The Bona Venture

Issue date: 2/5/10 Section: Web Exclusives

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ARIES (March 21 - April 10): Pluto's tour through your career house has you itching to make big changes. You're craving deeper fulfillment from your work, but the vision of how to earn enough money from this path is still crystallizing. Then there's the fact that certain people are depending on you at work and home. Quitting your day job is oh-so-tempting, but is it truly a responsible move at this time? Not exactly. This week, a square between Pluto and Saturn sounds the call for partnership. Start lining up allies and supporters who can help you make this transition smoothly. It may take until October to fully work itself out, but there's no reason why you can't begin slowly inching towards your dream work arrangement. Likely, this will find you working independently, as you thrive when you can create without restriction or watchful eyes looking over your shoulder. Engage your romantic partner in this process as well. If you work together as a team, you'll find creative ways to generate enough cash during potential lean (or dry) spells in your earning process.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): Transformer Pluto is pushing you to travel, learn, and expand your horizons. This week, however, its expansive scope is restrained by a square with Saturn. Until April 8, Saturn is retrograding through your house of work, finances, and daily routines. For the time being, you'll have to work doubly hard to manifest resources and temper your lusty appetite along the way. As you crystallize your entrepreneurial ideas or long-range goals, you still require cash flow to cover your expenses. This leaves you caught between a rock and a hard place...temporarily. If you choose to take on any new work, make sure it isn't SO taxing that it interferes with the time you need to develop your dreams. You're the type who gives her all to what she does. It would be easy to get sucked into the whirlwind of someone else's plans and neglect your own. Put your feelers out there. An old coworker could have a prospective job lead that's worth following. This position may feel "beneath you," but it provides some breathing room in the interim. Set aside pride. Your health and wellness goals continue to call for rigid attentiveness. There are plenty of reasons to "fall off the wagon," but don't get cocky. One slip up could derail progress more than you think. You're not far enough down the path of progress to cut corners yet.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Your champagne wishes are granted sporadically this week, making it hard to truly relax into a space of "joie de vivre." You tend to live for the moment, Gemini, but this could become a bit dangerous between now and October. With Pluto and Saturn squaring off directly, it's time to sit down and make a six-month plan for your finances. Your budget could use some revising, and, unfortunately, some de-luxe-ing. You're capable of burning through funds in record time, especially when a romantic notion plants itself in your head. Put some boundaries around your outflow of cash. Give yourself a fun fund, an entertainment budget, and a stipend for workshops. Open a savings account for travel and pleasure. You may have to hold off on a few of these desires, but not forever. Once you're clear about your expenses, shift to a more inspiring challenge--figuring out how to create new sources of income. Necessity is the mother of invention, and you could dream up a brilliant new career path for yourself as a result of this belt-tightening phase.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22): This week, Pluto and Saturn square off, asking you to put more planning and forethought into your relationships. If you're currently cohabitating or sharing space with someone, it's time to put some new agreements in place. Cover the basics first--specifically, who handles what aspect of the household "chores." If someone's quietly been wiping away all the dust bunnies and folding all the laundry, a wall of resentment could be mounting between you. If you're the one who's been slacking, step it up! Otherwise, call a summit posthaste before the mountain of freshly laundered socks gets too high to climb. TMI alert! Nosy family members could begin interfering in your romantic process if you complain to them too much about your love life. Perhaps they are not the most appropriate people for you to be confiding in. They're far too protective and possessive of you to listen objectively. The same holds true in reverse. Getting swept up in a relative's emotional crisis could steal attention that you should be paying to dating or keeping your own relationship humming smoothly. Keep an appropriate and healthy distance.

LEO (July 23 - Aug 22): Necessity is the mother of invention this week, Leo. With Pluto and Saturn squaring off, it's time to walk the line between creativity and practicality. You may believe it's necessary to sacrifice your joy in order to make it through a challenging lean time. Not so! Rather, it's all about being resourceful and tapping into your large social network to borrow or barter for what you need. Start mapping out your master plan. Whether you're on the hunt for a new home or a husband or something else altogether, begin by visualizing the place where you want to end up. Create a vision board by tearing out inspiring images from magazines. Yes, it's all about working the numinous Law of Attraction. Why not aim high? If you have to negotiate from there, you stand a far better chance of closing in on the mark than if you lowball your dreams on the front end. A sibling, neighbor, coworker, or old friend could be your guiding light. Scan your vision board and share it with your peeps. Having the extra pairs of eyes looking out for your dream only expands its power. One thing to look out for is your own inner critic and perfectionist. You tend to come down hard on the people closest to you, projecting the high expectations you place on yourself onto them. Your relationships reflect on you, but not as much as you believe. Tame your inner shrew before you rip your lover to shreds.

VIRGO (Aug 23 - Sept 22): How much self-worth do you derive from your romantic status, Virgo? This week, Pluto and Saturn square off, pushing you to look beyond a partner's influence to find your sense of worth. Being a mutable sign, you're always willing to seek compromise. Once you open that door, however, you may become far too willing to adapt your values in order to accommodate your lover. A wake up call is sounded (though not necessarily a wake up to break up). You must tend to the most important relationship of all--the one you have with yourself. At the moment, you may feel too out of tune with what you believe in to make any clear decisions. If you pulled away from friends, family, hobbies, or ambitions that you once held dear, the desire to race back to them could be virtually magnetic. More healing than reliving the past, however, will be examining your own boundaries. What within yourself allowed you to make these things in the first place? Explore the link to past losses of relationships and the feelings that were triggered therein. Pay special attention to ages of your life that were in multiples of four, such as four, eight, twelve, sixteen, etc.

LIBRA (Sept 23 - Oct 22): This week, Pluto and Saturn square off, necessitating some changes on the homefront. You may be moving, welcoming a new roomie, starting a home-based business, or clearing out a corner for a baby's crib to nestle in. On some level, you will need to create more space in your living quarters for the change that's ahead. Use this as an opportunity to purge your closets, cupboards and junk drawers of all the piled up crap you no longer want, use, or need. If you've been sinking the lion's share of your paychecks into rent, the economic pinch could become too great to bear. Before you pack your bags and leave the luxury high rise, call your landlord and let him know the real deal. He may prefer to lower your monthly payments than to bear the expense of finding a new tenant. Where are you overspending just to "keep up appearances?" Put yourself on a bit of a spending diet. No need to starve yourself, Libra, just trim the fat. Begin saving up for a larger expense, such as a training program, workshop, or other self-improvement expedition. Small amounts add up, so put what you can in that account each week.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 - Nov 21): Your soul is calling out for growth, study and expansion this week. While you're not ready to adopt any particular doctrine (nor should that necessarily be your goal), you ARE ready to open your mind to some fresh mystical pursuits. With Pluto and Saturn squaring off, you could find yourself faced with a crisis of conscience this week. This issue necessitates a search for answers that goes well beyond the material plane. Empirical data may not back up these hypotheses, but you could feel a gut level resonance with them. Trust it, Scorpio. Studying ancient texts, learning a healing modality such as Reiki, reading about quantum physics, working with a spiritual guide or guru...you're being called to a new energy. Expect to discover your own hidden powers as you journey down this path. It's okay to keep some of your pursuits private for the time being, or at least protected from critics. Your family and friends won't all understand, at least not yet. As you gain confidence in your exploration, they may be eager to join you in your "travels." Be patient.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 - Dec 21): This week, your immediate need for financial security could interrupt some of your long-range planning abilities. Living "la vie boheme" is not in the cards right now; not until you've put some more stable structures in place. Before you throw yourself into martyr mode, press pause. Handling it all on your own may have been your previous modus operandi, but Saturn has now moved into your house of groups and networks. Instead of working your fingers to the bone, start putting together a dream team of people whose talents and resources complement your own. Win-win partnerships start popping up at every turn once you start looking for them. The fact of the matter is, Sagittarius, they were there all this time-doh! Like Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz," it took this very tornado for you to awaken to what (or who) was sitting in your own backyard. Internet ventures continue to look promising, but you may need to raise some capital in order to pull off the picture you have in mind. Research the idea of "angel investors," as close friends and family might be willing to buy into your venture for a small piece of ownership.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 - Jan 19): There's a tendency to try to "keep up with the Joneses" this week (cue Atlanta housewife Nene Leakes, "I aaaaam the Joneses") at the expense of the people you love. You've heard the heads up here, Capricorn so monitor your inner snob carefully. Appearances aren't always what they seem. This exclusive group may be more fluff than substance, and membership therein is likely to feel like a hollow victory. There IS a crowd, however, that promises a heady mix of spiritual enlightenment and avant-garde thinking. Remain open to manifesting a meeting with them. It won't look how you expect. An uncomfortable and challenging standoff could go down with a domineering type who seems to think he knows what's best for you. Some assertiveness is in order. Push back, speak up, dare to let the conflict unleash. Ultimately, this is the only way you'll gain respect from a bullying type.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 - Feb 18): Your inner nomad is crying out for a journey, but remember the adage, "wherever you go, there you are." Notice your desire to escape this week, and a tendency to blame your surroundings for your restlessness or unhappiness. Distractions will be temporary, thanks to a tense square-off between Pluto and Saturn. Unless you deal with what's going on below the surface, you'll simply want to jump out of your own skin no matter where you are. Instead of going farther, you need to go deeper. Results on the material plane will be superficial and temporary. Let go of trying to force a relationship to unfold according to a particular vision or plan. Your connections with people need to be a dance whereby you consider BOTH people's needs equally. Sure, you could strong-arm someone into doing things your way (or even withdraw affection as a means of control), but this will be highly unfulfilling. If romantic results aren't gelling, chalk it up to divine timing. Start putting your energy towards a different quest. Strike where the iron is hot. This is an excellent week for connecting to your inner visionary by engaging in the twelve-week process of discovery of Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way. If workbooks aren't your thing, consider signing up for a weekend workshop that explores the crossover of art and spirituality.

PISCES (Feb 19 - March 20): Cool-headed logic faces off with animal attraction this week, and you are caught in its crossfire. You recognize that a strong sexual pull is not enough to build a serious relationship on, but damn it feels good to be turned on like this! Allow yourself to enjoy the tingly feelings and fantasies, but don't throw yourself into the frey with anyone until you've taken time to develop a platonic bond as well. Discipline, Pisces, discipline. With personal trainer planet Saturn pushing you to resist erotic temptation, you'll want to rule with your head over your carnal desires. You only want to be careful not to put the cart before the horse with commitments. Unless you've had "the talk," and agreed to be exclusive, remain open to a bounty of options. This holds true for Pisces on the job hunt as well. Look for give-and-take arrangements that are mutually rewarding. Otherwise, you could be stuck in perpetual martyr mode--SOOOO unfulfilling. Coupled up (or happily employed)? Time to stop opinion polling your tribunal of friends for answers about your life. What makes you happy may not be something that they're capable of understanding. Trust your own foresight and intuition, and don't let their opinions ring louder than your inner voice.

This week's horoscopes courtesy of www.astrostyle.com.

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