You are on the roller coaster still, Aries, but with more downs than ups. This month continues the somewhat strange practice that has becomes a trend with you lately of inner rather than outer work. You are seeing your future coming toward you now and it is quite a different one than you would have recently supposed. Perhaps you are taking better and more serious account in your life of the presence of the difficult and dangerous further reaches of your unconscious hopes and desires. There are surprises lurking there, and miraculous enlightenment, and the belated recognition of the largest part of yourself, which underlies and informs all the rest.

As the month begins, you are centered on partnership of all kinds, both business and personal. This occurs at the expense of any career options that you might have that depend on going it alone, since the focus on others is strong for you right now, even including the presence of a spiritual other represented by the Universe or your Higher Self. You are transforming, slowly, in your work in the world and how you put yourself out onto the public stage, and it is beginning to show. The changes in this area come faster and more furious in the current monthly timeframe and may concern the way that you handle partnership and integrate the viewpoint of others into your own. Plans for the future are also really up for you right now, and involve a sense of your inner process as well as more usual ideas regarding mundane achievement.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, February 5th, sums up for you the last several weeks since the Solar Eclipse and New Moon in your career sector. This first weekend of the month is crucial for you, and speaks to you concerning the changes that you have been going through and the level of personal transformation that will be necessary if you are to remain true to them.

The New Moon taking place a week later, on Saturday, February 13th, is a wild one. At the same time as it reminds you of current limitations it gives you the power to transcend them. You have a marvelous opportunity at this time to vision new possibilities for yourself into being, provided that they are consistent with your highest values and your deep spiritual core. Everything in your life is invoked at this time: core center and your exuberant self-expression, helpful partners and as well the sense in which they might hold you back from fully accomplishing your own agenda, career goals which have been a shifting landscape for you lately and are intimately connected with your ability to make the voyage of your inner work a sincere one.

You are still extremely occupied in a process of adjustment and redefinition that has been going on since before the beginning of the year and will continue for another six weeks or more, into the time of the Spring Equinox of March 20th. There could be confusion now as well as joyful determination, and the glimmerings of old trauma that could come up for you in order that they might be dissolved in the glow of this new dawn that is taking place within you. Everything has its time and its season and the tide which is turning for you now must be seized in order to be effective in your life. This New Moon period is also an excellent time for journaling.

The remaining two weeks of the month will be spent in contemplation of what has transpired over this mid-month event, and how the impulse that is born in this moment might best be worked out. One crux of this time would be the First Quarter Moon of Sunday the 21st, which might introduce a degree of tension into your process. Another highlight comes at month's end, when the Full Moon shines on further opportunity for you to transcend appearance in favor of the deeper and more sincerely realistic picture.

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

You are launching out in many new directions, Taurus. This is among other things the fruit of a changing and more inclusive worldview that has been emerging within your soul lately to challenge prevailing wisdom, and with amazingly positive results. This is a season of contrasts, whereby what used to work for you no longer does work, and what was formerly disregarded becomes the winning formula. Whatever comes forth from your own deep center will prosper for you right now. Keeping your awareness level high is crucial, and leads you directly into an unfolding future based on inner rather than outer reality.

As the month begins, you are very much present in the world of career and accomplishment, solidifying your methodology in this area. It is an interesting period that you face now, coming out of a time of dreaming a greater reality for yourself into being, and taking simultaneously a super-spiritual and also an extremely practical approach toward your work in the world. You are strong on service to others at this time, as you enthusiastically plan for a future of your own devising, independent of outmoded thought forms and consensus attitudes. It is a strange amalgam of concepts and energies that you face, as you reconcile ancient beliefs that may weigh you down versus an idealist vision of the future, and also deal with the potential self-deception of an over-commitment to idealism. You are also settling into a new conception of home, family and partnership.

These colliding thought-forms and swirling energies reach one moment of tension in the Last Quarter Moon taking place on Friday, February 5th. This is a time of summing up what the past three weeks have meant for you, that originated at the time of the Solar Eclipse New Moon of mid-January, and a time when partners come more directly into the picture of your fluctuating hopes and fears.

The New Moon that takes place a week later, arriving on Saturday, February 13th, takes you deeper and also moves you in an optimistic way toward a future that you can really live with. There is great upheaval in your life, and yet it all seems fated and even enjoyable. You are both very exposed and out there in the world and paradoxically quite inner and reclusive now. In addition, it is possible that the residue of past trauma will come to the fore in your thinking, or that you might feel a sense of spiritual angst based on the notion that you cannot fully heal your separation from the divine. The journey down into the depths of your soul has its purpose as well as its scary characteristics. It is better to turn your gaze inward with relief at abandoning pretext of any kind than to proceed with fear of what you might encounter since everything that you discover there is your own. Your strengths and even your weaknesses reflect your uniqueness and are holy.

The First Quarter Moon that takes place a week later, on Sunday, February 21st, is, as is usual for this quarter Moon, a time of adjustment out of the impulse from the beginning of the cycle to what makes sense and is viable. This is also a time when tension could enter your process, perhaps in the form of a clash between habitual values and the new mandate for change that you are currently in the process of adopting.

At the very end of the month with the Virgo Full Moon, taking place on Sunday the 28th, it all becomes more clear. A strong sense of possibility serves as a springboard for action.

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

These first few weeks of the New Year have constituted a difficult time of readjustment for you, Gemini, but you are emerging from the woods. As you come out of your shell you are bringing with you traces of time spent in the relatively quiet and underworld places that you have been visiting, and embodying a softer and more informed viewpoint than before. Your footing in the world is solidified and made more substantive by the wisdom that you have gleaned over the fallow period just ending. As a result you will find yourself more flexible and more fully able to cope with the changes and challenges of these times that are still very much part of your present reality.

As the month begins, you are moving forward in a new way. This month and next are pivotal for you, in the midst of a pivotal year. You are slated for personal transformation and the only question is how far you will go in the direction of fulfilling your fondest dreams. As usual it is an issue of how much you dare to allow yourself to believe in yourself.

The Last Quarter Moon taking place on Friday, February 5th, might have a thing or two to say about where you are going right now, and why, as you engage in a process of summing up the past three weeks since the Solar Eclipse of mid-January. There could be some degree of tension in your process of understanding yourself at deeper rather than more superficial levels.

The New Moon that follows a week later is a powerful one, especially from your standpoint. It takes place on Saturday, February 13th. Communication, important to you always, is emphasized – along with a form of self-development that partakes equally of spiritual commitment and grounded practicality. This is also a time of epiphany, when insights could arise that are conducive for moving past any self-limiting concepts of inadequacy, such as feeling that when the bell of enlightenment and break-through perception tolls, it does not toll for you.

The planet earth is an amazing place to be right now, for you and for everyone, and we only have to jump on the train that is departing the station and be willing to leave the past behind for new destinations. We do have to make that leap however, or suffer the fate of missed opportunity. There is a certain amount of rethinking and restructuring that is going on for you in this mid-month timeframe, and you will partake to the degree that you are prepared to move on from where you have been before, conceptually, in ways that have not fully served you. Concepts are useful for getting a handle on your experience, but lose their utility when they become habitual and out of touch with your current state of evolution.

The First Quarter Moon of the 21st presents you with further challenges and with them further opportunities to transcend limitations. There might be a point of tension that arises now and that finds expression in conflict between public and private life. You are definitely sorting out your possibilities at this juncture, and continue to carefully monitor how you get your point across. You are attempting to convey to others a fledgling point of view that is really only now beginning to jell. By the end of the month you will see the full flowering of your highest purpose, especially if you choose to ride the train.

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

You are slowly climbing the ladder of your destiny, Cancer. The starkness and austerity of the season is bringing you unexpected riches in terms of growth in both inner and outer realms, and the inner is emphasized. You have been developing a sense of balance between significant life partners and yourself, whereby you acknowledge the power of others to help you to transform, but equally recognize that it is your own isolated road that you must travel in your search for wholeness. In this current cycle you are a powerful warrior for your cause as you embrace a nebulous and yet fulfilling point of view, intent on changing the way that relationship in your life works both against you and for you.

As the month begins, you are somewhat conflicted, startled by the clarity of your observations leading you into an uncertain but exciting future, and yet pulling back from fully acting on the novel impulses that thus arise. Something deep inside you is leading you on to further transformation and it is a compassionate sense of oneness with your process that is your best and surest guide forward. When you take a good hard look it's really not even a question. It simply becomes the classic no-brainer to choose to abandon old and habitual patterns that only hold you back from your fullest life expression. But that doesn't make it easy.

With the New Moon of Saturday, February 13th, comes greater energy for making necessary changes in your life. You are being gently nudged in the direction that soul purpose dictates and it involves taking on a new concept of the role that significant partners play in your life and also embracing newly reworked definitions of security. Perhaps you are coming to the realization that your true security lies in knowing yourself at the deepest possible level, and in encouraging those who make it possible for you to go there at the expense of other commitments. It is after all a question of what really matters to you in the long run, as you are finally beginning to recognize. It is possible that it will be difficult to face what comes up for you at this time, but nevertheless it might be important for you to do so. A sage once said to "follow your fears" and this New Moon energy might remind you that if fear is the only thing holding you back why then maybe you need to go for it anyway.

The First Quarter Moon that comes along a week later, taking place on Sunday, February 21st, is also an important time for you, and one again of reassessment. You are attempting to discern what is viable and what is not as you navigate your future from the standpoint of higher mind.

By month's end, new perspectives will emerge that confirm even more strongly that you are on what is essentially the right path. If you can muster the courage, take the road that is offered you over this monthly cycle; and if you cannot, take it anyway, since sooner or later you will come to the same crossroads and face the reality of what you need to leave behind as no longer useful to your highest purpose.

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

You are reveling in the complexities of partnership right now, Leo. As you settle into the paradoxical inconsistencies and learn to love them rather than to be annoyed, you begin to get a glimpse of the divine in everyday life which is one of your themes for the coming year. A service orientation prevails within your heart and mind for at least the first six months of this new decade and this currently leads you to powerful presences within you as well as outside of you. The relationship epiphanies keep on coming, and as they do they lead you to written and communicative interaction that is a powerful medium for the expression of depth-realities more profound and more serious than anything you have previously experienced.

As the month begins, you are taking a serious look at life, love and partnership. You are busy putting your energies into service to your highest purpose for yourself. Like Diogenes lifting his lamp, you are searching for the truth of what you are truly meant to accomplish in this world, only your lamp is based as much on heart as on mind. You are making significant headway with your life at this time, and also finally getting to the point of admitting compassionate partnership into it as an important part of your own way forward.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Friday, February 5th, you are assessing the validity of everything that has gone before – over the three weeks since the time of the mid-January Solar Eclipse in your sector of your discipleship to your higher self. There could be a modicum of tension in the mix of energies as you sort things out. You have been reinventing yourself to some extent over this entire period, during the opening two months of this new year and decade. You will find yourself settling into a more comfortable position when Mars turns to direct rather than retrograde motion with his March 10th station in your sign. Until then it is refreshing to think of the distance you have covered in just these few weeks.

The New Moon of Saturday, February 13th provides a fresh burst of energy for growth. Now is the time when you are most likely to acknowledge the power of significant others in your life to affect your own outcome, hopefully without seeing their influence as an either-or with your own sense of autonomy but rather as an addition. The potent configuration of these energies holds your feet to the fire of change, and emphasizes your own progress as the overarching factor, but in definite tandem with others also. Significant partners in your life can provide an important mirror for your own process.

There is an optimistic sense of inclusively between others and yourself right now, and what is perhaps most significant, among the disparate and potentially walled-off parts of yourself. The walling away of wounded places might well begin to dissolve with the compassionate aid of significant others in your life when they can reach out to you and help to bridge the gap. These essential ingredients for moving forward in an entirely innovative and central way will take a while to settle, perhaps the entire cycle of four weeks of this New Moon.

The first strong moment of integration of these energies might come on the occasion of the First Quarter Moon of Sunday the 21st, when the accumulated perspective shifts may have added up to the beginnings of a new plan. This is an arrangement that works its magic from the inside out.

The Full Moon on the last day of the month will also be powerful for you, and might feel like a wind tunnel of transformation as you are swept along into the channels that the universe has long ago prepared. Resistance is not only futile but also painful, and damaging to the nascent self that is busily and quietly making its way through the maelstrom and into the light of a new dawn.

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

Your personal creativity is high right now, Virgo. You are in the middle of a thorough-going transformation of self which only increases in pace as the year unfolds. This month your focus shifts to transcending previous boundaries of what you thought was possible in terms of ultimate service to your fellow beings and to the personal mission that you feel inside and have been honing lately. Mystic madness pervades your everyday activities and steers you toward the spiritual rather than the merely mundane solution. This may confuse your habitual reactions and your rational understanding of what is going on, but it makes perfect sense to your higher self which is quietly watching it all and waiting for you to continue making the right moves.

As the month begins, you are feeling your way forward into a fresh self-concept with the help of revelations that seem to come to you through the medium of partnership interaction. Of course in some sense you are yourself directly responsible for everything that happens to you even the results of encounters with significant others, or perhaps it is the universe bestowing its blessings upon you, or maybe these twin concepts are one and the same.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, February 5th, could serve to clarify or perhaps give voice to your feelings surrounding this issue. There could be surprises and some degree of tension in the midst of what is an essentially peaceful process of incorporating the viewpoints of others into your own. You are finding that the everyday life of the mind, and of service to others, yields a rich bounty these days in terms of depth connection to the All that Is. As the sage is reported to have observed to the neophyte when asked for the secret to enlightenment, if you have eaten your rice, why then wash your bowl. It is in the ordinary that your salvation lies right now.

This is even truer with the advent of the New Moon a week later, taking place on Saturday, February 13th, in this same sector of day-to-day existence, which is called the discipleship to your highest intention for yourself, going forward. You are being guided to a way of life that is more consistent with your own inner values, partly through the agency of helpful partners. You are subject at this time to a unique confluence of both partnership benefit and spiritually rich inner truth. In connecting to your core issues you also connect to higher wisdom, which might be paradoxical but is nonetheless what seems to be happening for you these days. It's not such a mystery considering that paradox is the way of the soul. As you connect more deeply to your own internal process it is possible that you might also be able to get in touch with feelings of dissatisfaction and incompleteness from past trauma. If so, it could be that these feelings, normally scary, are for the moment defused, so that you can access and embrace them.

At the time of the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, February 21st, partners come more fully into the picture as a catalyst to help you get over the mountain of your own emerging destiny.

Then the Full Moon at month's end represents the full flowering of the impulse for personal development that has been tugging you along into the slipstream of mutual evolution. All through this period you may find yourself dealing in some form with the remnants of past woundings. Your wounded feelings from the past are indeed like little children that have been excluded from the banquet table of acceptance for years and have been hurting, and like little children they need acceptance and love to make them less contentious and more peaceable, more easily integrated. That is the great gift of this time for you, that you might be able to integrate all your parts as you come into the grace of higher understanding and your own deep center, which are really one and the same.


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

You are being rocked to your very foundations, Libra. Personal transformation is at the heart of your story, but it is a slow-cooking rather than a more cataclysmic change that you are putting yourself through right now. There is more than a little confusion in the mix for you this month as well, as dawning spiritual realities contrast with a more hard-nosed view. It is difficult to let go of Fixed agendas; however the truth might emerge from a process that seems to be more like aimless wandering. Your task at the moment is to watch and wait, and to observe yourself arriving at exactly the right place for you to be, and at exactly the right time, without being at all sure how you got there.

As the month begins, you are completing a journey down to your depths and back up again that you began last month, with the mid-January Solar Eclipse in your home and family sector. This is a time of finding and redefining yourself in the midst of process of extreme transformation. The changes that you are in the midst of right now will be less severe if you have been doing your spiritual homework, otherwise more so. You are in the midst of a very magical time right now, when you can experience extremes of both gifts and limitations, as you explore your sense of presence in the world.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Friday, February 5th, traditionally a time of seeding wisdom from the accumulated experience of the three weeks that preceded it, you will also likely feel the excitement of voyaging into hitherto unknown realms of thought. You are being pinched at this time by circumstance and might feel a degree of tension in your process of unaccustomed growth toward the infinite possibilities of the human situation. You are also feeling in another way the joy of loosening your boundaries, when suddenly the unsought-after turn in the road appears before you and you take it.

The New Moon of Saturday, February 13th, steps up all these contradictory and enlightening emotions yet another notch. You are finding the spiritual sustenance to create and express in cosmic fashion, which fuels your quest to discover your true calling, that set of tasks and vocation that you were set on this earth to perform in this lifetime. You are still not quite off the launch pad in this current cycle, but you are getting much closer to your goal, although it may well be another month before you really take off.

The First Quarter Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday, February 21st, presents you again with food for thought as you struggle with the difficulties inherent in your situation. You are experiencing what are essentially the birth pangs of a new sense of self.

By month's end the depth researches that you have been engaged in could intensify but with a distinct difference in that the light at the end of the tunnel is manifest and draws you more clearly onward. If you stay with your process and keep your eyes wide open, observing both inner and outer landscapes, you will come through to the next month's landing zone on your feet, and even running.

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

This is not smooth sailing, Scorpio, but it is an important voyage that you are on nonetheless. For you right now things are interesting to an extreme, and full of hopeful creativity as well as powerful transformation that comes upon you from the inside out. Your ruler Mars is slowing to a standstill in your career sector, accompanying a perceived sluggishness in outer-world accomplishment of all kinds. There could also be underlying confusion that never seems to end, and a feeling of loss regarding rational reasons for what is taking place. In compensation, there are the realizations that keep coming and that you cannot keep from putting down in words, either in depth communication or in personal journaling, and these are vital for your continued development.

As the month begins, you are coming into yourself in a new way through plumbing your depths in some fashion. This is not unusual for you of course, but this particular inner journey is definitely becoming a larger and larger part of your reality, and your communication with others around you reveals the intensity of your exploration.

The Last Quarter Moon takes place on February 5th, and the days surrounding this juncture are climactic for you, as you look more closely into where you are at right now and how far you have yet to go to accomplish your most deeply cherished goals and objectives. Your dreams are only partially centered in the mundane concerns of making a living and achieving outer world aims. Instead you are more fully centered on a series of emotional developments that are taking place beneath the surface, within the scope of home and family concerns and those of your root psychological process.

The New Moon of Saturday, February 13th brings these ideas out more completely. This is a time when confusion reigns, partly because the depth work that occupies your attention does not fit in with the more obvious agendas of the outer world. Your process, while spiritually rewarding, is an inherently destabilizing and perplexing one that takes you into paradoxical realms where the normal rules of logic are left behind. You are simultaneously feeling compromised from the poorly integrated residue of past trauma and yet also seeking to embrace these earlier events and to finally understand them, taking them as in some way your greatest treasure. It might be said of you that "without a hurt a heart is hollow," and the rewards are great if you can manage not to shy away from this, your own unique inner work. You are engaged in a years-long adventure of sorting through the past and mining it for the nuggets of positive realignment that only comes with effort and acceptance.

Partnership is a powerful aid in this reconstruction, since significant relationships in your life make a better and more advantageous mirror than a simple looking glass can provide, when their tale is told with benevolence and love. If you can muster up the courage to take the opportunity, you are in a position to make great strides forward in this most important of your list of life tasks.

The First Quarter Moon a week further on, taking place on Sunday, February 21st, is a good time to stop and take stock, feeling your full potential for personal evolution and trying to avoid reactivity when challenges present themselves. These events can of course be seen as further opportunities for growth when you look at them without the habitual thought patterns that prevent compassionate response. By the time of the Full Moon that arrives one week further at the very end of the month, you might be ready to push off into a better and more productive future.

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

Your future is appearing before you in frozen, almost crystallized form, Sagittarius. You can see it and even taste it but it seems less than fully reachable right now. You are more serious than ever about where you are headed these days, and how to more successfully plug yourself in, although the outcome remains elusive. You are feeling your way through to the sense of mission that defines your identity in a more profound way. Homey concerns call to you, influencing your decisions and even your values. When you stop and look, or better yet journal, the shift is profound and yet is based on a spiritual commitment to effect change through the medium of everyday life.

As the month begins, you are exploring facets of your outer-world path as an indication of inner resonance. Everything that you do reflects every other aspect of your being in the world, so that there is not as much separation between inner and outer as consensus thinking might conclude. You are making a determined stab right now to redefine where you might be heading in your life, and in so doing take as your starting point a firm sense of the natural and characteristic restrictions imposed by your circumstances.

The weekend beginning with the Last Quarter Moon, taking place on Friday, February 5th, aids you in establishing a more direct sense of earth wisdom and emotional steadiness to go with your current flair of airy idealism. You are at this time summing up conclusions regarding the past three weeks of the lunar cycle, which was kicked off by the mid-January Solar Eclipse in your values sector.

The New Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Saturday, February 13th, brings fresh energy into the picture, and the urge to communicate your deepest truth to others around you. This is a time of taking new perspectives into the mix of energies that surround you as your inner vision for yourself keeps expanding. You are seeking to transform your viewpoint on what might be possible for you in the future that you so earnestly wish for, and enlisting allies in your endeavor, making your journey of exploration one of mutual enlightenment that begins with inner core values and arrives at a deeply felt place of wisdom that transcends categorization.

Over the course of this monthly period you are concluding a profound time of reorientation with a vow to remain immaculate in the correspondence between ideals and action. Your very beliefs are participating in a far-reaching development and redefinition that lasts well into the following month.

The First Quarter Moon that takes place on the following weekend, on Sunday, February 21st, represents a time of sorting out what is viable and what is not in your process of transformation and change. This is a time when you will turn to your most intimate connections as the stabilizers of your world, still very much in flux.

The Full Moon that ends the month, coming along on Sunday the 28th, represents the full flowering of this impulse to seek correlations in partners, family and tribe for the visionary impulse that you are feeling in your very bones right now, and that take your most profound truth to new levels that find reflection in both inner and outer work.

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

Your ship of state has lost its rudder but not its compass, Capricorn. While you are shining in terms of outer world pursuits right now, some degree of conflict remains within your own inner world. In this current monthly timeframe a difficult passage is coming to an illogical conclusion, but one that brings you peace of mind. You must accept it that your sailing vessel has left its port of origin, never to return, and that while within hailing distance of another, farther, shore is still very much at sea. The good news is that the life changes that you are in the midst of are conducive to your continued well-being, and in the long run, even necessary to it.


As the month begins, you are straddling two worlds. While very much inhabiting the outer world of your achievement you are tuned also to the inner realities that have accompanied your recent massive transformation. You are being guided to thoroughly investigate your depths as a part of your journey into wholeness, and it is more than possible that there will be some suffering that you will encounter along the way as the new alignment you are groping for begins to settle into place. These are more constructively considered as growing pains for the new self that you are in the process of birthing. The first week of the month represents an excellent time for you to take stock. Things have been going well for you in terms of accomplishment and your visibility on the public stage, although your usual added ingredient of hard work has also been involved. You may have been experiencing a conflict deep within that can only be resolved by letting go of a cherished part of the concepts by which you normally steer yourself.

At the juncture of the Last Quarter Moon, taking place on Friday, February 5th, you will likely get a glimpse of the bigger picture. This might prove to be even truer a week later, with the advent of the Aquarius New Moon in your security sector, taking place on Saturday, February 13th, This juncture could symbolize the jumping-off point for an entirely new conception to take hold and lead you to a more integrated and more peaceful state of relative bliss, passing between the hard places you've been living through and the rock of your intransigence. You have been rethinking your position lately, and how the tides of change have also been generative of new perspectives. Now you are ready to communicate that position to others. What you lose in certainty you gain in terms of intimacy with significant partners in your life. The platform of your revised point of view is a vertical operation that takes your deep soul position into account as well as its surface manifestation; in reality not distinct, but two sides of the very same coin. If you fully take in this new perspective it changes everything.

The last two weeks of the month, leading up to the Virgo Full Moon at month's end, is spent in working this out. You have a new way to navigate your life and things that once seemed important become less so while soul purpose assumes a larger dimension amidst your conscious reflections.

The crux of these last two weeks of the month takes place with the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, February 21st, when once again you are enjoined to take up spiritual arms in the struggle to slay the more superficial side of ego-involvement that neglects the bigger picture.

By the end of the month a firm sense of optimism enhances your transition to an enhanced and enlarged viewpoint on your life. This is not to say that ego in and of itself is a deficit. You need a healthy ego to go on with the practical parts of your life, so that it only needs to be put in its proper place – and the changes and challenges of this time are nudging you in precisely that direction.

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

Magic and mystery meet up with ordinary reality now, Aquarius, to lend positive and also more elusive vibes. Your inner dream worlds have been very active lately, and continue to strongly inform your sense of what is going on, while your outer presentation partakes of the infinite. Finances are lucky for you now, and gifts of the psyche come into the picture of a rich new beginning to the year and decade. Even as you more fully inhabit the outer world of people and events and form new connections socially, it's also easy to get confused and feel trapped in a prison of your own making. The truth is that outer and inner are but two sides of the same coin and that your journey right now partakes of both.

As the month begins, you are kicking it into high gear with your outer world presence, even though a part of you remains detached and more fully involved in mystical matters beneath the level of your conscious awareness.

Especially at the moment of the Last Quarter Moon taking place on the first weekend of the month, on Friday, February 5th, you are very focused in terms of achievement, and may encounter some degree of tension in your process because of it. You are summing up the lessons of the past three weeks since the mid-January New Moon and Solar Eclipse in your sector of dream imagination, and these are essentially spiritual lessons. The deep-level transformation of your beliefs and values is at the heart of your experience right now.

With the New Moon in your sign that comes along a week later, taking place on Saturday, February 13th, you are enjoying a fresh burst of energy for both inner and outer pursuits. This is a supreme moment of individual and personal evolution that is taking you to places that you never thought that you would ever reach, places that are normally not accessible to your everyday awareness and understanding. It is possible that areas of trauma will come up for you at this time that you have not consciously considered. These residues of early involvement with difficult situations have perhaps become lodged in your body and in your subterranean depths without recognition. These walled-off toxic emotional knots can reach out to trouble you without you being really aware of how they got there or what can be done to ease their pain.

You have a unique opportunity over this lunar cycle, lasting two weeks into the next month, to transcend such ancient woundings and reach new levels of happiness. Acceptance of these places within you is the first and most important step. This is paradoxically also a time when partnership in your life provides some of the answers to the question of your own unfolding self-concept. This is another arc of development that will flower over these next four weeks.

The First Quarter Moon of the following Sunday, the 21st, is another key moment in your movement toward transcendence. This is a time when push comes to shove with what you are attempting on both conscious and unconscious levels, and also when your values will possibly undergo a shift as a result. Your finances are lucky at this time, which is helpful in allowing your more important goals to manifest.

The very end of the month is very productive for both. The lovely Full Moon on Sunday, February 28th also gives you a place to stand from which you can not only gauge your progress but anticipate its continued acceleration.

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

This is a season of magical possibilities for you, Pisces. There are worlds within worlds within you, and then there is the surface field of life that goes on all around you, and you have a foot in each camp right now. Dream realities can be powerful too, as you well know, being something of a specialist. Conception precedes physical manifestation. This is a time of jelling transformation, of concretizing your wildest dreams for yourself going forward, as you reconsider fundamental agendas. There is a necessary integration that you are seeking and it comes a bit closer by month's end, when relationship in your life sizzles and when partners help you to prepare for greatness.

As the month begins, you are enjoying life to the fullest as you engage in meaningful activity that takes you closer to commitment both with intimate partners in your life and also with respect to your own sense of ongoing evolution. This is a lucky and socially engaged period for you, since your co-ruler Jupiter recently entered into your identity sector. It isn't only the gold of outer circumstance that glitters for you now, however. You are spending much of your time these days dwelling in the misty spaces behind and beyond your conscious mind, and reaping the rewards of meditative inner connectivity.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, February 5th represents a thoughtful time of reassessment, when you might come to value even more the vast and yeasty silence that engenders all things. As the sage says, the universe like a bellows is always emptying, always full. This is a time of summing up what the past three weeks have shown you as you dared to dream fresh dreams based on the keystone of your inner experience.

The New Moon that takes place in the following weekend, on the evening of Saturday, February 13th, is powerful for you and connects your sense of identity with the deeper inner worlds within you. You are pursuing at this time the shamanic path of connection with other-dimensional reality that partakes of many layers, only one of which is what is termed the normal world of everyday affairs that goes on all around you. Intimate connection with others is not a part of this scenario, which is more about your own connection to the divine within you, but yet is also an important part of what is happening to you right now, a layer unto itself that mingles with and informs the others. You are feeling the delight of partnership connection and with your own process as well, that partakes of the mystical inner as well as the joyous outer world.

There are also implications for your sense of calling, what you believe in your heart of hearts to be the mission that you were placed on this earth to perform, and which has been becoming clearer to you over these first two months of the New Year. There is a cycle of redefinition in this area that will culminate approximately six weeks further on, after the onset of a powerful Spring Equinox, in mid- to late-March. Meanwhile your goals and plans are still transforming, as they will continue to over the next few years leading up to 2012.

The week that follows this dramatic New Moon is exciting, as the Sun enters your sign. By the time of the First Quarter Moon of the 21st you are well on your way to cementing in the modifications to your sense of self that have been coming to you over the mid-month period. There could be a degree of tension in your process at this time as you begin to take these changes to the street.

In this regard, the Full Moon at the very end of the month is extremely fruitful for you, a time when you will not only be able to step back and regard with total awareness what has been going on over the past monthly cycle, but also have the grace to see thing in the best possible light, moving forward.