January 2010 Astrology Overview
Happy Birthday Capricorn and Aquarius
"Relax into the present moment."– Gary Zukav
WELCOME TO 2010 an number 3 year for the planet.
Time for new connections, fun, learning and to perhaps learn to truly understand what we really need to live with peace within and without.
January 2010 is a 4 month Look around you during this first month of a number 3 year. Making January 2010 a number 4 month of home, family and security.
There goes that scary word, Security: Haven’t we learned in 2009 that what we perhaps believed was security was an illusion) What is real security? What would make you feel totally safe and secure?
If you say money, not that if the dollar keeps falling ..(right?) so, if you had a job you loved, friends who love and support you, those who honor and respect you and a support system which you knew would be there no matter what? Would that help enable you to feel good and feel happy and feel safe?
We enter 2010 with Mercury moving backwards joined with Pluto (transformational ideas in Capricorn, about the good of the all) Mars going backwards in Leo is asking us to reconnect with heart energy and our joy. And an Major earth shaking Solar eclipse New Moon on the 14th at 25 degrees of Capricorn asks us to eclipse some of our life in order for life to be more.
This month asks us all what do I need to be happy? How do I achieve the best life for myself, with the Sun, Mercury and Venus in Capricorn we are going to be given some very good ideas if we sit quietly and listen. What adjustments need to be made for you to TRULY KNOW YOUR DREAM is going to happen for you? Can you trust enough to let it happen? Can you keep your fingers out of the stew and let it happen naturally? OR will you try and control it all?
The planet Saturn moved into the sign of Libra for the first time in 29 years in October 2009 and we are experiencing already The beginning of a Cardinal Cross of energy, urging us to appropriate action for Self and the world.. Cardinal energy asks that we DO something, move our fannies and get going on the next step. A cross is a double square which is a rough energy in astrology demanding that we shift our views. When we do this we can see much more easily the other points which we need to see in order to make correct decisions.
To me this seems a New Year when NOT making those new years resolutions might be a great idea. Though we will be feeling the energy of a Cardinal Cross trying to push us to do SOMETHING , this year. How do you not rush into the wrong thing seems to be the question that many are asking me now. So, I feel that there is an easy and simple way to ride this energy of 2010. And I will now ask you now to begin the practice of setting intentions on how you want life to FEEL in 2010.
We so often look at the Next step, what we want as outcome, what we need to do or manifest or Make happen. This year we really are going to be riding a very different energy and to learn how to do this we must get into FEELING life and get out of thinking that when we have or accomplish this or that or the other we have the answer.
As planets move from Aquarius to Pisces, and Pisces to Aries and Back to Pisces this next year we are truly in a mix of (we are one energy) Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces are universal signs about the BIG Picture for us all. A gathering of planets in the Universal signs usually heralds Social changes and we are surely there. The last 4 signs of the zodiac, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces are the Universal signs.
Aries is the first of a new cycle of being and Uranus entering this sign as it exits Pisces for the first time in 84 years on May 27th is a part of a VERY STRONG push forward energy. Many of us are feeling it now. I feel that we have the opportunity to truly begin new cycles of growth within ourselves this next year and carry that growth out to the world only by sitting back a bit and searching inwards.
Much of this growth is not about achievement as much as fulfillment …Happy is a word we search for and maybe the goal in 2010 is to feel contented and in alignment with self and the world. Wouldn’t that be equal or better than happiness for you?
Emotions are caused often by how we think of things, but feeling good about life requires that you put yourself first a bit this year and see what it is that feeds your soul.
With Mars retrograde and in the shadow until May 2010 of LEO we as being asked to step into Passion, to fun and enjoyment in order to really know what feeds our souls.
Saturn retrograde on January 23rd begins to ease off a bit on the push towards making things happen and until this planet moves direct on May 30th we are going to be feeling a bit less pressure.
On the 19th as the sun enters Aquarius it all will seem much easier, it will become easier to detach from the strong feelings and emotions around us and BELIEVE: On the15th Mercury the energy of ideas here increases the push to believe as it moves direct in Capricorn asking us to KNOW that what we desire can happen, and we just need to do the work involved with changing our perceptions of things..
The full moon on the 29th offers us some strong opportunities to release the past as The moon touches that Mars retrograde for a Full moon in Leo and Aquarius. Getting rid of what ideas we have that have been fixed into our psyches would be a good usage of this power house of energy.
Once again we move off into a New Year with the experiences, joys, pains, and knowledge that WE MADE it for another year and this year will be better for us all. I KNOW this will be so because we are going to Get into the feeling of what this new world can be like and from there, get out of our own way and Allow it to happen aren’t we?.
The lucky Colors for January are Black and Brown & all dark shades use these colors to help focus you on the energy of January which is Capricorn, Achievement for self in order to be a part of the process of a better world for us all.
Stones Sacred to this time are the GARNET and the energy of Kyanite January flowers are carnations and Snowdrops. The Ruling planet of January is Saturn the energy of discipline, duty, organization and efficiency.
For more on 2010, please visit the section 2010 and Beyond.
Namaste,
Carol Barbeau