www.psychicwalter.com      Horoscope for February 2012    by Henry Seltzer You'll get a more accurate horoscope if you read your Rising sign, and your Moon sign, as well as your Sun sign. Here's how: Your Sun sign represents your Self, your way of being in the world. It can represent both the ego (mental) self and the higher Self (soul purpose). It symbolizes your will and sense of vitality. Your Sun sign horoscope will tell you what these areas of your self will encounter this month. Your Rising sign represents your outer mask, the self you show to others. It symbolizes how you appear to others, how others perceive you, in your true interaction with the world. Your Rising sign horoscope will tell you what to expect in these areas of your self this month. Your Moon sign symbolizes your personal self, your feelings, your subconscious. It represents how you relate to others, how you have nurturing relationships with others, your intuition, your spiritual self, your sense of security, and your habits. The Moon symbolizes your feminine, nurturing side (we all have one). The Moon also indicates the type of partner you will attract, since it represents your emotional self. Your Moon sign horoscope will show you what these areas of your self will encounter this month. What are your Signs? Comparison Interpretation of You and your Lover

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

Chaos and confusion can yet breed wisdom, Aries. This is a time of back-and-forth movement rather than straight ahead. Although you are full of energy in some ways, you find yourself pausing in mid-flight to reflect on where you are going. This is in fact an excellent time to look to the inside for answers to questions you perhaps until recently didn't know to ask. There has been a strong intuitional level within you, building for weeks now, and it serves you well. Some facets of your worldview might be crumbling but there is much to be gained from the ruins as you open to inner guidance. You suspect there is more to life than you have been letting on, and are attempting to suss out what is really going on here.

As the month begins, you are full of vim and vigor in the wake of the very powerful Aquarius New Moon from the end of last month. You are also slightly incapacitated with your ruler Mars now in full-on backwards flight through your sector of service to others, everyday working world responsibilities and health. All of these areas are subject to rethinking and resulting reactivation at this time. You are engaged in looking more deeply into your motivation, so that whereas with you sometimes just to see an option is to act on it, you might now be taking things a little more slowly and cautiously. You are a strong stand for yourself, but it an inner stand that you are most firmly committed to.

That does not change the basic forward-going consistency of this monthly period. While you are full to the brim of deep thoughts you are still allowing a positive vision to possess you, by and large. Especially if you have a March birthday, or a Rising degree early in the sign, you are thinking of the past and even the present as a gateway to something that is not only different but fundamentally better. How to get there is another story however, and one to which you will devote considerable energy over the weeks and months ahead of you in this game-changer of a year of 2012. The changes that you are in the midst of definitely include relationship issues.

The Full Moon that comes along on Tuesday, February 7th, speaks to you of relationship needs, since it precedes by one day the entrance of Venus into your sign. You are feeling a little feisty with so many stressful aspects surrounding Mars, your ruler, but you are a spiritual fighter at this powerful juncture, a warrior for truth and for discovering your true pathway forward. Your self-expression is blossoming now, and in direct proportion to how accurately you can perceive the direction that your heart want to travel and how quickly you can make the necessary course corrections to come into alignment. Relationship concerns can either help or hinder, depending on whether that portion of your existence is proceeding smoothly.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day, you might find yourself negotiating a settlement. You are examining the very basis of your relationships, looking under the covers of your motivation in this and in all areas of your life, and re-creating for yourself the story of how you arrived at this point. A deep spirit of compassionate investigation underlies all your analysis so that you are thinking with your heart as well as your mental structure. It helps as always to let go of any preconceptions that you might have regarding any aspect of your life. This includes the life of your unconscious process that is ever powerful and ever with you.

The New Moon of Tuesday, February 21st, takes you into another world deep inside, where, just as Alice found when she stepped through the looking glass, nothing is quite what it seems although you must still try to make heads and tails out of whatever it is that you encounter.


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

You are operating in a hazily optimistic and future-oriented mode these days, Taurus, and seeing just how far that can take you. You are yet simultaneously very focused on your work in the world and bent on taking big chances in order to maintain your momentum there. In some ways like those cartoon characters that are dueling right off the edge of the cliff, in one way you are feeling frisky and free, but only when you choose not to look down. In another part of yourself you might be discontent, and not only a little, over how far you are removed from everyday concerns. But since it's working for you, you do not have to dissect what exactly reality consists of, whether it is on or off that cloud; it merely is.


As the month begins, you are feeling very present in the achievement-oriented outer world, and yet in some ways far removed form that world as well. It is as if you are being held back somehow from fully participating, and rather than the more obvious spectrum of events and situations, taking the opportunity to explore inner dimensions of your own devising. Relationship is additionally on your mind at this time, and creates perhaps a focus on seeing the places where you are stuck and need to make changes. Your basic sense of optimism is strong however and you feel that the future is unfolding as it should for you right now, while you are simultaneously taking a more inner look at what still needs to happen, a viewpoint that makes sense to you and to you alone. You are bringing other viewpoints in, more as a contrast to and a stabilization of your own, and yet they contribute something quite important. There is a way that everyone you meet can be seen as representatives of the natural wisdom of the universe, speaking to you through them, as ambassadors of the other-dimensional realities if only they knew it.

With the Full Moon of Tuesday, February 7th that feeling might be magnified. You are seeing Goddess in everything now when you half-close your eyes to look from the standpoint of that inner place within you. There is wisdom in that seeing and fundamental optimism also, but definitely some feeling of lack and of limit is involved as well. One could say that this is part of the received wisdom, that sense that not everything that you conceive can truly come off, much as you would like it to, and also that it doesn't much matter about that in the grander scheme of things.

These feelings of limitations might be intensified by the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, February 14th, which is also Valentine's Day. There are strong factors operating within you that carry both suggestions, one that the universe is infinite in its scope and yet also the other that it is limited in its action, the mantra of life in the physical plane. At your best, you are filled with the desire to change things and yet also somewhere down within your soul with the patience and acceptance to accept them as they are, and are in any case mulling over recent events and trying to shuffle them into a different kind of sense that will give you the seed for your next set of changes.

These might begin as soon as a week later, on Tuesday, February 21st, with the very powerful New Moon in your sector of wishes and hopes and future plans. This is a time when your ideas are running wild and when some of them might even come true; the best time all year to focus on what you really want your future to look like as it begins to shape up over the course of this climactic monthly cycle.


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

Everyone around you is joining hands, Gemini, although not necessarily in the physical. You are tempted to shout “alle alle outsinfree” just like in the childhood game. A mystical nature overcomes you at times so that the other-dimensionality of the outer universe is no longer just a rumor. You are, from the security of a deeply felt place of inner refuge, discovering new worlds not so much to conquer as to enliven and even to embrace. All this would be wonderful were it not for the nagging thought that you must somehow still take care of real-world business. This is not as much of a problem as you think since you are simultaneously occupying at least two realities at once. Try clapping your hands three times and softly whispering "make it so."

As the month begins you are in a mode of philosophical speculation. Even more than usual for you – your curiosity and urge to explore other-dimensional realities is strong and vibrant and informs your sense of reality fully as much as the varied and colorful life within strictly the physical plane. Your sense of the depths of your being has an important purpose in that you are investigating the well-springs of desire with an idea of better understanding these emotions, including any dysfunctional patterns stemming from early wounding that are still frozen in place these many years later and still causing you problems when they arise from out of the blue to throw their monkey-wrenches straight into the machinery with which you navigate your everyday world. By looking more closely into these problems you can move beyond them, not by willing them out of existence and not by ignoring them either, but by facing them with a calm and fearless acceptance which allows you to more fully integrate these walled-off feelings and move on.

The Full Moon of Tuesday, February 7th, comes along as a relatively peaceful and thoughtful energy that yet strongly encourages this process of increased awareness. You have tremendous drive at this juncture it is true, but it is mostly aimed at the inside of your psyche. You are in essence a spiritual warrior for the cause of truth, and not the shifting and insubstantial truth of consensus thinking but rather the deeply intuitional truth that comes to you from within the purview of your own mind and heart. You are determined to shift what is necessary in you and in others around you to make that truth a more concrete and fully present reality for you as you ease into an uncertain future, resting in the knowledge that one thing at least cannot fail you and that is your ultimate dependence on Spirit and your inner strength to guide you through.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day, you are looking into the events of the last few weeks even more closely. There is a way that you are hoping to refine your understanding of what has transpired and see things is a realistic and also boldly idealistic fashion as you continue through a month of massive changes, with more on the horizon. Nothing will make sense t you know if it is not the “path with heart” as Carlos Castaneda puts it, namely that vocation which is also the avocation of your soul making sense out of this world.

You are feeling this idea even more strongly at the time of the New Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, February 21st in your career sector and in conjunction with mystical Neptune. Then you are challenged to have it all; the consciousness of struggle and limitation, and of prior wounding, together with the brightest possible hope for a future that somehow knits everything together, just as it should be, and in some sense already was.


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

There is no time like the present, Cancer. Some form of spiritual evolution awaits and the moment to act is getting near to hand. Transformation is truly in the air for you these days and you have as well a deeply felt intuitional basis to draw upon that gives you needed guidance. You have been building up to taking some huge leap of faith that will propel you forward and, yet, still you hesitate to make the move. As you mull over your situation in the midst of this powerful month you are able to recognize that while prudent caution is a healthy reaction, you might need to look more closely. If it is only fear that is holding you back you have no real choice but to forge ahead.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the recent New Moon in your sector of intimacy and personal evolution. This is an important time when you are on the cusp of change and you do well to treat as sacred all the many and varied aspects of each decision process. You also might find that significant others in your life have much to contribute right now, and that your understanding of your entire relationship dynamic is altering, including the mechanism by means of which you incorporate other viewpoints into your own. You are in the midst of an entirely mystical time of profound change and you benefit by honoring its power and by doing your best to recognize, as you go through your metamorphosis, the rock-bottom fundamentals of yourself and of your situation and what by contrast you can let go of.

The first weekend of the month, beginning on Friday, February 4th, is a significant time for you when many things about your situation may become clear, or at least come further available to your consciousness with altered perspective, mystical Neptune having entered your sector of Higher Mind. You have a strong feeling of the worlds beyond worlds that reside within you, and an intimation of how that awareness might affect your current activities. There are likely issues of past wounding that have been occupying some level of your mind as well, as irritants or else as wandering feelings of disharmony within you seeking some solution. You are a warrior for inner peace right now and implacable in your determination not to settle for anything less than you truly deserve.

With the Full Moon of Tuesday, February 7th, several factors may change. You are moving in the direction of greater balance all around, and of integrating the past with the present tense of your situation. You are concerned at this time with making a better stand for yourself in the weeks and months ahead than you have heretofore. While the future does not appear as entirely rosy, it engages your focus, and it is at least with a potentially optimistic attitude that you look upon it. There have been surprises in how everything actualizes and these will continue, perhaps even more so, but the trend is still there toward the light of day.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day, you are making another tack in your windward course, getting closer to your goal by thinking your way through. This is a time when you are examining everything that has happened over the previous three weeks of the lunar cycle, and rearranging their significance in terms of new-found understanding. You are getting your thoughts together in preparation for a better perspective to dawn upon you, and although the actual sunrise is perhaps a bit dim on the horizon you are making definite progress.

The New Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, February 21st, is an important time as well, when you are even more involved in working with the twin perspectives of idealism and real-world limitation. That pairing seems to imply that only one side is truly present and must win out; yet the reality is more wonderful, since the nature of the soul is paradox and at that level you are capable of holding opposite concepts simultaneously. And it is at soul-level that the most important work for you is happening.


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

You are particularly attuned to partnership these days, Leo, and may be taking a break from feeling as though it is all up to you. While working it as a team, you are yet very capable as well of subtly taking charge when the situation calls for it, but in so doing you are obeying, rather than commanding, the forces of nature that are flaring up like solar flames all around you. You feel mystically inspired and yet more fully present. It is one thing to get a sense of direction from your own single mind and quite another to get that same feeling in concert with another, but you are managing to pull off both of these feats without even breaking a sweat or flexing an obvious muscle.

As the month begins you are sailing pretty well with outer world concerns and yet also adhering to that still small voice within that speaks of mysteries. It is a temptation to get yourself way out there with your work in the world, out on a limb as it were. It might seem as if the opportunity is too precious to miss out on, that you need to go for it heart and soul right now, but you nevertheless do well to pay attention to other areas of your life that serve as ballast. These could be revealed to you in the course of a more formal sense of meditation practice, or in simply by following inner guidance as you receive the notion. Journaling helps.

You have huge intuitive resources available to you right now and you might as well take advantage of the opportunity that this degree of inner wisdom can provide. Intelligence reports from a universal Source might also come your way in the guise of partnership perspectives that seem to differ from your own. You are very invested in relationship concerns right now but you benefit from pursuing these from the standpoint of how they fit into a bigger picture vantage point. You possess a strong sense that significant persons for you may be able to provide a fresh perspective and approach as well as a sounding board as you confront for yourself the question of how your own life is unfolding, and why.

The Full Moon in your sign taking place on Tuesday, February 7th, provides you with plenty of food for thought in this regard. This is a time of reveling in issues of self and other, and of making a philosophical endeavor out of whatever partnership issues arise, so that these are recycled into useful material for your thoughts as well as for your heart. You may find a mystical roadway through portals that you never suspected were lying there in wait for you.

The Last Quarter Moon on Tuesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day, provides you with yet another vantage point on your process of growth and integration, and yet another way to regard significant partners. This is a period of mulling over where it is that you have been in the light of recent reflections, and with an eye to where you might ultimately be headed. Even though you are strong at this time for jumping ahead and also for holding back, and there is no easy resolution to this quandary, you still remain relatively optimistic about your chances for eventual breakthrough.

The New Moon comes along a week later, on Tuesday, February 21st, taking place in your sector of intimacy and personal evolution. You are still very involved at this time with others as an adjunct to your own arc of development, but this period is also in some ways just the icing on the cake of recent explorations. There is an even more mystical side of yourself that is calling you. Opportunities provided now open further doorways that lead you toward rather than away from your own center.


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

You are working the mystery, Virgo. This month you are acknowledging more fully the powerful road of self-development that you have been on lately, and taking it another step further into conscious choices. There are still knots to unravel. You are getting deliberate about making a spiritual pilgrimage to the center of these conundrums and conducting a town-hall meeting within your own mind and heart on how best to accomplish this daring feat. Others are important now and they shake you out of your winter slumber and urge you to get on with what you started. These significant persons in your life are there not only as fellow conspirators but also to remind you to open up to all that you are and to all that you can become.

As the month begins, you are more fully engaged than ever in finding your life purpose, however you might conceive of that now. You have been witnessing your reactions, doing your homework to better understand yourself, and the resultant change of worldview is apparent especially when you contrast your current state of development with where you have only recently been. This is a powerful time of self-recognition and of looking more deeply into what you have been up to all this time, and where you are truly headed. As the twelve-year-old protagonist in the recent movie “Hugo” relates, everything, even each person, has a purpose; the universe doesn't come with any left-over and useless parts.

The difficulty of course is in finding out just what that purpose might actually entail – bearing in mind at least the clue that that purpose is not to be found within the TV advertising advice on how to be successful and beautiful in the context of consumer spending. The entrance of Neptune into your relationship sector on Friday, February 3rd, might cause a bit of confusion, certainly idealization, in that area, but you are still primarily concerned with finding inner purpose. To this end the angel presences that are always with you, perhaps appearing to you in the form of intuitional voices from inside, are more poignant and even more succinct. They want to reach out to you with guidance but you need to make the first move.

The Full Moon that comes along on Tuesday, February 7th, puts some icing on the cake of these nascent ideas, since the Sun conjoins your ruler Mercury in the sector of discipleship to your Higher Self, while the opposing Moon lodges in your sector of dream imagination. You are investigating inner realities more than outer ones in any case, and this juncture might provide you with inspiration that could come to you as night dreams or even as daytime ones, or cross your consciousness as mystical events. There is an other-dimensional universe of vast proportions that lies just outside of normal waking conscious and that you can catch a glimpse of out of the corner of your eye when you relax into it.

You might find that you have an unusual connection to significant others in your life, to partners or to close friends, that has associated with it an admixture of idealization and also doubt. Your mission, and you cannot choose but to accept, is to look more closely into these important connections, and into all the surprising and beautifully developing events of your life, and try to see the world behind the world of surface appearances.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day, is another important time when meditation rather than direct action will be your most reliable pathway forward. You are engaged at this time in a process of summing up all that has come before and rearranging the message until it fits like a key in a lock, opening up new neural connections within you.

The New Moon of February 28th is a powerful one for you, and stresses relationship with the beyond in the form of important people in your life. They come to you not only as connections and as mirrors for your own process, but as ambassadors of the galaxy and the vitalizing life currents flowing through you. Don't question whether they are real as people or actors in a cosmic drama designed to enhance your own experience of yourself. They are both.


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

The season of surprises has not ended, Libra. If anything your flirtation has become even more intense with unexpected offerings on the part of the cosmos that surrounds and nourishes you. Sudden moves in response are almost second nature by now. You are called to service and to more vibrant self-expression, but not from the standpoint of merely ego involvement. The universe is affording you an opportunity these days to make radical changes in your life and in the way that you do relationship with others, and to make these in line with inner promptings that you can no longer ignore; these take you into better alignment with your highest intention for yourself, or with at least as much of that soul-purpose as you are currently able to acknowledge.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the powerful New Moon from the end of last month in your sector of creativity, childhood and romance. This is a time of high-energy self-expression, and you might be tempted to the wilder side of this surge, leaving responsibilities in the dust behind you. There are however competing forces of sobriety and self-control that pull you in quite the opposite direction. For the resolution of this polarity there is no easy compromise except to attempt as well as you are able to honor each side as the impulse arises or else the contrasting sense of caution. These cosmic forces that seemingly toy with us have actually their function, moving us forward with our spiritual evolution. This is the ultimate soul destination that we are more than ready for but which seems always just a bit out of reach unless difficulty compels us. As Neitzche famously said, “what doesn't kill me makes me strong,” or to put it more simply, adversity builds character.

There is a mystical flow to your life right at this moment which is very subtle and to which it is therefore not easy to tune in. This is an inherent part of you nonetheless and it is also in this monthly cycle coming quite strongly to the fore, perhaps being perceived as angel guidance or the emanations of your Higher Self. You might find instead a natural disinclination for completely trusting the messages that you receive in this way. This is yet another side of the nay-saying element that is being invoked by these difficult configurations. It begins to yield as you take the largest possible viewpoint on your situation into account.

The Full Moon that comes along on Tuesday, February 7th, represents as always one culmination of the arc of development that was begun at the time of the New Moon, 15 days earlier. In this case you are reaching a plateau of self-acceptance that includes acknowledging your past and planning for a different future that will hopefully better integrate the energies swirling around you and through you at this time. Events with significant partnerships in your life may suddenly crop up now as well, and these might help you to move – on way or another – through some of the personal development issues that you have been contemplating.

With the Last Quarter Moon, taking place on Tuesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day, you are definitely feeling your way into the dynamics of inter-personal relationship and its underlying set of motivations. You are also engaged in a process of redefining your understanding of everything that has gone before, up to this point in the Lunar cycle. It helps to recognize that while relationship is of vital importance to you it serves as an adjunct to your own process of growth and awareness, rather than the other way round.

The New Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, February 21st in your sector of the discipleship to your higher self, takes this as its starting point and nudges you in the direction of increasingly higher commitment to your innermost goals and values.


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

Your world is out of joint, Scorpio, and only you know the way out of the trap that has been set for you. The nature of these times, and of your deeply felt intuitional responses, requires a fundamental shift. Where some of this will play out: home and family concerns, and finding your emotional sense of security within yourself. The good news is that your release is fully within your own grasp when you have the necessary fortitude. The bad news is that it does not come easily or entirely without pain. Of course you stand to lose some part of your normal waking identity in order to gain that which will outlast this least part of yourself, and hides you from who at base you truly are.

As the month begins, you are feeling the energy of the recent powerful New Moon from the end of last month in your home and family sector. You are more involved these days with family and tribal connections since not only have there likely been events that have transpired that make you look more closely into your dynamics in this important area but also due to a general mood of introspection that has prevailed with you lately and has allowed you to see things with a different and more internal perspective. You are also engaged in examining your close inter-personal relationships with an eye to better understanding them and their impact on your life.

There is plenty of joy for you right now in this area of relationship support and also you have been encountering some limitations there, and some key questions that you have become more and more involved with seeking to answer. Your ruler Mars is retrograde right now in your sector of societal connection and group affiliation as well as future plans, and therefore you have been taking a more introspective stance lately.

This is true even more so with the advent of the Full Moon of Tuesday, February 7th, when Saturn is just retrograde as well, and just on the edge of your identity sector. You are getting a dimly felt sense of limitation running through your life at this time that does not easily resolve itself, but is only a whisper. You might find that this is an excellent time to engage in a process of meditation, since it is possible that it will all become more clear when you take the time to turn within.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day, is accompanied by this same contrast between getting yourself out there with verve and confidence and also feeling that there are insurmountable obstacles to achieving what you want, so that you constantly have to go to plan B – which is more than a little frustrating, especially if you don't have any idea why you keep underestimating the situation or your ability to get over. There are some ways that this conundrum works to your advantage however, since you are engaged at this time in a fruitful process of reevaluation of past successes and failures.

You have much more energy to pursue your endeavors with the New Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, February 21st in your creativity sector, although again this is something of a mixed blessing. You will be very much head in the clouds at that time, just when you need to get even more grounded, so the same paradoxical push and pull continues into late February and early March. The only thing to do is to let go, and to keep on letting go, but this is never easy for an active mind.


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

It's a long road that has no turning, Sagittarius, and you are beginning to find yours. You are also finding your footing in the midst of difficult and often troubling times, buoyed by the notion that with enough faith you can move mountains. Life may be quite a roller-coaster ride at present and it is truly a difficult passage from where you are now to what you must eventually become. You operate on this thin rope both for the sake of the collective and for yours alone. Being possessed of a fount of brilliant ideas and imaginings now, you are nevertheless in an excellent position to make vast headway over the next few weeks and months. The result is that you will hardly recognize yourself come the summer, and maybe that could be an acceptable goal.

As the month begins, you are in an exploratory mode, looking beneath the covers of all your motivations, especially those involving the way that you get your point across to others, including the very basis of what you are about. This is an idealistic and also a potentially confusing time for you when your sense of security is shifting to inner standards. There is an intention that has been building up inside of you for many weeks now to exemplify and further define your notion of who you really are and how that translates into principled action on behalf of the big-picture viewpoint that you habitually bring to the table, and which has now expanded to include a set of mystical imperatives that have become too significant to suppress any longer. It's a question of consistency and of walking your talk.

Communication with your peers is key for you right now, and it helps you to define and honor your stance. You are essentially a fighter for a cause these days, and you have only recently understood that fighting for your own beliefs is the most rewarding in the long run, even if these are not always in accordance with what the collective seems to espouse. In the end, you might be surprised at the extent of the support that you can dig up from like-minded people all around you who might come popping up out of the woodwork once you yourself are clear regarding your position. That clarity might take a while to arrive but the scope of your transition is already palpable.

The Full Moon that comes along on Tuesday, February 7th, marks the beginning of a thoughtful and compassionate mid-month period. Although the means to get yourself there could still elude you, the goal at least is a better fit between spiritual principles and self-definition. Without a strong enough stake in a future you are aiming toward with your whole heart behind it, it's simply getting harder to play the game. There are still compromises between what you desire to do in order to make your achievements really count, and what you must do in order to maintain that surface day-to-day existence that has its own momentum. It is important not to get frustrated by this contrast, since in reality your best is all that you can do.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, February 14th, the same day as Valentine's Day, you might be celebrating your own heart as well as that of significant others. This is a time of re-thinking who you truly are and where you have gotten to along the road to wholeness which you are assaying to travel, acknowledging that there is a world from deep inside you, self-generated rather than dependent in any way on the opinions of consensus thinking. You are reformulating everything that has led you to this point as a story of getting closer and closer to the ideal.

The New Moon of Tuesday, February 21st, takes place in your sector of home and family, and reemphasizes the deep basis within you for everything in the outer world that you do. This final week of the month and on into March celebrates this mystical side of life that represents the core of who you are. It is difficult sometimes to distinguish the still small voice within you from the rush of outer circumstance but it is increasingly important that you do so, and that you recognize inner achievement as fully as important as the outer.


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

It's a paradox and a conundrum, Capricorn. Your future is coming toward you now at express-train speed and yet you still feel stuck. You are energized around career and public acclaim and at the same time feeling like you need to re-think everything in the light of an orthogonally oriented process that brings in the mystical. Then too, part of the problem is the mud that clogs up your pathway forward which may in fact be calcified from old ways of thought and of action that have long outlived their usefulness but linger on. The road ahead is arduous and yet something is nevertheless destabilizing your comfort zone and calling you to venture onward. What is it? And how do you burst through the barriers and get with it?

As the month begins, you are feeling into the flow of the powerful New Moon energy from the closing week of the previous month, taking place in your sector of resources and values. Your values are shifting at what seems sometimes like a glacial pace, and other times rather suddenly. Enlightenment beckons in fits and starts but is not without its potential drawbacks which include shaking up your system in ways that can be difficult to take. You long for speeding ahead with your plans and for the comfort of a known set of rules and procedures, forming the train tracks that can be navigated without much extra effort to lead you to your ticketed station.

And yet you also realize deep inside yourself somewhere that in order to arrive at your true destination you must jump these tracks and make your lonely path without them through a dissolving countryside; the path that is yours and yours alone to travel. As you are feeling your way into these ideas, you might perhaps recognize that you are on the verge of breakthrough but not quite able to get there. A process has begun but it will take many weeks before it is anything close to complete. This would be a disaster if you were interested in nothing but the arrival, but you are fortunate in having some joy right now also in the journeying.

With the advent of the Full Moon of Tuesday, February 7th, when your ruler Saturn also changes direction, you might feel yet another shift in the level and direction of your basic awareness. This ushers in a relatively mellow time period, when balance is sought and eventually found, and when issues of self and other come to the fore for better recognition. You are engaged at this time in an active search within you for a better handle on life and love, and in some ways a solitary position works best, or at least one with a strong admixture of solitude.

This idea carries over to the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, February 14th, which is ironically also Valentine's Day. You might easily feel at this time as well that there is as much to be gained by silent reflection and contemplation of your issues as by engaging in dialogue with loved ones regarding these same concerns. Certainly there is room for both approaches; fully engaging with another and still with one part of your mind always somewhere deep inside yourself, silently witnessing your changes.

The New Moon a week later, coming along on Tuesday, February 21st, is another powerful time, when you are drawn to the mystical as much as to the real and seemingly solid boundaries of the physical world. This last week of the month is still a meditative period for you although a more energetic one; it is also a joyous time when much that is good will be offered. Your communication sparkles now, but not without taking into full account the fundamentally serious nature of your play.


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

Another day is dawning, Aquarius, and this time there's plenty of heat but not quite enough light. A new beginning for you in this your birthday time of the year turns out to be something of a mixed blessing, since although you have the impulse to forge ahead right now and make the most of it, you might find yourself hesitating in your forward momentum. You could blame it on the complexity of what you are trying to accomplish. There is an amalgam that you seek made of outer necessity and inner desire, of cheerful compliance with the powers that be and yet soul-level attunement to what makes your heart sing – and you won't be satisfied with substitutes. Compassion for yourself and for the state of the world demands no less.

As the month begins, you are struggling to find yourself in spite of an embarrassment of riches in the form of blazing self-confidence and determination. The powerful New Moon in your sign from the last ten days of January was also in aspect to both your traditional ruler, namely Saturn, and the modern ruler of your sign as well, Uranus, with Jupiter aspecting both placements. You not only have tons of energy but also the support of family and friends to keep you going. Your communication outreach is heartfelt and even authoritative, and your dedication to your ideals is strong, although you are also perhaps attempting to define what this means more precisely in the light of recent experience. In experiencing the recent Quarter Moon in your home and family sector, you have found yourself in a mixed state that represents a compromise between prudent caution and the full-on optimism of your earlier conception.

There is a sober-minded reassessment happening now and over the remainder of the month that, depending on your point of view, either puts out your fires or else grounds your dreaming into a more concrete and realizable form. You really need go with your gut on this, and trust to your inner guidance. The success that you seek will not be granted in terms that the eyes of the world can easily acknowledge; it may be that only from the inner perspective of soul-level purpose will the ring of truth be recognized.

The Full Moon that comes along on Tuesday, February 7th, provides you with a sense of balance and greater integration. You are more open to the input that you receive from others now, and important partners can thus provide not only a useful sounding board for you own ideas but also contribute another side from their perspective. With Neptune now in Pisces and with Saturn standing still in the sky, the amalgam of sense and nonsense regarding what you are up to is complex and tricky; of course what is actually sense can indeed seem like nonsense in the eyes of the world, and vice-versa. Your finances and your values are subject to this two-sided view of what is going on, and you must find a way to choose between these logically incommensurable possibilities.

With the advent of the Last Quarter Moon on Tuesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day, you are putting this contrast to an even greater test. It might be that you are on the point of giving up on something precious or else that you are finally coming to your senses and you will have to choose. One clue here is that you already know the answer inside and have only to come to a better understanding of what your deep intuition is prompting you to go with. In order to find out, separate from other voices, you might need to conduct a tea ceremony with just one participant, yourself.

The New Moon takes place a week later, on Tuesday, February 21st, in your resources sector, and while there is more energy available to you now, the net result might be that rather than the concrete answers you habitually seek it will lead you instead to further questions.

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

Dream on, Pisces, and recognize that your dreams might easily morph into so-called reality and… vice-versa. This is definitely a time to look more closely at your life in three dimensions even as a surge of energy takes you quite beyond them. Your resources, including financial ones, have been fluctuating for weeks now, with surprising pay-offs as well as shortfalls so that there is no discernable trend. Now in this present month the drama of it all fades to less importance compared to finding out why your basic sense of security has been so affected by what is after all only a concept. Relationship is another area that is subject to a more intense scrutiny than usual as you mentally meander through surface events in search of the deeper – and more truly vital – meaning.

As the month begins, you are feeling the rush of the recent New Moon from the end of last month in your sector of dream realities behind and beyond your conscious mind. This is a place you are already comfortable and familiar with, but in this period you might feel even more sensitive than usual. You are mentally pregnant as well with the possibilities inherent with the entrance of mystical Neptune into your sign, the sign that it rules, which comes up as early in the month as Friday, February 3rd. This is therefore a special month of a special year, when your idealism will run strong and when you are challenged to avoid the confusion that is naturally associated with the collision between the physical planes of existence here on planet earth in contrast with those energies that are far beyond the physical and yet underlie it. Since these energies are extremely powerful for you at this time you are getting a crash course this month in handling the paradox.

You are in an unusual place in which you fully sense the unbounded potential of your situation and yet also the limitations that are entirely inherent in the human condition. You have to somehow make it all work in spite of these and in the light of your other-worldly faith in each and every possibility to unfold for you in glorious fashion. There is a way that it is all true: the bounded straight-jacketed actuality together with the unbounded sense of possibility, and the secret lies within the infinite expansion of your own mind and heart, to the extent that you can really tune in there.

These contrasts are even more pronounced by the time of the Full Moon of Tuesday, February 7th, when Saturn, representing the limitation side of the equation, is also standing still in the sky, having turned to retrograde motion on the very same day. This is ideally a time of balance and of a sense of service to the greater collective and to your own inner world, as you can manage to hold as equally dear to you both horns of the dilemma of existence. Significant persons in your life are important to you now as well, and you might get caught in the normal trap of projecting your inner struggle onto others. You are a warrior for your cause and you could run into active disagreements if you do not handle the energy by attending to what is going on and taking back the projection.

These matters reach yet another stage of conflict and of potential resolution with the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day. This is another powerful juncture, traditionally a time of mulling things over and seeking to find a way to understand more fully what is coming down both in terms of outer events and of inner realizations, and this month made even more intense by the magnitude of your potential shifts. You are preparing the way for another new phase as your birthday time approaches.

The New Moon of Tuesday, February 21st, is an extremely potent one for you, when you might feel yourself actually crossing a kind of inner threshold. The past is very much with you now, both with regard to family issues that still percolate somewhere inside you and also your consciousness of early wounding which has been showing up in the borderlands of your awareness for some time as well. There is nothing you can do about the past except to continue to acknowledge and accept it, as you have been this month struggling to accept current realities also, and to regard whatever has happened, even if painful at the time, as somehow meant to be.