Note: We’ll have a fresh, new column from Maria tomorrow (Feb. 15) in the afternoon. But to commemorate Valentine’s Day (and to remind anyone struggling with relationships that Eric’s horoscopes are the best in the business for shifting to a more holistic perspective in that realm), I wanted to offer this column from last year. — Amanda
By Maria Padhila
I’ve been reading horoscopes since I was 12 and they were telling me that Aries was my super sexy love match. I like to think I grew up; most of the horoscopes didn’t.
I do a lot of searching and consolidating so I can get a lot of different points of view out there. I do that with horoscopes, too. So I can tell you pretty authoritatively that if you’re getting the Planet Waves subscriber horoscopes, you’re getting the best weekly and monthly horoscopes out there. I’ve cried — and occasionally done the spit-take — reading the Friday horoscopes before because they just managed to capture the whole picture so precisely.
I know there’s a lot of other content that goes with the twice-weekly emails to subscribers, and that a subscription comes with a lot of extra access to content in all the areas that Planet Waves writers are subject-matter experts: astrology, tarot, sex, politics, trees, humor. But people really want horoscopes, and they deserve really great ones — and Planet Waves is about the only great source I’ve found. Here’s why — and then I’ll get to a little commentary on the latest from the poly scene, as we approach that cultural relationship panic-button that is Valentine’s Day:
Most other horoscopes are short. Even the really good ones, like dailies from Cainer or weeklies from Rob Brezney’s Free Will Astrology, don’t give the combination length and depth, weekly and monthly, of Eric’s at Planet Waves.