TAURUS: 20TH OF APRIL TO 20TH OF MAY
Horoscope supplied by Lois Stahl. Lois can be contacted on
masonwaspstudio@telkomsa.net
MOON PHASES;
NEW MOON -- 22ND APRIL
WAXING HALF MOON -- 30TH OF APRIL
FULL MOON -- 6TH OF MAY
WANING HALF MOON -- 12TH OF MAY
PLANETARY PHASES:
23RD OF ARPIL -- MERCURY CONJUNCTS URANUS
25TH OF APRIL -- MERCURY SQUARES PLUTO
9TH OF MAY -- MERCURY MOVES INTO TAURUS
12TH OF MAY -- SUN CONJUNCTS JUPITER
15TH OF MAY -- VENUS TURNS RETROGRADE
ARIES:
In a very general way there are two important streams of influences coming into manifestation and although these two streams are very different from one another they intertwine and influence you with equal might and intensity, taking you to opposite extremes. It can be very confusing and disorienting to navigate these conflicting currents, so describing their specific qualities is in order. There will be a strong pull to free yourself from anything in your life that is not authentic. It calls for simplifying your life and stripping off layers, whether on a material or psychological level. Living more authentically and with simplicity reconnects you with fundamental values possibly lost in your course of development—as you became better educated and more sophisticated, you could have lost touch with the real reasons and meanings in life—this cycle is about going back to the origins and freeing your spirit from superfluous entanglements.
TAURUS:
You are living in times of rampant insecurity and uncertainty and systems once perceived reliable are now floundering, and many of us are transformed into social or political activists cheering solutions and pointing fingers in an attempt to foster the change you feel is needed. However in these times of purging, where systems are deconstructed and leave a vacuum you may feel edgy and agitated because you know things must change, and the planetary influences add fuel to this fire. In fact, this year sees an increase of radical destruction combined with confrontational and defensive stances. This bursting energy needs an outlet. But if creative outlets are forged, amazing breakthroughs and social revolutions can win the day. But what remains certain is that changes are imminent. Accordingly, attitudes, associations, mind clutter, attic clutter or anything that prevents you from a more authentic life is subject to be dissolved and disarmed. Letting go is easier said than done, but in the current social and political unstable climate, it may become necessary for survival.
GEMINI:
As the planet Venus turns retrograde on the 15th of May the general feelings in relationships will be inclined inwards and introspective. It is at these times that partners decide if they want to continue the relationship or if it appears not to be working for them to make some changes. This is the point at which you need to begin to taking control of your own destiny and disallow others to interfere as you traverse the your life path. You are fortunate to live in a world that does allow you a fair measure of free will and thought. Just a short while ago your thought system was under the total control of an outdated religious ideology. You are in the throes of changing bended will to free will and all that goes with this great responsibility. The large cities that we live in today are a new feature in the human story. Never before have so many different peoples had to attempt to live together in what is really just a small space. This is just the beginning of a great and exciting adventure, albeit one that is going to take time to manifest. The predominant option is to use your will with clarity so that your efforts will be motivated from a place of honest integrity. Personal attitude is of extreme importance. Your attitude is where you have complete control. You can choose your attitude towards anything you are engaged in. To have, or be stuck in a negative, aggressive or victim attitude is your own choice
CANCER:
Emotionally you could find yourself awash and overly sensitive to other people’s negative vibrations. If you are inclined to pick up on others distress place your hand over your solar plexus and visualize a quartz crystal bouncing the lack of enthusiasm and unconstructiveness of others away from yourself.
Your personal affairs could run into complications in some instances unless you take steps to sort them out. There are some the real issues you have to deal with unconsciously every day . Working is a wonderful way to express a different aspect of yourself. So is playing and all forms of recreation. You are a multi faceted being, challenged constantly by others and Mother Nature. You may sometimes forget your needs amidst the myriad wants that confront your consciousness. Therefore it is necessary to recognize that you are the mistress or master of your own destiny; that you have the power to do what is right for you. You instinctively know what is good for you and this reflects in the inner glow you radiate when you follow what is truly in your heart and mind .
LEO:
It will be difficult to focus and be clear about your own emotional issues. This triggers a deep-seated feeling of not being the best which in turn affects your relationship/s with others. You will be more inclined to speak out what you feel is the truth. If in your relationships you are inclined to be very honest and straight forward this sometimes has the effect of getting others back up and they retaliate. This can cause opposition and conflict in your partnership/s and you should maybe consider things in a more careful way to avoid unnecessary conflict and arguments. Also try to curb your need to prove your point and always be right. If you are right you do not need to prove it over and over again to yourself and others. You have been driven away from your individual reality into a forced reality and it is this untruth that is besieging you at present. Within yourself lies the truth and when you are constantly told untruths, you could start entering a stage of confusion. And this is when you need to access the healer within
VIRGO:
Your beliefs are important to you and this is when your spiritual side awakens and affords you a sense of security. You can now negate negative emotions and renew your lease on life With Mars in Virgo this is a potentially disquieting ambit therefore you should be tactful concerning thoughts and speech -- especially with regard to your loved ones. Be warned that extremely trying domestic conditions are apt to develop quite suddenly. Only timely bravery and forethought can spare you from danger in the external world. Curb your curiosity and sense of adventure because either is liable to cast you into trouble and you will struggle to overcome errors of judgment. Appreciate and enjoy your own diversity within an ever expanding diverse society.
Doing some good deeds will also make you feel good but you are liable to be saddled with a painful problem if you allow your imagination to get out of control.
Always remember that it is when you do that spontaneous positive something for someone else, is when the inner glow illuminates your entire being and recharges your power; and this recharge is vital for you to prosper completely.
LIBRA:
Have respect for divine law because it is your best source of strength during this largely lamentable period. Make time for meditation because the exercise will serve your purposes very well by imbuing you with extra self-confidence. With your adventurous urge coming to the surface you are liable to get bored with routine activities – and impatience could render you careless. Be that as it may no difficulty or obstacles is likely to be too hard for you to conquer. Others are now apt to impose on you and your resources. Think twice about issuing a free for all attitudes towards everyone that comes your way. You need to make some decisions regarding your own time and energy and concentrate on your loved ones as priority.
You should be harnessing this energy for when you need your power to stay centered within what is right for you. To be a part of everything that is, requires a certain amount of concentration on your part.
SCORPIO:
You are not alone in your inner confusion; you always have your truth as a companion and it is to this voice that you need to attune. You may have always assumed that there must be something that is greater than yourself. We all aspire to be greater than we are as this is built into your survival as a species mechanism. Unfortunately though, some people need to feel better by preying on humanity to further their own ambitions. It is in this way that inequality was born.
We all have the same bodily functions therefore we are able to interbreed with each other; and communicate with each other. The only difference between us all is in the mind. It is this that the wounded soul is addressing. Again it is in the finding of your truth, that core of your being that makes your individuality the common factor. This is the journey that each one of us undertakes in this life time.
SAGITTARIUS:
Do you wish to be bound by the fetters of a society that is on a road to self-destruction or do you feel the need to center yourself in order to undertake the joyful task of rehabilitating and redirecting towards a sustainable future? At present you may be viewing yourself as very illusive and diffused and seemingly not to have a clear idea of who you are except through the things you do. Being an energetic, fiery and hardworking person you identify yourself as such, but this is not all of who you are.
It is to take that first step beyond the veil of outer consciousness that is the great leap forward. If you feel good even in the face of despair, if you can remain calm in the fiercest storm; then all will evolve and not devolve. Evolution is just revolution without an r in front of it.
With the advent of a “restricted” freedom, many spiritual paths beckon. Whether you belong to a conservative or alternative ideology, the core of everything is in the belonging. You are so much a part of this dual process, this beauty and violence; it should make you wonder whether you will ever get out of this cycle. You can, if you start by teaching first yourself and then your children that there is a better and cleaner way for you to move into the future.
CAPRICORN:
The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. Monetary matters are so often a spring board for you to learn about what has value and what is non-essential in your life. Your fears can help you access the hidden agendas that you have buried, through looking at them and realizing the truth of them. As stability is important to you, you do not entertain too broad a scope of possibilities as a rule and you like to keep things on a manageable level. This can sometimes create that you hang on to things for too long, but you are thorough and efficient and dependable with whatever field you operate in.
In order to balance the violence or anger that is within, you first need to acknowledge that it is there. You don’t have to do this on your own, if you feel overwhelmed at the prospect of finally facing yourself. But then, what’s the problem. What aspect is it that you find unappealing or appealing? Find the positive and work on that. And if you cannot find a positive, join a yoga, drama, Tai Chi or choir group because in the act of doing, you enter into being.
AQUARIUS:
If everything in your life is organized down to the last detail and there is no space for opportunity to knock, then you become like an automaton that desperately wants to cling to your plans instead of living life like an adventure. You avoid any risks and thereby fail to see the beauty of the world around you. Possibility you are so focused and undistracted on your own aims that you fail to notice the feelings of others around you, which can cause them to feel insignificant, excluded and hurt.
This lack of mercy can arise when you judge the action of others in black and white, which may make you feel justified in your retaliation and punishment but is devoid of compassion and empathy.
There were from the start people who understood the speech of the universe and were able to tap into the vibrations of whatever was around them. The knowledge of plants was and is still there for you to access, when and as you need to. Not everyone is called to the art of healing, however each one of us has the ability to speak within and communicate directly with every aspect of your being.
PISCES:
Often times you are so busy and caught up in your daily routines that you neglect to process the aches and pains on an emotional as well as physical level. Consequently these get placed in the attic of your consciousness until they become magnified.
Remember life does not owe you anything but you owe it to yourself to stay within your own center and not get tangled in others network of needs and wants.
Everybody needs changes in life and that will give you a new impetus to move forward as everything in life depends on your own input and your own proliferation will rely on your ability to assimilate new information and change outmoded patterns of behavior.
Compulsive and excessive behavior are prone to stir up deep-seated fears that lead to anger. You need to address these fears and find their root cause to heal and release them. The art of self-healing is as old as life itself. Today you are able to make the choice as to what method you choose to heal any ailment that challenges you. You can know things and see things that are not apparent to others and have the ability to pick up very accurately on others feelings. The downside of this is that you often mistake their emotions for your own and carry the weight of this. You need to find ways of protecting yourself against the influx of others negative emotions and also to learn to trust your own abilities.
However to make destructive and exclusionary judgments about others, robs them of several critical and precious psychological and spiritual treasures.
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Horoscope supplied by Lois Stahl. Lois can be contacted on masonwaspstudio@telkomsa.net
ARIES: 20TH OF MARCH TO 19TH OF APRIL --
AUTUMN EQUINOX – 20TH MARCH @ 7:16
MOON PHASES: NEW MOON -- 22ND MARCH
WAXING HALF MOON -- 30TH MARCH
FULL MOON -- 6TH OF APRIL
WANING HALF MOON -- 13TH OF APRIL
PLANETARY PHASES;
24TH OF MARCH -- SUN CONJUNCT URANUS
29TH OF MARCH -- SUN SQUARE PLUTO
4TH OF APRIL -- MERCURY TURNS DIRECT -- VENUS MOVES INTO GEMINI
6TH OF APRIL -- VENUS SQUARES NEPTUNE
7TH OF APRIL -- VENUS OPPOSES MARS
14TH OF APRIL -- MARS TURNS DIRECT
16TH OF APRIL -- SUN OPPOSES SATURN
17TH OF APRIL -- MERCURY MOVES INTO ARIES
ARIES:
As Venus will square Neptune you tend to have rather high goals and expectations of your relationships and at times a problem living up to them. You should relax your standards a bit and enjoy the pleasures of the moment, even if they are not all you might want. However if you maintain high expectations for too long you are likely to give in and settle for far less than you can achieve. Instead you should scrutinize your goals and ideals and measure them against what is practical and available. This will help you avoid swinging from one end of an emotional arc to the other, being too demanding at one time and totally uncritical at another.
The unconscious knows more than the consciousness does; but it is knowledge of a special sort, knowledge in eternity, usually without reference to the here and now, not couched in the language of the intellect.
TAURUS:
You may feel that you have to be in charge of your relationship and in control of other areas of life. This need to have control may also create the type of tension that can wreck a potential good partnership or create a one-sided and less than fulfilling affair.
Nature works from in to out, from the centre expanding outwards, just like a pebble dropped in a pond with the ripples moving outward. We do not plant an oak and watch it turn into a seed. We plant the seed and admire how it grows and expands into the magnificence of the oak tree. This is how creation works from in to out or small to bigger, ourselves included. If the tree were to seek its origins, where would it look? Would it look externally for answers, outside of itself for answers, or would it look internally to the seed that gave it life? It stands to reason then that you need to look within yourself for this feeling of inferiority that makes you want to be in control.
GEMINI:
Major developments in your affairs may occur quite easily and almost unnoticeable so that you are not aware of them. For this reason you may not be in total control over them. Generally these affairs will take care of themselves without much attention from you but with the Venus and Neptune in a square to each other you should stand back and reevaluate your relationship/s to see what changes and transformation has taken place. You may tend to think too far into the future concerning how much to pursue an affair and how much it will bring. Although it is a good idea to keep an eye on the tomorrow it is best to enjoy the moment and savouring the pleasure of the here and now.
If you keep these things in balance you will be motivated toward rapid continuous growth in your relationship and you can achieve a great deal if you avoid pushing things too far too fast.
CANCER:
You are naturally responsive to other people’s needs and others may look to you for sympathy and understanding but you must avoid becoming a shoulder for everyone to cry on and don’t let them mistake your empathy and diplomacy for weakness in order to manipulate you and take advantage of your willingness to listen.
Because you prefer not to be too verbal about your needs you appreciate those who can intuitively plumb your feelings and discern your most intimate desires without asking. But that is a lot to expect of anyone all the time so you need to try to meet your partner halfway and help them know what your requirements are.
Although you can be very creative and inventive at times you tend to exercise these talents too hastily so that you do not take time to explore each idea fully before going on to the next. This is likely to be a problem and you find you cannot keep up with yourself and this creates discontent within yourself.
LEO:
You may find your emotions change dramatically and rather suddenly without any warning. This makes your life rather tumultuous even though it may be exciting. You will find that making sudden changes in your existing life and in particularly in your relationship/s does not happen gradually but all at once with some considerable force. This is kind of extremist and needs to be toned town by taking heed of the advice from those that are close to you. By having a clear, objective view of yourself you can better govern your mood changes and separate the need for real alterations in a relationship from irrational dissatisfaction.
You must be particularly careful to make your responses clear to others for you may often be misinterpreted due to phrasing your thoughts inaccurately or not say exactly what you mean. This will save you a lot of backtracking and emotional entanglement that is full of disenchantment.
VIRGO:
You have a great deal of empathy and can be the kindest of people when you choose and at times you can be very forgiving. However be sure to check now and again that others are receiving your non-verbal communications as you touch ground occasionally so that you won’t get lost in the mists of illusions. You need to view the world in a balanced proportion of the mental and physical without neglecting the one for the other.
Therefore make a special effort to be less demanding and differentiate between what can be realistically achieved and what can happen only in fantasy. In general you should make an extra effort to be strictly honest in your dealings with others or it may be very easy for you to get what you want through dissembling. This can then snowball and backfire that can cause damage in particular within your relationship.
LIBRA:
Your emotions have an intensity that can lead you into very strong affairs that you will not be able to take lightly but it will require your total commitment. This will be a powerful and penetrating experience and you may find that your emotions somehow run away with you and you lose all control over them. If you are not careful to stay in control you may have a relationship that is destructive and one-sided although very intense and all-consuming. You may be learning the hard way about money as you have a penchant for spending rather too much on things that you like and that are not always essential. Your quick lively mind can quickly get bored with the tedium of financial matters and you are inclined to fall for unsound schemes so it may be a good idea to get help with budgeting. The best way for you to get efficiency is to encourage it in yourself and with a nice friendly, unpompous manner support it in others.
SCORPIO:
When you are assessing potential and financial abilities you must consider the psychological motivations and modes of expression attributed to you. It is important that your work is demanding and that a great deal is expected of you because you need and like to be kept busy and involved but also can easily get bored by work that does not stretch your capacity. At the end of each day you like to feel that your have achieved a certain progress and challenge successfully. This gives you a sense of accomplishment. There are no half measures about you and you have the tendency to view life very much in absolutes of black or white. Now however you are being confronted with the gray areas of life as well and things are not only the one or the other.
Take care not to overdue your ambition and that the lure of possible promotion doesn’t encourage you to work without having time out for your inner and deeper needs. Don’t let jealousy mar your friendships and relationships.
SAGITTARIUS:
Generally you are easy to get on with and accept people at face value. Others are drawn to you to discuss and assist them as you are a very caring person and have the ability to listen to others and then see clearly what the problems are and also due to your practical side be able to give them sound advice.
You are also in preparation for some major changes that will come about in this time and you need to put some sound structures in place now to enable you to grow and benefit from your abilities. Because you are endowed with intelligence you will be able to quickly and effectively learn new skills and move into new areas of life. Change is now very important in your life. You must not hold on to the past and be fearful of change because this is a time for growth and you are now at the point in your life where you need to and will grow. The only stress will come if you try to hold on and resist changes that are coming.
CAPRICORN:
You can be very single minded which gives you the ability to concentrate and focus your energies on a point and then persevere to achieve it. However the negative aspect of this can be that you appear to be stubborn about things you want do in your life. Therefore you need the counter-balance of flexibility and changeability in order for you to not get stuck on a point. It is good to be focused on what you want to do but it is also necessary to know when to be more flexible. As you mature and grow wiser you will find the balance between being fixed and stuck on a point and the ability to change your viewpoint and look at life in a different way, comes easier to you.
This deep-seated feeling of not being the best can affect your relationships. In your associations you are inclined to be very honest and straight forward, which sometimes has the effect of you saying things that get others back up and they retaliate. This can cause opposition and conflict in your affairs and you should maybe consider things before you speak in a more careful way to avoid unnecessary conflict and arguments. Also try to curb your need to prove your point and always be right.
AQUARIUS:
You tend to stay within the confines of what you are familiar with and know you can be the best at. This deprives you of expressing your fullest potential and finding your creative niche in life. The truth of the matter is that no matter what age you are everyone starts at the beginning when we embark on any creative adventure. Because you tend to be rather competitive by nature you are afraid or reluctant to go down that alley since you will of course not be the best when you start but the fact of the matter is that you can become the best if you endure and persevere. If you don’t look at your own creative powers and abilities you will find your friendships and relationship are heavily taxed with dissatisfaction. A person that is not finding and expressing their own creative potential starts to become a drain on others energy. You need to apply yourself to things that make you happy and content as well as express who you are.
PISCES:
Issues may arise with your siblings and neighbours but these will be prodding sticks for you to express your creative potential. The danger of this happening is due to your confusing your natural acceptance of things with a reluctance to take a stand until you feel cornered. Passive resistance can be equally your best or your worst policy.
Some form of structured spiritual search is advisable, as opposed to free-wheeling in a self-comforting but meaningless fashion. You will be inclined to need more time out for yourself in order to process these changes that are coming about.
You feel yourself often moved to help the underdog but it is important that you retreat from society, especially into nature, in order to recharge your spiritual batteries. However this retreat should not take the form of wrapping yourself up in a comfy blanket that seals you off from past misunderstandings, for you are thus liable to find yourself sealed off from almost everything.
Astrology supplied by Lois Stahl. Lois can be contacted on masonwaspstudio@telkomsa.net
PISCES: 19TH FEBRUARY TO 19TH MARCH
MOON PHASES:
NEW MOON : 21ST FEBRUARY
WAXING HALF MOON -- 1ST MARCH
FULL MOON -- 8TH OF MARCH
WANING HALF MOON -- 15TH MARCH
PLANETARY ASPECTS:
3RD OF MARCH -- SUN OPPOSES MARS
5TH OF MARCH -- VENUS MOVES INTO TAURUS
12TH OF MARCH -- MERCURY TURNS RETROGRADE
18TH OF MARCH -- MERCURY CONJUNCTS URANUS
19TH OF MARCH -- VENUS CONJUNCTS JUPITER
ARIES:
If you leave your personal experiences and powerful life changing events cocooned and beyond the knowledge and understanding of others they will forever be devoid of healing and helping yourself as well as others. If you choose to stay closed and guarded you will live an unrealized and unspoken life. Your pain, your past and your personal stories will stay hidden like a talent for music or art that is stifled and you then will never know the effect your gift can have on others. Sharing brings about confidence, acceptance and perception to those that give even of their pain.
You have the power to demonstrate your dreams by committing yourself unconditionally and to manifest those dreams that serve humanity as well as your personal aims and this will assist you in accepting those opportunities that are currently available. You can gain a sense of achievement through consistent, daily applications of your spiritual ideals, no matter how seemingly insignificant. This will give you the knowledge that you have contributed to the manifestation of society’s ideals in a realistic way.
TAURUS:
Though this is a wonderful time of expansion for you with both Venus and Jupiter in Taurus it also brings about certain feelings of emotional tensions during this period of change. Your vision is changing and the old cycle of identity is dissolving and the new is coming into manifestation. This hopefully will give you enough confidence to release old forms of expression that are not working in your life now.
Do not hastily and on a whim enter into any business deals or undertakings that seems great on the outside but when looked at closely is prone to causing you problems and difficulties. It is advisable to look at any business venture from a sound mental viewpoint and have things in black and white. This may sound so very opposite to your general trusting and accepting nature, but you know your tendency to allow your trust to lead you into difficult ventures. A hasty and wrong step could cost you dearly and you need to have a solid grounding for any venture to make it work for you.
GEMINI:
For the moment it seems as if it is your destiny to suffer through your work but make sure you do not get caught up in victim mode. You seldom stick around in a job that’s mundane or repetitive as you are keen to be involved with new projects and you thrive in a competitive environment which can cause you to have difficulty in finishing what you start and then you tend to leave the finer details for others to complete. Because you’re independent by nature you could be uneasy taking instructions or cooperating with others and some people might find you brash at times but you’re happiest when you have a mission to accomplish. As you are very aware of your boundaries you need a demarcated working space. It should be easy to access and without clutter especially if you’re on the run and very busy.
A control issue could give you sleepless nights. Stay objective and try not to let it get to you. Taking things personally won’t help and the same applies to relationship dynamics.
CANCER:
Whether it is based on science or belief, healing is a self generated state. Though miraculous cures can manifest in either paradigm, it takes a profound acceptance of your self and a deep willingness to process your personal issues in order to allow true healing to occur. However you need to be aware of the inclination towards docility, inertia and sluggishness. These are born of fear and what you cannot handle. When you fall into this state it is only a matter of time before you attract someone or something that will make such immobility uncomfortable and compromising. It is then that you have to make a change or let something go.
You need to discover your truest, deepest and highest values, which is symbolized by knowing what you truly consider valuable and you will no longer be chained to people to do things that have lesser value to you. The greatest indication of value is beauty which cannot be owned only appreciated.
LEO:
Although your cultural background was established and solid in its way and it is always something you will fall back upon but it can keep you chained to limitations and reassured traditions. So the radical and individual streak in your personality will force you to free yourself from the negative tradition that is part of your background.
This is a time when that what is hidden or subliminal will be brought to the surface in order to be released from the old shell and transformed into a new source of consciously-usable power. This will affect how you feel about yourself and how comfortable you are both within yourself and in your current living situation. You need to transform the quality of your emotional life through the adherence to some belief or transcendental truth, which has the effect of liberating your Self from a morass of confusing emotions. Possibly at times this re-orientation will require long periods of loneliness and abstention from social interaction.
VIRGO:
You have the right to value your things and choices but you need to be clear and accepting of this and stand for your own truth and choice. Initially you may be illusive and undefined about your things and portray this attitude out into the world but this brings confusion as others may think that you are sharing and unconcerned about your belongings, whereas you are more inclined to be orderly and particular about your possessions.
In a way life is quite a see-saw for you between your ‘good’ and comfortable self as opposed to the person that needs to seek and speak her truth. You need to find who you are in order to express yourself. This will be a time for you to express your higher potential and you will feel yourself infused with energy and enthusiasm for new creative projects. Go through the open door of opportunity to see where and how you can expand.
LIBRA:
It is not always easy for you to accept the restrictions that are placed on you through the legal process but in the long run this is what you are also learning about.
It seems as if career wise you could be going through some changes – possibly even just your own attitude and way you are addressing these issues in your life is going through change. In any harmonious picture you will find at least one discord that is the key to the balance. If yours is the voice of dissent to speak out against those things in society that you are not in agreement upon, then this is because of your own unique make-up which although it is not always what makes you popular it is what makes you feel truthful. It is also through your creative pursuits that you will express yourself out into the world, but the crux of these situations is the discipline and responsibility that you have to shoulder in order to fulfill your destiny. I see it is not always easy for you to accept the restrictions that are placed on you through the legal process but in the long run this is what you are also learning about.
SCORPIO:
It is time to move your boundaries and restrictions as well as the beliefs that you have held fast too. It is necessary to break down the walls and allow your own individual person to step forward and change your old belief structures because that is what is keeping you in this loop of never having what you want and need. Start constructing your future reality as if you have a loaded bank account. Money is merely a means of exchange -- energy exchange -- see what you can manifest in your life with and without money. Life is initially seen by you as a process to be observed coolly and impartially which can lead to either a strong awareness of how society and life functions as a whole or an inability to become involved or a personal level. It is also a great cover up for your very intense and strong feeling nature and the fear of becoming too involved with other’s emotional baggage. Look further a field and don’t keep repeating the same pattern over and over again as you extend your horizons.
SAGITTARIUS:
You could now be inclined to stir people up one way or another but some kind of philosophical or enterprising end has to be in sight so that there is an intelligent and appealing direction to justify your arousing nature. You are often the spirit of enjoyment as you excel at gathering people together for any reason be it as teacher, preacher or reveler.
They will make the vital practical contribution that you can easily overlook. Life is always full of possibilities, extraordinary experiences and new things to discover. With such an outgoing and adventurous outlook it is obviously an asset providing it eventually becomes more than just an outlook. There is the danger of promising your self and others the world and delivering practically nothing. You are liable to attract people that will provide you with the facts and figures in order to complement your adventurous spirit but this does not mean you do not have to do your own home work and expand to incorporate your full potential.
CAPRICORN:
Mercury turns retrograde on the 12th of March and you need to be objective of life’s adversities, or you will feel overcome by them and succumb to deep depression and self-perpetuating pessimism.
Everyone is made up of many particles and parts and each planet dictates certain aspects of one’s multi-faceted nature. We all have inherited a traditional set of beliefs and values that serve us well in the ordinary daily sense but when change, even in the form of opportunity, comes your way, you get held back by what looks like ‘normality’. So although you have a reliable way of progressing in life you occasionally have to put aside one set of plans or beliefs and look for another that will serve and guide you appropriately for the next chapter in your life. You tend to not believe in anything that cannot be proved and therefore you settle for whatever the system says is so and blindly mould yourself to fit. Unless you drop your inclination to subscribe to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of it your sense of joy will be as meager as your ethics are narrow and confining, reliable though they may be.
AQUARIUS:
There is an inclination to surrender to others ideas and ways to avoid conflict, but you need to assert your own boundaries. Harmony will be important to you and it is natural to feel a sense of duty to your family or community. The lesson is to find a balance between the expression of your own creative energies and time given to family or community affairs. You will feel burdened and resentful if you do not create these balances and you have to make choices along these lines.
You need to structure your personal and collective resources for which you are responsible so that you may be in service to the community, but you need and should create greater freedom of personal expression because you have special goals to achieve and will not manage to do so if you are limited in any way. Pinpoint your objectives and endeavor to stay with them, but avoid treading on others toes as diplomacy is necessary.
PISCES:
Your emotions carry memories and remembrances as a natural process. Water speaks of emotional flow, movement and sustaining energies. These are keywords identifying the particular aspects of your inner nature. It is the source of all growth and the most sacred of natural forces. It is both a giver of life as well as one that could take life away, depending on whether it came as a gentle shower or a devastating flood.
Being born under the sign of Pisces now with Neptune in its own sign, puts you in touch with the dreamtime and the necessity in your life to give space and time to dreaming. It is through your dreams, the wakening and sleeping ones, that you access the depth of your inner being and many things are revealed to you during this time, hence the essential nature of dreaming to you. It is also necessary for you to have this space during which you can ponder and consider issues that require decisions – a time to contemplate things from all sides before you rush in with any fiery energy.
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
CAPRICORN : 22ND DECEMBER 2011 TO 20 JANUARY 2012
Horoscope supplied by Lois Stahl.
Lois can be contacted on masonwaspstudio@telkomsa.net
SUMMER SOLSTICE – 22ND DECEMBER -- SUN SQUARE URANUS IN ARIES
MOON PHASES :
NEW MOON : 24TH DECEMBER
WAXING HALF MOON: 1ST JANUARY
FULL MOON: 9TH JANUARY
WANING NEW MOON: 16TH JANUARY
PLANETARY ASPECTS:
29TH DECEMBER -- SUN CONJUNCTS PLUTO IN CAPRICORN
8TH JANUARY – MERCURY MOVES INTO CAPRICORN
13TH JANUARY -- VENUS CONJUNCTS NEPTUNE IN AQUARIUS
14TH JANUARY -- VENUS MOVES INTO PISCES
19TH JANUARY -- SUN SQUARES SATURN IN LIBRA
ARIES:
Needless to say this is a very intense and challenging time with the solstice coinciding with the Sun and Uranus square. The sense of duty and responsibilities and what you have to do as oppose to what you want to do is creating choices that are difficult to make. Everyone’s looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human and that’s something people find hard to accept. Don’t confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself. Divinity is linked to your encounter with the forces of life and not with the people who bring this about. When you ask that you get sent guides to assist you, you only find signs to the road you need to follow. However the choices are ours to make and the results will be there to live through.
TAURUS:
If everything in your life is organized down to the last detail and there is no space for opportunity to knock, then you become like an automaton that desperately wants to cling to your plans instead of living life like an adventure. You avoid any risks and thereby fail to see the beauty of the world around you. Possibility you are so focused and undistracted on your own aims that you do not notice the feelings of others around you, which can cause them to feel insignificant, excluded and hurt.
This lack of mercy can arise when you judge the action of others in black and white, which may make you feel justified in your retaliation and punishment but is devoid of compassion and empathy.
It is a time to seek beauty and harmony and value the possessions you have got. Your relationship/s are expansive but you have to take responsibility for your own actions and not seek a scapegoat to carry them for you.
GEMINI:
Whether you realize it or not, most people are constantly manipulated by the media and established institutions which influence the national “agenda”. This, in turn, influences much of your own behavior, expectations, and values. Your notions of right and wrong, and your concepts of morality are also part of your cultural heritage and experiences. This method of control does not require the use of physical force, and has been so successful that few recognize or feel the manipulations.
However now with the Uranus making a square to the sun it is inevitable that you will start asking yourself some personal questions and you need to find some answers as to where and what you want to achieve and crate in your life.
You will also start feeling deep stirrings of your spiritual awareness and growth and you will find that there is no black and white answer to the questions you may be asking.
CANCER:
A control issue could give you sleepless nights … stay objective and try not to let it get to you. Taking things personally won’t help and the same applies to a relationship dynamic
You’ll seldom stick around in a job that’s mundane or repetitive as you are keen to be involved with new projects and you thrive in a competitive environment.
You can have difficulty in finishing what you start and often leave the finer details for others to complete. Because you like to think you are independent by nature you could be uneasy taking instructions or cooperating with others. Possibly some people might find you brash at times but you’re happiest when you have a mission to accomplish.
As you are very aware of your boundaries you need a demarcated working space. It should be easy to access and without clutter especially if you’re on the run.
For the moment it seems as if it is your destiny to suffer through your work but make sure you do not get caught up in victim mode
LEO:
You may feel as if you are facing a wall of pragmatic necessities which is solid as earth and you cannot just passionately burn your way through them. Consequently the best advice would be to slow down and deal with the practical necessities in life. But since when has any Leo taken good advice but rather dramatically insisted on doing things their way. Just as the boredom with tranquility sets in, Uranus strikes swift as a bolt of lightning to bring about sudden, unpredictable happenings.
While you are still processing the effects of the sudden changes in your life, you will feel things lighten up and your spirited, sunny self perks it’s head up again.
You may once again be in a quandary concerning a problem on the home front that has intermittently bothered you for some time. Discuss the issue with a trusted friend or your partner and you possibly will hit on a solution.
VIRGO:
A lot of your emotional issues at present are directly related to your home and also to the way you care and nurture yourself. You need to realize your own personal needs and attend to them and it is through learning to say things in a less impulsive way and non- aggressively but with sympathy and compassion.
The main focus is on your friendships and relationships. In your relationships you are expanding and there’s a lot of growth as well as opportunity for family affairs. But if you don’t look at your own creative powers and abilities you will find the friendships and relationship are heavily taxed with dissatisfaction. A person that is not finding and expressing their own creative potential starts to become a drain on others energy. You need to apply yourself to things that make you happy and content as well as express who you are. Be open-minded and learn new ways of approaching your life and situations that are challenges for you. Apply yourself creatively and pursue what you believe in.
LIBRA:
When you are feeling insecure about any part of your life and specially in your friendships, this can prod you into attempting to resolve things more quickly than is naturally possibly and you are then prone to rushing into matters that you have not given deeper thought to and you keep racing around as if there is some ghastly time limit set upon you. With your strong personality you can either precipitate predicaments where hurrying seems unavoidable or use such forcefulness quickly to slow down, decide what you are after and then establish your own more comfortable pace.
Whatever motivates you in the first place is a sense of insecurity. So you have difficulty in being calm as this can become boring to you. Nonetheless you have a marvelous ability to recover quickly from traumas, be they emotional, mental or physical. Being subject to emotional surges rather than lingering moods marks your resilience as you are inclined to experience life as something of the moment.
SCORPIO:
Your interactions with your friends and also in groups is especially intense for lately but this has now come to an ending and you will find friendships blossom and grow more spontaneously and fluid. if you are blindly expecting security and predictability in your love life then you are in for a disappointment. You have a strong urge to prevent stagnation and maintain fluidity in your relationships and a partnership that is not allowed change and freedom is doomed to failure whereas being true to your desire to pursue your dreams and ideas will literally rejuvenate flagging relationships.
You need to nurture your love through being more steadfast and not abandoning it or leaving it to the winds of fate. You like variety but it is better to seek diversity within a relationship than outside of it, for obvious reasons. If you feel you love someone you should let it be known to them rather than sitting on the fence.
SAGITTARIUS:
Changes can occur during this year, which affect the emotions deeply, forcing you to think more carefully about the consequences of your thoughts and actions.
These changes will constantly throw you back upon your own resources so you become more aware of where your true strengths lie.
You may feel the need to learn more about your spiritual destiny and matters of a mystical nature,
Harmony will be important to you and it is natural to feel a sense of duty to your family or community. The lesson is to find a balance between the expression of your own creative energies and time given to family or community affairs. You will feel burdened and resentful if you do not create these balances and you have to make choices along these lines.
CAPRICORN:
There is an inclination to surrender to others ideas and ways to avoid conflict, but you need to assert your own boundaries, which is a natural process for you. This is a turning point that gives you freedom from restrictions you imposed on yourself in the previous year. Because you are a very practical person you have the gift of being able to find solutions to situations and things that you create or make. You are capable of becoming very expressive as your practical side is well balanced with your imaginative, creative side. You have a flair for the dramatic side of life and could do very well on stage too – but life is a stage itself and you will enact your own role in your life. Because you are so concentrated you are able to fulfill and make a success whichever direction you choose, except for the option of not doing anything at all.
Be wary of involving others in your plans if you have specific personal aspirations in your sights.
AQUARIUS:
Combining your obviously creative and enterprising mind with an awareness of the ideas and attitudes of other people involved in your dramas will benefit everyone and not least of all your own projects.
You tackle problems imaginatively and energetically and are able to teach effectively because you encourage interest in a subject through your creative and dramatic treatment of it. The way you speak has authority built into it and so others automatically take you seriously as you have so many good ideas. Allowing them to be mixed with and slightly altered by the input of others will strengthen and enrich them and rather than being a frustrated one-person show your mind will thus become the vital spark that ignites any greater group endeavors.
Do not get side-tracked by irrelevant criticisms but stick to the facts that are presented to you.
PISCES:
You are always trying to be fair but you need to have firm principles if you are to discover and establish your own ground rather than just teeter on the spot. Your undeniable social or political dynamic outlook should become a self-motivated expression rather than a two-dimensional response that can earn you a reputation for indecisiveness or insincerity and even moral cowardice for the lack of individual identity.
You tend to attract quite assertive people to yourself. You either accept this as desirable or eventually you realize that this is an imbalance or even an injustice in itself and that you must get off the fence and start making your own standpoint firm and clear. You may be inclined to make decisions without consulting your partners or others. As a result of this failure to delegate to others you may have to resort to being troublesome in some ways -- from being aggressive to being feeble. So being more decisive and allowing others to also take charge at times brings a better balance into your life.