Aries – Way back in 2000, culture critic Douglas Rushkoff told the audience at the Disinformation Conference in New York that being part of a “counterculture” had become meaningless. “We’ve won,” Rushkoff said. “The only thing left for us to do now is declare victory.” Rushkoff’s advice — rather than reacting to all that’s wrong with the world by blaming it on the mysterious “Them,” we need to get busy acting as if we’re the ones with the power — has never been more applicable to you than now. As Uranus (revolution, enlightenment) and Jupiter (expansion, wisdom) meet up in your sign for the first time since 1927, the pulse of the Great Transition of the next two decades runs directly through you. In other words, there’s never been a more crucial time for you to choose to act creatively. With Pluto in your career house, it looks as if many of you will be working from the inside out, working within the system to reform it, recreate it, make it more responsive to the needs of sentient life on the planet. Wherever you are, this is no time to be on the sidelines. It’s time to pour every ounce of passion into creating the world you want to live in. Share With A Friend!
Taurus – Well you’re in your little room / Working on something good
But if it’s really good / You’re gonna need a bigger room
And when you’re in the bigger room / You might not know what to do
You might have to think of how you got started / Sitting in your little room
- The White Stripes, “Little Room”
This week marks the beginning of the final chapter in a creative struggle that has been challenging and perplexing you since 2007. As Saturn returns to direct motion in the final degrees of your solar 5th House, you find yourself on the verge of a major creative breakthrough. For a couple years now you’ve been plugging away steadily at a creative project (this could also involve a child-related matter or your romantic life) and it has probably seemed as if every two steps forward earned you at least one step backward. Believe it or not, you’re about to find out that the Universe had a very good reason for putting you through this insanely thorough testing process. When the restraints come off in the next few weeks, you’re going to see your project leap forward in ways you’ve only been able to dream about. So it’s more important than ever this week to make sure you know what you want out of all this. Under Saturn’s tutelage, you’ve learned that you have both the talent and self-discipline needed to succeed. Just be very clear that your vision of success includes what’s important to you now. It’d be a shame to come this far and end up manifesting a dream that lost its potency ten years ago. Share With A Friend!
Gemini – The time is coming to take your vision out into the community in a much bigger way. With Jupiter and Uranus about to hook up in your 11th House of friends, community, and ideals, the life force is urging you to connect and create with the likeminded people who share your vision of what life should and could be. Use this week, while Mercury is still in your 12th House of the deep unconscious mind, to go fishing. You can literally head down to the lake with your fishing pole if that’s your thing but what I’m talking about here is the best way of working to get clear and correct answers from your superconscious mind:
Get into a relaxed yet focused state
Ask your question (you can visualize dropping the question down into the lake on a hook if you like)
Forget about it
This method works every time, as long as you don’t crowd your unconscious mind. Sooner or later the answer will pop out at you, in a dream, in conversation with a friend, in a line on the TV or radio or in a feeling that you know is right for you. Share With A Friend!
Cancer – Your intuition is probably your strongest ally, and you need to trust it, not only this week but in the weeks to come. With Uranus the Awakener now in your 10th House, this week marks the start of a seven-year period in which both how you envision your life’s work and the strategies you employ to accomplish your mission will change radically and in ways you can’t even yet imagine. This summer presents an interesting paradox — even as the action heats up and the opportunities for sudden change come calling, it might feel as if you’re unable to fully focus on the nuts and bolts of everyday reality. Your usually-keen mind seems to be wandering in the spirit realms, looking for a piece of lost information that you somehow know you need in order to make the correct choices in the long run. Which brings us back to your intuition. Rather than trying to force yourself into an opportunity that doesn’t feel quite right, listen to all offers but resolutely, fanatically trust your gut. It will tell you when it’s time to make your move. Share With A Friend!
Leo – Plan on taking lots of little cat naps this week, Leo, or doing whatever time-tested practice enables you to quickly recharge your energy and keep up the kind of all-day and most of the night pace you like to set when you’re on the hunt. (Vigorous exercise will prove very helpful in keeping your body strong and your mind clean this week.) You’ve had Mars, the planet of energy and drive, in your sign since October of last year. But for most of 2010 Mars has either been moving backwards or moving so slowly as to be more of a hindrance than a help to you. Now, with Mars about to leave your sign and enter Virgo on June 7, it’s as if you have an eight-day window in which to put some supercharged intentional action out into the world. Don’t take this as pressure; see this as the opportunity of a lifetime to passionately, enthusiastically, and radiantly do both what you need to do and what your heart longs to do. Share With A Friend!
Virgo – I’ve got some really good news for you, Virgo. As you probably know by now, Mars — the planet of anger, aggression, and ego drives — has been hanging around (malingering?) in your 12th House of self-undoing for the last seven months. Mars usually takes about six weeks to transit each house in your chart, so the Universe obviously has a vested interest in you learning about the ways you sabotage yourself by misusing your anger energy. Leo is a proud sign, and with Leo on your 12th House cusp, one of the biggest ways you defeat your own happiness is by being too proud to admit you’re wrong. Rather than just realize that you occasionally misjudge a person or situation, you tend to stubbornly hold onto your thoughts, mistakenly thinking your thoughts and you are one and the same. Even worse, you’re exceptionally intelligent — which means on some level you know what you’re doing. So then you pile on by judging yourself for (a) the original mistake, and (b) for not being able or willing to change your mind. So where’s the good news, you ask? You have exactly one more week of Mars dragging your subconscious self-blame and self-defeat mechanisms into the light of consciousness, and then you can move on. Remember that the problem is never that you messed up. The only real evil is the way you judge and punish yourself for your shortcomings. Share With A Friend!
Libra – Don’t even bother with people who aren’t interested in you being exactly who you are. With Uranus now in your 7th House of relationships for the next seven years, you’re not going to do well with people who want to change you, control you, or otherwise fence you in and tie you down. Your best bet? Be upfront about who you are, what you need, and what you’re willing (and not willing) to do. Better to weed out the incompatibles right from the get-go. The positive side of this energy is that you immediately begin attracting progressive, out-of-the-box thinkers into your world. These people know how to get things done and have little patience for stodgy bureaucracies and flat-earth hierarchies. Yes, I think this shift in the energies is going to spice up your life considerably. In other news, you’ve got your ruling planet Venus sitting right at the top of your chart this week, in your house of career. Venus here acts like a magnet, firmly but gently drawing people toward your work. What can you do with this knowledge? Just be aware. Put your best foot forward, knowing that your work is being seen by people with the influence to help you. Share With A Friend!
Scorpio – Your ability to manifest the kind of life that is truly important to you on a soul level continues to hinge on your fantasy life. I’m talking specifically about a romantic notion of what your childhood and family experience should have been that you’re either still trying to replicate or carrying around like an albatross. “A lot of water under the bridge,” Dylan croaks, “A lot of other stuff too.” You have a right to your fantasies, but ask yourself if your fantasies have a right to control your current circumstances, especially after all these years. With your ruling planet Mars in your 10th House (career, but more accurately “life’s work”) since October, you’ve been slowly and painstakingly learning what it means to be a public person. You’ve been reviewing past triumphs and disappointments and trying to place yourself on a scale of success that balances your worldly goals with your spiritual needs. You’ve almost made a very important choice to trust your inner guidance; don’t let that old family karma drag you back into a battle you can never, ever win. Share With A Friend!
Sagittarius – Pay attention to your relationships this week, especially your work relationships. With Mercury hanging out in your 6th House of work, service and daily routine for the last couple months, you’ve been involved in a rather painstaking review — learning how your relationship strategies either help you accomplish your goals or keep you trapped in cycles of procrastination and self-defeat. Now, as Mercury speeds through the last degrees of your 6th House and the Sun lights up your 7th House of relationships, you get to formulate a positive strategy that incorporates your learnings from the failures and disappointments of the past. You have a tendency to see the world in black and white; your truth is your truth and if others don’t get it, you speak your mind and move on. (Or you remain resentfully silent out of a fear of alienating the others.) What life wants you to learn now is how to speak your truth dispassionately; which means you learn to channel your passion into creating what’s important to you rather than projecting it onto your significant other, your coworkers, and your potential collaborators. (You’re a live wire: how can you expect one person to handle all of that energy?!). Get busy creating this week. Then when you have something to say you can just say it — with no extra need, resentment, righteous indignation or wounded justice attached. Share With A Friend!
Capricorn – OK, this is probably going to sound weird to some of you. And some others are going to tune me out until three or four years down the line when you remember: Oh, that’s what he meant. But for those of you who have ears to hear, here’s my take on Uranus’ entry into your 4th House: What you feel is what the planet feels, and vice versa. You don’t really feel at home unless you’re going somewhere with your life. You like to know where that somewhere is but you also thrill to the sense of adventure that comes with setting a goal so big you don’t know if you’ll be able to reach your destination or not. With the archetype of revolution, enlightenment and higher mental awareness now ensconced in your house of home, family and emotions, I see you being happiest over the next seven years when you are recreating your personal sense of “home” so that it matches your expectations of what life should feel like. The most powerful way of doing this work is within your own psyche, of course. But you’ll also be driven to act on behalf of the collective, reclaiming our beautiful planet from the corporate, criminal and government exploiters and turning it back into a habitation fit for humans and other forms of wildlife. Share With A Friend!
Aquarius – It’s crucial this week that you say what you mean and mean what you say. It looks as though you’re trying to get an important agreement nailed down with a partner, a prospective collaborator or an ex. Your passion and desire to get this right are not in question, but with aggressive Mars in the powerful final degrees of your relationship house opposing hazy, gauzy Neptune in your 1st House of self, there’s a better than average chance of you coming off as unprepared, flighty, or downright deceitful. You can avoid this potential pitfall just by being aware that others may not be seeing or hearing you the way you appear to yourself this week. If possible, you might want to postpone proceedings for another week until after June 7 when Mars leaves your 7th House and moves into detail-oriented Virgo. Otherwise, just be extra clear. Leave a coherent paper trail. Document everything. Speak slowly and enunciate. And above all, know what you want and stick to the facts. Share With A Friend!
Pisces – “These are the days of miracles and wonders and don’t cry baby, don’t cry don’t cry”
– Paul Simon, “The Boy in the Bubble”
So starts Paul Simon’s magnificent Graceland, an album about finding redemption despite the disappointments, broken hearts and the avalanches of bad news that seem to be our lot in life in these modern times. I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I feel the anger, pain and pollution enveloping our home planet right now, all I want to do is escape to somewhere far, far away. But we were made for these times and while crying is a good idea (or finding other healthy ways of releasing those negative emotions you pick up so easily from the atmosphere around you), after the tears have flowed it’s time to focus on the work you came here to do. You see, the flip side of being a psychic sponge is that you have the ability to feel trends far in advance of most other humans. Which makes this volatile era we’re moving into a time of tremendous opportunity for you. Much of this opportunity is financial, and it involves doing work that you both enjoy and are naturally good at. I know that might sound strange after what you’ve been through in the last several years, but you need to shake that off and let it go. What you were doing then is learning the skills you’d need for now. So open your heart and resolutely open your mind to abundance. Share With A Friend!
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Aries – Way back in 2000, culture critic Douglas Rushkoff told the audience at the Disinformation Conference in New York that being part of a “counterculture” had become meaningless. “We’ve won,” Rushkoff said. “The only thing left for us to do now is declare victory.” Rushkoff’s advice — rather than reacting to all that’s wrong with the world by blaming it on the mysterious “Them,” we need to get busy acting as if we’re the ones with the power — has never been more applicable to you than now. As Uranus (revolution, enlightenment) and Jupiter (expansion, wisdom) meet up in your sign for the first time since 1927, the pulse of the Great Transition of the next two decades runs directly through you. In other words, there’s never been a more crucial time for you to choose to act creatively. With Pluto in your career house, it looks as if many of you will be working from the inside out, working within the system to reform it, recreate it, make it more responsive to the needs of sentient life on the planet. Wherever you are, this is no time to be on the sidelines. It’s time to pour every ounce of passion into creating the world you want to live in. Share With A Friend!
Taurus – Well you’re in your little room / Working on something good
But if it’s really good / You’re gonna need a bigger room
And when you’re in the bigger room / You might not know what to do
You might have to think of how you got started / Sitting in your little room
- The White Stripes, “Little Room”
This week marks the beginning of the final chapter in a creative struggle that has been challenging and perplexing you since 2007. As Saturn returns to direct motion in the final degrees of your solar 5th House, you find yourself on the verge of a major creative breakthrough. For a couple years now you’ve been plugging away steadily at a creative project (this could also involve a child-related matter or your romantic life) and it has probably seemed as if every two steps forward earned you at least one step backward. Believe it or not, you’re about to find out that the Universe had a very good reason for putting you through this insanely thorough testing process. When the restraints come off in the next few weeks, you’re going to see your project leap forward in ways you’ve only been able to dream about. So it’s more important than ever this week to make sure you know what you want out of all this. Under Saturn’s tutelage, you’ve learned that you have both the talent and self-discipline needed to succeed. Just be very clear that your vision of success includes what’s important to you now. It’d be a shame to come this far and end up manifesting a dream that lost its potency ten years ago. Share With A Friend!
Gemini – The time is coming to take your vision out into the community in a much bigger way. With Jupiter and Uranus about to hook up in your 11th House of friends, community, and ideals, the life force is urging you to connect and create with the likeminded people who share your vision of what life should and could be. Use this week, while Mercury is still in your 12th House of the deep unconscious mind, to go fishing. You can literally head down to the lake with your fishing pole if that’s your thing but what I’m talking about here is the best way of working to get clear and correct answers from your superconscious mind:
This method works every time, as long as you don’t crowd your unconscious mind. Sooner or later the answer will pop out at you, in a dream, in conversation with a friend, in a line on the TV or radio or in a feeling that you know is right for you. Share With A Friend!
Cancer – Your intuition is probably your strongest ally, and you need to trust it, not only this week but in the weeks to come. With Uranus the Awakener now in your 10th House, this week marks the start of a seven-year period in which both how you envision your life’s work and the strategies you employ to accomplish your mission will change radically and in ways you can’t even yet imagine. This summer presents an interesting paradox — even as the action heats up and the opportunities for sudden change come calling, it might feel as if you’re unable to fully focus on the nuts and bolts of everyday reality. Your usually-keen mind seems to be wandering in the spirit realms, looking for a piece of lost information that you somehow know you need in order to make the correct choices in the long run. Which brings us back to your intuition. Rather than trying to force yourself into an opportunity that doesn’t feel quite right, listen to all offers but resolutely, fanatically trust your gut. It will tell you when it’s time to make your move. Share With A Friend!
Leo – Plan on taking lots of little cat naps this week, Leo, or doing whatever time-tested practice enables you to quickly recharge your energy and keep up the kind of all-day and most of the night pace you like to set when you’re on the hunt. (Vigorous exercise will prove very helpful in keeping your body strong and your mind clean this week.) You’ve had Mars, the planet of energy and drive, in your sign since October of last year. But for most of 2010 Mars has either been moving backwards or moving so slowly as to be more of a hindrance than a help to you. Now, with Mars about to leave your sign and enter Virgo on June 7, it’s as if you have an eight-day window in which to put some supercharged intentional action out into the world. Don’t take this as pressure; see this as the opportunity of a lifetime to passionately, enthusiastically, and radiantly do both what you need to do and what your heart longs to do. Share With A Friend!
Virgo – I’ve got some really good news for you, Virgo. As you probably know by now, Mars — the planet of anger, aggression, and ego drives — has been hanging around (malingering?) in your 12th House of self-undoing for the last seven months. Mars usually takes about six weeks to transit each house in your chart, so the Universe obviously has a vested interest in you learning about the ways you sabotage yourself by misusing your anger energy. Leo is a proud sign, and with Leo on your 12th House cusp, one of the biggest ways you defeat your own happiness is by being too proud to admit you’re wrong. Rather than just realize that you occasionally misjudge a person or situation, you tend to stubbornly hold onto your thoughts, mistakenly thinking your thoughts and you are one and the same. Even worse, you’re exceptionally intelligent — which means on some level you know what you’re doing. So then you pile on by judging yourself for (a) the original mistake, and (b) for not being able or willing to change your mind. So where’s the good news, you ask? You have exactly one more week of Mars dragging your subconscious self-blame and self-defeat mechanisms into the light of consciousness, and then you can move on. Remember that the problem is never that you messed up. The only real evil is the way you judge and punish yourself for your shortcomings. Share With A Friend!
Libra – Don’t even bother with people who aren’t interested in you being exactly who you are. With Uranus now in your 7th House of relationships for the next seven years, you’re not going to do well with people who want to change you, control you, or otherwise fence you in and tie you down. Your best bet? Be upfront about who you are, what you need, and what you’re willing (and not willing) to do. Better to weed out the incompatibles right from the get-go. The positive side of this energy is that you immediately begin attracting progressive, out-of-the-box thinkers into your world. These people know how to get things done and have little patience for stodgy bureaucracies and flat-earth hierarchies. Yes, I think this shift in the energies is going to spice up your life considerably. In other news, you’ve got your ruling planet Venus sitting right at the top of your chart this week, in your house of career. Venus here acts like a magnet, firmly but gently drawing people toward your work. What can you do with this knowledge? Just be aware. Put your best foot forward, knowing that your work is being seen by people with the influence to help you. Share With A Friend!
Scorpio – Your ability to manifest the kind of life that is truly important to you on a soul level continues to hinge on your fantasy life. I’m talking specifically about a romantic notion of what your childhood and family experience should have been that you’re either still trying to replicate or carrying around like an albatross. “A lot of water under the bridge,” Dylan croaks, “A lot of other stuff too.” You have a right to your fantasies, but ask yourself if your fantasies have a right to control your current circumstances, especially after all these years. With your ruling planet Mars in your 10th House (career, but more accurately “life’s work”) since October, you’ve been slowly and painstakingly learning what it means to be a public person. You’ve been reviewing past triumphs and disappointments and trying to place yourself on a scale of success that balances your worldly goals with your spiritual needs. You’ve almost made a very important choice to trust your inner guidance; don’t let that old family karma drag you back into a battle you can never, ever win. Share With A Friend!
Sagittarius – Pay attention to your relationships this week, especially your work relationships. With Mercury hanging out in your 6th House of work, service and daily routine for the last couple months, you’ve been involved in a rather painstaking review — learning how your relationship strategies either help you accomplish your goals or keep you trapped in cycles of procrastination and self-defeat. Now, as Mercury speeds through the last degrees of your 6th House and the Sun lights up your 7th House of relationships, you get to formulate a positive strategy that incorporates your learnings from the failures and disappointments of the past. You have a tendency to see the world in black and white; your truth is your truth and if others don’t get it, you speak your mind and move on. (Or you remain resentfully silent out of a fear of alienating the others.) What life wants you to learn now is how to speak your truth dispassionately; which means you learn to channel your passion into creating what’s important to you rather than projecting it onto your significant other, your coworkers, and your potential collaborators. (You’re a live wire: how can you expect one person to handle all of that energy?!). Get busy creating this week. Then when you have something to say you can just say it — with no extra need, resentment, righteous indignation or wounded justice attached. Share With A Friend!
Capricorn – OK, this is probably going to sound weird to some of you. And some others are going to tune me out until three or four years down the line when you remember: Oh, that’s what he meant. But for those of you who have ears to hear, here’s my take on Uranus’ entry into your 4th House: What you feel is what the planet feels, and vice versa. You don’t really feel at home unless you’re going somewhere with your life. You like to know where that somewhere is but you also thrill to the sense of adventure that comes with setting a goal so big you don’t know if you’ll be able to reach your destination or not. With the archetype of revolution, enlightenment and higher mental awareness now ensconced in your house of home, family and emotions, I see you being happiest over the next seven years when you are recreating your personal sense of “home” so that it matches your expectations of what life should feel like. The most powerful way of doing this work is within your own psyche, of course. But you’ll also be driven to act on behalf of the collective, reclaiming our beautiful planet from the corporate, criminal and government exploiters and turning it back into a habitation fit for humans and other forms of wildlife. Share With A Friend!
Aquarius – It’s crucial this week that you say what you mean and mean what you say. It looks as though you’re trying to get an important agreement nailed down with a partner, a prospective collaborator or an ex. Your passion and desire to get this right are not in question, but with aggressive Mars in the powerful final degrees of your relationship house opposing hazy, gauzy Neptune in your 1st House of self, there’s a better than average chance of you coming off as unprepared, flighty, or downright deceitful. You can avoid this potential pitfall just by being aware that others may not be seeing or hearing you the way you appear to yourself this week. If possible, you might want to postpone proceedings for another week until after June 7 when Mars leaves your 7th House and moves into detail-oriented Virgo. Otherwise, just be extra clear. Leave a coherent paper trail. Document everything. Speak slowly and enunciate. And above all, know what you want and stick to the facts. Share With A Friend!
Pisces – “These are the days of miracles and wonders and don’t cry baby, don’t cry don’t cry”
– Paul Simon, “The Boy in the Bubble”
So starts Paul Simon’s magnificent Graceland, an album about finding redemption despite the disappointments, broken hearts and the avalanches of bad news that seem to be our lot in life in these modern times. I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I feel the anger, pain and pollution enveloping our home planet right now, all I want to do is escape to somewhere far, far away. But we were made for these times and while crying is a good idea (or finding other healthy ways of releasing those negative emotions you pick up so easily from the atmosphere around you), after the tears have flowed it’s time to focus on the work you came here to do. You see, the flip side of being a psychic sponge is that you have the ability to feel trends far in advance of most other humans. Which makes this volatile era we’re moving into a time of tremendous opportunity for you. Much of this opportunity is financial, and it involves doing work that you both enjoy and are naturally good at. I know that might sound strange after what you’ve been through in the last several years, but you need to shake that off and let it go. What you were doing then is learning the skills you’d need for now. So open your heart and resolutely open your mind to abundance. Share With A Friend!