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In the Broadway play “Passing Strange,” the narrator praises the healing power of mysterious songs, saying: “You know when the music goes right over your head, bypasses your mind, and strengthens the part of you that’s most beautiful?” That’s the kind of nourishment I encourage you to seek out in the coming week, Taurus. You […]

According to the imaginative reporters at the Weekly World News, the devil doesn’t sit by passively as people beseech God for help and consolation. Using his own version of stealth technology, the evil one “intercepts or jams” up to one-third of all prayers on their way heavenward. Timid and fuzzy prayers are the easiest for […]

Researchers have determined that you’ve got longer than you imagine to salvage food that has dropped on the floor. Bacteria don’t get a foothold and start growing on your pizza or muffin for at least 30 seconds. Keep that in mind as an all-purpose metaphor in the coming days, Scorpio. Anything that you fear has […]

From 1987 to 2006, Alan Greenspan was Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve and a major force in shaping the world’s most powerful economy. When the recent troubles hit, Congress called on him to testify. With shocking humility, he confessed that there had been a flaw in his model of reality. All those years he’d […]

A column in the Washington Post called “The Style Invitational” has identified the “Top 10 New Religions.” I’m calling your attention to two that might be attractive to you in the coming months, a time when you’ll probably have urges to transform and expand upon your spiritual practices. First, there are the Oxymormons, who engage […]

A Serbian beekeeper shares his deep religious fervor with the insects he spends so much time with. Slobodan Jeftic builds beehives shaped like churches because he believes bees have souls, too. I urge you to draw inspiration from his example, Taurus. Get together with your favorite animals for a rowdy prayer session. Bark or purr […]

Research by forensic anthropologist Martin Jarvis suggests that Johann Sebastian Bach’s wife probably wrote some of his music. Anna Magdalena didn’t get the recognition she deserved because “women were not allowed to take credit for composition” in the 18th century. I expect a comparable theme to emerge in your own life, Pisces. A source that […]

At one point during the comedic film Life of Brian, set in ancient Rome, the hero Brian is working as a vendor selling snacks to spectators at a gladiator match. “Wrens’ livers,” he says. “Jaguars’ earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get ’em while they’re hot.” A potential buyer turns to him and asks, “Got any nuts?” […]

The wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy loves how smart her husband is. The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd quotes Carla Bruni-Sarkozy as saying, “He has five or six brains which are remarkably irrigated.” I suspect that description will apply to you in the coming weeks, Libra. Even if you have had just one brain […]

Have you ever arrived at a mountaintop on a clear day? Do you remember what you felt like? Can you re-imagine the sparkling purity of the air as it sweetened your lungs, the shimmering light that washed through you in lush waves, the exaltation of the sweeping vista as it lifted you to a deeper […]