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s r a t S with Lilith Concerning this week’s Venus shift, I think astrologer Hunter Reynolds expresses it best: Thank god for Venus retro, the greatest relationship coach in the solar system…
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during April, making this week’s brief to refresh traditional methods with modern technology in your own inimitably sassy style. Mercury visiting your house of self-worth supports all moves towards radiant authenticity, and recommends extending and expanding your capacity to receive.
TAURUS: When Mars in your house of personality teams up with Mercury, that’s a double-whammy indicator for an image upgrade: but one with strong roots to your core essence. That under way, this week’s Tauran traffic alert carries a road-rage caution, so take care, give way, don’t take risks, drive conservatively. GEMINI: If this week has you enthused and expending energy in all directions, chasing your tail to no avail, fortunately there’s also the counterbalance of your primo planet Mercury’s move to structured, steadying Taurus. Which will help keep in check those throwaway comments that can chill communication and undermine trust…
CANCER: With Venus in sensitive Pisces, emotions tend to get intense, so try not to interpret everything too personally this week. Good news is that being forewarned allows you to slip on the flameproof heavyduty Crabsuit that filters fears and feelings before they affect your public status or professional world.
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SAGITTARIUS: Saturn the planet of reality checks stationing retrograde in Sagittarius outs those embarrassing blinkers we all wear. Fire-sign blind spots often involve being passionately attached to a belief as though it’s true. Questions Saturn asks are: True for whom? And why waste time judging others instead of tending your own business?
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CAPRICORN: If you find that an urge to simplify complicated interactions just isn’t working, remember relationships are precious precisely because they’re complex. Surrendering to this week’s wholehearted, full-on in-your-faceness could reignite your passion to explore further than easy answers. Make harmony in your immediate environment a priority.
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LEO: This week ignites your fiery drive, but personal determination and infectious enthusiasm alone just aren’t enough to get the job done because everyone needs cooperation and support from others to succeed. No worries though – not with late-week Leo moon lavishing your charm over allies and competitors alike. VIRGO: This week you either revisit the past or it comes calling on you, ready or not, to face it, embrace it, then let it be and move on. If you feel the need to deliver a dose of reality, do it without raining on anyone’s parade – however far-fetched or fanciful their plans seem to you. LIBRA: Venus retreating midweek into the sign of fish swimming in opposite directions pits exhilarating risk against sensible security. What to do? Be extremely discerning, as in selecting only what’s truly for the highest good. Though it’s already been suggested, you may have to say not a lot more before you finally agree.
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SCORPIO: When powerhouse Mars in your partnership zone meets midweek Venus backtracking into your past, something or someone’s likely to resurface for appropriate resolution and closure. Scorpios are revolutionaries at heart, and late-week Leo moon flings open the stage curtains for the ritual smashing of a passé old pattern.
CULTURE CABARET IS BACK
AOIFE SCOTT BAND AT THE RAILS ON THURSDAY AND WITH AINE TYRELL AT THE MULLUM EX-SERVICES ON SUNDAY
DUSTY RICH HEADLINES THE BYRON BREWERY’S COMEDY IN THE GARDEN ON FRIDAY
RICH @ BREWERY Unconventional South African comedian Dusty Rich is a master of crowd interaction, SMALL TOWN ROMANCE AT THE TREEHOUSE IN moving spontaneous ideas BELONGIL ON THURSDAY around the room faster than his yoga-like lunges accentuating a physicality that only makes his performances even more hilarious. Rich’s Born into the legendary Black For the first time in six Family – which includes her years Miss Amber & Stukulele’s wild and unpredictable mother, Frances, and her Uke Night has missed a month. improvisation ranges from stories of growing up poor aunt, Mary – Aoife Scott has Owing to the flooding last and skinny in post-apartheid been surrounded by and week the March event was South Africa, the perils of immersed in music from an postponed till this Friday relationships, embracing early age, from listening to 7 April. This is a great his own ‘crazy’, marrying far her grandparents, mother, opportunity to bring out the above his means, and moving aunt and uncles making music kids for the first-ever nonto Australia. around the fire, to observing school-night uke celebration the backstage workings of from 6.30pm at Club Mullum. Catch Dusty Rich when he festivals both here and abroad. Adults $12.50, kids younger headlines Byron’s latest comedy sensation Comedy Aoife moved to the west than 16 $2.50. in the Garden at the Byron coast of Ireland several years Brewery on Friday – with ago and her passion for the MC the hilariously off-beat native Irish language spoken Ellen Briggs and support by there is reflected in her choice Small Town Romance the warmly self-deprecating of songs. She possesses a showcases the musical Marty Lappan. voice that evokes the wild partnership of Jim Arneman western landscape: fragile (Indian Pacific, The Slim Dusty (In case of inclement weather, one minute and forceful the Family Band) and Flora Smith comedy will move inside!) next. Her experiences while (Flash Company). Jim spent Byron Brewery. Friday. 8pm. living in the west, the people, his childhood on the road Free. the places and the sounds of watching his family perform, Connemara, can be heard in later joining his mother Anne her remarkable and unique Kirkpatrick and the extended performances. Slim Dusty family clan on stage. Mark Swivel is taking his This year the pair are excited She plays the Bangalow show Dad Joke to Melbourne to get out on the road and Hotel on Wednesday, the Comedy Festival and, before showcase their new album. Rails on Thursday and the he heads off into a really tiny Mullum Ex Services on They play at the Treehouse on room, he’d like to try to pull a Sunday. few here in Mullum. Thursday from 7.30pm.
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AQUARIUS: Current touchy-feely levels are definitely surplus to Aquarian requirements, replete as they are with needy attention-seekers emoting all over the place. So not your thing. But even with the best intentions, this week breeds more questions than answers; approach them open-mindedly, let go of prejudice.
PISCES: Whenever Venus enters her 40-day–40-night retrograde, we get to see more deeply beneath the surface than usual to those robotic hidden habits we didn’t realise we had. While the love planet’s midweek retro into Pisces sharpens your insight, it takes honesty and brave determination to make followthrough changes.
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you haven’t seen it or are keen to see what he’s done since the last time you saw it, come and catch him at the Court House in Mullumbimby on Sunday 9 April at 6pm. Entry by donation.
THE BLACK IRISH
They’re back! After wrapping up world tours of their two circus/cabaret shows, La Soirée and Club Swizzle, the team behind the Brunswick Picture House open their doors this Easter weekend with a massive program! It all starts on Good Friday with the all-ages Circus Bonanza, which will leave the young (and the young at heart) with mouths agape. The show that everyone’s been talking about, the famous Cheeky Cabaret, returns with two killer instalments on Good Friday and Easter Saturday and, finally, Easter Sunday will herald the arrival of the inimitable Paul Capsis in Brunswick Heads – yes, the cabaret and stage legend whose voice has been described as ‘an act of God’. Paul Capsis is a one-man protest. The night belongs to all of us… come celebrate this right with a night exploring the delicious music of Patti Smith, Skyhooks, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Ike and Tina Turner, Doris Day, Thelma Houston and many more… This is blast-off cabaret! Sunday 16 April from 6pm. Easter will also see the introduction of Homemade Jam on Sundays, where breakfast and live music are served hand in hand. Grace the Picture House pews for the ultimate Sunday Service and listen to local musos harmonising under the backdrop of the lush garden. This is set to become a Bruns tradition – and will take place
BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE OPENS AGAIN WITH A BIG WEEKEND OF CABARET AND CIRCUS FROM GOOD FRIDAY RIGHT THROUGH UNTIL EASTER SUNDAY! every Sunday from 10am. To find out more or buy tickets go to brunswickpicturehouse.com.
FOOD TRUCK FEST
The gourmet street-foodtruck festival is on again at the Mullumbimby Leagues
Club this Saturday 4–8pm. QLD and Northern NSW’s best foodies will fill the oval with delicious world food and drinks. Locals are invited to bring a camping chair or picnic blanket and relax as the sun goes down with the amazing view of Mt Chincogan. The last event saw hundreds of foodie lovers flock to the iconic leagues club to indulge in sweet treats and handmade delicacies. Live music from Dan Hannaford on a very funky vintage caravan stage and local creatives and makers will be on offer. The event offers vegan, vegetarian and allergyfriendly options so there is something for everyone! The street food festival is very family friendly with lots of kids activities. Gold-coin donation entry.
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