SCORPIO (October 23-November 22)
Mars has spent nearly five months dancing around the sign Cancer, your ninth solar house. Contrary to any description of Scorpio that you will read, this has had you thrashing over whether your life plans are right or wrong. I trust that you have, by this time, begun to enjoy the process of questioning your intentions and determining whether something actually feels right before you thrust yourself into it. However, Mars has finally broken free of the retrograde effect that dominated the winter and early spring, and is about to cross the midheaven angle of your chart. This is the time to put your plans into action, with gusto. The sticking point may be a series of negotiations with others that could benefit from a thorough review for accuracy, integrity, and whether they are realistic. I don’t suggest you allow this to block your movement through the world, however. Most things you want to do don’t call for the involvement of others. Those involvements might turn out to be good for you, and will definitely turn out to be good for them; the key is making sure that shared arrangements of any kind are good for everyone. So take your time where those discussions are concerned, and be bold about everything else.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22)
You don’t necessarily consider yourself a creative person. Even if you’re a talented artist, you’re likely to be the type to say, “I’m just being me.” You appear, though, to be in a struggle over what I will call your creative identity. This is part of a larger question that involves not being able to dial in the prior versions of yourself that in the past proved so dependable. The experience may seem like a spacecraft that has disappeared behind a planet and has lost radio contact with base. It’s like the old scripts and ego identities still exist, but they’re in a void that is compelling you to think of yourself in new ways. Please take advantage of this. A whole assortment of presumptions, largely the result of your talent for fashioning yourself into a kind of living myth, are now finally being questioned. You are on a journey into the unknown—which I trust is suited to your taste for adventure. The real effect, if you allow it, is spurring your creative passions. Now, passions are strong, but they are a poor match for the oppressive and boring teachings of society. In other words, if you get a blast of creativity, run with it, lest it be subsumed back into the belly of the Borg.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20)
You want action. Let’s see if we can figure out where you’re going to find it. Or rather, where it is going to find you. I think the word is directly. You’re accustomed to one particular part of your life going with excruciating, even agonizing, slowness. Keep your antennas up, because it’s likely to pick up the pace. As it does, you may face various questions of appropriateness: Do I mix a sexual relationship with one that involves another commitment? Can I even think about it? Will I be giving someone too much power over me? Yeah, these are the questions that nobody would have given a hoot or a toot about in 1975. But it’s not the ’70s anymore; we are in another land, the land of boundaries and borders and limits. We are, collectively, moving through a time when fear is the reason to avoid everyone and everything, except maybe prescription mediation and a tall latte. Most people don’t feel it as strange; it is very, very strange. You need a definition of integrity that allows you to have the fun you want, and, by that, I mean the naughty kind of fun. Remember, integrity means being a whole person, not a pure one.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19)
Keep building from the inside out. Forget ambition, aspiration, the big prize, the house on the hill. Remember your core, your rich, inner domain, the abundance of wealth that you stand on, live on, nourish yourself from. Rather than look up, I suggest you work on a horizontal plane. This is not the place to include a long rant over our culture’s obsession with up and down as the only directions of movement; but then most people didn’t make it through geometry. As one of the smartest signs of the zodiac, you are no doubt familiar with the concept of an X-axis as well as a Y-axis. Look out on your level of reality in all directions. Notice who you see; there will be a number of people who are sufficiently self-aware and in contact with their desires to be able to respond to yours. Note that you will meet the occasional egomaniac as well; you will recognize them by their visible tendency toward hostility. While you may want to express your usual tendency to tame or fix such souls, you would be wasting an opportunity to indulge in some excellent missing experiences.
PISCES (February 19-March 20)
Focus on keeping a positive attitude. The planets aligned around you are so solid, grounded, and dependable that the only thing that could possibly stop you from having the time of your life is a negative state of mind. Therefore, addressing that is the starting point (and I don’t see it as an issue by the way—only as a potential pitfall that could affect anyone at any time on a seriously depressed planet). Take care of the basics first. Make a few moves and keep the bank balance in the black; don’t let small tasks drag down your bigger vision. Do the dishes before you go to bed, so when you wake up, the new day is not marked by the effects of the prior one. (This is a meaningful lesson in how karma works.) Keep clear with the people around you, and resolve differences quickly; don’t let your conscience be troubled. Then, rock out: Push the concept and the reality of freedom. Indulge the hedonist side of your nature for a change. Take chances that you would not ordinarily take; say yes, ask for what you want, and trade in being a perfect person for being a bold one. As a Pisces, you may feel you’ve seen it all—but push the bounds of reality till you try something new, or ’til it tries you.