Dawne Kovan’s Blog

Happy Birthday, Taurus - this is your month to begin a new year all of your very own. And it is year in which relationships figure strongly. Things have been quite intense for you over the last few months with Saturn in Virgo and Pluto in Capricorn, the other two Earth Signs. They have been looking across the Zodiac at your own Earth sign with somewhat serious smiles - which means that basically they’re on your side and will support you, provided you put the effort in and cooperate with them - then the rewards could really be quite something! However, as Pluto will be doing his smiley thing for the next 16 years, you’ve got plenty time to get your act together. And easy-going, gentle as you are, you will need to take your time as change comes slowly for you. 

Artistic, beautiful Venus, your ruling planet, will enter her own sign of Taurus at the end of April, so this is a good month to enjoy all the pleasures that life offers you. You could try a new hairstyle or go for a make-over. Your wardrobe may need a revamp which could be great fun, especially if you take a close friend with you and make a day of it!  With Mars slowly going through Cancer at the same time, this could be the perfect time to socialise with family members and also get out and about locally - you never know who you may meet. It is important that you Taureans make an effort to discover new people and groups, rather than always staying within your social comfort zone.

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I have just watched the most extraordinary video clip of a talk given by Dr Jill Bolte Taylor a neuroanatomist, or brain researcher, of Harvard University. The 18 minute talk describes how she awoke one morning, aged only 37, to find herself in the process of having a stroke. (See references below)Ironically, it couldn’t have happened to a better qualified person than Dr Jill. Even as the left hemisphere of her brain was undertaking its 4 hour journey towards total collapse, thus rendering her unable to walk, talk, read write or remember who she was; she was still curious about the actual unfolding of the event.

As the golf ball sized blood clot took over her left hemisphere Dr Jill was still functioning full on in her right hemisphere and discovering the place where mystics yearn to go. She discovered a mental state where time did not exist, which was a centre of bliss and joy, intuition and an overwhelming sense of connectedness to all and everything, an ego-lessness.

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Pluto stood stock still in the heavens on 2nd April and will begin his backwards move to revisit Sagittarius, the sign of the Cosmic Cowboy, over the next few months. On September 10th, 2008, he will slowly get his act together to finally return to Capricorn, where he will reside until November, 2024.We know that planets don’t really move backwards - it is a relative effect seen only from the Earth (where else would you be seeing it from, I ask?). It is caused by the Earth’s orbit overtaking Pluto’s orbit and speeding forward. This is optically the same as being on a fast train overtaking a slow train - from your vantage point on the fast train, the slow train appears to be moving backwards; from the slow train you feel as if you’re moving backwards. Remember - all the planets have their retrograde periods at some point in their cycles as seen from Earth.

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