PLANETARIUM MICHAEL LUTIN

GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 21

You'll be way ahead of the game if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you—even if the old Kipling poem does make you retch. When Chiron and Neptune go retrograde in your 9th house, you can expect both your sanity and your ethics to be called into question, but don’t start secondguessing that brain of yours. Just have faith in your own perceptions and count on the help of Mercury, your ruling planet, in its own sign. Work may be a drag, but it's still the only way out.

CANCER JUNE 22-JULY 22

There s no doubt you want to make a lasting contribution to the human race at least you do when there's a lunation in your 11th house. But given your fiscal obligations, you can't just roll up your sleeves and move to Africa. Besides, no self-respecting Cancer would visit any foreign country without first establishing that all the hotels have nice fluffy towels. For now. stay home and focus on love, passion, and creativity. And your kids.

LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22

Do let us know when you finally figure out how to balance your need for a deep, warm relationship with the reality that you’ve got more trust issues than all the Corleones and Sopranos combined. What’s making everything so complex? Just this aspect of the Saturn-Neptune dilemma: as hard as you try to maintain boundaries and stay steady, sober, and on course, you feel an equally powerful urge to break your own rules and escape from the fact that you are boring yourself to death.

VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22

Chances are that when Saturn moves into an earth sign this fall, you'll sort out your emotions and stop suffering in secret over personal issues that seem to have no resolution. Believing they do takes faith, and you can never be sure if you're being guided by a higher force or just making a damned fool of yourself. Since you can't solve the riddle now anyway, maybe you should just let your fertile, restless mind wander where it w ill, indulge the occasional naughty impulse, and keep hiding all the turmoil you feel inside.

LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 23

Stereotypically speaking, Libras are supposed to concern themselves only with color schemes and floral arrangements, but this is not the moment for aesthetics. No matter what tensions you’re grappling with, your best bet for releasing the pressures and finding renewed energy is in the arena of money and finance. The two retrogrades in your solar 5th house can cause you all kinds of heartache and bliss, but financial survival has to be your top priority now. There are things to buy and bills to pay.

SCORPIO OCT. 24-NOV. 21

It must seem as if the entire world is on your case right now. They're either pouring their hearts out or dumping their troubles on you. This is what usually happens when one sign of the zodiac (in this case yours) becomes the focal point of a planetary T square. Tauruses had it bad last year, and this month it's your turn. Don't sweat it. It's just a testament to the confidence people have in you as someone who is strong, resilient, and equipped with countless ways to solve problems. If they only knew.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21

You're diligent, loyal, generous, optimistic, and supportive, so why should you have to be hassled and bear the anguish of being told you've got mental problems, just because you prefer to keep some things private and don't feel obliged to report your every move, thought, and desire to those who think they own your mind? Candid communication and honesty in relationships are certainly virtues, but what's going on in your head is your only escape, so screw it. If they want to call you crazy, let them.

CAPRICORN DEC. 22-JAN. 19

No matter how romantic you’d like to be, there are moments when love is linked to money. With the sun transiting your 5th house and squaring planets in your 2nd and 8th, now is one. Emotional intimacy is difficult enough to maintain when you aren't being bombarded by housing bills and health-care payments, but try to keep things in perspective. Meditating on the plight of all mankind could help.

AQUARIUS JAN. 20-FEB. 18

You're not as wacko as you think you are. What's happening is that planetary retrogrades of Chiron and Neptune are toying with you, causing your mind and your body to play tricks on you. As a result, you don't trust yourself or your perceptions, which in turn leads others to question your reliability. You've always been good about showing up and playing the professional, but now it seems to require a herculean effort just to haul yourself into the shower. On second thought, maybe you are nuts.

PISCES FEB. 19-MARCH 20

If you could just beam yourself over to some distant spot for a while, you’d be able to see your life from the vantage of your 9th house. Then you might not let work or health issues bother you so much, or feel so darned conflicted about things you don’t want to discuss with even your closest friends. Maybe you’d throw yourself into philosophy or education and live the life of the higher mind. There’s even a chance you might resolve the dance you keep doing between the fear of being abandoned and the fear of being trapped.

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19

For all your bitching and moaning, you actually enjoy duking it out in the marketplace. Try as you might to be civilized, you still bear traces of those primitive early humans whose main objective was to attain dominance over a hostile world, and beating the competition is your version of slaying a dinosaur and dragging it home for dinner. Never do you feel more stimulated than now. when all your drives and ambitions find their outlet in your solar 8th the house of survival, creativity, and, best of all, sex.

TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20

Will the universe never leave you alone long enough to enjoy a plate of carbohydrates in peace? It probably seems that the infernal Saturn-Neptune opposition will go on forever, forcing you to spend all your energy handling seductive but impossibly controlling people. And all because of money. Go ahead and blame the planets— including this month’s 7th-house T square—but consider this: if you feel drained by others, think how tough it is for them to deal with your brand of bullying. And all because of money.