CAPRICORN : 22^ND DECEMBER 2011 TO 20 JANUARY 2012

Horoscope supplied by Lois Stahl.

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SUMMER SOLSTICE – 22^ND DECEMBER -- SUN SQUARE URANUS IN ARIES

MOON PHASES :

NEW MOON : 24^TH DECEMBER

WAXING HALF MOON: 1^ST JANUARY

FULL MOON: 9^TH JANUARY

WANING NEW MOON: 16^TH JANUARY

PLANETARY ASPECTS:

29^TH DECEMBER -- SUN CONJUNCTS PLUTO IN CAPRICORN

8^TH JANUARY – MERCURY MOVES INTO CAPRICORN

13^TH JANUARY -- VENUS CONJUNCTS NEPTUNE IN AQUARIUS

14^TH JANUARY -- VENUS MOVES INTO PISCES

19^TH 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.