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Aquarius (January 20-February 19)
By now, you know how complex you are and how comfortable you are being that way. What has been added to the mix lately is Mercury, which has added the ability to communicate your thoughts and notions. What is soon to arrive is your ability to feel other people's responses to you. Notice, you are glowing like a halogen lamp . . . not just on the visible spectrum but also on many of the invisible ones, the ones that people like to call psychic or supernatural, but which are every bit as natural as a tree or a dog. Navigate carefully, and use your awareness to sense the influence and impact that you have on others. Watch their faces and feel their emotions. You will learn a lot about them, and even more about yourself.
Pisces (February 19-March 20)
Feed your dreams. Your house of dreams, the 12th house (and the one most often attributed to Pisces) is full to the brim right now, and your imagination is likely to be more vivid than the walking and talking world. Search those byways of your inner consciousness and memorize their messages, feel their colors and sense the different moods. What is in those secret spaces will slowly start to emerge and take up its role in the world, animate itself, and take up life in your waking psyche. For now, it’s possible that you cannot share much except with one or two intimates, or with yourself. Try to document what you can in art, writing, or music. Forget about understanding; rather, give yourself a few gestures of the feeling, and that will be enough to evoke the entire experience again when you want to, or need to.
Aries (March 20-April 19)
If you experience a social injury or insult of some kind, consider the gift that it gives you. There is one, as long as you're willing to find it. You can do that, rather than feel emotionally injured. The opportunity could be about learning to understand your vulnerabilities. And here is the razor's edge: To be close to people, we need to be vulnerable, but that is different than hypersensitive. Anyone who is sensitive is open to both pleasure and pain. Anyone who is hypersensitive is basically vulnerable only to pain. That should be a pretty good incentive to make a sane decision. Meanwhile, bear one crucial thing in mind—your feelings are currently extremely powerful transmitters. People are going to feel you, and they are going to respond. When two or more are gathered be mindful what you project onto one another. Or for that matter, what you project onto the world when you are alone.
Taurus (April 19-May 20)
An unusual professional opportunity may arrive in the form of doing something “pro bono”—specifically to assist someone else. Money is not the issue in this particular experience; rather, all you need to focus on is opening up your inner channel and allowing your creativity to flow. The flow is what you are after, allowing your true creative energy into the environment. Regarding another aspect of your work, there is a commitment involved, though you’ve already made it. There is also money involved, but it emerges not through any one endeavor but more through the sharing of resources in a long-term experience. The keynote here is that everyone’s horizons will expand, not just those of one individual involved. Honor that one idea and you are in for some pleasant surprises.
Gemini (May 20-June 21)
Mercury has made its way into Aquarius, and this means adventure. If you can't get on an airplane or the Space Shuttle, try taking a road trip of at least two hours and one overnight. You may be busy, but this will help you focus your ideas and clear your head. If you think a kid is holding you back, take the kid along too. What you need is movement, the expansion of your geographic horizons, which will key right into the expansion of your psychological horizons. I guess in a pinch, getting together with some good friends and tripping will suffice. But after a rather close and stuffy experience of someone or something the past few weeks, you really seem to need some fresh air and the sound of tires humming beneath your feet.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
It would help if you would get yourself out of the house, out of your shell, and into the mood to take some chances with people. You like to think of yourself as cautious by nature, but we both know that's only a small aspect of who you are, and certainly not the dominant aspect of your character. Now, if you choose to take a chance, be mindful that any interaction with others you don't know can bristle you the wrong way. You don't need to wear your raincoat or a suit of psychic armor, but do be mindful of the fact that you're open and receptive. If you choose who to be receptive to—mainly by who you notice feels you—the possibilities for unusual pleasure, exotic dalliances and the kind of stuff you only read about in Kama Sutra books is possible.
Leo (July 22-August 23)
There must be a lot going on. That feels like a statement from my first year of writing horoscopes, looking at a chart with seven planets piled up in one house—your opposite house Aquarius— perplexfully wondering what on Earth is going on. This is your house of relationships. Has a whole mob arrived for the weekend? Have you been stumping in the New Hampshire primaries? Have you opened a charm school? Have you gone to Utah and become polygamous? Are you contemplating all of the above? The key is to not let any of this distract you from what work you are so intent on completing. There is someone else around who can play host or hostess while you take care of the important stuff. You don't need to dive into the social scene. Making the occasional cameo appearance will suffice.
Virgo (August 23-September 22)
Keep track of how your body feels. This is the Big Yoga of this lifetime for you; Virgos are some of the smartest people around, but generally need to be dunked under water to have their body speak to them; I refer to the Virgo Moon as well. But your body is talking and if you listen, you will see that it's making sense. There is a long-range healing issue that is ready to cough up some of its secrets, and reveal the truth of its being. This will surprise you in its simplicity, transcending your other complicated theories about what has been going on for you. It will surprise you in its complexity, being so connected to many other subjects of your life. Just listen to yourself for the next few days, listen to your fingers, toes, nose and pantyhose. If you do, you'll hear whispers of many subtle truths that have, in recent weeks and seasons, slipped through your hands.
Libra (September 22-October 23)
How is your home improvement project coming? Now is the time to knock down walls, pull down old curtains, pull up old rugs, clean out closets and generally get the show on the road. Perhaps rent a dumpster or get a deluxe ticket to the local transfer station. Don't worry if you lack the plan or the funds to finish the job—start with beginning the job and you will clear the energy sufficiently to let the funds, the plan, and the time come in. I see the image of making things not only bigger from the inside, but substantially better. This astrology lasts throughout the year, but the coming week or so (preferably the weekend) is unusually magnificent for starting projects that get greater-than-possible results. The issue is precisely one of how you use, arrange, organize and work within physical space. Try making some small adjustment and see what happens.
Scorpio (October 23-November 22)
A loved one may seem like he or she is on an adventure; and if it happens to be with someone else, take the chance to do all that introspective stuff that you know you need to do. If it happens to be with you, make sure you get some time to yourself the next couple of weeks (and I extend this idea to all who are born under Mars-ruled signs, including Aries and Capricorn). We are in the final weeks of a rare Mars retrograde. There is something deep in your psyche that is striving to heal itself, to mend and join with itself. It is surely possible to do that in a sexual context with another person, but the more meaningful journey at this point will be allowing the hemispheres of your own mind to mend and heal into one unity. You need to see the opposite viewpoints you have about yourself, review your agreements with yourself, and see yourself from both sides of the mirror.
Sagittarius (November 22-December 22)
You may not feel like you need to do any financial restructuring, but in a few weeks it will be obvious why this will benefit you. But closer to the point is some deep question that has arisen where your values are concerned. You seem to be caught in a maze where you feel certain things at certain times, and then you turn a corner and it's as if all those things were suddenly no longer true. You might value the quest for perfectly unnecessary real estate (or purchases) one minute and unmitigated altruism the next. The two seem to have no meeting place, and worse they may be at odds. Plus, at the moment you have so many ideas about life it's impossible to tell what is really true, what is meaningful and what is real. I suggest you dance with the confusion for a while. Soon enough, you will discover an organizing principle around which to make your decisions about what counts, and what doesn't.
Capricorn (December 22-January 20)
This must be an intense moment of anticipation for you: if it's not, meditate and tune in, because the planets are moving, in particular, Pluto. The world is vibrating with the approaching shift of Pluto into your birth sign. Even the slugs on the political slime trail in New Hampshire and Iowa have been talking about change, change, change. For you, this is a moment of release from a kind of vacuum that you don't necessarily know you've been in. You are likely to discover that the spell breaks, and you can suddenly feel yourself existing, living, breathing, and changing. But not quite yet . . . the moment has not arrived. The planets depict you in your chrysalis, stirring to life, but not quite at the moment of cracking open the case and emerging in your new form. Yet it is only a matter of days, and you know one thing at least—after so many changes, you are still alive.
Eric Francis has more to say at PlanetWaves.net
