
Taurus (4/20 – 5/20): Speaking of Nancy Sinatra, These Boots are Made for Walking came on the strange Spotify station I'm listening to. I'd recommend that we all carry that song around in our emergency preparedness kits. The dark times are coming! Make your kit now. (And let me know what else to pack.)

Leo (7/23 – 8/22): Here's something cool: the planet has been divided into 57 trillion polygons, and a three word address has been assigned to each spot. What this means, of course, is that each tree now has an address. Warning, Leo, you can spend endless amounts of time looking things up. And then forgetting the three words. And then thinking of new places to look up.

Libra (9/23 – 10/22): Without revealing too much, let me just tell you that one of the Time Travel Portals (the only one I know about) has the three word Hotel.Gold.Forest. I think it only goes back as far as 1982, but still. Ok, here's something else: Matthew Dicks, a master storyteller, offers this tip to become a better storyteller: each day, write a few words in an excel spreadsheet documenting what the BEST story for that day would be. Good idea, Libra. Let's do it.
Scorpio (10/23 – 11/21): The other night I dreamt that Trump won the election, and it was chilling. But strangely, my first thought was, Jeez, this is so not the right time to have a parade full of vegetables. That would be inappropriate! It took me about 10 minutes upon waking to realize it was merely a nightmare. Don't worry, Scorp, the parade is still on. Embrace your inner vegetable.
Sagittarius (11/22 – 12/21): Are there still pay toilets in the world? I don't think I've seen one in about 30 years. Is it just me? When did peeing become a thing you can just do for free? I still remember carrying a dime in my shoe, 'just in case'. And what's happening to the GDP without that revenue stream (a literal stream!) Sag, see what you can find out.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): I think its true that many women can't bear to really look at how poorly Hillary has been treated; its easier to believe that the lies about her have some basis. We prefer, sometimes, to believe lies than to look at painful truths. I read Second Shift when it came out, about how in families where both parents work outside of the home, women do most of the housework. When the author followed up with couples a few years after the lopsided division of labor had been quantified, one of three things had happened: the couple had split labor more fairly (rare), split up, or, most commonly, had adopted a new myth that the workload was equal. For example, they would reveal that wife cooked all the meals and cleaned the inside of the house, while the husband kept the garage clean. They called it Even Steven. The author surmised that women had to see their marriage as fair in order to stay. I think that's a bit of what's going on with the election, with women who are willing to vote for a misogynist. (Same reason people date misogynists -- this can't really be how it is!)
Aquarius (1/20-2/18): Gary Johnson has a climate change plan: Mars. I'd rather go to that planet that's been contacting Russia, myself. Maybe that's because Martians have been been represented as weird, creepy little people. Oh wait, that's not why! The reason I don't want to get in a space shipis because we have this gorgeous earth, filled with lovely insects and trees and vegetables. Shouldn't we take care of that? This is where we live, people! Let's try to make it last. And, by the way? We're having a parade anyway. We will need it more than ever.