Horoscopes	Free Will Astrology by Rob Breszny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): We’re halfway through 2008. It’s a perfect moment to take inventory of how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. So let me ask you, Aries: Are you working your ass off in order to stoke the fire in your belly? In other words, are you doing everything you can think of to get more motivated? Are you trying hard to supercharge your ambitions and refine your passions? If so, this will be the year when you finally figure out how to do what you love to do a majority of the time—and how to get rewarded by the world for doing it. It’s high time to answer your highest calling.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): We’re halfway through 2008. It’s time to take inventory of how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. So let me ask you, Taurus. Have you been climbing out on a limb in order to think outside of the box? Have you been having adventurous fun while experimenting freely? I hope so. Playing around with smart gambles has been and will continue to be the secret to your success. Note well the adjective “smart” in the previous sentence. Dumb gambles and poorly thought-out risks should not be part of your game plan.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): How well are you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Gemini? Now that we’re halfway through 2008, let’s take an inventory. I’m hoping that six months from now, you’ll look back and make the following declaration: “This year I’ve learned more about togetherness and collaboration than I’d picked up in the previous five years combined. I’ve finally registered the fact that a successful alliance of any kind requires as much hard work as any job. Most of my important relationships are better and more interesting, and the rest have faded away. I’ve surprised myself with how creative I’ve been in finding interesting ways to handle commitment.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): How well are you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Cancerian? Now that we’re halfway through 2008, let’s take an inventory. I’m hoping that six months from now, you will look back and make the following declaration: “This year I discovered everything that’s important to know about what I don’t need and who I don’t want to be. That’s one of the important reasons why—hallelujah!—I’ve learned to avoid the suffering that comes from wishing my life were different from how it actually is. I’m more at peace with my soul’s idiosyncratic destiny than I’ve ever been.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): We’re halfway through 2008. It’s time to take inventory of how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. So let me ask you, Leo: Have you been redefining your relationship to your job so that it better serves the real you? Are you invoking all your imaginative powers so as to get into a position in which you will love work more than ever before? I hope you’ve been doing those things, because it means you’ve primed yourself to attract lots of help in accomplishing those changes.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): How well are you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Virgo? Now that we’re halfway through 2008, let’s take an inventory. I’m hoping that six months from now, you’ll look back and make the following declaration: “I’ve learned more about love in the past 12 months than maybe I ever have. I’ve also become far more skilled in the art of making myself happy. And I’ve finally figured out how to purge some of the martyr-like aspects from my generosity, which means I’m better able to give without strings attached and I’m more attractive to interesting people who are inclined to give me things I really want.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How well are you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Libra? Now that we’re halfway through 2008, let’s take an inventory. I’m hoping that six months from now, you’ll look back and make the following declaration: “It’s so funny that in order to find out where I truly belong, I had to change my ideas about where I truly belong. Feeling at home on this planet and in this life wasn’t possible until I got cured of my delusions about what it would feel like to be at home on this planet and in this life. I had to lose some of my certainties in order to gain more security.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How well are you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Scorpio? Now that we’re halfway through 2008, let’s take an inventory. One of the most important things you’re doing, I hope, is increasing your effectiveness as a communicator. What do I mean by that? While it’s true that you Scorpios gather information more skillfully than any other sign, you aren’t necessarily as blessed when it comes to sharing information. In part that’s because you believe that keeping secrets enhances your personal power. And in part it’s because you sometimes forget that other people aren’t as clued in to what’s happening below the surface as you are. Your mandate in the coming months is to overcome those challenges as you learn to express yourself with ever-greater candor and clarity and clout.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How well are you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Sagittarius? Now that we’re halfway through 2008, let’s take an inventory. I’m hoping that six months from now, you’ll look back and make the following declaration: “I’m on much friendlier terms with money than I’ve ever been. I’m sure it’s because I have a more rooted and relaxed understanding of my true value, and am not so attached to what other people think I’m worth. I’ve declared my independence from the conventional wisdom’s distorted worship of superficial appearances. Ironically, as I’ve shaken off the sickening influence of materialism, I’ve upgraded my ability to create material success.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): How well are you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Capricorn? Now that we’re halfway through 2008, let’s take an inventory. Your self-image is in the midst of an exhilarating expansion, right? Your excitement about being alive is growing steadily, right? Your devotion to cultivating an inner sense of freedom is getting more intense every day, right? You have an ever-increasing clarity about what life experiences you need in order to feel powerful, right? If you’re falling short in any of these projects, start making up for lost time immediately.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): How well are you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Aquarius? Now that we’re halfway through 2008, let’s take an inventory. By now, you should have banished at least half of the ghosts that were pestering you. By August, you should have neutralized, dissolved, or rendered irrelevant a load of weird karma, and said goodbye to parts of your past that were bogging you down. By January 1, 2009, I hope you will have laid to rest a broken dream, escaped a dead end, and ended your relationship with a lost cause. If you have spent the last six months earnestly engaged in doing this tough, messy work, it won’t be anywhere near as tough and messy during the next six months.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How well are you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Pisces? Now that we’re halfway through 2008, let’s take an inventory. You’re getting better connected to your community than you ever have before, right? You’ve become far more purposeful and crafty about forging the alliances you need to be effective, right? You’re developing smart strategies for upgrading your unique gifts and givng them to the right people, right? You’re working hard to create niches for yourself that suit your temperament and needs, and you’re no longer leaving it to other people to shape those niches for you, right?

Homework: Make a prediction about what your life will be like in the second half of 2008. Share it with me at uaregod@comcast.net.