32 posts tagged “monthly horoscope”
Taurus: Mars has entered your birth sign, which is putting some fire in your belly. I trust you will give that famous Taurean complacency a run for its money. I know a lot of people born under your sign, and I do mean know and love. They all admit the same thing: it’s difficult to make changes. The comfort zone can feel like climbing out of a canyon. On the most basic level, Taurus grounds stability for the whole astrological system. Yet deep beneath the crust of the Earth is a tectonic power that you know you have, but rarely tap into. That strength would enable you to make vast changes as if this were no big deal at all.
Der, what?
What I believe entices you to keep things stable, is less about fear of the future and more about an attachment to the past. But fear plays a role you need to address. On and off for the past several months, you’ve had a tour of what tends to freak you out. There’s another aspect to fear, however, which is feeling the emotion but losing touch with what creates it. Here is the key to your astrology this month: use fear as a source of energy. Go right into it and confront it directly; or let it propel you to make the decisions that you need to make. If fear is not an issue for you per se, then make a list of your perceived limits and, one by one, take them out.
True dat.Scorpio: You must be emotionally grounded to be free; to be emotionally grounded you need to either feel like you belong somewhere, or be consciously, firmly devoted to it not mattering whether you do or don’t. Ultimately, most environmental issues relate to some internal factor. The planets are conspiring to help you work out what that factor is, and to align you with a kind of therapy process to get you to where you want to be. You seem to be edging ever-closer to actually anchoring yourself in a measure of creative freedom — closer, but (so far) never quite getting there.
Please hurry up on that.
My point is that you most certainly will, and you will sooner than you think.
But the territory you are covering now is essential to making sure you are actually stable enough to be freer than you are today. Part of that freedom involves your emotional world. While nobody would doubt that you are an emotional person, the theme of the planets is how you structure your emotions, and the extent to which you try to hold a consistent pattern. To the extent that any lingering old patterns remain, you are now being keyed into the existence of another kind of strength; one that does not require control so much as it requires awareness. This includes awareness of where you will not let your feelings go, and an invitation to enter precisely that space.
SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): It's been many weeks since I laid down a work-plan for you, courtesy of an active 6th house in your solar chart making April and May excellent months for accomplishing a loaded slate of to-dos. Well, Scorpio, you've probably forgotten all about that by now… and with good reason, considering that your relationship life (whether romantic, friend or professional in nature) has begun lighting up, pulling your attention toward issues and activities you can share with another person. Here's hoping you did get a lot done when the doing was favored, since I expect your mind to be elsewhere—namely, on a certain person who maybe began pulling your attention away a few weeks back, but who's now taking on a much more central role in your day-to-day existence. The good news I have: I cannot come up with any compelling reason why you shouldn't explore who this person is, what you have to offer each other, and where this all could be going. Just be aware, however, that even subtly unassuming steps made toward this relationship can't help but make unspoken statements of a certain greater magnitude. (In other words, everything seems loaded.) If none of this relationship hullaballoo is speaking to you, alas, then the astro-action could play out in a different way: through other people (and one in particular) getting in your path and under your skin, no matter which direction you turn. In that case, be careful with how you set out to 'put an end to it'. Again, supposedly subtle motions will speak volumes, possibly even creating adversaries out of harmlessly annoying individuals.
Huh?
I dunno, if there was someone in real life, this would be a cool horoscope.
Sorta related: this month's Astrology Zone:
As the month begins, you appear to be working closely with one particular person who holds important keys to your future. This person may be your spouse or person you are engaged to, an established live-in partner, or a business partner, investor, agent, publicist, or other business expert you've hired. The seventh house, which is so lit up for you now, rules all serious, contractual relationships, including marriage.
As a Scorpio you are never quite comfortable working in a completely collaborative mode. You prefer to have final control over the course of events, but that is not always possible or even desirable under all circumstances. Conditions now will require you relinquish a portion of your power for awhile, but actually, that may not be so bad! It appears that by working in tandem with another, you will actually benefit. Let me explain why.
Your chart at the start of June shows that Mars, your secondary ruler, is touring your seventh house of collaborative ventures. If the first house represents all that is "you," then the seventh house, found directly opposite the first house on the horoscope wheel, is "thou" - the other person sitting across from you at the table who has as much to gain, or lose, as you do in any venture you do jointly. In marriage, it is the person holding your hand as you venture forth on the road of life.
Having such a powerful and energetic planet in this house is a big deal, and you haven't seen your ruler in this house in two years. Yet Mars is not alone here, as Venus is there too, making your collaborative effort exceptionally smooth and sweet. My goodness, it may even be downright joyful.
It is very rare to see Venus orbiting so close to Mars - Venus loves being with Mars, but alas, this rarely happens, as each planet is usually busy on assignment in different parts of your chart. Now, they are working together, so you may be amazed at how "in sync" you and your partner will be this month.
Venus is also associated with money, so if your alliance is for business, you should do well with this partner - this person is looking out for your interests.
Otherwise known as, "Oh, hm, haven't checked Astrology Zone for this month yet." Grumble grumble grumble.
Taurus:
Think of May as a catch-up month, but not a time to make any big initiations or decisions. I know it's birthday month, dear Taurus, so you were probably hoping to take center stage and give your plans a big push, but the timing is off.
First, Mercury will be retrograde in Gemini and Taurus, and because Mercury is the planet of communication and commerce, you will find these areas liable to have problems. People whose support you need will be indecisive and foggy, slow to jump on your bandwagon. Your immediate reaction will be to try even harder, but that will only make you increasingly frustrated. You need to let others sort out their own priorities while you keep yourself busy and wait. Whatever you did in April will need to cook a bit, so keep the flame on under that pot and be available to answer questions. You will probably have to revise a few elements of your plan too, but if so, take it all in stride, as it's part of the process.
You should not sign any papers until June, as any deal you make in May will need to be restructured or renegotiated later, and that is assuming you'd even want to spend the time talking to the person(s) involved. If you wait until June, you'll be glad you did, for Mercury retrograde is a sign that the wind is changing direction. This time, with Mercury spending so much of its backward time in Taurus, you will feel the slowdowns more.
Actually, you may not immediately view all this as a blessing, but it is, because Mars, the energy planet, will go into Taurus on June 1 until July 11. That will be the most important period of the whole year for you. By the time Mercury is out of retrograde at month's end, you'll be ready to push your projects forward. The timing could not be better! Not only that, but in June, Venus, your guardian planet, will be in Taurus too, making you completely irresistible.
As you see, dear Taurus, all things happen for a reason. This month you were meant to slow down, prioritize your goals, rethink and redo certain projects or endeavors, and get things back on track. Plus, with no ability to get anything to stick, you can feel free to play. It's birthday month after all, perfect for getting together with friends or treating yourself to a few nights out, either to the movies, to hear a band or see a play, or to have lunch in an outdoor cafe or some other treat.
Scorpio, on the other hand, is the opposite:
The month of May will start out strong, for you will have a powerful, positive full moon in Scorpio on May 9. It's clear something highly important to you is about to reach culmination and what will make this full moon so delicious is that news will be unexpected. Saturn will support this full moon too, a sign that whatever opportunity or achievement occurs will help you set up a long term, stable situation.
There’s a whole huge stack of energy right at the bottom of your chart (Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron precariously perched on top of each other) and all of it is squaring your sun. So you could be extremely happy at the same time as being extremely depressed or anxious at the same time as being confused as to why you are feeling a bunch of different things at once. Makes it kind of hard to make up your mind.
This too will pass, although not really until July or so. The reason you are indecisive, although it will be difficult for you to tell, is because your soul is processing like a gazillion tons of information below the surface of your conscious mind. This takes time and tends to put your normal thought patterns out of commission for awhile. As in being spacy and indecisive.
Having your soul process a gazillion tons of information all at once is actually a good thing, although you won’t, again, probably be able to tell until the entire fatiguing process is completed. But once it is completed, you’ll be able to make better decisions than you thought possible because you’ll understand yourself way better. Which is kind of cool.
"The sun enters your sign on April 19 this year. The sun in a person’s sign tends to make him or her more goal oriented and willing to undertake new projects or endeavors–or more willing to devote renewed effort to existing ones. In your case, the existing goal that could probably benefit most from your attention is the goal of finding or enhancing a suitable career position. If your job or even your professional field is not ideal (translation: driving you crazy and making you wish you could quit if it wasn’t for this darn economy), then the stars are of the opinion that you need to hop to it in terms of doing something about that situation.
How can you find the better position the stars are trying to lure you toward? Oh, it’s that same old advice–networking and hitting up everyone you know for assistance. Really. It truly is who you know that matters this year.
If you’ve already got the perfect career position, then the advice is still the same actually. Keep up and build your network of relationships, help others and ask for help. This just ain’t the year to sit on your laurels (or your backside). ‘Why?” you ask. ‘Because I’m going to lose my job?’
Well, you might (as you well know if you watch the news), but that’s not why. The why is because Neptune and Jupiter in Aquarius in your solar 10th house believe that you can make a bigger and better contribution to the good of society as a whole, right now while the whole thing seems to be caving in. Your Taurean stablity, common sense savvy, caring nature, and general touch with money and practicality are exactly what’s needed these days, and you’ll do the most good in a position that suits you and allows you to function at your best.
So put on your thinking cap ASAP and figure out how you can improve your working life."
Yeah.
This month's Astrology Zone:
Taurus:
Scorpio:
The new moon in Taurus on April 24 will be your celebratory moment, for it will act as a cosmic gift certificate for your birthday, to use any way you please. It will give you what you need most, an ideal time to launch a new relationship or endeavor. A new moon in our own sign is always very special and it only comes once a year. If your birthday falls on this day or within five days of this date, you'll be showered with extra luck.This new moon will be doubly helpful to you if you were born on April 23, or within five days of this date. If that's you, you'll find that your whole year will be filled with lots of fresh starts and new opportunities. If your birthday falls closer to May 9 (next month's full moon), you will find that this coming birthday year will be one of fulfillment and closure. In your case, Taurus born closer to May 9 will find that after the coming twelve months is over, you'll be moving out in very new directions. Those born at the end of April will be doing that now, almost immediately. All Taurus have a really good outlook, especially for career opportunities this year - some of the best of the decade!
Focusing back on this month, April, with Venus moving to stronger, direct speed on April 22 and a new moon in Taurus just two days later, you really have a terrific week at the end of April, one that is quite potent and important to use.
There is a catch, however. You will have to work quickly because Mercury will begin to retrograde on May 7 to May 31, and you will feel the confusing atmosphere as soon as you reach May 1. Be smart and make the most of the weekend of April 25-26 when the moon will be in Taurus. It's your very best point in the month.
Let's talk about the new moon on April 24, for that moon will send a lovely vibe to your seventh house of commitment and partnership. If you are dating and ready for marriage, you may just get engaged this month, right after this new moon! If you are already attached, your partner may come to you with ideas or a new plan for the two of you.
This new moon is very positive, for it will receive gifts from Saturn (stability and longevity) and Pluto (transformation) - that's saying a lot! This is a very good new moon!
Returning our discussion to April, if you are self-employed and thinking of taking on a partner or an expert, such as a new accountant, lawyer, agent, architect, publicist, advertising agency, or investor, the new moon of April 24 will allow you to do so, for the pieces of your plan will fall neatly into place. Continue to check proposed references early in the month so that you will be ready to roll just after the new moon April 24.
Taurus (April 19- May 20)
Rare is it that we get a glimpse of the future, much less an opportunity to experience who we might be in the future. This is what I see in your charts now: a window into witnessing your own potential. You may get a look at this portal at the expense of frustration, self-inquiry and some backpedaling. You may go through substantial doubt before you arrive at a place of witnessing yourself. And you may need to burn through the floor of what you consider a self or an identity before you decide that what you are looking at involves a different concept of existence than something you choose with a “lifestyle.” I am talking about a discovery that will change the course of your life forever.
And let's post this...
Two words: group therapy. Can't argue with this.Gaining authority ***
Valid during many months: This is a time of positive change and opportunity in your life. You have the chance to remake and reform all your relationships so that they will serve your purposes better. You may also change or reform the life of someone close to you, because in all of your relationships you are exerting more power and having a stronger than usual effect upon others. This means that you have great responsibility to use this power well and not just for your own narrow ends. Whatever you do to change the life of another must help them as well as yourself.
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Contacts with friends and daily associates become more significant at this time. Out of your everyday environment, where you would least expect it, a very intense relationship may emerge that will change the lives of you both. This could be a love affair, but it is more likely to be a powerful friendship.
Hm. Well, I sorta have some authority...
Whatever it is, in this relationship you will encounter each other at a very deep level of emotion. And you will also encounter aspects of yourself that you have kept hidden for years. The most important factor in such a relationship is that it allows you to develop much more of yourself than you have ever known was there. There is as much potential for you to be changed through a significant relationship as there is for you to change a relationship.
Under this influence you could gain a position of authority among your fellow workers or among friends, as in a club or social group. The best way to use this power would be as an agent of reform and improvement. Do not use it for purely personal gain, because that could produce disastrous consequences later on.
That should be interesting. I need to.
During this period you may have experiences that cause you to change your goals. Circumstances and encounters with other people may force you to reevaluate your ideals, and your life may begin to move in a direction quite different from any that you have followed before. This in turn will allow you to develop more fully and experience life more abundantly.
God, yes. (see previous post)
Transit selected for today (by user):
Pluto Sextile Ascendant, ,
activity period from beginning of February 2009 until beginning of December 2010Keep it simple ***
Valid during many months: This influence signifies a time of great uncertainty and possible confusion. Your objectives are unclear, and you may feel incapable of coping with even the ordinary details of your everyday life.
True dat.
One of the best ways to cope with this influence is to make your everyday life as simple as possible, because you are so easily overwhelmed at this time.
This is not a time of robust confidence. You are questioning almost every aspect of your life, particularly your goals and ambitions, your ability to attain them and even whether you are worthy of attaining them.
YES YES FUCKING YES YES!
At the same time you may feel that your universe is constructed in such a way that you cannot ever live up to your ideals.
Probably not.
Disappointment, discouragement and pessimism are all likely effects of this influence. The danger is that this kind of negative thinking may actually undermine your effectiveness in your work or other important activities. Feeling insecure often creates circumstances in which you really are insecure. Do not take things so seriously! Your negative state of mind is probably not justified by the facts of your life. This is just one of those times when your spirits seem to sag.
You should try to hang on without making any permanent decisions or commitments on the basis of your current pessimistic views. In a short time, you will understand that right now your view of reality is changing in a way that ultimately should be very constructive, although it does not seem so now. About two years from now, you will be able to make constructive changes in your life based upon your new understanding. This is probably not the best time to make changes.
Transit selected for today (by user):
Saturn Square Neptune, ,
activity period from middle of October 2008 until end of July 2009
Astrology Zone Taurus for January: Basically it says, "Jupiter's in your house of career! Tons of good luck for you!" Oh, wait, I have Scorpio rising, so it's not in there..
Astrology Zone Scorpio for January:
Oddly enough, this is totally true.As you begin the month, there is some indication that you may be traveling. This is a trend that started last month, so it appears that you've been in perpetual motion ever since the holiday season began. Last month you seem to have been living out of a suitcase and enjoying yourself.
Uh...I'm not traveling this month, have a couple of weekend trips in February.
You were smart to travel then, while you could, because in just a month or two you won't find it as easy to slip away. You still can get away in January, so if you have the yen to go to a new setting, do so straightaway.
Much to my disgust, Jupiter is going into Aquarius..."your fourth house of home!" Argh. I don't have any intention of moving, thanks. Really don't wanna.
Of course there will be the usual financial tricks that seem to go on and on with you forever pulling rabbits out of hats at the very last minute. Now more than ever your powers of manipulation must come into play.
I sadly am relating to the middle of this a lot more than I'd like to be:
Oh god, yeah. I'm actually getting really sick of the romantic fantasy life- I mean, really sick, like "This is SO corrupting my head" sick. I've been trying to think of some way to "fill the vacuum", as it were. My shrink immediately suggested meditation when I asked, and I was all, "Sounds good," then I remembered that my brain goes to fantasyville during times where I can't meditate. Like, say, I'm walking down the street.The need for intense, committed intimacy persists, and while you’d love to blow everybody’s mind with your performance antics, you still have to put a lid on some of your wilder romantic fantasies.
True dat. I have been at odds with myself about that for YEARS. I miss 2004-5 or so, the last period of time where I was totally thrilled with my state of being. "Waaaah, wanna mayun" has been creeping in ever since. (Goddamn, I hate my seventh house stellium of codependent needy.) And yet, I'm still not at all really inclined to actually go get one. So.... (see below)For one thing no matter how you yearn to hold that baby in your arms once more, you have to admit that something prohibits you from being able to dedicate yourself completely to the one over the many. So on the issue of personal love vs. freedom, you are naturally going to be at odds with yourself for a while in these head over heart matters.
Totally true. My arguments against are:
You continue to have dialogue after dialogue with yourself in a noble effort to convince yourself that you’ve chosen the right path.
- Need extensive therapy for like 5-10 years to straighten out issues first (see below).
- Also, given the current situation where my mother is in constant need of attention (please let her find a new husband, please please...too bad she shoots herself in the foot before the first date), I'm not going to be putting some random new guy first over her. I'm aware this is bad for relationships, but let's face it, who's gonna be around longer? And who's going to be under stress being pulled apart between the two? (Someday when I get through reading it, I will be reviewing/mentioning a book on astrology and mother-daughter relationships. Good lord, do the issues ever repeat here.)
- I'm really like, super busy and still disinclined to drop anything I'm doing to make time for a boyfriend every night.
- Freedom ROCKS THE HOUSE.
- making myself more socially acceptable, 'cause I'm sure not now
- NEEDY NEEDY NEEDY NEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Even though you don’t know where in God’s name you are headed right now, it is important for you to keep all options open, explore all avenues and see where you land.
Your heart, however, has not interest in your rational, detached rationalizations. Your heart wants love and it wants it now.
This is definitely going on. I'm churning out projects galore, and it's National Novel Writing Month.Creatively you’re more alive than you’ve ever been, and once you’ve channeled your creative drives, you’ll have your audience again.
I keep waiting to figure that part out.
Remember that Pluto, your ruling planet is changing signs again and preparing for a new fifteen year journey, and when Pluto changes signs, all Scorpios shed their skins. They molt and transform into a totally different being. There’s no avoiding it. It’s your nature. You love it. And once again, as you have experienced time and time again in your life, a whole new path awaits you.
