Blogoscopes Week of January 26 to February 2, 2009

Aries - This week as you rediscover the cathartic joys of singing in the shower while you wash that man-woman-weigh-scale-bank manager right out of your hair you suddenly feel as though you're being watched. A quick peep will verify that yes you do have an audience and yes they are enjoying themselves. That's just swell but remember, when you hit the big time and they're all claiming they "discovered" you, let them take all kinds of credit but keep their hands off of your royalties!

Taurus - You are experiencing every teacher's dream. Surrounded by a sea of bright, eager faces, you find yourself in command of an audience who are here to learn - from you! Look how they adore, respect and even idolize you. Exciting as it is to have an audience, try to keep in mind that they're not all as bright as they look and some of them will have a very hard time keeping up. Be patient, be kind, and be aware that when you're writing on the blackboard some of them are throwing spitballs at your head.

Gemini - Have you ever seen two people together - in business, romance or just plain cahoots - and wondered "how did that happen?" I'll tell you how. One of those two was once where you are now - feeling kind, generous and contented with their lot in life. That went on for just a tad too long. Person number 2 shows up and kind, generous, contented person (tired of being kind, generous and contented but all alone) gives far too much to person number 2. You're #1! Remember that.

Cancer - This week you flash back to when you were 6 and having trouble in school. The teacher came to see to your mom and dad and you had to stay in the room and listen to them talk about you although no one was talking to you and you certainly weren't allowed to have any say. So you sat in a corner and worked on a jigsaw puzzle until your little brother came and knocked it over. You jumped up shouting and then found all the grown ups giving you that look. Relax, it's only for a week.

Leo - So things weren't challenging enough in your life and you felt strongly that learning another language would fill that hole and bring a new dimension of wonderfulness to your life. Now it's the night before the final, you barely attended classes, you borrowed notes from someone who speaks neither the language you're studying nor English. Don't panic; it's astonishing how much you can learn just by sitting a classroom. The knowledge is deep in your psyche:stop thinking, just answer.

Virgo - You're beginning to feel as though you've walked into a room full of sulky little brats who are all whining and pouting about something or other and how things just aren't fair. How tempting would it be to join them eh? Just sit down on your very own time out stool, cross your arms stick out your lower lip and make "don't want to" your standard response to any and all communications. Or you could start off a game of dodge ball; let everyone get it out of their system.

Libra - You're having dinner at a great restaurant with a bunch of your closest friends and when the meals start to arrive yours is wrong. You're a meat lover and they brought lobster or your veggie loving self just got presented with the filet Mignon. Any way you slice and dice it a mistake has been made. Don't panic! Whatever it is you are not allergic! Let's not worry about whose fault it is - did you mumble or the waiter forget - let's just get it corrected: quietly.

Scorpio - If I said that you had super powers would you believe me? Normally no, but now if I made that claim you'd be cape shopping before I could stop you. Which is not to say that you're not super because you are, but your superness doesn't involve powers of flight, psychic abilities or apparently, persuasion. Hey, not our fault. We don't believe that you're faster than a speeding bullet because you don't believe it. Give it a little love - you look good in tights.

Sagittarius - Today might be the day you look around and realize you want a side split ranch on ten acres in the Muskoka's. Or you might simply decide that you want to paint the bathroom red. You're itching for change but you're not sure what needs to be different. Can I recommend starting at the paint store & working up to real estate. Changes don't always have to be big to feel big and if you discover that you really want it you can paint the bathroom red in the side split.

Capricorn - There's a new comedy on CBC called Being Erica and apparently it's a prettier version your life this week. I haven't seen it, but from what I overheard on the streetcar it involves going back in time to relive your life altering events, which (fingers-crossed) has a positive effect on the life you have now. You have no control over the timing of these time trips and no way to avoid them: which is fine because you're about to discover you have nothing to regret.

Aquarius - For a sadly brief moment in time this week, the lights are going to go out where you are. Power surge, practical joke or the end of the world, you'll find yourself, along with several others, standing in the stunned silence that follows the arrival of total darkness and that mass sudden intake of breath. Quick, while no one can see, rearrange all of the furnishings. If you're fast you won't get caught and you will have the satisfaction of turning at least part of the world on its head.

Pisces - Apparently there are things done in the name of love which are not positive and do not have the loving results intended. If this were not true our legal system would be way less busy. You are guilty of the crime of loving too much and when your amor discovers what you've been hiding for amor's "own good" you might not be feeling the love. If you can't bring yourself to confess what you've done in words, try explaining your motivations through interpretive dance.