Planetarium

December

SAGITTARIUS

November 22—December 21

Talk about eleventh-hour holiday cheer! You'll be lucky if there's one turkey left in the market by the time you get around to joining in the festivities. And that will almost certainly be after Thanksgiving this year. The reason is a major 12th-house transit that will have you sneaking around comers, obsessing about the apocalypse, hiding in a dark room convinced the whole world is laughing at you, and in general totally out of it. Actually, it could bring out the best in you. It's a perfect moment to do the real Sadge thing: get off your ego and help those less fortunate than you.

CAPRICORN

December 22-January 19

Mark these dates on your calendar: November 10 and 11 and December 8. They are the critical times coming up when you can expect to be feeling sick to death of the boring routines in your life but clutched with dread at the thought that things could actually be changing. When you do finally let go, give up to uncertainty, and allow your weirder self to emerge, you will feel strangely elated. It's all part of the ongoing Uranus-Neptune conjunction, which is raising your consciousness to new levels. You're probably just getting around to being sorry that you missed Woodstock.

AQUARIUS

January 20—February 18

Since Saturn went forward on October 4, you've been trying to regain a little control of your life and get a minute to yourself. And after an unbelievably pressured November, you'll need it. From the first moment of the new moon (November 6, 6:11 A.M., E.S.T.), you'll be coping with the manic surges of certain fascinating, but utterly draining, people. In your own little way you've already begun sticking it to those who have gone over the lines with their incessant needs. So take December off, and if people still hassle you, tell them exactly what they can do with their demands.

PISCES

February 19—March 20

The last few months have been especially hairy. Not on the outside, which people can see, but way, way, way inside your head. Though you're usually able to add just the right touch of Greek tragedy to any party, during this whole season you're going to have to do the happy-face thing. With the Mars-Pluto conjunction really cooking right up to the end of November and strongest between the 6th and 12th, you will find that you have the power to halt the irresistible Piscean urge to see things from the dark side. This is a feat more impressive than reversing an avalanche.

ARIES

March 21-April 19

You're like the sassy little fly that simply can't resist seeing how close he can get to that sticky web without actually losing it. From now until the full moon on November 21, you will definitely be playing with one heck of a smooth spider. The game is called Sex and Money, and it's what keeps all the bunnies in the world hopping. So enjoy the thrills and chills from which you will emerge the first week of December, laughing and bombing through stores, generously shopping in gratitude for having escaped that web one more time.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20

Before you even think about Christmas, you've got miles to go through a little minefield called the 7th house, and it will mean dealing with some pretty crude people. Kids could be a great comfort, like cozy stuffed toys, but you really can't hide behind them now. You have to face grown-up relationships. People get angry. They get stoked. They are basically very primitive animals. But try not to judge those who act out their fantasies. After all, the Taurus who is totally together when it comes to appetite control has yet to be bom.

GEMINI

May 21—June 21

Mercury will be squaring Jupiter during most of December. It enters its retrograde shadow on November 10 and doesn't begin to go forward till December 18. This gives you permission to change your mind fifteen times a day, go steady, break up, sign up for French lessons and not go to the class, make three dates for Thursday night, hedge bets, and flip stories right and left. This is the kind of behavior that Geminis are famous for and that gives ulcers to everybody connected with you. But you should have a great time through it all.

CANCER

June 22-July 22

The solar eclipse that hit your sign last July 11 has drained you of verve and put ridiculous amounts of pressure on you to produce and perform whether you feel lousy or not. While some of the effects of that eclipse are sad, recent events will help you let go of things that were probably never meant to be in the first place. You need now to be passionately diverted from your case of the blahs and prepare for a new life, scheduled for sometime in January. Between November 6 and December 26, every self-respecting Cancer must have an affair, catered or otherwise.

LEO

July 23—August 22

During the days before the full moon, November 19-21, you'll find healthy release from family only when you're at work. That's refreshing, because you've been submerged in domestic issues now since Pluto moved forward last July 29. Whatever force has been controlling you in your search for emotional security is still churning in your stomach, demanding your complete attention. Of course, no one controls you but you. You make all your own decisions—consciously, objectively, and independently. Nobody pulls your chain. Nobody, nobody, NOBODY! Yeah, sure, right.

VIRGO

August 23—September 22

Don't you get irked at those grandiose predictions some astrologers make about Jupiter in your sign? Everything is supposed to be so wonderful from September '91 right up to the end of '92. Actually, it can be a marvelous transit, because even if things really suck at work, with bombs bursting in air, in an odd way you don't care. It's as if you're watching it all on television. You see the leering dentist coming at you with a drill and all you can do is chuckle. The cynical Virgo calls that denial. The evolved Virgo knows that optimism can breed success.

LIBRA

September 23—October 23

On December 6, Venus enters the sign of Scorpio for three weeks. During the whole month before that, there's been a pileup of planets there. That means you've probably been striving to maintain your smooth demeanor so that not a strand of hair would blow out place even during the worst of Hurricane Harry. Under the surface, though, issues of fiscal control are creating seething turbulence that could lead to Pinatubo-level eruptions. Yes, the root of all evil money. Yes, you are always struggling to be fair. So what's going to be—compassion for all others or personal empowerment?

SCORPIO

October 24—November 21

Call up your reserves and have the bombers fueled and on the runway. Get out the war paint. You'll be exploding with energy, drive, creativity, rage, passion, and—your favorite—self-obsession. The sheer megaforce of it all makes the London blitz seem like opening day at Ascot. It's due to a conjunction of planets in your sign that will rocket you through Thanksgiving. Those who know what's good for them will support you now. Their loyalty will be rewarded. Woe to any traitors. They had better not drink the tea. You're in your element.

Michael Lutin