ARIES (March 20-April 19)
The planetary theme right now is truth about your sexuality at all costs. Nothing is worth more than your integrity, which begins and ends with being real with yourself and with others. The cheat of cheating is denying yourself the opportunity to thrive and grow in an environment that honors reality. Secrets can only remain so temporarily, at a high cost. Revealing them frees up time and energy and allows you to make reality-based decisions.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20)
What you learn about something over the next few days will fill in many missing pieces of the puzzle. That alone might not be enough to mitigate how you feel about learning something about a loved one you should have known a long time ago, however I suggest you be empathic and recognize that few people are strong enough to tell it like it is, all the time. Therefore, offer your strength, in the form of understanding. The history of whatever this is long predates your presence in their life.

GEMINI (May 20-June 21)
Your hormones are speaking. What are they saying to you? They might be describing something that you’ve denied, or something that you have not noticed. They might be reminding you of one particular way you know you need to take care of yourself. It will be worth heeding this message, which may also be in the language of desire, such as admitting what you want in a way you have not articulated to yourself. Listen attentively.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)
Mercury stationing retrograde in Scorpio says ‘hot talk’ like nothing else. Now, it takes a special person to be articulate about sex, and in our modern world there is a lot of pressure to STFU. Yet there is exquisite pleasure behind the veil, especially if it’s a veil of shame, guilt or the unspeakable. Pull back the curtain and reveal yourself. You will love the feeling so much that it becomes the thing you want above all.

LEO (July 22-Aug. 23)
When sexual energy is bound up in emotional insecurity, nobody gets to have much fun — especially you. And while you’ve been a bit prone to worry, there’s another side of your psyche that is coming on like thunder, telling you that anything is possible. Which point of view is true? Well, the one you select is the one that becomes true. But both cannot peacefully coexist, so make up your mind and stick to your choice.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22)
What is the story you tell yourself about your sexuality? You have one; your sexuality is full of stories, some of which you repeat until they seem true. Yet you may discover that you’re inflicting a narrative on yourself in which you don’t seem to come out the winner. I suggest you tell yourself a new story, or remember an old one that you may have forgotten — one of depth, fulfillment and trust, more solid than a romance.

LIBRA (Sept. 22-Oct. 23)
You can turn your doubts to reassurance, if you make the conscious choice to. Few people know or understand this. How you feel about yourself is not carved in stone, or tattooed in indelible ink. It’s fully variable, though highly subject to conditioning. The great thing about being human is you get to decide what conditioning to subject yourself to. You get to decide what is real and what is true for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 22)
Think of sex as food. Healthy, wholesome sex is about nourishment. If that is true, then sex that leaves you feeling depleted is not good for you. If this subject rings a bell, consider that the first place to seek nourishment is from yourself. This can and indeed must be about physical contact, but right now it’s also about the ideas about yourself that you feed yourself. You become them — you are what you eat.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 22)
You may feel blocked, or said another way, caught between the desire to be cautious and the need to take action. This combination can have a way of making people reluctant to be sexual, fearing negative outcomes, disease, commitment or making mistakes. I suggest you trust your own integrity and make peace with the basic truth that mistakes are part of any real path of exploration. Once you admit that, your inner doors will open up.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 20)
There is sexual power in withholding, and I don’t think you want any part of that. What you want is pleasure, and the two are mutually exclusive. Offering yourself, and being open to what others offer, is not a sign of weakness or of ‘promiscuity’. It’s a sign of being open to life, which means strength. Embrace sex as a form of love and caring and this will make a lot more sense. If you give it any other role, you will lose its true meaning, and lose in general. Don’t worry what your mother taught you. It’s no longer relevant, if it ever was.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
Check out the power dynamics within an erotic affair. You would appear to have an opportunity to get the engagement away from a parent-child or other authority based situation, to a peer-to-peer encounter, which is what I would propose is what you want. Exploring or experiencing in sexual relationships is tempting, though it needs to be done consciously rather than as a covert quality. There must be a real discussion and a real agreement.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Focus on who and what you want. Swim upstream, right against the tide of judgment and fear, and point your entire being in the direction of your deepest desire. You may notice that what you feel is different, that it has a transgressive quality, and yet like most or all of your sexual feelings is infused with the cosmic sensation that most people describe as ‘spiritual’ or ‘mystical’. You at least understand that this is about sex.