Most of us use the civil calendar on which tomorrow is the final day of 2014 and the eve of 2015. Because that calendar does not turn over in strict synchrony with the renewal of any particular celestial cycle, the astrology of every civil new year’s eve is by definition different from any other.
This year, the astrology for the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 features implications of both blatant and subtle events combining to guide your life, providing you can both heed the subtle and handle the blatant in proportion.
Yesterday, Amanda held forth on a developing aspect that is anything but subtle. Mars moving forward through Aquarius to oppose Jupiter’s retreat in Leo on the first day of 2015 is in fact functional now.
That’s because Mars has a tendency to jump the gun on aspects in which it is involved. Hence, be aware. Look for indications of any strident energetics popping up, because such phenomena would probably correspond to Mars.
Once you have discovered manifestations of Mars, keep an eye on them. Look for Martian expressions to ramp up and build until after Thursday, but don’t let Mars take over your life if you can help it.
By the same token, where you find what appear to be polarizations of potential in your life, you will more than likely have found an expression of the opposition. Even though Mars and Jupiter are not the only objects opposing in the sky and on the zodiac right now, they do likely represent what is most obvious.
It would then be both reasonable and unsurprising to find Jupiter where either abundance or excess are — most likely in a complementary orientation to desire.
Once you have identified Mars, Jupiter, and the indications of opposition in your life, locate yourself in relation to all three. For example, if increasing stimulation makes lack of gratification an issue, you might be living predominantly through Mars. In such a case, your task would entail deciding where to put your energy so as to yield productive (rather than destructive) results.
After getting some clarity on where you are in relation to manifestations (or even personifications) of Mars and Jupiter, and their applying opposition, the idea is leave room in your life for more.
That’s because the developing opposition from Mars to Jupiter is, if nothing else, representative of all that is obtrusive. So, as one civil year transitions to the next, address the loudest and most blatant issues as you must without letting them take over as the sole focus of your reality.
Remember that even as you find it necessary to put out proverbial (and even literal) fires, there are subtleties to be aware of on less immediately pressing (but nonetheless important) levels.
For example, Mercury is chasing Venus through Capricorn even as Mars and Jupiter are moving towards opposing each other. However, Mercury and Venus are going in the same direction, in contrast to the rapid closure toward climax Mars and Jupiter are now engaged in.
Additionally, the Capricorn Sun is literally just a few days away from a precise engagement with the continuously functional square from Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn that defines our era. No small deal that, but not particularly flashy either.
Finally, now that Saturn is solidly in Sagittarius for a while, it is consequently well within range of an historic and rare separation of 90 degrees from Neptune in Pisces (a square aspect between mutable signs).
Yet, neither Mercury nor Venus (even when racing each other through the same sign) ever get in your face the way Mars and Jupiter on a symbolic collision course do.
By the same token, even as monumental and lasting as aspects of Saturn to Neptune frequently are, levels of expression at any given moment are more likely to be sublime than obvious.
So if there is something to make of the astrology of New Year’s Eve 2014, it would be to make sure you see it all. Address what clamors for your attention only to the extent that you must. But as you do, sustain an understanding that much of what now appears urgent will in fact also pass more quickly than you might think.
Besides, even while Mars and Jupiter are at their most insistent, other things of import (albeit less dramatic) will also be going on. These other things deserve your attention as well, and you deserve the chance to take them in. Only you, however, can provide that chance.
You will know the chance when you see it because it will not express as something either hot or big. Instead, listen for the breath of a sleeping child, feel the wind’s direction, sniff for a changing tide, and look for what would never have presented itself to you just a few years back. In these subtle things, as much or more as in the blatant urgencies, a new year is offering itself up for your taking. Take your time. Take it all.
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