ASTRAL REFLECTIONS BY TIM STEPHENS SEPTEMBER 12 – 18, 2010 All times/dates are PDT. Everything means something. In the Bible, Lot’s wife was not supposed to look back. She did, and turned into a pillar of salt. Looking back = regret = (salty) tears. Regret immobilizes, hence the pillar.... A VIRGO scolded me for promising 2011 would bring years of true love to Virgos, then blowing this apart with my Uranus forecast. Here’s the way it is: Neptune promises 15 years of potential true love. Uranus brings 8 years of possible disruption in sex. The two might even combine in a very interesting way! SCORPIO, Uranus in Aries from 2011 to March 2019, will enliven and change your employment and health spheres. You’ll find new avenues for employment in electricity, real estate, construction, furniture, kitchen wares, restaurants, food, forestry or mining, children, nature, nutrition and “soul.” No matter what your career field, you will be more concerned with foundations, with the basics. If you’re in computer/IT for example, you might become less an operator, and more concerned with the systems underlying your operations, or with installation. Electricity will figure prominently, in some way, in every Scorpio’s workplace. During this 8 years, you might find that one job (or several jobs) end, another begins. This might be due to the huge wave of romance, pleasure and/or creativity that is due to sweep through your life during the same period – and beyond, to 2025. Although you will not feel nervous, stress can be a source of health complaints. The cure is easy: relax via increased exercise. SAGITTARIUS, Uranus will travel through your romantic, pleasure, speculative and creative zones March 2011 to March 2019. This will increase the frequency and intensity of romance, yet make love more casual, friendly, fun, light. (This sounds paradoxical, but will somehow be true.) If single, you’ll meet romantic prospects while travelling, by striking up conversations, and through social media (twitter, face book, etc.). If you’re married, travel, communication and media will enliven your partnership – and figure prominently in your search for pleasure and dealings with children. Your creative skills – especially writing and electronic arts – reach new heights. These 8 years will increase your friends, and will definitely bring you new, pleasing depths (and types) of friendship. Yet this phase will also disrupt your regular social circle. Oddballs and geniuses will stay; arch conservatives will leave. You will actually find this re-arrangement of your social life freeing and relaxing. A long (2003-2010) period of stress and unpredictable home life ends now. Start Nothing: 4:53 a.m. to 5:52 a.m. Mon., 11:51a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wed., and 10:13 p.m. Fri. to 0:35 a.m. Sat. Aries March 21-April 19 It’s your last week (well, 10 days) of work, drudgery and health concerns. Recent delays and mistakes ebb, giving you the freedom to charge ahead. Quickly tackle past due and new jobs. Next week will begin a month of opportunity, negotiation or wrestling with a challenge – you’ll want to be free of the chains of chores. Your sexual, financial and “deep health” zones grow more and more important – and generally lucky – now into December. This can lead to a lustful affair, an investment or settlement – all of which open lifestyle doorways. Love is a (the!) “source of health.” Taurus April 20-May 20 Romantic, creative, child-oriented and pleasure delays end. Act fast – you only have ten days to win someone’s heart, or make your creative mark. (Of course there will be other opportunities down the road. In fact, you’ve just started a four-month run of social luck, flirtations and popularity – and light romance, if you’re single. But “light” contrasts with the present deep influence.) Sunday promotes partnerships (be diplomatic). Sex, secrets and high finance Monday to Wednesday: caution flags fly. Mellow wisdom, love Wednesday-Friday. A big (social) surprise Saturday! Gemini May 21-June 20 This week offers a sudden break-through in career, prestige and worldly position, or with a parent, boss or authority figure. A legal, publishing, educational or far-travel project might be involved – so might a partner, a fight or a negotiation (even potential fame). Hope, pray, have faith! Delays at home and in general end now – more subtly, elusive but quietly crushing delays (since April) in sexual, health and financial zones also end. You’ll feel more effective. The ten days ahead feature your domestic scene, real estate, kids, security: charge ahead here, especially Friday. Cancer June 21-July 22 This week starts with a romantic mood (Sunday) – and it’s a clue for the future, as a major romantic theme plays for you now through next January. If you’re single, this could have wedding bells attached. Two types of delays end early this week: the setbacks and mistakes in travel, communications and bitty details over the last several weeks, and the deeper, more subtle but powerful delays in relationships, marriage, partnership, opportunity and negotiations (since April). These resume forward motion. A lucky legal, travel, educational, love or cultural event (or “start”) is imminent! Leo July 23-Aug. 22 Something will either be solved, end, or begin this week. (Gee, that was an easy prediction!) This occurs in your spheres of sexual intimacy, mutual financial resources, investments/debt, deep health, or “detective work.” (These are actually the same sphere – it’s the place of deep drives, your “engine room.”) An ally or enemy is involved. And the actual “event” is sudden, lucky, perhaps unexpected. (Lucky, but not necessarily monetarily: the exhilaration here is from freedom.) Many delays end now, especially in earnings, possessions, home, real estate and employment. Don’t look back! Virgo Aug. 23-Sept.22 Your energy, charisma and effectiveness hit a yearly high. Delays end. (You might still feel indecisive, but the cure for this is to act – action creates its own decisiveness.) A new start, or the sudden solution to an old problem, or the sudden return of an old situation, occurs – it involves marriage or a partnership, an opportunity, relocation, fame, dealings with the public, negotiations, litigation, competition, or similar relationship dealings. A five-month delay in romantic, creative, speculative or child-oriented ventures also ends now. Thursday/Friday contain nice clues about this. Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22 A breakthrough or new start might occur in employment, machinery or health zones. (Perhaps Saturday late afternoon/supper hour – a good time to chase such things.) You’ve attracted attention, obvious or not, for the last five weeks. Now that romantic wave subsides. But your chances for sensual satisfaction (e.g., a casual affair) actually increase, now to December. Keep your eye on the long-term: 2011 through 2012 will bring partnership excitement on a level you haven’t seen for at least seven years. Delays end in law, education, publishing and travel, real estate, home, and family. Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21 A former love or creative, speculative or child-oriented situation could return – perhaps with a bang that launches a new beginning. Delays are over in social, political, organizational, entertainment and planning activities. Also, a quiet general feeling of indecision or slowness, affecting you since last April, dissolves now. Your energy stays nicely high Sunday onward. A wish could come true this week! Your sexual and romantic magnetism are climbing, will surge through December. Chase money Monday/Tuesday. Travel, call people Thursday/Friday. Be domestic, with family Saturday. Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Be ambitious – delays, barriers and mistakes are over. (Indecision lingers, but that can be solved by action. Do what makes you feel cheerful or optimistic – these are always, all life, your signal of the correct choice.) Spend Sunday resting. Tackle the world when your energy and charisma leap upward Monday through Wednesday morning. (Your home situation might interfere with your career for four months – choose career Wednesday, home later. Your family, property, security “start anew” this week in a lucky, freeing way!) Chase money, not friends, Thursday/Friday. Saturday’s lively! Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan.19 Delays end in legal, intellectual, far travel, publishing, insurance, cultural and love spheres. Chase one or more of these now, without delay. Delays also end in a more subtle, half-sensed area: within yourself, in your compass, your choices about your future – once again, you can steer your life. (At least until next April, when the spring/summer brings the same subtle indecision. This pattern will hold for some years. Knowing this can save you wasted effort.) Past weeks mixed lust with career. Now to January, light romance, social flirtations arrive! Grab success Thursday/Friday. Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Delays end in sexual, financial, deep health and lifestyle areas – make choices in these during the next ten days. This decade and next, each spring/summer brings quiet, unannounced delays or holdups to your career zone, usually from head office or a government agency. Now these delays lift – until next April. Time to act! A new monetary or earnings picture comes this week. But it’s “back to the future” somehow – a repeat/evolvement of a former situation. A romantic or heightened intellectual interest ebbs – instead, to December, “romance” enters your career zone: take care! Pisces Feb. 19-March 20 The accent remains on relationships, opportunities, negotiation, contracts, agreements and possible clashes. But now the future comes in – delays, indecision and faces from the past ebb, and valid new meetings, opportunities arrive. A wish might come true in this area Wednesday to Friday! More deeply, you finally will begin to seek, plan and visualize your future (and your social contacts) without dithering about the ethics or wisdom of this or that. The rest of 2010 lifts your love/romance prospects – and career luck! (Perhaps suddenly – overnight.) August/September’s “lust” fades. www.astralreflections.com. Email: timstephens@shaw.ca. For a reading: 416-686-5014 /30/