Aries (March 20-April 19) — Keep in mind how ridiculously easy it is to wade into a conflict and choose a side implacably, however complex the matter in question actually is. Any subject under discussion can be reduced to soundbites, though generally doing so involves sacrificing much of its nuance and humanity. Resist such temptations firmly, and take extra care with your communications, as Thursday’s Gemini Full Moon approaches. This is good practice for anyone, though for you in particular at this time it relates to your ongoing personal growth. Pay attention to the calling of your higher mind, and resolve to honor the truth no matter what it is. Get your full Aries reading by Eric here.
Taurus (April 19-May 20) — Recently you’ve been asking some searching questions about your trajectory, which is somewhat due to the ongoing party in your 9th house. Relatively few people end up devoting their whole life to one specific purpose, so there’s no need to feel anxious if you haven’t yet heard a calling in a clear direction. For the time being, it may be most useful to do the work in front of you, and let this lead onward organically, while keeping your ears open for messages and signs. This is not guaranteed to bring fame and fortune, though it certainly answers a desire to be of service in the present, and is as valid a route to self-actualization as any other. Get your full Taurus reading by Eric here.
Gemini (May 20-June 21) — Monday, your ruler Mercury enters your opposite sign Sagittarius; then on Thursday there will be a Full Moon in your sign. Both of these events describe the more profound connections between you and loved ones. That is, how you see yourself as reflected in them, and how their movements and words around you, and yours around them, reveal the shape of your mind. None of this detracts from your sense of self, nor should it; what you perceive merely adds another dimension to what you already know. Recognize your own uniqueness, and that of each person in your life, and notice all the ways you enrich one another’s world. Get your full Gemini reading by Eric here.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) — There is no fast-track route to self-fulfillment. There is no hack, no single action that can be applied in order to bring you in alignment with the divine spark within you. Yet there are many paths from which you can choose. If any one factor unites them, I would suggest it is agape — that sacred, universal love that embraces all alike, and from which derives the Golden Rule. If you’re uncertain where to invest your energies, invoke this love and let it inflame your soul; open your mind to the cosmos, and pay attention for any messages or synchronicities that emerge. This will surely produce some results. Get your full Cancer reading by Eric here.
Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) — Yours is a fixed sign, which means you sometimes need to watch for stubbornness or a tendency to get stuck in certain patterns. The approach to this week’s Full Moon features themes of this nature. In particular, notice if you’re experiencing reluctance to ask for the help you need, especially if you know your friends would come through. True, doing this means having to admit you’re only human after all. Yet the only person passing judgment on this undeniable fact is you. Take your courage in both hands and speak up. The sooner you get past this point, the sooner you can move ahead at full speed, with the knowledge you are supported. Get your full Leo reading by Eric here.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) — Remember that the past and its lessons are what brought you here to the present moment, just as what you do now will help forge the future. Even when recalling less pleasant times, how you dealt with circumstances then can inform your understanding of who you are today, just as the strength you’ve gained from past challenges supports you ongoing. Your memories are a piece of the puzzle of you, an essential component of the whole truth as well as a resource to draw on when necessary. From this can come a more complete acceptance of the person you were, as opposed to judging yourself with convenient hindsight. Get your full Virgo reading by Eric here.
Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) — Though there is still a decided emphasis on the area of your chart reflecting family, home and the past, the Full Moon this week will reconnect you with a desire to look forward and set certain aims. Your encounters with former challenges and emotions have resulted in a new strength, a sort of imperviousness to potential obstacles, and a most healthy determination to celebrate the good things in your life. Why not? Pleasure is no sin; it does not intrinsically harm others or oneself. Spending at least some time enjoying yourself will refresh you, and probably also embolden you to strive for your aspirations more decidedly. Get your full Libra reading by Eric here.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) — Your charts this week describe the multiple healing effects of intimacy and of allowing yourself to be vulnerable with someone you trust. Physical affection can work many positive changes to your body and mind, and you would certainly benefit from gathering the courage to reach out should you need it. One crucial key with any sort of intimate relationship is to walk the narrow path balancing love and independence. This especially means taking care not to lose yourself in another person’s world, nor to absorb them into your own; yet it also requires a willingness to be open and share the light and warmth of your soul. Get your full Scorpio reading by Eric here.
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) — The forthcoming Gemini Full Moon describes you learning something significant about a loved one, and most likely about yourself also. Because close relationships tend naturally to involve at least some projection, we might erroneously assume we know how a partner will respond to a certain scenario. Recognizing this, when it happens, can be of significant help toward understanding who you are, because the projected reaction comes from somewhere within. Should you notice anything like this occurring during the week, use it as a sort of flashlight to help you see more clearly into the depths of your mind. Get your full Sagittarius reading by Eric here.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) — If this week’s astrology has one particular message for you, it’s that you need some fun. Make sure you set aside a reasonable amount of time, preferably daily, for relaxing and enjoyable activities. Get out of doors in the fresh air, and meet up with friends when you can. There’s a lot of pressure on Capricorn right now, as you are no doubt palpably aware. Yet also present in your sign are both the traditional benefics, Venus and Jupiter; they’re helping you open a curtain in Saturn’s dark hall, so that heat and daylight can flood the room. Let their visit sprinkle a little extra charm into your everyday existence. Get your full Capricorn reading by Eric here.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — One of the most beautiful things about creative self-expression is its capacity to bring about emotional healing, in a way that’s both organic and constructive. The approaching Full Moon in your 5th house of art and pleasure affords an opportunity for you to experience that blessing. This process requires you to be vulnerable, which usually feels somewhat risky, especially if your chosen work skirts the edge of what’s considered acceptable, or challenges norms. A lot of good art does this in some way. Yet the payoff is like nothing else; you can craft an entirely new relationship to yourself, to your self-image and to your memories. Get your full Aquarius reading by Eric here.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Thursday’s Full Moon in your 4th house suggests that the facts you already know are more relevant than you might think. When it comes to answering a particularly puzzling question, your lived experience and previously established wisdom can supply what you need. Said another way, it’s your perspective that’s important here. Make sure you give it sufficient weight, and watch out for the appearance in your conversation of soundbites and talking points peddled by others. The truth is almost always more complex than a sweeping or simplistic idea can allow for. And it’s the truth you’re after, no matter how deep you need to dig. Get your full Pisces reading by Eric here.
Excellent stars once again, Amy, resonant and appropriate to myself and my situation.
Wow, thank you, Geoff! Really appreciate that x
I hope all goes well with you, Amy. x
For me too, dear Amy! (Hi Geoff!). xxx
Hi Lizzy. Always good to read yours and Daniel’s comments here. I hope the upcoming season will be both kind and beneficial to you both.
Thank you both so much. Lots of love, festive good wishes and here’s hoping for a Corbyn Christmas
Ha ha! Here’s hoping, Amy! Much love and festive good wishes to you and Geoff (and our Daniel!). xxx
Aww, so lovely to share this space with you guys too! And thank you Amy for such precise writing here! Lots of appreciation!
That’s really kind of you to say, Daniel. Thank you!
ps. Saturn’s lessons have been good, I must say. I really do feel a sense of foundation at the root of many aspects of my life, and what that entails (perspective for the future and being sustainable etc.). I’m looking forward to Jupiter providing some blessings to the mix! I hope you all receive these blessings now and moving into a glorious new year! I feel a nice exhale of reassurance and affirmation coming from kind skies.
Daniel, I agree that some of Saturn’s transits have been quite constructive. Saturn moving opposite my Sun sign really helped me get focused and motivated to be more structured and intentional with saving money (though I’ve lapsed some, with Jupiter’s recent transits; time to whip that back into shape!). And Saturn transiting my North Node and Moon seemed to bring more awareness around growing into a new sense of purpose — though I still feel like that’s in a “baby steps” or “two steps forward, one step back” phase.
Today’s Full Moon is within a third of a degree exact my natal Saturn, so I’m hoping to have some awareness shed on my resistance to all those messy, unAquarian, emotional sexperiences. I’ll be 76 next month, so watch out world.
By coincidence, this toon has been No.1 for the past 11 weeks in the UK. Don’t laugh, America, it’s currently surging up your Billboard chart faster than a snake up a trouser leg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0hyYWKXF0Q
Haha! That video’s fantastic. Reminds me of this, from back in the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOEHefkds2w
That’s a classic, Amy. Those slippers really turn me on.
Geoff: omg, that video is hilarious. Thank you! And the tune is catchy.
Cheers, Amanda. Here’s Tones and I without the facial hair on this year’s earlier hit, Johnny Run Away. She’s a talent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z3fcOmsSOk
So pleased to hear that, dear Daniel! You’ve come a long way…. I’m living through my second Saturn return this/next year – so there’s a lot of aaargh!!! mixed in with some amazing things, too.
That’s so kind of you Lizzy. Oh gosh, I am a little embarrassed at my earlier PW self. Thank you for being here! 10 years go by so quickly. I just turned 46, but I’m sure that’s a misprint.
Amanda, sometimes I think I can follow the astrology in my life. Then, I feel like stuff should be happening in areas affected by certain transits in my various houses. The smaller planet transits seem to make more sense. However, the larger ones perplex me. It seems like stuff makes more sense looking back than trying to predict what might happen or where one is headed. But then Saturn also has this “riddle” of Time and how it unfolds at a necessary pace. I would like to see some developments and I feel ready, so we’ll see. It’s amazing to though how the past can come up as a resistance factor. But I look at it, acknowledge it, forgive it/them, and guide the vision back with calm intention and peaceful resoluteness.
Lizzy, you’re gonna rock that return, I know!
Geoff, I hope your birthday brings in much you’ve been waiting for too! Go get’em!
Bless you sweetheart! ((())
Happy Birthday, dear Geoff! (big day today in Blighty – oy vey….).
Running to work now, but looking forward to videos. xxx
12-12, Lizzy. I have a feeling that those left alive will look back on this day as the last one before it all fell apart. Oy vey indeed!
Don’t blame me, I voted Communist.
Oy vey, oy vey, dear Geoff, just seen the results :((
I think the result is very much in line with Jen Sorensen’s “cartoon” today. Over to you, Gaia.
I’m gutted. Can’t say much more than that just now.
Me too, dear Amy, me too. Slept walked through most of the day. Take care, sweetie (((())))
Cheer up, Cheer up!! Look up, Look up!! So have I heard, the PM (UK – how long?) has Sun @28+ Gemini in the 9th. Thankfully I find comfort in reading old stuff. The Ottomans didn’t spit without casting a chart – apparently. ‘Astrology in the Service of the Empire: Knowledge, Prognostication, and Politics at the Ottoman Court, 1450s–1550s’. https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/711.
However comma I don’t know what to read to process Trump’s persecution complex – it is so specific. ‘More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.’ What?!!
Anyone with political awareness would have known that Jeremy Corbyn stood no chance of becoming the UK’s next prime minister. He had no persona which would appeal to the digital generation and no policies of any relevance in a crumbling eco-environment.
Britain’s Labour party represented the working class in the 20th century. We don’t have one of those any more. We now have immigrants who do all the work while former British workers expect the pension age to begin at around 50 in our Welfare State. When this expectation is not met, they go sick on the NHS, treating hospitals as hotels, and are fed, housed and declared unfit for work which enables them to receive enough in benefits to keep them in alcohol in Witherspoons, the national chain of pubs which provide end-of-run beers to the Brexit battalions at half the full price.
The sensible solution is to declare the Labour Party as a necessary phenomenon of the 20th century whose day has passed – thanks in no small measure to Margaret Thatcher’s policy of allowing workers to buy their state-supported rented council houses at greatly reduced prices and therefore become bona fide members of the propertied class whose main aim is to protect their investment – i.e. Conservatives.
Now that times have changed, the radical left must change. The future is green, not red. Threatened by capitalism as never before, our planet must be protected by those who care about their childrens’ and grand-childrens’ future. Those who destroy the lungs of the Amazon are a cancer and should be subject to chemotherapy.
2020 – it’s the year of the planet. It’s now or never. Elvis said so. If you don’t believe me, email Gaia at the Heartbreak Hotel.
The three clear indicators I have seen are age, gender and educational attainment. In England, educated young women voted with the planet.
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-17/new-data-reveals-uk-divided-along-age-and-education-lines-as-traditional-voting-alliances-shift/
I’m 75, a male homosexual, and I voted Labour for the first time in my life because I wanted a second referendum on the Leave EU question. I’m a fully paid-up member of the Green Party whose dictat includes the instruction that you must never vote for anyone other than a Green candidate. Well, fuck you, fascist bastards, I’ll vote for whoever supports my personal interests, just like everybody else.
But, as I’ve said on these columns before, my conversations with anti-immigrationists in my local Wetherspoons pub suggest that the sensible response to global environmental collapse is to buy a Kalashnikov. My personal political placard now reads: “Vote Green and Buy a Kalashnikov.”
I salute the younger generation who vote Green. It’s your future and I support that wholeheartedly.