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Daily Horoscope for Thursday, May 4, 2006

This is the Jonathan Cainer daily horoscope. Jonathan is away this week, and I'll be covering for him through Saturday's edition.

Writing is creating a voice inside somebody's mind, rather intimate when you think of it. Add astrology and that voice can take on a distinctly personal tone, potentially spoken from a viewpoint of understanding, and even offering glimpses of the future. But a horoscope column is made of the writer's thoughts, not those of the reader. If you identify with something that's said here, it's a glorious kind of divine coincidence called a 'synchronicity'. It hints at the possibility of an intelligent cosmic order, which may just mean two minds thinking along the same basic wavelength at around the same time. Yet as far as I'm concerned, you're free to take or leave anything I say about you, or for that matter, anything else anyone says. If the stars vibrate with one message this week, it is: know what is true for yourself, and honour it.
 
ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 20)
Sometimes when a person finds his or her voice, self-awareness or what is often termed 'personal power', it can send the lives of people around them into a little crisis. Often the cause goes unacknowledged, for one thing, because it's so embarrassing to think that one person getting real can bring up so much insecurity. One of the reasons many people resist getting real is because 'it's scary'. I suggest you not make that mistake. Let each authentic moment lead to the next. Let honesty shine the light where fear once hid in the corners. Be yourself, no matter what they say.

TAURUS (Apr 21 - May 21)
It really is amazing what difference a single day can make. What yesterday seemed beyond serious consideration, too shocking to speak out loud, today seems like common sense. It's as if you've crossed an invisible barrier in your mind, and have made peace with the fact that change and progress are inevitable. You may have no idea where the information is coming from; it seems both new and familiar; a bit frightening and deeply reassuring at the same time. Think of what you're doing as reading your own mind, seeking and finding the truth of your life within your own heart and soul.

GEMINI (May 22 – Jun 22)
Once you have made a decision, there arrives a phase of time where you have the option to put that choice into reality. There's not anyone to enforce your decision; there is no one to push you to take action. You need to use your own discipline and focusing power to get that done. You may not even have a pressing necessity to keep you in line. But you have something else working for you: inspiration. You have the ability to glimpse at how much better your life can be, and that alone should give you incentive to make it that way - if you really want.

CANCER (Jun 23 - Jul 23)
If you've been living through any struggles the past few seasons, these have been far outstripped by the calm sense that you're doing what's important to you. It would hardly occur to you to put your energy into something meaningless where the world is concerned, but honouring your own needs is a different story. Gradually it's becoming obvious that your mission for yourself and your mission on the planet are one and the same. Few recognise what a precious gift this is; I trust that you will. The excellent opportunity you now have is precisely the privilege of being able to act in accord with your deepest values. 

LEO (Jul 24 - Aug 23)
There is no way to live happily without having faith in yourself. As a Leo, this is something of a birthright. But in these very days and hours, you're receiving some confirmation that your faith has been invested where it belongs. Use this confidence to take an old idea, something that you've worked with a long time - but perhaps under limited conditions - and bring it out into the wider world. This is an idea whose time has come, something that people have been waiting for. You still have your work cut out for you, of course, but life would be boring otherwise. 

VIRGO (Aug 24 - Sep 23)
You've been going through something of a transformation the past few weeks. You may not have noticed, but as it turned out, something that was really bothering you has resolved itself so easily that it's obvious the only thing that could have possibly changed is you. I suggest you hold this spirit close to your heart. Assume, for now, that in any situation requiring an adjustment, you're the one who can make it more easily. This is not an exercise in forgetting yourself; rather it's a precious reminder that your experience of life starts in you and then reaches out from there.

LIBRA (Sep 24 - Oct 23)
If you start to have the feeling that you've 'been doing it all wrong' in your relationships, you need to give yourself more credit for trying at all. It's been none the easier for feeling that in order to relate to others meaningfully you must give up something deep within your personality, but let me offer you a clue. You've been using your relationship experiences as an opportunity to do just that. You've been sacrificing nothing at all; people have, with great effectiveness, helped you make the changes you need to make. Suddenly it's becoming obvious why.

SCORPIO (Oct 24 - Nov 22)
Can you really make plans for another person? Can you really gamble your security on their choices? It's rather unlike you to do such a thing, particularly since so much of your stability comes from knowing that, above all else, you can count on yourself. If you find yourself making plans for another person, I suggest you pause and ask yourself what you're doing. If you have the occasion, ask the most important people in your life to share their plans with you. Keep the discussion honest, open and above the table.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23 - Dec 21)
If a pressing decision is weighing on your conscience, I suggest you take the time to sort through the basic considerations of right, wrong and that strange ambiguous area not properly related to either. If you can get through your sense of personal burden and see the situation from a more philosophical perspective, you will at least be able to think in terms that take all the factors into consideration. There is a solution and rather than involving a loss for anyone, it involves a gain for everyone. That's how you know it's the solution and not just an extension of the problem. 

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 - Jan 20)
It may be the last thing on your mind, but a business arrangement or financial situation that's been brewing may not only budge slightly - today, it might actually start to go at full strength. Spiritually, the added factor is that you don't actually need to get a specific reaction and are not attached to the outcome. This is something that responds directly to your feeling safe - and like you finally have the co-operation of two parts of your psyche that don't usually talk. Being in accord with yourself makes it very easy for others to be in accord with you, too. 

AQUARIUS (Jan 21 - Feb 19)
The truth can finally come out. Try to ignore the fact that it takes many people forever to get to the basic point of what they are feeling. The funny part is that you seem to have figured out what was going on at the same time as the person you were wondering about - and your acceptance of their reality seems to be opening the way to clarity and emotional freedom. You're still a few steps ahead, however, so I suggest you resist what may be a very strong impulse to take over the discussion and make sure you do a lot more listening than talking.

PISCES (Feb 20 - Mar 20)
In the past couple of days, the emphasis has shifted to improving your financial situation and there is likely to be an associated turn of events that comes with the astrology. Venus is involved, and what you need to keep close to your heart and mind is that, so far, an attractive rather than aggressive principle has worked very well. Think of what comes as an unexpected dividend in both work and personal growth that has involved putting your real values into the game of life. Remind yourself often that you live and breathe the truth of who you are, and there are those inevitable times in life when this has actual rewards. 

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