Jan 30 – Feb 5

Mighty Words

What to expect: Intense communication
What to watch out for: Power plays
What will it affect? Communication, Power Structures, Status Quo

Between Jan 28 and 31st mercury in Capricorn will finally meet up with Pluto and then square Uranus. Conversations will be intense. It’s a good time to negotiate, make speeches or investigate anything that needs deep research. Our minds will be busy with lots of ideas and breakthroughs may happen.

This energy may also spark some revolutionary energy as it makes these connections with Pluto and Uranus. When these two were squaring in the years of 2012 – 2015 authoritarian power structures were established and challenged – Arab spring and the occupy movement happened. On a personal level many were faced with upheaval and transformative change. This year we experience the finishing touches on this energy. Mercury will likely communicate to within these couple of days clearly just what needs to be completed.

Why? Venus Trine Transiting Vesta, Mercury Conjunction Transiting Pluto, Mercury Square Transiting Uranus

Exploring what we know

What to expect: Insight
What to watch out for: Expressing overconfidence
What will it affect? Wounds, Causes, Beliefs, The unconscious

Feb 1st and 2nd are good days to talk it out or write about it, but if your ideas are controversial or represent a major paradigm shift, others may oppose you. Work it out with others you trust – A good friend, a therapist or coach. Or write in your diary to help to clarify and uncover subtle patterns. Neptune comes together with Pallas giving us an especially intuitive, even psychic ability to get to the heart of things. The problem will come if or when we decide to communicate “out there” what we know. Our beliefs and opinions are strong and ardent right now. And we may be overconfident in expressing them.

Why? Mercury Sextile Chiron, Neptune Conjunction Pallas, Mercury Square Jupiter, Mercury Opposition Vesta

Two types of Women

What to expect: Friction
What to watch out for: Clashing values
What will it affect? Feminism, the feminine, women, marriage, relationships

On Feb 2nd Juno, the marriage asteroid will enter Capricorn; the competitive, sophisticated perhaps even trophy wife. Then the next day Venus will enter Aries; the head-strong, independent, girl-boss woman. And then the two of them square off. Is this a cat fight? Well I can tell you, there’s no love here. This energy represents so starkly the two types of women that exist. One who’s ambition to be a wife may make her decisions out of love, but more likely out of her ambitious need to depend on a man. The other who feels hemmed in by a man, but will accept him if he can be, and allows her to be free. It’s the codependent vs the inter-dependent relationship issue again. It may show up as a war between the two types of women the metaphorical Melania Trump vs. Eleanor Roosevelt or a war of these two types of women within ourselves.

Why? Juno Entering Capricorn, Venus Entering Aries, Venus Square Juno

Jupiter Retrograde

What to expect: A need for balance
What to watch out for: Pushing for outward expansion
What will it affect? Relationships, Negotiations, Politics, War and Peace

On Feb 5 our window of direct planets ends when Jupiter goes retrograde. Jupiter is in Libra, so this is a time when we can expand inwardly. The examination will be around relationships, balance, and fairness. A Review of laws, negotiations, politics, war and peace may happen now.

Why? Jupiter Retrograde

Jan 23 – 29

Art Appreciation

What to expect: Expressions of Art
What to watch out for: Hiding our brilliance
What will it affect? Artistic expression, Communication

On January 23 get out your lyre and makes some music. The energy lends itself to visionary and artistic expression. Colour, form, line, shape, space, texture and especially value all become important now. We know our art may be good, but not all good art attains value. This is because we are often told what to value instead of allowing what is truly valuable to emerge. Not only that, we may hide our art falsely labeling it ourselves as not valuable. Now is the time to let your art shine!

Why? Mercury Sextile Transiting Neptune

Raw Passionate Emotion

What to expect: Powerful goddess Kali energy
What to watch out for: Dis-empowered view points
What will it affect? Feminine Energy, Feminine Power

During the entire week we merge into a dance with Mars, Vesta and Lilith in a water grand trine of emotion. This energy pulls us inward and deep into our motivations and raw emotions. Our commitment issues come up again. We want a partnership that fosters freedom and independence and the anger around any inability to achieve this lights a flame of indignation. If we recognize it clearly, we’ll realize that it’s a flame of feminine power and passion which can be positively directed. Venus is also conjunct Chiron in Pisces, allowing us to go deep spiritually and heal our love wounds. By Jan 25 we start to feel the love again as marriage asteroid Juno makes a trine to nurturing Ceres. We are getting there and can now taste how good it feels to find a balance between independence and feeling close and nurtured. It been a long time coming.

Why? Mars Trine Transiting Vesta, Mars Square Transiting Juno, Venus Conjunction Transiting Chiron, Juno Trine Transiting Ceres

A Weird Science New Moon

What to expect: The unexpected
What to watch out for: Loneliness
What will it affect? Intentions, directions, relationships

Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world – Albert Einstein

How many have you have wondered over the last couple of months if we skipped to a different universe? A different time-line? Are we are in some parallel universe where all the opposite to what we thought should be happening, is happening? Though Albert Einstein’s theories evade most of us, his theory of relativity, evolved to theory of time and quantum mechanics, then quantum entanglement and eventually his “Spooky-action-at-a-distance” theory. When you start to examine his theories, you get a weird sense of time, the spiritual, the psychic, the past and the future. It seem sci fi and impossible. But quickly we are coming to terms with the idea through science that the spiritual and the material are not separate. The New Moon on Jan 27th is at 8 degrees of weird science Aquarius. Although the moon is making no major aspects, it provides an opportunity to be emotionally distant, unconventional and innovative. And it will help us to incorporate some of this spooky-at-a-distance thinking into our intentions. If you don’t like the time-line your on, you can clarify your intentions to affect what is happening on the level, and universe you’re in. Or just skip to a whole new one… the Aquarius new moon will help to allow you to entertain the possibility.

On the same day Venus will square Saturn and we may feel lonely and on the outside. Venus in Pisces wants to merge and feel one with the universe, their partner and with love, yet something is preventing it. Likely the source of this loneliness comes from within so it’s a good time for soul searching to examine where we are disconnected with ourselves. In truth we can never be separate. We can use this new moon to set intention that will surprise us with their outcome. The trick is to suspend our belief that we and all things are separate. The trick is to have faith! Mars also enters into Aries igniting our ability to enter bravely into unexplored territory.

Why? New Moon at 8°Aq15′, Venus Square Transiting Saturn, Mars Entering Aries

Jan 16 – 22

Confrontations

What to expect: Confrontations
What to watch out for: The need for self esteem
What will it affect? Authority, wounds, patterns, inner power

By Jan 16, new patterns come into our awareness. Mars conjuncts Chiron and we may face a confrontation that brings in hard to face issues. This may come across as criticism and likely from someone in authority and will build between the 16 and 19th when mars will square Saturn. We feel thwarted and frustrated. It not only brings up personal wounds but societal wounds as well. We have to stand up to those in authority and to fight for what is right and when we do, we will find ourselves gaining self esteem and inner power. You don’t have to do it alone. Working with a counselor or coach is powerful now.

Why? Pallas Opposition Transiting North Node, Mars Conjunction Transiting Chiron, Mars Square Transiting Saturn

The Suffrage vs. Inauguration

What to expect: A new path
What to watch out for: The need for balance and fairness
What will it affect? Communication, commitments, Authority, Traditions

On January 17th the sun will oppose Vesta and we’ll feel a new sense of commitment to tradition and maybe even matriotism. Mercury in Capricorn is thinking carefully about the credibility of those in authority and is mobilizing to move forward with a new path. As it makes a trine to the North Node it puts together plans and get’s into the detail of what that new path will look like. The sun then moves into Aquarius on the 19th and we are ready for change and progress. By the 20th mercury will sextile pallas, weaving in a much needed and important spiritual touch to our plans. Money is the last ingredient to our alchemical mixture. As we put our money and resources into the mix, we not only experience transformation we experience the golden touch. Venus will sextile Pluto and we feel our passion increase to this new direction. There is a lot of energy in the mix and passion also may clash with our need for nurtance and tender loving care. Balance and fairness is the way through.

Why? Sun Opposition Transiting Vesta, Mercury Trine Transiting North Node, Sun Entering Aquarius, Mercury Sextile Transiting Pallas, Venus Sextile Transiting Pluto, Vesta Square Transiting Ceres