Fox' So You Think You Can Dance steps through its second season on the heels of its ABC competitor Dancing With the Stars. The horoscope for the second season launch of So You Think You Can Dance holds its own against stiff competition, drawing an audience that follows Dance's edgier style, promoting more of an "anything goes" agenda. Dance's horoscope carries strong relationship themes, emerging with the Gemini placements of the Sun and Mercury. If the show embellishes the personalities of the dancing competitors and their relationships both in and out of competition, the voyeuristic nerve in America's viewing audience will have been properly struck. With Mars in the 8th house, backing up the relationship theme, a dramatic intimate relationship forming between contestants captures attention away from other celebrity romances, especially if it runs the full range of intensity promised by the chart. It doesn't need to become a scandalous Idol judge/contestant thing either. A naturally evolving relationship between two people who do more than move well on the dance floor together offers a popular appeal that even the producers wouldn't have predicted. Too bad the writers can't write that.
This season of So You Think You Can Dance commenced with the presumably enticing Venus in upstart, self-referential Aries fighting off feisty Mars in emotionally laden Cancer. Actually the Venus to Mars pattern reeks of raw sexual energy - especially the kind where a person holds an inflated image of how hot she/he might be. Add the signs to the pattern and there stand to be harsh awakenings for some contestants. The show offers a bit of a reality check for contestants, viewers and judges alike. Here's the question of the season: What is hot?
This same pattern surfaces one other dance critical issue. While dancing in pairs, two become one. Should one partner or the other seek to outshine the other, the effort backfires more than it succeeds. There's an additional important take note part for everyone involved. It's not about you; it's about the relationship.
Ultimately, if the show relies upon its funkier routines and looser dance styles alone, it will lack the panache of its ABC competitor, drawing a substantially smaller market share. But then there's Cat Deeley. A Scorpio, once ranked as the seventh sexiest woman in the world, she offers the magic of Jupiter moving through her birth sign. With the quirky planet Uranus strategically positioned between her Scorpio Sun and Mars, she comes off as just enough of an odd duck to be completely adorable. A noted trademark is her desire to host events in her bare feet - how perfect for this show. And the speculation remains that this cool Cat stays hot for the entirety of the season with Jupiter endowing the Scorpio part of her horoscope.
That's not all. Next November Jupiter enters Sagittarius, traversing her enchanting Venus and Neptune alignment, promising another successful summer season of Dance. Next season her talents require more of the spotlight. Should the show's producers figure that out, a stable draw of viewers follows her charms. If not, Cat gets wooed in other directions that more clearly feature what she can do. No matter which way it goes, this Cat lands on her feet.
Mundane Matters
Early this week the planets Mercury and Earth align with the Sun. In notorious astrology words, Mercury is retrograde. But here's a good tidbit to go with that statement that declares communication messes and mix ups. In the
first few days of the week, things become clear and obvious to those who care to look. Those paying attention make conscious decisions that provide a ten-day to two week jump on everyone who fails to take a clear look. In this window, things tend to get rubber stamped with ease because of overwhelming backlogs and unclear priorities swirling about in the airwaves. This pattern is not about taking
advantage of the crises and confusion of others. The pattern promises progress for those who keep their wits and unfailingly track a clearly defined, constantly reaffirmed set of objectives - just like you!
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Within days, you get a reprieve from the mental gyrations that caused your tummy to flutter like a flag. Seize this window. When you "get it" in your belly and pending decisions make sense, work up a good plan and put it into
play immediately. If not complete by Wednesday though, hold until the end of the month. You'll lose nothing in that little lag. Restore your default mechanism of deciding on life's choices. That vehicle rides on wheels of emotional reactions. There's no logic to it. Feel everything you do gladly to grease the track of progress.
LEO (July 23-August 22)
Let's see if you have a week's worth of smiling patience left in you. Guaranteed, the turf will feel more familiar and you regain the sense of home field advantage by next week. Since your sign owns the natural attribute of acting this is one of those weeks in which the iffy axiom, "Fake it 'til you make it," applies. Wear a smile
and friendly disposition and life cooperates. Take on an ill 'tude and watch as life bristles in your face. In relationships leave conversations with an impeccably clear picture of what your partner(s) need(s) and of course, your needs get said, too.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22)
There's quite the magical place where suddenly the tangled ball of rubber bands you need to organize stuff neatly unravels. Then all the bands take separate positions on your workstation, standing at the ready to serve you. That magic stands a week away. Now direct your attention and sensibilities toward figuring out
how much you have left in your tank that you can give to any person, place or thing. You cannot afford to over extend in any arena. If you've expanded past the point of coping, gracefully recede. Drain no alligator infested swamps. Instead, restore the magic.
LIBRA (September 23-October 22)
Ironically thinking big picture and globally serves your personal agenda. Your skill of enabling cooperation even between adversaries comes into high demand. Diplomatic abilities soar. The questions are simple: What were you thinking? What did you want when you started on this path? How long was this all supposed to
take? Measure the distance between the origin and destination. This is the time to wonder what will it take to get things back in perspective. Take that and run with it. Then, life neatly sorts, offering accurate perceptions, and thus, relief.
SCORPIO (October 23-November 22)
You'd greatly benefit from restoring the best of your daily drill. Whether it's exercise, yoga, silent brainstorming, chanting or a more notorious Scorpionic ritual, make the drill consistent and unfailing. This is the stuff that keeps you vital, self-regenerating and out of the way of your skepticism. A believing Scorpio
stands to do the eagle's power flight. A skeptical Scorpio does not. Jupiter demands you create a creed of possibility within potency. Professional promises get kept, especially for those of you managing to savor the magic of the life's mystery.
SAGITTARIUS (November 23-December 22)
Life feels like that moment where you've left the diving board in a headlong plunge toward the pool below. Your fingertips now penetrate the surface of the pool. In but a fraction of a second, your face dips into the coolness
of the water and the rest of you follows, verifying the law of gravity. This is hardly the time to wonder if you've accurately assessed all environmental factors. The image for the week: you're now in over your head and it's all good, right? It's one thing to pontificate about how the Universe provides etc. etc. It's another to suck it up and take it all in.
CAPRICORN (December 23-January 20)
Relationship energy swirls like one of those dust devils you see in the deserts this time of year. They seem to have a mind of their own and sweep up all the loose stuff in the neighborhood, rendering it a new home. Since
you don't like change, forced relocation or feeling out of control, flexing in the winds of change while the breezes remain gentle is the ideal course of action. Personal interactions heat up. Promises made that lack completion are called to task. Avoid assessing the cost of emotional goodness. Like the credit card commercials report, that's priceless.
AQUARIUS (January 21-February 18)
Hopefully the emotional claims recently staked are to your liking. Like pudding, they're fixing to thicken. Also like pudding, the perfect sweetness put into life while stirring creates a dessert that overwhelms the senses with
pleasantness. While on an upswing of creating enjoyment and lovely interactive interludes, keep one finger on the pulse of the demands of life's mundane requirements. Missed details, like posting and verifying credit card payments online, can knock the best of recreational efforts off the tracks. Oh yeah, stay in your body when having fun.
PISCES (February 19-March 20)
Work pressures ease as the week marches forward. There's still a few more days of mundane drudge before clearing. Each drop in the work bucket brings that bucket to where it suddenly offers enough. Get to know that feeling of when it's just perfect. At that point, leave it alone. Resist the urge for one last tweak. Go
home. Take a soak, ask for a foot massage and talk about cosmic mysteries, keeping the details of life out any effort to secure emotional well being, yummy love feelings or the intimate interlude of the millennium.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Finally, the passion burning with wildfire ferocity has direction, focus and scope. Get into it. While the surge of driving intensity stays with you until November, this current phase and its theme last only a few more days. A
launch window, much like those NASA must use, stands before you. Put all these lingering creative ideas, well conceived and planned, into play. Build a core group of people who really understand what you're all about. Imagine how relaxing it is to stand over a no hard lines of defense. There're no sieges, only lieges.
TAURUS (April 20-May 21)
Now that Jupiter steers things straight, your mind boggles with the possibilities perceived ahead of you. You're in a similar boat to that of your opposite sign, Scorpio. You always claim you'd take this and that and run with it if it appeared. Funny that now you concern yourself with mental gymnastic that leave your sensibilities
sore and your perceptions obsessing that you may slip on the road mirage ahead. Your experience serves you by overriding fearful speculations if you let it. The question is not what do you have to lose, but more to point, what do you have to gain?
GEMINI (May 22-June 21)
The fight for what you want subsides if you let it. Follow the lead of a clever used car salesman. When the deal gets closed and you win, button up. Avoid the nagging urge to review, replay and wear out the attention spans of others by
engaging in the process of relentless repetition of worn stories. The only thing you need to wear thin is your perception of life's resistance to your brilliant ideas. There's that other thing, too: feeling that your mate stands in opposition to what you seek. Restore the sense that both of you stand on the same sidelines of the soccer field.
Philip Sedgwick became a professional astrologer in 1975, having studied fervently since 1969. He has penned five books on astrology, a short story collection and a series of scripts (in the pitch phase). Philip formerly wrote for scifi.com, America West Airlines Magazine, StarIQ.com and for a large collection of astrological journals. You can visit his website at www.PhilipSedgwick.com.