Aries (March 20-April 19) — This month there is a call for you to sift through the complex layers of your emotions; moving through the layers of information contained in your body and your feelings to gain a new perspective on the themes you live with on a daily basis. A theme is a message to yourself; these govern your perspective, approach to choices, and motivations. Often much of this is inherited from parents, grandparents and back many generations, though at a certain point we have to take over. The current process you are moving through is one of questioning these themes you have been living and whether they serve you. The fundamental issue you are facing is a drive to heal what has continued to cause you emotional pain. Yours is a strong Moon that would rather wear its armor than sit in a therapist’s chair. But armor cannot offer you what you need. I suggest you not think of the vulnerability needed to heal as softness, a seemingly foreign concept for you that may feel hard to slip into. Instead, approach healing from a perspective of honesty, something you know a lot about. Sit with someone who can simply hold space and be with you. That means with no involvement in the story, no judgment and only minimal opinions. Feel what it’s like to be real in the presence of someone else, which can offer you a kind of confidence that’s difficult to get any other way. — By Genevieve Hathaway.

Taurus (April 19-May 20) — When you do what you love — what gives you pure pleasure or even a sense of authentic involvement with the world around you — it connects you with what some call your soul, or your higher self. This translates to ‘sense of belonging’. For you there’s a piece of healing that comes with being in line with what brings you the most joy. Or said another way, you restore your faith in yourself and in those around you when you make choices you know are nourishing. This calls for choosing priorities as a daily gesture to yourself, and sticking to them. Rather than viewing changes on this scale as a risk, view it as a re-orientation. Allow the people around you to support you in this process, rather than to get in your way (as we often expect they will). What brings you soul-based joy has a creative component. You have much to give back to the world in the form of what you introduce to your environment, emerging from directly inside of you. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Your connection into your own inner source has a ripple effect, improving the vibration in your environment. This in turn ripples out into the larger world. Use this time of increased support and inner stability to make changes so that what satisfies your soul is a fixture in every aspect of your life. — By Genevieve Hathaway.

Gemini (May 20-June 21) — An engaged mind is essential to your happiness. I propose that you let the idea sink in that you can be as engaged by ‘spiritual’ exploration as you can by ‘earthly’ experience. What exactly is the difference? Well, the sense of meaning you bring to what you’re doing, and taking life as an opportunity to learn about yourself. You are under a lot of tension at the moment, as though you are being pulled between feelings and details. It’s the same quest — an investigation into knowledge of your deep-rooted values and core self — just two different modes of exploration. One question you’re encountering is what information was kept from you, or that you did not see, which caused not just emotional wounding but also an exaggerated sense of inner complexity. Going beyond this means getting out of your head and seeing the world around you, or the larger pattern of your life as you actually live it. You may feel this will require methodical observation and analysis, but that’s the trap. That kind of mental labor can get in the way of living consciously, which means observing yourself as you exist in your environment. They’re not mutually exclusive, though it would help if you work them in tandem as you go to deeper layers of self-understanding. Allow your experiences to reveal your motivations and point to how you got them. You’ll make many discoveries as you learn to do this. I’m talking about a conscious nvestigation, in real-time. Through this, you’ll be able to discern what you were taught and what you learned on your own; you will notice what you’ve outgrown and what is outdated. Along the way, you’ll re-write the rules and values you live by. — By Genevieve Hathaway.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — To fully embrace life on the physical plane we must recognize and accept what we’ve experienced and how we’ve lived — even the parts we would like to forget. Healing means going through the pain and discomfort and arriving somewhere else. It means accepting that we can’t change the past, but we can reinterpret it — and we can live differently in the present. Once there, it’s possible to meet the concept of ‘the future’ with an open heart and mind. This month you may face many stories or events from your past that involve partners or partnerships you would like to forget. New details will come to light that reveal information that was kept from you or that you did not consciously recognize. These events still play a part in who you are today. But you have a choice. You can grow from these past events to a better place, taking the lessons with you, or you can sweep them under the rug and try to pretend they never happened. Any doubt you have of your ability to acknowledge and grow beyond these events is unfounded. You are strong enough to face them and acknowledge how they affected you, yet not let them dictate your life going forward. Part of what this process is reminding you to do is to claim your space. You have the right to exist, never doubt that. And not just exist, but to flourish and feel secure. Security is an elusive concept these days, that’s for sure. One way you can build a foundation is to acknowledge what has shaped you, knowing that you have the power to use those influences any way you want. — By Genevieve Hathaway.

Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) — Self-esteem is a significant challenge in our time in history, perhaps because so much seems demanded of us. I suggest that you not see this seemingly elusive state as either present or absent, but as something you always live in to a greater or lesser extent. Now would be a good time to size up how much or how little, as Mars retrograde ends very close to your Moon. This is focusing a process of self-discovery, where you’re noticing what is the most important to you. The question is, are you able to take action on this very thing? You might say that the ability to live your values consciously is precisely what would help you feel good about yourself. Take confidence from the fact that you are asking the most important questions, and don’t let the fact that you don’t have all the answers bring you down. Nobody has all the answers, and an honest person can live with questions. Meanwhile you have the freedom to love boldly and honestly — to love yourself and those around you and have this be a fully appropriate state of being. Once you make up your mind that guilt will not prevent you from loving, it gradually loses its power and influence. From there you will find your confidence. When you feel strong and secure, you will tap a well of happiness and emotional harmony. The chances are this will take longer than a day, which means cultivating patience as a way of life. — By Genevieve Hathaway.

Introducing the Planet Waves 2012 Spring Report by Eric Francis

Spring 2012 is the wildest season I’ve ever seen in 18 years of doing around-the-clock astrology [listen to short audio preview here]. It fits the 2012 pattern of ‘everything, all at once’, even making that sound like an understatement. I am working on the report even as we edit this issue, and it’s coming out beautifully — every sign is coming through loud and clear and distinctive.

We have retrogrades of all three inner planets involved — Mercury, Venus and Mars. There is a rare Venus transit of the Sun — an exact conjunction of Venus and the Sun that you will be able to see if you have a clear view during daylight hours (you will need special equipment to protect your eyes). There are eclipses of the Sun and the Moon. And then, just four days after the Cancer solstice, we have the first exact square of Uranus and Pluto.

In honor of putting all this action to work for you, I’m preparing a special Spring Report for all 12 Sun signs and rising signs, as well as an introduction to the astrology that will be useful to everyone. This is a package of all 12 signs for one price. I’m designing it so that you can actually put many of the signs into use — for example, Virgo will be able to use the Gemini report as a career reading. Pisces can use Virgo’s report as a relationship reading, and so on. I give suggestions at the end of each sign, and will do a detailed description so you can get maximum use from this product.

All 12 signs are now available for $24.95. The report is getting rave reviews from people who pre-ordered, including these words from a customer named Donna: “OMG — thank you thank you thank you — just spent this morning listening to my [Spring Report] info, and am so blown away by the accuracy (and relief!) in this experience. Thanks so very much for your part in supporting this work and for showing up in the way that you do!”. Here is the link to order. Thank you, and enjoy.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) — Those around you may appear not to be acting in a way that makes sense to you, or progressing quickly enough for your taste. But it seems that you feel able to quickly solve your perceived problems with your usual efficiency and thoroughness. I would suggest that those around you may not be lacking and imperfect. Rather, they have a different approach to finding solutions and making their discoveries. You tend to attract people who listen to their intuition and let details become apparent over time and a solution to appear of its own accord. For you, who focus so much on the fine points, this method may seem very foreign or disorienting. You have an opportunity this month, no matter how uncomfortable it feels, to spend time in this other perspective. Details are important, but can’t provide an entire picture of the landscape. Your method is like watching a movie by studying each individual frame, rather than following the direction of the events. Intuition is about letting go into the flow, which is another way of saying trusting what you observe and experience as it happens. This will take a little extra trust, but you can indeed move with the flow of events, even if you cannot predict which way they will go. This will provide you with a greater appreciation for the partners in your life who approach problems from a technique that is different from the one you most often chose. You may learn enough to discover a valuable tool not just for solving problems but for guiding your life the way you want it to be. — By Genevieve Hathaway.

Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) — One of the keys to growth is recognizing the patterns of your life. These often emerge from this place that psychologists call ‘the unconscious’. Note that it is not unconscious — we are, and as the clues and messages emerge, you can see the patterns of how you think. There is indeed a method, a formula, which may not have been apparent to you before. This gap in information has affected your life story even if you didn’t know it. Often this material is hard to grasp and orient on. Yet at the moment, it’s speaking in its full voice, if you would recognize it. Your dreams make more sense than you might think. What instills fear has root causes you can begin to discern, and that information will help you make better choices. Eventually what seemed like a mist begins to dissipate, and then swells up again before you can fully see what was hidden there. Instead of trying to force your way into your subconscious through a door with no handle, go in through the windows I’ve been describing. They are open and large enough to let the light in, and anything you learn is yours to use. You will know you’re using this information when you notice that you’re making different decisions, and also making your choices using different methods and more functional logic. A sign of progress is when you know that fear is only one influence among many — not the dominant one. — By Genevieve Hathaway.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) — You have many assets that will make the world a better place, and now is the time to get clear about what they are. What you offer is authentically yours, and that’s how you discover what you’re made of. You will feel richer inside for having shared yourself with others, and they are richer for your having done so. If doing this feels slightly risky or dangerous, note that feeling and keep going. You are in the process of healing any sense of guilt or shame that may have developed long ago from someone invalidating and devaluing your talents. Yet this may not seem like guilt in the way we normally think of it; for example you may experience it as the fear of criticism, or the sense that others don’t like you. What you think others think will provide you with a map of your own consciousness. What you think they want for you will tell you what you want for yourself — and if you don’t like what you learn, make a decision. It’s true that life can seem like a long story of others trying to deter you from being yourself, and to some extent this is true. But changing that fact does not involve changing them; it involves changing yourself. When you guide yourself through any feeling of danger, what you will be left with is a sense of rightness with yourself. You will feel at home with who you are and what you are doing because you are actually offering something authentic, something that actually represents you. By your gifts you will know yourself. — By Genevieve Hathaway.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) — When we are young we are like a sponge, soaking up our surroundings and taking what is said and done literally. A snide comment or piece of sarcasm can negatively impact our developing psyche. Most adults don’t appreciate and honor the great impact words and actions have on children. The process of ego formation when we’re young is complex and delicate. A healthy ego, which means a functioning personality, is important for you to feel sane and emotionally grounded. Much that we absorb in childhood affects us through most of our adult life — and few people ever address this fact. Lately you have no choice, which may be distinguishing you from many people around you. You notice them running in circles; you notice that they cannot deal with authority in a healthy way. One of your current projects is addressing the pain caused by your dominant parent or childhood authority figure. It stems less from outright neglect and more from denied or withheld information, which in turn blocked you from admitting some of your more meaningful goals. You are learning the lengths to which people will go to get what they want, no matter what the effects on others. Just imagine how this attitude in people you respected influenced you as a kid. Through this recognition and regaining information you are filling in gaps in your life where it seemed a mystery how you developed into the person you became. If you feel resentment or anger, you’re on the right path. Each time you do, notice the sensation, and replace it with a tangible goal or objective that is all your own. — By Genevieve Hathaway.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) — As April unfolds, I suggest you get clear on what happiness means to you. As you do this you may be amazed that you haven’t consciously thought about it before — or at how long it’s been since you did. Let it be your guiding philosophy, that is, a perspective that helps you govern decisions that you make. Much of how we do this as adults is rooted in the approach our parents took, and growing into an independent person means taking steps beyond their ideas into your own. There is a special challenge, however: recognizing their hidden patterns. It’s difficult to see the patterns that are the most influential and are the most deeply ingrained in the next generation. These are often incongruent with your own mission in life, though the conflict is typically hidden. To find it, you’ll need to sift through the layers and determine what is truly your philosophy versus what was given to you by others. The challenge is that the two viewpoints may feel tightly interwoven. It’s your job to tease them apart. That will feel like a process of saying “this belongs to you, and this belongs to me.” There is just one little barb: learning to feel good about discarding the ideas that don’t work, rather than like you’re obligated to use them (no matter where they come from). — By Genevieve Hathaway.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — You may be living with the feeling that there is a gap you have to leap to be accepted by those around you. In fact, it’s more of a crack you can step over than a canyon you have to vault Evel Knievel-style. There’s more support around you than it may feel like. Yours is a Moon that wants to be accepted for your uniqueness. You’re not merely a rebel: you’re original and you want to coexist with others as such. But this will only happen if you honestly and authentically show yourself to each person you meet. Any stress or uncertainty you feel around doing so is like an invitation to go past those feelings. To be 100% you in every moment is risky, that is true. Hence the fear of not being accepted is natural enough, and that is enough to scare plenty of people from being real. The problem is that facades may feel like walls that protect us from rejection, but they end up being like jail cells, locking us inside ourselves and away from the contact that we seek. Being authentic means showing your true colors, not showing just those that are ‘safe’ in that moment. Meet the feeling of risk or danger head-on and see what happens. The only way out of this conceptual prison is through an actual experiment, in real life (rather than in theory). This means making mistakes — but you may be pleasantly surprised how little most of them matter.
— By Genevieve Hathaway.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Your inner world is a bedroom, and most people are not invited in. Yet this is the world you live in every day. Deeper inside that is your closet, and only you know what’s in there. When you open your closet door, it’s like the armoire in the Narnia series: you step into another dimension that is more detailed and complex than your ‘normal’ reality. You think this is normal because you live with it all the time; yet many people around you just have a closet that opens to a small space filled with racks of clothes, shoes and accessories. Part of having this kind of depth means having a special kind of vulnerability. Through the next few weeks, you will have a particularly keen ability to help those around you access the depths and complexities of their inner space by translating your own into terms they can understand. You will do this based on the tactile, tangible reality most people live in. You have many tools in the form of language to share this. This will call for a mix of precision in what you say, and at the same time allowing for misunderstanding as others try to get clear. Clarify the grey areas in your own thinking, and know what you’re saying and feeling as you guide others. Don’t skip steps or leave out what you know is vital information — that could lead to unexpected consequences or miscommunication. You are explaining something that for you makes sense, but which for others is going to require them to stretch their understanding of existence. Proceed in small, concrete steps and you’ll make significant progress in growing closer to those you care the most about. — By Genevieve Hathaway.

Aries Moon — Your Moon needs to initiate, to shape, to mold. And that initiating quality has real influence. When you try to wrap your emotional bearings around a situation, the first thing you usually do is to reach outwardly for it. This month you can’t use dynamite or your usual mojo to get things done. Rather, you have to gently mold and shape your world like a glass blower shaping a work of delicate art in a kiln. You are taking a journey into your own intuition, but through the hidden realm of your subconscious. It may be difficult for you to track this journey, like it’s behind a veil. You can almost make out its profile at times, but not quite. It’s the same feeling as when a word is on the tip of your tongue and you can’t quite find it. Clear answers won’t come from staring at the question. Even the glow from a burning dynamite fuse won’t help you see any better. Let this deep, subconscious journey float around the most hidden corners of your emotional realm and trust that the answers will arrive once they have fully gestated, often when you least expect it. This highlights an important element for your happiness: providing yourself steady outlets for the expression of your fiery core. If you feel like you’re burning up inside, like you have so much energy and power and nowhere to direct it, that’s a sign not enough of your passionate emotional energy has been expressed. Allocating set activities to channel this fire into, will free up a part of your emotional world to hold space for time to work its course and answers to grow and become clear when they are mature ideas. To you that may feel like waiting, but it’s really an active, fertile pause. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Taurus Moon — The sensation of expansion you currently live with at times has made you feel as though you can take on the world, all at once. Simultaneously you are also moving through a period of seeming constriction, as though you’re passing through the neck of a bottle. You may feel the need to stretch into the larger space ahead of you, or just beyond where you are now, but your existence in the present moment might feel like the narrower space of the bottle’s neck. This feeling of constriction is trying to guide you to remember to take care of your health and emotional wellbeing. Trying to do everything at once stretches you too thin — your health will suffer, your energy will be depleted, your work will suffer and your relationships will suffer. You will have less of you to give. But if you maintain balance between inward sustenance and outward flow, you will have plenty for yourself and plenty to give. Even though that constricting feeling may have felt in the past like it was dampening the fun in your life, in fact it was providing you with temperance, that rare, precious and often hard-won human quality. That required you to take stock of what was most important and not overextend yourself. Whether you’re tackling many goals or channeling your energy into a focused mission, your emotional resources are a source of energy for you to draw on, though that requires actually feeling them for what they are. You must tend and manage your process of tapping these resources. This stewardship will be important as the intensity and speed with which life moves increases exponentially. Practice now so you can apply this managing of your energy and emotional resources when it most matters. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Gemini Moon — An amphibian is an animal that can live both on land and in water. Your Moon is like this critter: you split your time between living in two or more different elements, such as your mind and your emotions, your outward temperament and your introspective side. Even though the Gemini Moon comes with its share of mental ideas and detachment, when it comes to the expression of your emotions, it’s all water and reflection. I suggest you see this as an advantage, and harness the power of being able to shake off your skin and slip into a different element. This month, let the mental give way to the emotional and intuitive. Shake off your mind’s control over your emotions, slip into what you feel. And then ask yourself whether you are living your highest goals and greatest aspirations. Are you fulfilling your highest calling in life? A clue that the work you do is your highest calling is that it resonates deeply in your emotional realm. Take stock on where you stand and what you want. Proceed from a place of intuition when checking in on what you want to be known for. For you, there’s an importance placed on creativity and dualism. Your “calling in life” is dualistic. It may have two distinct sides or be two distinct things, but the common thread is creativity. Sink into your intuition and explore without a need for facts or answers, and as ideas surface, write them down. After a few weeks look at the page and connect the dots. Clarity and insight will come from what you find. But with this new understanding will come the responsibility of making the necessary changes in direction and structure to your life. Remember, your life at the end of the day is your own and only you can prioritize your biggest, most meaningful goals. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Cancer Moon — Caring for others is essential to your emotional well-being. It brings you meaningful happiness, and is a big part of how you participate with the greater world. Part of your ability to care is the ability to slip out of your skin, your own issues and struggles, and slip into someone else’s experience to bear witness to their struggle, healing or growth. This ability is a rare gift, though I would caution that if you slip into enough skins you’ll begin to lose contact with your own. Be careful not to adopt pain, fear and guilt from those individuals whose space you hold and pain you join with to help them heal. Caring is a core value for you, a core principle that governs your philosophy of life, and that’s a beautiful thing in a world that is so often lacking in just this quality. But my Cancer Moon friend, who is caring for you? You have a need to care for others, but like everyone else, you also need to be cared for. Part of your emotional security is having plenty of reserves to care for yourself, and a support network of people close to you who do not just ask you to shed your shell but also build you up and nourish you emotionally. As you reevaluate your approach to nourishing others, notice where nourishment is lacking for yourself; pay attention to where your need to be cared for is not fully actualized. Then see what you learn here about your relationship with your mother and her inner emotional material. Some of that is what gets in your way — and if you work through some of that you’ll be more open to receive, and find it easier to look after yourself. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Leo Moon — Your Moon sign is ruled by the Sun, the only body in our solar system that produces its own light. Like the Sun, you need to shine forth to feel good. This is the most essential daily experience for your happiness. Part of shining brightly is not giving away your light, or power, to others without clear intentions. It can take some experience to learn how not to give away your power to others. This might include worrying about how someone else is living their life — such as what they are thinking, feeling and doing, or trying to solve their problems for them. This month, I suggest you do an all-systems check. Where is your energy going? Where are you worrying about other people’s business? To clarify, caring is not the same as worrying. Listen to your gut. If you feel off kilter, anxious, or if your emotions feel murky, that’s a warning. If you’re worried, stressed or jealous around someone else, that’s a sign you’re not shining in your inner light but instead giving it away. You may be caught in a subtle power struggle. In the desire to control what another person does, you lose your power. Where you notice you’ve done this, pull it back to you. Focus on feeling good, being confident, and living in your truths. Be confident. Those around you will be drawn to your inner Sun shining brightly. And remember, you have the right to shine brightly. For you, it’s the same as having the right to breathe air, drink water and feed yourself. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Introducing the Planet Waves 2012 Spring Report by Eric Francis

Spring 2012 is the wildest season I’ve ever seen in 18 years of doing around-the-clock astrology [listen to short audio preview here]. It fits the 2012 pattern of ‘everything, all at once’, even making that sound like an understatement. I am working on the report even as we edit this issue, and it’s coming out beautifully — every sign is coming through loud and clear and distinctive.

We have retrogrades of all three inner planets involved — Mercury, Venus and Mars. There is a rare Venus transit of the Sun — an exact conjunction of Venus and the Sun that you will be able to see if you have a clear view during daylight hours (you will need special equipment to protect your eyes). There are eclipses of the Sun and the Moon. And then, just four days after the Cancer solstice, we have the first exact square of Uranus and Pluto.

In honor of putting all this action to work for you, I’m preparing a special Spring Report for all 12 Sun signs and rising signs, as well as an introduction to the astrology that will be useful to everyone. This is a package of all 12 signs for one price. I’m designing it so that you can actually put many of the signs into use — for example, Virgo will be able to use the Gemini report as a career reading. Pisces can use Virgo’s report as a relationship reading, and so on. I give suggestions at the end of each sign, and will do a detailed description so you can get maximum use from this product.

We’re offering it at a special pre-sale price for current subscribers and customers — all 12 signs for $19.95. Once the report comes out, it will go on general sale for $24.95. The report will be ready by March 7, well before the spring equinox — I’m working on it now and it’s coming out amazing. Here is the link to pre-order. Thanks for signing up.

Virgo Moon — You’re at your happiest when the little things in life are ironed out. When details are straight and your environment is orderly and those around you are appreciating how hard you work, you’re feeling good. And when they’re not you can get cranky. Be careful of frustration and self-criticism this month, and of criticizing your closest relations. For you, relationships strike an emotional and satisfying note when there is a strong element of creativity, artistic quality, fluidity and depth. For these sorts of relationships to flourish they can’t be held to strict, unchanging details that are nailed every time. With Mars retrograde occurring in your Moon sign and your ruling planet Mercury soon retrograde as well, that’s a lot of inner focus. Relationships are often a reflection of our inner struggles, inner growth and work we need to do. You are in the process of an inner journey into your emotions and their reflection. Basically, you get to approach the situation from two angles. If approached from an open place, those two perspectives will bring greater clarity. Clarity is something you can work with. Resist the urge to nitpick anything at all, yourself or others. If you get all the small things right and the other person appreciates you for it, but they can’t get all the small things right (even though they try hard) what is the worst that would happen? Would the love and caring end? Would the whole house of cards come crashing down? I propose the answer is no. Even when the little details falter, the structure and purpose of the relationship remains. This is a good moment to employ that detachment air signs are known for. Get perspective and realize that the feelings of the need to be critical may not be appropriate for the slights that occurred. And then give partners in your life grace to be imperfect. You may just find this grace reflecting back on yourself. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Libra Moon — For you, beauty is an essential aspect of your environment: beauty that you can see, touch, hear and admire. Yet you also thrive on the awareness of intangible or inner beauty, the kind that requires one’s spiritual eyes to be open. For you, that inner-outer relationship is the ultimate expression of balance. I would caution you against getting caught up in the idea that for there to be beauty there needs to be perfection. Imperfection is an essential element: it reminds us that it is part of this world and not some unattainable ideal. It’s hard to enjoy life when you’re always chasing what you cannot reach. Life is ‘imperfect’, yet what that means is that there is always room for improvement. Part of its beauty lies in the creativity that is spurred by what we think of as imperfection. This month examine your perspective on beauty. What does beauty look like for you? What role does perfection play? Explore where you require perfection in your life — and where those ideas on perfection came from. You may get some interesting answers — answers that could stem from your earliest memories. Part of your living a happier, emotionally healthier life is grounding your perceptions in tangible reality. Life is a work in progress and as such never reaches the ideal state. As you ease up on this chase for perfect balance, you’ll know you are making headway when you feel a release of pressure. It’s like you’ve been holding your breath without really noticing it, and soon you can breathe easy again. Then take note of how more comfy and welcoming your emotions feel, and more importantly how much easier it is for them to feel balanced with the pressure easing off. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Scorpio Moon — One of the rulers of your Moon sign is Mars, Mr. God-of-War himself. As March progresses, I suggest you focus your energy on making art, not war. You already have abundant creativity at your disposal, and yet another layer of creative depth has been revealed. You’re being pulled through your emotions into this newfound dimension of creativity to learn how to harness it. This journey is not a logic puzzle or Rubik’s Cube you can figure out with your mind; rather, it’s a journey navigated by your feelings and intuition, a journey that’s a focused investigation. As you work out your relationship to the larger social spheres or even the public, this month you’re simultaneously working out what you are going to create to share with the world around you. Consider what provides you with meaning, and then approach that from an artistic mindset. If something emotionally fulfills and sustains you, that’s a clue you’re on the right track. As you get to know your own creativity, you’ll then be able to share it. Experimentation is part of the process. It involves letting go of controlling the outcome, testing the waters, and seeing what happens. This is an uncomfortable prospect for most Scorpio Moon folks, who often feel best when they have a sense of control. Create a physical space in which to experiment. This is an art studio of sorts for you, but more importantly it is a safe space where you can drop your guard, be imperfect and not be in control every second. As you explore art, think of yourself as a sculptor working and shaping your approach to experimentation itself. At first it may look or feel crude; but with practice an elegance begins to form. Go boldly this month — in the art you make and pushing into your deepest creative emotions. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Sagittarius Moon — For someone who spends so much time connecting to the world at large, you need to have a solid grounding in your intuition. Intuition is crucial in situations where you’re operating with partial knowledge and learning the rest of the information on the fly. Oftentimes when we are interacting with people we don’t know that well, we come to the table with some understanding of the situation and then learn more information or reach greater clarity in the midst of ongoing interactions. An example of this is travel. When you travel there’s always a piece of information that you don’t know, but then learn when you have your feet on the ground and meet real people. What gets you safely through operating with partial information is your intuition. That includes discernment — having a baseline to quickly categorize information into “more true” and “less true.” The other piece of intuition is the hairs on the back of your neck, a vibe check of people, and listening to what comes up through your core root of security. Be sensitive to how spaces feel, the first thing you notice about someone and the scent in the air. You’re as sensitive as a precision instrument. Your emotional security base is highly tuned to the psychic world to begin with, and for a while is even more highly sensitive, but in an easily accessible manner. None of this is cut and dried, nor can it be reduced to instructions. The information that comes back is more difficult to evaluate than a multiple choice test. If you’re unsure, test the waters before you dive in. Know where your comfort zone is, then go out to the very edge, and see what you notice. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Capricorn Moon — This month, I suggest you investigate your father’s psychological state and how it affected your ability to be clear on your needs. Much in your chart in March is calling for a conscious addressing of this issue of that ‘fatherly’ environment, in whatever form it may appear. Accompanying this call for healing are the tools to heal any challenge you might encounter. Whether the timing seems right or not, whether your father is alive or not, you can make significant headway this month in clearing out this old material that has hindered you for too long. As you sift through the information that is coming up through your emotions, look for residue of earlier power struggles or where you had to cover up how you felt to survive living under your father’s (or father figure’s) roof. If you approach this inquiry from a place of shameless and unfettered honesty, you’ll gain unusual clarity. These issues may seem unappealing to bring up, especially if you thought they were settled, but this is critical healing work you must do to sort out what your emotional needs are and how to get them met. Sometimes the most unpleasant emotional work is the most necessary. Once you exorcize these demons of pain and guilt, the next step is to realize that you don’t need to propagate this dynamic anymore. Your emotions don’t need to be tied up or influenced by how you were treated as a child or what the ‘rules’ were. You’re in fact in the middle of a years-long process of noticing these emotional patterns and triggers. Rather than trying to dig with a shovel, I suggest you take your lead from archeologists and use a brush. Dust off the debris gently. If you have siblings and they were not direct propagators of your wounding, use that trust and share what you learned and ask them what they learned. You may be surprised to learn that you were not the only one who had to play by the rules and sweep who they were under the carpet to survive. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Aquarius Moon — You have complex, imaginative and creative emotional resources. Basically, you have a big, colorful bag of tricks that include portable teleportation devices, wormholes, your own private comet and some flying horses for good measure. You can draw on these almost mythic resources whenever you need to. For you, all these fantastical things seem ordinary, and I would propose that you consider this is not true for others not of the Aquarian lunar breed. It’s important to understand your emotional resources and how others perceive them, so that you can clearly communicate your needs to those who may not understand how you produce a flying horse or hitch a ride on your own comet. Put another way, your emotional realm is like a Salvador Dali painting — melting clocks, doors in the sky, roads that go every direction at once, wispy people that appear and disappear before your eyes. You perceive the message and love the seemingly endless complexity, strangeness and newness — others can see the odd beauty but don’t necessarily connect with the meaning or the message. This month you are getting plenty of insight and good ideas regarding your emotional resources, which have a creative aspect to them and a deeply intuitive connection — almost like they come straight from the fabric of the Universe. That means you can’t think your way through them no matter how hard you try. You must feel your way through the territory, perceiving with all of your senses. As you proceed, honor and cherish how different your emotional resources are. Once you notice, others will too. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Pisces Moon — Surround yourself with beauty and take the time to just sit and soak it in. Get inspired, then go and create your own art or music from that inspiration. You may feel more drawn into your inner world than usual. It’s as if you have been teleported in an instant into one of the deepest layers of emotions, but when you get there the world is moving in slow motion. I suggest you not be alarmed how slowly your inner world moves at the moment. This will give you an opportunity to take stock and examine what you find in fine detail. There’s something here about your relationship to your partners and your relationship to yourself and the point where those two meet. Ultimately, for you it’s about knowing how to establish healthy boundaries, particularly when others are experiencing conflict that has nothing to do with you. Plenty of information and clues will be coming through as you explore that idea. Part of your creative process is allowing others the space to feel what they feel. That implies that you have the space to feel what you feel, which is essential to your creative process. This will allow you to let go of the heavier things some people around you are experiencing. As a Pisces Moon, you have an endless tank of inspiration for creativity. As you paint or photograph or make music, or sculpt or dance, you will be able to bring out to the surface some of what you’ve been feeling deep in your emotional spaces. When you talk about ‘relationship’, this is what you’re talking about exchanging with others. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Aries Moon — This coming month is a good time to ask the questions: Are you emotionally healthy? What does emotional wellbeing look (or feel) like for you? I’m not talking strictly about balanced feelings, but more that which you do on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to ground your emotions and keep your intense, passionate emotional energy pushing out into the world in a positive, productive manner. Part of your unconscious habits, what you do without really thinking about it, is to shape your world your way. As a born initiator it’s important to come from a place where all that inner fire is harnessed. That is, for you, emotional well being. When considering your emotional health I propose you look closely at how you spend your time and note how you feel. A component of this is expressing your inner intensity and passion through your most loved activities — physical exercise and sex. Your environment also plays a factor: get enough rest, eat well and drink plenty of water so you don’t burn out. Notice how you feel after you eat different kinds of food, especially carbs, processed food, sugar, caffeine and alcohol. As you proceed this month, tone down your brash, devil-be-damned approach to life for a bit and use Virgonian precision, attention to detail, astute observation and analysis. Test, observe, connect the dots between what you do and how you feel, and then make lasting changes to your structures, approaches and routines. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Taurus Moon — For you, February is about pleasure. I don’t just mean having a good time at a baseball game, but rather the kind of joy that resonates deep in your soul and with your higher self. This can be through a certain aspect of your work or work you would like to do, hobbies, or even activities you are curious about but have yet to label where they fit in your life. As the weeks progress you will be asked to reevaluate what gives you soul-satisfying pleasure. Part of becoming clear about which nourish you is the understanding that nourishment and pleasure are indeed important and have value. When that is true, you’ll build an emotional attachment and invest your emotional energy through thinking about it, talking about it, planning for it and doing it. Right now you may feel an expansive, seemingly endless amount of emotional energy to give to all aspects of your life, but in truth it is finite. You only have so much of yourself to give, only so much of an inner well to tap. So allocate your resources and energy wisely. Once you notice what gives you the most fulfilling and rewarding experience, prioritize that in your life. It’s about quality over quantity. So do less, and pour more of yourself and your time into that which has the highest value to you and gives you the most pleasure. Restructure where you put your energy and emotional attachment around that which energizes you, inspires you, lifts you up and helps you give back to the world. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Gemini Moon — Family patterns and themes often shape us for much of our lives, though this is particularly true for you now. These patterns, themes and emotional processes are deeply ingrained in our subconscious — so deep we often miss them. It’s like tightly woven threads that comprise a piece of string. Far away it looks like one seamless cord, but upon close inspection you realize it’s really a bunch of threads strung so tight they seem to be one thing. For the next few months you have a unique opportunity to make headway in separating those threads that are your parents’, grandparents’ and ancestors’ emotional processes from those that are distinctly yours. Mars retrograde is about understanding the details of your emotional composition. Chiron in Pisces provides you with a fine laser to do the delicate work of separating your family’s material, passed down through the generations, from your emotional patterns. Insight and realization will be coming down your psychic pipeline regarding these themes and how they affected you growing up — and now they influence you today, when you can do something about any unhealthy patterns and habits you discover. Some of these stretch back generations. They can stop with you; you can heal this ancestral material and move forward liberated from it. This is precision work, calling for focus and attention and most significantly the willingness to go deep. You may not be able to focus on one thing at a time, but soon you’ll discover how seemingly unrelated experiences are part of the same thing. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Cancer Moon — Children often have a hard time consciously recognizing or processing the impact their parents have on their emotional health. Adults are no different, with respect to the influences of their own parents. It can be hard to connect the dots between how our parents treated us and our current relationship to our own needs and desires. I would recommend starting with your father’s psychological legacy. What was your father’s psychological and emotional state when you were growing up? As an adult? Then, it follows — how did that affect you? When considering your father’s psychological state it’s helpful to consider the impact his mother and grandmother had on him. The key is to proceed from an open place of almost brutal honesty with yourself, separate from blame, guilt, shame, anger. Those emotions may arise. If there’s guilt or anger or you feel like blaming — that’s a clue you’re onto something and to sink into those feelings until you come out on the other side. You’ll learn something important. The Moon is all about needs and often our father’s viewpoints, themes and unhealed issues affect how we view our needs and our approach to getting them met. There is work here to be done, but it’s work that is worth doing. Once you are clear on your needs, then you can share them clearly with others, and make progress in building healthy relationships and setting healthy boundaries. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Leo Moon — A positive self-concept is crucial to feeling emotionally strong and secure. This month, you are getting real, tangible traction in reinventing your self-esteem, your values, your self-concept into healthier, more solid renditions. Or put it another way, if you have at times had a less than positive self-concept, you can make headway in clearing any old hang-ups in order to move forward consistently feeling good about yourself. A mirror of sorts is being held up, letting you see what is so close you can only become aware of it through its reflection. Many of these issues arising will be around abuse patterns and ‘daddy pleasing’ tendencies left over from childhood. The term ‘daddy pleasing’ refers to the unconscious or semi-conscious need to please or make happy the symbolic male authority figure. We feel this as fear or guilt or shame at the possibility of not pleasing this authority figure. There is something here about ending a karmic cycle of abuse, of healing the patterns and not propagating it for future generations. To end the cycle of abuse you must first recognize that the abuse took place, and that it influenced you. If there is no big elephant in the room regarding abuse in your life, remember these patterns can be subtle. It can be as simple as words that cut you down emotionally as a child. — by Genevieve Hathaway

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Virgo Moon — Mars began its retrograde in your Moon sign at the end of January; it is slowly moving backward this month through your Moon sign. It is a call to live each day conscious of your emotional state, which may include a good bit of anger some days. Emotions are imperfect things. They connect us to our soul, our higher self, and clue us in on some of our most important boundaries. Most important, they cue us to how we’re responding to our environment. Body-level experiences, they can’t be reasoned away or berated if they seem messy. For someone who can live in your mind so much, what you associate with your emotions often has to do with your mindset. Remember — thoughts, words and actions influence how you feel. Act, think and speak from a conscious place, honoring the power they have over your emotional state. You can see the ‘flaws’ in how you feel, or you can flip that mindset and see your strengths. You are far more perfect than you give yourself credit for. That is not a call to an inflated, unrealistic ego, but more a statement of grace. Give yourself grace to be imperfect. You are your toughest critic. Practice giving grace and acceptance to others, and it will be easier for you to apply those same principles to yourself. Grace and acceptance are your building blocks to a healthier, happier emotional state. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Libra Moon — The boundary between your inner emotional dimension and unconscious self is a permeable membrane. That’s to say, by accessing your feelings you’ve very close to accessing what’s going on in your ‘unconscious’ mind. Much in the way of information passes through this imaginary membrane that divides the two, and you will benefit from that right now. Over the next few months, with Mars slowly grinding backwards in Virgo, give yourself plenty of Zen time. Do less, schedule fewer commitments, give yourself plenty of time away from computers and electronics. Stop (okay, slow down a bit) sharing your life in 140 characters on Twitter and updating Facebook, and take more time to relax around people and places that nourish you. You need real relational experiences, not mere connections. You may experience some psychic tension that could manifest as a general feeling of sickness without any easy-to-pinpoint symptoms. If you feel like you are being slowly steamed inside a pressure cooker, that’s a clue to do less and let some pressure off. These are signs to slow down and do things to help you unwind. As you come into balance and find a more stable, secure and most of all private inner place, take note of what new information comes through your psyche.
— by Genevieve Hathaway

Scorpio Moon — You’re not someone who can be talked into or forced to do something you don’t want to do. Desire is a motivating force for you in all that you do. If the desire piece is missing, it’s simple — you don’t do it. Desires have an emotional connection, especially for watery Scorpio Moons. You feel your desires with an all-consuming burning passion of intense emotions. Yet, these emotions do not fling you this way and that; you keep an iron fist on how you feel. Determining what you want is a process of experimentation and refinement. Experiment, and then based on the result, refine your needs and how they are met.
Then go after that and repeat the process. This month that experiment is asking what kind of relationship you desire to have with the larger public. This isn’t intellectual, it’s a gut question. How do you FEEL about your public self, that is, the one you project into groups or the community? Are you perceived accurately for who you are? Are you where you want to be? Don’t get lost in the murky and intense depths of your own emotions. Work from a clear place of observation and analysis, then adjust your life accordingly. As you continue to refine your relationship with the larger public, determining what works for you and meets your needs, see it as a work in progress that doesn’t seek perfection but rather to have greater clarity in your needs and desires. This will give you and those around you room to maneuver and explore. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Sagittarius Moon — Amidst any lack of clarity, uncertainty, or confusion you may be feeling regarding yourself and your needs, let me make one point clear — you do have a place in this world. A place that involves your highest needs for freedom, curiosity and expansion of yourself to be met. I would caution against seeing any confusion or lack of security as emotional instability; rather, it’s reconnecting you with the deepest core of your being. The foundation of your emotional security is being strengthened, but first the cracks, wear and tear must be investigated before they can be repaired. As you investigate areas of emotional insecurity, proceed from a place of open receptivity to what you find. The place to find the strength and security you seek is self-acceptance: that is, authentic acceptance of who you are and what is true for you. The first person that needs to honor you and how you live your life is you. What you are rebuilding now are vast networks of emotional security that may have been tested or shattered by years of isolation. Build strong pillars of inner strength that extend deep into the ground, through the Earth, and out the other side into a different dimension. Remember, this will take time. There is no rush, only a need for steady and persistent action. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Capricorn Moon — As a Capricorn Moon, you are currently being profoundly changed by Pluto moving through your Moon sign. This is a deep, internal process ripping out emotional foundations and patterns that do not serve you, and rebuilding them to authentically support you. This process is helping you find the answer to the question of how to get your emotional needs met. Part of resolving this question is understanding what your current philosophy toward your emotions and needs is, and what philosophy would best suit you. Is your current philosophy yours or one given to you by other people? Personal philosophies speak to both values and our perception of how the world operates. The thing about a personal philosophy is it you can change it, which means changing yourself and your perception of life. As you investigate new life philosophies surrounding your emotional needs and those of the people close to you, start from a point of ‘change is possible’ or maybe even ‘change is inevitable. Life is in essence a blank slate each day, if we consciously forget the past. It may seem like for many lifetimes you’ve had to cover up who you are deep inside, but that is the past and you are creating your future one day at a time — a very different future that will be filled with people who support your emotional needs. The key is to view each day with an open mind, rather than stuck in the pattern of covering up your needs and desires. And the key to that may well be understanding the role of guilt in your life, and choosing to do something about it. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Aquarius Moon — This month marks the first month of the rest of your life. You have lived a very, very, very long time with Neptune cruising ever so slowly around the sign of your Moon. What felt like “YOU” on a deep level has gotten an overhaul. This may have felt less like an overhaul and more like a gutting of the very thing that was you. Some people may call that an identity crisis, I propose it was more of a melting of internal structures that did not serve you, followed by an identity breakthrough. That phase of your life is over. As Neptune leaves your Moon sign and enters Pisces, the experience of your personality, of being you, is going to be more tangible, clear and accessible. This manifests as a feeling of being solid, knowing what you need, clear on your emotions, and centered on your identity. It’s like before what was the very essence of you would just slide through your fingers like Jell-o every time you tried to grab hold of it, but now it’s a solid structure that you can pick up, hold and take with you. Before the prior landscape of Neptune in Aquarius gets too far away to see the details, carve out some time to take stock of what you learned and how you changed over the past 14 years. Pay particular attention to details about your relationship with your mother. — by Genevieve Hathaway

Pisces Moon — You survived so many years in the desert with only the occasional oasis to keep you going that the new immersion in water may still feel like an oasis instead of a permanent ocean. It’s as though your inner world has been flat for the past 14 years with the occasional holographic trick of the eye where for a flash you could feel in 3D. But now your inner landscape is a prism with many angles, dimensions and colors. As you explore the new depths and dimensions of your emotional realm, you’ll have plenty of traction to proceed with intention instead of aimless floating. Explore, experiment and note what information comes up in your emotional realm. But more importantly, learn how to go inward, get what you need, and shift back into the present moment without getting lost in all the layers of your inner world. Like a crystal, your emotions contain many facets; facets that you can draw on in different situations. Get to know them now so that as this complex year progresses you have the vast amount of knowledge contained within your emotional senses at your fingertips. Remember, you don’t have to spend your life bending to the needs of others. You exist in your own right. — by Genevieve Hathaway