From Psychic Dream:

Whether or not you feel prepared, it's high time you made some major changes. Your internal stability may feel fab or drab, but either way, it's time to rely on it. The foundations you build on are important for your mental health. But in terms of your goals, the most important thing is to move. Go in the direction of your ideals.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here's what's hard: Continuing to put in the same consistent day-in-day-out efforts on the now-so-very-familiar routine of tasks, all while you have a sneaking suspicion that your underlying impetus to keep on fightin' this fight is embroiled in a gradual, but profound, reorientation. Your philosophic core is indeed deeply transmuting, Taurus. Yet, like most important evolutionary processes, this one will take a long time… and you're currently closer to the beginning of it than any reassuring conclusion. At the same time, since the basic premises behind how you've organized your daily rituals haven't yet conclusively changed (i.e., you're not at a place to confidently define what exactly is different), you've got to maintain the existing momentum as it's been. Though you may rightfully foresee a time somewhere ahead in the future (whether nearer or farther) when what you're doing now will seem quaint, outdated or pointless—a moment which will make itself abundantly clear once it arrives—you don't yet know what it will be replaced with. Until then, you've got to honor the previous developments that got you this far in the first place… and hold it together, despite the unresolved questions.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): While it may seem more desirable (to a certain Greta-Garbo-ish part of your psyche at least) to sequester thyself indoors and spare your tender innards the indignity of putting on a personality suitable for public view, let me suggest such a hiding-out would be a waste of your temporarily heightened power to influence. Fight off the inner voice of least resistance, Scorpio, who might argue that, to truly suit your personal cravings of the moments, you should fasten the shutters tight and cocoon into the protective casing of home. Isn't that a little short-sighted, especially once your astrologer points out you've still got the Sun, Mercury and Venus on your side? With your planetarily-glorified mix of startlingly crisp communications and almost uncanny allure, you presently possess the chops to convince nearly anyone of anything—that is, if you sincerely buy into it. (Disclaimer: Beware of manipulating.) Knowing that, use what you've momentarily got to think a few steps ahead… rather than, say, merely excusing yourself from all such forethought so you can take it easy another few days. 'Easy' may indeed be easy, but also somewhat wasteful of opportunity.

Some weeks it's just scary true.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23- Nov. 22)
Saturn entering Libra represents an enormous sea change for you. Certain elements of your nature make you one of the most inherently introspective signs of the 12. Yet Saturn, now in your 12th solar house, is drawing you toward a dimension of inner seclusion that is different than anything you've experienced lately. And that is putting pressure on you to change your mind about certain long-held beliefs; to alter your environment; and to come to terms with everything about you that nobody else knows. However, you may recognize that your inner secret world cannot stay that way for long. The overriding theme of your current transits is that in order to regain your sanity, you need to be more transparent. In the end, you will discover that it was not what you were concealing that was causing your struggle, but the mere fact that you concealed it.

The inner secret world thing coming out is scary true lately. I am surprised at what comes out of me this week!

Silverwheel:

Scorpio
24th October – 22nd November
Your ruler Pluto, planet of trusting the unknown, is linking to Saturn, planet of future expectations, all month. It’s an interesting mix of energies, especially as Saturn has just entered the ‘go with the flow’ angle of your chart, where surrender takes you where you want to go faster than fighting against the current. There’s a fabulous new moon (new phase) in your sign on the 16th and events around this time somehow show you how well things can go when you trust the process. As this is a long-term influence, things unfold gradually, but this is part of it too; trusting the timing.

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Planet Waves: Scorpio (Oct. 23- Nov. 22)
You have the personal moxie, the charm, the style, energy and most of all, the personal required to succeed in the way that you want to. In fact, you can forget about everything on that list except for the last item. Success does not usually happen fast, and we have good reason to question the kind that does. What I am telling you is that you have solid reasons to have faith in yourself. So what if various elements of your romantic life make about as much sense as two jigsaw puzzles mixed together. Who cares if there are those nights you feel like you're holed up in a raft floating on the ocean of your own existence. You actually know who you are. You actually believe in yourself.

Free Will Astrology (these two made my friends about FAINT this week with the accuracy):
My friend Alcea, the pagan priestess who leads group rituals, is a responsible sort who has humble respect for the power of the spirit realms. She thinks there can be value in seeking help from the beings who dwell on the other side of the veil, but you've got to be careful. They can be as clueless and misguided as the less evolved characters who live on the material plane. That's why Alcea is especially impeccable around this time of year, when the veil between the worlds is thinner and our dimension is more accessible to the spirits. Having said all that as a caveat, Taurus, I want to let you know that this would be an excellent time for you to call on the help of your most intelligent, interesting, and loving ancestors.

The astrological vibes suggest that you open yourself wide, try everything, and give freely. I urge you to adapt as your motto an exhortation that once came out of the mouth of the seven-year-old cartoon character Dennis the Menace: "Hey! Wake up! Let's go everywhere and do everything!" More than any other phase in many moons, Scorpio, this is your moment to make YES your battle cry. The world is asking you to be bigger than the old you, wilder than five blood oaths put together, and as strong as the full moon rising over a mountain.

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SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): By the end of the week, Mars will have settled in for an eight-month visit to your solar 10th… an influence that bespeaks of asserting your will firmly and unapologetically on the public stage, so that you might reach ever more baldly toward the career or community-related goals that most move you. As this is a long time for Mars to occupy a house, Scorpio, I urge you to conceive of this as more a marathon than a race. What you are on the precipice of setting into motion may not become securely actualized until the late-spring of '10, with the potential for a few doubt-generating stops and starts during Mars's retrograde period (Dec 20 09-Mar 10 10). For now, with lady-luck Venus moving into the invisible 12th-house zone for a few weeks' stay, this first leg of the Mars-in-the-10th journey might best be handled by entertaining two main mindsets: (1) a lot of quiet observing and strategizing, so you're well aware of the existing reality within the context in which you hope to make waves, and (2) a mystical communing with the universe's divine forces (how you personally make sense of 'em), to express gratitude for what you've got so far and to request cosmic support and blessings for what you're about to do. Once Venus hits your sign on Nov 7, you'll be in a prime position to (re)introduce your ambitions—and reap some positive press in the process.

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TAURUS Don't be surprised if an urge to break free from a restrictive professional situation motivates the need for sudden action. While I'm not advising you to act impetuously, I am suggesting you honor our need for change.

 

SCORPIO As you see it, the tension between what is possible and what is probable is overwhelming. What you're not figuring into the equation is your ability to transform the situation.

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Free Will Astrology:

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taurus (Apr. 21st-May 20th)
You’re one of those incredibly successful multi-taskers who has a full-time job, writes at least one novel a year (several of which are available on Amazon), volunteers at the old folks’ home, occasionally retreats to the woods for spiritual enlightenment and a landscape oil painting class, and never has to wipe their ass more than three times. This week, not only will you cure some disease, but in your “spare time” you’ll meet someone with real potential. People around you will grimace and pretend to be happy for you.

The multitasker part is true, but I won't hold my breath.

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"There’s a classic and sexy song by Bryan Ferry called Slave To Love. It somewhat defines where you’re at in your journey right now. You want to be in love and you want your freedom; you want to think rationally, but your mind is ruled by your passions. Oh, sweet ecstasy and delicious pain all rolled into one tantalizing but confusing web of emotions! How to move forward? You’ll make life much easier by observing where and how you’ve been prone to pitfalls in the past, so that you can evaluate whether or not you’re in danger of repeating history today."

Hah. Love this.

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Taurus: When you go through a process of spiritual growth, it can take the ‘ego mind’ some time to catch up with the progress of your soul. The seeming coexistence in a double paradigm can be difficult. There’s also no guarantee that any one person will succeed in experiencing unified consciousness; not in this world, where we always have another seemingly good reason to retreat to the past. Yet you are moving forward, in the face of so many factors that are seemingly so much larger than yourself. In a little while, the dilemmas that seem so important today will vanish into the depths of your true calling. I would go so far as to describe this as an evolutionary movement for your whole being; not your existence as it seems to be in fragments, or dissociated parts. You are not one who thrives on confrontation. But ultimately we must each confront the fact of our own existence and what it means. As Venus changes signs to Cancer and forms an opposition to Pluto, you may experience something rather like this.

Scorpio: I am sure you wish the negotiation process would finally end; it would be easier indeed if more of the people around you were more negotiable, and for that matter more committed to their own cause. This, I think you will discover is true as the next few days unfold. Here is the challenge: seeing things as they are, not as you are. You may struggle to emphasize the positive, or perhaps more accurately, to see what appears to be negative in its true context. Someone close to you is leading you gently toward a place of faith. You have the ability to stay where you’ve felt stuck; or to shift your consciousness to a new kind of awareness. Take note: they are leading you emotionally, toward a feeling-tone where you will be able to stabilize your consciousness on what I can only describe as love: the real thing, connected to something much larger than yourself. This is directly an expression of your potential. As you taste this, you will still be aware of some sharp contrasts within you and around you. But you will have a new basis for judging what is possible.

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