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(March 20-April
19)
You may feel like you are being put to the test, and you are. Yet
the question is what test, exactly? Well, the current challenge
involves whether you feel safe taking such a big chance, or feel
secure pushing yourself to achieve so much. It is all about how
you feel in the context of what you want. You would be wise to
question whether a) feeling insecure really means you are in a
compromised position; and b) what you consider to be the source
of your strength. At the moment, it appears that most of your support
is coming from your community. Some of that assistance you recognize
the value of; some of it, it's very likely you have no concept
of how valuable it is. Note that your community changes with your
role in the world; as you change and grow, different people consider
you their peer. |
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(April 19-May
20)
You're about to strive for some peak experience in your career. In truth
you're already there, or well on the way -- what you are seeking is a
tangible feeling of soaring to new heights. I humbly submit that you
must consider the difference between the feeling and the reality. There
are a lot of ways to get the feeling; what is more crucial is that you
recognize your achievements for what they are, ground yourself, and build
on that success. If you take the conservative approach, you would feel
closer to the Earth, and you might need to stretch a little to have a
wide perspective. That is better than soaring and falling. The way you
handle your professional life now will set patterns that extend far into
the future. Pay attention to those patterns. Choose the ones that work
for you.
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(May 20-June
21)
While the stars are leaning distinctly in your favor, you may not be
entirely thrilled with the prospects life is holding out for you. It
may feel impossible to make any progress, and you may feel divided against
yourself in some odd way. This is entirely an illusion. You are free
to express yourself fully. You are free to vent your frustration in entirely
constructive ways, and more to the point, you are free to use it as a
tool to learn about yourself. Yours is a rare state of mind at the moment;
you have the ability to feel what you really want, and once you do that,
you will feel how easy it is to get what you want. What you need to guard
against is identifying too closely with negative emotion. Recognize that
you have a choice in all matters of feeling, and that what you get is
most likely to be what you want. |
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(June 21-July
22)
Pluto makes its way into your opposite sign Capricorn in late January,
though the vibrations have been shaking up your world for some
time now. The implications of this long-term transit focus primarily
on people having a more profound impact on your life than you may
have ever imagined possible. From a growth standpoint, you need
to be vigilant against situations that may come with a power struggle.
Such are not necessities in life, though they occur frequently
enough. While I am not suggesting that you convert to being suspicious,
you need to be discerning of the motives of others. Remember what
people say initially about what motivates them, even if they change
their tune later. Look for the results they get, and look at how
they relate to others as contrasted to how they relate to you.
Those who feel like a victim most of the time are more likely to
make you into one next. Those who feel like winners are likely
to have that agenda for you.
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(July 22-Aug.
23)
You may feel, yet again, like everything is coming at you at once, but
consider this. You are being pulled out of yourself and toward the future.
The sense of unfamiliarity is precisely that sense of standing in a strange
new landscape of time. There are different people around you, and they
have styles of relating, to you and to one another, that may seem a little
strange. I suggest you notice the differences, and how they make you
feel -- and appreciate them like you were visiting a foreign country.
That sense of the new and the unfamiliar are precious while they last;
humans have a way of converting everything to the ordinary in a short
time. The planets are conspiring to keep you on your toes, which means
alert and aware, and there is a reason, soon enough to be revealed. |
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(Aug. 23-Sep.
22)
For years, others have been doing their best to coax or shock you out
of your shell. And for years -- until recently -- you have most likely
felt unprepared to rise fully to the occasion. Now that you have Saturn
visiting your sign, you're blessed with a measure of stability and yet
the sense (as Saturn often bestows) that change is natural and inevitable.
Take advantage of the strength that Saturn is offering, and the ability
that it's giving you to structure your life in new ways. This will help
you accommodate what may be an overwhelming influx of energy and activity.
You have always had flexibility going for you; you typically have a healthy
respect for your limits. What you have now is a blend of both, at a time
when both will support you in some unusual endeavor or breakthrough. |
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(Sep. 22-Oct.
23)
The ground beneath you is moving, but you are safe. Your source
of nourishment is changing, but your new source is both healthy
and potent. Indeed, what you most urgently need to adapt to is
how to work with so much energy rising up from the Earth into your
heart, body and soul. You may be possessed of the feeling that
you are somehow on your own, with an unusual degree of responsibility
for your own sustenance and destiny. Very likely you have received
signals the past three or four weeks that you will succeed brilliantly,
but I would caution you that this is true to the extent you are
able to live each new day as being different from the last. History
is over; you are writing on a new page of your life. That is to
say, stop yourself each time you have the feeling you owe something
to someone. |
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(Oct. 23-Nov.
22)
You must get over the feeling that your greatest achievements are behind
you -- and get over it fast. Your perception is like you're looking at
the world through prism glasses, seeing everything upside down. Your
sense of the passage of time is skewed, though this gives you a certain
advantage at the moment. In particular, you have an opportunity to completely
reassess your commitments to others, and their commitments to you. You
have a chance to look honestly at what is working for you and what is
not. Indeed, you have the prerogative to free yourself from any situation
or circumstance involving another person that is not fully to your advantage
-- but to use this power you must be exquisitely honest with yourself
about the basic facts. Use language, not just feelings. A fact is something
that can be supported or denied by tangible evidence; start making a
list.
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(Nov.
22-Dec. 22)
You have seen what others are capable of; now you must own up to what
you are capable of. In a word, that translates to anything. The more
boldly you can embrace your negative potential, the greater strength
you will feed into your positive potential. If you want to be the most
passionate [heterosexual] lover, embrace your queer side. If you want
to be the perfect spouse or partner, embrace the potential you have to
be boring, faithless and inconsiderate. In sum, admit that the light
you carry casts a shadow. Try standing with the light to your back to
see how long that shadow is. Then turn around, and face the Sun, which
is blazing in you as well. |
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(Dec.
22-Jan. 20)
Pluto is about to enter your sign, but Jupiter has already arrived. It's
as if you're being given an advance against future royalties, and an
incentive to view this long-term transit as an entirely positive development.
Most people don't view Pluto this way -- you have little choice in the
matter. I would sum up this development with a few simple ideas: you
are the person who sets the limits on your bliss, or who blows off the
roof. You are the person who violates tradition and makes your mark on
the world. You are the benefactor who has the power to solve the problems
you perceive in the world. In other words, you are no longer one among
the meek and the mild; you are among the brave and the wild -- but for
this to last, you must be fair with everyone, and I do mean everyone. |
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(Jan. 20-Feb.
19)
What an odd mix of energies you are under at the moment. From the look
of your solar chart, I would surmise that your sense of standing at the
very edge of reality is counterbalanced by an overwhelming feeling of
safety. The closer to the edge you get, the safer you are likely to feel.
However, consider this, before you decide you are able to fly. Where
would you go, if you could go anywhere? Why would you go there? For the
sake of something new and exotic, or to fulfill your new mission in life?
The things you actually need to do are eminently practical, and I suggest
you take great solace in your ability to get up every day and do your
best and most devoted work. It is also true that you need to have fun,
but I see no shortage of that in your chart.
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(Feb. 19-March
20)
If you have time and again had the feeling that the world is too stuck
in its ways to make any room for you, you are in for a pleasant surprise.
Traditions and established structures that have for so long held you
back are likely to start opening their doors. You may not see the reasons;
they may not see the reasons; everyone will see the results. You may
not see the mechanisms of action; indeed, many of them are 'invisible'
in the sense that they are not easily traced by direct cause and effect.
What is crucial at this juncture of your life is that you stop falling
for the sad lie that the past is what sets the limits on the future.
You live in a world where what was impossible yesterday verges on inevitable
today.
Eric Francis has more to say at PlanetWaves.net.
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