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April 2010 Horoscopes

2010-04-01T00:43:00.006+01:00

While it’s not exactly the champagne truffles tray at Fortnum & Mason’s, April’s outlook is far far sweeter than March’s (wasn’t it a shocker?). Energy returns for most and while it’s a bit stop-starty (Saturn slides back into Virgo, and both Pluto and Mercury go retro) there’s a sense of Going Over Old Ground to lay firmer foundations for a Better Future. BIG changes are coming from May through to July thanks to wappy Uranus hoofing into Aries after seven years in Pisces, plus the eclipses. (Those bleepers’ll have you if you’re not nailed down.) Motto of the month: Get your ducks in a row, your ordnance survey map the right way up, and prepare to make tracks to that shiny horizon you’ve been a-hankering for…

And so, friends, I must do likewise. THANK YOU for all your well-wishing emails. You’re lovely you are. Here’s A Big Stroke of Luck to you too. There will be other Tatty blogs acomin if you want to stay tuned, not astro-flavoured, more wanderlust and adventure. News of them will be posted here at the beginning of May.

As is my monthly wont, I’ve picked a pretty toon. This one is for the seekers in us all, vagabond spirits, soul mates, adventurers! Hope your onward journey is a delight, peeps, filled with happy times. This is your middle-class gypsy signing off for now,

Port out!

Ahoy, it’s the delightfully dippy POSH from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzEWodlTFq0

Aries
Liberty, Ram, not as in ‘you’re taking a liberty my son!’ but as in fighting for your freedom, and we’re talking from the day job and from work stresses. The New Moon of the 14th is yours, your only one this year, so by the 16th it’s crucial that you begin to make the adjustments necessary to cut yourself lose. Adventures, the like of which you’ve never experienced, are heading your way from next month. Expect to make a push around the 26th April that hurts (severing job ties, or paying for the stress with health problems) and then making some sort of financial ‘sacrifice’ around the Full Moon of the 28th. Paying off debts, perticalerly home-related ones, is starred. All month money is in the frame and yes you should be quids in. However as Mercury retrogrades in your finances in-tray on the 18th delays in cheques arriving and mix ups at the bank are likely. Sign nothing from 16th – 19th April and check everything’s where it should be after May 12th. Watch your temper: 3rd and 5th. Love gets prettier: in May.

Taurus
Two out of three aint bad, Bull, and by that I mean Venus is with you already and Mercury will be with you come Saturday… The Sun will be along a little later (the 21st). From NOW it’s time to ask questions, seek answers, Be Direct on love and money issues that have been ignored. The Sun’s absence suggests that what’s missing is a sense of peace at home (watch the 3rd and 5th for tense moments). Getting away could be just the ticket and holeedays taken after the 7th should give you time to reflect. The stoppy-starty thing mentioned at the top of the show affects you directly. Negotiations vz money, lovers, chilun, and creative ting are cosmically scheduled for you 18 April – 12 May. Changes are needed so you have the space and time to address work or health (stress) related issues – and are free to embrace the forthcoming summer bonanzas. Your at-a-glance April timetable: Energy dips around the 12th. Lie down. Begin negotiations after the 15th. Energy surges after 21st. Work/health clashes with your Dreams Big Time: 26th (why do you keep getting caught out like that?) Full Moon at month’s end is an emotional peak with one-to-onesies: 28th. Love is good: potentially all month.

Gemini
April 2010 may not go down as your favourite month on record, but it is a month in which some inner adventures and wandering will pay dividends later. What’s ado for you is the tip toeing of Venus and then your stupendous ruler, Mercury, into your 12th house of Meep! Single Geminis are on retreat and camping out behind a forced smile. After the 18th your ruler heads backwards ho into the shadows of your fabalas head, and all Geminis get tongue-tied. It’s time to review how you speak – and when you speak where you speak from (and I don’t mean the larynx). Mars is telling you to PUSH harder verbally, watch the 3rd and the 5th… but this is fear. Mm,hmm, tis. Yes it is. Yes it is. If you’re still carrying a critical parent on your shoulder, maybe it’s time to tell them to get off. Eureka moment due: 12 May. Before then, your annual wishing moon lands: 14 April. Homelife/mortgages need attention: 26th. Work or health issues can’t wait: 28th. Lovelife outlook: unrequited?

Cancer
The summer eclipses are yours, Crab and being an intuitive creature you’ll already be sensing where you want to head to next. What’s imminent (in May) is a feeling that the foreign/studious/philosophical fairground ride you’ve been negotiating for the past seven years is really going to take you somewhere exciting and worthwhile, if unexpected. Uranus in your success zone urges you to be open to deviating off the beaten track. Stout boots and a hip flask, what? I’m telling you this now because preparation is Key. The bulk of April is about your friends, reconnecting with those you’ve waylaid, recognising your confidence grow thanks to the love and goodwill and support of your family of friends. Friends could become lovers under these stars too (watch the electricity around the 28th of the month), just be sure it’s a match based on equality. What you will need to watch is tension rising around the 26th. Lovers and your big shiny future may require a balancing act. Love this month: within the familiar.

Leo
Mars’s on-going roar through your 1st house of you is giving you pace and drive, bebe. Go easy on colleagues who seem to blunder into your path on the 3rd and the 5th; maybe they’re being obstreperous simply because you’ve been too pushy of late? For you April is about (a) foreign dreams and life expansion and (b) Career and Success. A holiday in a desert planning a camel-training school followed by souvenir gifts to keep the minions on side would be top choice, what? The one literal Fly in this martini, is Mercury’s uiiee from 18 April until 12 May. This can be as breezy and opportunistic as an old job offer returning – or as irritating as having to re-write the annual report. Either way, see it as feathering your nest for the future and address it with a smile. Finally for now, money issues rear up on 26 April. Big bills surprise you. The Full Moon two days later is in your home and family zone. Time to postpone the plunge pool/cut the kids’ allowance? Lovelife in April: Not clear cut.

Virgo
A month with a foreign, retro flavour that goes out with a parting salvo… Job number one this month is to tie up finances. In fact, stop reading this and hop to it NOW! The Sun is bringing insight and purpose and Saturn is giving you staying power until the 8th to get cashola ting sorted. After that, the urge to spend rises. Across town, and your focus is diverted by foreign/studious/philosophical pursuits. Venus and your ruler Mercury are in the ‘big-mind-expanding’ 9th house already – the Sun will join them from the 21st too. With all this fabalas energy gathering, Mercury picks this moment to head backwards, as he does from the 18th… A foreign/studious/philosophical pursuit from the past returns, or a foreign/ studious/philosophical idea needs a re-think. Either way, if you take the time to be diligent now, it’ll pave the way for creative success and expansion. Partners may unexpectedly refuse to join you by the poolside (26th) and there may be sore words/travel hiccups around (28th), but make your creative wishes your Number One priority and pursue them with gusto now. The next four months promise take off for the brave-hearted. April Lovelife: Unexpected objections may off-set unexpected delights. Uranius-tastic, as per.

Libra
There’s a niggling feeling that you haven’t quite grown into your new skin yet, that the work/day-to-day pressures you took on in a moment of confident madness are too great. Firstly, yes, the pressures are great. Secondly, you’re doing better than you think. Jupiter sez you can do it, and he’s a cheery cheerleader who’s taking on some of the burden – so you can! Across town energy’s gathering in your 8th house of transformation, letting go, and Big Money. The tax year endeth and it’s time to balance the books. More than that, it’s a time to go carefully out into the world with your credit cards. Money meltdowns are possible now (watch 3rd and 5th and 28th). For coupled up Librans, this 8th house emphasis says (a) love good: you’ll be feeling the intimacy, and feeling more like sharing your inner vulnerable side or (b) love not so good: you’re in negotiations to transform/end a current liaison. Negotiations will be protracted. Take time out now and again. This has to continue until at least 12 May. On the 26th fear/exhaustion bring work issues to a crescendo. With a money crunch likely on the 28th take a financial audit before jumping ship. Love this month: good and getting deeper or O-V-E-R.

Scorpio
While the sun’s bringing vitality to health and your work-a-day world, Venus and Mercury are bringing issues of partnership, love, and equality to your other waking moments. Mercury’s uuiiee here from the 18th suggests that there are still some stones unturned where a close one-to-onesie is concerned and your place at their side (and theirs at yours) will become something of a Fixation after the 21st. Ask questions, spill the beans, but expect the conversation to continue unfolding until at least 12 May. Venus suggests it’s a loving one-to-onesie. For some Scorps, money negotiations will be the soup du jour, and as there’s a New Moon in your 6th house of work on the 14th, if it’s about money honey, begin talky talky after then. By the last week of the month, take some time out for You. The Saturn/Uranus spat brings up unexpected difficulties around homelife or vz creative ting/lovers/and chilun. You’re heading into your annual Scorpio Full Moon so will be Feeling the Emotional Ripples harder. Love for April: potentially ridiculously beauteous.

Sagittarius
There’s joy in abundance with chilun, lovers, and creativity for the first three weeks of the month. Be sure to let these delights in your life flourish, especially around the New Moon of the 14th. Simultaneously Venus and Mercury are lighting up your 6th house of work and health. These are generally omens of news, glad tidings, and even enjoying the 9 – 5, and they are, just watch for responsibilities at the office clashing with your holiday plans around the 3rd & 5th. Mercury retrogrades here from 18 April – 12 May and old work projects may need unpacking and re-doing. On a happier tip, old job offers may pop up again. Time to reconsider? For some Archers, old health niggles can resurface around now too. If you’re heading for a medical check up DON’T schedule 16 – 19 April or 10 - 14 May. Choose before or after these dates. What’s important to remember is that all news won’t be in until after the 12 May. The month ends on a note of transformation. On the 26th, two days before your 12th house Full Moon MEEP!, surprising conversations about money and/or homelife are starred. Forewarned is forearmed. Prepare now where you know you need to! Lovelife now: light and fluffy, but future-oriented...

Capricorn
The summer eclipses are heading your way, Goat, with irrevocable changes to You, those you keep close, and your homelife. There’s a Gateway you need to pass through to reach those shiny, distant places and now is the time to Prepare. In the coming weeks Venus and Mercury are gracing your 5th house of lovers, chilun, and creative expression. Mercury’s uiie here from 18 April – 12 May suggests to this ‘ere astrologer that part of your preparation work is negotiating the way you ‘relate’ to lovers, chilun, and yourself so that the summer changes go well. Understanding your motivations and needs, and irritating habits, accepting these things so that you become less grouchy and so much easier to rub along with is your soup d’Avril, Goat. By the 26th when your future plans get upended by an offer, you need to be At One with beauty and purpose. Money can only ever be a fraction of the whole, friend. Lovelife in April: The time is now! Love right now! Share, speak, care right now!

Aquarius
Home-fires and family reunions is where it’s at, Airy. Venus says being at home is where you Most Want to Be, decorating, spending, idling. Mercury here suggests that any socialising will be done at Airy Inventive Towers rather than out on the town. Lovers may have something to say about this. Watch potential cross words around the 3rd and 5th. Mercury’s uiiee from 18 April – 12 May augurs in some re-negotiating vz home/ family finances and getting any wonga creases ironed out. Sign nada close to these two dates, especially any Aquariuses buying or renting a new mudhut, and be prepared to wait until after 12 May for any new plans/contracts to get the all clear. On a happier note, Mercury’s uiee suggests old family members will be back in touch and coming to stay. Venus and the Sun imply you’ll be happy about this. Phew. The Big Cosmic 'Biggy' lands like a meteor at month’s end, on the 26th. Saturn and Uranus oppose one another and revolution is in the air. It’s the same configuration as when fellow Aquarian Barak Obama won the election. It’s time to stand up and be counted, to make a difference to your home patch and the world. Loving feeling this month: warm but growing irascible later.

Pisces
Enormous changes continue, Fish, and like a spoke in a wheel you’ll feel yourself riding along with them. Soon those changes will involve money – both your daily crust as well as credit cards, mortgages, and savings. From next month the emphasis will shift to safety and the long-view to off-set uncertainty in the short-term. Start your plans from the New Moon of 14th April. Ah, yes, back to April and there’s contact with bros and sisses, there are jaunts out of town, and good times with a Community Spirit. The one spanner in the works is Mercury who retrogrades in this zone on the 18th. Travel plans around that date are likely to go awry; expect delays and flat tyres especially on 16th – 17th – and be sure to back up all computers etc and whatnot. He’s up to his old tricks slap bang in the middle of your zone of communications. Calls get missed, letters go astray yadaada, yadaada. Business Fish plan big mail shots after 12 May! Finally the month ends with two cosmic crescendos. On the 26th partners pull unexpected stunts or friends’ actions unnerve you. With a Full Moon landing two days later, you may feel like running for a sunny coast to get away from it all. Love this month: responsible, possibly burdensome at times.

March 24 : Sun & Pluto Square (dance)

2010-03-24T02:25:00.002Z

As promised a quickie one-liner style horoscope to give you a hand ‘neath your elbow should you need it in the coming 36 hours. The Sun / Pluto square cometh on Thursday. This spat happens twice a year but after the relentless rush of hot and jangly energy this month in this corner of the sky, and the brewing Libran Full Moon (which lands on Tuesday and also squares Pluto), this is no astroscape to be taken lightly. The Sun, aka our inner (happy) ego is at loggerheads with Pluto, he of Transformation and Truth ‘Fame’. Where you been zoomin’ yourself girlfriend, ‘stime for a Reality Check. Hmm,mmm.

April monthlies here on the 1st. Go Placidly amidst the noise and whatnot, and take time out for tea and buns, something or some such or other...

Aries
Where you’ve been settling for second best vz lovers and creative ting, or drifting vz the bebe question, you’re getting the feeling the egg timer’s drained and the smoke-screen has run its course. Success in these areas takes gumption, so Gump.

Taurus
Dreams, long-range plans, ambitions to study or travel, and be published or broadcast are TANGIBLE, Long-lashes. See the old ingrained fears that are banging on about you not being good enough, as tumble weed. Then douse them in hairspray and nuke the bleepers. Work projects finish at the time of the Full Moon and then there’s new space.

Gemini
Your wish to speak/present and expand your merit in your community patch requires a quid pro quo. You need to clear the path of detritus aka old habits, the lowered expectations brought on by old war wounds, addictions. No not easy. So talk to friends. Ask for help.

Cancer
How well you’re doing can be answered most often by looking in the mirror, aka the mirror of those closest to you – lovers, bidniz folks… You’ll notice that their shininess and wealth figure on your list of Good Qualities right now. Ah. That’s new! You’re grappling with this, and that’s good. Re-evaluation saves you from boredom.

Leo
Your focus on foreign shores, study, the stage is being stymied by Work and Health. It’s time that the should-tos and ought-not-tos you’ve been carrying with you since birth were consigned to the skip, Pussy Cat. The long haul is where it’s at. Time to change your day to day so you can get there.

Virgo
Taking a spot in the limelight is not your first thought when getting out of bed in the morning. Yet it seems that creative adventures, squeezies, or even activities with children are conspiring to put you on show. You’ve a brilliant mind. If you get scared, tell them, all of those upturned apple-cheeks watching you in awe. We’ll love you more for your humility.

Libra
The on-going need to Make Changes to your home-life or your relationships with family members is reaching a crescendo. Next week’s Full Moon is yours and you’ll be ready to lash out/melt down/break away, or sob. This week, if lovers don’t deserve the sharp side of your tongue, give them ice cream or winter-flowering pansies instead.

Scorpio
Watch out for the physical drain of commuting taking its toll this week. A job closer to home is going to feel so much more appealing. Watch out too for your frustrations with your own tongue-tiedness being reflected at work colleagues. If they seem more successfully communicative than you, then see them as a teacher not a gloater.

Sagittarius
Headaches about money are getting exasperated by dealings with chilun and lovers. Lovers want holidays. Children want school uniforms or University loans from the family money-tree. Always one for a new adventure, you could just try saying no for a change.

Capricorn
Your deep personal transformation continues with a cosmic reminder to leave your family’s stuff where it belongs, in the back of the station wagon your dad sold when you were 6 and which you haven’t seen since. Imagine it’s been scrapped or melted down into bed pans. Either way, you’re relieved.

Aquarius
You need to speak up, to say something to connect more deeply with a close one-to-onesie (likely lover, could be a bizniz link though) - and yet to do so is to lay yourself bare before a barrage of pointy-beaked ravens… But if you don’t? What then? Yes life’s hard… but as a wise woman once said, “Compared to what?”

Pisces
Money and your Big Dreams don’t quite hit it off this week. They will though; they’re for the long haul so they have to. Now may be the time to keep the money coming in rather than gambling it on a whim. See what next week’s Full Moon brings, then decide whether to place your bets.

21 March 2010

2010-03-21T21:52:00.007Z

Peeps,

There's only one way to say this, so here it comes... Astroducky needs to wind down. This week I'm packing my life in to a box (and a friend's wardrobe and an aunt's loft) and then I'm gypsy-ing for 6 months... Marrakech, then Milan, then who knows... The responsibility of being here at 00:00 hrs every Sunday night / Monday morn has been such a privilege - I can't tell you how great/purposeful/important these past two years have felt for that reason. But as from now I need to look at the other reponsibilities that are bubbling up.

Sorry it's so sudden. I'm a CFS personage and the energy here has plunged in the last few days so it's time to stop what I can. If you're feeling starved this week I recommend the brilliant http://karmastars.wordpress.com/ and for monthlies, http://www.thecrackmagazine.com/index.php?section=1&category=6

This week the hard days are today (mmhmm) as the Sun opposes Saturn - responsibilities take their toll (?!!) and Thursday when the Sun squares Pluto. This is pride and fear - how one blocks the release of the other - and so the joy and fun and laugter and lightness cannot be realised. Tuesday Mars and Saturn make nice - if you can align your ego with authority figures and find a common thread/goal then Progress can be Made. [There'll be a quickie run down here by Wednesday to give you a heads up of Sun square Pluto by sign. April monthlies ++ will be with you by April 1st.]

Ducky was talking to someone recently about fear, and how episodes/moments in life can feel like the first visit to an ice rink - how we cling to the edge, how we're afraid to fall or get hurt. Sun square Pluto is a call for us all to find a way beyond our pride - and to ask for help so we can leave the edge, and sail down the middle of the ice confident about the way ahead as A...

I remember watching this performance live at the time and being awestruck. I marvelled at the way he twirls her in the moments just before the end - the trust! The strength of heart! The practice!

Pride to one side, people. It's time to ask for help so you can (metaphorically) accomplish this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zbbN4OL98

Have a safe few days.

Sorry to be leaving you soon.

Tatty xx

This week

2010-03-15T00:32:00.003Z

The switch in energy is coming. The under-the-weather-itis that we’re afflicted with perks up after Monday evening’s New Moon. Tuesday brings a final Uranian bolt from the blue and then it’s all about the Urge To Push Forwards - and the other end of the see saw - the Need to Take Stock. The weekend brings Truth to the table. Set her a place. What she has to say is Very Important.

Aries
Come Saturday, the energy is back onside after a year of gradually running out. What seems incredibly important for you is to use it to Set the Record Straight. Transformation and Becoming Who You Really Are are absolutely your soup du jour and after nigh on seven years of feeling unable to steer your own ship, you can almost feel the wheel beneath your fingers. A few weeks… Just a few short weeks to go… Right now the very best you can do is look at where your health/work commitments are a Picture of where you’ve been taking the strain. As the energy comes back, you get to play a part in balancing those see saws.

Taurus
You may be feeling flat as a biscuit but hold your course just 24 hours more. The New Moon tomorrow eve at 9pm GMT is your annual Wishing Moon, it’s time to recommit to YOU so Take a Moment to Concentrate on the Things That Matter and where you’d like to be 12 months from now. Sparkly things could land as soon as Tuesday when the Sun meets planet of Surprise Surprise, Uranus, in this same zone. Conversely if a friend acts out of character, try and recognise that your watch word right now is Freedom; so you can play that card if you need to. Come the weekend it’s the start of your annual four-week energy low. Work may mean you can't retire to your bed 24/7 but take a note from nursey, strive to book a few extra Zzs in your schedule right now. PJs, hot choc, a good book... ‘Taint so bad, Bull.

Gemini
Monday’s New Moon signals a restart to your Career and an ideal time to launch a New Plan. What follows – the linkage of Uranus to the Sun – suggests that your words have the power to Take You Far so push ahead early doors this week. What is essential to remember is that the eclectic moments from Monday to Wednesday need time to percolate. Don’t bank on anything until time has shown its merit. This week’s big challenges pit your wishes/friendships against your lovers/creative projects. Your clues are to remember, honestly, amidst some of the discomfort, the transformations you need to make... When you are clear where you are now and where you want to be, get ready to discard the things in your way and move towards the changes that will make you All You Want To Be. Huzzah!

Cancer
There’s a nagging doubt in your waters at the moment that the dreams you have for overseas/studious/long-range plans are about to go swishing down the pan without a by-your-leave. Oh no no, Crab! The Dark of the Moon has had you cowering and blue – however, Monday night’s New Moon will give your confidence a shot to the arm by Wednesday. Changes may be needed – money being one of the Big factors – but ideas are coming. What you need to balance is your Career/Sense of Success (whatever that means to you) and an overwhelming sense of responsibility for home and family, partners and children. Teamwork can bring answers. Schedule meetings for next month.

Leo
With the Fire in your Engine on Red Hot you’ll be keen to push ahead with all your future plans. Those who stand in your way this week are going to feel the heat of your breath right up close and personal. Be sure to floss, eh. There are two things that need to be considered in all your Pushing Ahead. (a) Money. You need a plan and a new approach. Surprises early this week could be in your favour or require A New Plan. (b) You need to explain and reassure others, perticalerly work colleagues, exactly why what you’re doing is in no way related to them. With your big bold future zooming up to meet you, you can afford to be generous.

Virgo
Which are your most intense one-to-one relationships right now? If they’re of the lovin variety they’re focussing your attentions on intimacy/transformation; if they’re of a bidnizzy variety they’re focussing your attentions on transformation/cashola. For Virgos with intensity on all fronts, ahem, have a lie down once in a while, eh? Whatever the Focus, what you can draw from the current Cosmic Patterns is that Letting Go is a painful but liberating process. Whether you’re breaking up a relationship or taking the bold step to launch a new approach, or fighting to create a New Era of Compromise and Togetherness in your partnerships by removing some outdated habits/survival triggers you’re clearing space for Something Important to arrive. And it will. In just a matter of weeks. Monday night, Be Honest with yourself vz what you want from your one-to-onesies. Then be prepared to go for it, unflinchingly.

Libra
It may be hard to keep your mind on the day job while issues of relationship are gathering around your pretty ears. However, try hard to make an effort Monday – Wednesday to be 100% in the Office as surprises here early doors will need your full attention. In fact wear comfy shoes if you have them so you can turn on a dime if you need to. From Wednesday it’s time to feel the love – or the lack of it. Planets staking up in your 7th house of one-to-onesies means that finding/forging a healthy relationship is your soup du jour. Single Scales, you’ll be hunting out that balance most assiduously. Coupled up Librans, you’ll be wanting to re-balance the way Things Are. (Watch the weekend for simmering issues with home/family coming out for an airing!). Sweet words and opening your heart may feel scary, but don’t you want the same openness in return?

Scorpio
If you’ve been feeling a little blue about a love affair, creative idea, or child-related adventure, Monday evening’s New Moon and Tuesday’s Sun/Uranus taa daah should add some wind to your whistle. Even breakthroughs/unexpected news vz home and family could land. It’s Uranus in charge after all so Freedom and Surprise are the operative words. A big focus from Wednesday onwards is how what’s going on behind those peepers of yours is having a direct impact on you Work/Every Day life and your Health. In astrological charts your 12th house of mind/fear directly opposes your 6th house of health and daily life. Imbalance in one impacts directly on the other. If you’re feeling overwhelmed right now see a shrink, share with friends, talk things through with a boss/supportive figure. Clearing the Decks is easier with support.

Sagittarius
Hello Archer. What’s causing your current dis-ease is the Stop Start of lovers, chilun, and Creative Ventures. The Fire’s in your belly for shoooowaah and the Future is just there, right in front of your pretty nose, and then…. Problems with/vz Lovers who have Doubts, Career/Success responsibilities that are keeping you from the Fun, or with Children and issues with authority figures need addressing Now. Monday’s New Moon gives you a chance to get your home/family life back in order. New regimes can start to bed in by mid-week. From then on it’s a question of setting out to tackle one issue at a time en route to the future. On Friday/Saturday, that issue-tackling includes balancing cash spendsies.

Capricorn
Planets are beginning to congregate in your 4th house of Home and Family and for Goats redecoration, upheaval at your stumpy, or family get togethers are your soup du jour. You’ll be getting some deep feelings in your water that a lick of paint or a Mother’s Day card aren’t even a sniff of what approaches and you’re right. Wappy Uranus, who has had you commuting here there and everywhere to bring in the dough for the past 7 years, shifts into your home zone in a matter of weeks. Buying, moving, moving out, moving parents in, moving to be nearer family, buying the parents’ house… All this is on your list of Possibilities. What’s sure as sugar is that decisions will be based on making your money work for you. This week, Ma and Pa issues surface. Are you exchanging roles in some way, becoming the parent? Watch your temper at the weekend. If it gets stressful, ask yourself, what would a calm and loving parent do now?

Aquarius
Monday’s New Moon in your money house is important for two reasons. Firstly it’s your annual New Money Moon and gives you a cosmic signal to focus on the Income Column on your financial ledger as a Key Way of solving the problems in the Unavoidable Outgoings Column. Secondly, what’s extra, extra important this week is that this New Moon lands just as the Sun meets Uranus in your money box. It seems the answer to your Income Column involves a partnership dealio- and getting into bed with someone who balances out your business acumen with their sparkly sales flair. Don’t be put off or worry that you’re about to be relegated. Partnerships can be devised to suit both parties. Your goal is to negotiate, remind yourself what your long-term plans are, and then to play to your strengths; finding the solution that fits all, natch.

Pisces
Fishes feeling under par, hold tight! Tomorrow evening’s New Moon is your New Moon so your sense of purpose and direction and being able to see in the dark will grow stronger once again. Early doors this week, a lightning idea strikes vz work opportunities and it’s time to take a (calculated) risk. Money’s at the heart of this and you need to be sure that 1 + 1 = 2. The coming long-range currents suggest big changes to the way you earn money. Tentative steps can begin now. What may be necessary first is to either pay off existing debts before you can make the leap: or to hold fast to your course just a while longer to be sure the pay off you’ve been promised comes your way. Late spring/early Summer look favourite.

This week

2010-03-07T17:01:00.002Z

A mid-week focus this week as that’s where the planets are AT, people. Tuesday Venus opposes Saturn. Wednesday Mars turns to forwards action after three months sitting it out on the side lines. Thursday Venus squares Pluto. Lots of astrologers may tell you that things are going to be icky. And chances are, yes, there may be some ickiness/compromise/letting go necessary. The good news is that changes made around now can allow Good Stuff in… We’ll be feeling the waves of these planetary motions from early doors this week so ears pricked, up on your toes, get ready for the incoming.

See you next week. Go easy where you can. Everyone’s under the same cosh.

Aries
Tuesday: While you’re feeling a little frivolous and cheeky / and praps a little slapdash with the contents of your piggy bank, partners of a bizniz, lovin, or banking nature are more inclined to be wet blankets. While you may huff and tsk, he who pays the piper calls the tunes… Pay heed to the voices of Reason.
Wednesday: Your Ruler Mars goes forwards ho at last. Expect to be getting hot under the collar and under the bonnet, ooh er.
Thursday: The boardroom/ career ladder needs your attention. It may be time to change tack to get the attention you need.

Taurus
Tuesday: Other people are calling the shots, or so it seems. At work bosses are asking you to up your game to justify your pay packet. Lovers too are retreating/needing space/needing support. Friends are around in droves to cheer and support.
Wednesday: Delays at bully towers are over. Time to get the tennis courts in/the guttering fixed. Family feuds/ get togethers increase now.
Thursday: Something must out vz love and your big bold future. Now’s not the time to push your demands on close one to onesies. Let any flying dust settle and recount your chickens in three weeks

Gemini
Tuesday: Love/Finances and Commitment are due. There’s a compromise needed between what you wish for and what you can have. A change of perspective will soon sort that out. Light work for a nimble being like you.
Wednesday: Time to talky talky. Mars in your 3rd house is all about the chitty chat. Just watch your foot on the gas pedal while driving. This is THE configuration for speeding tickets.
Thursday: Pluto in your 8th house of Letting Go is stirring up uncomfortable changes. It’s about transformation. Sex and Big Money are the areas for focus. Time to give up one lover for another? Time to get your fiscal ducks in a row to make a dream come true.

Cancer
Tuesday: Partners/family are making demands at home and while you might like to keep things light, there’s a rites of passage you’ll miss if you do. Focus on where you want to be, emotionally, a year from now and see what stepping stones are presenting themselves.
Wednesday: Fire in your belly for earnsies and spendsies just got stoked. Bills are rising but so is your resolve to bring in the big bucks.
Thursday: Opportunities for transformation here too. Career success is coming at a price. Time to decide if it’s really such a high one to pay…

Leo
Tuesday: Discussions with boss figures may be growing curmudgeonly and intractable perticalerly vz your long-term, studious, or travelling plans. You need to keep them on side as money/savings become an issue after April.
Wednesday: At last, your hot air balloon has fire underneath it! Time to get motoring on those long-term, studious, travelling plans!
Thursday: Tuesday’s discussions reach an impasse, and now that the fire is with you, there may be only one route available. As per the March monthlies, if you can’t change something, then it may be time to get out.

Virgo
Tuesday: Money issues land and it’s a contract needs signing or a pay check coming in, or a financial agreement coming to a close. If the latter is true, planets are heading to your 8th house of Big Cash Money (mortgages/loans/savings). It’s time to focus on fiscal ducks and rows.
Wednesday: The little paranoid voice inside that pretty head of yours is going to get louder (who said that?)… While this may get distracting, it’s the PERFECT time to see how much your inner-critic has been hamstringing your life - and to make the necessary internal changes.
Thursday: The state of your spondoolies is curtailing stoodious and travelling plans. Your outgoings on chilun, love, creativity aren’t stacking up (or neither are the creative incomings). Time to right the balance of your lucre.

Libra
Tuesday: You’re wanting to get serious or thrash out contracts, but the partner in your sights (bizniz or lovin) seems coy and lightweight. Are you pushing too hard too fast for commitment?
Wednesday: As above, Mars’s move to direct ho means you’ll be pushing to get things the way you like it – and that includes wanting partners to Stand Up and Be Counted. Parties just got bawdy.
Thursday: Hmm… partners aren’t coming quietly. Home and family life are in the way. Do you need to wise up to redecorating the bedroom to keep partners happy? Or emotionally, are you churning out some inherited old habits of your dad’s that are preventing intimacy from being as easy as a hammock?

Scorpio
Tuesday: Work and money are calling for your attention – and in perticaler you want partners (lovin or bizniz) to be above board. What’s really going on is your need for external triggers to clear some old poop in you. You be above board. Partners will follow – or you can then move on.
Wednesday: Work projects that have stalled since mid-December just got a shot of adrenaline. Go GO GOO, Scorpio!
Thursday: Truth bombs land today concerning that hot potato that raised its ugly head on Tuesday. It’ll be harder to be really clear about what you feel today as your ruler is feeling irksome. Say what needs to be said, but closing the door could feel like a regret in the near future.

Sagittarius
Tuesday: Career may need to come first before romance and the kids, which isn’t pleasing anyone. It’s the money at stake that’s at the heart of this.
Wednesday: Hooray for Mars at full swing! Plans to travel, study, and get going on those big future dreams of yours just got a shot to the arm. What you dreamed about around your birthday and promised you’d do this year can start to come into being.
Thursday: Money. Love. Chilun. Fun. Mark them1 out of 4 giving 1 to the Most Important and 4 to the least important. Now, start adjusting your world so you get your 1 – 4 in the right order. Yes easier said than done. But still do-able.

Capricorn
Tuesday: Planets talking across your 4 – 10 houses axis often imply the on-going battle we have to incorporate the influences of our two parents in our One Body/Mind reality. You may be behaving a lot like your ma at the moment. Perhaps time to edge in some more paternal/ male-traits. Also the career ladder is taking a toll on homelife.
Wednesday: Focus is now on big cash money and other transformations, including your life in the bedroom. Your libido is likely to be higher. And so too your impatience with slothful lovers.
Thursday: Why are you resisting the paternal balance in your make up? Rows at home more likely at the mo. Nothing wrong with clearing the air, but just remember to check in now and again and ask yourself honestly, are you being a bully?

Aquarius
Tuesday: If there’s a transformation you need to make in your life, and something you need to let go of in particular, it’s time to open up and talk about it. Right now, a spiritual take on life or a new course of study could be The Thing to open your heart/mind.
Wednesday: Mars going direct in your 7th house means your close one to onesies just got demanding/horny/extra me-me-me.
Thursday: Time to have The Talk you’ve been dreading vz home/family/long-range plans. Why’s the Fear there? Still trying to control the outcome?!

Pisces
Tuesday: Income looks perky in the coming months so time to make it work for you. Apply for funding, commit to savings plans, apply for a mortgage etc. Mature approaches are supported by the cosmos now.
Wednesday: Work plans just got some fire in their rocket. Now’s no time to work as part of a team. You want to blaze your own trail after towing the line.
Thursday: Dreams and wishes cost money. Time to set your priorities or allow time to run its course.

This month

2010-02-28T23:37:00.002Z

March is something of a Cosmic fairground. There’s the ‘Surprise, Surprise’ Uranus Ride which Venus, Mercury, the New Moon, and the Sun all take in turn this month. Then they indulge in the Essential Cardinal Chute of 0 degrees Aries, the It’s a Knock Out clash with Saturn, and the Pluto Bumper Car Fiasco, (which is also – heads up - the ride of choice for the Libran Full Moon aria of the 30th). What I is saying, yeh, is dat Stuff is Going to Happen this March. Uranus = change, Saturn = constriction, Pluto = transformation. Put it together and it’s a month for following the mantra, ‘If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, get out.’ And finally, no, you won’t get by with sitting it out this month. Mars, the little fiery upstart, is heading forwards ho on the 11th after sulking in the tea tent since mid-December. Some wise soul once said, ‘Life is like a wild tiger. You can either lay down and let it put its paw on your head, or you can jump on its back and ride.’ Let’s be brave for each other! It’s off to the ticket booth, people. This is the Year of the Tiger, after all. Roooaarrarr. Meow?

Soundtrack to March. Well, it was verrrrry tempting to have The Eye of the Tiger by Survivor, and while I’m no pugilist it’s a cracking tune to motivate the cells, what? Here it is then… Adweeeaaaan… Adweeeeaaan!! Top work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS4giqtbRBM

Aries
Where you need to be Sweeping Things Aside is in your 12th house of Fear. The cosmos says the more you put into it (the clearance) the more you’ll get out of it (feeling good about You). Where this will immediately pay dividends is in your close one to onesies of a bizniz or lovin’ nature. Been afraid to Ask for what you Want or stand up to the Bullies? Been too afraid to wear the Trousers? Not anymore, Bub. The rumbles begin as early as Monday the 8th and gather energy after the 11th. It’s all out on the ropes after the 21st and at its emotional crescendo by the 30th. Roooooar! FYI Go easy, Tiger, around the 13th – 15th when energy is at an annual low and paranoia at an annual high. This week: A light goes on in the darkness come Thursday and you can see where a lovin’ one to onesie can help/hinder you further. By the weekend a secret flirtation or a desire for chilun motivates your aspic.

Taurus
Wishes and Friendships are your guidebooks to the cosmic fairground of March. With Uranus at the helm until the 17th internet, digital, community, friends and netwhoring are areas where progress can be made. But this is Uranus Territory, so don’t anticipate progress in an orderly fashion. Ideas and exchanges out of leftfield are on the cards. Expect the unexpected and strike on new dreams around the 16th. By the 21st it’s time to embark on your annual downtime. In the coming month Venus, Mercury, and then the Sun pass through your 12th house of Meep! And you begin to feel that the stability of a relationship/finances/homelife isn’t easy to nail to a wall. It’s a necessary appraisal. Far reaching changes are calling your name, Bull, and you may need to give up something now to let those changes in. Work, health, and daily responsibilities feel like they are standing in the way. These will be more on-side during April. This week: ‘Tastic work opportunity through friends due on Thursday and over next weekend. It’s time to transform how you see yourself and present yourself to the World. Big Money/commissions can be part of the deal. Foreign eesa goodya.

Gemini
Connections overseas or through study/teaching, are turning your success stellar in March. You’re capable of changing tack in a flash so when Opportunity Knocks on the 4th, 8th, 16th, and 17th you’ll have the answers and the questions you need to harness the changing winds. The 4th and 8th concern the success of a love affair or creative project and lovers that link up with work. The 16th – 17th are more cerebral and usher in an exchange of ideas to break out of old habits and well worn ruts. What’s getting in the way of all this blossoming energy is (a) a nagging sense that you can’t be responsible AND play like a child/have fun/laugh like a drain and (b) 8th house detritus – the past, old hurts, big money burdens. But this is You we’re talking about and as planets move into your zone of wishes, friendships, and networking from mid-month you’ll begin to find ideas and solutions. The eclipses at the end of June and mid-July herald a financial culmination. Get the begging letters out now! This week: Love and success link mid-week with an overseas/studenty/long-term flavour. You’re ready to talk about this more fully Sunday – Monday the 7th & 8th.

Cancer
Crabs setting up home abroad or moving to study and broaden their internal horizons have the cosmic winds beneath their wings right about now. A galaxy of rocks are bunching up in the skies which govern these areas and as they connect with maverick Uranus, surprise opportunities to belong, commune, film, and broadcast your adventures are There for the Taking. Let these adventures and opportunities spur your sense of Success into new directions. All month and in to April you may need to negotiate with authority figures (parents, immigration officers) and partners to get ahead – and they’ll be putting in some stiff opposition. What your decision will boil down to ultimately is Cash. Mars’s shift to forwards ho on the 11th means bills are set to rise. What’s undeniably true is that you’re on a mission Clawface, and June and July will bring in the sweeping changes. This week: Mid-week surprise support from friends gladdens you. At the weekend and Monday 8th, lucrative career opportunities knock, with a foreign/education flavour. Talk the Big Talk.

Leo
Big Money Lettuce is where your surprises and opportunities lie; but with Uranus throwing the dice the outcomes run from work bonuses to severance pay and mortgage hikes to lottery wins. The days to watch are 4th, 16th, 17th. For some Pussy Cats, offers of boudoir jollies are on the cards too with amorous friends/lovers sharing their fruity imagination. Texts this month could melt your mobile. From the 11th you’re roaring into action with Future Plans that stalled back in December. And as Venus, Mercury and the Sun slip into your zone of foreign connections, study, and travel these are places where you can be sure to make progress, especially from the 21st. With all this wanderlust/lust work responsibilities and the day to day will feel like a prison sentence. Watch out for snarling at co-workers on the 9th, 18th and 22nd. No-one likey a sour puss. This week: surprising money news lands mid-week. Debts may need paying off by June. At the weekend you rally financially. A down-to-earth friend with savvy and a calculator helps.

Virgo
The Uranus effect has been in charge of your 7th house of close one to onesies for years. While you may be hiding behind the couch on hearing that Uranus is in full force once more, please take note that Jupiter is now here too, and at last changes will be On Your Side even if they’re not Of Your Making. Stand out days for about turns with one-to-onesies for love and bizniz are: 4th, 16th, and 17th. Relationships that start on those days are going to be life-changing and unpredictable. Count on them further down the road once time has had a chance to show you what’s what; relationships are going to be a healthy challenge throughout the month. Two people = two truths and while you need to be sturdy in yours, you need to be mindful of Others’. The latter part of the month and April bring opportunities for transformation and letting go. Anything that goes will make room for something better. Money issues bubble up on the 9th, 18th and 22nd but Venus, Mercury, and the Sun head into your zone of Big Cash Lettuce this month too spurring you on to bag some juicy commissions and consolidate credit card bills and loans. This week: surprises and u-turns from lovers on Wednesday. Changes at home look good at the weekend.

Libra
The forthcoming gaga moments of delight and upheaval are due to the footfall of planets clicking with the wirey-haired maverick, Uranus. Dates to note for this about-change are the 4th, 16th and 17th when you, your notions of The Future, and your wishes for What’s Possible get something of a surge out of leftfield. Changes to your Working Life and Attitood to Health and Fitness are your starting points, and some Librans could be swept off their feet by a cutey at work. Look your doe-eyed best at the watercooler all month. Saturn in your sign will be curbing your enthusiasm for all this Potential, and Pluto in your home and family zone may leave you feeling like the weight of the world’s on your shoulders. The Good Stuff is happening, Libra, but it’s a wax on wax off situation-style-scenario. Brace yourself for the 1950s musical philosophising, but don’t forget to count the rainbows in between the sun and showers this month. This week: Big Change on the work front can be driven by you Wednesday/Thursday and Monday week. Aim high!

Scorpio
What’s clear as crystal clear water right now is that you have Some Utterly Gorgeous opportunities in store where bebes, squeezies, and launching your creative innards on the world are concerned. Throughout the month Uranus and Jupiter - surprise and expansion/chance - are yours and Scorpios everywhere will be procreating, dating, or launching innovative creative endeavours. Uranus sez things come out of leftfield and are New; Jupiter says you can run with this. Home changes can be triggered as a knock on effect and income can rise thanks to creative thinking. To sustain all this outward growth, you’re going to need to foster some root-growing action. Short cuts won’t work now. Feeling the Joy means taking on a grown up attitood and ‘fessing up to your deepest truths (aka deepest fears). The 12th, 20th and 26th are days to let your need for love and your quest for intimacy push your guard down. This week: about turns in love and creative whatsit on Thursday and next weekend. Creative approaches to work bring success Monday 8th.

Sagittarius
For you, Archer, the Uranian quelle surprise, is bringing unanticipated malarkey to your zone of home and family. On the 4th surprise visits from friends are likely and at mid-month significant others (partners, mothers) are dropping curveball actions. Jupiter’s presence and the mid-month New Moon suggest that changes vz home and family are ripe. The process/decision for instigating them maybe less straightforward, however. What’s ultra-pretty is that once homefires are attended to, your potential for funsises sky rockets this month. Flirtation, creative adventures, and endeavours with children are on the cards. What’s dampening your bonfire are dour-faced pals and cash. You are one for adventures at the drop of a hat. Be sure the dour-faced pals aren’t angels in disguise and that the plastic has some give in it before you disappear over the horizon. If all’s in good working order, the time to fly is after the 11th. This week: midweek friends drop in out of the blue at your mudhut. By the weekend partners and parents are supportive round the hearth. Sunday’s a great night for a house party.

Capricorn
Spontaneous out of town trips, car problems, and random bursts of verbosity and chatty revelation are all part of your fairground experience this March, Goat. While you’re one for being the steady eddy in the meltdown moments of those around you, this month you get a feeling in your waters that standing on the other side of the line might be good for the soul. Letting your guard down takes courage but you have it, even if you scream and shout first. The thing is, the screaming and shouting is a Big Clue that you’re scared. Once you recognise that, resistance drops, and taking the wild tiger to work instead of the bus becomes much more do-able. Resistance is futile: Tuesday 9th, Thursday 18th, and Monday 22nd. Goats wanting to get going on house changes and family get togethers, pencil dates after the 11th. The end of the month culminates in a Full Moon in your career zone. Get the annual reports and accounts started NOW! This week: You blurt feelings of love to a squeeze, Thursday, then fear you can’t see it through by Sunday. And so the madness of March begins!

Aquarius
The March Fairground Ride concerns your finances/possessions. Before you bury your head in a manual or run for office just to AVOID the sticky wicket of cash, money, lettuce, let me tell you that it’s not necessarily bad. Hot days of surprise Uranian action fall on the 4th, 16th and 17th. What this means, cosmically, are that these are you big days for Financial Surprises. The 4th links to home, the 16th to mortgages/loans/credit, the 17th to partnerships of a bizniz or lovin’ variety. It’s your ruler Uranus at the wheel so use your natural inventiveness to turn opportunities or challenges into lucre. Bear in mind that your long-term goals may need revising; holding on to them could be holding you back. (That goes too for foreign holiday plans right now.) While you like change, you sometimes like change for change’s sake. Transformation has to Transform the Old You. Partnerships gather energy after the 11th. Shouting is likely but so is oobah. This week: Spend money on Aquarius Towers, Thursday. Next weekend and Monday 8th, creative ideas/work bring in the cash.

Pisces
Although you are naturally capable of adapting to changing tides, events may surprise even you this month, perticalerly your Responses to them. On the 4th, 16th and 17th random inclinations are spurring you on. Love, homelife, and work are all up for leftfield Fish spontaneity and lovers moving in, moving out, and revolving doors on the day job are all possible. What’s holding you back is either (a) the past or (b) the spondoolies. Saturn is demanding that you scrub the poop deck vz lingering old heartaches or a bad spending history, so you can start afresh. As the month progresses your focus is on bank vaults and earnings and spendsies. Fishes seeking higher pay brackets should be right on the money after the 11th and your annual New Moon shot to the arm of the 15th. This week: Confessions of love gush out of your fabulous mouth on Thursday. Moving a honey in? Get the mudhut glistening by the weekend.

This Week

2010-02-21T23:04:00.003Z

Hello there. How was your week? Thank you for all e-s on last week's absence. Intensity Monday; beauty Tuesday certainly rang true for this human bean. How's about you? This week we’ve got some tasty astro picnics in the lead up to a rather fruitful Virgo Full Moon on Sunday afternoon GMT. On Tuesday, primal energy The Sun makes nice to Pluto, he of Truth, Demolition, and Transformation. If you’re keen to make Big Changes the Cosmos is giving you a helpful tailwind. Come the weekend, chatty Mercury hooks up with Neptune and Chiron. Healing conversations are yours for The Taking. If there are important words you want to spit out then don’t lose the moment. Platitudes are for woozies. Go gently, but get right down to the bottom of de Issue at Hand. Our Annual Virgo Full Moon on Sunday has a Jupiter conjunct Sun AND Pluto trine in the mix. Freedom from the past is a tangible option. Breathe it down to your toesies people!

March monthlies with you next Sunday. Have a Big Round Full Moon xxx

Aries
The mid-week window for transforming your wash links your zone of I’m A Success and your zone of Fear; time to put your head above the parapet, stand up and be counted, go for something you’ve wished so many times you’ve had the stones for. Et voila. Come the weekend your Mercury : Neptune : Chiron opportunity sez honesty knocks vz friends and wishes. Time to make amends? Then make ‘em but Zoom nobody, Holmes. It’s time to state those wishes in your heart with your guard down. New friendships started now have a cosmic ring about them. Give them time to come down to earth. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Stop Start in your office and medicine cabinet. Work projects culminate and spur you on to higher goals. Health test results should be pushing you forwards. A light goes on which sez as below, so above. What state of mind is contributing to your state of play in the office or doc’s surgery?

Taurus
You should be feeling buoyant, Bully, thanks to the cosmic line up in your netwhoring, friends, and wishes zone. Even more than that, the Sun and Pluto brunch on Tuesday pushes your Big Goals a step closer and notions for study, travel, publishing, and spiritual pursuits get a juicy cosmic fillip. Friends and close one to onesies are on side too. By the weekend it’s time to check the small print on career contracts. News coming now should thrill you, and could be a dream come true - but in all the glorious haze remember that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Check dem facts is all I is sayin’. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Intensity Central on creative projects, love affairs, and children. La Luna’s link to Pluto and Jupiter this year sez your love-life is getting shaken up BIG time. Venus is on side and Love should be Big and Bold and Transformative. Taurus love affairs ending now are opening doors to future rainbows and starry nights.

Gemini
Planets lining up in your 9th and 10th houses are putting the emphasis on (a) foreign, studious, publishing/broadcasting plans and (b) career. If you can marry those things together right now, Airy Friend, so much the better. Mid-week’s Sun and Pluto hook up says it’s time to tawk and the subject needs to be Money. There’s a huge on-going transformation happening in how you earn, spend, and are controlled by money. Conversations now are shining lights on new strands and new opportunities. Don’t be afraid to change direction (did I really say that to a Gemini?) By Saturday your winged ruler Mercury strikes up a yarn with Neptune and Chiron. This is inspiration and healing on warp factor 11 all with a foreign, studious, publishing/broadcasting connection. Just watch out for porkie pies. Neptune can obscure the blindingly obvious when he feels like it. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: Is your annual home and family emotional high. This year changes are on your mind, linked to finances and success. Is it time to move a lover in or move aged parents into nursing homes and release their equity? (Ask them first of course.) Is it time to change residence to get closer to the success you deserve?

Cancer
The Sun in your 9th house is casting your mind to foreign shores, teaching, studying, and spiritual adventures – and come Tuesday, lovers and close bidniz partners will be a Big Important part of the picture, whether that’s some overseas honey that you’re missing like billio or a damn fine commercial opportunity that could turn your future horizons upside down (err). The cowabunga moment comes next week. In the meantime, it’s time to talk lettuce. Finances are in the frame by the end of the week. Negotiating on big deals could go your way now but AVOID being too afraid to ask for what you really, really need. Your financial outgoings are due to escalate again from early March so you need to make strides now. Forewarned is forearmed. Bite down on any money offers. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is intensity central in your larynx. Now’s the time to state those future intentions and how they link up to love/bizniz partners.

Leo
The mid-week hook up between your ruler, the shiny Sun, and Pluto, he of the undergrowth, is a rather pretty sign that transformations in your work place are bringing in the lucre. Generally, we human beans rail against change, but when the rewards are rich-pickings, then hey nonny, we’re far more amenable. Yes you’re not firing on all cylinders at the mo – but energy will up within a fortnight... why not count your shekels if you’re feeling a little flat? Better, hmm? Come the weekend there are some rather pretty exchanges with loving or bizniz one to onesies. Lovin’ partners are on your side; bizniz partners have inspiring work and money ideas. Check all facts. Neptune’s in the mix, aka Mr Confusion, and he can make a right pig’s ear out of an egg salad. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual earned income kersplat. Either you have a money crisis and are prompted to go out and earn – or you get a tasty bonus or new job. The latter option looks more likely this year.

Virgo
You should be sensing that the energy that’s pushing you onwards right now is coming from some deep place you can’t quite point at. What’s everso true, though, is that it’s an expression of You as You are Today that’s coming to the surface. Tuesday and partnerships are really beginning to show their worth – whether that’s creative, loving, or bebe-makin’. By the weekend your ruler meets up with Neptune and Chiron in your 6th house of offices and medicine cabinets. Neptune = inspiration and poppycock, so if you’re uncertain of anything, then get it in writing. On a good tip, news can be spirit-lifting now. On the workfront, you’ve got the patter Virgo and could sell chocolate fireguards if you so wished. Go for it! Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Emotional High about you. La luna’s tawk with Pluto and Jupiter sez work or lovin’ relationships are bringing in those Big Changes you’ve been hankering for and paving the way for your Greatest Self-expression this lifetime… be it art, bebes, or love-mekkin. Awww lovely!

Libra
Whether you can put it into words or not, the cosmic fairydust mid-week is showing how your successes in the Real World are separating you from your family in that you’re now Accomplishing Things on your own terms. The terrible twos and our teenage years are obvious attempts to cut the apron strings. Current events should be bringing in a calmer and more satisfying sense of independence. For all Librans, opportunities to work from home or move nearer to the office are starred. By the weekend the Mercury, Neptune, Chiron get together docks in your 5th house of loving squeezies. If it’s time to make apologies, or have a second attempt at being Valentinesy, then you got it. Creative projects conceived under these stars are inspired. And tawk of bebes may be on the cards too. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: lands in your 12th house of Meep. Try not to get yourself run down or paranoid. Your wishes really are coming true. Whatever stress comes knocking, remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Scorpio
When your ruler Pluto meets the Sun on Tuesday, it’s a moment of awesomeness – conversations or news from lovers or about bebes are beauteous and life-changing. These are really important moments for love, creation, and expression, the like of which has never happened in your lifetime. Changes and advances and developments can happen themselves under these stars (watch next week for an example), but if you trust that the cosmos is steering you right, then now is the time to boldly go and all that jazz. By the weekend it’s news sharing time with home and family, and time to make decisions about what colour to paint the downstairs karzee. Sea-green sez Neptune. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is a time for celebrating with friends. Single Scorps - friends and social netwhoring could be turning out a few peaches for you to get to know better. Schwing. What’s more, creative projects are bringing in the oof. And kerching.

Sagittarius
Money and home link up on Tuesday, reiterating the cosmic forces this year which imply the moving or expansion of Archer Towers. This time, ideas for changing can be multicultural – whether that’s literally moving somewhere abroad, or bringing the world into your home with ethnic scatter rugs or Japanese tatami mats. The weekend brings visits from bros and sisses and inspired chinwaggy time. Read between the lines of those you pow wow with now. There may be issues they’re holding back on when they’d dearly love your support. Archers making out of town trips at the weekend could be in for a soul-affirming vacation. Just be sure to check travel times. Neptune in the mix can bring all sorts of bewilderment to the radar. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual career emotional high. Projects are culminating now, or you feel pushed to get one signed and sealed. Promotions could be due too for some Archers. Homelife is 10/10.

Capricorn
For you, Goat, the midweek Sun and Pluto blend is a chance for you to Speak Up for what really matters to you. Ducky has lectured you before about silencing the potential bully within since Pluto began steering your boat a year ago. Now is NO exception. A situation does need to change, you’re right, and talking about it is the way to do it, that’s for sure. In the moments of Discussion, try to remember the benefits to you in this process. Without That Situation, would you ever have believed you could be So Bold? By the weekend, earning opportunities look tasty. Remember to bite down on the money before signing. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Long-Range Planning call to action. Foreign shores appeal, as do study courses which broaden your horizons. Any legal issues should be settled quickly now while the tide is in your favour. Chats and weekend jaunts look heaven-sent.

Aquarius
With money as the current Big Focus in your wash, Inventive Brain, this week is set to bring some glad tidings. Tuesday’s hook up of Pluto and the Sun ushers in a need to stop Holding On to possessions and let things become fluid and mobile, a sort of de-cluttering of your inner world being manifested out in front of your nose. By the end of the week you’re on fire with your negotiating skills and it’s time to get the facts together where money and income are concerned. Things may be better than you’d hoped, but just be sure as sugar that you check before you cheque; Neptune can bring chaos. See what’s really there on the ledger sheet, not just what you want to see. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon is your annual emotional crisis point on the Big Money issues in life – mortgages, loans, savings, pay offs. This year, however, Jupiter and Pluto are making it emotional high good not emotional high bad. Remember, it’s time to stop holding on and to initiate your own successful, transformation.

Pisces
These are glorious days Fish, when things in the tank should be idyllic. Tuesday’s link between the Sun and Pluto should be bringing your closest wishes/friends right up close and personal. Likewise Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon, normally an annual emotional crisis point with close one to onesies of a lovin or bizniz nature, brings emotional highs of a joyous nature, and re-jigs the glories of Tuesday with feelings of love for children, creative outpourings, and squeezies. Fishes saying arrivederci to lovers now know they are heading upstream towards much more fruitful waters. Optimism be thine warm current. The one, steady eddy this week is Saturday’s link with Mercury, Neptune (your ruler), and Chiron in your 12th house of Meep! There are doubts in your mind. Things can’t really be as good as they seem, can they? Pinch yourself hard, or get someone cute to pinch you instead. The truth hurts! See what I did there, ahaha!!

Absent without leave

2010-02-14T22:33:00.005Z

Dear Doing-Its,

There are no horoscopes this week. After two computers malfunctionned, the server clogged up for three days, and my mobile karked it, it came to be Sunday night and I had a choice... to spend four hours writing the blog and hope that technology would be an ally this time, or to spend the evening with a lovely Frenchman... in France. And I chose France. It is Valentines night, forgive me.

Back next week. Have a safe week out there. Try to enjoy the intensity of Monday and the beauty of Tuesday xx

This Week

2010-02-07T23:21:00.003Z

A busy, busy week earthlings in the run up to the man-made, card-selling phenomenon of Valentine’s Day. While the planets don’t normally give a rat’s patootie what we want from the 14th of February, this year there’s something of a coinkidink and Valentine’s Day chimes with some p-a-ritt-ee feelgood cosmic action. A New Moon… Venus and Jupiter in fluffy, communing Pisces… plus some Hot Commitment Action thanks to tasty hook ups from celestial lovers Venus and Mars to Pluto and Saturn respectively. No, you’re right, this action can’t fall in everyone’s zone of true love… but it can and will give us all a shake up in the eternal human-bean quest for Love and Happiness. In other news: keep your bullcheese radar on high Monday this week and next. Venus and then the Sun cosy up to Neptune. This can mean dweaminess and soulmate love-stuff, or it can mean downright deception and having your head ducked under the briny. Just be sure you aren’t the one churning out the porky pies.

Have a fantastic New Moon on Sunday - and welcome to the Chinese Year of the Tiger! GGGGrRRrrrrrr xx

Aries
The week begins with the hook up of Venus and Neptune in you 11th house of wishes and friendships. This is eyes-meeting-across-a-paddleboat central, but can also be a cosmic version of beer goggles making you mistakenly think that a friend can be so much more. Stay awake at the wheel, Ramface. It’s also a time when friendships can prove deeper than you’d previously thought. From Friday through to Monday partners come under the spotlight. There’ll be some Rams weighing up whether a current squeeze has legs (if you see what I’m saying). For others, big deep talks with the current beau prove how solid you are with each other. (Or if you’re not.) Planning a family from the Spring figures too. Time to book the stork? Sunday’s New Moon: is your annual wishing moon. Make a wish for your future. Turn over a new leaf where friendships and networking are concerned.

Taurus
Monday lands and it’s time to get a Matter of Success clear in your head. Neptune’s commune with Venus, your ruler, suggests that dreaming and reaching for the stars is absolutely the soup du jour. Good news on the career front is due today just be sure to check the small print. Mercury heads into your success zone by midweek bringing money/creative greenlights/a lover; delete as appropriate. Around the same time Venus sashays into your 11th house of wishes, friendships and netwhoring. It’s party time! Venus is due to meet Jupiter here next week, so if your meal for two is delayed until Tuesday 16th, don’t you worry a jot! On Friday and through the weekend hardwork gets rewarded – but there are clashes with Who You Want to Be and home and family. Stand firm. Pluto in your zone of future plans means the Truth = Overhauls. Sunday’s New Moon: Go GO GOO for Gold. It’s your annual Career and Success Moon. Repeat three times a day before meals: Settling for Second Best is no good at all.

Gemini
It’s all about the big tomorrow, Airy One. The week’s activity is lighting up your 9th house of future, travel, publishing, studying, and long-haul plans. On Monday there’s a love/creative link here – lovers overseas, creative night-school classes… By midweek, when your ruler Mercury zips into this sector, you’ll be ready to launch a Big Future Something connected to these 9th house tings. Prepare to negotiate Thursday through to next Monday when conversations on commitment kick up issues that need settling. The proof will be in the eating come April, but right now and in the coming weeks, your success is guaranteed – as long as your feet remain on solid ground (or tied to a rope that’s attached to someone on solid ground). Your valentine’s comes early and late (or just lasts a long time) watch Thursday through to Tuesday next week for romantic whatsits. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual 9th house New Moon (topics as listed above). Make a commitment to one or all of these things and crack on!

Cancer
You’re shifting some old emotional garbage, Crab, which may not sound like the best Valentine’s news, but wait. Sometimes Transforming something old brings on a new glow, and a new allure. What’s cosmically clear is that now is the time to ditch some of your old habits/lovers/fears and start allowing The Good Stuff in. Monday and you’re either inspired/or self-deluded on warp factor 10. As the week rolls on it’s clear that your big future wishes won’t take off if you don’t drop some old ballast. Watch Wednesday and the New Moon on Valentine’s Day for days to Name It. Aiiee! For all Crabs, home and family bring their share of burdens and support at the weekend and money’s in the frame. Are parents acting as guarantors on a mortgage application? Could they? Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual transformation moon. Time to turn over a new leaf, period.

Leo
Mars moving backwards through your first house of you means certain your Big Future Vision for yourself is backed up, leaving you ahem, a tad spiritually constipated. With virtually all the other planetary hoohaa centring on your 7th house of close one to onesies and bizniz partners, your ineffectiveness, malaise, and whinge-iness are going to Out or be Exacerbated By those human beans closest to you. If you can keep your feet on solid ground, Monday this week and next are days when these long-suffering souls remind you what love really is. Saturday watch for being a crosspatch; disagreement can be done without clawing. Prepare to make amends by Monday. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual Close One-to-Onesies New Moon. Time to re-kindle watchuugat/re-kindle the search for something healthy and long-lasting.

Virgo
It’s all about the work and the workout, Virgo. Monday this week (and next) Venus and then the Sun trigger Neptune the God of dreams/illusion. Good news on jobs and health diagnosis is v v likely to land here these days. The caveat is, if it seems too good to be true, then get it checked out. Likewise, don’t fib to the boss or the doc on those days; you’ll be the fool who pays the price in the long-run. Come Friday – Monday week, there’s talk on work and money. Mars in your 12th house suggests that you want a lot but are scared to ask for it/suspect others don’t think you deserve it. Either way, it’s you who will be cross at yourself when you ask for less than you want. What about: “I’d like £xxx a day. How will that fit into your budget?” for starters? In Love News, Venus the planet of love moves into your 7th house of one-to-onesies on Thursday and makes a gorgeous link to powerball Pluto on Valentine’s Day. Hearts and flowers, wistful stares and rice, Poppet. Yeah baby! (And babies!) Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual restart at the office and medicine cabinet. New health regime: new work attitood, check.

Libra
Curmudgeonly Saturn is asleep at the wheel, or at least not watching you like a hawk right now, so while the cosmos is offering you dance cards and honeys to cha cha cha with, go out and grab the chances! Monday brings a swooning moment, from Wednesday news, info, and chitty chat with lovers increases, and by the weekend there’s talk of commitments and future plans. Friends may feel you’re spending too much time sopping, but you know as well as I do that soon your work life is going to take over. So sop til you drop! Sunday’s New Moon: is your annual restart for Funsies! Make a commitment to get creative (bebes, potato-painting, visiting galleries)! Make a commitment to having fun with your lovers or your kids. Single Scales, it’s time to relaunch the search for your dream lover.

Scorpio
You’ve been drawing your energies in and hanging out by the fireside with the family, contemplating your ancestry and your current tribe, and the state of the décor in your humpy. There’s more of this to come (watch Mercury sidle in here on a crest of chitty chat and news from Wednesday) – but it’s also becoming time to get out and have some fun in this pretty yard we call Planet Earth. Venus, she of love and whatnot, pouts into your 5th house of lovers, chilun and creativity on Thursday and it’s time to get breeding, potato painting, romancing… all in time for Valentine’s Day. Woohoo! What’s brewing in time for the 14th is a link up between Venus and your ruler, Pluto. That Huge Truth you’ve been burning to reveal is ripe. Don’t pass the moment without feeeeling it, Scorpio. Conversations about bebes, love, and intimacy/emotional vulnerability are Specials of the Day. Sunday’s New Moon: is your annual wake-up-call vz your homelife, your mudhut, and your family. Time for a restart, Scorp.

Sagittarius
A week of chitty chat and out of town trips, before hunkering down at home for Valentine’s weekend. Of all the signs, Archers need to remain the most vigilant about porky pie-ing this Monday and next. It’s not that you’re natural born fibbers… it’s that the Neptune blur is happening in your 3rd house of chat and when work colleagues or lovers ask a question, your little bon mot to smooth things over might end up barrelling into a Clinton-esque style tribunal. Play safe and if in doubt, say nowt. Likewise, listen hard for others half-truths or whale-sized porkers on Mondays. Across town and Friday – Monday delays vz your long-range, studious, or foreign plans are winding you up. Try to hang fire and start again next week. Venus slides into your mudhut on Thursday. Time to beautify your four walls and entertain at home. Wink. Sunday’s New Moon: falls in your house of chitty chat and commuting. New car or a new phone? Think about how you speak and if it ever gets you what you want…

Capricorn
Monday and it’s time to bite down hard on the money and check it aint chocolate. Yes, you’ve heard that here before – and it’s because pesky Neptune, in your 2nd house of earned income, is making your take on the green stuff less than focused. By mid-week Mercury moves into your earnings zone and Venus moves into your 3rd house of chitty chat. Where you need to talk of settling scores and getting your groats (arf arf), you’ll have the wind beneath your sails/sales bookkeeping-wise. (On also vz money, Mars’s on-going uiee in your 8th house of big-cash-money (mortgages, bank loans etc) is frustrating your need to empire-build too. Watch for losing your rag with impatience at the weekend. You can begin to right that ship next week.) Don’t waste all your current lovely, tawky Venus energy on your accountant, however. Powerful cosmic links say this Valentine’s Day is time to wear your heart on your sleeve and your tongue, Goat. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual Earnings Moon. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, it’s time to revisit your earnsie-spendsie ratio.

Aquarius
Huge gusts of energy are billowing around your ears, Inventive One. First up, Monday brings a moment of truth vz homelife and family. Be sure to check money facts but don’t lose the magic. Then Wednesday, communicator extraordinaire Mercury flies into your first house and Information that you’ve been waiting on for two months (especially from lovers or vz large cash issues) finally lands... You’ve three weeks to grab it, turn it around and get it back out there. In all this airy fury, remember to stop and breathe once in a while, and make sure other people’s ears aren’t bleeding under your torrent. From Friday through to Monday week you may feel the pressure mounting as Mercury links up with Saturn and crosses swords with Mars. Try to see that those closest to you have your best interests at heart, even if they’re not moving as fast as you’d like. Finally, Venus brings money into your house of earnings from Thursday. Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy your love a nice dinner out on the town. Sunday’s New Moon: Is your annual relaunch. So do just that. Start /restart something just the way you want to.

Pisces
The planets, stacked up in your 12th house of meep! May have you feeling a little underpar but fret not. From next week the Sun comes to getcha and your energy levels will crescendo upwards. Before then, this Monday and next be aware that you may be seeing what you want to see rather than what’s really there when Venus and the Sun link to your ruler Neptune in a dark corner of your mind. Yes these links do bring intuitive hunches strong enough to build a garage on, but if you can’t separate your doubting mind from your gut feeling, go easy before letting accusations fly or betting your last dollar on Three-Legged Dobbin in the 3.40. Friday through Monday, you’re feeling fed up at the office. Bosses are renegotiating on big money payments. It may be April before the answers are back in. Fishes have Venus on hand over Valentine’s Day but are too tired for all the shenanigans. Write a lovely poem and have a bubble bath together instead. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual name-and-shame moon. What fears are holding you back? Picture ‘em like tin cans on a wall and then shoot them off quick fire, cowgirl.

This Month

2010-02-01T00:18:00.002Z

So that was January - and what a week to end on. Hope you’re still standing. February starts on the icky take-no-prisoners square between Saturn and Pluto as mentioned in last week’s scopes. Like being caught in a fishnet, the more you struggle, the more you’re wasting energy. Your Liberty and Truth can only breakout when Your Own Shackles are named and faced. Happily, though, the month then rallies to become a month of feeeeling, highs, and the odd NICE surprise or three. Even Valentine’s Day has the feel good factor so the obvious, pitying, annual card sent by your dad to cheer you due to lack of suitors will probably make you happyhappy this year (girls that is. Boys maybe not so much.) Following the Saturn-Pluto opening salvo this Monday, the 5 – 7th weekend is presided over by a Jupiter opposition to Saturn and a Jupiter sextile to Pluto. Shackles off?!

With all this tawk of restriction and liberty, this month’s tune is by the deliriously talented Rufus Wainwright and Ducky’s current on-repeat-player ‘Release the Stars’ (see what I did there?…) Hairbrush at the ready. Sing it like you mean it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXBE31eDz8

Aries
February’s an important month for socialising and expanding your networks and getting the logistics for future wishes in place before you take your annual energy dip from mid-March. Venus and the Sun start the month in your zone of success, then Mercury sits down at the boardroom table from the 11th. Make Hay! Launch new ideas close to the 15th. From the 17th it’s party hats and social netwhoring with gusto for Rams until mid-March with the last weekend in February a stellar weekend for high times. Just watch you don’t overdo it. The Full Moon in your 6th house of work and medicine cabinets will leave you wishing you hadn’t drunk that eau-de-toilette chaser or emailed the boss at 3am with some destructive criticism. This Week: Monday ask yourself how you can transform your work into a successful career with easier cashola. At the weekend reflect on why you’re hiding behind duty or propriety when there’s a Big Wild World waiting for you out there.

Taurus
The cosmic focus is on your success and career zone all month with your ruler and the Sun here, and Mercury joining them from the 11th. The options to make good are plentiful. Launch an ambitious career scheme just after the 14th. From the 12th your zone of friends and wishes and netwhoring is sparkling with a month of fabulous offers and surprise encounters, and friends and lovers linking up. Work and love have linkage too. The weekend of the 6 – 7th and again Valentine’s Day shows it. Aussi, on a love tip, Valentine’s Day brings surprising words of love and lust and the weekend of the 27th is brimming with about turns and strong feeeeelings. This Week: Monday a business or lovin one-to-onesie logjams with your future/study/publishing/travel ambitions. It seems you can’t have both as they are and keep everyone happy... At the weekend wishes are rekindled and it’s time to focus on the relationship and whether there’s room for transformation or a need to let it go. The future plans aren’t going anywhere but they are under review so there’s time.

Gemini
Overseas loves and foreign interests, publishing and studying, are all written large in the sky above your head. The future is being formed as we speak, Airy One. Ensure it’s got the right amount of love and fun in it. Communicate your dreams! Launch new ambitions in these areas in the days after the 14th. From the 12th it’s time to focus on your career. First up look at the money and the creative, shiny potential on your career ladder: how can you expand that? Pitch ideas from mid-February and include foreign/studious links around the 26th. From March it’ll be time to get down to brass tacks and negotiate (lead) on contracts and the minutiae. Lovewise, your Valentine’s Day links bizniz and romance. Be at your sleekest and wittiest at the watercooler, on the commuter train, and at the conference table (14th – 17th). This Week: Monday recognise where there’s a transformation required at work or vz work, particularly when it comes to cash/money. Fund-raising, redundancies, overtime payments all fall under these stars. At the weekend a career wish comes closer. Push forward with plans from mid-month.

Cancer
These are good times, Crab. You’re catching up with lovers still and sorting out the confusion of early – mid January. Money pressures are about to give way to the bigger picture in life – travel, study, philosophy, and there’s luck in these ‘ere ‘ills! More shortly. First though, for the first two weeks of February keep an eye out for melting the plastic. It’s time to rein in any poor spending habits. Then from the 15th get your shekels in order with 0% balance transfers and savings accounts. Mercury’s in your 8th so it’s time for paperwork in your bank vaults department. Ooh, and some hot conversations about oobah if you don’t mind! Lovely. On the 17th and 26 – 28th of the month your future lights up like a Catherine wheel. Foreign and studying plans, especially opportunities to work or study abroad, just got the greenlight. And overseas love affairs look positively enticing. Send a postcard. This Week: Monday and there’s a Truth Conversation about turning a squeeze into something more permanent, or some truths about Who You Are need to be put out there for a lover’s deliberation. At the weekend lovin’ conversation have F-U-T-U-R-E and F-O-R-E-I-G-N writ large. [Send postcard. As above.]

Leo
After the wobbly last week of January, you’ve got to get up and over Monday, and then begin to roar again. The Sun and Venus continue to sparkle through your zone of one-to-onesies and its being shiny and making the effort that matters. From the 12th Mercury lands here with a New Moon two days later. If you need to clear up the mess left over from last week, or turn over a whole new leaf in your one-to-onesie department, do it then. As the planets drift upwards into your 8th house of sex, death, and taxes this month expect to find yourself: dealing with big money issues, getting a lot more fruity, and experiencing opportunities to transform your life. Jupiter’s here and so you’ve Dr Feelgood helping you through this. Watch the 17th and the last weekend of the month for some 8th house highs. This Week: Monday and a work and homelife issue is at stalemate. Come the weekend an opportunity to transform things creatively arises. Do your homework on all solutions. Money’s going to get tighter for a while come April.

Virgo
The love stuff and fun stuff really is coming, Virgo, and yes in time for Valentine’s Day. Before then it’s important to make strides in work and health. The powerhouse of the Sun won’t be back in this zone for a year so schedule check ups, put the hours in on the day job, and grasp opportunities to shine before the 17th. Monday the 15th looks GOLDEN. Your ruler Mercury docks in this worky/health zone from 11th February so you can do the extra negotiating and verbal chitty chat after then. Vz love ting, you’ll know by now that Jupiter is in your 7th house of close one to onesies bringing expansion, goodtimes and/or the ability to oust those that are less-than-the-best to make room for The Best. This month circle the 6th, 12th, 14th, 17th and 28th for days of Feeling It. This Week: Monday and lovers/children/creative life and The Truth need to meet and there’s an impasse/stalemate/rock-and-hard-place situation-style-scenario. Come the weekend there’s a solution closer to home, quite literally.

Libra
Sweet Scales, life continues apace. While January has been a month of exploring fun and your life vz creativity and bebes, February switches to become a life of worky worky, health, and positive (dramatic) changes in these areas. Get as much recreational fluffiness and potato painting as you can between now and the 12th when your ruler walks in to your office and starts bringing all sorts of offer your way. With Jupiter here, paving the way for advancement, the attentions of Venus and the Sun are making you shine. Watch the 12th, 17th, and 28th in particular (when offers of creative/healing jobs land with a surprise). For you Valentine’s Day this year is perfectly splendid. A New Moon lands in your 5th house of romance and Mercury’s already here giving you wooing prowess and poetry acumen. Declare it Scales! This Week: The costs of running a home and family are proving a heavy responsibility at the moment. At the end of the week bounce ideas off people at work to find solutions – or bounce ideas about work off people. Some may be in a position to help you.

Scorpio
Early February is about your four walls and your clan. Venus and the Sun here are bringing joy and happiness as well as an appreciation of/need for partnership and a sense of your own home reflecting who you are and your own personal standing in the world. From the 12th focus starts to shift to your 5th house of fun. Negotiations vz home and family continue during February, and you’ll be hosting friends, but this is all rather eclipsed by the cosmic rays shining on lovers, chilun, and creative ting. Days for luck, fun, and love are 6th, 12th, 14th – 17th, 19th and 28th. Single Scorpios these are Your Dates for getting your charisma out on the town. Coupled up Scorps, get some fun/some kids into your relationship! All Scorps, creative endeavours launched now have cosmic blessings. This Week: You’re aware that you’ve some old cheese you need to unpack and process before you can move on. You don’t want to. But there’s your fish net… Come the weekend, the shiny goings on in your funzone give you the impetus to tackle your emotional poop deck.

Sagittarius
Where you can make great strides this month is to take some time out. Seriously. Particularly after the 12th, planets are clustering around the base of your chart and it’s time to draw in and focus on home, family, stability, tribe, belonging and expansion of the family. (Watch good news on 17th and 27th from nieces or nephews due in the coming months to mortgages being accepted.) For some Archers it just isn’t possible. Mercury’s ingress to your zone of commuting and out of town trips means career needs are going to keep you on the road. What you can do is balance things out with long lazy weekends with the clan or three course dinners in a den in the sitting room. This Week: Monday and pressures about money are bringing migraines. Finding an earthy friend to help you ground it and plan it out can help. Come the weekend home and family seem to offer up a solution. Renting the spare room? Charging the (older) kids a little board and rent? Loans from Ma and Pa, bros or sisses?

Capricorn
When in doubt, leave it out Goat. After the highs and lows of money in the past week, you’ll be keen to negotiate right now and Mercury’s with you, helping you do just that. Make the conversations about lettuce if you need to – and even better, negotiating on income is the soup du jour from 11th February. From the 12th, Venus, she the Goddess of Love, sashays into your zone of chitty chat and out of town travel. It’s time to talk about and commute for love, just in time for a Valentine’s get away. In fact Goats’ words of love around this time could be filled with the future. Venus is hooking up to Jupiter at the time of the New Moon. Proposals for some Goats are starred. This Week: first though, on Monday your ruler and Saturn are at loggerheads. Beware of bullying others in the office. It won’t make you friends in the long-run. At the weekend there’s an opportunity for dousing your words with a touch of humility and eating humble pie. Don’t be proud. Be educated!

Aquarius
The Sun and Venus are still with you bringing energy, and a focus on the importance of one-to-onesies of a bizniz and loving variety, and to your four walls. What’s frustrating progress is Mercury in the 12th meaning information is backwards in coming forwards and leaving you slightly tongue-tied. This rights itself by the 11th. From then on you can begin negotiations with lovers and sign off on Big Money issues. From the 12th and then 19th Venus and the Sun dive splendidly into your zone of earned income. All month’s a lucrative smorgasbord but circle the 17th and 28th particularly. In fact the 28th has Your Luck in Lettuce written all over it. Buy a lotto ticket that weekend. This Week: Monday and you’re feeling you don’t deserve the things you wish for. Write down the most angst-ridden, moping phrasing you come up with that day. Read ‘em again at the weekend when Jupiter brings rainbows and you’ll be wondering if it was really you who said all that.

Pisces
A low key, slow start to the month is what the doctor ordered. Jupiter may be making you feel chipper about the future, but Venus and the Sun are under your radar for the first few weeks so plenty of early nights, especially after health flare ups over last weekend thanks to the Leo Full Moon. From the 12th though it’s all change. Venus joins you in time for Valentine’s Day and the Sun joins you from the 19th. Energy levels are up and the 17th and 28th bring real highs for money and health. What you do need to watch for is GOSSIP. Don’t be the one perpetrating the chin wags. It’ll come bite you on the aspic on the 27th. This Week: Monday and your wishes for the future aren’t do-able in the shape they are in. Regroup at the weekend. They’ll be even better when they’ve been through the blender a little.

This week

2010-01-25T00:01:00.006Z

A quickie this week campers. Astroducky has a bit of a headyache and wants to lie down in a darkened room with calming lavender essential oils. The word on the astro street this week is 'ouch'. Venus and then the Sun oppose Mars, there’s a Full Moon on Saturday next to Mars and slap bang in the centre of the oppositions. Then Monday Saturn squares Pluto once more. Ugh…

We all drift along, somewhere in our lives, Ignoring the Elephant in the Room – be it our own ineffectiveness, or the inappropriate behaviours of another, or the fact that It Isn’t Working (whatever that may be). Then weeks like this appear... The Cosmos makes us all over-antsy and FINALLY the fact that there’s an Elephant in the room gets aired at last. I’m going to say something to you now which I know is easier to say than it is to do, but seeds sown and all that. When the ante gets upped as it will, go to your detached place – a shelf on the wall, the top of an empty bus with misted windows, a daisy in a summer field – and then look back at yourself, in your situation, at those moments of fury or doubt or scratching for control and ask your inner knower, ‘What was I born to manifest? What is my greater purpose?’ Then, and only then, when you have that information, make your move.

Next week: Feb monthlies. See you on the daisies xx

Aries
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Money and good times face off. Watch that tongue of yours when the stress gets too high on Saturday. You’re an adult now. You have control over the choices you make. Part of this stress is that people and things aren’t heading as fast as you’d like. Why not take your foot off the gas and drift for a while? Monday week and it’s showtime on the career front. Bosses want to double check facts but explaining yourself isn’t your numero uno hobby. Does it serve a purpose? Does it serve your ultimate purpose?

Taurus
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: If you find insecurity dogging advancements on the career front, name those old self-defeating habits, imagine writing them in the sky, then watch them burn up and disappear. Facing walls is sometimes a call to assail them anew. Home life is stressful and a door closes on Saturday. It’s part of the current upheaval. Bosses/responsibilities are overbearing on Monday week. They’ll have gone through their testing times too, though that’s not your fault… Let their pushiness spur you into recommiting to your long-term, long-haul, studious/publishing plans.

Gemini
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Cat got your tongue? Overseas/long-distance love connections or a choice between lovers is stirring and stressing you. What’s that there? A fear of being earthed, a fear of being tied down? Talk about it. Friends can be sounding boards but the ideal is to name your fears out loud and then let them disappear into wisps of vapour. Remember that yesterday is another yacht ride. Speak now and hear what you say. The future really does have a very different vista. Next Monday and fun and work clash. Use the anguish as a FINAL reminder that you need to make changes to get the balance right.

Cancer
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: It’s all about the money, Lebowski. Career and tips from friends may be bringing in the spondoolies but as your lifestyle gets ever-more Champagne-stylee, the bills get bigger, the pay cheques vanish quicker, and you’re back to being thirsty again… Saturday’s Full Moon suggests you may start over-emotionalising lettuce but use the adrenaline to get your pocket book in order. Next Monday balancing ties to home/family and responsibilities to your close one to onesies is a high wire act with no safety net. No fun bro. What needs to give?

Leo
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: The Cosmic hooha is happyhaps across your 1st and 7th houses ie You and your Close One to Onesies are sparking off each other. Chances are they aren’t making enough of a fuss of you and that’s stinging the royal pride (see what I did there?). However, what’s also getting you riled is the slowness at which everything is happening right now. Others can bolster your esteem, your highness, of course they can. However, a gentle request for help might work better than a goring. Monday week: Conversations are brewing pertaining to work and home and imbalances of power. Prepare now. It’s going to take a whole new approach.

Virgo
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Work and health, emotions and health, work and emotions. If you’re feeling small and retreating, it’s hard to work it work it out in the big bad world. If you’re feeling poorly, it’s hard to stop yourself feeling small, or needing to retreat. If your day job is grinding you down, the stress builds and you get poorly. Do you see? Between lozengers and your liquid lunch it’s time to remember who it is that you are and where it is that you’re going. Transformation and reformations are possible now with a leetle gumption. Monday week: Lovers, creativity, and fun things clash with money. A Big Truth Conversation is overdue.

Libra
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Lovers and wishes and friendships are areas of intense cosmic energy for you this week. Turning lovers into friends, friends into lovers – deciding between two lovers… right now you’re reviewing what you want for the long-haul, relationship-wise. Fun’s fun, for sure, and there are options aplenty – but will any of these admirers lead to something solid? Don’t be afraid to close the door on those who don’t. Monday week: It’s boot camp on the homefront. Big changes are required, as if you didn’t have enough on your plate already.

Scorpio
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Old habits, family responsibilities, and insecurities about money are clashing with The Big Things you want for yourself, that make you feel you’re a success. Work projects, globe-conquering, spiritual uprightness, qualifications… Notice where Old Habits and Insecurities are tripping you up. Those need working on in time for March. For now, though, some aspect of your Success Wishlist needs to make way for home and family responsibilities. Monday week: Your ruler clashes with Saturn. Honest conversations that might hurt are overdue. You’re looking at something that you’ve outgrown and need to let go of. Try to remember, life is a journey, travel light…

Sagittarius
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: The cosmos sez you’re being pulled in two ways as the planets battle it out across your 3rd and 9th houses. The 3rd concerns your everyday life, commuting short distances, the way you communicate. The 9th is a much broader vista – long haul travel, your vision for your future, higher education, and spirituality. A need to travel, runaway, give it all up and go back to school reaches its peak. Progress on this is possible, but from March. Can you begin making plans? Monday week: Boss figures seem to be holding back on the cash. Yet another reason to fly, Archer, fly?

Capricorn
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Like the Cosmic Crab, your stars this week cross your axis of Ooof and it’s all about the money, Lebowski. It seems you’ve money in your hand and you’re keen to splurge it particularly where close one-to-onesies and home and family are concerned. What you need to know is that house bills won’t be fully dusted until 7 June, so keep some lettuce to one side. Saturday’s Full Moon suggests a mini wake up call vz finances is coming, or more happily, that a big debt is finally paid off. Next Monday bosses are likely to pour scorn on your dreams. Brace, brace. It’s a slow season of worky challenges.

Aquarius
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: You and your Close One to Onesies (or lack of them) are coming under the spotlight. Inventive One, it’s your birthday month and you are HOT – but it seems others are dragging their heels, being obstructive, or getting emotional… and that’s the cue. Although uncomfortable, Saturday’s Full Moon is about releasing emotions, recognising the way you feel, recognising what you want, then resolving to make it happen. Monday week: Saturn and Pluto clash and your long-term plans hit a stumbling block. Doing this the right way may take more effort than you want to give, but long-term it’ll be the making of you.

Pisces
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Work and health, emotions and health, work and emotions. Like Virgos, the Cosmic spat this week is happening across your 6th and 12th houses. If you’re feeling small and retreating, it’s hard to work it work it out in the big bad world. If you’re feeling poorly, it’s hard to stop yourself feeling small, or needing to retreat. If your day job is grinding you down, the stress builds and you get poorly. Do you see? This week it’s time to ask Questions and bring up Topics that may make you feel a little vulnerable. Include check ups at the docs too. For some Fishes, a health problem has been dragging on too long. Monday week: Overseas and long-range plans can’t work the way you want them to. Time to head back to the drawing board or be honest about the finances.

This Week

2010-01-17T15:45:00.000Z

Ball change! A week in which three planets change into New Zones. On Monday and then Wednesday Venus and the Sun respectively move from earthy Capricorn to Airy, inventive Aquarius. Venus will stay here for three weeks, the Sun for four. Aussi, on Monday lucky, happy Jupiter shifts from Airy, inventive Aquarius to intuitive, dreamy Pisces for a year-long stay. What’s also Big News is that Saturn is now heading backwards until June. Yes, this means the headmaster is on holiday and you could get away with running in the corridors and writing rude words in weedkiller on the front lawn (ooh the japes, Pippin!). But acting the fool is a fool’s game, and you’ll cop it worse dan ever when the Big Guy’s back in town. As these changes happen, a sector of your skies gets a blast of attention. And FOR ALL, pixie Mercury is now back on track and sensible tawky tawky can recommence. (for where this affects you most see last week’s scopes). This week’s horoscope gives you a heads up on the lowdown of where your world eesa shifting. Hands to the wheel, amigo. Notebooks at the ready.

Aries
The Sun and Venus entering your 11th house of friends, social netwhoring, and wish-making is groovy news. There’s fun and high times in store for a month and friends can be become lovers under these stars. Jupiter’s hoof into Pisces means that for twelve months you’ve got the chance to see your shadow side and learn to love it, heal it, turn it into an advantage. Boldly go and whatnot. Saturn’s six-month reversal heads from your zone of close one to onesies into your office and medicine cabinet. Right now, reflect on commitments – why you made them and why you’re sticking to them. Are one-to-onesies giving you the sense of social standing you wanted? Have you done the right thing by those who matter most to you? Watch Friday this week for clues to the answers.

Taurus
The Sun and your ruler Venus enter your 10th house of success this week and it’s a month of mekkin hay while dem Sun he gat his hat on. Jupiter’s hoof into your 11th house of friends, social netwhoring, and wishes sez here comes a year of shared benefits, expansion and growth thanks to the support of those around you. Socialising is the air you breathe. Saturn is reversing from your 6th house of work and medicine cabinets. All Tauruses it’s time to consider whether work commitments are taking you towards your big shiny goal, including emigration plans. Watch this Friday for a comprendo momentito and love stuff with foreign/long-term ramifications. For those working in creative fields (lots of you) the notion of making a living through your art is coming back in April. All Bulls, health issues and old war wounds may seem to abate now. Don’t give up the yoga! You’ll pay harder come July. Now’s a good time to recommit/seek another opinion on health ting.

Gemini
The Sun and Venus land in your 9th house of foreign shores, study, and travel for a month and it’s high times for travel, lovers from overseas, and pushing your energy into studenting and making long-range plans. Jupiter’s shift into your house of success suggests that 2010 is going to be your year to Shine in the Big Wide World. There’s a confidence about you now that will attract support and backing so use it. The only thing to watch for is overexpansion and too much air with not enough substance to carry you through. Where you have though, expect to go far. This is a once in a 12 year opportunity, so grab it and ride the Wild Tiger. Saturn’s uiiee in your 5th house of lovers, chilun, and creativity is a call to reconsider your attitude towards responsibility and commitment in these areas, perticalerly where money may be concerned. Watch Friday for the penny dropping, if you’ll pardon the pun.

Cancer
The Sun and Venus are moving into your zone of hot oobah, money, and transformation, Crab, for a month. Ohmeohmy. Single Crabs will be going up the walls with ardour right about now. Smitten Crabs are likely to be doing little else but the wild thing. All Crabs will be spending big and feeling optimistic about earning big. These are days of Abandon and Letting Go of old habits, and yes, paying your tax bill. Jupiter’s shift into your 9th house offers you a year of expanding your horizons. Many Crabs will travel this year. For others study, working with those from abroad, or those who bring spiritual philosophies to your kitchen table are where it’s at. Saturn’s uiee questions your role within your family. Is it time to stand back from a commitment, or step up to the plate? Is a partner doing enough? Friday this week, the Cosmos shines a light at the right signpost.

Leo
The Sun and Venus are shifting into your zone of close one-to-onesies, your Highness. Bidniz and lovin’ partners just got shiny and/or lucrative. Those you’re attracted to now need to be Achievers; you’re only interested in social standing, beauty, luxury and a Mirror that shows You the You you most like/aspire to be. While in this dizzy space of social climbing, remember the things that really count – honesty, humility, gentleness, laughter. Gold watches won’t keep you warm at night or make you laugh to cheer you after a bad day running the jungle. Jupiter’s shift into your 8th house says that during these next 12 months sex is getting adventurous and that big, cash, lettuce is going to be on your mind. It’s a time for fast expansion of your assets and big bonuses, but also getting tripped up for being a greedy fat cat. Saturn’s uiiee suggests it’s time for appraisals on the work front. Before you throw in the towel, could you ask some leading questions?

Virgo
The big step of the Sun and Venus heading into your 6th house of work and medicine cabinets has the double wammy effect of brightening and energising both of these areas. Recommitment to health: check. Heartiness, drive, and cash and foreign opportunities on the job front: Check, Cheque, Czech! You’ve a month to go bebe, so Work It. Jupiter’s shift into your 7th house of close one to onesies also has a double wammy effect. You’ll do better working in partnerships for the next year at least. But this week’s move also puts Jupiter in an upward curve through your skies. Your luck is on the rise. Don’t let parents and old self-defeating mantras hold you back. You at dem steering wheel now. Saturn’s uiiee in your second house means the party pooper is all about the money, Lebowski. Saving, earning enough and all that jazz. Where can you expand/contract your financial commitments vz creativity, chilun and lovers? Watch Friday for a light going on.

Libra
As your ruler Venus and the Sun sweep into your 5th house of lovers, chilun, and creativity, Scales, the Cosmos is urging you to let your hair down and have a little fun. Back in October you entered a two year Cosmic boot camp of working like a Trojan (you can thank party pooper Saturn for that. More on him later). Now, you’re getting a break. It’s time to see that love, lovers, chilun, and getting creative aren’t part of the problem! They’re your release valve, your safety net, your oasis. Time to give them some time! Jupiter’s stride into your office and medicine cabinet says this is your year to get back to robust health – or put on weight. Seriously! It’s also Your Time to push ahead on the work front. Promotions can be yours now. Saturn’s uiiee in your 1st house of you, yourself, and you, gives you a physical break from the cosh. Your mind will be wondering if you’re good enough however… high time to have a safety net nearby eh? Watch Friday for delicious falling.

Scorpio
Venus and the Sun are hoofing into your 4th house of home and family and it’s time to entertain in your mudhut and spend time with those you consider part of your tribe. The 4th house is a time for retreating inside the mountain and having some quality time doing t’ai chi on the hearth rug and making healthy soups. And staying in a lot. As a result, perhaps, redecorating and beautifying your four walls becomes a recurring thought. Jupiter’s shift into your 5th house of chilun, creativity and oobah means that Scorps the world over are getting expressive. These 12th months are all about fun and recreating yourself out in the world, as art, as bebes, or as a soul lifting your spirits with fun-loving love affairs. Saturn’s uiie in your 12th house suggests there’s a spot you’ve missed during your current two-year karmic cleansing process. Your words aren’t ringing true to who you are today. Watch Friday for an insight into where the record maybe scratched.

Sagittarius
As the Sun and Venus enter your 3rd house you’re looking at a month of chitty chat, news, commuting to distant towns for work ting, and doings with bros and sisses. Some Archers will be investing in new wheels and new comms technology too. For you the really Big News is the move of your ruler Jupiter from Aquarius to Pisces and your 4th house of home and family. Yes this is a time for buying or selling property and for families expanding (are bros and sisses expecting the pitter patter?). It’s also a great time for you to heal old habits that are lingering from childhood that need a looksee. This year is your year to take charge of your own sailing boat. Saturn’s reverse thrust in your 11th zone of friends, social netwhoring, and wishes sez it’s time to consider your commitments, particularly where money is concerned. Subscriptions and club membership fees may be squeezing you. High times with pals due Friday.

Capricorn
You’ll be feeling the weights drop off thanks to Mercury’s turn to forwards ho in your control room, at last. This week, the Sun and Venus leave this zone and head into your bank vaults bringing a four week focus on what you earn and what you own. Acquiring Things is your motto and even lovers need to be shiny and glamorous to keep you satisfied. Jupiter’s move into your 3rd house for a year tells you that in 2010 getting what you want will be all about What You Say, How you Ask, and Whether you Listen. Ecoute et repete, frequently. Astroducky will prod you too. Saturn, your ruler, is having a lie down until June. The prognosis is that you can use this time to consolidate what you have. Pushing upwards on the career ladder is rekindled in July. Nice stuff this Friday though. Money and career stack up well.

Aquarius
After a dragging month and grey clouds, a shiny dawn lands. The Sun is back with you after 11 long months away, and he’s brought you his shiny pal Venus too. Not only will you feel energetic and charismatic, you’ll be projecting a healthy glow and come hither eyes. Venus is the goddess of love and she’s covering you in sparkles for the next three weeks. Work It. Jupiter now leaves your control room and heads into your bank vaults. Earning good bucks is well starred in 2010. The one caveat with Jupiter is always, ‘be wary of overexpansion.’ For you, don’t spend money until it lands – and Save Something. It won’t always be this easy… Saturn’s reversal is a breathing space for you. Take time out between now and April to sketch out a long-haul plan. Include things you were once too afraid to try.

Pisces
Jupiter is coming to get you. You’ve had a year to practise facing up to your fears and working out where you upend yourself, and why things haven’t gone as you’d wanted – and now, for 12 months, you have chances to take chances! Jupiter is a bleeping A for making us ‘overdo it’, so no you won’t suddenly be a world famous opera singer if you’re tone deaf, but you will be able to go for the things you haven’t felt brave enough to go for before. While this all sounds shiny, Astroducky suggests you take a month of You Time before your relaunch. The Sun and Venus are heading into your 12th house of Meep, and energy, love, comfort, and shininess are going to feel harder to come by. It’s a process, so go with the flow and rest. Saturn’s uiee is about big money. It’s time to reflect on your big financial commitments and get those ducks in a row – mortgages, credit card debts, the buy-now-pay later fiasco. A conversation on Friday brings a mini wake up call.

This Week

2010-01-10T23:41:00.006Z

The start of the week may feel like waiting for a bus which turns out to be a taxi, a hovercraft, or Shanks’s pony… Hmm. Uranus is running the world’s diary, at the same time as Mercury is doing a backwards ho, and everyone’s inner flippertygibbet is doing an outie. Fortunately, Uranus’s Maverick Thang peaks mid-week – and then we notice we’re in the Dark of the New Moon solar eclipse. Friday’s Solar Eclipse in Capricorn signals a time for New Starts - and is the upside to the Full Moon Eclipse of New Year’s eve. (Anyone need to recap on their resolutions…?!) Make your wishes Friday but take no action until Monday. (Firstly the Moon’s void of course all day Friday and you’ll be operating form inside a marshmallow, plus pixie Mercury is stationing direct, turning to forwards ho, also in Capricorn, on Saturday.) Then Sunday, Venus and Jupiter change signs altering the terrain further. And only then, after three weeks of hoopla it's, 'Flight attendants, please take your seats for landing.’

Aries
Where Uranus is turning you over is in your blind spot. He’s spent the last seven years camped out in your 12th house of Meep! Throwing paper planes behind your eyes and random shadows on the wall. In the coming weeks he’s heading on up to your first house of You, Yourself, and You. Focus hard on Tuesday and Wednesday; when things go awry take note of your responses. How do you handle about turns that are outwith your control? If you can watch yourself from a detached point of view and learn the lessons, when the boot’s on the other foot, you’ll understand the Uranian Wisdom of Going With The Flow much better. Friday’s New Moon Eclipse sez it’s time to relaunch your career. Power knap all day Friday then make that launch on the 18th.

Taurus
Having Uranus, the planet of surprise, mekkin nice with your ruler Venus suggests that you’ve unexpected boosts in store Tuesday and Wednesday. This is money and/or success, Bully Bull – whatever success means to you – Love, Career, Social Standing... Uranus is traversing your 11th house of friends and wishes meaning that boosts and successes come from friends or social netwhoring circles, and concern projects that are especially dear to your heart. New friends landing now are fun-loving and different to your usual crowd, even exotic. Mercury’s on-going uiiee in your 9th zone of study, travel, and future plans mean things remain up in the air this week and conversations are needed to clarify certain points. Come Friday’s Solar Eclipse new ambitions with a foreign, study, or long-haul flavour are due. Go get ‘em Tiger - but wait until Monday.

Gemini
Money, Love, and Success are writ large this week, Airy Friend. Uranus, currently spinning erratically in your zone of Success, clicks with the Sun and Venus. For freshly-smitten Geminis New Love is lighting up your life and placing twinkly stars in the dark, forgotten corners of your heart. For Geminis signing off on a partnership, the end goes surprisingly well. For Geminis chasing the yankee dollar, Uranus is helping you tawk it up to financiers so you clinch the collateral. For all Geminis, Success right now is all about the money. Even Friday’s New Moon Solar Eclipse suggests a new approach to Big Money is due. Remember your ruler is hoofing backwards until Saturday. Things suggested now will need to be revisited inside of a fortnight. Check for small print caveats and typos.

Cancer
For you, Crab, Uranus’s long seven year journey through your 9th house has had you changing life course and contemplating emigration, retraining, or retreating to a Monastery. It can be exhausting at times but sometimes, like now, your modus of constantly opening doors and peering down corridors brings an aha moment that is life-changing. Uranus meets up with Venus and the Sun this week and new friendships, an awareness of life-affirming romances, and financial opportunities land. Single Crabs can meet soul mates under these stars, most likely someone from a different background or culture. Taken Crabs could be mekkin proposals. Mercury’s Uiiee means the path of true love’s communication may not run smoothly, especially around Thursday and Friday. Don’t give up. The New Moon Solar Eclipse in this Zone means yes, love really is this powerful. Have confidence. Try a re-try on Monday.

Leo
A wired week, your Fabulousness. Tuesday and Wednesday, Uranus, aka Planet Gaga is having tea and buns with the Sun and Venus, she of floaty gowns and purses. Work and money are hooking up, delightfully and surprisingly so. In fact if there are no surprises landing at your feet, have a gander at the Job ads. Word. Solar Eclipses affect you, my Liege, as you are the Cosmic Pussy Cat ruled by the Sun. Friday’s Solar Eclipse docks in your 6th house of work; one door needs to close for another to open in your workaday world - and the New Door will reveal the Sun behind it. Remember Mercury is heading backwards in this zone all working week. Check details and be aware that your exciting job offers may come from previous employers – or be old opportunities from current employers that are back on the table.

Virgo
One more week of the to-ey fro-ey hedge-ey bet-sey and Mercury, your esteemed but irritating ruler, heads forwards. Before then what’s mighty fine are the stirrings in your creativity and flirtation drawer. It seems that close one-to-onesies are providing something of a carrot tempting you to let your hair down – either you want to attract a new one so you’re shaking things up in the lipstick and slingbacks department, or you want to revive an existing liaison and are trying out a new box of tricks to entertain and be entertained. (Or have bebes!) Soupy Twist, Virgo. The Cosmos is sayin’ shake it up! Be spontaneous! Enjoy the Freedom you actually have and recognise the Power you have to make changes! Friday’s Solar Eclipse sez the leaf you’re turning over now can bring you more love, creativity, and fun than you ever believed possible. Ohgollymeohmy.

Libra
Uranus’s seven year zig zag through your 6th house of health and work may have given you a schizophrenic approach to the 9 – 5 (and your medicine cabinet) but Uranus’s role is to shake us up. Sometimes it’s unpleasant surprises, but at times like this, as he hooks up nicely with the Sun and your ruler, Venus, surprises can be v v nice indeedy. Somewhere in your wash, a wish is coming true. Positive changes vz your mudhut are starred – but with Uranus, it’s hard to say exactly what… Maybe a job has brought you enough to buy the house you’ve been after. Maybe a job change is forcing a move – but to somewhere fabalas. Maybe the chance you’ve been after to work or consult from home is finally yours for the taking. Tuesday – Wednesday, soak it up. There’ll be more negotiating to do later in the week, but Friday’s Solar Eclipse says the New Home Manoeuvres are right as right can be.

Scorpio
For the past seven years, Uranus’s crayzee scoot through your 5th house of creative ting, breeding, and lovers has been something of a wappy fairground ride. Lovers have been erratic oddballs. Affairs have come and gone before you knew what hit you. Plans with or for children have stopped and started and caught you off guard. And the pursuance of your creative muse has sometimes upset the family. On the upside, Uranus here has helped you harness the random, the lucky streak, the moment! This week on Tuesday and Wednesday both the Sun and Venus hook up with the King of the About-Turn. Lovers who didn’t want babies now do! Lovers who couldn’t commit now can! Super creative ventures that never flew now fly! No, not everything is cured by Uranus, but certain things are about to turn on a sixpence. The eclipse and Mercury say the key is Talking - and that other important part of the process, Asking the Questions that matter.

Sagittarius
Archers who wondered if they’d ever sell the mudhut are due an about turn this week. Uranus has brought change enough in the past seven years to your four walls, people moving in, people moving out, house prices crashing, mortgage arrears. This week may not extinguish all the anguish you’ve had, but there’s a lucky window acomin’ and money’s in the frame. Tuesday and Wednesday your Four Walls are a source of income, whether that’s renting or selling (or you’re getting into interior design professionally), or a loan from the bank of Ma and Pa. Mercury’s uiiee says you need to check the spondoolies and contracts – and delay signing until Monday where you can. However, Friday’s Solar Eclipse lights up this financial part of your sky too. Balancing your financial picture is your raison d’etre for the foreseeable – and how and where you live (and with who) are The Places to start.

Capricorn
Conversations are likely to have a certain frisson and a degree of bolt-from-the-blue this week, Goat. Tuesday and Wednesday the Sun and Venus (currently drifting together through your first house of You, Yourself, and You) have a ‘moment’ with King of the Wild Idea, Uranus – smackdab in the middle of your voicebox. Word. Surprising announcements – either from your lips or the lips of another - concern the following: squeezes, squeezing, chilun, and potato-painting. Reassuringly, Uranus is in good spirits so the announcements are well-liked. Muster the courage to get Those Things off your chest that need Airing. Likewise, listen with astonished but willing ears to the abandoned verbals of another. The Dark of the Moon will likely rattle you prior to the Solar Eclipse in your first house. If in doubt, ask for a time out to let things percolate. By Monday the New Moon will be waxing and Mercury will be on side too.

Aquarius
For you Money is where the surprise is at – but in a good way. Uranus, your wappy ruler, is a hard monkey to pin down. He’s been hopping around creating change in your bank vaults for seven years now and going-with-the-flow and being adaptable with your spending power has been your modus, Inventive One. Tuesday and Wednesday he makes nice with Venus and the Sun. Important one-to-onesies are coming on side, just when you need a financial leg up. Whether it’s home-buying, art-investing, studying or travel there’s help around and financial luck. The only watchword, if there is one, is watch out for doubt. Yes, you ABSOLUTELY MUST check the small print – Mercury’s retrograde and at his most sabotaging on Friday. However, the fear you’re feeling is you getting ready to jump. With bucket-loads of Cosmic rocks flying around your 12th house of Meep! – including Friday’s Solar Eclipse – a moment to wobble on the precipice is allowed.

Pisces
It seems friends are the Best Thing in the World, Fish. Tuesday and Wednesday this week pals appear to remind you that your wild-card, adventurous side (stirred by Uranus’s current, lengthy visit to your first house) is adorable. Spontaneous invites. Spontaneous favours. Spontaneous acts of kindness at your requests for help. Whether it’s giving you a lift to the doctor’s, or lending you a tenner and never asking for it back, or a local group welcomes you in like you’re one of them, friends are friends are friends. The middle of the week, at the Dark of the Moon, you may wobble for a moment and doubt that friends love you, or that the things you want will ever come to be. Once the light of Friday’s Solar Eclipse starts to grow again over the weekend, you’ll be sure as sugar that you’re loved. New friendships that land, and deeply held wishes that are asserted around that time, have the Cosmos behind them.

This week

2010-01-03T22:46:00.003Z

The really pretty things that are heading our way in the coming eight days come from the Sun’s hook up to Mercury, Venus, and the Moon’s nodes, all in Capricorn. It’s a time for sharing what we know and gathering information (remember Mercury’s retrograde) but all in the spirit of wearing hearts on sleeves and owning our part in the bigger picture. This process culminates in a New Moon eclipse on the 15th in the same zone. This week then, the ‘Scopes look at the Messages of Your Inner Goat: Tuesday 5th and then Monday – Wednesday 11th – 13th are dates for your diary.

On Inspiration and the Torment of Getting Lost
I mentioned at the top of the January monthlies that over the Christmas hols I’d had some sad news about an old friend. It's here, and it's sad, so feel free to skip straight to the scopes below. In my ongoing quest to find the meaning of life, I once spent three years working as a seasonal gardener. It was at a property here in England and involved a lot of mowing, weeding, sawing things now and again, more mowing, pruning roses, weeding and yet more mowing. And did I mention the mowing? Anyhoo, for those three years I worked with Alan, the head gardener, and Sam who was Alan’s all year round right hand man. Sam was a hard nut to crack. He was tough as boots on first impression, and I thought, found me to be a naïve dolt. One day, early in that first season, I had taken affront with the boys. They’d ignored me when I arrived at work and I was tired of their little boys club of two. When they offered to lift and carry and push the barrows I told them that I maybe a girlie but I was strong - and back-breaking as it was I matched them barrow-load for barrow-load. At lunchtime, Sam asked if I was alright and I said No! I told him I didn’t care if they liked me or not but at least they could be polite and say hello when I turned up. ‘But I didn’t see you,’ he said. ‘Bollocks,’ said I. ‘I was right in front of you.’ ‘Honestly, I didn’t…’ and with that he disappeared. Twenty minutes later Sam came back with a flower that he had carved out of two pieces of twig using the knife he always kept in his pocket. ‘I thought this would cheer you up,’ he said. It was beautiful – and what a way to make a breakthrough. That lunch break I apologised to both of them for being a twat – and after that the three of us became a happy family. Sam and I were like pesky kids always up to mischief, and Alan the Daddy bear who gave us tasks to do and reprimanded us when we became too hyper. These were halcyon days. Sam and I would chase each other across the grounds on our tractors, squirting water from two litre bottles as we roared passed each other. On rainy days we would retreat to the windowless Shed and drink tea and go stir crazy. One afternoon it was raining stair rods. Alan told us to clean and oil the deck to the tractor in the workshop, and then he disappeared. After half an hour we were bored stupid and were chasing each other around with oil cans. A tinny radio was blaring away in the corner and all of a sudden Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl came on and we burst out into the rain and began to cartwheel and dance until we were soaked to the skin.

In the Autumn, we’d rake the leaves into great piles in the back of the trailer and then dive into them. In the winter Sam taught me how to flail ditches and lay hedges. Some of those gardening days were the happiest of my life. I remember once helping Sam pollard a tree that was growing into overhead cables. He was 30 feet up in the air, moving with such grace and cutting with such precision, I was on the ground pulling on the rope whenever he told me to. Sam could tell you the names of all the trees and the birds, the grasses on the meadows. He loved dragonflies and damsel flies, played guitar in a band, and even made his own guitar. He was brilliant, and he was my hero.

I moved away four years ago and we all lost touch. Then this December, I was heading to see some pals and happened to be driving right passed the gates to the gardens. I knew it would be funny as anything to rock up at the door of The Shed and catch them on a tea break. But it wasn’t to be. As I pulled into the grounds, I bumped into the house manager. She told me that Alan was on holiday – but when I asked about Sam, she shook her head. Sam had committed suicide the previous year.

We never socialised outside of work, so I may never knew what drew him down to such darkness. I knew he was married and had three children that he adored. But somehow he lost his way and in those terrible moments he forgot the laughter, and how much he inspired others, and how happy he made us.

I wish Sam had found his way. I always thought I’d see him again. Perhaps I already have somewhere in nature. Wherever you are, hero and friend, I was blessed to know you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFXcHD0z3ZY

You have a beautiful and inspired week, and I look forward to seeing you back here next Sunday xx

Aries
For you, Ram, Capricorn rules your natural Zone of Success. Patience isn’t one of your most obvious characteristics but when it comes to the boardroom table, the career ladder, and making sure you Walk Tall and Feel Proud, then you can commit to get to the top. You’re ambitious with the goals you set for yourself and generally realistic, but when you fall short it hurts. Mercury’s uiiee through this Zone right now may be frustrating, but it appears that a piece of dem puzzle has gone missing and you need to retrace your steps / re-read the manual. Absorb like a sponge Monday/Tuesday, flag up the spondoolies issues from Monday, then get it altogether for a launch on the 18th.

Taurus
The Goat is a Cosmic Friend of the Bull, both being earth signs, and so the current stellar focus on Capricorn is suiting you well. This 9th house governs your foreign, studious, and long-term plans and the attention of the Sun and Mercury here suggests that thoughts of money and your mudhut are shaping your decisions on whether to travel and study (and where to go) and where you’d like to be living and by what means, at some specific point, somewhere down the road. This is all sounding a bit general, but it isn’t. Yes these thoughts grow stronger during cycles like this, but your ruler here along with the Moon’s Nodes mean that decisions you’re taking now are some of the Biggest you’ve taken in a while. This week follow the Mercury flow and explore and cogitate. Decision time isn’t here yet.

Gemini
The Cosmic Goat rules your zone of Sex, Death, and Taxes, aka Letting Go. It seems that right now conversations are stirring up some of your own issues and old hang ups. Not fun I should coco, but there is a Bright Shiny Cosmic Lesson within: Stop hanging your baggage on someone else’s coat hook. What is it Airy Friend, that you block from entering your life when you second guess others - Love. Money. Intimacy. Attention. Sensuality. Grapes peeled for you as you laze on a hearthside rug? Do yersen a favour. Concentrate on the attributed excuses that pop out of your mouth and beat the habit out of yourself if necessary. The minute you catch yourself saying, ‘But you wouldn’t want…’ Stop. Hammertime.

Cancer
The Cosmic Floodlights are beaming all sorts of attention into your 7th house of close One to Onesies. Having a Goat ruling this zone means by nature you take emotional commitments seriously and like order and reliability in your partnerships. No spooked horses for you, Crab! You also rather like holding on, wanting to Make Things Better, even when the ship has sunk. The Cosmic focus right now is asking you to rethink your strategy when allowing People In – whether that’s for bizniz or pleasure partnerships. Are you getting what you wish for? Are you being met halfway? Are you being authentically You – or simply repeating the patterns of your parents (or regularly falling in love with Parent Substitutes, hmmm)? Concentrate on conflabs early this week. You’ll need the data to hand next week.

Leo
The Cosmic Goat rules your Zone of Health and Work, your Majesty. This means you have a rugged constitution and a dedication to duty (and/or finding the knaves to do the duties for you. American friends, please note that I said duties and not dooties). With your ruler The Sun in this Zone at the moment you should be feeling vital in body and motivated in the office. Add Venus and Mercury to the picture and you have a comforting and inspiring panorama stretching out in front of you displaying your successes and dearest wishes – past, present, and future – along with a sense of being Bang on the Money. All gravy. What you can do to help yourself now is plan the next phase of your development (especially early this week) – but not sign anything, especially where the royal groats are concerned. That can all begin next week.

Virgo
As with The Bull, the Goat is a Cosmic Friend of the Virgin. You are all earth signs and so the current stellar focus in Capricorn is suiting you well. Your raison d’etre right now is to sort the wheat from the chaff where lovers, creative ventures, and breeding or brood-raising are concerned. What’s going on now is Hugely Important. You’re laying stepping stones to create a path into the future and they need to be rock solid under foot and Real For You. You fear that you can’t get things as you want them, that you’ll have to follow the beat of someone else’s drum because ‘that’s the way it always is’. But stop. This is tosh and tomfoolery. There’s some talking to be done early this week. Decisions are coming next week, and they’ll be yours. It’s time to accept that you’re Master of Your Own Life.

Libra
Capricorn the Goat rules the base of your chart giving you a Rock Solid Foundation and sense of belonging whenever you need it. Ruled by Saturn, Goats take things seriously, value values (if you see what I’m sayin’), and have a sense of duty when it comes to home, family, and ancestry. Having a Mountain Goat as your cosmic bottom means you feel secure enough to go wherever you choose, so long as the family are being supportive… From the comfort of your settee right now, shiny ideas for the future are being shaped by outside influences: friends, groups, and social networks are giving you ideas and inspiration for How Things Could Be. First up, you need to get along with the idea that you can be head of your own tribe. From then on you can take that confidence out into the Big Wide World.

Scorpio
The Cosmic Goat is the guvna of your eclectic 3rd house and he’s the master of the way you travel and the way you tawky tawky. The cosmic fairy dust right now is singing brightly that it’s time to re-evaluate your wishes and to do so authoritatively. Mercury’s retrograde is chucking out ideas for transformation; conversations, books, things you’re hearing on the wireless are offering inspiration for shake ups. Chew them over. Bizniz or lovin’ relationships forged now play a part in this transformation and can help you get where you want to get. Your job is to talk and listen early this week, to explore (even literally) next week, and then make moves the week after. If that includes buying modes of transport, wait until after the 18th.

Sagittarius
The Cosmic Goat is your head banker, Archer. In contrast to your adventurous and spontaneous nature, this means that where dosh and possessions are concerned, your inner banker values prudence and saving for a rainy day and penny jars in case of emergencies. Right now the Sun and Venus in your piggy bank should be helping you feel buoyant about cash. Work seems to be bringing home the bacon and you’re saving up the money you need to travel/study/disappear off to Morocco and develop a yurt camp for alternative backpackers. Watch out for the temptation to shift money around right now, especially if prompted by partners. Let Mercury’s uiiee give you cause for reflection for another 12 days but not action. The information you need has not yet fully come to light.

Capricorn
The current cosmic floodlights are following you around the house, Goat, and not giving you a moment’s peace. But they’re on your side. The Sun and Venus are conspiring to show you brightly that the key you need to kick start the transformation you desire is you. Mercury is urging you to re-evaluate the job you do and whether it’s going to get you to the place you want to be – whether that’s a literal geographic move or a metaphorical one. And the lunar nodes are throbbing each time you take a step closer to realising that your one to onesies – good or bad – are a mirror of where you’re at emotionally. Early this week contemplate or debate the options you have vz changing your working life so you can Get to that Distant Shore. No decisions, just think. Next week your meditations can stretch to include lovers, chilun, and creativity too.

Aquarius
The Woodshed at the bottom of your mind’s garden is being lit up like a football pitch, Inventive One. Wounds and poysonality ticks and fears are lined up on the shelves in clear view of all who pass by. Normally this would be a terrifying thing, how vulnerable. How mortifying! And yet, you know as sure as eggs is eggs, that going through this as openly and courageously as you can is going to make you a stronger bunny – not in years hence, but mere weeks. Task One: early this week expect conversations/thoughts/revelations to centre on love affairs that have ended and the changes happening to you on account of your children. Let the pictures and words unfold like a film of someone else’s life and watch them with (slightly) detached fascination. Next week your meditations can turn to partnerships and homelife and how asking for help is often the best way to get it.

Pisces
Friends and social opportunities are in abundance for you under the current skies, Fish. Your 11th house of Socialising and Wishes is lit up like a Christmas Tree. Be careful what you wish for this month as you just might get it. This week reversing Mercury links up to the Sun. Partnership working in your work-a-day world, thoughts of family and partnership float up, and home decoration comes up for discussion and inspiration. Entertaining at home is high on your list of favourite things, Miss Andrews, and should include invites to family and partners. From next week your fish tank has a much more cosmopolitan flavour and open door policy. Community get togethers are positively cheering, there are plans for Summer holidays on the agenda too, and the hint of high times with lovers, chilun, and creative adventures by month’s end. Phew.

January 2010

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A BIIIG month, peepies... New Year lands with the first of the month’s two eclipses, Mars and Mercury continue their backwards ho!, the Sun and Venus hoof into Aquarius, Jupiter changes sign for the first time in a year, Saturn heads backwards from mid-month, and the Saturn square Pluto irksomeness is exact once again at month’s end. Ay caramba! Before all of that though: Erratum, bish. This ‘Strologer made a woopsie vz Mercury’s current uiiee. His backwards ho remains in Capricorn and doesn’t slide back into Sadge mid-Jan as I’d mistakenly charted for some of you in the 14 – 28 December forecast. Sorry. For corrected Mercury news see Mercury Woopsie below.

Tune of the month: Astroducky had some sad news about an old friend during the hols. I would like to share it with you next time. I find that during changing times music can be The Thing that helps you work it all out, not just the words, but the feelings the tunes evoke. This time it was James Taylor that came to my aid. I’ve chosen Carolina In My Mind… it’s a song about returning and seems pertinent at a time when we’re in a Mars and Mercury retrograde season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gic6B-B6rpg&feature=related

Weeklies back on Sunday. Stay warm and dry. Have a great New Year’s Eclipse x

Aries
The New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 4th house of home and family and these will be some of the cosmic pointy signposts that shape your path in 2010. For some Rams it’s house moving and improving your mudhut, for others it will getting to the bottom of icky family dynamics, for others a parting of some kind regarding parents. In January news: your ruler Mars will remain in reverse thrust all month and you may find you’re backwards in coming forwards when it comes to aligning yourself with ting dat mekka you feel good. Progress that matches your desires vz lovers, chilun, and creative potato painting exhibitions may seem hard to come by. Mid-month Mercury turns to forwards ho and the New Moon Eclipse in your 10th house of success suggests that you can really make progress in new bidniz ventures from then on. Around the same time Jupiter shifts into your 12th house of Meep! and Venus and then the Sun dock in your 11th house of dreams. Things you’ve felt too insecure to wish for become attainable. Set your sails high and go for your dreams fearlessly after this date. Networking is your current Soup du Jour. Mercury Woospie: Thoughts and conflabs about Success are due all month, including rethinks and revisits up until the 16th. Old bizniz partners may be back in the frame. Launch nothing until Monday 18th.

Taurus
The New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 3rd house of communications, short distance travel, and bros and sisses and these areas are cosmic hotspots for you in 2010. Getting confident about how you speak is part of the picture, emotional moments with bros and sisses will be on the cards for some Bulls, and for all Bulls out of town jaunts and commuting are 2010’s modus operandi. In other news: The planets are gathering in your 9th and 10th houses in January. Study and broadening your horizons are opening new doors to success – watch Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 13th for developments but with Mercury in reverse thrust until 16th, make ne promises pas until Monday 18th. Jupiter moves into your 11th house of friends and networks on the 19th just as the Sun and your ruler Venus dock in your 10th house of success. Money and progress can be made but friends, and pushing on with networking such as through social netwhoring sites will help you along tremendously. Saturn’s station direct in your 6th house of health and work on the 14th means that you need to revisit which aspects of these are trussing you up in the harbour when you’re so keen to set sail. Crack on with the review. The tide will be high in July and you’ll need to be seaworthy. Mercury Woopsie: The Airy messenger is reversing in your 9th house of study, philosophy, long range plans, travel, publishing, and law. Delays and rethinks are par for the course in these areas. Sign nada until the 18th January.

Gemini
The New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 2nd house and ooof and possessions will be some of the cosmic features shaping your dreams in 2010. Certainly Airy friends who are feeling the pinch at this indulgent time of year will be geared to redouble their efforts to earn more in 2010 from the New Year’s starting pistol. Right now Venus, the Sun, and your reversing ruler Mercury are all in your 8th house of cash, money, lettuce. Raises on the day job, re-mortgaging, consolidating your loans, cashing in on savings – all these things should be under review as ways of straightening out your finances. For many Geminis moonlighting could be the way to go – whether that’s writing jingles for local radio ads or starting blogging of an evening. The 8th rules freelance commissions too, so seek and apply. Anytime after the 18th is Your Time to mekka progress. From the 19th Jupiter moves into your 10th house of success starting a year long cycle of expansion. Jupiter can lead to overconfidence – so be wary of the delusional Icarus Factor. That said, unless going to extremes you should enjoy a year of career progress. Around the 19th the Sun and Venus move into your 9th house of publishing, study, learning, long distance travel and future plans. If you can get to a beach and plan your shiny future then do so. Otherwise, consider how re-training can give you the competitive edge in 2010. Mercury Whoopsie: Oof, spondoolies, dough. Where’ve you been taking your eye off the ball? It’s time to reflect and to explore new ways of getting your fiscal hoojah on an even keel.

Cancer
The New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 1st house of You, Yourself, and You and 2010 will be a year of breathing in, breathing out, and breathing new life into a New Look You. Ruled by the Moon you’ll be feeling the rising tides already, Crab. These sorts of emotional highs can make you feel you can do anything – or conversely, reveal the things you wish you could do if you weren’t so scared / hiding behind the settee. Prepare to harness these highs during 2010 and to come out from behind the settee, with lovers and close one to onesies as motivating factors and inspiration. Even as we speak, the Sun, Venus and reversing Mercury are churning up attention and focus in your 7th house of one to onesies. There are loving spoonfuls around if you need them – but you’ll have to get out from behind the settee and ask. Eeek! Happily, the New Moon eclipse in this same zone on the 15th January should give you a helping leg up if you need one. Across town: Jupiter’s high jump into your 9th house of study, travel, teaching, and long range planning from the 19th ushers in a year of luck and joy in these areas. If you’ve needed to feel optimistic about the future, Jupiter sez here it comes. It’s likely to be work oriented. Mercury Woopsie: It’s time to tawk about love stuff and say the things that you didn’t say when you wanted to say them last time but were too tongue tied. Bizniz partners could be back with a new take on an old project too.

Leo
The New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 12th house of Meep! And putting fear behind you and facing up to your inner gremlins will be one of the cosmic features that shapes your path in 2010, Pussy Cat. No-one likes to stir the poop that we’ve swept into the grubby stairwell of our subconscious. However, if it’s causing you problems in the Here and Now, then a clear out is required. How else can you embrace the present with as much energy and vitality and wide-eyed joy as we all wish to do? Well here is 2010. This year the eclipses fall across your 12th and 6th houses: as below so above – in other words it’s time to identify what’s in the grubby stairwell and how that’s impacting negatively on your health, your daily routines, and your working life and relationships. As we greet 2010 your ruler the Sun, along with Venus and a reversing Mercury, are in your 6th house of work and health. Likely you are already considering what’s working and what isn’t in these areas. By mid month, when Mercury stations direct and Saturn heads backwards it will be a good time to get a review with a boss figure, doctor, acupuncturist, hopi ear candle colonic irrigation expert and thrash out a plan to detox and revitalise yourself on the emotional, spiritual, and physical levels between now and the Sun arriving with you at the end of July. Finally for now: Jupiter’s move into Pisces from the 19th augurs in a time of financial expansion. Make it creative. Even investing in art ticks cosmic boxes. Mercury Woopsie: Health and work niggles and a lack of answers are with you. Review and rethink then make appointments to iron out the wrinkles from 18th January.

Virgo
The New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 11th house of friends, networking, and wishes and these areas will shape your dreams in 2010. Full Moons signify a culmination of some kind. So the 31st of December means one helluva party or a crisis moment with a friend / sadness that something you’ve wished for hasn’t come to pass. Let ig go. Make room for new dreams. Across town, the planets are stacked up in your zone of lovers, chilun, and creative projects. While it may feel good, your ruler Mercury is in stubborn reverse so clear decisions aren’t forthcoming. By the 19th the picture looks rosier. Things begin to make sense, work projects are bringing satisfaction, and even health is improving. On this day too Jupiter heads on up to your 7th house of one to onesies bringing luck, expansion and the feel good factor to partnerships. Having the planet of luck rising over your horizon means that it’ll be through partnership working in the coming 12 months that your confidence and sense of self can grow. Finally for now, Saturn’s reverse in your 2nd house of earned income from the 14th means the raise you’d hoped for may not be immediately forthcoming. Plan for new approaches to investments and earnings from July. Mercury Woopsie: Your ruler is reversing in your zone of lovers, chilun, and creative whatsit. Confusion, missed emails, unexpected news from old flames or vz former potato painting plans are par for the course. Review and cogitate then push forwards from 18th January.

Libra
The New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 10th house of success; Making it in the Big Wide World will be one of the cosmic motivations that shapes your 2010. The Full Moon means a culmination so if your current Board Room Table won’t getchu where you wanna get, then your New Year’s Eve toast-to-self should be to spend 2010 finding opportunities to scale your chosen career ladder. Across town and there’s activity aplenty in your 4th house of home and family including the solar eclipse of the 15th January. There’s likely to have been love and good times around hearth and home over the Christmas bunfight but with Mercury retrograding here, conversations might have stirred up old issues without anything being settled just yet. From the 19th there’s a shift coming. Jupiter moves into your zone of health and work for a year bringing luck and energy. At the same time, the Sun and Venus, your ruler, dock in your 5th house of squeezes, chilun, and creative tingaling. Single Librans, get ready to mingle and shine. Coupled up Librans, kiddiwinks and chilun are in the frame. All Librans, it’s time to get musical and creative. Mercury Woopsie: Postpone buying and selling property until after the 18th as the small print doesn’t stack up under these stars. Likewise improving or renting the spare room should wait until then or you’ll attract the time-wasters. Old news from family needs to be revisited for answers after the 18th.

Scorpio
The New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 9th house of travel, study, and Big Future Plans kick-starting your 2010 with some cosmic signposts to help shape your dreams in the coming 12 months. For some Scorpios New Year will represent a door firmly closing in one of these areas. Fear not. Where one door closes, another opens, and for all Scorpios this Full Moon at warp factor 11 will help you gird your loins to embark on Courageous Adventures in the coming year. Across town: and the Sun, Venus, and reversing Mercury are all partying hard in your 3rd house of gadding, chinwagging, and bros and sisses. Lovers, bizniz partners, and career plans are favourite subjects for visiting and debating – however pixie Mercury is making hearing clearly a tall order. Pardon? Expect to recap on miscommunications and unread emails come the 18th January. In other news: Saturn’s reversing in your 12th house of Meep and your karmic cleansing process gets less tortuous. For Now. Plus, lucky Jupiter arrives on the 19th in your 5th house of lovers, chilun, and creative tingaling. Single Scorps, the world is your dating site. Coupled up Scorps, bebes and children become a source of joy and happiness in the coming 12th months. And for all Scorps, finger painting, playing the spoons, and general creativity are where it’s at. Mercury Woopsie: Conversations don’t quite hit the mark and some leave more questions than when you started. Unexpected news from bros and sisses lands. Travel problems, trains cancelled, cars breaking down when there’s nothing wrong. Computers crashing. All yours until the 18th January. Molto libre.

Sagittarius
New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 8th house of Big Cash and Letting Go so lettuce and transformation will be key cosmic features in your 2010. The 8th house rules sex, death, and taxes. The heightened emotions of the Full Moon eclipse suggest that where you’ve been holding on to something unhealthy and not letting go, you’ll Know It, sure as sugar. Money crises / realisations arise under these cosmic climates (pertaining to mortgages, loans, freelance commissions, that sort of cashola) and passions will be heightened too. Oobah around now could be positively on fire. Wink. Across town: the planets are lining up in your 2nd house of earned income. There’s money coming in but it’s under review and there’s questions to be asked – like are you earning enough to cover the fall out of the Big 8th house Cash Lettuce issues? Archers could be looking to change roles and go for the money by the time of the New Moon Eclipse on 15th January. Mars is still stalling in your zone of foreign shores, study, legal whatnot, and long range planning. Take a break in these areas. You can book holidays, training courses, and lawyers from March when he’s back in the driving seat. Finally, the big shift coming for you on 19th of the month is Jupiter’s skidaddle into Pisces for a year long stay. Your cheery, adventurous ruler brings optimism wherever he goes – and mid-month he knocks and enters your zone of home and family. There’s expansion and luck afoot here, and investing in property will be a winner for some Archers. Mercury Woopsie: Mercury’s reversing in your second house of earned income. Stall negotiations here until after the 18th. You won’t have all the facts and bizniz partners could be fudging or just plain ignorant themselves.

Capricorn
The New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 7th house of close one to onesies and Letting Others In is your soup du jour throughout 2010. This year’s eclipses fall across your 1st and 7th house axis emphasising your need to cut poor relationships out, recognise the mirror that close one to onesies can be, and to help yourself evolve into the You you Want To Be by choosing supportive partners wisely. The New Moon eclipse of the 15th January lands in your first house of You and you’ll be gearing up in the days that follow to grow more fully okay with yourself. New Year’s Eve is an emotional crescendo that will help lead to that. If your one to onesies are good, it’s a time to celebrate. If they’re not, it’s a time to realise you have to make room for something better to arrive. Conversations on the 5th and 13th present opportunities to state things more clearly. Venus and the Sun are with you, so there’s love and support around when you need it. In other news: Your ruler does a uiiee on the 14th in your 10th house of success until July. If career plans slow down, or boss figures drag their heels on your promotion, this is why. Forewarned is forearmed. Mercury Woopsie: The winged pixie is reversing in your first house of You until the 16th meaning you are bewildered and misunderstood at times. Wait until after the 18th to clear it up and try to avoid writing anything of importance until then too.

Aquarius
The New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 6th house of work and health and these are two areas to focus your brilliant mind in 2010. A Full Moon represents a culmination so for Inventive Ones feeling the peak of an ache or pain, it’s time for you to stop being a martyr and seek help. For others, work projects could reach a crescendo, and some Airy Ones will be cutting the ties that bind and heading off to find something more appropriate and stimulating. What’s good to know – if you’re planning a move – is that Jupiter, planet of luck and expansion, is moving into your zone of earned income from 19th of January. If you’ve wanted to find an income boost, here it comes. This year’s eclipses fall across your 6th and 12th houses. It’s a time to work out what makes you tick and then use that knowledge to create a life that helps your tickiness thrive. If your working life is playing havoc with your health and sense of well being, that needs to be righted too. Homeostasis, Aquarius. That’s your watchword for 2010. For Aquariuses feeling a bit under par, the Sun and Venus come getcha from the 18th. Pencil wild parties and dancing on tables with the ones you love from then. Finally for now, Mars’s continuing reversal means partners are being stubborn or obstructive. It’s a long process and won’t be righted until March. Patience is a virtue. Mercury Woopsie: The pixie is doing a uiiee in your 12th house of Meep. Information you need or expressing yourself clearly won’t be with you until he arrives in your 1st house of You from 11th February.

Pisces
The New Year’s Eve Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 5th house of lovers, chilun, and creative ting and these areas have special cosmic significance to you in 2010. Being a watery type, you’ll know that the Full Moon brings with it a culmination. For you Fishy, you cold be seeing red with naughty chilun or tricky lovers, or feeling fit to burst with joy with delightful chilun and gorgeous lovers. The Sun and Venus, currently doing a tour of dooty in your 11th house of wishes and friends suggest that you know what you want (wish for) and that you’ve friends to celebrate with on Hogmanay. For Fishes who aren’t happy with their wash vz chilun and lovers and creative ting, your wishing moon this year is a Solar Eclipse happyhaps on the 15th January. What irks you tomorrow night can be a signpost towards that special wishing moon. In other Bright and Shiny news: Jupiter is coming to play for a whole year! Yes, from 19th January, the feelgood planet of expansion and luck moves into your first house of You, Yourself and You. You may not feel the full benefit until the Venus and Sun have traversed your deep, quiet 12th house towards the middle and end of February, but he’ll be there! Finally for now, Mars’s reverse thrust can mean work projects are stalling. They’ll be cranked up and ready to motor from March, just in time for your birthday burst of energy. Mercury Woopsie: Old friends popping up. Old dreams getting re-discussed. Problems with arranging things with friends. This is your Mercury season. It’ll be back to normal service from the 18th. Harroo.

January 2010 Scopes due on 30th December

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How has Christmas treated you and vice versa? Hope you've learned a New Way of seeing things in all the flurry, and that you're still smiling. Ducky, is on the road over the next few days avisitin folk. January 2010 horoscopes will be up on the 30th in time for the New Year's Eve eclipse cominacha at 10 degrees Cancer. Take it easy all, and especially Crabs and Lions, xx

The Christmas Advent Fortnight, yaroo!

2009-12-14T12:50:00.002Z

Firstly, apologies for the delay in posting. Having driven 600+ miles in under 36 hours, Ducky’s mind wasn’t up to the job. Now tea and some time before the next journey and we’re under starters orders. There’s a wholelottacosmichoojah going on in the coming fortnight, some icky, some surprising, some quayte nayce. Mars and Mercury hoof backwards and the Sun and Venus dock in Capricorn. We’ve a New Moon in Sagittarius this week. Plus Pluto, Saturn, and Uranus are taking us all onto the dance floor, even if our blisters are throbbing… Christmas Day is presided over by a less than peachy Saturn link. Grouchiness and lectures about thriftiness are comingacha. Life is worth more than what’s in your bank vaults isn’t it? Try and let Saturn’s phoee spat on Christmas Day be a positive thing and a reminder of that.

You have a cool yule. And with that it’s back on the road. Taters x

Aries
If you can hum the words to ‘Do you know the way to San Jose’ a few times this fortnight, you’ll have your raison d’etre down Ram face. Not only is the emphasis on travel, study and broadening your horizons but about whether that will realistically getchu where you wanna get. You’re not one for ‘avin your dreams compromised but it may do you some good to note that almost all of those ordinary looking people you see at the check out buying a turkey have their dreams too. We do. On the 15th 20th & 21st focus on your dreams (and have a blast with friends too). Then 24th and 28th note what transpires as these days offer windows to your Big Success. Concentrate HARD and fine tune / cut off what needs to be tuned/cut off so you get there more easily. Mars your ruler retrogrades on the 21st. You need to slow down vz lovers and chilun. It’s time to renegotiate your part in their bigger schemes. Finally Christmas Day and kids and partners (or new and old lovers) are annoying each other. Play good fairy. Find some common ground, even if it’s having them laugh at you.

Taurus
Money’s in the frame Bull. You know you need it to succeed – and alternatively, feeling it between your fingers is one of the factors in making you feel successful. Right now you’re parting with it and you feel uncomfortable about that. In 2010 Bulls are aiming to broaden their horizons – with publishing, travel, and study. First you need to get your money ducks in a row. For days when you know that what you’re doing now won’t pay the piper: Monday 14th, Sunday 20th and Tuesday 29th. For days when the shiny future lifts your spirits and you see rainbows: 15th, 21st, 24th and 28th. Pertinently, this week’s New Moon in Sadge brings you a cosmic leaf turning opportunity vz your big cash, lettuce. Wednesday write down what you need financially to get feeling good – be honest even if it’s crazy biiig money – then prepare to move it move it. You’ll have to pay your bills and settle your Christmas debts in the next few weeks but you’ll be heading in the right direction.

Gemini
With Mercury your winged ruler already slowing in preparation for making the turn, you may feel that you can’t keep up with all that you want to be doing. What ducky would like to warn you of right away is money. In all the blur and sparkle of the Christmas frenzy watch out for what you’re doing with your money. Bills are coming back just at this peak spending time of the year, the buy now pay later whatsit is coming. There are some great opportunities for earning coming up soon Airy, (watch 24th and 28th for clues) but don’t spend it til you’ve got it. A stitch in time, Airy friend, a look before you leap into the plastic fantastic. Word. Across town: Lovers are being tricky and beautiful in turn. Lovers make you frown or spit: Monday 14th, Sunday 20th. Lovers lift your spirits by being helpful: 15th x2, 20th. Christmas Day the kids want more than they’ve got. To take their mind off it all give them a job to do, like finishing the sprouts.

Cancer
Work has been carayzee busy these past few weeks – but just as we’re heading into Christmas, your lovelife starts getting some attention. Being a psychic in tune spooky sort of critter, you’ll be feeling a rising tide in your water of the impact Love is going to be having on you and your reef in the coming 12 months. Eclipses are all over the shop, Clawface, and that means drama and change and being vulnerable and all the things that make you run for the back of the sofa. New Year’s eve, the starter’s pistol goes off. Between now and then, thoughts of what you miss and what you need are clear: 22nd, 24th, 26th, 28th. (24 & 28th are biggies: keep a chair to hand in case you need to sit down.) The Hugeness of the journey you need to take hits you: 14th, 20th, 25th and 29th. What’s key to getting this the right way up Crab, is to work with Mercury’s retrograde. Things you wish you’d said have a chance to pop out. Get negotiating from the 27th but expect the process to be on-going for at least eight weeks.

Leo
Pussy Cat, howya? The planets have been stacking up in your 5th house of fun and self-expression… and just as Christmas hones in to view, off they trot into your 6th house of work and health – and service to others… what?! Service?! To others! Pah! Oh your beauteous feline. Yes. There seems to be a chance for this Christmas to be less about you and your tiara and more about making sure others are doing just fine. See it as a way of you being a strong and sturdy (glorious) rockface while the rest of us are a little wobbled by the cosmic dusts. Patience is a virtue as lovers and chilun go wappy: 14th and 20th. The 24th and 28th are your days to shine as helper and colleague. Try not to get frazzled or cross: 25th and 29th. And your reward: Lovers are ‘tastic on the 15th, 20th and 21st. Oooh. Smoochy.

Virgo
Focus on homelife and family starts to lift in the coming fortnight with more cosmic emphasis on your 5th house of funsies. Single Virgos need to take off their plastering overalls and get some shiny dancey pants on. And Virgos who’ve been tied down with family responsibilities might actually have time for the kids’ nativity or some potato painting pleasures. Homelife thoughts reach their peak: 15th, the New Moon of the 16th, and Monday 21st when partners change their minds. Some Virgos will be moving that day. The big days for fun with lovers or kids are around 23 - 24th and 28th but fun clashes with tightening your £s on the 25th and 29th. Your ruler Mercury’s retrograde from the 27th may bring news from former lovers… then takes your attentions back to homelife in the New Year. Reviews and news are due. Fact find and agree to nada until the 18th of January.

Libra
Saturn’s docked in your 1st house of you, yourself and you for the first time in 30 years so if you’re feeling the baa humbugs right now, that’ll be his influence. Christmas Day and the 29th are the peaks of his irritation so at least you may get to let your hair down and crack a smile by New Year’s Eve. There’s been a huge amount of toing and froing – some Librans may have even bought themselves some new wheels in the past month, but in the coming fortnight emphasis shifts to home and family. The 23rd and 28th are real denouement moments, and likely beautiful ones when you feel a sense of belonging and the comfort and holiness of that. Enjoy and savour. Monday 21st is your night for beauteous lovin moments with a squeeze or heart-warming feelings with the sprogs. Across town: Mercury’s uiiee moves the planet of chitty chat from your home and family department back to your zone of out of town travel and chinwagging. Expect to have more miles to cover in early 2010, Scales.

Scorpio
For you the emphasis on earning is starting to shift towards an emphasis on your 3rd house of bros and sisses, communications, and out of town jaunts. First up: the New Moon of the 16th lands in your piggy bank. It is time, deep and meaningful one, to crawl out of your deep chambers and Get Real about cashola. You know it. Now you need to do it. Watch the 14th and 20th for wake up calls. Family could be part of the solution: watch the 15th, 20th and 21st for helping hands. Mars’s reversal on the 21st happyhaps in your 10th house of fame and career. Now’s the time to review what Success means to you, and whether you need to include dough in that more clearly. Get ready for a relaunch in the Spring. Aussi, Mercury’s uuiee from the 27th takes the planet of chitty chat from your 3rd house of chitty chat into your 2nd house of money. What you decide vz cashola now should be negotiated and signed from 18th January and not before. Finally: Saturn’s in your 12th house and over the festive bunfight he clashes with the Sun and Venus on the 25th and 29th; the gluttony of Christmas and the tightness of your belt is going to irk you. Decide what it is you want to change and make an action plan over a turkey and cranberry sandwich.

Sagittarius
Archer, you’ve been under the baking spotlights for over a month now. This culminates this week with Wednesday’s New Moon in your first house of you, yourself and you. Make a wish for how you wish to grow and write it down. In the coming fortnight the planets shoofty into your 2nd house of earned income and possessions – and it’s time to begin a looksee into how much you need to be happy and whether you’re getting the beans you need to live. Mars’s reversal in your 9th house of future plans, study, publishing and travel suggests that you need to bring some fire to these areas of your life – with a launch date in the Spring. Mercury’s reversal from this 2nd house takes the planet of chitty chat back into your 1st house. What gorgeous cosmic whatsit – like a Chrissy present from the galaxy. Back at work in the New Year it’s time to negotiate your salary, Sadge, and look to be striking deals after 18th January and not before. Finally cash irks you this festive season because you haven’t got the cash you’d like: watch 25th and 29th for being a partypooper. Charades, walks in the countryside, or finger and potato painting are fun, you know, and won’t burst the bank.

Capricorn
Energy has been hard to come by. Now at last you can start to feel alive thanks to the Sun and Venus, landing with you on the 22nd and 26th respectively. This week then, keep it reeled in and watch out for losing your rag and saying too much on the 14th and 20th. And on Christmas Day and the 29th, when your ruler Saturn clashes with the Sun and then Venus, there’s heaviness in your heart connected to family and lovers/children. Absence of those you love may make Christmas a more sombre affair this year. Across town: Money news looks good on the 20th and 21st – which isn’t the case for a lot of the other star signs at this time of year especially! And finally: Mercury’s uiieee moves the planet of tawk from your 1st house of You, yourself and you to your 12th house of Meep! Expect to feel misunderstood. You’ll be able to state your case more clearly when the Christmas decs are down and all the turkey sandwiches have been finished by mid-Jan…

Aquarius
A big blissful moment is cominacha on the 21st, Inventive Friend. Neptune and Jupiter meet up in your first house of you, yourself, and you and you feel you could walk on water – or at least feel the inner thoughts of every other soul on earth. This is Big and Beautiful and may not be tangible but will imbue you with trust. Not to say that the choral aaahh is going to stand alone. There’s Christmas and frenetic whatsit to dive into… Partners and big deals seem to be backsliding from the 21st, this will pick up again in the Spring. Money and wishes clash on the 14th and 20th. The 24th and 28th bring fears up for a looksee but watch as you can knock ‘em down like skittles. And finally: Mercury’s uiiee heads from your 12th house of Meep! Into your 11th house of wishes. Information you’ve needed lands in the New Year.

Pisces
There’s been a sharp focus in your board room table of late. Now though, planets are starting to congregate in your 11th house of pow wowing, bunfights, and wishes. Just in time for the party season and New Year wishes. Hoorah fish! First up: you may need to make some changes to goalposts vz satisfying the others at the boardroom table on the 14th and 20th. In fact, the New Moon of the 16th will help you do just that. And on the 21st, there’s a cosmic shot to the arm as Jupiter and Neptune hook up again in your 12th house of Meep! Suddenly the things that have frightened you seem to be your friends after all, steering you towards a path of enlightenment. Mercury’s uuiiee means that you’ll be catching up with pals you haven’t seen for a while. But back at work in the New Year, there’ll be more negotiating to do in the boardroom until mid-January. Money woes land with a thud: 25th and 29th. Think about how the negotiating might help solve this…

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2009-12-13T23:17:00.001Z

'Scopes for 14 - 28 December 2009 due up by 1pm GMT on Monday 14th... strong tea and a dash of fortitude!

Onwards.

This week

2009-12-07T00:23:00.002Z

One of ‘Ducky’s favreeet sayings is, ‘Stand in your Truth’ as in face what’s what pertaining to yersen. Yes, mmmhmm, suh. Not easy but most definitely worthwhile… This week, when the Thing that Needs to be Faced pops up, back off at your peril. Under these skies only fools ignore the Big Kahuna that’s right under their nose, and they’ll pay by missing the lesson and carrying the memory of opportunity lost as a weight between their ears. This all happyhaps Monday – the same day that the Moon sleepy sleepy in Leo all day. What’s decided Monday won’t stick. Wait up ‘til Tuesday and with Facts Faced, action can begin by Thursday. At the weekend, curve ball miester, Uranus, has a trick in store. For where you should brace, brace for the unexpected see: No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement, below.

More next week, Tatty x

Astroducky is working on the 2010 ANNUAL FORECASTS this week. These are four-page previews for each star sign of when to move it, shake it, or lie down and take it easy during the next 12 months. Reports include a heads up for Eclipses, retrogrades, grey clouds, and sunshiny days. If you’ve got plans to hatch in 2010, this could be your besty friend. Ready to be emailed to you or your loved ones in time for Christmas. See more by clicking ORDER A 2010 FORECAST in the right hand column. Also ~ NEW ~ if you’d like a PERSONAL READING from Astroducky and want a deeper look at where you’re at, the way you’re facing, or what’s tripping you up and when it might end, get in touch. More info under Personal Readings in the right hand column.

Aries
When relationships reach a testing point it’s not comfortable but it is a convincing way to discover if they hold water, can survive under pressure, and have your besty best interests at heart. Right now you may feel that you’re at the beck and call of a close bizniz or lovin’ one-to-onesie and that your ability to shine is dampened somewhat by their needing to be fed/stroked/reined in on the hour every hour. If you can honestly and concisely name what it is You Need to feel self-actualised then now’s the time to lay that out with a diplomatic reasoned explanation of how lack of compromise is getting in the way. Have a plan of solution, rather than a plan of attack. That way if it all goes teets up you know that (a) you’re gonna get self-actualised anyway and (b) you’ve learned an important lesson in negotiation. Thursday, book yourself a holiday* with a lover or the kids and get some sun on your shoulders. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: * Foreign trips and future plans may go awry. This is another cosmic reminder that Going with the Flow can reduce blood pressure and hypertension.

Taurus
For you Bully Bull work and long-range/studying/foreign plans reach an Important Hurdle. Commitments to the office are no longer blowing your skirt up and while the make or break time might not land this very week, knowing that you will make that break will be clear as crystal now. The long-range/study/foreign plans come at a cost: intimacy, money, kids… Yet without satisfying your deep need for the long-range/study/foreign plans how ya gonna be the Real You who’s being In the Moment and is fully able to invest in the intimacy, money, kids once the shift is made? How can you ask from others what you cannot give to yersen? How is Not fulfilling your Full You setting a good example for others? Monday, watch for health niggles showing the stress you’re carrying – or even recognise the need to off-load the truth of those plans to a boss or authority figure. Across town: Thursday and home and money links look strong. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Friends and wishes throw a curve ball at your 8th house of oobah, oof, and letting go. It seems someone’s unexpectedly frisky or there are unexpected costs in the ledger to be sorted.

Gemini
Creative projects, squeezes, and chilun are high on your agenda and your commitment to them needs a change of tack… Not because they can’t work, but because you’re changing and there’s an old modus you need to chuck through the moving car window to make space for the New Look Airy Friend you’re becoming. Pluto is moving slowly through the important corridors of your Inner You, peeling off layers, and your deep desires are being revealed. As your ruler Mercury hooks up with him on Monday, you have the chance to name all your needs out loud, write them down, and know those needs are Real. Once done, you then need to work out a plan which can allow those needs to be met while not giving up on your responsibilities to creative projects, squeezes, and chilun. Get the festive bunfight out of the way first, then come mid-January the skies give you the perfect climate for review, including a re-jig of life at Gemini Towers. Thursday: A conflab with a one-to-onesie puts the wind beneath your sails. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: A change in the wind direction seems to put career stuff in an awkward place but may well reveal an alternative journey in the process.

Cancer
Home, family, and love-life are in the picture again, Crabsticks. Your heart’s deepest and darkest desires might be alarming you, but keeping those things to yourself only makes them grow bigger and scarier in the silence. Naming Your Truth to a one-to-onesie is persistently your trickiest challenge – the dread of showing your soft underbelly and risking rejection. However, the skies say you can do it! Pluto sez it’s time to let relationships change you. Saturn sez homelife and family commitments need negotiating to allow these relationship changes to happen. At the end of the month and into January, it’s re-negotiatin’ time with old lovers – or with current lovers and old issues. House moves are possible then. Thursday: Work brings payday. Woo hoo. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: At the weekend work is going well but there’s an unexpected opportunity for travel/study/metaphorical adventuring. Note it. Check it. Then make decisions in mid-January.

Leo
For you puddy tat, work and health news are not making you happy. It seems docs and boss figures have decisions and results that tell you what you already knew but didn’t want to hear. (Or you’re the boss and having to take action that doesn’t sit comfortably with you at all.) While that doesn’t bring much comfort now, forewarned is forearmed and the forthcoming Mercury retrograde (26 December – 16 January) brings you a cosmic opportunity to revise plans and revisit budgets so the money side of things is more in order. Thursday: and there’s joy and comfort with kids, squeezies, and potato painting efforts. Hoorah for funsies. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Uranus, currently making waves in your zone of oobah, big cash lettuce, and transformation clashes with your ruler the Sun. An unexpected advance from a squeeze or an unexpected request for a lump sum from the chilun may catch you behind the knees. And breath. Investing in art today is a no no. You’re mad as a March Hare with about as much long-term sense.

Virgo
For you the Saturn grapple with Pluto and Mercury is doing this: stirring your desires for self-expression and really letting your hair down but slapping your eager hand with a spreadsheet showing your financial bottom line. Self-expression includes creative biznizzes and hobbies, squeezies and procreating, and yup, some of these fabalas tings cost money, honey. There’s no way out of this so compromise and attitude will be all. For some Virgos this is a time to try and reduce working hours to free up time for this self-expression. For others it’s renegotiating the costs of creative plans and trimming corners where poss. Keeping Creativity in the mix is your Key to fulfillment. The money is simply a pain in dem aspic you have to negotiate. Thursday: Concerns about home and family life can be assuaged*. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Partners change their plans or change their minds about homelife. Remember Thursday’s shiny moment* and try to bring that back to the table. There’s solace in hearing the other side and doing the Right Thing.

Libra
Having Saturn hanging around your neck is no walk in the park, or at least is a very heavy-going and uncomfortable walk in the park. When he spars with Mercury and Pluto it’s a time for you to put your foot down vz The Way Things have been at home/with family and why Mr Nice Guy just became Mr Assertive Though Still Fair personage. Saturn is here to help you grow up, to prove yourself to you, to stand on your own two feet as you are today – not the three-year old family clown or the gauche teenager. Just as we break away in stages from our parents as toddlers and then as teenagers, so we need to keep re-evaluating who we are in the here and now, continuing the pursuance of Being an Individual. You have diplomacy in spades so you can make housey changes without the need for bloody noses. Chest out, make it count. Thursday: party time with bros and sisses. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: News about changes at work catches you off guard. Talk it over with lovers or the chilun.

Scorpio
Saturn in your 12th house of Meep! is a two-year background process of clearing the karmic decks so you can launch yersen anew. The triggers to remind you to scrub your own inner poop-deck come when he makes tricky angles to other planets, as he’s doing righta now. The pressure concerns bros and sisses, your sense of community, and your ability to communicate. Difficult discussions may arise now with siblings – not because they’re not utterly lovely but because we’re always negotiating our pecking order within a family and it may be that something needs to shift as you grow up and develop away from the family mores. Similarly, where you feel at home may be changing too and news of changes around your turf may chuck out a re-think. What may be helpful now is off-loading the weight of your thoughts with a friend. Change can be a beautiful boat ride, but is so much happier with a friendly skipper nearby. Thursday: it seems the boardroom likey you and wanna give you some cash money lettuce. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: A lover’s change of mind or a creative/chilun-centred plan bring added expenses. Entertain at home instead.

Sagittarius
Your commitment to pursuing those long-held dreams of yours reaches a financial reality check early this week. News says it’s going to take a lot of money, and while you like to remain free to manoeuvre, the commitment may mean stopping still for a while especially if you know that money can be relied on: yes it’s that dern ‘slowly, slowly catchy monkey [yawn]’ approach which can drive you to tears but that makes sense in the long run. While this news may dull your Sagittarian travels atop your camel or sailing the ocean waves, the Sun and Venus are bringing you charm and friendship and that goes a long way to easing a heavy heart. Thursday: connections abroad make your smile widen. There’s support for the journey, hoorah! No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Family members or home-life changes direction again at the weekend driving you to distraction. Money’s at the heart of it. Negotiate rather than firing arrows.

Capricorn
While you’re pooped and wanting to take it easy and mind your own bidniz, it seems boss figures want a word in your shell-like. Something you’ve said or done seems to have ruffled their feathers and they want reassurance that you’re not out to upset the applecart - and that you can be relied upon to do their bidding. Control’s control. It’s not a nice bizniz to have to negotiate and right now you’re not in the mood to be dancing to anyone’s tune but your own. Word to the wise, Goat: look at the shiny horizon then give the harbour master what he wants. It’s worth it. Humility will get you all sorts of places right now. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Watch out for speaking out of turn or not saying what you mean exactly at the weekend, or saying something just to be dramatic and blunderbusesque. Uranus has your tongue and as he strikes, your sense of reason is dozing in a hay barn. Yikes. Engage brain and then speak. And if you can’t engage brain, say nada. Comprendo?

Aquarius
Pluto rolling through your 12th house of Meep! is a process of facing your fears and worries - and inner nagging doubter - so you can knock those fears down like skittles. When he squares off to po-faced Saturn, as he does on Monday, you’re ‘blessed’ with a breakthrough moment: the shiny future, study or travel plans that you’ve been putting off because you were afraid become so Big and IMPORTANT that you can't help but have to knock fears over to get at 'em. Do you see how magical this is? This is a week to get out of your comfort zone vz your study/foreign or long-range plans and KNOW that you’ve taken a leap into a braver future. Huzzah, Inventive One. Thursday: friends/wishes and partnerships are starred. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Unexpected curveballs for you say money and wishes need negotiating. Trust your gut feelings, Jupiter and Neptune are on side.

Pisces
For you money and friends/wishes are the sticky wicket. Money has been feeling tighter since October and your desire to socialise and spend lavishly over Christmas is a no-can-do and it’s getting you down. Under these skies you need to revisit holiday plans and your share of the bills and you no likey. What feels like a Catch 22 on Monday is a sort of Catch 22 but there are small corridors and hatches to help you release the pressure. Thursday there’s money around for work done and that gives you a leetle pep up. What's more hurdles with friends and wishes are up for negotiation through until mid-February so keep the door open. The money headache will lighten Fish, but you’re entering a long-haul transit and the reality checks about cash lettuce will feel irksome while the transit beds in. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: You’re knee-jerking about what you really want and upsetting the apple cart as you do. Things aren’t as bad as they seem.

This Month

2009-11-30T00:56:00.010Z

Is it December already? I’m sure it was March just five minutes ago... Anyway, Yuletide greetings one and all. I hope you’ve got your brussel sprouts on? This month Uranus heads direct on the 2nd, and we’ve two Full Moons – the first on the 2nd in Gemini and the next a lunar Eclipse on New Years Eve in Cancer. Careful how you phrase those Resolutions after a swig of cooking sherry and a couple of eggnogs, what?

Astroducky is busy prepping the 2010 ANNUAL FORECASTS this week. These are four-page previews for each star sign of when to move it, shake it, or lie down and take it easy during the next 12 months. Reports include a heads up for Eclipses, retrogrades, grey clouds, and sunshiny days. If you’ve got plans to hatch in 2010, this could be your besty friend. Ready to be emailed to you or your loved ones in time for Christmas. See more by clicking ORDER A 2010 FORECAST in the right hand column.

Also ~ NEW ~ if you’d like a PERSONAL READING from Astroducky and want a deeper look at where you’re at, the way you’re facing, or what’s tripping you up and when it might end, get in touch. More info under Personal Readings in the right hand column.

Okay, parish notices over. December Soundtrack is in honour of genius Sadge Mr Jimi Hendrix, born 27 Nov 1942. There’s a guitar riff that comes in around 2.40 into this version of All Along the Watchtower and it makes ‘ducky get up and pogo. If you need to get the house spruced up for visitors during the holidays, start dusting to this and you’ll be done in no time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU1uwBNSCF0&feature=related

Back with the weeklies next Sunday, Tatty x

Aries
With all the hurly burly of the season, Ramface, there seems to be a need for some backpedalling and re-visiting for you. Before you grumble, it’s in your fun sector. Aha! This means getting in touch with old lovers, friends who make your heart sing, kiddiwinks, and general inner-child giggliness. You’re not a fan of retracing your steps – nosirreebob – but this may be just the thing to remind you of what really matters. Wide-eyed, unadulterated, innocent fun. Meanwhile, back in the jungle: the planets are gathering in your 9th and 10th houses. Some Rams will be getting a quick holiday before the Big Day and then racing back to career needs. For others there’s no time to snooze as Big Future Plans are ripening well before the New Year. (Circle 16 December for kick-starting your scheme.) The Sun and Mercury arrive in your career zone on the 6th and 22nd, you can see that your career ladder isn’t idling or holding up the backdrop at the kids’ nativity. What is something to note is Mercury’s reversal in this zone on the 26th. Reports may need writing over the holidays and while that feels irksome, it will pay dividends. Full Moons this month: 2 December in your 3rd house of chitty chat, bros and sisses, and out of town travel. Watch impatience, driving too fast, or motor mouthing! 31 December in your 4th house of home and family: don’t fall out with the in-laws. Make your dream home a priority in 2010.

Taurus
Your ruler has sidled into your 8th house of transformation for the holiday season, Bully Bull. This spells Big Spendies, prettiness, kinky pants, and forgiving and letting go. That little lot should keep you busy. Genuinely you’re a smart cookie when it comes to cashola but you do like a luxury or three. Don’t melt the plastic and particularly around the13th and 19th, when friends or plans do a uiiee, try to take a step back and see the bigger picture. It’ll be yours for the taking in January. In other news, Mars retrogrades in your 4th house of home and family from the 21st. Of course it’s the time of year when family and belonging are so often on the top of our priority list whether we like it or not. Mars here can make that super stressful. When you say no – which you can – try and say it gently... Full Moons this month: 2 December in your 2nd house of earned income. Finances mean it’s decision time on whether to change jobs or not. 31 December Eclipse in your 3rd house of chitty chat, bros and sisses, and out of town travel. Bros and sisses may delight or drive you nuts tonight. Set off early for NYE parties and drive slowly in all the excitement. Make 2010 the year that you speak more calmly and assertively to get you what you want and get where you choose to go.

Gemini
From now until Christmas there’s attention in your 7th house of one-to-onesies thanks to the Sun, Mercury and Venus. Single Geminis get ready to mingle at parties and whatnot – and make a pact with yourself at the New Moon of the 16th that you’ll leave the past behind and take a new approach to finding new love in new ways (and in new sparkly shoes). From mid month you’ll need to prepare for Mercury, you ruler, doing a uuiiee. This Yuletide he’s chosen your 8th house of Big Cash and letting go to cause chaos so expect Christmas cards to arrive in January and your granny to lose the receipt for that hideous cardigan she bought you so you’ve no chance to return it. On a sober tip, be everso careful with online transactions, posting cheques etc from 23 – 29 December, and be patient with cheques you’re waiting for; they’re likely to get snared up in the post. Full Moons this month: 2 December in your 1st house of You, Yourself, and You. If you’re not sleeping well at the moment, now you know why. La Luna has got your creative juices on high tide. 31 December Eclipse in your 2nd house of earned income. Is your career ladder bringing in enough Cash, Money, Lettuce? Make 2010 your year to get your financial ducks in a row.

Cancer
A big month Clawface, culminating in a Full Moon Eclipse at your reef. First up, there’s a gathering of planets in your 6th house of work, so while the rest of us are hoping to rest up and laze you’re Santa’s little helpers, boiling sprouts, peeling grapes, and organising the Christmas Fayre. You’re happy at it, and while you’re about it there seems to be some honey for the worker bees too... Both the Sun and Mercury head into your 7th house of close one-to-onesies from the 6th and 22nd respectively and you’ll be in a flirtatious mood, what with those Christmas Pudding earrings you insist on wearing from morning to night. Love stuff and/or work stuff clash with your future/travel plans around the13th and 19th, you just need to be flexible in the changing tide; you’ll be able to sort things out come January when Mercury gives you time to talk it over and an Eclipse takes you into the future. Full Moons this month: 2 December in your 12th house of Meep! You fraidy cat, you eating doughnuts behind the settee and hidey. Why so scared? 31 December Eclipse in your 1st house of You, Yourself, and YOU. 2010 is your year to stand up and be counted. The past is a yacht ride you dreamed about once, a long, long time ago.

Leo
This roaring in slow-motion you seem to be doing is Mars slowing to a snail’s pace in your first house of You, Yourself, and You, so if you feel like you’re driving a hairdryer along your life path when you’re used to a Lamborghini, that’s why. Mars halts and reverses from 21st so you’ll have an overwhelming sense of frustration / or urge to give yourself the holiday season off, lying around eating peeled grapes and having fans coo about how relaxed you seem. Neither will do you any good. While the rest of us are putting the sprouts on, you’ve work stuff to attend to. There’s a critical point coming on 15 January and you need to prepare now before the working world stops. What’s pretty all month though, your Majesty, is the coochiness and fun around thanks to Venus in your 5th house of Fun. Single Pussy Cats, get on those shiny catsuits and tear it up on the ice rink / dance floor / carol concert, especially around the New Moon of the 16th. Other cats it’s time to get into the spirit of your inner child and paint backdrops for the nativity or make your own pressies. Full Moons this month: 2 December in your 11th house of friends and wishes. Emotions run high. It’s a good night to party with good friends but avoid the trickier ones. 31 December Eclipse in your 12th house of Meep! Make 2010 the year that you learn to show your soft underbelly. IOW: Can you ask for help when you need it?

Virgo
Time was Virgo when any extra anything gave you sleepless nights, ringing in your ears, and bags under your eyes. Saturn, thankfunky, has shooftied on so perhaps for the first time in four years you can look forward to this Christmas with a bit more excitement. And indeed you should. First up, Mars, who’s been whispering words of doubt from behind the Venetian blinds heads retrograde on 21st, and instantly becomes quieter. Phew. What’s more, Venus is in your 4th house of home and family, bringing love and peace to Virgo Towers. Virgos buying /selling/renting/renovating: things look more possible after the New Moon of the 16th; watch for a partner/seller making an about turn on the 13th or 19th. Roll with it, Virgo. With Mercury and the Sun moving from this homely zone into your zone of Fun on the 6th and 22nd respectively, it’s time to flirt, let your hair down, get involved in decking the halls, and hogging the mistletoe. There’s nothing like a cha cha cha in your favourite heels to raise the spirits, what? Full Moons this month: 2 December in your 10th house of success, a career project/avenue reaches a peak or is complete. 31 December Eclipse in your 11th house of friends and wishes: This should be one helluva party, though partners/children may be absent or less cheery.

Libra
Duty to family is going to feel extra trying this year. You’d rather be kicking back with pals. It’s okay to want to do things differently but you need to talk about it – and with your ruler Venus currently smooching her way through your 3rd house of communication, now’s the time to duck out of Christmas commitments beautifully. You could also be using that honeyed-tongue of yours to get yourself closer to a bird or bee you may have in mind. Neptune and Jupiter are bringing ideals and soulmate feelings around the 20th, just as Venus makes a pretty angle to them both. If ever there was a day to serenade a cutey on a balcony, this is it. A few days to watch: 13th and 19th choice words at the office won’t help. Mercury and the Sun shine in your 4th zone of home and family and Venus joins them from the 26th. If you don’t see the inlaws, Ma and Pa on Christmas day, then Boxing Day’s a good un instead. Full Moons this month: 2 December Full Moon in your 9th house of future plans, studies, foreign connections. Signing up to a course in the New Year or booking a last minute Christmas break are signalled. 31 December Eclipse in your 10th house of success. 2010 is your year to break through the glass ceiling.

Scorpio
It’s ever so tempting when the cosmos fills your money boxes with ooof at this time of year to spend like a sailor, but that’s not necessarily the best Plan. Money’s coming in, alright, but there’s always that unexpected bill: watch 13th and 19th for proof of the Christmas puddin’. In fact the savvy Scorpio will see all sorts of opportunities to get creative in the run up to Christmas; MYO (make your own) could be the soup du jour. While money’s coming in, you may feel that your Career is on ice. That’s Mars slowing to a halt in your 10th house. He heads backwards from the 21st and doesn’t resume forwards motion until March, the lazy bleeper. What it does mean is you get time to think about who you are and where you’re going. Christmas Day has a 3rd house emphasis for you and that means out of town trips to see the rellies or fabalas get togethers with bros and sisses. Full moons this month: 2 December in your 8th house of big, cash, lettuce and letting go. Time to sort credit cards and loans. 31 December Eclipse in your 9th house of travel, study, and philosophy. Make 2010 the year you get back in touch with your spiritual side, travel somewhere you’ve always wanted to go, immerse yourself in a new course of study.

Sagittarius
How are you doing there Archer? With Venus, the Sun, and Mercury on side and the New Moon of the 16th also in your first house of You, Yourself, and You, it’s a great time for pushing ahead, being heard, and making strides by being You. Just watch the 13th and 19th for curveballs from family members. There’s no room for compromise right now so try and let it slide. As Mercury and then the Sun move into your bank vaults on the 6th and 22nd respectively, your focus needs to shift to income. With Pluto in this same zone, many Archers will be really feeling the worth of money. Christmas can be so much more than a materialist-fest. Your words are like honey at the moment. Write poetry and songs and short stories for those you love. Give something to charity and make that the only pressie you give this year. For all Archers, Mars is slowing in your 9th house of long distance plans, studies, and foreign connections and travel. As he turns retrograde on the 22nd it’s time to review these things and decide if the passion and direction you set out on is still right for you. You can forwards ho from March. Full Moons this month: 2 December in your 7th house of close one to onesies. Passion or ire – or both! 31 December Eclipse in your 8th house of letting go. Make 2010 the year to get your loans, credit, mortgages sorted.

Capricorn
It’s an Eclipse year coming your way, Goat. First up, the overwhelming tiredness and worry you’re feeling will begin to lift from next weekend. Mercury joins your side from the 6th and news you’ve needed to hear to get yourself in a stronger mental position lands. From the 22nd, and then the 26th the Sun and respectively Venus, also come round to your house brightening your mood, raising your energy levels, and importantly bringing you a loving, relaxed warm feeling after all the Christmas shenanigans. Two little Pay Attentions here: 13th and 19th December there are hiccups likely in financial transactions. You’re feeling under the weather, even more so around 16th December. This is your heads up to keep an eye on your piggy bank. Changes around you are taking their toll on your energy levels too. Mars who’s pushing this under your nose right now, takes a back seat on the 21st and the sense of urgency and anxiety will lift. Full Moons this month: 2 December in your 6th house of work and health. Energy and stress levels are high. Try yoga or regular breaks at the water cooler. 31 December Eclipse in your 7th house of one-to-onesies. A huge turning point. Relationships are made and broken under these stars. Make 2010 the year you get the relationship you deserve – and be the partner your one-to-onesies deserve in return.

Aquarius
Jupiter and Neptune hook up on 20 December in your first house of You, Yourself, and You, and the good news or big/little boost you’ve needed to press ahead arrives. What a year, what an amazing year. Where your attention’s being drawn this month is (a) the tardiness of bizniz or close partners and (b) the importance of the calm after the joyous storm/bunfight... A: Mars hangs a uiiee on 21 December and partners backtrack or slowdown and deals are put on ice. It’s frustrating but there’s beauty to distract you in the shape of social circles and gatherings. Venus is spending 2 – 26th December in your 11th house of friends, parties and wishes. What a glorious placement for Christmas. Just watch 13th and 19th for going OTT with the spendsies. By Astroducky’s reckoning, there will be a 2010 and you’ll need to leave some readies for that. B: Mercury, the Sun and then Venus will be moving into your 12th house of Meep! on the 6th, 22nd and 26th respectively. You’ll be partied out by Boxing Day. If you need to lie around with the phone off the hook over New Years then do it. Full Moons this month: 2 December in your 5th house of squeezies, fun, and kiddiwnks. Joy or worrisome emotional peak. A good night to bat those lashes with a potential new beau, just don’t tell ‘em you love ‘em before the end of the first dance. 31 December Eclipse in your 6th house of work and health: You’re run down but still doing paperwork/washing dishes. Make 2010 the year you get the balance right between what you do for Them and what you do for You.

Pisces
If there’s a work process you were hoping to get tied up before you opened your favourite bottle of absinthe, Fish, perhaps open it anyway. Mars is on a go-slow and while he’s the King of your Bank Vaults, and so you feel you should attend to him more closely, he’s not in the mood. He reverses from the 21st and that’s a cosmic flag to pull up a chair by the fireside for the foreseeable. Chin chin. In other news, holiday plans should be filling you with glee. Planets are beginning to stack up in your 11th house of socialising and hobnobbing. Just watch your own sense of wappiness around the 13th and 19th. It seems you’re tempted to put your career first, especially after the 16th when a New Moon in this zone makes you want to get up and go just as Mars is checking into Santa’s grotto. Full Moons this month: 2 December in your 4th house of home and family. Careful that the inlaws and outlaws don’t push your buttons! 31 December Eclipse in your 5th house of Fun: Coupled up Fishes, this could be the year you wish for a baby fish all of your own. Single fishes: get out there and mingle! Midnight kisses could lead to something super. All Fishes make 2010 the year you got creative with your bestest pet projects.

This week

2009-11-22T23:54:00.002Z

A mixed bag of cherries this week, including a link between Venus and King of Wappiness, Uranus; this is Surprise, Surprise vz Cash and Love Central. Generally the next 7 days look good but the on-going Saturn square Pluto may mean you fail to see the rainbows. Take a time out. Look up, look up.

Back next week with the December monthly. x

Aries
For you the energy is shifting in the coming week from your 8th house of Transformation, Letting Go, and Big Cash Lettuce, to your 9th house of Foreign Shores, Study, and Long-Range planning. Watch Monday for blowing the doors off your piggy bank in a spending frenzy or just trying too hard to impress. While 8th house issues are still around, my favourite day for you this week is Wednesday. Your ruler Mars hooks up with Mercury, planet of chitty chat. News from abroad and booking hols with the squeeze or the sprogs is Go! You’re also the sign most likely to win the mid-week lotto. Mine’s a gin, thankee.

Taurus
Your ruler Venus has another 10 days in your 7th house of important squeezies so all Bulls feel the love, show the love, share the love. Single Bulls it’s time to get out there, get your heart on your sleeve, and look for love amongst your social circles – mid-week’s your best night so go speed-dating or sign up to that dating site you’ve been thinking about. Wednesday is your day too for positive news of Cash and Home: rentals, bills, mortgage deals should be going your way. What’s less cherry pie are dealings with bigwigs. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday they seem to be blocking your plans. Take it in your stride. Things turn around at the weekend when there’s good news linking career and cashola.

Gemini
If you’ve been building up to pop a perticaler question, Airy friend, then Mars’s meeting with your ruler Mercury on Wednesday suggests that you can pop corks and get down on bended knee, suggest lunch, or even strike a new bizniz partnership then. (There's even more talk at the weekend but this time it's booking holidays/setting off into the sunset, ooh schucks). Back to Wednesday and that day Uranus joins Venus; success on the job front looks starry. The Big Wigs love ya, baby. The thing to watch for is the price you may pay for success. It seems work responsibilities and the career ladder are pooping on your dreams to travel or head back to college.

Cancer
Mid-week there’s a surprise turn around in a love affair or with the kids; it seems their influence over you has you changing direction. If you’ve been feeling rudderless, Crab, love and off-spring are holding their hands out towards you with new journeys on offer, even literal opportunities for journeys abroad. Sound good? Well, you’re going to have to work for it. There are changes you need to make to let this stuff in. Ay caramba. Feel the fear and crack on, Bridget. The other prettiness coming for you mid-week is a fabulous link up between work and money – and there’s more good news about cash at the weekend. Your big drive at the mo, to bring in more bacon, is getting a cosmic leg up.

Leo
Pussy Cat, if you’ve needed to push forwards with a squeeze then make it Wednesday. Mercury, planet of chitty chat, hooks up with Mars giving you the Good Big Hair Day you need feel the power and to persuade them to go for a date with you to the watering hole. For Cats with creative ventures that need pitching, Wednesday’s your day too. Cat’s looking to make money out of property, Uranus’s link to Venus mid-week suggests that things are turning out better than expected. If you’ve been thinking about getting a valuation, now’s the time. Just clear it with your live-in lover first, eh...

Virgo
For you the mid-week Uranus/Venus cha cha cha suggests there’s an unexpected soupy twist of a conversation with a lover in store – either you’re dropping a heart shaped truth bomb, or they are. It’s a positive link so surprises should be heartening... Mars doing the rounds in your 12th house means you may have moments of real self-doubt running along in the background at the moment. On Wednesday Mercury your ruler checks in with Mars. His report back to you will be this: if you keep doing what you (your father) did, you’ll keep getting what you got. It’s time to transform yourself, Virgo – and falling as this does on a Uranus / Venus day, love stuff may be your motivating factor. Smoochy.

Libra
The Venus / Uranus picnic happens in your bank vaults and work zone. Put it together and it looks like mid-week news is about a raise, a new, better-paid job in store, or that a redundancy is giving you an opportunity to go and start an entirely new working life. Hoorah. Add to that Mars’s pretty lunch date with Mercury on the same day, linking your dreams/friends sector with your desire to chitty chat, and there’ll be friends on hand to celebrate with you even though it’s a school night. Single Librans, it’s a great day to be signing up to dating sites. For all Scales, the theme of the moment is it’s time to expand your social circles and get out of town for weekend breaks.

Scorpio
Ooh Scorpio, here comes an interesting week. Venus is making you sultry and a honey-magnet. On Wednesday she hooks up with wappy maverick Uranus in your 5th house of fun, squeezes, and chilun. You’re getting winks in the supermarket from eccentric hippies and cow eyes from bohemian cutey pies with big collars and bicycles. The same day, however, Venus squares off to Neptune. Two things: check how you really feel about this honey pie after a few dates. And secondly, wherever you’re at in the dating game, this configuration is Surprise Visit from the Stork Central. If you don’t plan on having a family, take care of the necessaries, ya dig? In other news: career and money align on Wednesday. You’re getting what you’re worth.

Sagittarius
On Wednesday you’re pushing ahead with future plans – whether that’s study, travel, or legal shenanigans. It’s your day to take to the floor and state your case, lay your stall out, pass round your business cards with a confident handshake. On the same day Uranus hooks up with Venus, and about-turns with the family or a home situation are on the cards. While it sounds good, you’re not getting the whole picture – and it may even be you holding some cards pretty dern close to your own chest. Talk and fact find again at the weekend; then talk from the heart next week.

Capricorn
Could a friend be the one you’ve been waiting for? The link on Wednesday between Uranus and Venus suggests that there’s a surprising conversation between you and a pal. Uranus is a maverick so if you’re normally bashful about sharing your feelings, Uranus could give you the courageous energy you need to sweep them off their feet. For Goats with no honey in mind, the surprise news could involve a last minute trip out of town to visit friends, or glad tidings vz money you’ve been wishing for. There may be a delay of a few weeks before it lands though. All Goats, as the Sun docks in your 12th house today for a month, take it easy. You’re going to need more rest, more greens, and less play for four weeks.

Aquarius
Mid-week’s Full On, Inventive One. First up there’s a surprise cash bonus to a career dealio – a new post, a new gig, a commission that pays a handsome daily rate. Kerching. Aussi on Wednesday Mars in your 7th house of bizniz and loving one to onesies has a gorgeous social with chitty chatty Mercury in your 11th house of dreams, wishes, and social circles. A party with pals to celebrate your big win and big announcement will go beautifully well. There are proposals in here too. And for single Aquarians, pals and social networking, or online dating are your golden tickets to catch a fiery, passionate honey bunny.

Pisces
With Uranus cruising through your first house of You, Yourself, and You for years now, you’re used to the choppy changey energy he brings. His mid-week hook up with Venus suggests that money you need to travel, study, or reach your next destination is here and all because of your inventiveness and creative thinking. Bravo, Fish. Mars also has a cosmic pow wow with Mercury on Wednesday and your daily graft and service to others is getting the attentions of the Big Cheeses at the boardroom table. One thing to keep in mind this week, especially Monday and Thursday, the route to your destination is going to need tweaking. Allow in some reality to shape your planning.

This week

2009-11-15T23:05:00.002Z

Monday and Saturn spats with Pluto and the Sun faces off to Neptune PLUS the Dark of the New Moon means it’s lights out in Scorpio. Cripes indeed. Broccoli and patience all, and watch out for someone pulling the wool over yorn peepers. (More info of who and why for your perticaler sun sign, below.) On the upside, after a depth-charged, Scorpio-flavoured month, the Sun and Mercury head into Sagittarius this week. The forecast is for things to get a leetle more jovial - whoopee cushions at the ready people. Venus is staying on in Scorpio for a few more weeks and she clashes with Mars mid-week; the on-going health and harmony of your relationship may need something more than a whoopee cushion... A deep, Truth-filled chat, perhaps? All in all a tense start to the week which lightens towards the weekend. On your marks...!

Aries
Monday and there are clashes with friends and social circles and/or cash. This can be as simple as you trying to worm your way out of paying to join the golf club to friendships reaching a crisis point. The 8th house rules Big Cash and Letting Go – yes as in Take-A-Hike Letting Go but also as in Transforming what was in the past into something that will work better in the future. Your annual New Moon in this zone sez it’s time to get this perticaler house in order. If it’s a friendship, it’s time to name the elephant in the room. If it’s a Big Cash ting (mortgages, credit cards, loans, freelance commissions etc) then you need to stop believing the money tree will soon sort the shortfall. Wednesday and your ruler clashes with Venus in this zone too. Impatience and shouting may feel like the soup du jour, but wasn’t it you who made your choices in the first place? Hmmmm, Ram features. Time to Transform, huh? Start with what you can do differently next time and the ire will lift so you can actually enjoy the good things that are around you now such as hooray and hoorah... plans for holidays, studying treats, and checking into a Buddhist retreat for a meditation weekend.

Taurus
For you bizniz or lovin’ partners are confronting what you feel your success and calling should be, either they’re getting in the way of your Route to The Best You Can Be or they’re questioning your chosen career path. This gets under your skin and by Wednesday you’re taking it out on your nearest and dearest (who by the way will be coming backacha next week with more shoulds and ought tos). Why oh why, Bully Bull? Because, if you didn’t have tests along the way you wouldn’t know whether you really knew and felt the things that you think you know and feel. See now? Neptune in charge at the wheel of your career is not always a safe bet. Sure he rules idealism and inspiration but he also rules delusion and downright poppycock. Chew it over, and don’t be too proud to make any necessary changes. Yes, you. Also this week: Monday evening, light a candle and make a clear wish for the shape of your future loving partnership/s. Tuesday work and money chime as loudly as Bow Bells. Kerching! But tuck it away for home moves/improvements in the Spring.

Gemini
Hmm, it seems a reality check (via a doctor or boss figure) early in the week rather upends your long-term plans for travel, study, or heading off to join a Kibbutz. Neptune is bringing you inspiration and dreams of these things but may have been overegging the potential, or misting over key facts. News on Monday may be uncomfortable to swallow, like cod liver oil, but could strengthen your lot in the long run – and by December there’s some shiny breakthroughs vz these dreams. Prepare your fleets now and don’t ignore the minutiae. What is super pretty this week, Airy Friend, is the hookage of Saturn, him of commitment and propriety, to Mercury, your ruler – who docks in your 7th house of lovin’ and bidniz partners on Tuesday. It seems there’s a honey that wants to get to know you better with serious intent, or a conversation about bebes with your current squeeze, or a bizniz plan vz creativity /working with children starts to get its foundation stones in place. Goody goody gumdrops. Finally: watch your tongue on Wednesday, it’s made of arsenic and barbs, especially round the office.

Cancer
Ooh, an interesting configuration for you this week Crab Sticks... The direction of a love-interest, child, or creative venture needs transforming – but the quandary is also triggering your financial axis. Do you need more money to make this thing work? Do you feel you need more money to impress? Right now Success for you is All About The Money. That’s okay, within reason, but if it’s getting in the way of fun and the Real Picture then you’ll be one miserable Clawface. Money’s an energy but there are others too, like love and kindness. You’re in a process of deep transformation, traversing from one metaphorical reef to another. The angst you feel is because change is an unsteady boat ride. While you’re looking for something to cling on to, make sure you consider emotions and people as well as money and the material world. It’ll make for much improved bon voyaging. In other news: Er, news Tuesday suggests there’s an opportunity to work closer to home – or a parent’s health check up is better than expected.

Leo
After a month of feeling ‘in’ and at the whims of home requirements and family idiosyncrasies, Mercury (Tuesday) and the Sun (Sunday) are zoot suiting into your 5th house of Fun for a month. Hooray. Tuesday, get out your social calendar and block book bunfights with girls, boys and creatures who know how to cha cha cha. It’s time to dust off those sling backs and pop out your tiaras. Before then there’s some sorting needs doing around Leo Towers. Partners aren’t making you feel Special Enough. There’s a lustre that’s faded, a duster they aren’t using often enough and you no likey. While you may hold it in on Monday, by Wednesday you’ll be roaring. If they still forget to empty the bins, then why not empty them all over their side of the bed? In other news: Tuesday you’re signing up – speed dating, a new car, an evening class in potato painting. Something Fun that brings out your sense of play is key.

Virgo
There are times when you acutely distrust those you work with. They aren’t doing the job with the right attitude. They don’t recognise the work you do. They don’t involve you as much as they could. With Mars in your 12th, chances are those feelings will be bubbling along in the background during the coming months, and particularly this week. Neptune in your 6th squares off to the Sun and communications on the day job are gobbledegook. At the risk of sounding as naive as a wide-eyed Pollyanna sucking a popsicle, the mists around now will help you see the majesty of The Clear Day that’s coming in December. Communications are still a big theme for you in the next few weeks. First and foremost be honest with yourself, and then those around you. But with Mars triggering paranoia, especially on Wednesday, watch out for Fear turning your Tongue into molten lava. In other, prettier news, Saturn hooks up with your ruler Mercury on Tuesday linking earning and home. Virgos working from home or making money from home, such as buy-to-let, have good news in store. For others, family may come to your aid vz cash, money, lettuce.

Libra
For you the Neptune versus Sun spat links cash to chilun, creative tings, and lovers. If you haven’t been direct about income and outgoings – or if they haven’t – then this week is the week that the rug gets too bumpy to take any more sweepings. In other words, Out With It. Money’s a prime focus for you at the moment, and while it’s coming in, you want it to work for you. Investing in beautiful clothes or art feels the right thing to do but the pieces you want may be stretching your limits or stretching the patience of your close one to onesies (watch Wednesday for cards /lovers going into meltdown). The change happening this week is the shift of Mercury (Tuesday) and the Sun (Sunday) into your 3rd house of chitty chat. If the cat’s had your tongue, Scales, and you’ve been keeping schtum to keep the peace, that’s all about to change. Watch Tuesday for how good it feels to put your foot down, er, verbally. Just be wary you don’t get too puffed out to ignore the compromise option on Wednesday.

Scorpio
We’ll be coming out of the Dark of the Scorpio Moon by Wednesday and your energy will start to rise. Monday night, your New Moon lands at around 7pm. Take some time out. Light a candle to yourself. Name the aspects of yourself you want to evolve in the coming 12 months then picture yourself with those attributes already honed and developed. The Neptune / Sun spat for you means there’s something you need to find out about home or family matters, something that hasn’t been directly brought out into the open. Meanwhile, across town, sparks are flying on the career front. It seems the career path you’re on is clashing with something on the inside – is it not a labour of love any more? Is there some envy about what lovin and bizniz partners are getting from their career paths that you’re not getting from yours? Dwell and plan. Remember, you’re in a process of clearing the decks.

Sagittarius
Ah, Archer. What a different place the world will seem to you this time next week. The Dark of the New Moon in your 12th house of Meep! will abate by Wednesday. Then Mercury, the planet of chitty chat will be with you from Tuesday, and news you’ve wanted, and questions that have needed answers will start falling into your in-tray straight away. Then from Sunday the Sun comes getcha and your mojo re-appears. Huzzah! Where Neptune is kicking you behind the knees is in your third house of communication. The Sun squaring Neptune in this configuration is prime Porkie Pie central. Don’t be the one fibbing and be very circumspect about news you hear on Monday. No, you can’t buy a gold watch for a fiver... Word. Wednesday, a dream of travel or with foreign/studious connections hits a ding and you scweam. It’s duty/work/money stuff getting in the way and a little time, a matter of weeks, need to go by before you can launch that Big Plan.

Capricorn
Monday’s New Moon in Scorpio is your annual wishing moon so light a candle and make a wish for the things you want in your life during the next 12 months... From the inner recesses and cosmic ordering back to the real world now with a thump. Where you need to watch out early doors this week is your wallet, Goat. Neptune crosses swords with the Sun in your bank vaults so be on guard for deluding yourself fiscally. Don’t ignore the small print or pretend that putting ‘it’ on the plastic won’t hurt. Money isn’t rubbery. It only stretches so far and the piper always comes a-calling – perhaps as soon as Wednesday this week. Ouch. In other news: It’s time to prepare for your month of retreating inside the mountain to rest before your birthday month arrives. Mercury and the Sun will be under the bushel by the weekend so expect energy and news to be slower than usual. It’s no time to push yourself out in the big wide world. What is rather pretty though is Venus, still in your party zone for another few weeks. Socialise now, but make it informal affairs from the weekend.

Aquarius
Neptune’s in your first house of You, Yourself, and You so as he makes a tricky angle to the Sun, it seems a wake up call is in order. Neptune, while he stimulates dreams and creativity, can also give us the mutha of all Pollyanna effects where we believe we can almost walk on water or survive on blackberries. The Sun rules your 7th house of close one to onesies and it seems a bidniz or lovin’ partner is about to shake you. Perhaps they’re putting you straight vz career issues that you’ve been unable to see through your Neptunian haze - or worse they’re showing painful disrespect for your reliance on intuition in decision-making... This affront lands then festers – watch Wednesday for rows and fisticuffs. Fight fair though. In prettier news: a special link between Mercury and Saturn on Tuesday sez your commitment to a Big Future Plan, including study and travel, gets good news, even good financial news. It seems that wishing what you wish for hard enough can sometimes pay off. Intuition rocks huh?

Pisces
Neptune, your misty ruler, is currently breast-stroking his way through your 12th house of Meep! It means that you often feel slightly drunk, as if you don’t completely exist and can’t rely on reality to provide firm surfaces to walk on or facts that you can bite down on. And so, this week, Neptune King of the Seas clashes with the Sun, King of the Skies, and you may feel broaded-sided by a reality moment that you don’t see coming. A route you were planning concerning study, foreign, or legal issues doesn’t stack up in the light of The Facts. You’re feeling deceived, and by Wednesday you’re taking it out in the office or feeling old health ticks flaring up again with the stress. A Wake Up call is sometimes a necessary thing, Fishy. And things will get better. Within the next few weeks your house of career will be lighting up like a Christmas tree. Watch Tuesday for tidings of how career will be bringing you Big Cash Income in the coming months...

This Week

2009-11-08T23:42:00.002Z

On Pluto...
Pluto is getting active this week; early doors good; late orders tricksy. This tiny, demoted ruler of the undergrowth can strike fear in even the strongest Gladiator. Pluto is scared of nuthin. He takes no prisoners. His Goal is to make you spill The Truth and as you’ll know, as a fellow human bean, sometimes The Truth is hard to share. We’re not talking ‘fessing up to buying yet another pair of shoes. We’re talking The Truth about why you need those pair of shoes, why you want to pretend that such and such a thing doesn’t hurt, why you do everything you can just to Stay in Control and avoid being emotionally vulnerable... If you’ve ever ‘brushed it under the carpet’, you’ve run from Pluto. And he no likey. Here are two thoughts for dealing with Pluto. (1) Say his name ‘Pluto’ as Peter Sellers used to say ‘Kato’ in the Pink Panther films. This will make you laugh and The Truth that Pluto is demanding you face won’t seem quite so earth-shattering. (2) Recognise that you can only deny The Truth for so long. The Truth brings Power, and that can be a power to transform the Way Things Have Been. It also means that if you recognise you need help handling your Truth, you also get the stones to go out and seek it.

Have a truthy, soul-filled, eye-opener of a week. A bientot xx

Aries
Pluto is at the wheel of your 10th house of success and for you status and money seem All Important. What happens Monday then should cheer you Ram-features as Venus, planet of oof links up with Pluto our short-arsed power planet. Enjoy, enjoy. But briefly... for what really seems to be brewing is a tete a tete with a close one to onesie of a bidniz or lovin’ nature. It seems that while you want to chuck your weight around and Get Ahead on the career path, there’s an obligation, a lesson or a commitment to a one-to-onesie that you have to deal with. This is rock-meets-hard-place so no, there is no Quick Fix. You need this unwelcome input/lesson/burden to get under the skin of what success is all about – and it ain’t what you think it is today. Word. Across town: Friendships/dreams are due a shake up. Transformations go a lot more smoothly when the truth is on the table and that isn’t likely this week. Gather info. Share info. Delay and cogitate. Yes, you.

Taurus
Pluto is stirring the feeling deep in your waters that there’s More to Life Than This: there are countries to travel, new academic horizons to master, publishing and broadcasting dreams, and spirituality and New Ways of looking at the world that you have yet to explore. What lands early this week is a feeling or delightful fleshy evidence that working in partnership can help you reach those golden places on the Other Side of the Hill more easily. What hits the skids later in the week though is clear proof that work, the lack of experience, service to others, or health burdens have to be tackled before those shiny horizons can be reached. Grrrr. On the upside, you now know what you’re dealing with so you can plan accordingly. There’s support around you – watch Wednesday and the weekend for surprising leg ups from friends or vz your wishes. Also this week: negotiations with bizniz partners aren’t clear cut. There’s fudging - and manipulation at worst. Keep everything in writing and don’t say anything you can’t back up later. True.

Gemini
There’s buckets of activity at the office Airy One and while it all looks ‘tastic and fun, there seems to be a party pooper around who’s passive-aggressive-ing all over your cheery visage. Stinker. You’re being offered support but through gritted teeth and promises that can’t come true. Rather than psychoanalysing what their beef might be (save your grey cells for people that matter), your best bet is to consider Who You Are, What You Are Here To Manifest, and Whether this Professional Road you’re on will Get You There. Watch Wednesday and the weekend for important breadcrumbs, Gretel. And so to Pluto (remember ‘Kato’) ... Pluto is making his way through your house of transformation and external experiences will be turning you over deep inside. On Monday a work or health matter holds the kernel to Important Changes you need to make. By the end of the week it seems that lovers are here to turn you over, as twere. Stick to the healthy, emotionally balanced types, Gemini. There are addictive power struggles available but that’s a mug’s game.

Cancer
Pluto is turning over your one-to-one bonds like a cosmic plough – those around now and your vision for how your bonds should be in the future. This isn’t only to upend you, although it might for a time. It’s a way of demonstrating that one-to-onesies are mirrors; stuff you see in them that you like or don’t like is, ahem, a view of your own internal workings. True. This week see a lover, creative partner, or child as a mirror that reveals a key to how you operate and how you can make your one-to-onesies better in the future. As Saturn and Pluto clash at the weekend it's clear that your old modus needs to change to make your relationship work; or that a house move is needed to make your relationship work; or that your family is part of the problem. Your theme this week is, ‘Things you need to let go’. It might not be a gentle seven days, but there are high points. Watch Wednesday and the weekend for news from abroad and shininess vz lovers/fun/creativity and future/teaching/foreign opportunities.

Leo
For you Pussy Cat, Pluto is raking through your zone of work and health. What he plants here will be seeds for the future but right now you may feel you’re doing five rounds with a Turkish masseur - and on top of this Mars is mekkin you pugnacious and enraged at any delays. Family seems on hand and supportive (perhaps with money, watch Wednesday and the weekend). However there’s trouble afoot by the end of the week when Saturn and Pluto have words. It seems your responsibilities in the here and now are hamstringing your ability to go out and make Bigger Strides in New Places. Whether it’s a project you’re committed to, or a PR/marketing/communications role you desperately want to give up but can’t, the end result is A Delay in Your Plans. Two things: Mars is going to be with you until June so you’ll still have fire at your disposal long after the hiatus is done. Secondly Mars is going to lose his edge in December for a few months so the delay won’t feel quite so irksome. The Big Change is pencilled in for May next year anyway. Why not pad around the enclosure and enjoy the slowly slowly catchy monkey for now?

Virgo
Pluto’s cruise through your 5th house of lovers, chilun, and creative ting means that when you want to Express Yourself Truly to the World, these are the routes that feel most natural and imperative. This week conversations with or about these things absolutely Must Cut the Mustard; you’re in vocal boot camp Virgo, so feel the burn. Your emotional six-pack that results from the heave-ho will stand you in great stead long into the future. What is also abundantly clear is that Finances and your quest for Lovers, Chilun, and a shiny Creative Life aren’t stacking up; sadly the money most come first. Money buys you freedom and freedom gives you the worry-free-space you need to explore. Head down and get on. What you’re also contending with is the on-going marathon transit of Mars through your 12th house of Meep! Continue to create your magnum opus from within the safety of a still mountain and don’t plan on giving up anytime soon. Talks with lovers and one-to-onesies take surprising but pleasant turns: Wednesday and at the weekend. Talks with work colleagues and vz health issues aren’t giving the full picture all week: don’t make moves in the half-light. Ask questions, keep everything in writing, and stall until the mists clear.

Libra
There’s focus on your bank vaults and some bonuses from work in the pipeline; watch Wednesday and the weekend for opportunities for overtime. The irksome financial tight rope that faces you this week and on through November is the cash money lettuce that kids, lovers, and creative tings require. You bring home the bacon and it’s gone in 60 seconds. They’re treating this place like a hotel etc. Gather evidence now then prepare to push things your way in a few weeks. To Pluto. For you Pluto is camped out in your 4th home of house and family, and your old ingrained habits. His mission is to Transform You via these areas. Yes that can mean house moves so you break away from the past. It can mean changes within your family too. On Monday home and money are connected. By the weekend your Plutonian changes are much more personal. You need to break free and be You not Your Family’s version of You. Disagreement with family members, especially your Dad, now are about you disliking things that they/he does that you also do. Erg! The Mind-Fig of it all. Change you. It’s not your job to change them/him. Savvy?

Scorpio
There’s some nice stuff around you, Scorp. Monday, Venus makes nice with your ruler and conversations are deep and rewarding, especially vz love stuff. On Wednesday there’s surprising news vz lovers, chilun and creative tings – and by the weekend, when the Sun hooks up with Uranus, you’re sensing all sorts of possibilities for how you can shine out in the real world in creative and fun new ways. Your New Moon lands on Monday 16th so if you feel a little tired at the weekend, take it easy and have someone cute bring you breakfast in bed at around 2pm (while you do your daydreaming about those possibilities for how you can shine out in the real world in creative and fun new ways). The sticky wicket in this week’s terrain is twofold. Firstly, at times you feel that homelife, nice as it is, isn’t suiting you. Secondly, you’re beginning to sense some karmic cleansing kicking in. It's like when you set out to ask for things you want, you suddenly feel that you can’t possibly deserve them. Observe the feelings that bubble up which aren’t helpful. This is a time for clearing the decks. What’s important for your future will stick around.

Sagittarius
Reality checks vz money are never fun but here comes a biggy. Pluto is making his way through your second house of earned income and possessions. When he clashes with Saturn at the weekend it's a reality call to stop building castles in the air. No, not a great feeling. The silver lining to this cloud is that re-grouping at the weekend puts you in a stronger position than you are now. You have knowledge and knowledge is power. Mars is revving you up vz legal, studious, or foreign plans but impatience now isn’t a viable option. He’ll be slowing down in December and you’ll feel the urges dip a little. There may be surprising offers vz home and family Wednesday and into the weekend. Check the small print. You’re not in a strong position to get things your way. Your inner Popeye will be along come December. Yak yak yak.

Capricorn
A game of two halves this week, Goat. Friends and wishes are feeling groovy – watch Monday, Wednesday and the weekend for feeling great, feeling loved and surprising opportunities for letting the good times roll. What may be furrowing your brow is the cash you need to let the good times roll... You haven’t been overly realistic about spondoolies recently and here it comes to roost. It’s a checkmate situation scenario; it’s time to get real about the dough. You'll feel better when you do. The other side of the week is re-evaluating your sense of self versus your sense of dooty. It seems there’s the Someone Who You Want to Be which is different to the social status you now hold. Either you don’t feel that you’re high enough up the career ladder - or you want to break away from the constraints of propriety and responsibility altogether and be someone new. Gandhi once said, ‘You will be alright when you are fully yourself.’ For you there are some social loose ends to tie up first.

Aquarius
Some are born to greatness, some aspire to greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them... Right now, Airy One, the world is looking to you for answers. We want to hear the incredible things you have to say. We want to bask in your glory. We want to touch your cloak. We’ll pay you for it, watch Wednesday and the weekend for egs of that. But what we don’t know is how your knees knock sometimes, and how you’re having to draw all sorts of courage up from the ends of your socks just to walk into the room. This week watch out for see-saw action; don’t fall prey to believing your own press but likewise, don’t let fear stop you taking your rightful place on the podium. Modesty’s an unction we need in these egomaniacal times, and we’re casting our apple cheeks in your general direction. Deliver. Pwease, deliver.

Pisces
Pluto links with Venus today, Monday, giving your wishes for foreign, teaching, and studious plans a zing of destiny. And there’s surprising but helpful news too on these fronts Wednesday and the weekend which could give you a whole new outlook. Where it gets a little less skippy is the meeting of the tiny power ball Pluto with Saturn; Money and Wishes aren’t stacking up. The reality might sting – perhaps your appeals for funds have been flatly refused or cut in half - or because financiers are presenting hoops of fire for you to jump through before they’ll hand over the cash money lettuce. While you’re feeling uneasy about this all week, and suspecting that mebbes you don’t even deserve for things to go well, try to remember this too will pass. Your current Big Lesson from Saturn is about saving up, spending wisely, and going steady with the never never. If your big juicy dream is worth it, then this week's ding is the perfect cosmic carrot to improve your lettuce savvy in the future. Kerching.

This month...

2009-11-02T01:15:00.004Z

November’s in the house, people. Intensity abounds all month thanks to the relay team of the Sun, Mercury, Venus and the New Moon working their way through deep, dark Scorpio. A tricky Full Moon in Taurus this Monday night kick starts the adrenal glands. Try and take a time out now and again, at least oranges at half time. Where things may come unstuck in the coming weeks is the stand off between authoritarian Saturn and You-Can’t-Handle-the-Truth Pluto. The stand-off is a month-long-thang so prepare for the story to unravel gradually, and as Pluto is the natural born leader of Scorpio, expect it too unravel gradually spurred on by moments of real intensity... Dat sed, Venus and Mercury are making cooing noises to some of the other planets during the coming four weeks so there’s romance for some and good news for others afoot. And Neptune is heading forwards ho after slouching at the back like an old soak. Enjoy, enjoy. The Ducky Weekly will be back widya next Sunday.

SOUNDTRACK of the week: Back in the summer I saw Camille o’Sullivan, an Irish-French performer, burn the house down with a gobsmacking performance. Such chutzpah. Such cheek. Such darkness. One of the songs on one of the CDs I bought just haunts me, so here it is. If you’re feeling teary in the run up to Monday night’s Full Moon, have your ‘kerchiefs to hand before hitting this link. Here’s the Tom Waits version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oGVDLcpXQ8

Aries
It’s a month of transformation for you, if you’re feeling brave enough and can work yourself into a pride-free zone. Venus, the Sun, Mercury, and the New Moon of the 16th are all begging you to (a) let go of outdated habits and situations that are way past their sell by date (b) get a little more adventurous with your approach to oobah and (c) sort out your big cash lettuce (mortgages, loans, credit cards dat sorta ting). You can do all or focus on just one, but do it with feeling. Turning over a new leaf now is closely connected to moving away from a self-centredness and instead embracing a going-with-the flow kind of attitude. Lovers, creative projects, and adventures with the chilun may be asking for just that and while your natural modus is to race towards the finishing line, if you can slow down now, a whole new hue of colours are bubbling up to give your world greater depth. Winning needs to be more about everyone being happy, rather than you walking away with the trophy. Try leaning on others, scary as it might be. Try picking the slowcoach onto your soccer team at five-a-side night. Try saying ‘well-played’ to the Wii Fit team mate who lost you the match but still did their best.

Taurus
Although you’d rather let things simmer away and then blow your stack at the slightest not-worth-it incident, the Universe is conspiring to make you push for answers on a regular basis this month. What this is leading up to is the New Moon of the 16th in your 7th house of close one-to-onesies; yes, your Annual Opportunity to (a) relaunch your current closest bidniz or loving relationship (b) decide you’re not getting what you want and that it’s time to move on (c) install new emotional software that means you gravitate only towards Those What Is Good For Ya, Eliza. The Sun, Mercury, and Venus your ruler, are all currently sitting on your shoulder. Be brave. Be direct. Watch the 2nd for Full Moon impatience, the 4th and 8th for intensity good, and 11th, 14th, and 26th for surprises and about turns. The Saturn and Pluto square off connects your work/health zone to your future desires abruptly, especially around the 15th. It seems that to get back to college, to travel, or to get published you’ve work or health duties to deal with first. The grind may feel like it’s wearing you down but that highway up ahead will be worth the effort. And with Neptune heading forwards at your boardroom table from the 5th, if you need creative ideas to succeed, there may be a torrent to ride just up ahead.

Gemini
Once you gather yourself from the mini quake of the Taurus Full Moon on Monday night, the real purpose of the first half of the month for you is getting your ducks in a row vz health and office requirements. If you’re overdue a check up, get to it Batman. Why? Because your love zone is about to get some spotlights on it that’s why, and you want to have your in-tray clear and your eyes shiny white in preparation. On Tuesday 17th and then Monday 23rd, Mercury and then the Sun saunter into your zone of close one to onesies. What’s of Critical Importance about their presence is that the Saturn-Pluto square off is highlighting your need to break away from the bad boys of the past and erase those peculiar vibes you’ve been emitting which have attracted power-hungry control-freaks and commitment phobes. Word. If there are gates flapping in the wind with any of the above, shut them and move out to a different ranch where there are new gates that fit. Finally watch for surprising career success opportunities on 11th, 14th, and 26th.

Cancer
November begins with a Full Moon in your 11th zone on Monday night when a friend or a dream is in crisis. Hard as that is for a Moon-ruled creature to stomach what it triggers is your own need to get intensely involved with your own poysonal truth about creativity, love, fun, and your plans for/ dealings with chilun. Engage with the feelings that bubble up in the first half of the month so that when the New Moon begins to grow after the 16th you can begin making rooted decisions based on the real truth, not shadows and cortisol. What’s enlivening this whole sector further is Neptune’s turn to forward ho in your zone of transformation and the clash of Saturn and Pluto striking your zones of home/family and close one-to-onesies. Somehow you have to negotiate (a) your homelife to accommodate a lovelife or (b) your old habits to accommodate a lovelife and (c) the reality that Things Have to Change. Pretty stuff: 4th, 8th, 11th, 14th and 26th. Sticky wickets: 11th, 14th, 15th, and 19th.

Leo
Your month begins with a career deadline looming and then quickly shifts into home and family pressures and delicious bunfights. There’s siblings coming to stay and money to be spent on sorting out the porch and the new underfloor heating in the throne room, natch, and there’s generally callers coming to see you to touch your cloak and bask in the sheen from your hair. Partners may not be so cheerful at having to shoulder some of the housework: watch 11th, 14th, 19th, and 26th for outbursts amidst the ranks. For you the Saturn-Pluto square is lighting up your zone of communication and your zone of work and medicine cabinets. Pussy cats may need to stand up and be counted in the office if they’re going to (a) be part of the changes or (b) make the much needed changes happen (and yes that does include voting with your feet, potentially). Watch the 15th for Big Moves Afoot. For many pussy cats applying for and interviewing for jobs is around now. Pussy cats who have a tickly cough or an old splinter in their paws, stop being a woose and get off to the vets for a check up.

Virgo
What’s gratifying about November’s stars for you is that as Saturn takes his foot off the gas you get a chance to watch the world drift for a while. Mercury, the Sun, Moon and Venus in your 3rd zone of everyday life augur in at least a few weeks of gadding out of town, laughing like a drain with neighbours and bros and sisses, and chinwagging over tea and buns. As we reach the New Moon of the 16th in this zone the clash of Saturn and Pluto lands too. The Truth may be that you don’t have enough cash to (a) launch a creative venture or playschool or (b) that a lover doesn’t stack up materially and you don’t want to be their patron for eternity. Money In the Bank is Saturn’s boot camp for you now. Days like the 17th show you why it will be good for you longterm. What’s not helping any feeling of deflation is Mars in your 12th house of Meep! (in-for-me in-for-me, they’ve all got it in-for-me) and the gathering of planets at the foot of your stairs. Launch small projects from your couch. Work on projects close to your heart. Other than that watch for surprising news from lovers: 11th, 14th, and 26th. Watch for pointless rows: 19th. Watch for work irritations: 11th, 14th, 15th.

Libra
Money, Scales, what is it good for? The tricksy Full Moon in Taurus on Monday night may add a little piquancy to your feelings about oof – as in a credit card bill landing that winds you temporarily. Then for the next few weeks you’ve three planets and a New Moon in your zone of earned cash lettuce. Perhaps the Lunar Crisis means you begin turning down the heating and buying dins from the reduced bin at your local hypermarche for a while to save some readies. Proud of you. The alternative is that you strike it rich at Bingo and then spend like a sailor until the New Moon of the 16th. Enjoy enjoy. From the 16th expect pangs to arrive when you start thinking about home and family. For some Librans, Aged Ps are going to need more help. For others, house moves or big changes on the home front are on the cards and the upheaval may not be welcome, perhaps not even of your choosing. Pluto in this Zone says that what’s happening now is about you transforming some old ingrained habits. If you can’t see the boons now, just get through the day. The boons will come see you in January. To leave you on a cheerier note, Neptune’s turn to forwards ho on the 5th is Good Nuus. He’s been snoozing in your zone of chilun, lovers, and fun since early summer leaving you rudderless and ineffectual. It’s time to crank up those dreams, Libra, let your hair down and get skiptastic.

Scorpio
Once the Full Moon emotional frenzy with one-to-onesies abates by mid-week, this month really is all about you, Scorpio. The Sun sez, ‘Look at me! I have energy and I shine!’ Mercury sez, ‘Listen to me I have fabulous ting to impart!’ Venus sez, ‘Do you like my new boots and my pretty dimples?’ And the New Moon of the 15th sez, ‘Here I come, bright and new and shiny.’ Watch the 4th and the 8th for days to Feel Great and the 11th, 14th, and 26th to use your Inner Confidence to Make Changes you want to see – whether that’s with lovers, self-expression, or on the mekkin bebes front. Hmm hmm. Where you can really rise to the occasion though is navigating the waters of Saturn squaring your ruler Pluto. Pluto in your 3rd house is a Grade A call to Communicate. Saturn in your 12th is a period of Karmic Cleansing. If you’ve apologies to make or an habitual modus which undermines your sense of self-worth by apologising for whatever may have gone wrong even though you were never in the room , now’s the time to work through it. No, it won’t be easy. Therapy for you right now should involve vocal exercises, chanting, getting your base note out into the open and making it so strong you could build a garage on it. Watch Tuesday 17th for choral epiphanies and hitting the right notes.

Sagittarius
It’s a time to retreat inside the mountain and play darts with only those you love enough to see you in your jogging trousers with no make up on and greasy hair. Three planets and a New Moon this month say take it easy and don’t push hard for the Big Stuff out in the real world. There’ll be more archery competitions and photo opportunities soon enough. The first hurdle is the Full Moon in your 6th house of work and health. A sore throat or urgent work crisis tick this box. Muddle through then rest up. What you need to be saving your strength for is the month-long stand off between Saturn and Pluto. Success and money seem to be colliding and not in a good way; bosses are demanding but don’t seem to want to pay you the oof that you feel you’ve earned. It reaches a boiling point around the 15th... Two points your Ducky would like to make at this juncture: from the 5th Neptune is back in force in your zone of communications after too many months snoozing on the job. Use your charm to ooze information out of boss figures and purse carriers so you know what’s what before you strike. Secondly, no good comes of launching anything when the Sun’s in your 12th house of Meep. Talk openly from the 17th, make clear noises and intentions from the 23rd but expect no money resolutions until after 3rd December.

Capricorn
Monday night is a tricky Taurus Full Moon and for Goats it spells a heightened moment for issues with chilun, lovers, and creative ting. For some it’s an ending, for others a turning point driven by a feeling in your waters that Things Cannot Continue as before. Once negotiated it’s time to stick the Bee Gees on the CD player and party. You’ve a fortnight of gladragging, dancing on tables, and bunfighting with your pals before you need to rest up in time for your birthday month. Social networking and etching your dreams in the rock face are also Things To Do right now. Beneath the thundering baseline, you’ll be aware of a rising call to duty which will soon need your attention. As Saturn your ruler clashes with Pluto, currently in your first house of You, Yourself, and You, it’s clear as eggs that you need to change tack. What’s driving this change is your career. Responsibilities on the job front and any chances you have of making it closer to the Important Seats at the board room table involve You Changing Who You Are. Easy? Mais non. Potentially fun, profitable, and life enhancing? Naturellement. Chest out, make it count. Get more real about your lettuce: from Thursday 5th. Friends and networks link to work success: Tuesday 17th. Partying hits you in the pocket: Sunday 15th, Thursday 19th.

Aquarius
Your action stations are at the Board Room table, Aquarius. There’s money for your brilliance, and cheer for your brilliance, and you’re shining with your brilliance. For she’s a jolly good felllooow, You know the rest. Make halos while the sun shines because from the 17th onwards you’re likely to be distracted by friends, wishes, dreams, and social networking addiction. Word. So, when the New Moon lands in your career zone on the 16th make a concise list of Who You Are in your career and Three New Things you’d like to succeed at in the coming year. Then hop down to the nearest jumping cafe and Tweet like billio from whatever technology you have at your disposal. Where your party may feel a leetle pooped is the forthcoming set to between Saturn and Pluto. Pluto is rolling mercilessly through your 12th house of Meep! and the things that have made you afeard in the past are popping out of the woodwork so you face ‘em like Buffy. As Saturn sets up stall in your 9th house of foreign shores, long distance plans, study, philosophy and legalities, it seems that your course in one of these areas could be better enhanced if you were more open to change – and for you that means structure and patience. The expression, ‘feel the fear and work through it methodically,’ springs to mind. Get ready to focus after months of being vague: from Thursday 5th. Your career brings kerching: 11th, 14th and 26th. Partners are tricksy: Thursday 19th.

Pisces
A tricky Full Moon in your third house on Monday raises urgency or emotions on communications, tings with bros and sisses, or transport frustrations. It will pass and with three planets stacking up in your 9th house of foreign shores, long range plans, legalities and study, Fish, you’ve plenty to take your mind off leetle irritations. The New Moon lands in this zone on the 16th too so what you’ve been chewing over in the first few weeks of the month should become part of your modus / action plan from then on. What is jolly hockey sticks and deserves a lap of honour and delight around your bowl is the return to forwards ho! of your ruler Neptune who has been a waste of space for six months. Trident schmident. From Thursday 5th expect to have a little more zip in your tail and a better focus on where you want to be heading off to next. What maybe causing consternation for you is the clash of Saturn and Pluto across your zones of big cash money and your zone of friends an wishes. Dreams that you’ve been building may get a kick in the shins this month. Big pay outs or savings accounts may not be enough and you may have to delay launching big dreams until there’s enough oof in the tank. Great days for surprises and exciting holidays or daydreams: 8th, 11th, 14th, 26th. Feeling under par: Sunday 15th. Work clashes with holiday plans: 19th.

This week

2009-10-26T00:06:00.007Z

It’s the week you’ve been waiting for... Firstly, Mercury is shifting from fence-sitting Libra into deep and meaningful Scorpio on Thursday... the TRUTH is coming, ready or not. But of course the HOT news lands on Friday when turgid, party-pooping, cosmic-heavyweight Saturn shifts out of Virgo after more than two years. (For a recap of what this means for you see the Ducky archives dated 10/04 in the right hand column, below.) The same day the Moon is drunk at the wheel from 5am – 6pm GMT. Do nada of crucial importance; your gut instinct will likely steer you into a ditch.

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The ‘Ducky is back with a November monthly next Sunday. Have a super week and for those who dream of buckling their quill, Get Ready for Writing!!

Aries
Your novel, should you choose to make it a semi-autobiographical affair, will be something of a bonkbuster, Ramface. Think Babs Cartland meets Dysentry, ahem, Dynasty with twoo love and love- ‘em-and-leave- ‘em plot lines setting the pages on fire. Venus sez twoo love’s about you right now if you could just cool down enough to recognise it. As Mercury joins the Sun in deep, dark Scorpio in your own deep, dark zone of Letting Go, conversations about endings and transformations are being chalked up in the writers’ room. Will she/won’t she realise what’s right under her nose before it’s too late? Will he be able to turn over a New Leaf and say he’s sorry? Will it all end in tears – or the honeymoon suite at the Kink Emporia? All this amid a lucrative oil strike up ahead. Dinner and diamonds baby, diamonds and dinner.

Taurus
Your 9th house is lit up like a Catherine Wheel, Bullchops, and novel-writing, foreign shores, and study are on your pretty mind. Pluto’s in this zone, the Moon has just swept through it too and Saturn – ruler of this zone – is bringing commitment and staying power to your workaday world. What you do now in your everyday life HAS to reflect who you are more honestly and publishing, travel, and study are the routes towards it. What’s especially hot right now are the Sun and Mercury travelling together in your 7th house of loving and bidniz partnerships; writey/speaky collaborations look shiny either on the page or back in the real world. What seem to be throwing you off your stride, Bully, are home and family issues. Rows, developments, and feistiness are burning up the flagpole, thanks to Mars in this zone (watch Friday for eruptions). Perhaps your current passions mean the dishes and bins are being left for others to sort out and they no likey. Tough cheddar. That novel /partnership deal won’t get bashed out by itself.

Gemini
If ever there was a starsign that needed the ball and chain of a writing month to buckle down and do it, You’re It, Airy Friend. And with Mars flaring in your 3rd house of communications, you can type faster than a film noir villain can draw his gun. Venus has been warming your zone of Creative Ventures and as Saturn sets up stall here creative pursuits you feel a zingy passion for right now are strong enough to build a garage on. That goes for love affairs too – and plans for bebe-mekkin. In fact, careful what you sign up for this week because chances are it’ll be sticking to you for the next few years. From Thursday your ruler Mercury joins the Sun in your 6th house of work and health. Expect to be racing, exploring, and making plans in these areas too. Meanwhile, watch for clashes at the office this week, especially Friday when you’re liable to go off half-cocked in a fit of pique under chiaroscuro lighting. Even the Moon’s Void of Course so you’ll come round from the daze to realise that the blood on the carpet has been pointlessly spilled.

Cancer
Do you remember ‘Ducky’s warning that you’re getting hot under the collar about oof and possessions in the coming months? Perhaps you brushed that aside... but Friday brings the first Huzzah! Lovers or creative projects are paying less/costing more than you’d anticipated and you’re cross. What are you cross about? Some inner getting-even thang you don’t want to ‘fess up to? Or perhaps a fear that you’ll be left out in the cold if you don’t snap your purse strings now? Navel-gaze. There’s much more of this on your horizon. Mercury’s move into your 5th house of lovers, creative ting and bebes from Thursday portends a rush of Getting It Off Your Chest in these areas. Expect to be reaching some Deep Home Truths in the coming three weeks. Finally home is where the heart is. Even duties to family and hearth and reef right now are giving your life a welcome anchor and purpose.

Leo
You’ll be feeling the Mars Factor by now, Pussy Cat. Having this sort of spring in your step can make a feline-type person everso Sparkly and Confident and Single-Minded all of which will blow smoke up more narrow-minded peoples’ aspics. Thursday and a smiling someone close is on your side. Watch Friday though for a dull, pillar of a person trying to spray water on your tail. It seems an envious family member or house mate wants to take you down a peg or two. Remember that Friday is no day to get to the heart of the matter. Pencil Monday for the showdown instead. For Cats communications and home-fires are your raison d’etres at the moment. If you need to crow then spouting and building a gold-plated porch are The Ways Forwards. As is novel-writing. Make your protagonist a world leader with a solid love life and make the plot a veiled smoke-screen of how you would rule the world. Sorry, DO rule the world. Natch.

Virgo
You’re a Mercury bunny, Virgo, and as your ruler springs from your 2nd house of dosh to your 3rd house of comms and out-of-town trips on Thursday it’s time to tawk/write/jaunt. Where you can make the most of the stars this week is to challenge your own comfort boundaries vz Getting Up at the front of the room and/or making vocal strides towards Lovers or Creative Projects. In fact, the more 'Chest Out Make It Count' you can be right now, the stronger you’ll feel and the more vocal and courageous you’ll be. The Sun naturally rules your 12th house of Meep! Talking about all the things that scare you most is going to lighten the load of having Mars stirring your 12th house during his current extended tour of dooty. (As mentioned last week on these here pages.) From the weekend make money earning/saving plans/investments your top priorities. And if you’re joining the NaNo writing tribe, researching the role of an accountant/ pawnbroker/investments jockey as protagonist should steer you out here in the real world too.

Libra
Mercury moves into your 2nd house of money and possessions just as Saturn steps up to your front door; where you’re getting real by the weekend is deciding what you’re worth. You want more of the green stuff that’s for sure but it seems that it’s for pretty things and dinners for lovers rather than sports cars in the drive way. Likewise, there’s love in your heart right now and honeypots already within your radar will be reflecting that sweetness backacha. On a money tip too, Librans buying, selling, or renting property have a Kerching moment Thursday as the readies come in. However, it seems a plan or a social bunfight could scalp your wallet come Friday. Steady as she blows! You’ll be counting the cost by Monday week.

Scorpio
One step forwards, two steps back, Scorpio. Just as Mercury lands in your first house of You and you realise that you’ve been giving in to paranoia about any number of issues in the past three weeks, so Saturn docks in your 12th house of Meep! And a two year karmic cleansing process begins... What’s softening the blow is Venus. Already floating through your 12th house in a flouncy dress, Venus implies that part of your Karmic Lesson in the University of Letting Go pertains to you recognising that you roll over and show your soft underside too easily sometimes simply because you forget that you have a weapon at your disposal - not your poisonous tail, your ability to say ‘No’. This NO can be ‘No, I don’t want to go on a date with you,’ as much as it can be, ‘No I want to be a maverick and do things in a new way.’ Savvy? Watch Thursday for a chance to practice this: Easy, and Friday for another chance: With Opposition. If you’re NaNoWriMo-ing, make a shrink’s couch your pivotal action station.

Sagittarius
Plans you have for writing (or holidaying or studying), indicated by Mars in your 9th zone of publishing (and holidaying and studying) may hit the buffers before they run smooth, Archer. Friday and Monday week the Sun and then Mercury have words with the Firebrand. Others and then the paperwork are getting in the way. It’s a case of being diplomatic and dotting your i-s before progress can be made. What’s essential to your happiness and general healthy chi right now is acknowledging that the planets are gathering in your 12th house of Meep! In the coming months meaning (a) it’s time to rest and (b) you are going to lose more arguments than you win. If you can get your head into the zone of a Zen-like warrior, you’ll find your writing (holidaying, studying) will be a lot less fraught and a lot more restive and reflective.

Capricorn
Wishes get a Shot in the Arm on Thursday, important plans you’ve been hatching for a while clearly hold water. Likewise conversations with important friends support this notion that you're barking up the correct tree. To get to the end of this perticaler rainbow you may need to be moving from one track to a new one now, Goat, and change is always a spooky thing. Feel the nerves Friday but by Monday you’ll have gathered yourself. Saturn’s move into your 10th house by then is especially significant vz mekkin changes. Firstly he’s your ruler. Secondly Venus is already at your boardroom table. What’s bringing you pleasure can also bring you career success in the coming months. And money. Lotsa money. Kerrrching!

Aquarius
As an Inventive sign of the zodiac you’re always up for a creative whatsit – and with Venus and Saturn both in your zone of publishing, studying, and foreign shores from the weekend it may be time to embark on a novel (novel-writing) escapade covering one or more of these areas. Watch Thursday for a penny dropping which indicates The Way. Amidst the creativity/foreign travel/shenanigans at the Student Bar, it seems you’ve opportunities to puff your chest out at the boardroom table from Thursday especially. Watch out for the naysayers and jealous partners on Friday. Plan to deal with them decidedly on Monday week.

Pisces
With the Sun and Mercury in your 9th house of publishing by the weekend, Fishes could be called to writing action... The 9th also rules foreign shores and study plans. Night school, hammocks, and emigration could be top of your to do lists too from now until late November. Watch Friday and Monday week for work chores clashing with those plans. Where you can really make headway now is in the land of oof. Additional income is around at the moment but you have to be wise. Trust your gut feeling Wednesday / Thursday, it could steer you straight to the cash, money, lettuce. I'll have a large one, cheers.

THIS WEEK

2009-10-18T00:30:00.004+01:00

A tame week ahead kick started by today (Sunday's) balancing, diplomatic New Moon in Libra. That strange noise you can hear is Mars settling in to his new home in Leo. A fire sign within a fire sign, hmmm… expect a dozen sports cars in the driveway, garish clothing, and photographs of himself on every wall… Mars’s stay in Leo normally lasts around six weeks. However this time he’s going to slow down in November and retrograde in December, spending a wapping nine months with the Zodiac’s pussy cats. For how this will effect you see Firebrand, Moi? below.

NOTES: Soundtrack of the week is now Soundtrack of the Month (Next due in November). Astroducky, however, is back to being weekly. Thankee for your patience all. See you next Sunday. T x

Aries
Yesterday’s New Moon is a get-up-wise-up whisper in your ear where your close one-to-onesies are concerned. Good Partnerships can make the world go round – but bad ones can make the ride unbearable. Evaluate your lovin’ and bidniz partners, Ramface. With Venus and Mercury here right now, it’s time to turn over a new leaf that allows in more love and honesty. Tuesday and Wednesday are your best party nights this week so book a late start at the office if need be. At the weekend dosh and long-haul / overseas connections get a shot to the arm. Firebrand, Moi? Anger and passion vz lovers, creative tings, and chilun have you brimming with joy and walking on hot coals during the next nine months. Been pushing pedal to the metal in these areas? Expect to re-evaluate your modus between now and June.

Taurus
Yesterday’s New Moon was a call to get your work and health regimes refreshed. Pick a stickable-to exercise plan and stick to it! Map a workable-work-life balance and put it into practice! Write down your aches and pains and take the note to the Docs! Work and Career get a Mercury/Jupiter zippadeedoodah Tuesday/Wednesday. Strike your pose then. Bulls hankering for partners overseas or looking for publishing/broadcasting/legal partners get good news at the weekend. Firebrand, Moi? Mars is loitering in your 4th house of home and family. Home buying and renovating become a source of passion and consternation, as do family. Hate the way your Dad/child/partner does a certain somezing..? Is it because you do it yourself? Expect to confront some old, ingrained habits of your own as Mars passes by.

Gemini
If your love life has been in the doldrums, yesterday’s New Moon gives you a gentle nudge to alter your modus. Mercury and Venus say talky flirty are the signposts to Squeezeville. Overseas/internet dating feels shiny Tuesday/Wednesday, as do creative projects connected to publishing and broadcasting. At the weekend, work commissions have a deep-reaching, transformative flavour. Perhaps bigger bucks too. Firebrand, Moi? Not one for staying silent for long, Airy One, Mars’s move into your zone of communication means there is little on heaven and earth that can shut you up. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing but watch for gossiping or getting a little too vicious in your new-found public speaking confidence. The third house rules transport too. Steady as you go. Speeding tickets and prangs are rife under this transit, I kid you not.

Cancer
Out from under your duvet Crab! It’s time to embrace the New Moon and make wishes and New Moves vz home and family – whether that’s literally moving, or visiting your Ma a bit more, or ditching a bad habit you picked up in childhood. Mercury and Venus are helping you break away now. Crabs redecorating have the stars on their side and for those selling or renting out the spare room, watch Tuesday/Wednesday for money luck. At the weekend lovers bear the hallmark of an exciting future. Wear your Sunday Best Clawface! Firebrand, Moi? You’re at the mercy of Money and Possessions for the next nine months. Expect to get a little more urgent about getting them and little more angry about parting with them. There really is enough for us all in the reef. This Mars transit may be the bootcamp to teach you just that.

Leo
Ah what a time you’re in for! But first… Yesterday’s New Moon sez it’s time to orate! It’s all very well looking glorious with your big, shiny hair but what are you thinking? Your subjects want to know. Mercury and Venus say you’ve loving things to impart. Tuesday/Wednesday bury the hatchet/propose/sign up with one-to-one partners. Across town: at the weekend, work and home life chime. Getting clannish by working with family or working from home have shiny stars behind them. Firebrand, Moi? You get a six-week visit from Mars about every two years when you become more persuasive, more confident, and sometimes a little more, ahem, military. Now you have Mars for nine months. Expect to (a) ‘rule’ something eg set up your own bizniz or take charge of existing work ting (b) do something dramatic to your hair and appearance (c) emigrate or work abroad/further afield and (d) get your fingers burned once or twice. Mars mekka you confident - but sometimes too confident to avoid complacency or arrogance. Watch and learn, Puddy Tat.

Virgo
Yesterday’s New Moon says you need to act on earnings and prospective funding streams NOW. Circle Tuesday/Wednesday for clinching work deals, even resurrecting those that stalled in early summer. At the weekend Pluto and the Sun give you a boost; it’s time to get to the heart of the matter with lovers, chilun, and creative ting. Pluto doesn’t like woosies. How can you self-actualise when you’re clinging to a comfort blanket, Linus? Be bold. That’s the ticket. Firebrand, Moi? Mars in your 12th house of Meep! for nine months will bring some tricky moments. It’s the house of hidden enemies. Firstly, and most dramatically, don’t hang around dodgy neighbourhoods at night. Secondly, and more generally, things you like least in yourself are going to be reflected at you by people in, or coming into, your life. Dealing with unrepressed anger? Here come angry or feeble people to test you. Scared of walking into the spotlight? Here come the show offs and the motormouths… Take notes on why and how you react. As Mars heads backwards in mid-December you’ll get a chance to review what you’ve learned. Then next Spring, when he heads forwards, you’ll be ready to tackle whatever crawls out of the woodwork.

Libra
Yesterday’s New Moon was yours, Scales. It’s time to re-launch yourself and with Saturn joining your side next week, it’s time to really work hard at being who you want to be. First up a hair, make up, and a wardrobe overhaul mebbe on the cards. Enjoy. Saturn sez the hard work is coming so keep some comfy shoes next to those new, killer heels. Tuesday/Wednesday this week take this New, Confident You out to your lovers. Even old lovers you felt you weren’t good enough for don’t feel so scary any more. Librans buying/selling or renovating property get a financial boost at the weekend. Firebrand, Moi? It’s time to party, socialise, and swell your network with good cheer and a sense of clan-making. Likewise, it’s time to pursue your deepest wishes, perticalerly where close one-to-onesies are concerned.

Scorpio
Yesterday’s New Moon in your 12th house should herald the end of feeling flat as a biscuit. There are a few weeks to go before you get to say what you want and get the money you’re owed - but it’s coming. At the weekend the Sun docks with you for the first time in 11 months. As he does he makes cow eyes at your ruler Pluto. Feel the urge to begin planning your return to Full Service. Firebrand, Moi? Mars rules your work zone and he’s spending the next nine months in your career zone. This means Good: higher energy, higher determination, passion, and confidence. This means Bad: getting irate and impatient, arguing with bosses, bullying the office junior and trampling over colleagues to get to the top. Play fair. As and when the rush ends, it’ll be much nicer if there are friendly faces on the way down.

Sagittarius
Yesterday’s New Moon was your annual Wishing Moon; write down what you want this week, this month, and this year – and do it with feeling – then put it somewhere safe. If you can name what your heart and soul really wants and hold that picture in your mind’s eye, you’ve a greater chance of getting it now. Word, people. Across town: the Sun dives into your 12th house of Meep! It’s time to take a breather for four weeks. Plan as little as you can, even when the social whirl calls, and delay the initiation of Big Plans until early December when the Force will be with you, Luke. Firebrand, Moi? Mars’s extended stay in your 9th house means you’ll be chomping at the bit vz studying, foreign, or philosophical concerns. Archers preparing legal shenanigans - the game won't conclude until June. Is it worth the wait?

Capricorn
Your career got a shot in the arm yesterday thanks to the New Moon. It’s time to call the shots at the boardroom table and when your ruler Saturn moves into this zone next week it really will be time to carve a new track towards the mountain top. Watch Tuesday/Wednesday for career-money tawks. Across town: and the weekend brings shiny omens of your future wishes for You. Socialise with friends who help you grow and you’ll be singing. Firebrand, Moi? Mars’s move into your 8th house of sex, death, and taxes means you’ll be stirred by endings and Big Money during the next nine months. When it gets tough, Goat, remember the good stuff. Getting to the top of the mountain takes grit - but knowing what you know when you’re up there? - by ‘eck that takes some licking.

Aquarius
A New Moon in your zone of foreign shores and publishing plans means that if you aint getting published or hopping on a slow-boat to China, you’re hankering for it. For Inventive Ones ‘Now’ is all about broadening your horizons. Watch Tuesday and Wednesday for breakthroughs… At the weekend a career opportunity you don’t feel good enough for beckons. Can you quell the nagging doubts long enough to take a chance? Fireband, Moi? Mars, who rules your house of communication, has sidled into your house of close one-to-onesies for a marathon nine months. Sidled Good: Energy, confidence, and determination to push through barriers creating a happy partnership and spearheading Ways to Make It Work. Sidled Bad: Pushy, argumentative, and aggressive, you or your close partners are stoking the fire and getting militant. Perhaps what gets burned down now may clear the way for a more solid future.

Pisces
Yesterday’s New Moon suggests it’s time to sort B-i-g Ca-s-h W-o-r-r-i-e-s. Ting you bought on the buy-now-pay-later merry-go-round are due and though it stings, perhaps NOW you’ll learn the lesson… Lecture Over. Tuesday/ Wednesday bright ideas or saving plans land. (Kerching?) Across town: at the weekend a fear/opportunity connecting foreign/publishing ideas raises its ugly head. It's time to stand up and ‘fess your concerns. Firebrand, Moi? Mars’s extended stay is in your zone of work and health. Exercise is going to feel almost imperative. The day job is going to feel dull and routine – so much so that you’re better off initiating your own projects between now and June. Old aches and pains will need seeing to; expect flare ups now – they’re only here to show where you’ve failed to address problems in the past.

This Month

2009-10-04T23:59:00.004+01:00

Greetings, fellow earthlings. Well, that was September. Smile much? For yon Astroducky it was a trying month. However it’s done and time is calling us onwards as October lands with Mercury shoofteeing forwards (thank the Lady!) and a cowabunga Aries Full Moon as of 07:10 BST this morning. (If you’ve been wanting to cry, drink hard, or slap someone this weekend, this little critter could be the gremlin. Make peace. Move on.) And so to the merry month of October. Just as we in the Northern Hemisphere are unpacking our woolly jumpers and eating stew and dumplings, our Southern Hemisphere friends are cooing at de blossoms. Wherever in the world you’re having your morning brew, the good news for all is that Jupiter heads forwards from the 12th. But the really Big Noise this month is Saturn shifting from Virgo to Libra. It’s been over two years since the curmudgeon docked at Virgin Towers. For where his shift will curtail your personal liberty and fun for the next two years, see Betty Ford Took My Martini, below.

Astroducky is planning to return to weekly scopes this month… Let’s book it Danno from Sunday 18 October and I’ll see you here for a whatfor. In the meantime, a tune. I discovered this little gem recently and am glad I did. Talk of refreshing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MkExm3_cn4

Aries
A month for love and bidniz partners, Ramface. The Sun’s already lighting up your lovin’ / bizniz one-to-onesies and will be joined by Mercury on the 11th and Venus on the 15th. And the New Moon here on the 18th should incline you to turn over a new leaf where your current squeeze/biz colleagues are concerned. Single Rams should redouble their efforts to find a honeybun and when Mars moves into your 5th house of squeezes and fun from the 18th, all Rams will find that their energy, passion, and honey-hunting prowess will soar. Oobah. Hot date night is Tuesday 13th. Don’t forget to wear your best pants. Across town this October, watch money bother on the 10th - work projects cost more or pay less than you’d expected. More happily, friends, goals, and long-term dreams that seemed to have dragged since the summer get back on track thanks to Jupiter’s forwards ho! from the 13th. Betty Ford Took My Martini: For the past two and a bit years, Saturn has had you on your knees vz work, forcing you to get your act together and to work smarter and harder with more responsibilities for bosses/financers who can’t take a joke. For some Rams, health niggles will have forced you to commit to new regimes, diets, herbal teas and tobacco substitutes; what you used to get away with your poor body can’t take these days, hmm? When Saturn moves into your 7th house of one-to-onesies from 29 October, you’ll be shifting your sense of honour and duty to those you are closest too in a squeezy or worky way. For some Rams commitment to a long-term ting is on the cards. For others, partners may be clipping your wings in the coming months. And no, you may no likey, but heed the lesson; what Saturn’s here to teach you is that putting other people first sometimes is what helps the world go round in a less clunky way. Savvy?

Taurus
A month where work and health take centre stage. The Sun, Mercury, and Venus are gathering in your 6th house and it’s time to (a) snatch juicy work projects and (b) get to the docs for check ups, the gym for a shake up, and the spa for a deep tissue massage. The New Moon on the 18th brings an extra push in these areas. Until the 11th money needs to be on your radar so look for work that pays you bigger bucks. From mid-month your home zone gets active so pencil refurbs from then on. Vz Love Stuff, late in the month gets steamy… lovers/friends have surprising offers on the 10th, Mars and Venus make cow eyes on Tuesday 13th, but on 24th the Sun scooches into your 7th house of partnerships for a month long stay. He’ll soon be followed by Mercury and Venus; late October and November have all the hallmarks of tiger skin rugs followed by commitment. Betty Ford Took My Martini: For you, happily, Betty Ford may in fact Give You a Martini (and a bikini wax) when Saturn shifts signs… Saturn’s been sitting frostily in your house of fun since 2007. Letting your hair down has been a self-conscious bind. Now though he shoftees into your 6th house of work and health. First you’ll notice how much easier it is to have fun, be flirtatious, and to connect with your inner child. On the flipside, Saturn will now be insisting on Routines vz work and health. Getting more bizniz like and even becoming the boss are part of this journey. Connections with publishing, broadcasting, teaching and international links are starred too but expect hard grind. If that doesn’t sound like fun, think on how much you’d like to be treated by a doctor who didn’t bother to turn up at class... Saturn makes you work hard for good reason. See?! Your 6th house also governs health. Put down that burger and get out in the open air! Treating your body like a temple now will help for years to come. Treating it like a toilet will cost you dear.

Gemini
A month of fun, flirtation, and connecting with your inner child, Airy Friend. Your 5th house is lit up this month by the Sun, to be joined by your ruler Mercury from the 11th, Venus from the 15th, and the New Moon of the 18th. Single Geminis: Get Out and Find Some Honey! Coupled Up Geminis: Get Fruity and Creative! You’ve a month to make the most of your levity as Saturn’s coming to squash it a leetle (see Betty Ford, below). Across town and big bills coming in and going out continue to be felt until 17th. On a happier tip, as Jupiter heads direct from 13th your plans to study, travel, or go for Publishing and Broadcasting dreams get a shot in the arm with more energy to come throughout November. Betty Ford Took My Martini: If home and family life have been soaking up your energy like a sponge for two years, expect the burden to lift. Airy Ones who’ve been struggling to buy, rent, or move may find things slot into place from month’s end. The 4th house, where Saturn’s been skulking, also rules your family and old, ingrained habits. Geminis the world over should be sure of one thing: that they are not their parents. (Yes, that’s what all the argie bargie has been for!). As you set out to carve your niche as Your Own Person, Saturn’s move into your 5th house of Fun means you’ll be taking your Fun seriously for a while. Casual love affairs won’t quite hit the target any more. Creative Hobbies will need to become professions or left to slide. For some Airy Ones, the responsibility of existing children - or your decisions to bring in the pitter patter of tiny new feet - are set to play a big part of your growing up process.

Cancer
October: a month to speak with the voice from the burning bush. You’ve Venus and Mercury on side so say the things that spook ya and feel dem power. Mars is with you too until the 17th of the month giving you fire in your tonsils so crow, especially where work ting are concerned. If you need to post your resume and put in a follow up call, Get It Done by the 17th. From then on Mars rules your bank vaults. Big cash comes in; big cash goes out. Start a contingency savings account now. Vz love, from the last week of the month the Sun scoots into your 5th house of Funsies, soon to be joined by Mercury and Venus. Single Crabs should sling on their dancey pants, get out on the reef, and mingle. For all Crabs, the end of October and all of November spell romance, creativity, and for some, bebe talk. Betty Ford Took My Martini: Saturn has been stomping around your 3rd house for the past two years bringing heaviness vz bros and sisses, on-going car bothers, the need to commute longer distances for work or to fit in with partners’ needs, and responsibilities or brushes with authority within your community. The Third also rules communications: Saturn's mission here has been to help you Speak Up a Little, and say what’s on your mind (rather than sulking, which can be a Crab’s most infuriating modus). As he shifts into your 4th house of home and family your next Saturnine Masterclass concerns the buying, selling, or renovating of property, greater duties vz caring for Ma and Pa – and last but by no means least your need to Stand Up and Be Counted outside of your family’s dynamic... The 4th house is where we repeat the ways our parents have always Done Stuff. Saturn here sez, ‘Be your own Ma and Pa.’ It’s time to see your parents as people, Crab, not authority figures. Be the boss of you, and the chief in your own reef.

Leo
The first half of the month is All About The Cash, your Highness. Call in the lettuce you’re owed, ask for the dough you want. Particularly keep your antennae up on the 10th vz cash surprises. You may feel that you’re not entitled to it, as if you should be at the back of the queue with a begging bowl that has a hole in it, but tish and pish, Queeny. Bluster can see you through the next few weeks until Mars joins your side from the 17th. From mid-month, the emphasis switches from cash to your everyday wash. Communications, bros and sisses, and out of town trips are starred. Betty Ford Took My Martini: Money has cast something of a pall, hasn’t it Pussy Cat? In the past few years, even if you’ve had money, you’ve been shoving it under the mattress, even parking it in property or savings accounts. That’s Saturn for ya, teaching you the importance of Financial Prudence. As he hoofs into your House Numero Tres at the end of the month, you can expect to feel a bit more easyozie about cash, money, lettuce. This doesn’t mean you’re suddenly going to be richer. It just means that you’re going to get a little groovier about your tamaytahs. Where Saturn is going to clip on the thumb screws next is in your zone of your every day wash. Expect a bit more heaviness vz bros and sisses, on-going car bothers, the need to commute longer distances for work or to fit in with partners’ needs, and responsibilities or brushes with authority within your community. The Third also rules communications: his mission here is to help you Speak Up a Little, and say what’s on your mind to best effect. If roaring hasn’t been getting you anywhere, perhaps Saturn here will give you a master class in asking nicely…

Virgo
A month for sorting readies, Virgo. The Sun is currently lighting up your bank vaults soon to be joined by your ruler Mercury, as well as Venus and the Libran New Moon of the 18th. Going for pay rises is your Soup Du Jour in October. Work projects are set to motor forwards from Tuesday 13th as Jupiter awakens after snoozing through the summer. A couple of irksome points to note this month: (a) lovers seem wappy and have unexpected mood swings on the 10th and (b) Mars heads into your 12th house of meep! from the 17th. Thanks to a retrograde action in mid-December, Mars is going to spend a massive nine months between your 12th house of meep! and your 11th house of friends and wishes. The 12th house transit is a test of confidence and not letting your subconscious get the better of you. Keep your nose clean – karma rocks the 12th house - and if people seem to be goading you, ask what aspect of yourself you like least. Chances are, they’re taking a pop at the very same. Saturn here sez it’s time to iron out some self-loathing wrinkles. Betty Ford Took My Martini: For you, dear Virgo, the last few years have been monstrous. Saturn hasn’t been focusing on how you walk, work, or play the mating game – he’s been focusing on All of You. Yes, you’ve been through the ringer. What’s transpiring right now is a sense of You emerging, old, wiser, and statelier from this swamp with a brighter, more realistic vision of who you are and where you are going. From month’s end, as he shifts into your 2nd house of earned income, Virgos are preparing to forego instant financial gratification to pursue a sense of higher purpose. There’s a You that may need to move sideways on the career ladder, for now, and careers concerning creativity and children have the stars behind them. Savings Plans and squirreling for rainy days are bang on the money.

Libra
The Sun’s with you as we speak, Scales, but with Venus and Mercury hiding in the shadows of your beauteous mind until mid-month, you may feel ineffectual and lazy. Rest up while you can. When the New Moon docks on the 18th you’ll have four celestial bodies saying, “You Da Man” – PLUS Jupiter is heading forwards ho in your 5th house of Funsies from the 13th. If you’ve been crying out for a good excuse for a party, here it is. In fact make it a weekender from 17 – 19th, and take Monday off for a snoozey. Final odds and sods for the month – your social life picks up a treat from the 17th when Mars moves into your 11th house. Watch work surprises which ask you to go the extra mile on the 10th, and watch career rewards for stepping up to the plate around the 13th. Betty Ford Took My Martini: Okay Scales. When you read the thing about Betty Ford and the Martini, you knew exactly what I was saying didn’t you? Having Saturn in your 12th for the past two years hasn’t been fun, not even if you’re a masochist with a self-sabotaging habit and a love of falling flat on your face or skiing into wooden fences in the buff. This has been a two year Karmic Cleansing process and as you enter your final 25 days, it’s important to recognise that you’re near the final mile. As Saturn enters your first house of You, Yourself and You from 29th of the month you’ll be ready to decide who you are and all that you can accomplish now that the slate has been wiped clean. Firstly: Congratulate yourself. Secondly: Take note that Saturn in the first house is no walk in the park – but it will feel like getting out onto the trek up Everest, rather than being locked in the toilet at base camp.

Scorpio
The I-Ching advises that sometimes we need to retreat inside the mountain. With the Sun in your 12th house energy levels are low so take it easy but when you can, until mid-month, try to circulate and milk your social networks. Mercury and Venus are giving you charm and the gift of the gab to clinch new and future deals... From the 17th Mars enters your career zone giving you passion and ambition. What’s fabalas news is that he’s going to make an extended nine month trip through your 10th house of career and 11th house of social networks. Sew the Mercury and Venus vibes now and you get to reap them for the next nine months! Betty Ford Took My Martini: Saturn naturally rules your third house of communication. At the end of the month, as he moves into your 12th house of Meep!, the Big Lesson he’s coming to teach you is how you fail to get what you want/need when you don’t ask for it properly. For example, you don’t want to go to Tenerife on holiday but would much rather go paragliding off the Welsh coast. Instead you say, “I don’t mind, whatever you want to do...” And end up, guess where..? Saturn’s mission is Karmic Cleansing. You need to first understand that you’ve been verbally undermining yourself. Then you’ll have to plan a course of action – which may well upset a few apple carts. Then you’ve got to let Saturn move from your 12th to your 1st house, where he’ll put you through the ringer for a further two years... Look, Saturn’s always operating somewhere in your chart. Knowing where, like you do now, means you make the most of the Master Class. Spit out the deep stuff. Get used to standing in your own truth, Scorpio. It’ll make the rest of your life so much more fruitful.

Sagittarius
It’s a good month for you Archer. The Sun’s in your social life making you the invitee of the month. Mercury and Venus are in your career zone giving you opportunities to pow wow and get the money for your labours too. Your ruler, Jupiter, heads forwards ho after snoozing for the summer. From the 12th of the month get prepared to chitty chat as he lights the touch paper in your third house of communications. Even out of town trips are more likely to suit you well, thanks to his support. Even this month’s New Moon on the 18th lands in your Wishing Zone meaning this is your month to ask the cosmos for the things that matter most to you heart. The ‘but’ in all of this is Mars. He’s making a tour of your 8th house of letting go – which can mean hot oobah action but can also mean rows about money and big bills. Settle up, Archer. When he moves into your 9th house of legal action, he’s going to retrograde and hang around here for an extra long stay. Betty Ford Took My Martini: Saturn has been toying with you around the boardroom table for the past two years, but it’s all been for good purpose. If you’ve yet to see WHY, trust that it’s coming. Not only have you seen how those around you rise to the top, stay at the top, fall to the bottom of the heap, you’ve also learned what bits of your earlier career plans still chime with the shiny person you are, which were too naïve, which were way off (ah said, ah said waaay off). And so, as Saturn moves into your 11th house of wishes from the end of the month, watch how gurus and cosmic road signs seem to line up, giving you a push towards the You you want to be most. You bet you’re going to work for it, but this time it’s you working for your dreams, not someone else’s.

Capricorn
Until the 17th, Mars is touring your 7th house of close one-to-onesies. Passion, arguments, straightening things out is par for the course – whether it’s lovin’ or bizniz relationships. As he shifts into your 8th house fo letting go; relationships that haven’t made it through the ringer, get cast aside, some with financial consequences. On a lighter note, Mercury and Venus are flitting around your 9th house of foreign shores and studious plans. Goats who are back in the classroom will be enjoying the library… and the honeys, I should coco. For other Goats, news from abroad sounds uplifting. Around the 13th of the month, a money situation that’s been hovering on ice over the summer shifts forwards. Student grants or professional pay rises are starred. Betty Ford Took My Martini: For the past two years, Saturn, your ruler, has been soldiering on through your 9th house of study, foreign shores, broadcasting/publishing and long-range plans. For many Goats, the pressure has had its upsides and brought a sense of satisfaction but will have impinged upon other areas of your life, most likely your ability to settle in one place or keep a healthy relationship intact. As Saturn shifts into your 10th house of career at the end of the month, your destiny seems to be calling you. Not only do you get to do the Saturnine thing and lead the goddarn pack, you get to call the shots. What’s needed balancing out will be balanced within the coming months. His stay in the sign of Libra will see to that.

Aquarius
The Sun is in your 9th house of foreign shores and you may be craving a break and the chance to feel the Sun on your shoulders. Mercury and Venus in your 8th say that you’re negotiating deals right now – likely financial ones, but for some it could be sexy liaisons, or endings of sorts (that are tied up with lucre). From 15th Venus and Mercury are in your 9th house – and on the 18th, the New Moon docks here too. If you can get on a plane and fly away, the weekend of the 18th looks shiny. Vz Love Stuff: Mars jumps into your 7th house of close one-to-onesies from the 17th. Passion gets a kick in the head meaning steamy oobah but likely row-time too. This is an extended stay so draw lines in the sand. What you don’t nip in the bud now could come back and bite you on the aspic. Betty Ford Took My Martini: Saturn’s tour of duty in your 8th house of Letting Go has pushed you towards a freelance take on life. The 8th house rules sex, death, and taxes. For some Aquarians, there have been inheritances, wills drawn up, lottery wins, or stock market crashes. For others, you’ve been getting more Managerial when it comes to getting your sexual needs met and/or your finances in order. For all Aquarians, when it’s come to being Completely You, where you’ve needed to, you’ve chosen to go it alone. As Saturn hoofs into your 9th house of study, travel, and long-range plans you’ll be getting ready for a new adventure which you’ll love. Moving abroad, studying a foreign language, getting published, broadcasting… all these things are starred. What Saturn will ask of you though is discipline and routine. No, don’t come out in a rash. You have the power, Inventive One. Imagine Saturn’s demanding grooves to be magical train tracks – whatever it takes – and get grounded enough to take flight, if you see what I is sayin’.

Pisces
As the month opens, the needs of your close one to onesies are still your top priority. In fact Love Stuff is the Soup du Jour for Fishes: Mars in your 5th house of Fun until the 17th is making you peachy keen about kiddiwinks, feeling creative - and it’s upping your libido. Single Fishes should get out there and mingle wearing your luckiest cod-piece (see what I did there). Likewise, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and New Moon of the 18th are all in your 8th house of sex, death, and taxes. Yes, big cash needs sorting, but there’s abandon in the boudoir too. Enjoy, indulge. What to Watch Out for is being a push over. With three planets in your 12th house of meep-and-being-a-doormat life can be tricky with other people’s needs always making it to Number One… but as Jupiter turns to direct ho from the 13th, expect to feel jollier and a lot more purposeful. In fact as the month gathers pace, your needs start to rise up your to-do list and you’ll be pushing yourself to the front of the queue, including in the office. Betty Ford Took My Martini: Aw, Fish! Your close one-to-onesies have been calling the shots for the past two years – whether that’s lovers making the decisions and curtailing your desires to explore, or work colleagues / bizniz partners carving a groove you haven’t particularly wanted to roll along with... Enough! As Saturn moves from your 7th to your 8th house of Letting Go, it’s become time to make a little more room for a freelance take on life. No, you don’t have to break any chains, but you do need to look at new ways of rising to the occasion as You. The 8th house rules sex, death, and taxes. Saturn here suggests you’ll be getting Managerial when it comes to getting your sexual needs met, and your will, inheritances, and finances in order. Likewise, when it comes to Completely Being You, where you need to, you’ll be ready to go it alone.

This month

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Well hello there. September’s landed and we’ve already had a Full Moon plus Mercury doing a uiee this very day. This month is a birrova belter vz getting down to brass tacks in spite of Mercury’s curveballs. For starters, Pluto is going direct on 12th September and he starts a domino effect of one biggy planet turning direct each month until Christmas. What you do in the next three weeks should lay high-speed tracks for the forwards ho of October, November, and December. For now, drum roll please, this month’s wowy X Factor lands on Tuesday 15 September when Saturn (propriety, societal norms, no running in the corridors) faces off to Uranus (the sky’s surprise surprise maverick). The same cosmic climate was around on 4 November 2008, the day the US elected a black president… so while Uranus and Saturn can be acquitted of having compatible energies, when they come together the shake up can be huuuge. With a reversing Mercury hooking up with beleaguered Saturn on the 22nd and again on 8th October, what transpires when Saturn and Uranus meet will be a Hot Topic of debate until mid October. The same opposition is due on 26 April and 26 July next year. For its effect on your polling booth see, ‘Yes we can’ below. And for your Mercury survival kit, see Pixie Balls below too.

Astroducky is going monthly for a while and will be back with you during the first weekend in October. Until then, here’s a soundtrack to start you off. I shared ‘East Nashville Skyline’ by Todd Snider with a pally over the weekend and was bursting with happiness listening to it again, so here's one of the tunes for you too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd6pgqe3fAg&feature=related

Aries
The big emphases for you during September are (a) home and family (b) fun and (c) work. A hat trick indeed. Your ruler Mars sez that you’ve energy for home decorating and family activities but that here too are your greatest irksome moments. Around Thursday 24th and the last few days of the month you may need to let things slide to avoid locking horns. Across town: and Venus is winking from your Fun Zone until 21st of the month. Lovers, funsies with chilun, and potato painting exhibitions are where the entertainment is at my friend. Single Rams should mingle, especially at parties where wayward and unusual creatures will be catching your eye. And so to Work. Sorry to use that dirty four-letter word when it was all sounding so good... It’s a constructive if patchy month where you’re trying to shine but hitting road blocks and lampshades en route. Circle Monday 21st for financial successes that ease the strain.
Yes we can: The day job is probably NOT allowing you to showcase the coat of many colours you’ve been developing in the past few years. The time to show it off will come in the Spring. For now it may be a question of taking the money and waiting for the right mentor/bizniz partner to pull up a chair at your work station.
Pixie balls: Mercury reverses from your 7th house of close one-to-onesies into your 6th house of work and medicine cabinets. Dealings with former squeezes/bizniz partners are on the cards until the 18th. From then old work projects / medical diagnoses come back for a rethink. Research and double check i-s and t-s.

Taurus
Your September involves a big case of motoring (including motor mouthing), mixed with some downtime at Bully Towers, and some Fun, Fun, Funsies with a capital Flirtation. Out of town trips are on the cards and because Mars has got your tongue all month, while it’s good to talk, remember to check in once in while during your monologues, and reel in the vitriol when necessary. Across town: Venus, your floaty ruler, is caressing your four walls until the 21st so be the hostess, decorate that fusty old downstairs toilet, or sell your antiques to release lolly for spendsies… And so to love: For the past few years you’ve been considering ‘Fun’ and trying to develop a grown up attitude towards it – whether that’s turning a creative hobby into a business, becoming a ‘better’ parent, or seeking lovers who are (a) older/more mature/serious or (b) looking for a mother figure. Hmm mm. Word. This month you’ve three planets plus a New Moon in your Fun zone meaning you are going to be craving some creative attentions… watch what happens when Mercury re-joins the pool party on the 21st. Former squeezes may offer to rub cream on your shoulders, if you know what I’m sayin’. Likewise former creative projects are due a re-jig from then too. The whole month should bring bundles of creative activity with Taurus junior and children generally.
Yes we can: What do you want from your lovers, Bully? Saturn’s giving you some set ideas; Uranus is saying take a walk on the wild side. As if on cue, expect unusual offers from friends and some interesting rethinks on your approach to Fun.
Pixie balls: A work project or old health niggle needs a revisit. It’ll be mid-October before the picture is clear. Until then gather information and keep options open.

Gemini
There’s a rumbling round the base of your chart all month. Like the prom queen getting ready for her big night there’s preparation work causing a flurry in your 4th house of home, family, and old habits. Commitments to family or Gemini Towers are taking up your time. If it feels like a chore right now, from 21st, when Venus lands in this zone, you’ll feel joy and beauty in the process. Wobbles, indecisions, and hiccups thanks to your reversing ruler Mercury are likely all month but especially around the 18th and last few days of the month. Geminis selling or moving, be sure to check the small print. Money is a BIG topic for you in September too. Mars sez there’s big money coming in but big bills going out. Keep a check on your balance sheet, especially with your ruler Mercury up to his usual tomfoolery. Weekend pleasure trips are on the cards too until mid-month which may account for some of your spendsies.
Yes we can: What’s stirring you at a deep level is the thunderbolt of the 15th as Saturn and Uranus oppose one another. Propriety is keeping you on the straight and narrow but to succeed you may have to break new ground. There’s tension. Your old ways will be shaken this month but the transformations and your break with the past will fully begin in the Spring.
Pixie balls: New news from old lovers is likely until 18th. After that, expect to go over old ground where home and family developments are concerned.

Cancer
You’ve Mars energy all month meaning you’re a force to be reckoned with, especially with career tingaling. Tread carefully on 24th and the last few days of the month though. The cash, money, lettuce you’re expecting may not quite stack up. Check your budget for the Autumn. There’ll be big cash coming in and going out from mid-October so you may need to roll with the September situation. Venus in your bank vaults until the 20th sez there’s money around now so put some away for a rainy day. The other big cosmic focus for Crabs this month is your third house of chitty chat, out of town trips, and bros and sisses. You’ll be travelling more, hooking up with siblings, and where you’ve been putting off certain conversations September sez ‘Last Orders laydees and genelmen’. Friday 18th you wobble and hide behind the settee. Let the wariness pass, regroup, and try tawking on 21st. There’s power and beauty in your words and you’ll be able to clear the air with that certain someone.
Yes we can: The Here and Now clashes with the Pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow. Uranus sez jack it all in and run away to foreign shores or take up a course in carpentry. Saturn sez you have dooties that need your full attention Here so you can’t possibly go There. Saturn will win this round but the stirring in your passport / student union card will return in April and July next year. Take notes for now.
Pixie balls: News vz home and family doesn’t fly straight under these stars. Gather the facts then tawk it through. It’s clearer come mid-October. And check and double check train times and car tyres. Mercury changing direction in your transport zone is Chaos prime time, especially around the 7th and 29th.

Leo
Money’s on your mind this month, Pussy Cat. Saturn in your bank vaults has been mekkin you wise up and develop a mature relationship to spondoolies in recent years. Now with the Sun here too, you want to earn it but Show the World that you’re earning it… The chances of that happening are creeping up. When Pluto heads direct this Friday, necessary upheavals on the work front beckon. Add money magnet Venus and a reversing Mercury into the mix this month and there are negotiations about money in Full Swing. The one caveat in all this is the current transit of Mars through your 12th house of Meep. This often brings up feelings of insecurity, fear that others are out to get you, and a fear of competition generally. March forwards regardless. Mars will be with you by mid-October so aim negotiation changes to begin from then.
Yes we can: Money again! Your yo-yo of spend and save reaches a peak moment around 15th September. There may be a jewel-encrusted throne you’re dying to splurge on but in a moment of reality, you feed your credit card to a blowtorch. Hunker down for now to avoid foolhardy extremes, your Majesty, and prepare for a spending spree on such darling trinkets in the Spring.
Pixie balls: Negotiations return to the topic of Money. It’s fact finding time. Expect conclusions from 1 October.

Virgo
A big month. First up: Mars in your 11th house of friends, wishes, and networks sez you’ve energy to make progress in these areas. However, as your ruler Mercury does his backwards ho! he’s causing a general slow-down to most of your undertakings. This month follow the tide. Reconnect with existing networks and old friends and revisit on-going projects rather than launching anything new. If hiccups occur, keep your patience levels high by remembering that friends and networks are dealing with their own Mercury hoohaa too. Across town: and your lovelife has an interesting hue. Until 21st it seems that Love is a Secret – either yours or someone else’s – and that the Secret won’t get revealed until 21st. In fact the 21st is a powerful day for loving spoonfuls. If there are no secrets, Venus in the 12th house can mean we’re more inclined to put our lovers first. Be a nurturing Goddess by all means but not a doormat… From the 21st Venus is in your first house of You, Yourself and You and it’s time to get love stuff your way. Wink.
Yes we can: Saturn has been travelling through your 1st house for two years and you’ve been pushing boulders up mountains to prove yourself to you. In the midst of this you’ve been handling the unpredictable ups and downs of bizniz and lovin’ partners. The shake up that’s coming will test your resolve. Commit to what’s best for you and ask that others follow your lead. For now.
Pixie balls: Your ruler Mercury reverses from your bank vaults into your 1st house this month. Check up on your bank balances and take time to practice asking for the readies you deserve.

Libra
September’s a month for hunkering down in readiness for your own personal relaunch in October. With a total of four planets Plus a New Moon in your 12th house of Meep the next three weeks could be energy sappers. It’s certainly going to feel more difficult now just getting through your day let alone breaking through on any new shiny career schemes so take TOS whenever you can. Reversing Mercury means that between now and 18th you may have to repeat yourself as others seem unable to understand where you’re coming from. From 18th September until 11th October you may begin to feel you’re being asked to explain yourself. Psychotherapy would be switching lights on all over the place for you right now. If you can’t make that happen, try and see the lessons. Ever the diplomat, you find it hard to be direct sometimes. Circumstances now may offer you a Masterclass in changing all that. If you have the energy, friends and parties can help you let off steam until 21st.
Yes we can: What’s going on in your head is limiting how you fare out here in the world. Saturn has you clearing down the poop decks for all your imagined misdemeanours of the past and you seem to be finding some safety in that. Don’t let it become a habit! Watch for wild alternatives waving at you around the 15th – and make space for them to enter your life from November.
Pixie balls: Say what you mean, Scales. Ah! Has the rash popped up? You hate demands to be so direct but it will be essential during September. It grates, it grates, but reversing Mercury is doing you a favour.

Scorpio
Everything is about your party dress right now, Scorp. The Sun sez you’re busy networking and hobnobbing with pals. Saturn here suggests that friends are being supportive, even taking a parental role if you need one – and when Venus drops into the party from 21st, it just gets more loving and sweet. In fact circle the 21st as a power day for a party. You’ll feel so loved and so cared for you’ll wish you could bottle the feeling. Across town: and all month Mars is coursing through your 9th house of long range plans, travel, and study. You’ll be getting competitive and pushy in these zones. Watch for overreactions, especially around the 24th and the last few days of the month. And yes, travel plans that fall in the last few days of September are set for delays and hiccups. Pack patience and a good magazine.
Yes we can: Bored? Uranus in your 5th house of Fun means you’re getting urges to breed, create, and make out with fabalas, weird lovers. Saturn, perched on your other shoulder, says a walk on the wild side clashes with your deepest dreams (and for now friends are saying that too). Revisit your idea of fun, but the real fruitiness may have to wait until the Spring.
Pixie balls: Mercury reverses out of your 12th house of Meep! from the 18th and back into your friends zone. This is a cosmic gift, Scorp. Notice what scares ya, then after the 18th take it round to the girls with a bottle of wine and dissect until it doesn’t matter any more.

Sagittarius
You’re flying on your wits round the boardroom table, Archer. The rays of the Sun are bringing you to the attention of the bigwigs and they’re asking you to show you can raise the bar (watch 18th for report deadlines). Venus lands here too on 21st suggesting that money is coming in too. Looks like your flashes of brilliance are paying off. Kerching. Mercury moonwalks back into this zone from Friday 18th September until Sunday 11th October. If you’re asked to revisit a career idea don’t be alarmed. You’ll learn from it – just push the report deadline as close to 11th October as you can to give yourself the best tailwind. With all this going on, pay attention to your compulsions. Mars in your 8th house can have you spending like a sailor in port, lovin’ like a sailor in port, or spitting your dummy out when others get too close to the real you. No solution. Just be aware and monitor the fire in your belly.
Yes we can: The thunderbolt of the 15th as Saturn and Uranus oppose one another has your need to fly away hemmed in by propriety. Being the Zodiac’s most likely sign to be on a camel/ hang-glider/ arctic expedition, being hemmed in gets unbearable sometimes. And now is one of those times. Changes are due in the Spring. For now get on with re-writing that report.
Pixie balls: Just when you were preparing for a fun month of partying, the Boardroom calls you in to work weekends. It’s temporary, Archer, and the parties will be so much better in October anyway.

Capricorn
Lovers and bizniz partners are on the receiving end of your (a) passion or (b) spleen, Goat. Watch how you go about it, especially from the 12th when power house Pluto is in charge. Getting too pushy will lead to irksome grovelling apologies on 24th and the last few days of the month. You’ve been warned. The other hot news is the shebang going off in your 9th house of study, travel, publishing, and long range plans. You’ve vision and stamina to go for your goals but September will also bring moments of hesitation and review, a cosmic way of making sure you’re really sure. From 18th until the 11th October, reversing Mercury means you need to thrash out any details that were left hanging at the end of August. Your biggest shiniest day this month falls on 21st when Venus makes a gorgeous link with your ruler and you know you're on the right track.
Yes we can: Having your stoic ruler questioned by maverick Uranus has its advantages. Around the 15th make a note of the things you’d like to say, trips you’d like to take, and partays you’d like to arrange with bros and sisses, then put them on hold until the Spring and get on with the job in hand. Nothing like a reward at the end of the journey, what?
Pixie balls: Career plans need a revist. Expect bosses to question your conclusions then roll with it. The real fun begins when Mercury returns to the merry-go-round of your 9th house from the 18th. You get to fine tune and change your study, travel, publishing, and long range plans with impunity. Huzzah.

Aquarius
Your attention now is on the Big Bills, not your salary or grocery bills, but the mortgage, car repayments, taxman… For some Aquarians you’re coming close to paying off a long-term financial agreement which will be freeing you up financially. As Mercury reverses back into this zone from 18th check and double check the small print to make sure you’re not getting short changed. And that goes for all Aquarians buying anything on credit right now. And for the record, if you can possibly delay splurging on technology while Mercury’s up to his old tricks, you’ll be doing yourself a favour. From 21st of the month Venus glides into this Big Cash zone too, sex gets flirtatious and beautifully sinful, and shopping sprees are all about the Wow. Mars in your 6th zone of work means you’re frustrated by slow co-workers all month. Take time out and try to move to the corner office so you can ignore them for long periods of time.
Yes we can: Having your ruler puffing his chest out to sombre Saturn is unavoidable. Circle the 15th of the month for feeling squashed into a box. Your heads up sez stand back and review what’s really at stake. Money is unpredictable right now. It may not be the maverick modus, but taking the cheque from the grey suits now could help you to demob by the Spring.
Pixie balls: News from abroad or vz studious plans sets you thinking about old ideas. You’ll need to check in with your bank manager before you can embark.

Pisces
Relationships of a lovin or bidniz nature are your focus right now Fish and when Venus slips into this zone from Monday 21st things get prettier/more lucrative. Single Fishes will be feeling these effects too and your quest to find something loving and long-term will get stronger. The ‘but’ is Saturn’s presence here and the impending return of Mercury to this shiny picture. Saturn tends to make things stringent and that doesn’t help love flow smoothly. On Friday 18th there’s an ultimatum on the cards and coming so soon after the Saturn Uranus bunfight, it could be make or break time for any wobbly liaisons. Where you can let off steam are creative activities and fun times with chilun. For those on a break up tip, Mars in your 5th sez hot affairs seem super appealing.
Yes we can: Like Virgos, the Saturn Uranus contretemps of the 15th happyhaps across your relationship axis. At times during the past two years you’ve felt like lovers and bizniz partners have been calling the shots and you’ve been left to jump through the hoops – or scram. The shake up that’s coming mid-month is to test your resolve once more. If you want to keep the relationship, commit to what’s best for Them right now. You can ask for the favour to be returned in the Spring.
Pixie balls: Reversing Mercury sez conversations involve money, sex, or endings this month. Friday 18th (again), Tuesday 22nd, and Thursday October 8th are milestones in your current relationship’s story.

Holiday

2009-08-16T23:55:00.011+01:00

Hello peepies, it used to bug me when other astrologers disappeared for a week or two but maybe that's just me being neurotic and high maintenance. Anyhoo, I'm taking a few weeks off from the blog and will be back with a monthly scope for September on 6 September, the day before Mercury goes retrograde... Hmmm. If it all goes to cheese, normal service will be resumed as soon as the celestial pixie lets me through. In the meantime, regular Tweets will be cominacha with thoughts for the day and culinary tips.

This week the sky has a mix of high kicking and slow tangoing planetary dance moves including three Sleeping Beauty VOC Moons... grrr... you mean we have to make excuses to clock off from work and then lie around drinking tea and watching re-runs of 30Rock? Pah! Life's too tough. Book your place on the sofa and get your choice choccy bar in for 8am - 3pm Tuesday, 11am - 3pm Thursday, and 12.45pm - 4.15pm on Saturday BST. Saturn conjuncts Mercury tomorrow, the day we also go into the Mercury shadow of its 7 September retrograde. Double check what you're agreeing to/signing up to early doors this week and make sure you like the terms otherwise it may not get properly nailed until 8 October. Mars squares Uranus on Wednesday and the world may seem a leetle crazier than usual and then Mercury opposes Uranus on Friday... deals done early in the week could be changed or called off altogether. Scream at the wall when no-one's looking rather than at the dog, your boss, the waiter. There's also a New Moon in Leo on Thursday. Perhaps her energy will show a New Way forwards in the aftermath of Uranus's wappy hoohaa. For where you can turn over a new leaf, see My New Leaf below. Have a great summer!

New: Astroducky’s weekly soundtrack!
This week’s Astroducky was written to the prettiness and summery sounds of Francoise Hardy, French chanteuse of the 60s who is also an astrologer donchuknow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnplhr9wZWQ

Aries
My New Leaf: New approaches to chilun, lovers, and self-expression are called for. If you’re feeling out of your depth early in the week, and being a right drama queen on Wednesday, make amends from Friday. And do it from the heart - as in don’t just say sorry, actually stop doing whatever your thing is!

Taurus
My New Leaf: Decisions need to be made on home and family. Early in the week you may not be sure which way is up with that perticaler box of tricks. Get ready to meditate on it. Thursday the New Moon lands here. Give her time to brew then busta move at the weekend. NB: Wednesday throws a surprise into your budget… Gather, gather. Is there a market for your creative ideas…?

Gemini
My New Leaf: You’re making deals with family early in the week but feeling like you’re not getting your point across well at the office by Wednesday. Don’t get overwhelmed – get lunar. On Thursday, have a think about how you state your case - and how you can make improvements.

Cancer
You’re feeling bold and keen to sign on the dotted line on Monday but check the small print, especially where money is concerned. Then Wednesday you seem to go into panic mode and strike out like a knee-jerking crazy crab. What spooks ya bebe? Something about foreign, studious, or publishing plans are over-taxing you. My New Leaf: Money, bebe. It’s time to get your cheese together financially. I’ve one word to say to you. Budget.

Leo
My New Leaf: The New Moon is yours, Majesty. You’re signing up to financial deals Monday and making some sort of compromise on the work front. By Wednesday you’re suddenly getting wise to Big Bills you’d forgotten / chosen to ignore. Which is it? When the New Moon lands on Thursday, make a New Wish for yourself. And if that includes being tidier with the royal coffers, then so be it. Your loveliness.

Virgo
Your face is on the phone Virgo and it says you need to pick it up. Ahh! With Virgo rising I get the cosh thing Virgo, and if your face is trailing along the floor, I have good news - the load is going to lighten. The Sun arrives with you on Sunday 23 August. This week, be clear what you’re signing Monday, brace yourself for workplace wappiness on Wednesday, and on Sunday feel the power of your creative or lovin ventures. My New Leaf: A New Moon in the 12th house is a time to see where you limit your horizons. See it. Think about it. Make changes from Sunday.

Libra
If you’re feeling reprimanded or hamstrung by conversations early in the week, try and see this as part of the cleansing process you’re going through and which will lift in October. In the midst of any work craziness on Wednesday, you’ll get a sense that you know new ways to rise above it all. My New Leaf: Is it time you opened yourself out to new friendships?

Scorpio
A reality-bites conversation on Monday could be arriving just in time. On Wednesday Mars and Uranus square up and a creative project/endeavours with chilun clash with your cash, money, lettuce. Gather. My New Leaf: Thursday’s New Moon in your 10th house of success says that any hiccups from the reality check or Mars/Uranus bunfight galvanise you onwards, and upwards!

Sagittarius
On Monday check how much that holiday or course of study is going to set you back. The same day, talks at work look like you’re being offered a deal for the long-haul. Nice. At home though, partners are going off like a Catherine Wheel mid-week. Are changes at home or clashes with family causing stress? My New Leaf: Teh New Moon lands in your zone of holidays and study. If Monday's cash situation is baaaad, the New Moon sez a new approach will fix it.

Capricorn
Monday and you’re signing up to the long-haul either booking a holiday, a course of study, or signing a work contract. Make sure you’re getting the right cash return for your input… Wednesday and rows at work are likely due to someone changing the goalposts. Everyone’s going to be at the end of their rope. Try and be the calm one. My New Leaf: Lands doink in your 8th house of sex, death, and taxes. Do you need to work on intimacy and letting go?

Aquarius
Monday and you’re signing up to a bank loan, credit card, or big freelance contract. On Wednesday cash and everyday work are linking up harmoniously too kerching! However, it’s also time to settle a big bill on creative plans or on the children. What goes up must come down, right? My New Leaf: How can you improve your love and bizniz affairs? Do you need to ask for more? Or do you need to show more appreciation?

Pisces
You’re signing up to a partnership of sorts on Monday, mebbes a loving ting, mebbes a bizniz partnership, perhaps even a housey housey contract. By Wednesday though you’re into panic mode. Have you moved too fast? Is it what you wanted? Uranus and Mars mean you’re panicking about cash money. Get out your calculator. Check the facts. My New Leaf: Work and health, Fishy fish! The New Moon sez eat your greens, do a few more laps of the tank, smile at your co-workers.

This Week

2009-08-09T23:18:00.005+01:00

It’s a quirky ole week with the Sun and Mars inyaface meaning big fabalas ideas and busy-ness bumping into disappointments and bosses/circumstances/party poopers saying, ‘No’. Early in the week everyone may be more inclined to put their needs first. Hmmm. Tricky. Look for silver linings, or if that doesn’t work, look for margaritas… Things perk up as the week progresses. For those of you who took decisive action at last week’s Full Moon eclipse, here come the highs and low. For those who haven’t, the highs and lows will be pushing you further down the corridor towards decisions in late September and action in October.

New: Astroducky’s weekly soundtrack!
This week’s Astroducky was written to the gorgeous strains of Abbey Road. (Though I had to stop and swoon at ‘Something’ aaawww. Lovin’ that toon). How perfect a soundtrack for our Sunny Marsy week actually – what with Here Comes the Sun, the Sun King, and Mean Mr Mustard… I love it when a plan comes together Mr T. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDTi_La94Uo Sway! Sing! Fall in love!

Aries
With Mars your ruler in the ring/centre stage you’ll feel poised for action all week like a coiled spring with a broad grin or a boxing glove. Work responsibilities make you cross early doors and you’ll be spitting feathers at those who seem to be getting in your way or letting you down. They’re under the cosh too, remember... Try and see any irksomeness as a golden opportunity to be the peacemaker… Things brighten from Wednesday and contacts with social circles and trips to see friends are gorgeous. At the weekend, share your company with lovers, children, and friends. Then Sunday, tell them all how much you love them. True!

Taurus
The fiery emphasis of the Sun and Mars doesn’t sit well with your inclination to laze in the shade eating grapes on hot days. But this week you’ll be hot and busy… Ooh put those horns down I beseech you. Early in the week it’s the rising costs of a creative venture or activities with the chilun that really gets your goat (sorry Capricorn). But the chilun and creative ting isn’t it, is it? The Real Issue is money and your need to get your bank vaults lined so when big bills land they don’t knock you sideways. Thursday, Friday and next Monday offer career cash bonuses for innovation and lateral thinking. There’s also money to be made via Bully Towers. Perhaps a lodger? Mebbes a car boot sale?

Gemini
Mars is with you and the Sun is in your chatterbox zone so you’ll be feeling the peppiest and the most inclined to Say What’s On Your Mind. Early in the week it seems the family are the first to COP IT. If they’re trying to reel you in a little, is it for good reason? Is it because they’re a little scared of making changes as fast as you’d like? Is it because your dream of living in a treehouse won’t be practical if you don’t include underfloor heating in your plans? Give them some space and by Friday things look shinier on the home front and your long term plans are gathering pace. At that juncture, don’t gloat. Recognise the concessions your nearest and dearest have made and Sunday, when the Moon joins Mars, write them a poem of gratitude.

Cancer
Mars is still ripping through your 12th house of shark attack! When he makes confrontational postures right now you feel scared deep, down in your waters, and when he makes dynamic plans with other planets, you experience breakthrough moments. This week youhava slice of both pizza pies. Monday, everyone seems to be saying that you’re not good enough and you’re on the defensive and/or avoiding anyone who might have a bone to pick. Take it on the chin. Listen if it’s constructive. By mid-week Mars makes some gorgeous angles and you recognise – positively – that there’s work to be done on some outdated habits of yours. We’re all a work in progress, Crabsticks. That’s sort of the joy of it all.

Leo
A week of partying ahead but first a mini hurdle to surmount. On Monday, the Royal bank vaults cause consternation. To reach a long-term goal means a change in cash flow. This could be as productive as (a) changing your job/role but incurring a mini salary cut or (b) starting a savings plan so you can buy that beach hut on Koh Samui in 2011... Whatever it is, the cash restriction makes the Royal face scowl. But only temporarily. By Wednesday friends and social networking are lifting your spirits and you’re groovier about following your long-term wishes via short-term sacrifices. Monday and Tuesday next week look like days to make the shove. Amidst the trays of langoustine tails and Kir this week, get your research done.

Virgo
You know what you want. I suspect by now you know how to get it too. That’s partly because Saturn’s school master presence has been popping up in your cereal bowl during the past two years relentlessly reminding you that daydreaming without reality is the stuff of chocolate fireguards. Not welcome, necessarily, but, er, necessary… Your Herculean push towards success this week may feel pointless but push you must. It’s all part of your cosmic training PLUS progress is due next week. Sooner than that, relief arrives Thursday. There’s success to be had by having fun on the day job so enjoy it. If old health issues pop up at the weekend, look at what’s going on in your mind. Links between stressed mind and stressed matter should be abundantly clear.

Libra
Like a marathon runner who feels the pain most with just a few miles left to go, you may feel yourself hitting a brick wall early this week. You don’t believe you have what it takes to get where you want to go. Pish! Shush that monkey mind! You can do it. Feel the burn, listen to some soothing music, give yourself a few days then make like Private Benjamin and take another run at that freakin’ wall. By Thursday fire and passion and a boost in your lovelife, parenthood, or potato painting arrives. And party times with friends at the weekend abound. So there are a few more miles left to run, Scales, but there’s also good stuff around too. Everything in balance my friend.

Scorpio
The fiery Sun and Mars are kicking up the dust in your boudoir, bank vaults, and at the boardroom table of your wash. If you’re not a Scorpio currently distracted by concerns with money watch the end of the week for hot oobah urges… If you are a Scorpio concerned with cash, lettuce, money, things may feel sticky on Monday when you can’t have what you want when you want it. Take a deep breath. By Wednesday home life links to cashflow and innovative ideas could bring money via family and/or homeworking. Cash via the boardroom table looks like a shiny possibility on Friday too, but it may mean future changes to your home-worklife balance.

Sagittarius
Mars is in your zone of close bizniz and lovin’ one-to-onesies making you lusty, argumentative, and action-packed in these areas. When he makes pretty angles to other planets from here, Mars boosts those close relationships. When he makes a sticky angle, dis mekka friction. Now friction isn’t a picinic in the park with Victoria sponge cake and swings, but it does let you bring up any frustrations you have with your partners. And so, this week when the friction hits warp factor 11 on Monday, see it as an open door to air your grievances, but don’t fire all your arrows in an ambush. Mention things and then revisit the topic at the weekend ideally on a tropical island or a camel.

Capricorn
Being a workaholic, having Mars in your zone of officey may be right up your mountain path, Goat. Watch for old health habits popping up under with this configuration, but if health is robust, Mars at the office means you’ve got the buzz, got the schutzpah, got the stamina to rock the job-in-hand. Where you may come acropper this week is being made to reel it in a bit, which you no likey. Watch tempers fray on Monday when a boss figure blocks your way or brick walls appear on your road to teaching, training, or going on holiday. New news is due next week. In the meantime, money thoughts take over from mid-week. Work and money are doing good and now’s a prime cosmic time to be paying off old debts or starting a savings account.

Aquarius
A beauteous week lies ahead once the brakes are off… Aquariuses are feeling hot and lusty (or are on the receiving end of someone else’s ardour) but distance or propriety is making it hard to Get It Together and it’s driving you crackers. By Wednesday though the hiatus is over and there’s cosmic dweaminess and positivity - and lust lust lust around. Circle Sunday and Monday week for emotional watersheds. You talk about everything and suddenly realise that you can’t separate where your needs and dreams end and your partners’ begin. Ooh a complete circle. Ducky’s getting goose bumps. Single Aquariuses, this applies to you too. Now you know what you want, go out and find it.

Pisces
Demands of your close one-to-onesies have at times been back-breaking. At other times, the commitment and support, and steadiness of those closest to you has been a godsend. This week, you seem to get a reminder of both. Monday, and a clash between home/family and your closest partners could lead to the most aggressive of fish actions – slamming doors and sulking, that sort of thing. But don’t let that bottom lip drag along the bottom of the fishtank for too long. Firstly, you’re only inflicting the pain on yourself. Secondly your work and health suffers when you hold on to stress and by the weekend you’ll need to be on hand. The Moon’s in your home and family zone by then, so do what instinctively you know needs doing.

This Week & Month

2009-08-03T00:49:00.009+01:00

Astroducky’s feeling zonked thanks to the Lunar Eclipse cosh. If this week's post seems rushed I'm sorry, I need my bed... Back on all cyclinders next week, here's hoping. Okay, there's a lot to get through. You at the back, put your desk lid down and sit up straight. Smith, stop fidgeting. Jones, see me after class. While Full Moon Eclipses leave us frazzled, this one is making pretty cow eyes at Mars; whatever action gets taken on Wednesday/Thursday it’s Thrusty and Purposeful rather than just Doowop Waaaah! The rest of the month, however team, has some pretty inteerrestin’ side swipes. Watch the 10th, 18th, 21st, 26th and 31st for the ickier side of human behaviour.

New: Astroducky’s weekly soundtrack!
This week’s Astroducky was written whilst pogoing inwardly to the awesomely ‘tastic bunch of Icelanders, Sigur Ros. This tune reminds me of a late night mosh session right here in Astroducky Towers in front of the fire, as we danced like banshees. At the time I had no idea the title of the tune is Within Me a Lunatic Sings. Haha! If only we knew! Look how much the singer gives to each song; what a passionate sensitive soul indeed. Make a salute to la luna in the wee hours of Thursday morning this week. More on the other side, T x http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAYY_sU3PfM&feature=related

Aries
For you, Ram, the flavour of August is homelife, family whatsists, and your current squeeze/creative project/breeding activity. There seems to be plenty of toing and froing with short trips too and gadding aboot in the car. Your ruler Mars is hyperactive all month and when he’s up for it, boy is he up for it. Watch out for spitting at the boss around the 10 – 11th, tripping yourself up by racing too fast without thinking around the 18th, and getting feisty with family on the 26th, and lovers on the 31st (Bank Holiday DIY will do it every time!). Smiley happy shiny days come get you from 13 – 17th with friends up for fun and games. On the 18th, conversations with lovers fill you with joy, just be sure you don’t say too much too soon – or conversely brush their loving words aside because you feel squeamish and uncomfortable. Find your inner fluffiness! Embrace it! This Week: The Full Moon Eclipse in the early hours of Thursday morning says you’re ready to come clean! It’s time to ‘fess up your wishes to close friends, and turn over a new leaf and tap on into social networking power.

Taurus
August is generally a below-the-radar month for you, Bully Bull. Venus makes her way lovingly through your 3rd house of communications and your everyday wash so chinwags concern cash, love, and pretty things. Short out of town trips are likely too to art galleries and fields of wild flowers, massage the senses darling, the senses. And with the Sun in your 4th house of home, you’ll be the hostess with the dinner trolley all month. Mercury brings chats about squeezes, creative projects, and chilun-centred activities during August, and around the 18th you’re putting something in writing vz these things, anything from cash-rich contracts to love letters to House Rules… What is BIG in August is money. Mars in your bank vaults is mekkin you spend spend spend and earn earn earn, but is it balancing up? Tricky days for cash are 10 – 11th,18th, 26th, and 31st. Best days for cash 13 – 17th. Although work and money clash on the 18th, home and money chime well. Circle that as the day to sell your antiques. Or your grandmother. This Week: News from lovers or vz creative projects with foreign / studious connections land Monday and look good. Success and money are cosmically colliding at the Lunar Eclipse in the early hours of Thursday morning. A career project/commission pays out but it’s still not enough. Conversations on Thursday vz creative projects or lovers look pretty.

Gemini
You’re firing on all cylinders this month it seems, Airy One, with Mars on side giving you power and energy. The other personal planets of Venus, Mercury, and the Sun are skipping nicely through your day-to-day life too, Venus bringing in cash, the Sun bringing you shiny conversations and a shiny disposition, and Mercury bringing news vz family and even visitors to Gemini Towers. For Geminis thinking of buying property or signing up to a new pad Tuesday 18th is starred. (Be realistic about cash though. From September your bills are going to creep up.) With Mars whizzing through your veins you may find you’re a little more uppity than usual this month... Watch out for shouting at the landlord/your Dad 10 – 11th, shouting at your (wappy) boss on the 18th, losing your rag vz cash and the credit card company on the 26th, and picking a fight with your lover on the 31st. From 13 – 17th you’re on form though and you need to push forward with your big shiny future plans – whether they’re foreign, studious, or just plain Important, that’s the time to do it. This Week: The Full Moon Eclipse falls in this zone of foreign, studious, and Big Important plans and links with Mars in your first house of You. What you need to let go of now will streamline your energies for your big push mid-month.

Cancer
A few more weeks of meep! Cancer. Mars is still traversing your 12th house of fear until the 26 August so if you need to leave the hall light on while the nightmares are around, you do that. On the days when you can look up and look around you, you’ll see pretty things around the reef. Friends who love you are nearby. There’s money around on the 9 – 5 and even if it’s meagre you seem to be enjoying what you’ve got, and there’s talk aplenty, thanks to Mercury in your house of chitty chat all month. What’s interesting to note is that as Mars leaves your 12th house of fear on the 26 August he immediately clashes with Pluto. If you feel you’re being held to ransom by someone close to you at the moment, methinks the gloves are coming off that Tuesday. Your tricky days this month when you’ll feel out of control due to Mars’s energies are 10 – 11th,18th, 26th, and 31st. Your pretty days are: you feel the fear and do it anyway Tuesday 18th, loving conversations land Wednesday 19th, there’s gorgeous news from abroad on Saturday 22nd, and heart-warming conversations with a partner Sunday 23rd. This Week: Full Moon gaga has got you gaga. What’s shaking you up is worry about big cash money – mortgages, credit cards, debts, that sort of thing. Any alarm bells ringing now need to be chased up because between 15 – 18th they’ll be ringing again.

Leo
You seem to be stuck in Party Mode, Pussy Cat. Mars is moshing through your 11th house of friends and social networking and with the Sun shining around your pretty ears too you’ve got raa energy. Mercury is scooting through your bank vaults, so if you need to talk about money, now’s your month to do it. Your best day for signing and sealing is the 18th. With Mars roaring through your zone of friends and wishes, you may find yourself getting overwrought at times and a little quick to claw others... Watch money issues around 10 – 11th and 18th, work frustrations on 26th, and for general rows on the 31st. Perhaps the partying just takes its toll and the royal head needs a glass of milk and a royal pillow? Tuesday 18th may have its money frustrations but you seem to be proud of how you handle things. Sunday 23rd looks hot smokin’ ‘tastic for work news though. This Week: The Full Moon Eclipse lands in your 7th house of close one to onesies of a lovin or bizniz nature. It’s been a two-year stretch and it’s time to seal the deal, change it radically, or get out. All relationships have good and bad, but if they’re not the real deal hanging in there is only blocking your chance of finding something better. If you don’t do it now, the feeling’s coming back again 15 – 16th of the month. Venus may be making you feel beholden. Try and step out of that and see it in the round.

Virgo
The big news for you in August is health. It’s time to recommit to that diet and exercise regime, taking the tablets when you’re meant to, going to the docs to get your thing looked at. (Don’t show it to me. I’m not a doctor. Go to a real doctor.) As the planets gradually slide into your 12th house in the coming weeks, you’ll feel yourself slowing down. And in September things are going to get slower, weirder, and protracted. So. What to do? Get your ducks in a row now and prepare for a relaunch in mid-October. Seriously. This is what astrology is great at, saying whether the tide is in or out and when you should set sail. Preparations in August include getting healthy PLUS nurturing and expanding your social networks, sending out prospective work /commission letters, and tarting up your CV. Mars is still at the helm of your career so it’s a good time to promote yourself, but with the Sun in your 12th house right now it’s going to be hard to bag the gigs, the exception being the last week of the month. Tricky dates in August: boss figure pours cold water on your career 10 – 11th and pulls unexpected stunts 18th and 21st, you can’t get your mojo going on the work front 15 – 16th, rows with friends/lovers/kids 26th, and money disagreements 31st. Good stuff: work and career plans shine 13 – 15th, things going better than you thought and something biznizy to sign 18th, pretty lovin’ news Wednesday 19th and lovin’ surprises Saturday 22nd. This Week: Thursday’s Lunar Eclipse sez: Work and Career, bin the bad stuff and refocus on getting it how you want it. Plus Health Stuff as before yaddadda, yaddadda. Now put that thing away.

Libra
The planets are high above you, Libra, with August bringing a focus on foreign shores, success on the career front, and friends and wishes. Yes, it does all sound so very pretty, so why aren’t you feeling it? Mercury, the planet of chitty chat has just sidled into you 12th house of Meep and you’re feeling increasingly worried that you aren’t good enough, or that people are talking about you, or that you’ve forgotten something. And what with Saturn striding up and down these same corridors, you’re aware that right now, for all the prettiness out there in the meadow, the woodshed still needs tidying. Watch Tuesday 18th for a moment of knowing. Fear is only fear, Scales, you have to plough on. During August Mars, the sky’s firebrand, is charging through your 9th house of foreign, studious and long-term plans. Watch 10 – 11th, 15 – 16th, 18th, 26th, and 31st as days when you feel like fighting for your freedom to choose and when others may have something to say about it. Happier prettier days land 13 – 15th when lovers/creativity link to foreign/studious plans, Wednesday 19th when a career breakthrough shows how far you’ve come in spite of your doubts, and 22nd a great day for parties with family and friends. This Week: Thursday’s Eclipse arrives in your 5th house of lovers, creativity, and children. A phase that began two years ago and that has gone through many changes is ending. Break out; your future depends on it.

Scorpio
Like Libra, the planets are high above you, Scorpio, with August bringing a focus on foreign shores, success on the career front, and friends and wishes. First up though is cash money lettuce. Mars is hot footing it through your 8th house of sex, death, and taxes, and while this could mean hot lovin’ oobah, it also means BIG bills. The 8th house is debt, mortgages, loans, stuff you bought on the buy-now-pay-later fiasco that have come home to roost. And Mars is being seriously icky this month so here’s a heads up of the dates he may be bringing your finances to your attention: watch 10 – 11th, 15 – 16th, 18th, 26th, and 31st. August isn’t all doom and gloom. No Scorp. Why there are those lovely friends and wishes we spoke of, and foreign shores and study plans too. Happier prettier days land 13 – 15th when opportunities to save/make money close to home arrive, Wednesday 19th when shiny news from friends overseas lands, and 22nd when your ruler Pluto hooks up with the Sun and important career talks are starred. This Week: Thursday’s Eclipse arrives in your 4th house of home and family. Things may get emotional or angsty, or you may need to be there for a family member who’s under the cosh a bit at the moment. For Scorpios changing home, Jupiter seems to be protecting your way.

Sagittarius
August is a month for love, sex, and money, Sadge, plus overseas news and some advances on the career front... That got your attention! First up the love and sex. By now you’ll be getting use to the feeling of Mars coursing through your 7th house of close one to onesies, and if he’s not sparking passion, then he’s likely sparking chagrin and a few choice words too I should coco… Key dates to watch for Martian fire are: 10 – 11th, 15 – 16th, 26th, and 31st plus you’ve got a big row + kiss and make up day on the 18th. What maybe helping to pour oil on troubled waters is Venus’s presence in your 8th house of sex, death, and taxes. Here she can offer sexual healing – as well as expensive tastes in strawbs and champagne! Shiny days this month land 13 – 15th when conversations with your one to onesies seem to iron things out, and Wednesday 19th and 22nd when career breaks link to extra cash. This Week: Thursday’s Eclipse arrives in your 3rd house of chitty chat, bros and sisses, and out of town trips. The Full Moon means over emotion in one or all of these areas. If you find yourself wailing like a banshee, the healing vibes of the 13 – 15th seem to help you work it out. What’s more, your ruler Jupiter here sez exploration in self-expression is all par for the course.

Capricorn
Oooooh Goat! What a month here in August for you to charge at! Venus in your love zone, the Sun in your zone of oobah kink… and Mercury linking up to your ruler in your zone of exotic locations and studious plans. If you're in love, Venus in your 7th house of one-to-onesies is going to help make it even sweeter. If you're single, Venus here doesn't automatically mean you’re going to meet Mr or Mrs Right on the bus this morning. It does mean that you are more likely to be looking for a partner and that you’ve got an extra sparkle about you right now, making you more attractive to potential mates. But you have to get out of the house and on the bus! And yes, work life maybe sending you into orbit with consternation at times this month. But it’s paying well isn’t it and you could do a lot worse than parking your job woes by dancing the night away in the search for a new dance partner? For day job frustrations circle 10 – 11th, 15 – 16th, 18th, 26th, and 31st. Happier days land 13 – 15th when work dosh lands, 19th when a lover seems to have F-U-T-U-R-E written large on their head, and 22nd a great day for going on holiday. A big day for you is also the 18th, when work news aside, you’ve confirmation of plans coming through that day. This Week: Thursday’s Eclipse arrives in your 2nd house of earned income. A phase that began two years ago and that has gone through many changes is ending. If you need more, now’s a good time to crack on and make it happen. Likewise, if you’ve been obsessing about money and having no life as a result, it’s going to feel like time to switch your priorities around.

Aquarius
For you August is about work, love, cash, and sex! Hooray! Venus is in your work zone most of the month, meaning work is going to feel swell. The Sun is in your zone of love meaning you’ll be focusing here and looking for someone shiny that reflects you back at you. Watch what type of love is around now and if you don’t like it it’s a sign you need to work on liking yourself some more so you attract a reflection you do like! On a cash tip, Mercury’s in your 8th house of sex, death, and taxes and you’ll be signing up for things on credit (careful it’ll come back and bite you in September), reading about sex and talking about it too, and possibly talking about endings (for example if you don’t like what you’re seeing reflected back at you in your heart stuff). With Mars thundering through your 5th house of love affairs, creativity, and chilun, you could be being demanding, insatiable, and impatient. Key dates for trickiness on the love front: 6th, 10 – 11th, 15 – 16th, 26th, and 31st plus you’ve got a big row + kiss and make up day on the 18th. Prettier stuff: lovers make you happy 13 – 15th, pretty lovin’ big lucrative work commissions on Wednesday 19th and work and money boons Saturday 22nd. This Week: Thursday’s Eclipse is yours. It’s time to stand up and be counted particularly when it comes to expressing yourself creatively.

Pisces
You seem to have a few more months of working it all out in the safety of your own tank before you launch your big plans into the big wide world in October. The flavours of August are homelife, creativity, expression, and lovers with a garnish of work-a-day world in there for good, grounding measure. Mars, the ruler of your bank vaults is in feisty mood all month so fishes would do well to keep a log of their spending habits – and the spending habits of those around them as inconsistencies will not be tolerated by you this month. Watch 10 – 11th for rows with your nearest and dearest about cash and family, 18th for you asserting your own opinions on home and family issues (and yes, you might just cause a bit of an upset), and 31st for rows about money – and credit spendsies in particular. Watch out too on 13th – 15th. If someone at work seems to be shovelling their in-tray onto yours, don’t let them get away with it! Pretty days include: 13 – 18th when family makes you feel good about yourself, 19th when loving or bizniz partners show they rate you for who you are, and Saturday 22nd which is you and love, bebe! Date night!! This Week: Thursday’s Eclipse lands in your 12th house. Try and own the anxiety and fed upness you feel by going for a good long power crawl rather than terrorising those in your fishbowl with your jagged teeth and spooked erratic swimming behaviours.

This Week

2009-07-26T23:04:00.011+01:00

This week’s cosmic landscape is less landscape and more fairground ride. We’re Up and Down and then Up and Down again ~ aycaramaba! Hold on to your hats ~ and with Mercury, planet of chitty chat, and Venus, goddess of love and money in the mix this is False-Sense-of-Security and/or Over-egging-the-Pudding Central. What follows this is mighty Pluto clicking with both Mercury and Venus at the weekend. “Spit out the truth fool!” Then next week the Full Moon eclipse lands. Hmm. Clue: whatever gets over-irksome and exhausting this week, take note. The cosmos is giving you a Flashing Arrow to indicate What Needs Sorting so you can progress. Alrightee then… Next week, Eclipse update cominacha. In the meantime, if the See-Saw becomes too much, have a swizz at Manolibera in the links below. Three minutes of sheer joy that’ll make you beam.

New: Astroducky’s weekly soundtrack!
This week’s Doing It Astrology was written whilst listening to the deliciously funky Bajofondo’s Tango Club - that’s it, dance bebe, dance! Eg here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWZa95pbuOA&feature=related

Aries
UP: The week starts swimmingly with joyful tidings from friends and conversations that seem to put your dreams within your grasp. DOWN: But then you find yourself bowing out of the thread, upended by some emotional tick that you thought had long gone… UP: But wait, by Friday you’re rallying and you find you’ve got Things To Say to cover your tracks and/or Big Up your kids to your lover, your dreams to your kids, your potato painting talent to your friends. DOWN: But you suddenly find that you’re saying too much – and you ask yourself who are you trying to convince of what, Ramface? And you sense that you’re letting yourself down. PLUTO SEZ: Sunday, talk to your lover/kids/creative project pals from the most vulnerable place that you are able. Your reward for this will be bigger than a big pizza pie on top of an elephant, and just as astounding.

Taurus
UP: Monday, Tuesday and finances seem like they’re lining up for you there Bully Bull until DOWN: Wednesday and unexpected news (a) from friends or (b) vz your deepest dreams casts a shadow over your cash flow and you’re not best pleased. UP: So you rationalise that you need to get your head down and keep pushing in the same old way, or turn to the family for a bit more support DOWN: only to realise that this isn’t the direction you wanted for you at all. Sheesh. What to do..? PLUTO SEZ: It really is time to stand up and be counted and to stand away from the Conditions and Hoops you’ve allowed others to impose on your pretty path. On Sunday take stock and see the stiles ahead on your chosen route. After next week’s eclipse, you’ll be ready to lighten your load so you can assail them all, proudly but daintily.

Gemini
UP: Early doors this week there seems to be stardust around your pretty wings Airy One where foreign, studious, or long haul plans are concerned and yet… DOWN: On Wednesday unexpected demands of you on the career front leave you (a) surprised (b) torn and (c) indecisive. How can you do that and still have This, That, and The Other? UP: When in doubt you talk it out and boy can you big up your plans this week, almost to the point of convincing You! DOWN: Almost but not quite… By the weekend you recognise that running and hiding from the career curveball is only fuelling self-delusion. PLUTO SEZ: Something has to give so you can Get On with Being You. Talk about that! Talk about being you on Sunday, and see how real it feels. The Eclipse next week offers a portal to be moving on in your career so see it as Onwards, Airy, not Downwards or Outwards.

Cancer
UP: Wobbling as you are right now with both Mars and Venus shaking up your 12th house of Meep! There seems to be light relief Monday and Tuesday where money, tax rebates, or even hot, smokin’ oobah are concerned. DOWN: Until, yup, it seems long-haul, studious, or foreign dreams are going to cost more than you’d bargained for. UP: So Friday and you’re off to investigate loans, credit cards, and other ways of Paying for the Dream, other than with ready cash. DOWN: But please don’t believe the schpiel and don’t believe what you want to believe just because it smooths over a crack in the plan! PLUTO SEZ: Get real! This weekend wear these worries on your sleeve and share them with those closest to you, whether bidniz or lovin’ partners. Next week the Eclipse lands and it’s time to consolidate debts.

Leo
UP: Ooh pussy cat, lovers and friends and happy social bunfights and flowers and chocs uh? Pencil Monday and Tuesday for these joys! DOWN: But then surprises regarding wishes and finances land outside your drawbridge on Wednesday, unsettling the Royal grin. Do friends owe you money? Is the tax bill depleting your savings accounts? UP: Well you’ve Mercury on side to help you tawk and tawk and tawk and whinge and scrike about it. And there are close lovin’ and bidniz partners with ears nearby… DOWN: But tawk isn’t action, is it pussycat? And even you know that they know that you know that what you’re saying is procrastinating, delusional bunk. PLUTO SEZ: It’s time to face up to some truths vz work and money so that in the future you accept that sometimes, money IS the best reward for hard work and success.

Virgo
UP: Monday, Tuesday and a link between Venus in your career zone and the harmonising trio of Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune in your office & medicine cabinet rather suggests that the financial picture is sweet as a choir singing lullabies, Virgo. DOWN: But come Wednesday a bizniz or lovin’ partner throws a curveball into the mix that leaves you winded. UP: You’ve plans up your sleeve that they don’t know about and that’s giving you a certain sense of power; you have other irons in the fire, you can get along without them, just wait! They’ll see! DOWN: But how real are these options? Are they in place? And why do you need curveballs from others before you decide to take action to better your lot anyway? PLUTO SEZ: It’s time to march to the beat of your own drum. Changes on the workfront starred next week could be just the opening you need to get your creative /foreign / longhaul / studious wishes lined up for real.

Libra
UP: The flush in your pretty cheeks early this week brought on by shiny overseas lovers, creative studious plans, or pride in your kiddywinks’ endeavours is rather eclipsed on Wednesday DOWN: when a curveball at the office or vz health leaves you hamstrung / on duty and unavailable. UP: There is always skype and webcams; there are friends you can talk to via phone and text… DOWN: But it’s not the same and however hard you try to put a brave face on things, and as a Libran you so often can, this time your heart isn’t in it and you don’t say how you really feel and the conversations smack of wishful thinking and delusion and you know it, they know it, we all know it. Harrumph. PLUTO SEZ: The success that you want is going to involve some profound changes at home. On Sunday, remember the joys from early in the week and let those thoughts of creativity, lovers, and/or kiddiwinks motivate you towards the success you crave.

Scorpio
UP: Monday, Tuesday and there’s love and money around Scorpio homefires – house sales, rental income, or even gorgeous oobah in cosy surroundings. DOWN: And then along comes planet of surprise Uranus on Wednesday and you discover that a creative project or your plans for chilun are going to cost more than you’d hoped and your excitement pales. UP: So, thinking caps are donned and there’s tawk aplenty about ways to cut financial corners; you’ve made some money working at home / through rental / on the sale, why not just make more…? DOWN: But you know as the words tumble out of your mouth that you’re over-egging a pudding that can’t feed 12 when it’s only baked in a dish for two… PLUTO SEZ: Talking is the way to do this, but only if facing the Truth. Sunday, write up realistic budgets and financial targets for the next 12 months and do it as conscientiously and honestly as if you were managing someone else’s bank account. (And yes, for someone that you like! Natch.)

Sagittarius
UP: Conversations with bidniz and lovin one-to-onesies are sweet and low Monday and Tuesday, Archer, purrrrr! DOWN: But on Wednesday Uranus chucks a problem into the mix vz home and family; it seems lovin partners and family have a disagreement or bizniz partners aren’t so keen on the idea of you working in your pyjamas from home while eating hot buttered toast in bed. UP: What this sparks is open dialogue about where you’re at now and where you want to be, and with Mercury flapping around you’ll feel like you could talk yourself out of a lead-lined bag if you wanted to but DOWN: if you don’t reel it in fast enough you may feel better at having Got That Off Your Chest, but everyone else will be on the floor with insecurity... PLUTO SEZ: Money’s the underpinning factor in your reactions, fear of the loss of it and/or your possessions. Sunday, sit down with those closest to you and talk about your budget and what you need for your big shiny future plans (especially those concerning travel or study) - and be honest about those fears!

Capricorn
UP: Work and your 9 – 5 salary are linked and looking pretty Monday and Tuesday but then DOWN: Uranus chucks a curveball into that peaceful easy feeling and a conversation in the office leaves you feeling uneasy... UP: And so to work! Resourceful as ever, you want to stem any potential cash outflow and find yourself researching funding streams, contacting credit card companies, loan sharks, bank managers, pawn brokers… DOWN: Only to realise that this isn’t the way out of the hole – that if things are changing on the work front, a bigger, better, stronger, longer plan is the soup du jour. PLUTO SEZ: You can do this the right way or you can fight it like a bank of cannon. Sunday, talk to your close one to onesies about what you want and need. And Astroducky means Everything! Next week the eclipse in your zone of cash money lettuce on the 9 – 5 coincides with Goats’ growing big shiny future plans.

Aquarius
UP: The week begins with some gorgeous vibes around lovers, creative projects and chilun until DOWN: Uranus in your bank vaults throws a wobbler and a cash situation style scenario dampens the creative beauteousness. UP: Lovin and bidniz partners are there to talk about it, offer advice, tell you what to think DOWN: but there’s something much more important going on and the brave Inventive Ones out there won’t brush it under the carpet or settle for the platitudes, they’ll seek out The Lesson. PLUTO SEZ: Fear, lovely, is what is going on. Pluto in your 12th house of Meep! is unpacking all your oldest, scardiest triggers. On Sunday, kissed by the Moon, and listened to by Mercury, you’re getting the chance to face the fact that you need a New, Braver, Less Submissive Approach to lovers, creative projects, and chilun. What would your inner-Parisian woman do? Mebbes do that then… in killer heels.

Pisces
UP: Early in the week everything is feeling groovy around the reef and your fears are laying quietly and peacefully when DOWN: Wednesday you’re suddenly restless and wanting to stir up the silt and rough things up a bit for your nearest and dearest. The tank just doesn’t feel big enough for you anymore… UP: By the end of the week you find yourself going into vocal overdrive standing on chairs in the office pushing your case, ideas, plans to all who will listen, tawking like there’s no tomorrow, stirred by the stirrings at home. DOWN: but you know that all this bluster is you puffing your chest out, trying to cover up fears and insecurities. PLUTO SEZ: On Sunday, reel it in. Sit down. Have a bubble bath. And then talk to a great friend about what you really want. Expect creativity, chilun, and lovin’ feelin’ to be the hot topics on your fishy wish list.

This week

2009-07-19T22:53:00.006+01:00

Oof. Astroducky is in pain. Being something of an impatient gourmand, I decided that the stuffed pepper had been in the oven quite long enough (two hours, I tell you!) and so snarked the lot. Foolhardy missy! The brown rice was still v v v al dente. And now I’m bloated like a puffa fish in its Sunday best. (Hark! Look to the lady…! Ooh… is it a lady…?) Have tied knot in hanky to remind self to use white rice or par cooked brown rice in future. Muppet! And so from the kitchen to Eclipse Numero Dos! Eclipses are a time of closing doors and opening others. As this is a New Moon, it’s a chance to Turn Over a New Leaf and let some old redundant fears go bye bye. (You can see Astroducky’s take on 12th House Fears here… http://doing-it-astrology.blogspot.com/2009_06_21_archive.html ) The New Moon Eclipse is landing on Wednesday 03.35 BST at 29 degrees of Cancer, just one teensy weensy degree before the Sun returns to his happy happy home of Leo… Is this significant? Why yesirree Bob. It’s like the build up before midnight strikes on New Year’s Eve x 1,000 or so. Plus as the Eclipse lands on a Wednesday, the day of communications champ Mercury, this is the mutha-ship for mekkin wishes people. Burn a yellow candle for Mercury as close to 03:35am BST as you can (but if it’s 6.42pm, I’m sure the Universe won’t mind a jot). For where the New Moon Eclipse and the Sun’s move into Leo affects you, see below.

There’s more on the Eclipse and the Yellow Candle here: http://womansworldmagazine.blogspot.com/

Aries
Wednesday’s New Moon Eclipse lands in your 4th house and lights the touch paper for activities in your 5th house. It seems that changes in your role vz home and family are needed so you can really push forwards ho! with your need to Have Fun, Spend More Time Expressing Yourself, and/or Start a Family, Increase Your Family, Spend More Time with Your Children/Inner Child. Funsies, eh?! You bring the bucket and I’ll bring the spade! The 4th house also shows us where our old familial habits lie too. If you’ve noticed yourself turning into your Pa (or Ma) of late and it’s not a Great Lifestyle Choice for you, then you’ve got the Universe’s green light (Mercury’s yellow light) this week to walk away from it Renee. Potato painting, flirtation, and child-time are The Future. Livin’ the dream!

Taurus
How you speak, Hoof-Features, is up for a Cosmic master-class. It’s time for you to welcome in a whole new level of belonging and verbal dominion over your pasture and your chosen herd. Stubborness to the point of ‘holding it all in’ and then exploding, may be the cartoon illustration on your bizniz card, but has it brought you happiness? Mmm. Has it?! Don’t hang that head in shame. No! Instead get ready to speak like the voice from the burning bush. This Wednesday, with your yellow candle on max, invoke the power of clear speaking. You are not your parents. Things do not need to carry on at home as they have been doing. You are allowed to put yourself first. Around the 5th of August, when the final eclipse lands for 2009, a two year process of push and pull and crises vz Bully Bull Towers and Kin, reaches its culmination. Be the master, ca va bien? [PS Your weekend looks super!]

Gemini
For you, Airy One, the New Moon Eclipse augurs in the beginning of a two-year process in which you get serious about money on the 9 – 5 and perhaps a little more clued up on what you own and what you’re worth. This is no bad thing. Earth energy is an important part of your daily wash and any little crises now will hopefully be no more than a gentle wake up call to give your earth energy an MOT. This week the Eclipse lands on your ruler’s day, Wednesday, and then the Sun and Moon slide into your 3rd house of communication… Do you see what the beautiful Universe has done there?! As you burn that yellow candle, draw in some cosmic chitty chat skills that are going to help you help yourself vz asking for what you’re worth in future.

Cancer
The New Moon Eclipse lands in your home, Claw features, your sensitive first house of You, Yourself, and You. If you’re feeling a tad ragged Monday / Tuesday, go easy on yourself and give in to those creature comforts, iced buns, lemon meringue pie, tiny fishes… In the coming two years, you’ve a number of Eclipses ahead all designed to help you recognise how what is going on outside you is a reflection of what is going on inside you. Mirror, mirror and so on… This is a New Moon Eclipse so it’s a Great Time to make a Head Start. As the candle melts, note down what in your world is unbalanced. Then think about what you can address Within You to address the imbalance Out There. Money, possessions, and earnings are likely high on the list for now.

Leo
An Eclipse in your 12th house is never an obvious bowl of cherries, your liege, but then have you seen any abstract works of art lately… and how they may not be as they first a-p-peaar…? No…? Oh… What ‘Ducky is saying is that sometimes acknowledging where we are, ahem, drifting Off Course can be just the ticket to help us re-look at something and approach it with a new tactic. When we reflect on it within a matter of days, we realise that the blip has turned out to be a rather beneficent whatsit… You are of course perfect in so many ways, your Lordshipstress. As the royal candle burns on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning the key thought in the majestic mind could be, “How could I be more happily me?” There may be things/attitudes/fears that you realise you have outgrown, perhaps, your Gorgeousness…?

Virgo
This is a Big and Pretty Eclipse, delightful Virgo. Yes it is. Stop expecting a clap of thunder! Or a damp squib! This New Moon Eclipse landeth in your 11th house of Wishes and the Signpost to your Future points Here: friendships, sharing, lowering intolerance, building new networks, strength in numbers, believing in your dreams, going for your dreams... And all this on Mercury, your ruler’s day too, bringing you a Brucey Bonus to the yellow candle tingaling... But hark! What happens when the Sun and Moon slide into your 12th House of Meep! within a few hours!? Is your inner cynic rubbing her hands with glee?! Just hold it there sister! To reach those beautiful dreams in your heart, Virgo, you will have to stride through your fears. If you say anything to Mercury and the Moon (and your friends) about the coming journey, ask them to manifest at your side as your favourite cartoon characters whenever you wobble.

Libra
For you the soup du jour is Success and what it means to You – not what your Granny wanted for you, or your Ma. But you! What do you want for you? Are you an individual? Are you here manifesting all that you are here to manifest? Phew. That feels better. Scales, you like to prevaricate, and you can see the billions of ways that everything has good and bad in it. But time keeps on slipping into the future, as the song goes, and it’s time to switch career, or make switches in your career to get to be the Scales you were destined to be. Watch Wednesday for a hope for the future and Thursday for a shot to the arm of your wishes, possibly via friends. (PS The weekend looks coochy coo too. Time to squeeze a lover on a slow boat to China? Or a fast train to Paris..?)

Scorpio
Your 9th house of foreign ting, studying, teaching, and long-haul planning is lit up like a Christmas tree by the Eclipse… only for that energy to then plop into your 10th house of career, fame, and success. What Astroducks is suggesting is that your current inklings for the future, particularly those which concern foreign/travel connections, studying, or teaching, seem to hold a key to your sense of Success and Makin’ It in the Big Wide World. There may be changes to your everyday wash needed to get to those places, and some persuading of family members before you can crack on (watch 5 August for clues). But the key seems to lie in allowing what’s going on inside you to manifest out here. Watch the stuff that pops randomly out of your mouth and start panning for gold.

Sagittarius
It’s all going on around the cash axis in your chart, Archer. Not only is Pluto chanting constantly in the background about the value of money, the power of money, and whether you need more to feel safe, you’ve now got a two-year spate of Eclipses exploring the bigger cash questions – mortgages, wills, lotto wins, credit, and debt. At Wednesday’s New Moon Eclipse, Astroducky rather suggests you get real about your Incomings and Outgoings and where you’ve been slapdash with dosh in the past, you get it sorted. Now’s a good time. You’ll be glad that you did. As the Sun dives into your 9th house on Thursday, foreign travel becomes extra appealing. If your bank balance is too tight to mention don’t whack it all on credit! Watch a foreign film or eat food stuffs from a country you can’t pronounce instead.

Capricorn
With a New Moon Eclipse landing in your 7th house of close one-to-onesies, it’s a time of taking stock on who you’re with – or why you’re not with someone you’d like to be with. Single Goats are at a Day of Reckoning where What you Put Out There is a clear indicator of why you’re not getting the good stuff back. Coupled Up Goats are either re-engaging with their squeeze – or stepping away from one lover to make way for Something More Appropriate. This goes for bizniz partners too. With the Sun sliding into your 8th house of Sex, Death, and Taxes your decision will have immediate consequences. Pay offs, pay ins, or some deep lovin’ oobah.

Aquarius
There’s a re-launch to office and medicine cabinets about you, Inventive One, so if you feel a little under par and overwhelmed Monday and Tuesday, go easy and get ready for your cosmic reload in the small hours of Wednesday morning. Health issues are something you would do well to attend to. Physical discomforts are a sign that your fabalas mind isn’t unwinding often enough. What does seem purdy though is the Sun’s shift into Leo on Thursday. There seems to be others around – bizniz and lovin partners – who can help pick up the slack. Send them out for whisky, and have hot toddies for two. (PS The weekend looks coochy smoochy. Best underwear only!)

Pisces
If you were hoping to take a creative idea and make it into a bizniz, then now could be the time. Your New Moon Eclipse lands in your 5th house of Creative Expression before both the Sun and Moon slide into your zone of office and medicine cabinets. It seems your health, well-being, and wealth come through balancing your creative side with your financial and work responsibilities. In the next two years, the emphasis of the eclipses will fall in your zones of wishes, and friends, as well as lovers, children, and creative potato painting style adventures. Get work stuff sorted this coming month to allow room for these gorgeous things to rise and shine!

This week

2009-07-13T01:30:00.002+01:00

A week of talk, in some cases all talk and no trousers. Mars is sliding into talky talky sign Gemini on Monday. Then Mercury, the planet of chitty chatty, zips into Leo at the weekend… But we’re currently mid-Eclipses... What to do? Read your horoscopes for appropriate talky action, plus, procure a yellow candle in time for the next Eclipse. (Instructions next week.) Other than that Sunday looks favourite for those who are young at heart and up for some spontaneous ‘fessions of lovin’ feelin’. True. And for those in the GMT time zone, the Moon is Void of Course from 9am until 3.40pm today (Monday). Prevaricate between these hours. Or have an extended lunchbreak. It’s no time for signing off on important emails, choosing a holiday destination, or picking a lane. Wait until 3.41pm… Word.

Aries
If you feel like your head’s been up your own bank balance of late, watch how the magic of talky talky grabs your tongue with both hands this week. Monday’s when the starting pistol goes off. Kablam and there’s no stopping this Ramfaced motor mouth. Where Astroducky figures the speaky speaky will be going great guns is in your love life. Mercury lands in this cutey pie zone on Saturday and if you’ve been thinking and planning around your homefires rather too much recently, you’ll be up for an altogether different sort of creative expression from the weekend. (And we’re talking potato painting, activities with kids, and Winky Winky.) But ooh, hark… Looks like a lover’s going to catch you off guard on Sunday but in a good way. Feel the frisson - and then talk about it, natch.

Taurus
Okay Bullybull, you like your luxuries, no word of a lie, but how are the pennies looking? With both Venus and Mars in you bank vaults you’re craving those Jimmy Choos but wondering if you even have enough money for butter. If there was a time to talk about pay raises and earning more on the 9 – 5 now is it. Careful how you come on though. There’s assertive, and there’s pulping people with your horns and hooves. Jupiter, ruler of your 8th house of big commissions is sleeping right now in your zone of success. Big mortgage/credit/commission style income may be on hold until mid-October but make note of the dreams and premonitions in your gutsywuts this week and follow up on them in the Autumn. Mercury lands at Bullybull Towers at the weekend. That’s pals coming to stay, conversations with the landlord about the dicky boiler, and news from family cominacha. Finally, expected the delightfully unexpected vz news from friends and networks on Sunday.

Gemini
If you have an Aries friend, now may be the time to invest in a stopwatch and start some talking competitions. The pair of you will be rather Me Me Me for the coming six weeks, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Getting a word in edgeways may be the soup du jour however, so pack a sense of humour when you set off on that long road trip together. You have Mars with you now so are a force to be reckoned with. What is BIG about having the fire God at your behest is that at last you’ll be getting some more restful nights’ kip and feeling less angsty during your waking hours. Fears you’ve had about what ‘them out there’ are trying to do to you becomes clear – and you have the cojones to deal with it. Again, as always with Mars, watch how you go. His energy can run rampant without a great rider in the saddle. At the weekend your ruler Gemini hops into your 3rd house of chitty chat. Book the road trip then. That Aries friend of yorn doesn’t stand a chance… ps Money and career click surprisingly on Sunday.

Cancer
You’re still processing, aren’t you dear Crab? It seems that you want to roll over and play nicely nicely, but then you begin to feel like a doormat – and that feels bad. So you retreat. And then you feel terrible for retreating so you roll over and play nicely nicely, but then… and it goes on. You’ve just entered a two-year research and development phase of your inner workings especially vz how you operate in close one-to-onesies. So research and develop and give yourself time. Astroducky rather recommends writing things down. That way you can process your faux pas without stewing on it and feeling wretched at 3am. Right now, Crab, the Sun’s with you so for the time being there is happiness about the reef. Then at the weekend, Mercury moves into your bank vaults and there’ll be thoughts and conversations about money to focus on for a while. Fiscal ducks in a row, claw features. Meanwhile Sunday brings gorgeous news from overseas. Enjoy, enjoy.

Leo
As Mars moves into your 11th house of friends and socialising and Mercury moves into your first house of You at the weekend, it seems that certain things are getting ironed out at long last, oh Great One. For the past few weeks you may have felt that others were being less than Honest... or it may have been You who’s been being a tad Economical with the Truth. (And naturally you would have had good reason, Sire.) With Mars and Venus now in your social 11th house you’re (a) sorting the wheat from the chaff where real friends are concerned and (b) getting a little more ardent about your financial goals and your ability to reach them. Twittering like a demon is par for the course. Making small dolls with pins in of bad bad bad friends is another. And having bosom buddies round for a spicy chilli pot and crate of beer is yet another. Decisions, decisions Pussy Cat…

Virgo
There’s schtuff happening on the career front, and it’s energy, respect, and cash-rich (or should be). But there seems to be Another Way brewing as we speak. You can feel it in your crystal clear waters, can’t you? Jupiter and Neptune are holding hands in this zone – but they’re in retreat... Pay attention to inklings this week, and continue to follow your nose, but plan for October for forwards action. In the meantime your ruler Mercury dips into your 12th house of Meep! at the weekend for a three week stay. Watch for moments of paranoia (‘who said that?!’), and fear that others are plotting about you behind your back (stop peeking through the key hole!). However, it might be you who’s playing your cards close to your chest too, Mother Goose. Avoid out and out porky pies but sometimes secretiveness is a canny modus operandi. Finally surprising wishes can come true vz close-one-to-onesies as Uranus meets up with the Sun on Sunday. Tell me! Tell me do!

Libra
The Martian energy is moving into your 9th house of long-range planning, studying, foreign affairs and publishing and broadcasting. With Venus your ruler already here you should be feeling a kind of Date with Destiny. This time though, instead of sitting it out and weighing everything up, you get to Pick a Lane and actually motor on an idea. Huzzah, Scales! Watch the weekend for a real sense that time is of the essence. For you, the talky talky chatterbox, Mercury, is honing in on your 11th house of wishes and friendships. It’s Facebook, Twitter ‘tastic, matey chumpie, and augurs in party time and social bunfighting of the first order. Across town: and there seems to be a surprising stroke of luck and timing vz you shining on the job front. Watch Sunday for a work-a-day peek-a-boo opportunity.

Scorpio
If there’s been hot tension or hot passion on the Love Front in the past few weeks, Scorpio, it’s going to get deeper (which a tiny part of you quite likes). Mars has moved into your 8th house of Sex, Death, and Taxes – and if you’re not sorting mortgages, bank loans, credit cards, or freelance commissions with gusto, you’re giving a Love Affair a good seeing to I should coco. But seeing to good? Or seeing to bad? Venus is here meaning there’s an opportunity for love and/or money. If you’re splitting up now, there may be an amicable option available. For Scorpios in happy relationships, you’ll be melting those sheets for the next month. Ahhh. Delicious… Meanwhile: Mercury the planet of chitty chat and commerce zones in on your house of fame and career success. Time to buff up that resumé and get it O-U-T OUT into the Big Wide World. Finally, when Uranus meets the Sun on Sunday, surprises come in the shape of bebes, creative ting, and cutey pies… Is that an overseas lover calling? Or an education course in potato painting? Or plans to mekka de bebes..? [NB see melting sheets, above.]

Sagittarius
For you, things are starting to smoulder in the boudoir. Venus has had you writing schmoochy poetry to your choochywoochy for the past week. Now as Mars stomps into the rose-framed arbour he’s got more on his mind than sweet nothings. (Is that a thorn in your pocket..? etc and so forth). For single Archers the energy really is directing you to find a mate. Good places for you to mingle right now are airport lounges, evening or weekend classes, and the law courts… Seriously. With Mercury, ruler of your zone of one-to-onesies, ducking into your 9th house of study, travel, and legal shenanigans these are your soup du jour of meet and greets for the next three weeks. For all Archers there is likely to be news from abroad, or at least regarding study plans during July. Finally for now, home and money hook up surprisingly on Sunday. Is a mortgage/house sale within your grasp after all?

Capricorn
There’s a sense of getting back to the work-a-day world a-coming round the mountain, Goat. Mars is blasting his way into your 6th house of Office and Medicine Cabinets bringing energy to health regimes and work projects. His fire may exacerbate old war wounds so if in doubt, get to the docs. In the Office, Venus will keep you from acting like a Martian firebrand for a few weeks more, and generally speaking work should feel like a happy motivating place to be. From Saturday, Mercury hones in on your 8th house of Sex, Death, and Taxes. While whispering pervy sweet nothings is one way to play this energy, it’s also time to sort the spondoolies. Yes get the will in order, but also shop around for interest rates on loans and mortgages until you find the best deal. Finalmente, surprising chats with lovers on Sunday could make you glow a little, hoof features. (What was that about pervy sweet nothings? Astroducky sez, ‘Get a room!’ Gorgeous!)

Aquarius
The Eclipses may be unsettling, but it’s not generally in-ya-face unsettling, more the occasional pip of a car horn in the dead of night or an occasional melancholic refrain from a cello in a distant room… What’s going on under your nose, however, looks reet bonny, Inventive One. Mars has joined Venus in your fifth house of lovers, chilun, and creative ting. If you’re not bursting with ideas and action plans and potato painting bonanzas, then you’re wearing ridiculously small amounts of underwear and knockin’ ‘em dead with your smouldering ways. Meooow. At the weeknd Mercury makes a b-line for your 7th house of one-to-onesies and chats with bizniz and lovin’ partners is starred. With the Sun soon to join the party too, this looks like the start of something shiny. Finally for nowski, on Sunday watch for surprises vz making extra cash on the day job.

Pisces
You’re healing a deep old wound, Fishypoo. Right now, with both Neptune and Jupiter slumbering in your 12th house of Meep! the healing process may slow a little while you get on with Every Day Stuff. By the Spring of 2010, you’ll be a leaping salmon sort of fish. Look at me! Looook at me!! For now though, Mars is heading into your 4th house of home and family and it’s time to tackle the repairs/lodger/in-laws. It’s a six-week stay of action and irritation. ‘Bonne chance,’ as they say. At the weekend Mercury the planet of chitty chat moves into your Office and Medicine Cabinet. If you’ve needed a check up, schedule it within the following three weeks. On the day job, expect to have an in-tray the size of small house but bold ideas of how to tackle it too. Lastly but not leastly, you’re about to surprise yourself. Watch for your response / proposals vz lovers, creative projects, and chilun. Oooh Fish! Is that a ring behind your back? Or a gooseberry bush?!

This Week

2009-07-05T19:24:00.003+01:00

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.

This week

2009-06-27T23:20:00.005+01:00

Sitting in a hammock in southern France after the computer crashed for the third time it occurred to yon Astroducky to just Get To The Point quickly this week. And so… to the Eclipses! From Tuesday 7 July we’re entering eclipse season. Eclipses are doors along the corridor of our lives Opening and Closing. Human Beans as a rule don’t like Change so it isn’t always thrilling to hear that eclipses mean if we don’t move forwards willingly then the Universe will Push Us forwards anyroad. Doing It Astrology this week is a heads up cut-out-and-keep guide as to what may be holding each sign back from braving the Big Shiny Future that awaits us. Clues lie in our 12th house of Meep! And Meeps! below offer a mission, should we choose to accept it, on broadening our Comfort Zones… For more Astroducky see www.moonology.com this week on Tuesday and Thursday.

Aries
MEEP! Your inner demons that are long past their sell-by date concern ‘letting other people in’. That means sharing what you have as much as allowing yourself to belong in relationship on other people’s terms from time to time. Sharing what you have or going with the flow has often made you feel vulnerable – but rather than admit it you shout, brush it off, or slam doors. As we prepare for the eclipses your ruler Mars meets up with give-and-take planet Sedna mid-week. Power and sharing are not mutually exclusive. It’s how see-saws work. Weeeeeee! Tee hee!

Taurus
MEEP! The passion in your heart right now, Bullybull, reflects your need to be the mature role model for your smallest, weakest self. To do it you’re going to have to stop earth-mothering everyone else, puff your chest out and put yourself first. In the past you’ve backed off from taking your place in the driver’s seat and settled for safe, comfortable, familiar territory (which includes the default of meeting the needs of others doesn’t it?) This week as Mars meets Sedna you get an early opportunity to try stamping a new path up the mountain laughing and crowing as you go. Get ready to continue this well after the eclipses.

Gemini
MEEP! For Airy Ones picking a lane and sticking to it isn’t easy. When there are so many ideas to be thunk, why settle for one?! With earth sign Taurus in your 12th you fear the downsides of groundedness – stagnation, sameness, dullness, repetitiveness, boredom. But what about the up sides? Commitment, pleasure in luxury, patience, a long-slow pot roast... Astroducky paraphrases a leetle. What I is saying is that in all your thinking, talking, and planning of the moment don’t veer away from the winning plan just because challenges pop up ahead.

Cancer
MEEP! For you, Gemini governs your 12th house. These Airy creatures share their thoughts and ideas with everyone. They are fabulous verbal torrents on two legs! They are stunning loquacious creatures! They are chatty, thinky, darlings! Something about all this revelation scares you in a way it doesn’t scare Geminis and it’s time to study their modus, Crabsticks. This week watch how friends state their feelings or intentions. Listen, learn, then get ready to dust off your soft underbelly and fear of being reeeeally heard and get verbally thrusty.

Leo
With Cancer the crab in your 12th house your MEEP involves struggling with inner demons screaming that needing people or showing your soft underbelly are unloveable weaknesses to be stamped out. Being Lord of the Jungle does rather require that you puff out your chest and be strong and dignified at all times, just in case one of your subjects may be watching (and with that gorgeous hair why wouldn’t they be?) The down side to all this posturing and roaring is that you/your subjects begin to miss out on how dern beautiful gentleness and humanity can be. No more! Show your caring side and burst in to tears if you wish. Softness is strength too Puddy Cat.

Virgo
MEEP! Virgos are the quiet, analysing observers of the Zodiac, allegedly. But at times you do rather promote this modest image of yourself when there’s so much more going on behind closed doors. Virgos are the first people to question a show off or criticise a boaster and yet… is some of this wishing you could blow you own trumpet and attract some attention for the amazing things you can do? Leo rules your zone of Fear – yes, those bright, shiny confident creatures. Dying your hair bright is one approach to tackling this over-modesty. Wearing flashy clothes is another. This eclipse season make little steps towards showing off like famous Leo Madonna and learn to court the spotlight.

Libra
MEEP! As a Libran you were born popular. You’re good at parties. You love socialising. You generally have lots of friends. You’re gorgeous to look at. And you are the eternal-diplomat… But is this diplomacy holding you back? If you fear putting your foot down, or being critical, or saying anything that might lead to an ugly scene, it’s time to change tack. Particularly with one-to-onesies try allowing yourself to Speak Up and start Reaching Into the heart of the matter. Truths coming back at you may feel uncomfortable but they’ll feel real and that’s electrifying.

Scorpio
MEEP! Where Sagittarians may benefit from facing fears of ‘things getting a bit too heavy’, Scorpios could perhaps look at ways to add a little more levity into the daily wash. With relationships feeling p-r-e-t-t-y intense right now, this could offer a flea market of opportunity for browsing. Libra rules your 12th house of Meep! They represent balance, beauty, lightness, and ‘surface’. If your need to get to the bottom of everything at profound levels becomes depressive and burdensome sometimes, get to an art gallery, gaze at a flower, or play on a swing and try and enjoy the passing ‘surface’ of the moment.

Sagittarius
MEEP! You are the open-minded adventurer of the zodiac, Archer. If not fearless, then certainly more fearless than so many of the other zodiac signs. Ruled by Jupiter you are generally a positive soul too and see the glass as half full. What’s not to like? Nothing! What’s to watch out for though is the following… running away when Things Need to be Faced and recognising that a rolling stone gathers no moss. Sometimes the biggest, bestest, scariest adventure can come when standing still and taking time to get to the beautiful, breath-taking heart of the matter.

Capricorn
MEEP! Running a tight ship might not always be the Best Way. Yes. Honest. We’re not saying mutiny, Goat, we’re suggesting just drifting a little, being a bit adventurous, not having to know the outcome as you set sail into the blue yonder. As the Goat of the Zodiac you present a picture of the sign who Commits and sallies forth; the one who Will Always Get There In The End. But what if a fruity distraction pops up? What if a chance to kick back or explore presents itself during a tight schedule? When the unscheduled comes calling, could you embrace it? Wild flowers are uplifting too.

Aquarius
MEEP! As an Inventive One you easily see 100 different ways of doing Things. You may try many approaches when doing Things just to satisfy your curious mind – changing goal posts and disappearing down long corridors almost forgetting what it was you originally set out to do. Where was I? Oh yes. The skies say that somewhere in your life you need to set a target and stick to it, like a Capricorn would. Home and family are connected to this, though trying a Direct Route may represent breaking an old (family) habit?

Pisces
MEEP! A good role model for you right now would be an Aquarian. Watch how they march to the beat of their own drum (which is likely one they designed themselves but got someone else to make). Lately you’ve made some great strides in your confidence when it comes to Saying What’s On Your Fabulous Mind. Now as you’re growing in confidence you may find yourself wishing to move away from the old shoal, maybe going out on your own for a while, preparing to sign up to a whole new shoal somewhere up ahead.