posted February 05, 2006 11:01 PM            

This week, Venus finally starts to go forwards again. The love-life dramas of the past few weeks won't end overnight, but romance is going to feel a lot less like it's being tested, reviewed and challenged. If you've had to say goodbye to someone in the past month or two, chances are you know in your heart that the relationship had to go.

For many, the Venus retrograde period was a wonderful opportunity to detach a little, step back and analyse your most important one-to-one relationships, to see how balanced and fair what you're giving and what you're getting is. Others still will have got closure on an old romance - it could be anything from having seen an ex and felt like you were in control, to just dreaming about him/her and for the first time not waking up feeling distressed.

So what now, as Venus goes forwards again? Well between now and early March, there is the chance to digest what you know now and to make plans accordingly. In early March, Venus will reach Aquarius, which is where she was when she started going backwards. Use this time well. Remember that Venus is in the strategic sign of Capricorn, so commitment and longevity are likely to come up as two major love issues. Whatever you do romantically now, do it maturely and with one eye on the present and one on the future you would like to build.

posted February 05, 2006 11:23 PM            

I wasnt going to say anything else, but,
I couldnt help noticing my soapbox here and...

This inference really irked me:
"by chance or divine design, depending on your opinion,".

The inference being that it is one's opinion which determines whether the universe operates by chance or divine design.

Now, I'm as politically correct as the next self-righteous blowhard, but I refuse to accept the notion that the fundamental nature of reality is dependent upon the opinion I hold of it.

Even more impossible for me to accept,
is the notion that the nature of reality can correspond simultaneously to the opinion I hold of it AND to the contrary opinion held by somebody else.

I cannot say for certain that my own opinion coincides with reality, but, it would appear indisputable that, if I say "The earth is round," and someone else says "its flat", one of us has got to be wrong.

Have we become so politically correct,
that we cant even be wrong anymore???

posted February 06, 2006 08:58 PM              

There are so many things in there, I have read it like 5 times already.

posted February 06, 2006 10:21 PM            

Glad you enjoy the Skywatch blurbs -- I like them too, despite a tad bit of 'astro-fluff' from time to time -- mostly they are good solid thought-provoking interps.....

They come from Yasmin Boland, an Aussie astrologer and cohort of Jonathan Cainer's, who I believe is a prominent English astrologer.....