Happy Birthday! TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Yes, I know that the bull is your totem animal. But I’m hoping you’re willing to expand your repertoire, because it’s a ripe time for you to take on some of the attitudes of the king of beasts. Consider this: The naturalist and shaman Virginia Carper notes that lions […]
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Happy Birthday! TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Taurus genius Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called the greatest songwriter who ever lived. Among his 1,500 compositions were iconic tunes like “God Bless America” and “White Christmas,” as well as scores for 18 Hollywood movies and 19 Broadway shows. And yet he never learned to read or write […]
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Happy Birthday! ARIES(March 21-April 19) It would be a good week for you to perfect your ability to crow like a rooster, Aries. I also recommend that you practice your skill at leaping out of bed in the morning fully refreshed, with your imagination primed and ready to immediately begin making creative moves. Other suggested […]
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Happy Birthday! ARIES (March 21-April 19) I’m worried about your ability to sneak and fake and dissemble. These skills seem to have atrophied in you. To quote Homer Simpson, “You couldn’t fool your own mother on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine!” Please, Aries, jump back into the game-playing, BS-dispensing […]
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Visit an interesting tree, Libra
Happy Birthday! PISCES (February 19-March 20) I used to have an acupuncturist who, as she poked me with needles, liked to talk about her understanding of Chinese medicine. Once she told me that every human being needs a “heart protector,” which is a body function that’s “like a holy warrior who serves as the queen’s […]
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Avert your eyes, Capricorn
Happy Birthday! Pisces February 19-March 20) One of the best new bands of 2009 was the Girls. Spin magazine selected their debut CD Album as the fifth best album of the year. After touring for months and selling scads of records, the band came back home to San Francisco in February to do a sold-out […]
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Happy Birthday! Pisces (February 19-March 20) If you were going to launch a career as a rap artist any time soon, I’d suggest that maybe you use the alias Big Try as your stage name. If you were planning to convert to an exotic religious path and get a new spiritual name, I’d recommend something […]