ARIES (March 21-April 19): Life is asking you to be a source of generosity and strength for the people and animals in your sphere. I hope you will exude maximum amounts of your natural charisma as you bestow maximum blessings. Soak up the admiration and affection you deserve, too, as you convey admiration and affection to others. Here’s a secret: The more you share your resources, help, and intelligence, the more of that good stuff will flow back your way. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Ceramicist Jun Hamada says that trying to force harmony into her art leads to sterile work. “The most beautiful pieces come from the moments I stop trying to make them beautiful,” she notes. “They emerge from embracing the clay’s natural tendencies, even when they seem to fight against my intentions.” I recommend her approach to you in the coming weeks. Your best results may emerge as you allow supposed flaws and glitches to play an unexpected part in the process. Alliances might benefit, even deepen, through honest friction rather than imposed peace. What will happen when you let life’s natural tensions gyrate? GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini-born Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) was a prolific architect who orchestrated many daring designs. Among his most audacious experiments was a project to build a house over a waterfall in Pennsylvania. “It can’t be done!” experts said. But he did it. Before he was ready to accomplish the impossible, though, he had to spend months studying the site’s natural patterns. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because I believe you are ready to consider your own equivalent of constructing a house over a waterfall. Prepare well. CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the early phase of his illustrious career as a photographer, Edward Weston (1886–1958) cultivated a soft-focus, romantic style. But he ultimately converted to stark, uncompromising realism. “The camera,” he said, “should be used for recording life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself.” If there is anything about you that prefers warm, fuzzy illusions over objective, detailed truth, I suggest you switch emphasis for a while. If you like, you can return to the soft-focus approach in June. But for now, a gritty, unsentimental attitude will be essential to your well-being. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here’s my mini-manifesto about change, just in time for a phase when change is most necessary and possible for you. 1. Real change is often a slow and subtle process. There may be rare dramatic shifts, but mostly the process is gradual and incremental. 2. Instead of pushing hard for a short time, you’re more likely to change things by persistently pushing with modest strength for a sustained time. 3. Rather than trying to confront and wrestle with a big problem exactly as it is, it’s often more effective to break the seemingly insurmountable challenge into small, manageable pieces that can be solved one at a time through simple efforts. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Textile artist Mei Zhang wondered if the synthetic dyes she used on her fabrics were limited. She discovered that her grandmother, using age-old techniques, had produced hues that modern dyes couldn’t replicate. “The most sustainable path forward,” Zhang concluded, “often involves rediscovering what we’ve forgotten rather than inventing something entirely new.” I recommend that counsel to you, Virgo. The solution to a current challenge might come from looking back instead of pushing forward. Consider what old approaches or traditional wisdom you might call on to generate novelty. Weave together fresh applications with timeless principles. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The moon rises about 50 minutes later every day, and always at a slightly different place on the horizon. The amount of light it shows us is also constantly in flux. And yet where and how it will appear tomorrow or 10 years from today is completely predictable. Its ever-changing nature follows a rhythmic pattern. I believe the same is true about our emotions and feelings, which in astrology are ruled by the moon. If we survey the big picture, we will see their overall flow has distinct patterns. Now would be a good time for you to get to know your flow better. Try to develop more objectivity about how your emotions and feelings really work. If you do this correctly, you will deepen and enhance the guiding power of your precious emotions and feelings. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Research reveals that interludes of productive uncertainty may strengthen our brain’s neural pathways—even more so than if we consistently leap to immediate comprehension. The key modifier to this fortifying uncertainty is “productive.” We must be willing to dwell with poise in our puzzlement, even welcome and enjoy the fertile mystery it invokes in us. Neurobiologist Aiden Chen says, “Confusion, when properly supported, isn’t an obstacle to learning but a catalyst for understanding.” These ideas will be good medicine in the coming weeks, dear Scorpio. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Persian American author Haleh Liza Gafori translates the poetry of 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi. One of their joint books is titled Gold. She writes, “Rumi’s gold is not the precious metal, but a feeling-state arrived at through the alchemical process of burning through layers of self, greed, pettiness, calculation, doctrine—all of it. The prayer of Sufism is ‘teach me to love more deeply.’ Gold is the deepest love.” That’s the gold I hope you aspire to embody in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. You are in a phase when you have more power than usual to commune with Rumi’s type of gold. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming weeks will be an excellent time to reframe the meaning of “emptiness” in your life. To launch your quest, I will remind you that quiet interludes and gaps in your schedule can be rejuvenating. Sitting still and doing nothing in particular may be a good way to recharge your spiritual batteries. Relieving yourself of the pressure to be endlessly active could be just what you need to open up space for fresh possibilities. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There was a time, many years ago, when I consulted a divinatory oracle every day of my life. Sometimes it was the Tarot or the I Ching. I threw the Norse runes, used a pendulum, or tried bibliomancy. Astrology was always in the mix, too, of course. Looking back on those days, I am amused at my obsession. But employing these aids had a wonderful result: It helped me develop and fine-tune my intuition and psychic powers. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because I believe you now have an enhanced power to cultivate and strengthen your intuition and psychic powers. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The fovea is the part of the eye that enables sharp vision. Humans have just one kind of fovea, which gives them the ability to see clearly straight ahead. Eagles have both a central and peripheral fovea. The latter gives them an amazing visual acuity for things at a distance. This extra asset also attunes them to detect very slow movements. I suspect you will have a metaphorical semblance of the eagle’s perceptual capacity in the coming weeks, Pisces. You will be able to see things you wouldn’t normally see. Take full advantage of this power. Find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. 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The following person is doing business as FAST PREASSURE City of Pacific Grove PUBLIC NOTICE On April 2, 2025 the Pacific Grove City Council adopted Ordinance 25-004 amending the operating and capital projects budget for the fiscal year (fy) 2024-25 Ayes: Mayor Smith, Councilmembers Garfield, McDonnell, McDonnell, Poduri, Raul and Walkingstick. Noes: None. Absent: Mayor Pro Tem Amelio. Copies of the full text of the Ordinances can be reviewed at City Hall, 300 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA or online at http://www.cityofpacificgrove.org/councilagendas _____/s___________________ Sandra Ann Kandell, City Clerk City of Pacific Grove PUBLIC NOTICE On April 2, 2025 the Pacific Grove City Council adopted Ordinance 25-005 establishing district-based elections for council members by amending pacific grove municipal code title 2 to add a new chapter 2.70 (“district-based elections”), adopting a district boundary map and assigning a sequence of elections for the new districts Ayes: Mayor Smith, Councilmembers Garfield, McDonnell, McDonnell, Poduri, Raul and Walkingstick. Noes: None. Absent: Mayor Pro Tem Amelio. Copies of the full text of the Ordinances can be reviewed at City Hall, 300 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA or online at http://www.cityofpacificgrove.org/councilagendas _____/s___________________ Sandra Ann Kandell, City Clerk City of Pacific Grove NOTICE OF SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. 300 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA City of Pacific Grove meetings are conducted virtually and in person (hybrid). Members of the public may check the City Council website for details on accessing the meeting via the internet, telephone, and Peninsula Channel 25. THE CITY COUNCIL WILL HOLD A SECOND READING of an ordinance amending the City’s 2024-25 Budget, removing the allocation of one Program Manager classification in the City Manager’s Office and adding one Deputy City Manager classification to the allocation plan in the City Manager’s Office Copies of the full text of the proposed Ordinance can be reviewed at City Hall, 300 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA or online at http://www.cityofpacificgrove.org/ councilagendas _________/s____________________ SANDRA KANDELL, City Clerk Published: April 10, 2025. 44 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY APRIL 10-16, 2025 www.montereycountynow.com
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