Theme for the week: healing and feeling.
Setting the tone on Tuesday, Venus will enter the creative, evasive, romantic and mystical waters of Pisces. Venus is exalted (protected by an angelic, golden light of luxurious love) here and desires nothing more than to take part in the making of a perfect love story. Venus will come to square stern and stately Saturn on Friday (reality check anyone?) and although this combo can stop the free flowing feelings in their tracks, it can also bring forth the possibility for commitments to come to fruition and can act as a healthy challenge to grow our romantic selves up. Mature mates make the most out of even the harshest of storms.
Venus will then conjunct Neptune on Sunday renewing her vows to idealism and an inspired faith that love is all we need.
Also on Friday Mercury retrograde enters the heart of the sun marking the middle of its retrograde cycle. This is akin to being granted a moment with The Powers That Be. Use this day to meditate but also to ask for what you want, from whomever can help you get there.
Mars, also in Pisces, will contact the Ruler Of The Underworld, Pluto, and come face to face (via a conjunction) with Chiron, The Wounded Warrior/Healer/Teacher/Mystic/Medicine Holder. This is a week to flush out the forgotten places, to gain insights into talents and to heal through the feels.
And there will be feels.
Aries & Aries Rising
Sometimes luck saunters towards us in the strangest of get-ups. Sometimes it’s a round-about road to getting our dues delivered. Sometimes we need to understand that checking our ambition is the fastest route to getting to the heart of the matter.
Happiness doesn’t always come to the ones who win. Right now you might need to exercise your ability to trust life by making it your #1 job to relax. Most of what you need to get done-the big, cumbersome bulkiness of the situation-needs to simmer on the back burner right now anyway. Most of what you need to do is to digest what just went down. Feel your way into it. Listen to the quieter voices of inner knowing instead of getting lost in the screeching sirens of logic.
Friends will offer good reflections, great amounts of comfort, and a necessary place to land this week. If there is anyone in your work life or your community that can help or assist you in any way use Friday to ask them for what you need as yet another exercise in trusting that you will get the help you need.
Taurus & Taurus Rising
You are onto it. You are right up close to it. You are about to sit down and interview it. Get your questions in order, do your research and come bearing the best of you (it never hurts to wear your bow-tie and matching sox combo of cuteness).
I’m talking business to all my Bulls this week. Mercury is at the heart of its retrograde cycle smack dab in the middle of your career house.
Not only that but Venus joins Mars, Neptune and Chiron in your Eleventh House of good fortune and friends that help you achieve your greatest potential. So I’m also talking about your long standing community collaborations and visions that you have only wished to bring forth.
Until now.
You are poised this week to make advances that have nothing to do with rational patterns or predictive possibilities.
F that.
What I’m suggesting is that with the right combination of personal inquiry, interpersonal intelligence and emotional brilliance you could charm the pants off of anyone in your social circle. Therefore:
1. make a list of all you wish to accomplish in the next 12 months
2. make a list of all the people that could help you achieve such a mission
3. set up as many dates or accidental run-ins with them as possible
4. ask for what you want/tell them your vision of what you wish most to manifest this year
5. let it go and see what happens
Gemini & Gemini Rising
There comes a time in every journey where all there is left to do is pause. Picnics come in handy here. So do short, relaxing rest stops where you can collect your energy, your thoughts and your intentions.
Why did you set out on this path? Sometimes remembering our original intention can clarify our present predicament. We often go awry when we become possessed by the goal. We can become easily caught up in attaining the carrot while forgetting the core principal. If things have momentarily gotten off track by all means give up on winning the game and get back to basics.
Most likely you set out on this path to find love. Most likely you set out on this particular trail to heal. Most likely you were looking for recognition, a place in the world and a chance to make meaning out of the endless days laying at your feet.
Have you found it? Has it found its way into your work? Is your relationship to your public persona fraught with lies and alibis or have you been able to create a connection to the work and the wonders that it does?
On Friday your ruling planet, Mercury (currently retrograde), enters the heart of the sun via a conjunction with it. This was thought to be akin to entering the inner chamber of the Queen or King. Mystically speaking this is like being the center of the secret and the heart of the mystery of this last retrograde cycle. This is a pocket of personal power. It’s a time to ask for help, to ask for healing and to ask for guidance. It’s a time to ask to be realigned with our purpose and to be willing to be willing. Entering the Queen’s chambers requires our humility to be open to receiving guidance and following it.
Cancer & Cancer Rising
While you seem to be spending the better part of this week getting to the heart of what holds you psychologically hostage, you’ll also be getting glimpses of a great blue yonder. New vistas are opening up for you, a renewed state of mind is close at hand and a remarkable healing is in your midst. Friday contains some very interesting astrology for those among you that seek out the kind of experiences that facilitate self-inquiry, self-mastery and self-realization. Ask for help from your guides, angels and ancestors in answering your life’s most perplexing problems. Seek the truth of your situation. Ask for healing from your dreams. Resolve to come clean with yourself.
Being resolved to inquire about the truth of who we are is no small commitment. Resolutions aren’t things we declare on January 1st. Resolutions are what we choose to live by day by day and week by week. Resolutions build foundations, ones that can’t be corrupted by the windy words of others.
A new experience awaits you but not without the challenge of having it while handling your rigorous routines. I’m not talking about a carefree holiday or a scamper past the guards kind of a foray. It’s a trip that you take because you’ve done your work. It’s a new outlook on life because you’ve stared your demons in the face and declared that you were not afraid to be yourself, dance your dance or dream your dream. It’s a chance at knowing the heart of your darkness and the heights of your compassion.
This is the stuff a meaningful life is made from, so go a head and make it.
Leo & Leo Rising
There are moments of reckoning that come through our interactions with others that are unmistakably important. This week, specifically Friday, holds that kind of potential. Mercury, master of mischievous misalignments, is messing with your most strategic of plans to play it cool and fend off any overly exposing escapades.
You will be called out-if you’re lucky that is.
Love never goes the way we want it to. The bigger we puff it up to be, the harder we fall. Love rarely follows our agenda or sticks to our outline. Love is messy and marvelous. Its commitments are breathtaking and bound to bring out every desire for an escape clause that ever sauntered through our thick skulls. But contracts tend to be things of the soul’s making. We find ourselves in situations that we must adhere to in order for maximum spiritual growth. We fight, we fret, we forget why we ever decided that this relationship was a good idea. Yet, below all of the ranting and romancing there was an original reason, an original yearning that awoke in our heart that got us here in the first place.
It’s something like a soul’s agenda.
Those that agree to walk a certain amount of road with us hold a very spiritual role in our life. For better and worse we have the opportunity to learn great volumes about ourselves through those that are kind enough to join us on our journey. This week watch, and more importantly listen, to what your partners and prospects are telling you and where it tends to lead you in regards to tending to your own tender heart.
Being called out on our behavior, being witnessed, being seen and being held with a compassionate gaze through all of life’s ups and downs is one of the greatest blessings we can receive. If that isn’t what you are experiencing, if that is a foreign notion to you, then I suggest doing it for yourself and finding those that can too.
Virgo & Virgo Rising
There is so much beauty to behold. There are so many sweeties to serenade. There are so many iterations of inexplicably enchanting sirens swimming to your shore. There is so much love on its way for you that the only thing to fear is how you might reject it.
Or how you might be rejected by it (*Gasp*).
But rejection is protection is it not? Anyone who breaks our heart and tells us no is only saving us from a future that is more fantasy than for real. And wouldn’t you rather build in the here and now than in the land of the lost and confused? Some loves are for keeps and some just help us get to where we couldn’t on our own. No matter which shape your love life is taking, I suggest you pay attention to how it’s healing you. Don’t be a doormat. Don’t be deluded into thinking that being devalued has anything to do with being dear to someone’s heart.
It does not.
Loving another may well be an overwhelmingly intoxicating event, one that leads to happily-ever-after-and-all-that-jazz but not without deeply honest reflections, demanding and detailed inventories, self-exploration and a willingness to be called out and called in. That’s the grown up version at least. That’s what’s on the menu for the week. If you do the work you get the goods. And if you’ve done the time you might as well do the crime.
Friday is a feature for this week’s astrology for more than just the aforementioned. It’s the heart of the Mercury retrograde cycle. The meat of its movement. The center of the secret. This is occurring for you in the area of life that is associated with work, service, health and the kind of systems that are set up to break your spirit. Get free from what you feel indebted to. Uncover how you keep yourself in agreements that use you for all you’re worth and then toss you aside. Get your power back from the systems that are set up to drain you of every dollar and your every hope. Notice the subtle agreements you’ve made that erode your agency and keep you locked in dependency. Smash those agreements and realign yourself with what is powerful, present time and positive.
Libra & Libra Rising
Truth is better than fiction when dealing with matters of the heart. Real talk rules over pretentious prattle when getting down to the details that govern the fate of our feelings. A little clarification can go a long way.
Friday looks to be such a day for you. It might not be as literal as dealing with lovers and the longings that you have for them but the week will tend to trend a certain way and once you pick up the pattern you’ll feel more confident in asking for what you need. And you have every right to do so.
Self expression is key here-but so is taking the time to get clear on your message. Which is exactly what Friday is angling at as Mercury enters the heart of its retrograde cycle.
Stop. Drop. Listen.
What do your creations need (children included)? Have you chosen lovers that help your heart heal? Are you that lover to yourself? Is there a theme occurring in response to lived patterns in your love life? Is fear creeping in? Are your children or creative progeny pushing your boundaries and are you able to grow through those interactions or are you living out a theme of failures that lead to foreclosures of the heart?
I recommend that you pay special attention to the psychic activity that guides you through your day to day details. At work and with co-workers I recommend that you pay close attention to your intuition because there is a strong current of it. It just may be a place of refuge, strength and sturdiness if you can confront the situations that are calling for your clear, concise communication.
Express. Yourself.
Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
Heart. Crux. Core. Root. Marrow. Kernel.
Ancient seasons. Oldskool beacons. Underlying reasons. This week brings you into the heart of your heart and the center of your center. What arises for you in these next few days and what you choose to do with such morsels of magnificence is indicative of the kind of healing that you have done.
Last week we spoke of unearthing, excavating and understanding the old family patterns that bind your ability to grow. Whatever terrain you have tread in this area of your life is not in vain. Often we have to relive the story in a multitude of ways just to get clear on our part in it. There is no shame in not understanding, in needing to rehash and even acting it out sometimes. Life often gives us the opportunity to live life from a multitude of perspectives. See if at this point you don’t have a different understanding of what a family member did, has done and/or are still doing. See if at this point you have a different perspective on the hurts that have seemed to hinder you.
I’m not telling you to invite the warlocks of your past over for dinner. I’m just saying that at this point you might begin to understand that any lightening bolts launched your way had little to nothing to do with whether you deserved it or not. Understanding other people’s pain doesn’t have to make us doormats but it can make us clearer in future situations. When you see hurt hurling towards you, Get. Out. Of. The. Way.
Get out of the way because the other path that this week is presenting to you, if you are integrating the lessons from your past, is one of love and loving. One of creating and crooning. One filled with sweet songs of deep desire and true tenderness. Attune to it.
Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
There comes a time where we must make peace with our past. There comes a time when we must see our elders and ancestors for who they are and what they were up against. There comes a time when separating from the school-yard days and entering fully into the present moment is imperative to our sense of self and sanity. There comes a time when we either heal from our pasts or become hampered by our histories.
There are times for nostalgia and there are times for cutting ties to weights that impede your ascension. The week gives you a pair of golden scissors. Especially Friday. Pay special attention to the messages you receive and also the ones you give. This is a day that is especially powerful for you if you are willing to risk all by asking for what you want.
While there might be a great love, comfort and/or healing that is happening in your current home environment it doesn’t come free of charge. Life is demanding that you create some space, distance or clarity about your past. This is in large part to Saturn’s effect on you as it transits your self-assured sign. When Saturn enters our sign there can be moments of self-doubt and dissatisfaction as well as an unmistakable calling to get into the driver’s seat of our life.
Shaky and unskilled at this new task we have no choice but to try our best. We don’t have to get it right but we have to get right with it by doing what we can when we can. The race has just begun so try not to blow your wad in one go. Steady, stallion. Steady.
Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
Part of the week focuses on a traditionally Capricorn concern: moola and how you make it. You are primed for a renewal of how you use your resource creating reserves. This is, like so many things in life, dependent on how you are thinking about it.
Sometimes the only way to change how we are thinking about something is to decode the destructive thought patterns that have been implanted in us. Noticing how you have been taught to fear your talent, find fault in your fabulous and forego your intuitive way of being in the world is a fantastic step to reclaiming your power. Do not sell yourself short just because others are willing to pay bargain basement prices. Set your standard and respect your work.
This week may have many a scary mental habit revealing itself. Don’t let the situations that get you down drag you down with them. Become smarter than your worst nightmare. Become familiar with the most frightening of fears that lurk in the back rooms of your being. Become an ally to your success, to your happiness and to your talents.
There are a great many healing influences available to you if you do so and there are ways in which you can encourage this further. Inundate your sphere with music that moves you to spiritual highs. Recite the poetry that reaffirms your reasons for being. Flood your vistas with art that reminds you that you exist, that your ancestors existed and that your story lives and breathes in the halls of a heaven that cannot be known to the insincere. Resist the urges from within and from without that would have you diminish yourself in the face of an unhelpful authority. Stand for yourself in word and deed and you’ll make massive strides towards realizing your potential.
Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
Hang in there. You aren’t in a position to give up. You aren’t in the kind of situation that would have you happy if you stopped now. Friday marks a very important stage of your journey. Friday marks the half way point of the latest Mercury retrograde cycle. It is happening exclusively in your sign. It’s happening to you, to your identity, to your idea of yourself, to your persona. You are in a land that lays beyond simplified solutions or erroneous excuses. You have yet to find your center here but you can be hopeful because you are close.
Friday marks the heart of your journey. Until then there are bound to be conflicting mental patterns to battle mixed with sensational schemes that scream for your attention. Which do you feed? What draws your attention? What keeps it? Pay special attention to what holds you hostage and what releases you from bondage. Go towards the latter. Go towards what helps you feel emboldened with strength of spirit and thoughts of sweet surrender.
The only thing that you should wish to follow this week is your inner truth, compass and guide. The only aspect of self that is important to appease is your wisdom, your unwavering moral center and your refusal to let yourself down. Stay away from crowd sourcing, crowd funding and trying to acquire mass acceptance when it comes to how you use your resources (financial, mental and emotional). Please your own inner Grown Person, because when you do, you can do what ever you want.
Pisces & Pisces Rising
You are home Pisces. With Venus back in your sign you have extra special sparkle. Like a Drag King hitting their stride your swagger makes those around you swoon. Your magic is mesmerizing on a good day but these days (specifically January 27th-February 20th) it’s majestic. Like a protective golden light of god-damn you may very well find yourself in high demand.
But not without consequence and a little reality check. Especially around Friday. There is a signal in the sky that says watch what you are wheeling and dealing. Make sure you can stand behind your wares. Make sure you are keeping your side of the bargain clean. Folks are more than likely to project all sorts of possibilities onto you, which isn’t exactly bad for business (all press is good press if we stay true to ourselves), but beware of how heavy you lay on the charm if you aren’t fishing for possible prospects.
Friday is also important because it marks the heart of the Mercury retrograde cycle. This is occurring in the part of your chart that deals and reveals the underlying psychological reasons that you do dumb shit. And get caught in harmful habits. Or repeat and regurgitate ridiculously harmful self-fulfilling prophesies. Don’t ignore any difficult truths that arise on this day-they are the gold rescued from your inner dragon.
It’s kind of like exposing the lies that have abused the colonized. Don’t refuse the negative self-talk or dismissive deities of disaster: they hold the clues that will lead you to rewire your mind for magnificence. Take any bad habits that arise as a great opportunity for revelation and consciousness. We need the creepy crawlers out in the light of day so that we can call their bluff and rename the game. With Venus on your side it looks like you have quite a good chance of getting to self love rather than self-sacrifice.
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