Aries Horoscope for week of October 10, 2002

Jungian analyst Arnold Mindell is a pioneer in exploring the relationship between mind and body. He believes you can achieve optimum physical health if you're devoted to shedding outworn self-images. Want to feel really good? "Continuously drop all sorts of rigid identities," he says. Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw, agrees. Raised as a male, she later changed into a female, but ultimately renounced gender altogether. "I love being without an identity," she says. "It gives me a lot of room to play around." Few of us can manage this level of commitment to staying fresh. But we all go through phases when it's easier to pull off than at other times. That's exactly where you are now, Aries. For inspiration, read Break the Mirror, a book of poems by a wandering fool with no worldly goods, Nanao Sakaki.