It must be a sign

Where am I? I am in St. Ignace, Michigan tonight, my second to last night on the road. Mom and I finished up our mini vacation in Niagara Falls and have stopped in the UP for the night before heading for my parents house tomorrow. I will officially be back in Wisconsin tomorrow! I have tons of pictures and video filling up my camera, awaiting my return home to be edited. While you are all patiently waiting for them, I wanted to post something I've kept from the beginning of the year.

Some of the people close to me know the process I went through in deciding to travel and the "signs" that pointed me in the direction I eventually went. The first sign was, ironically enough, my 2012 yearly horoscope. Now, I'm not usually a person to vest much interest or confidence in horoscopes and actually rarely read mine. But, I was in the midst of my deliberation process when the new year rolled in and I saw a link on my Yahoo homepage to read your 2012 horoscope. I figured, why not? I wanted to share with you the career section of that horoscope. Keep in mind, I started my first assignment in February and I had been debating leaving my job for travel nursing for a while, but felt I wasn't prepared or experienced enough.

You're in stellar standing in 2012, especially during the first half of the year. You'll definitely feel like the 'It' sign, with Mars and Jupiter doing your bidding. Your creativity is off the charts with the action planet, Mars, running an extended six-month stint in your sector of self-expression. Mars will be retrograde during the first quarter, which could create the illusion that not much is moving forward - and yet you've never felt more creative and inspired. Trust that all your inner preparation will meet with great rewards and forward motion.

Neptune had been causing some confusion about your professional identity over the past few years, but now that it will be leaving your career sector for good in February, clarity - if not a major epiphany - is coming. Write everything down, because breakthrough ideas will come like flashes of lightning and will be as easily forgotten as fast as they come. It's time to translate all the gifts of inspired creativity and vision that Neptune brought you over the past several years into flourishing future plans. The tragedy would be to keep all of these gifts locked up as mere potential.

When the big eclipse points hit your money and talent sector this summer, you'll see another huge wave of changes unfolding over the latter half of 2012. And since you can be the most stubborn of all signs when it comes to embracing the new, you may actually welcome this colossal cosmic push. There is no going back, Taurus - you're destined for bigger and more glamorous things (with many of them likely involving extensive travel). La Dolce Vita, baby!

Crazy, right?

I hope to have pictures and video posted by this weekend, bear with me!