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Aug 30, 2007 at 4:41 PM
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I'd love to see Tim Gunn's chart (which apparently ain't online), since reading interviews about how he stopped dating makes me wonder. He sounds like me.

But also just to give you a context, I had been in a relationship and a very intense one. And it broke up after quite a number of years. And it broke up abruptly – didn't break up from me. I was cast aside. And it was just, just at the advent of AIDS. And I found out he had been sleeping with a lot of people. And thank God I'm healthy. Because I didn't know and it had been going on for a while. So when we broke up, there the world of AIDS is spread out before me, and I thought ‘I can't do this. I don't want to be selfish, but I care too much about my health'. And the person I loved more than myself had been cheating on me and lying to me. So if that person is doing it, what about total strangers? So I just got used to being alone, very used to it.

And I have to add too, I mean being in the industry that I'm in, when I reflect upon what AIDS did to the fashion industry and how it devastated it. We forget about that and what happened during that decade of the ‘80's, and how men were wiped out from this industry. And now there's a whole new generation here, and it's not even in their vocabulary. They don't recall it. I do. And I'm not saying that it's an AIDS awareness that keeps me out of dating land. But I just got very used to being alone, and used to my own company – and I don't feel a void. I feel great going home late at night, or whenever it is, and just closing the door and having the world to myself. Again, it sounds rather selfish, but to have a relationship, as I said earlier, would take time. And I don't have any.

Finding out his exact birthday seems a bit dubious, but I'm inclined to trust the BPR folks to know. So I did a chart (obviously without birth time or location) for July 29, 1953...

Yup. Venus trine Saturn. Explains a lot. Swears off dating, doesn't miss it, doesn't actually GET the attention you think he would.

AE: Well, doesn't anyone come up and say ‘Tim, you are hot! Let's go to dinner.'?
TG: No. To be honest with you James, no. People keep thinking that I'm getting offers and that I'm getting love notes, and things of that sort. I honestly don't. And I never even think to ask gee, ‘Why am I not?' I never even think about it unless somebody asks me.

AE: But I mean clearly don't you think – because you are hot, and you are famous, all the stars are aligned for you to be having tons of offers. So do you think it's about you're just not in a place where you can be open to it right now?
TG: You're absolutely right. It's got to be a signal that I'm sending. You're absolutely right. And I am sending that signal.

AE: And do you hope for a time soon when you can be sending different signals?
TG: I just don't see it happening. I'm really the happiest guy in the world, and the luckiest guy in the world. I don't feel any sense of something missing. At all.