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A soulful exploration of the twelve astrological signs embodied by our living ""stars""--from divas to philosophers, poets to punks--and the ways they can help us better understand ourselves and each other, from the wildly popular astrology columnist for New York magazine's The Cut.Whether you believe in it or not, astrology's job has never been to give us a preordained vision of the future, nor to sort us into twelve neat personality types, but to provide the tools and language for delving into our weirdest, best, most thorny contradictions, and for understanding ourselves and each other in our full complexity. The stars and the planets then are more like mirrors that show us who we are, that give us an understanding of how to be and how to move through the world; how certain people do it differently, and what we can learn by studying them. In Madame Clairevoyant's Guide to the Stars, Claire Comstock-Gay brings the sky down to Earth and points to our popular ""stars""--from Aretha Franklin to Mr. Rogers, from poets in Cancer to punk singers in Scorpio--to reveal what the sky has to teach us about being human. In this wise, lyrically written guide, she examines the twelve astrological signs, illuminating the ways each one is more complicated, beautiful, and surprising than you might have been told. Claire suggests that actually it's okay, and even important, to be a seeker, to hunger for self-knowledge, and if astrology is the vehicle for that inquiry, so be it. Madame Clairevoyant's Guide to the Stars offers a clear introduction to the basics and an innovative new framework for creatively using astrology to illuminate our lives on earth. It's a road map to our internal world, yes, but Claire also reminds us that it's still our job to navigate it. Combining both heavenly insights and the earthly wisdom of writers like Cheryl Strayed and Heather Havrilesky and the poetry of Patricia Lockwood and Mary Oliver, Madame Clairevoyant's Guide to the Stars offers a fresh, profound, and fun way to look at ourselves and others, and perhaps see each more clearly. And in that way, this book is not just beautiful, but transformative.

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Comstock-Gay is a luminous guide through the world of astrology...A fine, affirming study of humanity. -- Esme Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias

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Claire Comstock-Gay has written horoscopes under the name ""Madame Clairevoyant"" since 2012--first for The Rumpus, then The Toast, and, since 2016, for New York magazine's ""The Cut."" She has also written for the New York Times and has been featured on NPR's On Point and Bitch Magazine's Popaganda podcast. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lori Prince is a classically trained actor with a BFA from Syracuse University. She has performed Off-Broadway as well as at top regional theaters, including The Denver Center, Alliance Theater Company, and PlayMakers Repertory Company, among others. She has also appeared on television in Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and Are We There Yet? Her voice work includes various characters in the feature film Epic, as well as additional dialogue recorded for over fifty feature films and TV shows.

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