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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Aries in October 2008


aries, the ram

march 21 -- april 20




aries in october



general

I’ll start this month with another question: is your head on straight, Aries?

Kinda rude, huh? Well, I happen to know that, while your head isn’t necessarily any better off than anyone else’s right now, it’s screwed on straighter than it has been in a while. Over the past few years, countless confrontations have highlighted those all-too-human flaws that were cluttering up your ideas about the world, your mindset, and your overall life direction.

You’ve lived and learned. You know certain things about life and about human nature that you didn’t know before. When the next couple of months bring a whole new chapter into your life, you’ll be prepared to face it—tired and a little disillusioned, yes, but wiser.

There’s one more push, though. This month, it’s as if all those little selfish, naive urges will gang up inside you for one last blowout party.

Luckily, despite your unpredictability and the instability of your situation, you still have good support from tolerant people; when all this is over, remember: you couldn’t have done it by yourself.

sex life

Sex is an issue. There’s no getting around that. Your libido is through the roof this month, and you’ll be willing to do, say, be almost anything to get it. It’s not just sex, either; you have the urge to merge, on several levels.

However, there’s a hitch: whenever you get close to intimacy, some small-but-ferocious part of you lashes out at the very idea. What, you, compromise with someone else for something like sex or love or companionship? Please. If it doesn’t come unconditionally, with no demands attached, it isn’t the real thing. Right?

Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. Stay tuned in October to find out just how wrong that little militant-separationist part of you is—trust me, you’ll hear plenty about it over the next few weeks.

public life

Thankfully, this is much better, though it may look pretty hairy on the surface. Some of you are about to go through serious upheavals in your career—from lateral job changes to complete overhauls of your entire working life—but these changes will be for the better, once the dust settles.

This month, there aren’t as many immediate crises. The tone of the month is friendlier, more supportive. It’s no time to get complacent, though; if you’re job-hunting, use the time you’d normally spend fighting fires at your current job to follow up on leads, make some calls, etc.. Know that the changes are coming, and prepare yourself while you have some time.
There’s still some fantastic luck associated with new job opportunities. Pursue any leads you hear of, any at all, no matter how far-fetched they seem—you might be surprised at who backs you.
(Aries sculpture by Carole Duffour. View her website here.)

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