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

Scorpio Horoscope (October 23 - November 21)
Fixed Water. Your ruling planets are Mars and Pluto.

Sometimes less is more, Scorpio. This is definitely a confusing period of time all through the turning of the year, with Neptune highlighted in your home sector and with your ruler Mars running backwards. You have been sorting out security needs as your get up and go has gotten up and left and your work situation has gone into hibernation. What you do have at this time, and this is vitally important, is plenty of opportunity for reflection and for getting a better handle on where you are ultimately headed. This all starts to make more sense by the end of the month, when you will have a terrific chance to integrate inner and outer, in thought, word and deed.

As the month begins, you are feeling the retrograde of your ruler Mars through your career sector. Coupled with the ongoing Mercury retrograde period, this implies that you are in the midst of a time period which is more inwardly than outwardly directed. This can be a very interesting time of reflection. The interplay of ideas and idealized vision yield rich rewards that are not strictly material or even event-oriented, but have their currency in terms of awareness and re-orientation of considered motivation. Your communication with others is primary now, and reflects these deeper thoughts more than your outer surface existence, so that your conversation modality might almost feel entirely shut down. When you do speak it will be with serious purpose. This is obviously an excellent time to journal about new insights and to meditate on the direction your life is currently taking. There is a spiritual or unworldly feel to these ruminations, emphasized at the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, January 7th. This is a time when you might find some degree of tension in your process of awareness and growth, and when the realizations begin to really pile up. Then the Solar Eclipse of the following weekend, taking place on late Thursday and early Friday, January 15th, represents a time of transformation and an significant fresh start on seeing your way through to the bottom of your immediate concerns in a manner that involves others in your life as well as yourself. You are seeking a complex integration, whereby your own growth is enhanced rather than stifled by the presence of active partnership with others. Siblings and your circle of close friends could also become important at this time, as signposts of where you have been and where you are likely to be going, and as co-creators of your journey toward wholeness. Over the days that follow you will find yourself breaking out of existing boxes, and also honoring the necessity of some form of limitation at a more profound level. There is an idealistic conception deep within you that has been going on for weeks now centered on home and family as one focus of a solution. You have perhaps been recently sorting through conceptions of the past for their fit to the present, rearranging your thinking on which of your day-to-day habit patterns to take with you into the developing concept of your future and what to discard as no longer productive. The First Quarter Moon that comes along a week later, on Saturday, January 23rd, symbolizes important new directions in the area of home and family concerns, as you continue to shape the idea of exactly what part of your vision for connection is truly viable. With the Full Moon of Friday the 29th you are attempting an integration and a grand design for the future that takes self and other, as well as private and public works, into account.