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For Anti-Bullying Day on Feb. 24 this year, these 250 students and teachers at Cedar Grove Elementary in Elphinstone decided to do their own tie-dye shirts instead of the traditional pink, with the help of volunteer tie-dye experts Natalie Ingram and Keith Wilson, and under the direction of Principal Barry Krangle. School mascot dog Keno, with his own tie-dyed shirt, was having a lie-down. RIK JESPERSEN PHOTO

Passenger ferry starts morning trips The Sunshine Coast’s new passenger ferry service has started running one morning trip from Gibsons to Horseshoe Bay, but is holding back on a second morning run until it gets more commitment from potential passengers.

“The 6:25am is 100 per cent a go starting March 1st,”

Pacific Ferries’ Linda Feuerhelm told the Local on Feb. 29. “The 7:50am is still tentative because we only have five people signed up. If we get the numbers we will push forward with it.”

Pacific Ferries announced in mid-February that it hoped to start the two morning trips March 1 after it came to an

agreement with the Lower Gibsons Harbour Authority for moorage. But the company said it still needed a certain level of commitment from passengers before it could push ahead with the new schedule.

Feuerhelm said that, on the assumption that commuters going into the city would be

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Feuerhelm said. “I’m just hoping people haven’t got around to sign up but do want it.”

The company launched on Jan. 27 with three afternoon runs from Horseshoe Bay to Gibsons. However, only the 5:10pm proved to be popular

enough to retain and the other two were discontinued, but still could be added later.

“The 5:10 is doing great.

We’re now at 23 passengers,” she said.

Passengers can sign up for the discount at Pacificferries. ca. Rik Jespersen

Sunshine Coast RCMP are warning the public after learning that the Sunshine Coast RCMP’s non-emergency number (604-885-2266) is being spoofed in a phonescam.

In a commonly-seen scam, a fraudster phones a resident and claims to be from the Canada Revenue Agency.

The resident is told that their taxes are in arrears, there is a warrant out for their arrest, and the only way to avoid being arrested is to immediately pay a sum of money.

Unfortunately the fraudsters are now going even further to try to legitimize themselves. Using internet phone technology, the fraudsters are able to have their number appear as any number they want on the target’s call display. This means that they can – and have – made the RCMP’s number appear on call display. The fraudster then identifies themselves as a police officer with the local detachment (such as Constable Smith with the RCMP), which leads the resident to

believe that there really is an outstanding balance owing and they face imminent arrest.

If you have lost any money to this or any other scam, notify your local police immediately. If you have been targeted but did not give out any money or personal information, you can check out the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre’s website at: www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca for more information.

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In its investigation report, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) determined that a lack of adequate maintenance led to the March 18, 2015, sinking of the tug Syringa north of Merry Island, off Halfmoon Bay. The tug had been towing the barge Matcon 1 (which

was released before the sinking) when it took on water and sank. The two crew members swam ashore and were later picked up by the Canadian Coast Guard. A small quantity of diesel fuel was released from the tug after it sank, and the barge was later recovered by another tug.

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5 Jena Eros, as Marilyn Monroe, and Matt Morris, as Bob Hope, helped grace the 3rd Annual Oscars Eve Party put on at Trail Bay Mall by the Rotary Club of Sechelt on the evening of Feb. 27. The event’s ticket sales, raffles and silent auction helped net about $3,400, all of which will go back into community projects. RIK JESPERSEN PHOTO

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People looking to buy are “clamouring for properties” on the Sunshine Coast in what could be the busiest January and February ever for local real estate, agents say.

“There are a lot of buyers out there right now and there’s not much for sale,” Gary Little of Royal LePage Sussex told the Local. “Sellers are getting closer to asking price, or multiple offers, and people are clamouring for properties.

“February has been just crazy. We’ve had 108 sales so far this month,” Little said on Feb. 24. “The biggest month we’ve seen in the last several years was 110 sales, and that was last June. We’re going to wipe out the best month in years—and in February.

Unbelievable,” he said Little’s colleague at Royal

LePage Sussex, Kate McQuaid,

said properties that are wellpriced “are lasting less than a week” on the market before being scooped up.

“I’ve never seen a January and February like this. Our sales board is double what it normally would be for this time of year,” McQuaid said.

A relatively low inventory of listed properties, especially detached homes, is helping drive the frenzy. The number of detached properties for sale dipped to just over 300 at the end of February, a little more than half the inventory in February 2014.

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Statistics aren’t currently

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are from, but most seem to

be Lower Mainlanders, the

agents said.

Prices have not gone

up sharply, but have been steadily rising for detached homes in the past 18 months, and are now, on average, nearly 15 per cent higher than they were in August, 2014.

To call it “a seller’s market” is putting it mildly.

“People do not have any time to sit on the fence right now,” said McQuaid. “If they see something they have to get a pen out and be prepared to write an offer. If it’s good, it’s not going to last.”

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Editorial Opinion Grieve, then act The tragedy we’re witnessing in so many places around the world is heartbreaking.

For many reasons and in many ways, people and nature are in distress. Quaker activist and author Parker Palmer implores us to ask, “What shall we do with our suffering?” The way we deal with our pain has critical implications. Whether we project it outward as war or murder or absorb it as despair and self-destruction, “Violence is what we get when we do not know what else to do with our suffering."

Climate change is one of the most destabilizing forces in human history. We must deal with carbon emissions but we must also deal with human suffering. In Canada, Inuit are feeling the impacts disproportionately. Ice appears much later in the season and melts earlier. Changing wildlife migration patterns disrupt community livelihoods, land-based activities and cultural practices.

Cape Breton University Canada research chair Ashlee Cunsolo Willox is working with Inuit to understand their communities’ climate-related mental and emotional health impacts, documenting anxiety, despair, hopelessness and depression, increased family stress, drug and alcohol use and suicide attempts. People are grieving for a way of life that is changing with the landscape.

Although global warming discourse typically ignores our intense feelings and grief in the face of environmental change, Cunsolo Willox argues it can expand our capacity to act.

Instead of knee-jerk reactions that so often accompany fear and emotional pain, what if we summoned the courage to experience our sadness, disorientation and grief in all its fullness?

More importantly, what if we did this together? The feelings surrounding change and loss highlight our shared vulnerability and expose our connections to one another. We can consciously foster a heightened sense of human and ecological fellowship.

The late environmental scientist Donella Meadows believed the process of experiencing feelings is far from trivial. “Feelings, like knowledge, don’t directly change anything. But if we don’t rush past the feelings or stuff them down, if we take time to admit even the most uncomfortable ones, to accept them, share them, and couple them with knowledge of what is wrong and how it might be fixed, then feelings and knowledge together are motors for change.”

The suffering we’re witnessing because of loss of land, culture, ways of life and identity may portend what is to come for all of us. Now is the time to come together and decide how we will respond. Let’s make sure it’s the best humanity has to offer.

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(Sent to the SCRD Board, and copied to the Local) As a private citizen of the Sunshine Coast who has been actively participating in the blockade of the Chapman Creek Watershed, I call upon you to take swift and conscious action in this regard.

I do not have issue with sustainable logging or gun clubs or mountain biking and recreation through the forest. The issue at hand is the water supply for the forest and her creatures and, downwind, us humans who just don’t seem to be able to communicate in ways that can contribute to possible solutions to the kind of dilemmas we find ourselves in relation to nature and her care.

We need to find a better location for the sustainable logging that can be part of a green economy. We need to relocate gun clubs and outdoor recreation activities that directly jeopardize our watershed. This is a clear boundary and line we must draw in the forest. We must educate the public in kind and conscious ways so that their direct experience of belonging to this land and water is the catalyst for change.

I welcome the opportunity (as a volunteer at the blockade) to be part of negotiations and conversations in regards to the kind resolution of this issue. This property needs to be purchased – we need time to do this I realize, however your action on this is an integral part of the due process we are requesting.

Stand for our watershed.

We do not need to wait and then use the tax money later for more water resource centres: we have the resource, we need to protect it!

Surespan is acting as a corporation on behalf of their shareholders – I have no problem with this. They are bridge builders. Let’s engage them in being part of a remarkable and healthy solu-

tion for this particular piece of land and watershed, and help them to be truly active bridge builders.

Let’s do the right thing at the right time and in the right place.

Penny Allport, Wilson Creek

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(Sent to SCRD directors and copied to the Local) Concerned citizens have maintained a blockade to protect our Chapman Creek Drinking Watershed. This is not an easy task. We carry on, however, motivated by the conviction that the majority of residents, who depend on water from Chapman Creek, support the effort to protect the source of our drinking water.

We think it’s time that the SCRD Board lets the Sunshine Coast Community know that they take the matter of protecting our water source seriously and that they intend to resolve the problem of private property in the watershed once and for all.

There are numerous reasons why it is absolutely necessary to acquire the private land in our watershed such as: • We will own and control the land (on which, shockingly, the very intake for our water supply is located) and immediately stop the logging in our source of water; • It will strengthen our position for protection of the rest of the watershed located on Sechelt First Nation land – in other words we are willing to put our money where our mouth is; • We will own the property on which a reservoir could be located – definitely required

in the long term; • It will show leadership from the SCRD and the SIB as per the Joint Watershed Management Agreement.

Suggested possible options and funding sources: • Delay or cancel Chapman Lake and Creek trenching and water meter installations and use some of these funds to negotiate a property settlement.

I understand approximately $9 million are budgeted for this; • Borrow the required funds, at low interest rates, supported by a referendum as required. We are confident this would be approved by a solid majority of Sunshine Coast residents.

The most important thing immediately is to establish or resume negotiations with Marc Rogers of AJB Investments and reach an understanding that negotiations will proceed to a resolution of the property issue if the logging and road building stops. ELF and concerned citizens would then lift the blockade and there would be no interference with clean up, inspected by SCRD staff, and removing of equipment.

We are all looking to the SCRD and SIB for leadership and resolution on this most vital issue on the Coast at this time.

Hans Penner, Elphinstone Logging Focus

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(Sent to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and copied to the Local) First, I’d like to make it clear that I only support an LNG plant on land (at Woodfibre), not floating…

I just spent 14 years in Norway, watching LNG Tankers come and go. To see a 1,200 foot tanker with support tugs gliding safely in and out of a fjord is a sight. A sign of employment, prosperity, tax base and economic benefits to all.

Liquid LNG is safe, not flam-

mable, cannot explode, and the safety of all concerned is well covered.

Woodfibre is an ideal LNG site.

Oddvin Vedo, Sechelt

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(Sent to Gibsons council and copied to the Local) It is afternoon, Feb. 27, and I am unable to complete the Winegarden Waterfront Park online survey because it will not progress beyond the first page which indicates only 20 per cent of the content. I have emailed the Town contact but the deadline is March 4, which means that I and other interested persons with commitments may be denied this opportunity.

This very short time frame and dysfunction gives an impression that Town officials are avoiding public input while saying that they requested it. I hope Council will see fit to grant a two-week extension for responses to this survey after the process is fixed.

John Roper Gibsons

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The Local - Thursday, March 3, 2016

No fare increase this year BC Ferries has announced that for the first time in 13 years, the average fares will remain effectively unchanged as the company starts the new fiscal year on April 1. The company stated that both the price cap increase approved by the Commissioner, as well as an increase in the fuel rebate will be implemented on April 1, effectively cancelling each other out for a zero per cent net increase to fares.

Fares for vehicles and passengers will rise by 1.9 per cent on average on April 1. At the same time, an increase in the fuel rebate of 1.9 per cent will be implemented across the system.

“With the continued decline in cost of diesel oil coupled with the fact we’ve locked in the price for the majority of our fuel, we are pleased to be in a position to increase the fuel rebate which will negate the tariff

increase for all of our customers,” said Dennis Dodo, BC Ferries’ Chief Financial Officer. “Given the current price of fuel on world markets, we expect to maintain a fuel rebate for the foreseeable future.”

From March 10 – 29, regular passenger fares will be discounted by 30 per cent on off-peak days of the week and certain times of the day on all routes throughout the fleet.

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ed December 31, 2015 were $99.6 million, up from $84.2 million for the same period in the previous year.

Due to the seasonality of ferry travel, BC Ferries typically generates higher net earnings in the first and second quarters, which are subsequently reduced by net losses in the last two quarters of the fiscal year.

In the third quarter of fiscal 2016, BC Ferries carried 1.8 million vehicles and 4.4 million passengers. Vehicle traffic increased 5.3 per cent (4.4 per cent year-to-date) and passenger traffic increased 3.9 per cent (4.0 per cent year-to-date) compared to the same period in the prior year.

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INGREDIENTS: For the Crispy Tofu: • 14 oz firm tofu • ½ cup flour (I use half white half wheat, as all wheat makes the batter taste too wheaty) • 1.5 tbsp or more Sriracha or hot chili sauce • 1 tbsp soy sauce • ½ tsp garlic • ¼ tsp black pepper • ⅓ tsp salt • ½ tsp sugar • ½ cup or more water • 1 cup breadcrumbs • ¼ tsp salt

For the Sweet chili sauce • 1.5 tbsp soy sauce • ¼ cup rice vinegar • ¼ cup water • 3 tbsp or more sugar • 1 clove of garlic minced • ¼ tsp garlic powder • 1.5 tbsp or more Asian chile sauce like sambal oelek • ½ tsp cornstarch or arrowroot starch

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4. In another shallow bowl place the breadcrumbs and mix in ¼ tsp salt.

5. Use one hand to dip the tofu strip in the batter to coat all sides. Tap to drop excess batter and transfer to breadcrumb bowl. Use the other hand to coat the strip with breadcrumbs and place on parchment lined baking sheet. Repeat for all strips.

6. Spray oil on the strips and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or longer until crisp.

7. Mix everything under the sweet chili sauce in a pan. Heat over medium and bring to just about a boil. Carefully taste and adjust sweet, tang and spice.

8. Take off heat and pour in serving bowl. Cool slightly and serve with the tofu strips.

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Sheila Cameron, co-owner of FUSE Community Work Hub, created WoW! in response to the desire for more events like this to be made available for members of Sunshine Coast networks such as SEWN (Self-Employed Womens Network). “Women on the coast are looking for events that combine skills training with social time, and we felt we could meet that need,” Cameron said. “We had lower registration than expected for this event, but participants received excellent value and went away happy. That feels like success to us.”

This is only the second set of workshops offered at FUSE since its relocation to Gibsons last May. The Venture Forth series of workshops continues on Monday evenings until March 14 and still has space.

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Give plenty of notice When planning a ladies' night out, give several weeks' worth of notice so more people can carve out time to attend. Begin plans for a gettogether a month or more in advance, asking friends which dates work and which will not. Treat a night out with friends just like you would any important obligation.

Try something new It may be tempting to lean on old habits and make ladies' night out the run-of-the-mill dinner and drinks. Instead, think unconventionally and find ways to make time spent with friends more engaging.

How about signing up for a cooking class where you can socialize and learn a few new culinary secrets? Otherwise, do something out of character.

Attend a poetry reading or visit an art museum.

Have a plan Plan activities before everyone leaves the house.

Otherwise, you may waste precious time brainstorming where to go or what to do.

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Downplay the role of alcohol Alcoholic beverages are often at the centre of social occasions. Women are largely social drinkers, but alcohol does not need to be a part of the festivities. Overconsumption of alcohol has been linked to the development of breast cancer and may cause damage to the heart and liver. Look for ways to spend time together that don't involve alcohol.

Hire a sitter A night out with the ladies is a chance to enjoy some adult time with friends. Having kids in tow can make it difficult for women to relax. Rather than worrying about what the children are up to at home or if your spouse is going to call, hire a trusted sitter to stay with the children. This way everyone can relax and know the kids are well cared for.

Keep activities private Women who move between different social circles may have some friends that overlap. Rather than risking hurting a friend's feelings, try not to advertise social plans with everyone. This could mean restricting postings on social networking sites. Flagrant check-ins or streaming photos from your night out could seem disrespectful of others and may lead others to feel left out.

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A Gibsons woman was chosen as a runner-up in a national competition by Women in Film + Television Vancouver (WIFTV).

The organization’s #FromOurDarkSide genre writing competition and mentorship program attracted more than 150 entries from across the country.

Among the 10 runners-up was Loretta Todd, of Gibsons, for her story, “The Ursavore”.

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This painting by Coast artist Cindy Riach is one of more than 75 works that will be auctioned off at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery this weekend to raise money for two Syrian refugee families coming to the Sunshine Coast, with the first family expected any day. The event will include two days of silent auction, Mar. 5 and 6, 11am- 4pm with bids closing at 4pm Mar. 6. On Sat., Mar. 5 there will be refreshments, speeches at 3pm, followed, at 4pm, by a live auction with auctioneer Ed Hill. The families are being sponsored by the Christian Life Assembly Church in Gibsons, along with Crossroads Community Church in Sechelt and Sunshine Coast Welcoming Communities. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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Well sports fans, as I hinted at in last month’s column there were two big events in Sunshine Coast Special Olympics.

First, on Feb. 20, players from the Gibsons Basketball team went to a tourney in Coquitlam where they played hard and drove the ball home.

Coach Laurie Miller sent this report: “The tournament was a fun tournament, no official scores were kept and no ribbons or prizes. Each team played four 20 minute games.

“We took seven players, which is a pretty skinny number for a basketball tournament. That meant that all of our players had to play double shifts, which is challenging in a sport as fast as basketball. The coaches were really proud of how well the athletes stepped up to that challenge.

“We played games against Surrey, North Vancouver, Langley and Abbotsford. Our games improved as the day went on, and we played our best in the last two games.

“Our season ends on March 10 with the athletes playing the coaches.”

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One Dolphin, Genny Verge, amazed us all with first place in all five of her events.

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I know the swim coaches are already priming the swimmers for another meet on March 13 in Coquitlam.

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This is the seventh year for Shout Out, the Gibsons Public Art Gallery’s annual young people’s show which features the works of young people from around the Coast. Shout Out! runs March 10 to April 3 with this year’s theme being Portraits. The young people’s show is part of the gallery’s mandate to introduce art to young people and give them opportunities to be exposed to art as well as participate in art creation and exhibition.

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Events on the Sunshine Coast March 3 Workshop on podcasts, Sechelt Library, 3-4pm, free March 4 Biologist Michelle Evelyn speaks about the Clowhom watershed, Arts Centre, Sechelt, 7:30pm March 4 & 5 “Into the Woods Jr.”, musical performed by school district musical theatre ensemble, Chatelech Secondary, Sechelt, 7pm, adults $10, students $7 March 5 Loppet ski races, Dakota Ridge, starting at 10am, fees $10-$23, 604-7401822, http://www. tetoutdoor.ca/loppet.html March 5 “Embodied Goddess” with DJ, celebration of women moving together for International Women’s Day, fundraiser for Looking Glass Foundation, Gibsons Community Centre, 6:30pm, $17 March 5 Half Cut and the Slackers, Gibsons Legion, 8pm, members $5, guests $10 March 5 Local punk bands Skraeling and Molten Lava, Roberts Creek Legion, 9pm March 5&6 Art auction to support a Syrian family, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, live auction Saturday 4pm, silent auction 11am-4pm Saturday and Sunday March 6 Waves of Bliss live-music yoga, Yoga by the Sea, Roberts Creek, 1-3pm, $20 March 6 Nurseryman Howard Wills talks on “The Beauty of Leaves”, SC Botanical Garden, West Sechelt, 2pm, suggested $5-$15 donation March 6 “Into the Woods Jr.”, musical performed by school district musical theatre ensemble, Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, 2pm, adults $10, students $7 March 6 Bass-baritone Phillipe Sly with pianist Michael McMahon, by Coast Recital Society Raven’s Cry Theatre, 2:30pm, $25, students $10 March 7 “Finders Keepers”, Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, 7:30pm, members $5, others $9, followed by SC Film Society AGM March 8 International Women’s Day potluck dinner with entertainment and speaker, Roberts Creek Hall, 5-9pm March 10 Workshop on streaming music, Sechelt Library, 3-4pm, free

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GOSPEL ROCK BLOCK 7 LOVERS & SUPPORTERS - SPRING AFFAIR AT THE KINSMEN HALL (Dougal Park) Gibsons, Sunday, March 20th 1-4 pm. A family community event, by Donation. Food, music, displays, kids corner, open mic, help create a history timeline.

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It occurs about every five or six months. This time, we will experience both a Solar and a Lunar Eclipse in the same month but they will straddle two seasons. The Solar Eclipse is taking place on March 8 here in North America at 18 Pisces 56 and the Lunar Eclipse occurs on March 23 at 3 Libra 17.

The following is a basic breakdown for how each sign will be influenced: Aries: really seeing others for who they are and exercising empathy, compassion and forgiveness as necessary.

Taurus: addressing your unique and individuated needs and applying them into your daily rhythm.

Gemini: a desire to be seen and heard for your efforts and past performances.

Cancer: a time to travel to your favorite escape, which could occur via a good novel, as well as in fact.

Leo: a deep investigation into factual knowledge; a good time to do taxes.

Virgo: relationship takes on added importance and this could be the perfect time to buy new furniture or to discuss what really matters.

Libra: this marks a good time to take initiatives to activate a new healthy rhythm into your lifestyle.

Scorpio: this could manifest as a marvelously inspirational cycle linked to creative and artistic activity or the simple desire to get away on a romantic and funfilled retreat.

Sagittarius: home and friends; a good time for a party, yet expect the unexpected and be on the watch for upsets causing more harm that they need to.

Capricorn: an increase in the exchange of information linked to career and/or social status in general.

Aquarius: the desire principle to accumulate is linked to knowledge of foreign places and philosophy and could well manifest as the desire for wisdom of some kind.

Pisces: a definite shift from a rhythm of self-expression to something new, or at

least, different PS: Due to the fact that 2016 is a Leap Year, Spring arrives early at the Vernal Equinox is on March 19 at 9:31 PST. Aries (Mar 21–Apr 20) Dreams of possibility continue to dance in your mind. The reality of acting upon them is poking you.

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Taurus (Apr 20–May 21) Thoughts and reflections about what makes you special are keeping you, and perhaps others too, awake at night. Beyond your already activated many talents, innovations and inventions are downloading from higher dimensions.

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Gemini (May 21–Jun 21) For you dreams are not mere whims of the mind in the night, they are your daily duty to realize. Creative sparks are igniting flash cards packed with brilliant ideas. Like lasers that illuminate the dance floor, you are inspired to move with the rhythm and beat. Looking to the future, you see a bigger picture of possibility than you have for some time. Confidence will follow on the heels of action.

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Virgo (Aug 23–Sep 22) Pleasing others has its time and place but so too does taking the initiative and asserting yourself. At this time you are destined to decipher how to strike the balance. Generally, this is an expansive time and the time is right to enter new territory somehow. Yet, others need you to be there for them and especially of late.

It could simply be a matter of time management nicely wrapped in a diplomatic package.

Libra (Sep 22–Oct 22) How is your health? It might be time for a checkup. There is reason to say you have been on a roll so to keep the momentum going, look into what you can do to be as healthy as you can be.

The playful theme continues as well so perhaps make an appointment for next month. It is all a feature of an important learning curve that is just about at its peak point in the cycle.

Scorpio (Oct 22–Nov 21) At better moments our creative moments are blessed with romance and reverie and this may be one of them. Quality time at home and shared with the one(s) you love may all you want and need just now. In the deeper end, you are feeling the push to face your fears. The key to doing so is to identify them and them and their roots if you can.

Better an enemy you know than one that lurks in the subconscious.

Sagittarius (Nov 21–Dec 21) Bringing definition and dimension to your dreams is an important theme now.

Whether you simply share your visions with those who believe in you or you go the distance and make up a dream board, or perhaps make a business plan, the co-creative process requires your input. Risk is required now and the way to make it calculated is to proceed with the end in mind.

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