Planetarium

GEMINI

May 21-June 21

It may be just a quickie side trip, because Mercury in aspect to Mars will last only a couple of days, but the swift transit of Mercury through Gemini this month should put your wheels back on the tracks and jolt you out of the chaotic state you've been in for the last year. You've been rather angry lately, and feeling empty and dead. With Jupiter going direct in your 5th house at the end of May, and with Mars in Leo in your 3rd all June, you will feel fresh and alive again, moving forward, loving passionately, acting perkier than Dracula after a full pint of freshly drawn O-negative.

CANCER

June 22-July 22

You probably feel like a pizza sliced into eight pieces that everybody's grabbing at. With Venus in opposition to Jupiter and aspecting the Uranus-Neptune conjunction, the politics of divided loyalties has been taking a lot out of you. But not quite everything. With Mars in Leo till June 23, you will not run completely out of steam, or money. Chew a few Rolaids and dare to gamble away even more of your security. Jupiter direct on May 31 promises you a nice lap to lay your head in, so get over your worry seizures and just thank God you're not George Steinbrenner—another Cancer. He doesn't get a minute's rest.

LEO

July 23—August 22

If you're thinking that certain people and problems are out of your life forever, you're wrong. With Saturn about to retrograde into your 7th house until October, you can expect a few teensy issues that need to be ironed out. People will definitely hold you to vows and promises you made while passion was hot and ink was wet. Luckily, you're not a passive wimp these days. Now that Mars is out of your 12th house and into Leo, and Jupiter is going direct in Libra, all you have to do is douse yourself with some testosterone-scented cologne and come up with a few new tricks.

VIRGO

August 23—September 22

Virgos preach herbal tea in public and then shove God knows what down their gullets when they're alone. That's because they've been pushed over the nervous edge lately, what with ridiculous work loads and bosses who exhibit multiple-personality disorder. Mercury in aspect to Mars should help restore you. Oh, by the way, with Mars in your 12th house and Saturn dangling its little toe in Pisces, your humanness is beginning to poke through that mantle of detached professionalism you usually hide behind. You know the story: UNSHAKABLE NURSE FALLS FOR PATIENT. Upon hearing this, Virgos shriek "Oy!" and head for the junk food.

LIBRA

September 23—October 23

It's time for Libras everywhere to take a good look at the great Gene Kelly scene in Singin' in the Rain. If you have to ask which scene, you definitely need major therapy. Of course, you still have issues of abandonment to worry about. And there's the ongoing need to curb your nauseating ability to pretend everything is peachy when you're really ready to kill. Even so, be prepared to twirl that umbrella, splash around in puddles, and put a little sunshine into your heart. Granted, in the movie Gene Kelly has just solved all his problems and fallen in love, but forget that part for now.

SCORPIO

October 24—November 21

Mars in your 10th house all May and June will have you rocking 'n' rolling, throwing your weight around, and adding a grandiose touch of Louis Quatorze to everything you do. It will be hard for people around you to imagine that you've been living so long all by yourself on an island of your own making. Don't be sad, though. The isolation has made you mysterious as well as successful. There's another vibe now, too: Jupiter in your 12th house. Because of it, you'll yearn for intimacy and the sensation of someone's tender breath behind your ear. But an even weirder thing will happen. You're going to want to forgive people!

SAGITTARIUS

November 22—December 21

You've been so good lately, juggling finances and being a sport even while rubbing your sore bottom after certain people have abruptly jumped off the other end of the seesaw. And you've been very grownup about certain other people who take and take and give nothing back. Well, put all that behind you. Mars is coming to your 9th house. Get out a map of someplace you haven't been. Take a trip. If you have to wheel yourself in a basket, get your butt to a high promontory where you can see the sky around you and all the little creatures crawling on the ground down below—and thank heaven you're not one of them.

CAPRICORN

December 22—January 19

Not a single word will be said this month about your fraying nerves or sputtering glands. Moreover, with the current Uranus-Neptune conjunction, you should be getting used to hovering between greatness and total collapse. After Jupiter goes forward on May 31, make deals. Feel pride in your accomplishments and broaden your horizons. Jupiter may help silence the screams you hear from your checkbook every time you take out your pen. Here's a hot tip about Mars in your 8th house: passion will melt your icy facade and roar once again within you, like a dinosaur that has survived 65 million years inside a glacier.

AQUARIUS

January 20-February 18

A generally healthy person blessed with an average allotment of narcissism can self-obsess for just so long. But extreme cases have to be screamed into a relationship. As Saturn begins its final retrograde through Aquarius between now and the fall, it would be wise to take a good long look at yourself, scary as that might be. Mars is also transiting your 7th house for May and most of June. That means you're not alone in this world! As you stare at your sagging face in the mirror, there's a pounding on the door and a voice calling, "Hey, you in there! Somebody else has to use the bathroom, too!"

PISCES

February 19-March 20

Saturn is coming into your sign this month. Although it stays there only for the month of June, it will certainly give you a preview of what lies ahead when it returns to Pisces in 1994. For evolved Pisceans, this is a joyous, if sober, time. Parenthood or a new professional position will give you serious responsibilities, ask you to provide a better role model for others, and demand that you set realistic limits (which you expect from other people but which you hate more than anything in the world to do yourself). Unevolved Pisceans, on the other hand, may be getting warnings from their doctors.

ARIES

March 21—April 19

For what must seem like years but is actually only a few months, your life has been a crazy scene. There are Arians who thought they could stabilize their lives simply by getting married or buying their spouse an expensive peace offering (as if anyone could tame a wild horse with one lump of sugar—it's laughable). As Venus now moves to square Uranus and Neptune, what was supposed to happen back in March, and didn't, will. Affairs will explode. With Mars in Leo, and Jupiter in the solar 7th house, every living Aries will want to put love back into his life. This is a better time for a wedding than March ever was.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20

Although you'll soon feel the old squeeze intensely, especially between May 14 and 20, you'll be able to recognize it for what it is: pressure, pressure, pressure. What do people want from you, anyway? How many more chunks can the vultures take? To complicate matters, this month Mars in Leo is squaring the sun in Taurus and squaring Pluto in Scorpio. Try not to see this as just more hassling. It can actually be quite energizing, and can mobilize you into creative action. Don't fall into the familiar Taurus trap and end up like a deer on the highway staring into oncoming headlights.

Michael Lutin