A fresh, profound, and fun way to look at all things astro while also making spot-on observations about your pop culture faves. Cosmopolitan 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 Clairvoyant'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.