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Aries
(March 20-April 21)
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| IDEAS
ABOUT LEADERSHIP are changing. Maybe this is wishful thinking on my
part, but I am a witness to the process, and offer my testimony. Women
are taking on greater roles of leadership more frequently and more
comfortably, usually to the great relief of everyone. This represents a
more profound evolution of society than we may imagine. We are also
learning more circular methods of sharing authority, beginning to
understand consensus, and learning that more than being 'in charge',
leadership is about guiding a visioning process, offering inspiration
and doing what needs to be done. My hunch is that this bit of news has a
lot to do with your life. What's most interesting is that the people for
whom you are in a position of leadership are at least as strong,
intelligent and powerful as you are, if not more so. But what you have
is specialization, willingness, and a growth agenda that can only be
fulfilled by your current mission. There is something very specific that
you have to offer as well, which is to assist people in not feeling
helpless in the wake of so much change. You will do this through your
actions, you will do it through your words, but most of all, you will
relate this to everyone around you through the simple act of
understanding. |
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Taurus
(April 21-May 20)
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| NO
MATTER HOW you look at it, all relationships, personal or professional,
are about exchange. All you get to decide is what you exchange, and why
you are exchanging it. The 'what' may be some combination of love,
honesty, pleasure, work, food, money, control, conflict, anger or
jealousy. The 'why' may be (again) love, a creative impulse, a nurturing
impulse, desire, fear, aggression or hostility. If you feel weak in your
relationships, maybe it's because you don't quite know what you have to
offer, or believe that it matters. How could you feel strong, or like
you are a meaningful presence in someone's life and hence the world,
unless you tangibly sensed your value? Alternately, feeling weak in
relationships may reveal a lack of understanding of your motives. Can
you move forward in life not knowing why you're doing it? You may fear
being 'too honest' but on some level recognize that to tell the truth
is, at once, to have yourself, and to give the gift of yourself. It will
take some effort to get over the feeling that everyone and everything in
this world represents a daunting power. But maybe in the course of time
you'll discover that what, today, seems the most threatening will,
tomorrow, be the most precious. |
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Gemini
(May 20-June 21)
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| IN THE
PAST four seasons, you got a sense of how you answer to direct
confrontation, and probably witnessed some of your differing methods of
responding. It is possible to meet like with like, that is, for example,
anger with anger. It is possible to meet anger with compassion, or with
reason. In the face of enormous change, it is possible to revert to
structure and past ideas, or it is possible to embrace the challenge
that the moment presents. But it would appear that no past structure,
idea or internalized other person making voices and rules in your mind
(mom, dad, etc.) will withstand the evolutionary necessity for you to
adapt, evolve, and reach deeply into your feelings and your soul. You
are being called past all of what you knew before; past all harsh
self-judgments, flawed adaptation systems and unquestioned notions. The
experience you will remember, in total, as 2001 was unduly harsh, and
truly confused. I am sure you have your regrets about how you handled
several situations, and it's clear that there were important lessons and
gains you made. But where you have regrets, it is not too late to choose
again, in many of them. It is not too late to adapt to your actual
moment, and it is not too late to hold both yourself and your partners
to high levels of communication and integrity. You are being called upon
to react with an unusual degree of urgency to situations you've handled
other ways in the past. You are being called upon to meet the world on
equal terms. You are being summoned to think for yourself, and to take
the risks of doing so, and to reap the gifts.
This is a revised horoscope for Gemini.
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Cancer
(June 21-July 22)
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| IN OUR
WORLD of so-called black and white, of success and failure, of give and
take, of victory and defeat, the idea that anyone might gain without
someone else losing is still very strange. Though our failure to see the
simplicity and practicality of win-win situations is the equivalent of
riding a bicycle with square wheels, I hope you don't mind purring
across the countryside while others struggle with their tires meeting
the ground at right angles. Actually moving is usually somewhat more
dangerous than being stuck, sometimes. People would notice that you're
different, for another thing, and there is little you can do to help
them. But with a select few others, there's an alchemy taking shape, and
you're likely to be feeling it now. Alchemy is a special kind of change,
for example, converting lead to gold. It is impossible change --
a kind of miracle. All authentic miracles involve relationships. While
you might be reticent to accept the fact that you're the source of a
miracle, rest assured that you're not. You are, however, one ingredient
without which miraculous transformations and learning processes would be
impossible. What you experience is likely to be so reality-altering as
to require keeping your feet on the ground as a very conscious act, and
making a continuing effort to get to know people very well before you
grant them power over you. |
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Leo
(July 22-Aug. 22)
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| THIS IS
A SERIOUS time in your life. I can almost hear you thinking that your
experiments with fun were a sufficient failure to teach you that the
only real way to handle your affairs is to get down to business. Even if
you're being a bit pessimistic here, such a conclusion would be pretty
good thinking. But I suggest you also keep in mind a definition of
success, which is having fun with everything you do. There's a much more
important issue involved with your attitude toward fun than just
entertainment. What some call fun is how you access the superconscious
and subconscious dimensions of your mind. It's possible right now, and
tempting, to think you live to live solely in the practical world, where
the laws of physics hold. But your encounters with what some call the
spirit world, and another, more private space known as the unconscious,
are now your richest source of both strength and resources, and of
healing. There is a tremendous, necessary emphasis on healing as the
next two years unfold. Structures need to mend, both in your emotional
world and in your physical one; your body may be asking for special
attention as well. But mostly, I think, it's your mind and ideas that
are the real focus of need. I see you as having some rare and vital
assistance available in this process, from someone willing to help, if
you are willing to learn and grow, and most of all, to strive to live
fully. |
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Virgo
(Aug. 22-Sep. 22)
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| ONCE YOU
WERE a child. Do you remember? Have you got any pictures of you from
back then? Any artifacts, or, if you're truly blessed, any people around
who can tell you some stories? Some people relate to the child they were
as a different person than they are now, sometimes literally as if they
were another being; others are right in touch with the little critter
they once were, who exists right within you. As I write, I'm feeling how
sad it is that more of us don't feel that kid in there, and it seems
like the most important thing in the world to get in touch with that
person, who is always trying to get in touch with you. The movement of
Chiron, one of your guiding planets, into Capricorn, tells me that your
relationship to the child within is becoming a much more tangible
reality. Past years have been spent dealing with and repairing much of
the emotional damage that was caused in earlier times. But this has
cleared the way for you to feel safe being young again. Unlike during
childhood, you have a lot more control over your environment, hard-won
though it may have been recently. This security is likely to allow you
to express far more of the emotions that a child can express, including
curiosity, a sense of daring, anger, and an innocent yearning for
experience: especially the deep experience of people you love and
desire. |
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Libra
(Sep. 22-Oct. 23)
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| IT IS
RARE that we get to live out our ideals in any meaningful way. For many
people, even having ideals is, well, idealistic, because we all know how
messed up the world really is. Or do we? Are we any worse off today than
we were during the crusades, or during plagues, or in the days before
sanitation? Well, okay, today we live with enormous stress, and our own
kinds of plagues, and a lot of fear, and not a lot of community.
Community is what, in the past, allowed us to feel like we belonged on
the planet. But mostly, in these days, we have a lot of problems on the
personal level that we really could solve if we woke up from our trance
for long enough to notice they bother us. I see you taking on the role
of the awakener in the coming seasons. Sure, you do your share more than
others do; it's perfectly true that Libra is born to notice beauty,
which awakens the sleeping mind. Yet I speak of something different, of
a mission, and it's not necessarily sensible, or free from risk. But
you'll have help of a very special kind, in the form of a person capable
of assisting you in making sure that your efforts have maximum effect
and minimum risk. The most important thing about spreading any form of
awareness is remaining awake yourself. I would dare say this is never
easy, but take the help you are offered: help you will recognize when it
arrives. |
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Scorpio
(Oct. 23-Nov. 22)
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SCORPIO'S REPUTATION for control conceals the deeper fact that for you
to do anything meaningful entails an act of surrender and commitment
that few around you are capable of understanding. Even you may not be
aware of the depth that this crisis can reach, and of course it's
inflamed by how casual everyone around you seems to be, how
intentionally shallow. Whether you take this as good news or not, you're
not getting any simpler, but consider also that you're only growing
stronger. In my view, this year has two dominant soul-development
themes. One is bringing your conscious mind fully into the fold of your
emotional, erotic and psychic process. This means becoming aware of
processes you may now take for granted. So much that you experience you
have been unable to express in cognitive or verbal terms. To gain this
skill may not be comfortable, and it may even involve some very hard
work. But please, fill notebooks, and learn to speak your mind. Second,
and I know that I have said this somewhere along the line, it's vital
that you see how powerful you are in your relationships. Seeing your
power will free you from the necessity of being dominant. Strange as it
seems, your power will just teach you that you are equal to those you
say you love, while they learn that they're not quite as simple as they
would like to be. |
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Sagittarius
(Nov. 22-Dec. 22)
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| THERE
ARE some people who have problems; most people have situations. You have
situations that have been so demanding that you've been tempted to view
them as problems. And while this year will not be 365 days at the
park, you have survived the most wrenching changes, the most dramatic
confrontations and the most shocking surprises. If you have, in
hindsight, decided that any of this was made worse not because you
weren't ready to change, but rather because you were unwilling, let that
inspire you to pump the muscles of will and stretch the tendons of
willingness. Whether you have noticed or not, the whole bizarre business
of the past 12 months has been all about you becoming strong, powerful,
decisive, conscious and desiring of freedom. The business of the next 12
months is going to be remembering what you have learned, holding
yourself to what you have decided is true, and never for one day
imagining that you are through growing. Rest, of course, would be very
wise; you have not had much lately. My sense is that, if you keep
honesty at the top of your agenda, you will discover many new resources
within yourself, but more to the point, you will be able conjure the
resources to meet any situation at any time. |
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Capricorn
(Dec. 22-Jan. 20)
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| PREPARE
YOURSELF for the personal growth adventure of your life. No, make that
the adventure of your life. Prepare for saying the words I EXIST with
gusto, and then living out the promise as you turn the ignition key to
the universe. In days of yore, your motto may have been "I subsist," or
the groovier "I will survive." Neither is particularly daring, and at
the top of my notes for your year horoscope I have written: "To try, or
to dare." For that is the question. The recent entry of Chiron into
Capricorn represents the spontaneous development or re-emergence of your
questing spirit: a time of experiencing everything but what you read in
the books about how as a Capricorn you are very practical and a little
dull and too careful. Chiron does not dare to be different as a luxury,
or as a game. For Chiron, standing away from convention is the essence
of life, and when a person is truly different, he or she must learn how
to be different in peace, and hopefully, how to be different in style.
In this light, I suggest you place having fun high on your list of
priorities, and apply this to every activity or experience, whether it's
on your agenda or not. Otherwise you run the risk of missing the
adventure that an adventurous approach to life will no doubt provide
you. You have other choices, and if you find yourself struggling, you
can be pretty sure you've chosen the boring way to live. |
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Aquarius
(Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
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| THE TIME
HAS ARRIVED to reevaluate the role of women in your life. I ask: are any
of us capable of seeing women as our equals, whether we are male or
female? Or are we always trapped in some kind of superiority/inferiority
situation with the women around us? Can we even conceive of what it
means to be equal to women, or to other women? These are some of the
questions that you will have an opportunity to live through, as I read
your chart. There is one woman, in particular, who will have a great
deal to teach you about negotiation and the art of making a strategy for
your life. She will teach you what is fair, and how to protect what is
good, true and necessary. You are a principled person, a person of
active ideas and conceptions for a better world. But circumstances are
now likely to compel a higher level of action. This is not something any
of us, much less you, can afford to do haphazardly. At the same time,
there's an even greater risk in rigidity or coming from old values,
because your most important resource is your creativity. No, make that
your sensitivity. It's as though information is being beamed to you from
a higher source, information that at times will be very specific. It
won't arrive by email, and you won't get it from television. In fact,
why not cut your television's wire? That will help you listen, in the
moment, to your most precious soul. |
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Pisces
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20)
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| IT COMES
DOWN to one of two possibilities: making a rather conventional
contribution in an unusual way, or a very unusual contribution in a
somewhat conventional way. Given the choice, I'll take the second
option, thank you. In your travels this year, I remind you that your
reputation precedes you. Impeccable? Close enough for the 21st century.
Your intentions are well known, if not fully understood, and intentions
count more than anything right now, so work with them in a truly
conscious way. Speaking of which, there's a game you can play in all
facets of your life, personal, professional and otherwise, and it goes a
little like this. Every problem actually represents an opportunity to
gain and share. This is not my original philosophy, but its moment is
come for you, and when anyone gets the hang of it, the feeling has a
touch of Kitty Hawk to it. Each problem is like a door: a challenge, but
really, the universe saying, create something here. Open yourself to an
idea, a system, a connection; match a resource to a need; and then jump
one level and turn the process to create profit or pleasure, but most of
all, the power of knowledge The notion alone, made active in your mind,
will induce a response from the cosmos. And frankly, it's a fine way to
make use of a rare moment when luck is protecting you, at the same time
that freedom is beckoning you, at the same time people are noticing
you've got a bit of something special. |
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