1. SAGITTARIUS
(November 22 – December 21)
Although curiosity may kill a cat, it is what keeps it alive. In full wandering, you are not only looking at people, but also at them the whole world. You are a daring daredevil with the blood of great explorers running through your veins. You respect Ferdinand Magellan, but you also resent him, because he sailed around the world long before you were born. The song “I’ve Been Everywhere” was written about you. You would rather enter an unknown place and fail than sit down and succeed. You could travel to other planets if you could only afford the airfare.
2. ARIES
(March 21 – April 19)
It’s a big world for you, and it’s all yours. Just as there are no strangers to you—only friends you haven’t met yet—there are no foreign countries to you, only domestic places that will grace you with your presence. You like to look at maps, you dream of visiting places you haven’t set your toes yet. You will go anywhere, no matter how dangerous or unpleasant it is, just because you have never seen it before. Bored easily by the ordinary and always interested in the strange and potentially dangerous, he is a mature thrill seeker whose risk-taking style sometimes spills over into other areas such as drugs and sex.
3. GEMINI
(May 21 – June 20)
For you, new is better than old and unusual is better than usual. You realize that life is brutally short and it’s a waste of time to keep doing the same old things and living in the same old places. You prefer to be surrounded by strangers rather than friends. She is free-spirited by nature and hates anything that seems too easy, predictable, or “been there, done that.” Once you come and do that, you want to go somewhere else and do something else. He loves the sailors of old who set out on turbulent, unpredictable seas, risking a painful death in a watery grave and hoping that somewhere in the other world was a new and strange world.
4. SCORPIO
(October 23 – November 21)
An anti-conformist by birth, he likes to travel not to relax, but to challenge himself with unfamiliar places, people, sights, food, and even smells. Your form of self-sacrifice is a form of self-discipline, a way of challenging yourself and your fear. You want to dive in the deep sea not because you want to see all the places and colors but to overcome your fear of sharks and your terrible fear of the bottomless darkness of the sea. You will take to the sky not because it sounds exciting, but because you have a lifelong fear of heights. You’ve never found home life comforting, so traveling is your way of escaping the noise, suffocating what you know.
5. LEO
(July 23 – August 22)
The Lion is the king of the forest. Because of this, you are not afraid to enter anywhere within your forest domain. It is a large and beautiful forest filled with all kinds of strange creatures, both friendly and hostile. But, being a king, you are not afraid of anything you may encounter in the forest. Once you start outside the forest, however, you are no longer king; he is a scared little cat. You won’t go to the desert or the mountains or the beach—only the forest. He proves this by saying that whales live in the sea and mountain goats live in the mountains.
6. THE STARS
(February 19 – March 20)
He sits at the nexus between the adventurous and the parochial. You don’t mind walking, but not so far that it feels like another planet. You like to see new things, but you can choose if it is not in a place where people speak another language or, God forbid, use completely different characters. He’s the type who doesn’t mind spending two nights in a motel downtown and calling it a “vacation.” If it breaks the humdrum routine of your daily life just a little bit, to you it sounds like a balloon trip around the world in 80 days. In other words, he likes to run away—not too much away away.
7. TAURUS
(April 20 – May 20)
While you’re not above trying new places, eating new foods, and meeting new people, you also can’t just blindly throw yourself into a new situation without doing a little research first. That rare trip to Cancun sounded good until you read a US travel warning that gang warfare between drug cartels has made the area temporarily unsafe. You have always wanted to see the pyramids of Egypt, but you avoided buying a plane ticket to Cairo after learning about the turbulent political situation there. In short, you are not afraid of happiness, but you stop when happiness crosses the line into danger.
8. LIBRA
(September 23 – October 22)
You’re gripped by the fear of the unknown—like the rest of us, but its hold on you is a little tighter than the rest of us—so you navigate your life using a map of all the places you’ve already been. As a result, you tend to go to the same vacation spots year after year. Is Disneyland really interesting enough to visit 14 summers in a row? If you go to Washington, DC again this year, I can assure you that all the familiar buildings and monuments look exactly the same as they did last year. Just once in your life, I’d like you to play a game of “pin the tail on the donkey” with a map. Once you take off your blindfold, you must visit wherever the pin lands on the map. You may be happy.
9. AQUARIUS
(January 19 – February 18)
Others find joy in the unusual, while you seek comfort in the familiar. Create your own cozy little bubble in the privacy of your own home. You’ve filled your house with little knickknacks and souvenirs and souvenirs of places you’ve visited and things you’ve done, but you wouldn’t trade any of those things in the outside world for the basic, soul-soothing feeling of knowing that there’s only one place on earth that’s truly yours. Any psychologist worth their salt will tell you that people don’t really want happiness, they want comfort and familiarity. You are blessed that what you know is also what makes you happy.
10. GIRL
(August 23 – September 22)
Friends, family, community—everything you enjoy about life comes from those basic roots. Because of this, he is afraid to go out into the dark and unknown. When someone suggests a vacation to another country, you immediately start worrying about all the things that could go wrong: flight delays, stolen luggage, even being arrested by brutal police who don’t even speak your language. Traveling, especially to faraway places, causes undue anxiety because it takes you away from all the things that give you comfort. Also, it is very affordable, and you can choose to spend the money improving your neighborhood. If you want to see what Italy looks like, you can search Google Images in your pajamas.
11. CANCER
(June 21 – July 22)
Like Dorothy in the middle the wizard of oz, there is no place like home for you. You don’t even want to leave the house—even to your local grocery store, clicking your heels together and singing, “There’s no place like home…there’s no place like home.” You’re not adventurous when it comes to trying new foods, music, or ideas. You know what you like, and you stick to it. It is part of your basic introduction. For you, life is more interesting inside your head and the comfort of your home than anything the outside world has to offer. You would rather spend a night at home curled up with a book or your lover than doing anything in a sad, depressing world.
12. CAPRICORN
(December 22 – January 19)
You are a caveman or cavewoman dragged into the modern world against your will. What can you see outside of your cave, though? Trees? Wild animals? Buildings? Congested highways? Who do you need? Your home keeps you warm in the winter and cool in the summer. As long as your basic needs are met, the outside world is a nuisance to you. You have a few people in your life that you really love, but other than that, you’re a loner, a thinker, and a hermit. You are happy living in your basement. Home is where your heart is.
