This post originally appeared on Melinda May Parker’s So Caposhi on January 18, 2019.
Over the past year and a half you have seen two complimentary fields of experience warp and bend and produce wormholes. This week’s eclipse brings symbolic closure to a short and also long diachronic tale. The eclipse light invites you to shut up and listen…
The interpretations below address the following activity roughly in this order:
- Venus in Sagittarius enters into harmonious confluence with Mars in Aries January 18.
- Sun’s relationship with Earth enters tropical Aquarius January 20.
- Total lunar eclipse in tropical Leo January 20 18:36 – 23:48 PST, Maximum at 21:12 PST.
- Mars in Aries makes a stressful square with Saturn in Capricorn January 21.
- Mercury enters tropical Aquarius January 24.
To be read from the rising sign. To read from the sign of Sun’s natal placement (or from Moon’s if born at night) can offer helpful if sometimes less precise insight. Any of these options are a way to *broadly* orient the reader from the point of view of a dominant zodiacal archetype during a specific span of time. This expresses one way to use astrology: a zoomed out, slightly blurred view stopping at twelve equal marks within a full 360º rotation.
♑︎ CAPRICORN + CAPRICORN RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
Charity and solitude are pleasing, and the force of your activated subconscious now influences what home is. Together these qualities currently strike a sine wave tone.
You may find that your commitments get in the way of your ability to get quiet and experience what’s going on with yourself. Watch for irritable behavior that emerges from the subconscious.
You’ve plumbed mysterious depths over the past year and a half and perhaps you’ve sought greater control over a shared resource. You’ve examined the ways you’re prone to feel possessive and hopefully examined ideas around attachment to objects or outcomes. Sit near something sweet-smelling and close out this chapter in spacious, subsonic contemplation of ownership.
A more normal-looking light will then illuminate resources which you generate for yourself. A more chipper, daytime voice will ask in a new way why you acquire capital. This may sound like the same story, but by a totally different author.
♒︎ AQUARIUS + AQUARIUS RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
The poetry of the group; the spunky increased tempo of everyday life. Your ego-spirit is so aligned with your own ideas that you may be prone to conflict. Patience can be brought to clearing away and finishing.
Sit quietly with the story of your relationships with strong personalities. You have seen this story warp and feel weird and maybe change course. How do your interactions with another rustle up what’s dormant or automatic? Be quiet today and listen to the trees.
This month, recharge! It will be an energetic, rejuvenating few weeks. If you found the new calendar year’s rituals wanting, you can now build strength and generate designs for your personal annual revolution. The vivaciousness of your mind at present may affect your attention span.
♓︎ PISCES + PISCES RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
Visible fluidity: right now you attract helpers of all kinds. A helper could be patronage or a helper could be love. Spirit and potency: Your desire for materials is heightened, as is a tendency towards impulse in spending and territorial dispute.
Over the past 1.5 years you have showed up repeatedly to the temple of work and lit a candle to performance, to teaching, and to color. You lit candles to hubris and to the grind, and you let both of them both burn all the way down for different reasons.
Everything might be alright, but make sure you don’t pretend. This time light a candle to the Earth.
Over the next month you will visit your subconscious and solitude, reflection, meditation. Everything you do this year is somehow public, so you might not be able to hide. This complication will be therapeutic. Past actions may have inadvertently caused offense and you may need to work though ways in which you’ve been blocked. Your honesty can heal the darkness of doubt.
♈︎ ARIES + ARIES RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
The force of your individuality and the consciousness-altering effects of new art or new people or a new place blend to reach fever-pitch. Your energy levels have been high and you are particularly receptive to all the world has to offer. Identity action must also be seen as a vector in the collective, and your ego’s power to exert itself currently comes forth best when there is well-considered awareness of communal context. Your projection becomes more full with your ability to harmonize. Think about this in relation to what your goals and ideals have done for you lately. A lot? A little? Where do they come from? Objectivity from others can help.
If you took professional shortcuts in the past, you may find that that your radiance and your responsibility together strike an irritating tone. If you have taken leadership seriously whether you have wanted it or not, you may find that instead these things together are now a powerful beam — your light and the light of your accomplishments.
♉︎ TAURUS + TAURUS RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
What is shared now is gentle and powerful; there is strength in how you express what’s hidden. Magnetism, gentle lust, the allure of what you attract through other people or institutions blends with sturdy irritability, a recent overcast of frustration.
The Earth often has much to say to you; currently it speaks loudly and also invisibly. Light a candle in your house and be quiet and awake. Or light a candle in your thoughts and allow submerged information to the surface. How have you needed to be seen or not seen? Observe what you have brought out into the open over the past year and a half. What is not conscious can gain control, but what is integrated can be a resource.
Begin to examine how your ego expresses publicly. Career and reputation are the month long focus, and this is also a time to make plans, concern yourself with the way you do what, and as always to communicate beauty.
♊︎ GEMINI + GEMINI RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
Right now your thinking is able to get to the bottom of things, and to brush up against what you can usually only access through dreams. Maybe you can access the consciousness of those in power through meme. Your thoughts may drift to deaths or to debts, but all of the above is more useful if you’re able to remain here and now. For levity: energetic force through community, visionary beauty through one other.
You maintain a love of facts and you know how to make them engaging, but the past 1.5 years have brought subjective periods: there is no logic in this place…and what might typically have been lighthearted conversation has materialized with weight and intensity. Sister or brother and brother or sister compete for attention through pre-programmed behaviors. Set aside some time to just be under the weird moon and let a woman teach you.
This month you will be lured past intellectual boundary. Your curiosity is amplified and you want to encounter new experience, discourse, possibly even good-spirited, friendly disagreement…
♋︎ CANCER + CANCER RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
Right now there is joyous loveliness in work, which ignites through a public energetic spark. Clarifying expectations in relationships may throw some sand on these charmed art sparks.
Every year there is uncharted territory to explore in regards to how you share resources and negotiate the energy within matter. This is an appropriate time to discuss what is jointly held.
Over the past 1.5 years you have done healing, holy work around generosity and charisma. What do your money and your possessions symbolize? How do your resources render an emotional charge tangible? Now may not be an ideal time to make purchases because your conscious mind is infused with a subjective, nonlinear night quality, and you may still be working with old information.
This week, take what you’ve learned about money and materiality and teach it to your calendar and your neighborhood and your siblings and your house and your subconscious.
♌︎ LEO + LEO RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
Exquisite, elaborate and smooth insight fuels might, courage and bravery in play. Enact your discovery!
You may plunge one last time into the wormhole of your identity crisis. To sense confidence and self absorption simultaneously will make a final pass at whatever healing was initiated off and on over many, many months. To seek and sense other points of view in earnest whilst your own personality undergoes routine maintenance is something many of us have never even tried. In closing: there has been an intermittent quality of night to your solar self. Now you have new information that is also ancient.
For the next month, focus your mind on one-on-one relationships. What can you both agree upon? This is a good time to get a second opinion. Even conflict is a collaboration. How can conflict be harmonious? How many ways can you and another explore unknown territory?
♍︎ VIRGO + VIRGO RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
There are depths of amusement to investigate. Now you are apt to express and make things clear, but you may also err insensitive through magic tricks and cheap gags. A meme can be fun and silly and also very grave.
Over the past year an a half a part of the story has emerged as a need to be recognized versus a desire to conceal what you feel. If you fear rejection and hide parts of yourself, those hidden parts can become powerful in a dark way. What you are reluctant to face can also save your soul. The Earth is your body, and she offers a fount of material to work with. Look at a candle or a fireplace video: think about what invisible things of yours can be artist’s materials.
For the next few weeks you analyze and triage even more than usual. What needs to be done and how? Be sure your attention to detail extends to care of your health and care of your peace.
♎︎ LIBRA + LIBRA RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
Pleasant familiarity informs you with a light touch that you do not need something outside you to access love. An encounter with a neighbor, an evening walk can bring elegance and refinement to what’s regularly scheduled. Take care with your relationships; use this time to clear the air. Instead of conflict: vehemence infused with beauty.
Over the past year and a half you have explored intermittently your relationship with community, and how, in group contexts, protective and supportive can also be possessive. Leftover subconscious detritus gets shaken loose during this weird lunation so that you can close this sequence with strength and clarity to inspire others. For a final piece of information, feel for several long moments a patch of stone or Earth—or cement if that’s what’s available—that has been warmed by the Sun.
This month illuminates experiences of fun and lightness. How to be yourself and perform that with the graceful ease of authenticity? Explore objective theories with open-minded creativity. You are supremely relatable and also strange and out of bounds…
♏︎ SCORPIO + SCORPIO RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
Passion, love and force, high-spirited financial finesse: Right now you have the power to attract resources, but take care in how you use what comes your way. This magnetic tide is catalyzed in part by the raw power of work. Be sure to bring energy to self care. A ruthless need to get things done could result in conflict. Be cool but don’t be a living statue.
The closing eclipse sequence has brought mystery and unpredictability to how you wish to be warm and inspirational. Optimization and improvement often comes from trial and confrontation. You’ve been invited to activate how you contribute to the world, parts your personal life have inadvertently been included. A nice prize might be that you’ve honed your intuition re: the madness of crowds. Sit in silence and think about greatness, with bare hands placed on the wet or dry ground.
The next month brings attention to where you live and your inner subjective states. Meditation, tidying, the quiet beyond: the past may haunt you but just as likely with friendly ghosts as with hungry ones. A nice time for talk therapy and nesting. Is domestic life meeting your needs?
♐︎ SAGITTARIUS + SAGITTARIUS RISING: Jan 18 – Jan 24
Sometimes you are pushy, and that can be good, but right now you are a lovely, buoyant holiness, and fun is a vigorous heat. Your desire is an arrow.
Over the past 1.5 years you have watched strange light pass over the way you learn through discovering and sustaining identity through travel or more abstract cultural journeying. You may celebrate a final strange reworking by taking a short trip or through a few hours of quiet study at home. There is something that you’ve longed for and it comes in many forms: A ship!
The pace of life picks up as you prioritize clear communication and scheduling and conscious listening. In connection and travel, the whole board is lit up. This time is not characterized by relaxation, although it is important that you set aside some short blocks of time to get quiet. You will probably stay busy.
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