Yesterday’s Solution

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Across

2 Told tales 7 Riverside

embankment 9 Fertile soil 11 Reproves

severely 14 Airman 16 Paradise

17 Earns

18 Ply the needle 20 Speed an engine 21 Decree

22 Rodent 23 Insurgent

26 Wet, soft earth 28 Fuel

30 Letters

32 Type of gun 33 Qualities of sound 34 Four-sided figures 36 Drug-yielding

plant

37 Hot wine

beverage 38 Intertwined

Down

1 Mock

2 Seesaw 3 Three-pronged

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4 Dash

5 Spanish nobleman 6 Printers’ measures 8 Love god 10 Timber-dressing

tool

12 Making known 13 Table-shaped hill 15 Prises 18 Pollen-bearing

organ 19 Unwanted plant 20 Ladder step 22 Is contrite 24 Greek letter 25 Wait on 27 Advantageous 29 Cain’s brother 31 Fail to keep 32 Meat dish 34 Male sheep 35 Infant’s bed

Retro New Moon: The hearth burns brighter when the moon wears her darkest gown -- or, in the case of the Cancer new moon, apron. It’s a lunar domestic moment to rival spring’s notion of cleaning. Make the home cozy and beautiful, and moods follow suit. The long retrograde of Neptune begins now, too, suggesting retro styles will be especially dreamy.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19)

It takes time to save time. The moments you spend prioritizing and ordering your efforts will ultimately give you back an hour or two. Efficiency is your strength and may soon be your wealth.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18)

Ideally, the answers you seek will connect you with a power source that is already inside you. Beware of those who would rather you believe that answers can only be found through them, as this is the red flag of controlling people.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20)

A book can’t change the world. It’s a lump of paper and ink that can’t even pour you a cup of coffee. But a person who acts on an idea can change everything. The concepts need you. You’ll serve them well today.

ARIES (March 21 to April 19)

It takes an amazingly long time to complete a project you happen to be ignoring. Once you get busy on it, the energy will come. If you decide it’s not for you, this will also free up energy. It’s the in-between that drains.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20)

Strange visions will unfold as you sleep, but the best ones happen while you’re awake. Sharing dreams of either sort can be tricky. Telling a journal or no one at all will be better than risking invalidation.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 21)

It takes time and conscious effort to cultivate a support system, but it’s well worth the work. It’s not that you need the fellowship of encouraging people to survive, but you certainly need it to thrive

CANCER (June 22 to July 22)

People who want your attention and other precious resources you possess may try to convince you that you owe them. False. You get to choose how you engage with the world, which includes the choice not to engage at all.

LEO (July 23 to August 22)

Relationships get complicated, probably because they also get honest. You don’t have to sort through it all in one night. It’s better to act reasonably than to react emotionally. Let new information sink in over the next three days.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22)

Just because you can solve what the others can’t doesn’t mean you should, at least not right away. Hold back for a minute. Pay attention to the power dynamics. This solution of yours is an ace up the sleeve.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 23)

Whether you’re stuck in a rut or a trap, the answer is the same: wiggle. Wiggling will either show you where you’re pinned or liberate you without you even needing to know. Move however you can; you’ll get free.

SCORPIO (October 24 to November 21)

You’ll admit what you don’t know and as a result become educated, leaving those who think they already know everything at a disadvantage. The intellectual delight of expertise is only made possible through humility.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21)

The mind doesn’t generate every idea. It gets many of them from the voice and the body. You often don’t know what you think until you start communicating. Your next good idea will be born in a conversation or journal.