Aires   Taurus   Gemini   Cancer   Leo   Virgo   Libra   Scorpio   Sagitt   Capric   Aquar   Pisces   Overview

You are in the jaws of another amazing month, Aries, one in which you are enjoined to move toward greater control and also greater passion in aligning yourself with meaningful change. Relationship revelations continue and they lead you back to yourself in a newer and larger way. You are expanding your presence as well as your awareness, embracing a bigger piece of cosmic process as your own. You are currently a seeker of professional aesthetics. Your grace and diplomacy under pressure might take you farther into a sense of purposeful evolutionary process than you would have ever thought possible.

As the month begins, you are feeling the excitement of the New Moon of Wednesday, February 2nd, in your sector of wishes and hopes, group associations, and future plans. All of these categories count. You are very involved this month in navigating your possibilities, so that you can almost see your future path unfurling like a golden carpet before your eyes. It is said that you must be careful what you wish for at this important juncture; whatever you wish for has the uncanny ability of coming true. It is also likely that you will increase your participation at this time with groups and associations of friends for which you feel kinship. Relationship in your life takes an important turn also at this powerful New Moon moment. There may be sudden epiphanies now that take you further into your relationship process. The revelations deepen and their associations increase as the month continues to unfold. You are fundamentally optimistic now and rather than stay complacent, you benefit from using this energy to continue to probe your activities in search of the deeper meaning.

With the First Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 10th, you might feel into the tension of your process. You are yielding to the power of your active imagination, dwelling in cloudy idealism and simultaneously are grounded in practical concerns. The truth as usual lies somewhere in between, but it can be difficult to get the needle to hold steady instead of jumping to one or the other extreme. You might also find that this second week of the New Moon cycle is the time when snags arise with the plans made confidently as the month began. Nothing is as simple as it originally seemed; objections emerge. This is a trial for your will, and a test of your ability to surmount life's challenges while remaining faithful to your true intention. If it is for the highest then you will find a way to work it through.

The Full Moon of late Thursday and early Friday, February 17th and 18th, takes place in the last degree of Leo, on the edge of your sector of higher purpose and day-to-day activity. This moment represents a culmination of the activity that has preceded it over these first two weeks. This might be construed as well as a further test of your ability to dream and yet not become completely caught up in the dream imagining. There is a considerable tendency at this time for idealism and even illusions to predominate, so it is good to be on the lookout for concrete verification.

For the remainder of the month you are caught up in dream worlds of your own imagining, but this can also represent a great escape from the vicissitudes of the actual superficial world out there, so this aspect of your situation constitutes at the very least a mixed blessing.

Taurus   (April 20 - May 20)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

This is a magical and a somewhat trying month for you, Taurus. The arc of your personal development is making an unexpected turn and encourages an opening for a philosophy for your life that makes better sense, heading into the future. You are energized and service-oriented, making your move for what you truly believe in. A strong sense of inner purpose seizes you, affecting professional agendas and outer world responsibility. This is in many ways the new beginning that you have been awaiting for a very long time. You are blessed with an inner knowing that in the end takes you further into your necessary changes than any kind of logical procedure.

As the month begins, you are riding the energy of the February 2nd New Moon, which takes place in your sector of outer expression, career and professional life; feeling fully ready to take your place in the world of events and circumstance. This gives you enormous energy and real-world presence, while at the same time you are also seeking to understand the underpinnings of outer life in terms of how you see the world developing around you. You might find startling epiphanies become the order of the day as deep intuition arises within you to eclipse your more normal thought process. You are in connection with a profound inner knowing that tells you more about your future path than the arrangements and combinations of outer events can muster.

You are exposed to a powerful series of epiphanies this month that have the effect of shaking you out of the slumber of consensus thought into what is closer to an other-worldly sense of destiny unfolding. Your thought process participates but not as much as that deeper sense of awareness that is beyond conscious understanding. You are perhaps also tuning in to old patterns of behavior that have outlived their usefulness in your present level of maturity. In this you are operating out of a feeling for your own highest purpose for yourself, going forward.

The First Quarter Moon that takes place on Thursday, February 10th, might place a few obstacles in your chosen path, but nothing that you cannot surmount. You are investigating what parts of your plans are viable and where you might need to make adjustments. Arguments with others could also arise. You win when you reach through an extra dimension to find a third way that avoids the impasse.

The Full Moon of late night on Thursday, February 17th and extending into early Friday morning the 18th, brings ideals and visions into play as you make your way forward. You might be somewhat subject to illusion and confusion now, and do well to maintain your grounding in concrete real-world considerations, which are fortunately also readily available to your consciousness. The contrast between these points of view is massive, but the upside is that you can choose to take the best of both perspectives as you construct a new worldview for yourself.

When the Last Quarter Moon comes along in the following week, taking place on Thursday, February 24th, you will have plenty of food for thought as you make your way forward. This is a time of reflection and of summing up the inherent difficulties and successes of the previous three weeks, and the lessons learned. You have been on an interesting journey over this climactic month, with more fireworks still to come in the spring.

Gemini   (May 21 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

The New Year is still in the process of dawning upon you, Gemini, and the fireworks from its beginning still continue. Your ongoing transformation intensifies into the present month, and involves perspective shifts and new ways of seeing the world around you. Insights are plentiful, and will take you out of your existing ruts to the extent that you are able to flex and open to them. Old patterns of behavior that no longer serve you are also up for review and revision now, and you might be surprised by the extent of their unraveling. It pays to keep your head up and your feet steady in the turbulence as you surf these waves of new realizations.

As the month begins, you are supported by burst of New Moon energy from February 2nd in your sector of higher mind. New thought forms come to you effortlessly right now, and speak to you of the unknown days ahead unwrapping themselves before your eyes. You are very present to your future right now and have an intuitional as well as a more logical connection to your goals and plans. You are in fact preparing a further assault on career possibilities and professional goals, but only the path with heart will have very much meaning for you now. This New Moon moment is a great time for you to vision future possibilities for yourself, in line with the most definite take that you can muster on your true soul purpose. You are also very aware of relationships in your life right now, which could be throwing you a few curve balls.

The First Quarter Moon that comes along in the second week of the month, taking place on Thursday, February 10th, might represent somewhat of a testing time, when inner and outer realities could conflict. You are trying your best to stay practical, but there is a strong awareness within you that is stirred up by this period of deep reflection so that practical matters might be beside the point. You also could be playing out a basic dichotomy between staying inner and relatively self-contained versus the freedom to investigate to the max your entire situation or even to experiment with foreign travel.

The Full Moon of Thursday night and Friday morning, February 17th and 18th, leads you to a culminating moment when you find freedom within yourself and within the very confines of the responsibilities that you have taken on, or at least you seem to. This is something of a dangerous time, for it is possible for your idealism to be so high that you are subject to self-deception. At its best, this moment provides a very strong and imaginative glimpse of what an enlightened pathway forward might indeed look like. You must trust in your idealism at this time bit also be sure that, as the Arab proverb goes, you have carefully tied up all your camels.

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday the 24th will give you plenty of food for thought as you mentally sum up what you have been through thus far, and examine accumulated clues as to where you might actually be headed. Partners come into the picture in a positive way and provide signposts for further life exploration. You are re-examining all your assumptions now and throwing some into the fires of change where they will be eliminated from future consideration.

Cancer   (June 21 - July 22)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

It's a novel year and a different world out there, Cancer, and in many ways a different world for you internally as well. You are moving this month through cries of doom and clouds of illusion into a new fulfillment. You have the courage of your convictions available to you to sustain you on this journey toward wholeness if only you are willing to drop your reservations and access it. Partnership with others is an important part of your journey now, and potentially quite helpful. You are also integrating familial connections in an unusual and surprisingly fruitful way that rather than subtracting from your sense of security actually enhances it. By month's end you might feel as though you had been drawn into the tunnel at the end of the universe and back out.

As the month begins, you are being stretched in several directions all at once. The New Moon of Wednesday evening, February 2nd, brings you energy to delve more deeply into your process. You are connecting with family and with partners and with your own profound center, and all the while exploring new horizons in career and professional life. The powerful transmutation of your relationship energy continues, and even jumps ahead at times, while opportunities open up for a greater commitment in the arena of outer achievement. It's an exciting time to be alive. The energies that swirl around you now are all about your connections with important others in your life, and yet they represent also the objectification of inner dynamics that are always present and always seeking greater integration and resolution within you. Family and especially partners perform a great service for you, and provide a rich mirror, pulling your inner dynamics out of you and into symbolic shadow play before you.

The First Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 10th, might give you pause in your progress. This is a time when the obvious potential conflict of self versus other, and also of individual versus group, becomes more pronounced, and also a time when you find yourself more critically examining the evolutionary arc of your own process and what it would take to actually get you to where you think you might be heading. You are fundamentally optimistic now and riding high on confidence and pizzazz, but there are intense dramas of relationship and inner work to navigate also.

The Full Moon a week later, taking place after midnight on the night of Thursday, February 17th, and in the early morning hours of the 18th, comes as a reminder to reach for mental and philosophical as well as emotional balance. You are entering a weekend when communication will be more important than ever as you attempt to revision your approach to your philosophy of life and living. There could be high idealism in your makeup now to contend with, or at least a compassionate sense of oneness that can see the world as an extension of cosmic rather than earthly priorities.

When the Last Quarter Moon arrives in the following week, taking place on Thursday, February 24th, it will be accompanied by a reflective stance. You are actively engaged at this time in visioning new opportunities for yourself, absorbing but not limited by the information gained from the monthly cycle that is completing at month's end. This month has been a powerful set of transitions for you and a spring board for further spiritual exploration.

Leo   (July 23 - August 22)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

The epiphanies just keep on coming, Leo. You are fueled this month by novel ideas that dramatically shift your perspective, and also by the point of view of others around you. In some ways it is all about relationships for you right now. But others in your life represent guideposts for your own journey of discovery, so that in the end the result that you seek is found through a combination of ingredients that includes liberal doses of your own burgeoning awareness. Communications within the circle of your peers is serious and internally focused now; it might be a terrific time to journal. You are seeing yourself in the mirror of others and it is a remarkably magical vision.

As the month begins, you are feeling enthusiastic and innovative regarding projects and work requirements, and possessed with loads of energy for important others in your life as well. Partnership is powerful for you this month, and leads to unexpected rewards and insights. Your presence in the world is coming up at this time with different conclusions than you would have expected, and it all goes better when you take into account significant figures in your work environment as we as in your personal life. Your communication has taken on a serious and practical cast lately, but there is a gleam in your eye. The New Moon on the evening of the second day of the month brings along it the energy to innovate, and connects you to significant others in your life as well.

When the First Quarter Moon hits a week later, however, taking place on Thursday, February 10th, you might discover the flies in the proverbial ointment. This is a time when the difficulties inherent in what you are attempting become more apparent, and when you might encounter some degree of tension in your interactions with others around you. Not everything that you envision can become concrete reality as much as your idealizing mind would like to believe it so. The illusion of plentiful possibility haunts you all during this second month of the New Year, and you are now feeling the contrary impulse of despair that anything can be done or fundamentally changed in alignment with cherished goals. Of course, both of these extremes are false in their own way.

The Full Moon of late Thursday night, February 17th, and early Friday morning, provides more scope for both the pleasant illusion and the cynical reaction to it, and gives you an opening to more fully explore old patterns of dysfunction in your life. If you are willing to take a good hard look at these habitual patterns, whereby you sell yourself short in one way or another, you have a window of opportunity to make progress with these important issues. There is a way right now that you might be able to discern that all your pain and suffering is really the pain of separation from your higher Self or the cosmos; however you conceive the agency of Spirit moving through your life. The pain is essentially illusory since that sense of separation is.

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 24th, represents a thoughtful and internally energized time when you are striving to make sense of everything that has gone before, including your take on ancient trauma, and its ramifications into your present state of evolutionary development.

Virgo   (August 23 - September 22)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

Your times they are changing, Virgo, and your fundamental beliefs and worldview along with them. Everywhere you look this month you see reflections of the creative void along with intimations of a new and more centered stability for yourself. Service to others around you is your mantra. As you take an active interest in integrating the needs of others more fully with your own, it brings you closer to your intention of finding your dharma – your life's work. You are engaged now in deconstructing and reconstructing the puzzle pieces of your life; maneuvering them into a more pleasing arrangement. By month's end a new pattern is beginning to emerge that brings you closer in many ways to your heart's true desire.

As the month begins, with the New Moon of Wednesday, February 2nd in your sector of discipleship to your highest intention, you are filled with a strong sense of purpose for what you profoundly believe is your true pathway forward. Now your task is to discover just what that path in the final analysis entails. To figure this out you must strive to remain as free as possible of illusions due to the influence of others, and as well free from the self-delusions practiced by yourself alone that have become activated over time and ritualized into your habitual patterns of avoidant behavior. You have an enormous sense of optimism at your disposal now, which should help immensely. You also have the aid of important others in your life, which, although taking some unique aspects at times lately, could remain indispensable. Epiphanies come to you by the dozens and some of these will also be quite useful in sorting out your priorities.

The First Quarter Moon which comes along a week later, on Thursday, February 10th, might give you pause, and put a few roadblocks in the way of your process. This is a time when basic conflicts in your position could become exposed, and when the reality behind the illusion could also become more evident. You are taking on a big piece here, striving to get your ducks into a row, and the tension could easily take its toll. This could also be the moment of your greatest triumph if you can stay flexible and surmount the challenges with grace and style.

When the Full Moon hits a week later, after midnight on the night of Thursday, February 17th, you will enter a new balance that takes issues of self and other more firmly into account. This is also a time when you will be inclined to place significant persons in your life on a pedestal, or else imagine them to be less than positive factors, so that there is danger of either over- or under-inflating their importance in your life. It is also possible that old trauma regarding relationship might surface at this time; if so it will be extremely helpful to face it head-on and not to duck or bury the emotions raised. Old patterns of behavior that stem from early childhood trauma or that of young adulthood can be handled more successfully now, but only to the extent that these prior woundings are acknowledged and accepted by you more mature conscious self, in the present moment.

The Last Quarter Moon, when it comes up, on Thursday, February 24th, will represent a time of mulling over all these issues; perhaps at this point in time they will even become magnified. It is important that you pay close attention to everything that happens to you over the course of this fairly climactic monthly cycle. If you ignore the issues raised you will get more chances, of course, but as they say there is no time like the present to deal with them.


Libra   (September 23 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are in a powerful place of transition, Libra, with important and surprising information coming your way that stems from others around you, and winds up creating new spaces within your own mind. Epiphanies abound. Your mental guns are firing steadily, but being clever is only half the battle right now, since much of what you need to know must come from your heart and not your head. Having faith in your process works many wonders and will get you through the darkest times relatively unscathed. You are seeking a new mandate for promoting positive change in your life, in spite of the practical limitations that slow you down but never entirely stop you.

The month begins with the powerful New Moon energy from February 2nd in your sector of creative expression. You are in a state of extreme optimism, reinventing yourself in some way, perhaps to be a better fit for your high ideals. Infinite possibilities appear to be available to you now, and you might try all of them in succession, at least mentally, before you are finished with this early part of this monthly cycle. Relationship events in your life take one sharp turn after another so that you might be left hanging on for dear life at the curves. It helps to remember that it is all going according to prior arrangement, a plan that you made for yourself in another galaxy long ago and far away.

The week of the First Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 10th, also might come as something of a shock, an extended period of time when your core concerns are exposed to tensions of all kinds, brought about within the context of close interpersonal relationships, or else by family scenarios. This is a creative tension and might find its outlet in music, dance, or other art forms. In any case there is plenty of reason to remain optimistic, even if certain issues become more noticeable, since this leads to better awareness and because information is strength. You are beginning to see the outlines of where you are caught and perhaps even why.

The Full Moon takes place late on Thursday night, February 17th, and in the early morning hours of the 18th. At this time, old patterns of dysfunctional behavior could be coming up for review and potentially for revision. Sometimes issues that are painful to contemplate become lodged in a place deep within your psyche that is seldom recognized or visited by your more normal waking self. The veils between these disparate parts are thin right now, so that these forgotten contents could erupt into consciousness. There could also be a tendency for you to exaggerate their importance when they do, or else to minimize them, since you are more than ever subject to potential illusions now concerning healthy habits. It could be that a strong sense of idealism or perhaps illusion could surface with respect to physical and dietary habits and needs. This is also a time when you are more in touch with deep inner feelings and intuitions, so it might be a good moment to journal or to write creatively about your experiences.

By the end of the month, after the Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 24th has passed, you will have come to some startling conclusions concerning what kind of space you currently occupy in the arc of your personal evolution, and where you might be heading.

Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

You are all over the map right now, Scorpio. Deep transformation is your watchword as always but it seems to be taking a long time to get yourself to the next stage. You are determined to integrate your various changes although there might be disparate factors to consider while you are engaged in doing so. The agency of others in your life is vital now, and yet their encouragement comes in fits and starts that constantly surprise you. Your process will lead you eventually up and into the light, although you must first delve deep beneath the surface appearance of things as they occur. Truly is it spoken that for you right now, the way down and the way up are one and the same.

As the month begins, redolent with the New Moon energy from Wednesday, February 2nd, in your home sector, you are exploring dark places within your psyche, delving down into some ancient issues and getting more involved with familial dynamics, either in your current environment or perhaps regarding your family of origin. This is familiar territory for you, who love to go to the depths as often as possible, although you might need to put on your diving weights to make sure that you stay down there, and get the most out of your experience. You have a service orientation to the world at large right now, and to your own process also. There is a healthy sense of optimism in pursuing this course of action that takes you so close to the center of your very being, and you have the blessing of the universe in doing so.

The time of the First Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 10th, could put a few obstacles in the way of your progress, but nothing that you cannot handle. It would be a mistake to consider any interpersonal dynamics that arise as purely chance; these might easily serve as grist for your mill of further change. You are finding that potential conflicts generate a creative spark, and perhaps feeling as though you have really come through something during the earlier part of the preceding week.

Then, with the Full Moon of late Thursday, February 17th, after midnight, you are crossing an important milestone into a better acceptance of both your own natural creativity and also of being able to accept powerful intimations of larger and less conscious awareness arising from the depths of your psyche. In many ways, with this important juncture, you have arrived, but where isn't exactly clear. Simple logic fails you now. Everything is mystical, and fuzzy thinking prevails, so that you must trust your intuition. Beware of being taken away from your intention by the snares of illusion, either another's or your own. You do better by learning to read between the lines of circumstance, in search of the richer and the more subtle meaning.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 24th, you might find that old patterns of early trauma emerge for better acceptance and integration, and this is, again, could be seen as part of some greater plan on the part of the surrounding universe. This final week of the month is a perfect time to reflect on the lessons of these first three weeks of powerful inner currents, that will shake you up until you learn to surf their powerful and transformative energies.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

You are getting serious regarding the level of your commitment, Sagittarius. There are issues that you are just beginning to tackle that have been on your list for perhaps a very long, time. This month represents a jump start into your next phase. You are exploding toward what you long for, and leaving a piece of your past behind as you do. Partnership with significant others in your life takes on added meaning and throws you a few curve balls as well into the bargain. Communication with everyone around you becomes extremely important now. The feedback that you receive from others leads you in the direction that your heart already wants to go.

As the month begins, you are reveling in your enthusiasm as the New Moon of the 2nd hits you in your communications house while your ruler Jupiter cavorts in your sector of self-expression. In many ways you are on fire at this time, but there is also a somber cast to your personality now, since Saturn sits in your sector of goals and group affiliations, placing limitation and creative difficulty directly in the road to your imagined success. You have quite a mix of forces enlivening your discourse and your pathway forward, at the same time wild and serious, sky's the limit and stuck in the mud. Through it all runs the imaginative, idealistic and even illusory energy of Neptune, sitting on the ledge of what some astrologers call your "root cellar" – the very center of your psyche. This is therefore an essentially unstable time for you, but one that has enormous creative potential once you get the hang of it.

The First Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 10th, represents a moment of tension in your process of spiraling personal evolution, and might give you pause. Conflicts could arise within your circle of friends or regarding communication snafu's that could put you out somewhat, as you also more clearly see into the limits rather than the possibilities of what you are trying to accomplish. You are pushing against the tides of reactionary nay-saying that ever and always accompany new ideas emerging. The internal resistance that you feel could also more greatly empower you.

The Full Moon comes along after midnight on Thursday, February 17th, and signals a new phase in the arc of your personal development over this entire monthly cycle. There are epiphanies of intuitive ideas in plenty now for you to examine, although you must beware an over-active imagination regarding them. You are delving down at this time more deeply into personal spaces below your conscious mind, as well as constellating the Neptunian archetype, so that things are fuzzier now than ever. It might seem impossible to know the difference between ideal and illusion. You could even become reactive, especially since old behaviors stemming from childhood trauma could in fact come up. But every challenge is also an opportunity to rise above, and every potential for reactivity is a chance to see further into your habitual patterns that were once protective but which now no longer serve you in your present era.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 24th, you are more philosophical concerning the changes that you have been putting yourself through over the extent of this month, seeking to understand the broader meaning. What you can gather from these reflections and circumstances will serve as seed material as you prepare your thinking for the next month and take your inner experience even more to heart in doing so

Capricorn   (Dec 22 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

You are settling in, Capricorn. You have been focusing on outer form and receiving well-deserved rewards for real-world achievements, and now it's time to take other factors in your life into account as well. This is your moment of self-fulfillment and of self-actualization, and yet it is fundamental to your next phase that it is also your moment of relating to others. This awareness may come to you quite suddenly, and leave you wondering. It is part of your ongoing transformation of strategies and values that has been the story of these last few years. You are ready to travel new personal territory and that exploration will take you more deeply into an inner process of increased awareness than you would have expected a few short weeks ago.

As the month begins, even though you continue to be extremely concerned with your work in the world, you are very focused now on more personal and private issues. This is consistent with the energy of the Aquarius New Moon, taking place on Wednesday, February 2nd, in your sector of resources and values. You also might find that there are new possibilities for financial rewards available to you now. It is also true that since your sense of responsibility has been taken to new levels lately, and is now being put to some sort of test. There is an uneasy fluctuation in your home base right now, and business decisions might take a few unexpected turns. Relationships in your life are a bit crazy now, and also subject to review and revision and the month unfolds.

The First Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 10th, potentially exacerbates these conditions, which has the positive effect of making them more visible. Your professional life is impinging on your personal life at this time, and vice-versa, so that there could be moments of tension that arise. There are also ways that important others in your life are participatory now in the ongoing changes that have recently rocked you to the very core of your being, so that there is potential contrast between their ideas and your own intuitions for what you truly need. All these can be resolved, to the extent that you can muster the attitude adjustment required to do so, by popping out of the particular presenting conflict and into the bigger picture.

When the Full Moon arrives late night on Thursday, February 17th, and in the morning of Friday the 18th, difficulties could dissolve. The competing disadvantage is that everything could suddenly become even too misty with fuzzy logic and undefined. You are experiencing a marvelous and magical time which can also be a good time for romantic relationship energy to enter your life, as long as you don't get carried away by the glorious illusion. Best if you can try to keep at least one foot on the ground through this last half of the month.

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 24th is another strong one, with loads of communicative energy that while optimistic and enthusiastic, might not always be clear. Throughout this month you are wrestling with old demons, and these could get in the way of truly excellent transmissions. Meanwhile, your ongoing transformation continues apace. You do best when you relax and let go and allow the changes to come over you, rather than trying to hold on too tightly to a past that is rapidly disappearing.

Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

This is an important time of rejuvenation, Aquarius. Information comes at you from all directions, not least from the depths of your own inner process, and it has the effect of changing your basic game plan. You are forging new pathways to truth, coming to novel ideas through discussions with others and bringing it all back home to germinate. Cosmic ideals emerge that were there for you all along, percolating beneath the surface of your conscious mind. As the month progresses, family issues might also arise to be dealt with. You are riding high on the power of your logical mind, but it will be a mistake to apply pure logic to the situations that are currently coming up for you.

As the month begins, you are riding the liveliness of the New Moon in your sign, from Wednesday, February 2nd, giving you abundant energy for being in the world as well as beyond it. Your philosophy of life and your beliefs have been in flux lately in order to accommodate a wider viewpoint that is more inclusive of the unseen side of your existence, and this month stretches your thinking still further.

It is perhaps surprising how much your ideas have been transforming recently. As you have expanded your mental horizons you have possibly expanded your physical ones, getting more involved in travel or in educational initiatives that bring the world to your own doorstep. In any case you are this month more concerned with issues that are closer to home, as family and your own deep process absorb your interest. There are surprising revelations that come to you now, so that in some sense the stability of your home and hearth lies in motion rather than in stasis, at least for the time of this monthly cycle that is unfolding. Relationships in your lie are important and potentially contentious now, or at least full of surprises.

The First Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 10th, might put a strain on your relationships with others around you, perhaps in the context of how you feel about the changing roots of your existence, or perhaps in terms of family disputes. These obstacles can also serve to allow you to become clearer about your deepest intentions for yourself going forward.

By the time of the arrival of the Full Moon of the following week, late Thursday night February 17th and early Friday morning, the 18th, you are seeking a more inclusive synthesis. There is a way that you can blend your head and your heart over the matters that you are dealing with. There is also the possibility of confusion or illusion at this juncture, and mistaken motives, so that it pays to carefully examine all factors involved, including your own patterns of reactivity that could be triggered in the moment of attempted resolution.

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 24th, represents another potentially difficult time, when the way through to your next phase might be less than obvious. The crucial realization for you now to reflect on is that the life of your mind is growing in order to accommodate a more flexible worldview, and that the final outcome remains essentially unknown.

Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 20)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

Your sensitivity is always high but this month it knows no bounds, Pisces. You might find yourself in something of a fog, albeit a productive one. One part of you is lost in it, while the other is seeking a new and more centered form of stability, and considering ways and means. Significant others in your life take on new importance as the month unfolds. Old patterns participate but for a change under your control rather than theirs. You are on the edge of something phenomenal and only have to lift your gaze to the broadest possible perspective in order to fully see it. This is in every way the first month of the rest of your life.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the Aquarius New Moon into cosmic spaces below and beyond the reach of your conscious mind. This is familiar territory for your sensitive Piscean energy so it might not seem to be much of a stretch for you, but it is true that your normal humming along daytime self will be on the back burner for a while, at least until the 18th when the Sun crosses into your sign. This is a powerful time for delving down into the internals of your process as you have an uncanny ability now to resolve what has been stuck and move more readily through your accumulated changes. There could be a surprising breakthrough. Although operating largely from your unconscious you are also very aware of opportunities for growth in your professional persona and with the resources that you bring to the table of waking-world outer life.

The First Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 10th, could place some obstacles in your path. These might take the form of communicative snags with family or loved ones, and allow you to make progress still, as long as these difficulties are surmounted. You win when you avoid getting stuck in the conflict but use the energy to find a synthesizing "third way." You are very determined in your approach at this time and by getting creative rather than reactive you can work wonders.

The Full Moon that comes along in the following week, taking place just after midnight on the West coast, on the night of Thursday, February 17th, and on into the next morning, of the 18th, brings your ongoing transformational process into a new phase. You are very aware of significant partners in your life, and of the necessity for balancing issues of self and other. There could be a strong sense of self that emerges now, and also a tendency toward undirected intention that might be difficult to manage. You have to wink one eye and see the world through levels of intuition rather than by making use of purely logical constructions. You are also more aware right now than usual of the potential for knee-jerk reactions to trip you up, and are therefore in a position to become more conscious of these old patterns of behavior and therefore more accepting of yourself at deep levels. It is amazing how much progress you can make with these ancient issues, when you are willing to simply apply your heart rather than your head to the problem.

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, February 24th, represents another opportunity for greater understanding and acceptance, since these issues are now magnified. You are experiencing a crisis of consciousness now, in the phrase of master astrologer Dane Rudhyar, and you might be surprised at the extent of your realizations.