January 2020

Through the middle of February, Mars keeps you going strong. It’s one of your best Mars transits for putting yourself out there and for action. Know that Mars has a clearer shot through the first half of January than at month’s end. Mars aligned with Neptune by the end of January is best used for seeking inwardly and the spiritual quest, for “in here” instead of “out there”. Take time out for a creative project, a vacation, to replenish yourself and to feel your way along. Relinquish expectations, let go and ease up.
The lunar eclipse on January 10 will be significant impact for you if you are born April 10 to 12 or if it makes direct contact to your personal planets. With so many planets involved, watch for the eclipse to trigger action a few days before and to continue to stay triggered at some heighted level for the few weeks that follow. The eclipse can be a significant catalyst regarding your career or personal life circumstances or priorities. Watch for significant development regarding something long standing or long in the works, or regarding someone key, i.e. parents or a parental figure, an authority or someone who wields control or influence. The eclipse shifts and cements the reality and/or the timetable.
Start to finish, the year ahead is one of endings and completion, and (more importantly) of constructing the long-term platform. Time is of the essence, roll up your sleeves and put it to maximum use. By the time you get to the end of it, your life and the world around you will look a lot different.

Start to finish the transits for the year ahead are significant. The best you can do for yourself is to get ready for tomorrow and the change it will most certainly bring. How can you do that? Face today’s reality head on. Keep ambitious, set substantial (but also practical and realistic) goals for yourself, and put your time to the best possible use. Reposition yourself. Do what you need to do in order to get a more solid foundation laid so that you will have ample opportunity for the radical reinvention that awaits you on the road ahead. In other words, set yourself up now for later advantage and you’ll set yourself up for better gains.
January 4 and 5 are optimum for getting it up and rolling. Encompassing the lunar eclipse in Cancer, the end of Uranus retrograde in Taurus, the momentous Saturn/Pluto conjunction, and several other important planetary alignments, January 6 to 13 can set you or the reality on go in some timely, opportune, abrupt, unexpected and/or exposing way. Watch for important results, an answer, feedback, or news. Someone of significance could take an exit or make an entrance into your life. What is set into play holds significant potential in terms of the immediacy of the moment and regarding the long term.
Venus leaves Aquarius for Pisces on January 13; Mercury enters Aquarius on January 16 and the sun on January 20. All three are good for reinvention and breakthroughs (personal, career, material) and for trying something (or someone) fresh and new. Even so, off and on you’ll feel an edgy or stressful backdrop.
By the end of the month Mars/Neptune (January 28) can make you feel less certain, motivated, or driven. The transit can cloud, confuse, diffuse, or dissipate you or it. On the other hand, it’s a good time for creative projects, a vacation or spiritual retreat, for easing up, letting it go, and going with the flow.

The lunar eclipse on January 10 can find you totally immersed, consumed, perhaps even overwhelmed. Watch for the eclipse to clue you in, perhaps unexpectedly. Watch for a hidden advantage or a surprise opportunity, for something to give way and to immediately lock something else into play. Seeds planted at this time hold greater than average potency.
January 9 to 13, the lunar eclipse and the stellium of planets in Capricorn (especially the Saturn/Pluto conjunction) put added emphasis on your relationship status, you health, all security matters and survival issues (financial, material, career). Added effort and ambition will serve you well. Reprioritize, make it official, put more effort into getting it under better control. You will become increasingly aware of time on time on the move and how important it is to use it well. It is time to bring something long standing that no longer serves to an end, and to actively work toward building what can support and sustain you for the long haul. If you don’t know yet what that is, simply agree with yourself that you are ready for change and keep alert to the conspiracy of synchronicity.
Mercury (starting January 16) and the sun (starting January 20) in Aquarius can shift your thinking and introduce you to new prospects and potentials. January 22 through the end of the month the stars move you through a transition. It could be a change of heart, mind or something more. Something gives way so something else can take over. A lid or barrier is removed regarding important career and relationship matters.

Whether you feel forced or ambition kicks into play, the Capricorn mandate requires that you show up for yourself in a more significant way. On the difficult end, the wall can seem insurmountable, the pressure too much to bear. You can feel especially burdened, limited, at the end of your rope, or done in by your present circumstances. If this is the case for you, know that the stars are conspiring to help you get something more worthwhile off the ground. The lunar eclipse in Cancer can bring you to an ending, but more importantly, it is setting you onto a new or next track. January 6 to 13 helps you/forces you to work through plenty. Once the reality sets into play, it is a matter of feeling your way along.
On the other hand, the Capricorn mandate will reward effort, ambition, and patience. Face the hard stuff as a work in progress and know that all good things – all that is truly worthwhile and of lasting value – require you to put in a significant investment. Venus in Pisces, starting January 13 can make the going somewhat easier. While an element of uncertainty continues in the mix, don’t let it stop you, work around it instead. Do what you can as you can and max out on the opportunity when you see the getting is good.

! Opposing the Capricorn stellium, the lunar eclipse in Cancer on January 10 can bring something lost, hidden, or overlooked to attention. On another note, it could produce a saving grace. You could find or recover something or reconnect with a key someone. The Mercury action on this eclipse can bring important news, see you deal with documentation, take on more responsibility or step into a new professional or administration role. It also puts the spotlight on a key person such as an advisor/expert, parent or elder, boss or authority figure.
Uranus ends retrograde on January 11, just one day after the eclipse. Saturn/Pluto begin a new cycle on January 12. Mercury and Ceres in Capricorn tag along for the ride. This grouping favours restructuring, upgrades and reinvention (personal, career or lifestyle). The timing is good for overhauls of all kinds.
Venus leaves Aquarius on January 13, but Mercury begins a tour of this sign on January 16. Both transits (and the sun in Aquarius starting January 20) keep social and personal relationship involvements on the move along too.

Seven planets occupy Capricorn at the month’s start. Now and over the year ahead, Saturn, Pluto, and Jupiter will support you to take better control, to put better boundaries in place, to create something more tangible and substantial for yourself. The lunar eclipse in Cancer on January 10 triggers this stellium of planets. It is a potent seeding time for personal and lifestyle reinvention and the setting of new goals. The eclipse puts an added spotlight on someone you love (a family member perhaps?). By choice or by circumstance, that person is likely to undergo significant, even radical change (i.e. a marriage or pregnancy, a divorce, a change of career or lifestyle, a transition for someone who is nearing the end of life, etc.). A hello or goodbye could be said.
Uranus in Taurus ends retrograde on January 11. Along with the momentous Saturn/Pluto new cycle (January 12), and the transits in Aquarius – namely Venus in Aquarius, to January 13, Mercury (starting January 16) and the sun (starting January 20) – you can expect to break plenty of timely (and hopefully desired) new ground in the weeks and months to come!

Seven planets in Capricorn shape the new reality baseline. Some are newly at it, some of the planets have been working on this agenda for a good length of time. You’ll feel this Capricorn agenda as a long haul coming to an end. Too, you’ll feel especially aware that time is moving forward and that you need to spend it wisely. Yes, the future can be a sobering reality, but it is important to get a better handle on your personal life priorities, and to put good effort toward the laying of a more solid foundation for the long term. The lunar eclipse in Cancer on January 10 can bring you to a significant milestone, goal post or finish-line. It also puts an added spotlight on a family member or matter, or on someone of significance from your past. A hello or goodbye could be said. The eclipse will hold the strongest impact for those born July 12 to 17 but of course it will be a dynamic one for all of us. Watch January 6 to 13 for an action peak.

January 10 delivers a lunar eclipse in Cancer. January 11, Uranus in Taurus ends retrograde. January 12, Saturn and Pluto complete the cycle they started in 1982 and launch their next 33-year construction project. With all that going on at the same time, you can expect something to kick start or thrust into high gear. The eclipse can set the future into play in some significant, ground laying, make it real way. You could hear news or hear from someone (perhaps a family member) who lives a distance away. The eclipse supports travel, relocation, expanding your family, downsizing, education, mentoring or teaching, writing, publishing, or marketing ventures.
January 20 through the end of the month can move you through yet another threshold with someone or something. Moving on or letting go could be a natural progression.

January 10 delivers a lunar eclipse in Cancer. What’s so special about this eclipse is that it loans extra turbo to the rare lineup of planets in Capricorn. Ending a lengthy tour and beginning a new cycle on January 12, Saturn and Pluto join forces. In so doing they strip away the veneer and reformat the bottom-line priority in some undeniable way. You can face a sobering emotional reality, or you may finally feel you are building toward something significant, worthwhile, and lasting. Either way, you are likely to sense this passage of time as having reached a threshold turning-point like no other. January 9 to 13 can set the reality into play with an added punch. Venus, Mars, and Neptune are in action January 22 to 28. It is a good combination for creative projects, spiritual replenishment or a vacation. On the emotional end, they can expose more than you realized was at the core, and/or move you through a letting go and moving on process. It’s a natural progression.

A completion and seeding transit of significance, Saturn/Pluto bring you to a new and next karmic threshold. You have grown, time has matured. You now have plenty of ground work already laid to support this next phase of your life. There is less margin for error and less time to waste. Use the year ahead to build it better. It will set you up for the changes that will reinvent you from the inside out, from the core of self and extending out to the most important parts of your life. By the end of 2020 it will be time to move through the turnstile and onto the 2021 train. Mid March through the start of July, you’ll get a jumpstart from Saturn’s temporary visit to Aquarius. This transit could set up a window of opportunity timeframe.
The lunar eclipse in Cancer on January 10, the end of Uranus retrograde on January 11, and a host of other planetary triggers between Jan 9 and 13 are sure to thrust you into the thick of it. If you are born between January 6 and 13, you’ll feel the fullest impact of these momentous stars. Of course, they are of major impact for all of us. The eclipse features health and contracts of all kinds (actual and karmic). An emotional journey for sure, it puts needs, security, trust issues, and self preservation issues to the fore. The transits also put the spotlight on a key relationship (i.e. a parent, a child, a lover, a care-giver, or someone who needs more from you). A hello or goodbye can be said.
January 20 to 29 is good for a change of pace, for exploring more, or for letting go and moving on.

Opening 2020, seven planets in Capricorn are taking you through a critical set-up year. Together, they are working to help you harness this time has come moment and the potentials that are ripe and ready to hit the landing strip. Perhaps you have a sense of what this new chapter is about to dish up. If you don’t, look to the lunar eclipse in Cancer on January 10 to clue you in. This eclipse is a trigger for the end of Uranus retrograde on January 11, the momentous Saturn/Pluto conjunction on January 12 and more. Watch for intensified action from January 6 through 13, for something specific or for a key someone to set the play in motion. The eclipse features work, health, or something unfinished from the past. It’s an opportunity to bring something long standing to a finish line or to bring something of the past forward to be reworked. What is seeded during this time will take time to fully define itself. Although there is significant change ahead, what is started during this time will lay the groundwork for the long term. (Watch for Saturn in Aquarius, mid March to the beginning of July, to crack it open more.)
The eclipse and Capricorn action gives way to Aquarius stimulation via various transits of Venus, Mercury and the sun with Uranus (January 15 to 18, 20, 22, and 24). Don’t expect to sit still. One way or another, you can expect to stay busy. January 26 to 29 are best used for feeling your way along, easing up, and going with the flow.

It’s the end of a long haul, a chapter/life era close and the start of a new meet up with destiny. Perhaps it is something you have been anticipating (retirement, children leaving home, starting a family, saying goodbye, etc.), or working on for a long time (career advance, a major lifestyle change), or perhaps it something unexpected. Suffice to say, this is no ordinary moment along the timeline. Make sure to get a good foundation laid so that you can easily go the distance. Jupiter in Capricorn is teamed up with Pluto for the better portion of the year. It will see you cover more ground than average. The combination can produce a substantial shift of priorities and goals. They also set a backdrop for substantial growth regarding your professional track or personal life.
Watch for the eclipse to keep the action on a roll out from January 6 through 13. Just hours after the sun meets up with Saturn and Pluto on January, Venus enters Pisces. This day can see you reach a finish-line. A potential could prove its worth. You could surpass something substantial (along the lines of breaking point or a next threshold). January 20 to 29 is good for a creative project, a vacation or spiritual retreat, or for feeling your way through a relationship issue.