What does Numerology or Birth date Numerology mean? Perhaps the answer lies within us. Most of us are aware that something sacred works through us, call it Destiny, call it Higher Will, call it God. Quantum Scientists call it the Unified Field, an immense “conglomeration” of numinous creative energy forms that spew forth universes, planets, stars and human consciousness. The Unified Field also expresses itself through the mystery of high mathematics and the symbolism of sacred geometry.

Many of us are unaware that numbers decipher ultimate truths, or symbolize the maximum energy in minimum form. They design the reality in which we live, on all levels, physical, spiritual and emotional, and can integrate elements of higher consciousness that accelerate our soul expression. Numbers express a unique vibration within our core. Some say, we are born within a massive mathematical formula, the “God formula”, and it is programmed into our DNA.

Thomas J McFarlane

In his treaties “The Spiritual Function of Mathematics……….” Thomas J McFarlane described numbers as symbols. He said “It is possible to take the symbol itself as an object of thought and use it for the purpose of philosophical and general mystical integration, moreover the greatest achievement of western genius has been the development of the abstract thought which has its crown in higher mathematics” In short, numbers have a spiritual power, a universality, and selflessness at their core; when we enter the realm of high mathematics, we transcend the personal and touch the universal!”

Universal Numbers

Since numerology is based on high maths, the universal power of numbers translates itself into personal formats that we perceive as “ourselves”. The birth date numerology life path represents an ultimate number, the symbol that interprets a life path or destiny. Each birth date numerology life path is unique. The distinctive numerological analysis of a human life remains centered on an expression of the spiritual core.

Numbers and Meanings

Let us look at a birth date numerology core number. For example, the number two. The two vibrates to high intelligence, it is the perfect number for the diplomat, the “visionary” the profound thinker with a capacity to mix and match human faults with detached wisdom. Twos like harmony, balance, they treat people with respect, and expect to be treated with the same care. The two vibrates a “perfection energy”, Barack Obama is a two, and his diplomatic skills “could” make or “break” many aspects of life as we know it, but there is no doubt he is a humanitarian, the two energies within him assure us of that! In other words, his soul number chose to be President of the USA, and take on the huge responsibilities that could crush a lesser man, and transform them!

Calculating Birthdate Numerology

As the birth date numerology life path is calculated via the day, month and year of birth, a clear, core component number is accessed and integrated into the profile. There are diverse methods of calculating a numerology profile, different techniques to discover lucky numbers for example! Through numerology one can comprehend emotional glitches and challenging life paths more easily, in other words assess, understand and integrate the people and events in our lives, so that we transform emotional disappointment into happiness in love!

As birth date numerology links into our energy field, tunes into our karma, or the life mission to accomplish, we access awareness of every day realities, as well as divine perceptions of life. In numerology as in astrology, the universe reflects back our inner selves. Therefore, living a positive life path, even if our numbers show challenges, is fundamentally our choice. Could it be that belief in a higher power acting is what makes numerology so significant to certain souls?

Lifes Mysteries

We all want to understand the mysteries of life! We might deny this fact, ignore it, repress our curiosity, we might even become sceptics and deride anything metaphysical but those who work in hospices know that when “push come to shove”, we more than ponder on the deeper meaning of life on the death bed. Logic cannot explain universal energy, or the mystery of life and death.

Yet our society still needs security, habit, an explanation of what shapes our world, a scientific explanation. We are becoming more and more confused, since some are experiencing a shift in thinking, a shift that will take time to evaluate but seems to be proving that we create our own realities on a daily basis, even though we can become entangled with others in that process. This perception of “entanglement” is inherent in the Quantum theory which is based on what we see is who we are! So even if a best psychic is not aware of the laws of quantum physics, her intuitive talents make sure clients realise their own thinking processes create their reality.

The “gloom and doom” scenarios and “end of the world” agendas serve nobody, good people are more prone to thinking solutions. So even if your life is not going how you want, the psychic will advise on how to make it work rather than insisting everything “is written in stone!” and you are destined for bad luck!

Courage of Conviction

The very best psychic will always sustain a prediction. The best psychic will not suddenly shift her perspective; one minute telling you that you have met a twin soul and another insist the lover is not worth waiting for. We often deal with personal conflict over a love issue. On one level we know that someone is bad for us, on another our heart says “yes!” The best psychic tells us to follow our hearts, because our heads “play” with elaborate misconceptions that might be short sighted, or unfair.

A psychic “knows” that time is not an issue. That what we desire could take months to evolve. A client was told by her favourite empath that she would have two houses, and meet her soul mate in a piazza! Ten years later she bought two houses in a Spanish village. She even met her soul mate in that piazza, but the meeting did not go as she “expected” – life expresses through free will. In other words, we could meet the love of our life, but if our hearts were not open, we could not build into a relationship with them.

You and only you can decide what path to take. Yes, a psychic can advise love is hurting you, but you have to be the one to stop hurting, a psychic cannot do that job for you. Additionally, a psychic cannot “see” into another’s energy field without their permission, which would be violating their sacred space. A psychic cannot tell you what someone else is thinking either, but might tell you what they are doing. If you have found a psychic that suits you, it is always best to ask for them again as they will tune into you more deeply as time goes on, and you will build a relationship that will serve your future and enrich your life.

One of the most renowned metaphysical masters and psychics Uri Geller once said “Nowadays, even Presidents, Vice Presidents and Heads of Agencies are opening their mind to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works!” A best psychic could have told you that!

Finding Love

The psychic is used to hearing sad tales of romantic love and the cries of “Will I ever find a girlfriend, or boyfriend?” Many of us feel lonely; feel that if we only had that special person all would be right with the world. Sure, we tell ourselves it is great being independent, and doing what one likes when on likes, but if we could just find a girlfriend, or boyfriend, life would be so much better.

Gay or straight, determinedly single, or “footloose and fancy free” – human love is the one thing that keeps us going, keeps the inner fires burning. As the financial institutions crumble, as oil seeps into our oceans, as volcanoes explode and there is seemingly a dawning of the “New Ice Age!” As conspiracy theorists insist we are about to see a UFO land on the White House Lawn, the very act of seeking to find a girlfriend, could relieve us from all that global angst.

Psychic Help

So we ask the psychic is true love ever going to come back into our lives? Are we ever going to feel those loving arms around us? The psychic will be honest, without treading over our hearts with hobnailed boots, and assure us that yes, we will find a girlfriend. We will find a boyfriend; we will find true love. We try to believe! We check out dating agencies, speed dating, online dating sites, blind dates, or even an old fashioned matchmaker! But nothing happens; we still meet up with hoards of frogs, creeps and “leaving hairs in the sink” types, and feel desperate. But then just as we about to give up the whole thing, and “get us to a monastery” they step into our lives, the girl or boyfriend of our dreams. We bump into them in a super market, a friend’s party, down the beach, in the grocers, in the dental waiting room, at the car mechanics, on the tube or waiting for a bus in the rain. In other words, it just happens, as it was always supposed to happen! As the fates wanted it to happen all along! The psychic was right, we say to ourselves. How could I ever have doubted that I would find a girlfriend?

The truth is life on this planet would be a sad state of affairs if all the hate we see around us was not counteracted by love and devotion. So even though all that “waiting” for true love can bring us to our knees, as we sob into our pillows, just lonely hearts looking for solace, we remember one amazing fact. That we are all predestined to love. The love songs tell us so, Jane Austin told us so, Shakespeare told us so, Byron told us so, Shelley told us so, our hearts tell us so! And when we find our perfect mate she or he will tell us so too. We remember to be kind, to respect our adored one, and pay attention to their needs. We know that once we “get” what the psychic said, “Your soul mate is coming and if you treat her well, she will never leave you!” we will never, ever look back!

We all relish the thought of just picking up that phone when our life is in a pickle and talking to the psychic on the other end of it. The phone reading is a classic stress buster. Just letting rip about the boyfriend who let us down to an insightful human being can have us feeling a lot better. In fact, some of us will create an ongoing friendship with the psychic tuning into our phone reading. So much so, that she feels like family, and every time we have a problem we just go for the phone reading to ease the angst. A phone reading can give us a sense of security, in other words we can see solutions to our problems emerging, we even learn to understand “why” the problems are manifesting in our lives, and whether to some extent we are creating them ourselves.

How Does a Psychic work via the Telephone?

It is likely that the psychic “feels” the energies flowing through the airwaves physically. As we talk, the psychic’s energy field could “light up” with heat, or ice cold tremors. When your own spirit guide steps into the psychic’s awareness, they will feel a rising of compassion, and access a need to help you. An experienced psychic will have learned to handle these types of sacred energies; indeed the psychic recognizes them as a great healing force. When the “gift” is acknowledged deeply, a psychic learns to live in a peaceful “inner place” that could be externalized with a radical life choice such as living in the countryside. In any event, an evolved psychic always follows a spiritual discipline that protects her from negative thought forms. In this way the psychic is able to automatically shut down. Differentiating energies is part and parcel of the psychic gift!

Lottery Numbers

However, when a psychic is asked to predict lottery numbers they could find themselves up against a wall. Spirit is the bridge between this world and the other, and it might not be in a client’s interest to win the lottery. If this is so, no numbers will be given and the client could be disappointed. If the psychic is challenged by a skeptic who demands unreasonable answers to superficial questions, again Spirit will not play the game. Spirit communicates through higher visions that will be revealed as need be. In this process, the psychic’s higher self assesses the quality of the client’s own thought forms, and when readings disappoint, it can be due to personal resistance or disbelief in paranormal phenomena.

The true psychic understands undercurrent feelings, and has developed skills that encourage, strengthen and guide an individual through emotional challenges! If these types of gifts are clairvoyant she or he will also be able to “see” what situations caused the problem in the past, and how healing emotional dilemmas can facilitate a positive future.

A psychic phone reading can be exceptionally accurate, however, the client needs to comprehend that the psychic is playing a “sacred tune”, in that not all questions can be answered. This is due to the metaphysical law of free will. The more evolved the client is however, the more evolved and accurate the reading will be. So next time you dial that number for a phone reading realize the deeper your question, the deeper the answer!

Imagine all those phone lines ringing, those computer cables buzzing, as folks call into or text a live psychic UK, a natural empath who just “happens” to inhabit the British Isles. So what is it about the Live Psychic UK’s interpretation of reality that attracts folks like pins to the proverbial magnet?

Vibrational Energy

Well, first and foremost people are not attracted to a Live psychic UK reader because they perceive them as more “in depth” or “aware”. Psychics are becoming more popular overall, simply because folks realize that there is far more to reality than meets the eye, as per the power of vibrational energy. Indeed, many a live psychic UK will use vibrational energy to heal their aches and pains. Bestselling books have been written about the power of vibrational energy when it comes to alternative healing by medical doctors such as Michael Gerber M.D. In Russia the famous quantum physicist Dr Rustam Rakhimov of the Sun Institute in Uzbekistan has been experimenting with the effects of “irrational medicine” on human beings, and the psychic’s perception of the healing prana-type energy.

Vibrational Medicine

The existence of vibrational medicine is irrefutable evidence that “something” we do not perceive visually is operating throughout the universe and that “something” call it “Spirit”, call it “All that is”, call it “God” or the “Goddess” call it “nothing at all”, has a powerful effect on humanity! Holistic views describe an energy system that can change people’s perceptions of their lives, their illness, their inner world and their future expectations, as well as their belief systems. Anyone who has had an accurate Live Psychic UK reading, or has seen they can indeed heal from an “incurable” disease, will not scoff so much at the power of vibrational forces and the healing powers within the universe.

The psychic, or metaphysical healer, obviously has a natural capacity to tune into multi-faceted energy manifestations by utilizing their brainwave frequencies or trusting spiritual forces will guide them to “seeing” a future scenario or current emotional state affecting the client, negatively or positively.

Often the live psychic UK defrags her energies before, during or after a reading. Again, her vibrational perception of reality helps her do this, especially if she charges a crystal and carries it around with her as a talisman. Crystals are also built into mainstream electronic equipment, like televisions and mobile phones, and it has been discovered that when the crystal is cut to a certain geometric shape it can maintain communication at long distances.

Christianity

A psychic is aware that mainstream Christianity, as well as the skeptics, take a dim view of their gifts. But the fact is, most organized religions could be seen as a “Companies” of people who tend to think the same way, unaware that an individual’s unique mystical experience is precious. Vibrational energies and medicines are all about respecting the human soul, for the human soul is unique, and awareness of the mystical journey is a precious gift!

Live psychics UK are folks who have chosen a mystical path because they feel it pulsating within, and in many cases felt it since childhood. The vibrational content of existence inspires them. Some even live isolated lives to accentuate their communication with the “Divine”. In this way, they can input the visions they perceive, and enrich their connection to their clients.

Ultimately, it is not where the psychic lives, but “how” they live that makes those vibrational gifts so powerful.

Near Death Experiences

Even though humanity is only five minutes into understanding the reality of this universe, even though quantum science is reviewing our perception of material reality, even though thousands of people have miraculous or near death experiences, the skeptics still maintain that this belief is a delusion, or just an egoic need to stay alive forever. So, if you are one of those people who have had a “Contact Departed” and seen a beloved one standing in your front room smiling at you, after they have been dead for two weeks, you would be forgiven for questioning the skeptic’s certainties.

Hundreds and thousands of claims has been made by people who have experienced a “contact departed” symptom, in fact when psychics talk about a point of interconnection between the material and spiritual worlds; they are not talking “impossible”. Quantum physics describes the weird atom, which never dies but moves on in ever new directions. Yet those who have indeed connected to their dead relatives report their amazing experience as follows:

“I looked in the doorway and there he was standing and he said “I just want to tell you I love you.”

“I just know this was not some self appeasing fantasy, but some other consciousness connecting to me.”

Various Contacts

Could a “contact departed” experience also include the face of a loved one appearing in a photographed orb, or a widow feeling her dead husband lying next to her on the bed and kissing her hair, or the sound of keys dropping on the hall table when a dead wife walks through the front door. The fact is when a medium proves the survival of consciousness after death through their visionary experiences, you can be sure proof is never far off even though some medical folk believe that the Near Death Experience is symptomatic of the unraveling of the brain, which is not totally dead even if the other organs in the body are. The following experience negates that assumption.

A woman was undergoing an excision of a large basilar artery aneurysm, the type of operation that meets all the accepted criteria for brain death. This was because the medical procedures involved the induction of hypothermic cardiac arrest. The patient’s body was then frozen to lower than 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

neardeath.com

The website neardeath.com goes on to describe the following experience.

“Her heartbeat and breathing ceased, her brain waves flattened and the blood was completely drained from her head. All hearing ceased due to the additional insertion of earplugs. The brain cannot function without its oxygen supply for more than a few minutes. Lowering the body and brain temperature to 60 degrees F by chilling the blood reduces cellular metabolism just so that the brain can tolerate complete lack of cerebral blood flow for the 45 minutes or so required for the brain operation. Yet the patient subsequently reported that while under these brain dead conditions, she had a near death experience in which she was able to observe and hear details of objects and happenings in the operating room with confirmed accuracy. She also experienced the classic components of the Near Death Experience, including a tunnel vortex, a bright light and different figures in the light, many deceased family members including a distant cousin of whose death she had been unaware met up with her.

Sensing the Departed

People who experience a “contact departed” experience “feel” “sense” and “touch” energy flows in their body, a high sense of mystery and a deep sense of peace. A “contact departed” event changes peoples’ lives forever. Millions have seen the spirits of their loved ones, and traveled to the other side with medical and physical evidence to back up these events. These facts are certainly beginning to eclipse the skeptic’s cynicism and denial based on Newtonian science alone. Perhaps man is simply in a state of forgetfulness, consumed as he is, by the material world?

The Independent

James Silver of the Independent Newspaper said of Jonathan Cainer the astrologer that “He’s a self declared touchy feeling liberal and unreconstructed hippie who took his children on the anti Iraq war demo. But he is also one of the most affluent astrologers in the UK”. One could say that Jonathan Cainer’s destiny is to be an astrologer.

Twitter

On Twitter Cainer describes himself as an astrologer with a fairly high profile. To cater to all tastes, his prophecies come in various shapes and formats; they are written about in books such as Jonathan Cainer’s Guide to the Zodiac, How to make your Dreams come True, the Psychic Explorer and a Down to Earth Guide to Six Magical Arts. His recorded predictions on his website site are fun, his take on the “astro crowd” fascinating.

Russell Grant

Russell Grant, the Astrologer, was born in Hillingdon and has always “batted for Middlesex!” He obviously thinks it is one of the best counties of Britain! As funny as he is, he is also a sensitive and insightful man, and his Illustrated Dream Dictionary has morphed into a best seller. His other gifts are that of a television presenter, and the creator of a pet psychic service. His “larger than life” persona and “gift of the gab” fascinates the general public. He has certainly has in-depth perceptions and great astrological insight. His website offers personalized readings by handpicked psychics, tarot card readers and astrologers.

Neil D Paris

British Astrologer Neil D Paris is a young and sought after astrologer cum columnist both in the UK and the US. He trained at the prestigious Linda Goodman Foundation He offers astrology life coaching which he advertises “for the practical minded, for spiritual seekers in other words for everyone!”

But what is it about these aforementioned astrologers that hold our attention. Is it their charisma? Is it their chutzpah? Is it their sensitivity or their insights on life and love? Other than having a deep understanding of how astro phenomena affects the human psyche, other than understanding the difference between western and eastern astrology, other than unraveling the secrets of earth, water, air and fire elements connected to each sun sign, they have big hearts, empathic natures, expressive and communicative gifts of the gab, plus an inherent compassion that helps them withstand humanity’s good and bad sides.

Indeed, there are so many traditions of astrology to understand. There is Western astrology, Hindu astrology, Tropical astrology, Babylonian astrology, Chinese astrology all with their different influences and energies. But the main gift that any astrologer needs is a capacity to gaze deep into the human soul, and understand why the Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable sun signs have such a big part to play in human destiny. One could say that Cainer, Grant and Paris all have in-depth, in tune, and inquiring minds, and that it was written in the stars, that they should read them!

The Arcane Tarot

Would it surprise you to learn that there is indeed an Aries Tarot Card and that every sun sign reflects energy into the Arcane Tarot? With the planets Mars and Jupiter guiding the fiery Aries on, the sun sign soon realises that they are the “chosen ones” to initiate the human journey from its very beginnings. When the Spring Equinox bursts into life, the Aries tarot tells us it is time for hope after a long hard winter. Yes, it is time to initiate a new life, a new karma, and a new incarnation.

The Aries is associated with materialisation, and the Aries tarot card depicts the Emperor who governs, regulates and presides over life, till his directives are understood by his people! Aries is also associated with the Egyptian God Amon, who incorporates the majesty of the Sun God Re, or the Ram, (Aries). Amon the King liberated the exploited, and demoralised and like the mythical Jason of Greek Myth, sought the Golden Fleece of illumination, and fought heroically for it. The result of Jason’s exploits brought him glory but also confusion and conflict. Therefore, Aries the Ram learns to reign over his own life with sobriety and kindness.

The Emperor

The Emperor is the fourth card in the arcane tarot; the Aries tarot card exerts the power of individuality within the status quo. The Aries tarot symbolises the man who does it “his way”. Who stands by beloved ones, unwilling to be broken by the fates or life’s struggles; he is an individualist “par excellence!” This is a man who creates a solid future and establishes a life mission within pre-ordained social mores. When the Aries Tarot, the Emperor, steps into a spread, one is often about to meet a powerful man who could transform one’s life with his functional creativity!

The Emperor connects to the fiery element of the Aries tarot, in that this fire sign warms our hearts, and gives us strength. However, an out of control Aries can be as destructive as a despotic Emperor. The Arien ruling planet is the Planet Mars, or the Tower Tarot Card. The tower is destroyed by fire, and turns everything to dust from one minute to the next, especially, if excessive feelings are not controlled. The challenge of the Aries therefore, is to keep powerful energies in line, so they do not “burn out” the good. A just Emperor must also be able to rule an unruly world!

Scarlett O’Hara

The ultimate archetypal Aries tarot persona with a strong Arien/Mars influence is Scarlett O’Hara of the thirties classic film hit, “Gone with the Wind”. Through sheer determination Scarlett overcomes gruesome challenges yet still has to relearn life’s lessons over and over again. As she stands amidst the ruins of her beloved “Tara” destroyed during the American Civil War, her remembered quote still moves hearts and souls!

“As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again”

Nothing could be more “Martian Aries” than Scarlett’s aforementioned statement. Yet, if your tarot layout depicts the calmer Aries Emperor, be sure that whatever difficulties you are facing, a just ruler will lead you forwards and rule your world with courage and wisdom!

What is the difference between a Psychic Clairvoyant UK and Clairvoyants worldwide? In other words, does a psychic clairvoyant UK have more powers than an empath in another part of the world? The answer is no, however clairvoyance does have a long history in the green and pleasant British Isles.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A psychic clairvoyant UK could tell you that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, nicknamed the “St Paul of Spiritualism”, and renowned for his stories about the “sleuth of all sleuths”, Sherlock Holmes, was convinced that telepathy was genuine However, his real “conversion” occurred after reading a book called “Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death”. Sir Conan Doyle lost a son to pneumonia and was convinced that he had spoken to his spirit whilst sitting in on a séance. Sir Conan Doyle subsequently wrote a book called the “History of Spiritualism” which was a great success, even though many thought him a misguided genius, Spiritualism continued against all odds. Interestingly, it is still much berated and scorned by skeptics and mainstream science alike.

A psychic clairvoyant UK would tell you “the buck did not stop with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle”. The British Isles is literally teeming with spiritualists, myth, and magic. Think crop circles, think Merlin or Tintagel; think haunted houses, dragons, and the awesome sites of Stonehenge or Glastonbury Tor. Think ancient Druid priests, and the Arthurian legends. But above all think Leylines! Many a psychic has walked along them, and tuned into them. But what are they? “Well first and foremost, some say they are as “British as a cup of tea” even though they exist worldwide.

Leylines

Leylines are interconnecting fault lines crossing the earth’s tectonic plates. The human race has been aware of leylines for thousands of years. Native Americans knew they meshed their way across the earth. Researchers into earth magic know they join up towns, villages and often churches in a net of mystical energy patterns. The ancient Welsh called them “Dragon Lines”. The aboriginal people of Australia call them “Dream Lines.” In fact, the aboriginals recount that the “People from the Sky!” taught their shamans to walk the leylines!

Leylines can be both positive and negative. Black magic has been performed where particular leylines cross, to empower spells. In the Yorkshire mill town of Todmorden, for example, wildlife in the area disappeared after a Black Magic coven performed numerous hexes over a leyline interface. Studies have also found UFO abductees tend to live near or close to leylines.

The St Michael Leyline

The St Michael Leyline, or the Archangel Leyline, is considered Europe’s most mystical and mysterious leyline. It is a perfectly straight line linking Saint Michael’s Mountain Cornwall, to St Michael’s Mount in France. It follows on to northern Italy, where it crosses through to Puglia in Southern Italy, and through Greece. The end of the line is Mount Carmel Israel! Alfred Watkins called it “The Old Straight Track.”

Alfred Watkins

Alfred Watkins was a legendary archeologist and antiquarian, so fascinated by leylines that he perceived them as “glowing wires all over the surface of the British countryside” Dowsers tracking leylines around Glastonbury to Dartmore, Brentor, and the Church of St Michael, where there is an intersecting “black leyline” at Lyford Castle, reported sensations of physical nausea when standing over it.

A psychic clairvoyant in tune with leylines sometimes senses and sees orbs, UFOs and paranormal phenomena manifesting around the leylines themselves. In fact, many a healer and empath enjoys going to Ilkley moor in Yorkshire, where there is a Swastika shaped stone, with 20 leylines intersecting through it. The area emanates incredibly positive energy vibrations and is said to heal physical imbalances and recharge batteries!

Although we acknowledge magic and mystery, and realise that leylines and paranormal events connect all areas of the earth, it is evident that Britain has more than its fair share of phenomena with much research and many a Psychic Clairvoyant UK’s vision to back up evidence of these claims.

Russell Grant

What can Horoscopes UK Russell Grant do to help us in these unusual times? Horoscopes UK Russell Grant is a well known astrological outlet guiding the public through challenges with astrological and spiritual insights. Horoscopes UK Russell Grant employs a handpicked team of psychics and astrologers who not only advise clients on future life trends, but actions to debunk negative perceptions regarding the future.

A general malaise is working its way into the human psychic. People are frightened; some believe that life on this planet is coming to an end. Astrologers on Horoscopes UK Russell Grant are more than aware that the Mayan prophecies for 2012 are affecting our consciousness, yet surprisingly few astrologers pay lip service to prophecies of asteroids hitting earth, a third world war, a breakout of pestilence or alien space ships landing! On the contrary, astrologers are of the opinion that the Mayan Calendar does not actually predict the end of the world it predicts a new beginning.

Mayan Astrology

It is true that December 12 2012 was an important time for Mayan astrologers, but they saw it as a time of renewal not destruction. Interestingly, most Scientists totally deride the doomsday scenarios. For example, National Geographic reported that Princeton University Geologist, Adam Maloof, who has studied pole shifts all his life, stated that even though continents have experienced “great change”, these landmass shifts take millions of years to occur and humanity would definitely not experience a shift in one event, but rather many mini events.

2012

Another fear is that solar storms will damage the earth yet there is no scientific proof that there is a peak in solar activity in 2012, in fact it is expected solar activity is set to occur at least two to three years later.

In regard to the planetary enlightenment theory, a NASA scientist has stated “There is no galactic alignment in 2012, or at least nothing out of the ordinary, in fact the 2012 planetary enlightenment is meaningless to science”.

9/11

But all of us would agree that humanity is going through challenges. War, disease, and corrupt government control are no longer tenable. We all realize that wasting our resources will lead to future problems, if we want humanity to survive in the long term! 9/11 knocked the human psyche for six, for the first time in modern history the structure of our society was threatened, and the following financial crashes warned us that the financial “powers that be” could become defunct, and that change is inevitable. But that change could ring positive breakthroughs not only in consciousness, but planetary peace.

Perhaps 2012 is positive indeed! Because the fear that has taken over planet earth could be a precursor to evolution in consciousness. We are on the right track for change. Solar power, democratic governments, an end to war, the spiritualization of human consciousness, combined with the insights of New Science, like the String and Quantum Theories, could produce an upsurge in awareness and resulting peace on this earth.

Humanity possesses the power to change within. We have powerful minds, and evolving hearts! History is moving us on, and metaphysical studies all over the world are showing the spiritual is an inner force, that can heal and strengthen our lives. Most astrologers will guide us to understanding how we create our future with our perceptions, our considerations and our prejudices. Perhaps the best outcome would be to “think” with our hearts, and cultivate compassion for our fellow man. If we can learn to change within and move on to more evolved lifestyles, the result could indeed be a 2012 breakthrough rather than a 2012 catastrophe!

What is Psychiclight?

Psychiclight is a benevolent force that ensures spiritual evolution. It is the healers and empaths’ intention to accentuate that psychiclight within us. To this end some choose to train in magical arts, or become involved in metaphysical studies. Others prefer to follow their individual, often solitary mystical path. These committed women dedicate their lives to serving humanity anonymously.

Rae Beth

In her book “The Hedge Witch” Rae Beth describes these “searchers” as free spirits who integrate magic, vision, clairvoyant and healing gifts into everyday life, silently and alone. Perhaps the “Hedge Witch” is a mother, a wife or a friend who pays allegiance to the laws of Divine Mother and Her three enchanted manifestations namely the Bride, the Mother and the Crone. But of course, you will never know of this! This need to work silently might hark back to the days when witches were accused of worshipping the devil and burnt alive. Some went underground and have been practicing their unique healing undercover ever since.

The Divine Mother

The solitary magical worker will still acknowledge the Maid as the untamed and innocent aspect of Divine Mother, a young woman who begins her voyage through life in wild territory. In that process she connects to the natural world and her own primitive instincts. She is symbolically dressed in white as she is a virginal being of purity.

The Mother

The Mother is another aspect of the Divine Feminine, and she dedicates her work to nurturing duties, and gives birth to personal evolution. She is also connected to nature, and is said to walk by lakes, and the ocean, symbolically dressed in red, a color of vitality and fulfillment.

The Crone

The Crone symbolizes the wise old woman, a natural healer, using herbs and sharing her metaphysical power with others. She goes into a trance state to connect to her psychiclight and vision. She is symbolically clothed in black.

Every woman has these three aspects inherent within her Spirit at different times. But a healer who is seeking “the mysteries” accesses these variants beyond her age, for a young woman can be as wise as the crone, and an old woman can be as innocent as the maid. These evolved spiritual states mix and mingle.

A lone healer will enact healing rituals during times of magical celebration such as the Winter Solstice. The Spring Equinox, for example, heralds in freedom from useless habits and patterns, and it is a time to start anew. The Equinoxes are natural energy portals, and as we pass through them we change and become more self aware.

Some light workers will use a magical name bestowed upon them during an initiation ceremony whereby they take full responsibility for their individual calling to help humanity. Their new name symbolizes their Mystical Self and has a sacred meaning to them. When used in conjunction with their psychiclight however, the name itself can be of benefit in magical ritual.

Solitary Work

The purpose of solitary “work” is to help others discover their light. The healer will invoke love for the loveless and counsel those who have lost their way, as friends and helpers. The healer and empath will also seek peace within nature, and attempt to heal the environment with personal prayers and invocations. The solitary empath’s magical oath is to work for the good of all in total secrecy. That secrecy is a power in itself, and ensures that the ego does not take over, or block the purity of the energy flowing through. Therefore, in a society based on violence, and antagonism, on competition and fear these primeval values might seem suspect, but the magical beings working with their psychiclight in devotion and solitude could be viewed as a blessing to us all. In that context, the “Hedge Witch” is indeed an evolved being, whose commitment to ease the pain of the world is of great significance, especially in these challenging times!

The Tarot and Italy

When we go for a tarot cards online reading we tend to believe that fortune telling cards date back to the Italian Renaissance, and the medieval Courts of Italy, but the fact is divination has a significant history and tarot cards are just the tip of the “divination iceberg”.

Science

Scientists know little about the cultural mores of primeval man, what they do know is what archeologists have dug up. The result of research proves strange and ancient civilizations once walked this earth! Giant skeletons with elongated skulls have been found in Ecuadorian caves and in the Indian and Chinese deserts, their origins remain shrouded in mystery. These skeletons not only possessed outsized skulls, but their front teeth were lined up in a totally different way to those of a human being today.

Ancient Civilizations

Amongst the more “recognized” ancient civilizations however, there is proof that divination harked back to 1200 BC. It has been discovered that the Ancients used to caste lots, and depend on crystals to predict the future. Our modern systems of reading tarot cards online would probably have seemed quite primitive to the more spiritually evolved ancients who were connecting to “other dimensions”. For example The Aztecs, Incas, Babylonians and Egyptians wore a jewel or crystal to develop their psychic ability, precious stone healing is nothing new. It was a necessity for ancient man to know the future, as they could prepare for famine, drought and pestilence. The result was that the shaman or soothsayer had a far more powerful status than the psychic who reads tarot cards online today. Currently, there is still some element of suspicion or even derision regarding psychic predictions, but in ancient times fortune telling was the core of humanity’s survival and had great cultural significance.

Romans and Etruscans

The ancient Romans and Etruscans used the art of Hepatomancy to suss out the future. Hepatomancy is the reading of animal intestines. Before you go “Yuk!” know that psychics in Borneo and Burma also used this ancient system. Apantomancy is a chance encounter with an animal. Black cats were considered lucky, as was a white mouse or hedgehog!

Ancient Egyptians

One could imagine that the ancient Egyptians would have been fascinated by today’s tarot readings online today. Together with the Greeks they used predictive systems based on cubes and numbers. The cubes were of wood, ivory, glass or metal and their numbered sides were similar to modern day dice. Complex ways of throwing the cubes drew attention to certain numbers, e.g. three brought good luck, four disappointments. Five told of happiness from an unknown person, six – loss in worldly matters but spiritual gain, etc. Egyptian scribes would also write out the famous hieroglyphs and keep records as they predicted the future.

Some readers claim that the tarot cards depict a symbolic soul language that originated thousands of years ago. Brought to Europe by the gypsies, fortune telling cards morphed into the divination tool that many of us utilize today. But the true psychic still perceives “visions” emanating from her cards, visions perhaps similar to those of her ancient ancestors. Therefore, tarot readings online are a result of magical knowledge coupled with an ongoing refinement of the divination arts.

Alan Kay

Interestingly, one of the greatest computer scientists of our time Alan Kay, whose pioneering work on windowing graphical user interface design is deemed revolutionary, said “The future is not laid out on track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way we want to! “

A tarot cards online reading would not contrast with Kay’s take by knowing our future, and understanding it, we change it. Without visionary perceptions, humanity would be stuck in a lack-lustre perception of existence. Some might insist now is the time to step into a new way of being and a vibrant future! They would not be wrong to think so!

Virgo Characteristics

“The Eskimos had fifty two names for the snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love!” this could only refer to a Virgo’s capacity to see multiple causes and effects! Not that we are saying that the sensible Virgo is complex, but a horoscope Virgo is an intricate chart, may be because our Virgo has so many ways of perceiving reality, all particularised, itemized, notified and specified. The Virgo is the ultimate earth sign, and the Virginal archetype. The Horoscope Virgo subject is definitely on a purity mission. So even though a Horoscope Virgo could drive a beginner astrologer to drink, Virgo is actually one of the more interesting sun signs.

Virgos are super brains when it comes to computer/high tech savvy, see them whiz around their calculators like Spiderman whizzing over Manhattan rooftops. By the same token see them pace the floor at 3.00 am worrying whether they locked the office safe. They fret more than most and the Peanut’s quote “I only dread one day at a time!” could be morphed into a Virgo theme song!

Earth sign Virgos

Earth sign Virgos have an evolved karma inferring that their mission is to be of “service”. You will find a propensity of Virgos in the healing arts, but also involved in metaphysical matters, or even medical/scientific research professions. Just so you get the point, Mother Teresa was a Virgo! By the same token watching the Virgo fussing about whom, when and where someone, somewhere left their hairs in the sink could be startling.

The Horoscope Virgo will frequently depict “get on with it” or “get through it” tendencies, they communicate you see. Chatty Mercury is their friend and boy can they put over a point at the Board Meeting. But watch them get all overwrought about the plight of newly born kittens, and the excessive use of toilet paper ruining the Amazon forests and you will get the aforementioned tendency to see “all aspects of the good and the bad known to man”. The Horoscope Virgo analyzes and is a genius at creating itemised shopping lists.

The horoscope Virgo might depict a subject who gazes up at the night sky and counts trillions of stars. Their curiosity about the “Creation” could have them joining a space programme or applying to become an astronaut. The Virgo “knows” about universal concepts instinctively, Virgo also “knows” all about man’s good and evil tendencies and is always “prepared”. Bad behaviour never shocks a Virgo, good behaviour will conquest them virtually forever. Virgos are loyal. A messy partner however, would hurt Virgo’s purist tendencies. A lover who does not understand that Virgo just has to tot up the bills, and make sure the cat tray is super clean would get short shrift with the upset Virgin. Do they not understand that Virgo just has to analyse how many “I love yous” were said on a spreadsheet?

The Personal Virgo

The Virgo is usually handsome or attractive. They are the ultimate partner, husband and girl friend, due to their calm, clear eyed gaze. Their horoscope might draw attention to the physical attributes, as something almost “divine” shines out of a Virgo soul! Soul or no soul, the Virgo version of housework can drive aforementioned romantic partners’ doolaley; it means cleaning “under” the parquet, and polishing “behind” the walls! But when it comes to decision making, well here we do not have that “itemized shopping list” syndrome cropping up. Virgo forgets all about specifications when it comes to putting their foot down. The Virgo will want to make clear statements, another’s procrastination irks them. They do not like to delegate or allocate, they like to trust. They will do everything for everyone, as long as that “everyone” keeps up their end of the bargain, and does not muck things up with untidy, over emotional, and/or hysterical outbursts. As far as sex is concerned, Virgo is complex, not that they swing from chandeliers, but they might attempt to if it turns their partner on!

But the true Virgo gifts are devotion and kindness. If a partner is ill or a kitty has fleas they will be calm, and soothing, providing the right dose of camomile tea and cat biscuits.

The Virgo usually lives well into their senior years. See an old Virgo codger or “codgeress” smiling up at you with those clear eyes, and you will realise that they have finally analysed reality to dust, and have found ultimate peace even enlightenment!

Horoscopes in the Media

We habitually open a magazine and take in “Horoscopes for Today”. We want to know if we are going to trip up, or meet up with true love, win the pools or go broke. We believe our sun signs’ lead us to luck or disaster in other words. But what planets rule the astral scene and affect our existence, and even our horoscopes for today readings?

The Sun

Let us start off with the Sun, the very center of our being. Sister moon follows on with our “feeling nature”. Mercury hurries up behind, and relates to how we think, and Venus is all about lurve! Mr. Jupiter is the “Mr. Luck” planet, and Mr. Saturn, is the “Old Task Master”. Shocking Uranus passes quickly as do all its changes, and illusory Neptune teaches us to dream as we flow with the ebbing tides of fortune.

The Moon

If we look a little more deeply we find the moon is linked to “feelings” and rules over fertility and female issues such as mothering, sensitivity, and mystery plus the ambiguous and ambivalent sides of life. The Moon affects are personal security or how we perceive it, and is the planet that we magically dance under when we want our lives to transform. The metaphysical amongst us energize our crystals or our spells under Mrs. Full Moon!

Mercury

Mercury is the mind, i.e. verbal dexterity and action based thought. Mercury is tiny compared to the sun, so although the mind is a useful instrument for problem solving, Mercury’s message is that we must not to let our head rule our heart, “As a man thinketh so is he!” is a phrase Mr. Mercury might ask us to pay attention to.

Venus

Venus is about learning to love, or if you like creating harmony with others. Love will not fail us if we trust it in other words. Ms Venus would agree with the Corinthians, Chapter 13, “And now abides faith, hope and love, there are three, but the greatest of all these is love!”

Mars

Mars affects our energy and sexuality. The downside of Mars can be carelessness, perhaps risk taking. Mars makes us face the fact we can be angry, competitive and downright headstrong. In other words, Mars reminds us to grow up and understand our limitations. When Mars is on our side, we handle our energies and create realistically in the world.

Jupiter

Jupiter encourages us to expand our lives, our thoughts our projects and sometimes our girth. Jupiter can be about excess in other words, we might be unable to stop chattering, gossiping eating and drinking But Jupiter also gifts us with optimism and enthusiasm, and a good Jupiter placement is likely to attract success.

Saturn

Saturn rules the bones of our lives, i.e. our skeletal system. Mr. S insists on teaching us hard lessons, in fact many of us are afraid of the stark realism Saturn’s knowledge can bring. It could seem that an old teacher is banging us on the head with his cane, but “getting” what Mr. S has to say can mean positive realizations and discovering the proverbial “pearls in the oyster!”

Uranus

Rebellious Uranus will shake us up, sometimes shock us. Faced with a Uranus crisis, we might walk out on a marriage or a lifestyle from one minute to the next. Dreamy Mr. Neptune in some placements encourages us to look at life with rose tinged glasses, but also wakes us up to the spiritual aspects of existence.

Pluto

Mr. Pluto is of the underworld. We plunge within, him as we seek to understand our unconscious mind. We can suffer in that process, and could even get self defensive and secretive. But if we welcome Pluto’s influence we can let go of our self destructive tendencies and flower. Obviously, if we read brief Horoscopes for today, we will not see these more personal aspects of the planets in action, but rather a general “picture” that helps us deal with everyday situations

Donna Cunningham

Donna Cunningham who wrote the book “An Astrological Guide to Self Awareness” explains planetary power. “I believe our lives are not controlled by things out there in space, but are shaped by our thought patterns. The planets only reflect what is going on – like a mirror. The planets do not cause things to happen to you they simply reflect what is going on within you.”

Most astrologers, empaths and psychic readers would agree Destiny “affects” our lives but our understanding and healing of the fates, plus our capacity to face our own inner shadow, is what “makes” our lives. So if your Horoscopes for today reading implied you were going to bump into true love, ask yourself if you are really, really want to?

Friends

Someone once said, “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you!”One true friend is worth all the riches in the world in other words. But in these challenging times asking “how is my friend?” is an everyday occurrence. Our friend could be a work colleague, someone we have grown up with, or a great person we met recently facing a life challenge. They could be our own partner fighting a war in distant lands. Perhaps someone starting their lives from scratch after financial ruin. Perhaps a friend’s marriage is breaking up, perhaps they are ill, perhaps they are tired out by life and cannot find ways to work through their problems.

Concern

When we ask “how is my friend?” we are aware that challenges have become part and parcel of someone we love’s everyday reality. Nowadays, many of us, not just friends, are overcoming health, financial or emotional difficulties. But on occasions, we cannot get through the challenges, we are overcome by them. So when we ask “how is my friend?” of a psychic or healer, we want to hear there are real solutions, we want to know that we can help.

When we ask “how is my friend?” we nurture uncertain hearts and spirits, afraid that those we care for cannot be healed. But the empath, psychic or healer will advise us that there are many solutions. A friend could go for spiritual healing, like Reiki, to balance their energy fields and encourage inner peace. They might go for psychological help. They could indeed tune into the services of a psychic on line, and ask for guidance, or a perception of future trends. We could send a friend our own good vibrations via prayer, and visualize them encircled by a ball of light that “disintegrates energy glitches” or misfortunes.

When a friend is in trouble we will be there for them, listening to their every word, perhaps silently, so they can let rip, and ease their angst. When appropriate, we can offer metaphysical advice directing them to material by Ester and Jerry Hicks, for example. The Hicks’ book “The Law of Attraction!” describes how transforming life by liberating ourselves from the chains of the past is indeed possible. How? Well, simply by using positive affirmations and the Law of Attraction. In simplified terms, the Law of Attraction states that our lives are as we are within, joy nurtures external success, pessimism disappointment after disappointment. If we emanate positivity from within, the result can be a breakthrough!

Esther Hicks

Esther Hicks began channeling her Spirit Guide Abraham years back. The initial contact was automatic hand writing which transformed into full blown clairaudient/clairvoyant channeled messages from another dimension, a “light” dimension. The result has been phenomenal. Not only has “Abraham” become a celebrity in metaphysical circles but the “Abraham” books, CDs and workshops on human growth have taken the world by storm.

Abraham “talks” through Ester Hicks. Through her channeling he teaches that our perception of reality is not as “real” as we like to think it is. He insists that our lives are a projection of our minds, that if we enhance our personal energy, we totally transform karma, or destiny. Transforming negative karma into positive is possible with dedicated prayer, meditation, affirmation and mental projection. The results are often astounding. It is not that we work magic, we “become” magic. We recognize the inner power of our intentions, and literally sweep aside obstacles to watch our life rise up to another level. Abraham states that the force of human transformation is inherent in the power of love.

So next time you ask “how is my friend?” remember that you could be the one to help make their lives “happen” with your “loving” presence. You could help them to realize that by changing their thoughts, from the inside out, difficulties will be overcome. In other words, your friend can experience a new way of living in this life time!

Learning tarot can be an inspiring experience, once we realize the tarot is a refined tool of prediction that could change our lives if we let it! Some of us are naturally drawn to the cards from an early age. Strange situations occur, for example someone gifts us a pack, or a reader astounds us with her accuracy, and we yearn to learn to see into the future just as she does!

Tarot Diary

Learning tarot is a spiritual journey, and even though we aspire to understanding the cards we need to realize that it is our perception that gives them their power. If we prefer learning tarot on our own we could start by creating a Tarot Diary, and write down our daily impressions and insights on the cards. We could also meditate on each major arcane card, not only to understand the images but to allow our unconscious mind to internalize their significance. When we meditate on the cards we take in their magical power and familiarize ourselves with our own clairvoyant gifts and internal insights.

Various Tarot Decks

There are so many tarot cards to choose from, some of the images are artistic and beautiful to look at, but our chosen pack needs to speak to us personally, and pretty tarot cards do not necessarily connect to our unique magic. Our personal pack might be simple, or garish, beautiful or unusual; inevitably, we choose the pack that “speaks” to our hearts. But we do need time to allow “the Fates” to organize one of the most intimate meetings a true reader will encounter, an appointment with her internal magic, and “seeing” gifts!

Card Meanings

To enter into the tarot creative visualization is useful. We could step in to each individual card and becomes friends with its resident. We could chat to the Fool about their perceptions on life. We could ask the Magician to gift us an instrument of knowledge, or the High Priestess to reveal a metaphysical secret. As we connect to the personal message of each card, we also come to terms with the negative side of our own personalities and face what we are seeking to avoid within. Our “friendly” tarot pack then starts to “see” deeply into our psyches, and the psyches of others. We soon realize that the tarot is not only an occult tool to read the future, but a magical gift that can change that future. For example if you read the cards for someone, and the Tower is an outcome, that is a warning. By changing their thinking modes and taking responsibility for the negative aspects of their life, disaster can be stopped in its tracks!

Metaphysical tools tell us that the future is not “written in stone”. The usefulness of tarot and astrology is their capacity to remind us of who we truly are, in the good and the bad. If we are ready to accept their warnings, their wise counsel and their gifts, we will see our lives change for the better.

Group Learning

Learning tarot is also fun in a group setting. If you can find friends who want to share the experience all the better. You can swap notes, and become more practiced at reading tarot for each other. Asking a friend who is a reader if she wants to start up a class might work. But there are colleges that undertake interesting courses. The College of Psychic Studies in London is a prestigious school, with excellent tarot instruction. In the final analysis, the most important decision is our choice of cards, once that is accomplished we are on our way to breakthrough! As we love our cards, the cards begin to spread truth and healing not only within our lives, but the lives of others!

What is it about becoming a medium that has us either sitting up in our seats, or reaching for the crème de menthe? What makes any individual want to go through the process of becoming a medium and what starts that metaphysical ball rolling?

Natural Gifts

Many people have natural medianic gifts but prefer to remain strum for fear of being ridiculed. If you are aware you are becoming a medium, and in that process continually see the ghosts of your dead relatives, or heartbroken Elizabethan lovers, it can be an embarrassment to admit it to your materialistic partner! The fact is we do not want to be “different” we want to be the “same”. Most of us face the world with realistic attitudes; we would rather join the mainstream, “Tick Tock Club” than be considered “as daft as a brush!” Indeed, part of the fears of becoming a medium, are the possible haranguing or criticism we would face from the skeptics!

George Anderson

However becoming a medium can be a natural process emerging in childhood. Take the legendary medium George Anderson, who is proved to be exceptionally accurate and insightful. It is recounted on his website that, “At the age of six years old, George Anderson contracted chicken pox which quickly became a near fatal case of encephalomyelitis, a swelling of the brain which caused damage to his cerebrum and rendered him unable to walk. At that the time, he was not expected to survive, but made a recovery over the course of the following three months, even regaining the use of his legs. Not long after that near fatal episode, George started seeing the image of a woman dressed in lilac colored robes that he later came to understand was St Joan of Arc. She spoke to George at length about life hereafter, and the journey he would eventually be asked to embark on. George also began to regularly see and hear relatives and family friends who had passed on.”

George’s parents were obviously worried about him, and thought he was psychological unhinged especially when he began hearing voices too. Poor George was perturbed by his paranormal experiences, so he kept a low profile. But the fact is, the man continued to receive messages from the other side, and had to eventually recognize that giving comfort to the grief stricken was his life’s mission. His subsequent first book “We Don’t Die!” subsequently proved to be a best seller. One could say George’s greatest achievement was that he was invited to speak to the holocaust surviving members of the Anne Frank family!

James Van Praagh

James Van Praagh is another medium considered to have exceptional powers. He was already psychic at a young age and claimed to have predicted his teacher’s son being hit by a car. He told her that the boy had only suffered a broken leg however. A few minutes later the principal arrived in the classroom to confirm that the accident had indeed happened. Although sometimes accused of cold reading, his capacities are indeed verifiable.

Spiritual Journey

Becoming a medium is a spiritual process of awakening, a realization that Divine Forces are in charge of our evolution. Such insights can be taxing. As aforementioned, facing the fact that we are picking up “other worldly” energies make some of us block out, or shut down. Truly gifted folks might decide to seek a teacher, or a spiritual mentor to help them through the first signs of natural mediumship. Others never use their gifts at all because they are frightened of the consequences, or the unknown. But the medium’s capacity to pierce the veils of mystery, and connect to “something eternal” could be classified as a divine gift indeed! What could be more inspiring than understanding that at least some of the more mysterious secrets of the universe can be deciphered! Those truly “gifted” amongst us can render much light to the darkness. One could consider it a mistake for them not to hone into their skills and develop them! Especially, in these challenging times! There are mediums that channel Spirit through the telephone, or texting, perhaps they prefer to remain low key, and share their spiritual gifts modestly. But the fact is, when a client connects to a beloved one who has passed on, the inspiration and fulfillment of the experience will be remembered for the rest of their days!

How do email readings work?

How is it that without seeing or hearing a client, but just from a name and date of birth. A reader can perform successfully email readings, can accurately perceive past and future events, advise on life trends, decisions, and even how past influences affect our current perceptions of our lives? Where does the psychic’s information come from? Is it something they just pick up out of the ethers? Do they utilise numerology and astrology? Do they tune into ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) or do they use dowsing techniques? Some email readings access all the psychic’s abilities, but dowsing answers to “yes” or “no” questions, is a popular psychic practice, especially when a client needs to make a decision what to invest in, where an object, like a piece of beloved jewellery, has been lost and if a boyfriend is worth waiting for.

Paul Smith

Paul Smith, a well known Remote Viewer once employed by the USA army to “see” long distance military enemy installations, was interviewed on Coast to Coast Radio. He talked about his practical approach to ESP in regard to remote viewing and how during the Vietnam War the US military utilised dowsing systems to find out where hidden weapons were buried. In the 1980s, Nature Magazine stated that “dowsing effects which until recently were claimed to be paranormal can now be explained from within orthodox science.” In Smith’s view, much hidden information about a situation can be accessed simply through the practical science of dowsing. But how can a pendulum answer yes or no? How can one compare dowsing with ESP itself? And how can one ascertain when, where and how to dowse?

Pendulums

Well most psychics will tell their clients to realise the pendulum speaks to them, if held between their thumb and forefinger. The pendulum shows them a “yes” and a “no” to a question as follows. If the pendulum swings up and down, for no, and around and around for yes, or vice versa, one can continue to invite the pendulum to answer more complex questions pertaining to life issues. In fact the more practiced a dowser becomes, the more their answers will be accurate.

Dowsing

Dowsing could be described as a form of ESP, in that the conscious mind connects to the subconscious mind, and brings what is “unknown” into awareness. It is as if the moment someone dowses for answers they connect to a “field” of metaphysical energy that knows everything, including whether a boyfriend will show up! In other words, the subconscious accesses information that normal consciousness cannot tune into!

German Dowsing Tests

In Germany during the 1980s, 843 water locating tests were performed by 500 dowsers. The results of those tests were reported as follows. “In particular tasks, dowsing shows an extraordinarily high rate of success, which can scarcely if at all be explained as due to chance. In fact, dowser-phenomena can be regarded as empirically proven.” So indeed, email readings can on occasions integrate some dowsing, as well as astrology and numerology, but in the main, sources of most psychic “telling” and phenomena is due to the psychic’s natural “seeing” abilities that link into a client’s issue, and frequently answer questions correctly. Dowsing is mostly used when a defined answer is requested by the client, and its accuracy has been proved over and over again!

Why a Horoscope Reading?

Your boyfriend has left you, the cat has got the mumps, your boss showed you the door, and your mother in law nags you morning noon and night. Okay, we exaggerate, but at times we want to know why we are going through a time that has nothing to do with windfalls or lucky breaks! When the going gets rough, we are liable to turn to horoscope readings. Perhaps, we think, those horoscope readings can solve the puzzle, and tell us what our destiny truly is?

Karma

One element of horoscope readings is indeed our destiny, or karma, and its effect on our lives. So what IS karma, in layman’s terms. It is basically cause and effect. Simplified, if I squeeze the toothpaste from the middle of the tube, the toothpaste is liable to squelch excessively all over my tooth brush! In other words, whatever one does, there is a result. Good actions will bring good results; bad actions tend to mess things up. If I am a reincarnation of Attila the Hun, it is unlikely that this life will be a fun ride, probably all those people I slaughtered will come back to haunt me! Karma is the ultimate in cosmic justice but it is also the great teacher, and its effects can be subtle, yet progressive.

Vedic Astrology

The human being could be described as an evolved life form, whose destiny does not lie in riches or fame, but a deeper understanding of soul purpose The Yagna concept of Vedic astrology talks about the “science of persuading the Gods” in others words Vedic astrology teaches us how negative energy can be transmuted to positive through understanding our “dark side”. In other words, if we are interested in developing consciousness, we transform bad to good with awareness. For example, if your car is not functioning you would think nothing of incorporating a new engine part. Why, therefore, do we find it so hard to transform our perceptions of ourselves?

Aries Example

Take an Aries who loves challenge, who has a lid on their personal strength, who seeks honour and personal accomplishment. These dynamic folk often find inner harmony difficult to maintain, and are liable to be excessively individualistic, therefore their karmic lesson is to learn to be cooperative! If we look at Taurus, we see them as instinctive, with a lid on the material world. They know how to make dreams work through hard graft and determination. Their material achievements have a lot to recommend them, yet Taurus needs to learn about their intuitive, spiritual side, and express more depths of feeling. If a Taurus learns to mix instinct with spirituality, the Taurus karmic challenge can be fulfilled.

Whether we are aware of it or not, all sun signs are working through their karma to evolve a higher state of consciousness, and create a more “vital” lifestyle! Fiery Leo needs to learn to be objective and not take things personally. The Cancer, who is caring and doting, needs to go beyond emotions to become pragmatic and realistic. We all have a unique challenge that only a willingness to look at, and transform, our “dark side” will heal. Horoscope readings are not the immediate solution, but they could be the key to a totally different way of living our lives.

The first question some of us might ask when it comes to a horoscope tarot reading, is can one actually integrate the horoscope with the tarot, in other words could a horoscope tarot reading point the way to in-depth psychic feedback? The second question might be can tarot predictions and astrological timing merge together as one?

Study

There is no doubt tarot and horoscopes bear many similarities. To understand both the cards and the stars, years of study is required; the reader needs to be adept at pinpointing astro events and then dig deeper in to the karmic patterns that caused them. The reader attempts to help the client ameliorate their future with both an astrological and tarot assessment of past, present and future, as per the horoscope tarot reading.

When it comes to a horoscope tarot reading, there are popular card spreads that are dealt in an anti clockwise fashion incorporating zodiac signs, the twelve houses and the astrological characteristics of each card. Astrological layouts of the tarot are useful, but some tarot readers like to use specific astro designed tarot packs.

The Mandala

For example, the Mandala Astrological Tarot uses the horoscope as a foundation for the 78 tarot cards. The creator of the Mandala Cards, A T Mann, perfected a deck that includes astrological associations, and a process of spiritual evolution through the zodiac signs. The images of the Mandala cards themselves consist of attractively defined mandalas with full predictive astro potency incorporated. A Tarot Master, Bonnie Cehovet, refers to the Mandala Astrological Tarot as “being representative of the tableaux of initiation seen in Egyptian mystery temples, with the appropriate scenery, imagery colours and textures, with symbolic costumes and ritual implements.”

Russell Grant

The Astro Tarot Pack is another splendid example that many readers use to incorporate astrological aspects into their readings. Russell Grant has expressed cards with mystical, mythical art works. For example, the planet Neptune is depicted as a watery king with green beard and garlanded hair wielding his trident above the oceans of the world. Aquarius, however, is a nutty looking character in a pink jacket riding an equally pink rocket over a rainbow. This unique tarot manages to mix astrological imagery in a gracious, expressive manner that inspire the reader’s intuitive faculties, and enable an access to the collective unconscious.

But beyond these beautiful tarot cards available to the seeker, the insights of any horoscope tarot reading deal with both human and soul evolution beyond the past, present and future. Most astrologers attempt to clarify that destiny works on their client’s side once they become aware of how the soul is synchronized with the human heart. The purpose of both the tarot and the horoscope is to lead the individual into a deeper understanding of themselves and how they too have a hand in their own destiny. This is not always an easy process for the client to take on board, and sometimes challenging astro or tarot influences emerge as a result.

For example, Saturn is our greatest astro teacher when it comes to rubbing our noses in the lessons we find so difficult to learn. In the case of the Tarot, we might be faced with the Hanged Man or even the Tower when we are in the process of learning particularly important life lessons. The “darker” sides of the horoscope tarot reading are frequently misunderstood. It is challenging to note that suffering often pre-empts a radical yet positive life change. However, the true seeker knows that if their life path is to be rewarding they might have to come to terms with the more difficult aspects of their character, but they will also learn that there is a Holy Grail, and that is what the horoscope tarot reading can and will reveal to them. In other words, we travel to reach the right destination, and we are lead forth by the magic of tarot and the ancient wisdom of the stars!

Astrology and the Media

Fun and free astrology readings are found on the back pages of magazine and newspapers. We can even find a variety on the Internet. We read them avidly. We turn to the astro to know if we will be “overcome by splendor”. In other words, whether dad will say, “This will all be yours some day!” If the stars bode well, we are convinced life will be easier for us. But can free astrology readings really tell the future? Well, no, and then again yes; they can predict similar to a weather forecast, but they cannot go into our personal details in those daily or weekly readings. For an insightful chart, astrologers use specialized talents to assess the planetary influences rotating the heavens the day we were born.

super-simplified explanation is that astrology evaluates our ruling planet, our moon phases and our ascendant. The astrologer assesses our moon sign in regard to emotions and creativity and looks at our ascendant’s influence as it enters one of the 12 zodiac signs rising over the eastern horizon the moment we were born. Astrology paints a portrait of our personal tendencies, our faults and opportunities, and when our ruling planet and moon phases add to the fun, the astro chart can be life changing!

What is Astrology?

A super-simplified explanation is that astrology evaluates our ruling planet, our moon phases and our ascendant. The astrologer assesses our moon sign in regard to emotions and creativity and looks at our ascendant’s influence as it enters one of the 12 zodiac signs rising over the eastern horizon the moment we were born. Astrology paints a portrait of our personal tendencies, our faults and opportunities, and when our ruling planet and moon phases add to the fun, the astro chart can be life changing!

Famous Astrology Followers

Throughout history astrology has fascinated the rich and famous. During Elizabethan times John Dee held court on the astro. Portraits of “the Master” depict Dee as a cross between Nostradamus and the Wizard of Oz. But Dee was Queen Elizabeth the I’s personal astrologer as well as a mathematician, occultist and navigator. The British Museum houses some of Dee’s 15th century astro trappings such as small wax seals, a gold amulet engraved with Dee’s visions, and a crystal globe. Some say Shakespeare based his character Prospero of “The Tempest” on Dee, the Astrologer. Dee has not been forgotten. A character cameo of him even appeared in the popular film “Elizabeth the Golden Age” alongside Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I.

Modern Day Astrologers

These days astrologers still astound us, and popular astrologers such as Russell Grant reach a wide audience, as they do not “read the stars” for the “privileged” alone. Successful astrologers tend to have charismatic personalities and a unique capacity to access powerful insights. In fact, we are more inclined to check out those free astrology readings if they are penned by astro folk we trust and respect.

As much as we might struggle with the concept that the planets are responsible for our destiny, they still inspire us. There is something so mysterious about the wonders of space and the celestial bodies that are said to influence astrology readings. But we need to realise destiny is not always written in stone! A good astrologer will show us that we do have alternatives, for example if we become aware of our faults and change them, we can transform the future! On a lighter note, we can still enjoy the weekly predictions of those free astrology readings to understand, albeit superficially, the celestial forces shaping our lives.

D. H Lawrence

The great British novelist D. H Lawrence once said “The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are small parts. The sun is a great heart, whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power rippling exquisitely through us all the time!” Now who could ever question that?!

The Blake Tarot cards could be seen as unusual, magical, even poetic; their images are subtle, bizarre yet totally mesmerizing. The extraordinary Blake Tarot is based on the work of one of the most gifted artists of all time, William Blake who died on the 12^th of August 1827. He was an unconventional poet, and an extraordinary product of his generation. His poetry was considered prophetic, and he is currently perceived as “far and away the greatest artist that Britain has ever produced!”

Blakes Perceptions

Blake’s mystical perceptions of reality caused him personal suffering. His perceptions of reality could not be put into a box and were frequently rejected by the status quo of the day, who tended to scoff at his vision of life as a magical experience. His painting of the Greek Goddess of Black Magic Hecate, as seen in the underworld is thrilling; the sight of it still grips us. In a way, it compels us to understand Blake’s metaphysical message, as it provides “interesting” input on the mystery of human existence.

Blake’s greatest work was his pictorial depiction of Dante’s Divine Comedy. He says of it “Everything in Dante’s Comedian shows that for tyrannical purposes he made his world the foundation of all and the Goddess Nature, not the Holy Ghost.” Blake thought materialism destructive, and perceived that it blinded man to his true nature.

The New Tarot

The names of the Arcane cards in the Blake Tarot have been changed by its creator Ed Buryn. The Fool becomes Innocence, for example. Magic is the Magician and the High Priestess is called Mystery. The Empress is renamed Nature, and the Emperor Reason. Death is seen as solely Transformation and Temperance as Forgiveness. Error is naturally the Devil and Lightening the Tower, but somehow these diverse names inspire the reader to ingenious insights,

Ed Buryn

Ed Buryn who as we said designed the Blake Tarot states “One of the reasons I designed the Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination was to introduce a new yet classically proven symbology based on universal truths that are eminently suitable for psychological and spiritual awareness. William Blake’s art and ideas represent a tested vision of life. That is eternal and yet fresh” and he continues, Blake’s works blaze forth with extraordinary depth and ability to inspire. After all, Tarot cards are just colored pieces of paper, what makes them “work” is what Blake called “the Divine Arts of Imagination” which he also called “The Eternal Body of Man”.

Various Blake Tarot Cards

The Blake Tarot is made for the artistic and self expressive reader. It is divided into Angel Cards, Child Cards, Woman Cards and Man Cards. Within the tarot itself, there is a feature that is called “a symbol window” whereby the reader can project their own meaning on to the cards, the spreads are varied, for example one is called the Creative Process, its layout accompanying an individual out of a problem, by suggesting inspiring variants to help them on their way. However, the Blake Tarot is no less accurate or perceptive than other tarot packs On the contrary it has a unique style of predicting, and a sensitive and inspired reader can offer unique answers to a clients’ concerns when using it. In fact, the Blake Tarot can guide us through an innovative and productive way of resolving life’s challenges and quagmires!

Modern Day Tarot

One of the advantages of the internet is the variety of choice when it comes to computerized tarot readings. As much as we would like to talk to a clairvoyant and get a more in-depth reading, computer generated readings can give us quick, free glances at how our challenges affect our future. There are many sites that offer computer generated tarot readings. The Alison Day Free Tarot site, or Lotus Tarot is one of the more popular with 2.1 million visitors. Photos of Alison Day show her to be a pretty woman who also offers phone readings and personal sessions backed up by her team of psychics. The Alison Day Free Tarot Site also has an attractive presentation. Its mechanized readings utilize a mainstream deck of tarot cards randomly shuffled by a computer to form one free spread to choose from. However If we want to look at diverse spreads we can become a member of the site itself by paying a yearly fee that gives us a choice of varied spreads and services.

The Alison Day Site

The Alison Day free Tarot site presents compelling readings notwithstanding their computerized status. However, some might believe that the human element is necessary when it comes to communicating personal issues pertaining to love, loss and human evolution. The question is what tarot card sites can we trust? And is it possible that a computer generating reading can be really accurate?

There are various information websites geared to helping us decide and providing us with metaphysical points of view. Human beings need answers. Not only are we dealing with difficult personal financial, emotional and work situations, planet Earth is suffering from manmade or natural disasters. Additionally, our governments are in debt, therefore economic stimulus plans are artificially propping the economy up and a one world currency seems imminent. Therefore, it is quite natural to seek out a tarot reading to understand how such events could affect our personal lives. Some might say that understanding our own truth could save humanity from disaster, in the sense that self responsibility and positive action could stop the rot before it worsens! Obviously, economic hardships affect our relationships, and of course we need guidance on occasions. Tarot sites can support us by offering us that guidance, for psychics and healers are dedicated to assisting humanity.

Society of Psychical Research

To back up an ever increasing public interest in the paranormal, the Society of Psychical Research founded in 1882, seeks scientific proof not only to explain tarot readings but to investigate phenomena like poltergeist outbreaks. Experiments are currently being conducted at the University of Northampton in cooperation with the Society of Psychical Research to search for reliability and replicability when it comes to experiments testing paranormal phenomena. The Alison Day Free Tarot is but the tip of the iceberg.

Near Death Experiences

The need to understand how a psychic interacts with reality, what causes Near Death Experiences, or even poltergeist outbreaks, plus our own capacities to pick up what someone else is thinking, are just too fascinating to ignore. Eventually, science and metaphysics might start cooperating and a more aware understanding of how the metaphysical works within our lives will emerge. Indeed as C G Jung, one of the greatest philosopher psychotherapists stated “I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud!”

So what movies do you go for when you trot down the video store, classic, horror, love stories, musicals? The selection is vast and entertaining. We forget ourselves watching the movies, but we remember the awesome human drama of life, and we cry, laugh, fight, laugh and struggle with our heroes and heroines! But how would our Astro Club choose their own very special movie.

ARIES

Action loving Aries will want to pick up an epic, the kind of epic that talks of light over dark and the simple man’s belief of good winning out. So Aries could be a Frodo Baggins fan. When the Ram pop down the Video store, watch them pick up the “Lord of the Rings” again and again: Aragon, Arwen, Bilbo and Frodo even Farmir, are all friends of the passionate Aries who will morph into these characters as they watch the movie in their own front room.

TAURUS

Taurus loves food, friendship, deep emotions, and above all family sagas. So it would not be too surprising to see them pick “Mystic Pizza” off the Video shelf. The is the mother of all “coming of age” movies starring a very young Julia Roberts, who looks startling beautiful in her rendition of Daisy who works in the Mystic Pizza restaurant and finds love, of a kind. Just looking at all those delicious pizza cuts will have Taurus ringing the takeaway to back up the whole home video experience.

GEMINI

Gemini dig intellectual movies that stimulate the cerebral cortex, in short they dig “foreign”. The very French “Jean de Florette/Manon de Sources” starring Gerald Depardieu and Yves Montant is one of the best French epics and gets Gemini gray matter buzzing. “Cinema Paradiso” directed by Guiseppe Tornatore is another “twin” favourite. This Oscar winning movie about a child growing up in Sicily and his friendship with a cinema projectionist touches the mind as well as the heart. Gemini is into languages, so they might improve their Italian by going to Rome for their hols!

CANCER

Sentimental and caring Cancer will want to focus on family viewing. See them pick up videos depicting kindness and friendship, with the good always winning over the bad. Vids like the “Lion King” and “Finding Nemo” are favourite pick-ups, but the 1939 “Wizard of Oz” wins the prize! The great Hollywood star Judy Garland depicts teen Dorothy Gale swept away to a magical land in a tornado. She embarks on a quest to find the fabulous “Wizard of Oz” so she can return home. Any crabby girl will tell you “there is no place like home!”

LEO

Leo likes “larger than life” on screen, so what could beat picking up a musical? Okay, the classic “Singing in the Rain” starring Gene Kelly, and of course “Moulin Rouge” are not bad! But the movie to beat all Leo musicals can only be “Evita!” Leo Madonna was literally born to play Evita Peron, and she had that gorgeous, also Leo, co star Antonio Banderas by her side to spice things up. As for the song “Don’t Cry for me Argentina” well that gets Leo into floods of loud tears every time! They “identify” you see!

VIRGO

Virgo is a purist when it comes to movies and somewhat intellectual. The classic Virgo movie combo is emotionality and complexity. They tend to hire out idealized love stories. They will definitely be sobbing into their kerchiefs at the classy “Titanic”. Just watching pure and young Kate and Leonardo seeing their dreams fall apart as “Titanic sinks”, is of excruciating pleasure to our Virgo. Another great Virgo movie is “The Barefoot Contessa”, staring the luminous Ava Gardner and her search for the romantic ideal, with it all ending in tears of course! Virgo would have a lot to say about that!

LIBRA

Libra goes for “love stories” par excellence. Movies like “The Notebook” staring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams will hit the loving Libran hard, in fact with or without a bunch of paper hankies they will even sob in front of their Aunt Gladys without a qualm. Other films for loving Librans are “A Walk to Remember” staring Nicholas Spark and Mandy Moore as the girl with leukemia who tells Nick not to love her so. But can one really turn away from “West Side Story”, an epic of fighting NY gangs, based on Romeo and Juliet? No of course not, Libra wants romance. And that is final!

SCORPIO

Scorpio wants horror and that is final too! Scorpio needs horror like you and I need a hole in the head. Scorpios lose themselves in frightening scenarios to forget their dark side. For example “Nightmare on Elm Street”. What could be more ghastly, than seeing a young Johnny Depp getting swallowed up by his bed? Other horror movies for Scorps to dig are “The Fly”, and “Videodrome” which is about nasty television sets, and naturally the horrific “Saw”. Scorp would say, “How to deal with death is at least as important as how to deal with life!”

SAGITTARIUS

When the Saggy walks into the video store, they are looking to pick up a wild, free and “wind in the hair” style road movie like “Thelma and Louise”, directed by Ridley Scott and of course the mystical “Easy Rider” starring Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson in their prime. “Easy Rider” is a movie about motorcyclists on their way to a rather sticky karma. Saggy identifies with heroes and heroines seeking themselves, free souls who travel they know not where, perhaps to happiness perhaps to oblivion!

CAPRICORN

Capricorn is into class, the sleek movie statement. They will already have their own classic movie collection, but they might trot down to the Video store, if they are missing out on classics like “Godfather I and II”, “Jaws”, “A Wonderful Life”, and “Ben Hur”. These movies are guaranteed to get the pulses racing and the heart singing. And what could be better than the “Best Years of Our Lives” made in 1946 portraying serviceman returning from the Second World War, and the difficulties they had to face. This poignant movie is perhaps Cappy’s favourite.

AQUARIUS

Aquarius wants to see the human race evolve, so they are into the protest movie, if they are lucky enough to find one down the Video Hire that is! Films like “Brokeback Mountain”, about gay love, and “Schindler’s List” about the horrific reality of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, is what the Aquarian adores the most. These films certainly do not hide the truth. Of course Charlie Chaplin’s classic Modern Times, depicting the comic dehumanization of everyday life is a work of art and could be an Aquarian favourite.

PISCES

Pisces wants more than horror, more than love, more than road, more than classic, they want poetry. So see the romantic fish pick up a film that touches the soul. They might write a list to order from the video store. “2001 Space Odyssey”, “The Seventh Seal” for example. But the ultimate Piscean thrill is Robin Williams as Professor Keating in “The Dead Poets Society” Keating stirs the Piscean heart to its depths when he says “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute, we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love these are what we stay alive for!” And at that point our stunning Pisces will rest their case! And so will we!

Pets are our dearest friends; we love them so much we want them to join in our festive fun.

ARIES

An action packed Aries loves riding. Their adoration for the trusty horse will make sure the animal maintains their dignity. No cutesy costumes for the Aries pet! Aries is an equine lover, but to make the kid sister smile, they will transform their beloved steed into a magical one on Halloween! So their very special horse morphs into the Winged Pegasus as Aries crafts a pair of custom made wings to attach to the adored jalopy, and perhaps even dream of flying away into the clouds and away from this mad, mad world!

TAURUS

Taurus adores farm pets, being so attracted to the earth, and the miracle of nature as they are. So when Halloween comes around, watch Taurus dress themselves and their cute pot bellied pet pig in a ballerina skirt. Not to humiliate the animal who already gives them so much affection and joy, but to laugh with them as they roll in the mud together. In fact the pot bellied pig has a wry grin on its face, as it watches this nutty human getting all “piggy”.

GEMINI

Gemini is an arch communicator, and loves to wish Happy Halloween to family and friends. Asking their distinguished pet eagle to fly across the airwaves to deliver greetings will not fall on deaf eagle ears. Even this noble bird will stand a mini silver Mercury hat with wings on it. The splendid creature will retain its dignified status, and look massively mythical as it flies through the door with a “Happy Halloween” message in its beak!

CANCER

If sentimental Cancer can get their beloved long eared, pet rabbit to wear a Halloween costume all well and good. But some bunnies just don’t dig having silly costumes close to their fur. However, if this bunny decides it is okay, Cancer will attempt to make the lovable “long ears” into a pretty elf, with a silk, green hat on, and magical waistcoat. So romantic and gorgeous will bunny be that children from nine to ninety will just want to pet him all day long.

LEO

Leo adores their kitty, they are so alike. Kitty sulks when nobody pays them attention, just like Leo, and scratches when individuals hurt their feelings, just like Leo. So when a Leo cat is called Pumpkin, Leo will go down on their knees and with respect ask kitty if she minds being dressed up as a fun pumpkin pie, with a cute little orange hat on and a green bow around her cuddly neck. If Kitty meows once, then it is all okay. If she meows twice and scratches Leo then best to put the Halloween costume in the drawer and try again next year!

VIRGO

When a Virgo loves an animal, a Virgo loves an animal with exactly the same dedication they pay to all things of value in their lives. So expect a Virgo to marvel at the elegant deer that grazes on the dried grass Virgo lays out for it. Of course it is impossible to dress up a deer for a fancy dress party. But that is just the way Virgo likes it. Their respect for nature and love of wild life excludes morphing animals into daft human lookalikes. If the deer is tame, Virgo will kneel before it, and give it tit bits that do not upset its digestive tract. Very special Halloween Party friends will be allowed to stay at the Virgo home till morning, and watch as the graceful deer grazes.

LIBRA

Venus ruled Libra will adore their love birds. So sweet, colourful and intelligent, these are mini parrots, and live a long life. Libra will commit their hearts, so happy to make sure the birds get out of their cages for daily exercise. When Halloween comes around Libra will dress up the bird cage with tinsel and streamers, and buy their love birds a new bird ladder. They will hang edible toys all around their cage and add mirrors so the cute birdies can look at themselves. The cage cover will be coordinated with fun Halloween star curtains; Libra believes that these colourful birds with their pink beaks and rainbow plumage are the best fancy dressed couple in town!

SCORPIO

Scorpio adores their swell pet snake; they swear that they have long conversations with the creature, and that it answers them back by sticking out its forked tongue at them. This particular pet will be kept in a tank in a specially heated area of the summer house. When Halloween comes round, what could be more fun than decorating the reptile tank with some extra goodies? Placing a few mini palm trees in the tank, for example, could be a start and then some plants around it, with perhaps gold painted artificial vines and branches twisting over the reptile tank, to give it festive splendor. However, Mr. Snake is Mr. Snake, and will hiss nastily if silly hats or ballerina skirts are pushed on to him!

SAGITTARIUS

Saggy loves animals, but since he is a free spirited type of critter always ready to roam, the Saggy pet needs to be independent. So Saggy is inclined to go for tortoises because they can be left to wander around the garden and get up to their own devices, like eating leaves and finding undergrowth to hibernate in, which is usually around Halloween. But if this is a swinging tortoise they might not be that sleepy and will not object to a pink bow tied around their shell, just to show they dig what daft humans get up to.

CAPRICORN

Capricorns are reliable types, perfectly fine with keeping a pet and looking after it full time. In fact they will grow to love the pet goats on their estate. When Halloween pops around, Cappy will get festive and craft a green paper hat for their very special goat, with some golden tassels on it, and perhaps the odd star. If that hat only last about two minutes before goatie eats it up, so what! It is fun to see garrulous goatie wearing that hat for a couple of minutes, just to make someone’s day, someone very small, like Cappy’s special little girl!

AQUARIUS

Aquarius digs freedom, and wide open skies. They are on a mission, and hate to see animals looking daft in silly costumes. They adore their dog, and their sweet long, soft ears, and big brown eyes, and when life is full of woe, they will cuddle doggy and talk to it like it is their only friend. So when Halloween comes around, the Water Carrier will want their dog to look super beautiful. They will brush their hair shiny bright and place a lucky crystal collar around the dog’s furry neck. In that moment doggie is not only a beloved dog, but a magical one too.

PISCES

Pisces will tell you that their aquarium is full of grace, or in plain language goldfish, rainbow fish and angelfish that are already dressed up in fancy dress costume; just by gazing at the creatures, one feels in a festive mood. You cannot convince the Piscean their fish are anything other than heavenly creatures, and that their costumes are miracles of nature. Pisces know that their crimson spotted rainbow fish is beautiful enough to not need a Halloween costume? Fish are peaceful, and sweet, but they will defend their territory. Don’t ever try to stick a paper hat on a Texas Cichlid fish, it could get nasty!

Its your wedding and you want to look fabulous. So you go looking for the perfect bridal gown to fit the bill. You need to make an impression, stun the guests, and your groom. You want to be the most beautiful bride in living history, and yet, you are you, and the wedding dress will have a lot to say about your personality. But you sense that you are on the way to bridal breakthrough, and you have found the right dress. But what about our Astro Club? Will they be beautiful brides like you?

ARIES

This action packed bride will dump the classic wedding outfit for a bridal trouser suit, in funky go getting style. She will like the tight embroidered bodice, and palazzo style soft, flowing crepe trousers. A white lace shawl will cover her shoulders should she be getting married on a mountain top somewhere, and some exquisite white (thorn less) roses will grace her wild auburn locks. Her bridal statement is you are not the only one “wearing the trousers” in this marriage mate!

TAURUS

On her wedding day earthy Taurus will want to be a princess in a georgette ballerina crinoline with swathes of frills on the hem, the type of Fairy Tale Princess Dress she always dreamed of as a kid. And now that has met her special prince, the kind of guy who digs her voluptuous bust line, and “real” curves, she is the happiest lady on the block. She carries a bouquet of lilies and hopes she looks just a little like the full bodied Jessica Simpson on her wedding, with her handsome man by her side. Oh, what a thrill all this will be!

GEMINI

Cerebral Gemini’s, might like an offbeat classic style to enhance their look. They are certainly not into frills and bows, keep it simple, keep it plain, and if you can get something borrowed, and something blue all is well. Gemini likes to play with words, and have their groom bright and on the ball with no stuttering “I do’s!” Not the type to like little princesses but women with chutzpah, this Gemini will avoid girly pretentiousness in that sweet taffeta off-white sheath. With a white carnation wreath in her hair, and some soft pink lipstick she will smile all the way down the aisle.

CANCER

Cancer will want her wedding day to be remembered, the kind of day one can reminisce over on long cold rainy nights, when love might not feel quite as hot. This Moon Child will want to marry in a classic wedding dress with a swirling long taffeta skirt, and a veil laced with embroidery, the veil her granny wore to her wedding, and the veil her own little girl will wear one day. Her heart will beat fast as she walks down the aisle, and the taffeta skirt swishes around her heels. She might hope that her wedding dress is as chic and classy as that of Gwen Stefani’s with those same beautifully pink designs on the hem!

LEO

Leo is into looking stylish and unique on their day of all days. They might not even get married in white just to make that stunning impression. So how about a Spanish style wedding dress with a wide satin, scarlet skirt, layers of net petticoat and a tightly buttoned bodice, with little embroidered bolero to match. Why not a red veil falling down on their shoulders, twisting up with her thick curly tresses. This get up reminds everyone that the Leo gal is the only gal who can look so swell in scarlet on her wedding day. Leo ladies will have their wedding guests raising champagne glasses to a very unique bride indeed.

VIRGO

Virgo will be into old fashioned perfection. Everything will have to be just so, and bridal protocol will be adhered to. So no groom peering into the bedroom on the eve of the great occasion. The wedding dress could be ball room style with satin skirt, net petticoats, tight at the waist, with a beautiful bodice etched by diamante appliqués. The whole look will be so affluent, so Victoria Beckham. A small veil will be fastened with one perfect pink rose on cascading curls. The effect will be so stunning even the groom will gasp, and need a drink, or perhaps not!

LIBRA

The oh-so-in-love Libra will be sure that she has a heart shaped neckline, and that her wedding gown will be in a very light shade of pink lace. Her train can be nothing other than “Royal” as is her love for that very special man. Yes, he will be her perfect prince on her special day, certainly worth a hand embroidered train extending ten feet from her waist. She looks so awesome guests gasp and dad budgets for the next five years. This bride will want to tell everyone she was born under the sun sign Libra, and her guiding star is Venus. She could do nothing other than dedicate her life to luxury love now could she?

SCORPIO

The Scorpio chick will go Gothic, or at least others might see it that way. The fact is few dare get married in black. But Scorpio knows she will stun with that scooped U shaped bust line, and cap sleeves the colour of the night sky. This bridal get up is the best she ever strutted out in. With the glorious cathedral train, stretching seven feet behind her, encrusted, if Daddy can afford with something that “looks” akin to black pearls, few will do anything other than whisper “Wow!” So even if her friends say but “love, you aren’t going to a funeral” our Scorpio chick will look so amazing with her pale skin and blood red lipstick that in the end everyone will eat their words, and tell her she is the most beautiful bride they have ever seen!

SAGITTARIUS

The happy go lucky Saggy will be wondering why she is getting married in the first place. But hey, Saggy gals fall in love and “he” wanted to marry her, so they might as well do their thing and get spliced in the Bermudas. What a great adventure getting on that air plane and flying away to exotic climes with a hundred guests in tow! So what does a girl wear then? Well nothing can detract from the fact Saggy brides; tend to go for that “destination” wedding dress, which is short, and sexy, with a slit up the front, and pearly stuff across the bodice. As she stands on the beach with her bunch of pink orchids she will surprise everyone by bursting into old fashioned tears!

CAPRICORN

Cappys would prefer to go for the traditional ivory silk couture dress. Stunning “bridal elegance on legs” in other words. The longest train, obviously Royal style, and the cutest, toddler bridesmaids with pink roses in their curls will carry it. This bride makes the whole outfit look like a Botticelli painting. The dress itself would be sewn with white crystals and pearls, and if Daddy cannot afford that, well fake pearls will do, as long as it all looks stunningly old fashioned enough. The entrance into the chapel will be accompanied by “Here Comes the Bride” and if mummy and guests don’t break down with emotion, this bride knows she has missed the mark and worry about it for years.

AQUARIUS

Alternative Aquarius will want to get “artsy” on their wedding day, with a picnic on the lawn and a lot of their mates cracking challenging wedding jokes. So looking for a wedding dress on eBay would not be the last thing on an Aquarian bride’s list of things to do. In fact, getting married in something resembling an Audrey Hepburn frock, as per Roman Holiday, would be such fun! Cut back ballerina type shoes with heels might blend well! Aquarius will tend to go veil-less and dig a vintage wedding hat, with a huge rim and white ribbon twisted around it. Getting seriously “bridal” is not really a water carrier’s “thing” no matter how much in love.

PISCES

Pisces will want to look like a mermaid in a seriously décolleté, classic style clinging Charmeuse sheath, in other words “alla” Marilyn Monroe on Kennedy’s birthday. Only this Pisces will not be singing “Happy Birthday” but “Here Comes the Bride!” This body hugging little number will have a few merman guests wishing she was their bride! So, as the mermaid flows out at her hem and makes our Pisces look like she has come to earth just to marry her handsome prince as per the film “Splash”, mum and dad will be sobbing loudly and the groom will have turned pale with lust! The Pisces bride’s intention in the first place! And in that wedding gown how could it be otherwise!

What a wonderful time is had by all when the festive seasons come, and we sit around the table and enjoy the holiday side dish, to accompany the traditional fare. Feelings of warmth and camaraderie touch us, as our taste buds swell, as well as our hearts. But let us examine what holiday side dishes our Astro Club would tend to go for, to just make the day perfect!

ARIES

Fiery Aries are into being fit, especially for those fun holidays! In fact, they will want to keep that muscular tone tight, and will not be given to overdoing it at the festive table. So, they will just love Blackberry and Spinach Salad that is non fattening, but super tasty. Spinach, blackberries, feta cheese, walnuts, edible flowers and baby tomatoes all swirling around their platter in colourful “togetherness” will get the enthusiastic Aries’ taste buds all fired up.

TAURUS

Earthy Taurus digs the sensuality of the “food experience”, and will enjoy something caloric, tasty and “unusual” on their holiday side dish. So Jalapeno peppers and pimentos with loads of yummy cream cheese will have the Taurus in the nearest thing to spiritual rapture. Watch their eyes widen, and their cheeks turn pink as they fork in the mouthfuls. Their yearning for culinary fulfillment will subsequently hit the high note!

GEMINI

Gemini would tell you that variety is the spice of life! And that includes food and holiday side dishes! Romaine and Mandarin Orange Salad with poppy seed is just the job for our restless twin. Gemini needs to work out what is actually on their plate, and prefers it complex, exotic and with an unusual, yet succulent taste they can get their head around. As long someone else is cooking your twin will be happy, and fact is the taste of poppy seed does get them guessing so!

CANCER

Sensitive Cancer goes for recipes their mothers loved to cook. That more complex style of TV cooking is all very well, but when the family is happily gathered around a “dressed” turkey, simpler and traditional styles of side dishes gets those true stomach juices flowing. So what could be more apt than Brussels sprouts with Chestnuts to add that refined, yet basic touch to an already rich and festive meal? Tears will come to their eyes as they raise their champagne glass and toast in a New Year, a Happy Christmas, Thanksgiving or Easter day with satisfied loved ones around them.

LEO

Leo does not only dress to impress they cook to impress. So they will go for the impressive side holiday dish. They want their guests to talk about this festive dinner for months to come. So something complex, and chic, something that gets those stomach juices flowing and everyone in a good mood is the only answer. The classic Holiday Green Gelatin Salad side dish is a definite “must have” on the Leo fun food list. Think creamy and soft; think crunchy pecan nut contrasts, and an unusual flavour, that goes well with pineapples! This will get folks talking and asking for the recipe for sure.

VIRGO

Virgo loves to have their very special mates around them, that unique bunch of handpicked people that they feel so at ease with on festive occasions. Yet they also want to see a well prepared, yet perfect side dish, nothing hurried or slapdash. In essence, they are looking for tasty simplicity, so Sweet Italian Green Bean Salad with crispy bacon would do fine. The tangy taste of Italian tomatoes is the kind of “yummy” and simple mix match that has the conversation buzzing and the wine flowing.

LIBRA

Libra will love harmonious surroundings and if inviting guests to a festive meal will make sure serviettes match table cloth and there is a beautifully composed center piece on the table, perhaps flowers or original decorations like bamboo and twigs gathered off a nearby beach. So the side dish not only has to taste delicious but look good to match the Libra table decor! What could look more attractive than little columns of roasted tomato, zucchini and slices of mozzarella cheese piled on top of each other? Add lashings of vinaigrette, garlic to taste and parsley to sprinkle and see that extra zest and Libran aesthetic touch unfolding.

SCORPIO

Scorpios will love to be the guest, and raise their glasses in celebration, feeling the festive vibes to the depths of their complex souls. So anything tangy, decorative and super tasty will satisfy their perfectionist taste buds. A delicious way for Scorps to nibble is to make green tomato “mince meat” which can be used to flavor everything sweet, from pies, tarts and biscuits or even eaten on its own with lip licking gusto. Piles of green tomatoes, apples, brown sugar, vinegar, chopped oranges, chopped lemons, raisins, plus candied peel will hit the Scorpio “spot” and sweeten their lust for overly intense goings on!

SAGITTARIUS

Jovial Saggy will keep the family rocking and rolling on festive day dinners. Even if they bring their beloved pet snake to the celebratory proceedings, you will still welcome Saggy with open arms, they are so “simpatico!” Nibbling, sampling, savoring and above all raising the wine glass, will keep Saggy so happy the side dish might not matter. But add that special addition and make Saggy even more content. The glazed pearl onions with raisins and almonds will have them going all “yummy” on you. So easy to make, yet so tasty, this is quick side dish that will have Saggy digging their nose deep into the side plate.

CAPRICORN

Cappy likes to see a well laid table, some decent crockery and silver ware. Nothing paper, or shoddy, the traditional holiday meal will be expected with no exotic side dishes, just well flavored “plain and conventionally simple” fair. The established, the time honored the customary is what our goat is looking for to make their day truly festive. Pumpkins filled with apple sauce and then roasted would be the ultimate “Silver Platter” side dish for gracious Cappy.

AQUARIUS

Aquarius dreams of the day humanity will unite in peace. When cultures, belief systems and recipes mix match. In other words when warring nations shake hands and let “bygones be bygones” over the dinner table. So what could be more exciting than crossing cultural barriers and rustling up a great curry on that festive day? You can please the Water Carrier with a variety of side dishes, such as Aam Ka Chatni or Mango chutney, and Raita, or yoghurt salad! The Aquarian looks for the unconventional, and adding one lip-smashingly exotic side dish will appease their cultural needs as well as their hunger pangs.

PISCES

Pisces will insist on giving their festive summer garden party by the gold fish pond, and will want something “sea foodie” to add that special touch! Pisces are imaginative and dreamy, and they will want to sit in their deck chair surrounded by glorious friends, and ponder on the “Absolutes” of life. So what could be more conducive to their marginal tastes than your Garden style Sea food salad? Mixing in the crab, tuna and shrimps with tomatoes, peppers and Italian dressing, will get their guests dreaming of holiday diving into the red sea with their compassionate and friendly Pisces, the Fish!

Naughty or nice? That definitely is the sixty four thousand dollar question? Every one of us has a good and bad side. Sometimes we can be so naughty and sometimes so very nice, as if both a dark and light angel lived inside us at the same time. Our lives are affected by our actions and reactions as a result of our negative or positive behavior. Wherever there is extreme light there is always a shadow. So how will our Astro club act out their naughty and nice sides? Does the good outweigh the bad, or is it an even match

ARIES

You Aries folk are naughty when you push past people in bus queues, or walk out on friends who disagree with you. You are naughty when get into fanatic belief systems or exercise programmes. You are naughty when the same lesson repeats itself 100 times and you cannot sit still long enough to hear you teacher out. You are nice when you get enthused about a friend’s good luck, nice when you are ready to give your all to finish a product, a project or a race. Nice when you emanate that warm, giving fiery charm and share your heart with sincere warmth. You are nice when you train hard to win and do not cry when you lose.

TAURUS

You are naughty when you finish the trifle without asking whether anyone else wants a second helping. Naughty when you get all dogmatic and believe the world revolves around you and only you. Naughty when you get into a terrible rage and scare everyone to death. You are nice when you plant your garden with herbs; fill your home with bonsai trees and Go Green to protect Mother Nature. You are nice when you cook and adore eating, nice when you are sweet and tender to those you love. You are nice when you are so practical that you calm airhead flibbertigibbets down in a jiffy.

GEMINI

You are naughty when you talk so fast nobody, not even Mr. Mercury, understands what you are saying. Naughty when you play hide and seek with your brain! You are naughty when you give the wrong advice and insist that it is right. You are nice when you help your kid brother with his math’s homework. You are nice when you throw great cocktail parties. You are nice when you easily resolve computer hitches. You are nice when you decide to be a thespian so you can stand on stage and gas on and on to a captive audience!

CANCER

You are naughty when you think you are poor, even though you won the lottery. Naughty when you defend yourself against imaginary enemies with loony bird behaviour. Naughty when you let the weather rule your moods Naughty when you when cling to friends, lovers, offspring and spouses, like moss to a rock. Naughty when you are upset and don’t even let your loved ones close. You are nice when you write loving poems to your friends. Nice when you fill your home with beautiful objects and make it welcoming. Nice when you travel to far off places by the ocean. Nice when you look after your old mum with devotion and care. Nice when you are there for those who need your motherly support!

LEO

You are naughty when you delegate, naughty when you boss everyone around, naughty when you spend so much money the bank manager has a nervous breakdown. You are naughty when you shout “off with her head!” Naughty when you look at your own reflection in shop windows to check if you have aged twenty years in a minute. Naughty when you interrupt someone else’s flow and refuse to listen to their point of view. You are nice when you purr with generous benevolence, nice when you sing “When you walk through a storm hold your head up high!” as if it had been written for you. Nice when you are willing to brave terrible challenges to come through for a friend. And nice because you have a huge heart.

VIRGO

You are naughty when you insist on resolving long winded anagrams instead of chatting to your partner. Naughty when you wrinkle your brow so much, your eyebrows catch fire. Naughty when you pick fluff off everything that moves. Naughty when you find fault with everything that moves. Naughty when you join the Worry Club. Naughty when you get hung up on hang ups. Nice when you do everything you can to help a sick friend. Nice when you fall madly, deeply and passionately in love and forget to pick fluff off your beloved. Nice when you look beautiful, clear eyed balanced and calm, as if butter would not melt in your mouth. Nice when you open the right savings accounts. Nice when you are loyal to someone others scorn.

LIBRA

You are naughty when you spend an hour deciding whether to turn left or right. Naughty when you hum and ha about marriage after a 15 year engagement. Naughty when your metabolism moves so slowly you cannot get out of bed. Naughty when you don’t have your usual eight hours sleep, breakfast, and lunch etc. Naughty when you justify Vlad the Impaler’s atrocities as being the result of an unhappy childhood. Nice when dimples appear as you smile, Nice when you are so beautiful everyone stares. Nice when you compromise with a loved one. Nice when you even see a shark’s point of view. And nice when you take charge of everyone with so much grace

SCORPIO

You are naughty when you travel to the underworld to get instructions on how to get even from Mr. Dark himself. Naughty when you are even suspicious of Mother Teresa and Lassie. Naughty when you turn violent and become Godfather IV. Naughty when you join an M & S club for recreational enjoyment. Nice because you are so darned attractive and charismatic. Nice because you look great in black leather. Nice because you can be so fiercely loyal you would die to protect a friend, country or belief system. Nice when you can sometimes be so open, friendly charming folks tend to forget you were the original Exorcist.

SAGITTARIUS

You are naughty when you take superficial attitudes and joke about others difficulties. Naughty when you trip over the carpet, door mat, wall to wall carpet or sleeping cat. You are naughty when you flirt outrageously in front of your partner. Naughty because you like the sound of your own jokes. You are nice when you make awesome punch at the party, social gathering, or Green demonstration. You are nice when you sing lead in the rock band, believe in something “higher” and take photos of rare wildlife. You are also nice to your cat, dog and pet otter.

CAPRICORN

You are naughty when you think about stocks and shares when you are making love. Naughty when you smother your friends with excruciatingly boring financial pros and cons. Naughty when you interfere in family politics, or any politics for that matter. Naughty when you never admit you were wrong. Naughty because you might not find your inner core, even if it was staring you in the face. You are nice when you protect your family and friends from material disaster. Nice when you pet your cat and dog, who adore you. Nice because everyone knows you can be trusted with a secret. Nice because you like expensive restaurants and are willing to foot the bill and nice because you are a chip off the old block!

AQUARIUS

When even your cat’s bad day offends your sensitivities you, you are naughty. You are naughty when you say even Attila the Hun had a right to do his thing. Naughty when you think people in suits are daft. Naughty because the only person you believe in is Mary Poppins. Naughty when you dig your heels in. You are nice because you change your hair colour frequently. Nice because you are willing to dance around the Maypole and join the local choir. Nice because when you step into a room everyone stops talking. You are also nice because you believe in Valentine’s Day and the goodness of the human heart!

PISCES

You are naughty when you forget your worries in excessively decadent behavior, like staring at an aquarium all night long. You are naughty when you believe in your own negative fantasies, naughty when you get so anxious you won’t go out of the house unless accompanied by a body guard. You are naughty because the only glasses you wear are rose tinted. You are nice because you are the last of the great dreamers, and make a great cup of herbal tea. You are nice because you collect tropical fish and people like to look at them. You are nice because you give free healing sessions to your friends. You are nice because you believe in all things metaphysical, including your ET boyfriend.

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ARIES

Being the enthusiastic babies of the horoscope, Aries love to celebrate with innate innocence. See Aries thrill as they place an illumined fountain in the hall, surrounding it with bright crystal balls. They will focus one light on the water, a light that changes colour so that when folks share the holiday spirit, they too will flow into the magical mood. Being the fire sign that they are Aries need the gentle sound of a fountain to cool down their sometimes over-excited moods.

TAURUS

Earthy Taurus digs any festive season. Decorating the holiday table with greenery is fun for nature loving bulls as is keeping it simple with a basic table center piece. Silver and gold pine cones encircle a holly and mistletoe “winter wonderland” wicker basket, sprinkled with silver snowflakes. The ceilings will be hung with green paper chains, and “Save the Whale” banners. This kind of decoration will make the mood conducive to happy talk, and there is nothing a Taurus likes better than intimate conversation

GEMINI

Airy Gemini will go for an upbeat “silver lining to every cloud” style decoration. After all, silver is the twin’s favorite shade being that of their ruling planet Mercury. They will gift everyone with silver top hats, and decorate the ceiling with silver paper chains. They will lay the table with a silver tablecloth and decorate the center of it with a big silver star. They will place many other silver stars on the ceiling, which will glimmer in the candle light. All will be right with the world as their magical theme entrances awed guests.

CANCER

Cancer will be happy to create holiday decorations to welcome beloved relatives. The background music will be classic, sweet and gentle! Guests will be impressed with the beautiful multi coloured balloon arch over the front door and the pink gossamer swathes hanging from the ceiling. Our caring Cancer will make sure a homey feeling is felt by all as guests sit around a dining table covered with gingham, and bright pink candles. They will read out a romantic poem before the meal starts and run old family videos that remind folks of how life “used to be!” after dinner.

LEO

Leos prides themselves on being larger than life so they will greet loved ones with a party apron on, and a red chef hat perched on their head. Expect streamers descending from their ceiling, garlands decorating stair ways and doors and star confetti covering the dinner table. Celebration party boxes will be filled with generous Leo goodies for every guest. Expect to hear old time jazz playing in the background as a banquet is served to guests by hired waiters, there will be much giggling at the matching pussy cat designed placement cards and serviettes.

VIRGO

Logical Virgo will want the holiday decor perfect in a way only they know how. The result will be a colour theme to inspire minds. Virgo could pick “crown chakra purple” and lay the table with a lavender table cloth, scattering it with purple star confetti. A bunch of perfect purple roses will be the table center piece! Light pink crystal glasses will be raised to holiday happiness as multi coloured streamers flow over doors and ornaments. Virgos will be prepared to risk a guest that does not dig purple, and astound the majority with a crafted rainbow arch at the door!

LIBRA

Libra will create a heavenly environment, may be because they are so utterly into sublime beauty. They will decorate their walls with star spangled gossamer drapes. They will hang magical pink paper lamps from the ceiling, and gather together as many wind chimes as they can. As the chimes sway in the breeze guests will hear the celestial tinkling of heavenly music. They will place gold cardboard angels on mantelpieces, and stars, interspersed with gold paper flowers, on the dinner table, guests will literally be in seventh heaven!

SCORPIO

Mysterious Scorpio digs being a night creature! Scorpio might even go for creepy holiday decorations. Do not be surprised if they hire a smoke machine, which ever so often puffs fog all over their best mates. They will make sure the background music is Halloween style and that a corner of the house is decorated with paper bats, and snakes, so friends’ kiddies have a good time pretending to be scared. They could go for scary holiday table decorations too, with pitch black candles and napkins! As the antique chandelier dangles over the proceedings the “weird” holiday decor might be difficult to forget

SAGITTARIUS

Saggys like to surprise at parties, so they could offer their guests fortune cookies before they step across the threshold. The place will be decorated with myriad coloured balloons and every guest will be provided with a silly paper hat and whistle. The table will be covered with Asian style decorations, to remind their friends how far afield Saggy has traveled. On the table Saggy might place a silver foil dragon center piece. A Chinese character mural on the wall will be surrounded by streamers. But the high point will come when the fireworks go off!

CAPRICORN

Nothing wacky for conservative Cappy when it comes to holiday decorations. Just a plain embroidered table cloth; the one granny painstakingly spent her last days sewing. A simple, antique gold Candelabra makes a stunning table center piece. Irish linen napkins will be laid besides exquisite porcelain crockery. Engraved silverware will grace the table. Prestigious crystal wine glasses will add that delicate touch. Attention will be paid to subtle lighting so each guest feels their best. At Christmas time a beautiful yet simple holiday wreath will be hung on the front door, with just enough sprigs of holly and mistletoe to enchant! Hired livery will offer after dinner tit bits.

AQUARIUS

The sociable Aquarius will keep an open house during the holiday season, especially on New Year’s Eve. The decorations will be “Aquarian original”. They might even jazz up the hall with paper clocks just to remind guests that time will lead them to a Happy New Year! The Water Carrier might sprinkle a line of white sparkling mini stars down the centre of the dining table, over which they will place a row of silver candles. The ultimate center piece might be a top hat and tiara evocative of celebrations to come. The magical evening will morph into a stunning night!

PISCES

The imaginative and dreamy Pisces will want his party guests to enjoy a magical atmosphere. So the table will be decorated with goblets rather than standard wine glasses. Pisces will supply guests with decorative masks at the door, and draw their attention to the aquarium glowing with colored lighting. The table cloth might be sea green with dark blue candles, to remind Pisces and guests of the beauty of the ocean. The music will be soft, or just the gentle sound of the surf breaking shore. Cocktail drinks will be served with matching navy blue umbrellas and as guests raise their glasses to celebrate the holidays, streaming swirls or ceiling decorations and lights will make them think that they have entered a special universe!

It is summer party time, and we are all ready to forget our troubles and have some crazy fun! How great it is to dress up and think of something other than the global crisis, the financial crisis, and the political crisis. So let us celebrate until we are blue in the face. But what would our Astro Club go for, as they hit the Holiday Party high notes!

ARIES

Heads turn as you walk into the party gorgeous in your tight after ski slacks and gold lame sleeveless top. With that sporty headband, those flat casual shoes you will emanate “svelte and assured”. Hot Swiss guys will be unable to refrain from offering you a smoothie. Think pretty Aries girl next door Ashley Judd and you will get the Aries party picture full on!

TAURUS

Looking great in a simple black sheath, you push your way to the French buffet, and check out the summer hors d’oeuvres. Your soulful gaze might detract from the fact that you are stuffing down fruit compote like it was going out of fashion. You will be happy to share your cheese stick with a nice looking Parisian fellow and chat about your French cookery lessons if needs be. Think Taurus Penelope Cruz’s natural sensuality and you will have got the Taurus party picture.

GEMINI

You look so cute in those huge horn rimmed shades; they draw attention to your intellectual gifts. You will be emanating wafts of classic Chanel perfume as you scan the Spanish veranda for egg heads, yet get bored with people droning on about exotic gardening tips. You will make your excuses and leave for another, more chatty party down the beach. Think Gemini Nicole Kidman, and her natural communicative abilities, and you have got the Gemini holiday party picture down to a tee.

CANCER

You will wear a sweet floral dress, with tasteful décolleté at the country weekend dance. You will move majestically around the room advising people. You will even share your bowl of Blueberry Buckle dessert, as folks get to know about your caring nature and ask you for advice; if you have time you will gather together a group counseling session with folks in the rose garden. Think Cancer Jessica Simpson glamour and you have got the Cancer party picture.

LEO

You will wow party goers with your grand entrance in a magnificent Stella McCartney backless gown. Tanned, glowing and gracious you will act sweet pussy cat style, nodding at all those Italian compliments, as Leo curls fall delicately around your shoulders. You needed this holiday, especially after an exceedingly ghastly divorce. Life can be such a bitch. Think Leo Madonna’s dangerously flirty style and you will soon have your claws into the best looking guy in the room.

VIRGO

You will be stylish and incredibly feminine in a Marc Jacobs creation. No vulgar fashion statements for you. Contained and chic stylishness only please. Yet you will gulp down the gin fizz as if there is no tomorrow. All those sexy foreign folks will be drawn to your glowing skin and beautiful, kind eyes. Think Virgo, Beyonce Knowles 9.5 on Richter scale sex appeal, and add on your proficient appearance to get the party Virgo party drift.

LIBRA

You will literally enchant the folks at the summer sophisticate party. In your puce and black Fendi creation with sublime Roberto Cavalli shoes and Chanel bag to match, you expect guys to be “polite” yet hot. You can be sure that you will have a swish time as you ruminate on the advantages of harpsichord music as compared to the heavy metal band. Think Libran classy looker Sigourney Weaver and you get this summer party picture.

SCORPIO

You look demure in a down played white linen dress, but fool nobody. That come hither look devastates the human soul, so acting cutie pie will be but a temporary solution. Match perfect party beach location with a tropical flower behind your ear and hey presto, fait accompli! As you dig that Bacardi cocktail you are set to rustle up another of those summer holiday sex obsessions. Think Scorpio Meg Ryan doing cute femme fatale, and you get Scorps. Summer party picture!

SAGITTARIUS

You were in a rush, so you caught the party dress in your nose ring as you changed from earth child gear to party earth child. Even the hostess giggles as you crack rude jokes to her parents. Think Tequila Sunrise cocktails. Think fellow Saggy, Katie Holmes’ shopping style, and you might get a few folks leaping on the sofa with you! Saggy are fun, and never prone to dull moments.

CAPRICORN

Even if you attend the rave summer party in your linen Balenciaga Blazer do not fear, you will still enjoy the fun when you get a few of those Pink Lady cocktails down you. Debonair older guys will get sleazy, and you will not stop laughing until you take your blazer off. Think delightful Capricorn celebrity Siena Miller and you will not powder over your freckles any more.

AQUARIUS

You will not be too scared to wear Vivienne Westwood and do your best rock chick imitation. You might even play guitar with everyone sitting at your feet listening in wonder to your superb rendition of that Joan Baez oldie “We will overcome!” Think fellow Water Carrier Sheryl Crow strumming her own guitar and you will have the greatest time at that summer party.

PISCES

You have stepped out of a Jane Austin novel, and now you are wafting around the gold fish pond in green chiffon, and staring wistfully at those who take your fancy. As you sit on the lawn examining the way the grass grows, sipping cider through a straw, totally delectable and utterly mysterious, you take the tarot out of your beaded handbag and suddenly everyone is your friend. Think super pretty Jennifer Biel in a head band, and you have the perfect summer Pisces party time.

Nightmares could just be ludicrous night visions that our unconscious mind lets rip when we are under a great deal of stress, have eaten too much before we go to sleep, or have had a bad day at the office. Our unconscious mind needs to rectify the balance, and as sleep detoxes the stress in our system, often it presents us with scary dreams that somehow manage to upset us. We tend to wake up perturbed! However, if we can look at nightmares as positive solutions rather than negative we might find they have a special message to convey to us. So what does our Astro Club dream that is scary enough to wake them up all of a sudden?

ARIES

Aries dreams can be as action packed as their lives. In this Aries nightmare you are a trapeze artist, flying through the air, above the crowds, showing off your muscular dexterity and athletic grace. You launch into a triple, mid air spin and suddenly there is no partner to catch you and no safety net below! Your Aries insecurities run deep, and are difficult for you to access in your everyday life. This kind of dream could have you rolling off the bed!

TAURUS

The Taurus is into the delights of the palate, in fact the simple joys of life tend to make them feel they are touching the stars. Your Taurus nightmare is that finally you have your own restaurant, and are a master chef about to cook up a mouth watering “Chicken Broccoli Alfredo”, that warrants a five star vote in the Michelin Restaurant Guide. When “horrors of horrors” up pops Gordon Ramsey screaming “But you don’t even know how to cook a plate of porridge!” You wake up sobbing!

GEMINI

The Gemini considers themselves a smooth communicator. In your Gemini nightmare you are an esteemed guest on Charlie Rose’s sophisticated talk show. Other celebrities include Kate Winslet. But Kate transforms into Gerry Springer and you are forced to confront a mean school teacher who failed your end of term exams! You start wrestling with the nasty teacher, and shriek some horrible rude names at them! You wake up realizing you should never have eaten that Cheddar cheese before going to bed!

CANCER

The Cancer is super sensitive and emotionally conditioned by moon phases. In your Cancer nightmare you are an astronaut who cannot not get to the moon. The furthest you get is Miami Beach. You look up and see the moon turn dark, and a huge tidal wave sweeping away your semi, your weekly wash and your prize cabbage patch. Waking up screaming is an understatement. You will never go see one of those movies about 2012 ever again!

LEO

The Leo is proud and dignified and their charismatic aura expands around them like the rays of the proverbial sun. In your Leo nightmare you are in the company of a beautiful African lioness, and are playing with her friendly lion cubs; they are sweet enough to cuddle, such dear little furry friends. Then suddenly there is a horrific shriek and King Kong himself strides through the undergrowth demanding that that you settle all your credit card payments otherwise you will never see a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes again! You wake up screaming for your mother!

VIRGO

You dear Virgo are so exacting that you have been given the Akashic Records to edit in your terrible nightmare The Akashic Records are the spiritual records of the births and deaths of everyone who ever lived on this planet. As you white out the mistakes and write corrections over them, you realize that your name is showing, and that you were due to die 20 years ago. You wake up demanding your partner calls up a lawyer so you can write your will!

LIBRA

The Libra is so diplomatic, so harmonious. But in your Libran nightmare you are settling a dispute between China and the US of A. You know that your attitude matters and you cannot afford to think small as you could be involved in that Mayan Prophecy deal! Then the nightmare gets worse, and Third World War is declared. There is nothing you can do about it, because you are morphing into the Antichrist. You wake up asking for a priest!

SCORPIO

Scorpios are the ultimate in personal intensity. In this Scorpio nightmare you are dreaming of a beautiful lover kissing you sweetly but you realize that your front teeth are growing into Dracula style fangs. You try to pretend nothing is happening, but you are looking more and more like Gary Oldman in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dracula”. You wonder if going to the dentist could help, until you hear a blood curdling scream and wake up to find you are grabbing your partner in places you shouldn’t be!

SAGITTARIUS

Saggys are eternal travellers. In this Saggy nightmare you are on a slow boat to China. In fact it is so slow the only place it gets to is the Thames Estuary. You are so fed up you descend on shore with your back pack, and exploration gear, and decide to cut through the undergrowth till you get to St James Park. Things get scary when the Duke of Edinburgh appears, accusing you of trying to get into Buckingham Palace and sets the hounds on you! You wake up in a detox clinic!

CAPRICORN

Capricorn is so mainstream, so sensible with money. In this Cappy nightmare you have morphed into Scrooge and are counting your profits. But you are accused of embezzlement and forced to share a cell with Bernie Madoff. You swear that you never started that pyramid scheme in East Peckham. But nobody believes you. You are feeling very dejected since you pride yourself on your prestigious reputation. You wake up screaming for a straight jacket!

AQUARIUS

Aquarius is into revolutionary social change and best friends. In this “mother of all Aquarius nightmares” you are about to lead a revolution of cinema extras rebelling against Russell Crowe, may be because he looks nothing like the Egyptian Pharaoh he is supposedly acting! Suddenly, as if from nowhere, the ETs arrive, and kidnap Russell, plus extras, on to their mother ship! You are left on earth, utterly alone; you wake up demanding compensation from social services!

PISCES

Pisces are romantic and prone to day dreaming. In this Piscean nightmare however, you are the Little Mermaid who has fallen in love with a handsome Prince. And like the fairy story the only thing you can do is ask King Neptune to help you out as your prince is but an earth bound mortal. You are just about to discuss your problems with Neptune, when Nessie, pops in and eats him up. You just wish she had stayed in Bonnie Scotland!

In these stressful times, it is perfectly natural to sense that a flagging Eros could be influencing our sexual performance with our nearest and dearest. Our need to connect, can be blocked by every day “comings and goings”, and perhaps an indefinable sense of “emptiness”. But there is nothing more natural than looking to solutions to stimulate the “love hormones” and find ourselves enjoying fabulous sex with those we adore, and desire. So how can the Astro Club connect to their sex lives more efficiently? When the libido is playing up and the Eros has stepped back, what solutions are available?

ARIES

Aries is inclined to go for what they consider the most effective aphrodisiac known to man, the gym! Forget Chinese shark fin soup, or that Arabian tendency to eat Camel humps! This babe’s sensual energy sizzles once they lift those weights or sweat into those towels. So rather than swallow some weird herb, the sensible Aries is more inclined to go for the “getting into shape” option, excellent when it comes to avoiding obesity. Enhancing sexual attractiveness and getting that blood flowing faster is Aries answer to a slumping libido!

TAURUS

The laid back Taurus is naturally passionate and into the glories of both sensuality and gastronomy. In fact, this earth sign becomes realistically “sex crazed” by the sweetest and least costly option… chocolate! Other than the dark stuff getting taste buds swinging, outbursts of sexual enthusiasm could be the result of gobbling down those soft centers. One kiss will lead to another as Taurus and their lover dig into the choccie box. In fact, chocolate will definitely take the Taurus one step beyond the “bedroom eyes” stage!

GEMINI

Gemini’s brain tends to move faster than a “striped jaybird”. In fact visual and aural aphrodisiacs are sure to impress them. The perfect boudoir negligee for example, or a partner’s Einstein-type comprehension of the quantum theory can stimulate surprising sexual zeal and even get the Gemini hitting a 9.5 Richter scale score when it comes to bedroom performance! Their desire is also stimulated by conversation skills, so ongoing commentaries about which bodily part fits which, will get the Gemini enthusiasm going.

CANCER

Cancers are emotional beings with well developed taste buds. But they are usually overwhelmed by family commitments. Therefore, Cancer mums and dads will hype up sexual performance with a night out at the fish restaurant. Digging into a plate of raw oysters stimulates that N-methyl-D-Aspartate! Therefore, mutual oyster feeding with a lot of yummy comments will see the crabs’ pulses racing; in fact they might end up eating oysters for breakfast, along with bananas, asparagus, carrots, and avocados, also well known aphrodisiac style foods.

LEO

Leo’s vanity attaches great importance to bedroom performance; prestige is the name of their sex game. Leos might tend to seek a therapy session with Dr Ruth, but if they cannot get financing for such a venture, due to their extensive overdraft, they could go for the more mainstream “herbal remedy” option. Angelic Root, Saw Palmetto Berries, Damiana, and Kava Kava are “must haves” for our fiery friends. Since rumour has it that garlic tends to encourage crazed sex, see our Leo also going for that option with a lot of mouthwash thrown in when possible!

VIRGO

Virgo’s attitude to sex is complex! Their ardor is never half-baked, but “all or nothing” . Lacing pasta and potatoes with Fennel, is one way to hype up bedroom shenanigans! But complicated and complex love stories also help. They might consult a sex therapist to find stimulating erotic solutions to please their partner. They will definitely go for sharing mutual sexual fantasies and thus understand more sensitive ways to please. Once the Virgo trigger is turned on, nobody and nothing can turn it off.

LIBRA

Getting out that lacy lingerie will turn on your beauty seeking Libra. Perfume also has the power to make them go weak at the knees. Most human brains are stimulated by odor. Libran “sniffing” is sexy, so to maximize their sex appeal they will seek out scents laced with Pheromone, a stimulating hormone. If the Libran is a lady she will bake cinnamon buns for her man. Scientific reports demonstrate that cinnamon is exceedingly attractive to the male of the species. If the Libra is a male, a touch of attractive pheromone based aftershave will rev up stimulation!

SCORPIO

Scorpio has the look, feel and touch of a walking aphrodisiac. Never a turn off, more a “get going”, watch the Scorpio sizzle in a second. But if they have been over doing the amorous inclinations, they could dig Rhino Horn extract to get them back up to speed. The Scorpio will be more than interested in this substance, as it is hard to get hold of and they love a challenge. Its distribution is illegal in the west. But Rhino Horn does contain a great deal of phosphorus that will stimulate Scorpio’s erotic imagination big time!

SAGITTARIUS

Sagittarius is into having a fun time, so when it comes to sexual stimulants they are likely to go for an aphrodisiac style punch. Papaya and Passion fruit mixed up with chili and ginger ale is a “wow way” to get to the bedroom! They will tend to go for naked horseback riding or a sexy moment under an Amazonian jungle water fall too. The “natural things of life” are a “must do” for this sign, so “earthy style” erotic entertainment will get our happy go lucky Saggy going!

CAPRICORN

As staid and stable as this sign is, pole dancing, oysters and champagne will not get them buzzing as much as one might think. The go-getting goat will explore more “unusual” and “classy” types of aphrodisiac such as the exotic Yohimbine, which is a component of bark stripped from a particular Ever Green tree in West Africa. Or even the Marney Sapote which is also an ingredient derived from a weirdo tree in southern Mexico. Both of these aphrodisiacs will switch on this sun sign before they can say “where’s my nanny goat!”

AQUARIUS

This heady sign thinks sexual performance hinges on a visionary perception of passion. If the juices are just not flowing, other than eating a lot of asparagus, which is rich in Vitamin A and potassium, this sign will be into seeking psychoanalysis to understand the “deeper” workings of sexual motivation. The Water Carrier is inclined to think “reasons” for a slowdown in sexual performance, and then add a pinch of Chili and Paprika just to be sure they are getting the “whole picture”.

PISCES

Pisces is a sensual individual “par excellence”. They are in their element in the sea, a lake, a swimming pool, or the bath. So throwing a touch of Rose Absolute bubble bath into the tub will not only get them sensual, but could set in motion unadulterated “passion pulsations!” That basic “watery emotion” has the hormones flowing and the mating drive buzzing. To stimulate lust? Well Pisces are expert in that area, and we are certainly not going to divulge their secrets!

At some time in our lives, usually when we are single, we share our houses, or flats. Sometimes we find the perfect roommate, the kind of person who is unafraid of responsibility, respects our privacy, is punctual when it comes to bill paying and does not mind looking after our pets when we go on holidays. Unfortunately, on occasions, we get lumbered with a difficult roommate who makes our lives a misery and creates domestic chaos? So how will our Astro club act out as roommates? We have sorted out the good and bad traits of each Astro sign, in the hope that tolerance will win out, and the perfect living together solution will be found.

ARIES

Good Traits:

Action orientated, helpful when it comes to house work and clearing up after messy parties.

Ready to take on their responsibilities when it comes to paying rent, and taking the rubbish out.

Constantly sorting problems.

Charismatic personality.

Bad traits:

“I am always right” syndrome.

Unable to share their emotions.

Blocks hall with exercise equipment.

Dogmatic and tactless.

TAURUS

Good Traits:

Cooks great Sunday lunches, is a whizz kid in the kitchen.

Makes sure the fridge is always well stocked.

Addiction to Bonsai trees and potted plants that enhance the atmosphere.

Warm hearted and friendly attitudes.

Bad Traits:

Sticks their heels in, with a “My Way attitude”.

Slow at picking up changes in routine.

Hedonistic takes include noisy sex, burping tendencies and spending too much time on the sofa.

GEMINI

Good Traits:

Fun to be with, loads of friends.

Constant social buzz and organizes great parties.

Can be generous when you are down on your luck.

Cracks good jokes.

Bad Traits:

Rude to your friends.

Sudden caustic quips when in a bad mood.

Flirts and jokes with tradesmen.

Contradictory takes on sharing bathroom accessories.

Talking so much you need ear plugs.

CANCER

Good Traits:

Crochets great cushion covers.

Makes sure you have a hot water bottle when you are feeling unwell.

Listens to your litany of bad relationship sagas without turning a hair.

Looks after all home repairs.

Diplomatic and kind when you have hangovers!

Bad Traits:

Fussy, and shy.

Sudden aggressive reactions and mood changes i.e. screaming “Pass the salt!”

Constant visits from their mum who lectures you on your dissipated lifestyle.

Never takes the initiative at social events.

LEO

Good Traits:

Friendly and charismatic.

Forgiving even when you spill your coffee over a favourite cushion.

A great party giver and host.

Kind when you are down on your luck.

Will rarely say no to lending you money!

Bad traits:

Temper tantrums when you contradict them.

Hogs the attention.

Easily offended, goes sulky and rattled on you.

Shows off to friends with shouting, raving and weeping displays especially when left by latest boy/girlfriend.

Sings too loudly in the bath.

VIRGO

Good Traits:

Practical about money issues, so adds up the household bills fast and efficiently.

Spends a lot of time in the bedroom reading, on the computer or researching facts.

Keeps house in perfect condition, and paints over cracks.

Never tramples over the front room carpet in muddy boots.

Bad Traits:

Fussy, with cleanliness obsession.

Gets sarcastic when offended or crossed.

Is not into doing things “on the spur of the moment”, like inviting friends around for an “all nighter”.

Inclined to nag when cornered.

LIBRA

Good traits:

Charming, emanates an air of serenity.

Likes to decorate the house with flowers and pretty knick knacks.

Refuses to argue, ready to look at everyone’s point of view.

Diplomatic therefore does not take sides when you and boy/girl friend row.

Popular with your friends due to attractive and easy going nature.

Bad Traits:

Calls the cops when all night party goers get ugly.

Never takes a position on anything.

Acts like a diplomat at inappropriate times, i.e. after being punched in the nose by your boyfriend.

Empties the ashtray before you have finished your cigarette.

SCORPIO

Good Traits:

Very sexy, very charismatic very gorgeous.

Scares bailiffs and traffic cops away with just one of their looks.

Interesting theories on life, for example how the Illuminati are conspiring to take over the world.

Great sensual conversations well into the small hours.

Interesting assortment of boy and girl friends.

Bad Traits:

Too sexy and charismatic.

Paranoid and vengeful.

Steals your boy and girl friends.

Secretly claims to know members of the Russian Mafia.

Caught going through your personal files.

Can be scary when you fancy their boy/girl friend.

SAGITTARIUS

Good traits:

Tells a great joke.

Loads of friends in the music, sports and entertainment business.

The life and soul of all your parties.

Gets you involved in positive social activities like organizing psychic fayres.

Forgiving and tolerant of most of your faults.

Free spirit, does not cling, stress or nag.

Bad traits:

Messy, leaves stuff lying around the house.

Shuns domestic duties, i.e. makes excuses about why it is not the right moment to take out rubbish.

Runs up huge telephone bills talking to friends overseas.

Feeds stray dogs that mess up the front garden.

Sticks photos of their guru in the bathroom!

CAPRICORN

Good Traits:

Serious, takes responsibility and pays bills before they accumulate into scary piles.

Stylish, looks neat and pleasant manners.

Member of golf and cricket clubs.

Impresses your parents when they visit.

Someone you can depend on when life gets challenging.

Gives good advice.

Does not flirt with your boy or girl friends.

Bad Traits:

Rigid attitude, pompous and self important.

Nags you about your poor dress sense, and lax attitude to life.

Always wants to be the one to carve the roast at Sunday lunches.

Monopolizes your parents with long winded advice about pension schemes.

Marries your boy/girl friend.

AQUARIUS

Good Traits:

Fun company and original dresser.

Creates weird machines that trap spiders in the bath tub.

Likes doing things “together” like cooking and gardening.

Has all the latest news on “Crop Circles”.

Brings home artistic types that look and talk great.

Has so many friends you are never at a loss for things to do, or people to fall in love with.

Does not suck up to your parents when they visit.

Bad traits:

Insists that many gate crashers come to your parties.

Is vague about bills, and never keeps appointments.

Rude to social workers, bailiffs or the postman, anyone who comes to call and wears a uniform.

Refuses to pay parking finds as a matter of principle.

Has very weird friends who insist on reading your aura when you want to be left alone.

Drops their green hair extensions around the house.

PISCES

Good Traits:

Brings their own aquarium.

Compassionate and kind about your faults.

Does not nag about crumbs on the carpet.

Gives you free Reiki healing sessions.

Fills the house with healing crystals against the evil eye.

Minds their own business. Humane, compassionate and kind.

Bad Traits:

Refuses to talk you when in a bad mood.

Goes into spontaneous astral travel when their turn to clean the fridge.

Sobs loudly at costume dramas on the television!

Gets overly dreamy when asked about high telephone bill.

Joins a religious cult and will try to convert you.

We all know what it feels like to be disappointed and let down by a date we thought would hit the high note. They showed up bad mannered, irresponsible, unable to keep their word, and badly dressed. It is hard enough dealing with everyday life let alone having to accept a rude date! We all have our weaknesses and if a bad date touches one of ours, it can hurt. But how would our Astro Club deal with a no-good date? Would they be ready to do an outright deal break?

ARIES

This sun sign is “number one” so delay a promised telephone appointment and you will find Aries going airborne. Aries likes to be well treated; anyone who ignores eclipses or is impolite to them will get short shrift. Additionally, Aries will leave a half-hearted, cynical love potential faster than a cat out of hell! Deal breaking is considered acceptable when a date acts superior, indifferent or refuses to comment on how fit they are!

TAURUS

Don’t do “airy fairy” if you want Taurus on your side. Turning up to dates looking like a sixties flower child will have them giggling, and not with mirth. If you complain about their tendency to sleep in front of the TV, or worse, you trample over their newly planted baby oak in a fit of pique, be sure that trying to get hold of that Taurus date will be like trying to break into Fort Knox! Anything less that “straight down the line behaviour” will have you floundering in the mud!

GEMINI

If, for whatever reason, you do not show up for a date, expect this communicative sun sign to inundate you with calls “demanding” an explanation. Your behavior was unacceptable, and rather than retiring into sulky silence, Gemini will dig at you until you give them a “logical” explanation. Expect to be flattened by their subsequent sarcastic quip, which will teach you never to mess with the creepy Gemini twin again. A wound-up-Gemini is a best-apologized-to Gemini, as they are the most efficient date deal breakers in town.

CANCER

If you ignore their pretty moon earrings, and fail to comment on how beautiful they look in the moonlight, you might find romantic Cancer “unavailable for a few weeks”. But making jokes about Cancer’s mother, will have them retiring into their shell forever. You have deeply wounded their lunar sensitivity and that is the ultimate when it comes to Cancer dates. Better you get digging a hole in the sand.

LEO

If you complain publicly at the dinner party that Leo’s lovingly prepared mixed salad had a tad too much vinegar in it be prepared to see that Lion loyalty fly out the window faster than a rocket to Mars. Anything less than complimentary attitudes will turn the Leo lax. If you have subsequently expressed a public display of outrage in front of esteemed company, you will be expelled from their presence and deal breaking will be the least of your troubles.

VIRGO

Don’t turn up to your Virgo date with spinach between your teeth. Make sure your underwear is clean and that your overall attitude is upbeat. Wingers, hangers on, and lazy blighters will get short shrift especially if Virgo cottons on that you care not a jot about the moral ways of the world. Mother Theresa is their pin up girl, so no ignorant comments about spiritual issues please; otherwise they will break their deal and yours without a second thought.

LIBRA

If you go barging around their shop front in hobnailed boots, Libra will show you the door. Insensitive behavior, sarcastic quips and tasteless fashion coordination will get your Libra looking for another love. Super short miniskirts and troglodyte perceptions of politics and culture, will also get the Libra in a huff; so if you are expecting a second date, forget it, Libra will break your pact in minutes. In fact you could see them gracefully walking in the opposite direction.

SCORPIO

Sharp Scorpio will see through your plan B with their eagle eye! You have already been through plan A, which was that they would fall in love with you. The B plan was realizing that they were jealous and not telling them you were thinking of going on a date with another. If Scorpio gets you are two timing, you will be sent to hell to freeze over forever. Infidelity is the ultimate Scorpio deal breaker! Don’t you know, they are the only ones permitted to entertain lovers!

SAGITTARIUS

All you have to do to break a Saggy deal is throw one of your jealous tantrums. Saggy could turn nasty and tell you to go pound sand well into the Sahara desert. This sign is into wind in the hair, moral and emotional freedom. If you are ready to apologise and go with the motorbike racing along sea shores all still could turn out well. But if you start on the winger spiel about how cold you are and how your make up is smudged, expect a deal breaking incident to happen. Sporty, happy, upbeat people are Saggy’s best mates.

CAPRICORN

Cappy hates vulgar language. But if you are one of those people who is acting to please, and suddenly lets rip with an outbreak of dirty jokes expect a down turn. Worse, if you turn up to the date in leggings, Cappy will go out of character and break the deal without signing on the dotted line. They are into old fashioned attitudes, public vulgarity and tasteless dress codes are likely to upset them, especially as they are waiting for the celebrity to show up.

AQUARIUS

The Water Bearer wants you to “believe” in the cosmic plan, so nihilistic attitudes to senior citizens just will not cut the mustard. Even though these sun signs are inclined to dress in “alternative gear”, this is but a front for a deeply moral person. So don’t show up to the date saying horrid things about innocent animals, friends or children! At that point this deal breaker will go ballistic, and you will probably never see them again, except if you hang out on Glastonbury Tor!

PISCES

Do not snigger at spiritual matters, or crack jokes like “I saw Elvis he was sitting between me, the Bigfoot and the UFO” because they will not cut the mustard with this sensitive angel fish. The Pisces sees nothing funny about ETs, they were probably kidnapped by a mother ship, and do not appreciate cynics. These are indeed wise people who never walk away from playing leapfrog with a unicorn. So if you can’t get your New Age credentials sorted, expect to never see their aquarium again!

Summer Solstice is a magical time, a time to turn a page and move on into the second half of the year. Perhaps you feel that you cleaned out your cupboards in spring and now are ready for the pay off. Yet, the Summer Solstice can signify transformational times; it can heighten intuition and intensify spiritual energies. The longest day of the year opens us out to deeper insights. If we are ready to see the beauty within and around us, we might realize that this planet is a paradise that merits all our respect and love. Therefore the Summer Solstice comes with a wish for humanity, a wish to evolve our souls, a wish to improve our lives, a wish for peace on earth.

ARIES

Summer Solstice will prove to be your longest day, yes, but also your best day. More action orientated than ever you climb every mountain, and forge every stream using, this time to enjoy a new point of view. Accept that you can change by doing things you never thought possible! Summer Solstice Advice from the Cosmic Gypsy; Burning Sandalwood aromatherapy oil will allow you to appreciate the blessings that life has given you.

TAURUS

You connect to the earth; you walk barefoot through the dew and twiddle your toes in the long green grass. Nature eases your heart, your soul merges with true friends and you share the goodness of life with them! You love the bounty that summer brings. Licking sticky fingers at garden parties is such fun. Summer Solstice Advice from the Cosmic Gypsy;”Enjoy all your passionate connections!”

GEMINI

As your Summer Solstice hits the highpoint, you realize that hanging out with gossiping folks who have nothing significant to share is just not your thing anymore. The clouds are dispersing, and summer heralds in a sacred magic as you adjust to that new cosmic rhythm! Summer Solstice advice from the Cosmic Gypsy! “Stop the negative internal dialogue to manifest what you truly desire!”

CANCER

No need to get crabby on Summer Solstice. New optimism sees you scuttling down to the sea shore no longer picking up everyone’s emotional tab. Suddenly; you realize that your unique sensitivity is a great gift as you sit under the moon with your champagne glass raised to life! Summer Solstice Advice from the Cosmic Gypsy: “Expect to go where your wildest dreams take you”!

LEO

Get the bucket and spade out Leo, you are ready to play fun games. It is time to enjoy existence after what seemed like never ending “emotional angst” Summer Solstice is “bang on” for surprises and breakthroughs. Say a little prayer and ask the Gods to keep up the good work! The stars are finally on your side, and true love will come back into the picture. Summer Solstice Advice from the Cosmic Gypsy: “A door has indeed closed, so enjoy the new one that is ready to open!”

VIRGO

It is time to throw caution to the winds. Finally there is no more dust and grime to clean up! Now that the solstice sun is shining on your life, you see how things glimmer and the good results come thru thick and fast. The emotional baggage you had to contend with weighs so lightly on you now. You can stand on your own personal mountain ready to be optimistically in love! Advice from the Cosmic Gypsy “Take heart as you give in to grace!”

LIBRA

It has been hard to balance those scales recently. But the Solstice has arrived and with it so have the angels! They reveal that life is far less difficult than you once thought. Your gifts of diplomacy have won through at last. You can look at love and life with new eyes and realize there is so much to be happy about. Advice from the Cosmic Gypsy “Your great vision is coming into being; do not be afraid to follow it through!”

SAGITTARIUS

You have been into your” happy go lucky” forever, but tensions and worries escalated over the past year. You have been working hard trying to get finances and relationships back on track! So now you are more than ready to celebrate the Summer Solstice turning your back on all those disappointments and difficulties. Advice from the Cosmic Gypsy: “Appreciate all that you have achieved!”

CAPRICORN

Realistic Cappys will find the Summer Solstice connects to an astral current that works magic. You stop listening to scary people, and listen to your heart instead. A vivacious time of fun and transformation awaits. The longest day of the year will show you new solutions, a different emotional strategy that needs to be into place. Your private life could be touched with blessings. Advice from the Cosmic Gypsy: “Time to show your true colours!”

AQUARIUS

The summer solstice is leaping into place for Water Carriers after days of wear and tear. Summer news is coming too, and you are ready to explore inspirational territory and reach up to new projects! Best friends show their stalwart support, as you walk towards what you have always wanted. Advice from the Cosmic Gypsy: “You evolve into immensity with the smallest of steps!”

PISCES

The Summer Solstice burst on the scene at just the right moment for the sensitive Pisces. You are tired out by life’s mini-twisters. You need a holiday with fun and frolics. You get so lazy in the sun and yet really find peace standing on a sea shore somewhere, looking far into the horizon! This could be the beginning of a new way of understanding the universe! Advice from the Cosmic Gypsy: “Experience opens us out to true awareness!!”

Few of us have really taken on board the necessity to “Go Green” to save the environment. We are learning that if we do not do something however, the human race could be threatened by global warming, and the result could be more horrific than we thought possible years back. The ice caps are melting, the temperatures are morphing, and perhaps now is the time to take stock and make an effort to change our ways. But how would our astro club deal with the changes going green entails?

ARIES

Not that much into the more finicky “going green” aspects, like separate waste for recycling glass, organics and mainstream rubbish outlets, the Active Aries prefers to use alternate transport, perhaps even walk, run, or hitch lifts to cut back on petrol fumes poisoning the atmosphere. They will also be into digging their gardens and planting them with volatile organic produce. Aries actions speak louder than words. So do not be surprised by their adamant intention to eat more vegetarian meals!

TAURUS

Taurus will get down to the real business of “going green”. So, being the earth sign they are, what could be better than planting an oak and apple tree outside their snuggly earth sheltered home, perhaps built underground, or on the side of a hill, or cave. Taurus revels in feeling Mother Earth all around them! And they will safe and warm in their underground residence! They will tend to cut back on cow meat and battery chickens for lunch. They will instead seek fresh earth produce and enjoy scrumptious veggies that they grow in their own garden.

GEMINI

Gemini are into communicating the Green message! They will tell people to get solar chargers for their iPods and recycle their old computers. Instead of calling or emailing they will get together with other folk to exchange social news at the weekends. Car pooling with colleagues at work will inspire great chats on the way to the office! Gemini might ask their boss to telecommute now and then! They will bring their own mug to the office, rather than use the paper cups and won’t feel guilty nattering for all their worth during the coffee break as they drink from it!

CANCER

Caring Cancer mums will explain to their kids how the wondrous beauties of Mother Earth are being threatened. Cancers will be into natural moon cycles, and “sense” how they affect our emotions as well as the tides. Nothing but seasonal fruits and veg will be cooked, and they will make their own baby foods. The family will be expected to use cotton napkins just like in Granny’s day. The cleaning of the Cancer’s home will be carried out with natural products. Sitting happily around the dinner table with friends and family, just like in the old days, will add to Cancer’s penchant for domestic bliss!

LEOS

Leos go for bigger and brighter! They will revamp their lighting and tend to go for the latest design solar panels. The sun lights inspires their ways and the more flattering the light the happier their souls. They will tend to use compact fluorescent light bulbs to cut back on electricity waste eventually. They could even decide to live a sunnier country, like Africa, so they can watch the daylight stream through the windows and those lion cubs play in the back yard!

VIRGO

Virgo will not find “going Green” difficult, as they are purists incarnate. They could opt for “de rigueur” living styles, if you like the ultimate in “Green” perfection. They could even choose to live in an “earth ship!” An amazing structure made of mud and re-usable materials. The whole building would be enhanced by renewable energy sources. The Green World could be a place where the Virgo can find that peace they yearn for! Growing their own tomatoes will inspire the earthy Virgo soul even more!

LIBRA

Lovely Librans will be into redecorating and re-balancing. To get their domestic energy focused they will Feng Shui the environment into equilibrium as they sort out the clothes they no longer wear, and give them to charity. They will fill their environment with wild flowers, and naturally carved wood furniture. They will use sea shells to decorate lamps, and IKEA nick nacks (since IKEA are especially good when it comes to environmentally sound materials). They will make sure their face cream is green tea and rosewater to enhance their beautiful skin!

SCORPIO

Scorpio will go “Green” with full on intensity. See them tune into the spiritual, as they meditate on the universal forces that sustain all life. They will commit to natural farming, and never buy factory reared meat again. They will turn their thermostats down, donate their old cell phone to charity and wash their own clothes. They will use a financial organization committed to sustainability and donate their time and money to social organizations that encourage evolved spiritual living styles.

SAGITTARIUS

Saggys are ready to go for revolutionary perceptions, they will travel the world with a hemp backpack, and camp in the wildest areas to spot the polar bear or rescue a rare species of humming bird! They will happily join in the jokes and celebrations to promote Earth Day! They will get full on creative with nature’s gifts by refusing to use loo paper. They will wash their wild hair in mountain streams, and gallop their horses down country lanes, as they poke fun at mainstream culture!

CAPRICORN

Money conscious and realistic Cappy will make sure that the Credit Card they use donates its profits to environmental causes. They will revert their business to companies with excellent environmental records. Always into style and prestige they will buy heritage seeds to plant their gardens with. They were never into using paper napkins anyway, so they will set their tables on hand made lace table cloths. They might seek out great eco fashion designers who not only have a “label” but use natural bamboo based materials.

AQUARIUS

The Water Carrier is “Mr. Green” in person. They will join hands with others to create Green Machines that detoxify water and hype up solar panel heating. These include bio mass cook stoves, new style bio cars, horizontal axis washing machines, low water usage energy efficient dishwashers, and sealed combustion cloth dryers. They will insist on the mandatory labeling of genetic modified foods, they seek a cause, they follow a mission! Some could decide to live in trees, and start a mushroom farm!

PISCES

Pisces is in love with the watery elements, the very thought of an ocean contaminated with petroleum causing the death of their favorite sea creatures sends them into depression. Pisces flows with the visionary currents! They want the world to heal! They will start by striving to shower less than before, even replace the current shower head with a slow flow model, and not use chlorine to clean their aquarium. And when they get the chance they will dive into the waves and pray for a better world!

When the money gets tight, the tough get spending! In other words saving and thrift orientated projects tend to fall by the wayside for most of us! But perhaps we need to take real advice, and listen to those who have a grip on the general financial picture. The question is how would our favourite astro club “get to grips” with financial challenges?

ARIES

Can we, do we, dare we say it? Here goes! Aries is no money saving mama or papa. The word “budget” sends them into freak out. When they want that revolutionary “Body Solid” home gym to get those flaccid muscles taunt, finances just cannot be the issue. Accountant’s advice! Cut up those credit cards, spend only what is in the Piggy bank. Saves the bailiffs knocking on the door!

TAURUS

It is not that Taurus never considers investing, they have stocks and bonds, real estate commodities and dig gold. They are practical people. But when it comes to creature comforts Taurus tends to go for the “couch potato approach!” except when the chips are down! When that economic panic sets in they might go “into the red”, and that colour has most bulls charging. Accountant’s advice: Open a food outlet for much needed second income.

GEMINI

The Gemini’s preoccupation with communication hits the high C; they will collect every new iPod, mobile and notebook known to man. They need to have their finger on the pulse in other words, so will have opened numerous Internet accounts as well as subscribing to an infinite number of magazines and newspapers. Account’s Advice: Use a Skype Account, or get into amateur radio!

CANCER

Cancer is a homemaker, but not a frugal one. This water sign has a tendency to refurbish homes, especially house boats and yachts. Cancer likes the “feel” of prosperity. They just cannot see that “investing” in leather recliners and the purest silk carpets is not conducive to good economy especially whilst living in this financially crazed world! Accountant’s Advice; Invest in gold instead.

LEO

The words “save”, “invest” and “budget” are inclined to fall on deaf ears when it comes to the Leo sign. They just have to show off their inherent charisma, and to walk away from a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes or a stunning Austin Reed three piece suit, is unthinkable! Even if they do not have a bob in the pocket, as far as Leos are concerned the “buck never stops where they are!” Accountant’s Advice: Hypnotic regression to discover the cause of “past life” shopping trauma!

VIRGO

Virgo digs purity, even being Mr. and Mrs. Thrifty is fine with them, although spa holidays, detox diets, and yoga lessons are their Achilles heel. Major liability could be a fanatic tendency to stay the crème de la crème yoga course. “Stylish” Madonna-type trends such as Bikram Yoga, could be the ultimate reason of this purist’s downfall. Not that we want to infer the Virgo likes to keep up with metaphysical Jones’! Accountant’s Advice; Cultivate personal meditation disciplines to maintain that transparent financially orientated mind!

LIBRA

Libra thinks “harmony and balance”, so when love goes all askew they might have their fingers in the purse to heal their inner angst. Spending an inordinate amount on posh dating sites, or the florists to change an ex’s mind might hold back frugal considerations from time to time. Accountant’s Advice; a new hairstyle and a few evenings down the pub with the mates could lead to true love and budgetary chutzpah!

SCORPIO

If this water sign’s finances hit the low spot, they will tend to say “It’s the Economy, Stupid!” Rarely will they halt excessive spending. Intensity is their second name so “what Scorpio wants Scorpio gets!” Even when the bank balance sinks below zero, Scorpio knows they will make it through their proverbial financial night; Accountant’s Advice; Scorpios do not listen to advice.

SAGITTARIUS

Freaky frugalities are not for our Saggy. That Charles Dickens’s, Mr. Macawber saying from the David Copperfield novel, i.e. “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.” will fall on deaf ears. This sun sign will never find contentment in the suburbs, may be because they are usually on a trip somewhere exotic: Advice stay at home holidays!

CAPRICORN

This earth sign’s spending issues are minimal; they have invested in the right stocks and bonds. Even if they came from humble backgrounds, this goat will have leaped up the social mountain, and got to know all the right people in the process. Financing projects is the point of their existence. Yet if things were to go wrong, they would still find great deals. Accountant’s Advice, continue to honor a debt free mentality.

AQUARIUS

Aquarians tend to spend their hard earned cash on some useless patent, like the “Exercising your Cat Machine” or the “Spider Trap”, therefore the phrase “going for broke!” could be more than relevant to this Water Carrier. One can only admire this ground breaking signs courage, but resolving money concerns is definitely not on their list of things to do. Accountant’s advice: Throw pennies in lucky fountains for……luck!

PISCES

Pisces are into realizing their dreams once they realize what that dream is! One could be to invest in a local aquarium, another to enhance their psychic powers. These kinds of new age activities could cause the Pisces to overspend however. May be because they are more into other-worldly treasures than earthly ones. Accountant’s Advice: To avoid bankruptcy Get Real!

It is such fun to dress up, and what could be more inspiring for the ladies amongst us then to dress in sexy costumes? We love to laugh and joke in a fantasy world, where we are beautiful stars, sexy princesses, or archetypal heroines, who always get their man and impress others with their stunning style and beauty! So what fun costumes can we wear to make our astro club fall in love with us all over again?

ARIES

This fire sign’s sexy costume oozes charisma. The Aries lady is proactive, and looks delectable in a “Sexy Trapeze Artist’s” get up! All those spangles, clinging crepes and tassels will have the general public wanting more! Once these sporty, Aries chicks start swinging from the trapeze, the sequin glare could be overwhelming!

TAURUS

Down to earth Taurus dresses to kill as the “Grecian Hunting Goddess Diana” running barefoot through the forests. Classic figure hugging folds clinging to a full Taurus figure add to the charm of leather sandal latches twisting up from ankles to knee! Deep décolleté and velvet edges to draping add even more depth to this sexy look, as will those tumbling shoulder curls flowing in the breeze!

GEMINI

The chatty and brainy Gemini will get that office ambiance sizzling! The “Perfect Executive” with hair in tight bun, horn rimmed specs on tip of nose; she is a gas in clinging silk mini skirt, tight black bustier and thigh garters. In fact, she will have most bosses thinking promotions. Guaranteed to sizzle up the typing pool, not to mention the company reception area see production soar 90 percent!

CANCER

Sensitive water sign Cancer are never happier than by the ocean! Their ultimate sexy costume as “Sea Side Pin Up!” will have their nearest and dearest clapping! Cute mini sailor dress, sharply tilted captain’s hat to one side, plus “anchor style” embroidery on garters, and one would find it hard to resist their happy countenance. This costume is a statement that Cancer is” oceanic love” in person, when they are not crabby of course!

LEO

Big cats love to play pussy cats! What could be more delightful than a “Sophisticate Cat Costume” including sequined cat ears, and swishy Velcro tail? Perhaps a touch of a tight, furry bustier will add to the feline thrills. Watch this cat person prowl into the party and magnetize every mouse in the room! In any event larger than life fun will be had by all!

VIRGO

Virgos are more able than most to learn life’s lessons, so spotting the mistake and doing the homework is easy for this sun sign. What could be cuter than Virgo acting up a storm in their school girl “Study Buddy” uniform, with a touch of clinging garters around the knee, and a sleek “wrap around” tartan waist band. You will have this Virgo in their “Learn to Teach” element!

LIBRA

Libra tends to be so beautiful they could be nothing other than a “Fairy Princess”. They will tend to steal Prince Charmings heart away at the drop of a magic wand, so watch them shine in their delectable, magical, mini “Princess Frock”, with skin tight camisole, and cute little crown on top of flowing blond tresses. This aristocratic costume will command respect from all those who live in Fairy Land!

SCORPIO

Scorpio “Cloak and Dagger” attitudes encourage the ultimate in private investigations! Scorpios are certainly into the darker side of the human psyche. So what could suit them more than your sexy “Secret Service Agent!” costume. Leg garters with removable badge, a great pair of mega shades and a skin tight, black secret service, cutie pie mackintosh, with revolver hidden in pockets, would fit their bill indeed! Spies beware!

SAGITTARIUS

Sagittarius symbolize “nature’s child” running amok around the undergrowth. They tend to look great in “Wild Thing” hair styles, i.e. curls flowing with leaves and moss, plus faux fur frocks, with Low V cut décolleté! Matching beads dangling off the hem, and around the waist, and you have an outfit ready to run through the most dangerous of jungles!

CAPRICORN

Capricorn is a “Renaissance Lady”, happy to ponder on how good things once used to be. They will just love that burgundy velvet gown or the sexy Italian Duchess costume with a difference. Add on a deep plunge bodice, and cute silk apron tight around the waist and they will be in their element drifting through great halls, and serving venison to their aristocratic friends. A night to remember with classic ease.

AQUARIUS

Aquarians are into social evolution and inner expansion so what could be more inspiring than a “Sexy Sixties Psychedelic Flower Child Costume”. See them in a short, multiple beaded, flower power outfit. Add John Lennon-style, pink tinged glasses and that “Jimmy Hendrix” head band. And Retro Woodstock celebrations are in order.

PISCES

The Piscean connects to profound emotional depths, and the mystery of the oceans, so what could be cuter than a “Naughty Sea Nymph” costume. That sequined green organza, mini-skirt plus “fish fin” swathes of wafting silks flowing around the plunge line bodice, and in the sea breeze will make it hard to keep those mermen away!

We all have experienced a date falling flat. You know, the guy or girl you met on the Internet chat site that seemed such fun and then turned out to be a total let down. Nothing can quite describe that sinking feeling in the stomach when the blind date turns out to be a Hulk lookalike, or is even uglier than “Ugly Betty!” Anyone would reach for the crème to menthe in desperation! So what happens to our Astro Club when they let us down in the first date department?

ARIES

Aries could be the “mother of horrific dates”. After having argued that hard-nosed exercise far exceeds your stupid ideas on transcendental meditation the Aries could screech a fork across a plate or make an embarrassing public scene with you both being asked to leave the pub, restaurant, coffee bar, etc. By this time your adrenalin will be speeding around your body like a Porsche 911 down the motorway, or right out the door!

TAURUS

A Taurus horror date means coming down to earth with a thud! The Taurus will stare at you with a bovine look in their eyes. They will then start gazing over their shoulder, as if they are expecting an asteroid to strike. They will proceed to respond to your perfectly friendly questions with grunts. You want to frolic they want to order more cream cakes. You will feel so bored you will tell them you forgot you had booked a plane to Kathmandu!

GEMINI

You meet your Gemini horror date in the coffee bar, and note them looking at members of the opposite sex with a leer. They then start calling up their ex boyfriends, girlfriends on their mobile, while you are left staring desperately into your café latte. This is no fun, you feel rejected, and you feel ignored. They jump up from their seat, nattering on about being late for their interview on a talk show. You will be left stuffing your face with pretzels to get over the shock!

CANCER

This horror date better not be on a lunar eclipse! If it is, expect your Cancer date to be on the mobile to mum exchanging notes on cookery classes or cures for a relative’s ingrowing toenail! The horrible Cancer date will then morph into loony bird snapping at you one minute, nodding in approval the next whilst, attempting to adjust your tie, and(or wipe spots of your frock. Watch in horror as your Cancer date suddenly sinks into a sea of morose silence. Make your excuses and run!

LEO

The horror Leo dates means a big letdown. The hair is big, the smile is big, the entrance is big, but the arrogance is gigantic! Be sure that everything you have done they have done better. You climbed a mountain, they scaled Everest. You crossed the Channel in a rowing boat; they crossed the Atlantic on drift wood. This will be followed by launching into a monologue about how you do not understand what they are about. By that time you will have been on the mobile to your ex, your flat mate, your mum and your boss, without them even noticing. Time to leave indeed!

VIRGO

The Virgo horror date will start with a critical analysis of how the colour you are wearing makes them feel profoundly ill. They will then expound on how it does not suit you with factual back up data. It brings bad luck; it is the only color, color blind people are glad they cannot see, etc. You might try to argue desperately but they will insist on telling you “how it is!” until you want to know “where it is” the exit door we mean!

LIBRA

The Libra horror date charm will be “overkill!” It is comprised of over complimenting your get up, even if you are dressed head to foot in Salvation Army caste offs. The Libra will ooze with charisma so much so, you could will want to vomit. Their effusions about how they just redecorated their flat with wall to wall Laurence Llewellyn Bowen will have you running out the door before they can say “pass the spray gun!”

SCORPIO

The horror Scorpio date will stare at you as if you are a witch’s cauldron simmering with frogs. Their Pluto gaze obviously fixates on your physical flaws! The black leather waistcoat, the frowning eyebrows, the sophisticated savvy approach does nothing for your inferiority complex. However it gets really bad when they start reminiscing about how they wreaked horror movie style vengeance upon a previous date. This could have you running for the exit, scared to pieces!

SAGITTARIUS

The horror Saggy date promised you a riding weekend in Devon. Things went well as you joggled across the moors on your ponies. But things got super horrific when the horrible Saggy started to tell you the sordid secrets of an ex girl/boyfriend and the practical jokes played upon them. No you don’t want to sleep in a tent in the pouring rain; all you want to do is comb your date’s hair which is full of twigs, and all knotted up. You also want to go home!

CAPRICORN

The Capricorn horror date will be dressed in Burberry and want to go to Fortnum and Masons for tea. You do not dig the snotty waiters, and are bored speechless by interminable name dropping and references to weekends with the “Princes”. You feel disapproved of because you did not go to public school, or get a first at Cambridge. The posh twittering makes you long for a lager! You don’t even bother to shake hands as you rush out the swing doors cursing!

AQUARIUS

The Aquarius horror date shows up with a group of lookalike Harry Potter Wiccans clad in witch and wizard gear, who ask you to pay for the fish and chips. This really is too much you think as you reach into your wallet. The date then morphs into an encounter group with discussions on the Illuminati and whether the world is being taken over by lizards, you just wish you had never answered that lonely hearts column!

PISCES

Pisces will vaguely accept your invitation for a date, vaguely show up at the appointment, vaguely agree to go to a Chinese restaurant and then vaguely stare at their plate of Peking duck forever. They will then dreamily answer your questions, and gaze behind your shoulder at the restaurant aquarium with tears in their eyes. You will feel like a Shark. You will pay the bill and sneak out the back entrance when they are not looking, which is most of the time anyway!

Many of us seek fame, it evades us, yet at the same time we know we could have it if we were determined enough. Each astro sign has a “fame tendency” that they could use to transform their lives and others around them. It is interesting to also examine the Astro Club’s fame issues, and see which celebrities managed to overcome inner hurdles and achieve fame!

ARIES

One might say “fame is the way it is gonna be!” when it comes to Aries, because whether it takes them five to fifty years, you can be sure the Aries will be famous, once they decide to be!. Famous Aries folk like Al Gore, Bette Davis and Ashley Judd might have had to learn challenging life lessons over and over again, but once they get it, they speed “up to the plate” in a matter of minutes. Determined, energetic and just plain stubborn nothing can stop this fiery sign from getting their five minutes of universal attention! Public Interest factor: excitement!

TAURUS

The bullish are often the most determined. In fact, solid, “earth under hooves” Taurus are more than likely to hit the “fame jackpot”, if they keep their eye on the red flag that is! Fearless, and fun, they can also be tactless and challenging, but still Andrea Corr and Alan Bennett were unusual enough “bull folk” to emanate the type of glamour and sophistication that surprised everyone! Perhaps it is that languid Taurus gaze that works the magic! Public interest factor: Admiration!

GEMINI

Gemini’s ruling planet Mercury helps this airy sign hit the communication jackpot more often than not. Their chatting skills are unique, and rather than climb the fame mountain they chat it into manifestation. Angelina Jolie is a bright spark and famous Gemini, capable of talking her way out of a paper bag. Okay, such beauty and brains might not seem fair to us, but when Gemini Karma is good karma, little can stop them from success. Public interest factor: Curiosity.

CANCER

Famous Cancers love to nurture, they also love food almost as much as the Taurus Bull, but they adore their mothers more, so you could find the real power behind the Crab’s throne is Mum! Genius actress Meryl Streep when interviewed mentions her beloved and gifted children. Princess Diana adored her little princes, there is no getting away from it famous Cancers give their all, and often not just to the adoring public! They are domestic Gods and Goddesses par excellence! Public interest factor: Doting adoration!

LEO

Famous Leos discovered fame in sheer hard work, and a need to overcome their inferiority complex, yes inferiority complex! Hard to think Madonna was fighting the emotional pain resulting from the loss of her mother at an early age. Amazing to contemplate how Jacqueline Kennedy had to overcome the terrible loss of Jack, face public hostility and still marry Aristotle Onassis. Big hair, big smile and big style, that is your Leo. Public interest factor: Respect!

VIRGO

Virgo fame pulse beats fast to compassion. Famous Virgos teach, advise and stand back, emotional detachment leading them far. They note little details other people lose sight off, yet with sheer grit fulfill their greatest ideals. Mother Teresa was a Virgo, as was Michael Jackson! Both in different ways, they contributed from deep within their Vulcan hearts. Mother Teresa helped dying children in India, and no matter how vilified Michael attempted to do the same in a western world that has no time to love and care for its more vulnerable citizens. Public Interest Factor: Admiration!

LIBRA

Librans are beautiful but complex their search for inner harmony fantastical, yet they are still capable of great strength of purpose, and are willing to sacrifice to reach the high note. Their inner wisdom guides them forwards. Sting is a typically famous Libra, in that it is obvious he seeks the ultimate balance in the music he creates. Mahatma Gandhi was a Libra and his ability to lead India to independence without violence was proof of a deeply profound gift of compassion. Public Interest factor: Love.

SCORPIO

Scorpios’ shine lies within their own shadow! They are wise folk, even if complex and do not like to stand in the light of the sun. Like their name sakes they will hide under a shady rock if things get challenging. Yet they are powerful contenders in the fame game, once they set to it. Hilary Clinton is a typical Scorpio with intense political gifts, and the knack of keeping her personality private. Notwithstanding her sunny personality Goldie Hawn is also a Scorpio, who never “spills the personal beans” Public interest factor: Intrigued!

SAGITTARIUS

The Saggy finds fame in laughter. They can be the sad clown, the tactless clown and the OTT clown, but their spiritual essence strives to take life as it comes without getting het up about obstacles along the way. Their fire sign burns bright in the fame firmament therefore. Libran fame stars were John F Kennedy, known to be a terrible flirt but a powerful man. Tina Turner stood a violent marriage, and yet she managed to find fame due to her profound faith in the Buddhist religion. These are “touch the sky” fame artists at their very best. Public Interest factor: Joy!

CAPRICORN

The Cappy are the most realistic folks in the zodiac. They have incarnated so many times, they not only “have a handle” on fame, but know how to get it out it “out there” with “savoir faire!” Annie Lennox is a Capricorn as was Aristotle Onassis These two are as unalike as chalk from cheese, but their gift was future trends, and understanding the demands of their public! Perhaps Aristotle failed in his mission, as he forgot his compassion. Annie succeeded because she remembered it. Public interest factor: Deference!

AQUARIUS

The Water Carrier tends to do things “their way”. Deference is not their thing, inner and outer freedom is! They and manage to create fame along the way to social awareness and an expansive vision for humanity’s future. David Lynch the film director wants to open out his audiences’ minds with challenging productions like “Blue Velvet”, and Oprah Winfrey seeks to inform her audience not only of celebrity goings-on, but how spiritual thought can evolve the soul. Public interest factor: Fascination!

PISCES

Pisces are expressive, artistic and tend to be drawn to the performing arts or esoteric metaphysical issues. Their road is not directed full on to fame, but their gifts make it likely they will find it along the way. Sai Baba Meher is a famous Guru and Pisces, intent on leading people to spiritual enlightenment. Albert Einstein discovered the theory of relativity and said that “imagination was more important than knowledge!” And that perhaps is Pisces fame in a “nut shell”. Public Interest Factor: Value.

People often ask me, “How can you do a telephone reading?” Well, I prefer to do telephone readings as I have to totally trust what is given to me by my guides.

So, you contact me via the phone line wanting a general reading, firstly I always say a blessing for you, then I connect with my spirit guide and ask the permission from your guides that I may read for you.

I often pick up how you’re feeling emotionally. If you’re depressed – I would see you standing in front of me with a dark/ black skyline. If you have a lot of people around you with emotional upset – I see you standing in the rain. If I see you stood in water up to your shins I know that you have been through alot emotionally but you’re coming out of it. If you’re up to your neck in water then I know that you are struggling in the here and now.

Passed Loved Ones

Sometimes a relative or friend that has passed comes to me; they push through to let you know that they are with you. Their energy is often what you need. So if you are feeling stuck – their energy is pushing you forward. If you’re struggling to stand up they come through with the supportive energy that you need. As soon as you acknowledge what’s being brought through the link between you and spirit I am able to move forward with the reading.

What a Clairvoyant Sees

As a clairvoyant I see your life as if I’m watching a film and I tell you what I’m seeing. I’m also shown symbols. I may see chains around your ankles and I know that you are being held by a situation. Or I see a bird flying free and I know that your release is coming. I could see you on your life path in a car and you’re in first gear and the back wheels are spinning, which would mean you have to clear something in life before you can move forward. I may see you moving up through the gears which would indicate that things are going to start moving forward gradually and in a controlled way. Other times I see the wheel of fortune which is a tarot card image and this to me means it is your time for positive movement.

Then we look at the people who impact on your life family, friends, relationships and people in the work place. We usually look at partnerships or new relationships that are coming in. Then family and close friends as these people have a massive impact on your life.

Career Advice

Work and career are very important so my first question to your guide is, “Are you in the right job? Is the job going to grow or what is the direction of you career in this job?” If the job isn’t right then I will be shown the area you should be looking in and often the structure of the company you could end up working for. Often spirit gives guidance and may suggest that you look in another area that you may find job satisfaction in. It may not be the right time to think about moving or changing and although you may not be happy – sometimes we have to tell you to hang in there! You may be unhappy but I may see the company being reshuffled and although you hate the change you may benefit by staying and opportunities will open up for you that you’re not aware of at present.

You could be about to start university and not sure what to study or which university to go to and spirit will give you guidance.

Whatever is happening in your life – we as psychics will talk to you giving a non-judgmental view of your life. Every reading is different because everybody is unique. We are here to give you love, support and guidance through some of the hardest times in your life and cheer you on in the good stuff!

Tarot is a magical language that communicates within the “invisible realms of reality” Its archetypes go back to the Ancient Egyptians and the Italian Renaissance. Tarot “sees” into the future, guiding us to an ever more evolved perception of everyday reality. We are fascinated by card “telling”, and the tarot’s paranormal power. Choosing a tarot can be quite an endeavor may be because identifying our own pack is a major component to reading accuracy. The question is what tarot card packs would our astro friends tend to choose for the best psychic insight?

ARIES

Aries is naturally intuitive, not necessarily diplomatic, as more prone to “saying it how it is!” A tarot pack such as the “Alchemical Tarot Deck” created by Rosemary Guiley and Robert Place inspires this fire sign’s metaphysical creativity. The colourful Alchemical Tarot deck gets the Aries juices flowing; its action packed visuals stimulate dynamic tarot readings, just right for Aries psychic gifts and their natural ability to resolve problems through action. These cards are based on the secrets of alchemy and transformational magic, just the job for a curious Aries.

TAURUS

Taurus feet are planted firmly on the ground. They seek practical advice through a tarot pack. They tend to develop natural intuition through their love of nature. Therefore, the highly communicative “Tarot of Trees” by Dana Driscoll, with its attractive visuals and vibrant colours, talks grounded “common sense” to this realistic earth sign. The “Tarot of Trees” is a “real life” pack that uses natural, as opposed to magical, symbology. Just right for the gutsy Taurus!

GEMINI

The Gemini mind is a source of inspiration. Their psychic side is naturally perceptive. Therefore, a tarot deck that both stimulates their cerebral juices and links into magical visions is the only solution. The “Quantum Tarot” created by Christopher Butler and Kay Stopforth, packs a philosophical approach into the more mystical aspects of quantum physics. The cards themselves show case interesting depictions including NASA space images. A truly inspiring mix-match for the Gemini!

CANCER

The super-sensitive Cancer is more than capable of “feeling” others’ emotions before they occur. They are frequently gifted psychics and tend to appreciate Divine Mother magic. The “Goddess Tarot” which depicts exquisite images from Kali to Isis, helps Cancers merge with the loving emanations of Divine Mother. They could even project healing powers into their readings through the images of “The Goddess Tarot” This deck was created by Kris Waldherr and showcases gold tinged, magical cards just right for a Cancerian Moon Goddess interpretation.

LEO

Leos are as instinctive as their feline namesakes, the Lion. They prowl through life, sensing danger along a challenge-strewn path. “The Medieval Cat Tarot” pack, created by Gina Pace, connects to their “nine lives” intuition. Mystical big cats dig the “Medieval Cat Tarot” because it is easy to read, even for a newbie Leo tarot reader. The sight of cats dressed up as 15th century aristocrats tickles this fire sign’s sense of the ridiculous. Cat Tarot Cards are just the job for a luminous Leo.

VIRGO

Psychic Virgos are not only intuitive they are purists when it comes to order and balance. Virgos intuitively sense the mystical message hidden within Sacred Geometry. Therefore the “Sacred Geometry Oracle” would encourage the Virgo to synthesize a reading and inspire others with exacting interpretations. Although not a traditional tarot deck, the “Sacred Geometry Oracle” will “speak volumes” through Virgo “knowing” and create an insightful reading as they intuit the future through the complexities advanced mathematics.

LIBRA

The balanced Libra idealizes love. Their ruling planet Venus encourages more harmonious psychic abilities. In fact, Librans’ “wise-soul” natures are inclined to emotional insight which obviously enhances a tarot reading. The “Lovers Tarot Pack” created by the highly gifted Kris Waldherr just emanates romance. The images are emblematic, romantic and communicative and certainly lift the Libran reading to another level when it comes to emotional interpretation.

SCORPIO
Scorpio is a complex sign. A psychic water sign, often deeply healing in their approach to Spirit they are unafraid of the dark side, or rather their capacity to connect to metaphysical energies that heal and inspire. The epic “Bohemian Gothic Tarot” could stimulate their “ancient soul” qualities into a predictive healing vision. The darker images of these cards are exceptionally magical, and encourage esoteric readings. Scorpio would be in their element with this tarot pack!

SAGITTARIUS
Saggy is a spiritual “journeyer” with elements of “Toto the Clown”. Their capacity to laugh at the foibles of human nature is a delightful adjunct to natural psychic abilities. Their tarot readings will be both inspirational and intriguing. Therefore the beautifully illustrated Mayan Oracle by Ariel Spillsbury naturally enhances their sixth sense. The Mayan oracle cards are a “must have” for the spiritually discerning Sagittarius because they are mystical, yet potent, predictive yet realistic. The Mayan 2012 prediction will not affect the loving feel of these cards.

CAPRICORN
Strait laced may be, but the Capricorn does tune into metaphysical mysteries, even if they like things structured. A card deck that entrances this earth sign is the stimulating yet practical “Bright Idea Tarot” deck created by Mark McElroy. Used by business people, due to its clarity and succinct advice on every day issues, the artwork is modern and the layout classical. Just the job for the business-like Capricorn who needs psychic stimulation and fun input to brighten their day.

AQUARIUS
The revolutionary Water Carrier, has natural presentiments. They are journeyers of knowledge, and some might say their magical evolution mirrors the mission of the enchanted seekers of the Holy Grail. Therefore, the “Holy Grail Tarot” with its medieval imagery, beautifully depicted graphics and profound archetypal insights would stimulate the already sensitive Aquarian, and encourage an exciting reading with accurate occult insights.

PISCES
Pisceans are naturally intuitive. They are often gifted healers, psychics and empaths. Their insights are precious to those around them, may be because they just flow with their souls. Therefore the “Dreampower Tarot” created by R J Stewart could open a door to even more magical gifts. The images are uniquely metaphysical and unlike any other tarot pack. Pisces can let their unique insight flow through them as they lift their gaze, and the gaze of those around them, to total enchantment.

Job interviews are a nerve racking experiences. Certainly, we need to be sure we know our material, and present a professional image. Due to the current saturated job market it is always best to have a few interview tricks up one’s sleeves and avoid being caught out as a phony. Clear resumes, good presentation, well researched questions and a confident demeanor will certainly help success come our way. But how does our Astro Club handle the interview Hot Seats?

ARIES

You will certainly have your CV streamlined to show case your action packed career! The fact is you have done more at 20 than most people do at 40. The only loop hole could be your tendency to know far more than your potential boss! Even if you are a self educated authority on globalization and strategic marketing opportunities, don’t show off, be willing to listen. Say “I am really excited about what your company is doing!” if you see your interviewer staring emptily into the distance. Insight; Wild ambition will take you to the top of the career mountain

TAURUS

You will show up to the interview emanating a settled, down to earth charisma you will emphasize your hardworking references, and give a “power behind the throne” impression to potential bosses. But make sure you do not lean too far back into the interview chair and throw your sling back shoes off. Chewing gum or offering your interviewer chocolates is not recommended either. Insight: Your basic dedication will take you up your career mountain as long as you don’t butt your way into the Personnel Department to demand what your interview results were.

GEMINI

Be prepared to see potential bosses sitting up when you expound on your new theory for multi lateral tasking based on the quantum theory. But do not wait to see their eyes glaze over as you chat on as if “time did not exist” on the String theory. Showing proof of how your projected budget would positively input company financing is still recommended, but don’t morph into your terrible twin if they pick holes in it. Insight: Knowing how to keep stum at opportune moments will help you climb that career mountain.

CANCER

Do not go into crab like protectionism when the interviewers dig into your past experience. Just diplomatically point out that the gold watch you are wearing was a gift for dedicated service. Emphasize that you are someone they can trust, especially when it comes to spotting product value, and that you have nothing against hierarchical management, in fact “sensitive restructuring” could be your second name. Insight; knowing how to curb sudden emotional outbursts will get you far up that career mountain!

LEO

Arriving at the interview with three inch heels, tight jackets, flamboyant ties and big hair could turn your potential boss deathly quiet. Make sure you point out your supervisory skills and generous position when it comes to working overtime. Leave space for the interviewers to demonstrate how on the ball they are. So do not interrupt their flow with “know it all!” attitudes, or expect a lift home when the interview is over. Insight: Showing off will not get you far up that career mountain, so be an expert not an authority!

VIRGO

Your neat appearance, polite demeanor, calm attitude and precise CV will do much to convince your potential boss that you are “just the job”. However, don’t scotch it by picking fluff off your skirt interminably, or reorganizing your interviewer’s desk. Point out that you are diligent, and that they can expect nothing other than committed perfectionism from you! Insight: Showcasing detailed form filling capacities and denying you are a “people person” when it comes to that Financial Manager opening will get you far up the career mountain!

LIBRA

When you walk through the door, with all that chic charisma, you will see your interviewers sigh with relief. Don’t scotch it by spending too much time pondering over simple questions, like “Why do you want to work for us?” If you openly start vocalizing endless “pros and cons”, you could con yourself right out of employment. Instead, demonstrate how diplomatic you are in emergencies, especially when the interviewer spills coffee over their notes. Insight; Show casing your equilibrium by mopping up the mess with an embroidered handkerchief will get you high up that career mountain!

SCORPIO

You will mesmerize your interviewers naturally, especially when you dramatically hone into their needs and intuit their budget forecast but do not get into Scorpio enigmas by answering questions with questions. For example a “Why should we hire you?” with a “Yes, why should you hire me?” accompanied by penetrating “Pluto God of the Underworld” gazes! Make sure they know how diligent you are, how “all or nothing” you are by presenting them with proof of professionalism! Insight: Not seducing your interviewer if they ask you whether you want another cup of coffee will get you high up that career mountain?

SAGITTARIUS

Your potential boss will be enthused by your upbeat, larger than life “been there done that” attitude. But try not to trip over the interviewer and avoid joking about your achievements or guffawing madly when asked what your management style is? Being full of beans and jolly is great during Christmas hols but not when your career is on the line! Insight. Demonstrating your enthusiasm for new projects and international travel will take you far up the career mountain!

CAPRICORN

Showcase your file full of blue chipped accounts. Talk professional as only you know how. Use the words “specialized” “trained” and “expert” frequently. Make sure they know you are an “authority” and maintain “sangue froide” attitudes even if they ask you questions like “What do you think of Credit Unions?” Insight: Not boasting about your connections to people in high places will get you far up the career mountain!

AQUARIUS

Do not sound off about an ex boss being a member of the Illuminati and morphing into a lizard in his spare time! Make sure you avoid purple shoes, hair extensions ties and stockings. Wax lyrical on alternative business trends, and accentuate your team player, “go for it” attitudes to sales projects. Do not get into “one way street” arguments about “Green” issues, or hand out “Peace in Mesopotamia” pamphlets at the end of the interview. Insight: Stick to your saner principles at all times and you will be laughing on the top of that career mountain!

PISCES

Take Bach Flower Rescue Remedy, as you don’t want to go into a trance at the sight of a potential employer’s aquarium? Try not to take a Jungian psychoanalytical stance when asked how you would resolve staffing problems. Avoid identifying personally with financial problems or you could burst into tears. You will not be afraid to talk about your “biggest weakness”, but avoid expounding on “Spirit channeling” as a solution to staffing problems. Insight: Not answering the mobile when a “down on their luck” ex calls in the office will take you far up that career mountain!

So what gives with the kisses? Certainly bad kissing styles are a downer for romance. The guy or gal that kisses you with dry lips and a passionless expression on their face will not encourage you to go further than you dare. But what kissing styles do our Astro Club like to go for? Perhaps after reading this you could compare notes!

ARIES

Not much of a build up to this smacker, be sure it will be sudden and virtually unexpected. The Aries kiss is red hot fiery and surprising, with a unique pressing down with pursed mouth. Aries tend to be an all or nothing, so no tight lipped deals please. The kiss itself could be somewhat energetic, with rubbing of noses thrown in. The attitude is blatant “Kiss me Kate”.

TAURUS

A typical earthy Taurus build up lasts minutes. You will probably find yourself in some relaxing sofa, and in between each lip close up, a chocolate could be placed into your mouth by passionate Taurus teeth. This bull will do their very best to be slow and sensually intriguing but they will inevitably lick their lips around the choc should you be a slow chewer. A warm mesmerizing, and above all tasty lip clincher. Definitely a “night of the long kisses!”

GEMINI

This kiss will hit the high C if it is between chat sessions. The Gemini kiss is mental, in the sense it is not profound, or deep, due to the long chatty build up. The Gemini might scratch his head, or his nose whilst preparing for the kiss with a series of lip clenching exercises. The stress of kissing could have him making excuses like “I have a cold sore”, etc. Gemini’s are so anxious they could slobber. This is no Bogart Bacall kiss it is more like Rainman!

CANCER

A more adventurous Cancer might take you on a bit of moon watching, as they surreptitiously place an arm around your shoulders in the front seat of the car. You will then feel a gentle peck on the neck, followed by a ruffling of hair, followed by an “oh shucks you are so hot!” The following kiss will be initiated with deep inhalation, and a subsequent wet lip lock! Cancers are a watery sign. This could be the ultimate Titanic style kisses with a tendency to flounder in a sea of sensuality.

LEO

Fiery Leo will suddenly grab for your face, pant excessively, make declarations of everlasting love and then plant a sure fire kiss on your lips accompanied by deep throat groans. If you happen to have a bit of clay around, they could do a “Ghost” rendition, i.e. come up behind you and splatter wet clay all over your dress. Their back handed neck kiss, is deemed a success in this passionate sign’s repertoire. This is definitely a lookalike Rudolf Valentino lip blend as in the Sheik!

VIRGO

Virgo will want this kiss to be neat! Please no slobbering, overly wet jobs, rather a balanced, well aimed tongue squeeze. Virgos are idealistic, and would prefer to manifest a “Casablanca Style” type of kiss, with Ingrid announcing her deep love for Bogart rather than some half hearted job. The Virgo will accept a straight on missionary frontal at a pinch but their imagination will take them far, in fact the amazingly earthy Virgo kiss could morph into the classic dream kisser!

LIBRA

The Libran kiss is entrenched with romance. Your Libran lover could show up with a rose between their teeth, before reaching out to clasp your face between their hands, and land that romantic kiss left centre. They are aiming on that “From here to Eternity” finale, where you will both be together for the rest of your lives, and can kiss every day without all this fuss!

SCORPIO

The Scorpio kiss is full on, open ended profoundly deep and very long winded. This is no Joey Rachel kiss and certainly “no kiss and tell!” This is the ultimate passionate, wet, sexy and sensual lip hug that will have you desiring more. The Scorpio has contained themselves for some time before exploding in sensual delights. If you are not careful, this kiss could end up as a “save my soul” type kiss! So you better look out!

SAGITTARIUS

This is a fairly happy kiss. Before it gets sensual you will have to climb every mountain and forge every stream with this optimistic fire sign. Yet, that Saggy kiss could also go wild in a stuck elevator. A sense of adventure is primary to this Saggy Kiss. As is a lot of fun in a fair ground, or swimming pool. Expect jokes before the kiss, a bit of tickling and then a full on frontal classic smack that digs deeper than you would expect. This could end up as an explosive style kiss after all!

CAPRICORN

This is initially a main stream kiss, often in the stalls, or over tea and crumpets. They will have chewed quite a lot of gum prior to the lip grip, which is always advantageous. It will probably have taken quite a while for the grounded and earthy Cappy Kisser to get romantic in the first place. But once they hit the high note there is no stopping this crafty goat! This is usually a classic, romantic movie type kiss, with a tight lipped initiation and a promise of more passion when the conditions are right.

AQUARIUS

This is no insecure tight lipped grope; this could morph into a 360 degree style “clencher”, once the Aquarius kisser gets in the mood. But it is that getting into the mood that is the issue. This sun sign would have had to see a DVD edition of Matrix to get juices flowing. Expect unusual kiss moves, like tongue whirls, and full on sucks. This is no extra-terrestrial kiss as one might expect but rather a “take my breath away!”

PISCES

This is the “I care deeply kiss” somewhat on the scale of Romeo and Juliet but hopefully without the tragedy. The Piscean kiss will be rather wet, being a water sign. It will be initiated by deep eye gazing, with the odd tear drop, followed by madly passionate nasal and lip rummaging around the neck area. This is more than a passionate awakening kiss this is kissing fervor at its deepest and very best!

What makes a woman historic? Is it the historical context in which she was born? Is it the empathy she emanated? Is it her astounding ability to affect humanity? Certainly, historical women gave their all! Good or bad, they did not stand back from challenge. Some suffered deep sorrow and hardship. Others left a profound impression on our psyches. Certainly we will remember them all for generations to come! An historical woman is one who touches the depths of our hearts, and even leads us to inspiration and a higher understanding of life.

ARIES

“My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been to other people!” Dusty Springfield the iconic sixties songstress with the mile long eye lashes touched the hearts of millions. Born Mary Elizabeth Bernadette O’Brien, she was of Irish working class origin and possessed a voice that “haunted a generation”. She was the only British singer who could truly do “Motown”. Her personal life was tormented, she was rumoured to be gay. She never confirmed it herself. Her Bacharach-David success “The Look of Love” took the hit parade by storm with her “all or nothing” Aries rendition; she was passionate, emotional, and controversial. Her persona would never be forgotten! She died of breast Cancer after re-launching her career! Eight of ten to this tragic, historical songstress!

TAURUS

“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear!”Florence Nightingale or the “Lady with the Lamp” was born in Florence in 1830 to a rich upper class family. As a young woman she was well traveled and deeply sensitive. She felt that she had “been called to God”, and indeed her dedicated mission to nurse the Crimean War wounded would become an awesome calling. Her typical Taurus hard “headedness” helped her stand up to the arcane British authorities as well as to typhoid, cholera and dysentery. She managed to build on her initial contingent of 40 women to nurse the wounded, and the nursing profession came into being at St Thomas Hospital in London only due to her diligent work. A great Lady indeed, beautiful, practical inflexible, bolshie, and downright intractable, a true Taurus. Nine out of ten to this heroic historical heroine!

GEMINI

“I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it!” Marilyn Monroe who is still a unique archetype, not only possessed exquisite beauty but a high voltage personality. Her magnetic screen presence is still legendary and etched on show biz history. Her marriage to the intellectual playwright Arthur Miller, her rumoured affair with the Kennedy brothers and her inexplicable suicide left the world guessing. Marilyn was a typical Gemini, in that she was highly intelligent. She hid behind a public mask of joy and radiant charm however, but when left to herself the other “twin” emerged. This twin was a deep thinker, and a woman with quicksilver communication abilities. She broke the world’s heart when she died. She was indeed Elton John’s true “A Candle in the Wind!” Eight out of ten to this historical celluloid princess!

CANCER

“Being a Princess isn’t all that it is cracked up to be!” Princess Diana was an intuitive, sensitive woman, deeply attached to her mother, and tormented by her abandonment as a child. The “Cancer mother adoration issue” is a well known aspect of this watery sign and can weigh heavily on the soul. Diana herself was a wonderful mother. Moody, unpredictable, yet a true communicator with a compassionate heart, she left her mark on the world. Her untimely death in a Parisian car accident left many guessing and even more grieving. She was a controversial figure like Marilyn and Elton John’s rendition of “A Candle in the Wind” at her funeral could not have been more apt. She left a world bereft. Diana was a woman that history will never forget. A true Princess of Hearts! Ten out of ten to this awesome historical woman!

LEO

“I don’t think there are any men who are faithful to their wives” Jacqueline Kennedy said. But she was unusually exquisite woman, upper class, highly intelligent and well educated. Many men would have adored her! She and President John Kennedy were the ultimate “Golden Couple”; wherever they went they stimulated rapt adoration. Jackie possessed that Leo fire sign charisma, a unique class, a sensuality that only the Leo woman so naturally emanates. When John Kennedy was assassinated her dignity impressed the world. Her subsequent marriage to Onassis deluded the world. This however was a woman who rose above tragedy. She was the ultimate in stateliness and poise. A truly radiant Leo! Nine out of ten to this 20th century heroine!

VIRGO

“Be faithful in small things because it is them that your strength lies!” This is a typical “pay attention to detail” Virgo quote. And yet it was made by Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta. Mother Theresa has now been beatified as a saintly woman. She originated from a humble background, and initiated her spiritual journey as an Albanian Catholic nun. Her true mission was to enact the love and compassion of God in the slums of Calcutta. A Noble Peace Prize winner she possessed that pure Virgo heart, plus that dedication and compassion so common to the gifted Virgo. Gracious, empathic, caring and devoted, meticulous sometimes, controversial often, she was notwithstanding a true humanitarian! Ten out of ten to this angel of mercy!

LIBRA

“I am extraordinary patient, provided I get my own way in the end!” Born in Grantham England on the 13^th October 1925 Baroness Maggie Thatcher was Britain’s first female prime minister and is one of the most important figures in 20^th century politics. “The Iron Lady” was a grocer’s daughter educated at Oxford. She showed early ambition, intellectual abilities plus a steely determination so common to her Libra sun sign. She joined the Conservative Party in 1959 and never looked back. Her capacity to remain resilient in the face of challenge, plus her robust political savvy were also due to that Libran tendency to seek balance no matter how high the price. Margaret Thatcher’s airy zeal had another side too, her devotion to her beloved husband Dennis, and her controversial son Mark. Her true comfort was found in culture, “the cultural things add a great richness to life!” she said. Her need for beauty, order and symmetry was the secret to this amazing lady’s political success. A hearty nine out of ten for this rare dame!

SCORPIO

“Let them eat Cake” said Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XV of France and daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria. Certainly she had a lot of bad press in her day! Said to dance the jig while children starved, she became the most hated woman in France. True, she was obviously not the luckiest lady on the 18^th century block, but certainly a looker. She was prone to nervous attacks, and odd delusions of grandeur. She was earmarked for excess by starving French revolutionaries, and was guillotined with other members of the French aristocracy. The dark side of her Scorpion nature obviously attracted her to excess and egoistic musings. Up to the end she never lowered herself to her captors’ level, notwithstanding the horrors around her. She was a complex Scorpio with an intense erotic nature. Her need to revel in intrigue might have made her seriously misunderstood. A tragic eight out of ten for this astounding queen.

SAGITTARIUS

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance” said Jane Austin born in 1775 at Steventon Rectory, England. Jane would become the greatest female novelist of all time. Books like “Sense and Sensibility”, “Pride and Prejudice”, “Mansfield Park” and more are still avidly read today. Many of her works have been made into popular movies or TV series, but in her own day few knew of her; her books were published anonymously. She was certainly a “journeyer”, like all Saggys, however, the confined moral dictates of the time only permitted Jane to voyage in her mind. Her magical humour and the individuality so typical of her sign certainly emerged in her writings. Her need to marry off all her heroines sensibly was probably due to the country gentry’s dictates of the time. Jane never married herself, but it is said her one great love was with a certain Thomas Lefroy. Ten out of ten for this unforgettable historical heroine,

CAPRICORN

“Hold the cross high so that I might see it through the flames” Joan of Arc or the “Maid of Orleans” is still considered an international heroine. A romantic figure, who fought as a man in allegiance to her country, reached heights of spiritual sacrifice only a true Capricorn could bear. Obviously Joan was not of the “Capricorn drinking tea on their mansion lawn ilk”, but the kind of Capricorn who took heed of the Saturn planetary ruler. Saturn tells the Capricorn that only profound spiritual allegiance to the God Force can lead the human being beyond limitations to enlightenment. Joan of Arc was a Clairaudient/Clairvoyant who claimed she received visions from God that commanded her to free France from British Rule. The result was both victory and terrible sacrifice, for she was burnt at the stake for heresy. She has become an archetype of woman’s courage, and individuality. A superb ten out of ten for this historical heroine’s unique spirituality.

AQUARIUS

“God gives talent, but work transforms talent into genius!” Anna Pavlova was indeed a genius, and the most gifted ballerina of all time! The noted lead dancer of the Imperial Russian ballet, she was born in St Petersburg of humble origin in 1881. Her stunning depiction of a “Dying Swan” is still considered a performance nobody has yet surpassed. She first became attracted to dance when her mother took her to see “Sleeping Beauty” at the famed Mariinsky Theatre! When she joined the Russian Imperial Ballet School however, dancing did not come easy to her; she was physically frail, with very narrow ankles. But her Aquarian nature reached out for her true life mission and encouraged her to step out of the rigid classical ballet mores of the time. Anna danced from her heart and soul; and to her own tune! The results were unique interpretations of sheer genius. A ten out of ten for this great artist!

PISCES

“I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife” this film star said. Elizabeth Taylor is certainly no ordinary chick either. “Passion” is the name of her perfume; the anti-AIDs campaign is her cause. Elizabeth was a beautiful child star at ten, when she signed her first show biz contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer. She grew up to be considered the most gorgeous woman in the world. Yet she did not have an easy life. She lost her beloved second husband Mike Todd in an airplane crash and her passionate love affair with Richard Burton had the markings of Piscean emotional sacrifice. She was frequently ill, and challenged personally. However, those violet eyes, that white skin, that jet black hair stimulated others’ adoration. She was much under-rated but still a great actress! She was also married to Michael Wilding, and broke up Eddie Fisher’s marriage to Debbie, to the fury of their fans and a moralistic US public. She fell for Richard during the filming of the US one million dollar production of “Cleopatra” and a twin flame love story as born. Elizabeth is a fish indeed, but one of the tropical, multicoloured “fins and scales” variety. A resounding eight of ten to this modern day, historical heroine!

We all know how positive the Astro Club can be. Just think of generous Leo, go getting Aries and smart Gemini. But when things get out of balance, sometimes due to the stress of everyday living, challenging psychological results could ensue, and you could see our friendly astro bunch sinking deep into their dark sides. The side they usually do not want you or me to see, the side they are afraid to take out of the closet! Ahhhhhh!

ARIES

Fiery Aries dark sides are into yelling and dictatorial attitudes. See them gesticulating rudely and screaming as per “the great dictator” Hitler, who himself was an Aries. Stamping feet and temper tantrums, accompanied by unfair accusations could be a result of not getting enough exercise. Aries butts obstacles out of the way, if you happen to be standing in that way, you could fall flat on your butt. The Aries dark side is actively irritating!

TAURUS

Earth Taurus dark side loves banquets. They also love that slow moving style that thinks little of initiative and a lot of letting the fates take care of themselves. The true mess is that nothing ever gets done and a lot gets eaten. Sport is a dirty word, and activities to encourage mental health are not even considered. The Aries dark side is food orientated and heavy weight.

GEMINI

A borderline mental condition is not really the issue when it comes to the airy Gemini twin’s dark side. What is the issue in Gemini morphing into the bad twin 24 hours a day? The bad twin screams, the good twin counsels, the bad twin yells, the good twin whispers, the bad twin nags the good twin advises. This does not bode well, and Gemini needs to get an intellectual grip on their dark side, or go into Jungian psychoanalysis.

CANCER

See this watery sun sign walk backwards down the beach, high street or front room the moment they get into their terrifying Cancer bad-sided mood swings. This is not “moon gazing fun”, no, this is sheer emotional angst, and it has this crabby character screaming “Pass the salt” at loving wives and doting offspring. If Cancer does not get a grip on their dark side they might morph into Alien!

LEO

Leo’s sun is so radiant; it could only caste a long, dark shadow. See Leo’s dark side emerge when they refuse to pay bills, and argue with traffic wardens. Yelling at old dears could also occur unfortunately. Having temper tantrums and shaving their heads (in the worst cases as Leo hair is a consistent “issue“) could also be the tragic outcome! Leo might also get into financial “hot water”, as they are “the last of the great spenders” Meditation in an isolation tank to avoid furious creditors is recommended for this fire sign’s darker side!

VIRGO

Virgos will tend to carp, nag and get “dark side” anxiety attacks. They will clean everything in sight with their swivel super duster, and see crumbs on the floor where there are none. This could be followed by hand washing routines, and picking the dust off the duster with their fingers. The Virgo analysis of reality could go completely skew whiff, and they might end up digging holes in the garden, and hiding in them. Their tendency to over analyze and get picky is not good! Call in the Salvation Army!

LIBRA

The Libran dark side might lecture friends, and scheme. They could also join the Illuminati and plan to take over the world’s banking systems. They will eerily smile all the while, and instead of resembling sweeties, their dimples could morph them into the ultimate “Chucky” of horror movie fame. Things get really bad when they throw out their bathroom scales. A spell with the Amazonian Indians in order to “get real” is recommended!

SCORPIO

Scorpios dark side morphs into “night frights”. They wander around graveyards, muttering. They could also grow vampire teeth, and unfortunately not look as handsome as Tom Cruise in “Interview with a Vampire” but more like the 1920s pale and skinny “Nosferatu”. They might get into brooding on the edge of that river to see the corpses of their enemies float by too. They will create great stress in those around them, and should be sent to a homeopath for spiritual detoxification.

SAGITTARIUS

The half man half horse creature’s dark side will start putting an excessive foot in virtually everything! They will tell their mother in law she needs to go on a weight watchers course, because she resembles a hippo, and then trip over their door mat. They will bang around, bumping into people and making inappropriate tactless jokes. They will be excessively irresponsible and could even forget to tie the bungee jumping cord around their waists, which could end in tragedy. They need a course of Bach Flower Rescue remedy, and the confessional.

CAPRICORN

The straight laced, earthy Capricorn’s dark side will dress up once too often. Expensive shopping, snobbery, social climbing, gossiping about others lack of manners, and super up-tightness are all symptoms of a Cappy glitch! Friends will turn ex, as they long for those good old days of cucumber sandwiches on the lawn. When the Cappy sacks the maid you know they are in real trouble. These goats obviously need a detox sauna, an expensive resort and some hard talking to!

AQUARIUS

Aquarius dark side could show them super detached, except in sexual matters! They will seem cold hearted and unapproachable to their lovers, and be classified as “uncaring!” They will also be accused of taking romantic advantage. They will shrug and create another machine that nobody wants to patent. They will dye their hair unsociable colours like phosphorescent red or super puce. They need to join The Disclosure Project, which is geared to UFO disclosure, and talks to people like themselves without flinching. Another cure could be kite flying!

PISCES

Dark sided Pisceans could actually want to morph into an aquarium. Depressions, and long gazing sessions will leave them high and dry on some far off shore. They will have taken on all their best mates’ problems and end up believing they are them! The Pisces dark side never knows where and when to draw the line! The trouble starts when they start wearing their friends’ outfits, and talking like them. When the little yellow van comes to take them away, they are almost relieved. Who wants to be a “single white female” anyway!

Love songs move our hearts and souls. They underline our convoluted emotions, and sometimes broken hearts. As we listen to the music and lyrics, we tap into the profound meaning of both unrequited and fulfilled love! Love songs accompany us throughout our lives and help our hearts heal. As we listen to them, we remember our first love, the “way” we used to love and our more recent “love affair!” But how do our Astro Club love, what love songs turn them on? Let us take a peep!

ARIES

When this go-getting fire sign falls in love heroic emotional feats are the order of the day. In fact, only an Aries can stand up to the rigors of unrequited love, and still go bungee jumping! There is something of the Superman and Woman about this fire sign’s love destiny. Therefore their favourite love song could only be the Enrique Iglesias interpretation of “Hero!”

TAURUS

Taurus loves the sensuous, fulfilling experience of life in all its manifestations. In fact, “Music is the Food of their Love!” It could only follow that “Meatloaf” is one of their favourite singers, and what could be more inspiring than his rendition of “I’d Do Anything for Love?” As long as that “anything” means a romantic night out at a great restaurant, all is well for the lush Taurus.

GEMINI

Airy Gemini might not always be an intellectual, but certainly does have “theorist” tendencies! Therefore when they fall in love, they tend to theorize even more than usual; in fact one could say they obsess! “What is my honey doing at this moment?” “Will he or she call me soon?” “Is this relationship going to last?” “Do they really love me?” etc. The classic rendition “Always on My Mind” will obviously be their song!

CANCER

Cancer is a lunatic into moon phases. They languish with emotion, they “need” their lover, in fact their clinging crabby claws could become an issue. Sometimes the stress of falling in love is almost too much for our sensitive Cancer to bear. Obviously, they need relief. Toe tapping, to the Sinatra evergreen “Fly Me to the Moon” will obviously make them feel less anxious.

LEO

Leo tends to go for big, lovelorn emotional connections. Their need for adoration can become excessive, if not paranoid. If their lover does not compliment or acknowledge their innate superiority they tend to sulk. They also tend to listen over and over again to Sinead O’Connor‘s – “Nothing Compares 2 U” It appeases their yearning, and makes them feel needed!

VIRGO

It takes a lot to melt an earthy Virgo heart. They want an “exceptional” love a perfect love if you like, and they are rarely willing to compromise. But when this earthy sign does fall, it is usually with a huge thud and for life. Dedication to their lover can be total. The only song that will get Virgo reaching for the Kleenex is Bryan Adams “Everything I Do (I Do It for You)!”

LIBRA

Libra is the archetypal soppy date when it comes to love songs. Romance, beauty, harmony, these will always be the name of the scales “wooing game!” So what could be more romantic than that old classic “I’m in the mood for love”… In fact, your average sentimental Libra will be in the mood for love “simply because you are near them!” Romance is this sun romantic sign’s “raison d’être” in fact!

SCORPIO

Scorpio’s watery currents run deep. They are sensual, possessive and to some extent “dark” when it comes to love! In fact their intensity goes far beyond verbal expression. Scorpio will tend to dig that somewhat neurotic songster Nick Cave, especially his famous duet with Kylie Minogue. Their sinister ballad “Where the Wild Roses Grow” speaks of obsession, and the ultimate “Crime passionnel!” Excessive? Yes, but that is the nature of Scorpio love!

SAGITTARIUS

Enthusiastic fire sign Saggy does not like to “beat about the bush” when it comes to love’s challenges. They just go for it, laughing at their own jokes all the way. Patience is not number one on their list of things to do, nor is pining and mooning. So rather than hanging around waiting for the lover who forgets to call, they will get going and dial the number. Their favourite love song? Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On!”

CAPRICORN

Earth sign Cappys could be proper, afraid of letting rip and expressing their passion. They tend to want the other person to come up with those loving feelings. Not that they are cold, for they are devoted, but they just prefer others to express the emotions they find so difficult to! Their favourite love song can be none other than Elton John’s classic “passing the buck” love song entitled Your Song!”

AQUARIUS

Aquarians are a detached air sign, and tend to go for the “unusual” the “alternative!” Okay so they do not find it that easy to let go into their hearts. They need a little help. In fact, only a proverbial “nutter” could be their true soul mate. Someone who does not make them feel imprisoned by false bourgeoisie values. “Unchained Melody” the ultimate “bid for freedom” love song is obviously their favourite!

PISCES

Pisces emotions are profound, complex, dedicated and emotional. They are capable of great sacrifice for love. They could lay themselves down for it! They are true, “deep blue” lovers, as long as you do not try to stick a label on them. If you do, see them swimming in the other direction before you can say “Angel Fish!”! Their favourite “self sacrificial” love song can only be Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge over Troubled Water!”

How great romantic movies are! They have us reaching for the Kleenex every time, identifying with the heroes and heroines. We weep their tears; celebrate their victories, as the background music soars into a heart breaking crescendo. When we leave the movie theatre we are satisfied, feel we have got value for money, especially when a great romantic movie hits the high note. But what would be “the romantic movie to beat all romantic movies” as far as our astro club is concerned?

ARIES

There is nothing Aries likes better than a classic romantic movie. Indeed, they will be glued to the screen as the old fashioned heroine/hero gets one over the bad guy A hot romance and a few battle scenes will even have the Aries forgetting to neck the date. “Gone with the Wind”. Starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara is just the job! Seeing naughty Scarlett learning the same hard lessons over and over again, is an Aries life theme, and it is inspiring. Our passionate Aries, like Scarlett, is always ready to pick themselves up from the ashes, and start over. Ten out of ten for the famous “Tomorrow is another day!” line as it could be an Aries theme song!

TAURUS

When it comes to romantic movies, earthy Taurus digs something comfortable and food orientated. What could be more conducive than “Chocolat” starring Juliette Binoche? Watching the gorgeous actress stirring those pots full of the “dark stuff”, would send your average Taurus into a state of altered consciousness. Most Taureans believe life’s struggles could be fairly well sorted with a great box of chocolates. This is the mother of all “delicious” romantic movies, so ten out of ten for “Chocolat” and those bullish taste buds!

GEMINI

Nothing would get our Gemini’s more “moved to the core” than a movie full of intellectual /emotional complexity, and sub personalities acting out their “process”. The past and present love story of “Possession” stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart. Seeking to understand a star crossed 18th century love affair would have most Gemini’s forgetting to munch their ice-cream cone! Nine out of an airy ten!

CANCER

Cancers love a love story, especially when it is played to the “light of the silvery moon”, Cancer’s personal planet of course. So what could be more engrossing than “Moon Struck” starring Cher and Nicholas Cage? To say Cancers are lunatic could be an understatement, certainly the passionate sexy and moody Nick and the sexy mature and moody Cher with accompanying Italo American lunacy, would have the Cancer leaning their head on their date’s shoulder, weeping their hearts out. Ten out of a sentimental ten for this moony epistle!

LEO
This charismatic signs’ own love stories are frequently star crossed. Leos might believe fate has not dealt them a particularly good hand when it comes to romance. See them slobbering over their choc ice when it comes to the tragic “Splendor in the Grass” starring star crossed lovers Natalie Wood as Deenie, and a young Warren Beatty, as Bud. The adoration of Bud and his Deenie is a Romeo and Juliette type theme. A prototype tragedy therefore. Ten out of heartbreaking ten for this passionate, archetypal Leo movie.

VIRGO

Some say it takes forever for Virgo’s Vulcan heart to melt. Virgos are picky. True love has to be special, unique, and noteworthy. They are the “pure ones” of the astro club; idealization is not unknown to them. A film that would have them digging deep into the peanuts is “Somewhere in Time” starring Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour. This unique story of a man who is so determined to meet his soul mate he time travels back to the past, is the Ultimate Virgo Love Story. It therefore includes sacrifice, devotion and sheer “pig headedness” when it comes to love tests, A perfect ten out of ten for this “forever” movie.

LIBRA

Libra goes for style, a love story with a certain unusual flavour to it, a love story that looks as good as a fairy tale is their idea of a grand romantic movie! What could look better than “Pretty Woman” starring Julia Roberts as a sex worker who dreams about her knight on a white horse, showing up as Richard Gere of course. Low life transformed to debutante or not, Julia gets to shop Vuitton, Gucci and Chanel, always an “in” thing to do as far as Libra is concerned. A sane balance between laughter and tears is just the right job and therefore a stylish ten out of ten for this Libran movie marvel!!

SCORPIO

Watery, complex Scorpios like hot sex, and the plot line tragic. The more sensual the moves the more they dig the hero and heroine. “Legends of the Fall”, starring Brad Pitt and Julia Ormond, will definitely have the savviest Scorpio sobbing desperately on their date’s shoulder. This tale of passion, deeply fulfilling sex, desperate suicide and even more “super tragic star crossed romance” has a watery Scorpio in their element. Ten out of desperate ten for this gory love epistle!

SAGITTARIUS
Animals are noble creatures to Saggys who are half horse themselves! A romantic movie is therefore not a romantic movie without a furry critter. So that old heart breaker of “Lassie Come Home” starring Roddy McDowell and Elizabeth Taylor (when very young) would have our Saggys shifting in their seats and reaching for their sleeves to sob on. What could be more heart shattering than to sell sweet “best friend”, Lassie, due to familial destitution, only to see the doggie find his way home and into one the broken hearts forever.. Ten out of ten for sentimental, furry friend value.

CAPRICORN
Earthy Cappys are into class. None of this down beat, vulgar sentimental trash for them! However, they do like a good weep like the rest of us. Therefore, that esteemed movie classic “Casablanca”, starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart would be their ultimate movie experience. That long goodbye at a foggy airport really does the job! However, Hump’s ultimate love sacrifice and last punch line “here’s looking at you kid!” will definitely stick in their gullet with the popcorn! A staggering ten out of ten for vote shy Capricorn.

AQUARIUS
Aquarians are well aware that no movie is worth its salt unless there is psychological, pathological and ecological spiritual take! Aquarius goes for “Matrix”, or how cyber punks and computer fanatics transform reality. In fact you might find your every day Aquarian leaping around doing a “Keanu Reeves” martial arts move in the foyer. Your idealistic Aquarian is convinced that intelligent computer life forms are hiding the truth from humanity and are about to take over the world. Ten out of ten for Aquarian visionary content.

PISCES
Pisces are watery folk; they dig the sea, as they do deep and incomprehensible emotions. They are easily moved in movie theatres and are usually the first to dig their faces into their pocket hankies, weeping uncontrollably at a heartbreaking finale. “Titanic” would have most enigmatic Piscean souls reeling into emotional angst. The scene where lovely Leonardo sacrifices his life for winsome Kate will remain imprinted on their hearts and minds forever. A profound nine out of ten for this watery saga!

Summer is here and beach fun is number one on our list of things to do. The single amongst us might yearn to meet our soul mate down the beach. This is entirely possible, so as you walk around the holiday sands looking for emotional fulfillment try spotting which sun sign could be the object of your potential affections, and then realize how you could become their perfect beach date! So take heed! And read on!

Aries

Aries will be gallivanting around the sands in skimpy shorts and top playing volley ball, or building sandcastles. Their perfect beach pick up will be a team player, sporty, active and someone who enjoys leaping around the waves with them. They will mutually dig the “having a great physique” culture and accept each other’s enthusiastic invites to kite bugging. They will have to join the beach volley ball club before realizing they are soul mates however!

Taurus

The sensual Taurus lies languidly on their beach and only gets up now and then to play fist ball with a mate. They are determined to obliterate thigh located water retention. Their perfect beach date will be very laid back as they edge their own towel slowly towards theirs, and offer them exotic fruits. Also offering the Taurus a fabulous cocktail down the Ipanema beach bar, or giving them a foot massage will soar the ordinary beach date into perfect beach date potential immediately.

Gemini

The physically toned Gemini will be surrounded by a group of gossiping friends picking at mosquito bites, or examining their toenails. Their perfect pick up will ingratiate their way into the Gemini group by telling a great joke or having some celebrity gossip to share that nobody else knows. The Gemini will be stimulated by their conversation but also their great beach ball set. They will probably want to do a mutual bungee jump off a cliff somewhere eventually, so their perfect beach pick up will not be afraid of heights!

Cancer

The sensitive Cancer will be beach logged, due to babysitting theirs, or their mate’s kids. Time will be spent buttering their sandwiches or running after the little horrors down the beach. The perfect Cancer beach pick up will be only too happy to join in the frolics and not run away when the kids start acting up, or refuse to pour on their sun tan oil. This perfect beach date will probably join Cancer in their “looking for crabs outing” and talk about meeting to cook up a fish soup.

Leo

They will be wearing the chicest beach attire and have the greatest tan. Their perfect coiffure will be so well lacquered even though the wind is blowing full on the style will remain bouffant. Their perfect beach date will be an Antonio Banderas/Jennifer Lopez lookalike, and definitely admire their great Prada sunglasses. The date will ask them to afternoon cocktails at the Resort Ritz and be into buying gold ankle bracelets. They will fall in love shopping down the Resort shopping precinct

Virgo

The Virgo will look perfect. No messy sun tan lotion spilling onto the sand, no ratty looking beach umbrella. Towels will be laid out in line, and they will have enough tissues to clean up messes. They will also have fly swats and a perfectly packed picnic lunch. Their beach date will be modest, no vulgar mini bikinis or skimpy trunks, and above all no heavy handed compliments. The perfect beach date’s civilized conversation could soon result in Virgo and their perfect beach date making waves together.

Libra

The charming Libra will be a classic beach babe or boy, pretty/handsome surrounded by potential suitors in Adidas with perfectly clipped fingernails. Their perfect beach date will also be dressed to “beach impress” with a very delicate tattoo placed in a strategic position. Waist and ankle bracelets will twist as Libra and their potential beach date honey hone in to make elegant comments about waist sizes. Their beach date will be almost as pretty the Libra, with a fashionable towel and parasol to match, and preferably a Double Designer lounger to sprawl on. Once those two get lounging on it, expect the best!

Scorpio

The intriguing Scorpio will be the only babe or guy on the beach that looks elegant in white skin. They will shelter under their umbrella, sleek in black bikini or mini trunks, and be absorbed in reading the lonely hearts columns or an 18^th Century novel like “Wuthering Heights”. Their black hair will be swept back in a pony tail, and they will wear huge shades. They look unapproachable, but the perfect beach date will overcome shyness, and ask to borrow their sun cream with a languid gaze. Cutesy comments, and giggles will send your Scorpio into icy silence, only deeply mesmerizing conversation will be tolerated.

Sagittarius

The Saggy will make sure they are equipped with a well stocked cooler, before they start splashing around in the waves in their unfashionable swimming costume. They will probably be surrounded by beer drinking mates and babes enjoying an all day barbecue on the beach. Their perfect beach date is the beguiling gal or guy who beats Saggy at Frisbee or Volleyball. Holding hands whilst diving off 30 ft cliffs is also appreciated. Spoilt sports and wingers are not tolerated. Perfect beach dates will just adore Saggy’s sporty clown antics, and must be ready to “join in”

Capricorn

Capricorn will be lounging under a good looking parasol reading the New Statesman. They will be fairly white skinned, tanned is vulgar, and wear classy beach wear like a silk Balinese Sarong. Watch them place their 200 quid sun glasses, in their adorable Cabana beach bed and then proceed to do some basic “Salutes to the Sun” watching the perfect beach date out of the corner of their eye. Their perfect beach date will also be wearing a classy Gecko style sarong, and have been standing on their head for more than 15 minutes. Mutual exchanges will be made about Upper Class acquaintances and recent exotic trips to far flung shores.

Aquarius

The Aquarian will have the most pierced body on the beach with a propensity of hair extensions and fluorescent coloured plastic sandals, since they are against using animal skin for footwear. They will be wearing rose tinted sun glasses, and probably have bells on their fingers and toes. You could see them hand standing or adjusting their Para sailing equipment. They will be basically beguiling so their beach date would have to be enthralling too, with equally cute hair extensions and “de rigueur” rings through the nose! Mainstream babes and boys do not get a look in, unless they have just returned from a trip Sao Tome.

Pisces

Pisces will be swimming a lot, so it will be difficult for a potential beach date to catch them on the beach long enough to flirt with them… They will have probably bought their own canvas patio down the beach and will hide behind it, as “they want to be alone”. They will look cute in fairly conservative two piece costumes or trunks in blue green, but the moment they see a hint of sandy hangers on, or flighty flirts, they will be running into the waves. If beach dates are ready to join their skin diving excursions deep into coral reefs, they will probably exchange diving tales eventually. But they must be prepared to study the private lives of dolphins if they want to get on the Piscean’s good side!

Are you a perfect spender? Do you spend even when you are nearing the end of your overdraft? Or do you save for months to buy the pretty dress in the shop window? Each of us has a financial history, sometimes a psychological flaw when it comes to financial matters. Many of us feel guilty about over spending, and shopping, and we let money flow through our hands as if we had holes in them, or throw it around like it was “going out of fashion!” The question is what is our Astro Club’s attitude to spending?

ARIES

Aries butt hard when it comes to spending. Definitely “all or nothing” on sports gear or bungee jumping expenditures, accountants and frugal financial advisers are not best friends. Their only hope is to be blessed with a rich relative, who does not mind contributing to their disproportionate financial habits. These folks cannot resist feeling that loose change in their pockets and throwing it on the counter!

TAURUS

Solid, feet planted firmly on the ground when it comes to insurance, and long term savings plans, sensible bulls have a tendency to mind their financial “Ps” and “Qs” in the name of a financially realistic game. Taurus does not need rich relatives to drive expensive cars or dine in swish restaurants. May be because they had the “gilt edge bond concept” built into their psyches when they were born. Spending on exotic food products or investing in confectionery manufacturers is considered a safe option for most bull heads.

GEMINI

Bright enough to turn down pyramid schemes; Mercury ruled Gemini tends to read “The Financial Times” with patience. They pay bills on time and put money into wise investments, but when it comes to shopping, they splurge on communication knick knacks. The latest computers, telephones, fax machines, and iPods are necessary for their peace of mind. The Gemini is therefore both a communicative spender and sensible saver.

CANCER

Cancer started stuffing pocket money into bed socks at the age of three. At ten they opened a post office savings account, and it earned considerable interest! They then got into savings schemes and sensible investments on stock and bonds. The fact is old “crabby claws” knows how to hang on to the dollar! Shopping sprees are confined to antique gold jewellery that they tend to keep “safe in the safe” for “rainy days”!

LEO

Nothing can stop this fiery sign’s spending habits. Worldwide financial crises? Third World War? ETs landing on the Whitehouse Lawn? No matter, Leo still goes where spending sprees and often angels fear to tread! Generous attempts to help “down on their luck mates” can place poorer Leos in risky situations. But when the creditors come a knocking, without knowing why they extend the Leo loan. Perhaps Leo’s golden charisma and big smile are too hard to resist!

VIRGO

Usually frugal, with their finger on the adding machine, an earthy Virgo will still go ballistic at a Harrods’s sale. The thought of a classy bargain gets their juices flowing. Nevertheless, see them investing in a stylish grandfather clock or a new fangled electric blanket when the need takes them. Home repairs and property deals are thought of as real life investments. Extensions, revamping attics and interior décor are a must in solid Virgo’s book! High level property is lucrative property.

LIBRA

Libra loves beautiful things. They will spend on makeovers if that beautiful thing is them! They know that a well turned out person is a well respected one, so labeled clothes become as much of a necessity as reliable plastic. Libra would not be afraid to tie a bow around a Rover limousine if a girl friend yearned for one on her birthday. “Positive financial outlooks” are definitely on Libran’s list of conceptual things to do. Yet at the end of the day their bank balance is unusually well balanced!

SCORPIO

Scorpio security comes before Scorpio spending, why? Because Scorpio is an old soul and they know what financial foolishness can do to the human soul? Even though some Scorpio manipulations could involve “back room style” investments, intense spending sprees only occur when the money is a thick wad in the wallet. See Scorpio shopping for black leather underwear and “collector item” Batman comic books.

SAGITTARIUS

Fiery Saggy does not watch the Euros, they spend them. Some might say they have a misplaced optimism in their money attractor abilities. Be that as it may they will usually find the means to buy the thorough bred horse, or the country pub no matter what the bank manager says. Even if radically down on their monetary luck their planetary protector, the affluent Jupiter, will lead them to positive outcomes. Stardust seems to emanate out of their wallets quite naturally. They could end up as natural money spinners!

CAPRICORN

Shopping Capricorn tends to go for the best value. If that means hiring a consultant to track the darned bargain down, all well and good! Money attracts money in Capricorn’s book, and everything has to be upper end market. Capricorn holds down sensible blue chip investments, and when they hit the department store know what class act to hone in on! They are unafraid of being rich, and do not feel sorry for poor people! But they will invest in charities that move the appropriate heartstrings!

AQUARIUS

Aquarians invest in ideas and ideals and they don’t mind how much money they spend on them, even it mean borrowing Peter to pay Paul. Their vision is the important thing, and they will sacrifice their savings, their credit cards and their piggy banks to make sure that vision comes into being. The phrase “money is no object” might refer to a riding school for ghetto kids, or a therapy centre extension. It is the “cause” that matters not the money.

PISCES

Pisces float through life seemingly beaching on “Money Island” quite naturally. They care so little about the stuff, that it rushes to meet them like a spurned lover. Nothing stops them from “paying through the nose” to get what they want. Somehow they intuit that money is just energy, and the more positive one thinks, the more that energy flows towards one. Pisces are old souls who have an intuitive understanding of the dollar, which then morphs into their perfect match!

A wedding is a romantic occasion, and without flowers decorating the unique experience, weddings would just not seem the same. So every wedding ceremony makes sure flowers decorate the environment expressing the poetic language of love between bride and their groom. The language of flowers was first brought to the west by the Ottoman Empire, and still inspires us on special occasions. Flowers have a special significance, a unique language of their own, so what flower would our Astro Club use on their wedding day to express that deep love and commitment?

ARIES

Aries mustered all their courage to get married in the first place! Thank God their soul mate is into sky diving and bungee jumping. Unable to understand what flower to present to their loved one they opt for the standard Orchid, sweet, pink and stable. Orchids pinned to their track suits are just the job for that hot wedding night!

TAURUS

Your average earth loving Taurus might like to see a tree pinned to their loved one’s wedding lapel. But then they are reasonable folk, and do realize that even a bonsai would look odd. So they might tend to go for tulips no matter if the future mother in law twitters on about carnations, orchids and roses being far more adapt. Everyone knows red tulips are a true declaration of love! Stubborn Taurus sticks their heels in. It is either mother in law or them!

GEMINI

Gemini likes to think of his future partner not only as a confidante and lover, but a friend. Yet even a Gemini is overwhelmed as he hands the bride a pink rose, aware that it is just the right type of intellectual and stimulating flower to get the juices flowing! A pink rose also means perfect happiness, and happiness is a subject Gemini will just love to natter on about during a very long wedding speech.

CANCER

Cancer is a sentimental individual. Nothing less than red and white roses will do for their special day. They conservative rose is a perfect flower. Cancer is totally committed to their future spouse, and makes sure that the wedding day is planned on a full moon. Mainstream celebrations are guaranteed, none of this alternative black orchid type stuff for them. Red and white roses mean unity. Let the whole wedding table and church be sumptuously decorated by them then!

LEO
Leo likes a touch of flamboyance on their wedding day. Sunflowers for wedding guests’ button holes are amusing. Anyway, their sign is ruled by the sun, so no matter the expense of importing them from Southern France, these flowers can only bring luck! The sunflower is rather large in shape, but means loyalty and there is nothing a Leo appreciates more than “larger than life loyalty!” Their romantic history has been a heavy load to carry. Finding someone who simply adores you is so difficult these days.

VIRGO

Virgo goes for pink and white roses, the sheer delicacy of their message of “I love you and always will love you,” strikes deep into their loyal hearts. A touch of conformist romanticism goes down a treat on a Virgo wedding day, they do not like wedding guests or brides/grooms to look messy, and pink and white roses are such a great decorative centre piece for the wedding table if they are neatly arranged that is!

LIBRA

Sterling silver roses are just the job for a Libran wedding. They go with the sterling silver and the silver wedding theme too. Libran likes harmony, likes things to match. Sterling silver roses refer to “love at first sight” and when that honey walked into the party dressed head to toe in Chanel it was all this Libra could do to control himself. Certainly a chic wedding party will be held by all as a result of this fatal attraction.

SCORPIO

Scorpios, who as we know dig intensity, might also dig black dahlias or orchids. The flowers, of course, are only worn on bride and groom and match the rather unusual black wedding dressed bride, and black cloaked groom. Guests might shock, but this Scorpio knows the black orchid means passionate love and sensual goings on, and that is all they could ever ask for when it comes to honeymoon capers!

SAGITTARIUS
Saggy’s wedding flower could be the simple daisy gathered in the fields around their home. Saggy likes long walks and will have gone on a couple of them to de-stress prior to their wedding day. They will probably arrive at the church with messy hair, and arms full of daisies to gift their loved ones, and guests. Everyone will laugh, even though the church is regaled with bouquets of red roses. Saggy’s like light heartedness at weddings because they are probably feeling rather depressed.

CAPRICORN

Capricorns are conservative. Red roses and white bridal gowns are their thing. Red roses never let a lover down, they mean love, devotion and a Capricorn is darned if they are going to rock this particular nuptial boat. Red rose petals are symbolically showered, with confetti, over Cappy’s life companion as they grin at the wedding photographer for all they are worth!!

AQUARIUS

Aquarians are into bouquets, variety and originality being the name of the game. So what could be more fun at a Water Carrier wedding than bride and groom with mutual bouquets of lavender, lilies and purple roses, perhaps in heart shapes, to signify romantic love? Small bouquets are then offered to the guests just so they realize life has a purpose!

PISCES
If the season is right our romantic Pisces will go for apple blossom. Yes, their watery, sentimental natures encourage them to express poetically, Victorian style, and since they cannot use water lilies what would be better than magical apple blossom strewn over the wedding table, or scattered over the honeymoon bed? The thought of such poetry will have them sweetly crying to Mendelssohn’s Wedding March!

Are superstitions true, or just a way of dealing with the unpredictability of life? The Ancient Romans were super superstitious and tended to examine animal’s entrails to assess good or bad luck! Those who walk under ladders, and throw salt over their shoulder when they spill some, could be classed as superstitious, as are those who believe a black cat walking toward them is good luck. The “superstition list” is so endless, that those who believe in them might be better off staying at home. But how do our astro team feel about superstitions, or do they just think they are a bunch of silly old wives tales?

ARIES

A fiery Aries is superstitious as they tend to see life as a heroic marathon, and are certain that bad luck can block their way. In fact, if things go wrong, they are more prone to blame others than themselves. So superstitions Aries fit the superstitious bill. Being a fire sign they could also believe that if their ears itch or “burn”, someone is talking about them! After all, they are the number one of the astro family! Folks chat about them a lot!

TAURUS

Taurus are pretty realistic folk, and prefer to see the “proof in the pudding” rather than blindly believe in superstitious themes. However when it comes to food they will hark the odd superstitious tale. So do not be surprised to see some “bulls” pushing their spoon through the egg shell when they have done eating it, just to let the devil out! This Earth Sign also has an intuitive connection to nature. So they are virtually certain when the leaves on a tree turn up, a storm, is coming!

GEMINI

Airy Gemini’s would be the last to admit they are superstitious. They are into theories, ideas, and pure logic. One thing they might believe in is the significance of dreams, and even attempt to study their meaning. So dreaming of say a clear river flowing past them might encourage the Gemini to believe their way is ahead is a positive one. Of course Gemini is a natural “twin twosome” so seeing two magpies instead of one will definitely bring them luck!

CANCER

Cancers are sensitive, moody yet mainstream folk. They would be hard pressed to admit their interest in superstitions. They might nurture a few but only confide what they are to the best of friends. Cancers are into their homes, they tend to burrow into them, so breaking any mirror on the wall could worry them and convince them that they are due for seven years bad luck, unless they call in the psychic healer to sort it all out of course!

LEO

Fiery Leos are superstitious. Their intense emotions encourage them to believe in the occult. Being of the feline family themselves, they are especially superstitious about cats. So if a black cat ran across the road in front of them, they would say “bread and butter on my table, cut it with a butter knife” to ward off bad luck, and then turn round and walk another way home. Black cats can also be a favourite Leo pet by the way!

VIRGO

Virgos can be fussy but logical. They need to keep things neat. Superstitious beliefs are too chaotic for their taste. But they do sometimes think that if dust and dirt are not swept out the front door after the sun goes down, this could mean bad luck coming their way. So see a Virgo with a duster in their hand polishing up their home like there was no tomorrow. They will deny that they have a superstitious bend to their nature however, logic must rule, and sensible decisions made.

LIBRA

Librans are superstitious in their own way. The aim is to keep everything harmonious; they cannot deal with ugliness. They will not openly believe in the more complex superstitions but they do tend to “knock on wood” when they feel something is not working how it should. They will always go for a couple relationships to feel emotionally fulfilled. So they could be superstitious about weddings, and on their own wedding day wear “something old, something new something borrowed and something blue!” just in case!

SCORPIO

This water sign is naturally superstitious, and could tend to fret about their wellbeing. So do not be surprised to see Scorpios wearing amber beads as a protection of their health as they whisper “an apple a day keeps the doctor away!” They could also go for crystals and pendants to enhance their personal vibrations. They will like Jade that cools down their sometimes vengeful hearts with its pure green love vibes.

SAGITTARIUS

Saggys tend to take life as it comes. Their existence can be a challenge as they tend to go be clumsy and are more than accustomed to the odd mishap. Yet being half man half horse, you can bet a horseshoe will be around the house somewhere. Being natural wildlife lovers they might prefer to see those ravens sticking it out at the Tower of London, if they were to go, England would fall, and nobody wants that!

CAPRICORN

Capricorns are reasonable and rarely take superstitions that seriously. But if those repressed emotions should dare to break thru Capricorn resistance you will see them blowing out all the candles on their birthday cake in one breath, as it could be true that if you do luck will come your way. And the traditional four leafed clover is not to be sneezed at either. So expect to see a Cappy with at least one item of jewellery depicting a four leaf! This earth sign likes the more traditional superstition!

AQUARIUS

Aquarius might will laugh at superstitions and yet find them intriguing. So since they know dropping a fork on the ground means a man is coming to visit, the Aquarian lady looking for a boyfriend will tend to throw a few forks on the ground as she giggles! And as for Friday the 13^th, best to whisper a little prayer as one gets up in the morning, one never knows. Water Carrier logic tends to go for the bizarre!

PISCES

Pisces tend to be metaphysical folk and superstitions are a fact life to them. They will keep up with a few basics, to get luck on their side. So being Pisces the fish, they tend to consume a fish from the head to the tail for good luck! And if they go fishing, they will always fish against the wind, again for good luck! Now that is a fishy story indeed! So let us give the sensitive Pisces the benefit of the doubt, and say, superstitions are just part of the stardust life is made of!

There are always times in our lives when we need a “little help from our friends”. Times when we do not know where to turn, when the boyfriend refuses to call, the mother in law nags, the roof needs fixing, the garden needs weeding, and the bank manager needs talking to. Who do we turn to on such occasions, often our friends? But it is useful to know what sign they are so we can “predict” what their reaction to our problems will be.

ARIES SUPPORT

When the local constabulary is banging on your door, fiery Aries might buy you an air ticket out the country! But don’t ask them to listen to anything regarding inner emotional angst. They are proactive, challenge inspires them, emotional misery does not. Moan too much about your problems and they will be the ones who need support!

TAURUS SUPPORT

Earthy Taurus “digs” practical support systems. Cross about the work injustices you are going through, they will be only be too pleased to help you write up your new CV. They will even buy you dinner at a great curry house, as long as you don’t forget to bring them a thank you “choc box!”

GEMINI SUPPORT

Airy Gemini will be supportive until they start wise-cracking! If you refer to a break up and say “I have been such a fool” they will tend to agree with you! They are elusive, so they might not answer their mobile if you call too frequently! They could crack tactless jokes to ease the mental tension of seeing you tearing your hair out!

CANCER SUPPORT

Watery Cancers will cheer you up “cooing” and making chicken soup. They will hover, act like a mother hens and insist you buy a new electric blanket. As you moan on about the problems you are faced they will “tut tut” and nod their heads in sympathy. If you do not take their advice however, they could be inclined to sulk and crabby repartee!

LEO SUPPORT

Sunny Leo will help you with “larger than life” support. As they ply you with gifts to ease your pain they will sob on about the huge struggles they too are facing. You will be so relieved you don’t have their problems, that you will feel much better. In the end it will be you who is stroking them and saying “there there!”

VIRGO SUPPORT

Virgos idea of support is sorting out your filing system, and tidying up your wardrobe. They will do everything they can to help you when it comes to material matters, but they might be inclined to analyze your character and find psychological flaws in it. Virgos might drive you to the local nut house themselves if they have the time!

LIBRA SUPPORT

Balanced Libra will suggest you change your “look” mop up your tears, put on your eye makeup and go shopping! They might even take you to the beauty salon and treat you to a facial. In any event their input will be balanced, harmonious and aesthetically pleasing, and you will feel a lot calmer, until the next sobbing fit starts that is!

SCORPIO SUPPORT

Sensual Scorpios are intense. They might suggest that you undergo a stint at a detox clinic, or “get thee to a nunnery!” They will indicate that most of your problems are due to your repressed dark side! If someone has done you wrong, they will advise you to get as even as you can! In that context, they could even introduce you to their best friend, a Mafia boss!

SAGITTARIUS SUPPORT

Happy-go-Lucky Saggy will suggest a comedy club or a country walk to blow “all those cobwebs out of your hair!” Being glum does not get anyone anywhere they will tell you. They might even be tactless, or clumsily walk over your big toe, but they will also and tickle you under the armpits until you can giggle no more.

CAPRICORN

Capricorn will insist you talk to a financial adviser and invest your money in something safe. They are of the opinion unfortunate events are due to irresponsibility. They will go through your bank balances and tell you to budget on domestic items. They could take you to a swish coffee house, and introduce you to influential friends if you are well turned out enough!

AQUARIUS SUPPORT

Aquarians will say you need to get out of yourself, stop concentrating on your own problems and see the bigger picture. They will tell you to join a Save the Whales movement, or distribute pamphlets on global warming. They will definitely nag you if they think you are being too self absorbed. They do not go for self pity and could suggest you dye your hair green to make a “new statement!”

PISCES SUPPORT

Pisces will tend to take a therapeutic approach to your issues, even have you sit in the couch in front of their aquarium as they identify with your problems, and your life, and say a lot of “Oh No’s” “You must be kidding’s” and “how mean can you get”, if you refer to an emotional rip off. They night sob hopelessly with you, and hiccup on cue! They could ask their charismatic healer friend over to give you a session!

How often a beautiful relationship breaks up, due to intimacy issues. Things are just not how they used to be, and we are confused as to how we can bring them back into love. Often we are unaware that things are very wrong, until the intimacy completely crashes and we find ourselves facing up to a divorce or radical break up. So how can our favourite sun signs resolve intimacy issues?

ARIES

An Aries lover could end up never knowing how much this larger than life fire sign needs them. Intimacy is one of the issues stubborn Aries has trouble facing head on! “Never having to say they are sorry” could be one mistaken theme they also insist on. Insight: Aries must never wait for a partner to walk out in a huff, before taking that romantic trip to Paris and apologizing over a plate of snails!

TAURUS

Taurus is a domestic animal who loves hanging out on the sofa with a choc box on their lap. But refusing to face emotional angst could block a Taurus’ partner down. Awakening to the fact that “their home is not necessarily their honey’s castle” might be a shock to the stubborn Taurus! Insight: Stop being a “bull with a sore head!” Instead, read “The Bridges of Madison Country” out loud to the honey pie!

GEMINI

Intimacy can be drowned out by Gemini monologues! They tend to talk romance into the dust. Even though that glib demeanor was attractive initially, Gemini chatter is akin to wearing a “chastity belt” eventually! When the relationship falls apart Gemini could fall with it. Insight. Silently staring into the partner’s eyes, as Barry White’s “You’re my first, my last, my everything” gets that Gemini relationship swaying!

CANCER

Crab like protectionism is a “no no” for intimacy. As this sun sign digs into emotional denial often nothing is left but a handful of broken dreams. To avoid staring at the moon all alone, Cancers dig reminiscing. Insight getting out that photo album and looking at all the things “they used to be” will have the crustacean juices flowing once more!

LEO

Leo is number one when it comes to attracting their partner. But as intimacy issues surface egoist demands to “always be right” could break the most loving of hearts. Roaring loudly will only make things worse. Insight to save a relationship from sudden demise, poems such as “Remind me not” by Lord Byron” left under the honey’s pillow could work miracles.

VIRGO

Virgos analyze “what they said”, “when” “how” and “when”, and whose fault it was. This tendency can leave ashes in tender Vulcan hearts. A deluded Virgo can be radical when it comes to intimacy shut down. Insight. To mend dire break down, no more tentative kisses, but an imperfect rolling around in the mud with their honey and getting very dirty is the only answer!!”

LIBRA

When Libra walks through the door the bells start to ring, and love falls at their feet. Goddess Venus is this sign’s protector, and loves the way they look. But when nothing is quite as harmonious as before, Libra could go into denial, pretending that beauty has not fled forever. Insight. Intimacy can be re established on a yoga weekend! Contemplating a hug on the meditation rug tends to save the Libran Lover’s day!

SCORPIO

Scorpio is intense; jealousy can devastate intimacy. Consistently expecting lovers to “go deep” can also cause emotional imbalance. Relationship could break down with unfulfilled expectations. Insight: Watching a cremation ceremony on the banks of the River Ganges. Sharing intense emotional experience ignites the dimming flame of Scorpio sensuality!

SAGITTARIUS

Putting their foot in it, making inappropriate jokes, being tactless, and never planning a date for the wedding does not do much for Saggy intimacy. Insight. Organize a weekend at a spa with mutual massage even if the wandering Saggy still rushes up a mountain and down a valley now and then! Physical adoration could be an “only solution!”

CAPRICORN

Capricorn’s icy stoicism tends to destabilize intimacy. Disassociation from heart truths is another problem when it comes to getting closer. Faced with a partner’s shut down Cappy will button down the hatches and soldier on till the relationship implodes. Insight. Couple counseling and homeopathic remedies to release blocked emotions break through Capricorn relationship angst!

AQUARIUS

Aquarius loves in alternative ways, and digs intimacy as long as it does not reveal their Achilles heel. They then look to the ideal relationship and resent it is no longer. Imperfect love breaks them down. Insight. A holiday to Verona to explore where Romeo and Juliet hung out, with a romantic stay in a room with a view could lead Aquarius to reach out for unheard of intimate heights once more!!

PISCES

Pisces can be everything to everyone, especially to their honey. But when it comes to focusing on “where”, “when” and “how”, Pisces shut down on the intimacy stakes, and find themselves staring at a wall Insight! Getting friendly with dolphins and their honey in one fell swoop! As they play in the waves, an intimate kiss once stolen amongst the seaweed reignites lost passions!

Classic writers or the newest novels on the block? Few distain an engrossing summer read. As we sit on the balcony, patio or beach, thumbing through those pages we tend to forget economic crises, earth quakes, terrorism and useless wars. We breathe a deep sigh instead, and lose ourselves in the pages, happy to partake of words that carry us off to some far off shore! So what are the books our Astro Club might dig on their summer hols?

ARIES

Nothing like your classic “bodice ripper” for fiery Aries! Their lives are action packed epics anyway, to read poetry and philosophical musings in August is far too “heavy duty” for fiery rams. Their “ripper” therefore is that old classic “Gone with the Wind!” There is something immortal about that phrase “Fiddle Dee Dee!” or “I can’t think about that now. If I do I will go crazy, I will think about it tomorrow!” In fact, such sayings will have the raucous ram lost in emotional delight. Ten out of ten for their “Gone with the Wind” summer saga.

TAURUS

Taurus likes a basic summer read. Being earthy, means getting a firm grip on finances, food and sex. Taurus likes dreaming up recipes and will totally relax if they have the latest edition of the “Betty Crocker Cookbook” in their hands. Reading about all those home cooked recipes as one lounges in the hammock is a sheer delight; especially when one has been eating too much spicy food and running to the bathroom all week! A basic ten out of ten for this sane and safe cookery classic.

GEMINI

Intellectually geared Gemini’s like something they can get their “proverbial teeth” into, something they can ponder over, be stimulated by. Historical/ romantic novels bore them. Cook books irritate them. Yet, airy Gemini’s will go super ballistic over the ultimate “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking. Gemini’s cannot get enough of “big bang” “black hole” “light cone” “cosmology “theories. The universe is definitely their thing as is their nine out of ten “on the ball” summer reading vote!

CANCER

Moody Cancers are more than often closet romantics and “die hard” conservatives. They are also moody and tenacious. Therefore, it is always encouraging to read how other people overcame life’s challenges by being hard headed and sticking their claws in. Margaret Thatcher’s biography “There is No Alternative. Why Margaret Thatcher Matters” will have our crabby crab glued to every paragraph. Cancer votes ten out of ten because they always admire a strong mother figure!

LEO

Leo’s natural love affair with Italy is renowned! That hot climate, those open hearted people, those fascinating Roman ruins – delicious cappuccinos and floor tiles included. Latin “excess” appeals to this pussy cat. Therefore, what could be more intriguing than “The Dark Heart of Italy”, by Tobias Jones? This epistle discusses the corrupt Berlusconi government, and the mechanisms of church and state? See your Leo riveted to their deckchair as the Neapolitan sun castes a very long shadow. Ten out of ten to this Latin litany!

VIRGO

Virgo can be an anxious sign. Their penchant for perfection tends to make summer holidays less than a delight, especially if the beach is a shambles. If they don’t want to succumb to summer hol super-stress they need to read about folks who are far worse off than they are. Therefore Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” will have them glued to the page. The grim description of two innocent kids losing their parents and consequently falling into the hands of a wicked uncle, who attempts to embezzle their fortune, is the ultimate in Virgo stress buster! A hearty ten out of anxious ten!

LIBRA

“How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie could be the Libran favourite. Yes, Libra digs diplomacy. A harmonious environment is necessary to this sign’s peace of mind. In fact, they would get very upset if they had to ask the chambermaid to change the towels. Advice on strategic human interactions makes Dale Carnegie’s epistle a Libran “must read”! No matter if they are on holiday, or down the back garden, there is always some argument to sort out. Ten out of ten for winning friends – which is so much better than summer bickering!

SCORPIO

“The Exorcist” by William Peter Blatty might be a bit old hat, but if Scorpio wants to relax, there is nothing better than getting into a bit of demonic possession! Whether they are sitting under a palm tree, or snuggling under the sheets with their honey, this weirdo occult classic will definitely get them scared enough to relax. Ten out of ten for thrill seeking Scorpios!

SAGITTARIUS

Tripper Saggy’s idea of a summer break is rock climbing expeditions and sharing tents. This “natural born explorer” loves sifting through the pages of “The Lonely Planet Guidebooks”. “Lonely Planet” is the best way to understand what a country has to offer. It also lists the cheaper type hotel, the ideal budget shopping areas and interesting tips when it comes to fighting bulls and eating snails! Ten out of ten for super travel advice – Saggy’s preferred summer read!

CAPRICORN

Responsible Cappys like to laugh on summer holidays. Heavy duty biographies can be amusing, but screaming with hilarity at the goings on of “Bridget Jones” is far more fun! Caps like to read about nice, upper class gals getting into hot water and making fools of themselves. Jane Austen is all very well, but a tad too time consuming on your average summer hol! Nothing like Helen Fielding’s “Jones Sequels” to get so light hearted one could dance on the beach. A joyful eight out of ten!

AQUARIUS

It will take a lot to get the classic Aquarian to sit down with a book on their hols. They prefer making lots of new friends at “UFO Congresses” or “Save the Dolphin” international functions. However at a pinch they will glance at “The Guinness Book of Records!” To actually find out who has the longest nails, the largest tonsils, the wackiest dog ears is rather “Monty Python”. The “unusual” appeals to the eccentric Water Carrier’s sense of humour. Such odd reading material might even inspire wacky Aquarius to stuff 28 Spaniards into the hotel broom cupboard. An eccentric eight out of ten then!

PISCES

Pisces digs de-stressing romantic novels “alla” Mills and Boon”. This sensitive water sign has brought a few top titles down the beach, such as” The Bognor Autumn Beach Scandals” “The Prettiest Damsel on the High Seas” or “Eternal Sacrifice for Love!” They are true romantics, and the last thing they want is to get intellectual on summer hols, life is difficult enough as it is! Ten out of ten for originality!

We all suffer at some point in our lives from a broken heart. Although many things can cause a broken heart, here we will concentrate on the one linked to romance.

To lose out on romance is a terrible, devastating feeling that makes you feel that your heart is physically broken. Friends will tell you to ‘get over it’ or point out ‘there are many more fish in the sea’, but that isn’t what you want to hear and does you no good whatsoever!

So how do you deal with it? One way is to put into place a spell which will help you deal with the issues that cause the pain. Of course, there are many reasons that relationships break up – the worse one being when the loved one leaves without warning when you felt the relationship was going so well.

Sometimes the relationship ends after discussion, with the other partner saying it’s time to move on and you want it to continue. Circumstances vary in every case, but the one thing that is common in all of these cases is that you can end up with a broken heart!

Working out which spell is right for you and your circumstances is difficult as so many different factors are involved in each individual case. Here we are going to use a more generalised spell which will help you to overcome the initial shock reaction – further spells for specific situations are also available if you feel you need more help.

For this general spell we are going to eliminate the initial feelings of sadness and upset and try to restore your self-confidence. We will also use it to put promise back into your life and attract the good vibes which are at this moment lying dormant.

Firstly you need to gather together all the artefacts you have associated with your ex. Like photos, presents, CD’s, letters and so on. From these items, pick out the ones that you feel give you the most pain and set them to one side. Collect 7 small dark candles (tea lights are fine, but they need to be as dark in colour as you can find). You will also need 1 white candle, some paper and a pen (or pencil). To set the scene out you will also need a large cloth (or scarf), again in a dark colour.

Night-time is the right time to cast this spell, with Friday night giving it a stronger importance to your words.

Choose a quiet room, such as a bedroom to carry out the act. Clean the room and burn some essential oils in a burner. Rosemary oil is best as it signifies remembrance and links to the memories of your ex. It helps if you have a restful CD playing in the background to enhance to mood and aid your concentration.

When you feel ready to begin, kneel on the floor and set out the cloth in front of you. In the middle of the cloth put the items you chose earlier as being the most sensitive in connection to your ex. Set the candles in a circle around the items and light (always make sure candles are on a safe surface and not likely to set fire to anything surrounding them).

Now take the pen and paper and write down 2 lists – 1 with your ex’s good points and 1 with their bad points. While you do this, keep looking at the centre pile of items for further inspiration. When you feel you have written as much as you want, add the lists to the centre pile and begin to chant the following spell:

You once meant something to me

Love was all around us

Now nothing is between us

So take your love and go

I set myself free – I give myself permission to be free of you – my life can now move on – my true love is waiting for me to let go of you – I have my life to live now – so go!

Repeat this 3 times, then take the 2 pieces of paper with the good and bad points and tear them into tiny pieces while again repeating the chant until the pieces are as small as you can make them. Wrap these pieces in tissue and place under your pillow. Blow out the candles and set on a windowsill or shelf. Take the chosen items one at a time and repeating the words ‘YOU MEAN NOTHING TO ME NOW’ put each of them into a box or bag. Once they have all been given the negative emotion, get rid of them – either in the trash or by destroying by fire, but be careful of where you do this, preferably out in the open and in a safe place.

The cloth you used needs to be washed as soon as possible as it contains elements of the incantation you have just used. For the following 7 nights you need to light 1 of the 7 candles each night and repeat your spell in front of it, then allow it to burn out. When you get into bed each evening, hold the tissue with the torn lists and repeat the spell, then put it back under your pillow. After the 7 nights are over, take the remains of the candles and the torn lists & throw away in the trash with the words ‘I’m over you’. As you say the words, feel the total liberation surge through your body and soul.

You are now cleansed of the negative emotions and free to allow new love into your life!

Often in life we may feel lonely and wish to have a little romance to make us feel loved and cared for. This can happen for any number of reasons and can affect all ages from time to time. Sometimes it’s the result of a break-up with a partner and if it was not our choice to end the relationship it can affect us deeply. Those who have experienced this loss often feel that getting back into a loving partnership is never going to happen, but with this negativity we are failing to let the positive vibes into our lives. Negativity prevents others connecting with us, even on a general friendship level. Others are able to sense the despair which is often felt and which deepens with every passing day.

Spells can help with all manner of problems and one of the most commonly requested is one to help the person find romance again and help overcome the negative vibes which surround the problem. There are many appropriate spells which can help, so let’s look at one of these which offers help in this matter.

For this spell you will need to gather the following items – though this can be done in advance until you feel ready to cast the spell – a piece of RED cloth (a handkerchief or scarf will do) – 3 small RED candles – a shallow bowl half filled with water – 3 small crystals (pebbles will do) – 3 pieces of paper and a RED pen or pencil.

Night time is the best time to cast a spell as the forces you are trying to contact are creatures of the night. Prepare a quiet room – maybe use the bedroom – where you can relax and feel in control of your emotions. Ideally light the room with a lamp rather than an overhead light. Take your time to prepare the items and as you do so, think only of what it is you want to achieve. Playing calm relaxing music helps set the mood and aids your concentration. When you feel ready, kneel on the floor and spread out the cloth in front of you. Put the bowl in the centre and set out the 3 candles around it. It is important to ensure the candles can be used safely.

Next, put the crystals (or pebbles) in front of you – take the pen and pieces of paper and write out the following spell on each of the pieces. As you write, chant the spell and concentrate on it – do not allow your concentration to waver or this can affect the strength of the result.

SPELL

Oh spirits of Love

Look down on me

Give me what I seek

Now is the time

Let him /her be mine

Next, take each of the pieces of paper with the spell on and wrap it around a crystal while still chanting the spell. Light each of the candles and place a wrapped crystal next to each one. Now close your eyes and visualise a small silver star in the distance. Visualise the star coming towards you and getting bigger as it does. Concentrate on the centre of the star and chant the spell THREE TIMES.

Open your eyes and take each of the wrapped crystals and remove the paper.

Now place each of the crystals in the bowl of water. Set fire to each of the pieces of paper, using a separate candle flame for each piece and throw each burning piece into the bowl while saying out loud “GRANT ME MY WISH NOW – MAKE IT COME TRUE – NOW I AM READY – LET LOVE COME THROUGH.”

Look into the water as this happens and feel the power surge through. Stay calm and meditate for as long as you feel you want to.

Watch the candles burn down as the flames flicker, see if you can see or sense any messages coming through to you. Often you may see a face of the loved one who will be in your life soon, or the image of the place you will meet. If you sense a number this may mean the number of days or weeks before the meeting will take place.

You will begin to feel tired, that is the time to put out the candles and go to sleep. Don’t disturb the items you have set out as there is still a powerful force there which you shouldn’t disturb.

The next morning you should clear the area of the items and set out the crystals on a window ledge or shelf to absorb the light coming into the room. Don’t move the crystals for at least a week. After that time, put the crystals away in the daytime, but when darkness comes, take them out and put under your pillow for you to sleep on. Each night you do this, go over in your mind the whole ritual you went through. Concentrate on the Silver Star until sleep comes.

Don’t worry about things, your chant will have been heard in the heavens and will stay there. Be patient and things should go your way!

Good Luck and have faith!

As a White Witch I follow the principle of WICCA. This is an earth-bound religion which is fairly modern in its principles and behaviours. It is an internationally recognised religion, which follows the earth-bound ways of the Pagans and Druids. When we make or cast spells we follow certain guidelines to ensure that we don’t do harm to others, so our spells are only for the good of others! It is also worth remembering that we don’t cast spells to bring you fame or fortune in life – spells can help you achieve certain things only if it’s within your destiny to do so. What they do is to help you push away the negative vibes which may be surrounding you at that moment in your life and help surround you with the more positive energy that will carry you through!

For most people, casting a spell often fails to work, so they dismiss them as rubbish and often give up once they have had a failure. However, what is overlooked is the fact that preparations need to be made when casting spells and this is often the most overlooked aspect of using spells. It is our belief that in order for spells to stand a chance of being successful, the person using, or casting, the spells needs to take into consideration a number of important factors before actually setting out to perform it.

So what are these important factors? Well, a number of things can affect this, so let’s have a look at some of the major ones which are often overlooked and are key to the effectiveness in all cases.

Firstly, it’s worth knowing that in the Wicca calendar the Wiccan Year is seen as a constantly turning wheel which is divided into segments which match the changing seasons. The spiritual year begins on October 31st – which is also celebrated as Halloween. To follow the directives it is regarded as important to use the phases of the moon to influence the potency of the spell. Often you may feel you want to cast more than one spell as you feel you want help in several different areas of your life. Only you will know if this is what you want to do – we can’t advise you on that choice. However, if this is what you feel you wish to pursue, always remember that different spells have different times in the month when they are more potent than others. If you do use more than one spell you must separate them by casting them at different times as you may end up cancelling one out with the other. So always indicate what you want to do and follow any advice given to you on the matter to achieve the results you want!

NEW MOON – this is regarded as the perfect time for new beginnings in all aspects of life, with spells cast now as being important if the spell is linked to new relationship or areas of life where progress needs to be encouraged. Maybe you have just started a new job and want to improve your chances of future promotions, or maybe you are considering following a different direction in your life. It also helps those who are pursuing a new venture or hobby and want to reap the rewards to the best of their ability. As the moon gets fuller, so spells cast will get more potent.

FULL MOON – now is the time to cast those spells that are emotionally charged – maybe linked to advancing your relationships or love life – getting over a broken heart or just making that final push to launch yourself into a different direction. Maybe you want to travel the world, or start up your own business – whatever it is you desire, the full moon is the right time to activate your spell for a stronger force to help you achieve your heart desire!

Follow the rules and you will find your life is better for it!

Spells are a form of magic, so the background to them both is interlinked. Often magic requires special words to be recited (incantations) in order for them to start working – for the most modern understanding of this you have only to look at the Harry Potter books and films, where spells and magic are combined in a simple understandable format.

A Magical History

The link between spells and magic goes back to the dawn of history. Across the world, as civilisations began to evolve and develop, one common factor which developed in all of them was the notion that things could be controlled by what they saw as outside forces. Early man would make sacrifices, perform rituals and chant incantations and they soon saw that by using these ceremonies the things they most desired where likely to occur. Soon, certain members in each of the cultures were deemed to be the power forces who were directly responsible to putting these ceremonies into action and in most cases getting the desired results.

Of course, there was no real magic involved as the ceremonies were linked in the most part by phases of the moon and the changing of the seasons, so concerns such as a full and plentiful harvest for the following year really depended on the seasons and not on the fact they had sacrificed a fatted calf!

Mexico

It is well documented that the Inca’s in Mexico were one of the most prolific in providing human sacrifices, usually of young children, in order to try to get the results that they wanted in all manner of things. The Egyptians, thousands of years ago, also had a variety of Gods to govern all areas of their lives, with the Pharaohs themselves seen as being Gods on earth. The high priests of those dynasties performed ‘miracles’ and more importantly, cast magic spells to produce power and prosperity for the Pharaohs to ensure their lives were seen as opportunities to have everything they desired here on earth, along with in the afterlife. Embalming the dead Pharaohs involved treating the body with herbs and potions said to have supernatural powers to aid the transfer of the Pharaoh’s spirit into the afterlife. As the process took place, the priests would perform rituals involving incantations designed to ensure that this transition went smoothly. They were so sure these actions were infallible that the tombs in the pyramids were filled with all the items that would be needed in the next world by the Pharaoh, included food and drink.

As time moved on, it was recognised in all cultures that certain people were special and could invoke powers using spells and special rituals. Consider the church – the priests, nuns, holy men and such like were seen as being able to convey the powers of their religion through rituals associated with it. Christenings are supposed to prepare the child for entry into religious circles via promises made by the Godparents using specially prepared chants, or incantations, following time honoured traditions. The same goes for Confirmation in the Catholic Church. Similar traditions follow with marriages and funerals.

Where ever we look in everyday life we find traditions are linked into mystical magical rules and regulations that we all seem to follow without question. However, once we accept these for what they really are, aids to get us through life, then we can learn to accept them and embrace their powers into our psyche.

When you mention the word SPELLS to most people, they usually link it to black magic or curses – though if they were to stop and think about it they would realise that we all invoke the spell concept throughout our daily lives. This is because spells are closely linked to superstitions, which we tend to feel more comfortable with.

Not convinced? What about couples about to get married? Consider the saying “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”. What do you think they are doing by following that ritual? Well, they are trying to invoke good luck for the future of the marriage and some brides will panic if they can’t get all four of the good luck omens for their big day!

Each culture has its own tradition of spells – both good and bad – and in some countries they even have the culture of BLACK MAGIC, which is also known as VOODOO. These countries are often in places such as the West Indies and Haiti, which has recently had a terrible earthquake, causing a rise in that country of spells to ward off evil. Witchdoctors are ready and willing to put curses on people in exchange for high payments from those who follow this concept almost as a religion. Some people are so afraid of being cursed by this type of intimidation that they can literally be frightened to death by it. This is a well known fact and although there is no physical explanation in these cases, it is the psychological aspect and the firm belief in it that tips the scales – that’s the sheer power of SPELLS.

In more civilised societies there is a more gentle approach to spells – they tend to be based on personal and individual matters, although there is BLACK MAGIC that is the reserve of cult followers and doesn’t concern us as psychics especially on websites such as these, where we are more providers of WHITE MAGIC. Let’s not forget that ancient civilizations based their daily lives and prayers and spells. Human sacrifices were made to please the gods for a good harvest the next year, accompanied by other rituals, always involving certain prayers and spells.

So why might you want to cast a spell nowadays? Well, spells can be put into a multitude of categories that you might feel you want help with. Do you feel you want to improve on any special area of your life – how about improving your chances in love? Maybe you feel afraid of certain things happening in your life and want to gain more confidence – or even how to attract more money towards yourself or even to just feel happier! Whenever you feel you need a little help in these areas or any others that cause you concerns, then try a spell for yourself. However, we must point out that our spells are only based on WHITE MAGIC and can only be cast for good – never to cause or bring harm to others! Of course, there are no firm guarantees with spells anymore than there are in most other areas of life – there is no panacea that works for everyone, though if you are willing to give it a try and deal with spells with an open mind, you usually find that they do work for you. Why not give it a try – you have so much to gain!

We’ve all heard about angels haven’t we? Mostly they are perceived as having large white wings and appearing to those who need their help, then floating away up to heaven when the job is finished! Famous paintings give rise to these ideas and promote the notion that they link straight to the Devine Being. The concept of angels needs to be rationalised, especially in today’s world of advanced technology – so do they exist? Of course they do, but our acceptance of them has shifted so that we are sceptical and seem to want more and more proof. The problem with that is they are not obliged to give us proof on anything they do – so where do we go from here?

Let’s look at the overall concept to see where it fits in with today’s ideas. We in this country are more suspicious when we hear tales of angelic deeds, whereas in America it is an accepted notion that they exist and contact can be taught more readily. Most states in America have chain-stores which deal only in Angel products, from books, magazines, newsletters, ornaments and so on. It is such an acceptable subject over there that it is readily accepted as a fact of life! Although we don’t necessarily have to be taught to make contact with them, it seems to be a fact that they attach themselves to individuals in times of greatest need and learning how to contact your angel is not that difficult.

Books are readily available through bookshops and libraries here, so there is no excuse for anyone not to be able to study the subject as in-depth as they want to. So what are the areas that you may want to explore more? Well, the idea that angels only respond in times of great distress doesn’t always hold up. They don’t just turn up to everyone, they seem to be selective, so the more you learn about them the easier it will become for you to understand the concept of the connection which is helpful. You will find that if you open your mind to the concept of angels being a reality of life you will begin to understand the concept in all of its diverse aspects.

As you study and read up about the angels you will feel drawn towards certain ones – these are the ones who will be best to guide you and work with you in your life to help bring you peace and harmony. Always remember – the more you work with the angels, the more the angels will work with you!

When I meet people and they find out that not only am I a psychic but that I can also cast spells the responses are often one of fear. For many people the only knowledge they have of spells is that which they have heard of linked to Black Magic, or in some cases, Voodoo, such as that practised in Haiti or in some of the Asian countries. Of course, this is nothing along the lines of what White Witches use. Our magic or spells are only used for the good of others and the more you learn about spells the more you will come to understand that we help those who come to us with their problems and we try our best to define their situations in terms of acceptable spells for them!

So who needs a spell? Let’s look at some situations that call for a little help or assistance from us. You know yourself that sometimes life is ticking by quite nicely then suddenly something happens to unsettle or unnerve us. It’s usually something which we seem to feel is out of our hands, so we may panic and try to resolve it ourselves. However, the problem is usually that we have no idea and therefore no control over what has happened to cause this problem, so how can we begin to understand how to correct it to restore the balance?

Suppose you feel your love life is moving along fine then suddenly your boy/girlfriend turns cold towards you or dumps you. This is a common occurrence that we’ve all experienced at some point in our life, usually on more than one occasion – after all, we’ve all had more than one relationship and for us to move on to the next one involves a break-up of some sort. How can you get over this? Maybe you don’t want to get over it, but feel you want to clear the air and get rid of the negative vibes in order to move on. How will you set about this on your own?

It’s common to turn to friends to help you understand the predicament you’re in – you talk about it and discuss it from every angle. You ask your friends to give you their opinions on the matter and for a while you are convinced that it’s meant to happen this way, so you might give up and move on. Am I right? I’ve seen this scenario so many times that I feel I am right in most of the cases.

So how can spells help? Well, there are powerful forces at work out there that can be invoked to help us get what we want from life. In an emotional situation such as the one I’ve just described the heightened emotions often attract these forces to hover over us, to see if they are called upon to give assistance. Each one of these forces responds to a certain set of controls which are used in casting spells. For instance, certain smells work on our olfactory senses – those in our noses – and are powerful in changing our perception of situations and emotions.

Through our senses we can call up memories by recalling the smell of roses, lavender or perfumes that have a link to those we love or events from our past. Spells work in a similar way as they invoke the mind to create more positive outlooks on situations and by doing this we can create a new perspective on things.

So, by using spells we have the means to help ourselves to possibly get what we want. If you consider how they might help you – with love – finances – friendships – work matters – keeping friends – getting over relationships – help with the grieving process – linking to our inner-selves – promoting confidence – helping with self-esteem – and so many other things that we encounter in our lives – maybe you won’t be so sceptical once you try them for yourself!

Casting spells is serious business – there’s no point in trying to initiate a spell if you are not going to take the matter seriously, so it’s worth taking your time and getting as much information as you can before you take the initiative to follow it through. Before you order a spell, ask yourself what it is you want it to achieve for you. It doesn’t have to be a big thing that you are trying to accomplish – most of my clients come to me initially for tarot or rune readings, or one of the other services I provide as a psychic. As we discuss various matters of concern to them, the question of spells often arises, though I have noticed clients seem to be a little afraid to discuss the service or its expectations, often due to lack of knowledge as to what spells can achieve.

By explaining the background and nature of spells to clients it removes the fallacies which surrounds them and clients can then begin to feel more relaxed about using them. It’s my aim to ensure they feel confident about the process as any feelings of concern or reservation about using the spells can cause negativity, which can, of course, negate the power of the spell!

So what happens next? You choose which area or areas of your life you want to be helped with. Yes it is possible to have more than one spell active at any one time, but you would need to follow different instructions so that the spells don’t cause interference with each other. Although it is possible to make up your own spell, or even get a general one from a book, the effectiveness usually bears no resemblance to those specifically designed with you and your circumstances in mind. For those with a more serious intent it is more usual to purchase spells specifically designed for what you want as that way you can be sure that they have been tested before and have a good track record for effectiveness.

Having purchased the spell you want you need to consider certain factors which will affect its effectiveness. Firstly, let’s consider the day of usage. This will depend on certain factors such as the nature of the spell:

SUNDAY

Ideal for those spells linked to leadership issues, money and finance matters – anything to do with prosperity and power. It also links to health matters and covers those issues concerning vitality and energy.

MONDAY

Links to lunar energy and matters concerning growth, such as business developments – fertility issues and all forms of development, usually concerning self.

TUESDAY

Tied in to conflict issues and also matters of competition. Financial concerns are also better if activated on this day.

WEDNESDAY

This day is associated with the Roman God Mercury and links the spells cast on this day to communication and all things artistic. This is also the best day to deal with psychological problems, including self-awareness and destiny matters.

THURSDAY

Associated with the Norse God Thor – it favours spells cast on this day linked to the bigger issues in life around health, wealth, business and personal growth.

FRIDAY

Governed by the Goddess Venus, so anything connected with spells for romance, love and fidelity matters.

SATURDAY

Saturn’s Day – restoring fidelity to the unfaithful and extending the horizons of those who feel they are limited in their lives.

From this you can see how you have several choices to make when choosing spells and deciding when to activate them. Always follow the advice given to you about your purchase and treat spells with the respect they deserve and you won’t go far wrong. Remember – they are there to help you achieve your goals!

So what makes a person lucky? Is it a lucky number, a lucky stone, a lucky colour? Or is it something, far more subtle. In other words does luck have something to do with expressing the best of us, the good sides to our personalities and spirit? Could our own positivity, our own capacity to feel calm and at peace within attract luck to us? Perhaps luck is something we create ourselves, therefore, and by being the positive people we are we just magnetize it naturally. But how does our favorite Astro Club fair when it comes to hitting the High C “luck wise”?

Aries

Perhaps it is the sheer unadulterated chutzpah of this fire sign that attracts luck to them. Aries, the ram, charges ahead to fulfill their dreams with grim determination which might make Lady Luck feel she should leave them alone to get on with it. Yet the Aries capacity to literally “stop at nothing” is liable to eventually attract a unique flirtation with Lady Luck who is magnetized by “go getters” Aries lucky number is nine. Red flags will get them charging, and a quartz crystal programmed with their desires will energies their wildest dreams.

Taurus

Down to earth Taurus will stubbornly strive, never really giving in or giving up. They have an interesting relationship with money, in that they fill up their bank accounts and piggy banks with grins on their faces. Lady Luck is tentative around their high monetary expectations, but their positive view of life plus the color green will attract Lady Luck to them eventually, as will whispering “sweet nothings” to pot plants! Taurus luck could even mean winning the lottery or the jackpot. Anyway, their lucky number is 31!

Gemini

Split level and airy Gemini is liable to talk Lady Luck out of business. If the “terrible twins” stop to still their hyperactive minds, and take a few deep breaths as they connect to their spiritual core, Lady Lucky will be more inclined to put in an appearance. All that “blah”, “blah”, “blah” has a tendency to drown out Lady Luck’s advice. Gemini’s lucky number is five so breathing five times, and meditating on the wonders of life, will enable the restless twin to find inner tranquility, which is a great environment for Lady Luck to thrive in. Their lucky colour is yellow! Their lucky number 15!

Cancer

Watery Cancer is inclined to anxiety, which can block out positivity. Luck has a tendency to stay away from worrisome folk. But staring at the moon lifts up Cancer’s morale, as does a house near the ocean or a lake, at any rate near water! Their mothering instincts bring luck to their friends and family, and joy to others lives. Cancer luck depends on their capacity to come to terms with their deepest sentiments, and not fear them. Cancer looks pretty in white may be because it is their lucky colour, as is the number 24. Once Cancer gazes at the moon on a daily basis, they get very intimate with Lady Luck!

Leo

Fiery Leo’s demanding roars can scare Lady Luck away. Leo expects luck, and when they do not get it they tend to sulk and feel misfortune has it in for them. But this fire sign always exaggerates. If they would just realize how lucky they are already, with that wonderful “mane” of hair, those big warm eyes that charismatic personality, Lady Luck could get more than a second a look in. Lucky Leo number is 14, and their lucky colour is orange. The fact remains, Lady Luck will always pop in for a visit if they curb their arrogant tendencies and dig compassionate ways.

Virgo

The pure hearted and earthy Virgo has a tendency to block out Lady Luck, thinking that he or she has to do everything themselves; “getting on with it” could be their motto. Not noticing that the beautiful Lady Luck is sitting on the very edge of their lives can be a hindrance to this earthy and practical sign. Yet if they just stopped to ponder on their kind and giving hearts, and put an end to “trying” they would see Lady Luck has been waiting to play with them all along. Their lucky colour is sky blue, their lucky number is six. If they count to six and wish on a star, they might see Lady Luck actually standing right in front of them, ready to weave her magic spell!

Libra

Airy Libra will be so intent on balancing out their scales, that they will not notice Lady Luck literally flying over their heads! Yes Libra can get caught up in splitting hairs, and chronic indecision! But Lady Luck sees how sensitive they are, how emotionally tuned in, how they radiate the love vibe when they find their perfect soul mate. If Libra would just connect to their spiritual hearts, and pop out of their airy minds for a moment, Lady Luck could present them with a perfect soul mate, perhaps in Libra’s eyes the greatest luck of all! Libra’s lucky colour is royal blue, and their lucky number is 10! Watch them count to ten, and run off to meet their true love.