Aires   (March 20 - April 18)  Fire.  Ruling planet Mars.    Top

This is a most important New Year turning point, Aries. At a time when your public statement is paramount, you are trying to find yourself in some new and possibly frightening ways that involve really digging down into your personal contribution and reevaluating its net worth. You are in the midst of the biggest possible changes in the way you see your universe, and these reverberate through all the parts of your life. You are traveling through the world very differently; entering into a fundamentally positive period that depending on how you look at it may be either wildly optimistic or just finally pulling yourself beyond previously felt limitations.

As the month and the year begin, you are taking your career participation to new levels, based on a fresh understanding of the world around you that has only just recently clicked into place. The last ten days of December were an important transition time for you into a new way of thinking and perceiving. As the New Year takes off you are ready to do the same. You are also somewhat tempted to hold back and stay with the rut that you have been enmired in for so long. So many times we embrace the trouble that at least we know, inside and out, rather than that which we do not. But life consists not only of taking risks but in knowing which risks to take.

The Full Moon of January 3rd contributes to your ambivalent attitude. You are raring to go, fully out there in the real world of contacts and confidants, strutting your stuff, and also simultaneously occupying a small and vitally important space behind your mind, where fireworks are also going off, but internally.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, January 11th, you are feeling the pressure to bust out of your self-imposed jail and also the realization of where you can and where you can't just yet. There is a powerful conservative force in you at this time that may be in the business of denying you your fun, although there is also the urge to burn bridges and get on with the show. The secret may lie in the balance of inner and outer, not leaving either mode of your activity entirely out of the picture.

The following week's entrance of your ruler Mars into your career sector on the 16th may be the push that you need to get something moving, and the subsequent New Moon of Thursday the 18th takes you even further down your path of growth. During this current cycle, as the evolutionary pressure on you only gets stronger, at some point you will have no choice but to let go. As you burst into this brave new world of your own creation, like a champagne cork out of a bottle, you'll be glad that you did.

Taurus   (April 19 - May 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

Your future is on your mind, Taurus. The New Year finds you mulling over your possibilities, which indeed are opening up for you in unexpected ways. As you dare to be who you really are, taking charge of your life from the inside out, you are finding a spiritual grounding and a reality-oriented spiritual home deep within your own inner universe. You are entering into an entirely new conception of the world around you, the drumbeat of transformation pounding in your ears, and you may find new levels of intimacy in the strangest of places.

As the month begins, you are contemplating the sudden expansion of your plans into new and hitherto unimagined thought forms. As the Full Moon of the 3rd dawns upon you, you are bursting with new ideas and professional initiatives, taking it to the top. You are in the midst of an important arc of development at this time, and the way that it currently manifests is in the area of your public presence in the world, which is coming full on into view.

At the same time you are getting clearer on family ties and structures left over from the past, digging into your core center. This personal evolution has its ebullient moments and is also not without its thorny times for you as well.

An especially difficult passage comes in the middle of the next week, around the 9th, and the days following, leading up to the Last Quarter Moon of Thursday the 11th. Then you will be challenged to find the remainder of what has been accomplished in the last few weeks in terms of increased self-knowledge and the wisdom to avoid prior mistakes going forward. You are making an optimistic assessment of your chances to do just that, and you may feel the impulse to go out on a limb with new ideas, and some of that impulse may even be justified.

The time of the New Moon of the week following, taking place on Thursday the 18th, might be the best time to go ahead with what you have been contemplating. You will be even more eager to get on with it, and in a better position to start anew. Your beginnings will be accompanied by a soft contribution from the important realization that only the path with heart will satisfy you now.

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

You are entering into a challenging and yet rewarding time, Gemini, with the advent of this New Year. You are not always able to hear your own voice amidst the din of surrounding circumstance, while the information of others calls out to you loud and clear. You are seeking to find something of yourself in the reflection of helpful partners. In order that you establish a balance, good communication is key. Relationship is a powerful force in your life these days, and a changing one, while your working world is also in nearly constant flux. You are drawn to modify your perspective to include a perhaps more confusing and definitely more mystical basis as the month unwinds.

As the month and the year begins, you may be feeling yourself in quite a different place than you were only a few weeks ago with respect to the influence of significant others on your life. You are also feeling the necessity of finding your own path through changing circumstances, independent of any other point of view than your own, which sounds paradoxical, but really isn't. It is necessary to both act in concert with others and to stand alone, and one is no good without the other.

The Full Moon of January 3rd concentrates these issues of self and other, leading you to one culmination of the arc of development begun before the beginning of the new year, and indicates a new stage in the development of your ideas.

Another may come around the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, January 11th, when you will be drawn to the more serious side of your communication dynamic with others around you.

The New Moon of the following week, taking place on Thursday, January 18th, brings you to yet another level of your ongoing exploration of inner concerns and how these enable or hinder you from fully connecting with others in your circle. You are absorbing a different point of view on these matters, coming to a new philosophical stance, and preparing for major changes in your working world commitment. Your career and professional life is in the final analysis, after all, nothing more than your outreach to others written into a larger context.

You are in a strong position for major transition, especially at the time of the New Moon. You will be seeing some new flashes of insight in this area of your life over the course of the last half of the current month, and on into February.

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

You are seeking a balance point this month, Cancer. Cosmic epiphanies abound in this heartfelt time of connection while you are paradoxically staying grounded and even perhaps stuck in trying to define your own values. The Full Moon in your sign that begins the New Year brings you to yourself and to others in your life also. In large part it's all about relationship for you right now, as you mediate issues of self and other and find unusual enlightenment and mystical transformation in the process of sorting out your own priorities. By mid-month you will reach for a peak of experiencing both.

As the month begins, you are enjoying the prospect of new higher mind vistas opening up for you, even as you solidify your finances and material security concerns. You are primed right now for more expansive travel or educational plans, and they might come over you rather suddenly, in contrast to other parts of your life that are annoyingly stable these days.

In any case, the Full Moon in your sign taking place on the 3rd represents a good feeling of can do and positive attitude adjustment. Your relationship with yourself is very constructive at this time, and inner peace, as you can find it, makes for a positive relationship experience with others as well. There has been a powerful urge lately to connect with significant others in your life, and of course the trick is to allow that to happen as a natural and balanced outgrowth of your own process, rather than leaning out away from your center.

The time of the Last Quarter Moon of the following week, on Thursday the 11th, may bring a momentary tension to your process of sorting out self and other, but with your head up and your eyes wide open you will see through the challenges of this time to the encouraging outcome. You are exploring a new viewpoint on your life right now, and finding a renewed faith in your own unique path forward that is yours and yours alone to fulfill.

With the New Moon a week later, on the 18th, you are of course entering new territory, and blazing a new trail through the underbrush of potential distractions to the eventual goal of greater commitment to your own inner work and personal evolution. If you can take others along with you on this journey so much the better.

Leo   (July 22 - August 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

You are being summoned by your angel guides into an unusual awakening, Leo. Mystical madness highlights your path forward at this time, as you are called to concepts of service to others in this first month of the New Year, perhaps experiencing a confusing mix of progress and seeming regression as you navigate potentially troubled waters of relationship realizations and an expanded sense of self. You are seeking to find your own individuality, but you may be feeling bemused by a major transformation that comes over you quite suddenly through the agency of significant others in your life.

As the month begins, the Full Moon of January 3rd represents one culmination of a process of rebirth that was begun in the last ten days of December. You are going through an important reorganization in this New Year period of time. You are isolating yourself in some ways right now, but it is in order to await the birth of a new sense of self. In this regard, others are very helpful for the information that they bring to your process. You are finding your forward by fits and starts, but making steady progress nonetheless.

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, January 11th, and the weekend following, represents a time of increasing revelation. You are getting some important pieces of the puzzle of your existence at this time, but you may not know where to fit them into your emerging self-concept, or how to combine them into a meaningful pattern.

The New Moon of the following week, on Thursday the 18th, is also strangely pre-climactic. You are on the verge of something, and it remains to discover just what. Patience is required of you now, and having faith in yourself and your process, and in the ultimate unfolding of circumstances producing greater clarity.

In the last ten days of January you will get closer to the answers that you seek, and you may find that they involve others in your life, although perhaps in a different way than before. There may be some chaotic moments, but then, chaos always does precede the emerging of something utterly new, and that is just what is happening to you.

Virgo   (August 22 - September 21)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

The beginning of this New Year makes for a wild ride, Virgo, and there's no time to even begin to sort it all out. For that, wait for next month and the retrograde of your ruler Mercury. For now, the mid-January New Moon represents a watershed time for you, when partnership ideals of a fanciful nature play to a packed house in your head and surprising revelations tell you more than you thought you could handle about the way your destiny is bound up with another's, or at least that's the illusion that you currently find yourself operating under.

As the month begins you are reaching for an intensity of experience based on recent revelations of an interior nature. The more that you come into yourself at the deeper levels the more available you are for others "out there."

The Full Moon in the middle of the first week of the New Year represents a culmination of a developing attitude that is difficult to define and impossible to ignore, and that comes in the guise of relationship connection that is both unique and enlightening, and likely built upon the foundation of core level changes on your own side of the fence that have transformed your situation utterly as the old year ended.

The Last Quarter Moon of the following week, taking place on Thursday the 11th, represents a new degree of self-knowledge. You are at this time more firmly invested than ever in your unfolding self going forward, and yet caught up in the story of the past as well, trying to see what part of that legend makes the most sense to serve as a basis for your future.

A few days later, on the 15th, as your ruler Mercury enters your sector of discipleship to your highest purpose for yourself, you are plunged even further into the internal stew of your psychological roots and your home and family setting, which may lead you to a new set of relationship priorities later in the week.

The New Moon of Thursday the 18th symbolizes another turning point in your road, another new beginning and yet another way of coming to terms with the past. You have chosen the path of ease on other occasions, and perhaps in some ways right now as well, depending on how well you deal with the information that you are continually receiving as you go through the ups and downs of this monthly cycle. The path of struggle in this present context has a lot to recommend it as well, especially in terms of the eventual reward of greater and more meaningful connection with others around you.


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

Your future is calling, Libra. This first month of the New Year you are digging deep to find the buried gold of surprising transformation and heartfelt re-commitment, reaching out to be the best that you can be. Startling changes in soul-level direction are more than possible now, as some of your painful places inside become exposed to the light of day. All this is happening for a reason; better and more mystical self-acceptance is the key that will unlock many doors for you this year, as the light at the end of your tunnel beckons you on.

As the month begins you are getting into some serious dialogs with others in your circle of friends and admirers, reaching out to them in a new way. You are inhabiting your home and family space differently, perhaps with more presence, and it shows. You have found a new way of being in the world by being more comfortable inside your own skin.

The Full Moon in the middle of the first week of the month represents one culmination of this arc of personal development, and a new flowering of your creative persona. As you prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet, so to speak, that act may come from a different and more natural intention.

In the following week, the 9th to the 11th represent another period of changes and also of potential trials to your self-image. It may seem as though there are places inside yourself that you don't want anyone to see that suddenly become exposed to their scrutiny, but that can also be a healing experience. When you more fully accept yourself, warts and all, you may be surprised to find how easily others do too. Significant others that you are in relationship with are changing along with you, and your connection to them is also, as is only logical. You are entering into a new contract with yourself, to show up just as you are, and to show up with your softer side out in front without the necessity for armor, or at least to the extent that you can pull it off in the midst of a fractured surrounding social matrix.

The New Moon of the week following, on Thursday the 18th, is climactic for you, and allows all these themes to coalesce into a rapid-fire synthesis that jump starts you into a new quantum level of connection to others, and more importantly to your own heart space within you.

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

You're starting out the New Year with a bang and not a whimper, Scorpio. Career issues are coming to an important crux that takes your heart fully as much into account as your head. You are finding a spiritual joy in the striving and seeing the rewards everywhere, definitely in your finances and not least in a more fully informed sense of self. Transformation in the way that you put yourself out there may take place anywhere along the way, and quite suddenly, as you look into the mirror wondering not "what's to overcome" but on a more positive note, "what's come over you?"

As the month begins, you are experiencing a revolution in values. Something has changed utterly in the way that you understand your world, specifically your material concerns and your attitude regarding the resources, including financial ones, that you have at your disposal.

In reaction to these new ideas, you are reaching out to others around you in a new way as well, especially around the time of the Full Moon in the first week of the month. As you react to and communicate with your environment in new ways, your creative presence in the world also blossoms. You are finding a new unique level of being, and in the course of this monthly cycle these changes are likely to be ongoing, sometimes slowly and sometimes in a rapid burst of new meaning that comes over you rather suddenly.

By the time of the Last Quarter Moon of the following week, taking place on Thursday the 11th, you are beginning to fully inhabit this new conception. At this time you are acting as a warrior out in the world for what you consider the right point of view, although the softest part of yourself is also very involved in the action. You are paradoxically bringing your fuzzy bear sweeter side to your situation even as you harden your position.

The New Moon of the next week, taking place on the 18th, brings further changes. You are both more practical and more radically and definitely yourself as this latter part of the month begins to unfold, and bringing others into the mix in a powerful although perhaps somewhat incoherent way. It is too early to look for definition or for evaluating the past or even the future. You get the most out of your current situation by just enjoying what is.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 20)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

This is quite a party that you're coming up to, Sagittarius. This first month of the New Year continues a big winter fun drive that began last month and continues unabated into this one. The ground beneath your feet may feel a bit shaky right now since it's hard to stop and rest upon a rapidly moving vehicle, but all the indications are there for a safe landing. It's sometimes a tough sell, but in general, your way of seeing the world around you is reluctantly stretching to match the increased dimensionality of your experience. Pay no attention to the torpedoes. This is no time to hold back or to even think of reversing direction.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of changes that have been induced into your system during the last ten days of the old year. There is a somewhat frenetic quality to your celebration at this time, and the changes on your home front may be both massive and sudden, but real transformation is in the air if you can stick to your guns in making it happen. The changes that you are seeking come in at least two forms, both quickly as epiphany and in slow illumination through effort over time. The propensity for surprising enlightenment becomes greater as the first two thirds of the month continue to unfold.

At the time of the Full Moon in the middle of the first week you are being asked to solidify your position, possibly with the help of intimate partners, and to make a place for your spiritual garden to grow. Your understanding of the events of your life is key for you, as always, and comes slowly over time, with retrospection.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Thursday the 11th, your pace of understanding is accelerated, although the realization that you come to may not be entirely a pleasant one to your inner eye and ear. You may come to recognize that what can't be cured must be endured, although it needn't be as dire as all that.

The New Moon of the 18th provides a new springboard for a new adventure, which is really the very same story coming around again, the story of your life. This crucial time provides both challenge and opportunity for you, a time where you can make an active choice either for or in denial of your process. Both solutions have their merit, since what you don't accept today you can always leave for greater progress in the future. In reality you are exactly where you are supposed to be at any given time, and have only to exercise your option to go with or against the flow of your life's energies. Sooner or later you will come to the gate that you were destined for all along.

Capricorn   (Dec 21 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

If you are starting this New Year right, Capricorn, it will be a time of joyous surrender rather than holding on to a past that no longer counts for you. It is a party that you don't even have to dress for; you get a prize for just showing up. You are transforming at the core of your being and others in your life are fully involved. You are experiencing a cosmic sense of oneness with the world around you that opens up your security concerns to a broader spectrum that includes everybody. Mystical communication that feels divinely inspired may be one key. Your heartfelt participation is another.

As the month and the year begins, you are feeling the contrast of solitude and partnership, making your move into a new sense of self and doing so without either taking intimate others entirely into your picture nor downplaying their influence on your life. A delicate balance is required. Fortunately you are geared up for it in this New Year timeframe. Through it all you are taking the unseen realm of Spirit more fully into account than ever, which is one secret of the synthesis that you seek.

In the middle of the first week of the month, at the time of the Full Moon in your opposite sign, you are of course drawn to the mystical Other in your life in all their various forms, but at the same time you are pulled to the personal point of view and the inner work required that matches outer with internal perspective. You are not naturally open to the extent that you may be called upon to be at this time, and there can be some inherent tension in your arc of development at this time, especially around the

Last Quarter Moon of Thursday the 11th, when you may find yourself evaluating where and how you have arrived, over the course of the last few weeks, beginning with heart changes toward the end of December. Information comes to you rapidly at this time, and not always easily, although with an ultimate upside in terms of spiritual growth, as you can summon up faith in your process.

The New Moon of the following week begins a new cycle, and one with positive movement in the direction of greater and more internally based security as long as you can see your way clear to that outcome. It's the old trick of glass half full or glass empty, a matter of attitude, in more ways than you are usually prepared to admit, even to yourself.

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

You are seeing your way clear to a new beginning in this New Year, Aquarius. A process that you have been dealing with most of last year may finally be coming to a head, this month and next. Partnership in your life is active and magical right now, and productive of great shifts in consciousness, helping you to tune in to a higher reality than the merely mundane. You are dreaming big at this time and you have it within your power to revolutionize your worldview and your sense of purpose going forward. Embrace the change.

As the month and the year begins, you are operating at a considerable remove from the give and take of the world around you, although this will change as the month progressively unfolds. You are currently concerned with mystical depths and unconscious dream spaces behind and beyond the ordinary logic of your outer mind, mulling over plans that you have made in the lat ten days of the old year and checking them out more fully from an interior perspective.

The Full Moon of January 3rd, helps to bring you to a better idea of where you stand, and where in the world you are headed, perhaps involving concepts of service to a greater whole. There may well be changes in attitude and life direction that have been percolating through your awareness for some time now that are starting to come into better focus in this New year timeframe.

With the Last Quarter moon of a week later, taking place of Thursday, the 11th, the focus may be sharper and yet the feeling fuzzier in the sense of feel-good self-sacrifice for the benefit of others. Just be sure not to lose yourself in the process of putting strictly ego considerations aside, even as you get a firmer grip on defining your values.

The New Moon a week further along, on Thursday January 18th, and the entrance of the Sun into your sign two days later on the weekend of the 19th – 21st, put you in a very optimistic state of mind, and you may feel as though you could leap tall buildings in attaining all your goals, both professional and private. Hold onto that thought and perhaps you can.

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

The New Year opens to a world of infinite possibilities for you, Pisces. Confusion only partly reigns, as you are master of your work place right now, exploring still further facets of your crazy diamond and taking great joy in the discovery. During the middle of January is a great time to vision a more inclusive future for yourself, especially when you are so busy trying to figure out exactly who you are these days, and it is clearly a multiple-choice answer. Maybe it's not too late to pick "all of the above."

As the month and the year begins, you find yourself operating from an increasingly mystical point of view. This is nothing new for your gentle Piscean character, but with all the emphasis lately on outer forms in your life it may be something of a surprise to find that your dream nature is still very active. In fact there is a creative tension forming between your public persona on the one hand, and your individual private Self on the other, that definitely involves you at the deepest levels of your being. There are opportunities in each direction, and the trick may be to combine your possibilities.

The Full Moon at the middle of the first week of the month brings the oppositional nature of your conflicting realities to bear, and encourages you to find a middle ground. Every facet of your outer connection with the events that shape your world is engaged right now, including most especially your participation in societal agendas that reflect your values and wherever you think that you and the rest of civilization might properly be heading.

These first few weeks of the New Year represent the best chance that you will have all year to get your priorities straight, not because of the calendar timing, although that makes for a nice coincidence, but because the Sun and Mercury are conjoining in your sector of future plans.

The New Moon that comes along on the 18th of the month culminates and accentuates this period of time, which is a logical one for you to breathe new life into your most heart-felt resolutions for a better world. Along the way to this moment of revelation there are bound to be ups and downs that present both challenge and opportunity. This may be particularly so at the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Thursday the 11th, and the days following including the weekend of the 12th to the 14th, when you are encouraged to try to see the biggest possible picture and to avoid getting snagged in the details. You are forging a new contract with yourself over this entire period and taking the high road is what it is ultimately all about.

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The Astrology of January represents that special time of the year when hope begins again for the next major cycle of our calendar lives. This time it comes with a resurgence of the Saturn-Neptune opposition, returning from last summer, symbolizing practical reality versus starry-eyed idealism. We are enjoined to take the numinous possibility quite seriously now, or else we may lose faith and be silenced by the depressing potential for the failure of our dreams. We must choose. And as long as we can keep our hearts engaged we can prevail over attitudes of darkness and despair.

Amidst the backdrop of hope versus practicality represented by Neptune and Saturn, we have also trickster Uranus in Pisces, Neptune's own sign, being squared by expansive Jupiter, a pretty wild combination. While Saturn attempts to hold us back from necessary changes, the energies of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune serve to push us on, beyond our previous limitations, although they work in different ways. Jupiter works by faith, and Uranus by the wildcard unknown factor and the surprising brilliance of the new idea. Neptune does his work by falling back on cosmic unity, the most fundamental truth that there is, that we are all one, a concept that we know beyond knowing deep inside of ourselves, but to which we are largely blind as we go about the world in our little ego-encrusted personal body vehicles.

Uranus is quite prominent in January, and brings in the startling new viewpoint, very appropriate for this time of the year, when we are looking forward rather than backward, and when the Sun is transitioning from conservative Saturn-ruled Capricorn to Uranus-ruled Aquarius, sign of the brotherhood of woman and man and of socially coming together for inventive technological solutions to pressing problems. We can still sing as we did in the sixties that this whole period represents "the dawning of the Age of Aquarius," although that dawning seems a long time coming, and involves more hard work than we used to think back in the rosy days of the hippie movement's youth.

In these next five years, from 2007 to 2012, we will see all the major outer planets change signs, and re-align in the first square configuration of Uranus and Pluto that follows their conjunction of the sixties. Pluto will enter Capricorn in 2008, Uranus will enter Aries in 2010, squaring Pluto, and Neptune will first enter Pisces in 2011 and then re-enter in 2012. These changes of sign indicate world transformation of significant magnitude, as who would doubt in the light of what we have already seen so far.

For starters, Pluto in the sign of Capricorn will transform the corporate power structure and bring out the worst of it and also the best of us in response to that worst, as the fourteen-year prior transit of Sagittarius has done for religious zealotry. A wonderful sage, Elias, has said that the fourteen years of Pluto's transit of Sagittarius will look like more of the same business as usual for the entire time, while at it's end we will see that everything around us is transformed utterly, and we are living in a new universe. We can begin in these final years of Pluto in Sagittarius to get a glimpse of what he was talking about.

Uranus in square with Pluto, beginning to come on as early as this May (a ten-degree orb) will represent the "crisis in action" of what was begun in the sixties. Then we will see the limits and the clash of power stemming from the revolutionary ideals that were set in motion at that time, and that are still working their way through our collective social consciousness.

In the current month's configurations, the Full Moon that nearly begins the month on January 3rd, in Saturn's sign of Capricorn and the opposing sign of Cancer, sextiles and trines Uranus, bringing in the startling enlightenment of his trickster energy. Practical limits posed by Saturn and Capricorn are opposed by Neptune and by the Moon in Cancer, the sign where Jupiter is exalted, the principle of Spirit over matter.Two weeks later, the New Moon in the last degrees of Capricorn takes us further down the path of our own spiritual evolution. Venus exactly conjuncts Neptune on this day, while Jupiter exactly squares Uranus with the New Moon at the midpoint. Sudden expansive breakthrough is possible, with the idea also of transcending outmoded patterns of behavior, since Chiron is closely involved in this latter configuration.

The planetary archetypes of this monthly cycle conspire, as they always have, to lift us if we are willing out of our timeworn ruts of old thinking. They prepare us in the current month and year for the more massive changes to our society and our world that the next few years will see unfold. We can choose evolution over stagnation, open-minded acceptance over fear and pulling back. The doorway lies waiting before your outstretched hand, the lock uniquely shaped to your personal design, but only you hold the key and the power to turn it.

Current Configurations

The Full Moon of January 3rd, at almost the very beginning of the month, aspects Uranus by trine and sextile and therefore triggers the upcoming Jupiter – Uranus square. At this time also, Mercury is the Sun in Capricorn. Uranus in Pisces brings a surprising, even startling point of view to placid Pisces, and encourages us to look deep within ourselves for answers that we have known all along had we but the courage to acknowledge it. In the days following, Mercury will conjunct the Sun bringing an emphasis on mental abilities, and Venus will enter Aquarius and conjunct Chiron by the time of the Last Quarter Moon, bringing up old relationship patterns that we are ready to gain a better and more distant perspective on, thereby beginning to heal them.

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, January 11th, triggers the forming Saturn – Neptune opposition while the Jupiter – Uranus square is getting much closer. Both of these configurations push us beyond previous limitations. Saturn – Neptune urges us to find a spiritual middle ground, in which we neither leave planet Earth altogether nor give in to despair and the loss of hope for the future. We can use this energy to ground our dreams concretely into substance if we can only maintain our balance. In the days following, Mars conjuncts Pluto, triggered by the Moon on the 16th as Mars crosses into Saturn's sign of Capricorn. These are exciting times, and tough times. We may fall back on violence to ease the intensity of inner turmoil, or else take the high road of transforming our anger into positive action in support of a more enlightened point of view.

The New Moon of Thursday, January 18th, occupying the midpoint of the nearly completed Jupiter – Uranus square and aspecting Pluto and Saturn also, reminds us to take our outrageous plans seriously rather than go out on a limb for no particular reason, although that also may happen, depending on the circumstances and our ability to keep our heads. Venus is also exactly conjunct Neptune at this time, putting us in closer touch with our dreams, especially our dreams of connection. Mercury is also beginning to conjunct Chiron, so that patterns of communication dysfunction are up for closer examination.

The First Quarter Moon, of Thursday afternoon, January 25th, is accompanied by a Mercury – Neptune conjunction, bringing the possibility of mental deception or illusion into the picture. Jupiter still squares Uranus, and Saturn draws ever closer to an exact opposition with Neptune, as we assess the potential of our most recent initiatives actually working themselves out in reality. The themes of the Saturn – Neptune opposition will wax stronger next month, and then again in June and July for the final pass. We are enjoined to use these energies wisely, to ground our spiritual impulses into practicality, and to further our pragmatic ideas in accordance with the thrust of Spirit inside us.


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