This Week

Thank you for all lovely feedback last week. Gives Astroducky a warm fuzzy feeling inside! Now normalmente Astroducky would prefer to sit out the Eclipse season, let the energy salsa around us, and then scribble a review style tip on the back of a beer mat while the caretaker is putting the chairs back. However, it’s a three-eclipse whammy with no break in the music until 5 August and that’s streeeetching it just a leetle. And so people. I’m clocking in. Eclipse One is upon us on Tuesday and while it’s a fairly small-scale Lunar Eclipse it marks the beginning of a new two-year Eclipse fiesta between Cancer and Capricorn. For where these Eclipses will be shaking your tail feathers until 2011 see Me Go Lunar Gaga, below. (The August Eclipse is a mop up exercise from the past two years. More on that later.) Other than that it’s a Martian, Saturnine week. In other words, if you have to run, then do it in an orderly fashion. Or something. Finalmente, if it all gets too much, have a swizz at Camille O’Sullivan at the links, below. From Waltzes to Bowie to Weill in a bat of a terrific eyelash. And ever so slightly unhinged. Brillog. And they’re off!

Aries
Walking the walking and talking the talk may be tricky this week. Be wary of over-egging the benefits of the Condo when you’re actually selling a bungalow or believing that the car chase won’t end in tears or that the credit card won’t melt if you go on yet another Orient Express trip in a new set of Jimmy Choos. The happy Universe links home and work on Thursday. You’re seeing a New Way to improve that work/life balance. And love stuff…? Is that you spouting poetry below the balcony?! Schucks… Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 4th and 10th houses. It’s time to sit up and realise that you are Not Your Parents and that they are Not You. They may have their ideas for what ‘success’ and ‘family’ mean, and they’re entitled to them, but the Moon sez you gat your own ideas Daddio. Whose life ya living? Changes around home and career are needed. Don’t be afraid of swimming in a new direction.

Taurus
You can move mountains, Bull features, but this week your focus should be on money and wishes. With Mars and Venus floating around your pretty ears there’s been a firm but gentle aura around you of late. This week Venus lights up your 2nd house of dough, cash, lettuce leaving Mars alone at the bridge of Good Ship Bullybull. Watch out for impatience and 11th hour panic. Rally yourself and focus hard on how your deepest wishes, networks, and social circles can open doors to abundance in the coming six weeks. Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 3rd and 9th houses. Suddenly the World seems eversomuch closer and your wish to Be Heard, becomes eversomuch dearer. This week heralds a new sense of raa concerning overseas, publishing, and broadcasting forays, perticalerly those involving lovers and creative ventures. By the 22nd the focus comes back to How You Say It. Ideas this week, then, sales pitches in a fortnight. (“I’m not asking £10, I’m not asking £8… For this carefully selected potato painting all I’m asking is £5…”)

Gemini
You’re rallying Airy One. Venus, Goddess of love and oof has joined you sweetly over the weekend and next weekend Mars shifts into your first house of YOU and you can at last crawl out from under the bed and start making decisions. Before then watch for turbulence on Monday and cloudiness on Tuesday. Something’s past its sell by date and you’ve money worries in mind. Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 2nd and 8th houses meaning Cash, Money, Lettuce are under the cosmic spotlight. For Airy Ones in negotiations right now, money may not be forthcoming unless it’s loans from the family or saving or making money on real estate. By the 22nd it’s your salary in the frame. Jobs may be ending or changing as effects on salaries are starred. With Uranus still in charge of your career and three heavenly bodies in your 9th house of Long Range planning, what seems like a ding in the road now could become a glorious boost by the end of the year.

Cancer
How’s it going Crabsticks? The Sun and Mercury are shining upon you so you should be feeling a leetle more chipper than of late. If you’ve Important Things to negotiate try Thursday and Friday this week. Nota bene: you’ve more soul-searching afoot as first Venus then Mars begin their tour of dooty in your 12th house. Mars will ensure you don’t become a doormat and Venus that you don’t give into all the nagging doubts. However, brushing everything under the hearth rug and soldiering on blindly will be a wasted chance for an emotional clear out. A friendship or wish hits the skids Monday. Surprising news from friends or contacts abroad lands Tuesday. Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 1st and 7th houses ie your relationship axis and your choice of mirrors… As emotions rise, watch out for brandishing a finger at others. Take the log out of your own eye eye before you cock a snook at the twig in another’s eye eye, as the song goes. (Or something like it.) Relationships that are limping along may fall away now. See it as a chance to surround yourself with healthier more appropriate contemporaries in future.

Leo
It’s a mixed bag of onions, Hairy Friend. As Venus and Mars slide from your career zone into your zone of wishes, friendships, and networking there’s something of a party-animal and competitive spirit in your social dealings. Yet with Mercury and the Sun hiding in your dank 12th house of Meep! you’re worrying and sleepless and not quite as up for the fray as you’d like. Cash lettuce seems to be part of the reason for those sleepless nights. If you can tune into your gut instincts, solutions may bubble up Thursday and Friday this week. Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 6th and 12th houses. Health, work and your zone of Meep! are linked. There’s a fantastic book called The Healing Power of Illness which discusses how physical illness is a manifestation of internal emotional/spiritual dis-ease – ie Mind over Matter. Take that philosophy to the Office and where you’re feeling underpaid and underappreciated see it as a symptom of how You See You. It’s time to project What You’re Worth. A re-commitment to self vz Work/Money on Tuesday can lead to all sorts of internal boons come the 22nd. But you’re going to have to work at it my liege, begging your pardon, suh!

Virgo
The Time Is Now, Virgo. With planets schtacking up in your zones of Work, Success, and Friends, Wishes, and Networking you’ve cosmic fairy dust helping you along the road. There a dings for sure, compromises, doors closing, and occasional feathers getting ruffled, but as my friend Margie always sez, “There’s a price to be paid for everything.” And the but? There is none but Margie’s caveat above. You’ve a chance to begin manifesting your wishes. It’s time to balance the scales of money versus freedom in time for October. Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 5th and 11th houses. Lovers, Chilun, and Creative Ting are under Eclipse Numero Uno on the 7th. It’s time for you to call the shots, to decide to stick or twist. By the 22nd however, it seems others have hold of the joystick and partners of a lovin’ or bizniz nature are in the driving seat of your wishes, friendships, and networks pushing you out of your comfort zone and into new territory. How to play it? Be cool, be wise and grin like the Cheshire cat.

Libra
Money’s in the frame. Watch Tuesday for a surprise boost to your hillock of groats. Watch too for a knee-jerk spending spree or a deadline on a hefty credit card bill. Mars is doing his last week in your zone of big cash money and 11th hour cashflow upsy downsies are par for the course. You’re still in the on-going cold shower of karmic cleansing but Thursday and Friday this week bring reminders of how much good this is doing you, and how what’s getting worked out inside is beginning to manifest out here in the world. Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 4th and 10th houses. It’s time to sit up and realise that you are Not Your Parents and that they are Not You. They may have their ideas for what ‘success’ and ‘family’ mean, and they’re entitled to them, but the Moon sez you gat your own ideas Daddio. Whose life ya living? Changes around home and habits are needed this week. Don’t be afraid of saying so.

Scorpio
Rows and/or burning passion with a close one-to-onesie are more likely this week, Scorp, as Mars is left in charge of your relationship zone. It’s a week-long stay so try and focus your energies on mekkin Money. Thursday and Friday bring a boost in confidence. News from friends overseas or chances to make money by pursuing your dreams lift your spirits. What’s more, you’re feeling confident enough to Talk About It. Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 3rd and 9th houses. Suddenly the World seems eversomuch closer and your wish to Be Heard, becomes eversomuch dearer. This week watch for getting emotionally ragged with friends and screeching with impatience if your dreams hit a ding in the road. Doors close so that you move along the corridor... The solar eclipse of the 22nd heralds a new sense of raa concerning overseas, publishing, and broadcasting forays, perticalerly those involving lovers, chilun, and creative ventures.

Sagittarius
Oobah love stuff is coming your way, Archer. Venus has glided into your 7th house of one-to-onesies bringing poetry and frilly nighties. Next week Mars lands here too bringing tangos and passion. Try and clear your in-tray this week to make time for such a glorious lovelife… News of a boost to money seems due on the career front Thursday and Friday backing up the news of Tuesday’s eclipse. Don’t spend it til you’ve got it! Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 2nd and 8th houses meaning Cash, Money, Lettuce are under the cosmic spotlight. A salary or raise could be on the cards this week thanks to boss figures looking favourably upon you. By the 22nd it’s loans and credit cards in the frame. Mortgages could come through unexpectedly at this point as Uranus hooks up to the Solar Eclipse. Alternatively, big bills could be brewing at Archer Towers.

Capricorn
An interesting week, Goatee. There seems to be commitments being made to overseas bizniz partners, or overseas lovers, (oobah oobah), and with Mars hovering around in your 5th house of fun for a final week there’s passion to be had – if you can avoid a goring row with your squeeze on Monday. Gains are coming on the work front, Goat. Venus has just moved into your Office making your work-a-day world a pleasant place to be. From next week though, Mars joins her and it’s action stations and Push Push Push all the way. Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 1st and 7th houses ie your relationship axis and your choice of mirrors… As emotions rise, watch out for brandishing a finger at others. Take the log out of your own eye eye before you cock a snook at the twig in another’s eye eye, as the song goes. (Or something like it.) Relationships that are limping along may fall away now. See it as a chance to surround yourself with healthier more appropriate contemporaries in future.

Aquarius
Rows at home or with family are brewing Monday, remember your on-going lesson about speaking with calm assertion rather than spitting vitriol? And proceed… Aside from that it’s a curvaceous week. Venus is sliding into your 5th house of fun bringing joy and frilliness to love affairs, chilun, and creative projects. Then Thursday and Friday work and income hook up. Signing lucrative contracts with Corporations for Regular Work are starred. Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 6th and 12th houses. Health, work and your zone of Meep! are linked. There’s a fantastic book called The Healing Power of Illness which discusses how physical illness is a manifestation of internal emotional/spiritual dis-ease – ie Mind over Matter. Take that philosophy to the Office and where you’re feeling underpaid and underappreciated see it as a symptom of how You See You. It’s time to project What You’re Worth. Addressing a fear that arises this week can lead to all sorts of external boons come the 22nd.

Pisces
Rows are likely on Monday. You’re growing ill-tempered as others refuse to accept your opinion, perticalerly where money’s concerned. Try and find solace at home. Thursday and Friday partners and commitments are in the frame. Lovers, creative projects, and plans with or for children have the backing of authority figures or support from your current partnerships. Me Go Lunar Gaga: The July Eclipses of 7th and 22nd fall across your 5th and 11th houses. On the 7th you sense that a lovin or bizniz partner could form part of a deep-seated dream you’ve been exploring. Oobah? Or Kerching? By the 22nd you know that lovers, chilun, and creative ting are going to help push along the changes in you you’ve been working on for the past six years. Look how far you’ve come, how wide your comfort zone has expanded.