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SUDOKU Place numbers 1-9 so that each row, column and 3x3 square has each number only once. Astrology WEEK OF NOV. 13 BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES (March 21-April 19) : The Akan concept of Sankofa is represented by a bird looking backward while moving forward. The message is “Go back and get it.” You must retrieve wisdom from the past to move into the future. Forgetting where you came from doesn’t liberate you; it orphans you. I encourage you to make Sankofa a prime meditation, Aries. The shape of your be- coming must include the shape of your origin. You can't transcend what you haven't integrated. So look back, retrieve what you left behind, and bring it forward. © P E A R L STA R K W W W. M AT H P U Z Z L E S G A M E S .C O M ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S FREE WILL TAURUS (April 20-May 20) : The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to engage in Strategic forgetting. It’s the art of deliberately unlearning what you were taught about who you should be, what you should want and how you should spend your precious life. Fact: Fanatical brand loyalty to yourself can be an act of self-sabotage. I suggest you fi re yourself from your own expectations. Clock out from the job of being who you were yesterday. It’s liberation time! GEMINI (May 21-June 20) : We should all risk asking supposedly wrong questions. Doing so reminds us that truth and discovery often hide in the compost pile of our mistaken notions. A wrong question can help us shed tired assumptions, expose invisible taboos and lure new in- sights out of hiding. By leaning into the awkward, we invite surprise, which may be a rich source of genuine learning. With that in mind, I invite you to ask the following: Why not? What if I fail spectacularly? What would I do if I weren’t afraid of looking dumb? How can I make this weirder? What if the opposite were true? What if I said yes? What if I said no? What if this is all simpler than I'm making it? What if it’s stranger than I can imagine? CANCER (June 21-July 22) : Cancerian novelist Octavia Butler said her stories were fueled by two obsessions: “Where will we be going?” and “How will we get there?” One critic praised this approach, saying she paid “serious attention to the way human beings actually work together and against each other.” Other critics praised her “clear-headed and brutally unsentimental” explorations of “far-reaching issues of race, sex, power.” She was a gritty visionary whose imag- ination was expansive and attention to detail meticulous. Let’s make her your inspirational role model. Your future self is now leaning toward you, whispering previews and hints about paths still half-formed. You’re being invited to be both a dreamer and builder, both a seer and strate- gist. Where are you going, and how will you get there? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) : The Tagalog language includes the word kilig . It refers to the butter- fl y-in-the-stomach fl utter when something momentous, romantic or cute happens. I suspect kilig will be a featured experience for you in the coming weeks — if you make room for it. Please don’t fi ll up every minute with mundane tasks and relentless worrying. Meditate on the truth that you deserve an infl ux of such blessings and must expand your consciousness to welcome their full arrival. VIRGO (Aug. Jonesin’ Crossword 23-Sept. 22) : Your liver performs countless functions, including storing vita- mins, synthesizing proteins, regulating blood sugar, fi ltering 1.5 quarts of blood per minute and detoxifying metabolic wastes. It can regenerate itself from as little as 25 percent of its original tissue. It’s your internal resurrection machine: proof that some damage is reversible, and some second chances come built-in. Many cultures have regarded the liver not just as an organ, but as the seat of the soul and the source of passions. Some practice ritual purifi cation ceremonies that honor the liver’s pivotal role. In accordance with astrological omens, Virgo, I invite you to celebrate this central repository of your life energy. Regard it as an inspiring symbol of your ability to revitalize yourself. BY MATT JONES “Zoom Lens” — people with the same initials. the rest is ___”: RuPaul 35. New York City’s mayor as 1. Recede 4. Adjust to a new situation of January 1, 2026 39. “Bob’s Burgers” daughter 9. Reach via jet 14. ___-Magnon (early Homo 40. Pay rate 41. Disinclined (to) sapiens) 44. Whatever number 15. Opening 45. Consumer protection gp. 16. Hotel off erings 48. Former Dallas Cowboys 17. U.K. singer who left his guard on the NFL 2010s boy band in 2015 All-Decade Team 19. Trooper maker 51. Back 20. Digital party notice 52. More keen 21. Seafood in a “shooter” 53. “Filthy” money 23. Mosquito net material 54. “WarGames” org. 24. He played Max 56. Youngest of a set of Bialystock in “The comedic fi lm brothers Producers” 59. “Fried Green Tomatoes 28. Volcanic debris at the Whistle Stop Cafe” 29. Election Day mo. author Fannie 30. Repetitive Olympics 60. “___ called to say I love chant you ...” 31. Bed covering 34. “You’re born naked, and 61. 2018 Super Bowl number 62. One-on-one student Across LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) : The pupils of your eyes aren’t black. They are actually holes. Each pupil is an absence, a portal where light enters you and becomes sight. Do you understand how amazing this is? You have two voids in your face through which the world pours itself into your nervous system. These crucial features are literally made of nothing. The voidness is key to your love of life. Everything I just said reframes emptiness not as loss or defi ciency, but as a function- ing joy. Without the pupils’ hollowness, there is no color, no shape, no sunrise, no art. Likewise in emotional life, our ability to be delighted depends on vulnerability. To feel wonder and curiosity is to let the world enter us, just as light enters the eye. 18. Extreme degree 22. Alma mater of Laura Bush, briefl y 24. Harlem Renaissance author ___ Neale Hurston 25. Squares up Down 26. “Caprica” actor Morales 1. Dermatitis type 27. Fall behind 2. Faces courageously 3. Like some youthful charm 29. “All Songs Considered” 4. “Je t’___” (“I love you,” in network 31. Diver’s enclosure French) 32. Reddit Q&A feature 5. Lab evidence 33. Part of a Buddhist title 6. The NBA’s Hawks, on a 35. “NCIS: Tony & ___” (2025 scoreboard spinoff ) 7. Aforementioned 36. Like some diamonds, 8. Ginza’s city 9. Chips with a Chili Cheese sizewise 37. “Death in Venice” author variety 10. Crosses the International Thomas 38. Not sweet, as wine Date Line, perhaps 39. “Space Jam” character, 11. “I’ve made my move” 12. Celebrity gossip website familiarly 42. Mess up, as ink 13. Buckeyes’ sch. 43. Part of MRE 45. “Chill, will you?” 46. “Peter Pan” author 47. Portmanteau in 2016 U.K. news 49. Close again 50. Danny of “Machete” 51. Mojito liquor 53. A bunch 54. Theoretically uncopyable piece of digital art, for short 55. Jazz trumpeter/singer ___ Dara, Nas’s father 57. Stated 58. Seattle hrs. 63. “Ghostbusters” actress Annie 64. ___ Gala (annual NYC event) SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) : Your dreams speak in images, not ideas. They bypass your rational defenses and tell the truth slantwise because the truth straight-on may be too bright to bear. The source of dreams, your unconscious, is fl uent in a language that your waking mind may not be entirely adept in understanding: symbol, metaphor and emotional logic. It tries to tell you things your conscious self refuses to hear. Are you listening? Or are you too busy being rea- sonable? The coming weeks will be a crucial time to tune in to messages from deep within you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) : The tour guide at the museum was describing the leisure habits of ancient Romans. “Each day’s work was often completed by noon,” he said. “For the remainder of the day, they indulged in amusement and pleasure. Over half of the calendar consisted of holidays.” As I heard this cheerful news, my attention gravitated to you, Sagittari- us. You probably can’t permanently arrange your schedule to be like the Romans’. But you’ll be wise to do so during the coming days. Do you dare to give yourself such abundant comfort and delight? Might you be bold enough to rebel against the daily drudgery to honor your soul’s and body’s cravings for relief and release? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) : The Zulu greeting Sawubona means “I see you.” Not just “hello,” but “I acknowledge your existence, your dignity and your humanity.” The response is Ngikhona : “I am here.” In this exchange, people receive a respectful appreciation of the fact that they contain deeper truths below the surface level of their personality. This is the opposite of the Western world’s default state of mutual invisibility. What if you greeted everyone like this, Capricorn — with an intention to bestow honor and recognition? I recommend that you try this experiment. It will spur others to treat you even better than they already do. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) : Bear with me while I propose an outlandish-sounding theory: ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S ©2025 JONESIN’ CROSSWORDS (EDITOR@JONESINCROSSWORDS.COM) support.eugeneweekly.com that you have enough of everything. Not eventually, not after the next achievement, but right now: You have all you need. What if enoughness is not a quantity but a quality of attention? What if enoughness isn’t a perk you have to earn but a treasure you simply claim? In this way of think- ing, you consider the possibility that the fi nish line keeps moving because you keep moving it. And now you will decide to stop doing that. You resolve to believe that this breath, this moment and this gloriously imperfect life are enough, and the voice telling you it’s not enough is selling something you don’t need. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) : The Inuit people have dozens of words for snow. The Scots have over 100 words for rain. Sanskrit is renowned for its detailed and nuanced vocabulary relating to love, tenderness and spiritual bliss. According to some estimates, there are 96 diff erent terms for various expressions of love, including the romantic and sensual kind, as well as compassion, friendship, devotion and transcendence. I invite you to take an inventory of all the kinds of aff ec- tion and care you experience. Now is an excellent phase to expand your understanding of these mysteries — and increase your capacity for giving and receiving them. Homework: What blessing would be most fun for you to bestow right now? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com Go to RealAstrology.com CHECK OUT EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES AND DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. November 13, 2025 19
