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 Aquarius
	The Quarter Moon is in TaurusThe First Quarter Moon is in Taurus: All day
	Next Mercury Retrograde Apr 21 - May 14

January Horoscopes

by Henry Seltzer

Taurus Horoscope (April 20 - May 20)
Fixed Earth. Your ruling planet is Venus.

You are riding high this month, Taurus, surfing a wave of thought that takes you out of one distinct phase and into another. Dreaming large comes easily to you these days, but by month's end you will be ready to turn ideas into action. During this first half of January, and leading up to the Solar Eclipse of the 15th, which will more or less knock your socks off, you must be content to take it all in, foreign perspectives as well as your own native brand, as grist for your mill of transformation. Everything has its season and its time and yours is fast approaching.

As the month begins, you are exploring your relationship to the divine in yourself and in others. Of course this amounts to a life-long experiment in growth and self-knowledge, but lately it has been more of a focus for you. Over this end-of-the-year period there has been a call to higher-mind pursuits that speak to you more clearly than any other aspect of your existence. You have been swimming against the current lately, entering into an undersea world of your own making. You are discovering some hidden part of yourself in the course of this month's voyages, and with that discovery, new perspectives dawn; and that changes everything. The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, January 7th, brings relationship ideas to the fore, possibly with a sense of conflict between the partners where adjustment on one side or the other, or on both, proves necessary. If you have been doing your homework properly you have much to gain from this last week of the lunation, since you are taking in all in, everything that has taken place between mid-December and now, as grist for your mill of transformation. Then the Solar Eclipse in your sector of higher mind, taking place late Thursday or early Friday, January 15th, brings new perspectives yet again to bear on your situation. You are wide open at this time to the gods of change, you really just can't help it. And they are ready and able and even willing to assist you to wind closer to the finish line within your heart, but only to the extent that you are able to make at least the slightest move toward them. Rapidfire epiphany is possible. It may be that what it has taken months and even years out of your life to begin to budge is suddenly gone in an instant, or at least partly vanishing in fits and starts. There are old tapes and residues of woundings from your ancient past that have been coming to the surface of your consciousness over these past six weeks or so, and that have really been dysfunctional habit patterns that you were more than ready to outgrow for far longer than that, that are yielding to the new gaze that you are now able to direct toward them. The first step is awareness, and it needs to be no more than that, just a simple recognition of "there you go again." The other steps will follow in due course as long as you keep your vision lifted to the highest and your mind open to the wonder. This all takes plenty of faith in the universe to sustain you in spite of everything but that is exactly what you are cultivating these days. With the First Quarter Moon of the following week on Saturday, January 23rd, you are ready to make a shift. You will likely spend the last week of the month exploring the possibilities of what has come to you over the first two. By the Full Moon that nearly ends it, taking place on Friday, January 29th, you are finding a better balance of idea and action.