpen your perceptions. What
I’m saying here is always true, of course, but it’s especially impor-
tant for you to keep in mind right now. From what I can tell, you’re
ravenous for beautiful, uncanny, uplifting stories.
PISCES
(Feb. 19-March 20): “The uncreative mind can spot
wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong
questions,” said British writer Antony Jay. If you’d like to be in close
alignment with cosmic rhythms, Pisces, you will keep that medita-
tion in the foreground of your awareness. Your imagination will be
extraordinarily fertile in the coming week, and I can’t think of a bet-
ter way to deploy it than to smoke out and lovingly annihilate the
lazy, useless, and just plain bad questions that are threatening to
lead you and others astray.
HOMEWORK : Do you remember the last time you loved your-
self with consummate artfulness and grace? See if you can recreate
that golden age. Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Michelangelo never finished
two-thirds of the sculptures he started. Basketball mega-star
Michael Jordan failed on 26 different occasions when he was given
the ball to try the game-winning shot as time ran out. Of Bob Dylan’s
57 albums, maybe only 15 of them are masterpieces. I bring these
facts to your attention, Sagittarius, in the hope that they will give
you some perspective on the down times in your own track record.
More importantly, I want to let you know that in the coming weeks
you should have access to the kind of energy that Michelangelo,
Jordan, and Dylan had when they were creating their legends.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The bewilderments of the eyes
are of two kinds, and arise from two causes,” wrote Plato in The
Republic, “either from coming out of the light or from going into the
light, which is true of the mind’s eye quite as much as of the bodily
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