ASTRAL REFLECTIONS BY TIM STEPHENS MAY 6 – 12, 2012 All times/dates are PDT. SAGITTARIUS, Neptune’s transit through Pisces (2011 to 2026) will bring a new sense of depth to your domestic life for fifteen years. There’s a good and a bad to this. On the bad side, you can become anxious about your home and those in your care, about your security, even about your retirement. Legitimate but small problems can balloon into apprehensive anxiety that in turn can prevent you from solving difficulties. You could become passive and indecisive. To learn how to avoid such negative states we need to learn what causes them. The answer is simple: pride, independence, and being selfish, or maintaining a fearful grip on your home, children, etc., will breed anxiety. Being unselfish, embracing and nurturing others, will cause worries to dissipate like morning mist in midday sunshine. Other things can also calm you and bring confidence during this period: 1) live on waterfront, or in view of it, 2) have children; 3) own property (as paradoxical as that might sound) and 4) grow older. The fourth, of course, we do naturally. So much for the difficult side. On the plus side, Neptune will bring you a surprisingly strong intuition about these domestic areas: home, real estate, children, security, gardening, nutrition, digestion and soul. These things will live with a new depth and “truthfulness.” On a practical level, be alert to plumbing, ground water, mold and foundational issues in the house – especially if you are buying one. CAPRICORN, Neptune in Pisces until January 2026, enhances your skills as a communicator. You’ll be less propelled by logic, more by intuition and feeling – in communicating, but also in the “everyday” areas of thought, such as plans, business systems, practical details, costs, etc. Little nudges of impulse, small impressions, not only move you when doing errands, lists, talking, emailing, but also lead you correctly. If you’re a student (or writer) you’ll meet confusion if you attempt to write a logical piece, but will find great insights and expressions if you simply go with the flow. You’re no lightweight, but now (to 2026) your thinking will become deeper, drawing you to insights and vistas you’ve never known. Travel over water or to water will occur – this could be anything from flying over the ocean to another continent, to visiting the seashore or a lake. More Caps than usual will buy a boat, large or small. You’ll enjoy reading articles on optics, stock rumours, interest rate movements, oceanography and such subjects. Spy movies will lure you. During the first eight years of this period (2011-2018) you’ll feel restless on the home front. So travel more: this will relieve your restlessness and prevent home disruptions caused by frustration; and/or travel will introduce you to the home you’ll tend reside in from 2026 onward. Start Nothing: 5:14 a.m. to 6:39 p.m. Sun., 6:34 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Tues., 12:11 p.m. to 10:03 p.m. Thurs., and after 5:51 p.m. Sat. Aries March 21-April 19 Continue to chase money, seek more work at better pay, cultivate new clients, buy and sell. You have treated others with ambition (or caution) more than love, these past two years. You’ve wanted a “working partnership.” This will change in October, when more normally affectionate links return. Until then, you can improve relations by communicating – and by travelling to visit the other. But remember, in communicating, focus on ideas, not “facts.” Wisdom, gentle love and travel prospects arise Monday/Tuesday. Be ambitious midweek. Happiness, friends, flirtations Friday onward. Taurus April 20-May 20 Your energy, charisma, effectiveness and clout remain high, Taurus. Don’t waste this time – get out, apply for a job, impress the boss, ask favours, start important projects. Think: what, realistically, would most improve your life? Set this as a goal, and begin the steps toward it. Sunday’s for relationships. Delve deep Monday/Tuesday: secrets, large finances, intimacy, lifestyle commitments and sexual desires all hold benefits. Wisdom, love, intellectual, travel and broadcasting themes bless you midweek – but they run into opposition Thursday noon. Be ambitious Friday/Saturday. Gemini May 21-June 20 Lie low, rest and recuperate. June will begin one of the luckiest, most expansive years of your life, so get your beauty sleep now, physically and emotionally. Home continues to be a bit friction-prone. You remain attractive to others. Tackle routine chores (nothing new) Sunday. This night and Monday/Tuesday feature relationships – be diplomatic, co-operate. Midweek brings depths, mysteries, and potential profit. Subconscious desires rise to the surface. But after 9 a.m. Thursday (PDT) fortify against problems, rather than expand. A gentle, mellow mood sweetens Friday/Saturday. Cancer June 21-July 22 News – of a friendship, perhaps a light romance prospect – arrives over the next few weeks. But it might arrive too late for you to do anything about it. Be inquisitive, contact those you haven’t seen for awhile, etc. This is a month of popularity, social delights, flirtations and entertainment – visit, invite, join or create a party. Sunday’s romantic: enjoy the beauty of nature. Tackle chores Monday/Tuesday (start no tasks Sunday night). Relationships, exciting meetings and opposition might both come midweek. Be diplomatic: love is possible. Intimacy, finances Friday/Saturday. Leo July 23-Aug. 22 Until early July, money will come: bank it; only buy essentials. In the weeks ahead (through June) a former friend or “lite lover” might return. Spend Sunday at home or in nature. Romance, a creative surge, speculation, joys with children fill Monday/Tuesday. Tackle chores Wednesday/Thursday. Relationships, exciting meetings, perhaps a challenge, arrive Friday/Saturday. Be diplomatic – realize partners or competitors have more sway than you do, right now, over the “big people.” For this entire week, be ambitious, forward your career, seek to impress bosses or launch strong projects. Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Bosses, parents still favour you, although they’ll be indecisive through late June, leaving you wondering which way they want you to go. But the “favour” lasts right into early August, so you’ll have sufficient time to firm things up. In fact, despite the slowness and dead-ends of your career over the last year, these bosses are considering you for a promotion. It likely won’t come through until September onward, so be on your good behavior. (Best isn’t attainable right now, you’re too intense.) All week, welcome love, legal, travel openings. Your sexuality radiates midweek. Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Though legal matters might have bugged you over the past 14 months, a kind of healing entered in April, and continues into August. At the very least, you feel less traumatized; perhaps you’ve started to forgive your “enemy.” By September onward, you might even begin winning the suit. (Chances switch from 80 % against you, to 80 for you.) Talk comes, about sex, intimacy, or financial situations. You might seize a major success, in money or intimacy, by May 11 to 14. Sunday’s shopping yields empty results. Forgo it. Travel, talk Monday/Tuesday. Home, midweek. Romance, Friday on. Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Exciting relationships and exciting opportunities – welcome these wherever they appear, Scorpio. Someone you know might hold a “gold key” for you. You’re energetic, charming Sunday, but don’t tackle new things. Money, earnings, purchases, possessions – and a sensual urge – fill Monday/Tuesday. Chase what you want! Travel, communications, errands and paperwork arise Tuesday night to Thursday. Don’t invest, these few days. Home, children, property, security and retirement come into focus Friday/Saturday. Someone who talks more than usual, wants something with (not from) you. Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Bosses are short-tempered, but peers are sweet and affectionate. Be careful –don’t get involved with the boss, nor mix sex and power. (If you ever act unethically in a career, you’ll likely abandon that career sooner than later.) This is a good week to tackle big chores, and to buy machinery (Monday to Wednesday, and Saturday evening). Lie low, rest Sunday. Your energy and charisma return this night to Tuesday. Start things Monday. Chase money, spend and “recount possessions” Wednesday/Thursday. DON’T invest. Friends, short trips, communications grow lively Friday/Saturday. Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19 A trend of romance, creativity, speculation, art, beauty, charming kids, still fills your days, Cap. Of course, romance will only come in as far and wide as your expectation or hope. Resentment or despair can defeat the best of prospects. Co-workers are affectionate. Still, wait until September onward to make a bid for a workplace “appointment” (e.g., union designation or promotion). Be optimistic, social Sunday. Retreat this eve for contemplation and rest – to Tuesday eve. Then, you’ll emerge strong, vibrant and ready to start things Wednesday/Thursday – do! Money, late week. Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Take power naps. You’re in “hibernation mode” these weeks. You could be building to a lucky climax in real estate, home, family, security, retirement, agriculture, gardening and similar zones. Remember, this luck only lasts to early June, so if you want/need a better home, get out and look for it a.s.a.p. An opportunity virtually confronts you this week (it reaches peak intensity May 13). Cool your jets Sunday: results are elusive. Your optimism, popularity and social joys grow Monday/Tuesday. Retreat, rest, study and think midweek. Your energy, charisma return Friday/Saturday. Pisces Feb. 19-March 20 This is a busy but not important time, Pisces. Messages surround you, you run repeated errands. Two areas are important: relationships, which have remain more intense until early July) and family/real estate, which have begun to please you but might still hold a “trap” until late August. Take advantage of relationships (form money partnerships) now forward, but hold off on major home/realty action until September onward. Sunday’s mellow. Be ambitious Tuesday/Wednesday. Wishes come true, popularity soars, Wednesday/Thursday. Retreat, rest and plan late week. Soon, good career news. www.astralreflections.com. Email: timstephens@shaw.ca. For a reading: 604-727-3673. /30/