Horoscopes for the Week of Jan. 6th – Jan. 12th

With this new Moon a seed is planted that may blossom into a new belief about your responsibility toward children, love, and your own personal happiness. Currently those beliefs may have more to do with your family of origin and the past. It’s time for a reconsideration and possibly an update of your approach to work and life. There is the possibility that work and responsibility actually serves to protect you from direct experiences with the raw, untamed, and uncontrollable aspects of life – passionate love, the ever-changing nature of reality, and the unpredictability of life. Your habits may be approaching the limits of what is actually fair, balanced, and healthy for you and those you love. A reconsideration of your responsibilities and motives seems timely this week. Creating some distance between what your life experience has taught you and what a close, influential, family member’s experience taught them continues to be important. It’s time to distinguish and to possibly redraw boundaries.

This week a seed is planted that grows into a new kind of relationship possibility with family, the past, your home and the idea of carrying on some family tradition. That tradition, though maybe not previously appreciated, may relate to freedom from or within relationships. Your past may be filled with independent, eccentric types who chose to go their own way or to create relationships that broke the rules despite the consequences. I think that courage may qualify as a family tradition worth passing on at this time. Maybe you or a family member is struggling with trying to fit into a role that does not suit them, but to do otherwise would subject them to condemnation. Maybe it is your role to encourage the family tradition of having the courage to live an authentic life. That may require a separation from some old belief that frees you to be more supportive. It may be time to reconsider your definition of family responsibility.

SCORPIO (October 21 – November 21)
Endings require the release of some deep attachment and for Scorpio that may feel incredibly painful no matter what the nature of the ending. Sometimes, when viewed objectively it seems small and “for the best” but feels disproportionately painful and overwhelming. For you this may relate to a schedule change, more responsibility, less private, self-indulgent time, a less space, and a smaller world. There may be some reconsideration regarding how much you can handle emotionally. You may need some kind of additional support or financial freedom that is delayed or difficult to arrange. Belief in the growth value of difficult experience prevents you from succumbing to the temptation of thinking of yourself as a helpless victim. That kind of thinking is particularly damaging now. By January 25th the dust settles and you may be more in control. Between now and mid-May is the ideal time to revive a relationship or alliance that helps return you to a more joyful and expansive way of life.

This week it’s time to plant a practical, self-disciplined, seed that grows into the kind of achievement you dream of. It may be financial success. But it may relate more to the full development of your innate talents and the kind of power you will be able to wield as a result. It may relate to a very personal, practically useful contribution to society. Whatever it is, this new Moon marks the time when you finally get serious. It’s time to take some concrete steps to redesign your style and approach to life to accommodate what you want to achieve. You may need to set aside time, to stick to an intelligently designed schedule, to sign up for a workshop, to invest in something promising, or to revive a relationship with the kind of achiever or leader you wish to be. You may have grown used to something pleasurable and self-indulgent that needs to be restricted in some way. Between now and January 25th is the ideal time to do your research and to get your ducks in order. By the end of January you may be ready to make a decision or to commit. Rearranging your surroundings in a way that nurtures your dream is wise.

CAPRICORN (December 21-January 21)
There is some lag time involved in being a Capricorn. As you outgrow things, as old ways of being lose their “reason for being,” as old interests, alliances, and responsibilities become increasingly meaningless, Capricorns respond slowly to the need for adjustment. Behaviors during your lag time take on a lifeless or insane flavor depending on your point of view. The lights may be on, but nobody’s actually at home. Robotic actions that have no meaningful inner or outer connections continue. So this week it’s time to catch up to yourself. Retrograde Mercury facilitates a review of your current responsibilities. Making room for a rebirth more closely aligned with the person you’ve become involves the engagement of your imagination, creative writing and communication, wit, humor, and a challenge to your mind and beliefs. If you once had a relationship – foreign, political, educational, philosophical or religious – that has died, it may be important to revive it.

AQUARIUS (January 21-February 21)
This week marks the beginning of an ending of some significance. Some back and forth, lack of clear communication, delays in negotiation, decision making, or invisible treachery can be anticipated through January 25th. There may be the need to end the confusion, uncertainty, or escapist tendency that contributes to a depletion of your resources. Concurrently there is an acceleration of the ongoing deep inner healing taking place. Old haunts and vulnerabilities that extend beyond current relationship clarifications may be dissolving – mostly through some concentrated, ongoing effort on your part. Jupiter’s change in direction tomorrow (through May) urges inner expansion related to the establishment of alliances or neurological pathways. If you need to complete some skill development objective, writing project, or an interrupted education, it may be time to get on with it. Now is the time to tie up loose ends and to complete the deep inner healing process. By May your full power will be restored.

PISCES (February 21-March 21)
This new Capricorn Moon opens the door to a commitment to new alliances. Between now and January 25th there is a reconsideration and careful review of what exactly you might need to become a more accomplished artist, musician, poet, or creative-type – and the kind of people you may need to surround yourself with to make that feat easier. After January 25th you may know more specifically exactly what gaps need to be filled for your vision of success to become a reality. You may know what questions to ask and how to quickly recognize a valuable ally. Your beliefs about your future prospects for success may change and grow in a positive direction. Between now and mid-May you may rebalance the scales within relationships. Between now and then inner growth related to your role in relationships and what you need from a partner may be clarified. Within the next four months, rekindling your relationship with the part of yourself that knows how to be more high profile, more social, more open, and relatable is possible. Finding a trusted, knowledgable critic is likely.

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