This summer I've walked by numerous psychics fanning themselves as they sit in various dilapidated New York storefronts, leading me to wonder why they don't use their psychic powers to manifest air conditioning. Sure I'll read my horoscope if I'm on an airplane flipping through a magazine, but am wary of self proclaimed experts who overestimate what they know about the world's fate. Yet, I took an immediate shine to astrologers and entertainers Stella Starsky and Quinn Cox, a husband and wife duo, because of their palpable self-awareness, warmth, and especially their dead pan wit. Not only were they not above satirizing metaphysics, they found the budding, often lucrative, field downright absurdly entertaining enough to perm a live show Cosmic Cabaret about their star searching.

Our interview was taped live at the Writers Guild, which was fitting since Starsky and Cox wrote two best selling books Sextrology: The Astrology of Sex and the Sexes and Cosmic Coupling: The Sextrology of Relationships.

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