Sign by Sign in 2010

Happy New Year one and all! Here are some short thoughts of mine on how the 2010 astrology will effect each sign. For a more detailed account of how the eclipses, the cardinal T-square, Jupiter changing signs or Pluto in Capricorn can work with your love life, family, school, work or heath, write to me, deirdre@cosmicguidelines.com, to set up a reading for you.

ARIES: Emotional stability colors your life, stabalizing your lightening impulses. Working with a partner may feel blocked, but with patience, the results can be real and long lasting.
TAURUS: Good friends are here to help - lots of them, too. You can achieve your goals this year, make sure to remember them often. A stricter diet of the healthiest foods could make you happier than you may imagine.
GEMINI: More people will know your work, your reputation and you, too. This is a year to work internationally, all across the globe - big. The more you honor your creativity as a strict discipline, the greater success in life and love you will have.
CANCER: Although you love your home, this is a great year to go far outside your comfort zone either in the world or your mind, find adventure and bring it home to rest. Relating to people has been intense; rising above unnecessary ego conflicts will keep the power in your hands.
LEO: The new year may be starting out on humble footing compared to your dreams. This year you can expand financially, carefully. Invest with others for others and by others.
VIRGO: Whereas you normally take up the slack for others, this is the year others can take up the slack for you, should you accept the offer — but please do! Investing as a group may catch you at your most innovative and genius moments. While your income may seem small, let its steadiness give you peace of mind.
LIBRA: You're at the helm, Libra, getting more done in a day than you have imagined in years. The more responsibility you take on, the better you will feel.
SCORPIO: It's been a lot of work, and you have built an exciting, solid and healing home base. Now here's to finding solitude, if you can, to hunker down and find the words to explain an obsession which can help your sisters, brothers and your mental hygiene too.
SAGITTARIUS: This year each inhale strengthens your self confidence; every exhale releases you from former negative thoughts which are no longer necessary or true. With this slow, steady and sure process, you are building your fortune. How new!
CAPRICORN: You are doing at least as much as you've always done, but the ante is much more dramatic, and your leadership style, although it is gleaming you success, the psychological part may be bugging you with a heaviness or intensity. As the captain, the fairer you manage your team the more satisfaction you will have in your home and your bank account.
AQUARIUS: You may remember days gone by, when you used to be the person who organized street festivals, neighborhood get-togethers and large back yard parties. This year you may happily and surprisingly find yourself in that role again — now with more wisdom than ever and a feeling for the collective pulse, you may feel more connected than ever.
PISCES: Although the good luck planet Jupiter is in your sign, it does not mean the year is the easiest or gets you success on cruise control. And indeed the new, and undeniable self confidence so unfamiliar to you may take you by surprise when you find setting goals may be worth while for the first time in your life.

2009 & The Triple Conjunction's Rose-Colored Glasses

Looking back on 2009, I think the astrological event of the year was the total solar eclipse from July 22, occurring in the last degree of the sign Cancer. This eclipse was about a culmination (the last degree) in the security of our private lives (Cancer), and what can be more personal than that. Especially for people whose birthdays fall near that date, both the Cancers and the Leos, their lives may be drastically different. One Leo friend, whose birthday is July 24, is now in a completely new life, living in two new cities with a job in one city and a new relationship in the other. The previous relationship of many years ran its course.

But even for the rest of us, whose birthdays are not near July 22, the shift may be more subtle, yet as powerful. There may have been a birth, a death, a new relationship, the loss of a job or another event, but whatever it was, our lives are looking different. We may have celebrated holidays in different groupings. We may find ourselves less patient with old behaviors around addiction or mental health. We may be more in touch with a sense of human authentic idealistic values.

As 2009 was approaching, we astrologers were watching three slow moving "planets" - Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron - converging in the sign Aquarius. The name for this became The Triple Conjunction. From the number of blogs posted on this topic, it seemed many of us thought The Triple Conjunction was going to be the astrological event of the year. My impression is The Triple Conjunction acted more like a pair of rose-colored glasses or like novacaine or a pain reliever or facebook!. As anesthesia can allow us to endure life changing surgery, that's what my impression is of how The Triple Conjunction acted. And because The Triple Conjunction was in the sign Aquarius, the rose-colored glasses provided distance on painful issues, a way of not taking things so personally, and a way of more easily connecting with friends and facebook friends.

While the Triple Conjunction lasted all year, but the solar eclipse "only" 6 minutes and 39 seconds (it was the longest total solar eclipse during the 21st century), I think it was the solar eclipse, in its bossy cardinal sign, that ultimately gave orders from headquarters encouraging us to get out of our fearful shells and be compelled to live more of our personal selves in our lives.

The 2009 Triple Conjunction has now run its course. The broad-banded anesthesia which friended us in 2009 served as an important tool helping us move through old fears which at other times stood as blocks in the road. For that we can be grateful as we embark on a new decade in our personal lives.

Necessary Chaos

Impulsiveness may quickly kick up necessary and short-lived chaos today as, at 9:37 am New York Time, Mercury stations retrograde on the North Node at 21° Capricorn while Moon is void-of-course in Aries. When Moon enters Taurus at 3:26 pm, there may be noticeably less frenzy, creating the chance to unravel, settle and find the sense of stability in the situation.

These next three Mercury retrogrades, occurring in earth signs, are this current one, the next happening in May, in Taurus season, and then another one in September in Virgo season. During these three earth Mercury retrogrades, Mercury will not be changing signs to another element during the retrograde which makes it, in typical earth fashion, practical. The message is to pay close attention to what we can touch and have in our hands.

Specifically with this Capricorn Mercury retrograde on the North Node, we may feel compelled to control the larger, broad-brush strategies in our lives. During the next few weeks, something large and long term which may seem to be beyond the closest peak may come up for review. We may be wise to consider several ways to the top and if the peak at all is real.

My Little Mars Retrograde Station

Weeks ago when I booked my flight to the U.S., I was surprised how much cheaper the flight was on December 20th than December 19th, so I booked it without even looking at the astrology. The price was right, the day was good - I thought. When I noticed that Mars would be turning retrograde while I would be in the airport in Hamburg to catch the first leg of the flight, I knew it looked fishy. Surely I would never consult anyone to fly at the very moment that Mars is stationing - why mess with that? So pack I did and went off into the retrograde, after first checking all the websites late into the night looking for a cancellation. It seemed that The Great Blizzard had not canceled my flight.

I have to admit, I was pretty flustered when I got to the British Air counter today, 20 minutes before the exact station of Mars, with them telling me in that classic, dead-pan style that the American Airlines part of my flight from London to New York was canceled. I am re-booked for tomorrow, flying through Zurich. And even though I need to pay three taxis instead of one, the December 20th flight is still cheaper than the one on December 19th.

When I got back to my apartment in Hamburg, my sister had posted this photo above looking out onto the woods behind where she lives in Baltimore. There it is, a picture of the Mars retrograde - so peaceful!

Photo by Pamela Tanton, Baltimore

To find out how these retrogrades and the astrology of 2010 are effecting your chart, send me an email, deirdre@cosmicguidelines.com so we can schedule an appointment. Looking forward to helping you do what you want to be doing with your life.

Eclipse + Mars Rx + Merc Rx + Saturn Rx = Balanced Checkbook x Heart + :-)

Flag for the 2009-2010 Mars Retrograde in Leo

This time of year can be a lot of running around. There are tests in school, holiday programs, presents to get, places to go, and house parties office parties and New Years parties starting to back up onto each other. AND this is exactly the time when Mars and then Mercury will retrograde. Before I fly off into the Mars retrograde, here are my thoughts as they are brewing.

I wrote some posts on the Mars retrograde back in Summer while the Sun was in Leo. My sense is that the beginning of Leo Season 2009, nearly five months ago, the segment between July 22 - August 22, 2009, carries information for this retrograde. This is because the Sun at that time was shining a light on the 19-degree path of the Mars' retrograde, from 0° Leo to 19° Leo.

To refresh our memories, there was a Great Eclipse Kick-Off at 29° Cancer on July 22. Less than 24 hours later, the Sun shone on retrograde scenery sparking with eclipse flair.
Among some of the current events around that time were:

• Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates "teachable moment" of being arrested for breaking into his own house which led to discussions on racial profiling and a "Beer Summit" at the White House.
  
• Protests in 80 cities worldwide took place in support of Iranian protesters following the disputed presidential election.
• In the U.S., Town Halls turned violent around the topic of Health Care.

If you look for a common thread of Mars aggression in each of those extraordinary topics, it's easy to find; rage was in the air. So, what was going on in your life? And what does that have to do with now, while Mars is traveling the degree now where the Leo Sun was then?

I was traveling then. I will also be traveling again now. In July I went to Turkey and visited friends. In August I went to the beach with my family. In a couple days I will be flying to the U.S. to see the friends I saw in Turkey and after that I will visit my family. My point is, this Mars retrograde is carrying over the July 22 total eclipse to right now and the next eclipse on New Year's, a Lunar eclipse in Cancer, this will help carry the accentuate the continuity as the Wheel of Fate works the Cancer - Capricorn axis strong.

And speaking of Capricorn, on December 26, Mercury will station retrograde at 21° Capricorn and being Saturn ruled, this will connect us to the Saturn station retrograde on January 13 and the station direct of Mercury two days later. What this says to me is, to really flourish in our life purposes or our life callings two aspects of this are being highlighted: with whom do we relate (Saturn in Libra) when we are fulfilling our life purpose, and how do we do business within our life purposes (Mercury in Capricorn). We may be finding ourselves going into our past financial records, and creating a new system which will help us relate better and perform better.

There may be former colleagues from another era, or from previous projects who will be calling us. We are going to need to be as financially sensible (Mercury in Capricorn) as we are creative. This will bring us further in our careers. If we want to get a head start, we can review our finances now as that will free us up to express our souls.

Recently, I have been thinking about when Saturn is retrograding, as it will again starting January 13, it may give us a vague overcast feeling that there is not enough time. This is another reason to start preparing finances in advance now. This will help calm our nerves and ease communication in all of our relationships.

To find out how the astrology of 2010 is effecting your chart, send me an email, deirdre@cosmicguidelines.com so I can schedule you in. Looking forward to helping you do what you want to be doing with your life.