January Horoscopes

Astrology of January
Current Configurations
Past Months

Aries	Libra
Taurus	Scorpio
Gemini	Sagittarius
Cancer	Capricorn
Leo	Aquarius
Virgo	Pisces

January 2010

Current Astrology

	The Sun is in Gemini
	The Quarter Moon is in LibraThe First Quarter Moon is in Libra: All day
	Next Mercury Retrograde Aug 23 - Sep 15

January Horoscopes

by Henry Seltzer

Cancer Horoscope (June 21 - July 22)
Cardinal Water. Your ruling planet is The Moon.

This is a very special month and year for you, Cancer. Although you are famous for being nurturing, like everyone else you sometimes have trouble compromising with a partner, preferring to remain wholly in the driver's seat. This and other factors in the way that you do relationship with significant others could radically change over the course of 2010. You are coming into a new understanding of what partnership can provide for you starting on the very eve of this month and year with the powerful December 31st Lunar Eclipse in your sign. Strictures and limitations on the home front could constrain you into reluctantly accepting the medicine that turns out to be just right for you. What a surprise!

As the month begins, you are roiling in the wake of the New Years Eve eclipse, or else surfing it. This month continues the saga of home and family concerns coming to the forefront, and this recent configuration in particular might serve to highlight these factors. Relationship with others comes to the fore in a multiplicity of ways, not least of course the connection with significant partners in your life. You have been growing, slowly, in this area, accepting new stability and accountability. It may be that in taking on new responsibilities you feel the restriction implied, the closure into family space that greater interdependence can represent. It might also be that your feeling for family life is a transforming landscape under the influence of the changes that are wrought in the partnership connection. In any case it is likely that something is surely shifting, and that feelings regarding your independence are subsuming themselves into a matrix formed by reliance and connection with others. It's not that you are losing yourself however; in the highest possible manifestation of these trends you are gaining perspective on your life in a way that enhances both polarities of togetherness and individuality. The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, January 7th, could signal a time of increased tension in your process of resolving and balancing these issues. This is traditionally a time of increasing understanding regarding your current stage of development, as additional insights emerge based on the experiences of the past three weeks, including the end-of-year holiday period. Then, a week later, the Solar Eclipse in your opposite sign taking place late Thursday or early Friday morning, January 15th, is powerful for you and encourages you to make a fresh start in matters of relationship and partnership interaction. Mercury is still retrograde, although turning to direct motion this same day, and you might be rethinking all your priorities, with a spiritual component in mind. You are looking deeply into the well-springs of your life and as you do, the concept of home and family emerges as a center post for all that you say and do, individually as well as jointly with significant partners. Resistance is natural at this time, since the needs of pure ego are also strong in you and must be given their due; but in the end an amalgam of individual and group or family needs is not only possible but even necessary. There is a tremendous amount of idealization that is also potentially present in your thoughts and feelings at this time, with the accompanying danger of succumbing naïve illusion. The final two weeks of this month, punctuated by the First Quarter Moon of Saturday, January 23rd, represent a working out of these ideas in practical terms; a gradual sense of adjustment. Your priorities for the future are beginning to shift as well. A new and essentially positive viewpoint is coming into focus, as you are aware in your very depths, and there will be corresponding course corrections. By month's end you are coming to a better balance of self and other that takes everyone else in your life more firmly into account, in a new sense of integration.