January Horoscopes

Astrology of January
Current Configurations
Past Months

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

January 2011

Current Astrology

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

January Horoscopes

by Henry Seltzer

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

This is an active month for you, Taurus, as suddenly everything seems possible. A new you is emerging from the cocoon of your winter slumber. You are transitioning out of a contemplative end-of-year period with bells on and with only some small degree of trepidation. As you imagine a better future for yourself and seek to transform your beliefs to match your inner knowing, your old order is rapidly changing. Travel plans might still be on the front burner but these too are swiftly evolving. There is plenty of excitement and no room for doubt; you are getting another take on where you are actually heading with your life right now and it's no place where you have ever been before.

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As the month begins, you are finding new ways to be in the world. Inspiration comes to you in many forms. There is a compassionate presence to your public statement such that your own internal world is revealed to you even as you pursue outer world achievement. Others in your life are important to you now, both as a source of information and to serve as natural corrective guideposts for your own process of discovery. You are pulled in at least two directions at once during this crucial start to the New Year. One is toward more solid and real-world service to the ordinary levels of existence and of the collective life that surrounds you, while the other is to be further out there than you ever before imagined and to take a flyer on new and different explorations for yourself that involve inner rather than outer priorities. The Solar Eclipse and New Moon comes in the early morning hours of Tuesday, January 4th, and marks a high point of these quandaries, since both modes of being are fully actualized by powerful planetary energies. You are drawn to express yourself in all the varied ways that you possess inside yourself, and to move forward with the ongoing transformation of your perspective, while something also seems to be holding you back and reasserting your connection with the here and now of real-world events. It is important to honor both. Just as, in an analogy, both your mind and your body must be honored, so too must you honor the physical plane as well as the misty and nebulous other-worldly dimensionality of that which is beyond the physical and even beyond your more ordinary conscious thought process. The First Quarter Moon of Wednesday, January 12th, represents a moment of tension in this clash of opposing priorities, and marks a time when the unseen world predominates over the mundane one. You are deep into your process now and seeing the risks and drawbacks as well as the beauty of it. But your courage is also high to push the envelope of your exploration and to achieve your most optimistic goal yet in these far-flung areas of experience. With the weekend that follows your higher mind activity reaches a peak. The pull of the potential cosmic outcome overtakes you so that you might reach escape velocity. In one way, resistance is futile, but in another way it is also necessary, as you must ground your experience in the known past as well as the untried future. With the Full Moon of Wednesday, January 19th, a balance is struck and you enter a period of greater peace regarding the arc of your development over this climactic monthly cycle. Over the last ten days of the month, real-world concerns once more take precedence. Your journey is immeasurably enriched by your continuing sojourn amongst the cosmic spaces behind and beyond your conscious mind.