Be a team player this Spring: get on some new teams, or hook up with at least one team player, especially one who can vet your ideas; we get new instructions this Spring and a major one is to team up for success.

The greatest danger to a fruitful Spring is to get hypnotized by the very big explosions coming from deconstructing institutions and large presences going down the tubes. It’s like spending all season gawking at a building on fire. Paint the walls of your world with rainbows and stay in it. 

Whether you’re trying to physically make something or just trying to make something happen, you are likely to have the stick-to-it-iveness to stay enthusiastic and inspired, exactly what’s needed because creations take awhile before they attract attention from others. Keep pumping until you become empowered!

The beauty secret that works this Spring is no trick and no shortcut: you have to be a maintainer, you have to care and be attentive and cultivate with consistency. Whether you are beautifying your inner self with meditation or your outer self with healthy eating and exercise habits, there’s no way around “doing the work” this year, especially this Spring. 

Spring growth: Productive people need a high tolerance for chaos. Like a huge cottonwood that’s got some dead branches on it, it’s still thriving, still excited about Spring. Don’t let unfinished business or dangling deals dampen your enthusiasm. 

The second Mercury retrograde of 2016 is April 28th –May 23rd. A good time for a vacation and Cinco de Mayo celebrations! It will seem like a long three weeks. A lot happens to people in this period and they’ll be digesting and processing it for awhile. In the middle of it, there’s a rare lucky day when the Sun conjuncts Mercury in Cancer and Jupiter goes direct: May 9th. On that Monday, you can have deep and clear understandings that release you into an expansive forward motion. This is a good day to get things cleared up and move on.

For the Fire signs, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, Spring 2016:  You have better ideas and better opportunities, and more strength and better focus; it’s a very strong Spring for Fire signs. It’s not enough to have good intentions; you must do, and luckily there’s less resistance than before. 

For the Water signs, Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, Spring 2016: You might be challenged to suddenly switch gears: the old things that motivated you, maybe they don’t anymore; maybe you discover that  things aren’t true that you thought were…you have to keep on going past a lot of things that don’t work.

For the Air signs, Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius: It’s going to be so good when you just let go and trust your truth and what you’ve learned, and your inner vision and  your sense that you want to be happy and healthy and pushing off for happier shores. There can be tremendous personal success; courage is required; acceptance is required; learning from past experience, but if you pass those tests, there’s a way of looking at life and places to go in it that make you feel very successful.

For the Earth signs, Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn: You’re given a formula for creation, and that is making yourself the leanest, meanest machine: in getting ready for your creative best, you pare down, you’ve got less stuff to deal with, less complicated relationships, more stuff finished and put away…you really chafe at any restriction because of stuff you didn’t do. If you have the energy to do it, go go go!