CURIOUS NOTES

Some legal documents need to be phrased very carefully and require terms with which most people are unfamiliar. But many just use antiquated language because somehow it sounds grander and more important. So people feel they can respect it more - and clients can feel, when they pay the professionals their fees, that they have been given a lot of very powerful words for their money!

What about the person who works hard, largely to be sure of acquiring a good pension that they can enjoy when they retire? What if they could go into semi-retirement right now as long as they were willing to live on a little less income? What if, in putting aside too much for a future that may or may not ever come, you miss the magic of the moment? For you have started to make and question whether it is really the right thing for you.

Are you being pulled or are you being pushed? Or are you just subtly encouraging someone else to do the pulling or the pushing because it suits you to feel as if you're just sitting still and reluctantly responding to someone else's initiative. Sometimes let others take front and just sit and relax.  But if what's happening is what you want to be happening, don't be too reserved.The big question continues to be, 'What's important?' The answer isn't easy to come by. You've got your own clear priorities of course but one of these is surely to co-operate with and support someone else. Their needs aren't entirely the same as yours but at least in so far as you need their needs to be met, you've got a reason to compromise. Even so, there are some things that you may be wiser not to push too far towards the back of your agenda. A delicate but honest conversation may yet lead to a valuable agreement. 
 A situation in your life is now being made to sound more complicated than it actually is. Here's your chance to get to the real root of it..When you're in a rush, there's little so annoying as to be told that you ought to slow down. When you're furious about something, how pleased are you to hear that words 'don't be so cross!' You're keenly aware of all that justifies a sense of urgency and determination. But you also need to look at why this might lead to decisions that are made in haste and then regretted at leisure.
 Someone else's resistance to a plan is not necessarily the nuisance that it seems. Ultimately, it may well turn out to be a crucial counterbalance. Imagine a long instruction manual on the art of riding a surf board. It could run to several volumes yet the reader, really, would be none the wiser for having ploughed through it. The ability to achieve a physical balance is not something you develop through intellectual prowess. It comes through experience, exercise and experimentation. The true technique can be summarised in less than a sentence: 'If you keep falling off, keep trying again.' You're now having some difficulty with a tricky challenge. Just stick at it
.As the Arctic Monkeys so memorably sang at Glastonbury lately, 'Love is not only blind, it's deaf!' Nor is love the only emotion that tends to shut us off from our most important senses. Faith (or trust) can be similarly confusing. We often don't want to be suspicious or doubtful. We want to believe so wholeheartedly in what's possible that we need no longer run checks or investigate alternatives. Your enthusiasm is a fine thing now.
But before taking a plunge it may yet be sensible to check there's water in the pool.As we edge towards the Harmonic Conjunction and the Grand Trine in Water signs, it becomes ever more clear that Capricorns are due to benefit from all this astrological activity in a series of special ways. Even if your life now seems to be full of tension and frustration, even if all you can see are things that are missing and things that you wish you didn't have to contend with, there's the possibility of peace, harmony, resolution, reconciliation, positivity and even prosperity. Just open your eyes to what could be on offer. 
Every time we take a stance, we give up a bit of freedom. It happens the moment we say, 'I agree with this, I support that, I oppose this or I object to that'. Suddenly, we can't back down from the position we have adopted. We can't say, 'Actually, I have changed my mind'. Or rather we can, but only if we don't mind being judged as inconsistent. None of us want to be seen as hypocrites. We all prefer to stand by our word. Yet there are now some good reasons to review your opinion on a key topic. And no good reasons not to.
The Old You says, 'This isn't for me. This is what I don't do, don't like, don't want to be involved with'. And the New You? Well, the New You is only just getting established. The New You hasn't been around long enough to assert itself with confidence, backed up by years of precedent and experience. The New You says, 'I am not so sure that I still feel what I once felt.' But it is humble and faltering. Even so, the New You has the weight and power of your future on its side. And that counts for far more than the past'.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.' So some people say. But poverty-relief programmes all over the world take a delight in handing out food to the needy. They want nothing in return, other than the joy of knowing that they have been helpful. And even when people buy us lunch or dinner or treat us to other gifts, we do not automatically become so beholden that we owe them more favours than we genuinely care to grant. The universe is now effectively offering to treat you to something. Don't feel too wary to accept.
Yet  good luck appear to have nearly arrived at their dotage in great shape! Whether or not you choose to take that as your inspiration, be aware now that you do need to be a little conscious of how today's choices may affect tomorrow's outcomes. But you needn't worry too much!