not superstitious… nope, not at all…

I’ve never much been into the superstition thing. I don’t throw spilled salt over my shoulder, couldn’t give a damn where black cats walk in relationship to me, and have broken a good many mirrors in my lifetime. Not much into Tarot, rarely read my horoscope, and have visited a psychic (and not a good one, right Marley?) exactly once in my life.

However, a few clips from my April horoscope as posted on Astrology Zone are freaking me out a bit:

You begin the month with Venus, Mercury, the Sun and the year’s first solar eclipse (a new moon) in Aries (on April 8), which fills your third house, the area that covers thinking and information. It’s a month when so much is going on that you’ll practically need a scorecard to keep it all straight. You will have phone calls to answer, meetings to attend, and lots of details to organize and oversee.

There will be an unusually strong emphasis on gathering and disseminating information, whether you decide to do that through writing… research, debate, negotiation, publicity, advertising, marketing, sales… publishing or travel.

April 8th is the day I received the offer from my agent. The next few days were filled with negotiations, pow-wows, advice sessions, callbacks, discussions… and of course, moving into my new apartment.

Some Aquarians will be busy with writing projects, whether writing books, newspaper or magazine articles, or proposals. Again, it goes well, but Saturn’s angle suggests you will burn the midnight oil.

You bet I did! This deal went fast, so I needed to churn out a seven page synopsis and treatment for the next book in the series in record time!

At some point this month, you may be asked to sign a contract. That paperwork is most likely to appear in the days clustered shortly after the eclipse on April 8. If a contract does show up now, it’s sure to be a very important one that could change your life quite a bit in the months ahead…

If you have to sign quickly, try to act on April 13, when the moon will shine in Gemini, a sign highly compatible with yours. You may receive two contracts, as Gemini is what is called a double-bodied sign.

I signed my agent contract on April 13.

The second half of April would be a terrific time to show [your new artistic project] to the world!

Boy, did we ever!

The month’s second eclipse will likely bring even bigger news, for it will create changes within your career. The date of this lunar eclipse is April 24, so that’s the date to watch, plus or minus four days.

The April 24 lunar eclipse will be your last in this series, and after this, you can rest. There will be no more eclipses in this part of your chart until 2012 to 2014, and your career life will become more settled and secure.

On April 21st, I sold my first book. It changed my career — it changed my life!

I am encouraged by the positive aspects surrounding this eclipse. An eclipse in Scorpio immediately brings in a link to Pluto and Mars, that sign’s rulers, and by some miracle, both planets are in almost perfect alignment. This suggests that a friend may be instrumental to your success.

Mars will still be in Aquarius, giving you a great deal of control over events. This planet’s presence in your sign also indicates that you are starting a new two-year cycle, and that is an exciting prospect.

Yay! And, as I’ve said before, none of this would have happened if Marley hadn’t gotten the ball rolling on this project for me.

Jupiter will remain in your tenth house of career success for a little over a year, more than enough time to get situated in a fabulous new job. Very soon, you will establish yourself on a whole new level. Don’t mourn for the good old days–what’s to come will far exceed your expectations!

I can only hope so!

Weird, huh? Of course, I might have had this horoscope every month for a year, and this is the time it worked out. But I think I might read what’s in the stars for May, anyway. You never know…