Horoscope provided by Lois Stahl. Lois an be contact on masonwaspstudio@telkomsa.net

MOON PHASES:

NEW MOON : 23RD JANUARY

WAXING HALF MOON: 31ST JANUARY

FULL MOON: 7TH FEBRUARY

WANING HALF MOON: 14TH FEBRUARY

PLANETARY ASPECTS:

22ND JANUARY -- SUN SQUARE JUPITER

24TH JANUARY -- MARS TURNS RETROGRADE

28TH JANAURY -- MERCURY MOVES INTO AQUARIUS

1ST FEBRUARY -- VENUS OPPOSES MARS

4TH FEBRUARY -- NEPTUNE MOVES INTO PISCES **

7TH FEBRUARY -- SATURN TURNS RETROGRADE

8TH FEBRUARY -- VENUS MOVES INTO ARIES

10TH FEBRUARY -- VENUS CONJUNCTS URANUS

14TH FEBRUARY -- MERCURY MOVES INTO PISCES – CONJUNCTS NEPTUNE

ARIES:

When Mars turns retrograde the anger issues are prone to be inner directed and not easily dealt with. This is not ideal and is inclined to create demonstrations in another way and particularly as it is in Virgo, through ill health and physical discomfort. Some physical expression can and will help for this. Neptune moving into Pisces will have some major manifestations of water issues. The emotions will also tend to overflow and it is best expressed through tears. Illusions can change and come tumbling down and you have to take responsibility for your own addictions as you learn to direct your energy towards personal and global issues.

Each negative thought creates a negative response and these responses are an ongoing ripple in the vase lake of consciousness.

When the planets Venus and Uranus conjunct in Aries you will feel inspired to break free from the fetters of authority and find your own creative outlet. Freedom is vital and you need to explore what this means to you.

TAURUS:

To heal the wounds, and to restore the values that are intrinsically human you need the connection with your ancestors and spirits that will emphasize your correlation to family and community. This might appear to be simple; however, the chaos of the current system creates a lot of obstacles. The power of your humanness needs to confront these obstacles so that your true self can be honored, respected and uplifted once again. Then a deep process of individuation leads you naturally to see yourself as and organic part of a human community instead of just a private person. There is no ‘one right way’ to do this work. One size does not fit all. Everybody is different. The response to each situation will be different for you and each one. Rediscovering the beauty, compassionate nature and innate power of your self

is part of your journey. Possibly you have come to mistrust the inherent goodness of human beings and even yourself, but now with Neptune in Pisces there will be a strong focus on unconditional love for yourself firstly and for others too.

GEMINI:

Your attempts to assert yourself and get things your own way get diffused through the emotions and your need to do things around the home. This puts a damper on your social life.

Sustaining community and global consciousness is essential for all of us at this time and this does necessarily involve a healing process in which you can step out of the cycles of pain, mistrust and violence that run through human history, and take responsibility for initiating new patterns. Now you need consciously to reinvent cooperative and harmonious ways of living together with others. For those raised within the hyper-individualized paradigm, or in settings where people come from diverse or even warring factions, learning the subtleties of constructive and mutually beneficial interaction may take a major effort. However this is not impossible but as with any physical or emotional condition, we are once again trying to treat the effect, without finding the cause of the problem. This is a paradigm that breeds violence, instead of peace. Your choices are what makes your world peaceful or a warring place.

CANCER:

The Victim, the Rescuer and the Accuser; creating a spiral effect, making us the Victim over and over again; quite a difficult cycle to break with your will. The reason for this is that the will resides in the conscious mind, while the change and correcting of perceptions have to happen in the subconscious mind. The only problem is that it is not easy for the average person to get into his own subconscious mind! The critical faculty is that part of your mind that tells you that something is hot or cold; the earth is round or flat, thus giving you feedback of what you already experienced before, so that you can weigh it up and work out a comparison to make a decision. You are consciously unaware of this process going on all the time, but only experience the emotional and physiological response to what happened previously. These perceptions are not necessarily true, but carry huge emotions, which do not mature as you mature in life. The fear, hate, anger, abandonment, shock, disappointment, fatigue and other traumatic emotions are written into cell-memory. When re-living the traumatic experience, there is usually an overwhelming outpouring of emotions called catharsis and with Neptune in Pisces you can anticipate healing coming through the dissolution of the emotional baggage.

LEO:

You will be presented with challenges in your personal life to put you in touch with your personal contribution towards changes for a healthier, more environmental friendly use and attitude towards the earth and her inhabitants. The key to self-regeneration is through being absolutely honest and to excavate the layers of superfluous and unnecessary issues until you find your true self in the process. You may be required to have an enforced reality check if you are caught up in illusions or wishing and hoping for things to be different. If you are living in fantasy and pretence you will probably be jolted back to the harshness of reality, which could manifest through ill health. Your actions catch up with you at certain times and if you’ve been abusing your body you will need to pay attention and take better care of it. Don’t look to compromise or evade your responsibilities or gloat over other’s misfortune as the wheels of Karma are still in the spin and you never know when it hits your number. Life is a gamble and can deal you any cards and it depends on you how to rise to the challenges that are presented to you.

VIRGO:

With Mars gone retrograde in Virgo you are predisposed to racing around as if there is some time limit set upon you and maybe there is but you are the one to pace yourself and to recognize your limits in order to keep cool and not burnt out. So somewhere along the line you need to cultivate a steadier emotional rhythm. Recognizing and going with the ebb-and-flow of your own patterns in life are absolutely central to governing your emotions rather than letting them govern you. Alienation and emotional discomfort will result in your insistence on being right and your own growth will stagnate. Be magnanimous and stretch your learning experience into viewing things from all viewpoints. You need to flow through life without creating such friction and disturbance for it is your resistance to change that places demands on you, which in turn causes emotional and physical distress. You are inclined to have a good memory of both favours granted and wounds inflicted. Learning to forgive and forget is necessary in order to forestall spells of deep depression.

LIBRA:

Like a diamond with many facets you will find that truth has many different interpretations and not only your viewpoint. Allow for others to also have their own interpretation of things. Move forward in life and stretch your mind to make space for some of the alternative ideas coming into your consciousness with the Venus and Uranus conjunction in Aries. Open up to communicating and sharing and although you may feel compelled to express your truth and opinion, restricting elements will force you to keep your temper in check. If you have boundless energy you can rather channel it into a creative effort and get things done rather than looking for a sparring partner and wasting your time on senseless arguing. If you could glimpse the vastness of the possibilities available to you, you would shift your way of thinking, to include what you have always relegated to the attic of your subconscious and therefore not paid attention to. It’s a wonderful time to pay attention to your dreams and focus your subtler psychic powers to bring about the fulfillment of your life destiny.

SCORPIO:

Although all the signs are there and your intuition is giving you the same message you will initially try to repeat and recreate old habit patterns that worked in the past but are not going to work now. On the surface it may appear as if things are just going to go smoothly, but if you give yourself time to reflect beforehand you will see the obvious and address the necessary changes. The tendency to procrastinate with Mars retrograding in Virgo is there but it is better to take responsibility for what your choices are and get going. You need to be aware of your pioneering streak for in this way you can enjoy life more and can avoid being pushed around by others and you need the freedom to act. You should not be afraid to be forceful when necessary and at all costs you should avoid negative emotions like resentment, regret and self-pity for they deny you what is essentially your true nature – straightforwardness.

Knowing what you want and how you can achieve this is paramount to your own satisfaction and growth as you will have to address the residue of hidden issues and unfinished business. It is a growth period and you have to look deep into your self and be ruthlessly honest regarding your own personal feelings.

SAGITTARIUS:

You probably have a ready wit and lively imagination and you respond to the world with diverse but definite concepts. However in your relationships you tend to reduce vague emotions to specifics in order to solve them but at times being intellectual and detached from your feelings has a long-term impact on your feelings and suddenly there are no words that can describe what you feel. Initially relationships will have the uncomplicated tendency of innocence but due to your tendency to expect others also to be generous, direct and guileless you are prone to being disappointed. Emotions are to be felt and sometimes they hurt and sometimes they give you pleasure and joy but they will always act as teacher in your life. However in true Sagittarius fashion you are able to pick yourself up quickly yet you will find if you don’t look at the injuries incurred you will suddenly be confronted with unexpected anger issues. These anger issues come from a backlog of unmet needs and unresolved fears from your past.

 

CAPRICORN:

There may be feelings of conflict when you are faced with difficult situations and the urge to accept them and to move forward may be held back somewhat by a certain amount of inhibition. However, your ability to tell others succinctly about your needs and problems may convey your message and have an impact on them that possibly is not the desired result. Revenge may seem sweet for the moment but the lasting effects will be with you for a long time and you have to live with the choices you make. Diplomacy and consideration can go a long way in softening blows to others egos. If negative feelings can be overcome and caution is allowed to take the place of any lack of self-confidence, you will achieve a great deal that is constructive and helpful. You may feel subjected to rapid and sometimes constant changing emotions and desires. However these continual emotional responses could be a mechanism for not facing emotional needs that need extra work and attention.

AQUARIUS:

You are not as confident as you used to be, under-estimating your abilities and probably feeling life should be approached with a more clinical approach. Your serious attitude towards life, discriminatingly expressed, is likely to bring about a tendency to worry and a possibility of pessimism at times. Although this is a necessary steadying influence you also need to express the more lighthearted side of your nature to be in balance. Humanitarian issues will be strongly highlighted and rebuilding human communities is an endeavour whose immense challenges should not be underestimated and you will start realizing your duty and liability towards creating social structures that bring about a safer environment. It is each one’s individual choice to either be part of the problem or part of the solution. No paradigm is ever able to imagine the next one. It’s almost impossible for one paradigm to imagine that there will even be a next one.

PISCES:

With Neptune in Pisces the trickster is at play and can upset the applecart by scattering all your well devised plans to the wind. Having an angry outburst may relieve you from inner tensions but avoid dumping your angers in somebody else’s lap. Face your fears and take responsibility for your own emotions. Avoid office politics and getting involved with other’s dramas. If you are out of balance and find you are always giving and not receiving then you are prone to feeling like a martyr and the ‘poor me’ syndrome clouds your view so that instead of having half a full cup you find you have half an empty cup. If you diminish yourself with self-pity then you are prone to attracting others negative energy towards you and becoming over-burdened with others emotional issues. Empower yourself with the realization of your own worthiness as sometimes what feels like restrictions are in fact re-directions on your path of finding your multiple talents. Your world gets constructed through your belief systems, which are not always informed, but more like comfortable, repetitive and habitual patterns of behaviour. Transformation comes from letting go and making a gap while shifting your fixed viewpoints