Lillian Freemantle, a second year pre-medical student minoring in physics who is also a Pisces, checks in on her daily horoscope each morning before getting out of bed and running two miles, then preparing a well-balanced breakfast and heading to class.

“Oh, it’s just fun, you know?” laughed the student while silently considering that today she is to be the recipient of news both good and bad. “I don’t take it seriously at all,” Lillian remarked while wondering if the metaphysical website might have been referring to her lab partner Jared when it suggested that someone close to her might be looking for ‘something more.’

After a less-than-stellar outcome with a pop quiz in organic chemistry, Lillian reportedly muttered that Mercury must be in retrograde, before she brightened and remembered that at least she has a drum circle to attend that evening.

At the festive gathering, a new Reiki master offered a healing amethyst crystal to the visibly stressed out science student and inquired what Lillian is studying at school. Thinking quickly, Lillian told the energy healer only about a poetry class she had taken the previous year to fulfill an elective slot. “I just love tapping into the creative flow of the universe, you know,” smiled the student who would one day go on to co-author a paper debunking the efficacy of homeopathic remedies.