This is Dating While Gray, the grown-up's Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships.

I'm Laura Stasi, and I'm a Scorpio.

What's your sign?

And has it figured into your romantic life?

That's what we're exploring in today's episode, Love in the Stars.

Okay, I'll admit, I read my horoscope every morning.

It's a habit I got into a long time ago.

I think it's fun.

For example, one day last November, when I was deep into research for the podcast, my horoscope said I was wrestling with whether I should remain in my creative cave

or share my life with someone. And it did not have to be one or the other. Hmm. When I was in junior high school, I actually wrote the horoscope column for the

student newspaper. I didn't do any research. I didn't realize there was any research to do. For me,

it was creative writing based mainly on who I had a crush on at any given moment. Like the time, I encouraged all Capricorns

to break up with their current love interest because their lives have become, quote, awfully dull.

There are plenty of fish in the ocean, I wrote, and you have pretty good bait.

For some people, astrology starts with getting to know more about themselves before they

think about matching with someone else.

I think the whole universe is on purpose and working in ways that we can't always see.

That's Koku.

She's in her late 50s and she's been married twice, first to a Scorpio and then to a Libra.

And I think people who study the stars and astrology and all of that, I think they have a little

window into our personalities and people of that. I think they have a little window into our personalities and people

born in during the summertime on this day. You know, they're able to spend time and find out

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