Free Will Astrology

Happy Birthday! SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 22-DECEMBER 21) For the last six decades of his life, Pablo Picasso created art that was adventurous and experimental. He didn’t invent abstract painting, but he was instrumental in popularizing it. And yet in his early years he was a master of realism, and had an impressive ability to capture the […]

Happy Birthday! SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 22-DECEMBER 21) If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards, the novel arrangement you create is probably unique in all of human history; its specific order has never before occurred. I suspect the same principle applies to our lives: Each new day brings a singular set of circumstances that neither you […]

Happy Birthday! SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 22-DECEMBER 21) If you say “rabbit rabbit rabbit” as soon as you wake up on the first day of the month, you will have good luck for the next 30 to 31 days. At least that’s how reality works according to a British superstition. But judging from your astrological omens, I […]

Happy Birthday! SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 22-DECEMBER 21) Your redesigned thrust vectoring matrix is finally operational. Love those new nozzles! Moreover, you’ve managed to purge all the bugs from your cellular tracking pulse, and your high-resolution flux capacitor is retooled and as sexy as a digitally remastered simulation of your first kiss. You’re almost ready for take-off, […]

Be a pretend shovel, Leo Happy Birthday! SCORPIO (October 23-November 21) An environmental organization in New Zealand found that the local fishing industry wastes about 70 percent of its haul. In contrast, Iceland manages to use 96 percent of every fish caught. For example, New Zealand companies throw away most of the liver, roe and […]

Happy Birthday! SCORPIO (October 23-November 21) This is not prime time for you to rake in rewards, collect hard-earned goodies, and celebrate successes you’ve been building towards for a long time. It’s fine if you end up doing those things, but I suspect that what you’re best suited for right now is getting things started. […]

Happy Birthday! SCORPIO (October 23-November 21) This is an excellent time to explore the frontiers of wise foolishness. I’m hoping you will take full advantage of learning opportunities that might require you to shed your excess dignity and acknowledge how much you don’t know. Are you brave enough to disavow cynical thoughts and jaded attitudes […]

Happy Birthday! SCORPIO (October 23-November 21) “It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas,” said French painter Paul Cezanne. Many writers make similar comments about the excruciating joy they feel when first sitting down in front of an empty page. For artists in any genre, in fact, getting […]

Happy Birthday! SCORPIO (October 23-November 21) 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! LIBRA (SEPTEMBER 23-OCTOBER 22) “Hello Dear Sir: I would like to place a large order for yellow chicken curry, cherry cream cheese cupcakes and sour, malty Belgian golden ale. It’s for my birthday party this Saturday, and will need to serve exactly 152 people. My agent will pick it up at 11am. Please […]

Happy Birthday! LIBRA (SEPTEMBER 23-OCTOBER 22) While doing research in South America four decades ago, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss found an indigenous tribe whose people claimed they could see the planet Venus in the daytime. This seemed impossible to him. But he later consulted astronomers who told him that in fact Venus does emit enough light […]

Happy Birthday! LIBRA (SEPTEMBER 23-OCTOBER 22) The German poet and philosopher Friedrich von Schiller liked to have rotting apples in his desk drawer as he worked; the scent inspired him. Agatha Christie testified that many of her best ideas came to her while she was washing dishes. As for Beethoven, he sometimes stimulated his creativity […]