Free Will Astrology

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBRA! (September 23-October 22) The online Time Travel Mart sells products you might find handy in the event that you travel through time. Available items include barbarian repellant, dinosaur eggs, time travel sickness pills, a centurion’s helmet, a portable wormhole and a samurai umbrella. I have no financial tie to this store. So […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEO! (July 23-August 22) “My story isn’t sweet and harmonious like invented stories,” wrote novelist Herman Hesse. “It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.” As interesting as Hesse’s declaration is, let’s not take it as gospel. […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEO! (July 23-August 22) “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” When I came across that quote while surfing the web, I felt that it jibed perfectly with the astrological omens that are currently in play for you. Every […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEO! (July 23-August 22) Last year a young Nebraskan entrepreneur changed his name from Tyler Gold to Tyrannosaurus Rex Gold. He said it was a way of giving him greater name recognition as he worked to build his career. Do you have any interest in making a bold move like that, Leo? The […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEO! (July 23-August 22) Sergei Diaghilev was a Russian ballet impresario who founded Ballets Russes, one of the 20th century’s great ballet companies. At one point in his career he met French playwright Jean Cocteau. Diaghilev dared Cocteau to write a piece for a future Ballets Russes production. “Astonish me!” he said. It […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEO! (July 23-August 22) “I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.” So said the Leo science fiction writer Greg Egan in his story “Learning to Be Me.” Let’s pretend that you, too, have a small dark […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANCER! (JUNE 21 – JULY 22) We keep million-dollar works of art in well-guarded museums. Paintings created hundreds of years ago are treated with reverence and protected as if they were magical treasures. Meanwhile, beautiful creatures that took nature eons to produce don’t get the same care. At least 5,000 animal and plant […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANCER! (JUNE 21 – JULY 22) When the comic book hero Superman first appeared on the scene in 1938, he had the power to jump over tall buildings, but he couldn’t fly. By 1941, he was hovering in mid-air, and sometimes moving around while floating. Eventually, he attained the ability to soar long […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANCER! (June 21-July 22) “Thomas Gray was a renowned 18th-century English poet best remembered for his “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” It was a short poem—only 986 words, which is less than the length of this horoscope column. On the other hand, it took him seven years to write it, or an […]

Happy Birthday! Cancer (MAY 21 – JUNE 20) (June 21-July 22) “In order to swim one takes off all one’s clothes,” said 19th-century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. “In order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness, et […]

Happy Birthday! Cancer (MAY 21 – JUNE 20) (June 21-July 22) “I know that I am not a category,” said philosopher Buckminster Fuller. “I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process.” Philosopher Norman O. Brown had a similar experience. “The human body is not a thing or substance, […]

Happy Birthday! Gemini (MAY 21 – JUNE 20) Long after the artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani died, his paintings sold for millions of dollars. But while alive, he never got rich from doing what he loved to do. He expressed frustration about the gap between his ambitions and his rewards. “I do at least three paintings […]