LIBRA: June 5-11 Wednesday, June 5

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Studies show people spend 87 percent of their time inside buildings and six percent in enclosed vehicles. In other words, they're roaming around outside enjoying the wind, sky and weather only 7 percent of their lives. …

SCORPIO: June 5-11 Wednesday, June 5

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Resurrection is your specialty. Better than any other zodiac sign, you can summon the power to be reborn. It's your birthright to reanimate expired dreams, feelings and experiences to make them live again in new forms. …

SAGITTARIUS: June 5-11 Wednesday, June 5

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Octavio Paz spoke to a lover in his poem "Counterparts": "In my body you search the mountain for the sun buried in its forest. In your body I search for the boat adrift in the middle of the night." What have you …

CAPRICORN: June 5-11 Wednesday, June 5

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Do you know what minced oaths are? They're rarely used now. If you went back 100 years, though, you'd hear them often. They were sanitized swear words, peculiar exclamations to let folks have the emotional release of …

AQUARIUS: June 5-11 Wednesday, June 5

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There's only one correct way to spell the English word "beauty," but that wasn't true centuries ago. Before the advent of the printing press, orthographic anarchy prevailed for many words. Some of beauty's variations …

PISCES: June 5-11 Wednesday, June 5

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the last chapter of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov," the lead character says, "There is nothing nobler, stronger, healthier and more helpful in life than a good remembrance, particularly a remembrance …

ARIES: May 29-June 4 Wednesday, May 29

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Back in the 1920s, the governor of Texas was determined to forbid the teaching of foreign languages in public schools. To bolster her case, she called on the Bible. "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ," she said, …

TAURUS: May 29-June 4 Wednesday, May 29

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A few weeks ago, the principal at a school in Bellingham, Wash., announced classes would be canceled the next day. His rationale? A big storm, a bomb threat, an outbreak of sickness? None of the above. He decided to give …

GEMINI: May 29-June 4 Wednesday, May 29

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Japan, it's not rude to slurp while eating ramen noodles from a bowl. That's what the "Lonely Planet" travel guide said. In fact, some Japanese hosts expect you to make sounds with your mouth; to them, it's a sign you're …

CANCER: May 29-June 4 Wednesday, May 29

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A thought from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: "A person will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push that door." That description …