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ARIES (March 20-April 19): "Only by going alone in silence," wrote naturalist John Muir, "without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness." We've been trying to lose our baggage Aries, but it doesn't want to lose us. Apparently it only looks easy when the airlines do it.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When asked if he'd seen the "real" Asia during a trip to India, Thomas Merton noted, "It's all real as far as I can see." Seeing where we are for what it is, rather than what our imagination wants it to be is this week's task Taurus. This is what we get for letting our imagination read too many travel brochures.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Small print leads to large risk, say the Ferengi, Star-Trek's race of über-capitalist aliens. A chapter we overlooked while using our checkbook as summer reading material brings surprises this week Gem. Maybe we should go back to using plain checks instead of artsy ones. Ours have apparently gotten way too entertaining.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): "People on horses," says Marya Mannes, "look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are." We're either saying Hi-ho Silver, or stuck in a traffic jam Cancer. It all depends on whether we're currently wearing the white or black hat in the story of our life. All we can say for sure is that next life, we're swearing off hats altogether.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): The word "share" comes from a root that means "to cut or divide." Sharing either feels like blending our blessings with those of another or staking our claim. We're cast in the role of melting pot or gold miner this week Sadge. If we haven't decided whether we prefer stirring or chopping, stars say this week gives us a clue.
CAPRICORN (Dec 21-Jan 19): A partner's actions can tarnish our image this week Cappy. We figure it's the price we pay for listening to mother when she said that if we couldn't get the nice boy or girl, we should go for the one with the best alibis.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 20): "Condiments are like old friends," says Marilyn Kaytor, "highly thought of, but often taken for granted." Is this why we've been feeling like we're living in a squeeze bottle in the pantry of life Aquarius? Someone's been garnishing their burger at our expense. This week we'll hold the mustard, and ketchup, relish, and mayo as well.
PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): "The suburbs were a kind of tranquelizer for the generation before us," writes Rebecca Solnit, "if topography can be a drug." Today instead of lulling people to death with a landscape of identical houses and meaningless place names, we do it with smart phones instead. Stars say children may need our attention this week. Good thing we've finally figured out how to text.
LEO (July 22-Aug 23): "It is the unforseen," observes poet Edgar Allen Poe, "upon which we must calculate most largely." Stars say the sooner we start those calculations the better Leo. Now all we need to know is whether an unforseen event is more or less exciting than an unexpected one.
VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 22): "I had more visitors when I lived in the woods," writes Thoreau, "than at any other period in my life: I mean that I had some." There's a chance a friend will tell us to take a hike this week Virgo--or we'll tell them to do so. No need to fret, for like Thoreau and the Boy Scouts, this may be a way of establishing more togetherness.
LIBRA (Sept 22-Oct 23): "What but the wolf's tooth," said Robinson Jeffers, "whittled so so fine the fleet limbs of the antelope?" We're reaching a use it or lose it moment Libra. Life's given us everything we need to strut our stuff, but if it's a free lunch we're looking for we're likely to end up as somone else's dinner.
SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 22): "When you know things just because you've Googled them," writes William Powers, "you don't really know them." If we try to pass ourselves off as knowing something we don't Scorpio, we'll also be given credit for a mistake that doesn't need to happen. Not that it'd be the first time all fingers pointed our way.
