PrFont34Bin0BinSub0Frac0Def1Margin0Margin0Jc1Indent1440Lim0Lim1ASTRAL REFLECTIONS BY TIM STEPHENS APRIL 4 - 10, 2010 All times/dates are PDT. CANCER, life has handed you the greatest of gifts, and the greatest challenge for the fifteen years ahead - both in relationships. If you're single, you are almost certain to meet the love of your life between now and 2025. But this love - this person - will demand your greatest effort, unselfishness and flexibility. You'll be attracted to your polar opposite with an almost gut-level intensity - you'll experience the miracle of new emotional depths. But he/she's different! Expect deep determination, an almost ruthless realism, ambition and a strict sense of propriety - maybe even a private/secret code of honour or ethics. This year, a person who appears will also possess a broad compassion, ready spiritual empathy, and a gentle mind - great qualities to mix with those more "determined" ones I just listed. Love can appear almost anytime, but it's going to be a little more difficult before July - because, oddly, sensual pleasure is too easy, and this tends to dilute amorous feelings. But June does bring some short trips or friendly meetings that glow with partnership signals. July intensifies this trend, as your charisma grows. Arguments are possible August/September, but this last month also starts a significant romantic trend. If you meet someone you immediately want to take home - tell him or her! Romance and sweet affections can flare through the entire autumn/winter. CAPRICORN, you are metamorphosing so completely you might as well tattoo an emerging butterfly over your heart. For years, decades, you have taken care of business - often serving other people's ends as well as - even more than - your own. Now, that won't be possible. You are becoming a new person, with new goals, new hopes, new likes and dislikes, and a new direction in love. You need someone who can comfortably fit this new you, and the track you'll be on for the next few decades. Your sexual magnetism is subtly but steadily growing, so you need to keep a responsible attitude toward those who are attracted. Be magnanimous, kind, gentle, and accommodating. (Don't worry, no one - no one - will take advantage of you.) Your dreams about love and about a life mate will come true in the decade ahead. However, don't marry before March 5,2011. Until then, be wary of a "too easy" commitment. Your sexual urges flare January to June. April flows with affectionate urges: an old flame might appear, or a romance grow, right into May/June. Don't rationalize a tawdry triangle June/July: just say no. The autumn brings three months of happy socializing - someone in the group has inviting eyes! Start Nothing: 1:58p.m. to 6:07p.m. Sun., 1:18a.m.to 5:51 a.m. Wed., and 2:45 p.m.to 6:48 p.m. Fri. Aries March 21-April 19 Ideas, conversations revolve around money - a trip or two might be involved. Start small projects, further ongoing ones - delays will begin in two weeks. You might find a Gemini, Virgo, Taurus or Libra is "dominating" early week - but all these signs are ready to make a deal (or get intimate). Think "co-operation" all week, especially Sunday to Tuesday, and success might be yours. Be ambitious Monday/Tuesday - luck accompanies you! Friends, fun, entertainment, flirtations and future hopes arrive Wednesday-Friday. Events aren't great, but you're happy! Retreat, plan Saturday. Taurus April 20-May 20 Continue to lie low, rest, contemplate and plan. Be charitable, visit those in need, seek spiritual growth, therapy, and deal with government. A minor "dust-up" might occur in property or family matters Sunday, but the rest of the week flows smoothly. Even Sunday (and through Tuesday) superb co-operation arrives with important relationships, partners, spouse, those who represent opportunity for you. Legal matters, international travel, religion or life philosophy, publishing, education or a cultural event might be involved. Be ambitious, dutiful Wednesday-Friday. Happiness Saturday! Gemini May 21-June 20 Hopes can come true! Always, hope can only stand on faith. So if you don't feel hopeful now, look deeper: what don't you believe about life, what anger is acting as a lid on hope? You've come through 13 years (1996-2008) of relationship struggle; it would be unusual if you didn't feel some dismay or anger, even though the essential struggle is over. The most important thing you can do now is realize that you have a happy future. In 2011 a long, long trend of "nerves" will end. Sunday to Tuesday, a background action or link opens the door to financial or intimate success: take it! Cancer June 21-July 22 You feel ambitious all week, so charge forth. But keep an eye on time, scheduling: projects will tend to encounter delays, "gaps" and indecision in about two weeks. So start only what you can finish quickly - or, better, give ongoing projects a final heave. Money doesn't go well Sunday, but love does - right into Tuesday. If single, you might meet someone who will introduce your heart to new feelings. If not in the romance market, you could meet a viable business partner, or an good opportunity. Don't invest (nor seek intimacy) Wednesday to Friday. Saturday's mellow, wise. Leo July 23-Aug. 22 Your intellectual, compassionate side remains open to ideas, new understandings and concepts of your (and humanity's) goodness. This is a great time to pursue legal, travel, international, publishing, educational, religious, cultural and love goals. Act quickly, for delays lie on the horizon (about mid-month). Only start small new projects, or pursue ongoing ventures. Your career, dealing with authorities are favoured now, but again, finish up - delays loom April 17 to May 11. These (ambitious dealings) synchronize splendidly with your employment Sunday to Tuesday. Attraction, late week. Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Mysteries, intimacy, large finances, lifestyle and health matters, commitments and consequence are the main themes this week and next. Make your commitments or your moves now, as mid-April to mid-May will bring delays, confusion, "misses" and doubts. A beautiful person may be waiting for you. Many things work together Sunday to Tuesday, in romantic, intellectual, travel, publishing, cultural and similar areas - go forth! These are excellent days to "adjust" your children's futures - cultural Saturday school, scholarship plans, etc. Tackle chores Wednesday-Friday. Attraction Saturday! Libra Sept.23-Oct. 22 Relationships continue to be important. You have a chance to end a relationship "profitably" Sunday to Tuesday. Profit can exist in the heart, the soul, too. You have an equal chance to strengthen the foundations of a marriage, partnership or other significant relationship, to re-establish and nurture it. If you doubt which to do, you probably should do the former (end it) - usually you lean too far on the accommodative side. If you ever feel you're being mildly taken advantage of, mildly abused, it is probably not mild at all. Romance, creativity Wednesday-Friday. To work, Saturday! Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Work is piling up - tackle it, you'll get almost all of it done before a period of delays and miscalculations enters April 17. (Need a reason to complete your chores early? How about an alluring old flame who's hovering on the late April-early May horizon.) Relationships, amorous opportunities - and regular, practical opportunities - start to grow, even in the midst of your work, especially Sunday through Tuesday. Speak up; communication is the bond. Retreat to a defensive or restful position Wednesday to Friday. This eve through Saturday promotes romance, creativity - but mildly. Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Romance, love, creativity, pleasure, expansion, culture and art, joys from happy children - these lift your life this week and next. You remain on a winning streak. But catch the pleasure train now - for work is already building, you'll hear news this week, good (work) news Sunday to Tuesday. A big job that wasn't completed in the past might return for redoing in late April/early May. Chase money or buy high-tech items (computers, cars, etc.) Monday/Tuesday. Be cautious when speaking, writing and driving Wednesday. Home, nature, restaurants look inviting Friday night, Saturday. Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Your life's changing more than it ever has before (2008 through 2024). To grow you need to prune deadwood - do so this week and next, cull outmoded methods, links and projects. The new will come and grow. If you want to proactively grow the new, focus (this year and the first half of 2011) on foundations, find new ones, or strengthen and grow the ones you have. (Foundations: the basement, the platform, food, rest, therapy; everything that will support future action. Proceeding forward now would be like a flower growing too weak a stem.) Control your world Monday/Tuesday! Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18 You can make great strides in a private, domestic, property, administrative, government-related, career or spiritual area Sunday to Tuesday. Work in the background, in a "soft" manner. Your personality radiates Wednesday to Friday, charisma and energy rise. But don't start big things - stick to the small, as a period of delay and back-tracking lies ahead, April 17 to mid-May. Chase money or shop Saturday. If you need to buy something important before June - car, ticket, appliance, machinery, etc. - do it Saturday. Talk to an "enemy" - d‚tente, a solution is possible. Pisces Feb. 19-March 20 Chase money. You can make or cement a good new friendship Sunday to Tuesday. It's a casual friendship, but will have a more than casual effect on your life - e.g., this person might open a door someday, or make a comment that points you in the right direction at a crucial time of your life, might help you enter a new social circle, etc. Retreat Wednesday to Friday - luck's low, and you're tired. Your energy and charisma surge back Friday night through the weekend - make an impression, see and be seen, start new things (short new things, as delays are two weeks away). www.astralreflections.com. Email: timstephens@shaw.ca. For a reading: 416-686-5014. /30/