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

Virgo Horoscope (August 23 - September 22)
Mutable Earth. Your ruling planet is Mercury.

The holidays are over but your winter metamorphosis is still in full swing, Virgo. For you this is still a season of dreams and a season of sharing. You are participating in a multi-level series of deep inner transformations that began last month with the December 10th retrograde of your ruler Mercury in your creativity sector. You have been intensely watching all your reactions ever since, hoping to find the gold ring amidst the clutter and the misinformation of life. You are stalled for the moment in financial blossoming, awaiting the springtime. Your mystical moment of redemption comes then, and the payoff for your self-reflection also. You must wait for many weeks yet you are making an all-important start this month.

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As the month begins, you are feeling like the center of the entire stage, and it might be an unusual place for you to be, a place that you feel you do not fully belong. Things have been happening for you in a way that startles, enlightens and amazes, even in the midst of day-to-day concerns. This is in areas such as relationship or perhaps health issues that have come up, They have had you thinking carefully about your life over the recent end-of-year period. At times it might seem as though your identity was up fro grabs and you didn't even know who you really are. In many ways this uncertainty is appropriate because you have been and still are in chrysalis – the butterfly has yet to emerge. The Solar Eclipse and New Moon of Tuesday, January 4th, is an important focus of this month's early time period, and around that day you might feel these issues even more intensely. You have lots of help at this time from partners who support you even as they differ from your own perspective, and the courage of your convictions to move you forward into your next phase. Something seems to restrict you as well, and you also might feel the need to explore painful places inside you more fully, and this could slow you down. In this regard it is important to carefully sort out the truth of any feelings of lack versus the illusion of suffering with no actual cause, although both are possible. With the First Quarter Moon of Wednesday, January 12th, your situation might seem to come to a head of some kind, as crucial difficulty arises that must be resolved in order that you make it to the next square. You have a feisty energy now and do well to put it to the best possible use, rather than squandering it on disputes or trifles, by engaging it to face directly whatever fear holds you back. The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Wednesday, January 19th, allows you to swim past the barriers into calmer water. For one thing your ruler Mercury is out if its retrograde shadow and you can see your path ahead more clearly. You might feel like you have come through something big, even just over the weekend of the 15th and especially when you take into account the entire arc of your development since December. You have reached a culminating moment and are on the verge of a new and important beginning. The rest of the month is spent in putting yourself forward in a novel way, and in meditating on where you have been and where you have yet to travel.