ASTRAL REFLECTIONS BY TIM STEPHENS JANUARY 2 – 9, 2011 All times/dates are PST. SCORPIO, from January 22 to June 4, your biggest luck exists in the work sphere. This is an excellent interval to purchase machinery, big or small, and to seek employment, gather clients, take on two jobs or accept more responsibility. The opportunities you meet from June 2011 to July 2013 will be dependent in some way on the efforts you expend during these four-plus months in early 2011, so work hard. Though this is a good time to expand your tools or work-related machinery, try to do so before March – after this, investments and debt should be avoided – for example, don’t take out a 200 grand loan for a new excavator. April cautions against big commitments: lemons abound. Buy machines because they will bring in more cash, not because they will make your business bigger or more impressive – that way lies disappointment. We call Jupiter the luck planet because it expands things – usually that’s good. But during this short cycle, you might not appreciate some of Jupiter’s “blessings” – an expanding waistline and health problems that grow quickly are two things to guard against. If single, you have a special reason for keeping fit and trim, as June begins a year of very lucky relationship opportunities! SAGITTARIUS, your luck, from January 22 to June 4, hits the very region that most depends on luck – romance, sports, games, speculation, creativity, children’s pursuits, and pleasure. You’ll be on a five-month winning streak! Chase your opportunities quickly, even impetuously, for they will come swiftly and race by you. Reach out and grab rather than ponder. For example, if you meet a potential heart-throb in February, you can’t come back in mid-June and expect him/her to still be available. If you have to leave on a ten-month world tour, then take him or her with you! If single, a major romance is possible. Again, don’t hesitate – if you get a potent glance, respond, talk, start things. This luck phase is only the beginning, in many ways, for by mid-March another influence enters romance, creativity, children’s pursuits, et al – an electric, quick, unpredictable, friendly influence, to last eight years. During these eight years, you will be likely to travel often, and to meet romance or pleasure during your voyages. But January to June of 2011 tends to set the tone, so don’t waste this time. Your creativity emerges in writing, speech, and other communications. Don’t let your temper fight your romantic opportunities in March. Intense attraction is slated for April – this could be an old flame, perhaps from last summer, or from 2000/2001. Start Nothing: 6:08 p.m. to 11:39 p.m. Sun., 4:15 a.m. to 8:08 a.m. Wed., and 12:51 p.m. to 6:57 p.m. Fri. Aries March 21-April 19 Changes loom in your ambitions, career, relations with VIPs, and your reputation. Chase success in these now, as December’s delays are past. Sunday’s wise: ponder your life direction. Pursue ambitions Monday/Tuesday: good luck accompanies you, but so do a couple of pitfalls. A peer might fight against your rise, or your social inclinations (present or past) could mark you as unreliable, a lightweight, or untrustworthy. On the plus side (and the plus is far stronger) your eagerness, as well as your contacts with administrations or government agencies, boost your prospects. Taurus April 20-May 20 Remain “above” prurient interests Sunday. Don’t invest. The weeks ahead emphasize gentle love, wisdom, compassion, far travel, intellectual pursuits, higher education, cultural or legal involvements, and “big media.” December’s delays are over in these and other areas, so charge forward, especially Monday/Tuesday, when a new project might start in school, travel, a media campaign, etc. There’s a strong hint that this new venture involves a change, and a “larger love!” (You might fall in love!) Work or career duties interfere with those love/travel things, so keep them apart. Gemini May 21-June 20 This week contains yes’s and no’s. The biggest No occurs Tuesday and Friday in investment, large money, power, clout, and sexual areas. (Especially if these also involve legal, international, intellectual and cultural arenas.) The Yeses? In work, health, career Monday to Wednesday and Saturday: commitment equals eventual winning! If you have to choose between love, creativity and risk on one side and big money, clout, power, sexual magnetism on the other, choose love, creativity, risk: they control the environment right now. Your finances need change, but not expansion. You’re loved. Cancer June 21-July 22 December’s delays are past, so you can confidently move forward, start projects, etc. The general accent lies now on relationships, opportunities and challenges, diplomacy and co-operation. This week contains beautiful “open doors” (especially to love and legal, international, and intellectual relationships) and one major closed door (generally, to a “mature” relationship or to a practical, business-oriented agreement). If you recognize which is which, what’s open, what’s closed, you’ll save time, effort. Hint: “H,” “S” and “Y” have closed vibes. Breakthroughs Monday to Wednesday! Leo July 23-Aug. 22 Work, work and health issues, Leo. Ah, well, just plod through. The confusions and delays of December are gone. Sunday’s mildly romantic. A new work project might start Monday/Tuesday – some great luck fills the security-home-investment-commitment area these days. It’s a great time to invest – but not in machinery, work tools, new employees, etc. Applies all week to Friday morning. Changing your work-home set-up might benefit you. (E.g., moving your office to your home.) Relationships are pleasant Wednesday noon to Friday. Secrets, sexy lures and good research doorways Saturday. Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Spend Sunday quietly at home. Romance is very complicated (and will stay so through mid-late 2012). Your romantic side suffers from conflicting motives, urges. Romance is trying to conquer itself, or reshape itself into something new. (For romance, you can read: sense of love, pleasure, self-indulgence, ego, creativity, risk, joy.) Where love is mature, seeks partnership, it succeeds (especially Monday/Tuesday and Friday night/Saturday). Where it “refuses to grow up,” it loses. (I think; everything’s complicated.) Work succeeds Wednesday noon to Friday. Don’t gamble nor invest this week. Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22 This entire decade (and half of next) life nudges you to change your abode. This will often peak in winter, as it did last week and does now. But there is also a problem around your home 2010-2012. You might be subject to a force larger than yourself. E.g., you might have to move due to expropriation, a legal ruling, the job market, etc. A change in abode can also merely mean a renovation, or a child moves away to school, etc. – natural, good things! Monday/Tuesday are excellent days to act on these nudges toward change, but not to attempt to overrule them. That won’t work. Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21 The delays and confusions of December are ended, so march ahead. Avoid major investments before January 22. The grace and charm of your communications helps you capture love, especially Monday/Tuesday and Friday night/Saturday. But avoid gossip, revealing too much, or speech that is too sober or ambitious – these chase love away. The same advice, pro and con, applies to travel, general communications, and casual friendships. Watch what you tell “head office.” Chase money Sunday. Home, family co-operate and please you Wednesday eve to Friday. Discuss summer travel. Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Chase money, buy and sell, seek a pay raise, more clients, etc. You can safely pursue new projects, as December’s delays are over. But don’t confuse chasing money with chasing your dreams. They are yet are not one and the same. They might directly conflict – e.g., I dream of living on a south sea island, but I can’t earn my living there; or both dreams and your money situation might change and evolve in a kind of tag-team wrestling match. To get you dream you change your job, and that in turn changes your dreams. Such choices arise Monday/Tuesday (lucky!) and late week. Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Your energy, charisma and effectiveness ride a wave of success! Rest, catch your breath Sunday: contemplate future steps. Your energy soars Monday to Wednesday. Communications prove very lucky, especially on the social side. But in all this there might be the accurate realization that your social methods/goals have to change and, further complicating it, that your social desires are tied to your prestige and accomplishments. E.g., you can only join that new circle if your career rises a rung or two. You’ll succeed, you’ll climb that ladder. Chase money Thursday/Friday. Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Optimism makes Sunday happy, but your energy and charisma temporarily ebb to a low point until January 20. So stay in the background, rest, be charitable, deal with government and/or institutions, fulfill neglected obligations, seek spiritual enlightenment. These areas are emphasized Monday to Wednesday noon – a new project might begin, or you might perceive how these areas are in need of deep change (a long, deep change – now to 2024). Your legal situation or “world view” might be preventing such change. Think! Career and money face super luck Monday/Tuesday – start something! Pisces Feb. 19-March 20 December’s delays are finished, so charge after your goals and wishes. Be ambitious Sunday; deal with higher-ups. Your luck soars Monday to Wednesday dawn, especially in legal, publishing, far travel, international, educational, media and cultural ventures, and particularly where these involve social/romantic wishes or career ambitions. Whatever happens, don’t be sceptical: love, embrace, start things! Realize your social goals are changing: promote this. Rest, retreat late Wednesday to Friday. Your charisma and energy soar in time for a New Year’s celebration. You’ll be feted! www.astralreflection.com. Email: timstephens@shaw.ca. For a reading: 416-686-5014. /30/