Menu for the Week of January 12th
Mercury conjunct Venus
This is a super sweet concoction who’s flavors are sure to tempt you with romantic tidings and sweet nothings. It is served Aquarius-style though so don’t expect too grandiose a tone but if you like kinky kisses from wicked smarty-pants poets then this is your dish. The Mercury/Venus pot gets spiced nice on Tuesday and Wednesday with a sextile from the bold, unexpected and unapologetic Uranus. Any iteration of this dish may cause the connoisseur to claim their courage, create without caution and canoodle with the kind of cackling coyotes who throw caution to the wind. Feminist overtones abound.
Mars enters Pisces
Much like a drunken noodle, this flavorful Mars in Pisces dish has a wobble to its wandering. It’s a soulful, savory slurp that caters more to those who are into the journey and not so destination focused. Success is in the savoring of the dish not the finishing of it. Mars is about to meet stern, stately, severe Saturn on Thursday which may startle the tastebuds and even offend the less complex palates. Mars will be making a square to Saturn, an aspect that can tease out flavors that may have us alternating between ambition and apathy, frustration and feelings of failure and between being unsure how to move in the world and needing to master the art of meditative motion.
Aries & Aries Rising
Your drive has ducked out of sight for a minute, making you a little less interested in running at your usual speed. You may even feel stopped and forced into a moment of dropping your defenses and resting.
Obey.
It’s not that there isn’t a lot of life still left to live above ground it’s just that a part of you needs to stop and rest your weary unconscious. Your dreamtime dance card might start to fill up. The information you may receive during deep sleep and dream states will bring a wealth of data but you’ll also need a cushion of time to absorb the meaning behind the messages.
However it may not even be as deep as all that – you might just also need to cool off a bit. Spend an extra evening or two at home. Unwind more that you wind, uncork more than you bottle up and let yourself have moments of reprieve.
Your career is still being lit up and you should get some extra accolades from others at work or in your community this week. All that is good and at the same time cannot hold a candle to what March has in store for you. Trust me when I say that this is your moment for some down time-from now until March the bulk of the work is within. As for the spring – she’s about to roar like a sabertooth.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.
Taurus & Taurus Rising
I’m really digging your visibility this week. I’m really liking the lift in your loafers right about now. I’m really wanting you to take the winds of support and let them lift you up. I really want you to tell us all those amazing ideas that are buzzing around in your brain and share with us all of your creative genius.
And don’t indulge that silly little bundle of doubts you carry around that might just spring up in social situations come the week’s end. Just notice when and where you might feel jealousy, abandonment or a greater fear of rejection on a social level. Especially if it pertains to whether or not you are entitled to love, adoration or the devotion of many or of an intimate other. Just watch that you don’t oscillate between being too aggressive or too repressive in regards to expressing how you feel. Don’t indulge your bad behaviors but don’t ignore them either. Just handle them with a steady hand and a thoughtful redirection.
Defensiveness may start to seep in. Don’t let yourself be fooled by such a faulty tactic! Be open to your heart when it wants to close down. Keep tabs on any desires to bulldoze past stop signs or dig your heels in when the light turns green.
This week is a mixed bag of delights and demons. You have a lot going for you in terms of accolades and attention but you also need to be on the lookout for fights and feelings that get the best of you.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.
Gemini & Gemini Rising
What ever work you do right now in your career needs to feel like it has meaning for you. Whatever you are exerting your energy towards should have a sense of connection and fluidity with your inner world, your bigger visions and what you feel to be your life purpose.
Otherwise it’s just going to feel like you are swimming upstream and some of your projects may grind to a frustrating halt. But that is just this week. It’s only a temporary circumstance but one that is indicative of a larger theme of finding purpose and producing from that place.
There may also be a few relationships that feel more like dreary Debbies than assisting angels. There may be a couple of people in your life that are presenting themselves as sturdy posts to tether yourself to come stormier weather but only you know whether they are a reliable rock or simply another force in your life that is weighing you down. The fact of the matter is that you are trimming the fat when it comes to who you team up with. No shame in it – by all spiritual laws that I have read, if it isn’t working for you it really can’t be working for them either.
The other way that this astrology could be rolling out for you is that your work life becomes a bone of contention between you and your partner. Either your success or the time it takes to make magic at work starts to take too much away from your loved ones. You’ll need to make room for both your aspirations and your relationships. Said another way; choose the relationships that are most likely to be an active support towards manifesting your dreams and visions in the world.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.
Cancer & Cancer Rising
Listen kid, you’ve got big dreams. I like it. You’ve got big ambitions, I respect that. You’ve got big talent that you are only beginning to wake up to. I whole heartedly encourage you to keep exploring and supporting it.
You’re going places, I get that. Life has not been meek or week or anything short of wild as of late. The thing is this: in order for you to get to all the work that you actually are capable of joyfully producing, you need to be able to set appropriate limits and set supportive structures down, like, now.
This means saying no, setting schedules, taking care of your physical needs and making time to fuck off and have some fun. If you aren’t exploring new teachings or working with new Masters, your earning potential is only a fraction of what it could be. Yes it’s time to invent your own way of working in the world but there is nothing wrong with getting some spiritual or philosophic guidance. It can only deepen and sweeten the pot, honey-bunny.
This tension between what you are dreaming of expanding into and the structured contractions you need to make in your daily life is with you for a good couple of years. The tension can serve you as long as you refuse to drop the ball on reality. The tension can serve you as long as you refuse to let your daydreaming take over your daily to-doing. The tension can serve you as long as you make damn sure that you fold your dreams and visions into the duties you must drudge through. The tension can serve you if you remember that tensing up is no way to be productive. Controlling isn’t the same as creating. Soften in the spots you have had to harden in and this will be a very productive couple of years.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.
Leo & Leo Rising
There are definitely a few tensions brewing in your chart that may create a situation or two of overindulgence. Especially when it comes to love. But getting all loosey-goosey with hearts in your eyes isn’t really something that you can get away with for long. Almost instantly you receive a cosmic smack down if you get too far ahead of yourself. Better to keep your head on your shoulders and your feet in the fertile soil in the coming weeks. There is quite a nice surprise or invigorating influence from an intimate other on Monday/Tuesday and as long as you can keep it in perspective it can serve you well through the more difficult days.
Like Thursday.
Thursday (and the day or two surrounding it) may very well be a point of clarity, tension or teasing of your tougher points and tender joints. Romantic boundaries, fears of committing, fears of releasing, obsessive obsessions and things that are a little hard to grasp seem to team up and tackle you. So be ready. Be willing. Be not worried about the sore stuff if it rises to the surface and remember that all the things that occur in life, all the ups and downs, are only trying to remind us of our interconnectivity.
Any difficulties this week will be followed by an experience of either spiritual renewal or psychic confusion. Stick with what is occurring, choose presence instead of evasion and you’ll get to experience something more like spiritual communion in the coming weeks.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.
Virgo & Virgo Rising
The red-hot momma, Mars, having just moved into your Seventh House of relationships is signaling a ready-set-go time of getting in touch with intimacy issues. But who the hell wants to rush into that kind of material?
Apparently you do.
Well, perhaps rushing isn’t exactly your style but there will be a some poking, prodding and pestering for you to contend with in the coming weeks in regards to your tender hearted connections. Some situations might get too close for comfort, especially come this Thursday, but others will be too slippery to grab a hold of and take a good look at. You’ll have to feel your way through this moment by moment-it isn’t always evident what exactly is being worked out on a psychological level. Not right away at least. Take moments to pause, especially this week, especially if people are really pissing you off.
It’s easy to be cold but it’s hard to make amends after you’ve frozen someone out. Those that appear to be enemies can be our greatest spiritual teachers in the end. Our culture of immediate gratification is our biggest obstacle to experiencing the contentment of the present moment. We have no idea how a certain relationship or love experience is going to end or what it will teach us. We have no idea where a particular fight, challenge or obstacle will eventually lead us.
All we really have is how we show up to each event, the integrity we come bearing and the sincerity with which we lead. Lead with your best even at your worst.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.
Libra & Libra Rising
While you are about to start working hard on how to bring your visions and dreams alive in your work life, keep in mind that the road blocks that seem to hinder your humming along are just important adjustments in disguise.
I encourage you to spend time actively imagining your everyday life as you wish it to be. Be less concerned with the specifics right now and instead go for the overall feeling that you wish to slip into like your favorite pair of jeans. Most of us spend time thinking about the future and the far off realities we wish to realize without understanding that it really is only the day-to-day that we get to experience life through. The “big” moments are really just little moments compiled to make a big life.
How do you want your day to unfold? How do you want to feel when you wake up in the morning? When you get to midday? When you get to the end of the day? What are the actual things that you have to do? what do you need to move around or make work in order to get to experience your life so as to feed your soul?
The daily can be a grind and you certainly have your work cut out for you this week but you also have a tremendous amount of assistance to use whatever creative inspiration is around to help you find new and inventive ways to problem solve.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.
Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
Before you can get to healing the divides, before you can get to having a healthy amount of openness, transparency and give and take with your lovers, your art or even your children, there first needs to be a connection to your own sense of self worth. Otherwise you are just a teeter-totter of self-pity and self-aggrandizing. Apathy and anger. Neediness and aloofness. Over-engagement and isolation. Being ‘all that’ and none of it at all.
This week your ruling planet, Mars, is triggering a longer range aspect in your chart that will be coloring the end of 2015, and stay with you well into 2016. It’s an aspect that is asking you to get real about what you can actually produce in terms of your creative juice and your cold hard assets. Dreams don’t manifest themselves on a whim. They need a tremendous amount of support, dedication, deliberate action, non-self-pitying sacrifice, engaged encouragement and consistent love and adoration in order to get off the ground. Using your resources to fund your bigger visions is essential to your ultimate sense of fulfillment.
This week might feel like it is frustrating that nail while hitting it on the head. This week might have you feeling broke and forgetting your internal riches. This week and next might trick you into believing in “reality” as it appears instead of what you can turn it into, but it can also trick you into feeling like ‘it’s all good’ when really what you need to do is pick up your tools and get some jobs done.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.
Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
Family issues find you whether you are 8 or 88. Security issues come knocking whether you have $8 or $8 million in the bank account. This week offers you up some very interesting gris for the mill in terms of determining, defining and detailing exactly what is OK for you and what isn’t when it comes to how much your willing to give up for your relatives. Or housemates. Or bedmates. Or landlords.
It’s one of those situations that helps you to clarify your needs, your beliefs and your intentions in your familial interactions. We don’t know what we are made of until we are pushed to declare it. We don’t know what we can withstand until we have weathered the storm. The hidden gem that you have in your back pocket is a gateway to either having compassion for your family’s struggles or your capacity to hold onto your vision and version of a utopian home life. Either work and both are powerful.
You have the opportunity to rebuild your foundation as you wish it to be. It feels like a month change of change on the home front. It feels like a little movement at the base. It feels like a transition of territory, one that you might be called to defend. Just remember that defense is a slippery slope. One that is absolutely necessary at times and absolutely detrimental at others. You’re straddling knowing when to and when not to right now as you move between wanting to engage in the fight and wanting to transcend it.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.
Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
There could be a situation that has been just out of view that comes into sharp focus this week. It may signify a conversation that needs to be had that you’d rather avoid. It might signify an authority figure who’s overbearing ways finally push you to defend yourself. It may even be an issue with a neighbor, sibling or family member that annoys you just enough to get a rise out of you.
The fact of the matter is that your life is about to get busier. More movements over the next month will be filling your daily routine and more activities in general with be snatching up the precious minutes of your day. This week will be asking you to define which of these tasks is important and which ones you couldn’t care less about. The week’s situations might also be a nice reflection of just what isn’t worth the precious energy it takes to fight over. Arguments will suck up too much of your psychic energy and you just don’t have it to spare right now. Besides, you are working on a bigger theme of cultivating thoughtful compassion and using your mental energy and verbal communications for healing and emotional/spiritual growth. You need time to diffuse, deconstruct and let go in order to get there. All your Capricorn I-can-hold-on-through-anything-and-make-it-work is about to undergo a great softening influence. See what you can let go of in order to gain a greater trust in life’s natural ability to work shit out so that you expend less effort. Work smarter, not harder.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.
Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
Keep your eyes on the money, honey. There may be a difficult action or two that you need to take that could cause a little ruffle in the waters between you and those you share a common goal with.
But the bottom line is that you need to get paid.
Don’t worry about offending others but temper your temper if things come to a standstill. You are in the process of clarifying a couple of important points in terms of what you are worth, what you bring to the table and how you choose to express and ask for what you deserve. Use the events of this week to support your spiritual growth in this moment. Remember that everything that takes place in the physical realm is happening so that you can heal on the emotional and spiritual realm. It looks as though this specific combination is occurring so that you can heal any authority issues that you are grappling with.
You’ll do a better job when you feel like you have more say in the job that you do. You’ll do a better job when you feel like you are being financially compensated correctly and in relation to the job you are doing. Right now you need to move towards what financially and spiritual sustains you. This has everything to do with making sure that you are in the right playgrounds and with the right playmates. Get to the party early, stay late and swap as many business cards as you can. Then follow the fuck up with all of them.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.
Pisces & Pisces Rising
It may have recently felt like you were living in an extended dreamtime which you are currently waking from – though you aren’t altogether with it yet. With Mars in your sign for the next 5 weeks, you are being asked to or are feeling a need for your get up and go to get going.
But it’s not an unobstructed course that you are on, this week is a little more up stream than down. This isn’t a bad thing even if it isn’t an easy one. This week’s stops and starts may demand that you make a choice about what direction you wish to go in. After all Mars is initiating you into a new two-year cycle of taking direct (or in your signs case, sort of direct) action towards your goals. With Saturn in your Tenth House asking you to be your own boss/master/authority this bodes well even though they are about to bump up against each other in a not so friendly manner come mid-week.
On Thursday, Mars will square Saturn. This isn’t a friendly frolic and you’ll most likely be feeling the tension build throughout the week. This isn’t a happy happenstance so if you are prone to being a grumpy pants this week might give you a wedgy. This aspect is indicative of a direct conflict that is pushing you towards some kind of action or at the very least pushing you towards acknowledging what isn’t working for you and/or your need to be an independent fish. You can’t always swim with the school and it’s ok to go it alone or it’s necessary at least to acknowledge that you have certain desires that can only be fulfilled by you. You can get a lot done and you can get it done with more efficiency if you take a pause to get right with the obligations that you have to yourself.
Join me for an online community gathering to celebrate with a New Moon in Aquarius / Mercury Retrograde Magic Tele-Class on Monday January 19th.