European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 stars and stripes sunday april 1 2007 sunday Horoscope prior to the Gregorian Calendar the Celebration at Vernal Equinox end april 1 started a new year while the tradition of april fools May be pre16th Century theres nothing More timely than a comic moment delivered with Deadpan humor planetary pranksters Mercury and uranus Eye each other wryly Mak ing fun delightfully shocking today birthday april almost As soon As there asked the questions in the Back of your mind Are answered Are you grow ing a third Eye or growing in insight Over the next seven weeks you tread water but at week eight youre gangbusters youll spend More Mololah on luxury items this year a june love affair is revisited in a gust Leo and cancer relationships inspire your Holiday Lucky numbers Are 19 52 and 1 Aries March 21aprh you run your relationships the same Way you run your life Fullon commando when someone has another take like the Lenny Kravtz song Are you Gonna go my Way the same question boomerangs right Back at you Taurus april 2omay if s All about casting the right pranksters around you will keep the doldrums at Bay create social opportunities so you can revel in the Sweet exclamations of Light hearted friends gemini May 21june when you cant afford something dont rationalize that you didst need it in the first place instead put your air sign ingenuity to practical use and figure out another Way to get what you want cancer june your ideas Are the most interesting things to float by since the bbl aired a 1957 april fools hoax on Trees that grew Spaghetti people Are As curious about your ideas As they were about where to buy that tree Leo july 23aug some volcanoes Are formed by the earths tectonic plates pulling apart like an organic growing pain others Are caused by swollen hot Rock in the earths Core your own eruption has a similarly natural cause and you have a right to it Virgo aug 23sept some believe True love Means enduring the crazy shenanigans of your Lover for better or worse crazy can be stimulating for a while but it gets do getting heavily involved in a Hobby shifts the Energy Libra sept 23oct loved ones require your understand ing More than Ever so what if you feel under rehearsed or out of your league dont let fear Stop you you can deliver the goods exactly As needed Scorpio oct 24nov the thing or person youre waiting for is waiting for you too break the pattern Stop waiting and make a move now while youre Lucky a Pisces person figures into an inspired plan Sagittarius nov 22dec although were not the most adaptable creatures on the planet we do have devices that Alert us to coming changes today listening device is the ear put head to ground and listen for the rumbles Capricorn dec 22jan there Are so Many methods of communication on the Market if s a wonder we Ever have facet face conversations anymore connect with your people in person body language and facial expressions give the heart ears aquarius Jan 2ofeb Shock Jock Howard Stem was fictitious by pulled off the Mats radio one april 1 he did go Back on the air however now his show is available Only at a Premium consider making your words exclusive to Only those who want to listen after two year engagement father Tobe is backtracking Pisces feb 19march do you believe in fairies if you do there pulling pranks on you now if you dont then someone else must be moving your keys hiding your Wallet or loosening the lids of items in the refrigerator forecast for the week ahead Hie full Moon in Libra tomorrow starts the week on a sensitive note were each prone to fits of dissatisfaction Over expectations unmet by our other half Libra is the deliberating scale in relation ships we move the Scales Back and Forth in equal measure to the other constantly weighing in on your partner can create inconstancy of heart the eternal dilemma of Libra at some Point we All have to make the Choice to listen either to our head or our heart to the ancient egyptians the heart was the seat of intelligence and emotion at the time of death Maat goddess of truth Wisdom and righteousness weighed the deceased heart against a Feather if lighter than a Feather the soul was rewarded with an afterlife might we try every technique to lighten our hearts toward our friends and sweeties this week if you find yourself in uncertainty or loneliness this week drop your reasons and drop into the heart mystical sufi poet Hafiz observed i have estimated the influence of reason upon love and found that it is like that of a Raindrop upon the Ocean which makes one Little Mark upon the Waters face and Digap celebrity profiles Amanda Bynes knows what a Girt this Spunky Aries grew up in the spotlight and in typical Aries go getting style it didst take her Long to land her own show at the Young age of 13 rams Are notorious starters but not All of them have the follow through to make it happen since Bynes has Mars in Capricorn she has the tenacity and work ethic to shape her own future creators Syndicate dear dear Abby please help me i am very confused i am four months pregnant and have been engaged for two years my finances father asked him the other Day when we were going to get married and he looked at his father and said he no longer believes in marriage i dont know what to do my Fiance says he loves me and wants to be with me and the baby when its born but he int saying he wants to get married anymore after All this time its Al most As if he is taking Back the words i love please Tell me what to do Hurt beyond words Alberta Canada dear Hurt beyond words Start by having a Calm discussion with your Fiance about when he had his change of heart whether he marries you or not he has a Finan Cial responsibility to his child then ask yourself if this is the kind of life you want to be living in 10 years or so marriage carries with it certain protections advantages and guarantees examples if he were to become seriously ill who would make medical decisions for him if he were to die who would inherit his property if this Man loves you does he not want you and his child to be legally protected your next step is to discuss the Legal implications with a lawyer because even if this Man Doest want to protect you you must ensure that your Ady child will be provided for dear Abby i am 33 and have been dating Lauren for three years i saw a great future together that is until my parents decided they hated Lauren and refused to meet her my parents Are unreason Able and judgmental they say i should marry a Fame a oriented girl who meets their qualifications i moved Back Home after col lege and have had relationships but never married having no Sib Lings i have always been super close with my parents but they Are doing everything in their Power to destroy my relationship with Lauren and control me we cant communicate respect fully about this because they claim that desperation has caused me to Settle and accuse Lauren of turning me against them although they say they want me to be Happy with a family and to make my own decisions they have informed me that they will not attend our wedding nor be a part of our lives Lauren and i get along Well and love each other she is willing to Start All Over with them and for get what has happened but they still refuse to meet her i feel that i am still the Only person who can determine what qualifications Are important to me in a life part Ner but my parents Are forcing me to make a Choice should i continue trying or move on on the spot in new Jersey dear on the spot it is possible that your parents Are so emotion ally fixated on you their Only child who moved Back Home after College that they Are having problems letting i find it sad that they have drawn a line in the Sand before you move please consider family counselling for you and your parents a licensed psychotherapist might be Able to help you All communicate better and help them to recognize that the More they attempt to control you the further they Are pushing you away i am also recommend ing premarital counselling for you and Lauren because after you marry she May encounter significant Inlow problems letters for this column with your name and phone number should be addressed to dear Abby Box 69440 los Angeles Ca 90069 readers can write to Abby on the internet at Universal press Syndicate boyfriends sneak parenting deserves to go unpunished my Boyfriend of five years was a father figure to his two step daughters from his last relation ship and gets tear eyed when he Doest hear from them the problem is Hes sneaking Calls to them Only calling them or their Mother from work if one of the girls Calls him at Home he goes into the other room and gets off the phone quickly its not that i cant Trust him but part of me feels that their mothers still on his mind too bringing this up causes a heated argument he says in insecure its driving him crazy and makes him feel hesitant to visit them is his behaviour suspicious or am i paranoid uneasy crime of the Century right up there with genocide Roadside bombings and slapping around old ladies go ahead accuse him based on All the damning evidence at hand Why really Good dad you dont mention finding lipstick on his Collar or a Bill for three hours at a Motel maybe whats really getting to you is a Crayon you pulled out of his jacket pocket along with a charge slip from toys r us you can get away with accusing him of having an affair with the advice goddess mom but its a Little too wicked Witch to scream at him for main Taining a relationship with the kids admit it admit it i know you bought her a Happy meal and her sister too sure Hes sneaking Calls to them consider this Guys sneak Beers and maybe cigarettes but never Broccoli they dont usually double Back from work to mow the Lawn or tiptoe out in the dead of the night to return Library books but when decency gets criminalized the decent get sneaky chances Are you made it Clear that you we rent willing to share this Guys attention not even with a couple kids that probably what made him pull Back to self pres Elvation Mode the diplomacy of what she Doest know wont Hurt Here he is not even their official dad and he gets weepy when he Doest talk to them this is the stuff hallmark to specials Are made of yet youre your relationship into an episode of prison you admit its not that i cant Trust no its that youre irrational and insecure and making his life hell is probably your Way of controlling How much of it he diverts to people who Arent you come on after five years you dont know what Hes made of or whether he still has the hots for the last lady in his life if he is running away with her Hes an awfully slow runner like at this rate he might be Able to beat Stephen hawking across my living room Rug granted he could leave you for the Mother or for some Chick he bumps into at the mail Box when Hes sneaking a Call to the kids but keeping him on a choke Chain wont prevent it try a different strategy for a month and see where it gets you admit to him that youre insecure and that his sense of duty int cause for concern but cause to be with him in the first place encourage his relationship with the kids and give him the leeway to con duct phone conversations in private without the soviet state of Girlfriend listening in you might just come to see him for what he appears to be a Guy on the phone because he cares about his kids math Grade not because Hes recruiting House wives to remake your relation ship into the suburban version of he and the triplets got a problem write Amy Alkon 171 pier ave no 280 Santa Monica Ca 90405 or email  copyright 2005 Amy Alkon creators Syndicate