PREVIOUS THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY October 4 2010 to October 10 2010 Monday October 4 Veg Out I'm already getting letters about the new planet in a, 'Goldilocks zone' that might just sustain life. People want to know, 'How will it affect our horoscopes?' It won't. It is simply too distant to have any meaning in current conventional astrology. Its discovery, though, may fire a few imaginations. A brave new world? A place to send our undesirables? If they ever build a spaceship capable of getting there, I can think of some perfect passengers. Can we hold a special seat please, for the vegan who has just written a book advising people to eat meat. What a hippotwit! Tuesday October 5 Haitian Discource Dear Jonathan, I hear there's an orphanage in Haiti which asks people to visit its website and choose birthdates for some of the children about whom they have no information. Does that mean they can never receive accurate astrological guidance? Diane Dear Diane, Astrologers have been using the planets to give accurate guidance for thousands of years. Yet few of those people knew exactly when they were born. Birth certificates are a relatively new invention! There are other techniques an astrologer can use. But what those kids need right now is really not a horoscope. It's a helping hand! Wednesday October 6 Positively Piscean My husband and I are Pisceans. We are getting divorced and are fighting each other in court. I read and believe in astrology. He doesn't. If the predictions for Pisces are to be positive, even lucky, which one of us should get our own way? H Dear H, Reading your predictions will give you a better idea of what's in store. It may help you make smarter choices. But if all Pisceans are due to be lucky, you will both be lucky! And surely, in a divorce, the only truly positive outcome is one that works for both parties? Thursday October 7 Hope Springs Eternal Hi Jonathan, Why do you offer everyone false optimism? It seems like you are always dangling a carrot. Is this to encourage readers to return? Sometimes life doesn't get better. It just is what it is. Nick Hi Nick, Curses! You have foiled my secret, evil plan to conquer the world. It was supposed to be foolproof. First, I encourage people to feel better about the future. Then the future comes and they feel no better. Then, er, sorry... remind me again, what's supposed to be in this for me? Nick, I promise... there's never anything false about hope. Friday October 8 Smart Charts I'd like to say more, today, about the other ways that astrologers can work if they don't know a person's date of birth. It is only in the last couple of hundred years that personal horoscopes have become so popular. In the old days, people would just go to an astrologer with a question and the seer would draw up a map of the sky for the moment when the client turned up at their door! The astrologer would then find the answer to the question somewhere within that horoscope. That's how astrology originally earned its reputation for accuracy. Saturday October 9 Your Week Ahead Venus takes less than a year to get round the zodiac. Mars takes about two years. At the beginning of this month, the two planets formed a conjunction. You'd expect Venus to be far ahead of Mars by now - but Mars is doing a 'tortoise' and Venus is doing a 'hare'. Venus is due to keep slipping apparently backwards so long and far that it won't catch up with Mars till early next year. What can we expect while the planet of love and creativity is retrograde? Old flames being rekindled... and ideas from long ago inspiring our imagination. Sunday October 10 Your Week Ahead Part Two Venus takes less than a year to get round the zodiac. Mars takes about two years. At the beginning of this month, the two planets formed a conjunction. You'd expect Venus to be far ahead of Mars by now - but Mars is doing a 'tortoise' and Venus is doing a 'hare'. Venus is due to keep slipping apparently backwards so long and far that it won't catch up with Mars till early next year. What can we expect while the planet of love and creativity is retrograde? Old flames being rekindled... and ideas from long ago inspiring our imagination. Back to Index   Click here for Jonathan Cainer's Daily Zodiac Forecasts