""There is no beauty without some strangeness,"" wrote Edgar Allen Poe. Fashion designer Rei Kawakubo ventured further, declaring, ""Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty."" She also added another nuance to her definition: ""For something to be beautiful, it doesn''t have to be pretty."" I''ll offer you one more seed for thought: wabi-sabi. It''s a Japanese term that refers to a kind of beauty that''s imperfect, transitory, and incomplete. I bring these clues to your attention, Pisces, because now is an excellent time to refine and clarify your own notion of beauty—and re-commit yourself to embodying it. Halloween costume suggestion: the embodiment of your definition of beauty.

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ARE YOU THE HERO OF YOUR OWN LIFE? ""Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."" So begins Charles Dickens'' novel David Copperfield.

I''d like to inspire you to write a story of your own that begins like that. That''s why I provide these free horoscopes for you.

If you''d ever like even more assistance from me, tune into your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES, which I create for you each week. They''re four-to-five-minute meditations on the current state of your destiny.