"...then some really sweet love `n' romance stuff the last week of February, right into March." That one was weird. Before I filed, I thought I was getting married the day after Christmas. As it turned out, Chuck and I wed in the last week of February. "...until we get to April, at which point you start having doubts about your self-image. What could you do to improve it? Well, listening, for a start." (That's when I started cutting my hair shorter and shorter after finally hearing my subconscious say, "if you're going to play tennis five days a week and spend approximately 10 percent of that time wiping hair out of your eyes, CUT!".

"July - oy, veh - can we say frustration? Oh, do we have to? Everything is so close, yet out of reach." Ironically, that's when Chuck and I started looking at houses, to return to ancestral New England from the Great Plains. "September and October could be positive but frustrating. Like, you're all dressed up but no one to impress." If you've ever applied for mortgages, you know exactly what this is about.

Finally, "November, you get a treat - again, Mars is in Libra - can you believe a whole year has been chewed up, and you're still wrestling with issues you thought you resolved in December of 1999? Who needs a memory anyway?" How I interpret this in my own life needn't be gone into here - suffice it to say, I got an eerie chill reading this. The months I left out would have been way too personal to share, duckies.

Unlike too many folks yammering on the web, I have no interest in sharing personal revelation. That's for you to do under cloak of anonymity on my letters page!

As for 2001, the positive stuff will be much more positive. The "moving forward" stuff won't happen until Valentine's Day, and from then through early summer there's all sorts of universal encouragement for you to expand operations. Buy property, get a bigger apartment, but don't do crazy radical stuff with your body or mind, because during that equinox to solstice period all your friendships are going to get frayed. Or your taste in companion will not be what it should. The next gruesome (fun!) period for you is mid-September through October. Enjoy hurdles? Get a head start, they'll be twice as many on your track. November and December are great months for invention. Anything from streamlining the programs you use, to figuring out that the side of the house that faces the street is the only side that needs to get painted.

January 1 through 3 will be difficult and annoying. January 4 and 5 you'll be more sensible, and open to rational persuasion. January 6 and 7 are excellent for writing and wasting time with email, while January 8 and 9, you'll be easily bruised, even if dropped from only a short height. January 10 and 11 are good for getting into a childish frame of mind, just as January 12 and 13, petulance over details is where it's at. The moon moves through your sun sign on January 14 and 15. The usual ups and downs, especially with water signs, but don't miss an opportunity to say the truth - both sides of it. January 16 through 18, that childish frame of mind can get paranoid, while January 19 and 20 you may be attracted to someone loud and boorish who represents risks you need permission to take (hey, pay the late fee, how bad can it be?) January 21 through the new moon on January 24 could be a real dwelling in the doldrums unless you find something tedious, time-consuming and solitary to do. Hang with your most unpleasant friends for distraction. Things look up in the last week of January, when you don't mind having a conflict to get your own way. Very unLibra, that!