POETIC LICENSE: Horoscopes, Sept. 3-9

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POETIC LICENSE: Horoscopes, Sept. 3-9

POSTED: Friday, September 3, 2010, 2:00 PM

Filed Under: Poetic License

Critical Mass welcomes devoted poet/avid concert-goer/nerd-grrrl extraordinaire Jane Cassady to the fold; her weekly horoscopes will run in this space every Friday morning.

Who Watches Giles? Virgo (Aug. 24-Sept. 23): Write out your 10 birthday wishes in sparkle-icing on a sheet cake. Learn to make frosting roses — it's about time. Count your hopes in sugar petals. Avoid red food coloring. It's bitter. Libra (Sept. 24-Oct. 21): By way of alleviating stress, call up 10 people you love and say nice things about them. Be emphatic. Your aches and pains will decrease. Scorpio (Oct. 22-Nov. 22): The motto of Harry's Occult Shop over on South Street is "We aim to help." You get the feeling that by "we" they don't mean "We the guys behind the apothocary counter," but more like "We and all the unseen forces of the universe." Ask for that kind of help. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 22): This week, be like Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Be a Watcher to every wild force for goodness, every supernaturally strong slangy archetype. Don't wish you were somewhere else. Capricorn (Dec. 23-Jan. 20): You are a calendar of how to make strawberry shortcake. On Monday, decide biscuits or sweet sponge cake. Tuesday, slice the strawberries, etc. Aquarius (Jan. 21-Feb. 19): How to have a lovely Baroque-pop catharsis: 1. Set up Google Chrome as your browser. 2. Close all other windows. 3. Go to thewildernessdowntown.com. 4. Type in your first address. 5. Search. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20): It might be difficult for Mad Men to make rock bottom look stylish. Luckily, you have no such worries. You are as fresh and bright as a new hat. Aries (March 21-April 18): This week, a guru of mine very quickly became an un-guru when she made fun of a man who kept his dog on a very long leash. This is at least a failure of imagination. Taurus (April 19-May 18): I forget the name of the artist who installed a tree branch over the gate at Dia:Beacon as a piece of art. Turning the branch upside-down fooled it into thinking it was alive and blooming one last time. Gemini (May 19-June 21): Something I learned while napping to Radiolab: Until very recently, like the 1970s, zoos were nothing but wire cages and concrete. Be like whoever it was who came up with naturalistic animal habitats — still a zoo, but still. Cancer (June 22-July 23): In her poem "Other Prohibited Items," Martha Greenfield lists items confiscated at airport security, including a sentimental wrench, rare rosewater, breast milk still warm. What should you travel with? What should you risk? Leo (July 24-Aug. 23): Some ponderings about Gretchen from Project Runway: 1. Do you think she knows she'll be edited this way? 2. She's just saying out loud what our Monkey Mind is always yammering about. 3. How does one go on after having been yelled at by Tim Gunn? PREVIOUSLY >> POETIC LICENSE: Horoscopes, Aug. 28-Sept. 2

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