Paul Gauguin – Te arii vahine (The Queen of Beauty or The Noble Queen) 1896-97 {{PD}}

This year you’ll shine in relationships, in the wisdom of your choices and your guidance to others, in your acquisition and use of practical skills, in your ability to earn and to attract reward and positive attention–and you may have the most successful creative year of your life, dear Scorpio. Frankly, I’m jealous. In fact, a lot of people might be, and you’ll need to watch out for the way others’ petty emotions might interfere with your impressive and envy-inspiring trajectory. No matter how loving you are (and you will naturally radiate this, this coming Solar year, through to your next birthday) there’s always someone who wants to poke you in the eye; just know that the character deficit is theirs, not yours–at least that’s true right now. Happy Birthday, Scorpio, and good luck!

Georges Seurat ‘Port-en-Bessin: The Outer Harbor (Low Tide)’ 1888

Soul, heart, mind, and common sense are all in alignment over the coming Solar year, through to your next birthday, dear Scorpio–but what does all that inner harmony bring you? Besides a magnetism that rivals the tides, you may find the mentality is burdened by a lot of ambition and an inability to think in a straight line–which means you can seem so wrapped up in yourself that you alienate others. The emotions in you run deep over the coming year, but may be kept under wraps, out of fear or a desire to suppress those feelings you’d rather not acknowledge; you may question your own motives and strength, and so may undermine what you could excel at, earning and lovin’. Happy Birthday, Scorpio, and good luck!

The new ECLIPSE is out–order here

Though you’ll have the Midas touch when it comes to money, Scorpio, it’s important to keep relationships in mind.

Dear Scorpio, you embody the essence of Love this coming Solar year, through to your next birthday–or is that a big pile of gold bouillon shimmering all around you? You may have the Midas touch in Love or Finances, and the wisdom of Solomon as a bonus–so what could go wrong? The mind may feel like it’s been dipped in cement, and you could be so pre-occupied with your own ambitions, wants, and desires that there’s scant room for meaningful interaction with others. Too, a desire to understand your own emotional depths this year could make you come across as much more introverted than you mean to. There’s good news, though, in that the big philosophical questions you want to address will serve to shape your future Path–so there’s no way even the time you spend alone will be wasted–and don’t let your exceptional ability to attract attract attract go to waste, either. Happy Birthday, Scorpio, and good luck!

Der Zirkus – Georges Seurat {{PD}}

Welcome to the fun-house, Scorpio (if you’re a Libra born the 23rd, please see the Born Today for the 22nd). This year, through to your next birthday, may be one intense ride toward fulfillment of one or more of your goals–or at the very least, toward launching something important in your life. The good news? Your choices will be smart and likely result in reward or profit of one kind or another. The less good news? Reasoning may be flawed, which could set up problems for later (and consider that you may choose well but then delay success through poor planning). If you’re not working toward a material triumph of some kind, you may be called on (even forced) to devote a lot of time and energy to relationships, which may feel ‘new’ even when they’re not, making it all that much tougher to sort out. But, it will be an amazing year where chances are high Love or Money comes your way, and your creativity and ability to heal and make progress are tested. Happy Birthday, and good luck!

Go ahead, Libra, live it up! ‘Woman Holding Fireworks’, India, Artist unknown 19th century {{PD}}

Do you feel like you’re going to burst, dear Libra? Don’t worry, everybody does, since we’re coming up on a burst-worthy Solar eclipse. In terms of your Solar year, through to your next birthday, this schedules you for about two months of mild tension and confusion followed by a new start that is smart for you, brings positives into the life (financial, love-related, or just through expressions of what you value), and that holds the potential both to offer you some serious healing as well as the opportunity to master some unique skills that you have a genuine talent for. We also see the possibility for significant expansion of your world and just in general for ‘more’–which is the best argument ever for always trying your best and including as many good things in the life as possible–because you don’t want more of the bad or boring, do you? Happy Birthday, Libra, and good luck!

Get out there and do–you’ll find something valuable. By N. C. Wyeth,
from the 1911 edition of ‘Treasure Island’ {{PD}}

Reward, treasure, Love–whatever you want to call it–will be yours this year, dear Libra–but you’ll have to act, to choose, to decide to get it. What you do to earn it will, directly or indirectly, require a Sagittarius-flavored effort: learning or teaching, implementation of a life philosophy or the development of one by which to live, a reaching out to others, efforts to understand and/ or incorporate what’s foreign to you, religious ritual meant to lead to spiritual communion, or something dictated by the subjects ruled by Sag in your natal chart–you’ll know which one resonates for you–and the great thing is this opens up your capacity for instinctual understanding, offering a personal compass guided by your own deep connection to All That Is. But first, choose, decide, act. Happy Birthday, Libra, and good luck!

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Libra, you may feel alone, even in a crowd. Night Café at Arles, (Mme Ginoux) 1888 Paul Gauguin {{PD}}

You may feel strangely lonely this coming Solar year, through to your next birthday, dear Libra, no matter how much love, praise, or reward surrounds you–and you are slated for a good dose of that–it’s just that you will be grappling mentally and emotionally with issues of power, reach, and territory, and so may need to cultivate that sense of isolation, if only so that you can sort through and make sense of things. The best result of all this could be that you come out of this experience a leader, in one form or another, with a magnified sense of fairness and an enhanced understanding of power expression–and that should lead to some significant healing. Happy Birthday, Libra, and good luck!

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‘The Jockey’ Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec {{PD}}

Power issues between yourself and other authorities in your life are the focus this coming year, through to your next birthday, dear Libra. There will be an often subtle jockeying for territory, influence, and the right to command–but never ever forget that the ultimate say-so is yours. In fact, that may be the toughest part of this year: remembering that no matter how things appear, the final authority (and responsibility) is your own. The biggest challenge may be in recognizing that most of the ‘rights’ and influence others have over you is just an elaborate illusion, one you previously agreed to–and now you must decide whether you want that enmeshment to continue. Positives: you have a good chance at a prosperity boost if you are willing to face issues you’ve been avoiding. Happy Birthday, Libra, and good luck!

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‘Weeping Willow’ Claude Monet c1919 {{PD}}

This may be an exceptionally emotional year for you, through to your next birthday, dear Libra; exploration of darker life matters and those things you’ve tried to ignore will spark some definitive emotional scenes, and these in turn will spark actions guided by instinct, and these will affect material matters and end up re-shaping your world. Make special efforts toward personal control and fine-tune presentations of your own uniqueness or originality, because at this time you’ll only get one shot to make that first impression, and it needs to be as unruffled by tumultuous feelings and matters of the heart as possible. You could see a few ‘firsts’ this year, but don’t stress the rules and parameters you know to be wise–respect them, and if you have to choose between what’s untried and what’s known, pick the one that’s most practical. Happy Birthday, Libra, and good luck!

Pedro Alexandrino Borges ‘Still life – Grapes and Peaches’ {{PD}}

This coming Solar year, through to your next birthday, you’ll have the juice, dear Libra, to face those issues you’ve been avoiding and by doing so release a crazy amount of creative energy (or just a large amount of crazy, should you fail to channel it positively!) Don’t worry, instinct will guide you to a great extent, and facing things will also free up your capacity to alter and shape the environment to your liking–and that may be something you haven’t had the strength to do for some time. A couple of caveats: you can be too proud, and so discourage what would otherwise prove to be positive situations, and miscommunications or misunderstandings can be costly–so exchange info with care. Happy Birthday, Libra, and good luck!