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GEMINI (May 21 - June 20)

Dear Gemini, it's YOUR party this month! Many Geminis like to think they're secret femme fatales - but this month the secret's out!

Beauty planet Venus goes direct in your first house of looks on Tuesday June 29 and you are ready to rock and roll. Right into and through the whole month of July. People will be telling you right, left, and center how great you look.

That's the power of Venus for you. According to the ancients, Venus was so enchanting that she "stole the wits even of the wise." So beautiful and life-giving that "flowers grew wherever she walked." She will have been in your sign, dear Gemini, a whole third of a year.

So, give thanks - and some understanding toward over 70% of the population who have not been so lucky.

As odd as you might feel around SOME people, you know you can hold your head high. And as uncomfortable as you may feel in certain social situations, for example around the full Moon of Friday July 2, don't fret about it.

There's a funny theme for you this month, and it involves the concept of honor. You know you've done the right thing. You've behaved well in relationships. If others have not, that is their problem, not yours.

Just try to remember that not everyone is a twin like you...not everyone wants to be joined at the hip. What will do wonders for recent relationship letdowns right now is NOT about you mending them.

Quit your worrying. Look ahead to what is new, particularly with the new Moon happening on Saturday July 17.

Finances have turned you into such a GROWNUP this past year, and perhaps precisely because of this you are still worried about money. With the new Moon occuring in your second house of cash, you can expect a raise or new project to generate more funds after mid-month.

A recent setback on the home front has been disturbing but it could have been a whole lot more disturbing. With lucky Jupiter promising you success in the area of home and property, it will work out. You have a lot to look forward to.

You are so smart, dear Gemini, I don't even have to tell you this! So, in honor of your brains and love of words, here is one of the greatest wordmasters (writers) of all time, Italian writer Italo Calvino. He wrote this in honor of your ruling planet Mercury.

When you need a guide this month, follow this.

Especially when those strange relating-with-others mishaps occur - and there will be a few - remember and re-read this passage.

When you find yourself in a new location or having to shift your home, read it again!

Needless to say, the HE is YOU.

"When he enters the territory of which Eutropia is the capital, the traveler sees not one city but many, of equal size and not unlike one another, scattered over a vast, rolling plateau. Eutropia is not one, but all these cities together; only one is inhabited at a time, the others are empty; and this process is carried out in rotation. Now I shall tell you how.

On the day when Eutropia's inhabitants feel the grip of weariness and no one can bear any longer his job, his relatives, his house and his life, debts, the people he must greet or who greet him, then the whole citizenry decides to move to the next city, which is there waiting for them, empty and good as new; there each will take up a new job, a different wife, will see another landscape on opening his window, and will spend his time with different pastimes, friends, gossip.

So their life is renewed from move to move, among cities whose exposure or declivity or streams or winds make each site somehow different from the others.

Since their society is ordered without great distinctions of wealth or authority, the passage from one function to another takes place almost without jolts; variety is guaranteed by the multiple assignments, so that in the span of a lifetime a man rarely returns to a job that has already been his.

Thus the city repeats its life, identical, shifting up and down on its empty chessboard. The inhabitants repeat the same scenes, with the actors changed; they repeat the same speeches with variously combined accents; they open alternate mouths in identical yawns.

Alone, among all the cities of the empire, Eutropia remains always the same.

Mercury, god of the fickle, to whom the city is sacred, worked this ambiguous miracle."

Bravo, Gemini! And remember, this is how it is meant to be. And, with honor, you triumph with it.

E-mail this horoscope to a Gemini or Gemini Jupiter you care about - if you want him or her to do well this July!

Your days to push the envelope: Monday July 12, Tuesday July 13, and Wednesday July 14.

Also the days the Moon is in the SAME SIGN as your Jupiter sign. Consult Jupiter for more on this, and on how to be successful in the world at large.

P.S. Dear Reader, Happy Summer! It is - finally - here!

Isn't it time for us to take a breather from this time of madness, of difficult personal exchanges, and of too much to bear?

How often have you been able to make a wise decision when stressed?

Research has proved that anxiety and stress inhibit the brain's ability to function. We cannot think clearly and effectively when the brain is being short ciruited with anxiety.

I'm not talking about instinctual survival-based decisions - for immediate preservation of life - I'm talking about longterm life choices. These cannot be made during crisis. We have been living in a state of crisis-simulation for almost three years now. Complete with bright kid-friendly colors telling us HOW MUCH IS RIGHT. It has become harder to THINK.

I prefer, instead of Code Yellow; Code Orange; Code Red -- Code Linen; Code Off-White; Code Putty, myself. (Thank you, Saturday Night Live.) You need to take care of yourself, dear reader. (No matter how much success you may be having.)

You, and all that is inside of you.

I would like to share with you something that has always renewed my breath - and delight! About the choices we have, if we can but choose them...our various, incredible routes...Travel with me as you read this...enjoy the journey with me.

Extracted from one of my very favorite books, Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino. (Born a Libra, and yes, LIBRO in Italian means book!). Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.

In Esmeralda, city of water, a network of canals and a network of streets span and intersect each other.

To go from one place to another you have always the choice between land and boat: and since the shortest distance between two points in Esmeralda is not a straight line but a zigzag that famifies in torturous optional routes, the ways that open to each passerby are never two, but many, and they increase further for those who alternate a stretch by boat with one in dry land.

And so Esmeralda's inhabitants are spared the boredom of following the same streets every day.

And that is not all: the network of routes is not arranged on one level, but follows instead an up-and-down course of steps, landings, cambered bridges, hanging streets.

Combining segments of the various routes, elevated or on ground level, each inhabitant can enjoy every day the pleasure of a new itinerary to reach the same places. The most fixed and calm lives in Esmeralda are spent without any repetition.

A map of Esmerelda should include, marked in different colored inks, all these routes, solid and liquid, evident and hidden.

It is more difficult to fix on the map the routes of the swallows, who cut the air over the roofs, dropping long invisible parabolas with their still wings, darting to gulp a mosquito, spiraling upward, grazing a pinnacle, dominating from every point of their airy paths all the points of the city.

Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.

"But which is the stone that supports the bridge?" Kublai Khan asks.

"The bridge is not supported by one stone or another," Marco answers, "but by the line of the arch that they form."

Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: "Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me."

Polo answers: "Without the stones there is no arch."

Water (a city of water!) is ruled by the Moon, and this July we have TWO full Moons. The second full Moon is called a Blue Moon. A month with two full Moons, a rare event, is always a dramatic month.

Tending to your Moon - that is, your inner needs and emotions - will help you to remain calm, to stay in touch, and allow you to make clear and good decisions.

For your inner child needs, read the horoscope for your Moon sign.

For example, if you are a Sagittarius with a Taurus Moon, read the Taurus horoscope.

Consider your inner child's needs to be Taurus (you need home comfort and security. Think how a cat is if you take them out of their home. Cats are ruled by Taurus.) Even if you are a rock n roll, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants Sagittarius!

If you are a Scorpio with a Libra Moon, consider your inner child's needs to be Libra (you need love-love, harmony- harmony, beauty-beauty everywhere.) Even if you are a independent proud I-can-go-without Scorpio!

And so on.

Read my astrology book for young'uns, and you'll remember your original Moon needs as a child. Trace the cause of what makes you inexplicably nuts on any given day NOW.

Here are some excerpts.

I also recommend - of course - Linda Goodman's Sun Signs. Her sections on the Child for each Sun sign are still the best around. She wrote her books for grownups though. When I was a kid, her book was the only one available for me to read! I've had countless people tell me they wished there'd been an astrology book for them when THEY were kids.

Now there's mine, and it is the only astrology book for kids (and inner kids) in print AT ALL, and I am asking you to help me keep it in print! Otherwise, there will be NOT A ONE. (It is in its third edition from Penguin USA, thick color pages, spiral bound, beautiful illustrations, with a poster.) It is also an amazing gift. Only $10.99.

You can buy it here.

Take care of yourself.

P.P.S. For an individual reading, please go to PRIVATE READINGS.

Until next month, dear reader -

Madalyn

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