CAPRICORN D E C . 2 2 - J A N . I 9

Hallelujah! The accidental exaltation of your 12th-house ruler should bring you more peace of mind and security than you’ve had in years. For the moment, you can actually enjoy the time you spend at home. Even your father issues should be healing quite nicely. Inner contentment, however, has nothing whatsoever to do with real estate, family dynamics, or the stock market. The only way to achieve a state of true calm right now is through spiritual practice. Who would have ever thought that you, of all people, would succumb to the power of the universe?

AQUARIUS JAN.20-FEB.I8

Have you been feeling tom between your need for support and your' rejection of it? Astrologers blame this on Saturn and Uranus, but the fact remains that you have recently been acting out against your dependence on certain people and that that has led to stressful personal upheavals. No matter how isolated you’ve let yourself become, though, you’ll be a lot happier if you get back in touch with those you’ve cut off. Even if some of your associates have disappointed you—and they probably have—hang in there and keep the lines open, hang-ups notwithstanding.

PISCES FEB. 19-MARCH 20

If you have had cash-flow problems, they should soon become part of the blur that makes up your past. The ruler of your solar midheaven is gaining momentum in your 2nd house, and that means money. One word of advice: no one is going to slip an envelope full of thousand-dollar bills under your door and then just leave you to your own devices. The Pluto-Chiron conjunction at the top of your chart suggests major intervention from the people upstairs. As well as big-time surveillance. And though that could keep you awake for a few nights, don’t get too paranoid about it.

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19

Apart from the issue of money, which you still can’t seem to get straight in your head, Jupiter’s direct motion should clear up any doubt or confusion that has been bugging you. At the same time, it could make some of your grandiose dreams come true. Just make sure that your thoughts remain on a higher plane, and you should sail happily into the 21st century without a care in the world. Because your brain doesn’t always function at top efficiency, the trick right now is to keep your consciousness raised long enough for the good stuff to happen.

TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20

With Saturn in your sign and Pluto meeting Chiron in your 8th house, your passion for staying young and living life to the fullest is equaled only by your obsessive fear of getting old and dying. No sweat. Though you may be caught in a paradox, you’re tougher than a palm tree in a hurricane, and nothing can ever shake you from your belief that the world will eventually come to its senses and realize that your values are the right ones. To overcome all obstacles, the control freak in you must surrender to a belief in miracles. That is what you’ve been preaching, isn’t it?

GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 21

At times like this, good friends can be a great source of comfort to you. Only a mean-spirited, heartless fool could laugh at your plight or refuse to acknowledge that, because you have loved, trusted, and depended on other people, you have suffered deep and painful wounds, not to mention a frightening sense of engulfment. Although it may be a moth-eaten cliche, it is also true that sometimes those who cause us the most aggravation bring us the greatest wisdom. Just consider how much Rhett Butler taught Scarlett O’Hara about true love.

CANCER J U N E 2 2 - J U LY 2 2

Work and health are the two inescapable preoccupations that can either energize or enervate you now, depending on your level of consciousness. If you have a good job and haven’t already become bored enough to up and walk away from it, the direct motion of your 6th-house ruler will give you a raft of new opportunities, as well as support and accolades from people whose approval you once really wanted. The health thing is simple: get off the gouty-squire kick. Change your ways and live a long and happy life. When the creme brulee is put in front of you, just say no.

LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22

If you’re a Leo parent, you’re probably having issues with your kids, but since you can’t keep them from their destiny you may as well enjoy your own life while you can. Even if you have only one drop of creativity left in you, get with it and wake up to the fact that there may be no tomorrow. The simultaneous passage of Pluto and Chiron through your solar 5th house demands that you suffer in heroic fashion to show your stuff to the world. Meanwhile, with Jupiter in your 9th house, you have nothing to be afraid of. After all, you’ve still got one hell of a mind.

VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22

When Chiron conjoins Pluto at the bottom of your solar chart, the family scapegoat is likely to get nailed. There is usually one outlaw in every family—yours included—who represents everyone’s dark side, and who eventually takes the hits and ends up serving as the sacrificial lamb. Have compassion for the dim bulbs in your family who lack the ability to understand this concept. On the bright side, if you’ve been waiting for fiscal backing, it’s on the way. And if you’ve been wishing for a decent sex life for a change, that too might now be available.

LIBRA SEPT. 23OCT. 23

The reason some individuals shudder when they find out you’re a Libra is that they know how often you make decisions without telling even the people those decisions are going to affect, at least not until it’s too late for them to object or do anything about it. The only antidote for that sort of baloney is to be totally up-front about what you’re going to do and then face the consequences. Since Jupiter in your 7th house indicates major good luck in business and personal relationships, you’d do well to start off on the right foot and give truth a chance, even on the first date.

SCORPIO OCT. 24-NOV. 21

The wisest tack you can take now is to accept the period you’re going through as just another of the thousand and one “healing moments” (read tortures) that Scorpios undergo over the years. This time it’s the money thing. Consider it an education, albeit an expensive one, in every conceivable aspect of marketing, finance, and bookkeeping. Besides, no matter what is brewing in your 2nd house, as long as the ruler is going direct in your 6th you’re sure to be healthy, creative, and productive. And in the end you don’t really care about anything else anyway.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21

The most important thing for you to know right now is that Chiron and Pluto are in Sagittarius—and that is no joke. If it were possible to X-ray a person’s soul, anyone could see that you have recently sustained a deep emotional wound. As bravely as you try to put on a good-natured, nothinggets-to-me face, you cannot conceal the fact that you have been dealt a severe blow and are smarting from the bruise. Don’t forget love, though. Jupiter’s direct motion will keep love in your heart no matter what else is going on. And when they come to take you away, just keep laughing.

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