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Aries’ top ten talents, current conditions require them. You’re no stranger to boldly expressed opinions or preferences, but this week suggests a strategy makeover: like approaching others not so much as extras in your own production, more as allies to be playfully engaged. TAURUS: Your primary planet Venus in a compatible earth sign promises plenty of practical pleasures, plus enough muscle to deal with this week’s demanding, overbearing or adamant attitudes. Which the Tao Te Ching wisely advises you address gently: Force is not the way at all. Let life ripen and fall… GEMINI: With Mercury your ruling planet’s move to analytical Virgo, this week’s about understanding and ensuring you’re understood. Big energies are presently in play, and your prismatic perspective helps appreciate how others operate: their motivations, intentions, fears and defaults. As you already know, collaborative accord is worth working for.
CANCER: Request an opinion this week, expect the no-frills version, though you’ll have no trouble holding your own against flame-throwing tongues of fire. (An astro-wit once described Cancerians as Scorpios in housecoats.) Just trust your impeccable instincts that know how to stay safe and where to be when, then relax and enjoy the gameplay
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SAGITTARIUS: Your gregarious nature’s in overdrive this week, ardent Archers, as issues you wrestled with recently hit the restart button for replay and resolution. Bravo! Only iffy patch could be Friday moon joining Mars and Saturn in Sagittarius – but turn up the charm, dial down the drama, and you’ll have them at hello.
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CAPRICORN: Encountering face-offs over who’s running the show? As you know, being top dog’s no guarantee of an easy ride. This week its downside can be acting out by competitive others who’ll stop at nothing to get their way. Upside? Venus and Mercury in a fellow earth sign support your ethics, abilities and authority.
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LEO: Backstage deities are aligned, it’s showtime, and right now your majesties are skookum: the native American word for powerful, brave-hearted, the greatest, the bomb, this week’s shining light. Always keeping in mind Leo Waleed Aly’s observation that in these dark times it’s better to reach for a flashlight than start a fire. VIRGO: Mind-managing Mercury is happily at home in your sign’s practical reasoning, strong common sense and fast learning abilities. This week’s lesson? That people frequently operate less on logic, more by prejudice and self-interest – because most people aren’t Virgos. Good news? Venus is currently colouring you flavour of the day…
LIBRA: Your mentor planet Venus in the sign of get-itright sets up this week’s clashing dynamic of whether to make the effort to do what you know is right, or to take the easy path of least resistance. In one side of Libra’s scales the cost, other side the benefits. What to do? Up to you…
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SCORPIO: Midweek Scorpio moon’s inner volcano has you all sizzle and smoulder. But while Scorps adore a show as much as anyone, beware façades that mask unethical behaviour. Don’t mistake this week’s playacting for the real deal, or outsource your autonomy to a pretender. Cut straight to the heart of core issues.
MELBOURNE BALLET IN BYRON The Byron Theatre is set to show a contemporary version of the classical ballet, Swan Lake, performed by the Melbourne Ballet Company (MBC).
AQUARIUS: What’s been troubling you could suddenly erupt this week, bubbling up from emotional cellars with challenging intensity. But going off full throttle at something undesirable unfortunately only magnifies it. Get your rational, logical side to dialogue instead with tumultuous, possibly long-neglected feelings. Let them have their say rather than their way.
PISCES: You fluid Neptunians are sometimes accused of being more idealistic than realistic, something that could put you on a collision course with present pressing necessities. Face it: wanting something to be true doesn’t make it that way. This week calls you to access your inner GPS, get directions and make a choice.
JUMP IN ON THE NORTH COAST MUD TRAIL ON SATURDAY 20 AND SUNDAY 21 AUGUST
Archè, meaning ‘the principle from which all things arise’, is an innovative production that takes its inspiration primarily from the age-old classic, Swan Lake. It explores and embraces much of the original narrative and some of the classical repertoire. Director at the MBC, Simon Hoy, has structured the production to reflect his unique choreographic style and has linked this with a powerful musical score comprising music excerpts drawn from Tchaikovsky, Einaudi, Arnalds, Morricone, Jean-Renaud and Elgar. The end result is an emotionally charged production, which has already received extremely positive critical acclaim and is suitable for audiences everywhere. Archè can be seen at the Byron Theatre at 7.30pm on Thursday and Friday. Tickets are available from The Byron Theatre – 6685 6807. Cost: Adults $44, concession $34, child U16 $29. Online: www. byroncentre.com.au
GETTING YOUR HANDS DIRTY… More than 30 of the region’s potters are opening their studios for the fourth annual North Coast Mud Trail on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 August, 10am–4pm. Get your hands dirty in a workshop, see demonstrations, listen to inspiring artist talks, and purchase handmade ceramics.
TAKING off august 15 MOTORKITE DREAMING Motorkite Dreaming is a new feature film that follows two amateur daredevils who take a 4,000km journey across Outback Australia in secondhand microlights – essentially hang-gliders with lawnmower engines. Along the way they pass through 20 Aboriginallanguage nations, learning from these remote communities.
The adventurers discover a country few of us ever visit – our own. This is a bird’s-eye view of our most remote and beautiful places, and a unique insight into the oldest living culture on Earth. Audiences will have the opportunity to meet the adventurers from the film at these special Q&A screenings: director Charlie Hill-Smith, Aboriginal rock’n’roll royalty Carroll Karpany, microlight pilot Daryl Clarke and his partner Elsie Clarke.
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The ultimate Aussie Adventure is about to take flight in Byron Bay at a one-off special event screening at Byron Theatre with the adventurers on Tuesday at 6.30pm.
Plan your weekend and download the event program at www.northcoastmudtrail.com. au, or pick up a Mud Map in galleries and cafes from Ballina to Murwillumbah.
MOTORKITE DREAMING AT THE BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE ON TUESDAY 16 AUGUST
MR SWIVEL’S DAD JOKES ACCESSIBILITY WORKSHOPS FOR FILMMAKERS Mark Swivel presents his new show Dad Joke. He considers whether a man should clap when dancing or sit down when weeing. He explains what to do if your lover insists on doing it dog or you crap your pants during backyard cricket. Mark opines on the true meaning of banana muffins, choc-tops and Ivan Milat. Turns out his son has taken off on his gap year. To Canada, once as cool as the crabs, now The Place To Be. Crikey, what can you trust? Mullumbimby Ex-Services on Saturday 20 August at 7.30pm. Tix $10 at the door or online at www. trybooking.com/215331.
As part of their commitment to making screen media accessible to the hearing and visually impaired, Screenworks is proud to be delivering a Closed-Captioning and Audio-Description Workshop. This one-day seminar has Ballina-based captioning expert Michael Lockrey and Sydneybased Audio Description manager Alison Myers presenting in Byron Bay at the Community Centre on Thursday 18 August. Tickets and more information www. screenworks.com.au.
Follow The North Coast Mud Trail on Facebook. Entry to all studios is free.
SOMETHING DARK!
The Dark Crystal is a classic family flick. On another planet in the distant past, the elflike Jen embarks on a quest to restore balance to his alien world by finding and returning the missing shard of a magical crystal. With groundbreaking animatronics and featuring birdlike lizards, gnomish dragons, elves and wizards and a beautifully mysterious and mystical story, it can only be a production from Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Brunswick Picture House on Sunday at 2pm.
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