ASTRAL REFLECTIONS BY TIM STEPHENS OCTOBER 28 - NOVEMBER 3, 2007 All times/dates are PDT. GEMINI - YOUR NEW LUCK CYCLE lasts from December 18, 2007 to January 4, 2009. Even before this phase starts, you'll almost palpably feel the climaxing and ending of major relationship developments. You're ready for new times, even a new world, in almost every relationship - marriage, business associations, dealings with your "public," etc. This new luck cycle will bring beneficial changes to your personal involvements, commitments and loyalties, changes that in a deep, almost unconscious way, set off two decades of transformation. This "year" (generally, 2008) brings great sexual luck - pregnancy to hopeful couples, sensual opportunities to yearning singles, etc. Expect a cornucopia of opportunities in finances, investments, research, diagnosis, investigation, health, lifestyle changes, occultism, relocation - and anything that might change your life in deep, major ways. Act on these after February 18, 2008. This is a superb time (best in half a century) to set up your future financial (and indirectly, emotional) security. Take out a mortgage, invest in a business or buy stocks/bonds, retirement funds, etc. A real estate investment could support you for many decades - though it might not give flashy "overnight" returns. If you're young, you'll have less to invest, but you'll have longer to enjoy the results. Think "steady, practical, and commitment," and you'll win in 08! GEMINI, your new KARMIC PHASE, lasting from December 18, 2007 to August 21, 2009, emphasizes the mind and all it deals with. Keep the following key words in mind during these 20 months: deep, long, profound, philosophical, formal, cultural, studied, big - these are good. The short, quick, casual, superficial, light, conversational, spontaneous, and snap judgments are _well, perhaps not bad, but a waste of time, a road filled with delays, slack commitments, and meager returns. For happiness and peace of mind, for fulfillment and solid self-respect, pursue cultural events and rituals (e.g., weddings), religion, higher learning, and international travel. Deal with foreign-born people, with scholars and lawyers, publishers and scientists - thinkers. Read (or write) a book rather than a newspaper. Attend a degree-granting, full-time school, rather than "Saturday classes." Buy insurance. Seek the big picture, advertising concepts rather than details, ideas rather than facts and figures. Fall in love rather than keep things on a "just friends" level. Though we should all love our siblings, you could benefit these 20 months by being mildly unavailable. This is a good period for all legal matters, including lawsuits. In business, sign contracts rather than rely on casual verbal promises. Start Nothing: 12:50 p.m. to 5:49 p.m. Mon., 10:13 a.m. to 9:48 p.m. Wed., and 0:13 a.m. to 5:45 a.m. Sat. Aries March 21-April 19 Mysteries, secrets, the depths of life concern you now. Your subconscious bursts to the surface; intuition, hunches, dreams emerge. Sexual, financial and nesting urges arise strongly. This influence usually prods us to make a commitment, to welcome consequences, to sculpt our life through action. But wait until November 2 (and onward) to act - likely in the sphere of romance, creativity, kids. Until then, study your surroundings, the factors and personalities involved. It's a smooth week. Many questions will be answered soon - including those revolving around spirituality, government, old age. Taurus April 20-May 20 Career, social, status (where do I stand with my mother-in-law?) and relationship questions will soon be answered. Wait until Friday onward to act, commit, or pursue opportunities, especially in these zones. (Remember that the biggest, best opportunities won't show until after February 18 2008.) It's likely that you will act, late this week, to end one situation and begin another. This will put you on a more solid footing from which to tackle the future. Be careful with money Sunday/Monday. Short trips, communications go well, lead to affection, Tuesday. Gemini May 21-June 20 Work and career, business and prestige issues will soon resume their forward motion - but don't start new projects in these areas before Friday. Until then, continue to catch up on old tasks. Money remains "problematically good" - more comes in, but you need to save. Dam will soon burst on "withheld funds." Your energy and charisma rise mildly Sunday/Monday, but you don't quite escape drudgery or routine. Money's good Tuesday, but don't buy anything important. Late week brings some encouraging message - and some others. Relax, contemplate nature and life Saturday. Cancer June 21-July 22 The emphasis lies on love, romance, creative and speculative urges, self-expression, and your children's progress/talents. Your determination and courage remain high, but don't start anything important (including love/romance proposals) before Friday. Usually, mixing ambition and romance doesn't work, but they will, this week and next. (A relationship started after November 14, or before January 29/08, might contain doubts around the male side of sex.) Spiritual, intellectual, educational, legal and financial delays end now. Lie low, rest Sunday/Monday. Your charisma and energy soar Monday eve to Wednesday! Money's lucky Friday! Leo July 23-Aug. 22 Study the situations and relationships you're immersed in - soon (hopefully, after Thursday) you're going to make changes, going to toss out the stale and unworkable, begin the fresh and new. Home-based, property, and family delays end Thursday, just in time for your energy to surge upward. Deeper, more significant delays also end, in relationships, finances, investments, "family planning" (getting pregnant, etc.). A mystery unravels - partway. (You'll continue to be mystified by relationships until 2025 - unless you abandon the need to "own" them" - or what they provide.) Things get done Tuesday! Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Glitches and delays end Friday - until then, don't launch new ventures or projects. Not only will daily, trivial and detail-oriented delays/mistakes end, so will bigger, less noticeable delays that have held you back since last May, in employment, health, relationship, relocation and contract negotiation zones. Begin to marshal your forces, to make new plans, after 10 Friday morning. By the weekend, you'll march slowly but steadily forward. Grab investment, sexual and lifestyle changes/wishes November 2 to 14, or wait until February 18 onward to act. Wishes come true Tuesday! Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22 By Friday, delays end on both obvious, daily levels (the last three weeks) and in major, broad-based zones (since last May). Delayed payments and furniture deliveries (etc.) finally come through - while large, meaningful mists and "lost journeys" evaporate in romantic, creative, health and employment zones. If you made a major, meaningful mistake in these areas around June/July, work to correct it now. Through early May 2008, you might be "under examination" by legal authorities or career superiors - that's okay, even good, as long as you're honest (mostly with yourself!). Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Indecision and delays - some affecting you since last May - end this week. But don't act until Friday - a perfect day to launch a career, business or community prestige venture. Like Libra, but only through December, you might be facing a legal, ethical or moral challenge. If you see this, and action is needed, take it between November 2 and 14, not later. Finances and sexual situations puzzle and frustrate Sunday/Monday. Wisdom - and love's luck - return Tuesday. Wishes, dreams begin to come true Saturday, but slowly at first - proceed quietly. Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Delays end this week, in background, governmental, spiritual, health, relationship, domestic, realty, career, travel - well, almost every area. Wait until Friday onward to act. That day contains superb luck in higher learning, legal, international, cultural and similar zones - make a bid to succeed, to be your own person, to go places! This entire autumn/winter/spring (to early May) will heat up creative urges and romantic, sexual and marital themes. Wait until after February 18/08 to act or make a final commitment (or final no). Generally, rest this week and next. Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Friday can spell lucky new beginnings in "background" areas - sexuality, investments, lifestyle, deeper health issues, dealings with secrecy and the need to meet God with a clean heart. Tuesday, Friday and Saturday could light a flame of attraction with an alluring but perhaps eventually unsuitable person. This particular attraction isn't as important as the message it sends: now to May/08, fires of desire will be lit everywhere! (So might swift enmities, so remain diplomatic!) Delays end in small and big zones: earnings, purchases, possessions, social life, popularity, travel, work_ Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Delays end this week, in career, prestige projects, money, purchases, love, and in helping children choose a direction. But don't act before Friday - that day is lucky for relationships, contracts, negotiations, relocation, flirtations, fame, and dreaming up new wishes. Work and love (or children) will form a hectic divalent stream of demands right into next May - don't get unbalanced, don't lean too far into either of these zones. If you have a career/work initiative you must begin, do it November 2 through 14, not later. You'll succeed Tuesday, Friday! Pisces Feb. 19-March 20 Delays end in cultural, travel, international, legal, educational, government, health and similar zones, Pisces. But wait until Friday to start any new projects. (Cultural, legal, travel and educational projects should be started November 2 to 14.) You're feeling passionate, self-expressive, romantic and creative now through next May - Monday night through Tuesday gives you a nice shot of this! (November 3 and 4 will bring relationship focus - is all well?) You're going to re-examine your domestic situation in December through February, but wait until next March onward to make changes. www.astralreflections.com. Email: timstephens@shaw.ca. For a reading:604-261-1337. /30/