Totally Eclipsed. Well, Almost

Cannot go on and on here, but expect shocks and reverberations around the 20th. Eclipses do that. 17-23 the most likely to shake you up.
Early Gemini, Virgo, Pisces the most rocked. Check your chart for cracks in your personal earth.
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Few writers like to hear this, but writing for your entire living happens to very few. You'd think with the time and dedication it takes to write something publishable, the money to pay the rent would follow. But many are called and few are chosen, and even the chosen have times when they have to take in a boarder.

It's very much like being an actor or a musician. Unsteady, sometimes richly rewarding, but sometimes " between gigs". At least agents and publishers have the steady stream of many authors, so if one is " between gigs", others are producing income.

Grim pic? Well, best to know that having more than just books to feed you is the best idea. Writing for Yahoo, Google, and even print media can be great supplements if doing something non-writing for your bread and butter seems just too much.

Of course you can always marry money. With Jupiter in Taurus, some of you will do just that. Earth signs( Taurus Virgo Capricorn) have the best chance of buddying up with someone else's funds, tho Water
( Pisces, Scorpio, Cancer) can talk their way into being someone else's fiscal responsibility too. Aries..it could happen..but it is more likely that you'll make your own windfall without help.

Quitting the whole publishing idea is best suited to Libra. Other air signs
( Gemini and Aquarius) are so busy flitting from place to place that making a living doing anything is a total bother. They just want to be free.

Soon, the air signs will have all the luck, AND all the money they need. After mid June, for a year hence, the gates will be unlocked. In the meantime, live scrupulously.
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The Scorpio Full Moon will be at its zenith late on the 5th, at 16 degrees of Scorpio. The fullness, as it were, of Scorpio's gifts, is insight. For Scorps, it looks like you will see a partner for who she/he really is. Sign nothing until this Full Moon is past..say like..May 9 or so. Water signs( Cancer, Pisces) will get good surprises, and Fire will continue to get aggravation( Sadge, Aries, Leo).

Taurus buffet plate continues to fill. How good can it get? Think back 12 yrs. You had to have had a great experience or gift then, and now, another memory in the making. If you are a fiction author, some new character might occur to you, one that survives the test of time and competition.

If you were born in 1964, 1976, 1988,you are having something called a JUPITER RETURN. The very least of that position is a lack of worry, but other goodies may present, and if you can get off the easy chair long enough to actually pursue something, you'll get top dollar for it, plus top treatment. This lasts until July. Push yourself. Dial friends and strangers. Leave messages. See how many people you can drum up before Jupiter moves off this magic place.

Capricorns and Virgo's get some royal favors too...say thank you, and Virgo's :don't piss people off doing it. Mars gives Virgo no tact at all now.

Pisces caveat: you are still in a tough spot for lies and deception. Sign nothing unless you've paid a professional to read it first.

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Aries: get ready for exciting breakthroughs as well, but for different reasons. The New Moon in Aries has a lotta action, and Aries cannot help but be getting friendly with a new way of being. Libra: look out for partners who don't see things your way...try and make your thoughts clearer and more emphatic and maybe you'll triumph. Mars in Virgo makes some Virgos total whackjobs. Excercise more, worry less. The cure for Mars is always to get moving. And since Mars is retrograde now, it can really be an extra annoyance. Write about anger and frustration. And get away from the computer screen at least an hour of your work day.

Taurus still has GREAT WONDERFUL INCREDIBLE luck. What your dreams have promised comes true now. Scorpio gets some of that too. If you( Scorpio) are agent shopping, you could score.

But you cannot know more than your Sun Sign without getting your chart done. Email me, get all the pertinent info to getting your work rewarded.
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You may have looked at the sky and seen 2 planets near each other, bright as bright can be. Venus and Jupiter are together, and very close to the earth, and this means LOVE MONEY and GOOD publishing times, especially for Sadge, Taurus and Libra. If you have these signs and planets well aspected in your chart, it means you too! (Of course you've had to have your chart done to know if this means you.)

Probably the good offers will come from someone in your past..not a new colleague. Knock on those previous doors and see what comes to you. Ask for what you want and then a little more...push a bit..don't hold back...

I had SRO at my presentations at the Tucson Festival of Books this past weekend. 125,000 people attended the Festival, making it the fourth largest in the country. Seems alot of people are interested in how Astrology can help a writing career. How about you?

Hillagent@aol.com. Be fascinated. Take care of your career. Email me for details!

and oh---if you are a Gemini,your great year is on the horizon, literally. June is the dawning of your paydays, but now is the time of preparation and inspiration. Write now, get paid well soon.

Virgo: Drive Carefully and watch your mouth. Tactless does not even cover it.
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The Full Moon on the 8th has some very staid energy. Staid meaning "if you just push yourself a little your work will have lasting value." Whatever you force yourself to do this week should pay off. So turn off the TV and get off the political sites, and do some real writing and promoting. More books sell at the Full Moon than any other lunar phase.

It is kinda funny that Super Tuesday is near such a heavily aspected Full Moon. Pisces natives( Mitt Romney, e.g.) will have a boatload of energy coming at them. Virgos too. Haven't looked up Santorum and others but may if I push myself....

more: santorum is a taurus..predictable. ron paul a leo. likes to spread joy. really?)
gingrich a gemini..smart but all over the place.
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I have had a couple of authors recently who wanted a planetary map of their future, which turned out to be very helpful for them. Yes this is what I do, and it works. Or as Michael Lutin(michaellutin.com) says " This Sh*T Works".

One author has had a novel in circulation for over a year. He's a Libra, and tho some interest has been generated, no one has offered the high amounts he is used to. I told him that as long as Saturn was in Libra and Scorpio, his revenues would be thin, tho the work would have lasting value. Saturn has endurance, but not excitement. And that is exactly how the journey has gone.

Another author, a Scorpio, has had offer after offer, and I told her to hold out as Jupiter was marching on through her House of Partners and more would join the bandwagon. Sure enough, her auction is underway.

Another author, a Gemini, wondered if he should lean totally on his writing for income, and I told him to diversify, but that writing would always be a steady identity as well as income source, though not his only one. He has taken an online teaching job that pays him handsomely, fills his need to be near a computer most of the day, and rewards his vast knowledge. ( Geminis like to be experts, and most are, at more than one subject area).

So have your chart done. Find out if you are spinning wheels or if you are born to be a Hemingway, Hawking, or Fellowe

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Genius

Whenever Uranus, (ruler of Aquarians by the way), is joining another planet in the sky, that planet's genius quality is magnified. Taurus and Libra will have inspired tho erratic moments in the next 2 weeks, because Venus, their ruler, is right up close and personal to the genius planet.

Something freaky about Taurus is that Uranus rules their midheaven, or career sector, so doing unusual things for a living or having some unique approach to an old profession is very much their way. So NOW, that out of the ordinary approach to work will get a big bump. Expect Taurus and Taurus risings to change course.

Libra too will take the Uranus/genius stripe, but in more of an electronic vibe here...new phones, new computers, new car. Writing may be the excuse for the new computer, but really it's all about shaking up their status quo.

Partnerships too are transformed for Libra. Valentine's Day could be a major decision about who gets to stay at their party. Libras should prepare tactful goodbyes.
A quick rundown for the other signs:
Aries: Expect the unexpected. Network,
network, network..promote promote promote all you can.
Taurus: enough said above
Gemini: Move your desk around...consult feng shui experts.
Cancer: Early Cancers can expect unwelcome surprises. Be graceful.
Leo: New writing group, or joining one for the first time. Make sure those other members are actually selling their work. You need doers not mullers.
Virgo: You have a great deal of energy, perhaps too much. Expend it with fiction writing?
Libra: above.
Scorpio: Negotiate your offer upwards. There is room.
Sagittarius: Children's writers get the biggest boost now. Ideas overflow.
Capricorn: What would your mother think?
Aquarius: Change banks. Move your $ around. Carefully.
Pisces: Job Change? If not now, in the next few yrs. Have your resume handy if you are early born...Feb 21-30.
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And oh--Happy Chinese New Year( Jan 23rd), the Year of the Dragon. Charming, those dragons!

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In the 2012 predictions, the Mayans left out the book trade, so I'll just tell you about what the planets have to say about all of us in the Writing Game, 2012 and beyond.

Pluto makes us transform. Other planets impel, but Pluto forces us to discard our outer selves and become who is lurking inside, scared to death to come out and BE. Past conditioning is usually what keeps us conformed, and Pluto just laughs at all that follow- the- rules baloney.

2012 Publishing, being ruled by the sign of Sagittarius, is now being ripped by Pluto in Capricorn, its Second House of All That's Tangible; WHICH MEANS that publishing will retain little of what it has always been once the planet motors all the way through, beginning a few yrs ago and ending in 2024. No, you do not have time to stay under the old program...printed books, fame from same, and having your writing life sustain your needs. That's over...your dreams of one book being your life's work is like, well, over too.

Mutliple streams of work and less money for each is going to be the norm. People who are willing to write are more plentiful than bedbugs, and just about as valuable in the marketplace. Writing has now to be done for the art of it, not the money for it. It has to be the hammer in the toolbox, complete with hammer-specializing publicists, and specialized hammer- only subjects. You have to know ALL about hammers, and maybe have advanced degrees in hammer-ology.
If you move to saws or nails you'll lose part of your audience, or all of it, so best to reinvent what mankind does with hammers and how they can best use them, how hammers fall in love, how they act in the workplace, how they die and who they visit from the other side.

I hope you all still want to write and to edit, cuz it keeps my lightbulbs burning and gas in my car, but you'd best know the truth about what to expect..publishing will get leaner and leaner, and we'd all best look ahead to how we can capitalize on a totally and irrevocably revolutionized book biz.

E-books are just an early invention of an industry that can no longer afford itself.

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Two changeup planets are in tense square to one another, mostly affecting Scorpio and Aquarius, but also Taurus and Capricorn. These are the squares that try men's souls..women too...giving thoughts of rebellion, freedom, change of all kinds. What you've been fantasizing about you finally have the courage to do. What other people have been thinking about doing to you will finally take place. Libras have a push/pull--the deal comes through but lots of compromise will be needed to get it to close.

Wherever you have these signs, you should be prepared for categorical house blips. Those of you who know your chart can see what's ahead before it smacks you. Preparation will go a long way toward averting the earthquake.
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We are still in New Moon energy. A new lunar cycle begins, and with Venus and Saturn conjunct in Libra, it could hold a committment to your work by an editor or agent. Make calls, be proactive.
Send your uncommitted work out to as many eyes as you can think of.

If you have a website, and I hope you do, link up with others in your sphere of interest.

For those who know their chart: Wherever you have Saturn, there will be a let-up, a new freedom, a sense of play and affection. Wherever you have Venus, there will be constructive work that will have favorable outcomes, E.G: You have Venus in the 10th? Favorable career events.

CAPRICORN: REALLY LUCKY FOR YOU THE REST OF THE WEEK AND WEEKEND.
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Whether it's Handel's or Leonard Cohen's music you hear, Rejoice and Be Glad as Venus enters Libra. Art is all around, and Writing is the choirmember who is singing the solo.

If you are a Libra..make that deal ASAP.

Ok, I am giving in and doing this like every other astrologer in the world: going sign by sign.

Virgo: Somehow you will get it all done, and you'll get paid well too. Virgo's are excellent at details and completion. If only other signs could learn from you.

Libra: As above, this is your time to shine. You've had a bit of a wait for the check or the deal to finally show up, but the next few weeks should have real money instead of promises.

Scorpio: Still in the planning stages? That's fine, but put pencil to paper or fingers to keyboard and rough it out. Ideas have been known to escape if one does not commit them to
some kind of retrievable place, which does not happen to be your memory.

Sagittarius: Promises of committment, but not yet dotted lines on which to sign. It's all part of the process. When Venus gets to you ( early November) you'll have deposits to make in the bank.

Capricorn: You guys can be pretty thick.
Things are changing and you cannot deny it. And those changes are permanent most likely. You can deal with it...you are the Mountain Goat, ever scaling peaks. SEE ABOVE

Aquarius: Film. Think Film and Fantasy.
And God and Religion and Foreign Countries. And Intuition. And before Feb 2012, sock your money away in a very safe place.

Pisces: Enjoy the Venus action that helps you a great deal over the next couple of months. If publishing opportunities show up, then explore them quickly and efficiently, but be risk-averse.

Aries: Venus brings in new people that are an answer to a prayer. Allies like this are some of the treasures in life. Whew--you thought you'd be abandoned, that even God had forgotten your name, but nope---early Christmas in a way.

Taurus: The writing planet, Mercury, is trine Jupiter in Taurus, which means long awaited deals and offers are on your doorstep. HOWEVER, Neptune is not where it should be for these to materialize as you'd like. Still, your writing life expands and $$$ will follow, especially in 2012.

Gemini: Novelists: be aware that your inspiration is at full tilt right now, and soon will be in not as wonderful a place. Work your mercurial tushies off NOW. Next year, when Jupiter goes into Gemini, you'll be REALLY glad you have all this material to offer.
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Cancer:Early Cancers have had unwelcome surprises this year, but all of you will get a nice boost; some respite from the Pluto transit, now and into November. Take risks if your birthday is after J

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Writing: Profession or Diagnosis

lotsa planets in virgo now. earth signs,
(taurus, virgo capricorn), your senses and good luck are heightened. taurus, your creativity is at fever pitch. kiddie lit and YA are especially favored.

still haven't had your chart done? how do you know what's REALLY happening in your Writing Life then? $20 Tuesday is your bargain day to find out more!!!

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Isolation is a requirement for successful writers. Large blocks of time, and away from all distractions, are musts. Writing every day is the only way to fully tell a story..there are not weekend respites from the task, since the story cannot be frequently put down then picked up and still become its best self.

Characters cannot wait. They take on a life of their own and must be physically captured before the inspiration escapes.

Many people decide to be writers because they want out of whatever else they've been doing. I've seen it over and over again...being a writer stops critics and bystanders in your life in their tracks. They cannot criticize the choice for isolation because everyone thinks that a book idea has an excellent chance of making it big, and they may be swept up in a New York Times debut sensation. (This would be an overactive Neptune, to put at least some Astrology to work here.)

Anyone who has been through one book's birth, evolution and release will tell you that glamour is hardly a major feature. It's grist for perspiration, sleep deprivation, missed meals, and frustration with news sources and reviewers. There is nothing more competitive than releasing a book at the same time as 100,000 other people.

So if someone says to you" Oh I want to become a writer" get them some professional help, from someone in publishing. The need for isolation sometimes says more than "I have a marketable idea that requires a total life change". It may say " I need an excuse to quit my job and have people think I'm gifted", at least until the book sells, or not.( Then the undiagnosed blame the industry.)

Do you have a friend who wants to become an author? Having his/her chart done can indicate whether this is a healthy choice.

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Your Lucky Year

The Great Giver of Deals, Media Attention, and Cold Hard Cash is Jupiter. This giving god of the zodiac has recenly changed signs from Aries to Taurus. Earth signs, rejoice.( Virgo, Taurus, Capricorn) Aries, you can keep partying too. Aquarius is a guest here, with lots of goodies to take home.

This glorious time lasts until June 2012.

So this is the deal: What you wish for and WORK FOR is probably what you'll get, especially if you are among the signs above. Depending on your chart of course, Jupiter will shine down on you like the Angel did on Joseph Smith, the kids at Fatima, and Sarah Palin. Even if you are unsmart about something, Jupiter will skid the wheels into successful conclusions.
Why not have your chart done so you know just where the real gold is for the next 12 months..or more? Knowledge is power.

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Julie Hill is a Literary Agent and practicing Astrologer.