You’re in the delicate process of learning how to properly balance the flow of give-and-take in your personal relationships, and it’s time to evaluate how you’re doing. Are you giving too much, leaving you resentful and angry? Or are you withholding when you could give more, leaving you feeling guilty and defensive? Your Divine Teachers can help you learn how to better align your relationships so that you neither give nor take too much as a means of controlling others. They counsel you to be honest about your motivations when dealing with others; you know in your heart of hearts what drives your interest in them.

Do you give with a secret agenda of “you owe me”? Do you create dependency in and control over others with your kindness? Or do you withhold for fear that you might be taken advantage of, keeping people guessing about your motives and your intentions? Your Divine Teachers are on hand to help you answer these questions. They lovingly assure you that relationships are the most difficult of all spiritual classrooms, and the lessons of proper give-and-take are the most difficult of skills to learn.

Have compassion for yourself as you seek balance with others. Ask your Divine Teachers to help you become more aware of how you give and receive in all relationships, not just the romantic kind. Their message to you: “There’s no difference between giving and receiving love.”

Now is an important time to contemplate your place in the world. Pay attention to your influence on others, and note that you’re a part of a big community. Recognize your interactions with those around you, and respect the fact that no matter how well you may succeed on your own, you must still depend on others in myriad ways for your comfort and security. You’re aware of this every time you switch on a light and enjoy instant electricity, or turn on a faucet and have clean drinking water at your disposal.

Your Divine Helpers are present to remind you to appreciate your fellow human beings and take nothing for granted. Recognize your need for others, and the unspoken gifts they share with you. Move beyond your self-interests right now, and participate in a common effort. Ask yourself how you might contribute to the greater good. Your Divine Helpers’ message: “Be responsible for your part in the great scheme of things.”

Your sexuality is awake and on fire, and your lustier appetites are in search of satisfaction. You’re attractive, seductive, and powerful, and a “green light” of availability to a sexual partner is flashing. This is what makes the world go ’round, and nothing is more intriguing and exciting than your life force asserting itself. The key to enjoying this fiery essence is containment. You must control and direct your life-force energy rather than allow it to control and overwhelm you. Otherwise, you can become mindlessly addicted to your senses, which can be debilitating and enslaving.

Delight in your sensual self, but be discriminating about where it leads you. Use your judgment. Raw life force is best partnered with reason and the greater force of love to bring you to the heightened state of ecstasy you seek. Trust the sensual goddess Aphrodite as she unleashes your passions, but respect her as well. Her message for you: “Use your fiery passions creatively, not destructively.”