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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Taurus weekly for Aug. 19, 2011.

In a little while, the Sun and your ruling planet Venus will move into your sympathetic earth sign Virgo. This will allow you to cool off a little, and consider your life in a more rational way. When you do, you’ll see that you cannot live for both security and freedom; when you want passion or inspiration, you cannot be obsessed with safety. It’s not really possible to have total control and enjoy freedom. Ponder this a bit — notice the extent to which trying to have supposed safety has compromised your ability to experience creativity and pleasure. You can afford to experiment, and to err on the side of being a little wild, because you can trust yourself. That is the real exercise, and you may at first find it strange that the more faith in your own choices you have, the better choices you make.

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