We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.

Lawrence’s remark treats astrology less as a system of fixed prediction than as a provocative symbolic language. To “flirt” with the zodiac suggests a playful, exploratory engagement—testing its images and archetypes without surrendering one’s judgment or freedom. The second sentence (“well worth flirting with”) implies that the zodiac repays attention because it can stimulate intuition, self-reflection, and imaginative insight into temperament and desire. In a broader Lawrentian vein, the line also reads as a defense of non-rational ways of knowing—myth, instinct, and bodily feeling—against a modern tendency to dismiss them as embarrassing superstition.