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a s t r o l o g y

T R Y T H I S

A T H O M E Apartment astrology

is a thing and it

Have a paint-
ing of a boat?
Burn it can fix your love life
Ships sitting in har-
bors emphasize
stagnation, says
Patricia Lohan. (It
was, um, problem-
atic that I had one
hanging across Time to buy
from my bed.)
some new plants.
(We’ll explain.)

B y D I A N E V A D I N O

Stick to
paired art and
accessories hen
Like actual love- w Clean closets, full
hearts, can’t lose.
birds. “It could people
be two swans,” ask
explains Lohan. why I’m
“Swans mate for single, my go-tos are:
life. It’s really just a busy schedule, too specifically, it turns
about thinking
in pairs.” much travel, and an out that my “love/rela-
unwillingness to open Home, and I know my tionship area” has I get to work, shift-
Tinder. But really it’s... little friends are not “unhappy wood ing things (neatly)
my messy bedroom. welcome) and pray energy.” into hallway closets.
“Your house has its silently that my place’s Lohan suggests The change—the
own energy field—it’s vibes haven’t entirely counteracting this emptiness—is brac-
Curate your
closet either calling in or doomed my relation- vibe by adding in ele- ing. I’d clearly
repelling what you ship status. ments of both metal allowed Work Me to
“If your closet is
full, if your bed- want,” says feng shui The first thing and moving metal, dominate my life and
room is full, if your expert and astro nerd Lohan does is produce like, say, a clock with Relationship Me to
calendar is full, Patricia Lohan. She’s a report, like a birth metal hands. She also disappear.
you’re never going basically like an chart for my apart- wants me to declutter, Typically, it takes
to meet someone,”
says Lohan. “You astrologer for your ment, taking into since my bedroom is two to three months
have to make home, and I’d invited account the building’s bursting with inven- to see results,
room.” her over to help me birth date and loca- tory for my Etsy shop although Lohan says
with my romantic life, tion. It scores “bad for (I sell vintage stuff; she’s seen things
which has lately felt a money” (!) but “good sometimes I wake up happen within a
lot more “repelled” for people.” More with a cake plate couple of hours. And
than “called in.” wrapped in my duvet). it’s true that I already
Keep things “I’ve had people I agree because, I feel a little changed.
level come to me when their mean, you can’t find Before, when I
Buy a pair of night- lives are falling apart, an S.O. until he has looked around my
stands of similar and they’re looking somewhere to put his bedroom, I thought of
height. Different inward for answers,” sweaters, right? work. Now I think of GIRL: THAIS R A MOS VAREL A/STOCKSY. CACTI: GET T Y IM AGES.
heights can lead to
relationship power says Lohan. “No! It’s possibility. And new
imbalances. “You your house!” plants (“non-spiky
want equilibrium Nodding, I try to succulents that grow
and balance and hide my cacti behind quickly are best”).
harmony,” says No cacti were harmed in
Lohan. me (I’ve read Lohan’s And new paintings.
book, The Happy the writing of this story. And new hookups.

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