Planetarium

Michael Lutin

CANCER

June 22-July 22

It must irritate you no end that other people in your family can smear gobs of butter on their bread, but the minute you reach for the tiniest pat, the entire household gasps, “Cholesterol!” Are they really concerned about your health, or just resentful that you might be having a good time indulging yourself? Through July 4 at least, your 2nd house is featured, and that means your appetites have no OFF button. Except, of course, for the hand that slaps you going for a second helping. You will remember all the things you forgot you ever wanted, so the next few weeks could become Operation Desert Shopping.

LEO

July 23—August 22

Pop shrinks would take one look at you right now, snap their fingers, and say that you’re acting like a child trying to get Daddy’s attention. You’re chasing after things you can’t have and rewarding bad behavior by turning on the charm to the very people who have just rejected you. You go right on being the happy little robin even though those around you are not turned on by your song. With four planets lighting up your sign during the rest of June and a good chunk of July, maybe the shrinks are wrong. It’s just possible that the flame of your love might actually be able to melt glaciers.

VIRGO

August 23—September 22

Success may well be built on 90 percent perspiration, but Virgos tend to sweat a little too noticeably so that no one will think they’re having a good time. Starting June 12, your focus should be on your career, but try not to forget about that other 10 percent—the part that comes from inspiration. You need that, too. With a cluster of planets in your 12th house, don’t play the spotless Brownie or the trusty Cub Scout. Virgos are as capable of being lured onto the casting couch as anyone else. The affairs that interest you this month are not likely to be the catered kind. And don’t deny it. That kind of innocence went out with crinolines.

LIBRA

September 23-October 23

If you feel a little cynical and not particularly loving right now, that’s good. You still have a heart, of course, even if the blip on the screen is a faint one. With Saturn retrograding through your 5th house till October, it’s normal to growl when you think of the serious abandonments you’ve suffered of late. As a Libra, though, you’ve naturally got to go on smiling and pretending nothing at all happened. The good news: a pileup of planets in your 11th house starting the first week of June indicates it’s a fabulous time to sit around in a group and be real. It beats staying home alone.

SCORPIO

October 24—November 21

The eyes of the entire world could be on you, so lap it up. If you ever had a drop of creative juice in you, squeeze it out now. Become the apex of a hundred triangles between the last week of June and mid-July. Channel your efforts into your career, get your name in lights, and don’t give a damn what anybody thinks. Certain people are forever accusing you of using your very sizable powers of attraction just to get ahead of the pack. But since we’re living in the nineties and promiscuity is pass£, what exactly are you supposed to do with those billion kilowatts of energy surging through you?

SAGITTARIUS

November 22—December 21

There’s a little comer of your mind that is begging you to curl up under a blanket at the bottom of the deepest cave in New Mexico and shut the world out. Don't give in to it now. As Venus and Mars pass over Jupiter in your 9th house during the next few weeks, take up a sport and tell yourself you’re good at it. Have an affair with a foreigner, even on a pen-pal basis. Go for a fabulous publishing contract or apply to the toughest graduate school in the country. Be grandiose. Above all, come out of solitary. Throw open the jail doors and take in the sun. No matter what that dark part of you thinks, you’re not a vampire yet.

CAPRICORN

December 22-January 19

You’re worried about money, as usual, and Saturn retrograding in your 2nd house only exacerbates that old obsession. Considering that the Uranus-Neptune conjunction in Capricorn will take a couple of more years to complete, you’re doing well not to fall apart. In fact, with four Leo planets throbbing in your 8th house, you’re a long way from it. Even if you’re eighty or just feel that way, pheromones you didn’t know you had are streaming out in all directions. In case you don’t know what pheromones are, they are invisible little vibes that make the guy who comes to deliver the pizza end up staying all night.

AQUARIUS

January 20—February 18

You’ve been a little withdrawn lately, cynically thinking how stupid most people are, with all their cheery, upbeat chatter. You think you’re being terribly realistic, of course. But maybe you’re just being unfair to yourself by deciding that anyone who turns on to you must be sick or desperate. That attitude doesn’t reflect a very good self-image. So while Venus, Mars, and Jupiter revel in your 7th house during June and July, suitors, admirers, and fans are bound to be buzzing around you. You can either join in the fun or sit there smiling wanly like a pill. The choice is up to you.

PISCES

February 19—March 20

If you’ve been thinking that you’re being played for a patsy, take a break. The beginning of summer is not the time to dwell on the booby traps your secret enemies may have laid for you. There’s a bright spot in your 6th house, so concentrate your energy on achieving good health and better working conditions. Make sure you get enough beta carotene, and don’t start thinking acid rain has poisoned all the vegetables in the world. Be your wonderfully Piscean, philosophical self. Even if you are forced to wear a personal crown of thorns, try to take a little time out to smell the roses.

ARIES

March 21-April 19

You’re all caught up in your newfound creativity, and that’s great. You’re finally expressing yourself and admitting that you’re a total genius. You mustn’t suppress your urges just because some people are cringing at what they perceive to be your sophomoric outbursts. You are now living out fatal attractions, obsessive passions, and violent emotions—everything you’ve ever seen on one TV movie of the week or another. Especially during the last ten days of June, you must take your place with the great failed partnerships of history—Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20

Of course you’re tired of the grind. Who wouldn’t be, with that face you’ve had to paint on for so long? Besides, commitments are fun until you can’t get out of them. Right now you need a few of those “other things” magazine articles are forever trying to help people find—emotional security, closeness, intimacy, and some semblance of family life. Even though you must engage in the ridiculous and hideous political struggle for a crumb of recognition, the real joys can be found now by dangling your toes in a kiddie pool on the Fourth of July and chewing the fat with pregnant women.

GEMINI

May 21—June 21

From June 5 straight through the summer, you should be gadding about no matter what dire prognoses you’ve been getting from so-called professionals. (At the full moon on June 26, Jekyll will definitely meet Hyde.) Life has not been easy lately. Those who thought they could hold your head underwater until you either cried “Uncle!” or drowned didn’t count on the power of Geminis to hold their breath. You are still here. Even before Saturn entered your 8th house in the fall of ’89, you were getting Trump-size headaches, fiscal and otherwise. Be happy you haven’t been attacked by a swarm of killer bees.