ASTRAL REFLECTIONS BY TIM STEPHENS JANUARY 17 – 23, 2010 All times/dates are PST. Let’s continue those 2010 luck forecasts. Remember, the main influence lasts from January 17 to June 5 and September 9 to January 21, 2011. The summer in-between brings a mild “new direction” which won’t be much more than a hint of 2011 for most of us. However, if you were born in the first three days of your sign, there is additional information in brackets in your forecast. For GEMINI 2010 brings great career luck, expansion, and opportunities. Higher-ups, bosses, judges, VIPs, even police officers will favour your cause. Even the corner grocer will show you more respect. You could be promoted at work (though not necessarily paid more – if so, be patient – or ask for equity in lieu of a pay raise). If you’re self-employed, clients praise you to other clients. Your profile rises. You could be headed for fame! You’ll tend to win appointments and elections. Be sure to present your ideas and proposals to the powers that be – and follow up, several times if you need to. If after all this you aren’t making a dent, switch targets – even bosses. This is a splendid year to change careers, or start a new one. Some Geminis will marry this year, as a type of status achievement, perhaps with someone you met in 2009. That’s fine – just be sure you’re in love, also. (Which you could be, especially with someone of a different generation.) On ambition fronts, beware indecision, passivity and starting too many projects. (If you were born May 21-23, June through August could fulfill a major wish!) CANCER, your 2010 luck can go in two seemingly opposite directions. On the apparently negative side, a partnership or marriage could break up, causing a huge legal involvement. However, this is not a negative long-term, for you would be shedding a stale shell, rising from an emotional prison, breaking free to a horizon filled with opportunities for true love and fascinating new environments. This whole sequence, however, only applies if you’re unhappily married. If your marriage is sound, or you’re unattached, 2010 brings a flow of intellectual interests and emotional mellowness that makes love float on its own magic carpet! For all Cancers, 2010 offers luck and expansion in international affairs, far travel, higher education, publishing, dealings with lawyers, accountants, foreign-born people, scholars and brainy types. If your work involves such contacts or duties, prepare for a banner year! (If you were born June 21-23, the summer brings sudden career/business luck – seize it before July 23!) Start Nothing: 12:23 p.m. to 10:17 Sun., 10:06 p.m. Tues. to 10:36 a.m. Wed., and 11:47 a.m. to 8:39 p.m. Fri. Aries March 21-April 19 Start new projects and relationships. Recent holdups and delays are past. Although you are favoured now, life is demanding a rather large, deep change, especially in ambitious areas. If you continue in the same old way, you might be disappointed, by people and results. That said, this week starts a month of optimism, social joys, plans for the future, flirtations, and wish fulfillment! But it also starts a year of quietude and “sweet solitude.” Obviously, wishing and planning fits both trends ,socializing not so much. You and a Libra can reach agreement Thursday. Caution Wednesday. Taurus April 20-May 20 Delays end. Charge ahead on ambition fronts (for the four weeks ahead) and in social and “fun” zones (for a whole year, to next January!). The social uplift that’s coming now will not be as obvious as the ambition trend at first (until March) but both rescue you neatly and quickly from the seclusion and weariness of past weeks. Your popularity will increase, flirtations occur. A major life wish will likely come true in 2010. If you succeeded in career in 2009, it was because you changed your methods or venue. Careful Wednesday/Thursday: someone works against you. Power, Saturday. Gemini May 21-June 20 Past delays and mistakes end. A month of intellectual, legal, international, publishing and cultural involvements begins. You love this sort of trend: it brings mellowness, understanding, often a new love. But don’t get your hopes up this time, as your life is going somewhere else. Now through January 2011, you face favour, luck, approval, cheerfulness, optimism and expansion – all on the career front, and/or with authorities. A Pisces will benefit you, might “save your bacon.” Sunday/Monday are good for new starts, but Thursday/Friday are better. Beware Wednesday at dark. Cancer June 21-July 22 A month of mysteries begins – mostly lucky mysteries! E.g., teenage girls are a mystery to teenage boys, but the exploring the mystery is the sweetest joy of life. Just so will your researches, investigations, and explorations these weeks bring something sweet! It could be sex, love, intimacy, but could also be financial joy, the pleasure of a revelation about life or beneficial self-discovery. You’ve just lived through a great investment or life-style-change year; the weeks ahead should bring you the gratification stage of this. Be cautious Wednesday, ambitious Thursday/Friday. Leo July 23-Aug. 22 At last, recent delays and second-guessings end – and a month of drudgery – end. The weeks ahead feature fresh horizons, opportunities, vibrant relationships – and the possibility of challenges, competition, and fights. These latter are unlikely, because a sweet, affectionate strain plays through your relationships now, and because you and another seem to have the same lucky, expansive goals in sex and/or finance (now to January 2011). In any case, the month ahead is much like the year just past: if you co-operate, you gain; if you refuse, you probably lose. A “golden key” is coming! Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22 The month ahead holds work, and lots of it. But it also kicks off a year of great benefits from relationships. (2010 will be followed by 15 years of major relationship developments – you’re entering the “big time,” Virgo! For most, this means “huge” relating; for a few, it means fame, especially in film/visual areas. But for 2010, remember this: goodwill or aid you show to others will rebound two-fold; enmity, also two-fold.) The chores you face will be easily done; affection, even romance, exists at the workplace. Avoid sex, investing Wednesday: chase them Thursday/Friday. Libra Sept.23-Oct.22 Recent delays and mistakes –and the need to resurrect the past – end. So does that sort of “don’t bother me” look you’ve been getting in the elevator. The month ahead brings romance, delight, pleasure, creative surges, happiness from children, and an exhilarating plunge into the risk/reward side of life. You’ll ride a winning streak! But this week also kicks off a year of “big work.” Your job or client base will expand, you might moonlight. Ask for more pay for more work. Protect your health, especially in the hip-thigh region. Relationships and agreements please you Thursday/Friday! Scorpio Oct.23-Nov. 21 The month ahead will “cap off” some major domestic, security, family or property change you made in 2009 – in a rewarding, affectionate way. Enjoy the glow while you rest: your body wants to hibernate now. Take lots of power naps. Though it might not be apparent, the weeks ahead kick off a whole year of luck and expansion in romance, creativity, speculation, pleasure, recreation, and happy dealings with children. You’ll exit 2010 feeling like a winner. But this year’s only a prelude to an entire era (15 years) of even more intense “winning.” Careful with work, enemies Wednesday. Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Delays and mistakes end. You can now charge ahead confidently on many fronts – but you’ll be luckiest, all 2010, in one area: home, children, cooking, real estate, security, agri/gardening, and healing. 2010 will be your best year in many to change homes or stop renting and start buying. You’ll find a cheerful, healing place, one that will act as a great launching pad for the thousand projects of your future. Buying a little vacation hideaway will benefit you more than you know! The weeks ahead hold travel and communications, but do neither Wednesday. Romance Thursday! Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Recent delays and indecisions end. The month ahead features money, earnings, possessions, buying/selling, memory and rote learning, and casual sensuality (yes, casual sex). All these will proceed with a mild, mellow luck. It’s a good few weeks to buy a little luxury, especially involving movement or communications – e.g., a luxury car or expensive running shoes, a new television or stationery. (If machinery or for the home, Thursday’s best – but there’s no rush.) Be cautious Wednesday in home, property zones. You’ll travel frequently in 2010. Keep avoiding big investments. Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. Delays and mistakes end. You can charge ahead on many fronts. Your energy, charisma and effectiveness soar during the weeks ahead! Start significant projects, or tackle necessary chores that you’ve found daunting – you’ll succeed! But before you begin, a hint: 2010 brings great luck in income, buying/selling, and possessions. It’s also one of the best years for you to tackle any rote (memory-based) learning program – e.g., learning arithmetic, or a language. You might attract a Gemini or Taurus (or anyone!) soon, because your sensuality will radiate. Gemini’s better. Zip your lip Wednesday. Pisces Feb. 19-March 20 The month ahead is an unusual mix. You’ll be tired, even bone-weary, dreamy, passive, will want to retreat from the hysterical crush of humanity. But you will also be unexpectedly lucky, sunny, cheerful, optimistic, ambitious. An opportunity could fall into your lap. My advice: be both these: cheerfully ambitious, opportunistic, and quiet, restful. Have definite, separate periods, of assertive activity and withdrawal. (Or remain passive, and plan big actions for March.) Handle money cautiously Wednesday; chase it Thursday/Friday. 2010 is going to be a big, big year for you! www.astralreflections.com. Email: timstephens@shaw.ca. For a reading: 416-686-5014. /30/