Free Will Astrology

Happy Birthday! Gemini (MAY 21 – JUNE 20) How free do you want to be, Gemini? A tiny bit free, hemmed in by comfortable complications that require you to rely on white lies? Or would you rather be moderately free in ways that aren’t too demanding—politely, sensibly free? Maybe you feel brave and strong enough […]

Happy Birthday! Gemini (MAY 21 – JUNE 20) In Japan it’s not rude to slurp while you eat your ramen noodles out of a bowl. That’s what the *Lonely Planet* travel guide told me. In fact, some Japanese hosts expect you to make sounds with your mouth; they take it as a sign that you’re […]

Happy Birthday! Gemini (MAY 21 – JUNE 20) Giant Sequoias are the biggest trees on the planet. Many are more than 300 feet tall and 30 feet wide. Their longevity is legendary, too. They can live for 2,000 years. And yet their seeds are tiny. If you had a bag of 91,000 seeds, it would […]

Happy Birthday! Taurus (APRIL 20 – MAY 20) You have arrived at the edge of reality. Or rather, to be precise, you have arrived at the edge of what you think of as reality. Here’s where things could get very interesting. Just on the other side of that edge you’re brushing up against, there is […]

Happy Birthday! Taurus (APRIL 20 – MAY 20) You may have only a dim idea about how your smart phone and computer work, but that doesn’t prevent you from using their many wonderful features. While you’re swimming, you know almost nothing about the physiological processes that are active inside you and yet you have no […]

Happy Birthday! Taurus (APRIL 20 – MAY 20) Imagine you’re in a large room full of costumes. It’s like a masquerade store at Halloween plus a storage area where a theatre troupe keeps the apparel its actors use to stage a wide variety of historical plays. You have free reign here. You can try on […]

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) I’m passionate about doing whatever I can to make the world a better place. How boring it would be if I only thought of satisfying my own needs. But I also remember what Aldous Huxley said: “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and […]

Happy Birthday! Taurus (APRIL 20 – MAY 20) I’m happy to report that help from the invisible world is available to you right now. Of course you won’t be able to use it, let alone tune in to it, if you don’t believe there is any such thing as help from the invisible world. So […]

Happy Birthday! Aries (March 21-April 19) Sometime soon you may dream of being naked at a public event like a class at school or a committee meeting. I think this would be an excellent omen, so I hope it comes to pass. It would signify that you’re ready to shed the disguises that have been […]

Happy Birthday! Aries (March 21-April 19) “Art cannot be modern,” said Austrian painter Egon Schiele. “Art is primordially eternal.” I love that idea. Not all of the artifacts called “art” fit that scrupulous definition, of course. Katy Perry’s music and the film Wreck-It Ralph may have some entertainment value, but they’re not primordially eternal. I […]

Happy Birthday! Aries (March 21-April 19) I was too lazy to write your horoscope this week, so I went to a website that hawks bumper stickers and copied a few of their slogans to use as your “advice.” Here you go. 1. Never follow a rule off a cliff. 2. Have the courage to honour […]

Happy Birthday! Aries (March 21-April 19) “Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings,” says poet Muriel Rukeyser in her poem “Elegy in Joy.” “Not all things are blest,” she continues, “but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.” I urge you to adopt this perspective in the coming weeks, Aries. […]