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

Leo Horoscope (July 23 - August 22)
Fixed Fire. Your ruling planet is The Sun.

This New Year is not all fun and frolic as much as you would like it to be, Leo. Through the uncertainties of this turning you are reinventing yourself yet again, and somewhat closer to your soul's desire. This begins with your work in the world, and the extent to which it matches what you might consider your true calling, and crystallizes into a serious commitment. By the end of this month's journey you will find yourself enjoying relationship with significant others in your life in an entirely new way that embraces soul-level purpose and deliberate speech as added factors. Partners in your life are helpful to you right now because they serve as a vital projection point for everything that you aspire to in your heart of hearts.

As the month begins, you are rethinking your priorities as is always appropriate for this time of year, now made even more so by the retrograde of Mercury through your sector of discipleship to your higher self. Mars is also retrograde in your identity sector, throughout this month and next, so that things are slowed down for you in more ways than one. Since the retrograde period is better for reflection and introspection than it is for direct action, it might be best to wait to make any sudden moves, but your aims and your concrete plans for the future are likely to be shifting. You are feeling a call to be of direct service to others at this time, and also to take an idealized view of partners that you have right now more firmly into account as you do so. Collaboration is your strong suit at this time. The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, January 7th, might introduce a moment of tension into your process of growth and change, particularly with regard to balancing individual with partnership efforts as you act creatively in career or some other form of outer achievement. You are engaged at this time in a summing up of what has gone before, over the past weeks of transition into this new year and decade, and sorting out the positive factors. With the Solar Eclipse that comes along a week later, taking place late Thursday or early Friday, January 15th, you are ready to make a fresh start in terms of higher purpose, or at least to begin thinking about your life in a new way. The question might come up at this time of what is your life purpose, really? Does it involve pure pursuit of pleasure or is something more fundamental involved, a sense of mission? The thought might also come that career is not necessarily in lock-step with financial concerns. There is an emerging sense within you of true vocation, something that you know that you love to do for the very sake of it, and which moves the world a little further along in its spiritual development because of your high regard for it. What the world needs is to be inhabited by spiritually alive human beings, so that you support its goals when you fully give yourself to whatever is alive in you. These thoughts represent the core of your ruminations at this time, as you ponder your life direction. This continues over the last two weeks of the month, punctuated by the First Quarter Moon of Saturday the 23rd. At this time you might find that partners come more fully into the picture, a joyful complication that could also produce creative sparks for your process of increasing understanding. With the Full Moon of Friday, January 29th, you are more able to integrate partnership and individual contribution into a greater harmony.