Horoscopes

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — The other day I randomly opened the book Working Days: The Journal of The Grapes of Wrath to the entry where John Steinbeck was about to finish the novel. He was a Pisces, of course, and that tells us a lot about him and astrology.

What is going on in the United States? The government is getting whacked like a piñata. Funding to programs is being cut. Federal employees are being offered buyouts. And it looks like they will be replaced by the machine thinking of “AI.”

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — You simply must take care of yourself, whatever that means to you. There are mental elements to this, as well as physical and emotional. I’m not suggesting you follow the advice of every YouTube ad telling you what not to eat, but rather that you do what you know you need to do

So it turns out that the pro-Palestinian student protesters of last spring were right. It was genocide. And to decry the daily bombings and bulldozing of Gaza and the West Bank was not about being antisemitic. It was about standing up for people whose existence was threatened and who knew they were really being removed from their homes by force.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Be bold about who you are and what you want. And if you’re in a relationship, be bold about who your partner is and what they want. The two are related, and anything that qualifies as a love affair requires both being steadfastly yourself, and generosity of spirit. I know, such a relationship would be the stuff of legend.