ASTRAL REFLECTIONS BY TIM STEPHENS JUNE 19 – 25, 2011 All times/dates are PDT. SCORPIO, your new luck cycle, from June 4 2011 to mid-June 2012, promotes relationships of all kinds – and their bountiful rewards. This year could bring marriage to singles, divorce/freedom to unhappy couples, and new joys to happy couples. Rewards can spring up from almost any relationship – business, emotional, public dealings, fame, friendships, etc. To succeed, be a joiner, even temporarily a follower – good fortune will come through others, rather than emerge from independent action. Adamantly independent Scorpios could even face strong opposition. Whether they’re founded on love or more practical motives, your links this year will tend to have a fortunate, perhaps unintended, money result. For example, you could fall in love with someone, or befriend someone, then find they open a door to a new, more lucrative job for you. At least one big, potentially life-altering opportunity will arrive in employment, client work, sales or another earnings situation. Pounce on any openings at work, seek higher-paying duties. If an opening occurs in a foreign office, or across the country, or across the street to another firm, grab it. This is the luckiest year in a long time to relocate. Any changes you make in your relationships will turn you in a opportunity-laden direction for years to come. You face a huge new future – go forth, embrace it! SAGITTARIUS, your new luck cycle, from June 4, 2011 to mid-June 2012, will bring piles of work…but there’s gold in that pile. You can easily land a lucrative job, increase your pay scale, or otherwise swell your bank account. If you’re in sales, you’ll attract and keep lucrative clients, because you’ll go that extra mile to serve them. It’s not a lottery-winning year; it’s a year of much – and expanded – work. But the economic gains you achieve through hard work will merely be the first step in a long, growing financial expansion, due to last to at least 2023. In a lucky way, your “work” might be in areas you love: travel, intellectual, cultural, legal or educational zones. You might also find that your rewards are delayed. For example, hard work studying will pay off when (and after) you earn your degree. The work you perform now can lead to promotions, either now or in 2015/16. Be careful, deliberate, plan and march steadily toward your work goals. In no other year would you be so likely to achieve them! It’s a splendid year to buy tools, equipment, machinery and computers. This cycle (and overwork) can affect your health, so guard against weight gain, especially around the hips and thighs. Protect these areas from blows, falls, etc. Start Nothing: 1:23 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Mon., 7:51 p.m. Tues. to 1:24 a.m. Thurs., and 3:07 p.m. Fri. to 1:53 p.m. Sat. Aries March 21-April 19 The weeks ahead emphasize home, children, real estate, security, retirement, gardening, soul, nutrition and Mother Nature. It’s a splendid time for a camping vacation. (Better not to leave before June 28. You face many “home concerns” until then.) You will be ending some associations and projects now, perhaps to give new ones room to grow. Although this is usually a sluggish, restful period, you’re kept busy with a lot of communications, paperwork, errands – or wanderlust – now through July. Since your curiosity is up, investigate new income sources/ideas – they’re lucky! Taurus April 20-May 20 Be ambitious Sunday/Monday – despite a subtle disagreement or heavy-handed legal or educational “pronouncement,” you’re on the path to success (for at least two years, financially, so be optimistic, make plans and go forth these months ahead!). Now to August 2, you might spend too much, or be pushed to spend by government fees. Saving is your friend! Tuesday begins a month of paperwork, short trips, errands, casual acquaintances – you’ll be busy! Love s gentle, easy Monday to Wednesday, but you might doubt it: relax. Retreat, rest Thursday/Friday. Your energy surges Saturday p.m. Gemini May 21-June 20 This week isn’t easy for anyone. You could meet barriers or the need to compromise in finances or sex, especially Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday/Friday. On the plus side, your courage and determination grow now to early August, and so does your optimism. Group affairs grow; you’ll feel befriended. If someone criticized you to a group (secretly) these past few weeks, they prove ineffectual now. The month ahead emphasizes earnings, spending, possessions, sensuality and memory. Sunday’s gentle, mid-week’s ambitious (Wednesday best) and late week brings optimism and popularity! Cancer June 21-July 22 A month of quietude and weariness ends Tuesday, as four weeks of high energy, charisma and effectiveness begin. Start important projects. Ask favours, call in markers. Until June 28 (next week) you might face opposition, or be attracted to a deeply alluring person. As usual, love is better than war. In the present week, especially Sunday to Tuesday, watch what you say to others: avoid secrets, gossip, etc. You are just beginning a splendid year-long popularity surge , especially at work. After Tuesday’s confusion/worry, grand inspiration flows Wednesday – follow hunches! Leo July 23-Aug. 22 Tuesday begins a month of retreat, quietude and rest. Your career luck will stay high, even rise. You can work in the background to advance your position: you’ll be especially good with government, institutional or head-office contacts. (Though these present some difficulties this Sunday and Tuesday.) Your hopes and optimism will rise also, and despite your need for solitude, you could receive an unusual amount of calls and invitations. So grab your rest when you can. This week isn’t easy, so remain realistic and diplomatic, particularly in legal, travel, sex and financial zones. Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Tackle your work Sunday/Monday. Tuesday begins a month of celebration, flirtation, entertainment, optimism and popularity! You might meet someone very compatible in a group, someone who lifts you to humorous, good-natured heights. The year going forward favours love – and far travel, learning, culture. Various problems and barriers confront you Sunday to Tuesday – don’t invest nor make any important commitment. This advice applies Thursday also. Inspiration returns Wednesday – and relationships turn from delusion to sweet knowing. Friday’s sexy, Saturday night’s loving, wise. Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22 You feel romantic Sunday/Monday, but events don’t help. Be cautious. Monday begins six weeks of partnership opportunities, possibly of legal hassles. Seek convergence, not dispute. If a partner begins talking about an international move, be wary. Recently, after a 5-month respite, the sober side of your life returned to prominence – you can once again re-make your domestic, security, property and child-oriented situation – much more fortunately! (To next June.) Tuesday starts a month of ambition, and dealings with authorities. Reject relationships Thursday, embrace them Friday. Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Mysteries fade; enlightenment comes Tuesday onward (for a month). Expect widened understanding, gentle love, international contacts, religious, educational and cultural involvements. Your life, for the next three years, will be filled with opportunities (especially financial ones) and, if you’re single, with cheerful, attractive love prospects. Every odd-numbered month, and the ten days before it, will promote these (relationships and opportunities). E.g., July (7th month) qualifies, with late June. Minor communication snafus this week. Romance calls Wednesday and Saturday. Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21 The (semi?) exciting events of the past few weeks yield now to a deeper, slower thrill, as intimacy, commitment, financial investment or clearing debts, grow more important for the month ahead. (It starts Tuesday morning – but make no commitments before June 28.) Secrets, research, intuition, dreams and hunches accompany this commitment trend. You might fall for someone new, or raise an ongoing romance to a more mature level, now through early August. If you’re the feisty type this phase can bring arguments and fights. Your choice! Domestic intuition strong Wednesday. Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Finish a project or chore Sunday/Monday, Cap. By late Monday onward (to August) a new task enters; and by Tuesday, a month of new horizons, fresh air and relationship excitement begins. This happens every early summer, but it’s more significant this year, as your romantic luck is beginning to climb strongly! If you’re married, the month ahead brings joys through children, vacation, sports and “winning.” (Singles get this, too.) Watch what you say – and legal parameters – midweek. Rest, rejuvenate, strengthen foundations Thursday/Friday. Romance Saturday p.m. – join a group. Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18 It hasn’t been a strong summer for you, Aquarius, but the months ahead (twelve of them) bring a strong, beneficial rebuilding period, which might be marked by the purchase of a new home, better rental, the entry of a new baby, life-freeing therapy, or other good foundational moves. One of the first requirements of this new foundation will be work, which confronts you Tuesday onward for a few weeks. Dive into this eagerly (but cautiously before June 28, as the path’s a bit rocky). You could be fooled about money Tuesday, and make a bad bet. But $ inspiration’s great Wednesday. Pisces Feb. 19-March 20 Rest deeply Sunday/Monday – Monday p.m. onward, your energy and charisma rise, and Tuesday morning begins a month of romance, creativity, pleasure and adventure! But Monday also starts six weeks of friction on the home front. Be gentle with parents and kids. Romantic urges outside the home might cause dissention within it. These same six weeks, you might have an opportunity to buy or sell real estate – okay, but strictly avoid moving into a new residence before August 3. (It would “set up” long-term friction.) You might change sources of income. Joy Wednesday: thank God. www.astralreflections.com Email: timstephens@shaw.ca. For a reading: 416-686-5014. /30/