A Mercury Retrograde Mardi Gras by Holiday Mathis

hhd@get.creators.com (Holiday Mathis)

If your life were a Mardi Gras parade, what would your float be like? The meetup of the moon and a retrograde Mercury promises surprise themes and happenings for revelers (and lots of lost keys and phones)! Even if you don’t celebrate Fat Tuesday, this is a time to consider the hedonist inside with an acknowledgement, if not an indulgence.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). The money situation is getting easier for you. The stress will lift. Focus on bringing as much creativity to the scene as you can and, suddenly, logistical problems will ease.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). If you’re waiting for the before/after moments, you can stop. Oh, you’ll get the transformation. It just won’t be condensed into a moment, that is until 10 years from now when you look back on it as though it were but a pinpoint.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ve seen advocates and champions at work, and maybe you’ve had them in your own life. You know what the role is and how it’s best played. Take it on for yourself today. Be the person you deserve to have on your side.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Things can get better, maybe even better than better. Things can get crazy-good-spectacular. The trick is catching that upward trajectory and then staying the course.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There’s something in the song you love that plays on the radio during your commute, a piece of your life hanging in that jagged stretch between work and home that means so much and turns a tide.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). If you’re no longer offering something, that doesn’t mean you’re stealing from someone, although they might experience it as such. People get used to what they have.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Another idea regarding the situation involves you thinking from the point of view of a different ZIP code, country and planet. Distance makes the mind grow wiser.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Success comes from allowing yourself but one pursuit at a time and keeping your focus quite small. The sequence is: where to go, how to get there, repeat.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). To work on yourself isn’t the same as being selfish. Selfishness takes from others for your own gain. When you work on yourself, who are you taking from? If you can’t imagine this, you don’t owe what you think you owe.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Question for the psyche: “Who are you expecting yourself to be over the course of a day?” The roles can get overbearing until you realize the costumes are made of paper that you can tear out of at will.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Mistakes bring people together, more than anything else. Nothing comes together because everything is going smoothly. It’s the glitches that bring interaction, and most pleasant at that.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You intend to solve problems and make a contribution. The tricky part is that you have to consider the packaging. Packaging is both actually and metaphorically the bane of the modern world.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 25). The money, fame and recognition are just a lovely carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to the real point, which is the learning and growing. You’ll still get the carrot, and that will be extremely fun, but it won’t be the part of the experience you cherish. You’ll love what happens because you did the work. Taurus and Aquarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 44, 3, 22, 28 and 1.

HOW TO PLAN A DATE BY THE MOON (PART FOUR): See the archives for early parts. One way to keep your personal life tracking with the cosmic tides is to plan your dates by the moon. From Angelina Jolie to Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman to Matthew McConaughey, the proof is in the popularity. People who do things for other people are hot. Helping together — that’s double hot when the moon is in the sign of philanthropy. Ideal date activities under the AQUARIUS moon include charity balls, auctions, bake sales, bike-a-thons, school fairs, library book sales, community fundraisers and the like. So are visits to the lonely or infirmed, visits to help a neighbor, church events and anything you can think of to help those who need it.

The PISCES moon caution: This is the moon of talking about your feelings, and being supersweet about them, too. This is the moon of candy hearts and flowers, of kissing at a make-out point, of holding hands on the beach. This moon is fun to be in love in, and gross to watch if you’re not in love. You might say more than is sustainable. You might wake up when the moon is in Aries and forget all about it. Or these Pisces exchanges of sentimental mush might be the magic that holds a relationship together for years.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Rashida Jones comes from show business lineage, but there was a time when the Harvard University graduate considered becoming lawyer. These days, producing and executive producing are a passion, which goes perfectly with her natal Capricorn moon. But acting is still front and center for this artistic Pisces. Look for her in the upcoming television comedy “#Blackexellence.”

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