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(March 20-April
19)
You seem to want to take a risk you won't let yourself dare. There is
a new influence in your life, which is working to slow you down and make
sure your thought process is more methodical. This is not designed as
a cosmic hindrance, or any other kind. Rather, you've finally got a chance
to see the benefits of more carefully considered decisions, and what
I like to call calculated risks. There is a way of taking a chance that
involves understanding the implications -- and that's precisely what
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(April 19-May
20)
As a Taurean, you have a natural need for security and stability. But
it's possible to take that to the point of allowing no new changes into
your life without putting yourself through some kind of mental torture.
You seem to be dedicated to considering every implication of every potential
action. But rather than pondering what you're so worried about, your
mental energy would be better spent looking at how secure you really
are, and how that can afford you an opportunity to take a chance, embark
on a journey or explore a creative endeavor that your family would never
consider normal in a million years.
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(May 20-June
21)
You lack nothing in originality, but if a sibling is telling you that
your plans are a bad idea, I suggest you ignore it with gusto. The same
may hold true if you feel that your town, social group or personal philosophy
has grown too small for you. You were born to do big things, and the
only way to do big things is to think big thoughts -- big, and real.
Just remember that real is what you say it is, not what someone else
is afraid might threaten them. For the moment, you would be wise to keep
your plans and ideas to yourself. |
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(June 21-July
22)
Few people feel financially secure, but fewer yet have sensible ideas
about money. What you need now is to develop tangible thoughts about
what money means to you, apart from what anyone else may think. Go on
a hunt for places in yourself where you keep some form of the message,
'You're not worth it'. Listen carefully for the many forms this message
can take. They may be subtle, and they may also be in the form of feeling
you don't have the right to express yourself. This is no small fear;
it's the fear of existence. Spot it, name it, and you can be free.
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(July 22-Aug.
23)
The party is not over. In fact, it's just begun. Okay, not so many people
feel that Saturn in their birth sign (it's in Leo for the next two years)
is a blessing. But consider it this way. At your core, you're an awesomely
responsible person and a natural born leader. You will feel a lot better
about yourself -- not a little, a lot -- when you come to terms with
the fact that you have a mission, that people look up to you, and that
you carry just enough responsibility for the fate of the Earth to take
your own life seriously. |
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(Aug. 23-Sep.
22)
You actually can blame Mercury retrograde if your fears are being blown
beyond all proportion. If you want to get down to the bricks and mortar
of what's going on, I think you're scared of your own potential and how
it sets you so far apart from so many other people. As a Virgo, you were
supposed to be the very picture of 'normal'. Well, take another guess.
For the foreseeable future, though, you'll be earning this extraordinary
place you hold in life by being willing to stand alone. That's different
than lonely, and you've always been your own best company, anyway. |
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(Sep. 22-Oct.
23)
Trust that you know right from wrong, and trust that you're a fair person.
You may not go around sending out press releases about how fabulous you
are, but at this point you'll need to have absolute faith that what you
see is what is so. It may look fine to everyone else; but then, one could
display a stale loaf of bread under a spotlight and make it look tantalizing.
Anyway, listen to what people are saying and be sure you let them have
it when they make no sense at all, or start diving into the red. |
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(Oct. 23-Nov.
22)
This is one of those 'what you reap is what you sow' moments, but you
might want to switch the order of that around, because now is the season
of planti. If there's trouble on the horizon in a particular intimate
relationship, you now know everything you need to know to deal with it,
and you have a lot of power to make it better or worse in the long run.
That is to say, everything you'll wish you knew in three months time
you know today. You just need to muster the guts to stand up to someone
who wants to be a lot more like you than they
actually are.
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(Nov.
22-Dec. 22)
You're a blessed person, and you know it. However, your blessing is your
own, not the property of someone who you think you need to please. It
may seem like you owe someone something, or you have to make sure that
your decisions work both for you and for everyone else around you. It
would be nice, but it's not the way you live when you've claimed your
life as your own. Ask yourself carefully if you're afraid to do something
that your father would disapprove of. And remember you don't have to
argue with anyone if you want to be free. |
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(Dec.
22-Jan. 20)
I suggest you drive a hard bargain where business negotiations of any
kind are concerned. And I suggest you make sure you make only those commitments
you can really keep. Sketch out the details of any contract on paper.
List what you give and what the other person gives, and by when it's
all supposed to happen. Then, cut what you do in half, increase what
comes back to you as compensation, and then see if you can delay the
whole plan for about two or three weeks so you have time to get your
act together. There is no rush. |
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(Jan. 20-Feb.
19)
There's a New Age theory that people we encounter mirror our feelings.
And you may be getting hints of that idea now. But I'm suspicious of
this theory because it seems to take away the essential boundary that
separates two different people and their different intentions. It's true
that your relationships are exceptionally important and that you identify
closely with certain people in your life. Just make sure they actually
state who they are and what they want over a period of a couple of months,
and without saying what you're doing, compare their answers in that time.
I trust you'll learn a lot.
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(Feb. 19-March
20)
This year has been a time for collecting old debts, reaping the rewards
for long-term projects, and most of all, learning what life feels like
when people treat you fairly. You're not a hypocrite if you receive the
benefits of your own good efforts, nor if you make your own decisions
about what's important to you. You have your own ideas about life, and
you have a right to experiment with them even if others who would never
dare to try attempt to ward you off. This is a good time -- a very good
time -- to be your bravest, gutsiest self.
Eric Francis has more to say at PlanetWaves.net.
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