This week's AstroBarry
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Freedom and excitement, especially as they relate to how you offer and accept love, are begging for you to come and claim them as your own. But there's a love from your past—a person you called 'love', a mode of showing your love or seeking it from others, a distinct image of what love should look like—that's been clutching your heart for dear life, refusing to let you move on. Or is it you who won't let go… maybe because you simply can't imagine it could be any other way than it already was (except for a few changed details), or perhaps without even knowing you're holding on at all? Please trust me, Taurus: There are other ways. Your current or future lover(s), in all his/her blessed uniqueness, needn't be reduced to an eerie rerun of your former flame. If you see a pattern, I'm afraid the common denominator is you. Your automatic behavior in those moments when you're stirred to put your heart on the line isn't the only action you might take. Flip it, and reverse it. If you tend to come on slow and subtle, try a faster and franker advance. If you're 'all out, all at once', tinker with moderating the flow, giving only teasing bits and pieces at a time. And if you usually do nothing, then please experiment with doing something. (Anything, really.) To truly stimulate your passions, whether in a relationship or in seeking creative fulfillment, it's got to feel risky. And 'risky' means rebelling against the expected, refusing to replicate patterns… and rejecting any fixed rules about who to love, how to love, or when and where the next appealing opportunity may show up.
