St. Patrick’s Planets by Holiday Mathis

hhd@get.creators.com (Holiday Mathis)

The luck of this St. Patrick’s Day is governed by an Earth-sign lunar trine of the moon and Venus. There’s a commercial implication. It’s an excellent day for business, closing deals, shopping and sensing excellent investment opportunity. Take stock of resources, and give thanks for the fortunes with which the fates have already favored you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re a realist, an excellent quality, though it’s not always the easiest for you, as it has you doubting yourself more than the next person. If you must doubt yourself, follow up by arguing for yourself in a big way.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Inappropriateness creates impact, but the wrong kind. Saving the day is impactful but hard to follow up. Brainstorm about how you might make the kind of difference that favors your aims.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The ancient Greek philosophers defined passion as an emotion based on a false sense of reality. Perhaps, though nations, indeed entire civilizations, have been built on false senses of reality, so don’t let that stop you.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Schools of fish and flocks of birds often behave as a single creature. The animal instinct to meld with the group mind is primordial. Resistance is possible but not so worthwhile today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll create instantaneous rapport. In an act of quantum emotional intelligence, you skip through years of getting-to-know-you trepidation and land in moments of intimate familiarity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your engine runs on desire. To be this excited about a potential outcome is a rarity for you, and certainly nothing to be dismissed. Document the moment in pictures or writing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There’s something about blue that soothes the soul, whether it’s the sky, the water or the crying sound of one who sings out the existential angst.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Touch base; call home; get back to your roots. Much will be the same whether you check in or not, except that your heart will be different. It will fortify you to keep up with your people.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your qualifications on paper will have little to do with actual life. Feeling successful is a matter of making personal connections interpreted through your senses, not just through your intellect.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). A purpose-driven life may be the ideal, but it’s not the constant. You don’t always have to be aware of your purpose. Sometimes your purpose is just to relax and be a part of the fabric of existence.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Make yourself happy. When you have fun, so do others around you. You might be surprised about the difference you can make with your special brand of joy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Relationships run on more than just love. Sure, love matters, but so does taking out the garbage and other business of domesticity and common courtesy.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 17). This solar journey represents a beautiful collusion of interests. Even when you’re serving your own needs, you’ll happen to grace the lives of others like it’s your mission. Special relationships will lift and soar your spirits and aims. You’ll build on a good idea and later cash in on it. August travel will be especially dreamy. Virgo and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 7, 48, 18 and 50.

ASTROLOGICAL QUESTION: “Holiday, I recently read that loneliness is genetic. What? How could this be true? I’m a Pisces, and I have the gene, apparently…”

I am not a scientist, though common-sense observations show me that some individuals need more human contact and personal interaction than others. There are those who seem to thrive in solitude and those who can’t stand to be alone. Of course, loneliness can occur in solitude, in a crowd, even in a close relationship. The most profound type of loneliness may be the one experienced among people who are supposed to be your own but somehow don’t get you, or, for one reason or another, are not connecting with you at all.

Genetic or not, loneliness is a serious symptom to address, as it’s one of the most toxic and debilitating emotions we have, linked to all sorts of sickness and demise. Since one can still be lonely while interacting with others, the remedy, oddly enough, is deeper than just spending time with others. We have many opportunities to be with one another but don’t know how to make the most of them. The remedy is not more social time and contact but better social time and contact. It’s social and emotional education. More on this tomorrow.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Rob Lowe heats up the television screen as a firefighter in the new television series “9-1-1: Lone Star.” The author, actor and activist embodies the artistic nature of his Pisces birthright and has all the passionate temperament of Mars in Pisces as well. Lowe is among a select group of celebrities who seem inexplicably ageless. Maybe it’s his youthful Mercury and Jupiter in Aries!

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