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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).
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Aires 
(March
20 - April 18) Fire. Ruling planet Mars. Top
This
is an amazing and magical month for you, Aries, one that miraculously
puts you in better touch with the concretely real world and at
the same time also takes you closer to the imaginal one that underlies
it. You are full to the brim with action orientation that yet allows
Spirit to come dancing into the equation. Throughout this time,
as you revel in feeling both responsible and expansive, there are
surprising consequences that sneak up on you from below. You are
trusting in God while making sure in another part of your brain
that you still remember to tie up your camel.
As the month begins, you are extremely energized both for achievement in the
outer, physical world and for inner metamorphosis as well. You are initiating
in this New Year a series of massive transformations in the way that you show
up for everyone outside or yourself, and for the way that you conduct yourself
in business and financial arrangements also. There is a new sense of responsibility
and also a feeling of play and wonder that accompanies your steps at this time.
You are in some ways perhaps disappointed that what you accurately feel to
be infinite possibility cannot be fully realized, but you experience also the
joy of knowing deep within your heart that at least some part of it can be
brought down to earth into concrete manifestation.
By the time of the First Quarter Moon, taking place early in the month on Sunday,
January 4th, you are superficially in conflict between public goals and private
ones, and between the ideal and the real, but there is a deeper sense of resolution
underlying all this that is also a factor in your emotional make-up at this
time. You win when you bow to the necessity for complete ownership of what
you are about. It will not work any longer to blame others or even yourself
for what doesn't measure up. It's an active time, when you are making a powerful
stand for yourself, but only as far as this stand is in total alignment with
your highest purpose.
The Full Moon a week further on, taking place on Saturday, January 10th, is
accompanied by the retrograde of Mercury a day later, and signals both the
exacerbation of anything that does not fit and an affirmation of what truly
does.
With Mercury retrograding through your sector of future plans and societal
connection, the last half of the month and on into February will be spent thinking
and re-thinking your goals and agendas for the coming year. You might want
to be careful in setting out on any brand new idea at this time, since some
or even all of the parameters will likely change after Mercury regains its
lost zodiacal ground on February 21st.
The Solar Eclipse of the last week of the month, taking place on Sunday night
and Monday morning the 25th and 26th, will generate plenty of energy for breaking
through previous limitations and charging ahead into a brave new world, hopefully
along the lines that you have been dreaming up over the entire thirty-day cycle
that preceded it.
Taurus 
(April
19 - May 19) Earth. Ruling planet Venus. Top
You are finding fresh impetus for being in the world and yet simultaneously
building new bridges between your mental apparatus and the openness of existence,
Taurus. You can see very clearly right now the truism that you create the universe
around you with each passing moment. All in an instant, vague ideas become
crystallized into concepts and then into actual hard-and-fast reality. Plans
for the future make an exciting backdrop for all that you say and do, and yet
change frequently throughout the month. You can't stay rigid or you'll fall
unexpectedly, but your relationship with the universe works out just fine for
you if you can learn to dance with it.
As the month begins, you are entering a period of real-world activity and of
novel thought process with a mystical undercurrent that both connects you more
deeply to the outer world of achievement and simultaneously undermines it.
You are more fully aware than ever of the thinness of the veil between the
worlds at this time. It's a paradox. One the one hand, the obvious manifestation
of the physical world that surrounds you is only a small part of the story,
so that this reality is more or less a complex and solid-seeming charade. On
the other hand it's in some sense the only game in town and real or not you
have to play by its rules. The reality of the hidden world all around you doesn't
invalidate this one, far from it. It just means that you can only try so hard
in any one direction and then you have no alternative but to relax and let
the universe take over. This consciousness is very much with you as you muddle
through the first ten days of the new month and year.
At the time of the January 10th Full Moon, another conundrum arises by way
of the contrast between the urge for freedom and expansion, no limits, versus
a sense of ultimate responsibility for your every action. You feel as though
everything has to count right now, perhaps toward some ongoing test that the
gods and goddesses are throwing your way, and yet in another part of yourself
you feel as light as air, and as little bounded and constrained.
Mercury retrogrades the next day, and you enter a period of time when it pays
to be more internal and calculating than outwardly forging ahead with new initiatives,
but other simultaneous configurations challenge that take on things.
With the entrance of the Sun into your career sector on the 19th, in conjunction
with expansive Jupiter, you are very much out there in the realest of real
worlds, and successfully, and yet with a mystical twist. Only the work in the
world that is meaningful to your heart center will suffice to make you happy
at this time.
The Solar Eclipse of late Sunday night and early Monday morning, January 25th
and 26th , will make for an exciting time for you. You are all go-go-go but
with another part of your brain, behind the scenes, you are mulling over your
situation. The Mercury retrograde lasts well into February when you consider
the period of the retrograde shadow, and so you are well-advised not to leap
ahead with entirely new plans until then, much as you would like to.
Gemini 
(May
20 - June 20) Air. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
You are changing this month, Gemini, from the inside out. Far-reaching transformation
is coming your way that will eventually rock your world. Your ruler Mercury
retrogrades mid-month and as it does your basic beliefs are subject to review
and even revision. You are simultaneously very aware of the limitations, and
paradoxically the essential limitlessness, of your true-life situation. You
accurately perceive the universe as wider than you previously imagined, and
connecting you up, outer to inner. Right from the very beginning of this month
and year, you find yourself very much at sea, a mixed blessing. As the poet
says, four things you won't need: oars, anchor, rudder, and the fear of going
down.
As the month begins, you are riding the energy wave from the last days of December,
with the New Moon in your sector of intimacy and personal transformation. You
are involved at this time in a process of massive change, which may be more
or less subtle for you, depending on circumstances. In any case you are definitely
going over the water fall, whether you immediately admit this information to
your conscious brain or avoid thinking about it altogether. This is actually
not such a bad thing, since the changes that the universe is providing for
you are in your ultimate best interest, the result of a hidden process of maturation
that has been going on all this time, for many months now, ever since the beginning
of the previous year.
This may all become much more obvious and even customary by the time of the
First Quarter Moon of Sunday, January 4th, when points of minor conflict in
your arc of development could also become exposed. All through this period
you are mediating concerns of self and other, and of inner knowing versus and
outer world presentation. The strain and the struggle of accommodating various
viewpoints into your emerging process of understanding could begin to wear
on you, or you could just relax and enjoy the ride.
With the Full Moon a week later, on Saturday, January 10th, and the subsequent
retrograde of your ruler Mercury on the very next day, you will be reconsidering
everything that has been happening to you in a new and more self-reflective
light. You are pulled to the inside more strongly at this time, but also fully
aware of the call to adventure that comes upon you with electric visions for
a new way of being available in the physical to others around you. This would
be true in both a business and in a personal sense. In order for new ideas
to come into your awareness there is an incubation period currently in effect
that lasts well into February.
During the last half of January and the first few weeks of February, then,
it is best not to push the river but instead to remain alert to whatever comes
along into your experience, and eventually, your consciousness.
Cancer 
(June
21 - July 21) Water. Ruling planet is the Moon. Top
Partnership is powerful for you right now, Cancer, no two ways about that.
Your friends and significant others are all about helping you to get the ride
of your life from that wave you've been surfing lately. Communication is slowed
down and fully practical for you right now, performed mainly for the results
that it brings you, no time for anything else. But somewhere in another part
of your non-physical anatomy you are reaching for the stars. This is about
others, in a sense, but also reflects back to you, and your process, more fully
integrated now than ever.
As the month begins, you are still feeling the burst of energy that you received
during the last weekend of the old year from the December 27th New Moon in
your relationship sector. You are strong on partnership at this time, and on
intimate connection with others, which at times seems like the answer for you.
Simultaneously, you are learning to discriminate self from other in a different
way. All through these last few weeks the recognition has been dawning of a
new way to connect in tribal unity and with boundary-orientation that may seem
revolutionary to the more traditional parts of your personality, but which
hold the key to a glorious expansion of your most basic sense of self. When
you turn it around until it fits, all things are possible, although until that
time there will be mysteries to contend with. You are particularly concerned
over this current period with a tendency to emphasize and idealize both your
own deep interior spaces and the potential partners in your life who epitomize
this energy for you.
The First Quarter Moon of Sunday, January 4th, may bring a certain tension
to the mix of personal and impersonal energy that surrounds you, and may in
that way serve to clarify some of these issues.
With the Full Moon of Saturday, January 10th, and the days that follow, you
are discerning and discriminating more completely than ever, and seeking the
combination of all that you have known into the synthesis of a novel solution.
The Mercury retrograde period that takes up the last three weeks of the month
will represent a time of reflection and re-integration, and will also be a
great time for journaling your thoughts and mental meanderings. Putting your
emotions down in words can be helpful, even when the stream is muddy and the
thoughts convoluted. When the Solar Eclipse of January 25th and 26th comes
along, it dawns upon a different and more powerfully imagined world.
Leo 
(July
22 - August 21) Fire. Ruling planet is the Sun. Top
You are strong on service right now, Leo. Doing right by others translates
in some mystical way into doing right for yourself. Your resources that you
have to work with might be limited now, but your imagination knows no bounds.
Partners in your life are quite helpful at this juncture, and you might be
tempted to put them on a pedestal, only to find out later that they have their
feet of clay. The truth, as usual, is somewhere in between. You will ultimately
find that steering a middle course brings you the gold at the rainbow's end.
As the month begins, you are really starting to feel the transforming nature
of Pluto, which recently re-entered your sector of service to others and of
discipleship to your soul-level purpose. In some sense you are entering into
the next phase of the important process of discovering what you were meant
to do in this lifetime. These New Year configurations are extremely powerful
for you in this way. You are also likely to be idealizing relationships of
one kind or another over this period of time. You are experiencing a sense
of high idealism, and also potentially of illusion as well, with regard to
important relationships in your life. You can simultaneously sense the possibility
of oneness with another and the pitfalls in terms of practical or real-world
considerations that correspond to an excess of daydreaming. Still, this is
a wonderful month to make progress in this area. The first two weeks of the
month are filled with a powerful sense of optimism, the sense that anything
is possible.
At the same time, and especially during the time of the Full Moon taking place
on Saturday, January 10th, you are tuning in to an inner sense of peace that
affects all that you say and do. With Mercury retrograde in your partnership
sector you will be feeling more internal than outgoing in this area, reflecting
perhaps on where relationship with significant others is taking you at this
time in your life. This is a perfect opportunity for journaling and for discussions
and earnest conferences, not necessarily a good time to forge ahead with brand-new
schemes. New initiatives in this area will be especially tempting in the last
week of the month but you may do better to wait until after the retrograde
has passed, perhaps as long as the third week of February.
The Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, January 17th, emphasizes the inherent conflicts
between the incommensurate elements of your on-going situation. The solution
might be to embrace the paradox without necessarily needing to question it.
With the Solar Eclipse taking place in your partnership sector on the following
weekend, late on the night of Sunday, January 25th, and on Monday, you are
energized to find fresh value in all the relationships in your life.
Virgo 
(August
22 - September 21) Earth. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
You are opening up to a new world these days and to a new way of being in it,
Virgo. When you give way to the sudden impulse out of nowhere, it might prove
in the end to be an upper or a downer but in any case it will rock your world.
There is a push-pull of circumstance that is operating in your life right now
whereby you at times stay stuck in that old and comfortable rut and then go
far beyond it. All that glitters for you right now is not the simplicity of
material reward but the inner gold that comes from a job well done and friends
who appreciate you for who you really are.
As the month begins, you are strong on self-expression, coming into yourself
in new ways and feeling both that powerful sense of solidity that is an important
part of your world lately and as well the excitement of blazing new trails
in the realm of others. You are finding novel forms of relationship that blast
you out of those ruts almost as fast as you can sink back into them. You are
also investigating new methods of showing up for service to others at this
time as well. There is a way that you are finding out more of what it means,
ultimately, that you are here participating on the planet with the rest of
society. In past lifetimes you may have been given much, and now you feel the
opportunity to give back, to the social matrix that surrounds you and to the
universe in general. This category of opportunity has been on you mind lately,
and this month more than ever.
With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, January 4th, you may feel the tension
of opposites pulling at your psyche, raising the question of whether to go
with new experience or whether to stay behind. You are moving into a new form
of spaciousness that allows your underlying core center full expression but
also gets you out there in a very different manner that proceeds more directly
from your heart.
The Full Moon of Saturday, January 10th, emphasizes these distinctions and
simultaneously centers you in your own process. With your ruler Mercury in
retrograde for the remainder of the month you will want to move slowly, even
when you feel like running, and to look well before making any sudden leaps
into the relative unknown consequence. This latter half of the month, and on
into mid-February, is a time for watching and waiting and not a time to move
forward with any unplanned moves.
With the Solar Eclipse that comes along in the late evening of Sunday, January
25th, in your sector of higher purpose, you will find the supreme integration
of thought and action along the lines that you have been arriving at for your
whole life that has proceeded this moment of fresh awareness.
Libra 
(September
22 - October 22) Air. Ruling planet Venus. Top
You are going deep within yourself, Libra, in order to discover a fuller life
on the surface. To go up you must first go down. All through the beginning
of this monthly period of time you are feeling mystical and vague, discontented
with the physical ordeal of daily living but not sure what to replace it with.
You are struggling to connect somehow with Spirit inside of you, needing to
put on more divers' weights to really get you there. One phase ends and another
begins at the time of the January 25th Solar Eclipse in your sector of self-expression,
bringing a sense of liberation to your spelunking journey of self-discovery
and a sense of purpose to ordinary life events.
As the month begins, you are deep into your core spaces, perhaps enjoying the
comfort and safety of your home environment, perhaps exploring your tribal
connections with family and friends. You are getting down to the root of everything,
your basis for a secure footing. This is a very fuzzy and slightly confusing
and also quite joyful month for you when you are exploring new dimensions of
experience and seeing the deeper and more meaningful picture. You are finding
the greater truth that underlies all the lesser ones, reinventing yourself
in a mystical way. You might not be fully ready to go out and join a convent
or a monastery, but you might feel inclined to do just that.
With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, January 4th, you are feeling the helpful
influence of significant partnerships in your life as both a blessing and a
pressure that needs adjustment.
The Full Moon a week later, coming along on Saturday, January 10th, pulls you
once more to the inside, but also gives you the impetus to dream large dreams
for where you might be going with your life, this time around. You are finding
that the remnants of prior achievements can slow you down and create extra
baggage for you to work through but that some aspects of the past must be retained
as you move forward.
With the Solar Eclipse and New Moon of Sunday and Monday, January 25th and
26th, you are seriously reconstructing where you are headed and what it might
take to get you there.
This is an important time of reevaluation, especially since Mercury is simultaneously
retrograde first in your self-expression sector and then in your sector of
home and family, meaning that you can exercise your will more effectively by
mulling over your possibilities and refining your objectives than by actual
departures from what you had already planned. When you count the time of the
retrograde shadow while Mercury is recovering its lost zodiacal longitude,
this period lasts until mid-February. At that time, significant partners in
your life will be entirely beneficial in helping you to see all your goals
more clearly.
Scorpio 
(October
23 - Nov 21) Water. Ruling planets Mars, Pluto. Top
It's a good time for true confessions this month, Scorpio, if you can overcome
your characteristic reticence. You are bursting to communicate your darkest
secrets to someone close to you. You are also sensitized in a most peculiar
way to the spacious void within that underlies and overtakes what is laughingly
called the "real world." This is the season of your unique presentation
as well as of your hermit-like quest for solitude, and you benefit when you
can make the most of it. The second half of January and on into February keeps
you guessing, as Mercury retrogrades through your sector of home and family
and gives you cause to rethink nearly everything.
As the month begins, you are full of juice for deep communication with others
around you. This is a very interesting time for you right now, during this
month and also during this year of 2009 that it ushers in. You are getting
serious about planting seeds for the future, quietly prepared for huge gifts
that are likely to come your way, and through it all thinking hard about reaching
out to others from your spiritual center.
With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, January 4th, you are feeling a slight
tension of contrary energy that might help you to tune in to what you truly
want to get out of life by revealing what you do not.
The Full Moon that comes along the following weekend, on Saturday, January
10th, also presents you with a study in contrasts. Adventure beckons, along
with a strong impulse for staying the existing course, and it all leads you
directly to personal growth and self-understanding when you look at it right.
You are also working things out in terms of tribal and familial considerations
at this time, seeking a firm basis of security in your home environment. This
is a fortunate period of time for this activity.
The Mercury retrograde period that lasts from the Full Moon time right through
to the end of the month and beyond, when you count the period of the retrograde
shadow, is a time of thinking and re-thinking your existing connection to this
basis for security. You may find yourself journaling about this important aspect
of your existence throughout this period. In mid-February there will likely
be an important breakthrough, but until then it may be best to watch and wait,
silently witnessing your responses to circumstances.
The Solar Eclipse of the late evening of January 25th and 26th in your sector
of home and family will provide important impetus for change and for bringing
helpful partners more firmly into the picture.
Sagittarius 
(Nov
22 - Dec 20) Fire. Ruling planet Jupiter. Top
This is a powerful month for settling in with yourself, Sagittarius. The time
has come to make a stand for what you truly believe. You are pursuing fame
and fortune with good success and hard work, and yet feeling at the core of
your being that there is something more, and reaching out from a compassionate
place to others around you. An unexpected shake-up is in the works and you
do well to honor it. The last half of the month, with Mercury retrograde, is
very good for deep reflection and potentially for journaling about your situation.
At the time of the Solar Eclipse of the 25th you are re-born into community
in a new way, and happy to be there.
As the month begins, you are examining and acting on your decisions regarding
the resources in your life, both financial and otherwise, which form the basis
for your sense of security. This has been a relatively constant theme lately,
from at least the time of your birthday onward, and things have been going
surprisingly well, especially considering the general state of things these
days. Now in this current time frame, you are taking a second look. I may be
that you will be inspired to invest more wisely than you have in the past or
that you will really get into the idea that virtue, not money, is its own reward.
The security that healthy financials bring may pale in comparison to that brought
about by healthy living, however you may want to define that term in alignment
with your own sense of values. These types of philosophical meanderings regarding
your resources may help you or hinder you in your search for meaning, but in
any case, is up for you right now.
With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, January 4th, you might encounter the
self-imposed limitations of your situation. You are encouraged at this time
to take a stand for yourself and to let your imaginative powers and your raw
courage triumph over adversity and restriction.
With the Full Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Saturday, January
10th, you may feel the fulfillment of this potential struggle and the flowering
of a sense of connectedness to everyone around you that somewhat relieves the
burden you have attempted to shoulder alone for so long. It's a long road that
has no turning.
The Mercury retrograde period that follows the next day, and that lasts well
into February when you take the shadow period into account, will prove to be
a time of self-reflection and consolidation. This is an excellent time for
journaling and communicating with others, and a good time as well for analysis,
although perhaps not so great for moving forward with entirely new plans.
This may be the temptation when the Solar Eclipse and New Moon takes place
on Sunday night and Monday morning the 25th and 26th, since the energy for
forging ahead is extremely high at this time, but you do better to quietly
watch and await developments. There is a way of forcing events and a way of
allowing them to unfold, naturally, without overly steering them or resisting
them either, and that might be the best way for you to use this magical end-of-month
time.
Capricorn 
(Dec
21 - Jan 19) Earth. Ruling planet Saturn. Top
This is a terrific month for progress, Capricorn. You are in the midst of profound
changes, and necessary ones at that, if you can only keep your balance. Poised
on the verge of great doings and yet simultaneously holding firm to your convictions
in the midst of electric impulses for change isn't so bad, but it's easy to
tip in one direction or another when what you really must do is to integrate
every part of yourself. The universe is on your side, as long as you honor
the fundamental transformation that is upon you and have reverence for the
life of the spirit as well as the body and the mind. If you stay alive to the
magic, surprising information from beyond this physical world may provide enlightened
answers to questions you hadn't even known to ask.
As the month begins, you are riding the wave of energy from the New Moon in
your sign that took place last December on the 27th. This is a time of great
action-orientation and also for looking within and for sussing out what all
your activity really means for you at a deeper level. It's been an amazing
year for you in many ways, and a still more amazing one is to come with tremendous
changes in your best interest that will rock your world, in a good way. Your
financial and other resources are nebulous at this time, as you look into a
more subtle meaning of security that takes other-worldly points of view very
much into account. You find that your worldview is shifting, sometimes subtly
sometimes with a flash and illuminates entirely different corners of your psyche
and brings things that you've never before imagined into full sight.
At the time of the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, January 4th, there may be
traces of tension, perhaps on the home front, that help you to better define
your true objectives. You might feel pushed into a corner and forced to defend
your position, or that idea could be only another mirage in a sea of potentialities.
However you take it, the information is there for great mental progress when
you turn it around and look at it from the other side.
The Full Moon of the following weekend, coming along on Saturday, January 10th,
may serve to bring you closer to resolution. You are turning to the inside
right now for some important feedback and for the ultimate basis of your security,
taking a stand for what you truly believe in your heart of hearts.
When Mercury retrogrades the next day it signals a period of time that is best
for reflection and inner knowing, that extends through to the end of the month
and beyond. The information you can glean over this period of time is powerful
and incendiary.
With the energy of the Solar Eclipse that comes along in the late evening of
Sunday and Monday morning, the 25thand 26th, you can move mountains but they
will most likely be mountains of the mind. A mystical concept has wings to
carry you over the obstacles that you only thought were insurmountable.
Aquarius 
(Jan
20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn. Top
This is a time for deep reflection, Aquarius. You are seriously weighing your
options and counting up the cost for each step forward as you enter the New
Year. It's a time of looking ahead and also behind you, more so right now than
ever. Although you are definitely on your way to new adventure, you are also
somewhat stuck in the very midst of your transformation, like a turtle marooned
on a rock. Beginning with an exciting January 25th Solar Eclipse in your sign,
and on into February everything suddenly frees up and lurches forward. What's
past is prologue.
As the month begins, you are feeling the energy of the late December New Moon
in your sector of dream imagination. This is a very internal time of the year
for you, when you are more at home within your inner world than cruising around
in the outer one. Relationships have taken on a mystical tone and home and
family concerns also. You are tuning in to the underlying Source of all, everywhere
you look, and as a result your vision might be a trifle blurry with respect
to everyday affairs. Your finances are also somewhat less grounded than you
would like them to be, although they still provide a major focus for you at
this time. You might feel as though an elephant has been sitting on you and
your lemonade stand but it could also be an illusion. What is money after all
but a game with paper counters and illusory goals?
At the time of the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, January 4th, and the days
following, there is a certain degree of tension in your process of growth and
awareness but also a powerful degree of optimism conferred by the entrance
of Jupiter into your sign. This year-long transit will ensure that all of 2009
will be one of the better ones for you. You are feeling your oats at this time
but also getting the benefit of a more sober-minded approach that will serve
you well in these troubled times.
With the Full Moon of the following weekend, coming along on Saturday, January
10th, you are definitely seeking your salvation through balancing alternatives.
You are making the most of the lessons learned through acts of responsibility
rather than imaginative brilliance, although both have their place.
The Mercury retrograde period that follows, lasting well into February, will
be a time to draw in your bridges and defend your moat rather than forge ahead
with new possibilities. On the other hand, you will be mightily tempted to
leap forward, especially from the 19th onward, when the Sun enters your sign
and conjuncts expansive Jupiter there.
A week later, with the powerful New Moon and Solar Eclipse in your sign of
the 25th and 26th, you will be positively glowing with ideas for new adventures.
You must realize however that their outcome will be uncertain until at least
the end of the month has passed. It is perhaps better to make and revise your
plans while waiting on the execution until after the retrograde has passed
in mid-February. After that point there will be smoother sailing.
Pisces 
(Feb
19 - March 19) Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter. Top
Opportunity knocks for you this month, Pisces, especially during the first
ten days. Your times they are a'changin' for sure, and you right along with
them. Be careful what you wish for; if you stay alert to your possibilities
and heed the call, nothing is impossible. You are caught between extremes,
sometimes leaping ahead of yourself with wild abandon, sometimes holding back.
Partners offer wisdom that seems a lot like restriction but which might afford
you necessary ballast to stay afloat and not capsize. The universe is supportive
of major transformation for you so long as you properly honor the deepest part
of yourself in the process. You are introspective in the second half of the
month, biding your time and waiting for your pastures to change.
As the month begins, you are stretching for connection of many different kinds,
from intimate to business-like, and from social group to practical mentoring.
In this you are right in sync with this new age that is being born over these
years leading up to 2012, when greater connection between all the disparate
units of tribal humanity will become increasingly important. The days following
the New Moon from the end of last month through the first ten days of January,
including New Year's Eve, are special for you in that your desires are more
exposed than usual to the light of your conscious understanding and have a
greater chance of making the transition from ideal dreams to fruitful intentions.
Your wishes are magical in this season, and will move mountains when you align
yourself properly with Spirit into the equation. There is also the very strong
possibility of moving past old barriers to self-acceptance that have been hidden
from your conscious gaze up until just now.
With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday, January 4th, you are going beyond imagination
into the place where the rubber meets the road of concrete reality, testing
your vision. You are contending simultaneously with the wild vision for the
future and the staid impulse to batten down the hatches and just hold on to
what you've got, with powerful relationship energy also as well as financial
remuneration very much part of the picture.
The Full Moon that transpires a week later, on Saturday, January 10th, in your
self-expression sector will take you a ways further down your chosen path if
you let it. With Mercury also retrograding in your sector of dream imagination,
there are definitely some very internal feelings and self-reflective energies
that will come up for you. You are in a weeks-long process of integrating inner
and outer concerns and taking the best of both worlds as you do so.
The Solar Eclipse of Sunday night and Monday morning, the 25th and 26th, will
present a powerful impulse to take your meditations further, but on the inner
not the outer dimension of reality. When Mercury turns direct at month's end
and even more so when it crosses out of its retrograde shadow on February 21st
you will have the chance to move forward with ideas that have been percolating
around inside your psyche up until then.
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Astrology of January again features Neptune,
Saturn and Uranus, with a Mercury retrograde
period thrown in for good measure. Saturn stations
into direct motion on New Year's Eve, just
as the month begins, and starts to close in
once more on its fertile opposition with Uranus.
This aspect, exact at the time of the recent
American presidential election, comes around
again as the new administration takes office,
and represents the tides of change sweeping
through not only our collective experience
but our individual lives as well. Uranus represents
radical individuality, as well as clear-seeing
into the hidden architecture of the universe
that surrounds us, and this principle may serve
as our guiding light amidst the uncertainties
of these times. We win when we remember to
be completely and utterly ourselves, no matter
what may transpire. Saturn in opposition reminds
us of the inherent limitations of life on this
troubled planet, but the impulse for revolutionary
and yes, evolutionary change is stronger, and
will prevail.
Along with opposing Uranus, Saturn makes a powerful inconjunct aspect with
Neptune at the start of this month and year that presages the difficulty in
actualization of the dreams and ideals that we hold inside of ourselves right
now. As the month wears on, this aspect fades away, but will return periodically
through the next three years leading up to the crux of the societal transformation
that we face at the end of 2011 and in 2012. By the end of the coming year
Pluto will be strongly constellated in this configuration also, implying a
still more radical transformation of all existing social structures. We are
learning to live with one another in a new way over this period, just as we
did in the amazing sixties, of which this current configuration is a powerful
reflection. Only though connecting ourselves up with all of the various social
layers that make up our complexly embedded existence will we be able to break
through and triumph. We all have to start working together or we shall certainly,
in the words of Ben Franklin, hang separately. In the process we will collectively
become more cognizant of the sparkling individual elements that make up this
fascinating and symbiotic mosaic that we could call the human tribe.
The New Moon from last month that took place on the weekend after Christmas
also sets the stage for the New Year. Like the chart for the New Year's Eve
itself, it features a Capricorn / Aquarius line-up. These are the signs ruled
respectively by Saturn and Uranus, emphasizing once more their opposition,
and its powerful reflection of these climactic times of change and possibility.
The backlash of resistance to change is also inherent in these times and in
this oppositional configuration. Denial is a big river, and well capable of
holding a goodly percentage of the world's population. Jupiter enters Aquarius
on January 5th and this more positive symbolism is also right in line with
the enormous changes of this current month. When the Sun enters Aquarius on
January 19th, it conjuncts Jupiter and ushers in an era of relative optimism.
We never could, after all, simply glide into our new destiny that awaits us
without a certain degree of egoic kicking and struggling along the way. This
is something to bear in mind as we engage in the specifics of our individual
life paths that link up with the larger picture. Mars conjuncts Pluto in this
New Year's Eve chart, reflecting ego, and we could well see some energetic
and even violent reactions on either side; great activity both in opposition
to allowing real change to come through and in support of that change, and
this would be true on both a broader and a more personal level.
The Mercury retrograde period that begins on January 11th might send things
into something of a tail-spin, introducing a self-reflective and inner-oriented
period of time that is better perhaps for journaling on your situation than
for forging ahead with entirely new initiatives. Mercury changes to direct
motion on the 31st but remains in its retrograde shadow until the 21st of February.
All through this month, and triggered especially at the time of the Full Moon,
a Yod to Saturn from Neptune and Eris emphasizes the limitation and lessons
of the Lord of Time. There may be many lessons learned about conservation of
our resources before this pivotal year is over.
Current Moon Configurations
January 1st New Year 2009
At dusk on December 31st the Moon appears in the sky very near Venus in a beautiful
display. The Moon in sensitive Pisces conjuncts Venus in Aquarius, bringing
both these signs into play for the coming year.
January 4th First Quarter Moon
This phase is traditionally when the rubber meets the road and we are forced
by bitter necessity to see what portion of our dreams and schemes from the
time of the preceding New Moon will work and what will not survive into the
next cycle. The Sun loosely conjuncts Mars while squaring the Moon in Mars'
own sign of Aries, increasing the tension of this moment. The Moon also widely
conjuncts Eris, indicating that making a courageous stand for ourselves might
be in order at this time. Venus enters sensitive Pisces and as a consequence
we will be more naturally attuned to each other.
January 10th Full Moon
This powerful Full Moon triggers the still-potent Saturn – Uranus opposition
and the Saturn – Neptune inconjunct aspect also, forming a mystic rectangle
with Saturn and Uranus. This Full Moon takes place in the evening with the
retrograde of Mercury about 12 hours away on the following morning, so the
theme of the retrograde is very much part of the symbolism at this Full Moon
time. The Full Moon triggers a direly expressive Yod to Saturn from Neptune
and Eris, indicating the potential disappointment of dreams deferred, and the
ascendancy of limitation over abundance on our emotional horizons these days.
On the other hand, Jupiter, recently entered into Aquarius on the 5th, stands
quite near Mercury in the sky, signaling an optimistic and eventful last three
weeks of the month. Saturn opposite Uranus indicates that the push-pull of
going wildly forward ("Yes, we can!") versus staying conservatively
behind will be very active once again. This opposition perfects twice more
this year, once in February, on the 5th, and once in early September.
January 11th Mercury
This Mercury retrograde period may be as wild and wacky as recent ones were
because this time Mercury aspects Jupiter and Uranus instead of Neptune, but
with equal potentially surprising and perhaps brilliant effect. Jupiter has
entered the sign of Uranus and is therefore ruled by the cosmic trickster.
The retrograde period lasts almost six weeks this time, when you count the
period of the retrograde shadow, with Mercury not able to regain his lost zodiacal
position in Aquarius until February 21st. Mercury stations direct at the end
of the month. One highlight of this period would be the 20th, when the new
president takes office, and another would be the 31st.
January 17th Last Quarter Moon
This phase is traditionally the "crisis of consciousness" when we
learn from the perhaps painful lessons of the first three weeks of the cycle.
Coming near the last degree of Capricorn and Libra, Cardinal signs, this period
may signify a last look back at the energy of Capricorn which Pluto is currently
transforming right before our very eyes. The Moon sextiles Pluto on this same
weekend, after midnight on Saturday.
January 25th New Moon
This powerful New Moon takes place in the late night hours of Saturday and
the early hours of Sunday morning, depending on location, and is in addition
conjunct Jupiter in the early degrees of Aquarius while Jupiter aspects Uranus.
This signals a period of time when the trickster energy and the scientific
viewpoint of this somewhat detached sign hold sway. The New Moon and Jupiter
conjunct President Barack Obama's Jupiter within a few degrees, and therefore
he is experiencing his Jupiter return over this January time frame. Barack
Obama himself has Aquarius rising. Even though his Jupiter is in the reticent
12th House, we will see him unusually energized and with his popularity likely
to be soaring all during this month.
Text ©Copyright 2009 AstroGraph
Used by permission
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www.psychicwalter.com
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