Quirky Aquarius

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?  Oscar Wilde

Color outside the lines, paint the sky green.  Electric art and quirky ideas will have a bigger audience under the influence of several solar-powered planets in unconventional, avante garde Aquarius.

Pump optimism into those great ideas that you’ve been tossing around since October 3rd.  This Wednesday they get big forward momentum.  For the next 9 months, our celestial Santa Claus is back to making home deliveries!  

Mid week the innovative Aquarius Sun runs into a tense disagreement with stodgy Saturn over whether or not to make changes or stay stuck in a stable rut.  Aquarius can be just as determined as Saturn can be rigid.  

Friday we welcome February, a chameleon month of innovation and spirituality.  From the freedom fighter to the sensitive, withdrawn poet.
The only normal people are the one’s you don’t know very well.  Alfred Adler
The Force of why be normal? is with you.

♡ Date Night  The heavenly lovers, Venus and Mars, haven’t been connecting since early January.  This Friday her flight is just 7 minutes delayed for their rendezvous, but he’s already left on a slow boat to China. Tensions build until March 12th.  Romance may be out of sync, but love knows no bounds.  Look for sweet messages in a bottle.

Here’s your horoscope for the week of January 27, 2013:
(★ Astrology Wonks see bottom of page)

Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)
Take a deep breath of optimism for our world, and relax into the relief of a calm Sunday.  This week begins with Virgo, the CEO of the zodiac, insisting on a realistic look at the facts and setting priorities that serve others.  Absolutely brilliant and inspired solutions will just pop into your head by Wednesday evening, making your earlier debates look foolishly unnecessary.  Beginning Friday, and for the next three weeks, the goddess of love in the sign of Aquarius will be encouraging you toward more non-traditional, out-of-the-box thinking.  And, you’ll be likely to turn on your heels and walk at the first sign of infringement on your freedoms.  Willful desires are unleashed, and emotions are unapologetically biased!

Taurus ♉ (April 20-May 20)
Your best solution right now is a spiritual one.  Make the most of the next four days by focusing on matters of the heart, not the head.  Careful around the middle of the week when your eccentric point of view is easily misunderstood by others.  But overall, with the Influence of Venus in her new Aquarius home, you’ll enjoy an increased popularity, even if you’re ordinarily shy.  You’ll know that you’re well-liked.  If you’re willing to open Pandora’s box, exposing you secrets safely in an intimate friendship, you’ll find a greater trust has been built.  And from that, bigger hopes.

Gemini ♊ (May 21-June 20)
Support for your free thinking, free wheeling style comes in strong this week.  By Thursday you have a stronger sensitivity to the attitudes and reactions of others, thus helping you gain the cooperation you need.  Remember how much your friendships mean to you before you give up on someone, just because they don’t understand your point of view.  Venus in the eccentrically intellectual skies of Aquarius is welcome friend for your mental curiosity.  You might spend next 24 days at the bookstore!  Or marching on Washington.  There’s nothing careless or casual about your emotions at the end of this week.  Watch your nighttime dreams for clues to your daytime desires.  

Cancer ♋ (June 21-July 21)
Peace and contemplation are yours Sunday in aftermath of yesterday’s powerfully feisty Leo Full Moon.  Cleaning up the emotional wreckage will be easy for you, until this Friday when your heart shifts.  Over the next 3 weeks, Venus will expose you to new relationships.  They won’t necessarily be stable or long lasting, but they will have excitement and variety that you crave.  Feeling the full force of your deepest desires makes your emotions very powerful this Saturday, and capable of revealing a needed truth.  

Leo ♌ (July 22-August 22)
Your need to take action picks a fight with your fiery Leo emotions Monday morning.  But it jump starts your week with a heady debate over world affairs.  Who exactly is in charge!?  A word of caution for the middle of the week--you’ll feel so strongly about arguing your point that you may unwittingly stir up opposition to your ideas.  Unusual attitudes about what is socially acceptable and what is not will shock and excite you over the next three weeks.  The Friday Venus in Aquarius leaves you with  little regard for the old rules.  You’ll insist on your right to have the freedom to make up your own rules.  This may be more of an internal fight with a stubborn belief.  

Virgo ♍ (August 23-September 22)
Monday the Moon sharpens her pencils and takes her seat at Virgo’s corporate planning session.  Efficiency is your chairperson, and intuition rules your agenda.  It’s time to wrap up the heartfelt gains in love and money that you’ve accumulated since January 9th.  This Friday, Venus will be in her don’t-fence-me-in mood, so you won’t tolerate anyone trying to restrict your freedoms during the next 3 weeks.  You’ll pick up on other people’s vibes much more quickly, even psychically, with the goddess of love in socially adept Aquarius.  

Libra ♎ (September 23-October 22)
You want what you want, and you’re willing to go to any lengths to get it.  If you have an emotional misunderstanding to clear up, this is the perfect time for forming partnerships based on mutual cooperation.  By Wednesday evening the Libra Moon adds charm and elegance to your self-expression.  Your muse, Venus, is moving into Aquarius this Friday where she’ll be in perfect harmony with the desires of your heart for the next 24 days.  Friends become lovers, lovers are friends, not because you lack boundaries but rather because you enjoy the mental stimulation of stirring things up and avoiding boring routines.  

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)
So many unconventional ideas are flying around that your calm assurance will look like an oddity!  But Venus in Aquarius will incline even you to unusual tastes.  It’s most likely that you’ll decide for yourself what is art and what isn’t.  Your preferences will shift toward extremes, and so will your money making ideas.  Saturday’s Scorpio Moon may have you in the throes of jealous possessiveness, revenge, and great make-up sex.  Whatever you’re feeling, it will be multiplied by 10!  Your warrior shifts into spiritual mode by the end of the week, and your actions are blessed for the next five weeks.

Sagittarius ♐ (November 22-December 20)
Some radical yet needed ideas can’t be sold by standing on your soapbox.  Wait (not your favorite thing!) for someone who understands you.  Watch out that somewhere around the middle of the week your stubborn adherence to an idea doesn’t alienate other people.  Beginning Friday, the goddess of love will incline you toward sudden yet casual romantic attractions.  Venus in Aquarius just wants you to love everyone!  Saturday’s not a time to easily forgive and forget, since it may be too easy to take things personally.  Remember, other people’s opinions are none of your business.

Capricorn ♑ (December 21-January 19)
You know your treasure lies in the steadfastness of your heart.  Bring your love with you when you meet the efficiency police (Moon in Virgo) who are on duty for the start of your week, making it a time to get things done.  Not done in a hurry, but done thoroughly without mistakes.  Don’t expect love relationships to go along as usual after Venus leaves Capricorn this Friday.  Instead, expect ruts to be exposed and then abandoned.  Your warrior energy turns musical and poetic for the next five weeks.  Listen to Tears for Fears.  You’re enjoying a time of emotional stability and intuitive clarity.  

Aquarius ♒ (January 20-February 17)
220 volts electrifies your eccentricities!  Sun, Mental Mercury, Mars and then Venus are in Aquarius this week.  You're spilling out to all mankind the life force of your enormous spiritual energy.  Midweek you may become annoyed when your ideas are not understood, and you’re ready to argue your point to the bitter end.  Love takes on a sparkling effervescence beginning this Friday.  Expect surprises in romance during the next 24 days.  Working within the confines of traditional relationship’s do’s and dont's is not likely to satisfy your need for new and unusual experiences.  However, if a partnership forms that allows room for sudden changes and your eccentric tastes, then you’re all-in for a lifetime of devotion.

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)
Beginning Friday, you can expect the unexpected where romance is concerned.  Like winding up a Jack-in-the-Box, the anticipation will be exciting.  Some nervous energy is part of the package.  Your whole life gets turned on by very strong intuitive promptings beginning this Friday.  Action packed Mars in your sign for the next five weeks brings a practical spirituality and heightened sensitivity to feelings.  You’ll need quiet time, but withdrawal will undermine your self-confidence.  Saturday you may decide that a grudge should be held just long enough to plot your revenge, fairly of course!  

✶ Astrology Wonks
The intuitive Moon glides into the peaceful intellect of Libra this Wednesday evening at 10:36 PM, PST, just as Jupiter turns direct at 6 degrees Gemini.  Think peace.

The Moon in Libra opposes Uranus in Aries Thursday at 8:44 AM, PST, and then makes a stress aspect (square) to Pluto at 5:16 PM, PST, heightening internal tensions.  But Thursday ends on a peaceful note when the Sun, newly in Aquarius, creates a harmonious trine with the Libra Moon at 9:04 PM, PST, just in time for a good night’s sleep.

Friday Mars surrenders his heady pursuits in the intellectually ivory towers of Aquarius in favor of the imaginative waters of Pisces at 5:53 PM, PDT.  Then Venus puts on a purple plumbed electric hat to whirl her way into Aquarius at 6:46 PM, PST.  Missed him by 7 minutes!  He’s become the musician with subtle lyrics, secret dreams, tears for fears.

The softly sensitive Moon dips into the icy waters of Scorpio this Saturday at 4:01 AM, PST, then goes on to strike harmonious chords with visionary Neptune in Pisces at 7:45 AM, PST.  Deeply felt spiritual truths.