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You missed nothing in January, which appeared to drag the previous year behind it like a dead body; now, however, we have lift off. If you haven’t already felt the benign and rather over-energising presence of mighty Jupiter entering your sign, you will. This planet moves fast through Aries which is OK because you move fast as well – too fast, at times, so mind how you go. Reflection and reconsideration before action are not really your strong points, are they?
It’s up to you, of course, but here’s a chance to stop letting an old situation (or worse, person) control your life. No, I know, no-one controls you... But your astrologer is not here to believe your version of events. The control is there and you may have long since decided to not mind in order to keep the peace. Alas, peace is not the current watchword, as one planet after another joins Jupiter in your sign between now and June. There is excitement here, drama, change, frustration – what matter? As the warrior of the zodiac you have the tools, just make sure your terrible swift sword doesn’t catch you by the heels before you strike. Yeah, everything makes you angry, but it’s your nature to be angry – it’s your nature to go mad. You’ll get over it but will everyone else? Maybe not, You may lose some friends, a lover or two; anyone boring will simply collapse at the roadside as you bulldoze on; Oh, let’s be brutal. You may lose the lot, but what price the new you? Time for transformation in situation, in position, in place, in direction. You might even buy some decent clothes later in the year when things calm down. No, honestly, you look great, but they wont fit by mid year.
This is the year to stop seeing the things you want in your mind’s eye and start dealing with the elephant that just walked into the room. Good luck and success attend you.
Money, money, money....if only love were a substitute! Oh but it is, or rather, it’s the same thing in your mind. When you’ve stopped snorting, think carefully about that. Besides, be honest, you really don’t have money problems, do you? No, no. What you’ve been spending so recklessly is energy. An energy you think is inexhaustible. Money, time, love, security, energy....all the same to you. And what you are spending them on is transformations you cannot control. Last year probably showed you that, but your concentration on the reins is too demanding for time to think about it. Now, the thinking is beginning to appear in your dreams. Not yet? Wait.
All this time, of course, Saturn is trying to make you deal with lessons that make you so angry you can’t think. Never mind. Perhaps if you continue to imagine that those around you care, you may continue as you are. On the other hand, if you manage to remove the workhorse blinkers occasionally this year (you may find you have to after June opens in a blaze) you might get a clear view of the road you have picked and the road you may pick. You are, believe it or not, at the gate of choice. The past is dragging at your chariot so hard, the wheels may fall off. You really don’t need half the stuff you are toting any more. After the age of two, you don’t need a security blanket and neither do you need to provide one for everyone else.
Neptune, so wearisome for so long, is about to start a move into Pisces which will have the effect of waking you to the fact that a great many of your dreams and aspirations have been put on the shelf for far too long. Well, who put them there? And here’s me trying to tell you what to do. The last thing any Taurean needs. Perhaps I should quietly withdraw with the comment ‘OK. Carry on’ Just sign up to Medicare.
Something is happening to your mouth early this year. As an embarrassing result of the last eclipse of 2010, it’s open and, like the head of poor Orpheus floating down the river, it’s singing. Oh yes. So many things to say! So many things – even worse – not to say; so many secrets and dreams to keep quiet about. You feel a bit like a scream looking for a pillow.
Emotional. It’s a big thing for a Gemini, but this year, emotional it is. Perhaps you shouldn’t keep quiet, perhaps you can’t. It’s all going to come out. It may clear the air and the air – which has been so sadly lacking lately – is beginning to be full of sounds and noises which delight the ear and hurt not. As they say. Saturn is forming a helpful trine, as unhelpful Neptune moves on. This may sound meaningless, but in day to day management, it means that the occasional warning hand on your shoulder is kindly meant and you should not ignore it. The more you can keep your comments to yourself – or wait to write them down and burn them afterwards- the better. Generous Jupiter spends the first half of the year expanding your social circle dramatically and if that includes every rag, tag and bobtail, no matter. You have a short enough memory span to forget which ones you never wanted in the first place.
Maybe when I said ‘emotional’ I really meant ‘exciting’? I’m sure I did actually. If you choose not to deal with boring issues, you may find them dealt with for you. No matter. A good clear out is just the ticket and talking of tickets, a great year for travel. Maybe all those dreary issues can be dealt with while you’re not there?
Hey ho. If you find it hard to pass by the delights on offer despite a still, small voice of reason calling for an element of restraint and resistance – well, who was it first intimated that ‘resistance is useless’? A gold star to that man!
Well. Here’s a ‘how d’ye do!’
No question, in any sane person’s mind (let’s be honest, your mind) there have been better years, but none with the opportunities that this one offers. After all, to most people (let’s be honest, to you) better years are the ones where little happens, nothing challenges and life goes on in the kind of quiet desperation you have become all too used to. Yet here is your train, drawing to an unscheduled stop in the most disturbing and chaotic station you have ever seen in your life and, thank goodness, you’re sitting in a carriage, behind a window and can watch.
Well, no, I’m afraid not!
From January onward, the pressure starts. Your career and status is so dramatically starred during the first three months that, whether you want to remain in your fug of dull domesticity or not, you cannot. Opportunities and advancement, a change of home and environment, the upset of you comfortable misery, all are being shoved at you from all directions (if you’re reading this in February, you wont believe March and April) and the people around you are impatient for a positive reaction from you. Correction. They are impatient of you! Even if you don’t, important allies want to see you take the opportunity to change your life. And all this whilst the dark forces of your past patterns of behaviour (and the people connected with them) drag at your emotional apron strings sobbing for attention. Sounds dramatic, don’t it? Maybe so. Please, however, do not allow the drama to keep you from the action – they are two very different things.
All the aspects coming at you this year are, in the classic sense of the astrologer’s world, stressful ones (eclipses, squares, oppositions and so on), but remember, without a challenge no-one rises to the occasion. The door to your carriage has already been opened, your baggage has been tossed onto the platform, anything you felt you couldn’t leave behind is still on the train and the train, my dear friend, is already leaving. You dislike the idea of choice so sincerely that it seems unkind of me to delight in the fact that you have only the one choice. You can wait for the next train (with what glee I can tell you it is not due for hundreds of years!) by staying, ridiculously, on the platform, or you can find that ticket you have had in your pocket since you were a child and go cash it in. What do you mean, you can’t afford it? Didn’t I tell you? That ticket’s worth a fortune! Bon chance!
Who ARE these people? Well, paranoia won’t help. Not this year.
You’re feeling the coming tsunami already, but I’m afraid it may come as something of a shock, after all the years since 1997, to look in the mirror on the morning of April 3rd 2011 and realise that the images you have surrounded yourself with are not your friends, are not there to help you realise your ambitions, are not the lovers and soul mates you hoped and dreamed they were. To look again and realise that, actually, they are not there at all. Neither is much of anything you thought was there. It may seem a little cavalier to suggest that you could revel in the naked and solitary image that you suddenly see, but, hey. What’s an astrologer if not a cavalier! Anyway, no costume means you can at last choose your own; play your own part; be your own person. I know, of course, that after such a long and tortuous stretch of trying to find your image in the eyes of those facing you, looking directly into your own will take a little learning before it becomes easy.
I know and can’t really help you other than to say that this is what freedom from illusion looks like.
At least now you can begin to stop styling yourself as others demand; you can deal with the emotional traumas that have played out in your familial relationships for so long and been so often laid at your feet. Tread on them. Try to control your anger, which will be a problem in the early months of this year. It isn’t the fault either of yourself or someone else that this has gone on so long you feel it IS your life. Now you must start to decide what it is you would rather WAS and WILL BE your life. Take your time. Look after yourself. Be the number one you really are. Charm from strength, not weakness. You don’t need to make anyone like you. They will anyway. Demand recognition, demand flattery, demand to put your career first and look after your health. Don’t lose heart. If your health goes haywire for a little, well, that’s because you should have put yourself first. Yes, really. First, before equals. Who said you had any?
None of this will be over this year or even next, but the beginning is about to arrive and its time to ignore what others say as you step forward to take the sword out of the stone and claim it as yours. It is anyway. They all lied. You lied when you said you couldn’t do it on your own. You can
Now then. That business of events taking you by surprise, of people behaving with such transparent stupidity you are left open-mouthed, with your feet bound in mud as they carry on regardless, that sense of having somehow lost the right to control what happens to you? Well, there may still be the odd occasion like that. Life brings them, but at least they won’t unnerve you quite as much in the future because you have the, er, T-shirt.
As Uranus, planet of surprise and upheaval moves away from Pisces and into Aries, I’d be the last to suggest that there will be no more surprises (come on, you know you like them. You go all pink!) but they have moved into a more congenial area of life. Other people’s. Meantime, into your partnerships enters a kind of dreamtime. Don’t be someone else’s man for a while. Try designing your own T-shirt and don’t let go of the reins. Money is tight just now and will be all year. Or rather, it seems to be. In fact, at times, it feels like a personal enemy, determined to deceive you and without a solid basis. Remember, money is a tool not a goal. If now it’s here, now gone, now promised, now withdrawn, now enough and now a veil of wishes, well, like a great many other things you count of value – justice, fairness, love, right, wrong – it IS only an idea that depends on others’ belief as well as your own. You are a practical person but it may be time for a little romance in your thinking. Romance, not wishful thinking.
You, of all people, have all the tools you need to set the situations you find around you straight. If you feel it is left to you to transform things, try not to be angry at this, but gratified. After all, apart from anything else, as the year goes on you will look better, feel better and speak better. Stop being distracted by the things in your life which appear to be constantly changing. One thing is unalterable. Your intelligence and will to put things right is equalled by none. Plan the battles you need to and storm the walls you must. Learn something this year that will stand you in good stead forever. What is yours MUST come to you. It will, but you need to be ready to open the door to it. Oh, and when people offer help, look the gift horse in the mouth for about a minute, check the teeth and then accept, with thanks.
Ah, Libra. How does it feel to realise that you have suddenly become the still centre of a turning world? A little like standing up too quickly, I suspect; or recognising that the sound which cocoons you is actually silence. For you, the noise of drills and horns, of shouting demands and calls for help, has ceased. For a while, you may worry whether this is because you personally, have gone deaf or whether the sinking ship has sunk and left you only, floating.
One of the few signs for whom Saturn represents a return to sanity, rather than a restraint, a chance to reach for clarity, reason and sense, you find yourself looking around at the chaos still surrounding everything after the mad carnival has moved on. Never fear that it can have done so without you. On the contrary, everything that is most important to you – fairness, balance, logic and progress – is now in your hands. While the fears and demands of others have occupied you for a long while, suddenly you will feel that the time has come to move on, calmly. The need you have for this seems now possible, real, desirable.
This is not to say that some old questions don’t still need your attention, but you will find you have the time and the will to deal with them. Contrary to what you feel about yourself, you have proved your own ability and that there is no-one stronger than you at the moment; others have known it (and kept quiet about it) for a while; now you must know it for yourself. There can be no excuses any longer for you to put aside necessities which demand your attention because of others’ needs. Loyal friends are more than ready to offer support as you try to say the things that must be said, but the actions will have to be your own, regardless of contradiction. You will feel occasionally exhausted, but space alone will deal with that. Take breaks and ‘time-outs’ (a long bath will do) and carry on. You DO have right (and Saturn) on your side against the past, for the present and into the future. Events are moving your way so be ready to take them in your stride.
And, if you can’t find your voice, find a friend who has one (Gemini’s are always willing mouthpieces!) or recruit that demanding partner for their foghorn abilities. One word of warning, try to limit stimulants and depressants both for six months or so. After that, you may discover that you don’t need or want them. Well. Saturn won’t like it and it carries a heavy stick!
Feels....OK?....doesn’t it?
So ‘OK’ for a Scorpio is a tad rash; like stripping off and dancing in the street for an Aries and, after such a dreary prison sentence (you may like to leave a message for Neptune on that one)the fact that the door to your cell appears to be opening is something you are regarding with a jaundiced eye. Well, sure, I know you regard everything with a jaundiced eye and no way is this a recommendation to abandon a set of chains which have served you reasonably well. But, after all, you may have forgotten that they ARE chains ... and I’M ..NOT .. GOING .. TO.. ARGUE with you about this. If we all wait around for March to come in like a lion and April to part the fog blocking a well of creativity which you seems to have been unable to draw on for so long, I can just look smart and say ‘I told you so’. Patience, of course, is not something which anyone can give you lessons in.
You have been dealing with old stuff for such a long time now that it has formed a scaly skin on top of your own. Time to stop giving it your total attention and leave it in the basket marked ‘aftercare’. You have always had the tools and, astonishingly, in a while you will realise that you also have the goodwill. Speak less and get your bags packed (I know, everything you want is mouldering under the stairs) to move. It is perfectly clear that where you are cannot contain you. Neither have you wanted to be there. The prison is opening and you will not fall off the edge of the world if you take steps out of it – anyway, your neighbours may actually help you to go. Your creativity, like a sleeping dragon, is about to wake up and change the landscape. Prison officers are in no way capable of dealing with this (ask any Capricorn!).
If this all makes you health fragile it is only so in the way a sudden surge of blood to the extremities will hurt at first. You also have the power to heal this. You are ready, there is no rush now, nor are there obstacles that could possibly block you. Drop that second skin and get the dusty bag from under the stairs.
By the way, you may have forgotten, but there is a secret passageway you started building under there a considerable time ago. Who’s going to see you go?
How shiny are you now? The person you’ve begun seeing in the mirror for some months IS you. Energy levels are beginning to surge (if you have children, theirs may well be and it is imperative you feed off this rather than letting it sap yours); recognition is suddenly coming your way. Work, which has been a chore for a long time, looks like suddenly offering magical possibilities involving travel or other moves. It’s more than likely though that you will find yourself drawn to fairly esoteric fields of learning and discovery as well as toward groups of people who have hitherto seemed out of reach of your immediate circle. Old friends may make appearances, bearing gifts. No need to fear the Greeks in this regard. You may be made an offer that doesn’t even feel like work.
There is no need to make a song and dance about this – in other words tell anyone – though as the mouth of the zodiac, no doubt you will and even find a soapbox to do it from. Before you start imparting truths, however, take a moment to check their validity. There are truths and there are truths and not all of them are what people want to hear. However, that fear you have had for many a long year of upsetting the applecart by speaking out, is not relevant any longer. Apple carts are upsetting all about you without your help. It may be time to start moving through the fair toward the place you want to be.
You will have fantastic opportunities this year but there is no need to go scraping the scars off old wounds before checking whether it is alright to move on. Old friends, situations, issues are always ready to surface. Quiet, ssshhh. A balancing act is required. Especially regarding money. There are not many signs who can confidently be advised to trust to their luck, but you are one of them. That gamble? Think, but not too long. It is in your nature to make a block of funds, but that is absolutely not necessary for at least six months of this year. That is not to say there will not be moments of total fear, but your imagination (this may take some dealing with) is on fire with alternatives and possibilities. It’s just that you are a little unused to listening to it. Try it now. Like trying a jammed window that has for so long been impossible to shift, you will find you never actually needed either a key or brute force. It WILL swing open.
Yes...that weird smell is fresh air.
Black day at Bad Rock. (Stop rubbing your hands together, it’s a dead giveaway!) Besides, there’s time. Time is ALWAYS on your side. And when I flattered Scorpios about their patience, I knew, of course, that it is not in the same league as yours (I also know, naturally, that you never had the slightest intention of reading any horoscope but your own, that comment was for those who do). Not many are in your league anyway. You won’t let them in; after all, what’s a club with no exclusivity?
Others may wince at that kind of opening, but Capricorns? I think not. I know you’ve already started to change your wardrobe to a more severe style. A more JUDICIOUS style. Black, maybe. And the hair? Not making quite the right statement?
The fact is, you love having an effect on the lives of others (as long as they don’t know) and your time has come. There is no point any longer in even pretending you would like to be a circus performer, let’s leave the trapeze to those who are prepared to fall.
After so long beneath a swirling ocean without a foothold or a horizon to give you confidence, you are rising like a volcanic island out of the waves. You are not afraid now of lacking secure ground, you can already begin to feel the coming truth. You ARE the secure ground. Anarchy is the enemy of Capricorns (and your ruler, Saturn) but without it, how is anyone to know that you are capable of restoring control. That you ARE control. Yes, yes, anarchy threatens the old order, but that has been happening for some time now. Suddenly, you apprehend the possibilities. The more confusion, the more need for clarity. The more disorder, the more need for judgement. The more dis-ease, the more need of a skilful surgeon. The more flying balls, the more need of a sober juggler (you see? You can even get that fun circus thing in, if you try).
A word of warning. The anger thing must be brought under rein. And your voice. The voice has been a little shrill for a time. It lacks charm and charm is your greatest strength. You have it in a spare pack under the solar plexus, in case you forgot. A word of warning again. The anger thing must.... OK. Actually, although you have charm in bucket load’s what a wonderful thing it would be if you had humour as well. After all, with the world going to hell in a handcart, you might actually laugh!
Have you realised yet that the dream you have been dreaming since the late nineties was actually a nightmare? A world of fantasies, taking you nowhere that you thought you wanted to go?
Perhaps you think it has not been so bad? Well, look at those around you. It’s been that bad, believe me. The scales are falling at last from your eyes, and the light might hurt but at least it’s the light and not the darkness visible you have lived in for too long.
If you play the lottery, you might try one last throw early in the year, but it may already be beginning to dawn on you that winning the lottery is not really a way to manage your finances. If you did, you really haven’t learned enough not to blow the lot and be back at square one before the sun set. Ach, you know.
Your ignorance is beginning to play on your mind this year. You know you haven’t learned enough. Did you really think you were going to build a castle – even one in the air – without turning your hand to the skill of bricklaying? Yes, your probably did. It was someone else’s job, the bricklaying bit. Fine, but all the while you thought you were dancing to your own tune, all you did was keep knocking down walls as they went up. Really, you have had any amount of patience expended on you.
Now this might sound trying, but in fact it isn’t. The landscape before you after March will begin to gleam with real possibilities, real vistas, real places to travel to. That still, small voice saying you don’t have the abilities or the tools to make a difference is not entirely right. You do have the ability to acquire the tools. You always did. It just seemed possible that you could gather a team to cover the lack. It hasn’t entirely worked, but amazingly, there are probably still those around you who are ready to help. So long as you start some things for yourself and begin the painstaking task of going back over major things you have missed.
Mostly, going backwards is not to be recommended, but in this case it is essential. You see, you haven’t chosen the wrong path. You haven’t chosen a path at all. You’ve been going round in circles. Get back to the gate. Before that dream world collapses and your health and freedom fail on you as a result, take stock. Look at those who need you. Be ready to answer them.
That noise you hear is an alarm clock.
You have been becalmed for a great, long while, but now you may be having dreams of water. Water in champagne waves curling round your ankles, tugging you further out with the siren songs of freedom. Of all the signs, you can hear the mermaids singing and it has been far too long since you felt them sing for you, or felt ready to reply.
All that is about to change. It will change slowly, like the steady, unrelenting build of a tsunami far out in the depths of the sea which becomes the stars on the horizon which elides into the far reaches of the universe – which is all one to you; as it is to the butterfly which has just landed on your shoulder. Does it matter to you that this is partly the fault of having Uranus in your sign? About as useful to you as putting an uninsulated wire into a kettle to boil water would be to the tea lady. Poor tea lady with her swollen ankles and aching feet. Just like yours.
Or does it make a difference that Neptune, your own magical planet of farscapes and illusion, has been trapped in Aquarius damning your health, your social circle, your wishes and dreams to the asylum of fantasy? Only for a few reasons.
- One, astrology demands it be said or this would look like false promises.
- Two, on 12th March, Uranus moves into Aries where it can use its energy better in your house of money.
- Three, on 4th April , whilst the sun rises over the seas, Neptune enters your own sign. It’s own sign.
At last, you can loose the anchor, untie the rope holding your little boat to the pier and let it take you out, where you feel safe and happy and whole.
You can throw out that ridiculous wardrobe of sensible clothes you’ve amassed to no purpose. You can legitimately embrace the world of dreams, empathy and understanding which is your home. You are the most simple of complex creatures, after all. The moon makes you cry with the simplicity of it all.
To a Pisces, there are no questions without answers; there is no senselessness that does make sense; there is no sense that is not its own meaning and all this is about to become your inhabitable world at last. You have no need to take a care of the world around you. If you embrace happiness and joy, you will carry all with you. This is true and, of all the signs, I have no doubt you will sense the truth of it. Because yours has always been a higher, different truth and enough of who takes the bins out.
That champagne water, and the butterfly, demand a little of your urgent, exploring attention.
