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Believe it or not, whatever has been limiting your movement has also been expanding your capacities. It’s true. The pinching sensation you’ve had to endure has been covertly generating psychic fuel that you will soon be able to access. Therefore, Aries, I say unto you: Praise your squelchers and constrictors! Be grateful for your stiflers […]

I would love to place an elegant gold crown on your head. I have the urge to declare you monarch of the expanding realm, maker of new laws, and re-shaper of the collective vision. Are you up for wielding that much power? Can you handle an increased level of responsibilities? Or would you prefer to […]

Delfin Vigil interviewed the band Social Studies for the San Francisco Chronicle. He asked guitarist Aaron Weiss, “What is the meaning of life?” Here’s what Weiss said: “Wearing a big name tag, having something stuck in your teeth, walking around with toilet paper stuck to your shoe while awkwardly trying to hit on girls. Living […]

An uninterpreted dream is like an unopened letter, says the Talmud. But professional dream researcher Stephen LaBerge thinks that’s too broad a statement. In his book Lucid Dreaming, he says dreams are more like poems than letters. If you try to extract literal meanings from them in the service of your ego, they may reveal […]

In a story about author Gore Vidal in The Independent, Archie Bland reported on an event that happened just after Vidal’s parents were married. While traveling to their honeymoon, dad told mom, “‘There’s something very important I want you to know.” Mom grew radiantly expectant, imagining he was about to profess his love with a […]

A poet friend of mine hatched a scheme for writing a book in record time. He bought a round-trip ticket for a Greyhound bus that would take him from Oakland, California to New York City and back. He vowed that over the course of those nine grueling days and 6,000 miles, as he ate stale […]

Unable to control his appetite for prostitutes, New York’s Governor Elliot Spitzer destroyed his career. Many observers were aghast at the incomprehensibility of his sacrifice. But Phillip Weiss, writing in New York, said he understood. Spitzer desperately “wanted some ‘strange’” — novelty that’s hard to get when you make love with just one person for […]

As you navigate your way through the challenges ahead of you, should you rely on what you know or on what you don’t know? That’s a good question. I’m inclined to advise you to go with what you know when it concerns your security, and to go with what you don’t know when you’re pursuing […]

To get a read on how democracy and human rights are faring on the planet, check out the research of an organization called Freedom House (freedomhouse.org). In its most-recent annual report, it declared that 90 countries are free. They represent 47 percent of the world’s population. Fifty-eight countries, accounting for another 30 percent of the […]

It’s a perfect moment for you to try the kind of money mojo that worked for one of my readers, Tamara L. of Las Vegas. Here’s her testimony: “I never believed in any of this mystic mumbo-jumbo before. But I was desperate. I was paying the price after indulging in the sick pleasure of telling […]