You have sharpened your pencil and have a good idea of the money you need to make certain dreams come true. What would that be, dear Taurus? Do you want to buy a house or condo? Pay for grad school? Start or expand your own business? Live abroad? This month, the world is your oyster! If you can dream it, you can do it!

Big dreams need funding, and Taurus, a financial sign, knows this better than most. Lucky you - you will have all the cosmic clout you need to allow the money you want to materialize. Fill out forms for the funds you need. Whether you are looking for a loan, grant, or mortgage, or even hope to win a contest, you have to be "in it to win it." You currently have a guardian angel in the form of super-friendly Jupiter, along with a slew of posse planets accompanying Jupiter to help you get the money you need. Ideally, you should initiate your request for just after the new moon, December 9.

If you are currently in a court case that is nearing settlement, you may now be awarded quite a bit of money. You may have brought a case to court because of an injury (as one of many possibilities), or you may be working on the division of property at the end of a marriage or business. In these types of situations, you are likely to do extremely well, too. If you need to get a mortgage or refinance your present house, see your banker without delay. You will like the deal that you uncover. If an inheritance has been held up, the courts are likely to make a decision that pleases you now.

This same house rules money you earned by commission or royalty, so you may either get a big check now for an ongoing deal that is about to pay out, or you may enter into a deal now that will prove to be awesomely fortunate for you.

You must finish your deal not one moment later than December 17, however. Try not to leave anything to the last minute - we are talking about the best financial outcome for joint finances and credit in over a decade!

You may have wondered if you might win a prize. Yes! You should buy a couple of sweepstakes, charity raffle, or lotto tickets this month. Do so on the evening of December 9, any time on December 10, or on the morning of December 11. Make sure the prize is chosen on December 10 or 11. Don't go overboard by buying too many tickets, of course, but you do have extraordinary aspects, and you could win a prize.

One of the most extraordinary days of the month will occur on December 11, when Jupiter and Pluto will combine forces. This is a rare aspect - it comes every 13 years - and is a sure indicator of success whenever it occurs. To give you an idea, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were born with this aspect, so they have it in their charts all their lives. Most of us don't, as it's one of those needle-in-a haystack types of aspects where you have to be born at just the right moment - but nevertheless, we will all get a taste of this marvelous, generous conjunction this month.

As a result of the Jupiter-Pluto aspect, you may get a huge government contract - or tax refund - or special sponsorship from a multinational firm or high profile individual. No matter who it may be, it comes in the form of a check with a great many zeros after the first number - just the sum you had in mind! You may have never viewed yourself as a high roller (or, then again perhaps you have), but no matter, you will prove in December that you can hold your own with the best of 'em. So go ahead, be a mini Donald or Donald-ina Trump - this is your month to show all your savvy!

Don't think of December 11 as "just a day" but the birth of a whole new way of life. What you start this month, especially in the first ten days, has the power to carry you forward for thirteen years, at which time you can choose to continue your venture, tweak it, change it, or add to it (assuming you've chosen to continue it).

Keep in mind that talks you have during this month may seem like nothing special, but you may be amazed later to see your plans grow into giant beanstalks that reach the heavens in time. You won't know until much later that the little deal you thought nothing of was about to change your life forever. Indeed, it looks like you're doing everything right this month when it comes to financials. Slow moving planets like Jupiter and Pluto often take a little time to do their magic, sometimes months, but if you begin something now, or in the weeks after this conjunction, you should see luck coming your way. You are moving through a VERY potent period, so the talks you are having have considerable weight and importance.

What is so special about Jupiter when conjunct Pluto? Pluto rules massive transformations, and is also linked to wildly successful financial gain. Jupiter is the planet of good fortune, happiness, and financial expansion and will quadruple Pluto's energies. My goodness! Are you starting to see how huge this can be? In any chart - even a chart for the signing of a contract - when astrologers see Pluto and Jupiter together, it always shows a potential for massive success.

Romantically, with Venus moving into your commitment sector from December 5 - 30, if you're dating, seriously attached, or married, this holiday season should be quite heavenly. Feelings - yours, your partner's - will come to the surface easily now and communication should be warm, close, private, and very sexy.

Attached? Your day will be December 18, when Venus, planet of love, will send a wink to Uranus, the planet that rules all unexpected events. It seems your partner has been busy planning a sweet surprise for you - just you wait and see!

One sensational day for singles looking for romance may be December 20, an annual event when Jupiter conjoins Mercury. Mercury rules your solar fifth house of true love, so this bodes very well for a romantic night out! If you are single, go to a holiday party if invited, for you'll likely meet someone new once there. The moon will be in Taurus, another lovely indicator that you'll enjoy this night to the fullest.

I should add that with five planets in your eighth house this month, you are likely to feel very affectionate. This should be a very loving, physically demonstrative month, to say the least, and this trend is more likely to be obvious in the first two weeks. If you've both been too busy and shall I delicately say, lacking desire, then throw a log on the fire, dial up a tune you love on your iPod sound player, pour the wine, and celebrate your love. On this beautiful day, the moon will be in Taurus, so you'll truly find that you and your partner have created a world of your own.

The big events in December will just keep on rolling.

On December 18, we have ANOTHER exciting event - Jupiter, giver of gifts and luck, will move into Capricorn for the first time since 1996! Jupiter will fill your solar ninth house of big ideas, big goals. Jupiter will stay a little over a year, until January 5, 2009, and you will see that while you THOUGHT you had been thinking big, compared to how you will view the world in 2008, as they say, "you ain't seen nothing yet."

Capricorn is an earth sign like yours, which means Jupiter will be beautifully positioned to help you throughout 2008. That's news, for you've not had that sort of help lately. In fact, 2007 marked a hard year for some Taurus, especially in the realm of love or friendship, as the eclipses were hitting this area for the past two years. Those eclipses are almost done with only one more due, February 20, but for the most part, you have become enlightened in matters of the heart.

Your new influence from Jupiter will revolve around intellectual and spiritual pursuits. Your mind will be hungry for new stimulation, and Jupiter will see to it that you get it. You will travel more in 2008 than you have in previous years, for Jupiter will want to push back the perimeters of your world. You may decide to go back to college to complete a degree or get a better job in a college to teach others. You may see amazing opportunities develop in broadcasting or publishing, too. None of these areas are mutually exclusive - you may have several by the time 2008 is over!

A rare and special meeting of Jupiter and the mighty Sun on December 23 will be the very luckiest day of the year. This is a spectacular annual event that we all look forward to each year with great anticipation. (Can you believe this month?)

Distant travel is the most typical way most people use this delicious aspect when Jupiter and the Sun will meet in your ninth house of travel. This day should trigger a chance for the most romantic holiday you've had on record. Since this star power won't be repeated for more than a decade, it's worth a call to your travel agent to discuss the possibility of journeying to an exotic location to celebrate the holidays. You would likely get luxurious accommodations, too - this is a five-star day in anyone's book!

If obligations hold you firmly at home on and near December 23, you will get another fabulous chance to travel later, perhaps for New Year's Eve, or next month during the first three weeks of January. (That is VERY likely, incidentally.) The point is to start planning now! It would be a shame to miss these dazzling aspects!

Most romantic dates: December 1, 15, 20, 22, 24, 28, and 29.

Summary:

Dear Taurus, what a month! It is as if the universe took all the best, most precious aspects and hid them away all year, just to take them out now as a surprise for the holidays.

Many planets will be rushing to the constellation of Sagittarius to wish Jupiter well as he prepares to move on to Capricorn on December 18. Before that happens, Jupiter will be surrounded with the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Pluto, and Mercury, and all this energy will be packaged and pushed forward at the new moon, December 9.

Since Sagittarius rules your eighth house of other people's money, you are about to become the celestial favorite when it comes to getting loans, venture capital, prize winnings, pensions, settlements, and benefits packages, and in lots of other areas, mentioned above. You must speak up, especially near December 9 - 11, your most golden days. You don't have to complete the process by then, but you should make some sort of initiation at that time.

A commission, royalty, licensing fee, or special benefit from your employer (outside of salary) may now come to you.

What makes this month so extraordinary is that it holds the rare alignment of Jupiter and Pluto on December 11, a once in 13-year event of enormous important and beneficence - it's insane! All the financial areas we have been discussing will immediately rise to a whole new power!

This suggests to me that you may be involved in a very big financial deal that will come thorough very close to the days December 9 - 11.

As if this were not enough, this month holds the monumental move of Jupiter out of Sagittarius and into Capricorn on December 18. Once in your solar ninth house, you'll immediately sense a greater degree of adventure. You'll be thinking big and broad, and the walls of your world will fall away - what will stay will be a bigger, brighter world, and it will be one you'll want to explore.

Remarkably, on December 23, we come to the Luckiest day of the Year, when Jupiter and the Sun will unite, an annual event. They will meet in your house of travel, suggesting that you may spend either Christmas or New Year's on distant shores, making this a holiday for the record books.

If you do not travel in December, you may in January, when you'll have even more planets speeding to this fabulously expansive and adventurous house. Higher education will be your lucky area too, as distant travel and education are linked in the same part of the chart (both bring learning). Publishing and broadcasting projects and legal matters all shine for you now.

Romance seems linked to travel, but even if you can't get away, this is still due to be an unusually warm, affectionate month. If the wear and tear of life has left the two of you feeling a little distant and "not in the mood," let it be you to take the first step. Entice your partner - be joyous, full of surprises, and very much like when you first met. You are likely to get a terrific response this month, and soon you may feel very cozy encircled in the arms of the one you love.