Romance-Addicts' Back-Up Plan

First there was my horoscope for the week:

"Throx.com sells you socks in threes, so if you lose one you have an extra to take its place. Their ingenious marketing plan resembles the approach of some romance-addicts I know, who always date two or three people just in case they get dumped by one of them. No bouts of loneliness to worry about! Which brings us to my main advice for you this week: Have a back-up plan. Keep an alternative handy. Make sure you won't run out of the stuff you really need."

Then there is the best horoscope ever:

"One reason I've been put on this earth is to expose you to a kind of astrology that doesn't crush your free will, but instead clarifies your choices. In this horoscope, for instance, I'll crisply delineate your options so that you may decide upon a bold course of action that's most in tune with your highest values. Study the following multiple-choice query, then briskly flex your freedom of choice.

Would you rather have love:

1. knock the wind out of one of your illusions, thereby exposing the truth about what you really want;

2. not exactly kick you in the butt, but more like pinch and spank you there, inspiring you to revise your ideas about what it means to be close to someone;

3. spin you around in dizzying yet oddly pleasurable circles, shaking up your notions about how to keep intimacy both interestingly unpredictable and soothingly stable."

by Rob Brezsny, http://www.freewillastrology.com/