Moon is waxing (getting bigger) than when she is waning. You can schedule your business accordingly.
Also, though you are a logical and level-headed person, when it comes to finances you can be moody. So avoid making important financial decisions when you feel depressed or upset. Sleep on things. Wait for your mood to equalize and then make your decision.
Love and Social Life
Your 7th House of Love and Social Activities is not a House of Power this year and thus I expect we’ll see a status-quo kind of year. Marrieds will tend to stay married and singles will tend to stay single.
However, your love planet makes an important move this year. He moves from Capricorn (where he was all last year) into Aquarius. He will be in Aquarius for the entire year ahead (beginning from January 5).
Last year you (but singles especially) were very conservative in love. You almost disbelieved in the notion of romantic love. Love was something practical: a job, a career move, a duty, a responsibility. You felt that if you found the right person, you could ‘learn’ to love him or her. You gravitated to older, more established people—people above you in status. You were cautious in love, slow to fall in love. Material support and the sexual chemistry were the primal attractions for you. This year we see some changes. We still see you as being status conscious in love—you still see it as a career move—but you want more equality in the relationship. You want a friend as well as a lover. You admire not only a person’s position and status, but also their mind and spirit. This year, you seem quicker to fall in love—less afraid.
In some ways, last year’s attitudes were easier. This year your love needs are much more complex. You are attracted by wealth, status and power (and are very likely to enter into this kind of romance) but you also need friendship and a good spiritual compatibility. Without the spiritual compatibility—being on the same spiritual wave length, sharing the same spiritual ideals—it is doubtful whether any love relationship could last very long. Your ideal person would be someone creative, poetic or mystical, who was also of high status, perhaps the CEO of a large corporation, and who was also an inventor or innovator. These things are harder to find, but they exist. Astrologers and astronomers—scientists, genius types—are also very alluring.
This year you have the aspects for a classic office romance with a superior, someone above you in the hierarchy. You also have the aspects of the person who falls in love with their guru, mentor or professor.
Love opportunities happen in educational and religious-type settings, at church, mosque or synagogue or at functions sponsored by these kinds of organizations. It can happen in foreign countries and with foreigners. And it can happen as you pursue your career goals. College and university settings are also likely meeting grounds.
If you are single working on your first marriage, the year ahead is a status-quo one. A marriage isn’t likely, but you will have romance. If you are working on the second marriage, then marriage IS very likely in the year ahead, with a partner being found in the places mentioned above. Those working on the third or fourth marriage are having status quo kinds of years.
This is a year where you mingle with the high and the mighty—people of power and prestige. These people, as we mentioned, are very helpful career-wise.
A sibling will either marry or enter into a serious love relationship this year. If he or she is already married, there will be more romance within the marriage. The marriage seems happier. Parents or parent figures are having their marriages and business partnerships tested. Children and grandchildren of marriageable age are having status quo kinds of years.
Self-improvement
Saturn has been in your 4th House of Home and Family for some years now and will be there for most of the year ahead. Aside from the practical effects on the home and the family, it is bringing important spiritual lessons. And these lessons are going on in the year ahead.
Basically the cosmos wants you to learn to manage your emotional life better, to neither repress negative feelings (which only brings depression and physical ailments) nor to express them (which only generates negative energy into the universe and brings negative karma on you), but to direct them according to your will—to master them. This requires some understanding of how the emotional-feeling world works and might require some study on your part. But basically emotions will follow attention and focus. If you get control of your attention and keep it on positive and happy things, the overall mood will be better. Prayer and meditation—especially praise and worship—are like vitamins for the emotional life. The Buddhists teach to just observe and experience your emotions without expressing them. This is not repression, because you are experiencing the emotion, but you are not expressing it—dumping it on others. Thus you are not polluting the emotional environment. All the above is good, but I also like writing out negative feelings and then throwing out the paper. Talking them into a tape recorder and then erasing the tape is also effective. For many years you have been riding a career roller-coaster. Like any roller-coaster ride there are alternating thrills and fears. The purpose here was to teach centredness amidst all the career change and drama. Not to be overly elated by success, nor depressed by failure. Just to keep on keeping on. By now you have learned these lessons and are ready for the career success and opportunity that is happening.
Pluto is moving into your 8th House of Sex permanently this year. Thus you are going deeper into sexuality. It’s not just about more sexual activity, but a deeper understanding of what sex is. Unfortunately, the medical and psychological communities seem clueless about it. They see it as a mere neurological release; something physical, mechanical, chemical and emotional. But sex is much, much more than that. And you are in a period for learning more about this. Tantric (for those of you interested in Eastern philosophy) and hermetic science and Kabbalah (for those of you of a more Western bent) have much to teach about these things, and you might want to explore these.
Your spiritual mission in the year ahead (as it has been for many years) is spirituality itself. What we call ‘performing the Yoga’—making the union with the Divine within you. This and involvement in ministry, higher education, teaching and publishing (which are really side effects of the above) is your spirit’s true calling.
January
Best Days Overall: 8, 16, 17, 26, 27
Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29
Best Days for Love: 7, 9, 10, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 29
Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 25, 26, 27
Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 8, 16, 17, 26, 27, 28, 29
You begin your year with 80 to 90 per cent of the planets above the horizon—a huge, huge percentage. Very soon—next month—you will enter a yearly career peak. You need to get ready for it. So, give more attention and energy to your career—your outer goals—and let family and emotional issues slide for a while. You won’t be able to ignore the home and family completely, not with Saturn in your 4th House, but you can shift more energy to your career. Also, the two planets involved with home and family issues are Retrograde this month—so there is not much to be done in that area anyway.
Most of the planets are in the Western social sector as you begin your year. So this is not a time for too much self-assertion or independence. It is a time for cultivating the good graces of others and for getting things done by compromise and consensus. This
