COPY OF Taurus weekly horoscope: What your star sign has in store for July 6
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TAURUS
APRIL 21 - MAY 21
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What matters most to you is in your personal spotlight, as you see that value can lie so much deeper than cash.
"Surprise" decisions linked to your future can feel so familiar once you make them, and as major planets move, this can be the week to do so.
The next seven years can be quite an adventure.
A learning path may start slow but speed up very fast, so give it some thought.
DESTINY DAYS
You've got a keen property-spotting eye on Monday, and job-hunting instincts on Wednesday.
Do explain love motives on Sunday.
LUCKY LINKS
Tables with white and silver cloths.
Music with unusual rhythm.
The friend who most loves animals.
THE NEW U
If you've found financial planning a challenge, as Uranus shifts into your chart of cash and personal values, you can take control in a way that is truly Taurus.
From finding unique investments to drawing a clear line around cash for your own goals and dreams, you can take smart, even overnight, action.
People may be surprised who you give your loyalty and trust to, but deep inside you will know this works.
The New U, for Taurus, has total faith in your own judgment.
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Last year, Jones told Drew Barrymore on her chatshow that she'd sworn off men for good, having grown 'tired of raising boys', and she picks up this theme with gusto. 'People talk about society going through a 'lonely man' phase. It comes back to you all won't do the work to become the person that you really can be. You're waiting for me to solve your problems. You're waiting for me to give you permission. Grow up – I'm not Build-A-Bear. Fuck that shit. Every time I get on the dating apps, I'll be like: 'I want to call the FBI. All of the serial killers are here.'' If she struggled to settle in at SNL, it wasn't just because she wasn't 'woke' enough. She was also still grieving, and 'I was not acting out, but I wasn't well. I wasn't cognisant of how my behaviour was affecting others. I remember Lorne [Michaels, producer and creator of SNL] texting me; I had said, 'I'm so sorry how I'm acting,' and he said, 'I talk to my wife about a lot of things, and she says: 'I am so glad you are talking about these things, but can you not talk about them to me? Can you find somebody else?' That's when SNL found me a therapist.' She speaks more highly of therapy than anyone I've ever heard, but really for what it did for her comedy: 'To be a good comic, you have to go deep into yourself, and have empathy and love yourself. It takes years to get fucked up; it's gonna take years to clean up. So, you know when you go to a psychic?' Not really, but go on … 'And you're, like, 'Bitch, you're not going to tell me shit,' and then by the 40th minute, she has broken you down? That was therapy. It made me a better person, made me a better friend, for sure, made me a better comic.' 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For her next move, she says, 'I want to do a serious acting role, maybe play some kind of detective. I could find the serial killer or I could be the serial killer.' She dissolves into laughter, as it is not lost on her how often she talks about serial killers. In a way, there's nothing more serious than her mission as a comic to get funnier the worse things get. 'That's my job, to bring some joy – you can't cry all day. That's what they want, they want you sad. They want you to see no light.' Leslie Jones is on tour in the US from 19 September to 22 November
