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Free Will Astrology—Week of June 25
Just in time for your Season of Transformation
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?” Author Diane Ackerman asks her readers that question, and now I pose the same inquiry to you—just in time for your Season of Transformation. “We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors,” Ackerman says. […]
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Flesh And Bleh & It’s Not You. It’s Meh
There’s being close with your parents and then there’s being close like one of those kids on a leash at the mall
Flesh And Bleh I started dating someone who is super close to his family (talks to his mom and/or dad daily, sometimes multiple times). I have a perfectly good relationship with my family, but we talk a few times a month, not a few times a day! I’m uneasy that being in a relationship with […]
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Merry Goo Round & Ember Alert
Recognize that you aren’t without information about how the guy feels
Merry Goo Round I’m a straight woman with a boyfriend of three months. I’m falling in love but don’t know how to say it. Is there a way that’s “safer” than others? Say it super casually? Slip it in at the end of a phone convo? In the middle of sex? —Wondering Woman For originality […]
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War of the Worlds 2020
An invasion of very scary anti-fascist, anti-police terrorists is headed for the suburbs!
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Free Will Astrology—Week of June 18
You’re willing to acknowledge that you’ve got a lot to learn and more to grow
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “A finished person is a boring person,” writes author Anna Quindlan. I agree! Luckily, you are quite unfinished, and thus not at all boring—especially these days. More than ever before, you seem willing to treat yourself as an art project that’s worthy of your creative ingenuity—as a work-in-progress that’s open to […]