The Year 2019/ January 2019 Overview - Reach for the stars with your Feet on the Ground

The Year 2019/ January 2019 Overview - Reach for the stars with your Feet on the Ground

I don’t think I am in the minority when I say 2018 has been a hard year to handle.  It was a year of inner growth and patience and it’s never easy to dig into our own closets and unearth and face the secrets and skeletons hiding there. We had much energy that was encouraging us to pause, reflect, and assess our motivation moving forward.

December 2018 - Auld Lang Syne

December 2018  - Auld Lang Syne

We begin December with the last of the retrograde energy to deal with.  If this year seemed stalled to you, that because it was.  At one point we had 6 planets in backward motion.  That is a lot of self-reflection for anyone.  But before we can launch into a new year, old friend Mercury is having us take one last look at 2018 by re-entering Scorpio on December 1 for the last 7 days of the cycle before turning direct on December 6.  Mercury will be retrograde in Scorpio, a sign that has already seen a lot of action this year with the Venus retrograde here. It seems then, as though the universe would like us to spend some time contemplating issues connected to fear, sexuality, intimacy, and deep bonding. Think back to the summer, what changes has circumstances and/or yourself gone through. Mercury direct re-enters Sagittarius on December 12 and once again we are covering ground where we have wandered before but this time we’re likely to feel clearer about our destination.

October 2018 - Shake Up or Make Up

October 2018 - Shake Up or Make Up

Conflict or Accord?  It’s going to be one or the other this month.  While the first half of the month we bask in the Sun in fair-minded Libra, its peacekeeping qualities become diminished when Venus (Libra’s ruler) joins Neptune and Uranus and turns retrograde on October 5 until mid-November.  This year, Venus will spend the first part of its retrograde (from October 5 to 31) in intense, erotic Scorpio, dredging up power struggles, forcing us to look at intimate ties and dangling tempting-yet-toxic “sex with an ex” scenarios.