I always plan my summer campouts around the best viewing times for meteor showers, and this year I’m especially excited about the timing of the annual Perseid meteor shower, which peaks this coming Saturday and Sunday, August 11-12. I’ll be on a backpacking trip high in the Goat Rocks Wilderness of Washington State, so I…

It doesn’t matter if you’re one of those sappy, schmoopy, lovey-dovey couples we all hate to envy, or if you’re single and ready to mingle — either way, life is getting good. That’s because love planet Venus is now in the most sentimental zodiac sign, Cancer, and communication planet Mercury is moving direct in loving…

Get ready to thank your lucky stars for the second day in a row! Venus moved into Cancer today, and Mercury Retrograde ends tomorrow. Altogether this means it’s time to move forward again, and any bumps in the relationship road should finally smooth over. Mercury Retrograde messed with quite a few of my friends and…

Oh, thank heavens — literally. Love planet Venus is moving into Cancer tomorrow, and I’m looking at it like a much-needed relationship IV that will feed my starvation for intimacy. Sorry, that sounds melodramatic (you can blame that on my Leo Rising). But frankly, Venus has been in jittery Gemini for so long that my…

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