Introverted and Intuitive (INFP)

Irreverent and on speed (symoblically speaking) Michael Lutin has always been secretly wedded to my Dark Side. Visit his website as www.michaellutin.com

Here are his predictions for 2004. Has he been right about your sign?


Big Picture
Although you're still battling the idiots who run things, try not to project your abandonment issues on everybody else. Work should give you the jolt of juice you need.
Big Surprises
Spirituality and the need to escape
The Vice You Can't Live Without
Part of you drools hungrily at the sight of a gorgeous, half-naked body. When you gotta have it, you gotta have it. Sometimes, though, it's the people you don't sleep with who stay around the longest.
The Blessing That Annoys You
Stick to business and money will pour in. Loyalty and monogamy, although boring, will pay off.

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Big Picture
Isn't it odd that you suddenly have nothing to say to people you could stay up all night talking to in the old days? Even if it's a drag to keep on trying to communicate, you can't really afford the luxury of silence now. Love affairs? Definitely possible, but if you're not up for having a baby, don't have that second martini with dinner.
Big Surprises
Friends and associations that appear and dissolve
The Vice You Can't Live Without
It's usually the fear of ending up alone that could lead you to accept bad treatment from another person or even create a fantasy relationship that doesn't even exist in reality. Can be lots of fun, but REALLY dangerous.
The Blessing That Annoys You
Idealizing people in the beginning will disillusion you in the end. Hang on to your power and your strong sense of who you are in your own right, and if someone tries to scare you out of it, dump ‘em.

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Big Picture
It's hard to cope with the nuts who have power over your fate. One minute you're God's gift and suddenly they're screaming for your head. You have a cushion, however, and as often as you have run away from home, now the family wins out.
Big Surprises
Career skyrockets out of the blue or plummets, total change needed
The Vice You Can't Live Without
Since you think nobody can do the job the way you can, you're turning yourself into a zombie. Controlling absolutely every aspect of your life may keep you safe and healthy, but that's also why you can't relax. Is it because you once put your life in the hands of a maniac? Don't answer that.
The Blessing That Annoys You
Instead of freaking out over cash flow just work hard and then allow the Universe to provide the rest. You'd be surprised how often a miracle happens to someone who can accept one.

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Big Picture
We are seeing a more restrained you this year as you strike a healthy balance between catering to all the walking wounded who scratch at your window, and also being able to just say NO once in a while. You're not as available as you once were. End of story.
Big Surprises
Foreign Connections, higher consciousness, heresy
The Vice You Can't Live Without
Living on the edge is natural when your urge to get attention and be loved becomes your driving force. You tend to put yourself in absurdly complex emotional situations which, although thrilling at the moment, are likely to lead nowhere.
The Blessing That Annoys You
Removing yourself from messy personal involvement and raising your relationships (especially the non-sexual ones) to a higher level of friendship, devoid of unfulfilled longings, will bring you prosperity and success. The key is caring for others, not controlling them.

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Big Picture
Whether for spiritual refreshment or merely to satisfy your paranoia, you're likely to prefer hiding out in your haven of refuge to chasing after some professional rainbow you're no longer turned on by. Rich or poor, there's no real need to worry about money this year, and that should allow you guiltless escape time.
Big Surprises
Sexual behavior, sudden change
The Vice You Can't Live Without
Despite the uncontrollable and somewhat inappropriate need you have to experiment with one taboo after another, you seem to be obsessed lately with hanging on to the house, the family and everything normalcy promises.
The Blessing That Annoys You
In contrast to all your urges to stay safe and cozy in your little nest, you know there is Mommy or Daddy to protect you now and that you must get out there and make your contribution to the world. What a paradox.

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Big Picture
When it comes to your love life, do you know the difference between loyalty and masochistic abuse? Even when you turn to friends for comfort, you end up comforting them. The good news is that despite everything, you're more hopeful and full of life than you've been in years.
Big Surprises
Relationships and people pop in and pop out
The Vice You Can't Live Without
As intelligent and rational as you are (most of the time), you still have a few teenage habits, some of which are unmentionable and have become fetishes. As for the grudges you are holding against siblings or neighbors, what does all that get you but indigestion?
The Blessing That Annoys You
In business, foreign opportunities will expand your audience to a global market. You need to be brave enough, however, to overcome prejudices and dare to go where you've never gone before. The mind will save you if you use a little discipline.

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Big Picture
Working out childhood and family issues takes its toll emotionally, especially since you also have to handle yourself like a real grownup out in the big, bad world. The Forces of Good are watching out for you behind the scenes, however, so prayers are likely to work.
Big Surprises
Work,Health–need alternative solutions in both
The Vice You Can't Live Without
No matter how many times you have been visited by angels and told to free yourself from anxiety over money, it's normal to be nervous when you see it going out and not coming in. Does your obsession with financial independence do anything to allay your fear of starvation?
The Blessing That Annoys You
When you relate deeply and honestly on a sexual level, you become part of the flow of life. When you follow your passion and allow your creativity to rule, the money will eventually follow.

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Big Picture
Surprise affairs could excite but screw up your life beautifully, if they haven't already. Kids could pop into or out of your life and do the same. To cope best exercise mental discipline and count on the support of friends who think the way you do. Your heart is opening and you're performing publicly.
Big Surprises
Love Life, kids you never expected
The Vice You Can't Live Without
Sitting in your darkened room and telling yourself you're worthless and ugly may certainly fulfill your need to be in total control. It also answers the urge to convince yourself that anybody who is drawn to you must be crazy. Self-damning narcissism gets really old, however.
The Blessing That Annoys You
As difficult as it is to deal with people (because it takes you away from your favorite sport of beating yourself up), relationships, partnerships, and shared ventures will heal all your splits and ills. Just being able to trust someone with your secrets solves problems.

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Big Picture
You're between lives right now and you know it. Despite that fact that money's an issue, you've got opportunities to expand your business and people who want to help you advance. BUT... part of you is numb and has trouble seeing the future as a viable reality. Go through the motions anyway.
Big Surprises
Unexpected family and home disruptions bring emotional growth
The Vice You Can't Live Without:
What in the name of all that is holy is going on in that mind of yours? Fortunately nobody can hear some of those thoughts for which in many countries you could definitely get locked up for a while. Fun though, isn't it?
The Blessing That Annoys You
When you get carried away with dark fantasies and ominous forebodings, the path to freedom is work. Don't look for magic or miracles or potions or drugs. Escape may be OK for some, but for you it's just good, old-fashioned therapeutic, consistent, practical and fulfilling work.

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Big Picture
Although you are still feeling isolated and nursing wounds of rejection, you cannot shut yourself away from the world. Even if the people you seek comfort from are not all that available, the distance between you can shrink quickly if one of you is willing to break the silence.
Big Surprises
Communication with neighbors and siblings blow you away
The Vice You Can't Live Without
It's one thing to enjoy freedom and assert independence. God knows we're all here to pursue our dreams. We have to look at our behavior, though, when adventure becomes an excuse to avoid commitment.
The Blessing That Annoys You
Having children around demands so much of you. Your life is not your own any more. Same with falling in love. When you get hit by Cupid's arrow, your life is not your own any more. Sound scary? Maybe, but love is the REAL reason we're all alive, whether you deny it or not.

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Big Picture
Keeping your health together demands discipline and willpower, both of which could be difficult to maintain when you're in one of your "Aw what the heck I don't give a damn" moods. You will, however, be supported and given gifts, and that's got to take one load off your mind.
Big Surprises
Money and the bizarre fluctuation of finances
The Vice You Can't Live Without
Power and position may be only silly superficial trappings, and they certainly don't bring happiness, but when you feel a burning desire to be noticed, recognized and validated, you're likely to resort to outlandish tricks to get attention. Even if you find yourself in political or professional jeopardy, you cannot bear to be ignored. Is it true that no publicity is bad publicity? We'll see.
The Blessing That Annoys You
It is your personal life that needs the attention now. Lay foundations for the future by creating a home and building intimate bonds. Way too early to reap the harvest now. This is the moment to be planting.

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Big Picture
Volcano! With Uranus in your sign, no longer will sweet little old you bow and curtsey and hide behind a facade of sacrificial compliance. Everything you've suppressed for years is bubbling up to the surface like molten lava. Luckily you've got someone around who understands you. Just try not to blow that person away with impossible behavior.
Big Surprises
Your Whole Life explodes
The Vice You Can't Live Without
Running to India or looking for magical answers and exotic people from other backgrounds to help you intellectualize feelings that cannot in any way be rationalized is ridiculous and pointless. But you'll do it anyway.
The Blessing That Annoys You
Hard core, honest, down- to Earth, heavy, deep, real and practical communication with everyone around you is the path toward freedom. At the end of the day, it's your own observations that will serve you best and the language of your own culture you speak best.

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