The party’s over; you burst the pretty balloons. You’ve gained ten pounds and fell in love at least a three times a day over the past month. Okay. Mercury Retrograde is here and it’s time to get your house back in order. Start with your bank account first. Pay down debt this month after a your yearly splurge. This is key for you now, as the energy you put into cleaning up your financial house will spread into other areas of your life, like health and exercise. If you are diligent, you can considerably pare down both your debt and your waist size in the next thirty days. If you have somehow given your heart to another for safekeeping in the recent past, make sure that you do not give your finances over to said other. This is not a time to mix money and love, especially with Jupiter also moving backwards in your house of amore. Keep church and state separate and no matter how sweet or moving the pleas from your beloved might be, find a way for this person to experience his/her own financial independence without feeling rejected. Both your beloved and your relationship will be stronger and better off for it. Lastly take advantage of Leo’s placement in Mars to spend more time around children, especially your own. Their creativity and spontaneity will inspire you in ways that you have forgotten over the years. The moral of the story for June is to grow wise while re-experiencing your innocence.

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Your birthday party is on and The Bull knows how to throw a great bash (as long as someone else pays for it). But seriously, it’s good to be you these days. Venus is supporting and accentuating that physical charm and earthy charisma oozing from every cell in your skin. The new moon effects you and Scorp more than any other sign in May. You’re a high priest or priestess presiding over the fertility rite of your own life. Invoke the magic of the earth, fill your house with candles and flowers, feed someone less fortunate than yourself, build a shrine consisting of the most delicious items that you’ve ever known (or want to) and catalyze largesse for the rest of us. Mars’ move into Leo makes you stubborn as hell, especially around children—make sure that you don’t stoop to their level—someone has to be an adult from time-to-time. The full moon on the 15th brings you face-to-face with the shadowy side of sensuality. The waters may be deep but with Venus still on your side, you won’t be far from Terra Firma. Dive in.

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Well it’s not quite happy birthday for you just yet, but it will be for early Taurans after the twentieth. An early forecast for you is supportive all around. While Aries is partying it’s ass off with challenges coming in from the sidelines, you’re all about the path of least resistance as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and even normally nasty Saturn all conspire to give you one of the least stressful birthdays in years. Your challenges arrive in May when Mars moves into Leo and you have to deal with over-efficious bosses and parents. But until then, it’s a direct path from your intention to your will and manifestation is like breathing. This is especially fruitful for you when it comes to renovating or purchasing a home, which is an overall trend for you in 2008. While others are using a Geiger counter when it comes to the real estate market, you’ve got a pickaxe and a pan. So what’s the message? Seek out the diamonds in the rough—you’ll be glad you did.

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You’ve got something to say and for the next thirty days, the Universe won’t let you keep your stubborn thoughts to yourself. Get it off that barrel chest of yours and you’ll feel so much better. March is about healing wounds through speaking truth and finding a more universal way to connect with the world at large. Bulls that are in the self help and service professions have extra power this month and any Taurus in the transformational act of recovery can access a great deal of power through groups and associations committed to clean living and psychic health.

Other astrological events for March 2008

While the rest of the world is sorting out emotional border skirmishes and who to vote for and why, you’re busy trying to figure out ways to increase your personal wealth. This would be a great time to attend wealth building seminars and for the fleet of mind and foot, surf the seismic waves of the stock market, buying low and selling high, taking advantage of trading troughs while cresting when the time is right. This is a rapid time for abundance-based activity. Take advantage of it.

Lucky Taurus. Capricorn’s merger with Pluto means that the bull will be able to profit while it goes about the act of getting wise; Taurus’ will be rewarded by teaching others what they know, especially in the realm of making money and attaining prosperity. Pluto will offer the bull a glimpse into the how the midas touch works and how it can touch others. Expansion is a key theme for Taurus and while much of the US will still be bogged down by the mire of the mortgage crisis, Taurus will be able to play in the market quite well if they can understand the deeper legal ramifications of lending, title and transaction. For Taurus, 2008 promises to be a bit of a charmed life, but don’t be a tightwad—you’ll get more by giving—a lesson for the coming year and beyond.

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