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Astrologlical Insights 1/16/23- 1/31/23

1/16/2023

Mercury Goes Direct
Chiron Brings Healing

What motivates me to share astrological knowledge with you every two weeks is its capacity for being a personal transformational tool. I believe the planetary transit's influence on us is part of a more encompassing Universal dance. This wisdom practice offers a powerful set of tools for understanding the rhythms of deep archetypal energies stretching beyond the planets. Tuning into and learning the influences of the movements of the planets connects us to these larger Universal patterns and can offer surprisingly accurate guidance for navigating your life here on Earth.

January 18th
Mercury Goes Direct

Mercury, the planet that influences communications, thought processes, and traveling about, has been in retrograde since December 29th. On January 18th, Mercury will be out of retrograde and begin moving forward. Mercury will take a little time to get back up to speed and to the same place it was in the sky before going retrograde (February 7th). Give yourself some time to shake off and recalibrate from anything stirring in the last three weeks that still needs working out - communication with others, your mental processes around situations or things in your life, including shifts to future planning and travels.

The Mercury retrograde period (Dec 29th - Jan 17th) is excellent for reviewing, reprocessing, and releasing. In its movement, it covers the same sky territory three times. To understand how this happens, imagine yourself walking on the sidewalk. You slowly pause and then walk back over the same path you just walked. Then you gradually stop and move forward again. You can see that you have covered the same part of the sidewalk three times. To put this into context with the time of your life that will be in review and reprocessing with Mercury’s path, let us take a look at the dates:

On Jan 17th, Mercury will be on its last day of retrograde and will have returned to where it was on December 13th. On January 18th, when Mercury goes direct, it will be moving forward again, and on February 7th, it will be back at the same place it was on Dec 29th (the day it went retrograde) and will be “out of its retrograde shadow.” Think back to Dec 13th - Dec 29th and what was happening in your life in the last two weeks of December.

What communications were you involved in having?
What things were you sorting out or in a mental process around?
What decisions were you making that still seemed to be getting worked out?

If you need help jogging your memory, look at your photo library, schedule, journal writing, etc.,
Anything you were involved in during this period will continue to be in review through Feb 7th. If things don’t currently seem settled, look to feeling more resolved after Mercury gets out of its shadow in February, and until then, trust the process!

January 21st
New Moon in Aquarius
12:53 PM, PST

On January 21st, the Sun and Moon will come together in Aquarius, making it a New Moon. As the Moon sets with the Sun, the night will be darker, and it will be a deep soulful time to reflect on the Aquarian energy and set some intentions. Aquarius energy gets us in touch with how we uniquely create and express ourselves. There’s less attachment to how others respond, think, or feel, making it so easy for the out-of-the-box Aquarians to dance to the beat of their own drum.

The Moon influences our emotions and needs around nurturing ourselves and others. With the Moon in Aquarius, ask yourself: Are you feeling free to be YOU? How can you bravely open up to show others more of your unique self? Where do you hold yourself back, and what new shifts can you make to come into more congruence with who is on the inside and how you express yourself on the outside? How can opening up more to your creative spirit and energy be a part of your themes this year?

January 22nd - 25th
Venus conjunct Saturn

During January 22nd - 25th, Venus and Saturn join their energies in Aquarius, bringing a matter-of-fact seriousness to your love life. Venus influences our relationships, and Saturn brings an organizing principle that can have us restructuring areas of our life that get us into a more current and relevant place. With these two in combination, you might look at the realities of your relationships, good or bad, and make fundamental changes that bring everyone to a place of presence. If you or your partner(s) have been avoiding issues, the 22nd - 25th might be when things are activated to get addressed.

Changes and new understandings made under a Saturn transit are solid and can bring a stronger self-definition. Saturn’s influence can create make-it or break-it situations. If you need to address issues or concerns in your relationship, this may be when it comes up, and you’ll want to show up for any necessary work. This planetary transit combo can also activate the ending of a relationship or an unhealthy chapter of a relationship that is overdue in needing to transform.

Saturn and Venus in Aquarius can also provide clarity to renew stronger bonds in relationships reforged by novel Aquarian freedom, allowing everyone involved to be more fully who they are. Whatever the outcomes are when Venus and Saturn come together on the 22nd, it will allow for the proper restructuring your relationships need. With Venus and Saturn in Aquarius, there’s a potential for feeling free from something that may have felt burdensome in your relationship(s).

January 27th
Mercury square Chiron

As Mercury is now out of retrograde and moving direct, it will come into a square aspect with Chiron again, as it did back on December 15th. Mercury influences our thoughts and communications, and Chiron can open up to what needs healing. As Mercury and Chiron connect their energies through a Square aspect on January 27th, you might feel activated and motivated to heal internal processes around blocked or unhealthy communications or thoughts. Making conscious use of the opportunity available in this transit can help you transform your thinking and communication and move forward around a challenging situation.

Squares present conflicts inside us, often unconscious internal patterns activated by outside situations or interactions with others. Think back to what was going on for you around December 15th. Notice what similar things are on your mind on the 27th, and look at your inner mental blocks. Are you in a thinking pattern that is keeping you stuck? What kinds of communications are you in with others? Jan 27th and the surrounding days may bring up unresolved mental processes or situations and nudge the opportunity for healing movement forward.

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Astrological Insights Jan 1st - 15th, 2023

1/1/2023

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Welcome 2023!

Happy New Year! The coming planetary transits support an opening for creative ideas for intentions in the coming year AND a need for continued resting and nesting. With the holidays behind us, you may need to gather and collect yourself after all the energy output these seasonal festivities often bring. I'd like to encourage you to write your insights down without the pressure of starting new things immediately since Mercury and Mars will still be retrograded a little bit into the New Year.

January 3rd - 6th
Venus Sextile Jupiter

As we move into the first week of 2023, Venus and Jupiter, known as the “benefics” in astrology, bring an influence of positive, feel-good energy.

January 3rd - 6th opens the space to feel increasing optimism for reinvigorating your capacity to create what you want. Venus influences our relationships and social connections and opens our senses about creating beauty in our lives. Jupiter is about growth and expansion and stimulates a feeling of abundant energy. With Jupiter’s influence synched to Venus comes the possibility of opening into enthusiastic explorations of new horizons in cultivating yourself and your relationships. These planets are the “benefics” because they can bring ease, optimism, and a sense of good fortune wherever they influence. When they are in a sextile aspect with each other, they stimulate you to express the best qualities of the planetary energies described above.

January 6th
Full Moon in Cancer
3:08 PM PST

On Jan 6th, we will have a Full Moon in Cancer. Cancer is about home and family, and nesting. Although the New Year often finds a mainstream collective emphasis on jumping into celebration and “resolutions,” the Cancer Full Moon on the 6th can remind you that it’s okay to rest and nest. Cancer also brings qualities of nurturing and mothering. In the winter, nature puts its energy down into the roots of plants and trees. Allow the warmth of the Cancer Full Moon energy to nurture the roots of your intentions until the power of your “new year’s resolutions” is ready to rise.

A full Moon can open us up emotionally, and Cancer can strengthen your emotional body portal. If you have complicated feelings coming up on or around this Full Moon, tune into the above Cancer aspects. Notice what’s been happening recently in your home and family situations and your needs for nurturing, nesting, and resting. Your emotions can guide you to take better care of these aspects for yourself in your life.

On Winter Solstice, the Sun enters Capricorn, and Winter's First Full Moon is always in Cancer. From Winter Solstice, the Sun’s light will grow longer each day over the next six months until we come to Summer Solstice when the Sun enters Cancer. At this time, we start slowly pivoting toward darkness, and subsequently, the first Full Moon of Summer is in Capricorn.

Intertwining the Winter dark and the Summer Light reminds me of the commonly known symbolism of the Yin-Yang (TaiJi) symbol. Yin represents the winter, dark and cold, and Yang represents Summer, light, and warmth. The large black zone (Yin) in the Taiji symbol contains a little white circle inside, and the large white area (Yang) includes a black dot inside, indicating light within the dark and dark within the light, respectively.

The small circles of opposite colors dancing inside the larger arcing shapes of the seasons are like the Full Moons that occur close to the Solstices. The first Winter Full Moon is in Cancer, the sign of the Summer Solstice, as the light begins growing on Winter Solstice. It’s inspiring to watch the endless layers of connections that exist between the movements of celestial bodies and the significance of mythic symbols.

This rising of intention/resolve/resolutions in the heart of winter upon the New Year is like the little white circle inside the great black field of Yin in the Yin-Yang (Taiji) Symbol.

January 7th - 9th
Mercury Trine Uranus

After the Full Moon, the Trine between Mercury and Uranus can influence your mind to open to visions and ideas of how to approach your life. Mercury connects to our thinking and verbal communication, while Uranus keeps us open to new ways of doing things. Recognizing there is more out there to work with than we once thought. A sense of excitement and freedom comes with the Uranuian energy as it gives you the urge to break out of old stuck patterns and ways of thinking and living.

A Trine aspect in astrology works like the smooth flow of two rivers merging. With this ease from January 7th through the 9th, the best qualities of Mercury and Uranus come into play and can help you plant new seeds of ideas and inspiration for 2023.

Write down what comes to mind! Implementing the ideas during this Mercury/Uranus transit may come later. As the Full Moon in Cancer suggests, it’s an excellent time to nurture your seeds. Feel your new ideas come alive inside you—vision how they can positively change your life. After January 12th, when Mars goes Direct, it will be a better time to sort through how you’ll want to implement them.

Mercury will continue to be in retrograde until January 18th, which is another good reminder that it might not be time yet to take action. The sense of rewinding, reviewing, reflecting, releasing, and recalibrating is a good continued practice through this Mercury retrograde period.

January 12th
Mars goes Direct
(retrograde period Oct 30th - Jan 12th)

We made our way through the final months of the year, the holidays, and now early January with a slowed-down Mars in retrograde. Mars influences our physical energy and action in life and has been retrograde since October 30th.

Did you notice more blocks in the last couple of months? Mars in retrograde may be the reason. Despite the possible frustrations regarding the extended time it may have taken to complete things, this period aligned well with the natural flow of late autumn and winter—a time for resting, nesting, and increased sleep.

Mars is going Direct on January 12th. Your energy begins to pick up, and things might seem more open for forward movement. As with all planetary retrogrades, the planet appears to be moving backward in the sky and going over the same sky terrain it had just covered. On the 12th, Mars will have retrograded back to the same place it was in the sky on Sept 4th.

Reflect on the essential things you’ve been putting your energy towards since Sept 4th - these same themes will most likely continue until Mars gets out of its retrograde shadow on March 15th. This overall ends up being a 6-month time period that closely reviews what you were most actively involved in back in September and October. This final stretch until March 15th will be when these things start moving forward.

The time beginning after January 12 is time to deliberate and take action to implement the necessary steps for manifesting your goals and see how your efforts pay off in the Spring. It takes time for a planet to get back to speed after being in retrograde, so whatever you’ve been working on might still seem slow over January. If you find this true, it may require an extra emphasis on patience.

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