ASTRAL REFLECTIONS BY TIM STEPHENS NOVEMBER 6 - 12, 2005 All times/dates are Pacific Standard Time. Let's continue the luck forecasts. This luck cycle began October 25, 2005 and will end November 24, 2006. GEMINI, the next 13 months will back a cosmic dump truck up to your door and pour work down upon you at a sometimes-overwhelming pace. If you're unemployed, this is your best year in a decade to land a job - or two. Many Geminis will moonlight or gain overtime. All this extra work should either fatten your bank account, or put you in line for a promotion - or both. It could create a life-long opportunity. Your duties will likely expand in the direction of travel, writing, learning/teaching, distribution, communication or publishing. On the caution side, don't let overwork impact your health (but realize that a lack of work will have a negative health effect also). If you have a large net worth, don't get so busy that you neglect your investments - and lose more in stocks than you make at your job. Lastly, you can find that two different "duties" tug at you. One is shorter, frequent and boring; one is bigger and carries more promise. For instance, your boss might keep interrupting your big, meaty project to send you on errands or hand you boring, finicky paperwork. Don't ignore nor denigrate those shorter, less exciting tasks: they could eventually (December 2006 onward) lead to a bigger opportunity. You TAURUS folks will be showered with relationship opportunities now through November 2006. Many of these new meetings (they are actually old meetings, or "former links" from March through June) will have a powerful, fertile "hidden bonanza" attached - they might lead to sexual intimacy, business or investment opportunities, or major lifestyle changes. However, the full flowering of this hidden side waits until 2007. Meanwhile, you face a complex, mixed picture. If you try to pounce directly on 2006's opportunities (which include contracts, negotiations, relocation, marriage, love, public dealings, as well as exciting new meetings) you could find that either your domestic situation, or the other person's career/societal duties get in the way. You can get around this to some degree by 1) being social or casually friendly rather than heavily romantic/sexual; 2) being very ethical, legal, formal. Schools, foreign countries and "publishing areas" will help you form the best relationships, ones that, in 2007, could turn into growth-oriented bonds. Be careful, now through next November, of investing heavily in an opportunity, relocation or new relationship. A love that was more filled with fond notions than realism, might end anytime now through 2006. If you cherish someone, give them loyalty and domestic support. Start Nothing: 12:18 p.m. Sun. to 1:31 p.m. Mon., 4:30 a.m. to 4:22 p.m. Wed., and 7:33 a.m. to 7:22 p.m. Fri. Aries March 21-April 19 The accent continues on mystery, your subconscious, large finances, health diagnosis, sex and lifestyle changes. Your libido is pretty charged from last August to next February. Two things can happen in the November-February period: adventurous events might spur you toward a brave new sexual or financial situation, or imprudent actions might steer you toward pitfalls in the same areas. To succeed, focus on earnings rather than on investments, on smaller financial approaches, and on more casual sex (rather than deep, binding stuff). Sunday-Tuesday are confused; you see clearly Wednesday onward. Taurus April 20-May 20 Life, law, learning, love and career are illusive, deceptive Sunday through Tuesday, but Wednesday onward brings clear sight. Wednesday night - into Friday - heightens your popularity, and might bring a dollar or sensual wish true! Rest, retreat Saturday. This week demands that you deal with others, seek permission, look for co-operation. Do so. Your luck, now through November 2006, comes from others. But your domestic responsibilities, or their career/societal duties (or ambitions) could get in the way. "Work" continues to be a dead-end through June/06, so aim high, to a "career." Gemini May 21-June 20 Illusion, fuzzy thinking, perhaps downright deception pervade your sexual and financial spheres Sunday to Tuesday - your hopes rise too high, while your luck's lower than usual - a bad combination! Lie low, watch, learn. Your career luck rises nicely Wednesday eve to Thursday midnight. Make proposals, be open to extra work, show how willing, co-operative you can be. (Yes, that "stubborn resistance" will still exist on the part of others - right into 2008 - but you can work around this. You glass is three-fourths full in career now to late 2006!) Cancer June 21-July 22 The weeks ahead mix romance, pleasure, gambling and creative surges with work and health "planning." (Work is discussed more than plunged into.) Now through February, your social and romantic zones heat up with unexpected "adventure." Life will offer you risks - you choose whether to take them up or not. I wouldn't take any risks Sunday through Tuesday, though - deception precedes disappointment! You're alert and ready Wednesday eve through Thursday - expect mental/gentle love, culture, learning, law, perhaps far travel. (These areas are blessed all 2006.) Career success awaits you Saturday. Leo July 23-Aug. 22 The accent continues on your home life, family, real estate, security, foundations, soul, healing/therapy, and nature's bounty and beauty. If you had all this in full, what else would you need in the world? Every 12 years you get a chance to build up this area, and that chance is now through November/06. It won't be easy, obstacles exist (mostly self-created ones: skepticism, overwork, insecurity disguised as ambition) but luck will aid you, especially January, February, and - with a link to the past - in March, April, May and November. Beware relationship, sexual and financial deception Sunday to Tuesday. Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Beware deceptive conditions in relationships and on work/health fronts Sunday to Wednesday. You might be attracted to someone who will turn out to be an alluring psychological enemy. (A "toxic relationship.") The same warning applies to safety procedures and machinery purchases/sales. Deception/illusion rule. Your eyes clear, and valid attraction exists, Wednesday eve through Thursday - business opportunities are good, too. The only possible flaw is a "pulling apart" tendency down the road. Mysteries, good investments, sexy lures arrive Friday night, Saturday! Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22 You can be fooled about children, schooling, lovers, marriage, sex, art, a gamble, a creative project, and/or money Sunday to Tuesday. Tread carefully. Work expands Wednesday supper onward - this night could open a door to increased income - step through! Relationships challenge, excite and benefit late Friday, all Saturday. The weeks (and year) ahead will expand your income, earnings efforts, buy/sell situations, possessions, memory and learning capacity, and sex life (if you want it - sensual attractions will go against the grain of your social identity or "future plans" all year ahead.) Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Your charisma, vitality, luck, effectiveness and sense of timing ride a rising wave this week, this month, and to some extent the whole 13 months ahead! Work will remain hard - will grow even harder - but the year ahead is like the gold dawn and bright day to 2005's chilly night. Recognize deception (or your own fuzzy thinking) Sunday to Tuesday, especially in relationships, work, relocation concerns, contracts, real estate and similar areas. Communications/information is unreliable. Clarity returns, and romance (or beauty, creativity, gambling instincts) enters Wednesday night to Friday! Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Look closely at money situations (buying/selling, prices, employment pay-package promises, etc.) Sunday, and don't believe the news in general Sunday through Tuesday. Rumors are false. Errands, travel don't yield much. When you settle down into yourself and your home Wednesday night, Thursday, things start to clear, you see where you stand and what's what on practical and spiritual/emotional levels. This "pattern" will repeat during the months ahead. In security, contemplation, books, sweet solitude or family surroundings, truth and peace come! Dream romantic dreams, seek pleasure, entertain kids Saturday. Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Your charisma and energy are nice and high Sunday into Tuesday, but watch for deception (or self-deception) in money, earnings, and communications. (This theme winds right through the 1996-2010 period - the same influence offers inspiration and "genius intuition" in the same areas - but not these three days!) Clarity returns Wednesday onward - this night brings a chirpy, flirty friend, or opens a door to a social group or "agency" that can share "the secrets of life" with you in months/years ahead. Settle into home, family, nature Friday/Saturday: all's peaceful, productive. Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Avoid psychics, counselors, advisors Sunday into Monday afternoon. They would steer you wrong. You have a choice Tuesday eve, Wednesday: to refuse to be dragged into "stupid work" - or to grin, co-operate, and further your (career) reputation. I advise the latter! For 13 months your career will be favored if you are flexible, and can co-operate with or gain the co-operation of your peers. The first "stroke" of this luck could occur Wednesday night (perhaps Thursday) when a money/earnings door could open. Be perceptive; act quickly if "hints" are dropped. Pisces Feb. 19-March 20 Have fun, be social Sunday, but don't believe anything you hear. Retreat, lie low and re-gather your energies Monday noon into Wednesday eve. Sign nothing. Wednesday night into Friday your vitality and magnetism return. You could open a door to love, a cultural event, a truth, to higher learning, or even a trip far away Wednesday night. This is a small chance - bigger ones will occur in 2006. (The best will "float by you" January/February, late spring, and November - grab them.) Chase money or spend Saturday. All's smooth, mellow. www.astralreflections.com. Email: timstephens@shaw.ca. For a reading: 604-261-1337. /30/