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Jonathan Cainer Daily Horoscope
for Monday, Oct. 3, 2005

ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 20)
The best course of action now is to listen. Listen to what someone close to you is saying; listen to what your friends and colleagues are offering; but mostly, listen to what your heart is telling you. You will have time to respond, but you will act with greater clarity and wisdom if you understand the needs of everyone involved in the situation. There is a solution to what now appears to be a problem. Yet perhaps the best reward of paying attention will be the revelation that what you face today is an opportunity and an opening rather than a challenge. Best of all, you're not alone in doing so.

TAURUS (Apr 21 - May 21)
Relationships are no fun if they are based on control, but that, unfortunately, is the standard model in the school called Earth. There are options; it's just that most people don't find them appealing. Developments associated with today's eclipse will reveal that well-being is based on allowing people and things to be as they are, far more than it is on having them be any particular way. Once you acknowledge your situation, it's going to take some time and energy to work through it, to sort things out and to create a situation where everyone feels better. But one thing is certain: you will.

GEMINI (May 22 – Jun 22)
Take a moment and appreciate the beauty of the place you find yourself in now. Consider what you've left behind, and consider what you've summoned the courage to do and create. You can see, in the most mature style, that not everything has to go your way; not everyone has to agree with you; and you don't need to be entirely comfortable with your existence. But what you do need is to live as if you have the courage to dare, and most important, like it really doesn't matter what happens tomorrow. Tomorrow never knows - but what you see and feel today, you know, and you can trust.

CANCER (Jun 23 - Jul 23)
Today's eclipse occurs in the home, emotions and security angle of the sign whose natives usually name these matters as their primary concern in life. I trust that by now, you've figured out that you must give up one kind of security to have another. Choose one to offer back to the cosmos; pick something that you always figured would finally be the thing that made you feel safe, but more typically turned out to disappoint you. That's the one you don't need. If you can clear out this closet in your mind, you'll make space for a rather amazing personal development that soon becomes the central focus of your life for the foreseeable future.

LEO (Jul 24 - Aug 23)
This is a moment of enormous change, and change opens the way for progress. You have an option that most people don't have right now, which is to alter the path of your life in a way that opens new possibilities without undermining the ones you have available now. There are, at the moment, few potential outcomes that don't add up to an improvement for you - so you can afford to embrace the greatest changes with a sense of optimism and potential. How, exactly, it all works out won't be apparent for a few days or more, and there does seem to be a missing piece of the puzzle. But it's coming by special delivery this week.

VIRGO (Aug 24 - Sep 23)
For you, the brilliantly obvious theme of today's solar eclipse is self-respect, which is just the miracle you need. This is the one issue on which your whole life, and all its successes and failures, have hung in the balance. It's not easy changing our ideas about ourselves. They are written deeply in our character, often below where we can see them working. Often, we don't know they're there. Yet you really are being relieved of false information that simply has not served you. And this will make room for many possibilities that serve you very well - possibilities you have never considered before.

LIBRA (Sep 24 - Oct 23)
We humans have an uneasy tendency to become trapped in who we are. Patterns form; they take up residence in something called the ‘personality,’ which is very different than personhood. The past seems to stick to us like baggage we cannot lose no matter how many times we check in with a discount airline in a third-world country. Today's eclipse is designed to change all that, and to lighten the burden of who you are. Your course is not set for some kind of radical shock - but rather for a careful, precise walk directly through some contradiction, into a whole new life and state of mind.

SCORPIO (Oct 24 - Nov 22)
Fear of others is really a form of fear of the self. It's just a little too strange to admit that we're afraid of ourselves; it's easier to project on to someone else. You may be in a subtle confrontation with another person that has this kind of fear at its root. You're also going through some deep changes that are encouraging you to keep yourself hidden away, deep in those Scorpionic caves. Still, you can afford to reach out, and to let someone know you're not scared of them. You can afford to share something of your true being. We both know this is the way you want to live -- and small gestures count for a lot today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23 - Dec 21)
As old doors close, new doors are opening. The time lapse will be from five minutes to about a week. Associations and partnerships are in transition now. People are rising to new levels of importance in your life, and others are going off in their own directions. You can afford to welcome these developments, because it's all something of a grand conspiracy to get your life on the right track. But one thing you need to do is simplify. You need people who are less directly dependent on your every thought, decision and idea. You're soon to find them - just make sure you notice when you do.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 - Jan 20)
From time to time, extraordinarily rare opportunities and openings present themselves. Sometimes they take us; other times, we must take them. You seem to be standing in just such a threshold, and it may be daunting. But I don't suggest you hesitate. Yes, there will be other opportunities. Yes, you can let this one pass you by, but then you'll never know quite what you missed. It is true, as you suspect, that one decision can change your life, and will have implications lasting years. But if I'm not mistaken, this is precisely what you've been praying would come your way for a very long time.

AQUARIUS (Jan 21 - Feb 19)
We've all had the experience where changing a belief changes our life. Usually, though, we noticed after it's happened. And while it's rare enough to succeed at changing an idea in order to recreate ourselves, that too, occasionally, does happen. What occurs today and for the next few days will take you halfway between the two possibilities. Something fundamental about what you believe is changing, having nothing to do with your conscious mind. And you are gradually making a decision about what you believe, committing to a new way of relating to existence, and a new way of thinking of yourself.

PISCES (Feb 20 - Mar 20)
Today's eclipse of the Sun offers you something of a trump card in life. You have come to know yourself well, and I trust that you've reached a level of inner truth about what is important to you, what you need, what you want, and what you're not going to settle for. Now, you must trust your perceptions and have faith in yourself - and have the courage to make a decision about what you actually do want. This one really does come down to desire, not necessity. And in truth, it comes down to something you owe yourself. Kid, it's time to collect.

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