Thursday, February 02, 2012

2012: Fab Feb?

Lucky Days: 8, 9, 17, 18, 26
Yucky Days: 4, 5, 10, 11, 25
Fashion Icon: Kate Moss
Colour: Grape
If ever you were in dire need of a vacation, it’s this month, darling. With your ruler going out of phase in your career sector on 7 February, coupled with Mars still retrograde, you’ll feel like cooling your jets and focusing on some much needed rest, revelry and relaxation. Plus the most spiritual and glamorous planet of them all, Neptune, is about to take up a fourteen-year residence in your thinking zone starting on the 3rd. Get ready to cleanse your entire mental make-up with the most compassionate, Zen-like influence imaginable. On the 7th, the Full Moon in Leo (in your sexuality sector) sparks your current libidinal fires. Make time to explore where your love and lust lie this month. Work is invited to take a back seat – honour the timing of everything by enforcing a reprieve. Do this despite the fact that you can always come up with someone or something that needs to be taken care of; put yourself first this time.
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Having Saturn as one’s ruling planet has its advantages, meaning that where other signs wilt under the weighty issues associated with Saturn (whose metallic correspondence is lead!), Capricorns prove just how resilient and authoritative they are. Saturn represents needs-must, and as it now sits stationary in your career zone, a case of anything-to-survive likely prevails at work. The planet’s retrograde from February 7 doesn’t exactly let you off the hook, but it does ease the pressures under which you have been operating over the last eight months.
The backslide of another planet, Mars, also promises to ease frustrating circumstances. Righteous fury, to which even stoical Caps are not immune, also promises to ebb with Mars’ retreat, not least for birthdays circa January 12-14. You may, however, have to take your foot off the go-faster pedal.
Mostly, your ‘scope has a pleasingly upbeat air. The forward march of Jupiter, ‘the greater benefic’, along with a flurry of planets in Pisces, brings an extrovert, optimistic strand to your outlook. In terms of romance, friendship and meeting new people, February and March promise a flurry of activity and well-wishing. For those of you with creative jobs or past-times, here’s your chance to shine. If you are in the business of communication – and most people are these days, one way or another – then an upgrade of your digital infrastructure is in order.
In any case the new Moon of the 21st brings a following wind to any enterprise involving education, whether as student or teacher, to group activities, and to anything that smacks of a spiritual search.
The most problematical transits in play concern your home base (or property or family), notably if you were born around 21-24 December, where a certain amount of disruption and uncertainty is to be expected, welcomed even. Birthday between 29 December-January 1st face the even more unsettling prospect of Pluto, a signal that a deep transformation is under way. It isn’t likely to be an overnight thing, but it does hand you the chance of a complete self-reinvention, either in your chosen line of work or on a personal level.
Your Valentine: do-gooder!