ASTRAL REFLECTIONS
BY TIM STEPHENS
AUGUST 29 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2010 

	All times/dates are PDT.
	To continue the Uranus forecasts:
      From March 2011 to March 2019 Uranus will travel through your career sign, CANCER. Expect changes, not only to your career, but to your parenting status, your place in the community, your reputation and prestige. If young, you might become a parent. If older, your children might move out, go to college, or proclaim their own declaration of independence. These are all natural progressions. But other, less expected developments can also arise. Technology will play a major role in your career, parenting role, and your dealings with authorities or bosses (and with your own parents). You might think technology has already done all it  can to mould your career – but it’s only half done! Expect unusual, brilliant but oddball career colleagues.
	Your status will also be affected deeply by your ability to invest, research and investigate, to use power quietly, to remain healthy, and in the most general way, to handle and use mutual resources. Your sexual drives will relate closely to your ambition – for example, a powerful person will turn you on more  than an ordinary Joe/Josephine. Watch the effects of stress (especially prestige/career-related stress) on your health. These will be exciting years – learn to relax. Garden outdoors, avoid TV.
	LEO, the eight years from March 2011 to early 2019 will enliven, awaken and energize your intellectual sphere. You’ll feel more alert, curtains of quietude (and of self-deception) will fall from your eyes. The 2003-to-2010 upsets and roller coasters of change in your partnership, sexual, and financial spheres will disappear, to be replaced by a new understanding of, and smoothness in, these same areas. For the first time in a long time, if single, you are finally ready for marriage of the right sort: ethical, gentle, socially welcomed. (You’ve got to see/admit first, that if the past 7 years brought the collapse of a relationship, your own secret, selfish – or simply mistrusting – motives were at least partially responsible. Seeing this frees you for future true love.)
	Until 2019, Uranus will bring luck, liveliness, breezy fascination and great friendship in many areas: education, publishing/media, law, far travel, international dealings, cultural events and religion. You might wed – auspices are as good as (or better than) they were in the 1982-1988 period (unfortunately, by 1984 that period was joined by a “home-break-up” influence – as this 2011-2019 one is not!). Expect and seek love – it is certain to arrive if you want it. Uranus’ health news is good: nerve-related (and probably cardio) complaints will tend to ease. Stress levels will ebb.


Start Nothing: 1:48 a.m. to 7:35 a.m. Sun., 4:13 p.m.to 5:19 p.m. Tues., and 10:40 p.m. to 11:50p.m. Thurs.

Aries   March 21-April 19
Tackle those piles of work. It’s nit-picky, detailed work, and all the details are rife with mistakes, camouflaged instructions, missing pieces. But you gotta do it – so march ahead. Important relationships – friends, enemies, lovers, partners, competitors, counsellors – remain unusually favourable. You might give or receive attention. One who is attracted, or attracts, is a “door” to worldly success. (E.g., that sexy person  might also bring career luck.) Better if you met some time ago. Start nothing major before September 12. Chase money Sunday/Monday. Be home Friday/Saturday.

Taurus   April 20-May 20
Romance wafts happily on the breeze! An old flame could grow hotter, especially if a co-worker is involved. Beauty, pleasure, and a nice winning streak accompany you. A former recreational or creative venture might return. There’s still plenty of work to do, though. One chore, which might involve education, travel, cultural or media work, will take about two more years to complete. Your energy and charisma soar Sunday to Tuesday – tackle things that usually intimidate you, and see how easily you achieve! Money’s lucky Thursday. Be a friend Friday/Saturday. Career intuition is accurate.

Gemini   May 21-June 20
The weeks ahead accent your domestic situation, kids, security, real estate, gardening, nutrition, and “the end of matters.” Usually this is a good time to decide who and what belongs in your life, and who/what should be left behind. But make no big decisions (in any of the areas listed) before September 12. Your romantic prospects remain high, but attraction might compete with a natural physical lethargy – or, romance and co-habitation make a natural “pair.” You’re weary but lucky Sunday/Monday. Your charisma’s obvious mid-week. You’re discovering love’s “other benefits.”

Cancer   June 21-July 22
Communications, travel, paperwork, details, errands, casual acquaintances and “daily business” are accented now—and all are delayed or prone to mistakes. Check addresses on mail, figures on cheques, etc. Don’t start anything important before September 12, particularly in these zones. (E.g., avoid a new advertising “mail out.”) You might hear long-lost news, receive a “lost letter,” hear from an old friend, etc. Your home remains sweet’n’sour, but ends “inspired.” Optimism, popularity and social joys bless you Sunday to Tuesday! Lie low mid-week. Your energy, charisma return Friday/Saturday.

Leo   July 23-Aug. 22
Your money (and career) luck rises, but more from past efforts, contacts, than new ones. Don’t launch any ventures before September 12, especially in money areas. If you absolutely need a job, seek and land it (Sunday to Tuesday are good for this) – but realize that you will want to, will benefit, if you seek a new one within a year. (You’re headed for great career luck June 2011-June 2012, but that’s then.) Mid-week brings happiness, good friends, popularity, flirtations – with a Gemini? But retreat, lie low and contemplate (don’t plan) Friday/Saturday. The best partner is a friend. 

Virgo   Aug. 23-Sept. 22
Your energy, charisma and effectiveness reach a yearly high – but that effectiveness is confined to ongoing and “returning” projects (and people – a  former attraction might be rekindled). Beware starting important new things before September 12. Intellectual, far travel, educational, publishing, religious or cultural affairs flow very well Sunday to Tuesday afternoon. Love is gentle, wide. Your career and relations with higher ups (including parents, police) are emphasized mid-week. All’s well, but don’t act unpredictably Thursday night. Hopes and friends make a good combo Friday/Saturday!

Libra   Sept. 23-Oct. 22
Start nothing new before September 12. Secrets, mysteries, financial plums, intimate clinches, subconscious desires surfacing – these fill Sunday through Tuesday. (Best Sunday, Monday morning.) Work in the background all week, especially these three days – a government agency, institution, large corporation or charitable organization could be your ally. Wisdom, a mellow mood, and matters of law, culture, education, thought, love and “meaning” arise mid-week – with misunderstandings Wednesday, sweet understandings Thursday. Don’t push anyone Friday/Saturday. All week, conserve energy.

Scorpio   Oct. 23-Nov. 21
Wishes can come true this week and next – especially former wishes, events you wanted to occur in the past, then gave up on. (E.g., a sweet or flirtatious friend returning.) (You might be tempted by a clandestine romance August and September.) Remember, start nothing new – projects nor important links – before September 12. Relationships fill Sunday to Tuesday – open, exciting, sometimes challenging relationships. Be diplomatic, eager to join. Sex, secrets, intimate commitments, “big” finances arise mid-week. (All’s well.) Avoid ethical, educational, publishing commitments late week.

Sagittarius   Nov. 22-Dec. 21
Delay major initiatives until September 12. Stick with the old or ongoing – and protect these from mistakes and “”no shows,” especially in business and career zones. This is a fairly easy, mellow week. You’ll have to work hard – your performance is being watched. But friends, light flirtations, entertainment and happy hopes lighten every day! Tackle work Sunday to Tuesday – success awaits. Relationships, opportunities and challenges fill Tuesday eve to Thursday. Be open, honest, receptive: love’s “around.”  Careful with finances, sex, commitments (no pregnancies!) Friday/Saturday.

Capricorn   Dec. 22-Jan. 19
Sweet, mellow thoughts, solutions, dreams, revisions float through your head – but if you actually sit down to write them out, you’ll discover they were “gossamer on the breeze” – insubstantial, impractical, even nonsensical. This gossamer is the “chatter” as your lower mind sorts out the past two years. The true results are substantial and beneficial – and sub-conscious. Do events since 2008 seem grim? No worries: you are coming into your power. Your career efforts need pruning: encourage growth by ending/clipping some involvements. Early week, love, pleasure. Mid: work. Late: caution.

Aquarius   Jan. 20-Feb. 18
Secrets, mysteries, dreams, subconscious desires (and fears) research, diagnosis, health, investments, debts, large finances, lifestyle choices, commitments, sexual intimacy – these are emphasized, and in all, mistakes run rife. However, these are also mines filled with rich veins running through the past – there might be an old investment, a former intimate partner, an old piece of research, that holds deep benefits for you! (Most likely to appear Sunday to Tuesday.) But make NO new investments (etc.) before September 12. Romance calls mid-week. Careful with health, chores Friday/Saturday.

Pisces   Feb. 19-March 20
The past is alive; the present, as if scared, dithers around, circling uncertainties. So deal with the past – former agreements, opportunities, negotiations, relationships. These yield benefits. Every relationship holds something in its hands: money, love, sex, commitment, the future: especially now. The deeper you plunge, the more you will find, most of it gratifying. You could get hooked on someone, August September! Sunday to Tuesday accent travel, communications. Mid-week draws you toward home, foundations. Friday/Saturday bring romantic, pleasure urges: be honest, cautious.


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