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Horoscope 8-14 March, 2009

ARIES	TAURUS	GEMINI
Serenity is beginning to replace stress... and clarity is starting to replace confusion. This improvement is happening just in time because you need to prepare for an inspiring change. Someone, somewhere, wants the best for you. A generous gesture is going to be made... and though this may not involve money, it will be one that increases your sense of security and wellbeing. You are more appreciated and admired than you realise. You're needed for the very special energy and enthusiasm that only you can bring to a sleepy situation. Gather your confidence, seize your opportunity, prepare to make a big difference.	Some people do yoga. They cook healthy food, go for walks in the forest, read books about psychology and rescue wounded animals. Others like to drink, dance, eat junk food and watch TV. Are the first group superior to the second? Well, if they think they are, they aren't. As soon as we see ourselves as 'better' or 'worse' than other people, we really start heading for a fall. Avoid judgements and opinions this week. And if you feel someone is awarding (or deducting) you marks, shrug your shoulders and laugh. What's important now, is that you develop a meaningful connection... not that you get all the right boxes ticked.	Some people make us feel good when we are with them. We feel edgy or uneasy when we are with other people. Those feelings tell us plenty, but they do not tell us everything, Sometimes, we learn and benefit more from time spent in 'challenging' company than we do when we're around 'easy' folk. Sometimes too, when we think too much about what we feel and why, we tie ourselves up in knots of confusion. Be aware of your feelings this week - but don't be a slave to them. Coming up soon is an encounter or experience that makes you feel truly, wholly excellent. About that, there can be no doubt. About all else, keep an open mind.

CANCER	LEO	VIRGO
ou are not strong enough to complete a task single-handed. You need more understanding and co-operation. You won't get this, though, unless you request it. A classic Cancerian self-defence mechanism involves pretending to be fine, even when you sorely need support. You are so good at this that you don't always know when you are doing it. Your current air of confidence and self-sufficiency is causing others to imagine you are unapproachable. Confess your vulnerability. This will not disempower you. It will enable someone who is 'holding back' to step forward. Give them a chance to reach into your life and your heart.	Coming events will peel back the surface of a relationship, and reveal what has been going on behind the scenes. That will clear up a mystery and allow a deeper level of understanding. Whatever comes up, or out, neither pretend that all is as it was... nor swing to the other extreme and decide things can never be quite the same again. There's now an astrological opportunity to be unusually honest with yourself. Ask yourself some searching questions and then share those answers without fear. This in turn will produce honest responses from someone else. All that will move everything sweetly on in the right direction.	There's something you want, but which, it seems, the universe is not yet letting you have. But there is something else that would more than compensate for this and which clearly IS on offer. So what's the problem? The problem is a fixed idea. As Mercury edges towards a conjunction with Jupiter, you need to be a bit more fluid and flexible. You're not being kept away from a desired result because some cosmic force is conspiring to keep you unhappy. You're being guided, by a kindly sky, towards an option that's better and brighter than you dare allow yourself to imagine! If you can't yet see what that is, you soon will!

LIBRA	SCORPIO	SAGITTARIUS
Have you angered the gods? Have you inadvertently incurred the curse of some powerful fairy by trampling on their tiny home? Were you, in some previously lifetime, the leader of a cruel army? Frankly, even if you were, you are entitled to be told about the sins for which you are seemingly being punished. The absence of such an explanation is an indication that you have committed no crime. Nor, really, have you done anything to upset a particular person who is now giving you more of a hard time than you deserve. Don't feel bad; feel hopeful. Justice will yet be done and good outcomes will yet ensue.	Some people are better actors than others. All of us, though, have ways to hide our emotions, disguise our opinions or conceal our intentions. Life would be pretty dull if we were all transparent - but, when we're all being opaque, relationships soon become complicated. Getting to the truth about what someone feels may prove tricky this week, especially as sometimes, what we think we feel and what we truly feel are not quite the same. There are times when, if we 'fake' a feeling, we begin to find that we are actually having it! If, instead of an earnest conversation, you act out a role, this week, you could end up living it!	Is this world full of control freaks? Or are most of us couch potatoes? That's a trick question. When we sit gawping at the TV, we exercise enormous power. The moment we see something we don't like, we can get rid of it. If we want more of what pleases us, we just have to change the channel. In that sense at least, we are all 'remote-control' freaks. This week, there are some things that you can't switch off from. You not only have to watch some dramas, you have to play an active part in them. If you can't get away, you had better get involved. Throw yourself, wholeheartedly, into what's required of you and you'll yet enjoy it.

CAPRICORN	AQUARIUS	PISCES
Some people have too much time on their hands. They make mountains out of molehills to keep boredom at bay. Others are over-stretched. Their molehills turn into mountains because they aren't able to give them enough attention. And then, there are the times when we find ourselves making such a big mountain out of such a small molehill that when a true problem turns up, we have no time or energy with which to tackle it. It's crucial to focus on the right priority this week. Remember, what looks like a molehill to you is a mountain to someone else. Show due respect or it may end up becoming a mountain to you, too!	Sport? Politics? Fashion? Gossip? Pick any topic, so long as it is shallow. Do try, though, to avoid questions that none of us can answer or facts that none of us wants to face. It would be very rude and antisocial to draw attention to those. We all like to talk about the need to recognise reality but reality in, er, reality, is something none of us really likes to look at. Fantasy is invariably preferable and the best pretence of all is the illusion that we are under no illusion! Something true and important is now being communicated. Listen, learn and be honest in your reply this week. It could yet change everything for the better.	It's fine to want something. It is not OK, though, to want anything (or anyone) so badly as to lose all sense of perspective. Your objective may be wholesome enough, but the intensity of your passion is perhaps inappropriate. The question you want an answer to now is not 'where do I stand?' but 'How much does it really matter where I stand?' Mercury's conjunction to Jupiter this week suggests, rather strongly, that where you're standing right now, and who you're standing there with, may be a far more preferable place to be than you yet realise.