The Sun and Mercury, navigating the uppermost areas of your solar chart can have you thinking more about your worldly role. Realistic Saturn is also in ♑Capricorn, but lately its probably been reminding you more about limitations and responsibilities than overall potential.
Keep in mind there's always a test of patience or commitment before the pay-off whenever Saturn is involved. This is also stressing your parental axis and depending upon your age can spell different scenarios, even role reversals. You're neither your mother or father, but at times like these can always be reminded of the similarities.
The 🌑New Moon of the 9th concentrates your energies toward career change or re-orientation. Your age will make a difference here, but the theme remains the same. It's time to take stock of just how far you have come on something and review your progress and ambitions in the light of current developments.
Reappraising responsibilities and your worldly role may raise additional questions. Is location a help or a hindrance? How will any change of plan impact on family or close ones. And most importantly – are you in charge of the situation?
If you look back across the years you may find that important status changes, career moves and their associated effects seem to occur around October and effect the last quarter of the year. If it's been part of a previous pattern then its time to prepare for those contingencies and be pro-active in taking control of the possible developments.
The more you get on top of this before it happens, the greater you prepare your path, the smoother it is. A big difference affecting this year is the retrograde action of Venus, which begins from the 6th onward and carries right through until mid-November. On the 16th of October Mercury will meet the backtracking Venus.
This is affecting your group associates, your in-crowd and perhaps some special friendships here. There is a re-arrangement taking place. You may receive some special help from associates here and the benefits of these attachments will be seen in hindsight, if not already. Can be former associates returning or revisiting the past.
The accommodating 🌕Full Moon, dominant from the 24th, aligns magically with ♑your sign, firing up the speculative and romantic areas of your solar chart. Angled well, especially for the December born ♑Cappies, it comes brings fast acting Uranus and magnetic Venus into the picture.
This can bring spontaneous good fortune through acting in the moment and following your feelings. This is one for the true romantics and/or those who love the social scene. New friends spice up your life and old ones are more than helpful. October can accompany important directional changes for you.
It's a time when you're asked to take control of the wheel on such moves, being pro-active and driving the changes. You should find support when you need it and especially where dealing with larger organisations or collective support. Somehow in all of this an old dream, hope or wish can be materialising. A past potential is re-activated.
Mindful Mercury is moving into an opportune angle to your sign from the 6th. The message from this planetary 'messenger' is that if you want to land the really big fish, then get out of the small pond. Look at areas where you can be underestimating yourself or the true potential of a project or idea.
It may need a different setting. Not all plants thrive in the same soil and sometimes it's simply a matter of finding more fertile ground. Your creative ideas can be gathering support or your talents may attract the right mentor. The Grand Trine of Mercury, with your ruler Saturn and innovative Uranus is particularity beneficial for the December born, across the first week.
The 🌑New Moon of the 9th is casting its fresh light far and wide. Traditional astrologers looked at this 🌑lunation for you in terms of foreign distant lands and far-off places. There is value in that analogy.
They formulated this when travel was mostly on foot or across largely uncharted seas. These days we can Google map a lighthouse in Iceland. The core meaning involves stretching your potential, branching out into unknown territory, developing a big picture view, living the dream by breaking the barriers. That is your 'mission possible' now.
Mars heads out of ♑your sign and back into ♒Aquarius from the 11th, where it's been for much of this year. This dual movement of through ♑Capricorn, into ♒Aquarius back into ♑Capricorn and then ♒Aquarius again has a specific meaning for you.
Mars is motivation and being pro-active in directly attaining your desires. So in ♑Capricorn it's supplying the get up and go. In ♒Aquarius it's consolidating those initiatives and looking for the reward factor. That's going to be important through to mid-November.
Mercury and the Sun move to the uppermost area of your solar chart from the 22nd and 23rd respectively. Ever wondered why late September and most of October can represent significant career moves and job changes for you. For it's that time of year that what's happening in your outer world has the most impact on your inner one. So it's time then to think about your professional positioning, review your ambitions and also look for opportunity if you're not happy where you're at.
The 🌕Full Moon of the 25th highlights your home base and actually does focus more in inner security. For when things are going well in your home and family life, and if your environment is overall supportive, you feel confident to take on the world with little distraction. The final week can be the time to strengthen those foundations or build that platform that can be a springboard to fulfilling potential.
It's mid August when Mars heads back into ♑Capricorn, where it will remain until September 11. But you don't have to wait for it to arrive to get the message and utilise that potential. March through May this year, was the signal to get pro-active. Nobody will do it for you without your energy and motivation.
Then came the expense part. Life is never a free lunch. You know that. But it's how you use your resources and where you place your energies that counts. Mars retro is acting as a second chance factor. It's square to Uranus over the first week of August is readying a change of plan. For some this will involve technology.
The 🌑Solar Eclipse, strongest on the 11th, has a trade-off energy attached. In some way it is asking what are you willing to sacrifice to land your desire or achieve your goal? Everything has its price and it's really a matter of asking how much and then determining its worth. That's what is at the heart of this current 🌑eclipse period. What are you willing to pay the ferryman to cross that river? For on the other bank – life is bound to be decidedly different.
There may come a partnership offer around this time. It can be worth taking seriously. Especially if it involves complimentary skills or someone who brings something very different to the table. It may help to look back to 1999, the last time an 🌑eclipse occurred in the same solar house for you on the same degree. If that gels then there can be business potential in this. You don't have to go it all alone.
Venus moves to the uppermost area of your solar chart from the 7th onward. As ruler of your status and career, it suggests you can excel with the public. Diplomacy is always the name of the game when popular Venus is placed in such a communal setting.
There can be status changes here also involving friendships or relationships, or bringing others on board. The dream job is a possibility for some but not all will have that kind of luck. The recurring message is to gravitate toward what you love. For things happen when you follow your bliss.
Added to the 🌑eclipse energies discussed prior, Mercury the mediator will be resuming forward motion again from the 19th. Mercury, in its current placement, holds commercial possibilities for you. It's three week retrograde motion could have had you musing over them. The latter stages of August can be timing a decision point on any commercial propositions or contract negotiations.
The 🌕Full Moon, of the 26th, aligns in a promising trine to your sign from the house of higher learning and education, preaching, teaching, publishing and broadcasting. It suits media involvement and is asking you to stretch your wings on something here and test out the full potential of possibilities.
This is useful for extending your efforts and building upon prior projects and efforts. Something that shows excellent growth potential for ♑Cappies with birthdays around Christmas can prove a future winner.
As July begins, you're still feeling the effects of the last ♑Capricorn 🌕Full Moon conjunct your ruling planet Saturn. The ringed planet represents, structure, solidarity and the Babylonians connected it with truth. Their Saturn (Ninurta) was responsible for recapturing the stolen tablets of fate, thereby restoring order to the universe.
That's your Saturn message to start the month, as you reset some boundaries, strengthening the foundations of your own life. Realism replaces fantasy, reliability trumps superficiality. You stop scattering energy and concentrate on the essentials. You start to master your own fate.
The ♋Cancer 🌑Solar Eclipse of the 13th falls exactly opposite Pluto in ♑Capricorn. Pluto may be relegated to dwarf status astronomically, but works in inverse fashion astrologically. It's like a black hole, pulling everything into its vortex, and then acting as the ultimate transformer.
Something appears to be destroyed, before re-emerging in a revitalised form. It's functioning through relationships, suggesting that your associations are changing, but the real regeneration is coming from within.
Anyone who has witnessed the stand up comedian Hannah Gadsby deliver her confronting performance of 'Nanette', is watching cathartic Pluto in action. Netflix bought the show as Pluto arrived to her birth Sun and Venus.
In fact birthdays around January 11/12 are especially open to the life changing Pluto 🌑eclipse effects. It's re-aligning relationships, primarily because you are dealing with the deep truths that define and reform your world. And nothing is off limits.
Venus, your status and career ruler, moves into a supportive sign from July 10. Initially this will provide a boost for the December born ♑Capricorns and it is strongest around the middle of July, when it also aligns to your sign ruler, Saturn. It can coincide with increased acceptance and support through your friends and close alliances.
The 🌕Lunar Eclipse of the 27th falls in your house of assets, earning capacity and underlying values. It is attached to assertive Mars, bringing a passionate attachment to what you value. Battleground Mars, involves having the courage to stand up for your beliefs. The ramifications and/or rewards come as Mars moves past ♑Capricorn and into ♒Aquarius, where it is now.
That brings you to deciding how much your efforts are worth? What value do you place on your actions? My advice for this has always been, if the buck stops with you, then you should be making the bucks because of it. It may take time, but it's important not to sell yourself short on this one. What you're doing has to be worth the effort expended.
Clear the decks of the superfluous as the beginning of June can bring some new responsibilities or projects on board. It's also a time when the expertise and/or support of those around you will become invaluable. Agreeable Venus is strong from your relationship solar house across the first few days of June.
Someone may have a tempting offer, the bonds of love and friendship are strengthened, and professional relations offer growth potential. Changes made here can be lasting ones.
The Sun to insightful Mercury conjunction, exact on the 6th, comes with conditions. It manifests in your solar house of routine work and repetitious habit. It can find you working closely to a timetable to perfect something, or involve juggling a couple of responsibilities here.
Perhaps needing to decide between one or the other, or taking time out from one thing to concentrate on another? Some uncertainties can be attached, as if you're throwing in a few fishing lines and seeing what you catch. That's the way! It won't bite unless you do.
The 🌑New Moon of the 13th has a conscientious work feel about it. Here is is essential to put something into a working order, or have a formulated plan. You need to be at your most practical here. Be willing to work in order to make it work!
Don't scrimp on the details and evoke your inner critic in a useful manner. If you're not exacting of yourself, it's going to show. But if you put in the hard yards it will show and shine. Can be busy and you may be juggling a couple of things at once around this time.
Conversational Mercury moves to oppose your sign from the 13th onward. This promotes an exchange of ideas as the communication in relationships picks up. From the 19th to 22nd Mercury will form a fortuitous Grand Trine with opportune Jupiter and boundless Neptune.
Jupiter represents the benefit of an educational friend, or someone who confers there greater experience or expertise to your situation. Neptune is working through communication channels or Internet related. Social networking can pick up dramatically or new contacts are made.
Mars begins its retrograde period affecting the financial sector of your solar chart from June 27. You may have become more assertive in these areas of acquisition and material reward or gain. Mars can also fire up impulse purchases and the backtracking can also be a reminder to think some of these things through more carefully.
Either way, the issue of reward and value for service may increasingly be on your mind. It can mark a period where developing the art of the deal is imperative. If you've made your pitch now it's a matter of awaiting the outcome rather than pressing too hard for immediate results.
There is a modicum of truth to the line that it's not what you know it's who you know. In fact it's a mixture of both. Tesla was a genius with electricity, but he traveled to the other side of the world to work with Edison first, before fully establishing himself. Even Shakespeare works better with an audience. Networking is all important as you head into May. The 🌕Full Moon focus, beginning the month, is on assimilation with like minded souls. Feed off the company and tap into people power.
May is definitely the month for listening to your heart and living with a renewed spirit of youth. You can learn a lot about yourself and tap into your true potential by taking note of a scientific study. It basically affirmed that luck is more likely to come to those who are ready to receive it. One experiment revealed that those who envisioned themselves as unlucky were more likely to not notice, and therefore walk straight past, money on the pavement. On the contrary the Sun's face off with Jupiter, from your house of speculation, can help you trip over it.
The 🌑New Moon of the 15th is sparking up your creative impulses, enhancing your flexibility, bringing some romance and luck for some (mid January birthdays should really feel this) and putting you in a positive space. Even for situations that have stagnated your innovative approach now can cast a whole new light on them, leading to a rapid resolution. The key to this lies in adopting an attitude of 'living in the moment', rather than through preconceptions.
Uranus, is the rebel planet that stands out from the crowd. It rotates perpendicular to the Sun, it is the only one bearing a Greek, not Roman name, and it appears conspicuously at revolutions and was even discovered immediately between the American and French ones. From the 16th onward it will begin what will ultimately be a seven year long residence in your house of romance, creativity and speculation.
In the fellow Earth sign of ♉Taurus, iconoclastic Uranus is working well for you. It favours innovation and originality in your creative endeavours. It helps integrate technology with art. It attracts you to the new and different and can certainly spice up sometimes staid ♑Capricorn's love life via instant attraction with a marked difference. For the moment, if you're a December born ♑Capricorn, get set for the Uranian innovation. And one that's going to last.
From the 21st the Sun invigorates life's more practical and work orientated areas. This is where you turn ideas into tangible form – the hands on section – which can bring material rewards for your efforts. It continues the creative drive from earlier in the month, combining it with connections to others. Collective artistic efforts benefit under the positive aspects of the ideas planet, Mercury, and expansive Jupiter to your sign. A boon for the mid-sign born that may also produce fortunate connections or agreements.
The 🌕Full Moon, introducing April, occurs at the zenith of your solar chart. It can put you right in the spotlight. The opening week is ideal for a professional focus, career objectives or increased involvement with the public. It also suits contacting people of influence and authority.
The opening week also features a conjunction of action orientated Mars with your ruling planet Saturn. It's where you work through something patiently and with a definite plan. And where impulse meets limitation. Take your time with this one.
Mercury, the thinker, has been moving through the domestic sector of your solar chart from March 6 and will not depart until May 13. From the 23rd of March mindful Mercury has been moving retro which can be bringing you to a decision point regarding a home situation.
It may also indicate increasing correspondence regarding property or with a family member. Something is being worked out here related to personal security and perhaps looking back to 2005 you may spot a similar theme. For those starting a home business or changing communication equipment within the home, this transit suits.
Some months will drift by without rocking your world – others can be real earth shakers. April is potentially one of the latter. You can make some real changes. It's all stemming from the base of your solar chart, where the 🌑New Moon links to wild card Uranus, effective from the 15th through to the 17th. It's impacting the foundational areas of your life – home, parental relationships, family connections and those close enough to call family.
For many ♑Capricorns this has been an area of real reform, dating back to 2010. As Uranus also represents intermittent situations, this may have involved hasty moves, or sudden changes to parental circumstances. If you’re eyeing another home change, especially one that supports greater independence, April can be the time window supporting such moves.
With Saturn back in ♑Capricorn, these are the years of long term commitment to secure objectives. It will affect all ♑Capricorns but at the moment particularly those born 1959, 1974 and 1989, or with birth dates on, or close by, the end of December. Rearrangements here are based on a more realistic view of situations.
The other birth date connected to major change, which may have been building for some time, is around January 10-12. Pro-active Mars may be the catalyst here as it meets up with reformative Pluto by the 26th. It marks an increase in energy levels, motivation and application across the final week of April.
The 🌕Full Moon energies, dominant at the start of March, have an expansive international connection. Time to stretch your wings on something, if not in the literal, then certainly the metaphorical sense. Taking it to the limit might be the catchphrase.
Something about going that extra step now, works in your favour and can even engender harmonious support. Breaking through new barriers may be the result of a courageous venture, where trusting yourself and banking on your talents is the natural prerogative. Sometimes faith can be the product of an inner 'knowing'.
Artful Mercury and artistic Venus are heading to the home base of your solar chart from the 6th and 7th respectively. It can be giving you some splendid ideas associated with home improvement, interior design, and generally warming up the family connection.
Keep your eye on the budget as you're also prone to not sparing the expense on domestic purchases as that which catches your eye also tempts your credit card. The same logic applies to anyone home hunting, looking at a rental contract or hosting a party. As good as this combination is – in Aries it also throws a testing square to your sign.
Friendships and group outings are moving into positive territory and the mid-March trine from the Sun to jovial Jupiter should deliver on the social front. A time to make the contact, leave your calling card, where the lines of communication are open and responsive.
One feature can be people from the past catching up, especially those of a confident and expansive nature who elicit the same in you. There can be benefits through larger organisations or linking in with more expansive or influential networks around the middle of March.
The 🌑New Moon of the 17th/18th has an educational filter attached. A time of thinking things over, processing information or mastering new communication skills or software. Being part of the network may be ultra-important at this point. Having the right contacts will help.
The old line of who you know, not what you know being the clincher still applies to begin with. But ultimately what you know will decide how far you can progress. So take advantage of any learning opportunities as well as putting your ideas forward and the feelers out there.
Motivating Mars moves into your sign from the 18th and it will defintely give the December born the competitive edge for the remainder of March. You just have to ensure it doesn't become too competitive and have the handbrake handy when called for.
The last week can have you concentrating more on home and/or family. There can be some changes you're planning here as the expressive Sun squares to pragmatic and long-term Saturn, now in your sign. It's vital to consider most of these initiatives and circumstances through the Saturn filter. It aids your realistic and even critical thinking and the changes or commitments you ultimately make as a result, will be lasting ones.
Let's get deep and meaningful for a moment. Is there any other death other than that of consciousness? Is matter immutable and never disappears but merely changes form? Regardless, we seem to fear the finality of many things, with some notable expeditions like hefty mortgages, bad poetry and interminable drum solos.
Yet by reaching an end, some situations are inadvertently doing us a gigantic favour. The 🌕Lunar Eclipse, which is ushering in February, suggests that the only way to truly get on the other side of a door – is by properly closing it. For sometimes you can be confusing the future for what is really the past. February is more suited to testing out and building on new initiatives. Take your time with this.
Mercury will spend the first eighteen days of February in your house of assets, earning capacity and life values. It may have you reflecting upon the material here and Mercury being the ideas planet can also coincide with some new financial plans and thoughts on how to secure your future. The words commerce and merchandising are drawn from the name of the mercurial one, so it pays to think business like now. It may bring opportunity through media and communication.
The 🌑Solar Eclipse of the 16th also focuses on security - proving something to yourself and testing long term viability. This is where you put some plan, something, or even someone, to the ultimate reality check. It's imperative to know whether something actually works or not.
You're building to consolidate here and therefore you need to be sure whether it is workable and will stand the test of time. That which cannot pass will be discarded and what works you can further invest your time, energy or money in.
After the 19th, life may tend to speed up or introduce a touch more variety, away from the prior patient building and/or material focus. The final week is excellent for networking, think tanks, floating new ideas and receiving feedback on your fresh ventures. It is also ideal for learning new skills or further developing a new interest, particularly in regard to any media related studies or subjects.
The 🌕SuperMoon, beginning January, governs the early part of the month. It's occurring opposite your sign and affecting your primary relationships and the lives of close ones around you. The increased focus concerning others helps you see situations and close ones in a new and clearer light. Changing circumstances makes this time important for forming or re-evaluating associations and/or agreements. Ideally a coming together or a reset involving partnerships.
The focus of January has to be on self-direction. There will be up to six celestial bodies moving through your sign, each bringing their own qualities and opening up a myriad of new choices and options for you. Birthdays around January 9 can find their birth Sun's union with value planet Venus and the ancient Roman lord of wealth, Pluto, makes 2018 a pivotal year for financial change, or even a life changing relationship.
The regenerative Pluto factor has been strong for Capricorn stretching back to 2008. No other planet reflects more of an inward focus via usually large scale sweeping lifestyle change than Pluto. The triggers of the Sun and Venus with the icy dwarf and the emergence of Saturn now in Capricorn are making this year even more important for directional change.
The 🌑New Moon of the 17th (late 16th in the Americas) brings together six celestial bodies in one sign. YOURS! That's quite a Capricorn focus indeed and can hardly pass without something of equal significance. In fact you have to look back to the early 90's for such an emphasis.
That's why the things you start this month will be so important, perhaps long into the future. As mentioned, birthdays from January 9 and especially around January 16 will feel this strongest. The positive plus – the ball's in your court.
From the 18th first Venus and then from the 20th, the Sun will move from Capricorn and life may slow down sufficiently for you to consider what you want to take out of all of this. It's also where you may weigh up the longer term consequences and build on what is solid, whilst moving on from the rest. Keep in mind that this is bound to be a subjective time. You are probably remodelling an important area of your life. Take your time on this one.
The coming month has the genuine potential to be one of the most rewarding times of the year. To take full advantage of it placing a large amount of trust in yourself is essential. Live by the motto that only when the answer is ready does the student ask the question.
Right now you are your own teacher, meaning that your true solutions lie within. Looking for outside advice will not be as rewarding as using your own innovative approaches. Speculative luck should confirm the theory that fortune really does favour the brave.
The 🌑New Moon of the 9th contains the seeds of a new birth – literally! It falls in your astrological house attached to children and the buds of flowering creation. But this process means many things to many ♊Geminis. The core content involves nurturing your natural talents and abilities. Moving toward your bliss. Something that you can give birth to that is easy and natural for you.
It's why it's so important to follow your heart and work towards the pleasure potential around this second week, when your enjoyment meter should be registering a high. For younger ♊Geminis the spontaneity will be of its own accord. Older ♊Geminis may experience it through their children or from returning to recreational activities, games or entertainments that encourage creative input.
The inner planets of Mercury and Venus have an important role to play. Your ruler Mercury changes sign into ♏Scorpio by the 10th, where it will unite with a backtracking Venus on the 16th. All of this impacts on the routine and habitual areas of your life and has health repercussions.
The Venus retro says there has to be a better way. Work isn't always a labour of love, but ideally it needs to be moving in that direction for you to produce your best results.
When you're doing what you love you feel good about life. Sometimes by reorganising the way we do it we change the whole experience. It's like changing the syntax of a sentence, it will also change the meaning.
The same transits are obviously useful for following what 'is a labour if love'. Here we find the artist at work, reveling in the detail and mastering the technique. Yes it could be time to restring the guitar and get out those music sheets.
The 🌕Full Moon of the 24th with the 'Lightning Bolt Uranus' is delivering a fast awakening. An epiphany to something you may have been blind to in the past, but has previously brought you undone. Like a secret or idiosyncrasy suddenly coming to light.
It may catch you off guard initially, requiring a time out period to digest. They key to this can be correcting where you have been out of step with a prevailing value, or where your values have run counter to what is accepted. The 'cult' is not so cool. Sometimes hiding in the crowd is better than standing out from it.
But this is more an aberration to the pattern than the general flow of October. Overall, the month ahead can bring your genuine talents to the fore. It has the potential, as previously mentioned, to be one of the highlight times of the year. And to remind you that the spirit of youth is ultimately found within.
Mindful Mercury is fast tracking through the foundational area of your chart from the 6th to the 22nd. This is where you concentrate on the pillars of your existence, the people and things that hold you up in life. It's about nurturance, not just on the emotional level, but also knowing what's best for you in terms of support systems and safety nets.
On the outside people see the branches and leaves of the tree. But it's the roots that feed the structure and it's where you're coming from that will determine how far you can go at this point. The very beginning of September can involve important decisions for birthdays around June 1.
The 🌑New Moon of the 9th occurs at the base of your solar chart and is focusing your attention more on your private life and inner world. The ideal time to concentrate on your immediate living conditions, spend more time with close ones or those you call family or make some overdue changes around the home set up. A useful time to look at domestic projects or improvements that also have a financial angle or money saving benefit attached.
Mars movement back into ♒Aquarius from the 9th can be giving you itchy feet about something. It is the planet of impulse and direct action and it's activating an area of your solar chart concerned with expansive adventures, particularly where related to travel or exploring foreign area and cultures. It can also provide the motivation for self-improvement, particularly when connected to higher and more meaningful studies and beliefs.
Your ruling planet Mercury, along with the Sun are firing up your self-expression and creative ingenuity from the 22nd and 23rd onwards. If you have an artistic bent it's bound to surface now and this duo are encouraging you to nurture and develop your natural abilities and talents across the latter part of the month.
A time to let your heart guide your head, think young and follow your passions. Life can be romantic if you adopt that attitude, just don't overstretch the budget around the same time period.
The 🌕Full Moon of the 25th spotlights larger organisations, social and group activities along with hopes and wishes where they involve other people. Ideally it's a time of assimilation, of linking with those of like mind and together you can take on the world. That's the plan anyway.
This 🌕lunation, which gravitates toward the fun loving playmates, can correlate with a good time had by all. The enjoyment through shared interests attracts others to the party.
It's okay...isn't it? Nobody miked the confessional box and simulcast it to the entire congregation...well at least you hope they didn't. Surely that would defeat the whole purpose. Secrets and the ramifications of them can be something you're learning more about around the beginning of the month.
That retro Mars is squaring off to surprise packet Uranus in your house of clandestine cloak-and-dagger activities. The awakening calls for a different approach across the first week of playing your cards close to your chest.
The 🌑Solar Eclipse, exact on the 11th, reminds you that variety really is the spice of your life. Positively it can help in breaking up some staid, but stagnating, situations. If you're in two minds about something now, it's purely because you really do need to look at it from more than one angle.
Flexibility and attentive communication hold the answers. Ask questions, join the conversation, as knowledge is there for the taking. Fresh ideas and methodologies can also be accompanied by cutting edge technologies. This 🌑eclipse is most effective on the intellectual and informational levels.
One of the more delightful features on the month is the transit of Venus, the pleasure planet, through your house of recreation, entertainment and creative enjoyments. That's especially important if your born right around the start of ♊Gemini, when affairs of the heart are given a welcome boost.
Mercury, your planetary ruler, resumes its forward motion (from the 19th) after backtracking for three weeks through your house of communication, messages, immediate neighbours and siblings. The mercurial one is spending a lot of extra time (from the end of June to September 6) in this communication hub of your solar chart, which may have already corresponded to ongoing talks or negotiations, back and forth messaging, rewriting the narrative as you go.
All of this will have added benefits, dealing with data or statistics, media studies or refresher courses. Relationships pick up by the ongoing information exchange. New understandings and agreements potentially stem from this. You can establish fresh contacts and your social networks may expand exponentially.
The 🌕Full Moon of the 26th is putting you temporarily in the spotlight as it climbs to the zenith of your solar chart. There may be something coming to fruition around the latter stages of August. It comes with increased recognition and the final week can find you busier than most, although you should find some wind down time at the very end of the month.
Your ruling planet, insightful Mercury, is positioning advantageously to ♊your sign over the next three months. It's allowing you to have your voice heard with more assertion and authority, as it faces off to direct action Mars by the 5th.
You can find yourself a lot busier around your own neighbourhood and in all kinds of media related activities, which you can excel in. Transport and travel can become more important over this time, along with matters involving conveyancing or legal affairs.
The 🌑Solar Eclipse of July the 13th, is impacting on your house of values, valuables and financial affairs. It's where you weigh up your assets with your liabilities. And it's important to do that now, as this 🌑eclipse also opposes the ancient Roman wealth ruler, Pluto.
The dwarf planet is positioned in your house of debt and dealings with others on the fiscal or material level. It's a matter of taking back some control, if you've dropped the ball in any of these areas.
Pluto may have a sledgehammer effect, but it tends to work in a subtle manner. Meaning that little things add up until all of a sudden you realise that something is getting out of control – Jurassic Park style.
It's an all or nothing aspect that can deliver the goods, providing you're willing to pay the price. Easy to get yourself in too deep with agreements and contracts here and it pays to start and stick with clearly defined limits.
Much of July involves testing and consolidating initiatives from last month, and especially around the middle of June. Some of them will need to pass the blowtorch test to see whether they can stand the heat. You need some kind of proof on something here and until you get that, it's wise to hold back building on those initiatives any further. You've made your move and now its time to have the patience to see what eventuates.
The 🌕Lunar Eclipse of the 27th has to be handled carefully. It's riding shotgun with gelignite Mars. The fiery red planet is affecting overseas connections, legal matters and expansive plans. As mentioned in last month's wrap on the Mars retrograde period, this is a time of greater focus and finality where the kinks are ironed out of the fabric.
The ninth house, where the 🌕eclipse falls, is a place of big picture vision. It's where you move away and beyond your usual boundaries, in working toward an important objective. The assertive direct approach can be working well for the late May born ♊Geminis, but too much impulse, or aggression, may prove a much more problematic for the mid June born.
Correspondence, meetings, catch-ups, lots of talk and information exchanged. That's your bag, because you're a ♊Gemini right? True that you're in your element with the Sun now in your sign. But it's the conveyance of commuting/computing Mercury that is intensifying communications around you over this first week.
The winged messenger's timely trine with impulsive Mars is making you more pro-active and productively assertive. Getting right to the point without wasteful words is the great benefit, but don't be overly impulsive, lest haste makes waste.
The union of the resourceful Sun with your ruling planet Mercury, exact on the 6th, is especially important for birthdays on or around that day. It can usher in a year ahead where mercurial matters, such as languages, learning, information and/or commercial dealings dominate.
For some it may pay to look back to 2005 when the Sun Mercury occurred again near the middle of ♊Gemini, only a couple of days earlier. Negotiations and deal making will be important for all ♊Geminians in the first half of June. But the square to nebulous Neptune calls for meticulous discrimination.
The 🌑New Moon of the 13th brings a necessary self-focus. This is a time of initiating new plans. For birthdays on or near this date can mean significant changes ahead. Advice? Know precisely what you want and be self directed in achieving that goal. The very beginning of this fresh lunation cycle can be giving birth to that new reality.
It's also saying a fast goodbye to the past and to fully appreciate its potential you must also do so in some form. This 🌑New Moon also falls in a testing aspect to Mars, suggesting a more hands on or assertive approach, but also needing to avoid mindless impulse. Be firm and direct – but handle with care!
Your ruler, Mercury, heads into ♋Cancer from the 13th. It may involve you reviewing some domestic expenditure as business and budgeting will assume greater importance. The major aspect for Mercury for June, is the Grand Water Trine it forms with the growth planet Jupiter and Neptune, between the 19th and 22nd.
This pattern is emphasising the most practical houses of your solar scope, suggesting you need to be doing the same, especially around a work situation. There may be some confusion around your public profile, or at a professional managerial level. This period can provide some vital clues to any mysteries.
Assertive Mars, heads backward through the heavens from the 27th affecting your house of overseas connections, higher aims and legal matters. Retrograde periods accompany a focus and finality as the kinks are ironed out of the fabric, so to speak. Ideally this is what is also involved here in the subject areas mentioned.
Mars tends to work well for those born early in the sign, but can be problematic, (meaning requires a greater effort or delivers greater competition), for those born more toward the end of the sign during its station during August and early September.
You know what it's like preparing for that special occasion, or rehearsing for a part. You have to exercise your critical judgement. It's a time when you need to be a little more exacting of yourself, resist cutting too many corners and make healthy choices. Work needn't be treated like a four letter word. The easy way out is really the hard way in; that's what the first week of May is telling you. Be careful not careless. If something is worth it you need to take your time and do your homework.
For all ♊Geminis, the Sun is finishing its annual zodiacal journey in preparation for its return to your sign. And like any completion of a cycle, the time is up on something here. It involves shedding something of the past and moving on. It's also why your energy levels are in need of rest and rejuvenation, rather than excitation and exuberance, especially across this second week. Time to chill. Indulgent Venus in ♊Gemini squaring imaginative Neptune encourages escapist fantasies from the 8th.
The ♉Taurean 🌑New Moon, of May 15, highlights your solar house of solace, self-reflection and release. It encompasses the lessons learnt from premature actions and/or where there is a need to let go of a security blanket or situation attached to the past. You may be in the process of doing just that, or you may feel that life is getting out of control at this point. It is usually call to go with the flow, rather than trying to hold back the tide.
Unconventional Uranus is moving into your twelfth solar house of solitude and seclusion from the 16th onward. This placement is notable for those who do their best work behind the scenes or have a very private side to their personal affairs. Bob Dylan is a case in point or fellow songwriter Harry Nilsson. The latter managed to be a major star without major stage shows or tours. Both were ♊Geminis with Uranus in ♉Taurus.
The late, Colleen McCullough, internationally acclaimed author, was another. Writing was initially her alter-ego. She was a trained neuroscientist and worked in hospitals and universities before pursuing research and teaching. Following her writing success, she lived on remote Norfolk Island, working away from the mainstream.
This Uranus transit can encourage your more eccentric hobbies or secret talents as well as supporting a more alternative lifestyle. The latter part of May suits doing your own thing, with increasing motivation and energy, as the Gemini Sun moves into an opportune trine with assertive Mars.
The 🌕Full Moon, beginning April, lights up the most innovative area of your solar chart. This is where it pays to act spontaneously and 'in the moment'. It's where tending to follow your heart and feeling, rather than over thinking the matter, is the more rewarding route.
Entertainments and social pleasures may dominate early and there's no harm in focussing on what you enjoy here. It gets your creative juices flowing and reminds you that you're only as old as you choose to feel.
Networking Mercury has been moving retro through your house of group involvement and larger organisations, from March 23rd. It's backward movement angles promisingly to your sign, therefore the adjustments that you are making here should work toward a positive outcome.
If you've been thinking of joining, or repositioning yourself within the team environment, now's the time. Old friends may be reappearing now, agreements changing, or you may receive news on something after a previous delay. As Mercury moves forward from the 15th, it is clarifying matters on these fronts.
Friendships loom large around the 🌑New Moon period of the 15th through 17th. This 🌑lunation is working in your favour and speeding up progress; positively changing the playing fields regarding your associations. Close associates can suddenly take your life to different places and be an exhilarating source of spontaneity and originality.
Group affiliations can also assist in mastering new technologies or pursuing alternative lifestyle solutions. The Sun and 🌑Moon's alignment with unique Uranus can coincide with some unexpected liaisons who are invoking the 'individual' - and perhaps rebel - in you.
The planet of charm and style, Venus moves into Gemini from the 25th onward. On the surface it can correlate with cultivating a new look and more of a concentration on aesthetics and how you relate to others. The planet of attraction encourages self reflection in all of these areas.
At a deeper level it is initiating a new cycle of self-acceptance and review of your underlying values in life. Artistic endeavours and an appreciation of the beauty around you, are all part of this Venus filter, operational until May 20.
Chances are, if you're of the more ambitious ilk, that both March and parts of April, have also brought some heavier responsibilities to bear. Part of this has been the challenge of incorporating, or rejecting, other people's agendas and values.
So there can be a cutting of ties that is associated where differences become irreconcilable. Some things simply have to be. What is important though is to ensure that financially, you are not overly affected by this, should it occur. For that reason, money, and possessions, can be a touchy subject in April.
The 🌕Full Moon that dominates early March, especially the 1st to 3rd, concentrates on matters of personal security, the home life and family, or those you regard as close as kin. There may be a push-pull effect here if you're concentrating on more outward concerns.
Somehow there is a call to restore balance, or an awareness that you need inner support for the outer structure to stand strong. Decisions made here could have that 'what if' or tug-o-war feel about them but you can't have it both ways, especially the early June born.
Your ruling planet, Mercury moves into upbeat Aries on the 6th, and Venus follows the very next day. This area of your solar chart is traditionally associated with 'hopes and wishes' and termed the house of the Good Daemon. Not everybody believes in angels, but sometimes friends can appear like them.
It's all suggesting relationships, especially where associated with your good pals, is going to play a more prominent role for the coming weeks. Around the 20th can be important here, marking the Mercury/Venus conjunction, and a good deal for you.
The commanding Sun is the most elevated body in your solar chart during March and by the 14th it aligns productively with fortuitous Jupiter. When the Sun moves through the top of your chart it is emphasising areas of status and reputation. How the world at large sees you, and your attitude to it and the public role you play. That's where you can best express yourself and where the encouraging Jupiter trine may correlate with expansive opportunities around the middle of the month.
The 🌑New Moon of the 17th/18th, is bringing you to a decision point. It can be important for your career direction and for many it can be useful to look back at the 2009/10 period. As for now, understand that March may have been bringing something to a climax for you.
Underlying all of this is the necessity to take charge and be in command. Sometimes circumstance can elevate you into that position of greater responsibility for a very good reason. If this is your moment in the Sun, then it's time for you to shine your light too.
The 🌕Lunar Eclipse, affecting the first week, has an educative slant that can find you more behind the keyboard, textbook or classroom walls. It's also implying that important communication and relaying of information is required. You may feel like a quiz contestant at times and the goal is to be the quiz-master.
Mercury, your ruling planet, was assigned that role by astrology's ancient forebears. And no – not the ones that inhabit the woods...there were only three of them anyway. For the first two and a half weeks of February, the messenger with wings on his feet, is travelling through your house of far distant lands and international connections.
The square of the Sun to expansive Jupiter on the 11th and Mercury doing the same with Jupiter by the 14th, can find you mixing with or assimilating new and different cultures. Ideal for learning new languages or beliefs even if they offer some challenges along the way.
The 🌑Solar Eclipse of the 15th is encouraging the adventurer in you. It wants to move beyond accepted boundaries and explore exotic and expansive new horizons. It may well correlate with a confidence boosting opportunity or a brave decision to back yourself on something, because the feel and the timing are right.
Travel can be part of the equation as a physical manifestation of this fortunate restlessness. Self growth is at the heart of it all. And the time is right!
From the 19th the Sun will reach the apex of your solar chart. It can put you more in the public spotlight and ask questions of you from a career or status based angle. A time to reflect on your worldly role and how you want to play it.
On the 22nd and 25th, firstly Venus and then Mercury link up with sensitive Neptune in the same area of public accountability. It's impossible to deny the spiritual factors involved – ambition is not as important as the empathy here. It suits the artists and healers of the world.
The 🌕SuperMoon, beginning 2018, is concentrating on the material. Your focus may be drawn to resources – what you have and what you feel you need. Possessions can have an emotional attachment. A tendency toward the feel good purchase – a valuing of the sentimental.
Nothing wrong with that and it may even provide a sense of security in a world of constant change. Your increased 'motivation' can be a consolidating factor where finances and business plans are concerned.
A lot of attention may still be directed around other people, continuing a focus which began late November and continued though December. This period has a rebalancing effect concerning relationships, or agreements, where greater co-operation is essential, although can also cause some problems.
If you have entered into a new partnership during that time then you are now starting to see things in a clearer light. This is a period of building upon those initiatives and consolidating their strengths. It's knowing where the unifying factors are and sorting through any differences.
The 🌑New Moon of the 17th (late 16th in the Americas) is affecting your codependencies which can play out in several ways. They may be on the emotional level but are not necessarily confined to the personal. On the material level this applies to your investments, loans, legacies and any kind of business dealings – wherever you are trading off one thing for another. These are the areas calling for revision and reinvention now.
January can be a strong bonding month. A lot depends on developing trust and being comfortable enough to share vulnerabilities. That applies on many levels, not only emotional of course. The positive pay off is strengthening your connections building strong and sustainable links and partnerships.
The latter part of the month suits travel and breaking the mould on something. It suits first time experiences that expand your outlook and build confidence in the future. A very adventurous time where courage delivers its own reward.