PLANETARIUM MICHAEL LUTIN

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19

If If you're you're a a typical Aries, you can't go a day without at at least least one or infuriating encounter that raises your blood pressure pressure to t( dangerous levels. When conflicts arise, it's hard to know whether to adopt a loving, spiritual position or to move forward with tanks and heavy artillery. The dilemma becomes especially confusing when a new moon in your 12th house has you on your knees begging the universe for help at the same time that a culminating Mars in opposition to Saturn puts you in the mood for all-out war.

TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20

When Venus conjoins the asteroid Juno and squares Pluto in the middle of a Mars-Saturn opposition, you have to grow up and play adult games. Friends, money, sex and sexuality issues, and triangulated relationships are just a few of the pastimes that will occupy you this month. You'd prefer life to be like a game of Monopoly, with the rules spelled out on the box. Roll the dice, pass Go, get S200, buy property, collect rent, and everybody's happy. Right now? Forget it.

GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 21

Sure, you'd be a lot happier if you enjoyed complete autonomy and weren't wrapped up emotionally and financially with someone else. Then you'd be free to make your own decisions, come and go as you please, and sleep with whomever you want whenever the desire strikes you. Until Pluto gets out of your 7th house and the opposition between your 2nd and 8th houses eases, however, your personal and fiscal entanglements will continue to prohibit you from waltzing off to Paris with any hottie you happen to run into.

CANCER JUNE 22-JULY 22

People are beginning to wonder what's up with you. You're not answering questions or making moves. You've become strangely silent, like a forest animal stopped in its tracks after hearing something nobody else can hear. Actually, there's nothing wrong at all. With Saturn slowing down and about to change direction in your sign, you are preparing to make a major move, and, like a good Cancer, you're not doing a damned thing until you know exactly where you're going and how much money there is in the kitty to get you there.

LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22

It's been difficult attending to the details that keep you afloat materially when your soul has been crying out for inner peace, but you've made some pretty fabulous advances in the areas of love and sexuality. Now, with Chiron entering your 7th house, you'll have to look more closely at the relationships you've been nurturing and determine which ones are wholesome and healthy and which ones are not. Unless, that is, you prefer to have a patient as your partner instead of a nice, sweet, fully grown soul mate. Your choice.

VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22

Ever since Uranus entered your solar 7th house, the people in your life have become nuttier than ever, screwing up your plans a dozen times. Just when you think you have them roped in, they flee. When you think you're over them and it's safe to go back in the water, that fin comes gliding across the waves. With Juno now in your 7th, it's even wackier. One minute, somebody is all over you and checking on your whereabouts; the next, he or she won't answer your calls. Remember: eventually, everyone is annoying.

LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 23

Your attempts to stay focused are commendable, but it's doubtful you can sit still for long without succumbing to some distraction. You could blame the square of the sun, the moon, and Pluto in mutable signs, which demands that you take breaks from the strain of acting respectable when you don't feel respectable at all. But the real source of your turmoil is Chiron's entrance into your solar 5th house, which indicates that you are only beginning to grasp how bizarre your emotional needs are. And you once wanted to be normal?

SCORPIO OCT. 24-NOV. 21

The new moon shines light on the fact that, in your love life, you're acting like an uncontrollable adolescent. It also trains your attention on your relationship with your kids. With Ceres transiting Scorpio, you'll want to be even more vigilant and caring than usual as a parent. Don't pay attention to the claim that overprotective parents cause their children to be criminals. With Uranus in your 5th house now, they'll do anything they can to blow your mind anyway.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21

Although it's a drag to haggle over assets like two warring nations chopping up conquered territory, negotiations are necessary when Mars opposes Saturn from your 2nd to your 8th house. Although such battles can be fun, in a sadistic way, when you think you're in a stronger position than your adversary, with the lunation squaring Pluto you'll find it hard to conceal that under your hard-nosed exterior you're still longing to be cared for by the very people you oppose.

CAPRICORN DEC. 22-JAN I 9

To satisfy your dark side, here's the bad news: Saturn, your planetary ruler, is still in a weak position, so you can't n't take take over the world yet. In fact, you have to smile and say i\; please nlpocp and thank you when deep down you are gurgling with anger. Now the good news: with Chiron finally out of your sign, you've put another ordeal behind you and are back in the game. This month, Mars, the planet of potency and self-assertion, is taking an exalted position in the sign of Capricorn. Frankly, that's something you can take to the bank.

AQUARIUS JAN. 20-FEB. 18

There's no question something funny is going on in your mind and your body. During the past few years, as Neptune has crept through your sign, you must have noticed your thoughts getting fuzzy from time to time for no apparent reason. Now Chiron has entered Aquarius, and your body is beginning to react to whatever has been occurring inside your mind. Because you are gifted with unusually high intelligence, you should be able to sort out the real from the unreal with or without the help of drugs.

PISCES FEB. 19-MARCH 20

You're normally not the jealous type. Quite the contrary. Since you're usually the one to erode boundaries, sneak off, or absentmindedly flake out in relationships, you tend to find others standing at the front door looking angrily at their watches when you finally wander back to the ranch. With Juno transiting Pisces, however, you will finally discover how it feels to be hooked by somebody whose exploits and shenanigans drive you up the wall. Guess what: it will also turn you on like crazy.