Yearly Horoscope Analysis from 6/08 until 5/09 for Barack Obama by Liz Greene

[I Have A Dream]

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The dominant energy

Because you are not usually afraid of intensity or intense experience, the underlying energies at work over the next year are not likely to twist you in too many knots - although you may sometimes find that the emotional challenges push you to the limit. You are likely to spend a good deal of time focused on relationships of all kinds, and perhaps also on domestic and family matters which ordinarily you might not wish to be so closely involved with. The atmosphere is likely to be changeful as well as emotionally deepening, and you may sometimes wish things were more stable and secure. But you have sufficient imagination and inner strength to cope with any challenges which come your way on these highly personal levels. You may even find that an increased emphasis on your feelings and needs can help your creative expression and your ability to actualise your dreams, through a greater sense of connectedness with others. Try not to react to feelings of increased vulnerability with a defensively independent attitude or an overly theatrical spirit of "poor me". This year could prove wonderfully rewarding on many levels, if you are prepared to give plenty of time and thought to the ways in which you interact with other human beings.

Learning self-sufficiency

Saturn square Moon: Beginning of September 2007 until beginning of July 2008
During this period you are likely to discover a new sense of strength, self-containment and serenity. But this process may challenge old habit patterns. You may feel as though you are carrying burdens in your personal life from which you cannot see any escape. You may also feel lonely and unappreciated, and others may seem to be insensitive, unresponsive or indifferent. Although you are usually able to be quite realistic about others' emotional limits, and externally quite capable of managing for yourself, deep down you have probably been troubled by such depressing feelings in the past. You may have experienced much loneliness in childhood, or the weight of responsibilities you were really too young to carry. However, before you descend into a trough of self-pity and resentment, you may need to recognise the nature and meaning of the process which is taking place within you. You are experiencing a period of emotional maturing which could leave you with much greater self-sufficiency, and at the moment you probably need to learn how to nourish and nurture yourself. The more you demand that others do something to make you feel better, the less likely you are to get what you want, for you are likely to be as closed to them as you accuse them of being to you. And if you try to hold on to relationships which are passing or proving unviable, you may be doing so not because you truly want and need them, but because you are afraid of being alone.

In the past, you may have depended too much on the support of family members or community to provide you with a sense of safety and security. You may also have expected too much from others, secretly hoping that they would provide a kind of parenting which could keep you protected and sheltered from loneliness and change. Now you may have to accept the fact that others cannot provide unconditional love all the time, and you may need to be able to take them as they are without becoming bitter or cynical, or blaming yourself for being unlovable. You may also need to accept your own limits, and understand that you cannot be available to everyone all the time. Learn to value yourself and look after your own well-being, for at the moment it is likely that no one is going to do it for you to the extent you might wish. If you feel burdened with the responsibility to look after someone else right now, you may need to learn to say no; or, if you cannot, then you may need to learn to delegate responsibility or find a balance which honours your own needs as well as those of loved ones.

You are probably feeling very restricted and trapped. There may be objective reasons for this; but equally, you may be trapping yourself because you find it so difficult to express what you want and don't want. You may be too frightened of being separate and causing disharmony in your emotional life. Yet if you are not honest with yourself and others right now, unexpressed anger could place too much stress on your body, or you might inadvertently alienate the very people you are so fearful of losing because your resentment may show itself in covert if not overt ways. In some ways, you cannot win right now: Your choices are between self-affirmation and the risk of loneliness, or self-suppression and the risk of long-term resentment. Whatever you do, you will pay a price; inner strength of the lasting kind does not come cheap. But ultimately honesty about who you are will reap rewards in the future, while dishonesty now will result in the same problem reappearing even more powerfully in a few years' time. If you learn to define your own needs, you may upset one or two people. You may even have to say goodbye to one or two people, or put up with a period of coolness or friction. But you will also discover that you have loyal and loving support from those who truly understand you. And if you can stand on your own feet, you will be able to enjoy relationships much more in the future because you can grant greater freedom both to your loved ones and yourself.

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