Free Will Astrology | Nov. 29-Dec. 5 

ARIES (March 21-April 19)
How much more can you hold? How much further are you willing to reach? How much bigger of a big picture can you open your mind to see? We will soon discover the answers to those questions, as well as several others that have to do with the themes of unbinding, emancipation, and the loss of inhibition. Judging from my reading of the astrological omens, I’d say the prospects are high for you to achieve a record-breaking state of relaxed and curious expansiveness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Explore the off-limits area of your imagination, Taurus. I’m talking about that barely conscious part of your psyche where taboo fantasies and unruly notions have been steadily growing in the dark, accumulating the dark luminosity that all secret things do. If you consort with them now, you’ll be just in time to prevent them from becoming monstrous and reeling out of control. Even better, you’ll have a good chance of shaping them into resources that will serve you well.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
I recommend that you read one of those ground-level books on intimacy skills, like Relationships for Dummies or The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Romance. It’s not that you are any dumber about these matters than the rest of us; it’s just that this is a favorable time for you to work harder than usual on boosting your Love IQ. Remedial efforts taken now will generate assistance and inspiration from unexpected sources. For best results, I suggest you consider keeping a journal about the lessons you’ll be asked to master. Entitle it something like “How I’m Becoming as Smart about Love as I Am about Everything Else in My Life.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22)
During the heyday of samurai culture, the Japanese word tsuji-giri meant “to try out a new sword on a passer-by.” After analyzing your astrological omens, Cancerian, I’m appealing to you not to commit the metaphorical equivalent of that in the coming week. Here’s what I mean: You’ve got good reasons to use the metaphorical equivalent of a new sword, and you will wreak some constructive havoc if you direct your warrior attitude at the right targets. But if, on the other hand, you carelessly slice and dice passers-by and other innocents who don’t deserve it, you’ll waste that valuable resource and won’t correct the problems that have piqued your sense of injustice.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
“When love is not madness, it is not love,” said Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderon de la Barca. But according to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will dramatically disprove that notion in the coming weeks, Leo. In fact, I’m betting that love will make you stark, raving sane. It will calm you down, heal a wound or two, improve your eyesight, help you understand yourself better, improve your digestion, and stimulate you to become you more tolerant and forgiving towards the entire world.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
First let me make it clear that I’m not predicting you will face difficult events in the coming days. Not at all. Second, I’m not saying you will have to endure more pain than usual. Third, I believe your suffering will be about average—similar to what normal people bear in normal times. Having said all that, though, I encourage you to be aggressively exploratory toward the pain you feel. Have long talks with your murky fears. Gaze bravely into the parts of your life that make you sad. Why? Because it’s a favorable time to search for treasure that’s buried in the shadows—to enhance your psychological health by dealing with what’s not so healthy. Recall Carl Jung’s wise words: “The foundation of all mental illness is an unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”