TAURUS: Aug. 7-13

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits,” writes Taurus author Annie Dillard, “but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I’ve come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air.” Try her perspective. Forget about scrambling after perfection. Temporarily surrender any longing you may have for smooth propriety. Be willing to live without neat containment and polite decorum. Be easy and breezy. Accept the messy beauty you’re in. Love life just as it is, with all its paradoxes and mysteries.