No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. Watch for the rest of the signs during the coming weeks.

Cancer  Your idea of the perfect holiday is cocoon-like: everyone you love, enwombed with plenty of delicious things to eat and drink, and a constant togetherness that synchronizes breathing, cycles, and heartbeats. So what spoils your holiday? It starts well enough, with everyone eager to gather, visions of the endless sugar-plums you’ll lovingly prepare and feed them dancing in their heads; but then people begin to show a pesky independence that features differences in opinion and doing whatever they want, even leaving! The hurt inflicted on you over the holiday is likely one of two kinds: a feeling that your efforts aren’t appreciated, and a lack of co-operation by others. You’ve got to admit that your expectations, whatever form they take, may be just a tish unreasonable; you’re basically out to create a single, multi-headed organism out of family and friends, and it hurts that they resist and even show they have minds of their own. Everything as usual may result in sudden disappearances, cell phones of those MIA off or ‘forgotten’, and 4 hour trips to the grocery (and by that I mean bar or other haven) by individuals who feel smothered. How then can you show your love, without the inevitable rejection? In this case, it takes a slight modification on your part: instead of coming on like a full-service Santa, choose a few specific things you want to be picture-perfect: the turkey, the hour around the tree handing out presents, the afternoon of carols and eggnog and snacks–and let everything else go. You’ll win all the accolades you could want and the true devotion you’ve always longed for, and there won’t be a thing for others to condemn–and isn’t that what you’ve been aiming for all along, a lovely and loving holiday to remember? Your Nemesis this holiday season: Gemini, Leo, or Capricorn/ Your secret angel: Pisces/ Your own personal elf or cherub: Scorpio