TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re being called on to meet a higher standard. You’re being asked to boost your output or take on more responsibility or show you can handle greater expectations. While it’s understandable if that’s unnerving, I urge you to keep it all in perspective. Remember what journeyman basketball player Jon Koncak said when assigned the task of replacing his team’s departed all-star, Shaquille O’Neal. Reporters asked him if he felt a lot of pressure. “Not at all,” he replied. “Pressure to me is being in an airplane and the pilot dies and they ask me to fly the plane.” The challenge you face may be daunting, Taurus, but it’s nothing like that.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Happy Valentine Daze, Taurus! After careful meditation about what suggestions might enrich your love life, I’m advising you to celebrate an Honesty Festival with the person you love best or with the person you *want* to love best. Speak from the depths as you reveal the hidden fears and longings and joys that have been unspoken until now. And let these words of wisdom from Thoreau be the motto that guides you: “Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to tradition, St. Blaise is the patron saint of throats. During his feast day, which is celebrated this week, you’re supposed to bless that part of your body. Even if you’re not Catholic, I highly recommend that you partake in this observance. From an astrological perspective, you Tauruses have a special relationship with the throat. It’s a source of power and grace for you, more so than for any other sign, and you should always jump at any excuse to honor it. Want some suggestions? Get a neck massage. Drink delicious elixirs. Sing songs that make you feel potent. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Invite a good kisser to demonstrate his or her skill all over that magic part of your anatomy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For two years running, Little Yellow Jacket has been voted Bull of the Year by the rodeo circuit’s top bull riders. During a five-year career, the 1,750-pound beast has bucked off 85 percent of his riders in an average of 2.8 seconds. No one has stayed on for longer than 8 seconds. I’ve selected him to be your power animal in the coming weeks, Taurus. You have a mandate to avoid being rounded up, roped, or ridden by anyone, even if you have to snort and foam at the mouth as Little Yellow Jacket does during his performances. “He has the kind of heart, desire, and athletic ability that true champions in any walk of life possess,” says his owner. All you need to succeed at your assignment are the first two of those qualities.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Danny Cox is an “accelerationist,” according to the promotional blurb on his website. His talent is to induce “faster movement, higher efficiency, and increased productivity.” I call on you to be a different kind of accelerationist in the coming week, Taurus: one who inspires visions of the big picture, purges pettiness from all interactions, and agitates on behalf of the highest possible ideals. If that leads to faster movement, higher efficiency, and increased production, fine. If it doesn’t, equally fine. Your assignment is to be a soul accelerationist, not an ego accelerationist.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): All of us have a dark side–a part of our psyches that is unripe, a bit crazed, and out of sync with our highest values. If you try to suppress it or deny its existence, it controls you surreptitiously. If you acknowledge its presence and cultivate a relationship with it, you may be able to harness some of its raw power for good causes. You’ve got to love it without overindulging it; give it voice without allowing it to possess you. I mention all of this, Taurus, because 2005 should be the year you dramatically upgrade and refine the role that your dark side plays in your life.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’ll send many suggestions your way in the coming months, Taurus. Some of them will ring true to you, and others may not. Some will be evocative clues you’ll meditate on for days, while others may fade from your awareness right after you read them. Through it all, there will be two constants. First, every horoscope will be offered to you in a spirit of love. Second, you will always be free to take it or leave it. And now I present what I consider the most important advice for you to keep in mind throughout 2005, though only you can decide if it actually is: Consistently cut away the smaller, weaker buds in order to direct all the forces of growth into the few buds most likely to succeed.

You are Tyler!!

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