If you're tantalized by astrology but just a wee bit embarrassed about it, it's time to take your curiosity out of the realm of gypsies and freaks and go all academic. Enroll in the Houston Institute of Astrology, which is taught by a real college instructor, Kim McSherry, and structured like "higher" learning coursework: Astrology 103, etc. McSherry teaches English at HCC, and we're thinking her students there are exposed to a higher plane of thinking, just as her astrology students at HIA get a heavy dose of Greek and Roman mythology. But hey, if you're into asteroids, that's extra credit.