Stargazing is like traveling through time and space; imagining as best we can such unimaginable distances, such wondrous, unknown possibilities out there in the vast, star-spangled sky.

For modern city-dwellers, though, stargazing long ago ceased to be a nocturnal option, since air and light pollution now block out all but a handful of the brightest stars.

And yet many people, on a daily basis, still let their minds drift off among the stars that represent the Signs of the Zodiac, those stellar configurations that, according to astrology, influence our lives and fortunes.