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TAURUS (April 20 - May 20)

Dear Taurus, Please get out there and enjoy yourself. Your wishes and dreams seem to have been going on for so long supporting OTHERS. Now it is time for you.

The real news of course is your ruling planet going direct in your second house of money and self-worth on Tuesday, June 29. Money starts to move forward again and you start to feel beter about yourself.

The first days of July are excellent for any form of travel and change of location. The Full Moon on Friday July 2 doubly blesses you if you are moving or traveling at this time. A wound will heal in you.

Recent transformations involving your home and arrangements about shared resources have taken the bite out of you. Do not worry. You just had one too many changes recently. And the bull really does not like to be budged. Not like this anyway.

If you're feeling not up to par as June ends, just realize it is a temporary case of the blas. Soon over.

Yes, this too will change!

Why, just when you thought you'd got everything settled and secure, did life have to go into metamorphosis overdrive? You had just begun to feel comfortable. Just begun to think, oh, okay...

You have met the challenge ahead of you with uncommonly good grace and nobility, dear Taurus. You've worked your buns off. And that is the answer. You were being tested.

July begins the great payback. Good karma is for real. You will see it for yourself.

Think back to how you were feeling about yourself a year ago. You were working hard but weren't really sure what it was adding up to. You hoped for the best, but you had your doubts.

As July gets into its swing, the last of those doubts will slip away. You will feel wonderfully relieved.

An old dream is realized, more money is (finally) in the works, and you start feeling great about yourself! The hot mama (or papi) you've been holding back in you begins to bubble up - and out.

It's noticed, believe me. You may end up going to some of the best parties of your life this month!

After July 2, you may just need a week or so to recover your old energy before you can bounce around town again. But it's there, and then you should be having a blast.

Use some of this energy and fire to stoke your creativity July 18. By then you are ready to start working seriously on a project that you love - and to get some serious money for it.

I urge you not to accept less than your worth this time round. If you go with what you really love, you will hit the jackpot.

My feeling, Taurus, is that you've been underpaid in several areas of your life recently. Money for your work being the most obvious, but there's also been a scarcity in support from partners and in help from friends. Everyone has been too busy with their own troubles and difficulties it seems.

Of course the real evaluation of your worth comes from yourself. You'd by lying if you said you haven't had some down moments there and lack of faith the past year. But others' actions haven't exactly helped. However, now is not the time to dwell on that.

Communications are still burdensome. Saturn in your third house of communications (and what is it with those neighbors, for godsakes?) has made it all feel like a JOB.

So, don't dream of any huge discussions in the near future where all is resolved. Instead, give the resolution to yourself, stop caring so much what others think of you, and get out there and party!

You're looking good, Taurus, and Venus going direct after June 29 allows you to do what you love - splurge on beauty and self-care. With more money about to come in, you can let yourself enjoy it.

Buy something hot to wear for the second weekend in July. The new Moon on Saturday, July 17, may just bring a new and exciting friend into your life.

E-mail this horoscope to a Taurus or Taurus Jupiter you care about - if you want him or her to do well this July!

Your days to push the envelope: Saturday July 10 and Sunday July 11.

Also the days the Moon is in the SAME SIGN as your Jupiter sign. Consult Jupiter for more on this, and on how to be successful in the world at large.

P.S. Dear Reader, Happy Summer! It is - finally - here!

Isn't it time for us to take a breather from this time of madness, of difficult personal exchanges, and of too much to bear?

How often have you been able to make a wise decision when stressed?

Research has proved that anxiety and stress inhibit the brain's ability to function. We cannot think clearly and effectively when the brain is being short ciruited with anxiety.

I'm not talking about instinctual survival-based decisions - for immediate preservation of life - I'm talking about longterm life choices. These cannot be made during crisis. We have been living in a state of crisis-simulation for almost three years now. Complete with bright kid-friendly colors telling us HOW MUCH IS RIGHT. It has become harder to THINK.

I prefer, instead of Code Yellow; Code Orange; Code Red -- Code Linen; Code Off-White; Code Putty, myself. (Thank you, Saturday Night Live.) You need to take care of yourself, dear reader. (No matter how much success you may be having.)

You, and all that is inside of you.

I would like to share with you something that has always renewed my breath - and delight! About the choices we have, if we can but choose them...our various, incredible routes...Travel with me as you read this...enjoy the journey with me.

Extracted from one of my very favorite books, Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino. (Born a Libra, and yes, LIBRO in Italian means book!). Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.

In Esmeralda, city of water, a network of canals and a network of streets span and intersect each other.

To go from one place to another you have always the choice between land and boat: and since the shortest distance between two points in Esmeralda is not a straight line but a zigzag that famifies in torturous optional routes, the ways that open to each passerby are never two, but many, and they increase further for those who alternate a stretch by boat with one in dry land.

And so Esmeralda's inhabitants are spared the boredom of following the same streets every day.

And that is not all: the network of routes is not arranged on one level, but follows instead an up-and-down course of steps, landings, cambered bridges, hanging streets.

Combining segments of the various routes, elevated or on ground level, each inhabitant can enjoy every day the pleasure of a new itinerary to reach the same places. The most fixed and calm lives in Esmeralda are spent without any repetition.

A map of Esmerelda should include, marked in different colored inks, all these routes, solid and liquid, evident and hidden.

It is more difficult to fix on the map the routes of the swallows, who cut the air over the roofs, dropping long invisible parabolas with their still wings, darting to gulp a mosquito, spiraling upward, grazing a pinnacle, dominating from every point of their airy paths all the points of the city.

Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.

"But which is the stone that supports the bridge?" Kublai Khan asks.

"The bridge is not supported by one stone or another," Marco answers, "but by the line of the arch that they form."

Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: "Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me."

Polo answers: "Without the stones there is no arch."

Water (a city of water!) is ruled by the Moon, and this July we have TWO full Moons. The second full Moon is called a Blue Moon. A month with two full Moons, a rare event, is always a dramatic month.

Tending to your Moon - that is, your inner needs and emotions - will help you to remain calm, to stay in touch, and allow you to make clear and good decisions.

For your inner child needs, read the horoscope for your Moon sign.

For example, if you are a Sagittarius with a Taurus Moon, read the Taurus horoscope.

Consider your inner child's needs to be Taurus (you need home comfort and security. Think how a cat is if you take them out of their home. Cats are ruled by Taurus.) Even if you are a rock n roll, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants Sagittarius!

If you are a Scorpio with a Libra Moon, consider your inner child's needs to be Libra (you need love-love, harmony- harmony, beauty-beauty everywhere.) Even if you are a independent proud I-can-go-without Scorpio!

And so on.

Read my astrology book for young'uns, and you'll remember your original Moon needs as a child. Trace the cause of what makes you inexplicably nuts on any given day NOW.

Here are some excerpts.

I also recommend - of course - Linda Goodman's Sun Signs. Her sections on the Child for each Sun sign are still the best around. She wrote her books for grownups though. When I was a kid, her book was the only one available for me to read! I've had countless people tell me they wished there'd been an astrology book for them when THEY were kids.

Now there's mine, and it is the only astrology book for kids (and inner kids) in print AT ALL, and I am asking you to help me keep it in print! Otherwise, there will be NOT A ONE. (It is in its third edition from Penguin USA, thick color pages, spiral bound, beautiful illustrations, with a poster.) It is also an amazing gift. Only $10.99.

You can buy it here.

Take care of yourself.

P.P.S. For an individual reading, please go to PRIVATE READINGS.

Until next month, dear reader -

Madalyn

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