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I also want to take time to point readers at my friend and fellow Toastmaster Trudy Carol, who's doing financial forecasts at the start of each month, here on Medium and here at her main site.
Leo: Put your best foot forward by recognizing your own expertise. You'll find that you thrive in an environment of sudden change in work conditions, as long as you maintain your autonomy and keep in mind a six-month goal. Be wary of chemistry at home. A partner paints an idealistic vision of the past, but you had best remember the practical realities before you commit to a revisit for old times' sake.
Virgo: FInancial matters had best remain fluid for now. A professional colleague makes difficulty for you through a challenging supervisory role which may or may not be temporary. A partner's enthusiasm for weird ideas and how it should affect your duties may be getting to you, but it's best not to rock the boat too much. Family members may ask you to contribute to a financial cause out of some sense of fairness, but you're the only one who can say if it's truly just to do that.
Libra: Familial reunions can be hard, especially when you're trying to patch or paper over an old injustice and reforge broken connections. Ask yourself if family is an unbreakable bond — or if this is just re-making the old chains of connecton that you once broke free from. IT doesn't have to be one way or another, but you should be considering reconciliation in the context of justice rather than just from the "we're family, of course this is how it's done." It's hard to hold onto a vision of a better family when there's practical matters that have to be attended to — but be kind and generous to your partner right now, especially in public.
Scorpio: You're probably hungry for a shake-up in old patterns in your relationship, especially when it comes to how your partner works, or how your partner sees your work. Set a timetable for a shift together, but expect it to take six to nine months. If its your employment or side-hustle that's the problem, them maybe you should contact a counselor and write a business and marketing plan for the next 36 weeks; if its your partner's, a more immediate shakeup of your attitude is needed - let your own thinking be transformed. Make art if you need to, but re-balance your thinking about the relationship nonetheless. If money is the root of the issue, then talk it out with a friend. And it wouldn't hurt to clean the bathroom or the kitchen, either: "no one was ever shot for doing the dishes."
Sagittarius: Your spouse or significant other has a big issue on the chopping block, and they'll be approaching and retreating from this issue for the next several months like a indecisive executor or a new professional hangman — You'll want them to get it over with, but it's genuinely not something that can be rushed. Household matters are a bit fluid, but you have a flood of imagined responsibilities that could be done differently if you saw them clearly (but you don't... maybe that's worth re-visiting and re-defining?). You're clearly in a mood to resurrect your professional life as a communicator and perennial advisor, but something both more creative with more personal autonomy (and a tighter range of clients) might serve you better. Mostly you want more freedom to do your own thing, but you have some key financial decisions that you'll have to address before that's possible: what are you really passionate about? If you're an entrepreneur or small business owner, recognize your role as an educator of clients and seek to benefit financially from that.
Capricorn: Daily routines feel oppressive, but also like they have outsized importance in helping you get to the leadership levels and roles you want to achieve. Your professional goals, and maybe even your dream job, may be on the line — but you have to chain yourself to a desk and get those communications out, in ways that are both creative and results-driven. House and family matters require that you make some generous and obvious commitments to what you claim you love... but lending a hand to do some chpping and dicing in the kitchen wouldn't hurt either. Financial limitations on a partner may be result in you feeling pressured to contribute in ways or to expenses that impinge on prior agreements; boundaries are important, but sometimes partnerships matter more: either get your head out of your ass, or get your head in the game, but decide: are principles or people more important here?
Aquarius: Make your partnership(s) a priority these ten days: Don't stand on the outside offering advice, but put your expertise to work actually solving the problem as its been explained to you. The reality is that you know a great deal about these sorts of problems — but your partner has different strengths and aptitudes; when you talk them through the solution like a child, it's obvious to you but overly complex to them. Instead, ask: "here is a solution that I see, which I would like to implement for you." explain the solution you think you can implement, and ask the they'd like you to do that. If they say yes, follow through immediately. The promise to do something later will not resonate so cleanly as envisioning your solution, offering it, and then acting on it for their benefit. Even if they refuse your solution, they're still going to care that you cared enough to solve it for them instead of treating them to a useless display of your intellect and problem-solving vision.
Pisces: Your spouse or significant other is about to take a complex money problem out of its box and show it off to you, and your "offhand solution" to this problem is likely to instigate an active retreat ... maybe not "I'm going home to my parents" or "we're advancing the army in the opposite direction at high speed" retreat. Yet an impassioned defense of the status quo and acceptance of household or familial mismanagement is not going to land well. You have it in you to say, "Thank you, let me think about that," and then think about how the presented problem affects you, affects them, and affects your joint dreams and mutual plans. Once you've considered that problem in a holistic way, THEN present your thoughts. The temptation is a rush to judgment; but the well-considered answer is a benefit to you all.
Aries: You're moving toward a moment of public recognition of your honors, but first there's the dread review of past work. In a relationship context, this can be a lovely idealized dream, where you get a pat on the back and a kiss on the cheek (and other places), and romantic life goes on in a deliciously balanced way. In your professional life, it looks a lot more like "know your place, peon" or "beatings will continue until morale improves," and things are not likely to get better in this workplace for a while. You have some choices, though: you can package your resentment into a rationally argued email to the boss; you can find a new certification or skill that changes your compensation; you can write a kick-ass CV and cover letter for your dream job. Just don't hit send or pay for that program with your own money. You can save money against the coming surprise. Wait for the other shoe to drop, for the straw to break the camel's back — but don't count on your load to be lightened "as soon as the current crisis is over."
Taurus: Freedom and autonomy right now mean that certain problems won't be fully addressed for six to nine months — but you can set yourself up for future success by identifying your own specific priorities and working to fulfill them now. Talk about what's bothering you, and recognize that certain difficulties will fall on your partner whether you try to avoid those problems or not. But it's best not to try to remain too aloof from the situation — or to blame family members for their failures or flaws. Recognize that the best success comes from engaging in partnership efforts with others, rather than trying to go it alone.
Gemini: You're going to have your share of troubles in the next few months, so remember to get by with a little help from your friends... and remember that those who aren't helping you get by, may not be as friendly as you like. Some of this about learning to work within your own resources; some of it is also about now crapping out on your own routines. A night with ice cream and old movies with your closest friends may seem like the most loving dream-date in the world — but don't forget that the next day you may have to take charge of some one else's leadership project and do their work for them. So don't make it a late night.
Cancer: It may be an awareness of your role in the hierarchy at work, or a troubling insight into your own role in implementing oppression, but you're inching toward some fireworks with a partner. It might be followed by a beautiful reconciliation, and a stronger partnership. But there are practical realities that need solving; and old baggage that has to be unpacked. Is an upcoming review of your efforts at work coming soon? Divide your labor into two piles:What you're really passionate about and proud of, and what you wish someone else had looked over your shoulder about sooner. Demonstrating an awareness of your practical limits, as well as your idealism, is likely to win favor. Just be conscious that more favor may equal more labor expected in the near term. How's your resume looking? Activating your network of professional contacts?
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