Rob Brezsny

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANCER (June 21 – July 20) Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Acquire a new personal symbol that thrills your mind and mobilizes your soul. AUGUST: Reconfigure the way you deal with money. Get smarter about your finances. SEPTEMBER: It’s time to expedite your learning. But streetwise education […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANCER (June 21 – July 20) Some traditional astrologers believe solar eclipses are sour omens. They theorize that when the moon perfectly covers the sun, as it will on July 2, a metaphorical shadow will pass across some part of our lives, perhaps triggering crises. I don’t agree with that gloomy assessment. I […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEMINI (May 21 – June 20) In the 1960s, Gemini musician Brian Wilson began writing and recording bestselling songs with his band The Beach Boys. A seminal moment in his development happened while he was listening to his car radio in August 1963. A tune he had never heard before came on: “Be […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEMINI (May 21-Jun 20) Some birds can fly for days without coming down to earth. Alpine swifts are the current record-holders, staying aloft for 200 consecutive days as they chase and feed on insects over West Africa. I propose we make the swift your soul ally for the next three weeks. May it […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEMINI (May 21-Jun 20) I prefer live theatre over movies. The glossy flawlessness of films, accomplished by machines that assemble and polish, is less emotionally rich than the direct impact of live performers’ unmediated voices and bodies and emotions. Their evocative imperfections move me in ways that glossy flawlessness can’t. Even if you’re […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20) I think it’s time for a sacred celebration: A blow-out extravaganza filled with reverence and revelry, singing and dancing, sensual delights and spiritual blessings. What is the occasion? After all these eons, your lost love has finally returned. And who exactly is your lost love? You! You are your […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20) I invite you to explore the frontiers of what’s possible for you to experience and accomplish. One exercise that might help: Visualize specific future adventures that excite you. Examples? Picture yourself parasailing over the Mediterranean Sea near Barcelona, or working to help endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica or […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20) Whether or not you believe in magic, magic believes in you right now. Will you take advantage of the fancy gifts it has to offer? I guess it’s possible that you’re not interested in seeing deeper into the secret hearts of those you care for. Maybe you’ll go “ho […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20) The beat generation of American poets arose in the late 1940s as a rebellion against materialistic mainstream culture and academic poetry. It embraced sexual liberation, eastern spirituality, ecological awareness, political activism and psychedelic drugs. One of its members, Jack Kerouac, tweaked and ennobled the word “beat” to serve as […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19) The Qing Dynasty controlled China from the mid-17th century to the early 20th century. It was the fifth-biggest empire in world history. But eventually it faded, as all mighty regimes do. Revolution came in 1911, forcing the last emperor to abdicate and giving birth to the Republic of China. […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19) A mushroom shaped like a horse’s hoof grows on birch trees in parts of Europe and the US. If you strip off its outer layer, you get amadou, spongy stuff that’s great for igniting fires. It’s not used much anymore, but it was a crucial resource for some of […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19) Kermit the Frog is the world’s most famous puppet. He has recorded songs, starred in films and TV shows and written an autobiography. Kermit’s beginnings were humble, however. When his creator Jim Henson first assembled him, he consisted of Henson’s mom’s green coat and two halves of a white […]