LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22

Miracles do happen. Don’t laugh—it’s true. With Jupiter at the end of your solar 12th house and the new moon on Mars, you may get a chance to refresh yourself during a few rare moments of peace and contentment. Drink in every available drop of tranquillity while you can, and give thanks for whatever rest and relaxation you are able to secure for yourself. Something big is definitely coming. Energy is gathering deep within you, and your spirit is restless, stirring, very much alive, and preparing to break out of its shell any day now.

VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22

You feel like one of those poor gerbils running endlessly in its wheel. The 4th house-1 Oth house nodal axis has had you racing back and forth between home and work, with barely a moment for your usual escapes. You will be happy to learn that a respite from your weary climb to the top has arrived at last. Even if you cannot entirely shrug off the mantle of responsibility that you are constantly moaning is too heavy, you can at least enjoy your version of a family reunion—with like-minded colleagues, loved ones, and geeks from all over the globe.

LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 23

The restoration of your tattered relationships with family members who you believe have hurt, abandoned, or betrayed you is within your grasp, now that you have the gifts of awareness and maturity on your side. Here’s hoping you will do something constructive with your newfound sense of adulthood. The power of a new lunation gives you a chance to walk tall and make a mark on the world, without all the garbage you’ve been toting around for God knows how many years. It’s amazing how far you can go when you dump the angry-victim bit.

SCORPIO OCT. 24-NOV. 21

Despite your spooky feeling of doom and your preoccupation with mortality over the last few months, the power of positive thinking must rule your patterns of behavior in the weeks ahead. With so much activity in your 9th house, your sense of adventure has to be at least as strong as your love of catastrophe. If you’ve got a dream, pursue it. If you get a chance to probe the heart of darkest Africa, go, for Pete’s sake. And don’t let anybody shake a bony finger of warning at you, either. Do you want to be remembered as a chicken?

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21

One reason many Sadges get so anxious over the issue of sex is that they are often torn between the needs of their bodies and the thoughts in their minds. You’re not comfortable simply obeying the powerful instinctual commands of your hormones, especially when they threaten to override what your head is telling you is right or wrong. When the sun, the moon, Mars, and Jupiter team up in your solar 8th house, however, it is nearly impossible not to start scratching that proverbial itch. Never forget: you’re half animal.

CAPRICORl DEC. 22-JAN. 19

When a new moon occurs in your solar 7th house, you’ll get offers. That’s a given. Thanks to Chiron in your sign, however, it takes a heck of a stretch for you even to imagine that somebody out there could love you just the way you are, with all your wrinkles, love handles, and zits, or whatever other aspects of your appearance you worry are too hideous to be seen by human eyes. At this very moment, however, people are coming forward on your behalf, disproving your notions about your undesirability and fraudulence. Which of you is right?

AQUARIUS JAN. 20-FEB. 18

As soon as Jupiter enters your 7th house, there’s a good chance that your relationships will take a turn for the better. Until then it would benefit you immensely to stay busy and healthy and not allow entropy to wear you down like a top that’s almost finished spinning. You need helpers now, so make sure all employees and mommy figures are happy campers. Also, while exercise may not erase all your woes, it is a powerful form of therapy. If you make work your passion, your head can’t possibly explode from the pressure. Hang on.

PISCES FEB. 19-MARCH 20

Considering the fact that Neptune in your 12th house is teaching you not to be overattached to anything in this world, you may be surprised to see that you can still get totally turned on and excited by such earthly joys as romance, kids, and the performing arts. While the spiritually correct and highly evolved side of you looks with detached bemusement at the silly games people are compelled to play, you can be sure that, as long as you live, you too will be subject to the vibrations of Jupiter in the 5th house. You’re not a saint yet.

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19

As pleasant as it may be to chill out with loved ones in the shade of the weeping willow on the lawn at the family homestead, or to reminisce about the old days by the flickering light of a campfire, part of you is already champing at the bit to begin the next phase of your life. This is what it feels like to be on the cusp of the 5th house. You’re about to break out, and when you do you can say ciao to the old days. For the moment, then, do yourself a favor: lie back, have a cool drink, listen to the crickets, and don’t rush the future.

TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20

Although no one can predict the extreme reversals of fortune that may befall any one of us at any moment, crises and frustrations occur to everyone over the course of a lifetime. As a Taurus, however, you hurt more than anyone else when fate steps in and screws up the plans you thought you were making. With a Mars-Jupiter conjunction heralding the entrance of Jupiter into your 4th house, there is hope. As long as you continue to keep the channels of communication open between you and your relatives and neighbors, your security can be restored, not to mention your sanity.

GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 21

It is clear to everyone who knows and loves you that you have been mashed nearly to a pulp by a long, slow Saturn transit that continues to pile weight after weight upon your shoulders. Provided you don’t go off on a frenzied binge, spending money can be therapeutic now. When a strong new moon occurs in your 2nd house, you don’t want to hear any comparisons between you and a drunken sailor, mainly because you’ve been imprisoned in a tiny box for too long. You want your mobility back, damn it, and you don’t care how much it costs.

CANCER JUNE 22-JULY 22

Nobody can totally calm your feelings of being put-upon, picked on, or hemmed in lately. Since you’ve still got a few 12th-house issues that will take several months to work out, you aren’t ready to toss in the towel and run away from it all, much as you’d love to. In fact, you should be feeling utterly renewed, full of vitality and optimism, and ready to kick the butt of anyone who dares to repress or reject you. Since it’s so tough for Cancers to be real without feeling guilty afterward, don’t be too mean now. u will pay for it later.

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