PLANETARIUM MICHAEL LUTIN

GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 21

As usual, part of you would like to charge ahead professionally while your other self dreams of vegging out on a distant and exotic beach. Big trips are out, since cash flow has been such a maddening problem that nobody would fault you for frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of the word "money." With Venus in your sign trining Chiron and Neptune, however, that pesky issue is finally being resolved, so treat yourself to a slightly more frugal version of an extreme makeover and do your vegging close to home.

CANCER JUNE 22-JULY 22

Cancers aren't normally secret-rendezvous types. You're more of a pancakes-and-sandals person. When the planet of love transits your 12th house, however, whispered conversations serve as a harmless defense against the retrogrades in your 8th house of sex, where you may be experiencing a slightly unnerving loss of desire. Joint financial deals are messy, too, but both problems are temporary, so don't freak. Non-sequitur prediction: You will be contacted by a foreign man.

LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22

What a trouper you are! No matter what kind of storm is blowing through your life, you show up looking like a million bucks, take the stage, and make it all look easy. It helps to have Venus in your 11th house providing you with a stable of friends who can support you when relationships go south. Life is strange and gets even stranger when Chiron and Neptune stop moving in your 7th house and Mars transits your 8th. It's always tough when your passions start kicking in big-time and there's nobody around to practice them on.

VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22

Provided you're not saddled with work (fat chance), a lunation in your solar 9th house can present you with the opportunity to travel and put your mind in new places. Health issues? There's absolutely no cause to panic just because you have a few bizarre physical concerns that nobody can seem to diagnose or explain. Even a Rolls-Royce needs tuning up once in a while. And thanks to Mars in your 7th house, life will be anything but boring. Even if you have the sniffles, there will definitely be hot distractions.

LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 23

Although your mind may be up there on cloud nine, letting you think only the loftiest thoughts as your ruling planet transits your 9th house, here's the real deal: there is more going on inside you than preachy abstractions and wishful thinking. In fact, with Chiron and Neptune squaring the lunation in your solar 8th house, this is one of the most emotionally complicated periods of your whole life. Whether you are 19 or 89, your heart is in control—and when your heart takes over, your head can just pack it in and forget it.

SCORPIO OCT. 24-NOV. 21

Yikes! What on earth is going on at home? The retrograde of Neptune and Chiron at the bottom of your solar chart can take different forms, so it's tough to say whether you're cleaning up a flooded basement or drowning in a swamp of your own making. Fortunately, you don't have to crawl under a rock and lick your wounds all alone. In fact, with your 7th and 8th houses so active now, all your feelings can be channeled into intimate relationships and creative work. See? You don't have to be just an emotional mess.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21

When Mars and Venus pass simultaneously through your solar 4th and 7th houses, respectively, family conflicts never fail to screw up your social life. To hell with that. Pluto's long passage through Sadge showed you that in the end we're all alone, so you will never again permit guilt or a fear of abandonment to hamper your freedom. On another note: something is impairing your ability to communicate directly, even coherently, with others—especially relatives. Whose fault is it now?

CAPRICORN DEC. 22-JAN. 19

That Capricorns are financial geniuses is neither an accident nor a miracle. Money is threaded right onto the strands of your DNA. Even if you do a few stupid things in your youth just to prove you're no typical Capricorn, you eventually wise up and master the material world. Now, as two heavenly bodies go retrograde in your 2nd house, you need to summon all your prudence, wisdom, and magic to guide your ship through the rocky waters of this whacked-out economy.

AQUARIUS JAN. 20 - FEB. 18

Although Aquarians are often wrongly stereotyped as detached voyeurs who observe humanity as coldly as researchers watch test mice, you've definitely got a big heart. With Venus in your 5th house, your feelings are running deep enough to prove all the cliches wrong. Now if you could just express them. For as long as Chiron and Neptune are stationed in Aquarius, there's no way you can be present at the party. Even when you crawl out of your cave to get there, you have to love everyone from a distance. A great distance.

PISCES FEB. 19 - MARCH 20

Are you getting angrier by the minute or what? Who can blame you? You've just come through one heck of a transit of Mars and now your ruling planet is retrograde. It must seem like the classic dream where people are running but going nowhere. If you're not sure when to confront people openly about their behavior and when to "forgive them for they know not what they do," it's probably because you're still trying to decide whether you're a divine being of light or just a regular person with a perfect right to blow your top.

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19

You're lucky to have so many people who love and respect you. After all, you're not always a joy to chill with when you feel all your hopes and dreams are going down the tubes. Although you're learning to cooperate, you can still act like a caged cougar when Mars, your ruling planet, does its stint in your 12th house. No matter how often the phone rings or how many visitors you have (your place is busier than Grand Central), you can't seem to shake the feeling that you're trapped and surrounded by secret enemies. Get over it.

TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20

Although transits of Venus last only a few weeks, when the ruler of your sun sign passes through your 2nd house you get to experience the breezy freedom that only having money can provide. That's not to say that material wealth is everything, especially when the retrograde of Chiron and Neptune in your midheaven is showing you just how fragile your position can be—and how quickly public tastes can change. One great thing about you, though: you kept on wearing bell-bottoms till they finally came back into style.