By Rob Brezsny - Aug. 1, 2024

Free Will Astrology: Aug. 1, 2024

ARIES (March 21-April 19): One meaning of the word “palette” is a flat board on which painters place a variety of pigments to apply to their canvas. What would be...

By Dan Savage - Aug. 1, 2024

Savage Love: Sick in the head

My partner and I have been together for nearly thirty years. He was never as into sex/romance/intimacy as much as I was, and things got worse after he had a...

By Niko Skievaski - Jul. 31, 2024

Psychedelics: Can we call it an industry?

There are a lot of mixed feelings about bringing psychedelics into the land of American capitalism. Users often say these medicines can evoke feelings of oneness, unity, love — directionally...

By Rob Brezsny - Jul. 25, 2024

Free Will Astrology: July 25, 2024

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I dreamed that a young elephant appeared on the back deck of my house and stuck its trunk through the open sliding glass door. I got...

By Dan Savage - Jul. 25, 2024

Savage Love: Feed your kink, not your partner

For the longest time I’ve been into the feederism kink. It’s specifically the weight gain aspect of this kink — making myself or others bigger — that turns me on. I’ve...

By Will Brendza - Jul. 23, 2024

Passing the torch

In the four years since I inherited this column, eight states have legalized recreational cannabis, Colorado has decriminalized psilocybin, ibogaine and mescaline for therapeutic use, Mexico and Thailand legalized cannabis,...

By Rob Brezsny - Jul. 18, 2024

Free Will Astrology: July 18, 2024

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Have you ever been given a Starbucks gift card but then neglected to use it? Many people fail to cash in such freebies. Believe it or...

By Dan Savage - Jul. 18, 2024

Savage Love: The gay-straight alliance

We’re a straight couple in our forties. We have some very dear friends who are younger and queer, and we sometimes find ourselves giving them life and relationship advice. We...

By Shay Castle - Jul. 16, 2024

The pot blind spot

T, a student at a Colorado medical school, can count on one hand the things she’s learned about cannabis and psychedelics from her professors. “We’ve had probably two hour-and-a-half lectures...

By Rob Brezsny - Jul. 10, 2024

Free Will Astrology: July 11, 2024

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I trust that your intuition has been guiding you to slow down and disappear from the frenzied, agitated bustle that everyone seems addicted to. I hope...

By Dan Savage - Jul. 10, 2024

Savage Love: Straight man, queer relationship

I am a 45-year-old married straight guy. After more than a decade of dipping in and out of the swinging lifestyle, my wife and I have decided to open up...

By Dan Savage - Jul. 3, 2024

Savage Love: That G.I. Joe kung-fu grip

From the beginning, my boyfriend has struggled to cum from PIV with me and has to jack himself off in order to climax. He also never cum from my blowjobs...

By Rob Brezsny - Jul. 3, 2024

Astrology: July 3, 2024

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The “nirvana fallacy” is the belief that because something is less than utterly perfect, it is gravely defective or even irredeemably broken. Wikipedia says, “The nirvana...

By Rob Brezsny - Jun. 27, 2024

Astrology: June 27, 2024

ARIES (March 21-April 19): This may sound weird, but I think now is a perfect time to acquire a fresh problem. Not just any old boring problem, of course. Rather,...

By Dan Savage - Jun. 27, 2024

The healing potential of BDSM

I had a sexual experience that’s left me feeling shitty. Met another gay man on an apps, got wasted together at a leather bar, fucked at his place on a...

By Will Brendza - Jun. 18, 2024

Downward trajectory

Adolescent cannabis use has decreased for the ninth consecutive year, according to the most recent survey from Healthy Kids Colorado, an initiative of the Colorado Department of Public Health and...

By Rob Brezsny - Jun. 13, 2024

Astrology: June 13, 2024

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The term “maze” has various meanings. Most commonly, it signifies a puzzling cluster of choices that lead nowhere and bode frustration. But there are more positive...

By Dan Savage - Jun. 13, 2024

Savage Love: June 13, 2024

1. I hooked up during a lunch break. While I was sucking on a dude’s titties with his encouragement, he started sucking on my neck. I shook him off as...

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