Your money in the stars, 2009

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Taurus

19 APRIL - 19 MAY
Overcome Faux practicality
Your focus Serious exploration of every option
As a sensible earth sign, you've brilliant instincts about what's of value, whether you spot an antique or an investment. Or you thought you did. The current chaos has you wondering. You haven't lost your touch. But with actual elements of the financial world changing, broadening your spectrum is vital. Explore seemingly boring, unfamiliar or unreliable ideas, since opportunities abound, although they aren't immediately recognisable. Regard 2009 as a course in new era finances, and you'll end the year better informed - and possibly, better off.

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Gemini

20 MAY - 20 JUNE
Overcome Your quick-fix addiction
Your focus Painstaking questioning
Perhaps it's the fact that you don't take money seriously that explains why many Geminis are adept at handling others' money and making their own fortunes. Still, now events challenge you to approach situations involving finances, and assets of any kind - even your ideas - from a different perspective. The clash between Saturn and the innovative but unruly Uranus, which began this cycle of tremors late last year, continues to reshape your work, lifestyle and wellbeing. Once-clever solutions no longer work. Take this opportunity to learn, and you'll be better off in every way.

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Cancer

21 JUNE - 21 JULY
Overcome Habitual panic
Your focus Discussing needs openly
It's easy to confuse financial concerns, anxieties about unexpected changes and the emotions they arouse. Lately you've muddled these up. So you now assume sorting money issues would calm anxieties about other concerns. They're separate. Recognising that enables you to untangle problems, approaching each individually. Thus, you're free to take chances on promising financial or work opportunities, yet won't mix them with doubts about the changes they'd cause. You rediscover your entrepreneurial spirit that in the past has profited you in numerous ways, and will again.

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Leo

22 JULY - 21 AUGUST
Overcome Addiction to the past
Your focus A broader vision
Ignoring instincts that tell you to battle for what you're sure of isn't easy - it's just what was once a sure thing no longer is. Early 2009 is bumpy enough to make you consider changes. Then the practical Saturn and inventive Uranus are both accenting financial matters all year, and are taking you back to school to study both simple accounting and to explore unfamiliar territory. Initially you protest loudly. Gradually, as you realise what you've been missing, the joy of learning, and the profitable results, take over. From that point onward, you never look back.

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Virgo

22 AUGUST - 21 SEPTEMBER
Overcome Perfectionism
Your focus Savouring risks Having experienced the firm hand of Saturn on your affairs for over a year, you've already trimmed your life of deadwood - and your mind of unprofitable fantasies - so are suffering less than others from ongoing financial ups and downs. Except, being a perfectionist, you've undoubtedly taken responsibility for any hiccups. Don't. Ironically, while others are still tightening their belts, you'll want to subdue that overcautious streak by taking calculated risks, with money, work or long-term goals. Make them modest until you realise that by aiming high, you achieve far more.

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Libra

22 SEPTEMBER - 22 OCTOBER
Overcome Confusing graciousness
Your focus Saying what you mean
Only months ago you'd have battled discreetly -but with conviction - to reorganise unfair arrangements or put somebody straight in situations you regarded as threatening to the harmony you'd worked so hard to establish. Since then tensions with others have been compounded by practical and financial events, all of which have forced you to behave out of character. Initially the resulting bluntness shocked you as much as others. However, the results on both fronts have been so worthwhile you're being more direct. This becomes increasingly timely around the year's close, when serious developments require an equally serious approach.

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Scorpio

23 OCTOBER - 21 NOVEMBER
Overcome Avoidance of the unfamiliar
Your focus Unloading prejudices
Once you accept that life won't go as planned and that the unexpected may prove the better option, you've overcome your biggest challenge. Last November your ruler Pluto's move to accent new ideas began a cycle of exploration that's led to potential changes in your life. While this means leaving elements of the past behind, perhaps involuntarily, you discover a new world. This combines alluring opportunities with tough decisions, some you'll make before the year's close. By then, you're embracing ideas and pursuits you'd have rejected only months before.

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Sagittarius

22 NOVEMBER - 20 DECEMBER
Overcome Naive trust
Your focus Persistence
Luck sometimes appears in peculiar forms. You may already have realised that certain losses late last year, while disappointing at the time, cleared the way for intriguing offers. So when yet more arrangements come undone, you'll be intrigued by what's coming next. It's good. But sterling options aren't always reliable, which means balancing openness with thorough investigation and attention to hints that things might not be right. This enables you to fine-tune plans yet remain flexible enough to respond swiftly to mid-November's pivotal developments.

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Capricorn

21 DECEMBER - 18 JANUARY
Overcome Micromanagement of your life
Your focus A much bigger picture You pride yourself on your self-sufficiency, even when the going gets tough. So understanding the influence of the heavy-handed Pluto, which moved into Capricorn last November, will take time. It's about surrendering - to situations, individuals, or the truth. You may already have experienced the challenging part of these events - but not the payoff. Expect a new and broader perspective, particularly when it comes to money. If knowledge is power, what you learn will turn you into a superhero.

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Aquarius

19 JANUARY - 17 FEBRUARY
Overcome Tunnel vision about plans
Your focus Daily new experiences Learning that Jupiter, planet of growth and opportunity, is in Aquarius all year is bound to light up your life. But don't imagine your cherished dreams will manifest themselves one by one. Actually, many vanish, replaced by something you'd never conceived of - and perhaps dislike. At first. Because Jupiter's also about discovery, the breakdown of arrangements, or changes in plan clear the way for destinychanging encounters. It won't be until you delve into these, and learn more about the people involved, that you'll realise how good things are.

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Pisces

18 FEBRUARY - 19 MARCH
Overcome Wistful idealisation
Your focus Hard facts
Being intensely reflective, it would seem there's little left to meditate on. However, this year's combination of unexpected changes and the frankness required by the situations you're dealing with proves remarkably instructive. This helps resolve confusion about tricky issues involving finances, obligations to others and your own priorities. Jarring as revelations are, they open your mind to ideas you'd never before thought about. This frankness also teaches you to ask the right questions before getting involved, which lessens the chance of a repeat of past disappointments.

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