Last year helped us deepen our knowledge and transmute karmic debt. It was a year of release, in some ways freeing, in others, exhausting. It’s not that we couldn’t get things off the ground, but somehow they took longer than we expected
and life seemed to call us in too many directions. As the New Year begins, we experience a new lightness, and can more
easily apply the spontaneous confidence needed to start something. Not that all is fluffy and sweet.The Outer planet
overtones are strong, making the evolutionary stakes higher than they might feel over our first cup of New Year’s
coffee or tea. Also, Mercury is retrograde, so our beginnings are not of the sell-the-house-and-move-to-Mexico variety
(although many in the States may be tempted by the prospect, in the light of the political climate). It’s about retrieval
of intentions we’ve been carrying around for some time, taking them out of our pockets each night to set on the bedside
table along with our keys, coins and scraps of paper accumulated during the day. A good way to accentuate this shift is to thank the
passing cycle for its gifts and even its distractions or events that seemed to hold us back. We can think of the latter as offerings paid
to the cosmic forces of circulation and even push them along further by sorting out our things and giving away the clutter. Venus, lady of love and prosperity, will
help us follow our intuition and release material and affectional ties as she leaves the dry stratosphere of Aquarius
to enter the cleansing, compassionate waters of Pisces on January 3. As we clean and unclutter, we can bless and release
what seemed to overwhelm us last year, knowing that somewhere in the experience, healing was taking place. January is
Saturn time, and the god of effort rules the Sun, the last New Moon, and Mercury until January 4, when the messenger
planet dips briefly back into Sagittarius. Does that just sound like more work-work-work? Yes and no. This month is
about effort, yet the Saturn-Uranus trine that graced the winter solstice (true New Year) is still in orb.
As discussed last month, this aspect helps us find new fruits from our persistent, accumulated discipline.
Now receiving a sextile from Jupiter and being danced on by asteroids Ceres, the supplier, and Juno, protector of
women (before she was subsumed by patriarchy into the role of consort), the trine extends its sphere of influence to
include prosperity, empowerment in relationships and a touch of magick. With Mercury retrograde or in post-retrograde
shadow for most of the month, the work is inner as well as on goals seeded anytime before December 2.
The harmony of Saturn with Uranus the liberator means that we can make progress in our needs for freedom, spotlighted
in the house where the rebel planet is transiting 22 Aries. Uranus shakes, surprises or wriggles us into change.
But revolution has another, more compelling master: Pluto, that intense kid from the bad side of the tracks who shows
up whether or not we invite him, obliging us to alter our formulas, release outworn patterns and ultimately discover
our power. This radioactive baby crashes our New Year’s party, on January 7, when he takes a hit from the Sun.
Moving through 17 Capricorn, the dwarf planet shows us where our evolutionary work is currently centered, demanding a
total re-haul in some way or another. Often we’d like to tell it to stay in the bathroom where it belongs, flushing the
toilet and washing the floor. But when the Sun joins Pluto, all of a sudden we can get a look at hidden processes,
and even join our intention and conscious purpose to them. We can swim with–rather than against–our evolutionary
currents. This is particularly true while the Sun happens to be in Capricorn, sign of goals and disciplined effort.
Taking place as the year begins, this aspect offers a chance to renew our commitment to growth in a way that both
includes and transcends the calendar cycle.
MONDAY JANUARY 16.Virgo represents the period from 13 to 23 years old, when mental growth dominates our lives and many attend institutes of higher learning.
Many binding choices are made and the rules and details of society are learned. On the World scale Virgo is between 800 BC and AD 400, when classical civilizations like Greece and Rome flourished, when culture, science, philosophy, politics dominated. By AD 300the Books of the New Testament were chosen to support the beliefs of the Christians who formed the political organization of the Church. The naive excepted the surface value, while initiates were forced to hide (occult) their rituals and teachings. Until now. Even above Earth, there are secrets at the heart of Nature that'd make you laugh till you stopped." How can you believe in astrology?," angry, drunken Basque separatists have asked me. I tell them that astrology is not a belief system, but an archetypal, poetic language. I don't ask you if you believe in Japanese. I ask if you speak it. I don't ask you if you believe in music, I ask if you play it. I happen to speak the heavenly tongue of astrology along with thousands of other highly intelligent, inspiring, spiritual and even scientific astrologers. If I never have to deal with angry, drunken Basque separatists who have stolen the Shroud Of Turin again, it'll be too soon. Still, if my destiny is to be an untransformed seed-cum-manure of a man - or to put it another way - if I can at least be the source of unconscious friction that triggers another Christ or Buddha's urgency to awaken, then so be it. Fertilize my ego!
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17
Moon in Libra, sign of fairness and beautification, squares Mercury retrograde in structured Capricorn.
Review your image, self-talk, or a matter related to justice, such as a contract or the rights to your brand,
ideas or work, or those of others you wish to help. An absence of planetary aspects presents opportunities for
unresolved issues to suddenly spring back to life today and demand our immediate attention. The reflective Moon’s
shift into fair-minded Libra at 6:15 am EST enables us to maintain a semblance of objectivity while judging the
relative importance of our needs. Nevertheless, concrete conclusions are sadly elusive because reason succumbs to
emotions when the Moon squares cerebral Mercury. The Moon in balanced Libra today feels like being social. Libra represents the period from 23 to 42 years old, when partnerships are made and balance is sought between others and oneself. On the World scale Libra is between 400 and 1100 AD, when division of the church and state took over, and the Dark Ages swept over Europe and Asia.
The opposition is symbolic of the fact that in order to emerge from the unconscious, internal conflicts must be brought out into the light of day. Marriage was the primary process through which opposing countries where integrated into a whole. With the Moon in Libra we are aware of our communal relations, law, justice and balance. The 7th house (Libra) has been called the house of marriage. The key to the New Aeon of MA'AT is figuring out the new symbol for Libra, as the institution of marriage was originally designed as a tool by the Church to secure it's future domination. Those that cannot find this new symbol and perform these symbolic rites on themselves and their tribe, and the whole fabric of material being, will inherit only the blues, decay, and husks. Think more in terms of partnership and remember, your heart must be light as a feather.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18
The Day of Mercury in the week of Active Air. Mercury's function in Yetzirah is to actively communicate. To think. To know. To reason. Mercury teaches (by demonstration), the animation of Eidolons, the magickindwelling of icons by Spirit. Avoid any doctrine or religious movement that advocates a shameful wickedness with the alphabet. Moon in sometimes defensive Libra makes tense aspects with ruler Venus, communist Uranus and determined Pluto. Moon is in Libra today so take this time to be good to your Libra ruled kidneys. These amazing organs filter some 400-500 hundred gallons of blood a day. Lemons, beets, cranberry juice and cabbage and leafy vegetables are all healing to your kidneys Save negotiation, teamwork or conflict resolution for Friday, and instead focus on ways to leave a legacy, acts and
thoughts of unconditional kindness, and studying metaphysical or philosophic topics.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19
The Day of Jupiter in the kabbalistic World of Air, Yetzirah. If you don't have a good laugh today, you are missing the point. There is a whole division of the Angelic Hierarchy assigned to the sephiroth Chesed (Jupiter) whose purpose is divine inspiration through laughter. And there is no vision more critical in the career of the adept than the Metaversal Joke. Did you here the one about the astrologer who broke his arm and attributed it to an accident? At 4:44 in the morning: you won't see a cop or a raccoon; you can pee in full phantasmagoria under the stars in the night with the wind high and salty and the dome of the sky in full splay sprayed and contusioned upon the black upon the twisted wicked love of the cypress in decline. Someday I'd like to stop three feet from the top of Everest. "Fuck it, I'm not going a single inch further." I'd say and turn around. This morning Moon is VOC in Libra—it’s best to save key actions for later or tomorrow, when the influences are
propitious. Mars the mover squares stalwart Saturn. If progress seems to be delayed or blocked, don’t succumb to
defeatism. Make a pit stop to reconnect with your intent and review your route and methods. Let your intuition guide
you; with Mars in subtle Pisces and Saturn in diplomatic Sag, it can reveal some less direct and more strategic
approaches. At 1:24 pm (4:24 ET), Sun enters Aquarius, providing philosophical perspective.
At 2:09 pm (5:09 ET), Moon reaches its Fourth Quarter. At 0 degrees Scorpio, the Sabian symbol says:
SIGHTSEERS IN A BUS STRAIN TO SEE CROWDS AND BUILDINGS. The perspective which leisure gives to everyday affairs.
Appetite for larger things. Seeing life as a whole. Social interchange. Consult your guides, an oracle or a trusted friend
for guidance on what you might release and reorganize in preparation for the first New Moon of the year, which comes on Friday, January 27.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20
If you actively invoke blessed HANIEL, the Archangel of Venus into your heart today, you may find you have developed the ability to feel like Khrisna, multiplying himself into a dozen pastoral, naked farmhands with muddy feet and emerald pond scum on their thighs, or maybe you are a young Freya on the back of a panther, eating honey. Venus, who gets oversimplified like a lot of her sisters, is one of the most complex planets going: she works as an attractive force and as a creative one. wellThe 5 roses represent the five senses in the Empress card (Atu 3) And in the Lovers card (Atu 6 ) the senses are the five fruits of Eve. Venus is indeed in cahoots with the senses. All movement of all living creatures in world of Assiah are tied to the senses and the desire-nature. The accomplished Lightpilot can remove the robe of desire in order to withdraw into the worlds of Briah and Atzitluth, but in order to achieve anything in the physical realms you keep that robe on. When you act, your gonna act in terms of desire. Venus represents that which is desirable. Every living thing seeks pleasure and tries to avoid pain. Victory lies in understanding our desire nature and learning how to use it.It’s Inauguration Day, and Moon in Scorpio awakens our powers of transmutation. A trine from this intense Moon to sensitive Neptune in Pisces, the sign of its rule, and a sextile from Venus–also in Pisces—to transformative Pluto
invite us to use love and compassion as agents of change. On a personal level, these influences bring the week to a harmonious, effective close. Particular favored are healing relationships, empowering connections and lustful, mystical tantric encounters.
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