CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20)
You may wonder why you’re in such a position of authority, or why it seems necessary that you get there. Consider that it’s not really authority that you’re seeking or known for, but rather your devotion to purpose. Such often calls upon people to take charge and step up to a challenge, or to lead the way for others. It surely seems as though the world is missing those who can do this well. Yet the world is in a crisis of meaning more than anything, and this you have been cultivating beautifully. I recognize that at times you may feel confused, confounded, or confronted by reality. You may feel like your security base is challenged every day, and that you’re compensating with raw strength. Yet beneath that potency and strength is something elegant and seemingly small. That is your devotional quality; your ability to understand what and why and stick to it for years. Under the current transits (and by that I mean this month and in the current years of your life) this is becoming one of the strongest elements of your psyche. Nourish, refine, and honor this every day. Look for signs of authenticity in our mad world. Listen for clues that people know what they need or want to be doing, no matter how confused they think they are. See if you can feel the way the whole world is moving in the right direction and be mindful of all the ways you fit into the process.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19)
A phase of your life is over and a new one has begun. Yet you seem to have a question about how you handled a relationship, how you feel about where someone else is with their life, and the role you’ve taken with them. If you’ve taken a heavy hand, you may feel like some of this is coming back at you. I wonder how much of what you’re perceiving is reality, and how much is a dramatization of your fears—in particular, a phobia you seem to have about being spontaneous. In essence, as you approach the spontaneous moment, you may hesitate, which is not really hesitation but rather a little whiff of what I will call your “fear of the worst.” Don’t worry, you’re not the only person who may experience this, but you’re certainly one who has the ability to tap into the power of the experience. Deep in there is a story about modern humanity’s relationship to existence. We’re a society of people who are all about control, which is the opposite of spontaneity. If you find yourself hesitating and you recognize that this is about letting go of control, notice that this is where the life force has the opportunity to slip into your world. Fear is a mask or a veil placed over this. The more intense your negative expectation of what may happen, the more energy, passion, and potential the situation contains.
PISCES (February 19-March 20)
You’ve had a taste of what is possible if you focus your thoughts on what you want to create, if you mind your business affairs and take care of your relationships. Your charts give an excellent image that basically says, the more that what you create resembles you, the more you, and it, will thrive. You see, there really is no “it” in this equation: the poet is the work of the poem. You’re about to discover how what you have created has the power to create you back: imagine a feedback loop, wherein you express something and then receive it with your senses, and refine both along the way. What you’ve experienced through the past three or four months was an experimental phase. Think of it as a prototype, of process and product. That experiment continues, though for the next six months or so, you have an extended time of reviewing what you’ve done and making adjustments. Note that these are going to be based on what worked rather than what didn’t work. If something didn’t work, notice how or why that happened, take the information on board and quickly move onto what did work. The whole business of learning from your mistakes can only go so far. At a certain point you have to learn from success, and fortunately you have a good bit of that to consider. Check me here, though I can assure you that it comes down to one concept, which is authenticity.