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Written by Holiday Mathis
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Saturday, 18 November 2006 |
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The Mercury retrograde period has ended, and the little details of life that were shuffled out of place can now be shuffled back into place with little effort. Call people you've been meaning to call. Pen the long-overdue thank-you note. Put the package in the mail. It may only take three appropriate actions to get right with the world.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You make friends easily. All it takes is one wonderful, horrible occurrence to bond you with a new pal. Such a happening has you laughing into the evening. You're especially compatible with Cancer people now.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You're in a particularly headstrong mood -- and for you, that's saying a lot. Unless you're working with a complete lack of supervision, you can't really relax into your creative groove.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). What you formerly thought of as dumb details could be holding your whole scene together. This becomes clear when some small thing throws your day out of whack, but gives you a new appreciation, too.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). The individual and the collective merge so that you're not really sure what was your idea and what was someone else's. But it doesn't matter — really it doesn't — as long as everyone has the same goal.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You go into the theater of the mind, build your own set and play out the drama. Perhaps there won't be applause, but your audience, namely yourself, is rapt with the show, believing it 100 percent.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 18). You approach this year with great imagination and wonder. Therefore what occurs is much larger than is usually expected or thought possible. Figure out exactly what's needed to make a deal work and you pull it off in January. Love is lavished on you, and you go into the new year feeling whole. Aquarius and Virgo people are allies. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 30, 2, 25 and 44.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). There's a discrepancy between your self-image and your ability. The stars highlight it so that you can work to bolster one or the other, thus turning yourself into a perfectly balanced success machine.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The No. 1 enemy is the critic within. This negativity must be quarantined and controlled. Fight internal pressure by putting your focus on one task at a time.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The solutions for creating a better life are obvious -- so obvious you may have missed them. The stars point them out today, though. For instance, you can immunize yourself against stress with regular exercise.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). If you don't take to a task immediately, it means you're like most people. This gives you the chance to dig down and find your true grit. When you have the guts, you can learn to do better the next time.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You're faced with a challenging personality. And it's your job to meet the challenge. Look for the way to reach, inspire and open this person up. It'll probably take a few tries.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Are you pretending an arrangement is permanent when it's actually quite changeable? If you have created the illusion of being stuck in a situation, the stars now align to indicate the fallacy.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Note every good thing that occurs now, as there will be many happy incidents to celebrate. Giving focus to small glories will diminish the bad things you might have attended to.
ASTROLOGICAL POEM: My mentor, Joyce Jillson, was a great astrologer and brilliant thinker. One project we were working on together before she passed in 2004 was a series of love poems, one for each astrological sign. Joyce spoke and sang them over music, and the result was quite mesmerizing. Here is a poetic message of love for Leo:
You're a buttercup. The Golden Mean. A pussycat. A golden beam of sun.
No Machiavellian Prince, you're the Statue of Liberty and the coronation march -- a passion dance of ecstasy
Lighthouse of Alexandria, you're a wonder of the world. And if the world is wondering, your flag will come unfurled
You're the Godfather, the Grand Mother, the Queen and King of Karma
You are light, you are heat, and how you re-create the drama
You engage and delight -- your audience watching loyally
Keep polishing your talents, and shining your crown of integrity.
Shine star, jeweled heart, fire start!
CELEBRITY PROFILES: Freewheeling funnyman Owen Wilson uses intellect and charisma to charm his audiences. Whether he has written the script himself ("The Royal Tenenbaums") or is just lending his sharp Scorpio wit ("Wedding Crashers"), Wilson is a definite one of a kind. And in Hollywood, as in the rest of the world, those are hard to come by. I see another massive hit in the upcoming comedy "Outsourced."
If you would like to write to Holiday Mathis, please go to www.creators.com and click on "Write the Author" on the Holiday Mathis page, or you may send her a postcard in the mail. To find out more about Holiday Mathis and read her past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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