Virgo

Virgo Year Ahead 2009

You know those games on TV, where they give somebody something really difficult to do? A handful of fish to juggle or a bucking bronco to ride. Then they say, 'To make it even harder, you've got to keep this candle alight or you've got to sing the National Anthem.' Your current situation seems to resemble such a challenge. You've spent years struggling to understand a tough problem and assert yourself over challenging circumstances. You've just about got there - but suddenly there are all these new reasons to make you wonder, 'Am I doing the right thing?' Destabilising developments are occurring. You feel criticised, undermined or caught up in a distracting and disturbing drama. Meanwhile, Saturn passing through your sign is urging you, in 2009, to make big choices about the rest of your life. You yearn to be decisive and clear, to announce what you will and will not put up with any more, to embrace commitments and overcome fears.

Unfortunately, that urge is arising at a time when as fast as you think you've got something settled, it changes. You have noticed this syndrome already. You will edge even further out of your comfort zone soon. How else, though, are you going to be able to change something that you could never have altered while you were accepting the status quo? Rather like somebody doing exercises and gradually growing stronger, you are getting used to the rocky ride and in 2009 you are going to find that, somehow, you are no longer being rocked so much. You will manage to stabilise, not just your situation, but many of the situations which are erupting and exploding around you. All you have to do to make that happen, is be strong within yourself.

As you move ever further through the year, it will become clearer that you need not be afraid of very much at all. What you think you understand, you only understand the half of. What you thought was the extreme maximum of your positive potential was just scraping the surface of how good things can get. The more you see that, the more you see what there is to aim for, the less deterred you will be by anything else. At which point, all those difficulties that now seem so daunting will ebb away and the cosmos will beckon you ever further on to a deeply constructive and productive year.

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Uranus and Saturn, according to legend, were father and son. Saturn was known by the Greeks as Cronos. From Cronos we get Chronology: the order of time. Saturn is still sometimes depicted as 'Old Father Time'. Uranus, the sky god, was his father, and Gaia, the earth goddess, his mother. Uranus didn't want his kids growing up and causing trouble. So he buried them. Saturn, though, sensed his father's animosity and went for his anatomy... with a sharp knife, in a sensitive spot. Ouch. No wonder when these two planets fight it out, they go at it.

I mention all this because Saturn is in Virgo at the moment. That's why you're so conscious of what you owe, what you must be bound by, what you cannot do, no matter how much you want to... and what time will not permit, even if all other opportunities exist. Through much of last year, you felt the opposition of Saturn and Uranus, so strongly that it nearly tore you in two. I'd love to tell you that this won't happen again in 2009. But it will. So you'd better have a strategy in place. Next time some wild urge to break the rules and hang the consequences crops up... why not, er, um, actually do it? Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking. 'you don't mean THAT do you?' Ah but I do. And so do you. And there may well be no peace until you fight for the freedom you deserve!

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!