In the last few days of 2016, the stage is set for the New
Year. On Thursday December 29th
there is a New Moon in stable, sturdy Capricorn. Please take time on this day and over New
Year’s weekend to handwrite your list of intentions for the month and year to
come. With FOUR planets packed tightly
together in practical Capricorn, it is truly a golden opportunity to draw plans
for the future.
Capricorn is the
ultimate building tool. An earth energy,
closer to granite, bedrock rather than rich fertile soil – say like Taurus,
Capricorn enables us to set in stone a solid foundation upon which to forge
ahead. So cast your hopes and dreams with all of the realism and pragmatism
this sign affords. The New Moon occurs the same day that Radical Uranus turns
direct motion giving us huge motivation
to activate our life.
Change is the
only constant in life and Uranus IS the
change agent. Just when you think you
are settled into a routine, whoops! Uranus unleashes surprise. It can be big and volatile, wildly romantic,
small and irritating. But it happens to
all of us in some regard. This week, my
gym changed all of the equipment… just after I mastered a fitness routine. A first
world problem to be sure but annoying for one who struggles to exercise. Whatever situation you find yourself in,
Uranus’ shift in motion assures unsettling events. So hold on and breathe!
It is a good thing then when just after the New Year, Venus
enters dreamy Pisces where she is treated like an honored guest, a VIP and in turns
encourages us to be generous and kind.
This deepest of water signs brings out the best of Venus, her cherished
goddess qualities, endlessly selfless and giving. Here she offers great hope to the start of
2017. Venus will be in Pisces for the
entire month of January, too, joining the lunar south node, Neptune, Mars and
Chiron, endowing each of us with extra special love, inspiration, care and
healing. She bears abundant peace in
Pisces, has a rather Mother Theresa-like quality that significantly softens all
of our relationships and finds us to be more charitable with money and spirit
with which we approach situations and people.
Capricorn the architect compliments visionary Pisces so
well, offering us tremendous potential
for 2017. The dreamer (pisces) and the builder
(Capricorn). The energy is
literally: if you dream and build it, they will come. Given the immense divide politically and
socio-economically in the United States (also globally), having four planets in
mystic Pisces at the outset of the year enables us to envision and dream about
the kind of world we want to create. Our
vision starts with our own individual lives, then building that solid Capricorn
New Moon foundation. What do you hope to
accomplish by this time in 2018?
Remember to set reasonable, manageable goals or choose a few
large goals with attainable sub-set goals to give yourself some self-esteem as
you knock off the to do list. Try not to
bite off more than you can chew especially if you are working toward one or two
big goals. Knock off the smaller tasks
bit by bit. Want to clean up your
finances? Cut up the credit cards first
then pay down the monthly debt one chunk at a time. Kick unhealthy habits and embrace new ones. A helpful fact is: it takes 60 days straight to firmly implant a
new habit, pattern or routine. You can do it! Yes you can!
The caution with Pisces (and the heavy focus of 4 planets in
this sign) is that it likes to press the escape valve when the going gets
tough…and even when the going is smooth sailing. Definitely watch your drug and alcohol intake
on New Year’s Eve and all month long. If
you do need an escape, choose healthy outlets – walks in nature, meditation,
exercise, giving to others (random charitable acts of time and money), enjoy
music especially live or playing an instrument, journaling and all artistic
forms of self-expression.
The on-going and continuing challenge leftover from 2016 is
a hard angle between Jupiter in Libra vs. Pluto in Capricorn vs. Uranus in
Aries. Wherever these three fall in
your chart you feel called to action, to press forward and tend to
business. Jupiter in Libra endows us
with immense grace, dignity and relatability.
We want to interact with
others and change our relationship to ourselves. Pluto in Capricorn transforms some
foundational aspect of our lives…something we always counted on as a
bedrock. While Uranus in Aries pushes us
to break out, break down barriers to what no longer serves us – to be the
warrior and pioneer of our own lives.
To say this troika is highly catalytic, even volatile, is an
understatement. It is as combustible as
it is galvanizing; and prompts much of the global unrest we now witness. When the Sun joins Pluto on January 7-8
adding our will to the existing energy, some may feel they are on a mission,
that their purpose is of vital importance.
So it is essential for us to remember that there are always, always, ALWAYS positive and productive
uses of energy. Please focus your intentions
and plans for any endeavor or relationship in the spirit of peace and love
rather than power, might or revenge.
Keep close to your mind the words of Jimi Hendrix: “when the power of love overcomes the love of
power, the world will know peace.”
Also on January 8th, Messenger Mercury turns
direct motion. The wheels of life start
churning forward again and do we. Sign
those contracts and move ahead with major purchases. The Pluto-Sun alliance challenge to Jupiter
and Uranus are still in place leading into the Full Moon on January 12 so you
may feel your personal mission take on a new, heightened dimensions. Just
think before speaking or acting. Our
sense of purpose is even more accentuated by Mercury at the final degree of
Sagittarius on the day of the Full Moon.
We may feel the need to fight for our individual philosophies, truths
and beliefs; some may be filled with religious zeal to fight for a particular reason (Isis terrorists, Christian Evangelicals, etc); some may feel their own truths
are at stake against a larger, uncaring/thinking/non-believing collective. Are
they?
Stand back from your personal emotional fray and assess
objectively.
If you have a message to deliver or stake to claim, speak up
now on your own behalf or for those who aren’t able to speak for themselves. Speak your truth. Just remember, there are many truths and
realities, not just your own. You have the
spotlight on you between January 10-13, so review the content of your message
thoroughly.
We gain huge help at the Full Moon with Venus’ annual
conjunction to Neptune, now in Pisces.
Talk about the possibilities for universal peace, love and harmony. WOW. This is it! This duo really inspires us to cast the
widest net ever to be inclusive, sharing and generous in the greatest interest
of mankind. In short, it really softens
the Jupiter-Pluto-Uranus struggle and strife, to channel the energy for the
greater (and greatest) good.
Venus-Neptune lends a saintly and angelic quality to this Full Moon, and
boy, our world sure can use it. Ask how
you may best be an extension of love for yourself and fellow man?
The grace and harmony of Venus-Neptune stays with us the
following week while Motivating Mars joins healer Chiron in Pisces. This latter pair affords an extra added
healing capacity. What wounds in your
life need gentle tending? If you do find
yourself on a mission, let it be one of healing, purposeful well-being for
yourself, others, our planet Mother Earth.
Be vulnerable. It is OK. Let your vulnerabilities show. You too
guys. You do not have to know/be/do
everything all of the time.
By January's third week, Mercury has re-entered Capricorn
post-retrograde, structuring our thoughts and words in to a cohesive
whole. So you want to lose weight, find
a new job, relationship, help your fellow man?
Messenger Mercury says let’s make a step-by-step plan. On the 20th, the Sun enters
Aquarius ushering a changing of the guard.
Aquarius is ruled by Uranus, the radical, inventive and altogether
different planet. In the United States
and globally, we feel this energy and how.
Mr. Trump is due to be inaugurated on this day and the whole world
watches to see how drastic a landscape (politically, economically and socially)
he will initiate. Aquarius is about
humanity and human interests. It asks,
what is possible and best for the ordinary Joe comprising the vast majority of
the populace? Let’s hope and pray to
heal the enormous gulfs and divides separating us.
Refine and redefine your intentions on the New Moon, Friday,
January 27th. This date finds
Motivating Mars at the final degree of Pisces, inciting extra strength to our
dreams and desires for the future. The
very next day Mars enters fiery Aries, sparking us into action. Carry out those dreams with thoughtful effort
through connected relationships that form a generous, healing, welcoming world.
Of Special Note:
A huge note of gratitude to ALL of my loyal blog readers! I am so very pleased to share that my blog message is now read each month by over 7,000 people globally. The expanded following is due in large part to my new website www.hilaryharley.com created by Robin Agricola of Birdhouse marketing: www.birdhousemarketing.com. Thank you for your continued interest in my work!
Of Special Note:
A huge note of gratitude to ALL of my loyal blog readers! I am so very pleased to share that my blog message is now read each month by over 7,000 people globally. The expanded following is due in large part to my new website www.hilaryharley.com created by Robin Agricola of Birdhouse marketing: www.birdhousemarketing.com. Thank you for your continued interest in my work!
