YOUR STARS

Once you look away from the asteroid belt you find hardly any asteroids of significant size in a regular, predictable orbit around the Sun. One exception, out between Saturn and Uranus, gets astrologers excited. Discovered in 1977, Chiron is a cross between an asteroid and a comet. Such objects are called centaurs, and Chiron was the most famous centaur in Greek mythology. He was the great healer who, ultimately, couldn’t heal himself. He was also an astrologer. If ever I have to confess that I didn’t anticipate something in my own future, I cite his story as the explanation!

ARIES (March 21 — April 20) Have you got the keys to the planet? When this big blue ball finally stops spinning, would you be the one to switch off the engine, lock it up and turn off the lights? It is no use shaking your head and saying that you don’t know what I mean. I have heard the rumours. I suspect they may be true. Apparently, you are the one in charge. Ultimately, the real reason why anyone, anywhere, ever does anything, is because of you! Er, well, okay then. Maybe not. But you have still got a surprisingly large amount of power right now. Use it well.

For more, call 900-528-8880. TAURUS (April 21 — May 21) Ever since my daily predictions started being turned into Japanese and Spanish, I have been slightly nervous. The translators are lovely experienced people. But they have so much power! They can make me sound like an idiot or a genius. And how will I know? But then sometimes, it is difficult to get your point across even when you are talking to someone who shares the same language. Venus and Neptune now form a rightangle. If you think you know what someone else is saying to you, double-check, just to be sure.

For more, call 900-528-8880. GEMINI (May 22 — June 22) In many a classic cartoon, there comes a moment when the shipwrecked sailors land on a tiny island only to discover, as it rises up out of the ocean, that it is actually the back of a giant sea monster. You get the same thing in thrillers, where the heroes run from the villains and take refuge in a room only to discover that the man behind the desk is the evil crime lord. That is pretty much your concern. But if a frying pan doesn’t have any heat under it, you can hardly jump from there into a fire. Relax!

For more, call 900-528-8880. CANCER (June 23 — July 23) Think of a circus performer walking carefully along a thin tight wire high above the ground. Surely, what they want is to arrive safely at the end of their journey. But is that all they want? If it were, they could just go straight to the pillar that holds up the far end of the rope and climb a ladder. Then they would be at the other end. But that would hardly be an adventure and the audience wouldn’t be very impressed. You can’t have a joyous moment of stress relief, unless you first have stress! Don’t worry today.

For more, call 900-528-8880. LEO (July 24 — Aug. 23) Once upon a time, there was something you didn’t know. Because you didn’t know it, you didn’t even know that you didn’t know it! Then one day, you knew it. You found something out, you were taught a lesson or something was revealed to you. Now you can’t imagine what life must have been like back in the days before you got that knowledge. How did you cope? On what basis did you make your choices and how could they possibly have been wise? I say this only because the Full Moon is about to bring you a wonderful revelation.

For more, call 900-528-8880. VIRGO (Aug. 24 — Sept. 23) People, as you may have noticed, are peculiar. They say and do some very strange things. I’m not talking here about oddballs and eccentrics. The strangest folks of all are the ones who act normal or who believe themselves to be ordinary and conventional. It is only when you spend quite some time observing them at close quarters that their idiosyncrasies are revealed. Are you now baffled by someone’s attitude? Everything will become easier to understand if you stop imagining that, somehow, it must make sense.

For more, call 900-528-8880. LIBRA (Sept. 24 — Oct. 23) Great creativity comes from chaos, not order. Inspiration is very often a by-product of desperation. You can’t put something back together until it has first fallen apart. You can’t see a brilliant solution until you have first come to accept the full extent of the problem that needs to be solved. Venus and Neptune are making you keenly aware of something that isn’t working. Trying to close your eyes and just pretend that everything is fine won’t help you much today. But if you really open your eyes ... oh the things you will see!

For more, call 900-528-8880. SCORPIO (Oct. 24 — Nov. 22) Scorpio! Why would anyone ever want to be born under any other sign? Just imagine how lacking in depth and drama their lives would be. How bleak, how dull, how disappointing must be the experience of the non-scorpio. You get all the excitement, largely because the world gives it to you, but sometimes because you create it. You have got an amazing ability not just to spot trouble wherever it is hiding, but to tempt it out into the open and challenge it. Why does trouble like you? Maybe, it is because you like it!

For more, call 900-528-8880. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 — Dec. 21) Confidence suits you. You wear it well. Like a smart suit that has been made to measure, it flatters your figure and turns heads. Of course, you have to take it off every so often. If you wore it day and night, it would not keep looking or feeling so good. From time to time you must allow yourself to “get naked” on the inside. You must acknowledge doubt and tackle personal shortcomings. But lately you have spent too long in a state of undress. It is time to swap the pajamas of perplexity for the pinstripes of positivity.

For more, call 900-528-8880. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 — Jan. 20) If everything in life is simple, obvious, and easy to understand, why do we have universities? Why do people have to go on long, arduous training courses? Why do the library shelves of this world creak and groan under the weight of so many complicated textbooks? Some things really just aren’t that straightforward. But others are. Today you can pretty much forget about anything that looks as if it is due to be too difficult or demanding. Whatever can happen sweetly and naturally is the thing that needs to happen next.

For more, call 900-528-8880. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 — Feb. 19) I hope you didn’t show yesterday’s forecast to anyone. It was strictly between you and I. I don’t suppose it much matters if you showed it only to another Aquarian. If someone born under a different zodiac sign were to see it, they might feel a little upset. There’s me telling you how special you are and how blessed you should feel for your astrological inheritance, while other signs are still having to struggle with day-to-day difficulties and drawbacks. Your outlook now remains exceptional but you need to be discreet.

For more, call 900-528-8880. PISCES (Feb. 20 — March 20) They say you should never make a statement on the internet that you aren’t prepared to shout from the rooftop of your home with a megaphone clutched to your mouth. There is really very little privacy on those social networking sites. You are, of course, still entitled to think whatever you want to think, not even the founders of Facebook have yet managed to come up with a way to read our minds and publish them on a page. But under the current alignment from Venus to Neptune, it may be wise to watch what you say.

For more, call 900-528-8880.