Tuesday, December 05

Happy Birthday, Sagittarius! [yay!] You cannot avoid creative experience and profound personal transformation – not in this lifetime, anyway. As happy-go-lucky as you appear, there’s plenty of volcanic activity going on just beneath your facade. [yeah, and years of therapy make you perfectly comfortable blaming it all on your parents...]

Your sense of humor probably catches others off guard. They’re taken aback by an unusual blend of goofiness and sarcasm inherent in your alleged spontaneous remarks. [no, really?] Behind every smile and chuckle is a cauldron of burning dark memories. [double, double, toil and trouble...] You require humor to take the edge off of intense life experiences.

Money and power play major roles, no matter how valiantly you struggle to be free of earthly elements. You cannot escape certain harsh realities, no matter how fast you run. And speaking of running, you require lots of healthy aerobic exercise to keep your lungs, heart, lower back and overactive psyche healthy. [damn. cardio. are you sure?]

Some of you seek sanctuary from negative thoughts by self-medicating with drugs, alcohol or other compulsions. You tend to do things until you get them right or do them to death – whether it’s a career endeavor, a complicated relationship or a flat-out addiction. [gee. va bar, anyone? and speaking of complicated relationships...] Moderation is not your middle name, making each choice very important. Once a behavior slips under the wire and turns self-destructive, it becomes a prison – something no red-blooded independent Sagittarius can handle.
Extremely opposed to being limited or trapped, you always devise ultimate escape hatches, just in case.

Because your life is mainly a case study in transformation, you tend to welcome each new development or challenge. Plunge into the deep end and explore all the edges and shadows, but don’t hesitate to ask for help. [just a second... help?] Many times, you don’t recognize the relevance of certain experiences until much later. You may not be the inventor or initiator of a process or brilliant concept, but you could be the person who perfects an idea into something wildly successful.

Born today are J.J. Cale, Jose Carreras, John Rzeznik [dizzy up this girl, dude], Joan Didion, Margaret Cho, Jeroen Krabbe, Glenn Graham, Little Richard [good golly, miss molly!], Gary Allen, Jim Messina, Frankie Muniz, Calvin Trillin, C.V. Cessna, General George Custer [courage or stupidity?], Marcus Daly, Walt Disney, Fritz Lang [how cool is that? but will someone please give me a copy of M for my birthday? pretty please?], Otto Preminger [also ubercool.] and P.K. Wrigley. [hey, what about my favorite co-birthday celebrant, strom thurmond? what, you guys don't like the author of the southern manifesto?]