This week

The switch in energy is coming. The under-the-weather-itis that we’re afflicted with perks up after Monday evening’s New Moon. Tuesday brings a final Uranian bolt from the blue and then it’s all about the Urge To Push Forwards - and the other end of the see saw - the Need to Take Stock. The weekend brings Truth to the table. Set her a place. What she has to say is Very Important.


Aries
Come Saturday, the energy is back onside after a year of gradually running out. What seems incredibly important for you is to use it to Set the Record Straight. Transformation and Becoming Who You Really Are are absolutely your soup du jour and after nigh on seven years of feeling unable to steer your own ship, you can almost feel the wheel beneath your fingers. A few weeks… Just a few short weeks to go… Right now the very best you can do is look at where your health/work commitments are a Picture of where you’ve been taking the strain. As the energy comes back, you get to play a part in balancing those see saws.

Taurus
You may be feeling flat as a biscuit but hold your course just 24 hours more. The New Moon tomorrow eve at 9pm GMT is your annual Wishing Moon, it’s time to recommit to YOU so Take a Moment to Concentrate on the Things That Matter and where you’d like to be 12 months from now. Sparkly things could land as soon as Tuesday when the Sun meets planet of Surprise Surprise, Uranus, in this same zone. Conversely if a friend acts out of character, try and recognise that your watch word right now is Freedom; so you can play that card if you need to. Come the weekend it’s the start of your annual four-week energy low. Work may mean you can't retire to your bed 24/7 but take a note from nursey, strive to book a few extra Zzs in your schedule right now. PJs, hot choc, a good book... ‘Taint so bad, Bull.

Gemini
Monday’s New Moon signals a restart to your Career and an ideal time to launch a New Plan. What follows – the linkage of Uranus to the Sun – suggests that your words have the power to Take You Far so push ahead early doors this week. What is essential to remember is that the eclectic moments from Monday to Wednesday need time to percolate. Don’t bank on anything until time has shown its merit. This week’s big challenges pit your wishes/friendships against your lovers/creative projects. Your clues are to remember, honestly, amidst some of the discomfort, the transformations you need to make... When you are clear where you are now and where you want to be, get ready to discard the things in your way and move towards the changes that will make you All You Want To Be. Huzzah!

Cancer
There’s a nagging doubt in your waters at the moment that the dreams you have for overseas/studious/long-range plans are about to go swishing down the pan without a by-your-leave. Oh no no, Crab! The Dark of the Moon has had you cowering and blue – however, Monday night’s New Moon will give your confidence a shot to the arm by Wednesday. Changes may be needed – money being one of the Big factors – but ideas are coming. What you need to balance is your Career/Sense of Success (whatever that means to you) and an overwhelming sense of responsibility for home and family, partners and children. Teamwork can bring answers. Schedule meetings for next month.

Leo
With the Fire in your Engine on Red Hot you’ll be keen to push ahead with all your future plans. Those who stand in your way this week are going to feel the heat of your breath right up close and personal. Be sure to floss, eh. There are two things that need to be considered in all your Pushing Ahead. (a) Money. You need a plan and a new approach. Surprises early this week could be in your favour or require A New Plan. (b) You need to explain and reassure others, perticalerly work colleagues, exactly why what you’re doing is in no way related to them. With your big bold future zooming up to meet you, you can afford to be generous.

Virgo
Which are your most intense one-to-one relationships right now? If they’re of the lovin variety they’re focussing your attentions on intimacy/transformation; if they’re of a bidnizzy variety they’re focussing your attentions on transformation/cashola. For Virgos with intensity on all fronts, ahem, have a lie down once in a while, eh? Whatever the Focus, what you can draw from the current Cosmic Patterns is that Letting Go is a painful but liberating process. Whether you’re breaking up a relationship or taking the bold step to launch a new approach, or fighting to create a New Era of Compromise and Togetherness in your partnerships by removing some outdated habits/survival triggers you’re clearing space for Something Important to arrive. And it will. In just a matter of weeks. Monday night, Be Honest with yourself vz what you want from your one-to-onesies. Then be prepared to go for it, unflinchingly.

Libra
It may be hard to keep your mind on the day job while issues of relationship are gathering around your pretty ears. However, try hard to make an effort Monday – Wednesday to be 100% in the Office as surprises here early doors will need your full attention. In fact wear comfy shoes if you have them so you can turn on a dime if you need to. From Wednesday it’s time to feel the love – or the lack of it. Planets staking up in your 7th house of one-to-onesies means that finding/forging a healthy relationship is your soup du jour. Single Scales, you’ll be hunting out that balance most assiduously. Coupled up Librans, you’ll be wanting to re-balance the way Things Are. (Watch the weekend for simmering issues with home/family coming out for an airing!). Sweet words and opening your heart may feel scary, but don’t you want the same openness in return?

Scorpio
If you’ve been feeling a little blue about a love affair, creative idea, or child-related adventure, Monday evening’s New Moon and Tuesday’s Sun/Uranus taa daah should add some wind to your whistle. Even breakthroughs/unexpected news vz home and family could land. It’s Uranus in charge after all so Freedom and Surprise are the operative words. A big focus from Wednesday onwards is how what’s going on behind those peepers of yours is having a direct impact on you Work/Every Day life and your Health. In astrological charts your 12th house of mind/fear directly opposes your 6th house of health and daily life. Imbalance in one impacts directly on the other. If you’re feeling overwhelmed right now see a shrink, share with friends, talk things through with a boss/supportive figure. Clearing the Decks is easier with support.

Sagittarius
Hello Archer. What’s causing your current dis-ease is the Stop Start of lovers, chilun, and Creative Ventures. The Fire’s in your belly for shoooowaah and the Future is just there, right in front of your pretty nose, and then…. Problems with/vz Lovers who have Doubts, Career/Success responsibilities that are keeping you from the Fun, or with Children and issues with authority figures need addressing Now. Monday’s New Moon gives you a chance to get your home/family life back in order. New regimes can start to bed in by mid-week. From then on it’s a question of setting out to tackle one issue at a time en route to the future. On Friday/Saturday, that issue-tackling includes balancing cash spendsies.

Capricorn
Planets are beginning to congregate in your 4th house of Home and Family and for Goats redecoration, upheaval at your stumpy, or family get togethers are your soup du jour. You’ll be getting some deep feelings in your water that a lick of paint or a Mother’s Day card aren’t even a sniff of what approaches and you’re right. Wappy Uranus, who has had you commuting here there and everywhere to bring in the dough for the past 7 years, shifts into your home zone in a matter of weeks. Buying, moving, moving out, moving parents in, moving to be nearer family, buying the parents’ house… All this is on your list of Possibilities. What’s sure as sugar is that decisions will be based on making your money work for you. This week, Ma and Pa issues surface. Are you exchanging roles in some way, becoming the parent? Watch your temper at the weekend. If it gets stressful, ask yourself, what would a calm and loving parent do now?

Aquarius
Monday’s New Moon in your money house is important for two reasons. Firstly it’s your annual New Money Moon and gives you a cosmic signal to focus on the Income Column on your financial ledger as a Key Way of solving the problems in the Unavoidable Outgoings Column. Secondly, what’s extra, extra important this week is that this New Moon lands just as the Sun meets Uranus in your money box. It seems the answer to your Income Column involves a partnership dealio- and getting into bed with someone who balances out your business acumen with their sparkly sales flair. Don’t be put off or worry that you’re about to be relegated. Partnerships can be devised to suit both parties. Your goal is to negotiate, remind yourself what your long-term plans are, and then to play to your strengths; finding the solution that fits all, natch.

Pisces
Fishes feeling under par, hold tight! Tomorrow evening’s New Moon is your New Moon so your sense of purpose and direction and being able to see in the dark will grow stronger once again. Early doors this week, a lightning idea strikes vz work opportunities and it’s time to take a (calculated) risk. Money’s at the heart of this and you need to be sure that 1 + 1 = 2. The coming long-range currents suggest big changes to the way you earn money. Tentative steps can begin now. What may be necessary first is to either pay off existing debts before you can make the leap: or to hold fast to your course just a while longer to be sure the pay off you’ve been promised comes your way. Late spring/early Summer look favourite.

This Week

Hello there. How was your week? Thank you for all e-s on last week's absence. Intensity Monday; beauty Tuesday certainly rang true for this human bean. How's about you? This week we’ve got some tasty astro picnics in the lead up to a rather fruitful Virgo Full Moon on Sunday afternoon GMT. On Tuesday, primal energy The Sun makes nice to Pluto, he of Truth, Demolition, and Transformation. If you’re keen to make Big Changes the Cosmos is giving you a helpful tailwind. Come the weekend, chatty Mercury hooks up with Neptune and Chiron. Healing conversations are yours for The Taking. If there are important words you want to spit out then don’t lose the moment. Platitudes are for woozies. Go gently, but get right down to the bottom of de Issue at Hand. Our Annual Virgo Full Moon on Sunday has a Jupiter conjunct Sun AND Pluto trine in the mix. Freedom from the past is a tangible option. Breathe it down to your toesies people!

March monthlies with you next Sunday. Have a Big Round Full Moon xxx

Aries
The mid-week window for transforming your wash links your zone of I’m A Success and your zone of Fear; time to put your head above the parapet, stand up and be counted, go for something you’ve wished so many times you’ve had the stones for. Et voila. Come the weekend your Mercury : Neptune : Chiron opportunity sez honesty knocks vz friends and wishes. Time to make amends? Then make ‘em but Zoom nobody, Holmes. It’s time to state those wishes in your heart with your guard down. New friendships started now have a cosmic ring about them. Give them time to come down to earth. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Stop Start in your office and medicine cabinet. Work projects culminate and spur you on to higher goals. Health test results should be pushing you forwards. A light goes on which sez as below, so above. What state of mind is contributing to your state of play in the office or doc’s surgery?

Taurus
You should be feeling buoyant, Bully, thanks to the cosmic line up in your netwhoring, friends, and wishes zone. Even more than that, the Sun and Pluto brunch on Tuesday pushes your Big Goals a step closer and notions for study, travel, publishing, and spiritual pursuits get a juicy cosmic fillip. Friends and close one to onesies are on side too. By the weekend it’s time to check the small print on career contracts. News coming now should thrill you, and could be a dream come true - but in all the glorious haze remember that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Check dem facts is all I is sayin’. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Intensity Central on creative projects, love affairs, and children. La Luna’s link to Pluto and Jupiter this year sez your love-life is getting shaken up BIG time. Venus is on side and Love should be Big and Bold and Transformative. Taurus love affairs ending now are opening doors to future rainbows and starry nights.

Gemini
Planets lining up in your 9th and 10th houses are putting the emphasis on (a) foreign, studious, publishing/broadcasting plans and (b) career. If you can marry those things together right now, Airy Friend, so much the better. Mid-week’s Sun and Pluto hook up says it’s time to tawk and the subject needs to be Money. There’s a huge on-going transformation happening in how you earn, spend, and are controlled by money. Conversations now are shining lights on new strands and new opportunities. Don’t be afraid to change direction (did I really say that to a Gemini?) By Saturday your winged ruler Mercury strikes up a yarn with Neptune and Chiron. This is inspiration and healing on warp factor 11 all with a foreign, studious, publishing/broadcasting connection. Just watch out for porkie pies. Neptune can obscure the blindingly obvious when he feels like it. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: Is your annual home and family emotional high. This year changes are on your mind, linked to finances and success. Is it time to move a lover in or move aged parents into nursing homes and release their equity? (Ask them first of course.) Is it time to change residence to get closer to the success you deserve?

Cancer
The Sun in your 9th house is casting your mind to foreign shores, teaching, studying, and spiritual adventures – and come Tuesday, lovers and close bidniz partners will be a Big Important part of the picture, whether that’s some overseas honey that you’re missing like billio or a damn fine commercial opportunity that could turn your future horizons upside down (err). The cowabunga moment comes next week. In the meantime, it’s time to talk lettuce. Finances are in the frame by the end of the week. Negotiating on big deals could go your way now but AVOID being too afraid to ask for what you really, really need. Your financial outgoings are due to escalate again from early March so you need to make strides now. Forewarned is forearmed. Bite down on any money offers. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is intensity central in your larynx. Now’s the time to state those future intentions and how they link up to love/bizniz partners.

Leo
The mid-week hook up between your ruler, the shiny Sun, and Pluto, he of the undergrowth, is a rather pretty sign that transformations in your work place are bringing in the lucre. Generally, we human beans rail against change, but when the rewards are rich-pickings, then hey nonny, we’re far more amenable. Yes you’re not firing on all cylinders at the mo – but energy will up within a fortnight... why not count your shekels if you’re feeling a little flat? Better, hmm? Come the weekend there are some rather pretty exchanges with loving or bizniz one to onesies. Lovin’ partners are on your side; bizniz partners have inspiring work and money ideas. Check all facts. Neptune’s in the mix, aka Mr Confusion, and he can make a right pig’s ear out of an egg salad. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual earned income kersplat. Either you have a money crisis and are prompted to go out and earn – or you get a tasty bonus or new job. The latter option looks more likely this year.

Virgo
You should be sensing that the energy that’s pushing you onwards right now is coming from some deep place you can’t quite point at. What’s everso true, though, is that it’s an expression of You as You are Today that’s coming to the surface. Tuesday and partnerships are really beginning to show their worth – whether that’s creative, loving, or bebe-makin’. By the weekend your ruler meets up with Neptune and Chiron in your 6th house of offices and medicine cabinets. Neptune = inspiration and poppycock, so if you’re uncertain of anything, then get it in writing. On a good tip, news can be spirit-lifting now. On the workfront, you’ve got the patter Virgo and could sell chocolate fireguards if you so wished. Go for it! Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Emotional High about you. La luna’s tawk with Pluto and Jupiter sez work or lovin’ relationships are bringing in those Big Changes you’ve been hankering for and paving the way for your Greatest Self-expression this lifetime… be it art, bebes, or love-mekkin. Awww lovely!

Libra
Whether you can put it into words or not, the cosmic fairydust mid-week is showing how your successes in the Real World are separating you from your family in that you’re now Accomplishing Things on your own terms. The terrible twos and our teenage years are obvious attempts to cut the apron strings. Current events should be bringing in a calmer and more satisfying sense of independence. For all Librans, opportunities to work from home or move nearer to the office are starred. By the weekend the Mercury, Neptune, Chiron get together docks in your 5th house of loving squeezies. If it’s time to make apologies, or have a second attempt at being Valentinesy, then you got it. Creative projects conceived under these stars are inspired. And tawk of bebes may be on the cards too. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: lands in your 12th house of Meep. Try not to get yourself run down or paranoid. Your wishes really are coming true. Whatever stress comes knocking, remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Scorpio
When your ruler Pluto meets the Sun on Tuesday, it’s a moment of awesomeness – conversations or news from lovers or about bebes are beauteous and life-changing. These are really important moments for love, creation, and expression, the like of which has never happened in your lifetime. Changes and advances and developments can happen themselves under these stars (watch next week for an example), but if you trust that the cosmos is steering you right, then now is the time to boldly go and all that jazz. By the weekend it’s news sharing time with home and family, and time to make decisions about what colour to paint the downstairs karzee. Sea-green sez Neptune. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is a time for celebrating with friends. Single Scorps - friends and social netwhoring could be turning out a few peaches for you to get to know better. Schwing. What’s more, creative projects are bringing in the oof. And kerching.

Sagittarius
Money and home link up on Tuesday, reiterating the cosmic forces this year which imply the moving or expansion of Archer Towers. This time, ideas for changing can be multicultural – whether that’s literally moving somewhere abroad, or bringing the world into your home with ethnic scatter rugs or Japanese tatami mats. The weekend brings visits from bros and sisses and inspired chinwaggy time. Read between the lines of those you pow wow with now. There may be issues they’re holding back on when they’d dearly love your support. Archers making out of town trips at the weekend could be in for a soul-affirming vacation. Just be sure to check travel times. Neptune in the mix can bring all sorts of bewilderment to the radar. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual career emotional high. Projects are culminating now, or you feel pushed to get one signed and sealed. Promotions could be due too for some Archers. Homelife is 10/10.

Capricorn
For you, Goat, the midweek Sun and Pluto blend is a chance for you to Speak Up for what really matters to you. Ducky has lectured you before about silencing the potential bully within since Pluto began steering your boat a year ago. Now is NO exception. A situation does need to change, you’re right, and talking about it is the way to do it, that’s for sure. In the moments of Discussion, try to remember the benefits to you in this process. Without That Situation, would you ever have believed you could be So Bold? By the weekend, earning opportunities look tasty. Remember to bite down on the money before signing. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Long-Range Planning call to action. Foreign shores appeal, as do study courses which broaden your horizons. Any legal issues should be settled quickly now while the tide is in your favour. Chats and weekend jaunts look heaven-sent.

Aquarius
With money as the current Big Focus in your wash, Inventive Brain, this week is set to bring some glad tidings. Tuesday’s hook up of Pluto and the Sun ushers in a need to stop Holding On to possessions and let things become fluid and mobile, a sort of de-cluttering of your inner world being manifested out in front of your nose. By the end of the week you’re on fire with your negotiating skills and it’s time to get the facts together where money and income are concerned. Things may be better than you’d hoped, but just be sure as sugar that you check before you cheque; Neptune can bring chaos. See what’s really there on the ledger sheet, not just what you want to see. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon is your annual emotional crisis point on the Big Money issues in life – mortgages, loans, savings, pay offs. This year, however, Jupiter and Pluto are making it emotional high good not emotional high bad. Remember, it’s time to stop holding on and to initiate your own successful, transformation.

Pisces
These are glorious days Fish, when things in the tank should be idyllic. Tuesday’s link between the Sun and Pluto should be bringing your closest wishes/friends right up close and personal. Likewise Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon, normally an annual emotional crisis point with close one to onesies of a lovin or bizniz nature, brings emotional highs of a joyous nature, and re-jigs the glories of Tuesday with feelings of love for children, creative outpourings, and squeezies. Fishes saying arrivederci to lovers now know they are heading upstream towards much more fruitful waters. Optimism be thine warm current. The one, steady eddy this week is Saturday’s link with Mercury, Neptune (your ruler), and Chiron in your 12th house of Meep! There are doubts in your mind. Things can’t really be as good as they seem, can they? Pinch yourself hard, or get someone cute to pinch you instead. The truth hurts! See what I did there, ahaha!!

This Week

A busy, busy week earthlings in the run up to the man-made, card-selling phenomenon of Valentine’s Day. While the planets don’t normally give a rat’s patootie what we want from the 14th of February, this year there’s something of a coinkidink and Valentine’s Day chimes with some p-a-ritt-ee feelgood cosmic action. A New Moon… Venus and Jupiter in fluffy, communing Pisces… plus some Hot Commitment Action thanks to tasty hook ups from celestial lovers Venus and Mars to Pluto and Saturn respectively. No, you’re right, this action can’t fall in everyone’s zone of true love… but it can and will give us all a shake up in the eternal human-bean quest for Love and Happiness. In other news: keep your bullcheese radar on high Monday this week and next. Venus and then the Sun cosy up to Neptune. This can mean dweaminess and soulmate love-stuff, or it can mean downright deception and having your head ducked under the briny. Just be sure you aren’t the one churning out the porky pies.

Have a fantastic New Moon on Sunday - and welcome to the Chinese Year of the Tiger! GGGGrRRrrrrrr xx

Aries
The week begins with the hook up of Venus and Neptune in you 11th house of wishes and friendships. This is eyes-meeting-across-a-paddleboat central, but can also be a cosmic version of beer goggles making you mistakenly think that a friend can be so much more. Stay awake at the wheel, Ramface. It’s also a time when friendships can prove deeper than you’d previously thought. From Friday through to Monday partners come under the spotlight. There’ll be some Rams weighing up whether a current squeeze has legs (if you see what I’m saying). For others, big deep talks with the current beau prove how solid you are with each other. (Or if you’re not.) Planning a family from the Spring figures too. Time to book the stork? Sunday’s New Moon: is your annual wishing moon. Make a wish for your future. Turn over a new leaf where friendships and networking are concerned.

Taurus
Monday lands and it’s time to get a Matter of Success clear in your head. Neptune’s commune with Venus, your ruler, suggests that dreaming and reaching for the stars is absolutely the soup du jour. Good news on the career front is due today just be sure to check the small print. Mercury heads into your success zone by midweek bringing money/creative greenlights/a lover; delete as appropriate. Around the same time Venus sashays into your 11th house of wishes, friendships and netwhoring. It’s party time! Venus is due to meet Jupiter here next week, so if your meal for two is delayed until Tuesday 16th, don’t you worry a jot! On Friday and through the weekend hardwork gets rewarded – but there are clashes with Who You Want to Be and home and family. Stand firm. Pluto in your zone of future plans means the Truth = Overhauls. Sunday’s New Moon: Go GO GOO for Gold. It’s your annual Career and Success Moon. Repeat three times a day before meals: Settling for Second Best is no good at all.

Gemini
It’s all about the big tomorrow, Airy One. The week’s activity is lighting up your 9th house of future, travel, publishing, studying, and long-haul plans. On Monday there’s a love/creative link here – lovers overseas, creative night-school classes… By midweek, when your ruler Mercury zips into this sector, you’ll be ready to launch a Big Future Something connected to these 9th house tings. Prepare to negotiate Thursday through to next Monday when conversations on commitment kick up issues that need settling. The proof will be in the eating come April, but right now and in the coming weeks, your success is guaranteed – as long as your feet remain on solid ground (or tied to a rope that’s attached to someone on solid ground). Your valentine’s comes early and late (or just lasts a long time) watch Thursday through to Tuesday next week for romantic whatsits. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual 9th house New Moon (topics as listed above). Make a commitment to one or all of these things and crack on!

Cancer
You’re shifting some old emotional garbage, Crab, which may not sound like the best Valentine’s news, but wait. Sometimes Transforming something old brings on a new glow, and a new allure. What’s cosmically clear is that now is the time to ditch some of your old habits/lovers/fears and start allowing The Good Stuff in. Monday and you’re either inspired/or self-deluded on warp factor 10. As the week rolls on it’s clear that your big future wishes won’t take off if you don’t drop some old ballast. Watch Wednesday and the New Moon on Valentine’s Day for days to Name It. Aiiee! For all Crabs, home and family bring their share of burdens and support at the weekend and money’s in the frame. Are parents acting as guarantors on a mortgage application? Could they? Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual transformation moon. Time to turn over a new leaf, period.

Leo
Mars moving backwards through your first house of you means certain your Big Future Vision for yourself is backed up, leaving you ahem, a tad spiritually constipated. With virtually all the other planetary hoohaa centring on your 7th house of close one to onesies and bizniz partners, your ineffectiveness, malaise, and whinge-iness are going to Out or be Exacerbated By those human beans closest to you. If you can keep your feet on solid ground, Monday this week and next are days when these long-suffering souls remind you what love really is. Saturday watch for being a crosspatch; disagreement can be done without clawing. Prepare to make amends by Monday. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual Close One-to-Onesies New Moon. Time to re-kindle watchuugat/re-kindle the search for something healthy and long-lasting.

Virgo
It’s all about the work and the workout, Virgo. Monday this week (and next) Venus and then the Sun trigger Neptune the God of dreams/illusion. Good news on jobs and health diagnosis is v v likely to land here these days. The caveat is, if it seems too good to be true, then get it checked out. Likewise, don’t fib to the boss or the doc on those days; you’ll be the fool who pays the price in the long-run. Come Friday – Monday week, there’s talk on work and money. Mars in your 12th house suggests that you want a lot but are scared to ask for it/suspect others don’t think you deserve it. Either way, it’s you who will be cross at yourself when you ask for less than you want. What about: “I’d like £xxx a day. How will that fit into your budget?” for starters? In Love News, Venus the planet of love moves into your 7th house of one-to-onesies on Thursday and makes a gorgeous link to powerball Pluto on Valentine’s Day. Hearts and flowers, wistful stares and rice, Poppet. Yeah baby! (And babies!) Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual restart at the office and medicine cabinet. New health regime: new work attitood, check.

Libra
Curmudgeonly Saturn is asleep at the wheel, or at least not watching you like a hawk right now, so while the cosmos is offering you dance cards and honeys to cha cha cha with, go out and grab the chances! Monday brings a swooning moment, from Wednesday news, info, and chitty chat with lovers increases, and by the weekend there’s talk of commitments and future plans. Friends may feel you’re spending too much time sopping, but you know as well as I do that soon your work life is going to take over. So sop til you drop! Sunday’s New Moon: is your annual restart for Funsies! Make a commitment to get creative (bebes, potato-painting, visiting galleries)! Make a commitment to having fun with your lovers or your kids. Single Scales, it’s time to relaunch the search for your dream lover.

Scorpio
You’ve been drawing your energies in and hanging out by the fireside with the family, contemplating your ancestry and your current tribe, and the state of the décor in your humpy. There’s more of this to come (watch Mercury sidle in here on a crest of chitty chat and news from Wednesday) – but it’s also becoming time to get out and have some fun in this pretty yard we call Planet Earth. Venus, she of love and whatnot, pouts into your 5th house of lovers, chilun and creativity on Thursday and it’s time to get breeding, potato painting, romancing… all in time for Valentine’s Day. Woohoo! What’s brewing in time for the 14th is a link up between Venus and your ruler, Pluto. That Huge Truth you’ve been burning to reveal is ripe. Don’t pass the moment without feeeeling it, Scorpio. Conversations about bebes, love, and intimacy/emotional vulnerability are Specials of the Day. Sunday’s New Moon: is your annual wake-up-call vz your homelife, your mudhut, and your family. Time for a restart, Scorp.

Sagittarius
A week of chitty chat and out of town trips, before hunkering down at home for Valentine’s weekend. Of all the signs, Archers need to remain the most vigilant about porky pie-ing this Monday and next. It’s not that you’re natural born fibbers… it’s that the Neptune blur is happening in your 3rd house of chat and when work colleagues or lovers ask a question, your little bon mot to smooth things over might end up barrelling into a Clinton-esque style tribunal. Play safe and if in doubt, say nowt. Likewise, listen hard for others half-truths or whale-sized porkers on Mondays. Across town and Friday – Monday delays vz your long-range, studious, or foreign plans are winding you up. Try to hang fire and start again next week. Venus slides into your mudhut on Thursday. Time to beautify your four walls and entertain at home. Wink. Sunday’s New Moon: falls in your house of chitty chat and commuting. New car or a new phone? Think about how you speak and if it ever gets you what you want…

Capricorn
Monday and it’s time to bite down hard on the money and check it aint chocolate. Yes, you’ve heard that here before – and it’s because pesky Neptune, in your 2nd house of earned income, is making your take on the green stuff less than focused. By mid-week Mercury moves into your earnings zone and Venus moves into your 3rd house of chitty chat. Where you need to talk of settling scores and getting your groats (arf arf), you’ll have the wind beneath your sails/sales bookkeeping-wise. (On also vz money, Mars’s on-going uiee in your 8th house of big-cash-money (mortgages, bank loans etc) is frustrating your need to empire-build too. Watch for losing your rag with impatience at the weekend. You can begin to right that ship next week.) Don’t waste all your current lovely, tawky Venus energy on your accountant, however. Powerful cosmic links say this Valentine’s Day is time to wear your heart on your sleeve and your tongue, Goat. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual Earnings Moon. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, it’s time to revisit your earnsie-spendsie ratio.

Aquarius
Huge gusts of energy are billowing around your ears, Inventive One. First up, Monday brings a moment of truth vz homelife and family. Be sure to check money facts but don’t lose the magic. Then Wednesday, communicator extraordinaire Mercury flies into your first house and Information that you’ve been waiting on for two months (especially from lovers or vz large cash issues) finally lands... You’ve three weeks to grab it, turn it around and get it back out there. In all this airy fury, remember to stop and breathe once in a while, and make sure other people’s ears aren’t bleeding under your torrent. From Friday through to Monday week you may feel the pressure mounting as Mercury links up with Saturn and crosses swords with Mars. Try to see that those closest to you have your best interests at heart, even if they’re not moving as fast as you’d like. Finally, Venus brings money into your house of earnings from Thursday. Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy your love a nice dinner out on the town. Sunday’s New Moon: Is your annual relaunch. So do just that. Start /restart something just the way you want to.

Pisces
The planets, stacked up in your 12th house of meep! May have you feeling a little underpar but fret not. From next week the Sun comes to getcha and your energy levels will crescendo upwards. Before then, this Monday and next be aware that you may be seeing what you want to see rather than what’s really there when Venus and the Sun link to your ruler Neptune in a dark corner of your mind. Yes these links do bring intuitive hunches strong enough to build a garage on, but if you can’t separate your doubting mind from your gut feeling, go easy before letting accusations fly or betting your last dollar on Three-Legged Dobbin in the 3.40. Friday through Monday, you’re feeling fed up at the office. Bosses are renegotiating on big money payments. It may be April before the answers are back in. Fishes have Venus on hand over Valentine’s Day but are too tired for all the shenanigans. Write a lovely poem and have a bubble bath together instead. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual name-and-shame moon. What fears are holding you back? Picture ‘em like tin cans on a wall and then shoot them off quick fire, cowgirl.

This week

A quickie this week campers. Astroducky has a bit of a headyache and wants to lie down in a darkened room with calming lavender essential oils. The word on the astro street this week is 'ouch'. Venus and then the Sun oppose Mars, there’s a Full Moon on Saturday next to Mars and slap bang in the centre of the oppositions. Then Monday Saturn squares Pluto once more. Ugh…

We all drift along, somewhere in our lives, Ignoring the Elephant in the Room – be it our own ineffectiveness, or the inappropriate behaviours of another, or the fact that It Isn’t Working (whatever that may be). Then weeks like this appear... The Cosmos makes us all over-antsy and FINALLY the fact that there’s an Elephant in the room gets aired at last. I’m going to say something to you now which I know is easier to say than it is to do, but seeds sown and all that. When the ante gets upped as it will, go to your detached place – a shelf on the wall, the top of an empty bus with misted windows, a daisy in a summer field – and then look back at yourself, in your situation, at those moments of fury or doubt or scratching for control and ask your inner knower, ‘What was I born to manifest? What is my greater purpose?’ Then, and only then, when you have that information, make your move.

Next week: Feb monthlies. See you on the daisies xx

Aries
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Money and good times face off. Watch that tongue of yours when the stress gets too high on Saturday. You’re an adult now. You have control over the choices you make. Part of this stress is that people and things aren’t heading as fast as you’d like. Why not take your foot off the gas and drift for a while? Monday week and it’s showtime on the career front. Bosses want to double check facts but explaining yourself isn’t your numero uno hobby. Does it serve a purpose? Does it serve your ultimate purpose?

Taurus
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: If you find insecurity dogging advancements on the career front, name those old self-defeating habits, imagine writing them in the sky, then watch them burn up and disappear. Facing walls is sometimes a call to assail them anew. Home life is stressful and a door closes on Saturday. It’s part of the current upheaval. Bosses/responsibilities are overbearing on Monday week. They’ll have gone through their testing times too, though that’s not your fault… Let their pushiness spur you into recommiting to your long-term, long-haul, studious/publishing plans.

Gemini
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Cat got your tongue? Overseas/long-distance love connections or a choice between lovers is stirring and stressing you. What’s that there? A fear of being earthed, a fear of being tied down? Talk about it. Friends can be sounding boards but the ideal is to name your fears out loud and then let them disappear into wisps of vapour. Remember that yesterday is another yacht ride. Speak now and hear what you say. The future really does have a very different vista. Next Monday and fun and work clash. Use the anguish as a FINAL reminder that you need to make changes to get the balance right.

Cancer
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: It’s all about the money, Lebowski. Career and tips from friends may be bringing in the spondoolies but as your lifestyle gets ever-more Champagne-stylee, the bills get bigger, the pay cheques vanish quicker, and you’re back to being thirsty again… Saturday’s Full Moon suggests you may start over-emotionalising lettuce but use the adrenaline to get your pocket book in order. Next Monday balancing ties to home/family and responsibilities to your close one to onesies is a high wire act with no safety net. No fun bro. What needs to give?

Leo
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: The Cosmic hooha is happyhaps across your 1st and 7th houses ie You and your Close One to Onesies are sparking off each other. Chances are they aren’t making enough of a fuss of you and that’s stinging the royal pride (see what I did there?). However, what’s also getting you riled is the slowness at which everything is happening right now. Others can bolster your esteem, your highness, of course they can. However, a gentle request for help might work better than a goring. Monday week: Conversations are brewing pertaining to work and home and imbalances of power. Prepare now. It’s going to take a whole new approach.

Virgo
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Work and health, emotions and health, work and emotions. If you’re feeling small and retreating, it’s hard to work it work it out in the big bad world. If you’re feeling poorly, it’s hard to stop yourself feeling small, or needing to retreat. If your day job is grinding you down, the stress builds and you get poorly. Do you see? Between lozengers and your liquid lunch it’s time to remember who it is that you are and where it is that you’re going. Transformation and reformations are possible now with a leetle gumption. Monday week: Lovers, creativity, and fun things clash with money. A Big Truth Conversation is overdue.

Libra
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Lovers and wishes and friendships are areas of intense cosmic energy for you this week. Turning lovers into friends, friends into lovers – deciding between two lovers… right now you’re reviewing what you want for the long-haul, relationship-wise. Fun’s fun, for sure, and there are options aplenty – but will any of these admirers lead to something solid? Don’t be afraid to close the door on those who don’t. Monday week: It’s boot camp on the homefront. Big changes are required, as if you didn’t have enough on your plate already.

Scorpio
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Old habits, family responsibilities, and insecurities about money are clashing with The Big Things you want for yourself, that make you feel you’re a success. Work projects, globe-conquering, spiritual uprightness, qualifications… Notice where Old Habits and Insecurities are tripping you up. Those need working on in time for March. For now, though, some aspect of your Success Wishlist needs to make way for home and family responsibilities. Monday week: Your ruler clashes with Saturn. Honest conversations that might hurt are overdue. You’re looking at something that you’ve outgrown and need to let go of. Try to remember, life is a journey, travel light…

Sagittarius
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: The cosmos sez you’re being pulled in two ways as the planets battle it out across your 3rd and 9th houses. The 3rd concerns your everyday life, commuting short distances, the way you communicate. The 9th is a much broader vista – long haul travel, your vision for your future, higher education, and spirituality. A need to travel, runaway, give it all up and go back to school reaches its peak. Progress on this is possible, but from March. Can you begin making plans? Monday week: Boss figures seem to be holding back on the cash. Yet another reason to fly, Archer, fly?

Capricorn
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Like the Cosmic Crab, your stars this week cross your axis of Ooof and it’s all about the money, Lebowski. It seems you’ve money in your hand and you’re keen to splurge it particularly where close one-to-onesies and home and family are concerned. What you need to know is that house bills won’t be fully dusted until 7 June, so keep some lettuce to one side. Saturday’s Full Moon suggests a mini wake up call vz finances is coming, or more happily, that a big debt is finally paid off. Next Monday bosses are likely to pour scorn on your dreams. Brace, brace. It’s a slow season of worky challenges.

Aquarius
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: You and your Close One to Onesies (or lack of them) are coming under the spotlight. Inventive One, it’s your birthday month and you are HOT – but it seems others are dragging their heels, being obstructive, or getting emotional… and that’s the cue. Although uncomfortable, Saturday’s Full Moon is about releasing emotions, recognising the way you feel, recognising what you want, then resolving to make it happen. Monday week: Saturn and Pluto clash and your long-term plans hit a stumbling block. Doing this the right way may take more effort than you want to give, but long-term it’ll be the making of you.

Pisces
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Work and health, emotions and health, work and emotions. Like Virgos, the Cosmic spat this week is happening across your 6th and 12th houses. If you’re feeling small and retreating, it’s hard to work it work it out in the big bad world. If you’re feeling poorly, it’s hard to stop yourself feeling small, or needing to retreat. If your day job is grinding you down, the stress builds and you get poorly. Do you see? This week it’s time to ask Questions and bring up Topics that may make you feel a little vulnerable. Include check ups at the docs too. For some Fishes, a health problem has been dragging on too long. Monday week: Overseas and long-range plans can’t work the way you want them to. Time to head back to the drawing board or be honest about the finances.

This Week

Ball change! A week in which three planets change into New Zones. On Monday and then Wednesday Venus and the Sun respectively move from earthy Capricorn to Airy, inventive Aquarius. Venus will stay here for three weeks, the Sun for four. Aussi, on Monday lucky, happy Jupiter shifts from Airy, inventive Aquarius to intuitive, dreamy Pisces for a year-long stay. What’s also Big News is that Saturn is now heading backwards until June. Yes, this means the headmaster is on holiday and you could get away with running in the corridors and writing rude words in weedkiller on the front lawn (ooh the japes, Pippin!). But acting the fool is a fool’s game, and you’ll cop it worse dan ever when the Big Guy’s back in town. As these changes happen, a sector of your skies gets a blast of attention. And FOR ALL, pixie Mercury is now back on track and sensible tawky tawky can recommence. (for where this affects you most see last week’s scopes). This week’s horoscope gives you a heads up on the lowdown of where your world eesa shifting. Hands to the wheel, amigo. Notebooks at the ready.

Aries
The Sun and Venus entering your 11th house of friends, social netwhoring, and wish-making is groovy news. There’s fun and high times in store for a month and friends can be become lovers under these stars. Jupiter’s hoof into Pisces means that for twelve months you’ve got the chance to see your shadow side and learn to love it, heal it, turn it into an advantage. Boldly go and whatnot. Saturn’s six-month reversal heads from your zone of close one to onesies into your office and medicine cabinet. Right now, reflect on commitments – why you made them and why you’re sticking to them. Are one-to-onesies giving you the sense of social standing you wanted? Have you done the right thing by those who matter most to you? Watch Friday this week for clues to the answers.

Taurus
The Sun and your ruler Venus enter your 10th house of success this week and it’s a month of mekkin hay while dem Sun he gat his hat on. Jupiter’s hoof into your 11th house of friends, social netwhoring, and wishes sez here comes a year of shared benefits, expansion and growth thanks to the support of those around you. Socialising is the air you breathe. Saturn is reversing from your 6th house of work and medicine cabinets. All Tauruses it’s time to consider whether work commitments are taking you towards your big shiny goal, including emigration plans. Watch this Friday for a comprendo momentito and love stuff with foreign/long-term ramifications. For those working in creative fields (lots of you) the notion of making a living through your art is coming back in April. All Bulls, health issues and old war wounds may seem to abate now. Don’t give up the yoga! You’ll pay harder come July. Now’s a good time to recommit/seek another opinion on health ting.

Gemini
The Sun and Venus land in your 9th house of foreign shores, study, and travel for a month and it’s high times for travel, lovers from overseas, and pushing your energy into studenting and making long-range plans. Jupiter’s shift into your house of success suggests that 2010 is going to be your year to Shine in the Big Wide World. There’s a confidence about you now that will attract support and backing so use it. The only thing to watch for is overexpansion and too much air with not enough substance to carry you through. Where you have though, expect to go far. This is a once in a 12 year opportunity, so grab it and ride the Wild Tiger. Saturn’s uiiee in your 5th house of lovers, chilun, and creativity is a call to reconsider your attitude towards responsibility and commitment in these areas, perticalerly where money may be concerned. Watch Friday for the penny dropping, if you’ll pardon the pun.

Cancer
The Sun and Venus are moving into your zone of hot oobah, money, and transformation, Crab, for a month. Ohmeohmy. Single Crabs will be going up the walls with ardour right about now. Smitten Crabs are likely to be doing little else but the wild thing. All Crabs will be spending big and feeling optimistic about earning big. These are days of Abandon and Letting Go of old habits, and yes, paying your tax bill. Jupiter’s shift into your 9th house offers you a year of expanding your horizons. Many Crabs will travel this year. For others study, working with those from abroad, or those who bring spiritual philosophies to your kitchen table are where it’s at. Saturn’s uiee questions your role within your family. Is it time to stand back from a commitment, or step up to the plate? Is a partner doing enough? Friday this week, the Cosmos shines a light at the right signpost.

Leo
The Sun and Venus are shifting into your zone of close one-to-onesies, your Highness. Bidniz and lovin’ partners just got shiny and/or lucrative. Those you’re attracted to now need to be Achievers; you’re only interested in social standing, beauty, luxury and a Mirror that shows You the You you most like/aspire to be. While in this dizzy space of social climbing, remember the things that really count – honesty, humility, gentleness, laughter. Gold watches won’t keep you warm at night or make you laugh to cheer you after a bad day running the jungle. Jupiter’s shift into your 8th house says that during these next 12 months sex is getting adventurous and that big, cash, lettuce is going to be on your mind. It’s a time for fast expansion of your assets and big bonuses, but also getting tripped up for being a greedy fat cat. Saturn’s uiiee suggests it’s time for appraisals on the work front. Before you throw in the towel, could you ask some leading questions?

Virgo
The big step of the Sun and Venus heading into your 6th house of work and medicine cabinets has the double wammy effect of brightening and energising both of these areas. Recommitment to health: check. Heartiness, drive, and cash and foreign opportunities on the job front: Check, Cheque, Czech! You’ve a month to go bebe, so Work It. Jupiter’s shift into your 7th house of close one to onesies also has a double wammy effect. You’ll do better working in partnerships for the next year at least. But this week’s move also puts Jupiter in an upward curve through your skies. Your luck is on the rise. Don’t let parents and old self-defeating mantras hold you back. You at dem steering wheel now. Saturn’s uiiee in your second house means the party pooper is all about the money, Lebowski. Saving, earning enough and all that jazz. Where can you expand/contract your financial commitments vz creativity, chilun and lovers? Watch Friday for a light going on.

Libra
As your ruler Venus and the Sun sweep into your 5th house of lovers, chilun, and creativity, Scales, the Cosmos is urging you to let your hair down and have a little fun. Back in October you entered a two year Cosmic boot camp of working like a Trojan (you can thank party pooper Saturn for that. More on him later). Now, you’re getting a break. It’s time to see that love, lovers, chilun, and getting creative aren’t part of the problem! They’re your release valve, your safety net, your oasis. Time to give them some time! Jupiter’s stride into your office and medicine cabinet says this is your year to get back to robust health – or put on weight. Seriously! It’s also Your Time to push ahead on the work front. Promotions can be yours now. Saturn’s uiiee in your 1st house of you, yourself, and you, gives you a physical break from the cosh. Your mind will be wondering if you’re good enough however… high time to have a safety net nearby eh? Watch Friday for delicious falling.

Scorpio
Venus and the Sun are hoofing into your 4th house of home and family and it’s time to entertain in your mudhut and spend time with those you consider part of your tribe. The 4th house is a time for retreating inside the mountain and having some quality time doing t’ai chi on the hearth rug and making healthy soups. And staying in a lot. As a result, perhaps, redecorating and beautifying your four walls becomes a recurring thought. Jupiter’s shift into your 5th house of chilun, creativity and oobah means that Scorps the world over are getting expressive. These 12th months are all about fun and recreating yourself out in the world, as art, as bebes, or as a soul lifting your spirits with fun-loving love affairs. Saturn’s uiie in your 12th house suggests there’s a spot you’ve missed during your current two-year karmic cleansing process. Your words aren’t ringing true to who you are today. Watch Friday for an insight into where the record maybe scratched.

Sagittarius
As the Sun and Venus enter your 3rd house you’re looking at a month of chitty chat, news, commuting to distant towns for work ting, and doings with bros and sisses. Some Archers will be investing in new wheels and new comms technology too. For you the really Big News is the move of your ruler Jupiter from Aquarius to Pisces and your 4th house of home and family. Yes this is a time for buying or selling property and for families expanding (are bros and sisses expecting the pitter patter?). It’s also a great time for you to heal old habits that are lingering from childhood that need a looksee. This year is your year to take charge of your own sailing boat. Saturn’s reverse thrust in your 11th zone of friends, social netwhoring, and wishes sez it’s time to consider your commitments, particularly where money is concerned. Subscriptions and club membership fees may be squeezing you. High times with pals due Friday.

Capricorn
You’ll be feeling the weights drop off thanks to Mercury’s turn to forwards ho in your control room, at last. This week, the Sun and Venus leave this zone and head into your bank vaults bringing a four week focus on what you earn and what you own. Acquiring Things is your motto and even lovers need to be shiny and glamorous to keep you satisfied. Jupiter’s move into your 3rd house for a year tells you that in 2010 getting what you want will be all about What You Say, How you Ask, and Whether you Listen. Ecoute et repete, frequently. Astroducky will prod you too. Saturn, your ruler, is having a lie down until June. The prognosis is that you can use this time to consolidate what you have. Pushing upwards on the career ladder is rekindled in July. Nice stuff this Friday though. Money and career stack up well.

Aquarius
After a dragging month and grey clouds, a shiny dawn lands. The Sun is back with you after 11 long months away, and he’s brought you his shiny pal Venus too. Not only will you feel energetic and charismatic, you’ll be projecting a healthy glow and come hither eyes. Venus is the goddess of love and she’s covering you in sparkles for the next three weeks. Work It. Jupiter now leaves your control room and heads into your bank vaults. Earning good bucks is well starred in 2010. The one caveat with Jupiter is always, ‘be wary of overexpansion.’ For you, don’t spend money until it lands – and Save Something. It won’t always be this easy… Saturn’s reversal is a breathing space for you. Take time out between now and April to sketch out a long-haul plan. Include things you were once too afraid to try.

Pisces
Jupiter is coming to get you. You’ve had a year to practise facing up to your fears and working out where you upend yourself, and why things haven’t gone as you’d wanted – and now, for 12 months, you have chances to take chances! Jupiter is a bleeping A for making us ‘overdo it’, so no you won’t suddenly be a world famous opera singer if you’re tone deaf, but you will be able to go for the things you haven’t felt brave enough to go for before. While this all sounds shiny, Astroducky suggests you take a month of You Time before your relaunch. The Sun and Venus are heading into your 12th house of Meep, and energy, love, comfort, and shininess are going to feel harder to come by. It’s a process, so go with the flow and rest. Saturn’s uiee is about big money. It’s time to reflect on your big financial commitments and get those ducks in a row – mortgages, credit card debts, the buy-now-pay later fiasco. A conversation on Friday brings a mini wake up call.

This Week

The start of the week may feel like waiting for a bus which turns out to be a taxi, a hovercraft, or Shanks’s pony… Hmm. Uranus is running the world’s diary, at the same time as Mercury is doing a backwards ho, and everyone’s inner flippertygibbet is doing an outie. Fortunately, Uranus’s Maverick Thang peaks mid-week – and then we notice we’re in the Dark of the New Moon solar eclipse. Friday’s Solar Eclipse in Capricorn signals a time for New Starts - and is the upside to the Full Moon Eclipse of New Year’s eve. (Anyone need to recap on their resolutions…?!) Make your wishes Friday but take no action until Monday. (Firstly the Moon’s void of course all day Friday and you’ll be operating form inside a marshmallow, plus pixie Mercury is stationing direct, turning to forwards ho, also in Capricorn, on Saturday.) Then Sunday, Venus and Jupiter change signs altering the terrain further. And only then, after three weeks of hoopla it's, 'Flight attendants, please take your seats for landing.’

Aries
Where Uranus is turning you over is in your blind spot. He’s spent the last seven years camped out in your 12th house of Meep! Throwing paper planes behind your eyes and random shadows on the wall. In the coming weeks he’s heading on up to your first house of You, Yourself, and You. Focus hard on Tuesday and Wednesday; when things go awry take note of your responses. How do you handle about turns that are outwith your control? If you can watch yourself from a detached point of view and learn the lessons, when the boot’s on the other foot, you’ll understand the Uranian Wisdom of Going With The Flow much better. Friday’s New Moon Eclipse sez it’s time to relaunch your career. Power knap all day Friday then make that launch on the 18th.

Taurus
Having Uranus, the planet of surprise, mekkin nice with your ruler Venus suggests that you’ve unexpected boosts in store Tuesday and Wednesday. This is money and/or success, Bully Bull – whatever success means to you – Love, Career, Social Standing... Uranus is traversing your 11th house of friends and wishes meaning that boosts and successes come from friends or social netwhoring circles, and concern projects that are especially dear to your heart. New friends landing now are fun-loving and different to your usual crowd, even exotic. Mercury’s on-going uiiee in your 9th zone of study, travel, and future plans mean things remain up in the air this week and conversations are needed to clarify certain points. Come Friday’s Solar Eclipse new ambitions with a foreign, study, or long-haul flavour are due. Go get ‘em Tiger - but wait until Monday.

Gemini
Money, Love, and Success are writ large this week, Airy Friend. Uranus, currently spinning erratically in your zone of Success, clicks with the Sun and Venus. For freshly-smitten Geminis New Love is lighting up your life and placing twinkly stars in the dark, forgotten corners of your heart. For Geminis signing off on a partnership, the end goes surprisingly well. For Geminis chasing the yankee dollar, Uranus is helping you tawk it up to financiers so you clinch the collateral. For all Geminis, Success right now is all about the money. Even Friday’s New Moon Solar Eclipse suggests a new approach to Big Money is due. Remember your ruler is hoofing backwards until Saturday. Things suggested now will need to be revisited inside of a fortnight. Check for small print caveats and typos.

Cancer
For you, Crab, Uranus’s long seven year journey through your 9th house has had you changing life course and contemplating emigration, retraining, or retreating to a Monastery. It can be exhausting at times but sometimes, like now, your modus of constantly opening doors and peering down corridors brings an aha moment that is life-changing. Uranus meets up with Venus and the Sun this week and new friendships, an awareness of life-affirming romances, and financial opportunities land. Single Crabs can meet soul mates under these stars, most likely someone from a different background or culture. Taken Crabs could be mekkin proposals. Mercury’s Uiiee means the path of true love’s communication may not run smoothly, especially around Thursday and Friday. Don’t give up. The New Moon Solar Eclipse in this Zone means yes, love really is this powerful. Have confidence. Try a re-try on Monday.

Leo
A wired week, your Fabulousness. Tuesday and Wednesday, Uranus, aka Planet Gaga is having tea and buns with the Sun and Venus, she of floaty gowns and purses. Work and money are hooking up, delightfully and surprisingly so. In fact if there are no surprises landing at your feet, have a gander at the Job ads. Word. Solar Eclipses affect you, my Liege, as you are the Cosmic Pussy Cat ruled by the Sun. Friday’s Solar Eclipse docks in your 6th house of work; one door needs to close for another to open in your workaday world - and the New Door will reveal the Sun behind it. Remember Mercury is heading backwards in this zone all working week. Check details and be aware that your exciting job offers may come from previous employers – or be old opportunities from current employers that are back on the table.

Virgo
One more week of the to-ey fro-ey hedge-ey bet-sey and Mercury, your esteemed but irritating ruler, heads forwards. Before then what’s mighty fine are the stirrings in your creativity and flirtation drawer. It seems that close one-to-onesies are providing something of a carrot tempting you to let your hair down – either you want to attract a new one so you’re shaking things up in the lipstick and slingbacks department, or you want to revive an existing liaison and are trying out a new box of tricks to entertain and be entertained. (Or have bebes!) Soupy Twist, Virgo. The Cosmos is sayin’ shake it up! Be spontaneous! Enjoy the Freedom you actually have and recognise the Power you have to make changes! Friday’s Solar Eclipse sez the leaf you’re turning over now can bring you more love, creativity, and fun than you ever believed possible. Ohgollymeohmy.

Libra
Uranus’s seven year zig zag through your 6th house of health and work may have given you a schizophrenic approach to the 9 – 5 (and your medicine cabinet) but Uranus’s role is to shake us up. Sometimes it’s unpleasant surprises, but at times like this, as he hooks up nicely with the Sun and your ruler, Venus, surprises can be v v nice indeedy. Somewhere in your wash, a wish is coming true. Positive changes vz your mudhut are starred – but with Uranus, it’s hard to say exactly what… Maybe a job has brought you enough to buy the house you’ve been after. Maybe a job change is forcing a move – but to somewhere fabalas. Maybe the chance you’ve been after to work or consult from home is finally yours for the taking. Tuesday – Wednesday, soak it up. There’ll be more negotiating to do later in the week, but Friday’s Solar Eclipse says the New Home Manoeuvres are right as right can be.

Scorpio
For the past seven years, Uranus’s crayzee scoot through your 5th house of creative ting, breeding, and lovers has been something of a wappy fairground ride. Lovers have been erratic oddballs. Affairs have come and gone before you knew what hit you. Plans with or for children have stopped and started and caught you off guard. And the pursuance of your creative muse has sometimes upset the family. On the upside, Uranus here has helped you harness the random, the lucky streak, the moment! This week on Tuesday and Wednesday both the Sun and Venus hook up with the King of the About-Turn. Lovers who didn’t want babies now do! Lovers who couldn’t commit now can! Super creative ventures that never flew now fly! No, not everything is cured by Uranus, but certain things are about to turn on a sixpence. The eclipse and Mercury say the key is Talking - and that other important part of the process, Asking the Questions that matter.

Sagittarius
Archers who wondered if they’d ever sell the mudhut are due an about turn this week. Uranus has brought change enough in the past seven years to your four walls, people moving in, people moving out, house prices crashing, mortgage arrears. This week may not extinguish all the anguish you’ve had, but there’s a lucky window acomin’ and money’s in the frame. Tuesday and Wednesday your Four Walls are a source of income, whether that’s renting or selling (or you’re getting into interior design professionally), or a loan from the bank of Ma and Pa. Mercury’s uiiee says you need to check the spondoolies and contracts – and delay signing until Monday where you can. However, Friday’s Solar Eclipse lights up this financial part of your sky too. Balancing your financial picture is your raison d’etre for the foreseeable – and how and where you live (and with who) are The Places to start.

Capricorn
Conversations are likely to have a certain frisson and a degree of bolt-from-the-blue this week, Goat. Tuesday and Wednesday the Sun and Venus (currently drifting together through your first house of You, Yourself, and You) have a ‘moment’ with King of the Wild Idea, Uranus – smackdab in the middle of your voicebox. Word. Surprising announcements – either from your lips or the lips of another - concern the following: squeezes, squeezing, chilun, and potato-painting. Reassuringly, Uranus is in good spirits so the announcements are well-liked. Muster the courage to get Those Things off your chest that need Airing. Likewise, listen with astonished but willing ears to the abandoned verbals of another. The Dark of the Moon will likely rattle you prior to the Solar Eclipse in your first house. If in doubt, ask for a time out to let things percolate. By Monday the New Moon will be waxing and Mercury will be on side too.

Aquarius
For you Money is where the surprise is at – but in a good way. Uranus, your wappy ruler, is a hard monkey to pin down. He’s been hopping around creating change in your bank vaults for seven years now and going-with-the-flow and being adaptable with your spending power has been your modus, Inventive One. Tuesday and Wednesday he makes nice with Venus and the Sun. Important one-to-onesies are coming on side, just when you need a financial leg up. Whether it’s home-buying, art-investing, studying or travel there’s help around and financial luck. The only watchword, if there is one, is watch out for doubt. Yes, you ABSOLUTELY MUST check the small print – Mercury’s retrograde and at his most sabotaging on Friday. However, the fear you’re feeling is you getting ready to jump. With bucket-loads of Cosmic rocks flying around your 12th house of Meep! – including Friday’s Solar Eclipse – a moment to wobble on the precipice is allowed.

Pisces
It seems friends are the Best Thing in the World, Fish. Tuesday and Wednesday this week pals appear to remind you that your wild-card, adventurous side (stirred by Uranus’s current, lengthy visit to your first house) is adorable. Spontaneous invites. Spontaneous favours. Spontaneous acts of kindness at your requests for help. Whether it’s giving you a lift to the doctor’s, or lending you a tenner and never asking for it back, or a local group welcomes you in like you’re one of them, friends are friends are friends. The middle of the week, at the Dark of the Moon, you may wobble for a moment and doubt that friends love you, or that the things you want will ever come to be. Once the light of Friday’s Solar Eclipse starts to grow again over the weekend, you’ll be sure as sugar that you’re loved. New friendships that land, and deeply held wishes that are asserted around that time, have the Cosmos behind them.

This week

The really pretty things that are heading our way in the coming eight days come from the Sun’s hook up to Mercury, Venus, and the Moon’s nodes, all in Capricorn. It’s a time for sharing what we know and gathering information (remember Mercury’s retrograde) but all in the spirit of wearing hearts on sleeves and owning our part in the bigger picture. This process culminates in a New Moon eclipse on the 15th in the same zone. This week then, the ‘Scopes look at the Messages of Your Inner Goat: Tuesday 5th and then Monday – Wednesday 11th – 13th are dates for your diary.


On Inspiration and the Torment of Getting Lost
I mentioned at the top of the January monthlies that over the Christmas hols I’d had some sad news about an old friend. It's here, and it's sad, so feel free to skip straight to the scopes below. In my ongoing quest to find the meaning of life, I once spent three years working as a seasonal gardener. It was at a property here in England and involved a lot of mowing, weeding, sawing things now and again, more mowing, pruning roses, weeding and yet more mowing. And did I mention the mowing? Anyhoo, for those three years I worked with Alan, the head gardener, and Sam who was Alan’s all year round right hand man. Sam was a hard nut to crack. He was tough as boots on first impression, and I thought, found me to be a naïve dolt. One day, early in that first season, I had taken affront with the boys. They’d ignored me when I arrived at work and I was tired of their little boys club of two. When they offered to lift and carry and push the barrows I told them that I maybe a girlie but I was strong - and back-breaking as it was I matched them barrow-load for barrow-load. At lunchtime, Sam asked if I was alright and I said No! I told him I didn’t care if they liked me or not but at least they could be polite and say hello when I turned up. ‘But I didn’t see you,’ he said. ‘Bollocks,’ said I. ‘I was right in front of you.’ ‘Honestly, I didn’t…’ and with that he disappeared. Twenty minutes later Sam came back with a flower that he had carved out of two pieces of twig using the knife he always kept in his pocket. ‘I thought this would cheer you up,’ he said. It was beautiful – and what a way to make a breakthrough. That lunch break I apologised to both of them for being a twat – and after that the three of us became a happy family. Sam and I were like pesky kids always up to mischief, and Alan the Daddy bear who gave us tasks to do and reprimanded us when we became too hyper. These were halcyon days. Sam and I would chase each other across the grounds on our tractors, squirting water from two litre bottles as we roared passed each other. On rainy days we would retreat to the windowless Shed and drink tea and go stir crazy. One afternoon it was raining stair rods. Alan told us to clean and oil the deck to the tractor in the workshop, and then he disappeared. After half an hour we were bored stupid and were chasing each other around with oil cans. A tinny radio was blaring away in the corner and all of a sudden Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl came on and we burst out into the rain and began to cartwheel and dance until we were soaked to the skin.

In the Autumn, we’d rake the leaves into great piles in the back of the trailer and then dive into them. In the winter Sam taught me how to flail ditches and lay hedges. Some of those gardening days were the happiest of my life. I remember once helping Sam pollard a tree that was growing into overhead cables. He was 30 feet up in the air, moving with such grace and cutting with such precision, I was on the ground pulling on the rope whenever he told me to. Sam could tell you the names of all the trees and the birds, the grasses on the meadows. He loved dragonflies and damsel flies, played guitar in a band, and even made his own guitar. He was brilliant, and he was my hero.

I moved away four years ago and we all lost touch. Then this December, I was heading to see some pals and happened to be driving right passed the gates to the gardens. I knew it would be funny as anything to rock up at the door of The Shed and catch them on a tea break. But it wasn’t to be. As I pulled into the grounds, I bumped into the house manager. She told me that Alan was on holiday – but when I asked about Sam, she shook her head. Sam had committed suicide the previous year.

We never socialised outside of work, so I may never knew what drew him down to such darkness. I knew he was married and had three children that he adored. But somehow he lost his way and in those terrible moments he forgot the laughter, and how much he inspired others, and how happy he made us.

I wish Sam had found his way. I always thought I’d see him again. Perhaps I already have somewhere in nature. Wherever you are, hero and friend, I was blessed to know you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFXcHD0z3ZY


You have a beautiful and inspired week, and I look forward to seeing you back here next Sunday xx


Aries
For you, Ram, Capricorn rules your natural Zone of Success. Patience isn’t one of your most obvious characteristics but when it comes to the boardroom table, the career ladder, and making sure you Walk Tall and Feel Proud, then you can commit to get to the top. You’re ambitious with the goals you set for yourself and generally realistic, but when you fall short it hurts. Mercury’s uiiee through this Zone right now may be frustrating, but it appears that a piece of dem puzzle has gone missing and you need to retrace your steps / re-read the manual. Absorb like a sponge Monday/Tuesday, flag up the spondoolies issues from Monday, then get it altogether for a launch on the 18th.

Taurus
The Goat is a Cosmic Friend of the Bull, both being earth signs, and so the current stellar focus on Capricorn is suiting you well. This 9th house governs your foreign, studious, and long-term plans and the attention of the Sun and Mercury here suggests that thoughts of money and your mudhut are shaping your decisions on whether to travel and study (and where to go) and where you’d like to be living and by what means, at some specific point, somewhere down the road. This is all sounding a bit general, but it isn’t. Yes these thoughts grow stronger during cycles like this, but your ruler here along with the Moon’s Nodes mean that decisions you’re taking now are some of the Biggest you’ve taken in a while. This week follow the Mercury flow and explore and cogitate. Decision time isn’t here yet.

Gemini
The Cosmic Goat rules your zone of Sex, Death, and Taxes, aka Letting Go. It seems that right now conversations are stirring up some of your own issues and old hang ups. Not fun I should coco, but there is a Bright Shiny Cosmic Lesson within: Stop hanging your baggage on someone else’s coat hook. What is it Airy Friend, that you block from entering your life when you second guess others - Love. Money. Intimacy. Attention. Sensuality. Grapes peeled for you as you laze on a hearthside rug? Do yersen a favour. Concentrate on the attributed excuses that pop out of your mouth and beat the habit out of yourself if necessary. The minute you catch yourself saying, ‘But you wouldn’t want…’ Stop. Hammertime.

Cancer
The Cosmic Floodlights are beaming all sorts of attention into your 7th house of close One to Onesies. Having a Goat ruling this zone means by nature you take emotional commitments seriously and like order and reliability in your partnerships. No spooked horses for you, Crab! You also rather like holding on, wanting to Make Things Better, even when the ship has sunk. The Cosmic focus right now is asking you to rethink your strategy when allowing People In – whether that’s for bizniz or pleasure partnerships. Are you getting what you wish for? Are you being met halfway? Are you being authentically You – or simply repeating the patterns of your parents (or regularly falling in love with Parent Substitutes, hmmm)? Concentrate on conflabs early this week. You’ll need the data to hand next week.

Leo
The Cosmic Goat rules your Zone of Health and Work, your Majesty. This means you have a rugged constitution and a dedication to duty (and/or finding the knaves to do the duties for you. American friends, please note that I said duties and not dooties). With your ruler The Sun in this Zone at the moment you should be feeling vital in body and motivated in the office. Add Venus and Mercury to the picture and you have a comforting and inspiring panorama stretching out in front of you displaying your successes and dearest wishes – past, present, and future – along with a sense of being Bang on the Money. All gravy. What you can do to help yourself now is plan the next phase of your development (especially early this week) – but not sign anything, especially where the royal groats are concerned. That can all begin next week.

Virgo
As with The Bull, the Goat is a Cosmic Friend of the Virgin. You are all earth signs and so the current stellar focus in Capricorn is suiting you well. Your raison d’etre right now is to sort the wheat from the chaff where lovers, creative ventures, and breeding or brood-raising are concerned. What’s going on now is Hugely Important. You’re laying stepping stones to create a path into the future and they need to be rock solid under foot and Real For You. You fear that you can’t get things as you want them, that you’ll have to follow the beat of someone else’s drum because ‘that’s the way it always is’. But stop. This is tosh and tomfoolery. There’s some talking to be done early this week. Decisions are coming next week, and they’ll be yours. It’s time to accept that you’re Master of Your Own Life.

Libra
Capricorn the Goat rules the base of your chart giving you a Rock Solid Foundation and sense of belonging whenever you need it. Ruled by Saturn, Goats take things seriously, value values (if you see what I’m sayin’), and have a sense of duty when it comes to home, family, and ancestry. Having a Mountain Goat as your cosmic bottom means you feel secure enough to go wherever you choose, so long as the family are being supportive… From the comfort of your settee right now, shiny ideas for the future are being shaped by outside influences: friends, groups, and social networks are giving you ideas and inspiration for How Things Could Be. First up, you need to get along with the idea that you can be head of your own tribe. From then on you can take that confidence out into the Big Wide World.

Scorpio
The Cosmic Goat is the guvna of your eclectic 3rd house and he’s the master of the way you travel and the way you tawky tawky. The cosmic fairy dust right now is singing brightly that it’s time to re-evaluate your wishes and to do so authoritatively. Mercury’s retrograde is chucking out ideas for transformation; conversations, books, things you’re hearing on the wireless are offering inspiration for shake ups. Chew them over. Bizniz or lovin’ relationships forged now play a part in this transformation and can help you get where you want to get. Your job is to talk and listen early this week, to explore (even literally) next week, and then make moves the week after. If that includes buying modes of transport, wait until after the 18th.

Sagittarius
The Cosmic Goat is your head banker, Archer. In contrast to your adventurous and spontaneous nature, this means that where dosh and possessions are concerned, your inner banker values prudence and saving for a rainy day and penny jars in case of emergencies. Right now the Sun and Venus in your piggy bank should be helping you feel buoyant about cash. Work seems to be bringing home the bacon and you’re saving up the money you need to travel/study/disappear off to Morocco and develop a yurt camp for alternative backpackers. Watch out for the temptation to shift money around right now, especially if prompted by partners. Let Mercury’s uiiee give you cause for reflection for another 12 days but not action. The information you need has not yet fully come to light.

Capricorn
The current cosmic floodlights are following you around the house, Goat, and not giving you a moment’s peace. But they’re on your side. The Sun and Venus are conspiring to show you brightly that the key you need to kick start the transformation you desire is you. Mercury is urging you to re-evaluate the job you do and whether it’s going to get you to the place you want to be – whether that’s a literal geographic move or a metaphorical one. And the lunar nodes are throbbing each time you take a step closer to realising that your one to onesies – good or bad – are a mirror of where you’re at emotionally. Early this week contemplate or debate the options you have vz changing your working life so you can Get to that Distant Shore. No decisions, just think. Next week your meditations can stretch to include lovers, chilun, and creativity too.

Aquarius
The Woodshed at the bottom of your mind’s garden is being lit up like a football pitch, Inventive One. Wounds and poysonality ticks and fears are lined up on the shelves in clear view of all who pass by. Normally this would be a terrifying thing, how vulnerable. How mortifying! And yet, you know as sure as eggs is eggs, that going through this as openly and courageously as you can is going to make you a stronger bunny – not in years hence, but mere weeks. Task One: early this week expect conversations/thoughts/revelations to centre on love affairs that have ended and the changes happening to you on account of your children. Let the pictures and words unfold like a film of someone else’s life and watch them with (slightly) detached fascination. Next week your meditations can turn to partnerships and homelife and how asking for help is often the best way to get it.

Pisces
Friends and social opportunities are in abundance for you under the current skies, Fish. Your 11th house of Socialising and Wishes is lit up like a Christmas Tree. Be careful what you wish for this month as you just might get it. This week reversing Mercury links up to the Sun. Partnership working in your work-a-day world, thoughts of family and partnership float up, and home decoration comes up for discussion and inspiration. Entertaining at home is high on your list of favourite things, Miss Andrews, and should include invites to family and partners. From next week your fish tank has a much more cosmopolitan flavour and open door policy. Community get togethers are positively cheering, there are plans for Summer holidays on the agenda too, and the hint of high times with lovers, chilun, and creative adventures by month’s end. Phew.

The Christmas Advent Fortnight, yaroo!

Firstly, apologies for the delay in posting. Having driven 600+ miles in under 36 hours, Ducky’s mind wasn’t up to the job. Now tea and some time before the next journey and we’re under starters orders. There’s a wholelottacosmichoojah going on in the coming fortnight, some icky, some surprising, some quayte nayce. Mars and Mercury hoof backwards and the Sun and Venus dock in Capricorn. We’ve a New Moon in Sagittarius this week. Plus Pluto, Saturn, and Uranus are taking us all onto the dance floor, even if our blisters are throbbing… Christmas Day is presided over by a less than peachy Saturn link. Grouchiness and lectures about thriftiness are comingacha. Life is worth more than what’s in your bank vaults isn’t it? Try and let Saturn’s phoee spat on Christmas Day be a positive thing and a reminder of that.

You have a cool yule. And with that it’s back on the road. Taters x


Aries
If you can hum the words to ‘Do you know the way to San Jose’ a few times this fortnight, you’ll have your raison d’etre down Ram face. Not only is the emphasis on travel, study and broadening your horizons but about whether that will realistically getchu where you wanna get. You’re not one for ‘avin your dreams compromised but it may do you some good to note that almost all of those ordinary looking people you see at the check out buying a turkey have their dreams too. We do. On the 15th 20th & 21st focus on your dreams (and have a blast with friends too). Then 24th and 28th note what transpires as these days offer windows to your Big Success. Concentrate HARD and fine tune / cut off what needs to be tuned/cut off so you get there more easily. Mars your ruler retrogrades on the 21st. You need to slow down vz lovers and chilun. It’s time to renegotiate your part in their bigger schemes. Finally Christmas Day and kids and partners (or new and old lovers) are annoying each other. Play good fairy. Find some common ground, even if it’s having them laugh at you.

Taurus
Money’s in the frame Bull. You know you need it to succeed – and alternatively, feeling it between your fingers is one of the factors in making you feel successful. Right now you’re parting with it and you feel uncomfortable about that. In 2010 Bulls are aiming to broaden their horizons – with publishing, travel, and study. First you need to get your money ducks in a row. For days when you know that what you’re doing now won’t pay the piper: Monday 14th, Sunday 20th and Tuesday 29th. For days when the shiny future lifts your spirits and you see rainbows: 15th, 21st, 24th and 28th. Pertinently, this week’s New Moon in Sadge brings you a cosmic leaf turning opportunity vz your big cash, lettuce. Wednesday write down what you need financially to get feeling good – be honest even if it’s crazy biiig money – then prepare to move it move it. You’ll have to pay your bills and settle your Christmas debts in the next few weeks but you’ll be heading in the right direction.

Gemini
With Mercury your winged ruler already slowing in preparation for making the turn, you may feel that you can’t keep up with all that you want to be doing. What ducky would like to warn you of right away is money. In all the blur and sparkle of the Christmas frenzy watch out for what you’re doing with your money. Bills are coming back just at this peak spending time of the year, the buy now pay later whatsit is coming. There are some great opportunities for earning coming up soon Airy, (watch 24th and 28th for clues) but don’t spend it til you’ve got it. A stitch in time, Airy friend, a look before you leap into the plastic fantastic. Word. Across town: Lovers are being tricky and beautiful in turn. Lovers make you frown or spit: Monday 14th, Sunday 20th. Lovers lift your spirits by being helpful: 15th x2, 20th. Christmas Day the kids want more than they’ve got. To take their mind off it all give them a job to do, like finishing the sprouts.

Cancer
Work has been carayzee busy these past few weeks – but just as we’re heading into Christmas, your lovelife starts getting some attention. Being a psychic in tune spooky sort of critter, you’ll be feeling a rising tide in your water of the impact Love is going to be having on you and your reef in the coming 12 months. Eclipses are all over the shop, Clawface, and that means drama and change and being vulnerable and all the things that make you run for the back of the sofa. New Year’s eve, the starter’s pistol goes off. Between now and then, thoughts of what you miss and what you need are clear: 22nd, 24th, 26th, 28th. (24 & 28th are biggies: keep a chair to hand in case you need to sit down.) The Hugeness of the journey you need to take hits you: 14th, 20th, 25th and 29th. What’s key to getting this the right way up Crab, is to work with Mercury’s retrograde. Things you wish you’d said have a chance to pop out. Get negotiating from the 27th but expect the process to be on-going for at least eight weeks.

Leo
Pussy Cat, howya? The planets have been stacking up in your 5th house of fun and self-expression… and just as Christmas hones in to view, off they trot into your 6th house of work and health – and service to others… what?! Service?! To others! Pah! Oh your beauteous feline. Yes. There seems to be a chance for this Christmas to be less about you and your tiara and more about making sure others are doing just fine. See it as a way of you being a strong and sturdy (glorious) rockface while the rest of us are a little wobbled by the cosmic dusts. Patience is a virtue as lovers and chilun go wappy: 14th and 20th. The 24th and 28th are your days to shine as helper and colleague. Try not to get frazzled or cross: 25th and 29th. And your reward: Lovers are ‘tastic on the 15th, 20th and 21st. Oooh. Smoochy.

Virgo
Focus on homelife and family starts to lift in the coming fortnight with more cosmic emphasis on your 5th house of funsies. Single Virgos need to take off their plastering overalls and get some shiny dancey pants on. And Virgos who’ve been tied down with family responsibilities might actually have time for the kids’ nativity or some potato painting pleasures. Homelife thoughts reach their peak: 15th, the New Moon of the 16th, and Monday 21st when partners change their minds. Some Virgos will be moving that day. The big days for fun with lovers or kids are around 23 - 24th and 28th but fun clashes with tightening your £s on the 25th and 29th. Your ruler Mercury’s retrograde from the 27th may bring news from former lovers… then takes your attentions back to homelife in the New Year. Reviews and news are due. Fact find and agree to nada until the 18th of January.

Libra
Saturn’s docked in your 1st house of you, yourself and you for the first time in 30 years so if you’re feeling the baa humbugs right now, that’ll be his influence. Christmas Day and the 29th are the peaks of his irritation so at least you may get to let your hair down and crack a smile by New Year’s Eve. There’s been a huge amount of toing and froing – some Librans may have even bought themselves some new wheels in the past month, but in the coming fortnight emphasis shifts to home and family. The 23rd and 28th are real denouement moments, and likely beautiful ones when you feel a sense of belonging and the comfort and holiness of that. Enjoy and savour. Monday 21st is your night for beauteous lovin moments with a squeeze or heart-warming feelings with the sprogs. Across town: Mercury’s uiiee moves the planet of chitty chat from your home and family department back to your zone of out of town travel and chinwagging. Expect to have more miles to cover in early 2010, Scales.

Scorpio
For you the emphasis on earning is starting to shift towards an emphasis on your 3rd house of bros and sisses, communications, and out of town jaunts. First up: the New Moon of the 16th lands in your piggy bank. It is time, deep and meaningful one, to crawl out of your deep chambers and Get Real about cashola. You know it. Now you need to do it. Watch the 14th and 20th for wake up calls. Family could be part of the solution: watch the 15th, 20th and 21st for helping hands. Mars’s reversal on the 21st happyhaps in your 10th house of fame and career. Now’s the time to review what Success means to you, and whether you need to include dough in that more clearly. Get ready for a relaunch in the Spring. Aussi, Mercury’s uuiee from the 27th takes the planet of chitty chat from your 3rd house of chitty chat into your 2nd house of money. What you decide vz cashola now should be negotiated and signed from 18th January and not before. Finally: Saturn’s in your 12th house and over the festive bunfight he clashes with the Sun and Venus on the 25th and 29th; the gluttony of Christmas and the tightness of your belt is going to irk you. Decide what it is you want to change and make an action plan over a turkey and cranberry sandwich.

Sagittarius
Archer, you’ve been under the baking spotlights for over a month now. This culminates this week with Wednesday’s New Moon in your first house of you, yourself and you. Make a wish for how you wish to grow and write it down. In the coming fortnight the planets shoofty into your 2nd house of earned income and possessions – and it’s time to begin a looksee into how much you need to be happy and whether you’re getting the beans you need to live. Mars’s reversal in your 9th house of future plans, study, publishing and travel suggests that you need to bring some fire to these areas of your life – with a launch date in the Spring. Mercury’s reversal from this 2nd house takes the planet of chitty chat back into your 1st house. What gorgeous cosmic whatsit – like a Chrissy present from the galaxy. Back at work in the New Year it’s time to negotiate your salary, Sadge, and look to be striking deals after 18th January and not before. Finally cash irks you this festive season because you haven’t got the cash you’d like: watch 25th and 29th for being a partypooper. Charades, walks in the countryside, or finger and potato painting are fun, you know, and won’t burst the bank.


Capricorn
Energy has been hard to come by. Now at last you can start to feel alive thanks to the Sun and Venus, landing with you on the 22nd and 26th respectively. This week then, keep it reeled in and watch out for losing your rag and saying too much on the 14th and 20th. And on Christmas Day and the 29th, when your ruler Saturn clashes with the Sun and then Venus, there’s heaviness in your heart connected to family and lovers/children. Absence of those you love may make Christmas a more sombre affair this year. Across town: Money news looks good on the 20th and 21st – which isn’t the case for a lot of the other star signs at this time of year especially! And finally: Mercury’s uiieee moves the planet of tawk from your 1st house of You, yourself and you to your 12th house of Meep! Expect to feel misunderstood. You’ll be able to state your case more clearly when the Christmas decs are down and all the turkey sandwiches have been finished by mid-Jan…

Aquarius
A big blissful moment is cominacha on the 21st, Inventive Friend. Neptune and Jupiter meet up in your first house of you, yourself, and you and you feel you could walk on water – or at least feel the inner thoughts of every other soul on earth. This is Big and Beautiful and may not be tangible but will imbue you with trust. Not to say that the choral aaahh is going to stand alone. There’s Christmas and frenetic whatsit to dive into… Partners and big deals seem to be backsliding from the 21st, this will pick up again in the Spring. Money and wishes clash on the 14th and 20th. The 24th and 28th bring fears up for a looksee but watch as you can knock ‘em down like skittles. And finally: Mercury’s uiiee heads from your 12th house of Meep! Into your 11th house of wishes. Information you’ve needed lands in the New Year.

Pisces
There’s been a sharp focus in your board room table of late. Now though, planets are starting to congregate in your 11th house of pow wowing, bunfights, and wishes. Just in time for the party season and New Year wishes. Hoorah fish! First up: you may need to make some changes to goalposts vz satisfying the others at the boardroom table on the 14th and 20th. In fact, the New Moon of the 16th will help you do just that. And on the 21st, there’s a cosmic shot to the arm as Jupiter and Neptune hook up again in your 12th house of Meep! Suddenly the things that have frightened you seem to be your friends after all, steering you towards a path of enlightenment. Mercury’s uuiiee means that you’ll be catching up with pals you haven’t seen for a while. But back at work in the New Year, there’ll be more negotiating to do in the boardroom until mid-January. Money woes land with a thud: 25th and 29th. Think about how the negotiating might help solve this…

This week

One of ‘Ducky’s favreeet sayings is, ‘Stand in your Truth’ as in face what’s what pertaining to yersen. Yes, mmmhmm, suh. Not easy but most definitely worthwhile… This week, when the Thing that Needs to be Faced pops up, back off at your peril. Under these skies only fools ignore the Big Kahuna that’s right under their nose, and they’ll pay by missing the lesson and carrying the memory of opportunity lost as a weight between their ears. This all happyhaps Monday – the same day that the Moon sleepy sleepy in Leo all day. What’s decided Monday won’t stick. Wait up ‘til Tuesday and with Facts Faced, action can begin by Thursday. At the weekend, curve ball miester, Uranus, has a trick in store. For where you should brace, brace for the unexpected see: No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement, below.

More next week, Tatty x

Astroducky is working on the 2010 ANNUAL FORECASTS this week. These are four-page previews for each star sign of when to move it, shake it, or lie down and take it easy during the next 12 months. Reports include a heads up for Eclipses, retrogrades, grey clouds, and sunshiny days. If you’ve got plans to hatch in 2010, this could be your besty friend. Ready to be emailed to you or your loved ones in time for Christmas. See more by clicking ORDER A 2010 FORECAST in the right hand column. Also ~ NEW ~ if you’d like a PERSONAL READING from Astroducky and want a deeper look at where you’re at, the way you’re facing, or what’s tripping you up and when it might end, get in touch. More info under Personal Readings in the right hand column.

Aries
When relationships reach a testing point it’s not comfortable but it is a convincing way to discover if they hold water, can survive under pressure, and have your besty best interests at heart. Right now you may feel that you’re at the beck and call of a close bizniz or lovin’ one-to-onesie and that your ability to shine is dampened somewhat by their needing to be fed/stroked/reined in on the hour every hour. If you can honestly and concisely name what it is You Need to feel self-actualised then now’s the time to lay that out with a diplomatic reasoned explanation of how lack of compromise is getting in the way. Have a plan of solution, rather than a plan of attack. That way if it all goes teets up you know that (a) you’re gonna get self-actualised anyway and (b) you’ve learned an important lesson in negotiation. Thursday, book yourself a holiday* with a lover or the kids and get some sun on your shoulders. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: * Foreign trips and future plans may go awry. This is another cosmic reminder that Going with the Flow can reduce blood pressure and hypertension.

Taurus
For you Bully Bull work and long-range/studying/foreign plans reach an Important Hurdle. Commitments to the office are no longer blowing your skirt up and while the make or break time might not land this very week, knowing that you will make that break will be clear as crystal now. The long-range/study/foreign plans come at a cost: intimacy, money, kids… Yet without satisfying your deep need for the long-range/study/foreign plans how ya gonna be the Real You who’s being In the Moment and is fully able to invest in the intimacy, money, kids once the shift is made? How can you ask from others what you cannot give to yersen? How is Not fulfilling your Full You setting a good example for others? Monday, watch for health niggles showing the stress you’re carrying – or even recognise the need to off-load the truth of those plans to a boss or authority figure. Across town: Thursday and home and money links look strong. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Friends and wishes throw a curve ball at your 8th house of oobah, oof, and letting go. It seems someone’s unexpectedly frisky or there are unexpected costs in the ledger to be sorted.

Gemini
Creative projects, squeezes, and chilun are high on your agenda and your commitment to them needs a change of tack… Not because they can’t work, but because you’re changing and there’s an old modus you need to chuck through the moving car window to make space for the New Look Airy Friend you’re becoming. Pluto is moving slowly through the important corridors of your Inner You, peeling off layers, and your deep desires are being revealed. As your ruler Mercury hooks up with him on Monday, you have the chance to name all your needs out loud, write them down, and know those needs are Real. Once done, you then need to work out a plan which can allow those needs to be met while not giving up on your responsibilities to creative projects, squeezes, and chilun. Get the festive bunfight out of the way first, then come mid-January the skies give you the perfect climate for review, including a re-jig of life at Gemini Towers. Thursday: A conflab with a one-to-onesie puts the wind beneath your sails. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: A change in the wind direction seems to put career stuff in an awkward place but may well reveal an alternative journey in the process.

Cancer
Home, family, and love-life are in the picture again, Crabsticks. Your heart’s deepest and darkest desires might be alarming you, but keeping those things to yourself only makes them grow bigger and scarier in the silence. Naming Your Truth to a one-to-onesie is persistently your trickiest challenge – the dread of showing your soft underbelly and risking rejection. However, the skies say you can do it! Pluto sez it’s time to let relationships change you. Saturn sez homelife and family commitments need negotiating to allow these relationship changes to happen. At the end of the month and into January, it’s re-negotiatin’ time with old lovers – or with current lovers and old issues. House moves are possible then. Thursday: Work brings payday. Woo hoo. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: At the weekend work is going well but there’s an unexpected opportunity for travel/study/metaphorical adventuring. Note it. Check it. Then make decisions in mid-January.

Leo
For you puddy tat, work and health news are not making you happy. It seems docs and boss figures have decisions and results that tell you what you already knew but didn’t want to hear. (Or you’re the boss and having to take action that doesn’t sit comfortably with you at all.) While that doesn’t bring much comfort now, forewarned is forearmed and the forthcoming Mercury retrograde (26 December – 16 January) brings you a cosmic opportunity to revise plans and revisit budgets so the money side of things is more in order. Thursday: and there’s joy and comfort with kids, squeezies, and potato painting efforts. Hoorah for funsies. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Uranus, currently making waves in your zone of oobah, big cash lettuce, and transformation clashes with your ruler the Sun. An unexpected advance from a squeeze or an unexpected request for a lump sum from the chilun may catch you behind the knees. And breath. Investing in art today is a no no. You’re mad as a March Hare with about as much long-term sense.

Virgo
For you the Saturn grapple with Pluto and Mercury is doing this: stirring your desires for self-expression and really letting your hair down but slapping your eager hand with a spreadsheet showing your financial bottom line. Self-expression includes creative biznizzes and hobbies, squeezies and procreating, and yup, some of these fabalas tings cost money, honey. There’s no way out of this so compromise and attitude will be all. For some Virgos this is a time to try and reduce working hours to free up time for this self-expression. For others it’s renegotiating the costs of creative plans and trimming corners where poss. Keeping Creativity in the mix is your Key to fulfillment. The money is simply a pain in dem aspic you have to negotiate. Thursday: Concerns about home and family life can be assuaged*. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Partners change their plans or change their minds about homelife. Remember Thursday’s shiny moment* and try to bring that back to the table. There’s solace in hearing the other side and doing the Right Thing.

Libra
Having Saturn hanging around your neck is no walk in the park, or at least is a very heavy-going and uncomfortable walk in the park. When he spars with Mercury and Pluto it’s a time for you to put your foot down vz The Way Things have been at home/with family and why Mr Nice Guy just became Mr Assertive Though Still Fair personage. Saturn is here to help you grow up, to prove yourself to you, to stand on your own two feet as you are today – not the three-year old family clown or the gauche teenager. Just as we break away in stages from our parents as toddlers and then as teenagers, so we need to keep re-evaluating who we are in the here and now, continuing the pursuance of Being an Individual. You have diplomacy in spades so you can make housey changes without the need for bloody noses. Chest out, make it count. Thursday: party time with bros and sisses. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: News about changes at work catches you off guard. Talk it over with lovers or the chilun.

Scorpio
Saturn in your 12th house of Meep! is a two-year background process of clearing the karmic decks so you can launch yersen anew. The triggers to remind you to scrub your own inner poop-deck come when he makes tricky angles to other planets, as he’s doing righta now. The pressure concerns bros and sisses, your sense of community, and your ability to communicate. Difficult discussions may arise now with siblings – not because they’re not utterly lovely but because we’re always negotiating our pecking order within a family and it may be that something needs to shift as you grow up and develop away from the family mores. Similarly, where you feel at home may be changing too and news of changes around your turf may chuck out a re-think. What may be helpful now is off-loading the weight of your thoughts with a friend. Change can be a beautiful boat ride, but is so much happier with a friendly skipper nearby. Thursday: it seems the boardroom likey you and wanna give you some cash money lettuce. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: A lover’s change of mind or a creative/chilun-centred plan bring added expenses. Entertain at home instead.

Sagittarius
Your commitment to pursuing those long-held dreams of yours reaches a financial reality check early this week. News says it’s going to take a lot of money, and while you like to remain free to manoeuvre, the commitment may mean stopping still for a while especially if you know that money can be relied on: yes it’s that dern ‘slowly, slowly catchy monkey [yawn]’ approach which can drive you to tears but that makes sense in the long run. While this news may dull your Sagittarian travels atop your camel or sailing the ocean waves, the Sun and Venus are bringing you charm and friendship and that goes a long way to easing a heavy heart. Thursday: connections abroad make your smile widen. There’s support for the journey, hoorah! No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Family members or home-life changes direction again at the weekend driving you to distraction. Money’s at the heart of it. Negotiate rather than firing arrows.

Capricorn
While you’re pooped and wanting to take it easy and mind your own bidniz, it seems boss figures want a word in your shell-like. Something you’ve said or done seems to have ruffled their feathers and they want reassurance that you’re not out to upset the applecart - and that you can be relied upon to do their bidding. Control’s control. It’s not a nice bizniz to have to negotiate and right now you’re not in the mood to be dancing to anyone’s tune but your own. Word to the wise, Goat: look at the shiny horizon then give the harbour master what he wants. It’s worth it. Humility will get you all sorts of places right now. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Watch out for speaking out of turn or not saying what you mean exactly at the weekend, or saying something just to be dramatic and blunderbusesque. Uranus has your tongue and as he strikes, your sense of reason is dozing in a hay barn. Yikes. Engage brain and then speak. And if you can’t engage brain, say nada. Comprendo?

Aquarius
Pluto rolling through your 12th house of Meep! is a process of facing your fears and worries - and inner nagging doubter - so you can knock those fears down like skittles. When he squares off to po-faced Saturn, as he does on Monday, you’re ‘blessed’ with a breakthrough moment: the shiny future, study or travel plans that you’ve been putting off because you were afraid become so Big and IMPORTANT that you can't help but have to knock fears over to get at 'em. Do you see how magical this is? This is a week to get out of your comfort zone vz your study/foreign or long-range plans and KNOW that you’ve taken a leap into a braver future. Huzzah, Inventive One. Thursday: friends/wishes and partnerships are starred. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: Unexpected curveballs for you say money and wishes need negotiating. Trust your gut feelings, Jupiter and Neptune are on side.

Pisces
For you money and friends/wishes are the sticky wicket. Money has been feeling tighter since October and your desire to socialise and spend lavishly over Christmas is a no-can-do and it’s getting you down. Under these skies you need to revisit holiday plans and your share of the bills and you no likey. What feels like a Catch 22 on Monday is a sort of Catch 22 but there are small corridors and hatches to help you release the pressure. Thursday there’s money around for work done and that gives you a leetle pep up. What's more hurdles with friends and wishes are up for negotiation through until mid-February so keep the door open. The money headache will lighten Fish, but you’re entering a long-haul transit and the reality checks about cash lettuce will feel irksome while the transit beds in. No-one expects the Spanish inside leg measurement: You’re knee-jerking about what you really want and upsetting the apple cart as you do. Things aren’t as bad as they seem.