PLANETARIUM MICHAEL LUTIN

AQUARIUS JAN. 20-FEB. 18

Regularity doesn't have to be a dirty word to Aquarians. It can ground you, give you focus, and help you master a craft. Even work you might consider boring or beneath you is actually your 6th house's way of teaching you how to rein in your impulses and hone your talents. And being of service in any capacity is certainly better than having no function at all right now. Speaking of regularity, it's pretty simple. If you ate three normal meals a day and stayed off the strange substances, your body might function like normal people's.

PISCES FEB. 19-MARCH 20

Eskimos are known to have many words for ice. In matters of the heart, we English-speakers are stuck with one four-letter word: "love." There's friendship, which you've come to appreciate recently (even through loss). There's the bond with one's children, which can get awfully strained while they're teenagers. Then there's romance. With Saturn going retrograde through your solar 5th house, the best word to describe that feeling can be found in the Eskimo dictionary under "ice."

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19

It's not as strange as it may seem that a tough, worldly survivor like you can sometimes feel a primitive and even infantile need to be held, cuddled, and cared for. No matter how driven you are to find your niche and make your mark in the world, the ruler of your 10th house in your 4th suggests that you have come to the end of a long path—one you entered about 15 years ago. Now you need to rest temporarily in the comfort and safety of someone's arms. Fine, but whose?

TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20

Whether you're the ruler of a kingdom, an actor on Broadway, or a regular person with a front lawn and a dog. you have to be able to honestly say that in daily life you practice what you preach. An opposition from your 3rd solar house to your 9th indicates that, for all your lofty aspirations and ethical protestations, there is a gap between what you believe and what you've been telling your neighbors. You do not want to lose touch with the people around you, although they can be more annoying than bedbugs.

GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 21

It's got to be galling to be told by somebody who has no financial concerns at all that you would have nothing to worry about if you only pared down your expenses. When the greater malefic is retrograde in your solar 2nd house, you're afraid that if you cut back much more you'll be sleeping in freight cars and panhandling for coffee. This period is teaching you how to be much better at business, as well as more realistic and less grandiose about getting your needs met. The secret is to be grateful, not pissed.

CANCER JUNE 22-JULY 22

Just because you're not jumping up and down with glee and handing out bags of candy and gold coins to the poor doesn't mean that you aren't sensitive to the needs of others or that you don't want people around you. In fact, now more than ever you need at least one good relationship in your life. The trouble is, when a 7th-house lunation opposes its planetary dispositor in your solar 1st house, you are slightly cool, slightly distant, and very withholding. The reason: you're not letting anybody lead you around by the nose. This can create quite a trial.

LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22

There are some days when you spring out of bed, leap into the shower, and bound off for work, whistling like the Seven Dwarfs. Other times, however, especially when your 6th-to-12th-house axis is activated, you can't think of one reason why you shouldn't close your eyes and go back to sleep for another two months at least. It is then you must remember that we are here to serve our fellow human beings, and that the more you can ease other people's suffering the happier you will be. That means you do have to get out of bed.

VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22

When it comes to romance, for some mysterious reason it is usually Virgos who are subjected to life's tragicomic ironies. Right now, for instance, as the sun and moon conjoin in your solar 5th house and you try to get over wounds sustained during Chiron's long transit there, ' all you need is love. Saturn's opposition from your solar 11th house, however, requires you to step back once again, be a friend once again, and try not to take everything so personally once again.

LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 23

Astrologers call the phenomenon taking place in your solar •» chart "a culminating malefic." Regular folks would probably just chalk it up to red tape. However you choose to name these circumstances, you'll need enormous patience to deal successfully with a thicket of political and administrative factors that can seem like a conspiracy in their ability to hinder your progress and thwart your master plan. In fact, though, the problem lies in your own uncertainty about whether you actually want to be considered legitimate at last.

SCORPIO OCT. 24-NOV. 21

Most Scorpios possess above-average intelligence, but not of the usual kind. You can sense when your lover is too friendly to the bartender and you can smell when your kid is smoking • pot, even if he's in Duluth and you're in L.A. What you find more challenging is using your brain to observe your own obsessive carryings-on. With Saturn prominent in your solar 9th house, you need to take a dispassionate look at your actions. Those you perceive as incurably crazy have a relatively simple remedy. It's called "changing your behavior."

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21

It's no sin to want to maintain your lifestyle and have nice things. If you want a fancy leather jacket or custom-made curtains, you should certainly be able to have them. This is still a free society, after all. With the ruler of your 2nd house in the 8th, however, you have to share your little goodies, be it with your once beloved ex or the I.R.S. Don't do anything desperate now, either, just because of money. You've always been such a kind, generous person. At least that's what your neighbors would say if the police ever questioned them.

CAPRICORN DEC. 22-JAN. 19

If you're wondering why every single thing you want to do depends on whether someone else says yes or no, wonder no more. Although the new moon in your sign triggers a fresh yearly cycle during which you can heal old hurts, get back your health and self-confidence, and actually accomplish something. Saturn in opposition means you can't move a muscle without permission from another. Even if you feel like an adolescent on probation, this is not punishment. It's a lesson in sharing control and living up to your word.