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Astro Jams: Horoscopes for the Groove Enthusiast
Edited by Cosmic Zink

ARIES (March 21st-April 19th): You've turned off your mind and relaxed. Now, float down stream. The visuals you are getting by the end of the month are absolutely intense. Colors, patterns, grids, space...wow! Although this month is up and down more like a rollercoaster than the train you used to know, it starts nice and chill. Ha Ha the Moose is in town and you may leap at the chance to see an intimate show with some of the moe. boys. You are a very social butterfly this month talking it up with every like-minded freak you can find. When you see a Phish sticker on the car in front of you, a voice inside your head urges you to drive up beside them and give them a nice wave.

TAURUS (April 20th-May 20th): You are going to enjoy this super duper freaky-stylely month, and that's no bull. Bask in the sun while you toss disc with a kind soul you recently met at the festival. You feel as good as an award winner stepping on stage at the Irving Plaza to accept their Jammy award. You really deserve the spotlight! Just don't bounce on a trampoline and make it hard for the light guy to keep that light shined where it needs to be. As the month grooves on, you feel as if you are able to take the shape or form of anything. Wonderbull powers...ACTIVATE!

GEMINI (May 21st-June 21st): As you blow the candles of your birthday cake out, look back on how jammin' this year has been thus far. You rocked the night away for New Year's Eve, and the improvisational music party just hasn't stopped since. It's like you're riding some kind of tune seeking missile. Ride that rocket on, brother (or sister)! Maybe you can practice your southern drawl as you head to Texas on a quest to hear the band Soup play a stellar show. Take a big bite, now. Don't worry, it's a vegetarian concoction.

CANCER (June 22nd-July22nd): A thunderous Phil bomb starts this month out with a BANG!!! Speaking of banging, you are a bit horny this month, Cancer. And what better way to take care of that problem than with the horn playing of Michael Ray? Get out there and get all horned up! The good news comes in fast and furious for you, too. The endless list of bands coming to your area this summer has you salivating like a crazed tour dog. Your career is going very well, too, which just may mean you will be able to score plenty of time off to see all these great shows coming to your town...time to party down.

LEO (July 23rd-August 23rd): Poor little lion. The time for fun this month is not as large as you like it to be. You like your fun quotient to be as phat and greasy as a bassline laid down by Oteil Burbridge. Instead, you are getting a hissy mono recording of Tiny Tim most of the month. Grrrrrr, you say? Sure, you'll be kind of pissed because of this musical short-changing fate has served you. You are getting dissed by your usually tight knit group of jam fan friends, too. I know that all this crap going on may want to make you reach for three feet of soothing glass and bubbling water, but save those braincells! As the summer gets into full swing there may be some tripped out events happening to you. They could be almost as weird as seeing Phish sing the song Meatstick in Japanese.

VIRGO (August 24th-September 23rd): Your usual feeling that you are as strong as the strings on a pedal-steel guitar may not be there at the beginning of the month, and this alarms you slightly. It may be a good time to take that vision quest you've been meaning to go on. Take your friends Silly and Sibon on a long spiritual journey to break down and reorganize everything you deem significant in life. You may decide that your path to enlightenment involves seeing brand new bands, so go check out Larry. They jam. After that, how about cleaning and putting some new strings on that old acoustic guitar of yours? It isn't really that old, it just looks it.

LIBRA (September 24th-October 23rd): It's looking like some butt kissing has paid off, so get ready to get in to all the shows at your local jamband venue for free. "Finally!" you scream. You've been working the door guy for SO many months and it has just now paid off. This new found friendship opens the floodgates of killer tunes to you. You swim and float happily through the waves of music. Just make sure the door guy knows this is a purely platonic relationship, or he may be asking you out on a date. While he's a nice guy and all, he's like 40 years old. There may be so many roads, but this ain't one you're going down!

SCORPIO (October 24th-November 21st): Your job as lot vender is gonna be crankin' this summer. There will not be enough of your groovy necklaces or thirst-quenching beverages to appease the masses. Try not to brag to the other tour heads, though. By then end of the month you may have quite a decision to make. You could stay on Panic tour or you could swim over to the school of Phish. All your best friends are having panic attacks at the thought of you leaving. Maybe you'll just be neutral and decide to catch the upcoming Allman's tour since it will have some stellar guitar interplay between Jimmy Herring and Derek Trucks. You do miss Dickey, but the combo of Derek and Jimmy makes it a little easier to deal with.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22nd-December 21st): This month is a slowly played acoustic set in an open field. It is so mellow and pleasant that you're bulging with happiness. There are only a few days in the entire month that may be bummers. Yeah, you'll miss a set here and there due to crazy traffic and a radiator problem, but such is life. Just make sure you have a gallon of water handy to pour in that sucker and you're back on track. Maybe you should take the track to the Southeast and catch some Dr. Dan shows since your favorite instrument is the keyboard. When the Dr. is in, all your problems are soothed away. The prescription? Take two sets of music and call a good friend in the morning to tell them all about it!

CAPRICORN (December 22nd-January 20th): This month is summed up in two words: Roger Waters. You've been waiting to see this man perform since you first got in to Pink Floyd. The Floyd show you caught in '87 was cool, but you know the genius behind Floyd is Roger Waters. Other things are happening very smoothly for you these days. You are like a magical little elf able to prance here or there in a never-ending swirl of radiance. If some dood tries to take up some of your dancing space, you use a little magic to make him feel that he can get a better view of the stage elsewhere. You are as on as the Dead in Ithaca '77 and you know it. As Mr. Roarke said, "Smiles everyone, smiles!"

AQUARIUS (January 21st-February 18th): Life is dishing out plates full of some pretty unappetizing cuisine. The shows you go to seem unsatisfying. You try to go see some reggae, but the show is canceled. You decide to take a road trip to see one of your favorite bands, but you get ill the day before you planned to go. Life just isn't a tasty cup of hot tea right now. It may be a cosmic test, or it may just be bad luck. Whatever it is, it takes a powerful show at the end of the month from the massive groove machine that is Viperhouse to bust you out of da funk. Life seems to flow much more pleasantly after seeing these guys rip it up.

PISCES (February 19th-March 20th): You need some acid jazz, fish. Go check out Wayne Horvitz and his Zony Mash this month with their fine addition of Skerik on the sax. These jazzy and acidic grooves will have you in quite a pleasant trance. You appreciate your ability to be in the zone all month, which puts you in the mood to party. Of course this is nothing new for the festive Pisces. Come to think of it, is there a day when you don't party? I would start the summer off ragin' with a music festival and then perhaps move on to some camping and hiking. Maybe a short break before the Summer Solstice, then more live music. You are a live music slut and you like it that way. Soak it up, baby.

 

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