Scherenschnitt By Bettina von Arnim {{PD}}

Our instinctual nature may be acute today, aligned with our highest priorities and values and synchronized with our choices and actions–and all of it makes for smooth expression that reflects our truest nature, and tells those around us who we are in some important way. Following our inner impulse, making ‘statements’ that are most natural to us, may see us defying the reality picture and finding ways around barriers and obstacles; by our behavior we also reveal what we appreciate, and this may attract those who want those assets or moments of beauty for themselves. Expect a few surprises, the potential for accident, revelation, and transformation, as well as the near certainty that we will be highly aware of hurt at some point–and yet in being so strongly attuned to our inner motivations and values, we end up facing all that we need to deal with, and doing so in clever, optimistic, inventive, and original ways.

(Vesta parallel and Mars sxt Sedna, Mars contra-parallel Saturn, Venus qnx Pluto, Sun sxt Uranus, sq Chiron, and trine Black Moon Lilith)

‘Cakes, 1963’ Photo By Pplachigo – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28954794

For those born with the Sun at 06 Cancer. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). Does it feel like you’re all out on a limb, dear Cancer, alone and caring, with nothing to pour your feelings into? That will definitely change this year; your hints about what direction this will take you can be found in the emotional shocks, accidents, or revelations that have recently (within the last year or so) occurred. The ‘new’ cause you will find to dedicate yourself to will bring immense change in other life areas, as well, causing a kind of domino effect, but it will be you who calls the shots and makes the choices, and that should be reassuring. Enjoy the process of discovery, and the wonderful sense of Love and security that await you this solar year, to arrive before you reach your next birthday. Good luck!

‘This Is Our Corner’ By Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1873 {{PD}}

For those who closely associate their personal power and its expression with some role or position they hold, or for anyone freely using their abilities and whatever ‘powers’ these confer, this can be a dynamite day, offering an atmosphere of seeming-total empowerment. That’s the keyword, though: seeming. Knowing our limits is vital, because going ‘too far’ can and likely will muster a lot of push-back, if not outright energy assault, from those heavily invested in having their own power felt by others.

Steps to avoid trouble include knowing the difference between actual, proven wisdom and the kind of instinctual knowing that can be strongly influenced by our outlook and our wishes. Also be clear on how truly fortuitous certain accidents/ incidents may be; the consequences of the unintended can be rewarding or profitable, so don’t judge something on its immediate surface, or by what it removes, as there’s almost certainly something better that will take its place.

Starting today and extending over the next four days, Chiron forms the arm of a T-square with the Sun-Earth axis. This suggests the potential for being diverted from our intended direction, our attention drawn away by hurt–and whether these wounds are fresh or age-old, we may be tempted to make too much of them, and so slow our progress. This is, in the largest sense, a call to heal or re-form our wounds, so that they no longer impact both the Soul’s intents and the environment we manifest. Right now the interference generated by hurt is clear, and wound-free is the goal–and will be achieved, if you take advantage of the current situation.

(Juno trine Ceres, Pallas sesq Sedna, Pluto contra-parallel Pallas, Venus semi-sq Uranus)

‘Cakes, 1963’ Photo By Pplachigo – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28954794

For those born with the Sun at 04 Cancer. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). Dear Cancer, you’ll have to face something momentous this solar year, through to your next birthday, but if you’ll embrace spontaneity, accident, and the potential for info and answers arriving through revelation, you can exceed all your expectations for accomplishment–and that’s saying something, especially when we consider that much of your energy and attention may be commandeered by a need to deal with olds hurts–to face them, possibly to fight to right the situation, certainly to try to resolve them with healing. As the solar year progresses, you find emotions become softer, easier to accept, and you can work with them, perhaps gaining a leadership position born of a new maturity. What becomes harder, though, are communications, even the thinking processes themselves, as you face crises in making clear who and what you care about. Good luck!

Claude and Camille Monet on a park bench, By Claude Monet 1873 {{PD}}

Choice and the potential for action loom large today, and somehow the future seems too wide-open, the landscape inciting a kind of emotional, or maybe spiritual, agoraphobia. We may resist our own creative urge, or the reassurance offered by rewards, Love, friendship, believing we misunderstand or that it will cost us–but in reality this is a positive impulse, this pausing, as it allows us to adjust, allows our focus to take shape, and our minds to reach the conclusions that are most characteristic of our Soul impulse–and that means our actions and choices will be, too.

(Jupiter qnx and Mars parallel NN, Venus sq Neptune and trine Zeus, Mercury parallel and Sun nov Hygeia)

‘Cakes, 1963’ Photo By Pplachigo – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28954794

For those born with the Sun at 03 Cancer. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). What’s coming for you, dear Cancer? You’ll be getting some surprises, and some chances to heal, and soon you’ll either be excavating matters you’ve delayed attending to, or you’ll be taking up a cause you’re passionate about–but first you’ll need to deal with ongoing power struggles, ones that stretch back for some time. Determining who (if anyone) has power over you, as well as who and what you may exercise power over, is the centerpiece of this solar year, through to your next birthday. It’s vital you work this out, as without clear boundaries it will be nearly impossible to deal with what’s coming, or to benefit from it, so don’t hesitate over the long-term to embrace and respect your own personal authority, and to exercise it when and where appropriate. Good luck!

‘Medizin’ (Medicine) By Gustav Klimt {{PD}}

After yesterday, we may be looking for remedies; we find them in accepting as much appropriate responsibility as possible, in rejecting anything destructive, especially those things harsh on relationships or finances (including overspending), and by trusting ourselves and our judgment over feedback from the social arena, and even over facts that may present contradiction–if we’re willing to examine those, we will know whether it’s smart to go ahead with our idea or not.

(Juno enters Leo, Venus contra-parallel Pluto and nov Vesta, Mercury parallel Pallas and the NN and contra-parallel Jupiter)

‘Cakes, 1963’ Photo By Pplachigo – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28954794

For those born with the Sun at 29 Gemini. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). It may feel very important to you, dear Gemini, to get the power situation straight. It may even present as a crisis, or a series of them, where status, reach, authority, and the support (or lack of it) of partners will be clearly defined–and from there you can choose what to do, because you will, definitely, need to be in charge this solar year, through to your next birthday–at the least, calling the shots for your own future, at most determining life direction for many many others. Creativity is high, and opportunities arrive, but they are hard-won, so appreciate how much went into making this potential avenue available, before you say yay or nay. By the end of the year, if not sooner, emotions and intuition will strongly support personal development. Good luck!

Cover of ‘Songs of the Great Earthquake’ Artist unknown, lithograph, Tokyo, 1924

Geez, what made everybody so mad? Mostly, it seems, it’s about facing various power structures and finding how really hard they are to topple, change, talk to, eliminate, make an impact on, overcome, or wrest power from, for our own use. Yesterday, and/ or our own thinking, set us up to think this would be easy, and it’s anything but. We may have to take a step back, for our own health and safety, and look for the payoffs that aren’t quite so power and reality focused–which sounds disappointing until you realize that our perceptions of things are what matter. Our upset at not achieving all we’d hoped in the blink of an eye must be put into perspective–that is, we must credit ourselves with all we do accomplish, and then use our agile minds to plan, because the reality is change happens in steps; only accidents and earthquakes happen without anticipation, and you don’t want to be in charge of one of those, do you?

(Mars and Mercury parallel, conj, and both opp Pluto, Venus contra-parallel Saturn)

‘Cakes, 1963’ Photo By Pplachigo – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28954794

For those born with the Sun at 28 Gemini. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). Dear Gemini, your empowerment is on the agenda this solar year, through to your next birthday, but it’s only fair to warn you that the kind and shape of power you’ve longed for (and this applies even if all you want is dominion over yourself) is likely to come through crisis–that’s where you’ll prove your ingenuity, that you care, and that you are more than capable–and it will be rewarded. So, it won’t come to you the way you’ve dreamed of it happening, but it will come–and then you’ll need to make peace with how you got it, with your position, with your personal sense of authority, with your true reach, and there’ll be an inevitable reckoning of your abilities–all in preparation for the next shift. Big aids include the ability to think it and act on it simultaneously, and to bring creative notions into real-world forms adeptly. Good luck!

Photo By Phillip Capper from Wellington, New Zealand -Sculpture By Inge King, ‘Rings of Saturn’ , Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heidelberg, Victoria, 8 Feb. 2009 CC BY 2.0

Wow! This should be a really good day, as long as we are clear on what our actual values are–not what we tell ourselves they are, but what we have in reality put our time, energy, and attention into, lo these many years–because that is what will provide the muscle to bring the reality picture closer to the ideal (or allow us to manifest a creative idea in material terms), that will make our actions and choices brilliantly rewarding (as well as being the smart thing to do), and thought and action will be synchronized–with all the positives and pitfalls we might expect from such a partnership (including no need to stop and think, so in the moment choices dazzle, as well as having the chance to shoot our mouths off!) An amazing period for the aware and tuned-in; a bit frustrating, for a variety of reasons, for everyone else. If you find yourself not benefiting, it’s worth examining current values and commitments, as chances are there’s something you’re not seeing about them (or specifically, your relationship to them) that’s holding up this highly beneficial flow.

(Neptune semi-sq Vesta, Saturn sxt Neptune, Venus nov Mars and trine Pallas, Merc conj Mars)

‘Cakes, 1963’ Photo By Pplachigo – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28954794

For those born with the Sun at 27 Gemini. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). Dear Gemini, it appears you’re in for some kind of breakthrough year, where your own thinking about who you are and what you’re here to do subtly becomes re-arranged. Of course, this can have a big impact on both how you see yourself and what you do, and may take the life off in unexpected directions. See it as a kind of emotional birth, where what’s been kept below suddenly surfaces, forcing the life in directions you really care about–that’s only good, no matter how disruptive, right? Know too that this is a super-creative time for you, and that ‘dreams come to reality’ is a definite possibility–really, more often than not this solar year, through to your next birthday, you’ll think the thought, and it will happen. Good luck!

Yesterday’s Full Moon is right here–