Week of: 2/28-3/5
- A contract of eternal bond of love
Confirm’d by mutual joinder of your hands.
in Shakespeare’s 12th Night [Act V, scene i]
> about 2/21/00 10:49 PM, ya’ll suggested:
> Hey man, how come all the signs in your weekly outlook have a link to
the
> order page – but the Capricorn one has a link to Sherman’s Lagoon?? ..a
> cartoon on the subject of Saturn?? ..too weird, man..
>
> But, I must applaud the brilliance of it…
Aries: There isn’t a lot to do with this week that’s going to be fun. There’s a strange dichotomy about the times. The big planets are all foretelling good stuff, and the moon is slowing it all down. This brings about a delayed delivery of promised goods. It’s like the guy who throws the morning paper onto my doorstep every day. The paper usually arrives just as I’m nodding off to sleep, about three in the morning. It makes a "thump" against the aluminum door, a permanent dent in the screen. But on one of those days when I’m supposed to read a story about me in the paper, the paper doesn’t come until I’ve passed out. That’s what I mean by delayed delivery this week. The timing is all off. It’s a good week, but there is just something amiss with the actual delivery of the goods.
Taurus: Ever feel like you’re getting messages delivered via some sort of strange mental telepathy? Do you wonder if an alien abducted you and placed a secret transmitter in your brain, perhaps at the base of your skull, and you get these messages which seem to come from no where, sort of like subconscious marketing hype which is embedded in just about everything we touch these days? I would be a little careful with the content of the messages, myself. In your fine Taurus mind, turn over what the message is. Try to ascertain just what it is that you are supposed to be doing. One of the biggest problems with such alien transmissions this week is your uncanny ability to misinterpret what the real meaning of the message is. Hearing voices isn’t always bad, but doing whatever the voices suggest might not be in your best interest right about now.
Gemini: There’s a bizarre dynamic at work in your head right now. It’s going to feel like you are going a little nuts this week. Where I live, this is perfectly okay, in fact, I understand this aberrant behavior just fine. Texas is full of strange people, and even people in Texas assume that us folks in Austin are a little bit weirder than the rest. Your behavior is all due to Mercury, and its little tailspin right now. There are some other contributing factors, but it’s easy to see that no one can quite keep up with your racing Gemini mind right now. So what are you going to do about it? I wouldn’t worry. In fact, I would get out the crayons and the Big Chief pad of paper, the kind that still has toothpick sized chunks of pulp in it, and I would make notes. The purpose of the crayons is color code all the notes you’re going to be taking. Yes, there’s a myriad of shooting stars in your head this week, just try to color code all the data which no one else seems to understand. Only a good Gemini will be able to correlate all the data, and you are a good one.
Cancer: Conventional wisdom dictates that you ain’t going to have as good week. But just how conventional are you? And rather than deal with some strange, arcane metaphors which draw on Shakespeare’s canon of work, trailer parks, and the odd bit of Texas history, I would just let you know that this is a good week to take a few days off. The office will survive. In my case, the office looks a lot like a garage right now, and there’s a motor half assembled back there. You’re going to feel like you should be working on your motor this week, only, the problem isn’t mechanical, it’s an electrical short. Since I never did like fooling around with wires, I’ll assume you don’t either. Perhaps the best thing right now is to take a cup of coffee out to the garage and look at the problem. I don’t know that you can fix anything, but it looks you’re doing conventional work — but you and I know it’s happening in an unconventional setting.
Leo: Ever "rise to take the bait" as the expression goes? This is one of those weeks when you’re willing to jump on some challenges which are coming your way. Now, with the current disposition of some of the planets, I’m not pointing any fingers but Mercury is still retrograde, you need to think a little longer before you accept that challenge. Shakespeare’s Richard the Third would have a done a lot better if he had just backed off instead of jumping into a certain battle. You’re kind of like Richard, the character in the play, because you’re willing to tackle the problem. But it is a time when I urge you to consider your actions before you jump. Like I’ve said, this is a good time to finish up some old business rather than jumping off and engaging in a new fight.
Virgo: Doom, gloom and general unease abounds this week in the usually "perfect world of Virgo." It’s a less than perfect world for many of you this week. Perhaps not all, but a lot of you are going to be feeling that Mercury thing in full force. It’s a strange time. There’s a useful Martian influence which bodes well for relationships, but have you ever tried talking to one of your targets, and have them look at you like you’re speaking French? It ain’t bad speaking French, but in the parts of Texas — south of Amarillo or Pampa — Spanish is better language to understand. It’s a lot more native. In some environments in Texas, English should be the second language. But now we’re back to you and your French talk. It just doesn’t fly. While you’re extra pretty (or handsome, as the case is) right now, you just keep getting those frustrating messages from someone who is interested, but the communication barrier seems impenetrable — all week long.
Libra: There seems to be nothing more upsetting to Libra than a major disagreement. And I’m not predicting that you are going to have as major disagreement this week, but I will warn you that there’s a higher than normal probability that you run into a situation where you get your dander up. It doesn’t look like this is a good fight either. You’re going to be tempted to "fight dirty" which is okay sometimes, but other times, like this week, this isn’t a good idea. I’m reminded of the time a Bass Fisherman wandered away from the lakes in Texas and tried his hand at the delicate art of fly fishing in Colorado. There’s a finesse which is required in both sports, but it is a different kind of fishing. The only thing that was left of his first half dozen trout was a jaw. He was used to setting the hook on an aggressive monster sport fish, and those poor trout require less energy to set a hook properly. Careful with setting hooks this week, or you’ll wind up with a stringer full of nothing but fish teeth.
Scorpio: This whole Mercury Retrograde thing has you wondering a little because it doesn’t hit you right now. That’s the good news. You just don’t feel the old problems cropping up. What you do have occurring, though, is a visit from the past. Someone you completely forgot about, someone who is back to say, "Howdy! Remember me?" My experience with Scorpio’s indicates that you guys really, really don’t like surprises. So you won’t get one this week. But you do have this former flame (?), former business partner (?) or ex – roommate (?) show up. I would hope that they just call as opposed to showing up on the stoop, knocking on the door. Remember that you don’t like surprises, so start peeking out the front window and anticipate this new old arrival.
Sagittarius: Ya’ll are nothing but a pain, at the first of the week. And since my mail always has a double boatload on Monday mornings, yes, I am complaining. It does hit all of us. There is a some good news, though, because this is a flash in the pan, as the old cliché goes. It doesn’t last long. And it’s like that Monday morning mailbag, all you have to do is sit down and start cranking out answers. Be prepared to elucidate on some of the more arcane points of Elizabethan philosophy right now. Get prepared to hammer out tips on bait this week. I know that this is really old ground that we’re covering, but it’s going to get better and better as the week gets older. The drive and determination come back, and it’s going to get easier to deal with the monumental load of work that gets dumped on you at the first of the week.
Capricorn: You’ve got a number of astrological influences in your weekly chart which look good. There’s just one disparate influence which isn’t so good. While your overall picture for the week is wonderful, there is a single problem that you keep forgetting about. I’m reminded of the time when I lent my truck to a girlfriend so she could move some furniture. My back was bad that day, so I couldn’t help with the lifting and opted out. I got the truck back in fine shape, but both gas tanks were dry. Empty. Running on fumes. I had to rev it up so I coast to the gas station in order to fill it up. You have a week like that. You help someone out, but then they forget to put gas back in the tank. Now, with the odd things going on in your chart, I would suggest that you can coast up to the next gas pump. But this is another one of these things that a little preparedness will help prevent.
Aquarius: Ever try to date two girls at one time? Not that I’m speaking from any kind of personal experience myself, but if you’re honest about it, the fur flies, and if you lie about it, the fur flies when [inevitably] you get caught in your web of lies. Either way, from my very limited experience, it just doesn’t work. Not for me, anyway. And it looks like you’ve got similar situation going on. This is not the week to try and make a decision, either. While everyone else is under the weather with Mercury thing, you need to be looking towards new horizons. But I don’t know that you need to be trying my routine of dating more than one person at a time right now. I understand that you got to decide on just one, but maybe you can put that decision off for a week or two. Let that fur settle.
Pisces: I wish you could see it at sunset, but it’s not quite the time. Yet. Mercury is in the process of going from an evening star to being a morning star. Of course, in your wicked fast Pisces brain, you will think, "Mercury is a planet, not a star." I’m referring to the old texts when I call it star. And as long as Mercury is doing this strange little dance, you need to be paying attention to the fact that he’s still doing the backward tango in Pisces Land, and this little dance number is still wreaking minor havoc in your life. By the end of the week, though, Mercury should be closer to being straightened out, and the lines of communication will begin to get a little better. We ain’t out of the woods yet, and hold those tales of woe for a spell yet. But it is better by degree or two, by the weekend.
