Cathy

Will I ever live in the same place as the love of my life?

Lynne

Love can in a very unexpected form. He is 15 years younger than me. This seems to be happening for a lot of my friends, too. I have spent way too much energy trying to think my way out of this because it makes all the sense in the world emotionally. My dilemma is how do celebrate my good fortune in love without falling into that "it'll never work and everyone else knows it but me." (btw it has been "working for over 2 years.)

Mary

Should I concentrate my financial efforts on taking care of my future needs or the needs of my adult (impecunious) daughter and my 2 grandchildren?

Will I have enough $ to do either or both, or (gulp) none?

Gabriela

To try and make it with 4 kids I am in charge with, to finish my PhD, to find love again.

michael

is painting pictures of obese unicorns worth my time?

Claire

I'm almost 40 and I've been in stasis for a number of years. I'm starting to move forward, but weirdly I feel like I've forgotten how to make goals. I used to write down my 1, 5 and 10 year goals, but for the first time I have no idea what's on the horizon for me. My future feels like a blank, so to know my fortune would be brilliant!

Rachel

For 10 years i have been living in a house that was bought for me by my father. Although he bought it for me he didn’t put it in my name but put it in the family trust. When he died, the trust was found to have errors and to need revisions for tax reasons and my mother re-apportioned the house, leaving half of it to my sister.

My family is not a normal family and my sister is not a normal sister. Our mother clearly favors her and has always done so. She has been the recipient of great financial largesse from our parents and as a result owns a large house and travels often for pleasure. (She is 6 years older than I and retired.)

You might think that being favored and having much has made her secure within and without, but this is not the case. In fact, my sister has psychological problems that lead her to steal and do other unpleasant things. (A few examples are cheating in contests, writing angry letters to people, lying, fault finding, and attempting to control others. She frequently creates storms.)

However, I am the family’s whipping boy. Our mother is not only in complete denial about her oldest daughter’s problems, unwilling to hear or see evidence, but will often blame me for things that my sister has done. She will even accuse me of things that were not done by anyone!

Back to the house:

In her revised Trust Mom named Sis the inheritor of the family money and half inheritor of the house I occupy. I am told I will have the opportunity to buy her half but unless some money is left to me also, I probably will not be able to afford to. Even if I am able to afford to, I have no doubt that my sister will make things as difficult as possible for me.

The house is small and old but I love my neighbors, the neighborhood, and the homeless cats who sleep on my porch and whom I help feed. I don’t want to have to move, but I greatly fear the havoc that my sister will create once she becomes half owner of it.

Should I move before this happens? Or stay and prepare for the inevitable storm? This is my problem.

Sean Kenny

How to resolve the essential paradoxes of life (e.g. why we sometimes hate the ones we love, why being immoral feels so awesome, and why we continue to do things to ourselves and others and our world that guarantee we won't survive in the future.)

Are we trapped by greed? Why are we so unable to share? Wouldn't it guarantee our survival?

I want more pie!!

Vivian

I need to start everything over. I need life to be new again. I need to let go of expectations, or I start to expect the wrong things. My lover is going through a rough time, and i feel like she is lost in herself and has forgotten how to love me. I want to make her happy, and I think that this is the way to do it, at least for me. I'm ready to change the way I think, but I don't know if she can follow me there. I don't want to lose her.

Rusty

I'm going through a marital split after 24 years marriage. My wife says she doesn't like my artistic lifestyle. Now I have to find an apartment and a job. What does my future lead to?

camila

Following my passion.
How does someone in this economy, with less preparation than is desired, and with a paralizing fear of failure... break from all of this (and a 9 to 6 job) in order to follow their own passions... specially when that person doesn't know how to make that passion a marketable, sustainable reality???

Elizabeth

My limited social circle is confined to a handful of devoted friends and my family (who live some distance away). I'm 40-something, an only child, childless myself and perpetually unattached romantically. I tend to be comfortably introverted and, at present, am quite relieved to not have the usual obligations of wife/motherhood to interfere with my pursuits. But will I regret this indulgence in my declining years? If I'm on the wrong path, I have to act NOW to secure a happy future. Change or soldier on?

Melissa

Should I move back to Portland, oregon? Even without a job? I was happiest there, but my family and job are in DC.

Also, will I ever find the one?

Kelley

Trying to find another job while trying to get pregnant before I get married while trying to sort out my psychological traumas so I can be happy. Phew!

Barbara

Getting a movie made from a script that has been optioned twice.

Alex

My ex broke up with me three months ago and completely broke my heart. I don't really talk to her anymore, but she's still my favorite person in the world, even though no one frustrates me more sometimes. She's in an exclusive relationship now, and I guess all of this would be fine, except that my ex and I signed a lease together last December. Starting in about a month, we'll be sharing a tiny bedroom in a house with three other students. Will we be friends again, hate each other, or just avoid each other?

Colleen

I feel that life - career things, boyfriend things, family things - are calming me down when I used to be wild, absurd and fun. How can I continue to be the person I love to be in a more serious world?

Patricia

As someone who has Six stations in Cancer and whose birthday is July 3rd - my essential dilemma is Where is my proper Home? and How are my Breast and Stomach health? These are exactly what Cancer covers or rules: Home and Breast/Stomach Health and I think the recent Eclipses have created a crises! By the way, I would like to change this sign's name to Lumiere!

Cheedem

i have always had a problem making choices: leaving an ex-husband - leaving an ex-boss - leaving a self made career (immigration law) and jumping onto something - someone completely different .. it strikes me with pure terror the thought of making a move - and yet i have made them - but excruciatingly slowly and really really without deliberation - only through reaching a boiling point of "this is the last drop".. and now again i am staring at myself in the higher mid point of my life clueless as to what to do next with myself .. when things are like a pool on a day without breeze .. and no boiling point around the corner to make me jump ship, what am I to do?

Cheedem

i have always had a problem making choices: leaving an ex-husband - leaving an ex - boss - leaving a self made career (immigration law) and jumping onto something - someone completely different .. it strikes