January 2018 and Year ahead Overview

Some parts of life are on a wind down or finish off phase. You are likely to feel endings are a well-timed. Saturn now clears the way for the next phase of your life assume command.

If you are born in the first ten days of Aries, you’ll feel Saturn’s influence at full strength in 2018. If you are born later, you’ll have a little more time to build up to it.

If you are born in the last five days of Aries, you’ll feel the revolutionizing force of Uranus in Aries at full strength in 2018. If you are born earlier in the sign, then Uranus has likely already hit the ignition switch. To harness the best of Uranus, be open to the moment, seize opportunity when it appears, have courage, take a risk, reinvent a little or a lot. May to September, Chiron in Aries (most influential for those born at the start of Aries) can fire up something you think is too soon or too fast. On the hard end, it can be a bridge burning influence. To the plus, Chiron thrusts you onto a destiny-comes-calling race-ahead.

Mid May to the start of November can be an exceptionally fertile and/or lucrative time to break new ground. Uranus in Taurus can present new money-making opportunities. You can find yourself becoming exceptionally resourceful, exceptionally in touch with new trends, new potentials, with the world around you and the people in it. Someone or something new could be instrumental in reinventing your life.

January is an exceptionally opportune/lucrative month to get it off the ground, especially so January 6 to 9. January 31 and February 15 deliver the first eclipses of the year. Expect both to shake it up/shake you up in some dynamic, unexpected, and fast-track way.

For the past number of years, Uranus in Aries has mostly operated as a disruptive and caustic influence. It’s ultimatum aim has been to shatter through your inner sound barrier and to rewire your hard drive.  Lucky you if it has inspired or awakened you, or reinvented you in a liberating and prosperous way.

Either way, Uranus in Aries has been setting the stage for quite some time now. Serving the bigger picture karmic track, Chiron in Aries will take over from Uranus in Aries. Yes, there’s more sharp edges on the learning curve ahead, but ultimately you will burn off what you need to so that you can thrive rather than just survive.

From May 15 to November 6, Uranus will trek into Taurus. It can present itself to you as a sneak preview, a short dry run or a window of opportunity. Saturn in Capricorn holds Uranus steady (trines) while it transits Taurus. Saturn/Uranus can help you to adopt and adapt quite readily to the new reality. Make the most of the time you have, the tools you have, and the discoveries you make along the way. Saturn in Capricorn trine Uranus in Capricorn are a gift for your sign. They set a lucrative, fertile, and long-term backdrop. They can help you to acquire, accumulate, create, and manifest in a substantial to have and to hold way.

It is prudent to reduce your overhead, tighten up on the budget, cut back on wasteful spending, and manage your time better. On the other hand, added financial necessity, pressure, or commitment is within the range of possibilities too. Today’s strain could be tomorrow’s gain. Such investments as professional accreditation, profiling or memberships, self-employment, real estate, education, health, estate planning, or family are worthy investments.

As of January 2, Uranus ends retrograde. Through mid May, Uranus in Aries fires up your social sector. This is an excellent transit for exploring fresh ideas, new money-making opportunities, lifestyle reinvention, new goal setting, and for breaking ground in relationships too. The transit has been in effect since 2010, but Uranus is nearing the end of its tour through Aries. (It will do that early in 2019). Mid May to November, Uranus in Taurus will loan you a better insight regarding the shape of things to come.

January and February are great months to hit the ground running. January 8,9 are auspicious for money matters, relationship undertakings, and formalizing commitments. The super full moon eclipse in Leo on January 31 and the solar eclipse on February 15 can strike flint in some unexpected way.

Simultaneously, Saturn in Capricorn is on a wind-it-down and crank-it-up mandate. This transit can produce enormous pressure. You can feel blocked, held back, restricted or thwarted by life’s circumstances or by another. If/when the going gets too tough to cope with, stop using the wall as target practice, try to disengage as best you can. Instead, what small thing can you accomplish for yourself? If you still find yourself coming up empty, then get some fresh air. If you can relinquish the struggle part or just a smidgen of it, you will give room to the creative process that has been snuffed out by your fear, anxiety, depression, disappointment, or depletion. There are plenty of stars to pick you up and carry you in year ahead. Trust in the cyclical nature of life and know that the stars are always moving along and conspiring on your behalf, even when you don’t think so/when you can’t feel it or see it. At any moment, anything could change.

The first half of January is sure to get something cooking, starting with the super full moon in Cancer on January 1. Uranus direct on January 2, Mars/Jupiter on January 6 and Venus/sun/Pluto on January 8, 9 are all good for getting the action going. You could find yourself on a faster forward than you anticipate. Stay ready, stay hopeful.

Uranus in Aries (a finishing transit) and Chiron in Aries (a launching transit) will continue to help you or force you to bust up the old concrete and to lay a new foundation. A bridge can be burned, but you don’t want to backtrack anyway, you want to spring-forward/to upgrade instead. Uranus can fast-track your career, introduce you to a new one, or to new elements of the existing one. Both Uranus and Chiron in Aries can help you to crack the code and to strike through the glass ceiling.

Uranus in Taurus (mid May to November) can usher in a welcome lifestyle change. To the plus, it can dial up fresh interests, lucrative opportunity, and better financial prospects. New challenges or survival requirements are in the mix too, but overall, this is a transit that gives you more to work with while helping you to reach higher ground.

The solar eclipse of July 12 is a partial eclipse, but expect it to change the score in some major way, especially so if your birthday falls on or near this eclipse.

On the other hand, Saturn’s transit can place you at the other end of the spectrum, setting the clock on retirement, or prompting you to call it quits on a job or a business that no longer delivers the goods. Finishing out your term can be a grind and test you patience, but aim to make a good show all the way to the finish line as best you can. No matter whether you get the acknowledgement or not, personal pride in job well done is a reward beyond measure.

Saturn in Capricorn asks you to take your health seriously too. See a specialist if you need to, obey the rules, stick to a routine, a proper diet, drink more water, moisturize, stretch; use it, don’t lose it. If you want to age gracefully, start on it now. If you aren’t aging gracefully, then it is time to push yourself harder. Saturn is helpful for abstinence programs, so if you have a vice to quit, start now.

Chiron in Aries can add fresh challenges, but from mid May to November, Saturn in Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus are well aligned with each other’s agenda. They set an opportune backdrop and help you/keep you making the most of it, especially regarding career, professional ambitions, creative projects, wealth management, and all fixer-upper mandates (relationships and health included). Uranus in Taurus can position you at a right time and place. Catch the wave! Don’t say you aren’t ready yet, you are. You can gain favour with the public or those in decision making positions. Despite Uranus’s propensity for inconsistency or the unexpected, uphill battles can be made easier by Saturn in Capricorn trine Uranus in Taurus. Use this transit to shore it up legally or to make it official.

The total lunar eclipse of January 31 is a super moon in Leo. You will feel this strike-flint eclipse if your birthday falls on or near August 3. The solar eclipse of February 15 is the polarity eclipse for last year’s total solar eclipse; it can be especially igniting, exciting, and event generating if your birthday falls on or near August 21.

Saturn in Capricorn sets the clock on a time-has-come moment of significance. The time has come for what? To establish yourself or your life course in a more hands on way. To find the courage to take on your heart’s desire no matter what the journey asks of you. To live more authentically with yourself and in relationship to your loved ones. To show this seasoned version yourself to the world around you too. The hero’s journey requires you to pick up the gauntlet and to put ambition to work toward the success, recognition, reward, and fulfillment you so desire, no matter the labours that must be faced along the way. This is a 2 ½ year transit, so known you have plenty of time to work on it.

Saturn in Capricorn can set you up with a new status, professional, personal, marriage, family wise, etc. New or added responsibilities are par for the course.

One thing after another in rapid succession, no doubt the past 8 years of Uranus in Aries have been strenuous. There is still another year to go – and note that Chiron will just be getting started on its tour of Aries. Yes, there are more battles to fight on the road ahead. The bigger picture intent of these transits helps you to hone your inner warrior. If you are honest with yourself, you should be able to recognize that even though it is a work in progress that you have built good muscle so far. (Yes, you have.)

Mid May through November, Uranus tenants Taurus. Uranus in Taurus assists you to get more sure-footed on the direction forward. Uranus in Taurus draws added momentum from Saturn in Capricorn. Together, Saturn/Uranus put more substantial and more lucrative opportunity in your path. Perhaps you’ll feel this planetary pairing as somewhat of a reward or as compensation for putting up with the turbulent years. Of course, the world/your world is still a tricky place to navigate. You aren’t completely out of the woods. Still, you’ll gain good assistance from planets in earth signs in 2018. By the end of the year, you should feel you have a good handle on yourself and your future, that you have plenty to show for your efforts and courage.

Looking back, you’ll see you are coming full circle on a thirty-year cycle of revisiting the past aimed to help you understand it deeper and to lay a better foundation. Have you succeeded so far? Take stock on how you are living with yourself, rather than dwelling on the uncomfortable fall-outs. Saturn transits can make you feel overburdened, unfairly dumped on or tethered, or set you on an endurance test. Over the next couple of years, Saturn aims to help you get a more solid platform built, one that helps you build better boundaries, gain better emotional self control, and to get better self directed. Whether it is due to a squeeze or ambition, Saturn aims to help you hone your inner strength and resolve. Conquer yourself and you’ll conquer it too.

Along with Uranus and Chiron in Aries, Saturn aims to dismantle the conditioning factors that inhibit your progress and growth. Uranus and Saturn have been at it for awhile. They’ll continue to work together in 2018. Uranus in Taurus (mid May to November) trine Saturn in Capricorn is an excellent transit for making the most of it, especially regarding new opportunities. Uranus in Taurus can enhance financial prospects and intimate relationship potentials. Try something or someone new on for size. It/they could prove to be exactly what you need and want.

January/February are dynamic, hit the ground running months. Venus in Capricorn and the sun begin a new 9-month relationship and manifesting cycle on January 8, 9. Venus/sun draw extra turbo from their new phase relationship with Pluto. This is an auspicious time to make your power play. Look to the super full moon eclipse in Leo on January 31 and the solar eclipse in Aquarius on February 15 to fire up added excitement or something unexpected.

Venus will tenant Libra in August (while Mars finishes up retrograde) and the first half of September. Venus will begin its retrograde tour in Scorpio in October, revisiting Libra in November through the start of December. Expect the fall to be an important time for sorting out money and relationship matters.

Last year, Saturn and Uranus were aligned (trine) in the fire signs, which has likely resulted in a fresh boost regarding work matters, creative projects, personal and lifestyle upgrades. So far, so good, keep going.

Saturn and Uranus will maintain their trine relationship from May to November, but they’ll do so across earth signs. This planetary pairing can be quite lucrative and productive, especially regarding establish yourself in some new way. Aim to secure your reputation, build a client base, gain favour with the pubic or to get your name brand better known. Saturn/Uranus are a favourable combination for professional development and recognition, for dealing with those in charge, or dealing with those who can give your career a leg up. You could gain an official or legal status (i.e., a name change, citizenship, professional title, relationship status). Saturn/Uranus can improve communication tracks, get you more socially involved or community minded. The transit also favours teaching, mentoring, training programs, upgrades to marketing, promotional ventures.

Uranus is completing its 8-year tour of Aries, while Chiron is just at the start of its tour of this sign. Both will set up fresh challenges and opportunities. There’s no time to slack off. Keep yourself informed, practice more, explore more, listen more. Position yourself as best you can ahead of the game/the curve. Aim to set the trend rather than follow it. The eclipses of the year can be major catalysts and triggers, especially if they make a direct contact to your sun or chart. (January 31, February 15, July 12, July 27, August 11.)

Venus will turn retrograde in Scorpio in October and finish out the retrograde in Libra in November. This will be a time to regroup and re-evaluate investments and relationships.

Saturn’s transit through Capricorn gains fresh fuel from its trine aspect with Uranus in Taurus, which happens mid May through November. This combination keeps it interesting and stimulating while holding you steady at the same time. They bode well for fresh job prospects, creative solutions, and making improvement where you want and need it the most. Uranus in Aries (January to mid May, November through February 2019) is an ace in your pocket too.

2018 provides a first introduction to Chiron in Aries, an 8-year transit that will take over from Uranus in Aries. Expect to continue to keep on an acceleration track and to continue to break new ground regarding matters of heart (includes relationships with lovers and children), your inner journey, your creativity and personal reinvention.

It’s been nearly 30 years since Saturn last visited Capricorn. You now stand at the intersection of the culminating past and founding of new reality baseline. On the sweat end of things, Saturn in Capricorn can limit you physically, put you under added pressure to get it worked out, place you on a time constraint or drag out a time extension. You can put yourself under added emotional or material pressure too.

Whether you feel inspired or pushed to put ambition to work, it is to your great benefit to get the show on the road. Saturn brings you to a time is right moment. It can give more legitimacy to your claim on “I’ve earned it I deserve it”. Venus/sun/Pluto on January 8,9 set an auspicious backdrop for a power play.

In 2017, Uranus and Saturn facilitated each other’s fire sign initiatives. In 2018, Uranus in Taurus will form a trine relationship with Saturn in Capricorn from mid May to November. Look to Uranus/Saturn to get off to a good start, to help you get something substantial, lucrative, and worthy up and running. They’ll help you set a strong momentum, one that can carry you through the year and through to the momentous year of 2020 when the stellium of planets in Capricorn will officially cut the ribbon on the new day dawn.

Uranus is finishing its 8-year trek through Aries while Chiron makes its first foray into the warrior sign. There’s still more reinventing, uprooting, and breaking new ground on the road ahead.

All the eclipses of the year are trigger points regarding personal life and world stage action. The solar eclipse of July 12 is particularly notable as the sun and moon will oppose Pluto in Capricorn. “Off with the old, on with the new”; you can witness the effect of this eclipse as a pivotal turning point, a milestone or watershed moment, a sign on/sign off switch, or no backing down, full steam ahead, especially so if you are born on or around January 10.

January 31 delivers a super full moon eclipse in Leo (and Mercury fresh into Aquarius). February 15 delivers a solar eclipse new moon at 27 Aquarius. Both are sure to be strike flint events, especially so for you if your birthday happens on or near either date. The February 15 eclipse can act as a fruition or culmination trigger for that which has been on brew and/or seeding over recent months. It serves as a creative and exposing catalyst, a re-ignition trigger, or next level up regarding the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017.

Saturn in Capricorn is a background influence for your sign, but it is still of great significance. Saturn gives more shape and form to the potentials that are already on brew. Put yourself to work on your dreams and aspirations. With the right mix of self effort, creativity, trust in yourself, and a contribution from time and opportunity, anything is possible.

Uranus in Taurus, mid May to November, maintains a good working relationship with Saturn.

Uranus in Taurus can be an uprooting influence, but while it’s partnered up with Saturn (by trine aspect), you are likely to welcome/appreciate the new foundation it is laying. Uranus in Taurus can see your real estate increase in value (metaphorically speaking too). Upgrades to your home or your lifestyle are worthy investments. Uranus in Taurus can increase your resourcefulness. Too, you can start relating, living with yourself, or expressing yourself in some new, perhaps completely unexpected way.

Chiron in Aries in dynamic tension to Saturn during the same period, provides a sharp edge; it’ll keep on your toes.

Mars enters Aquarius mid May and turn retrogrades in your sign from late June through mid July. (The retrograde cycle continues through the end of August, but in Capricorn). Mars in Aquarius retrograde is a pull back and regroup transit. Your best times for a fresh dive are January/February. Mars tenants Aquarius again from mid September through mid November, but you’ll have both Venus and Mercury retrograde to contend with in the fall. (Use October/November to take a time out and to check in with yourself again.)

Especially for 2018, Saturn’s transit in Capricorn makes it more real, more bankable, more profitable. It gives more tangible shape and form to goals and to that which has been in the works for a few years now. New relationships (personal or professional) can be forged and cemented. They are ones that are likely to have a long shelf life. Saturn in Capricorn can also usher in a new professional, material, or personal status. You could become known as an expert in your field, move into a mentoring role, adopt a child, become an empty-Nester, or a grandparent. January 8, 9 can be an auspicious time to launch a new money-making venture, a new relationship, or for a new reality to make its presence known.

Uranus in Taurus can introduce you to new ideas and trends, a new lifestyle or passion, money-making opportunity, or a new social network. You could find your opinions, interests, and attractions are radically different than they were just a short time ago. Life is worth exploring! Saturn/Uranus are in good manifesting and cash-in shape from mid May through November. Even if you find yourself are on a radical departure from your usual ways, choices and involvements, it could feel quite natural for you.

Chiron has transited Pisces since 2010. It is both a maverick and a loner archetype. During this transit, you have had to mentor yourself. Likely you have moved though periods of great hope and promise, and through periods of great disillusionment too. In 2018, you will get an introductory look at Chiron in Aries. To a large extent, it may simply feel like an extension of Uranus in Aries. What do I mean by this? Your inner warrior will continue to be called upon as your first go-to person. You have had plenty of practice so far. Stay strong, stay creative, stay passionate!