Gold is a vital color in oriental healing, known for strengthening and amplifying energetic processes. It increases self-consciousness, boosts the immune system, and supports cardiac health. Gold awakens the body's own healing abilities and can restore homeostasis while renewing enthusiasm and vitality.
Gold is best used intentionally as a strengthening and amplifying adjunct to other colors in therapy. Use in moderation and in combination with supportive tones to avoid overstimulation.
Brown is an earthy, grounding color that stabilizes and neutralizes. It calms overexcited states, grounds emotions, and settles extreme mental conditions. Brown awakens common sense and discrimination, bringing us back down to earth.
When brown appears in the aura it often indicates a need for grounding or may reflect infection in the corresponding area of the body. Brown is particularly useful to stabilize systems and help with spaciness or hyperactivity, especially in children (rust to deep-brown tones are effective).
Excessive exposure to brown may coarsen personality or mood. Use brown intentionally and in moderation when needed for grounding.
Black is a protective and grounding color, offering calmness especially to highly sensitive individuals. It activates the magnetic or feminine energies of the body, strengthening them. Spiritually, black holds different meanings across cultures — a sacred color in some traditions, but associated with death in others. It promotes resistance, opposition, and the ability to ward off negative emotions.
Black works best in combination with White, balancing polarities within the individual. It can help activate the subconscious mind, providing perspective amidst life’s chaos. While stabilizing, it should rarely be used alone, but together with other colors for balance.
Black should be used sparingly. Excess can lead to depression, fear, suspicion, or paranoia, and may worsen emotional or mental conditions.
White (full-spectrum light) contains all colors of the spectrum, influencing every system of the body. This is the foundation of light therapy. White is strengthening, cleansing, and purifying to the entire energy system. It promotes purity, virtue, and spirituality while calming the heart, mind, nerves, and emotions. It nurtures vitality, heals fevers, infections, and pain, and provides supportive, stabilizing energy.
White awakens creativity and is often used at the beginning and end of a color therapy session to stabilize and amplify the healing effects of other colors. It raises consciousness, brings harmony, and supports overall balance.
Excessive use of white light can cause passivity, lethargy, hypersensitivity, and inhibitions.
Ultra-violet light has a powerful chemical and bactericidal effect on the blood and tissues of the body. It helps break down bacterial toxins and supports white blood cells in their defensive (phagocytic) action. Ultra-violet also plays a vital role in vitamin reactions (A, B, C, D, E) and is essential in balancing calcium, phosphorus, iron, and iodine in the body. It boosts lymphatic and circulatory activity, normalizes metabolism, and stimulates antibody production, thereby enhancing immunity. While it activates the Sympathetic Nervous System, it also provides a sedative effect for pain relief. Ultra-violet is especially beneficial for the heart and lungs.
Healing properties: Strengthens contact with your life purpose, stimulates adrenaline and heart activity. Magenta is the color of the highest order, deeply connected with spirituality, meditation, and the art of letting go. It acts as an agent for change, helping to clear old attitudes and obsessions, and make a break with the past. Its complement is Green.
Purple blends the energy of red and the calmness of blue, bringing intense purification and detoxification. It soothes grief, restores youthfulness, and reconnects you with your feelings. In contrast, Scarlet is stimulating, energizing, and directly linked to vitality and sexuality. Together, they represent opposite yet complementary healing vibrations in color therapy.
Turquoise combines the cleansing power of green with the soothing effect of blue. It is calming, purifying, and relaxing, bringing relief to stress and aiding the immune system. It is particularly known as a skin-building color and supports recovery after burns. Its complementary color is Red.
The color lemon is a unique combination of green and yellow, carrying properties of both. It is vitalizing and stimulating to the brain, especially influencing the digestive system and left hemisphere brain activity. Lemon is primarily applied in mental stimulation and in cleansing toxins – both physical and emotional.
Violet is the color of transformation and spiritual renewal. It heals melancholy, hysteria, delusions, and addictions, while bringing deep insights and inner calm. Violet slows down an overactive heart, boosts immunity, soothes stress, aids in sleep, decreases pain sensitivity, and supports detoxification. It is especially helpful for calming emotional agitation and compulsive behavior.
Violet energy governs the Crown Chakra (Sahasrara), the highest spiritual center. It is the gateway to enlightenment, divine wisdom, and universal consciousness. Associated with unconditional love and transcendence, this chakra unites the physical with the spiritual self. Violet vibrates at the highest frequency, making it a color of spiritual awakening and mysticism.
Those drawn to violet are often contemplative, mystical, and deeply spiritual. They value meditation, introspection, and higher truths. Violet personalities are sensitive, intuitive, and may possess paranormal abilities. It reflects dignity, mystery, and the desire to improve the world. An aversion to violet may indicate an overly serious or rational attitude, resisting dreams, spirituality, or anything "unrealistic."
Violet is linked with elemental spirit, angels, prophecy, and higher psychic powers. It is used for divination, reversing negativity, countering curses, enhancing meditation, and astral projection. It radiates compassion and spiritual power, counteracting depression and aligning one’s energy with universal wisdom.
Violet balances the spleen and white blood cells, strengthening immunity. It helps with stress relief, emotional balance, compulsive behaviors, insomnia, and detoxification. Its calming properties make it ideal for healing agitation, hysteria, and emotional instability.
Indigo is a purifier of the bloodstream and supports mental balance. It combines the devotion of deep blue with the stabilizing touch of red. Indigo cools, soothes, and strengthens, helping in cases of nervous disorders, sinus problems, ear and eye ailments, ulcers, and skin disorders. It cleanses the body and calms the mind, offering both physical and spiritual healing.
Indigo stimulates the Brow Chakra, also known as the Third Eye. This chakra governs intuition, inner vision, and spiritual perception. It connects to the pineal and pituitary glands, supporting psychic abilities, clairvoyance, and deeper wisdom. It allows withdrawal into the inner self, bringing peace and quiet reflection.
Physically, it helps the nervous system, eyes, ears, and supports hormonal balance. Excess indigo may lead to headaches or drowsiness.
Indigo represents mystery, depth, and spiritual authority. People drawn to indigo are seekers of truth, beauty, justice, and higher knowledge. It strengthens courage and inner calm. At its core, indigo symbolizes intuitive power and wisdom that looks beyond appearances into the unseen realms.
Indigo is linked with the mystical aspects of the mind and spirit. It stimulates intellectual clarity, psychic awareness, and higher consciousness. In magick, it is used for divination, meditation, purification, justice, spiritual vision, and intuition. It harmonizes physical and spiritual perception, helping to align inner truth with universal wisdom.
Indigo is beneficial for treating ear, nose, and eye issues, sinus conditions, varicose veins, skin disorders, and nervous system problems. It also supports recovery from migraines, cataracts, stomach and womb disorders, and purifies the blood. It is a stimulant that does not irritate, balancing mind and body energies.
Blue is cooling, calming, and astringent. Known as one of the greatest natural antiseptics, it cools inflammations, fever, and rheumatism, lowers high blood pressure, and stops bleeding. Blue eases headaches, reduces anger and hysteria, and brings tranquility. It also soothes itching, skin irritation, and stress, offering relief and peace.
Blue resonates with the Throat Chakra, the center of communication and expression. It helps with speech-related issues such as laryngitis and sore throats, and calms nervous breakdowns and shock. Meditating with blue aids in warding off nightmares and promotes peaceful sleep.
Blue’s cooling vibration spreads through the body via the nervous system, restoring harmony where needed. It is not recommended in cases of poor circulation as its sedative effect may lower vitality.
Blue is the color of truth, nobility, and serenity. It encourages calmness, peace, loyalty, and honor. Those who favor blue are often rational, faithful, and logical thinkers. Light blue reflects dreamy, magical qualities, while dark blue can become severe or melancholic. Blue clothing helps in summer, cooling the body and calming emotions.
Blue connects with the elements of Water and Air. It is associated with deities of the sea, wisdom, and truth. In magick, blue promotes peace, calm, healing, justice, understanding, loyalty, prophetic dreams, and astral protection. Physically, it aids in lowering fever, stopping bleeding, soothing burns, and calming inflammation.
Preference: Indicates a love for peace, rest, and truth. Blue lovers are loyal, logical, and soothing individuals who bring calm to others. They may enjoy daydreaming and hold strong ideals.
Aversion: Suggests discipline, focus on career, and dislike of restrictions. These people may become overly serious. Too much blue can lead to coldness, sadness, passivity, or depression.
Green is the color of Nature and Earth, symbolizing balance and harmony. It soothes both mind and body and can be used for nearly any healing need. Green restores psychological and emotional harmony while promoting physical balance.
It links with and stimulates the Heart Chakra, affecting blood pressure, heart conditions, and hormonal imbalances. It stimulates growth hormones, purifies the body from germs and toxins, aids digestion, and strengthens immunity, muscles, bones, and tissues. Green inspires inner peace and rejuvenation.
Green supports the heart, kidneys, liver, stomach, and digestive system. It promotes healing of tissues and bones, harmonizes hormones, and builds immunity. It strengthens the nervous system while stimulating calmness and peace within.
Green’s balance brings both energizing and soothing effects, making it ideal for those needing both restoration and stability.
Green represents balance, harmony, and hope. People who prefer yellow-green are often adventurous, while those drawn to blue-green are optimists. Lovers of green value peace, family, health, and nurturing connections with nature, children, and animals.
Green is connected to the elements of Earth (dark green) and Water (blue-green). It symbolizes fertility, growth, abundance, harmony, and healing. It is associated with Mother Earth, prosperity, and herbal magick, and counteracts jealousy and greed.
Preference: Peace, rest, hope, comfort, harmony, and interest in nature and healing. Supports safe family life, calms nerves, and promotes tissue and bone healing. Recommended during pregnancy for a serene environment.
Aversion: May reflect a stronger desire for independence and self-development, or emotional distance in relationships. Excessive green can cause lethargy, complacency, and stagnation.
Yellow helps strengthen the nerves and the mind. It awakens mental inspiration and stimulates higher mentality, making it excellent for nervous or nerve-related conditions. Yellow also energizes the muscles, while dark yellow soothes shooting nerve pains.
It supports the stomach, liver, and intestines, speeds digestion and assimilation, and helps the pores of the skin heal scarred tissue. Yellow links with and stimulates the Solar Plexus (psychic center), restoring vitality and lifting depression or melancholy. It gives lust for life and inspires optimism.
Yellow is strongly connected to the Solar Plexus Chakra, which governs confidence, intellect, and personal power. It is useful for psychic burnout, digestive issues, and nervous conditions. It stimulates the intellect, facilitates healing of the skin, and activates joy.
However, overstimulation of yellow energy can result in stress, exhaustion, and even depression if used excessively.
Yellow symbolizes cheerfulness, curiosity, communication, and progress. People attracted to yellow are often good communicators, sunny in disposition, and eager learners. Stronger shades may indicate arrogance, while pastel shades suggest timidity.
Yellow is associated with the element of Air and deities of trade, travel, knowledge, and magick. It empowers life-force, vitality, communication, confidence, concentration, memorization, success in studies, and eloquence in speech and writing. It supports learning, travel, and positive affirmations.
Preference: Love of sunshine, curiosity, energy, progress, communication, amusement, writing, speaking, and joy in learning.
Aversion: May indicate bitterness, disappointment, or superficiality. Avoidance of deeper emotional bonds, frequent changes in activities, or multiple shallow relationships.
Orange is warm, cheering, and non-constricting. It has a freeing action upon the body and mind, relieving repressions. Orange shows new possibilities and other options in life. It stimulates creative thinking and enthusiasm, and helps assimilate new ideas. It is also helpful in dealing with excess sexual expression.
Orange stimulates the lungs, respiration and digestion. It increases thyroid activity, relieves muscle cramps and spasms, and even increases the amount of mother’s milk. Orange links very strongly with the sacral chakra.
Like red, orange is also energizing, but with a gentler warming effect. It treats gallstones, digestive ailments, chest and kidney diseases, and arthritis. It lifts the spirits of those who are depressed, lonely, or lacking direction. However, too much orange can lead to agitation and restlessness.
Orange energy is governed by the Sacral (Spleen) Chakra, which supports emotional balance, creativity, and joy.
Orange represents vitality, creativity, and enthusiasm. It brings celebration, abundance, comfort, and enjoyment of the senses. Warm, sociable, and dynamic people are often drawn to orange, dedicating themselves fully to their passions.
Orange is associated with deities of good luck and fortune. It is linked with attraction, charm, kindness, optimism, prosperity, celebration, and success in business or legal matters. It stimulates motivation, energy, and abundance.
Preference: Passion for life, sociability, creativity, independence, and a love for celebration and abundance.
Aversion: May indicate suppressed sexual feelings, difficulty enjoying life’s pleasures, or over-indulgence and materialism.
Brings warmth, energy and stimulation, therefore good for energy, fatigue, colds, chilly and passive people. Red energizes heart and blood circulation, it builds up the blood and heightens a low blood pressure. Energizes all organs and the senses hearing, smell, taste, vision and touch. Increases sexual desire and activity. Stimulates ovulation and menstruation. Never treat cancer with red, because this color will stimulate cell growth!
Red links with and stimulates the root chakra, at the base of the spine, causing the adrenal glands to release adrenalin. This results in greater strength. Red causes hemoglobin to multiply, thus increasing energy and raising body temperature. It is excellent for anemia and blood-related conditions. It loosens, opens up clogs, releases stiffness and constrictions.
The colour red represents vitality, creativity, energy and power. People who favour the colour red are usually those that like to be in the forefront where they can attract a lot of attention. They are often quick to react and overemotional. This colour helps to loosen stiffness and restraints, and is good for treating anaemia and blood-related conditions.
Associated with deities of love, passion, sexuality and war. Red stimulates courage, will-power, determination, speed, aggression, masculinity, independence, physical strength, sports, competition, conflicts, health, sexual attraction, passion and fertility.
Preference: Passionate love, sex, great energy, action, stimulation, courage, strength, power, adventure, danger, revolution.
Aversion: May indicate over-activity, impulsiveness, hot-tempered behavior, or hidden fears and rejection of assertiveness.
FEBRUARY 19 - MARCH 20
In 2009, Pisces will enjoy swimming in new dimensions, as the highly charged Aquarius energy allows you to dream big and manifest your ideas. Your imagination soars, awakening a deep desire to seek spiritual truth and meaning in your life -- and in the world.
Your awareness and new perception helps to serve others. You are able to live freely in the world of transformation, and this encourages others to do the same. They feel supported by your wisdom and understanding. Your inspirational qualities are a large part of your purpose in the world -- your ability to heal and inspire.
At times, it may be difficult for you to live in this world of concrete realities, and conversely, sometimes it’s hard for others to understand that all you want to do is live in a world of endless possibilities. As you learn to balance these polarities, harmony prevails.
Love and romance bring idealistic energy your way this year. You enjoy being in touch with the spiritual and mystical part of your nature, so you need a romance that encourages self-discovery, and intimacy that allows you and your lover to connect with each other’s soul on a deep level. It's not just anyone who dares to travel as far into the unknown as you do, Pisces!
Your dreams will be ignited as you attract someone (or reach a deeper place in an existing relationship) who is willing to dream with you, and who loves and cherishes you for exactly who you are right now. You refuse to abandon your sense of self in your relationship, so it is crucial that your dreams and visions are supported in your love relationship.
In the springtime, you're eager to further explore your commitment with your partner, and to truly understand the practicality of balancing your energies, and maintaining that equal energy. This will be a huge growing opportunity for you.
JANUARY 20 - FEBRUARY 18
Aquarius is all about a new vision in 2009, and working to move our planet toward the highest and healthiest quality of life. You are highly energized with this wonderful alignment, and your inspiration is rekindled to move energy in grandiose ways. You are able to utilize these high frequencies in order to create new structure and value in people's lives.
This is no time to sit back and let anything slip through your fingers. Express yourself and move forward with your visionary ideas. As you forge ahead, you find a reworking of meaning on a deep level, and discover possibilities as you connect with your highest star. Be inventive in channeling your dreams into reality. As you find a place to manifest this energy, it will become easy for you to usher in a better world. The time to realize your highest ideals is here!
Your ideas have always been ahead of the times, and now you are a shining example of what the Earth force can assimilate into everyday living. You realize that the world was created with structure, and outdated modes of living that no longer serve mankind are being recognized around the world. It's time to let go of anything that holds you back. New thinking is on the horizon, and people are ready to align with the quickly changing energies of the planets. Your leadership skills will help humanity make these shifts, and you will feel supported by those who understand the need to create peace and harmony.
You have an innate talent of attracting like-minded people, but sometimes you can be reluctant to express affection individually because of your broad love for mankind. You are often more energized by people responding to your positive ideals rather than to who you really are. You are so enthusiastic in serving mankind that you sometimes leave yourself out of the equation.
This spring, you're likely to encounter someone who appreciates you in a way that injects enthusiasm into your life. As the year progresses, share that deepening of yourself and you may find that you're actually ready to having an intimate relationship.
DECEMBER 22 - JANUARY 19
In order for Capricorn to accomplish their goals in 2009, intelligent brainstorming is a must. Connecting with others satisfies your mind, and friends are a source of stimulation and inspiration, adding to the scientific developments you like to explore. That said, be sure to take time for yourself. You don't have to master everything in a day.
You thrive on making new discoveries and developing opportunities. Call upon your inner guidance to help get the job done more efficiently. If you feel any uncertainty, other people are there to confirm your ideas, and allowing yourself to explore your inner thoughts will help you align yourself with a greater sense of awareness and meaningfulness.
Capricorn rarely shies away from highly concentrated work, and you are able to meet challenges as they come up in 2009. This is a time of great self-discovery and transformation for you. As you work to manifest your best possible self, you will see things from a deeper perspective than ever before.
Using your powers of concentration to tune into universal knowledge will help you manifest your highest dreams.
As you learn to give yourself to another and have your relationship deepen, it helps you break through any discriminating attitudes toward relationships, and to have more confidence in your process. As you continue to accept yourself and enjoy life, you no longer feel the pressure to perform.
The peaceful knowing inherent in your love relationship brings deeper meaning to being together, and the relationship brings you abounding joy. You have abundant optimism and broad appreciation about your relationship. In the autumn, you may be drawn to marriage, as you begin to really understand and embrace the joy of having someone close to you.
NOVEMBER 22 - DECEMBER 21
You tend to attract just about everything you want this year through your warmth and magnetic Sagittarian spirit. That said, you may also go through some great transformational shifts in 2009 as you realize that your happiness no longer depends so much on possessions, but rather on the deeper meaning associated with things symbolic of love and sharing.
Instead of controlling what’s happening around you, you now have experiences that perhaps you don't understand, but in allowing new insights to come in and have a voice, the rearranging of your resources and your values gives you a sense of security and growth.
By surrendering to your higher power, you realize you don’t have to struggle as much to get what you want. As you open up to the ideas and energies flowing around you, your priorities shift dramatically. And -- you'll be happy to know -- you don’t need to work as hard to enjoy sensual pleasures either!
Great opportunities arise as you explore your potential, and discover what kind of environment best serves you in your endeavors. Being in touch with this part of yourself helps you align with your higher purpose, and your drive to continue will lead to great success. Life becomes much easier when you trust that the universe will take care of you.
When you communicate your truth and your ideals this year, boundaries will dissolve in your love relationship. As you both intuitively recognize the needs of each other, it will be much easier to exchange ideas -- and love -- freely. As you awaken to an improved way of personal interaction, you will start to see changes in your relationship. Entertaining new ideas and possibilities pushes you toward major breakthroughs, and your relationship takes on a new identity. A deeper commitment helps shift your attitude, and you find that you are able to consciously make positive changes in your home life.
OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 21
Get out there and communicate your passionate awareness to the world this year, Scorpio! As you articulate your beliefs, you will move your life -- and the planet -- toward a more spiritual and thoughtful reality. Positively express yourself and your vision, and you will be a source of great inspiration.
Scorpio loves challenges, especially when it involves transformational energy. As you purify your instincts and overcome any fears of letting your creative passion flow, a newfound enthusiasm and strength will arise within you, and affect everyone around you.
You see yourself in a completely different light this year as you discover new ways of bringing harmony into your life and communicating on a deeper level. Accept who you are at the core, and you will experience a wholeness you never thought possible. Trusting yourself is the key to spiritual growth.
The abundant Aquarian energy this year provides you the perfect opportunity to fulfill your strong urge for emotional security. Your home life will become your sanctuary of love and joy, and you'll be able to more fully connect with yourself -- and, of course, your lover!
Your instincts are powerful in developing intimacy, and will help you create a healing, passionate and spiritual relationship. The completeness of being in love is a major focus for you this year, and your desire to articulate your feelings will bring your relationship to a higher level of understanding and personal fulfillment. Let the child within you flow, and enjoy being playful with each other! As summer approaches, you'll achieve harmony and enjoyment in your relationship without compromising your sense of self. Marriage may come your way as you realize the depth of passion and love that someone else can feel for you.
SEPTEMBER 23 - OCTOBER 22
Brilliant ideas come easily into Libra's awareness throughout 2009. As you trust your higher self and allow thoughts to flow freely, you are able to embrace new opportunities and make positive changes in your life. You come to a higher level of understanding and appreciation as you let go of old ideas. You're no longer separated from what you want as you detach from limiting thoughts, bringing you a new spiritual perspective of feeling fully supported and loved.
As you stay centered within your core, your highest ideals manifest, and you have the ability to help others realize their interconnectedness, and bring balance into their lives. Your efforts bring you into a more stable way of working than ever before, an important development, what with all the changes occurring this year.
In 2009, relationships become very exciting when you share new adventures, dreams and hopes with people. As you focus on your desire to create balance and harmony in the world, your personal life will reflect that energy as well -- and invite change to take place.
As you continue to trust your spirit, you will receive the love you want. Balance and integrity become the most important assets to you as you harmonize your thoughts with your emotions. Express your deepest needs, and you will be more relaxed about sharing the beauty you feel inside. In realizing the changes within your consciousness, your relationships strengthen.
AUGUST 23 - SEPTEMBER 22
Wonderful things are in store for you this year, Virgo! You're experiencing tremendous feelings of rebirth and, as you release old ways of expressing yourself, you'll find yourself walking into all kinds of new experiences. Virgo loves to make sure everything is clear, concise and methodical, and this will help make it easy for you to graciously receive and beautifully adapt to the growth you are experiencing. You'll feel very peaceful with the changes happening both inside and outside of you, and you welcome the opportunity to express the new knowledge you gain.
Mentally, culturally, instinctually and spiritually, you'll be going through incredible transformation this year. Your fresh take on life will give you the ability to manifest a new reality. You take a big leap forward as you share these changes with others.
A re-emergence of your inventive and creative self will give you new ways of taking action and bringing your talents into the world. You will feel secure, safe and centered, which allows you to achieve anything you want in your life. You will feel more spiritually balanced in 2009 than ever before.
Your abundant energy helps you fill your home with love, creativity and joy. This helps attract a partner who is altruistic and who gives you the emotional security you want. Remember, you don’t have to do everything yourself, otherwise you'll get bogged down with details. Learn to trust your relationship and know that your loved one is there to support you.
You are very connected to your feelings -- especially this year -- and need your lover to be right there with you, from helping you manifest your dreams to cultivating your idealism. Having values and ideals in common will help you both relax and find fulfillment in this relationship. In fact, everyone loves being around you because of your contagious optimism.
JULY 23 - AUGUST 22
In 2009, you find yourself connecting with people effortlessly as your warm-hearted actions are acknowledged and radiated back to you in a way you've never experienced before. The confident joy and happiness you freely give to others gives you the innate ability to be productive. For you, kind actions are the way to transformation and success.
You realize there’s work to do, and you'll give a helping hand wherever you can. What you are able to give to others directly reflects the transformation happening within you.
Your heart is in the right place, and you are likely to accomplish all that you set out to do this year. You're developing excellent skills in your own personal transformation process, and you are ready to make the conscious decision to be the best you can be. You feel secure, and the beauty of who you are shines through easily and effortlessly.
You feel as if you're reaping the harvest this year in your relationships. Socially, your connections are very positive and your altruistic, visionary personality brings you a great circle of friends. Very strong and intuitive, your sense of self-worth in a close relationship makes it a very loving and secure one — your main focus for some time now.
Your enthusiasm bubbles over as an intimate relationship blossoms, and the challenges of constructive communication become easier and easier. Energetically, you are uplifted when you choose to be in a relationship and master the art of accepting someone as they are.
In the springtime, your focus may shift to marriage as many blessings come your way, giving you opportunities to experience conscious acts of sharing, cooperation and honor. Things may seem to move fast, but if you go with the flow, you'll gain confidence in your progress.
JUNE 21 - JULY 22
As we enter the Golden Age of Aquarius, you are ready to receive all the blessings that are there for you, especially in the areas of communications and relationships.
Being understood and getting the responses you desire helps you believe in your ability to succeed and reach your highest potential. Your focus is excellent, and you know what you want. Use this to your advantage when working with others, but don't demand that they see your ideas as visionary -- even if you do. As ideas start flowing freely to you, make sure you articulate your insights clearly.
It is important for you to have a partner who is willing to explore different ways of doing things. You will experience many changes as you learn new ways of expressing yourself.
As you make this shift, avoid putting restrictions on yourself and stopping the flow. You are learning to behave in a new positive way, not worrying about the outcome. This will curb your need to control situations and enable you to take your relationships -- work and personal -- to a higher level of consciousness.
In order to attract a partner who is able to reflect your deeper self, make a conscious decision to build your relationships slowly and carefully. This will help you cultivate a higher sense of enjoyment in your life. Let the lightness of music and dance help you get in touch with your playful nature -- which will make you even more attractive!
As you nurture your optimism, you're likely to attract a partner who is connected to that bright side of you. As the relationship moves to a higher vibration, it will be easy to be warm and affectionate with each other, creating a positive flow.
MAY 21 - JUNE 20
As a Gemini, you possess an amazing ability to see dualities -- the pros and cons of situations as change approaches -- and to quickly and efficiently think them through before making any decisions. In 2009, you dare to look deeply into your desires, regenerate self-awareness and recognize psychological ambiguities. This will bring balance into your home and family life. Pay attention to the details as you bring your inner and outer life into harmony. And be sure to enjoy the changes occurring within you!
As you come to terms with yourself, you are able to see a more fulfilling purpose in life, and your field of experience broadens. Focus on matters that affect you most deeply and, like magic, your life will become easier and things will seem to take care of themselves. You have all the necessary resources and motivation to make tangible changes and achieve results this year.
Love is passionate and transforming this year, as you learn to adjust to the changing needs of your relationship. You will feel empowered as you make positive adjustments in your spiritual and emotional integrity. If you open up to the possibilities, the intensity of merging the sacred and secret connection between yourself, your lover and the world will help you realize that you're part of the global metamorphosis.
If you're single, you're likely to meet someone with an artistic flair -- perhaps even at your workplace. Your instincts are powerful now, urging you to connect at the deepest level of human experience possible, and learn how to experience your own emotional desires without fear. You may be feeling some challenges in your home life, but by accepting each other for who you really are, you will be less likely to withdraw emotionally. Your attention to family needs and letting go of any delusions around relationships will pay off as the energies shift and you realize the value of your home environment and the love, support and happiness that it gives you.
APRIL 20 - MAY 20
It's time to celebrate yourself, Taurus! You are pouring yourself into your life’s mission and rejuvenating yourself with abundant thinking, which attracts great things to you. You're diligently creating a public arena where opportunities will emerge for you to be a teacher or messenger. Engagements for speaking, writing and sharing your thoughts will open up. Other people will be inspired by your enthusiasm and insight, and will support you in accomplishing your goals.
Taurus’s excitement radiates more than ever this year, bringing with it a magnificent energy the world has been lacking. As you embrace the power of your heart and spirit, you are allowing yourself to transform and align with a universal energy source. You discover the space for your creativity to flow and abundantly bring the truth of your being into the world. Your focus on your connection with a higher purpose brings out the best in you and refines your self-expression.
Pay attention to what has heart and meaning. Express your truth and you will advance. You will find avenues to bring your talents and belief systems to philanthropic endeavors. By the end of the year, you will be able to slow down a bit and find more time to enjoy the new you that you have created.
Success in your work life spills over to your romantic life. You are newly inspired as positive friendships develop and your loved ones express how feel about you. Their encouragement helps you feel more comfortable about expressing yourself romantically. Spontaneity can be challenging for you in romantic love, but your gifts are many and it's important for you to appreciate and love yourself so that it rubs off others and attracts the right person.
MARCH 21 - APRIL 19
Pioneering and courageous Aries is being called to times of incredible new growth and renewal. The considerable reflective time you have spent rehashing and deciding which avenue will best serve your highest purpose has shaken you to the very root of your personal belief systems. Through surrendering to your higher self, new realizations and golden opportunities you never thought possible are brilliantly opening up for you.
Your new commitment to self has given you a renewed appreciation of your divine wisdom and accomplishments. The understanding you have radiates love and compassion, and is attracting your highest good.
Your heart's desires are quickly manifesting right before your eyes and you are able to reap long-standing benefits as you detach from the past and are catapulted forward.
Because of your humanitarian ideals and desire to be a helper in our emerging world, be careful not to fall into old patterns of helping others fulfill their needs rather than taking care of your own. As you grow, people are drawn to your altruistic ideas and your visionary and compassionate personality.
In spite of your good endurance and concentration, remember to take care of yourself on an everyday basis to maintain wholeness and integration. Finding a good physical outlet for your frustrations is important so that you don't deplete your energy and prevent yourself from getting what you really want. Enjoyment is the fundamental desire of your life, and you are able to create the life you enjoy.
