Aries (March 21-April 19) Maybe try putting on some rose-colored glasses, or carrying around a fog machine. This week, I recommended to Pisces that they work on piercing illusions to get to the heart of things. But you don’t have a problem with being directed. You’re a Ram, after all. Unfortunately, your amazing ability to get down to the stripped, glamourless nitty-gritty can … [Read more...] about Your Horoscope
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Talking Story With James Taylor Before His April 12 MACC Show
James Taylor seduced me when I was 16. Okay, not “seduced” exactly. It was more like an epiphany–a revelation tantamount to the one in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. I was sitting on the lawn at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater when Taylor opened the show with “Shower the People.” It was 1982, and my music collection was limited to a compilation of INXS, Duran Duran and The B-52’s. My … [Read more...] about Talking Story With James Taylor Before His April 12 MACC Show
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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Don’t gild the lily. In case you’re not familiar with that lovely phrase, it refers to unnecessarily adding ornamentation to something that’s already beautiful. To do so actually insults and detracts from the beauty that’s already there. True artistry is sometimes about knowing when to stop, when enough is enough. Unfortunately, the lily you’re … [Read more...] about Your Horoscope
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Occasionally, I suffer from hypermanifestation: I can hardly mention something without it entering my life. I made an allusion to a skunk, and hours later I came face to stink-hole with one. I briefly recalled (aloud) a momentary encounter with someone and suddenly, he appeared. My best response to this condition is to mention things I’d really … [Read more...] about Your Horoscope
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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) It’s rare when affairs of the heart fall in line with those of the brain. That is, we can often tell what’s best for ourselves, but fail to follow it. You know how it goes: “If only I could fall in love with so and so; they adore me!” This week, miraculously, that isn’t your problem. Count yourself very lucky. Emotion and logic working together is an … [Read more...] about Your Horoscope