ASTRAL REFLECTIONS BY TIM STEPHENS JUNE 12-18, 2005 All times/dates are PDT. Just a note about the Daily Horoscope. Last week I wrote that you could stop receiving it by texting STOP to 131313. I was wrong. You have to send STOP plus your sign, for example, STOPARIES. (Again, you can my daily horoscope sent to your cell phone for $ 0.50 per day, by texting ADD (then a space) then your sign and sending it to 131313. Eg: if you're a Pisces, send ADD PISCES to 131313.) Now, at last, let's look at your 1996-2008 Pluto period, TAURUS. From 1996 to 2003 your career planet (Uranus) was in stress position, shooting some of you to the top, but jerking others from job crisis to job crisis. That stress has ebbed now (forever). From 2003 through 2010, your ambitions will go hand-in-hand with socializing and networking. Your career will "create" social contacts, even flirtation and romance. Work becomes fun. You might work in a public, political, entertainment or similar field. At times, until 2008, you will have to make hard choices between going with the crowd, and more private, significant financial, sexual, and lifestyle commitments. Good karma aids you in spiritual, government, management and institutional dealings all 2005, into June 2006. Your fears and burdens will lighten. Yet, oddly, you might feel as if every burden and every bad choice you've ever made are crashing down on your shoulders from this August (05) through February/06. In reality, you're being "burned free" of these burdens, clinging vines, suffocating guilts and immobilizing fears - being freed, in some cases, from 20 years of "defensiveness." During this period, you'll become very attractive to the opposite sex, and more prone to fights with your own sex. You might undergo a hot love affair that transforms your life and breaks you out of old ruts - be careful that this doesn't chain you to another, long-lasting burden. Pick your way carefully and with logic, my friend! 2006 brings a very sexy prospective partner, or a great financial opportunity, yet some hard-to-see legal, ethical or economic barrier nixes success through November. 2007 intensifies sexual and financial luck, while completing the big changes that have been building in your life - relocation, babies, a new lifestyle, perhaps. At last, you reach the touchstone, the core, of the pressures and changes that have come to you since 1986 - you find it's a good core, a good life! In 2008, you begin to understand everything that's happened since 1983! Start Nothing: 4:39 a.m. to 6:22 p.m. Sun., 10:24 p.m. Tues. to 5:59 a.m. Wed., and 8:03 a.m. to 2:24 p.m. Fri. DOW: ?-Mon; ?-Tues; ?-Wed; U-Thurs., U-Fri. Week: ? (Code: U = up. D = down. ? = no guess.) (Accuracy to date: 76 %) Aries March 21-April 19 This week's busy but not overly important. Let your curiosity have full rein - this is one of the ways we freshen our lives, let new air in, and open new inroads to future opportunities. Seek, listen, learn - the slow, big wheel of fate keeps turning in these areas, and in travel, law, cultural rituals, and publishing. It's not a good week (before Thursday) to sign contracts. But research, computers, red tape paperwork, dealings with institutions, and all things involving home, domesticity, your family, security, property and retirement - these go well. Taurus April 20-May 20 Chase money, but realize financial changes are imminent - bend with the river early week! Your curiosity and communications skills are perking up, making this a good week for social life and career. But an employment "opportunity" that appears Wednesday to Friday could be a subtle dead end - think twice. Now through 2009, the best two things you can do for your career are to improve your computer and social skills. Both will be easy, enjoyable. Romance (not sex) favored early week, exciting meetings (love, friendship and business) late week! Gemini May 21-June 20 Your energy, charm stay high - start important projects, ask favors, be seen, meet or call important people! You face one implacable competitor, opponent or agenda-prone partner. Deal with this person or group early week - you can co-operate, join their program, or break away, call it quits. Your employment might be involved. You have three more years of such situations, so an early solution is not absolutely necessary_but it helps. Romance, creative urges, sweet attraction come Wednesday to Friday: be practical, perceive flaws. A great week to buy computer equipment. Cancer June 21-July 22 You're more attractive right now than you suspect. Tendency is to withdraw due to weariness. Yet you're curiously restless, too, and your mind's active. Use this restlessness to call old friends, aid shut-ins and the elderly, and to investigate governmental, institutional or "head office" situations. (E.g., look at tax advantaged strategies.) Take naps, eat and dress sensibly. Don't compete; avoid the hustle-bustle. A deep, important change has been evolving in your duties the last decade - this wheel turns another small notch early this week. Romantic dreams come Thursday to Saturday. Leo July 23-Aug. 22 Popularity, social delights, flirtations continue! Seek entertainment - also entertain others: hold conventions, gatherings, public relations events. Plan new ones for August 15 onward for best results. (Don't delay the planning phase, as you sense future outcomes well this week - and you can reach and deal with "powers behind the scenes.") If you look back, if you're a typical Leo, you'll see that the 1984-1995 period was hard, filled with frustrations and upheavals. But since that time you've blossomed, especially in creative areas. This week, another "turn of fate" favors you! Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22 The accent remains on your ambitions, prestige, parental role and relations with higher-ups. Your energy and charisma rise late Sunday into Tuesday. This isn't the easiest of times, it demands a lot of adjustments and diplomacy, but you can succeed. Important people are watching your performance! (The only thing that could really trip you up is a neglected home/family situation.) You could face a disagreement over money mid-week (you're wrong, not "them") but peers, co-workers admire you! Now through July, a significant investment, sexual, research or lifestyle project begins. Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Mellow mood continues. You appreciate the reasons for things - for law, culture, for society's rules and structures. That's good, because your life in 2005 is a restless combination of optimism and frustration, luck and roadblocks, and you need all the understanding you can grasp. From 1996 through 2008, your involvements with law, foreign cultures, far travel, higher education and publishing undergo deep changes - one of which could loom early week. Love drifts around you; the weeks ahead might bring a viable partner. You'll hear "advance news" of a career development. Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21 You might think you're working hard now, but the six weeks ahead bring more, and a hectic pace. This hard effort will signal the start of new duties (for at least the two years ahead) perhaps even a new job, one that fits you temperamentally. Your relationships are fine - even sweet, as "adventurous romance" (rather than life-mate stuff) hangs in the wings. You feel creative, mentally mellow. Good! You face some adjustment in money early week - but you're optimistic also. Governmental, red tape or courtroom "hold-backs" on your money end soon! Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Relationships remain important this week, especially in your career (early week) and social sector (mid-late-week). Mars is bringing you a six-week "gift" - an intensification of (and bravery in) romance, speculation, creative talents, pleasures, vacation, and dealings with kids. (But don't let your new courage lead you into impulsive investments or life-changing lust.) Early week, you have to decide whether you'll co-operate or challenge an important, probably valuable relationship. Sign nothing before Thursday; don't "curry favor." Buy appliances. You can improve your domicile with a new computer or video arrangement. Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Others treat you with affection, respect. Conversations are lively, insightful, and can open a door or two to new income sources. Now through 2010, you income will be tied to how well you travel, communicate and distribute, handle computers and office systems. Your duties have changed subtly but deeply for the last decade (and will, through 2008): one more change is slated early week. Now through late July, you'll take a "first step" in family, property, food/shelter, retirement, market territory, or similar zones. Re-establish foundations - or start a new "edifice!" Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Your winning streak continues! Pleasure, romance, beauty, vacation, creative surges, speculative urges, happy children - these bless you now! But take care with newly-revived legal, far-travel, philosophical, religious, publishing, educational or writing ventures - the "good stuff" in these zones, right into June 2006, is in the short, factual and quick, NOT in the profound or long-winded. (E.g., newspapers rather than books, short trips rather than long.) Those "short" things will be very prominent (and good) now to late July. But start early, as July 22 will begin a chaotic period. Pisces Feb. 19-March 20 Focus on home, family, security, retirement plans, food, contemplation, a sluggish physical feeling (nature's hibernation nudge) and on decisions about who/what has grown stale and who/what deserves further investment - of your time, energy and money. Relationships occupy you most of this week. Something has changed since 1996, and will, through 2008, in your career and/or parenting role. The change is highlighted again around Monday. Money flows to you now to late July. Bank it or you'll waste it! You feel the first stirrings of attraction, pleasure, creativity - they're coming! For Tim's Daily Horoscope, text ADD+YOUR SIGN to 131313. E.g., "ADDSCORPIO." Cost: $0.50 per day. Canada only. www.astralreflections.com. /30/