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

Gemini Horoscope (May 21 - June 20)
Mutable Air. Your ruling planet is Mercury.

This has been a slow turning of the year for you, Gemini, with plenty of chances for a thoughtful time to relax and to think over where you are truly headed. By the second half of the month your fallow period is nearly over, fading with the retrograde of your ruler, Mercury, and along with the mid-month Solar Eclipse comes a mandate for action. This won't be change fast and furious, but instead there could be a gradual easing in, as you feel the shift inside. Your ideals will guide you into the exactly correct place for you to be. The collected walls of the past start to break down like the river ice when spring begins to bend it, slowly at first and with true compassion for what has been.

As the month begins, you are feeling the quiet of this season even more strongly than usual. This is a slow span of time for you with your ruler Mercury retrograde and Mars as well, especially since they aspect each other as the retrograde really begins to take hold, right around the first. You can use this period most wisely in terms of assessing life direction. Something is shifting deep underground in your psyche, has been for at least a year, and the time has come to pay serious attention. Issues of intimacy are also up for you at this time, and contribute to your feelings with regard to your own personal development. There is a way that intimacy with significant others succeeds in a different way once you begin to get more clear regarding your own issues. The Last Quarter Moon of January 7th is a time of relative tension in your process, and may serve to punctuate these feelings and to reinforce certain aspects of them. This is a time when realizations dawn and when also there may be additional conflicts that you experience between being there for others and existing for yourself and yourself alone. You could feel a growing sense of isolation at this time, but this can morph into a positive attitude of independence that helps rather than hinders your evolving relationship modality. The Solar Eclipse and New Moon of Friday, January 15th, represents both a culmination of developments in the first two weeks of the month and a striking off into new territory that nonetheless parallels the themes that have engaged you as you worked through these issues from the previous lunar cycle. This is a time when you are gathering up the received intelligence of your bones, the wisdom of the cells of your body itself, to make the case for vital reform that was already underway but that has potentially been side-tracked. You will store up the energy of this current month and use it as a springboard over the next several weeks, so that you may well look back at this mid-month period as the time when everything truly changed. The issues that are included in your current mix of transformational possibilities include staying as independent and creative as you can while still remaining in connection with others, communicating from your heart, and at times with silence, when you feel inside yourself that nothing constructive can be said in words. There is the distinct possibility that you are taking Spirit more fully into account as you go through your daily round of activity. The First Quarter Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Saturday, January 23rd, represents a time of further testing and trial, when also you will experience a shift in the psychic weather that surrounds you now. Although still struggling somewhat to fully understand what you have been going through and what are still in the midst of, you are in the process of coming out of the woods, emerging into the light of a new day. All this work leads to better integration and even breakthrough by the time that the end of the month is reached.