Weekly Horoscope for Friday, July 22, 2011, #868 - BY ERIC FRANCIS

Revised and Updated! Click for Eric's Zodiac Sign Descriptions

Aries (March 20-April 19) -- You are at a leverage point where you can make progress on connecting your financial goals to your creative flow. While you're doing this, you might ponder why, or perhaps how, it is that so many people find this so mysterious. Is there really any way to create or attract wealth other than creativity? One of the unfortunate elements of Western thought to get over is that there is some other way. Since you don't look like you're becoming a bank robber any time soon, I suggest you consider the idea that -- for you, anyway -- there's just one practical way to fund your life, which is with the thoughts that emerge from your mind, the products of your hands, and your vital participation in the world. I wonder, does that match your view of yourself? What would you need to do or adjust in your life in order to get over any lingering anxiety or outright fear about money, creativity or both? Now is a great time. Click here to order your 2011 Aries Audio Birthday Report.
Taurus (April 19-May 20) -- I suggest you spend some time trying on the feeling of being more fortunate than you think you are. This may feel like an exaggeration -- go for it. Don't imagine the cup is half full; imagine the cup is overflowing, and that you're strolling down your favorite street of your favorite city in any style you like. Allow yourself to think and indeed to feel like your life exists on a larger scale than it does. I suggest, specifically, that you allow yourself to feel safe being more, and having more, as both an experiment and a kind of exercise. If you can get over the feeling that it's somehow silly to do this, you may discover that the way into success is to allow your mind to expand and make room for it, so that you have space to grow into. Small feelings and thoughts lead to a cramped life; more expanded, generous thoughts lead to a more spacious, abundant life. Click here to order your 2011 Taurus Audio Birthday Report.
Gemini (May 20-June 21) -- You seem to be in the process of making a decision about whether you feel right where you are, and by that I mean domestically (in your home), geographically (in your city or region) or both. Just make sure that you distinguish the logical piece (what you're thinking, or what your mind is telling you) from the sensory and intuitive piece (what you're feeling, and what your instincts are telling you). You have some time to sort this out; I suggest you not try to convince yourself of anything, and set a boundary on how long you're going to ponder this issue. On the surface, it seems like the primary issue is your sense of safety. Really, I think you're grappling with a sense of belonging: do you belong where you are? Do you feel grounded? Your mind and your body may have two different opinions about this, and the next six weeks or so will help you work out any differences you find. PS, one other clue: what if the past was not such a potent factor? Click here to order your 2011 Gemini Audio Birthday Report.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- You may be feeling out of step as the Sun leaves your sign, as if you are somehow adrift in a world of possibilities you cannot seem to grasp. I suggest you set a boundary around yourself, and explore within a smaller sphere of reality than you might ordinarily. In a sense, I'm suggesting you experiment with a limit, which could be your backyard, it could be a phase of time that you define, it could be a group of friends, or it could be a purpose that you've embraced. When you're consciously existing within that enclosed (or clearly defined) space, how do you feel? The world is indeed large and wild, and there are a lot of possibilities. I suggest you experiment with seeing the potential that already exists within you. I also suggest you experiment with being content and comfortable within that self-imposed limit or idea, at least for a little while. There's more available for you in there than you may imagine. Hello Cancerians! I am doing your birthday report today. (Oops! It's a week later and I'm going to have another go at it.) We will send a special mailing when it's ready -- and post it to the main PW blog.
Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) -- The Sun enters your birth sign this weekend, and I'm guessing that always comes as a relief. This is the season of your birth, and for as strange as life on the only known inhabited planet is right now, you can welcome a sense of familiarity and a drop in psychic pressure. For the past couple of months there has been a lot going on behind the scenes of your life, and you might discover that many of the situations and issues you were working with have resolved themselves. I suggest you focus your energy on coming to terms with one particular fear that has been more persistent. Now is the time to develop an understanding of the source of the feeling, as well as build some confidence that it's something that cannot actually hurt you. One advantage to the current moment is that you can actually get the sensation into your direct vision and see it for what it is. This information will come in handy in the near future. To order Light Bridge, your full-length 2011 reading including written and audio segments for Leo, please go to this link.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) -- Many of your best attributes are hidden from plain view. You may even walk around with the sense that if people could only see you for who you really are, they would be amazed. But you're the one who deserves to be amazed: by what you possess within yourself, by what you're capable of, and by what you want to share with the world. I'm wondering what could be standing between you and your full expression. One hint that the charts are offering is that you're uneasy about power. Offering your strength or creativity is indeed a kind of power. There is a risk involved, and though I'm uncertain where it comes from, you seem to carry some anxiety around the whole theme of aggression. It's as if you feel that when you start to let go and assert your potential, you are somehow being pushy or even violent. You are currently in a moment when you can experiment with having absolutely no fear of that; where you can assert yourself a little more strongly and be confident that you're safe doing so. To order Light Bridge, your full-length 2011 reading including written and audio segments for Virgo, please go to this link.
Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) -- Isn't it weird how attached people get to their religious beliefs, even to the point of enforcing them with laws, judges and police? And when you think about most religious beliefs, they are based on very little, or absolutely nothing -- which may be why so many people feel like they have to be so pushy about them. This works with many other kinds of beliefs, such as in sex roles, social roles, with money, or with a worldview. The current moment is all about belief melting away and the presence of something real making itself known. The presence may not be obvious; in fact it may be subtle, such as something that was there all along but which you're just noticing now. You will notice more elegantly if you let go of belief, arguing about belief, or trying to convince yourself (or anyone) of anything. The truth that will emerge from the background of your perception is more likely to express itself in an atmosphere of relative calm, with your mind in observer mode. To order Light Bridge, your full-length 2011 reading including written and audio segments for Libra, please go to this link.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) -- You're about to get the answer to a mystery -- you might say, the mystery of where your power goes. I mean, you must have figured out that it goes somewhere, because you can go from being influential and creative in the flow of your life, to suddenly being subsumed in another person or a situation larger than you. This can and often does happen so dependably that you don't even notice it at the time. Yet you're embarking on a turn of events that are poised to give you a big clue what happens when you suddenly discover you have no influence. I think you'll catch yourself before things go too far -- that's the whole point. This arrives not a moment too soon, because with the Sun about to enter Leo, you have everything going for you right now. You are visible, you're perceived as competent and qualified as you are, and this is a moment to shine, especially in the work that you do. To order Light Bridge, your full-length 2011 reading including written and audio segments for Scorpio, please go to this link.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) -- When the Sun enters Leo this weekend, it picks up on a load of fiery energy that's concentrated in both Aries and your own sign. This seems custom-designed to give you momentum, and it will -- but I suggest you be aware of one thing. What you might currently think of as a highly focused goal may be changing. That's a good thing, not a bad thing. The result will be an opportunity to expand your horizons in a way that you've been lacking for a while. Expanding may come in the form of new space, new ideas, or new locations, perhaps at a distance. Whatever may emerge, it's time to stretch out of your familiar territory and reach into different possibilities than the ones that have surrounded you for many months. You may have an idea to return to someplace you've been before. This would not be a step back, or backwards -- rather, you would arrive there and see it as an entirely new place. To order Light Bridge, your full-length 2011 reading including written and audio segments for Sagittarius, please go to this link.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) -- There is an opening in your life that did not exist a month ago, and you can go through that opening and explore an unfamiliar world. This is likely to be in the form of a relationship. It could be a new person, or an experience of someone currently in your life that is ready to open up in a new way. I suggest you let the experience attract you, and draw you toward it -- rather than plunging in, not knowing what you're getting yourself into. Easy does it; this is gentle territory. Stay close to the feeling of what you don't know; stay close to the subtle curiosity that may be leading you. If you find yourself losing confidence, stay close to your curiosity and treat it like it's emotional oxygen. Feel the sensation of not knowing, and loving the anticipation of discovery. To order Light Bridge, your full-length 2011 reading including written and audio segments for Capricorn, please go to this link.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Here is some news: This week, a spacecraft originating on Earth traveled 117 million miles, reached an asteroid for the first time, entered an orbit around the thing, and sent home photos. The ship is called Dawn and the asteroid is Vesta, who I think of as the guardian of 'the sacred space of self'. This took place in your birth sign, which at the very least is an astrological honor. But I think it's more than that. Vesta is a representation of interior consciousness, a dimension that eludes many people most of their lives. This stark metaphor of a long journey to a remote location, and images traveling back to us over that vast distance, suggests that you're making a discovery. It may be as simple as coming fully to terms with the existence of your inner universe. You don't have to concern yourself with what that means; you can look within your consciousness with wonder and appreciation. To order Light Bridge, your full-length 2011 reading including written and audio segments for Aquarius, please go to this link.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- In our world, we must come to terms with the conflation of sexual desire and violence. We don't like to think of it this way, but there is a relationship between the two, it has many expressions, and we all experience them in one way or another. There's an element to your astrology this week that reminds me of a drain of violent impulses from your emotional body. The chart feels as if pressure is being released from your psyche, and one way that can express itself is the healing of dualism. Part of what pushes sexual feelings into a violent dimension, and indeed all of human emotion, is the perception of difference, which extends one more layer into duality -- an us versus them feeling, or me versus the world. The challenge of your current astrology is about relaxing and experiencing some element of the common ground we all share, from moment to moment. This will offer you a whole new way of exploring pleasure and desire. To order Light Bridge, your full-length 2011 reading including written and audio segments for Pisces, please go to this link.