Your Trumplandia Horoscope

for the week of November 6 Aries: Ok, so you  may have burned through almost all of your Facebook friends with fits of blocking and unfriending. It's been a rough few years: yes, this past one, but also the campaign. The thing is, some of those people you unfriended were bots, but others were misguided souls who might--who knows?--have come to their senses. Make this refriending week, or just visit their walls to see whether they're still coated with hate memes. Continue speaking up in "mixed" audiences where political backgrounds are unclear: somebody's got to speak the truth. Try a new flavor of Doritos, but don't worry about that "Biscuits and Gravy" flavored potato chip; it's trash.Taurus: There is no tunnel in the bottom of Netflix that leads to a different presidency. You are going to have to open your mind's eye for, like, one minute a day and really see and feel what is happening. Give $20 to an organization that can use it. That is a gift to yourself to help you get unstuck. Do something this week that involves getting your hands dirty, whether it's repotting a plant, changing the litterbox, or ... whatever.Gemini: Are you convinced yet that you might actually have to vote next time? You have one year until midterms. Meditate on the potential in the universe by looking into your own eyes in a mirror and chanting, "It's bigger than me, but I am a part of it." Look at it this way: you don't have to admit you're wrong, but you can evolve. Wear more blue.Cancer: You're doing beautifully even though you berate yourself. Paint a picture or go for a walk. See the good you put into the world. Take a day to do nothing. During this day, burn something to symbolize letting go of that 45-supporter in your life; that person's destiny is their own, and it undoubtedly involves a reckoning that you do not need to deliver. Free yourself. Create a secret ritual in your yard directed at your Trump-loving neighbor to draw a zone of safety, and then make cookies and deliver them. That will fuck with their minds so badly.Leo: Welp, having a king really sucks, right? Consider this week what else you have wrongfully enthroned, which fake royalty you should depose, what old central ruling ideas need to go. You don't need to rip them out of their gilded chairs yet, but begin plotting and finding like-minded friends to help you. Have you considered running for office? Of course you have. Well... why not? Consider letting your hair grow.Virgo: I know. Sometimes you still wake up in a panic, and it feels as if you have been trying to think through Nate Silver's numbers all night. We are all going to have permanent 2016 shakiness, but you need to find a new ground to stand on. Even when the ground appears to be shaking. What will be your new base? What can you believe in? Whatever it is--modeling clay, your local immigrant rights organization, nice pens--go all in. Love the things and the people who need your love.Libra: In some cases there is no decision to be made. It feels the same as a decision now, this nagging uncertainty, and this has thrown you into decision-funk. But the glorious truth is that you're free from deciding right now. Act in the ways that you always do, showing the self-care skills you have accumulated, and just follow. Follow the lead of those email blasts, write your representative without wondering whether it will do any good, and peel the backing off that bumper sticker. It's the little things that make the big things. I applaud your resolve in not sleeping with gun nuts and people who "aren't into politics."Sagittarius: I know, I know: it's the shittiest time ever to have finally come into your own. But you are doing it. You are speaking your truth, slaying with memes on social media, finding new friends, and finally feeling what it means to connect the personal with the political. Your realizations might feel draining to you, but keep on doing it: you are a moral compass for others. Go ahead, eat more cheese. These are tough times.Capricorn: Before you can rebuild, you have to admit that you're at a kind of bottom. And this is where you are, exhausted with TWO YEARS SOLID of over-reading, over-researching. You were talking about Cambridge Analytica before the story broke, you saw it coming and your brother in law just laughed at you. It takes a toll to be a Cassandra. Stop talking to your brother-in-law and start a blog.Aquarius: Stop hate-reading Fox News on your phone. Stop hate-reading ultra-left insider snark publications with hyperbolic language that call out everyone but themselves as sell outs and neo-liberals. Snark is going to extinguish your will to act. You know that's not movement building, but you can't change them. You have accumulated enough political experience to make anyone cynical, so just return to what you know: getting to know someone and suggesting they come with you to a meeting. Don't worry about "The Left." Get a subscription to In These Times or Labor Notes and try to understand your cat's multi-layered personality.Pisces: Every action desperately needs pinatas and puppets. Stop trashing on yourself for not being able to make a "real contribution." Color and laughter are as essential as food and water. If the 1960s were the Age of Aquarius, this is your age. Even if your crafts and skills are old-school. Take a picture of that painting or drawing and post it on Instagram. Well, start an Instagram account first.Scorpio: We are waiting. Get out your lasers of hate and revenge and coordinate; direct them toward our capitol city and GO. Use the power you have waited your entire lifetime to use. Also please consider leading classes at your local community center on such topics as "Ways to Sustain the Fire--and Stoke the Necessary Rage." We need this. I never thought I'd say that, but we do.*I have no astrological training, though I like horoscopes.