Happy New Year! We made it to 2012, or at least most of us did… after the rocking and rolling end of 2011, loosening and opening us up with eclipses and Mercury Rx, January rose up squaring off to a new shift and amplification of energy. It feels a little like hitting the flip onto the other side on a mobius strip, seemingly bringing both more chaos and clarity. 2012 is a pivotal year in many ways, if, indeed, the Earth is in a rebirthing ascension process, and, so are we, if we are willing and able.

December is a powerful, pivotal month. First, this last month of the year 2011 begins in the unsettling timespace between two eclipses. If you read the forecast for November, you will remember that there was a new Moon solar eclipse at 2 degrees of Sagittarius on Thanksgiving, and that Mercury turned retrograde (Rx) at 20 degrees of Sagittarius early that morning, just after midnight. Astonishingly, these degrees are very closely reversed with the upcoming lunar eclipse with the Moon at 18 Gemini (to 18 Sagittarius Sun) and Mercury turning direct on December 13 at 3 degrees of ...

After the inward spiraling intensity of October, November rolls in with the intense Scorpio stellium with planets Sun, Mercury, and Venus, and major relationship asteroid Juno, and spiritual uranian transneptunian Poseidon still with us, but ready to release into greater expansion and exploration of possibilities very quickly. Whew! November brings a few reversals and turn-arounds, and dare I say it? More activation. Have you been doing your work in introspection, and realignment of your relationships, values, direction and purpose for this next phase in this dynamic collective transformation?

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Relationships. As tempting as it is to stop right there… October is a month where we need to show up for ourselves and for the other in our relationships, prepared to hold our center, but also to renegotiate balance of power within them – and sometimes that is calling for completion. Some are grasping at others to do or be what they need to do or be for themselves. What is real? What is a mirror of projection, or shadowdancing? Can you be conscious enough to recall your projections and expectations of the other, to be all that ...

"Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh, so mellow…" Do you remember that song from the musical, ‘The Fantasticks’? While it’s laughable to think of almost anything being slow and oh, so mellow these days, after the last six months or so, while there will be times of ‘vibrancy,’ early September actually is more mellow and gives us a moment to catch our breath. Finally. Yes, there are those outer layers of experience that are strange, and many seem to be hitting a speed bump in their finances, relationships, life direction. But ...

The summer surges on, and the fireworks didn’t stop in July… August promises to be another ass-kicker of a month – er, excuse me! (glute-whacking? Tush-tackling? Umm…) Ok. August promises to be another month with many challenges and abundant opportunities for growth, awareness, and spiritual evolution. Better? Turn the other cheek, my dear ones? (I have been saying for some time now that I’m seeing many people with angel footprints on their butts…)

Ok, so let’s get to it. August kicks off on the 2nd with our 2nd Mercury Rx (retrograde) of three this year, turning Rx ...

July Astrology Highlights – “Dancing with the Stars”

By Janis Page   c2011

Can you believe 2011 is already halfway over?   What a reminder of how time is accelerating and intensifying…  And July starts out with a bang, and I’m not talking about fireworks for July 4th.     The new Moon on July 1st  brings the ‘extra credit’ third of what is usually a pair of eclipses, the previous eclipses falling on June 1st and 15th.    As said in June’s forecast, ...

Eeek! As in ‘eeklips!’… as June holds the first two of three usually paired eclipses. If that confuses you, that means you are paying attention and ready to shake your eyes loose and dance your way free of the next layer of the outgrown, or simply no longer appropriate for this next phase of quickening. Did you enjoy your break before this? Didn’t get one? Oh ...

I’d be willing to recklessly toss out a few ideas about Neptune in Pisces… Pisces is a pretty diffuse sign with a wide and diverse range of manifestations – some are musicians and artists, some are mystics, there are the alcoholics and addicts, and the cons, and those few who are among the most ruthless businessmen you will find.  Accordingly, Neptune has a wide range of influence as well, offering those things that promise to take us beyond an ego-limited ...

Happy May! We can welcome a new month, after the excessive stellium of six plantets in fast, aggressive and competitive Mars-ruled Aries at last month’s new Moon on April 3^rd. The Aries brigade was at least restrained a bit ...