July 7 - Aug 5 2009

July 7 - Aug 5, 2009

Insight From Stellar Influences

Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3
(Times specified are Pacific Time)


VOID OF COURSE MOON

When the MOON is VOID OF COURSE anything that you begin will not reach fulfillment. Here are the daylight hours this month when the moon is void of course:

July 3 before 7:11 a.m.;
July 5 from 12:17 p.m. to 7:07 p.m;
July 8 before 8:03 a.m.
July 10 from 7:17 p.m. to 8:44 p.m.;
July 13 before 7:40 a.m.;
July 15 from 8:08 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.;
July 17 from 1:48 p.m. to 7:41 p.m.;
July 19 from 3:12 p.m. to 8:51 p.m.;
July 21 from 7:35 p.m. to 8:28 p.m.;
July 23 from 1:28 p.m. to 8:23 p.m.;
July 25 after 4:14 p.m.;
July 27 after 7:54 p.m.; and
July 30 before 1:10 p.m.


LUNAR ACTION

Waning Periods: July 7-21 begin with the full moon. It is a time of completion. In candle magic, it is know as the time of banishing.

Waxing Periods: July 1 - 6 and July 22 - Aug. 5 begin with the new moon. It is a time of new beginnings and fresh starts. In candle magic it know as the time of gathering.

NEW MOON: July 21, 7:35 p.m. in Cancer. The waxing period in Cancer focuses on new: family projects, home purchases, property and emotional insights.

FULL MOON: July 7, 2:21 a.m. in Capricorn. This waning period focuses on completing issues concerning: long term goals, ambitions, organizing large projects and maturing attitudes.


How to Use This Column:

As you read your sun and moon sign, you will note each section is broken into Focus, Test, Key & Action.
Focus defines what you will find yourself focused on during this time.
Test: is the issue or experience which will test your focus.
Key: is a little gemstone which can help you pass the test if you will use it.
Action: Is the outcome of what you do at this time.



Aries

7-21: Focus: Long term goals. Test: Follow through. Key: When we live in the present moment, there is no need to rush. Action: Superiors challenge you to complete an ambitious project.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Self Esteem. Test: Control. Key: Love knows that each does the best they can at every moment in time. Action: Issues at home cause you to question who you are and how to control your life.



Taurus

7-21:: Focus: Maturing Investments. Test: Take the offer. Key: Awaiting fulfillment is wise, but one must take action when it arrives. Action: Finally old investments manifest and you may have to let go of something now to achieve your goals.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Home. Test: Contentment. Key: Acknowledge what you have and be grateful. Action: New projects at home bring family together.



Gemini

7-21: Focus: Emotional Awakening. Test: Disciplined focus. Key: Achievement is the result of consistent action. Action: You must reexamine your goals and come to terms with the rules of discipline.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Frustration. Test: Listen. Key: Focus on one issue at a time. Action: Confusion over a need to be nurtured irritates you. You're annoyed at your own response.



Cancer

7-21: Focus: Balance. Test: Emotional manipulation. Key: Nurture without smothering, restrict without inhibiting. Action: The desire to complete a long term goal feels like a tight rope walk between love and money.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Family. Test: Energy. Key: Awareness is more difficult when one lapses into comfort. Action: New love, family and/or home situations focus feelings of warmth and contentment.



Leo

7-21: Focus: Rules. Test: Self-control. Key: The steps to leadership are built on seconds of fully focused self discipline. Action: Fulfillment of a long term goal can only manifest after a stressful reassessment of your priorities.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Responsibilities. Test: Why? Key: Leadership is in the actions, not the words. Action: Your desire to have fun interferes with new family responsibilities.



Virgo

7-21: Focus: Fulfillment. Test: Over analysis. Key: One who is humble does not refuse the reward, but honors the promoter by accepting. Action: Finally an opportunity for a promotion at work or in your personal life. Take it.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Security. Test: Emotional expression. Key: Contentment is a gemstone, once experienced can be re-experienced at will. Action: You ease into a new emotionally gratifying situation at home.



Libra

7-21: Focus: Ambitions. Test: Speak up. Key: Health requires that you express yourself. Choose your timing and words with care. Action: Your need to fulfill an old goal is challenged by an emotionally controlled superior.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Emotions. Test: Face yourself! Key: Sacrificing to keep the peace can also be a reaction used to avoid the truth. Action: Your need to be nurtured challenges you to speak or remain in pain.



Scorpio

7-21: Focus: Power. Test: Avoid gloating. Key: The most powerful one is filled with compassion. Action: Finally the opportunity to arrives that will provide security and long term strength.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Fulfillment. Test: Express your feelings. Key: Even a psychic likes to hear words spoken and expressed physically. Action: You take advantage of the new opportunities for love, nurturing, and home comforts.



Sagittarius

7-21: Focus: Restrictions. Test: The value of discipline. Key: To win, one must fight on a level playing field. So, the reason for rules. Action: Completing an old project, while following the rules frustrates you.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Family. Test: Emotions and logic. Key: Expanded feelings lead to compassion. Action: Events at home cause stress and new emotions surface. Now you must evaluate your real feelings.



Capricorn

7-21: Focus: Long term needs. Test: Feelings. Key: Intense focus brings success but at what price? Action: You experience the maturing of a relationship or investment and know you can make a long term commitment now.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Emotional indecision. Test: Your rules or love? Key: The leader who nurtures is followed and revered. Action: You must balance your desire for love with your need for control.



Aquarius

7-21: Focus: Priorities. Test: Rebellion. Key: You can catch more bees with honey than you can with vinegar. Action: Monetary restrictions frustrate your efforts to fulfill a progressive ideal.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Emotional comfort. Test: What is freedom? Key: The one who works to control only what can be controlled knows freedom. Action: A new desire to be free of responsibilities at home forces you to reassess your work.



Pisces

7-20: Focus: Regulations. Test: Walk in their shoes. Key: Law makes order out of chaos. Action: People in positions of authority irritate your need to daydream and flow with life.

22-Aug. 5: Focus: Love. Test: Drama. Key: Each moment in life is unique. Enjoy each for they are your own creation. Action: New opportunities for emotional fulfilment. A good time to be with family, buy a home or fall in love.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANCER!

• Fourth Sign of the Zodiac • Feminine • Cardinal Water Sign •
• Ruler: Moon • Color Silver • Gemstone Moonstone •
Flowers: Geranium, White Rose, Water lily • • Herbs: Verbena & Tarragon •
• Cell Salt: Calc Flour • Rules Breasts, Stomach & Pancreas •
• Key Phase: "I Feel!" • Most Compatible Signs: Scorpio & Pisces •

Cancer, you're the emotional, intuitive, nurturing, family-oriented sign of the zodiac. You're very protective of your family, property and homeland. Your most positive qualities include: being helpful, imaginative, receptive, nurturing, motherly, kind, gentle, sympathetic, and quiet. You can also be tenacious, stubborn, moody, possessive, brooding, melancholy, dependent, narrow-minded, touchy, gullible, crabby and a worrier.

You have a hard time accepting criticism and too often feel sorry for yourself. You have an outstanding memory and do not forgive or forget easily. You have a good mind for business and size people up quickly. You prefer the seclusion of your home and make an excellent homemaker. You tend to be vain. Self pity is your greatest weakness. Living too often in the past makes you a worrier. You love owning property, tend to collect antiques, are a pack rat, keep track of your ancestors and have a need to be touched.

You prefer to work out of your home or in a home environment.

You excel as a Realtor, homemaker, caretaker, interior decorator, caterer, baker, land developer, contractor, curator, landscaper, antique dealer, nurse, public relations specialist, restaurant or tavern owner, cook, obstetrician, pediatrician, and apartment manager.



Famous Cancers include:

Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Leona Helmsley, Jean Cocteau, Shelley Duvall, Michelle Kwan, Angelica Huston, Nikola Tesla,



Richard Roundtree, James Whistler, Richard Simmons, Buckminster Fuller, Bob Crane, Charles Scribner III, Terry-Thomas, William Hanna, Red Skelton, Marshall McLuhan, Jean Paul Sartre, Julyian Huxley, Diana Trask, Ralph Reed, Sidney Lumat, helen Keller, John Elway, Stokely Carmichael, Mike Tyson, Lena Horne, John Quincy Adams, Louis Armstrong, Phineas T. Barnum, Yul Brynner, Pearl Buck, Julius Caesar, John Calvin, Calvin Coolidge, Phyllis Diller, Mary Baker Eddy, Stephen Foster, Giuseppe Garibaldi, John Glenn, Nathanial Hawthorne, Susan Hayward, Henry VIII, John Paul Jones, Empress Josephine, Gina Lollobrigida, Gustav Mahler, Maximilian, Marcel Proust, Giacomo Puccini, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Cecil Rhodes, John D. Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Peter Paul Rubens, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry David Thoreau, John Wesley,


Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3, is a certified astrology professional, metaphysical minister, emotional freedom practitioner and award winning visionary fiction author. She consuts with clients by phone. For personal consultation, call: 541-863-6631. Ask her questions on her blog at astrologyandmore.blogspot.com or on Twitter @tamoor

June 7 - July 6 - 2009

Insight From Stellar Influences

Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3
(Times specified are Pacific Time)

VOID OF COURSE MOON

When the MOON is VOID OF COURSE anything that you begin will not reach fulfillment. Here are the daylight hours this month when the moon is void of course:

June 1 before 8:17 a.m.;
June 3 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:44 p.m.;
June 5 after 7:18 p.m.;
June 8 before 1:00 p.m.;
June 10 after 8:31 p.m.;
June 13 from 2:04 p.m. to 2:32 p.m.;
June 15 after 6:17 p.m.;
June 17 before 10:52 am;
June 18 before 7:20 a.m.;
June 20 before 10:00 a.m.;
June 22 before 10:12 a.m.;
June 24 before 9:50 a.m.;
June 26 before 10:47 a.m.;
June 28 from 8:26 a.m. to 2:24 p.m., and
June 30 from 2:59 p.m. to 9:19 p.m.

LUNAR ACTION

Waning Periods: June 7-22 begin with the full moon. It is a time of completion. In candle magic, it is know as the time of banishing.

Waxing Periods: June 1-6 and June 23-July 6 begin with the new moon. It is a time of new beginnings and fresh starts. In candle magic it know as the time of gathering.

NEW MOON: June 22, 12:35 p.m. in Cancer. The waxing period in Cancer focuses on new: home and family issues, emotional experiences and a new dream-state.

FULL MOON: June 7, 11:12 a.m. in Sagittarius. This waning period focuses on completing issues concerning: learning, legal process, long journeys, communication with people at a distance, and all issues concerning media and the public.

How to Use This Column

As you read your sun and moon sign, you will note each section is broken into Focus, Test, Key & Action. Focus defines what you will find yourself focused on during this time. Test: is the issue or experience, which will test your focus. Key: is a little gemstone, which can help you pass the test if you will use it. Action: Is the outcome of what you do at this time.

Aries

7-22: Focus: Travel. Test: Risks. Key: Rewards come through expanding your horizons now. Action: You June be given an opportunity to travel, meet the public or attend a class or conference. Go for it, you fulfill your need to know.

23-July 6: Focus: Ego challenges. Test: To nurture rather than control. Key: Love knows that each does the best they can at every moment in time. Action: Home life challenges your need to feel in control.

Taurus

7-22: Focus: Learning curve. Test: Face your fear of change. Key: Pie is best eaten one piece at a time. Action: Completion of a project requires more knowledge causing stress and fear of the unknown.

23-July 6: Focus: Nurturing family environment. Test: Understand feelings of contentment. Key: Acknowledge what you have and be grateful. Action: New projects at home bring family together.

Gemini

7-22: Focus: Possibilities. Test: Slow down. Key: Preparation is key to a safe journey. Action: Completing a journey or learning adventure must be handled with wisdom and not overindulgence.

23-July 6: Focus: Family issues. Test: Listen. Key: Focus on one issue at a time. Action: New needs for nurturing irritate you and you feel annoyed at your own response.

Cancer

7-22: Focus: Stress. Test: Use caution. Key: Expansion is most easily attained when you ride the wave. Fight it and drown. Action: Travel will be stressful and is not recommended now.

23-July 6: Focus: Home issues. Test: Express emotions. Key: Awareness is more difficult when one lapses into comfort. Action: New love, family and/or home situations focus feelings of warmth and contentment.

Leo

7-22: Focus: Travel. Test: Ego. Key: Once exaggeration is noted, truth is no longer heard. Action: You finally complete a trip, which teaches you about love.

23-July 6: Focus: Responsibilities at home. Test: Purpose. Key: Leadership is in the actions, not the words. Action: Your desire to have fun interferes with new family responsibilities.

Virgo

7-22: Focus: Legal issues. Test: Criticism. Key: Examine achievements before berating yourself with failures. Action: Completion of a journey or legal matter challenges your analytical wisdom.

23-July 6: Focus: Security. Test: Emotional expression. Key: Contentment is a gemstone, once experienced can be returned to at will. Action: You ease into a new emotionally gratifying situation at home.

Libra

7-22: Focus: A dream vacation Test: Risk. Key: To know yourself now, look through the eyes of a foreigner. Action: Though for some, it only happens on the net or tv; now travel helps you understand your world and how you relate to others.

23-July 6: Focus: Emotional challenges. Test: Face yourself! Key: Sacrificing to keep the peace may be a reaction to avoid the truth. Action: Your need to be nurtured challenges you to speak or remain in pain.

Scorpio

7-22: Focus: Control. Test: Patience. Key: Each step along the way is expanded on the previous one. This is growth. Action: Another set of changes as you complete a project irritates you.

23-July 6: Focus: Emotional fulfillment. Test: Express your feelings. Key: Even a psychic likes to hear words spoken and expressed physically. Action: You take advantage of the new opportunities for love, nurturing, and home comforts.

Sagittarius

7-22: Focus: Long distance communication. Test: Outrageous risks. Key: Temper all things with wisdom. Action: You want to explore the unknown. But being overzealous puts you at risk.

23-July 6: Focus: Family stress. Test: Integrate emotions and logic. Key: Expanded feelings lead to compassion. Action: New emotions due to home situation cause stress and reexamination of how you express yourself.

Capricorn

7-22: Focus: Learning curve. Test: Hold your tongue. Key: Frustrating experiences can give you insight into your own needs if you look. Action: Fulfilling some travel or internet project causes frustration.

23-July 6: Focus: Emotional tug of war. Test: Your rules or love? Key: The leader who nurtures is followed and revered. Action: You must find balance between your desire to be loved and your need to attain your goals.

Aquarius

7-22: Focus: Complete the course. Test: Acknowledge your ability. Key: Confidence is built on many little successes. Action: Self-confidence increases as you successfully complete a learning experience.

23-July 6: Focus: Need for freedom or emotional comfort. Test: What is real freedom? Key: Your attitude holds the answer. Action: A new desire to be free of responsibilities at home forces you to reassess freedom.

Pisces

7-22: Focus: Learning challenges. Test: Focus on the details. Key: A dream only becomes real when you choose to wake up and learn how to make it so. Action: You must complete a project, which requires you to go beyond what you think you know.

23-July 6: Focus: Love. Test: Drama. Key: Enjoy the moment and honor change. Action: New opportunities to have emotional happiness, love and property.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEMINI

• Third Sign of the Zodiac • Masculine •

Mutable Air • Ruler: Mercury

• Color: Rainbow • Gemstone Pearl •

Flowers Lily of the Valley & Lavender

• Herbs Aniseed & Caraway • Cell Salt: Kali Mur •

Rules Lungs, Arms & Hands • Key Phase: "I Think!"

Most Compatible Signs: Aquarius & Libra

Gemini, you're the thinkers, pranksters and jesters of the zodiac.

You love to talk, socialize and explore ideas. You are curious about everything and seldom afraid to ask questions.

You love music, jokes and pulling pranks on people The famous chattering teeth are a symbol of Gemini.

When you are at your best, you are bright, clever, flexible, lively, loquacious, literary, quick, youthful and witty.

At your most challenging self, you're argumentative, nosey, scattered, restless, gossipy, scheming, hyperactive, slick, flirtatious and superficial.

You work best in an atmosphere of change filled with mental challenges and the ability to explore options.

You excel as journalists, orators, scribes, comedians, musicians, singers, social networkers, salesmen, mailmen, communications specialists, broadcasters, bus drivers, chauffeurs, taxi drivers, agents, stenographers, teachers, secretaries, lecturers, editors, printers, typesetters, graphic designers, advertising specialists, novelists, agents and graphologists.

Famous Geminis include:

Bob Dylan,

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marilyn Monroe,

Marilyn Monroe: Everybodies Dream by Renato Casaro

Douglas Fairbanks, George Washington Carver, Arthur Conan Doyle, Albrecht Durer,

Flight into Egypt by Albrecht Durer

Edvard Grieg, Patrick Henry, Bob Hope, Tom Jones, Christine Jorgensen, Isadora Duncan, Bert Lance, Frederick Loewe, Nancy Sinatra, John Turner, Paul Gauguin,

Village In Tahiti by Paul Gauguin

Leroy Neiman, David Rockefeller, Ice Cube, Boy George, Robert Schumann, Igor Stravinsky, Xaviera Hollander, Dean Martin, Joe Piscopo, John Barrymore Jr., Dr. Ruth, Brooke Sheilds, Meredith MacRae, John F. Kennedy,

John F Kennedy - 35th President of the United States

Dashiell Hammett, Peggy Lee, Lilli Palmer, Drew Carey, Mr. T, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ricky Craven, Dixie Carter, Steffi Graf, Dolly Madison, Joe Namath,

Joe Namath - Pro Football Hall of Fame

Lawrence Olivier, Prince Philip, Rosalind Russell, Marshall Tito, Richard Wagner, John Wayne,

Walt Whitman and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Fallingwater designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright

Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3, is a certified astrology professional, metaphysical minister, emotional freedom practitioner and award-winning author. AstrologyandMore.com & TalesofTamoor.com For a personal consultation (taped session $144 per hour) call:

May - June 2009

Insight From Stellar Influences

Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3
Times specified are Pacific Time

When the MOON is VOID OF COURSE anything that you begin will not reach fulfillment. Use it to your advantage when you don't want someone to remember what you said! Here are the daylight hours this month when the moon is void of course:

May 2 after 3:09 p.m.;
May 4 after 6:31 p.m.;
May 7 before 9:48 a.m.;
May 9 from 11:49 a.m. to 6:49 p.m.;
May 12 before 6:09 a.m.;
May 14 from 5:58 p.m to 7:01 p.m.;
May 17 before 7:17 a.m.;
May 19 from 2:43 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.;
May 21 after 3:36 p.m.;
May 23 after 5:49 p.m.;
May 25 after 6:18 p.m.; and
May 27 after 8:06 p.m.

LUNAR ACTION

Waning Periods: May 9-23 begin with the full moon. It's a time of completion. In candle magic, it is known as the time of banishing.

Waxing Periods: May 1-8 and 24-June 6 begin with the new moon. It's a time of new beginnings. In candle magic it known as the time of gathering.

NEW MOON: May 24, 9:01 p.m. in Gemini. This waxing period focuses on new ideas, humor, communication, contracts, neighbors, siblings, and your thinking processes.

FULL MOON: May 8, 0:26 a.m. in Scorpio. This waning period focuses on completing issues of intimacy, mortgages, inheritances, secrets, transformations, and taxes.

PLANETARY ISSUES

Mercury Stations Retrograde: May 6 @ 10:01 p.m. and Stations Direct: May 30 @ 6:22 p.m. During this period communication and local travel tends to break down. Make sure your: computers, phones, and cars, are in top shape. Avoid new contracts, if you must sign one, know you will most likely renegotiate it in the future. This is a good time for all forms of renegotiation.

How to Use This Column

As you read your sun and moon sign, you will note each section is broken into Focus, Test, Key & Action. Focus defines what you will find yourself focused on during this time. Test: is the issue or experience which will test your focus. Key: is a little gemstone which can help you pass the test if you will use it. Action: Is the outcome of what you do at this time.

Aries
May 9-23: Focus: Power struggles. Test: Release stress. Key: Emotions can be so deeply hidden, they are secrets to ourselves. Action: You're intense desire to resolve a power issue, makes you react to the wrong person, and hurt yourself in the process.

24-June 6: Focus: Networking. Test: Prioritize. Key: Social flirting precludes the opportunity to fulfill your needs. Action: Networking opens the doors for love.

Taurus
May 9-23: Focus: Emotional Control Test: Honesty. Key: Emotional manipulation is the art of pushing another's emotional buttons to get them to do what you want. Action: You're tugged between manipulation or truth.

24-June 6: Socializing. Test: Facades. Key: Acknowledge the soul of each person you meet instead of focusing on the chatter. Action: New people and their impractical ideas annoy you.

Gemini
May 9-23: Focus: Stressful secrets. Test: Intimacy. Key: Speaking is not sharing. Sharing makes you vulnerable. Action: Being forced to look at a secret causes intense emotion and stress. You can attain a new level of intimacy now.

24-June 6: Focus: Talk. Test: Prioritize Key: Economical use of your energy increases direction and satisfaction. Action: New conversations trigger new ideas, friendships and possible love. But focus is lacking.

Cancer
May 9-23: Focus: Completing a transformation. Test: Power. Key: Self-empowerment is linked to personal achievement. Action: Powerful people help you achieve your desires resulting in renewed resources, personal power and passion.

24-June 6: Focus: Chatter. Test: What's new? Key: All things new are built first in heaven on the roots of the ancient. Action: You're annoyed by new ideas, which appear to disrespect the old.

Leo
May 9-23: Focus: Secret controls. Test: Remain calm. Key: The word is more powerful than the sword. Action: Exposure of a secret affair challenges your honesty and passion.

24-June 6: Ideas. Test: Mental exercise. Key: Depths of knowledge develop through conversing and pondering all possible views. Action: New contacts present ideas and opportunities to network, increase options and fall in love.

Virgo
May 9-23: Focus: Secret desires. Test: Desires. Key: All things are natural if they are aligned with freedom of choice. Action: Old passions and patterns surface and can easily be fulfilled now. Mortgage or marriage is possible.

24-June 6: Focus: Service. Test: Self-criticism. Key: Your mantra: 'Everything is in its perfect place every moment in time.' Action: New events keep you running in circles and you feel nothing is getting done right.

Libra
May 9-23: Focus: Emotional manipulation. Test: Acknowledge the clues. Key: Reactions expose manipulation and personal fears. Action: Shared resources cause friction. This needs to be resolved before anger results.

24-June 6: Focus: Party. Test: Enjoy. Key: Communication is the root to true intimacy. Action: Your time flows with conversations, new people and opportunities to test new ideas and discover love.

Scorpio
May 9-23: Focus: Desires Test: Secrets or lies? Key: Real power is in your beingness not in who you control. Action: While completing an important transaction, your intense emotions and desire to be in control surface.

24-June 6: Focus: Contacts. Test: Be honest. Key: Chatter does no indicate depth, nor does it preclude it. Action: New conversations lead to stress when you weave a tale and assume too much.

Sagittarius
May 9-23: Focus: Irritating power plays. Test: Avoid saying too much. Key: Unguarded self-expression irritates secretive people. Action: Annoying emotions surface as you complete a project using other peoples money.

24-June 6: Focus: New possibilities. Test: Focus. Key: A plan must include brainstorming and research to achieve results. Action: You're excited by new networking ideas, but need grounding to get results.

Capricorn
May 9-23: Focus: Sensuality. Test: Expressing deep emotions. Key: Fantasies respectfully shared increase trust, passion and joy. Action: You can fulfill your sensual desires and intensify passion with the one you love.

24-June 6: Focus: Reviewing ideas. Test: The old way. Key: List the pros and cons for each method you review. Action: New ideas cause stress when you compare them to the old ways you love so well.

Aquarius
May 9-23: Focus: Subterfuge. Test: Confrontation. Key: Empowerment is a arrives when one lets go and trusts in self and others. Action: Old secrets and power issues challenge your feeling of spontaneity and confidence.

24-June 6: Focus: Fun. Test: Prudence. Key: Words glisten in laughter, easily weaving into the mind. Action: You now have opportunities to succeed discussing new proposals in business and love.

Pisces
May 9-23: Focus: Passion. Test: Avoid merging. Key: Being intimate and being a doormat are not the same thing. Action: You can now express deep emotions and intensify bonds with another.

24-June 6: Focus: Social challenges. Test: Speak in practical terms. Key: Spirituality is found in mundane details. Action: You feel lost in the quagmire of meaningless conversations and over-talkative people.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAURUS!!

• Second Sign • Feminine • Fixed Earth • Ruler Venus •

Color Green • Gemstone: Emerald • Flowers: Rose & Daisy • Herbs: Cloves & Spearmint

• Cell Salt: Nat Sulph • Rules: Throat •

Key Phase: “I Own!” • Most Compatible Signs: Virgo & Capricorn •

Taurus, you're the strong, persistent accumulators of the zodiac.

When you decide to do something you move in a steady, consistent pace towards it and seldom can be swayed away from your goal. You're tough, stable and extremely stubborn.

You love beautiful, luxurious things. From art (frequently of yourself) to expensive cars, homes, clothing and jewelry; you're driven by the need to feel secure and surround yourself with beauty. You love to indulge all your senses. You cannot resist candy and sweets. You love getting a massage, dancing or relaxing in a hot tub especially if this affords you the total enjoyment of your mate.

Security is very important to you and you are one of the most loyal signs of the zodiac. Ownership is at the top of your list, whether in property or love. You tend to be possessive, jealous, extravagant, flirtatious, lazy and love to show off your possessions.

Melodious, soothing sounds are also important to you and often you have a voice that can enchant a wild beast.

You work best in a luxurious environment with a set routine.

You can excel as a florist, gardener, beautician, manicurist, model, art dealer, artist including painter, sculptor, jeweler and woodworker, classical musician, treasurer, banker, stockbroker, accountant, cashier, money broker, singer, dancer, massage therapist, throat specialist, designer and entrepreneur.

Famous Taurus include

Jayne Mansfield, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Audrey Hepburn, John Audubon, Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper, Salvador Dali, Dante, Honore de Balzac, Christopher Cross, Joan Miro, Stephen Douglas, Robert Wagner, Rudolph Valentino, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Pia Zadora, Bea Arthur Guglielmo Marconi, Rudolph Hess, Ritchie Valens, Stephen Baldwin, Phil Silvers, John Wilkes Booth, Gabby Hayes, Daniel Day-Lewis, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Liberace, Taj Mahal, Czar Nicholas II, Johannes Brahms, Robert Browning, James Buchanan, Henry Fonda, Sigmund Freud, William Randolph Hearst, Adolph Hitler, Hirohito, Thomas Huxley, Henry J. Kaiser, Nikita Krushchev, Machiavelli, Shirley MacLaine, Marcus Aurelius, Karl Marx, James Monroe, Florence Nightingale, Robespierre, William Shakespeare, James Stewart, Barbara Streisand, Shirley Temple, Harry Truman, Orson Welles, Sheena Easton, Ezio Pinza, Yogi Berra, Jay Leno, James Hoffa, Willie Mays, Sonny Liston, Tchaikovsky, and Alex Van Halen.

Michele Avanti CAP, EFT-3, is a certified astrology professional, metaphysical minister, emotional freedom practitioner and award winning author. For a personal consultation (taped session $144 per hour) call: 541-863-6631.