Love Tales is a sequence about love in all its varieties, with a brand new essay every day by means of the week of Valentine’s Day. This yr we’re specializing in astrological forces. Love is a messy and mysterious factor, however is your romantic future written within the stars?
If I have been to take out a private advert, it’d learn like this: I’m a 26-year-old New Yorker who enjoys solo dinner dates with a cocktail and my Kindle, rewatching Anthony Bourdain, and making the occasional ill-advised bank card buy. Lovable, no? Solely there’s one wrinkle on this rom-com-ready transient: I’m additionally a non-practicing dater. I prefer to say I observe relationship culturally, which means I’ve many ideas and emotions about relationship—the politics of ghostability; the balancing act of wanting a accomplice however not, like, in an embarrassing means; the fickle nature of want. I pay my romantic penance by occurring a handful of dates a yr, sufficient to really feel like I’m not a social recluse, however not sufficient to be actually invested.
To this point, this standing has suited me properly. I very a lot get pleasure from my no-strings-attached life. However we’re challenged typically in life and my problem this winter got here within the type of an task: Courting astrological indicators that, purportedly, are horrible for me. As a pupil of astrology and as a Gemini solar—curious, quick-witted, charming with a penchant for dialectical evaluation—who higher to have interaction on this purely scientific endeavor?
In an effort to full my task, I relied on my pretty substantial data of astrology, for which I can’t apologize. For these much less acquainted, here’s a fast cheat sheet to the essential info of every aspect within the zodiac: air indicators are the intellects, water indicators are emoters, fireplace indicators are (go determine) fiery, and earth indicators are grounded. I’m an air signal and, so far as relationship goes, I’ve skilled difficulties with water signal males, and by “difficulties” I imply an unspeakable emotional depth worthy of Sylvia Plath. So, within the curiosity of science, my first date needed to be with maybe essentially the most watery of all water indicators: a Most cancers. Let’s dive in, we could?
Date 1: Most cancers
We’ll name my first date Cicero, the Most cancers. Cancers, symbolized by the crab, are infamous for being nurturing, protecting, and moody. Their soft-heartedness isn’t meant to gel with the logical, oft-aloof Gemini.
