April 2010 Horoscopes

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)

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.

This month

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 Month

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 Month

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 month...

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

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

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.