The week starts with the Moon in Scorpio being purged in the South Node. This is draining energy. Energy is more geared to the inside dark watery realm of raw existence. With the diminishing light of the Moon, we are talking more about letting go than starting things anew. Monday and Tuesday are perfect days to detox. However, be aware that laxatives or purgatives are doubly effective under such configurations.
In the first two days of the week, set your intention to close whatever chapter you are being called to flush down. This will amplify the effect of the events happening this week.
On the 18th of January 2023, Mercury in Capricorn puts his vision quest hat down. He straps his boots, grabs his accountant books and prepares to move forward for the last time in Capricorn with Pluto in the same house. Just an hour afterwards, Sun in Capricorn enters Pluto’s gates of metamorphosis. This is the penultimate encounter of the Sun with Pluto in Capricorn.
That 8-degree of Capricorn holds potential for more stories to be enchanted this year. Mercury will be there again in January 2024 when Pluto crosses again to Aquarius, but this time for good.
Look out for atom-sized but potentially crucial changes in the skeletal framework of your life and the society around you. Some need to look with dark field microscopy. What is crumbling down holds the fermenting hummus of that will become. Choose your foundations well.
On the 20th of January 2023, Sun awkwardly enters Aquarius, where he finds the landlord, Saturn, in a scientific convention with Venus. As much as the terrain looks and feels desolate, we are invited to look beyond and afar. Call unto you those energies that you would like to manifest.
This is further magnified by the Dark Moon in Aquarius at 01 degrees, forming a telepathic link to the Great Conjunction in Aquarius of Jupiter and Saturn on the Solstice of 2020. We all remember very well what was happening. Those days changed the world, justice, human rights, and the health of many for generations to come. Looking at the future, what do we want to consolidate in this evolving epoch?
The landlord of this lunation, Saturn, is waiting for Venus to come to his council the following day at 24 Aquarius. Out of duty, Saturn gives what she asks. It is the gift of finding grace even under harsh conditions.
This Venus-Saturn concordat of forethoughtful grace will have consequences on other negotiations taking place at the same time.
In the other house of Saturn, Capricorn, Mercury, hands down his commendable vision quest knowledge to the Lunar Nodes in Taurus and Scorpio. They will weave and churn it through time. On the other hand, in Venus’ house of Taurus, Uranus decides it is time to ramp up Chaos and break through the tight-fisted control of Saturn.
The following horoscopes are read best using your Ascendant sign, the helmsman of your whole life. If you were born by day, also check the Sun; if by night, the Moon. Generally, the Sun represents where consciously we are shedding light and the Moon how we react emotionally to the situation. (If you need to calculate your Ascendant, click here.)
Aries:
Since 2008 your work has slowly transmuted itself several times, prompting soul-deep questions. This week brings with it some new insights on this long journey. Pay attention to groups and alliances. They can offer help and support both for your career and investments. You need only to stop and listen.
Taurus:
That ongoing wave of change takes a new resurgence. Remember the bulldozer driving lessons? This week you get some instruction manual. Read carefully between the lines. Hidden in the grammatical structure are formulas for secret knowledge. How would you like to reconcile all this in your professional life?
Gemini:
Finally, some paperwork regarding wills or other people’s money becomes less problematic. The fact of inheriting assets from others or the anxiety you have been through has changed your long-term vision of life. An extended period of your life is evolving towards its end whilst another is calling from the future.
Cancer:
Look at the power play in your relationships. What you think you owe to others and others owe you should be fair and in the right relationship. Are you? Are they? Look at the power play in your dealings, whatever nature they are. Are you willing to carry it on?
Leo:
Pay attention to the structure of your daily life. How many things do you do out of a sense of duty that must change? Go behind the scenes in the shadows. How is this required redesign remodelling you, your health, and your partnerships? Minuscule shifts go a long way.
Virgo:
You hate it when you can’t understand how things work, and you can’t fix it. Some life mysteries will be revealed in the most mundane ways. True, not actually how you thought Aha moments would reveal themselves, but then they would not be so if you just knew how they would.
Libra:
Integrity as an expression of the lightness of being has always been your creative fulcrum. You are given a chance to engage with this way of living, giving it a renewed dedication that will unfold in the future, catalysing your home, career front, and money from others.
Scorpio:
You are used to thinking pragmatically. However, you have been forced to reformulate word construction in all its forms in this last period. This week something in your mind will emerge from the shadows, prompted by meaningful and lasting events in your house, your partners and or messages received.
Sagittarius:
Finances and assets have been having a long overhaul. This week you will receive news that can foreshadow a fair compromise that will evolve during this year. Work on the long-term game. Finally, something gets unlocked in your health sector; however, you need to sustain it.
Capricorn:
Crevices become strongholds that hold more power than you think. The steps you take now will influence your life for the coming year. Pat yourself on your shoulder. Finally, some hard-earned stimulus gives you the unexpected possible you enjoy life more and probably non the way you envisioned.
Aquarius:
You have passed an exam and travelled over an ice-thin threshold. It comes in the likeness of a pictogram shimmering from the occult realms. You were given an initiation, which brings together a long history in a bizarre manner that now becomes your bedrock.
Pisces:
At last, a part of your life breaks free, and you feel back in the flow. Pay attention to where this flow is taking you. Dreams carry weight but also a refined, sustained mental freshness. You will see their vibrantly sensual echoes in your daily thoughts and communications with others.
Wishing you health, joy and prosperity,
Hilary
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