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ARIES (March 21-April 19): This will be a very entertaining transition for me to watch, Aries. I hope it'll be as fun for you to live through. In a few short days you'll be making the shift from undercover operative to free-spirited joy rider, from mud wrestling with the angels to trend surfing with the aliens, from behind the scenes at the human zoo to the front of the pack in the wild blue yonder. May you overflow with passionate clarity through every mouthwatering, tear-jerking, brain-cleansing minute of it all.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I bet you'll be talking a blue streak in your sleep this week, Taurus. The quality of your oratory should be very high, too. You might want to keep a tape recorder turned on next to your bed to capture it all. To what do we owe these dazzling nocturnal emissions? Well, your subconscious mind is working overtime to process all the rich, anomalous data you've taken in lately. It simply won't be able to contain all the mysteries it's figuring out, and will have to overflow. That's why, by the way, you may also find yourself unleashing some surprising revelations in broad daylight. Floating down streams of consciousness could be your specialty.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to work as hard at love as you do at your job. Here are a few projects:

1. Purge yourself of an impossible longing for a person you can never have.
2. Forgive and say goodbye to a person who's no good for you.
3. Write a letter that expresses feelings you haven't found a way to reveal in person.
4. Give your lover a new nickname, and ask him or her to bestow one on you, too.
5. Heal the effects an enemy has had on your best relationship.
6. Buy a symbolic object that will stir up sacred desires.
7. Make a pact with an ally that the two of you will try to meet in your dreams on Sunday night.
8. While making love, ask your partner to sync up with your breathing and join you in visualizing the same beautiful image.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The U.S. Air Force has complied with the Environmental Protection Agency's ban on ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. It has removed CFCs from the cooling systems of ballistic missiles that carry nuclear warheads. "If they are ever fired," Earth Island Journal reports, "there will be an environmentally friendly nuclear holocaust." Let this serve as your bombastic metaphor for the week, Cancerian. While nothing remotely similar to a bomb is about to go off in your life, there is a smaller-scale threat. Don't just dabble with stopgap fixes. Totally defuse the sucker.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The opposite of a terrorist is a rapturist: a person who conspires to commit surprising interventions that make hordes of strangers happy and fulfilled. It's what I aspire to be when I grow up. By the way, Leo, I don't want to seem like a recruiter or anything, but it is my duty to mention that you may have what it takes to be a rapturist yourself. In the coming days especially, your talent for spreading unexpected bliss and success will be almost God-like. Be careful where you point that stuff, though; some folks are staunchly opposed to being lifted up out of their misery.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You and I have always known that we can think with our bellies. Gut instinct, we call it. Scientists, on the other hand, have always told us we were crazy to believe such a thing. But they won't anymore. In "The Second Brain: Your Gut Has a Mind of Its Own," Dr. Michael Gershon documents the evidence for a second brain in our stomachs and intestines. It's here, in a bundle of 100 billion nerve cells, that our gut reactions originate. Armed with this knowledge, Virgo, you have a powerful rationale for investing more faith in the wisdom your belly provides. And the planetary omens say that would be a wonderfully wise course of action in the coming weeks. References: 1 & 2.

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