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June, 30 2008
Star Talk, June 30
by Philip Sedgwick
Star Talk, Week of June 30, 2008
Today and over the next several days, Venus and the Sun align with the brightest night time star, Sirius. Of course, since the Sun is involved, we'll not be able to view the stellar alignment. The lack of visibility by no means shunts the effects. Sirius, the Dog Star, in southwestern indigenous culture, refers to clearing emotional toxins out of the belly. If you thought of emotional reactions as food, imagine you went to Burger Belly Bomber's Drive Through Emporium when ravished and short on time. Sure, you also intended your meal to be economical as well as time saving. But two hours later the bowling ball in your stomach encourages you to make a note never to subject yourself to that ever again. Knowing that the planet that refers to love and money, Venus and the body representing our identity, pride and respect for self, the Sun, cross the path of the purging influences of this beautiful blue star, work on clearing those matters. That's right, when others say and do things that hurt your feelings, confidently speak up. Getting the gaseous emotional reactions on the table is the best way of keeping good feelings flowing and checking behaviors that do not honor your emotional sensibilities. It may be uncomfortable as the internal psychic debris surfaces, but like any productive (and hopefully private!) belch, the relief that follows is worth it.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
It has long been rumored that Aries are not the domestic type. With strong planetary influences supporting domesticity and duty to the household, you can now set that record straight or set it to any angle you choose. The truth be told, you might not seem domesticated while you're out on patrol at the perimeter of the jungle life is out there, protecting your brood. Your vigilant sensors prove your high degree of sensitivity and dare I write it.... vulnerability!? When you return from a round of surveillance and declare, "All secure," you'd like to be met with a hug, beverage and more. You'll also expect your mate to realize that before long, you'll need to do another set of rounds. When you return, the domestic realm you so devotedly protect does well to rally and rise to sustain your every need. You deserve it! Take a few moments to refine what your duties actually need to be. No point in exerting energy where it does not need to be applied. Save yourself so that you can savor your mate once the fortress is secure.
TAURUS (April 20-May 21)
Establish some plans that address home improvement but go so much further. Any change, improvement or modification you set aside funds to complete, create a stronger senses of comfort and home security. If you're redoing the carpeting, getting the higher quality pad not only makes your property more valuable, it feels good every time you set a foot on it. Each time you take a step a pleasant feeling infuses your body, reminding you what a good job you're doing of taking care of those you love and yourself. Taureans can verify that when they feel cozy, comfy, cuddled and cared for, they think better, plan more efficiently, generate money faster, address children's issues more calmly and love like no one's watching. Any improvement deserves to be free of buyers' remorse. Make your mantra something about you home is your castle and you just made its appeal larger and extended its longevity, you have successfully created a delectable dominion for all those who reside therein.
GEMINI (May 22-June 21)
Concentration thickens as applied to monetary matters, investments, securing the future and creating an environment in which you can make money doing what you love. If you do not work a j-o-b outside of the home, the planets push you to think of home enterprises that will be worth their while. Becoming the yard sale organizer for three zip codes will keep you busy, but if you gross $1500 per month, you'll have to review the investment of time and the emotional expenditure required. You'd be better off cultivating a creative yearning with the intention to investigate if it has revenue potential at some point down the road. The starting goal is simply to apply your creativity, not make your favorite thing to do an enterprise. Yes, you can have two hobbies, but only if you vow to apply time discipline to other home essential matters you'd be likely to ignore - paying bills for instance. At the end of the creative day, show your display of creative prowess to your mate without succumbing to urge to explain it.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
The old axiom, be here now, fits. It's time to savor, but not linger. Think of it this way. Let's say you're going to head over to a neighbor's for some good old-fashioned homemade ice cream during this holiday week. The combo your neighbor whips up stands on the table as a masterpiece in a huge serving bowl, perfectly splendid with peaches and blue berries throughout. If you guys stand around discussing whether bananas should be sliced to go with it and if chocolate syrup may not be of high enough quality, the creation melts right in front of your eyes. It's like that right now. When delicious offerings and wonderful opportunities get made, dig in. Hesitation works against trend. The time demands the use of the instinct sensors in the belly. Feel, sense and react. By the way, yes to the bananas if you've been playing softball and not properly hydrating. Enjoy everything with abandon. And second servings in patterns such as these are absolutely permitted.
LEO (July 23-August 22)
Let's say your clan went out to some remote family farm for the holidays. They have an old water pump on the property that you'll use to put well water in the corn cooking pot and rinse sticky watermelon fingers. The pump needs priming. Then, it's going to take some working to surface the water. When your muscles need a break, you'll pause not hinting that sweat drips down your brow, but that you're attentively listening the promising subterranean surges. You'll report that it's coming. You ought to know this sensation by heart. You feel your emotional waters trying to overcome gravity, struggling against internal inertia and needing just a few more pushes on the handle to surface them. Get ready. When it comes, it's gonna come. While your working to surface the inside riches, think of the pump station again. Do you have buckets or bottles for the water? In the same vein, what are you going to do with all this emotional bigness when it shows?
VIRGO (August 23-September 22)
To create an image for your churning inner tides, think about a car full of testosterone rich teenage boys, pulling up next to your SUV at a red light. They rev their engine, clutch pressed to the floor. Then they test the friction point of the clutch, causing their car to jerk like a Tasmanian devil pushing around a quadruple chocolate latte. You could take them with your high-powered engine, but you're not about to do something ungreen to put a few teenagers in place. This is a snapshot of life. Your sensibilities prevail, keeping you from engaging in silliness that does not further. Yet your energy - and passion, oh and a lot of that - yearns for a place to go. If you have no starting point, you could consider global/humanistic causes. You could take out your old paints, clay, writing supplies and spread them out to see if any of them summon you. Or you could, saunter into your partner, having just rinsed off the humidity of the day to see if you're squeaky clean everywhere. The results of the latter option might be more fruitful than you could possibly imagine.
LIBRA (September 23-October 22)
The pressure on your career or your urge to pursue what you believe to be your purpose increases. This squeeze rises to a level where you might overlook a few non essential domestic and spouse related matters. There's actually no problem if your intentions and need for a mild absence receive clear verbal indication. If you evaporate, according to those needing something from you, likely you'll be crowded, followed, pursued and challenged regarding your motives. There's no need for a crisis. You have to do what you have to do. Part of what you have to do is take care of things at home and keep that love light brightly illuminated as you follow professional and destiny inclinations. Think of it this way, a fork has three prongs, right? Now the fork in your road requires you traverse multiple options. Go Ecclesiastes in your negotiations. Everything has its time. When a "thing" has its time, it is nice to be emotionally aligned with it, precisely at that time.
SCORPIO (October 23-November 22)
You can prevent rising challenges from others concerning the meaning of your actions or the intent behind the motives that steer your actions. There're two points of view here. If a person deserves and needs to know what's up your sleeves, unbutton those sleeves and roll 'em up. If a person seems bored, curious, meddlesome and gossip-likely, it's totally cool for you to keep your lip buttoned. Being a bit of a secretive sort, you're naturally resistant to tipping your hand or divulging personal information that can do a person no possible good to know. This is one of those times where you'll protect your privacy with the fervor. When it comes to your mate, you most intimate thoughts and fantastical speculations do a world of good when shared. When it comes to wanting to buy the getaway bungalow, time share or complex real estate deal, take your mate for a tramp in the woods for a down to earth talk. Do not expect others to read your mind. Surrounding by tall trees, tip your hand and dump the fullness of your emotional vessel.
SAGITTARIUS (November 23-December 22)
Since you're not entirely fond of the emotional energy in the air - it's all sticky like one of those hot summer days. Why not redirect? Think of ducks in a row. A rising fire builds inside that prompts you forward toward redefining and redirecting your purpose/profession in life. Sag does like to ponder a good bit and speculate about a lot of optimistic "what ifs." Grab your favorite five "what ifs," fire up the brain power, add long range vision, get excited and set out to apply all that fervor into making the world (and your life, but that goes without saying) a better place. This rush of energy puts in you the "get it out there" and the "do it" outward bound modes. You have a roost and given you have a rooster; to those in the roost clearly communicate the time frames to which your efforts are obliged. Make promises you can keep about when you'll return to that roost of yours and how great that will be. The end of that rainbow must remain shimmering in your eternal light of enthusiasm.
CAPRICORN (December 23-January 20)
Free yourself from the shackles of silly details, redundant paper work so you can enjoy life for a spell. This is a holiday week coming up, so shuck some corn and prepare some fixings to enjoy. You could think of this as your personal All Star Break You know how you are. As soon as you sit back and suck in some sunsets, your contemplative nature turns task-oriented. That is your nature. But before jumping up and engaging the tasks you assign to yourself, conduct an energy assessment of those tasks. Which can be done by others? Which require your attention? Which further your position in life and shape that thing you think of as your mission in life? Think about it as the holiday weekend continues. Next week the fire of "let's go" Mars alchemizes the strategies of Saturn and a flow like you've not seen since early in the year opens stuck doors. If you take this week to contemplate, you'll observe that some difficulties evaporate like mirages on a hot summer highway.
AQUARIUS (January 21-February 18)
By now you know that it's your job, like it or not, to come up with off the wall, zany ideas that might actually fly. The combined planets' progress of the time notes the one thing required to make wild ideas turn into reality: material support. Write out concept treatments for your greatest ideas and innovations even though it might be boring. Monetize your brainstorms. Keep your approach three fold. Write up a short, exciting blurb as a block diagram view. Create a short synopsis that addresses the concept, development and delivery leaving out details. Put down a third document that outlines thorough dirty details from every possible angle imaginable. When the chance to present appears, put it out there. Do all this, of course, as you maintain the daily household flow. If you stress the importance of your efforts, household members will cut you some slack during the next several weeks. It may take a few months, but this effort now, pays dividends later.
PISCES (February 19-March 20)
Lots of juicy emotional energy swirls the airwaves. You should love times like. You can wax poetic, get back into a hobby, come up with a CD full of hip lullabies for the modern child and talk your loving partner into a frenzied state of bliss. You can drift off the marker from time to time, possibly leaving others guessing as to your physical and emotional whereabouts. While entering into twilight conversations of what makes the world go round, remember to stay on point. When you complete a thought and see glazed, quizzical eyes returning your stare, ask where you went tangential. Back up to that point, recapture the essence and complete the point you intended to make. Emotional times are rich, intoxicating and can produce a pheromone high that short circuits logic processes, such as that of the linear thought process required to form sentences. Create a "reset" keyword with your mate. When the boat drifts off course, the word gets said and you reset the compass. That way, you won't be accused of being a little dingy.
Philip Sedgwick previously wrote horoscopes and astrological pieces for the Science Fiction Channel's website, the America West Airline Magazine, Media Village.com, StarIQ.com and will be restarting a column on ConstellationMag.com next month. Also a screenwriter, he and a creative partner (and just about ready to become a first time mom), are working the television and film marketplace. His chock-full website is: www.philipsedgwick.com and he can be e-mailed at: galactic@philipsedgwick.com.
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