Ask The Stars

Aries
21 March – 19 April
A fire sign
Ruled by Mars

First one in.

You’ve usually started before anyone else has finished reading the instructions. Sometimes that goes very well.

You’d rather say yes and work it out than spend a week deciding. You get bored in lines, long meetings and most films over two hours. People like having you at the table, because something will happen.

Taurus
20 April – 20 May
A earth sign
Ruled by Venus

Worth the wait.

You know the difference between nice and actually good, and you’ll wait for actually good.

You’d take one excellent chair over a room of fine ones. You remember what everyone ordered last time. You don’t love being rushed, and honestly, why would you.

Gemini
21 May – 20 June
A air sign
Ruled by Mercury

Two tabs open.

You can hold two opinions at once and argue both well. It makes you very good company and a little hard to pin down.

You know a bit about everything and a lot about whatever you got into last month. You’d rather try somewhere new for dinner than go back somewhere good.

Cancer
21 June – 22 July
A water sign
Ruled by the Moon

Home team.

You remember birthdays, allergies and who won’t eat cilantro. People feel looked after around you, usually before they notice why.

Home is your favorite place, and you’d honestly rather have people over than go out. You keep things: letters, recipes, the good glasses for when it matters.

Leo
23 July – 22 August
A fire sign
Ruled by the Sun

Head of the table.

You light up a room and you know it, which is fine, because you’re generous with it.

You’re the one who books the table, picks the wine and makes the toast. You’d rather overdress than underdress. You give the kind of presents people still talk about years later.

Virgo
23 August – 22 September
A earth sign
Ruled by Mercury

Noticed, and fixed.

You spotted the typo on the menu and quietly hoped someone else would mention it.

You like things to work properly, and you’re who everyone calls when they don’t. Your drawers are organized. Your notes app is not, but nobody needs to know that.

Libra
23 September – 22 October
A air sign
Ruled by Venus

Both sides of the table.

You can see everyone’s point of view, which makes you lovely at dinner and very slow at choosing where to have it.

You care how things look, and you’re right to. You’d rather fix the lighting than raise your voice. You have excellent taste and five tabs open comparing two lamps.

Scorpio
23 October – 21 November
A water sign
Ruled by Pluto (or Mars, if you ask the old school)

The deep end.

You notice everything and mention about half of it. People find that mysterious. You’d call it having standards.

You’d take one long dinner over five drinks parties, and one bottle you love over a shelf of samples. Friends bring you the real version of the story, because they know it stops with you.

Sagittarius
22 November – 21 December
A fire sign
Ruled by Jupiter

Already packed.

You’d go almost anywhere if someone said the flight was cheap. You’ve probably already looked.

You tell the best stories at dinner, mostly because you were actually there. You’d rather laugh too loudly than not at all. Routines bore you, so this one is short.

Capricorn
22 December – 19 January
A earth sign
Ruled by Saturn

In it for the long run.

You have a plan, a backup plan, and a calendar that shows both.

You’re steady, which people underrate until they need you. You buy things once and keep them for twenty years. Your sense of humor is drier than people expect, and better than they deserve.

Aquarius
20 January – 18 February
A air sign
Ruled by Uranus (or Saturn, if you ask the old school)

Ahead, again.

You liked it before it was popular, and moved on once it got there.

You care about big ideas and the people near you, sometimes in that order. You’d rather have one strange, brilliant conversation than ten normal ones. Your friends are a mix that shouldn’t work, and does.

Pisces
19 February – 20 March
A water sign
Ruled by Neptune (or Jupiter, if you ask the old school)

Somewhere else, nicely.

You’re in the room and also slightly elsewhere, usually somewhere nicer.

You cry at commercials and you’re not sorry. You pick up on a mood before anyone says a word. You’d rather make a present than buy one, and you’d rather give it away than keep it.