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Aries (March 20-April 19)
Focus on nutrition. Start with food; then start with the influence that
food has on your relationships. Take the lead. Slow down and see how you
feel after you eat different things and how you feel when you eat with
different people. Then move onto discovering your emotional nourishment
needs. You are well situated to feel what you need in a clear way; to
feel your emotions; to feel difficult or unpleasant feelings and not be
intimidated by them. Mars retrograde says you are in a moment of
reclaiming your home. Start with your kitchen.
Taurus (April 19-May 20)
Once again you are being confronted by a truly affirmative offer.
Someone is saying yes. True, it's yes not without conditions, but most
of the discussion involves ordinary subject matter; ants at the picnic,
water being wet, fire being hot. Anything extraordinary is contained in
the ordinary. The solution to any anxiety you may be feeling is to be
real, and speak your mind. It is true, your mind speaks to you, and it
does so loudly. But you need to remind yourself every day that nobody
else can hear it.
Gemini (May 20-June 21)
What you are working for and what you are going to get may be two
different things. So I suggest you make an adjustment every time you
feel yourself going overboard in the effort department. Stress or the
feeling of pushing yourself hard probably are an indication that you're
going up the hill when you need to be going down, or taking in the view
from where you are. You seem to be overly focused on working
relationships, or the work aspect of loving relationships. Now is the
time to focus on passion, faith and your highest vision with those with
whom you share a soul bond.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Mars in your sign is pushing you to push yourself, but you can be
carried forward gently enough by the momentum of deep dedication to your
purpose. Remember that meaning is always a process of discovery; it is
not fixed in any one place or time. For now, you are stretching out into
the world. Soon, you will be stretching into yourself, breaking down
barriers between you and your deepest desires, and fueling your spirit
on your own inner fire. Then as the winter progresses, you will push
back out into the world. To sum up, get ready for a time of retreat,
which is preparation for a time of joyful conquering.
Leo (July 22-Aug. 23)
Commitment is always in the expression, not the words that seem to come
along with it. It's the continued experience of how you have been
living, combined with how you want to live now. The momentum of human
co-involvement must always be turned to fresh spaces, new ideas and in
truth, new risks if you want to stay actively interested in love and
life. An adventure of some kind is upon you, and will lead you places
you might not have imagined. If there is a pause in the action, take a
breath, focus on the people who are immediately around you, and wait on
the will of heaven.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22)
You have been working out your financial problems in theory; now is the
time to work them out in practice, and that should be fairly easily
done. You have the resources and the ideas. You are developing the
relationships that will help you get where you are going, but you need
to remember that you are the one who possesses the key ingredient. What
seems to come and go is your awareness of that fact. Remember that you
are the yeast, and everything that comes your way is some other
ingredient in the bread. You are what gives the substance life, and its
power to grow.
Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23)
You are near a personal breakthrough point, but before you get there you
may be living with some wild tension and inner contradiction. In sum,
you are struggling to express male energy. Some call it yang; some call
it aggressive; you may be inclined to judge the kind of assertiveness
you need to be delivering as cocky or arrogant. I suggest you dismiss
the jury and send the judge on vacation. Your wellbeing depends on your
ability to be fair with yourself, not judgmental.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22)
You are walking the thin line between the promise of wild innovation and
the fear of self-deception. It's like you have one foot on each side of
the line. You may fear that you're being misled by a partner or loved
one, or by your own personal commitment to a relationship. How would
your life feel if you took a break from your obsessive self-doubt? How
would your existence feel if you consciously decided that your best
opportunities were ahead of you, not behind you? To tell yourself you
can successfully work toward the life you dream of is to finally dance
with the truth. But first you must clear the fog of doubt and see the
light of self-awareness.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22)
You have become a friend to instability -- perhaps too good of a friend.
Your current astrology, and that for the foreseeable future, is about
grounding yourself and your intentions. Yet you need to be aware of a
split you may be struggling with. To one side, you are striving to pull
yourself into focus and take authority in a somewhat conventional way.
To the other side, you are being fired up by a vision that is
threatening to challenge every pre-existing concept of who you are or
what you want. You would be in pretty big trouble if not for the
balance. It may be causing you some tension, but in reality that tension
is your most potent leverage point.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20)
Freedom is the freedom to believe what you want. To reach a space where
that is possible, you need to both overthrow the inner authoritarian
that has been passed down to you for hundreds of generations, and take
up that authority for yourself. Think of yourself as the almighty king
who decrees unilaterally that the people shall be free. Just remember,
you can't really do that until you are free of your most persistent
hang-ups and insecurities. To do that, you must, in turn, raise your
inner awareness of them to a heightened level. Trust me: that is a
radical act.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
There is a dialog that needs to happen, and you seem to be holding back.
You seem to have grievances, or grief, that is troubling you, and you
would go a long way toward resolving it both inwardly and outwardly if
you initiate the discussion that you want so badly. The problem is that
it may seem nobody is listening -- but that will not be true for long.
People are listening and you need to both notice that they are doing so,
and take advantage of that fact. Then, basically, you need to take a
chance on love. Not romance; actual love, and passion, and on the simple
truth that the future is different than the past as long as we make it so.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Resources are coming your way, and you finally have a sufficient sense
of grounding and structure to make them grow. At this stage in your
life, you need to be adept at sensing the commitment level of others,
and its particular qualities. Saturn in your opposite house will be easy
for any Pisces who is not content merely to dream. When we stop merely
dreaming, we enter relationships with people with whom we collaborate on
making our dreams real. Remember, though, that you are in the position
of visionary; you are making the meaningful decisions. Pay attention to
who respects you and who does not. Then use the information immediately.
