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Horoscopes by John Maerz, Staff Writer

Happy Birthday Aquarius

If it seems like there is a major disconnect between where and how you want to apply your resources, you’re not imagining things. It’s like the dynamics of how you expect things to work out took a left turn somewhere and your GPS is incapable of giving you an alternate route. You’re being asked to become much more sensitive to the subtleties of the things that are happening around you. Your interpretation is that people around you are doing nothing and whining about their misfortune while you’re working your butt off and feeling like you’re simply shoveling against the tide. And there’s nothing more disturbing to you than a whiner. If you work with the whiner and assist them in getting a handle on their resources you might find that a few more doors may open for you in a direction you hadn’t anticipated. For now, it’s about developing teamwork. Yes, I know. You do much better when you work alone. But how far has it gotten you to this point? You’re probably at the point where you feel that you just want to cut your losses and start over with something else. It’s a nice fantasy but you will still meet with the resistance that you’re dealing with now because it’s still not a “community effort” and still requires a heightened sensitivity on your part.

One of the only things solid to you at this point is your knowledge of what you know you’re capable of. It’s time to teach your skills to others. It’s time to become an “elder” by putting your own ambitions on a temporary sideline until the resistance you’re encountering blows over.

On a more positive note, the opportunity to clearly express yourself has resumed, that is, if you dare to risk exposure revealing your motives. You’ve always believed that you should keep your goals to yourself lest they be usurped by others. But here again, your expression of what you know and want will be a tremendous benefit to those around you. It’s kind of like finding yourself in a swamped row boat with people who don’t know enough to bail. If you don’t help, you’ll all sink together. You didn’t put yourself in this position by accident. A part of you knows that you must develop your group oriented faculties and this is the time you’ve chosen.

Right now there is a strong reminder of what’s needed at work happening in you head when you’re home and just as strong a reminder of what’s needed at home when you’re at work. It’s a very annoying distraction but if you get a double sided pad and write down what’s needed at work when you’re home and on the flip side of the pad write down what’s needed at home when you’re at work, you should find your mind’s seemingly erratic distractions less irritating.

Additionally, your family‘s traditions are the only other solid reality whether they assist or detract from what you’re doing. Use your knowledge of this to keep yourself grounded. This will help you retain your focus in your career endeavors and keep foremost in your mind why you are there.

Astrology Forecast for this month:

If we’ve ever felt a month where there were disappearing lines of discrimination, this is it. Mars, Mercury, Sun and Venus all move into Pisces on the 2nd, 5th, 18th and the 26th respectively. To add to the “slushiness” of the feel, Mercury goes retrograde on the 23rd. With Neptune already in Pisces and Mars fast coming up on it, we will have to dig deep into the unconscious for the use of our rudder and awareness of the direction we need to take. Thankfully, Saturn turns retrograde also on the 18th in Scorpio, another water sign, giving us a four and a half month respite from the onslaught of emotion and give us time and breathing room to assess our status and catch our bearings. With Uranus direct in Aries, the key here is to learn to trust what we feel and to learn to separate emotion from intuition. For many of us who are so steeped in how things are supposed to be, it’ll be a challenge to hear our own inner self apart from our conditioned conscience. The focal point that will confirm our proper direction will be our feelings of compassion. This must be our rudder to guide us past the fog of our emotions.

It’s no accident that Jupiter, ruler of Pisces, has finally gone direct in Gemini enabling us to expand our view of both sides of every situation we encounter. Being it’s in Gemini, it will also give us the courage to speak of what we perceive. You might say that this is a taste of what we need to navigate the more subtle currents of life on our own, without being assisted while offering assistance to others. This is a major lesson in trusting ourselves and the dormant abilities we’ve all been sheltering for fear of being used by others. Now is the time to allow others to use us with full knowledge and awareness of what is happening and the faith in knowing that we don’t have to protect ourselves. All is known and all is offered…knowingly. This is one of the hall marks of learning to be comfortable in offering compassion.

Once we get over the “hump” of our fear of unknowingly being used and do it consciously, there will come a tremendous relief of emotional pressure that will liberate the energy we used in holding it all back. There will be a lightness of being that we haven’t felt before. For many of us, it will be unfamiliar, so don’t pull back. Allow it the space and time to wash over you. It’s like learning to ride a horse. You don’t control it; you simply and knowingly guide it. It has a power all its own and you can stop at any time.