AQUARIUS: Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Yesterday at 8:00 PM

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather," said French poet Paul Valery. How do you interpret that? In the book "The Science of Self-Control," here's how Howard Rachlin expands on Valery's idea: "We need …

PISCES: Feb. 19-March 20 Yesterday at 8:00 PM

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today is Sigh-Day. And tomorrow and the next day, and the next and the next. During these five Sigh-Days, feel free to breathe big, deep sighs at a higher rate than usual. Let yourself fill with poignant thoughts about …

ARIES: June 19-25 Yesterday at 8:00 PM

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you've seen that meme circulating on the Internet: "My desire to be well-informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane." If you feel that way now, you have cosmic permission, to emphasize sanity over being …

TAURUS: June 19-25 Yesterday at 8:00 PM

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I expect you will be called on to move fluidly between opposing camps or different realities. Maybe you'll volunteer to serve as an arbiter between the crabby good guys and the righteous bad guys. Perhaps you'll try to …

GEMINI: June 19-25 Yesterday at 8:00 PM

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Pablo Casals was one of the greatest cello players who ever lived. Among his early inspirations was the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Casals discovered Bach's six cello suites when he was 13 years old and played them every …

CANCER: June 19-25 Yesterday at 8:00 PM

CANCER (June 21-July 22): "I know that I am not a category," said philosopher Buckminster Fuller. "I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process." Philosopher Norman O. Brown had a similar experience. "The human body is …

LEO: June 19-25 Yesterday at 8:00 PM

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Renowned 20th-century theologian Karl Barth worked on his book "Church Dogmatics" for 36 years. It was more than 9,000 pages. And yet it was incomplete. He had more to say. What's your biggest undone project? The coming months …

VIRGO: June 19-25 Yesterday at 8:00 PM

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Susannah Cibber was a popular 18th-century English contralto whose singing was expressive and moving. On one occasion, she performed Handel's "Messiah" with such verve that an influential priest responded by making an …

LIBRA: June 19-25 Yesterday at 8:00 PM

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Johnny Appleseed was a 19th-century folk hero renowned for planting apple trees in vast areas of rural America. During the 70 years this famous Libra was alive, he never got married. He believed that if he remained unwed …

SCORPIO: June 19-25 Yesterday at 8:00 PM

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "It is kind of fun to do the impossible," said Walt Disney, a pioneer animator whose cartoon innovations were remarkable. I think you have every right to adopt his battle cry. You've got an appointment with the frontier. …