Taurus

Taurus Year Ahead 2009

Imagine yourself, in 2009, as a locomotive going down a track. The line stretches out ahead, seemingly into the endless distance. Actually, though, around June, you won't just come up against a set of points. You'll effectively meet a giant turntable, capable of rotating the entire train. There will be new lines running off to all points on the compass and if you aren't ready for this much choice, you may pick the most obvious, least exciting route. To be properly prepared for the impact of Mars in Taurus you need to start thinking now about why some things matter more than others.

A lot of your current plans and expectations are being set by your sense of limitation. Every time you think about where you would like to be and what you would like to be doing, you are brought up short by a sudden, uncomfortable recognition: 'That can't happen because of this, and that's unlikely because of that.' Your train has too many carriages attached. Instead of condensing their contents to make yourself more manoeuvrable, you just trundle along with your long load in tow, even using it as an excuse when there's something you don't want to do, 'Oh, I'd love to attend your workshop on radicalising my railroad but there's not enough room at your station for me to stop.'

That's why you may initially miss those empty trucks when later this year, you encounter the ability to remove them. You've been travelling like this for a long time. You're used to it. Your friends and loved ones are too. If you reduce the amount you take responsibility for, some folk may feel threatened. Especially the hobo, down the back of the line who has made a home in one of your outlying goods wagons.

He doesn't want anything to alter and he's going to do his best to send messages of fear, doubt, even betrayal into the ear of the controller of your inner engine room. Be ready for that. Be ready too, to stop thinking of yourself as a train and to see yourself as a swift, sleek car, capable of running where there are no rails. Coming up in 2009 is a chance to choose from options that would once have sounded like distant dreams. Prepare to head off, considerably less constrained and encumbered, down a wide open road towards financial stability and emotional fulfilment.

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Have you ever lived an easy life? Has there ever really been a time when you have not been 'up against it'? Could 2009 let you off the hook? Actually, it could! The 'it' you keep coming up against changes every so often. Sometimes, it is 'time'. Sometimes it is 'money'. Sometimes it's 'authority'. Or 'trouble'. Or 'challenge'. We know what form it has taken for the last year or two. We really don't need to say much more about that. It's enough to know that soon, the old problem won't be a problem any more. Or, at least, not a problem of the same magnitude.

And those solutions you have struggled so hard to find during 2008? Some are about to start working. Then, there'll be a gap in your life where there used to be an almost constant source of stress. So tell me, please. What are you planning to fill it with?

Careful. Remember what happened last time you got yourself out of a hole! Remember the spade you grabbed and the new hole you determinedly dug. Remember, too, that spades, and holes, aren't always easy to spot. Life covers them in glitter. The cosmos makes them seem tempting. 'Oh go on... you know you want this...' You can have a lot of what you want in 2009. You can change a lot that's wrong and fix a lot that's broken. But you're only going to get the quieter, calmer, easier sweeter life you say you want... if you've had enough hardship!

I've got a lot more to say to you about the outlook for your sign in 2009. You can hear it all as soon you become a part of our legendary 5 Star service. Or perhaps you might like me to chart your personal map of the sky and prepare a report covering the whole year, strictly, personally for you!