Falero 1880 'A Day at the Tavern'

Here’s the gist of it: The way a panoply of aspects may play into our celebrations is in making some of us supremely mopey–and who can blame those who’ve become acutely aware of what they don’t have, love or money-wise? The trick is not to let a melancholy seated in the past, and in what is not, take over the future–for what else is the New Year for, but to celebrate a new beginning? Take this to heart, and use what this aspect brings to create new goals  more in line with your heart, rather than what you’ve come to believe by rote you should have in order to be happy (for that’s where most of this dissatisfaction and ennui will be coming from, distorted ideas of what we must have in love or assets in order to be happy, ‘real,’ who we were meant to be).

Happy New Year!

From the 1865 edition of 'Cinderella'

We will likely be preoccupied with Merc direction energies, as all indicators point to Plutonian experiences, feelings, and perceptions. With the Moon fresh off an aspect to Pluto and heading toward the Sun (both sextiles) as the clock strikes midnight changing from 29th to 30th, PST, that Cinderella spark within (yes, guys, you have one too! It’s the need to see a light at the end of the tunnel, a promise of rescue by a change in circumstances) will be yearning for, searching for, a way to keep (or perhaps regain) that figurative glass slipper–and this will be something, an asset or belief-perception, that is suddenly not in our possession any more (think the Venus/ Sedna opposition across the Taurus/ Scorpio axis of the natal chart). We may feel bereft, abandoned, resigned to the loss of something that was perceived as a gift from a fairy godmother in the first place–but the truth is that it was karmic in nature, earned in some way, and will return in a better, more permanent form. Something to look forward to, and to allow us to relax with the loss, as a bigger change, a transformative event, is on the way.

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Circumstances feel harsh, tempers flare, and intuition may be suppressed. Artist unknown c16th century {{PD-Art}}

9 AM PST of the 28th the Moon conjuncts Zeus, immediately followed with a square to Mars and a conjunction to Saturn. This presents a complex wherein the emotions and ‘I am’ challenge us to act, to do ‘it,’ but we feel a suppression of intuition that makes us very hesitant to go forward. Much here depends on where Saturn is transiting in the personal chart, as well as any aspects it makes, and what if any aspects are currently being made to natal Saturn. With Merc not just retro but still (for a day) within quincunx of Sedna, communications may be especially hard to grasp and thoughts to collect in any coherent fashion. Note what comes forward but make actions modest; anything not under consideration before the Merc retrograde should be tabled for a later vote.