Aries 25° (April 15)

Talk about eating humble pie, good lord. Anyway, I’m doing it. The clothes I bought don’t really fit so that was a waste. On an up note I am proud of myself for all my follow through. I am having Escarole Soup only before heading to the yob. Culture shock on top of it all. I feel really debased. There was no reason for this. None at all. The level of ruination is beyond the pale. And there is no way to even express that because it results in complete communication breakdown, which is the constant state of affairs in any case. I am trying to get to a place where, well, ultimately all is friendly; but the fact is I know realize that I will have to go through my own spate of anger and embargo. After all these years to be left like this with near zero resource after all I’ve contributed, slapping two names on every project for the last twenty years. Well, that was dumb. I should have looked out for number one and I didn’t do that. Well, I’m ready to make a change. I sent proposal to the radio station. I sent proposal to Provincetown arts. I’ve done all I can do. Had a nice long post-work talk with E. L. into the week hours whichh was really quite nice. We are both going through struggles. 

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Aries 24° (April 13-14)

I didn’t leave the house Wednesday. I did binge watch all of Winning Time, up to the present. It’s a pretty great show. Danny B. is in it and does a good job. Made a salad of cucumber, feta and tomato, with herbs; otherwise just ate hummus and crackers. I am a bit nervous about the job situation but I’m just going to keep forging ahead. That’s what coffee is for in any case. The big inhale before the plunge. I will head to Hyannis on Thursday and do some shopping on that score and pick up dry cleaning and take myself to lunch in Eastham—crab cakes and Caesar, which weren’t all that great. I will see Raina which is nice. It’s been ages. 

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Aries 22° (April 11)

Horrible time in court with S. Her lawyer is the most evil person on the planet. He tells the court that my wife’s “girlfriend” is playing savior. I am done. I no longer have the will to fight or even to live to be honest. I will make shepherd’s pie with ground turkey.Anyway I’m going to push this thing forward as best as I can I might need a magnifying glass for this portion After decades working in fashion publishing theater entertainment we ran with more than one in crowd all our experience would come to bear. When it came to the fashion crowd I always said they would be our audience one day. In our experience the subject of conversation to all the most interesting dinner parties turned to either sex or astrology or preferably both. Our plan for marketing was to embody a chic image to dust or brush the granola off the subject matter something weissbach understood unfortunately his imprint was dissolved he knew who we were and his own brand was pretty glamorous as well the idea was always to shoot high to be aspirational and let the interest trickle down we ended up at Harper resource where it would prove an uphill battle to convince editors and publishers who didn’t know us that over the years we have been at every imprint it seems anyway though we might have made it look easier our plan was meticulous those who endeavoured sorry those who endorsed our book included famed window dresser SD we launched the book Paris at Colette Princess Caroline barney’s New York Parker Posey are events virtual who’s who scars guard gillenhall all the fashion bastions around the world credit where credits due Stella as organizer London front page Daily Telegraph cosmic clinic concept with the book selling it to 16 foreign markets just as we were being covered by top magazines we are also being asked to write for them launch of astral cast 2005 back to our performance roots partner in crime having also been a child actor and singer the whole Chelsea Handler thing third party being our most sorry third prong being our private clientele confidentiality confidentiality we don’t reveal who the clients are when to insert list of quotes and in truth she was my constant use the love of my life besides draft what’s here town hall dispensary and that’s it really 

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Aries 21° (April 10)

Sunday. I will get pizza for dinner and talk to Eddy.

Sign + Significance goes beyond surveying the astrological wisdom and energy encoded in the given sign to provide fresh insight into the individual’s perception and motivations. Here, I explain how the sign’s unique cosmic energy can be harnessed for personal empowerment. I will delve into the sign’s symbology and the archetypes on which the individual draws, isolating the sign’s set of superpowers and illuminating their particular path for development, their own hero’s journey, if you will. As my work with private clients has proven, deeper understanding and acceptance of our astrological natures can inspire significant energetic shifts, and be a catalyst for profound transformation.

Sense + Psyche explores the mind-body connection particular to each sign and how one psychologically and emotionally processes experiences—and how he or she can affect positive outcomes and avoid signature pitfalls. The unique cosmic energies of the signs do manifest physically, determining body type as well as signature behavior. My empiric knowledge on this score can strike readers as startlingly accurate, while tickling their funny bones in the process. For reasons no astrologer can explain, both nature and nurture seem to be determined by our signs. And here I address the typical circumstantial and behavioral patterns of the individual to unlock life-lessons needing to be learned.

Sexuality + Spirit investigates the most sublime paradox of our human nature, the link between our sexual identity and our spiritual development; how our deepest desires—libidinous ones included—share more than an etymological link to the achievement of our destinies. We are all here for a purpose, and just as I illustrated in Sextrologyhow our sign can determine our sexual natures, we will draw out that knowledge in Nextrology, activating it as a tool of self-awareness and actualization. The two main reasons clients solicit my council is to help them find  romantic/sexual/relationship fulfillment, and to acheive their full creative potential and purpose. I have determined that these two ends go hand in hand and are achieved by the same means. Each of the signs has their own brand of spirit, just as they have clearly identifiable sexual natures.  I show readers how one informs the other, and guide them in actively participating in the process of self-realization on this score.

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Aries 20° (April 9)

I got nothing.

Nextrology provides further in-depth analysis of the twenty-four astrological sex-signs since the publishing of my first book, twenty years ago. The book pinpoints people’s proclivities, potentialities, and would-be pitfalls, prodding them to deploy particular elements of personality in the face of this or that situation, challenge, or opportunity. Nextrologymoves beyond exposition, providing specific instruction to the reader who will get some sense of what it’s like to sit in actual private consultation with me. The book bridges from the occult- or the academic- or the mainstream pop-astrology aisle over to that of personal development. In it’s Introduction, Nextrology will offer information already covered in the “Overview” of this proposal, in addition to reading one’s own chapter, the personal benefit of reading all the others, based on the rulership of the other sign’s over the various astrological houses in the reader’s own chart. The content of the twenty-four chapters is completely unique and specific to each of the signs, while the chapters are all structured the same—each chapter will be comprised of a concise “snapshot” of the individual followed by three main-text sections:

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Aries 19° (April 8)

Today is a waste. S. and lawyer get on Zoom and say they only have half an hour. And then they say they want to eviscerate the agreement. It is an ambush we walk right into. 

Though I haven’t written a book for print publication since 2010 with Cosmic Coupling, my brand has continued to expand in the ensuing years. For instance, that book was recently optioned by CM Productions (“Peaky Blinders”, “Nurse Jackie”) and is currently being developed into a television show, while I am “living IP” and a writer-consultant on the project. Taking out the two pins: As an arts project, Starsky + Cox introduced a limited fine-jewelry collection called AsterCast, which was carried by designer boutiques and touted in the press by Vogue, InStyle, The New York Times, New York Magazine and other major publications. AsterCast has recently received investment and is soon to be relaunched in collaboration with British jewelry designer Alice Cicolini. For the last fifteen years, I have written and performed scores of live, solo and duo, astrologically themed musical-comedy shows, staged at prominent venues like  Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Dixon Place, Ars Nova and The Zipper Factory in New York City, the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) in Cambridge, and The Art House, Provincetown, where I now make my home. It is here that I founded the non-profit Afterglow Festival and an off-shoot series at A.R.T. both of which ran for a decade, producing shows by over sixty performers including John Cameron Mitchell, Taylor Mac, John Kelly, Justin Vivian Bond, Bridget Everett, Cole Escola, Joey Arias, Penny Arcade, John Kelly, Erin Markey, Tori Scott and Desiree Burch. All the while I also yearly published twelve weekly horoscope ebooks by zodiac sign under the title(s) Haute Astrology, and I have continued to contribute to, and be covered by, major magazines and newspapers. I’ve also earned degrees from the London Faculty of Astrological Study, where I first received my diploma as a humanistic astrologer many moons ago. Mainly, as my bread-and-butter career over the years, I have been conducting my astrological consultancy in private practice with clients, which is what ultimately inspired me to write this new book.

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Aries 18° (April 7)

Today was productive if not a bit weird. I can’t really recall much of it.

There are many names on the above list who are also private clients of mine—for reasons of confidentiality, I can’t reveal exactly who. What I can say is that: J.K. Rowling aka Robert Galbraith thanks me in the acknowledgments of Troubled Blood for helping with the astrology bits in her book, as does Eleanor Catton, in her Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Luminaries, for inspiring her characters, which she drew from the chapter profiles in Sextrology. Needless to say, there are many opportunities for notable endorsements for Nextrology; while, as mentioned, my work has also been praised by other top astrologers, and I would certainly solicit their seals of approval as well. And speaking of mutual admiration societies, I have created content for Kylie Minogue in her record releases. For years we collaborated with Marc Jacobs, doing events together at his stores in various cities, most notably for a full two weeks at his Bleecker Street shop. As we did at many aforementioned book launches, we offered what we called our “Cosmic Clinics” providing quick-and-dirty, on-the-spot astrological readings to guests and customers—we then performed this service as a form of entertainment for private and charity events alike, teaming with top event planners like, most often, Bryan Rafanelli. This is something I continue to do and will offer in promoting Nextrology. I have also collaborated with and/or created content for MAC cosmetics, W Hotels, Chandelier Creative, Johnson & Johnson, Nokia, Sephora, Coco de Mer, Neiman Marcus, J. Cricket, Marlo Marketing, LaForce & Stevens, Swissquote Bank, Tim-Scapes, and many other creative companies. In my experience, cross promotions translate to book sales.

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Aries 17° (April 6)

I spend the morning doing yet another surgical edit of the lawyer documents. Then I race to the dentist which is fifty minutes away. Living where I do sometimes feels like living in Montana or something—one gets used to traveling long distance for even mundane reasons. I stumbled upon a post by someone I loved about a high-school sweetheart that was located in another state. It’s so weird to me that a person in their late 50s would post something about a love affair that happened when they were sixteen. As if it was a road not taken. It’s fucked up. And to put it on social media? Good lord, lady what are you thinking. Between that and all the posts of ones own face are we not expected to think of you as a narcissist? I don’t know how we wouldn’t. Imagine if I posted something about me and some girl I knew in high school in such a weird fashion. OMG. Anyway, back to reality. I am pretty much sticking to the mushroom barley soup I made and will eat it at both meals. I will take a gummie for the first time in days—my doctor actually says gummies are not good for your heart! That it’s actually better to smoke the weed, which isn’t great for your lungs. The best deal apparently is the vaping thing. I rather not do any of it at all. Well I did go to the dentist and get a pretty good teeth cleaning. I wonder if anyone has ever done a scientific study on the percentage of dental hygenists who pathologically require a captive audience at whom to babble about their lives (e.g. the fact they “run hot” and can’t sleep with covers on, their six-year old’s obsession with feet, their love of Mexican food, their insistence that Las Vegas and Disney World are tied for the “best place on earth”, their fondness for certain tequilas, how they can’t afford a battery powered light on their head and how they have to cope with getting snagged by the less-expensive electric cord apparatus, and how their rolly chair doesn’t roll right) every sentence followed by nervous laughter, not to mention a pause from actually doing the teeth cleaning one has signed on for (and on and on) albeit fairly inaudibly due to the whirring water spray of “ultra-sonic” cleaning device, and even extra so given they are still wearing a muffling face mask. “Do you want to close your mouth? Your jaw seems to be shaking.” Um yeah I’ve been in this open-mouthed position for 30 minutes and you’ve only cleaned a quarter of my mouth!!!! Anyway managed to get back in time to work for another solid hour with the lawyer—I spent three on my own in the morning. I can tell you right now: I have done all I’m going to do.

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Aries 16° (April 5)

Working with Mike for hours and hours, trying to get this thing into some kind of shape. I’ve decided to have Greg for dinner on a whim. Well, we know I’m lonely. I’ll make my miso-molasses salmon with ginger and scallion, wasabi mashed potatoes and bok choy. I’ll grab as much from the boutique fishmonger but I will have to go to the supermarket as well. I see these wanton wrappers in the produce fridge. I flip it over and there is a recipe for crab rangoons. I will make them. I’ve bit off more than I can chew starting so late. I have to cook and shower and clean the house and I’m making crab rangoons? What is wrong. Anyway looking forward to hanging out as he is a good friend and we have a lot in common. I need to make some much needed changes and frankly I’m on it. Greg brings vermouth and olives and a fool for dessert. I suddenly realize I have a lot of food in the house. I did quite enjoy the martini I must say. I have a weird spasm in my tongue this past week and I think I’m going to stroke out. But not really. What I think it means is that I am severely run down. And I don’t want to be. I want to figure out my life. That thing that happened someone smashing into my car. I feel somehow it is a sign. Like I was identifying so much with the new car—the first car I’ve ever bought for myself—but that would suggest that I expect a slap in the face for even the slightest sign of happiness from the universe. And I know that can’t be the case. Not really. I also do understand the limitations of what might transpire on the platonic front—and that episode with that awful man G.F. over the weekend was something of an eye open. You see there is this seventy- (or eighty-?) something man from NYC who spends time in Provincetown. He used to be an admitted criminal, now he is a decades-long “sober” person. In truth he is a twelve-year-old girl lodged in a wizened body. He is a fop and a sycophant and he hangs around the fringes of the artistic community, specifically among the fellow AA crowd; and he went on the attack against me nearly a decade ago when I had a falling out with a close friend. Like many close friends I’ve had over the years, this fellow was/is a malignant narcissist who doesn’t really like anybody, not even his inner circle (because he doesn’t like himself), but because of his status in the design/art world he has millions of follows, foremost among the gay mafia that make up the hordes traveling from Manhattan and other cities to Provincetown, either as second residents or as annual holiday makers. Those who know this crowd know the magnitude of its sprawling population. The point is that not only did our friendship necessarily cut, despite my trying to make cool it, and keep it, in a less intense form, which my then friend took as an insult, like a monarch would a knave, but he poisoned that giant pool of mafioso against me, which means many poisonous rumors in the form of his damaging opinions of me. One such piece of evidence of such treatment would be this elderly criminal dandy, G.F. taking the liberty to post on social media that, in effect, the throngs of those we know in common have all taken to blocking me on social media (which isn’t true because my numbers remain the same) because I have a “personality disorder.” Mind you I have met this person maybe twice in my entire life. Then he private-messages me with probing questions about my sexual life and identity. Shocking. Well, you can guess who blocked whom. In a time of cancel culture, in a place like Provincetown, which is a junior high school in geographic and architectural form, it’s main drag likened to locker-lined halls, the alienation, snooty and snippy, is palpably, unambiguously, demonstrably real. 

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Aries 15° (April 4)

The upstairs neighbor is here and now I feel kind of grateful that I’m leaving and will be in a free-standing cottage. Morning meeting with team A-S. I want things to remain simple and not get overly thought out and unduly delayed any more than they already are. It is quite bizarre to be engaged with openly and friendly and such by someone who otherwise isn’t speaking to you. I’m pretty garlicked out from last night and really can’t bring myself to mange much. I end up eating the leftover Caesar just to keep the garlic alive in my life. Later in the day I’ll make barley and put the soup fixings together minus the actual stock. Mainly I am just trying to get caught up sipping red wine. It will be a very productive day in all, plowing through all that needs plowing through. All this said I know that I am in a deep, spiral of depressingness. I could cry all day so trying to stay busy. It’s very tough I feel so, so alone. I didn’t cultivate much in the way of friendship outside of the coupledom you see. I’m not much hearing back even from the usual suspects. I don’t know what to say about it all. The upstairs neighbor has a very heavy foot.

Over the years, I have guested on countless podcasts and terrestrial and satellite radio shows, both here and abroad, on SiriusXM in particular, as well as on other television programs, mainly on MTV and VHI. Kelly Ripa has twice featured my books on “Live!” once most vividly in a lively exchange with Anderson Cooper whose mother Gloria Vanderbilt was a vocal fan.  Becoming that “word-of-mouth phenomenon” was no accident, despite my perhaps making it look easy. My books launched at Barneys New York (with Sextrology-themed windows designed by Simon Doonan, who also endorsed the book on its back cover), Fred Segal in Los Angeles, MAP in San Francisco, Louis Boston, Colette in Paris, Harvey Nichols in Edinburgh and Dublin, Selfridges and The Cross in London, Septième Étage in Geneva, Vestibule in Zurich, fashionable venues where we could attract notable friends and fans including NO NAMES who wrote a song, Goodbye Pisces, inspired by Sextrology,crediting this fact in her own book, Piece by Piece. 

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