A Gemini Full Moon of curiosity, wonder and spontaneous delight

Festivities begin this Thursday, December 4th and roll on ‘til the 24th, passing through the fires of hell on the14th undaunted, picking up light speed from a glorious solstice on the 21st, and landing happily at the feet of Saturn’s new home, the University of Spiritual Principles on Christmas Eve. The Gemini Full Moon this Saturday, December 6th, is curious fun.

Inquisitive thinking combines with an unorthodox course of action when Warrior Mars rises up in Aquarius on December 4th. The spiritual warrior in all of us joins his five week march for equal rights and independence. Our pledge? ”There Must Be A Better Way.”

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” [Plutarch]

The Force of reform is with us.

Here’s your Sun sign horoscope for November 30th-December 6th, 2014:

ARIES  ☀  (March 20-April 19)

This is BeCurious week. Reawaken the child in you whose imagination is vibrant, and whose heart is wide open to believe in fairy godmothers who watch over you and sprinkle stardust blessings while you sleep. December will be loaded with more turning points, and this Thursday begins 5 weeks of benefiting from like-minded friends and unorthodox ideas. We’re two weeks away from the 6th of 7 revolutionary crossroads that are all about freeing yourself from any belief that could erode your self-confidence, and at the same time watching your career path go through a major metamorphosis. The 76 trombones marching through your life now will reawaken hopes you lost during the long Scorpio drudgery. The happy opportunities coming this week remind you to live your life as if you were a happy tourist, savoring every day’s new adventure. The Gemini Full Moon on Saturday boosts your intuitive intelligence so that you arrive at conclusions through intuition more than logic.

“Keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive...that is the well from which we scientist draw our nourishment and energy.” [Michio Kaku]

TAURUS   ☀  (April 20-May 20)

Rearrange your mental furniture. Why? You’re called to set up an environment for yourself that encourages your curiosity, and a new look at an outworn belief that you still value only because you haven’t raised it to question. Tuesday evening through Thursday are your best days this week for trusting your hunches and getting in touch with what you truly need. Thursday also has a major shift for your plans and ambitions because warrior Mars enters Aquarius and your 10th solar house of career where you’ll see lots of action for the next 5 weeks. Generous Jupiter, still in your 4th solar house of home and family, offers you a magnifying glass for clear seeing of opportunities, which still are likely through home and real estate. At the same time, the god of lighting sparks truth-telling in the form of a remembered event from the past. Let your curiosity draw you to a previously dark place so you can shed light on it.

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” [Plutarch]

GEMINI  ☀  (May 21-June 20)

Your 9th solar house of the higher mind is about to light up like a Christmas tree! This week the Gemini Full Moon will lift your thinking into your most prolific mental arena--curiosity. And it’s going to occur in your 1st solar house of self-esteem and self-confidence where something is coming to a culmination. You are hungry for like-minded souls who offer you an intellectual challenge. This is occurring just one week before the 6th of 7 crossroads that are revolutionizing your world, inside and out. Feel the gravity pulling you toward something bigger, like the astronomers recent discovery of The Laniakea supercluster, meaning “immeasurable heaven.” When Warrior Mars moves into Aquarius (your scholarly buddy) this Thursday, stop and talk to your soul. Allow it to show you a new door of perception.

“It may be that our cosmic curiosity is a genetically encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.” [Neil deGrasse Tyson]

CANCER  ☀  (June 21-July 21)

You’re getting an injection of curiosity that pokes right through your protective shell. You’re called this week to question your beliefs about what you think would make you feel secure. Hint: It isn’t in the things you’ve been taught to need. Thursday brings a big shift when the big red action planet Mars moves out of your house of relationships and into your 8th solar house of deep desires. For the next five weeks you have incredible persistence and an intense energy to get things accomplished. Take aggressive action when it comes to joint finances, corporate money, inheritances or taxes. But don’t get too serious because this also brings a stardust sprinkle of sexual magic. Solutions to your problems come through unconventional means. The Gemini Full Moon this Saturday is a time of ending something from your past, like letting go of an imaginary ideal that has kept your goals off course. This occurs just one week before the 6th of 7 revolutionary crossroads. Take the road nobody else sees.

“To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of one’s self is ridiculous.” [Plato]

LEO   ☀  (July 22-August 22)

A group project is coming to a culmination this week, ending on Saturday’s Full Moon in Gemini. Leading up to this, it will reach a critical mass on Monday--then an absolutely lucky chance will surprise you on Thursday and turn the whole thing in your favor. It will look like dumb luck, but you know it’s taken years to create. Still, you might want to buy a lottery ticket just to let the universe know you’re open to receiving a windfall. Friday you have an ingenious idea that seems to come from the ethers--it will be an “aha!” experience. Notice it. Also on Thursday, the big red warrior planet Mars is moving into the intellectually unorthodox arena of Aquarius. This lands in your 7th solar house of  partnerships where you’ll take some decisive action to free yourself, so that your can do things your own way. You need to devise and original method of doing things, and now is the time.

“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shames, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.” [Aldous Huxley]

VIRGO  ☀  (August 23-September 22)

Satisfying your curiosity will be hard to do this week simply because your mind has an endless number of questions. Googling just one more topic can put you in the exploratory wormhole until 2:00 am. Stay away from the inner space of deductive reasoning and raise your thoughts to outer space--understanding what hasn’t been discovered yet. Your 4th solar house of home is still so loaded that you’re wishing for a break, and you should grab what you can under the Taurus Moonbeams on Wednesday and possibly Thursday. The Gemini Full Moon brings a culmination in your 10th solar house of career this Saturday. However, it is in opposition to the Sagittarius Sun who is lighting up your home and family issues, so you are caught in an internal debate about how to balance your needs in both areas. You are usually dutiful and very responsible in both, however the old ways won’t work. Something out of the box, really off the beaten path, will be your solution. You’ve had a six week period in which your ability to take effective action has been excellent, fueled by efficiency. Now that shifts when Warrior Mars moves into the intellectual skies of Aquarius this Thursday, December 4th. You’ll feel more like overthrowing something than trying to find a new solution, which is what is called for now. It’s uncomfortable for you only to the degree that you insist on a tried and true path. Especially when you reach the revolutionary crossroads again on December 14th, you need to chose based on what will set you free. Be curious.

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” [Albert Einstein]

LIBRA  ☀  (September 23-October 22)

Your itchy curiosity is stimulated by the Gemini Full Moon this Saturday, which will lead you to an unusual line of thought. This calls for finishing your book, publishing your work, teaching a class or giving a speech. Your communications are so heated, in a good way, with totally different ways of expressing yourself that others may have difficulty keeping up. Ideas are flying at the speed of light--breakthroughs occurring spontaneously--especially after Warrior Mars moves into Aquarius on the 4th. If you try to sell yourself on an old way of doing things, it will feel so disagreeable so fast that you won’t tolerate it for very long. Plus, you feel so good this Thursday that you draw to you a lucky chance encounter that just makes your day. The lift-off you feel is a rising awareness of the spiritual unity of mankind and the critical importance of your unique contribution to it’s healing. The urgency of taking your place, so long left unfulfilled, in the great awakening will fill you with joy. Give yourself the gift of falling in love over and over with everyone you meet or even think of for a moment.  

“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.” ]George Bernard Shaw]

SCORPIO  ☀   (October 23-November 21)

Let yourself feel the shear joy and seduction of having an amazing adventure. You have the curiosity of that WikiLeaks guy, wondering what it would be like to hack into a massive main frame of secret data? The sometimes fine line between criminal or legitimate action is a core curiosity of Scorpio. You’re naturally comfortable in the illusory world of the unknown, and now the big Sagittarius energy that is set off by this week’s Full Moon in Gemini calls you to the trill of taking a big bite of the “forbidden” fruit from the tree of knowledge. You’re undaunted by ‘Forbidden”--Scorpio created that whole concept! The question to ask yourself now, with barefaced honesty, is; Where have I been such a harsh taskmaster with myself that I have taken on burdensome responsibilities? Between now and December 24th you can expect events to occur serendipitously that will guide you to the revelation you need. Watch carefully for a choice that appears around December 14th. Your path in life is not at random.  

“Millions saw the apple fall, but only Newton asked, Why?” [Bernard Baruch]

SAGITTARIUS ☀   (November 22-December 20)

It’s BeAmazed By Everything week. You won’t be able to avoid outright joy and enthusiasm about simply being alive at this time on the planet. Rather than focus on the fears that make up headlines, you are dusting off your philosophy books with the sure knowledge that you’ve always had the answer. Thursday is fortunate beyond even your optimistic belief. And those feet of yours that have felt nailed to the floor? They are put into action by the movement of Warrior Mars into humanitarian Aquarius (December 4th-January 12th). This occurs in your 3rd solar house of communications which is now loaded with messages for the next five weeks. Your desire for independence and to right a wrong is very strong now, and the idea is not to march over people, but to elicit their cooperation by inspiring their trust in you. You do this quite simply and naturally through your courageous honesty. Sagittarius is the sign of higher education and the higher realms of thought. You’ll find that you have sort of accidentally taken the lead, probably as teacher, on an important project.

“It’s a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” [Albert Einstein]

CAPRICORN  ☀  (December 21-January 19)

Monday morning has a potent start to your week because you’ve got just the right blend of patience and planning. Even though your emotions take a ride on a roller coaster, you’ve got a dose of efficiency to calm volatile passions. You lead people up the ladder to success by encouraging them every step of the way, and ever so quietly ignoring any authority except your own. It looks like you’re stubborn about your beliefs, but what’s really going on is your Capricorn steadiness that kicks in once you’ve decided to invest your faith in an idea (that’s how you move mountains!). As you approach the next cosmic pinnacle (December 14th) of choosing to free yourself through the transformation of an old belief system, it might be helpful to think about the Mountain Goat that is so symbolic of Capricorn energy...

“I love goats...I love their insouciance, their curiosity, their authority issues, their rapt fascination with almost everything...it’s refreshing to have goats who regularly nip the hand that feeds them.” [Jon Katz]  :-)

AQUARIUS  ☀   (January 20-February 17)

The brains-on-fire energy you’ve felt with the advent of three planets in adventurous Sagittarius is about to find practical expression. You’re ready to do the footwork. Warrior Mars moves into your sign this Thursday for five weeks ahead of unorthodox methods of achieving your goals. It’s okay. You, and many of your friends, are ready to try a new approach. The 60‘s revival of the demand for equal rights needs it. You can tap into a superior intelligence now that can see through dualities and find group cooperation. On a more personal level, this need for freedom occurs in your 1st solar house of self-expression and self-confidence. Is there some stand you need to make to let someone know who you really are? The Gemini Full Moon this Saturday places your feet firmly at the doorstep of creating new possibilities for romance. Taking action now comes very easily.

“What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.” [Paulo Coelho]

PISCES  ☀  (February 18-March 19)

Remember when you put your tooth under your pillow at night, willing to be amazed that a fairy would fly in to claim it, exchanging it for money? That’s the attitudinal vibe the stars have for you this week. Your heart and your spiritual wisdom has been getting fueled by visions and epiphanies for some time, and now Warrior Mars slips into your 12th solar house of the unconscious mind where he will stir up repressed emotions so they can surface in the light of understanding. Awareness always precedes transformation, which is where you are headed with certain childhood beliefs that have held you back. It is literally like loosing a baby tooth that needs to go so that the new one can emerge. And just that easily. You are serious about your goals right now, determined to choose the right path for yourself, for your career. This week is perfect for doing a little organizational work to put words to your plans. Communicating with your family and close friends is foremost in your mind when the Gemini Full Moon brings something to a close this Saturday.

“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Jupiter’s Ode to a Jiggle

Thanksgiving 2014 is for belly laughs and giggling. We see the odd juxtapositions that Sagittarius creates are invitations to leap into a higher consciousness.

We’re tiny particles attracted to each other, like two drops of water beading up on a waxed dining room table. We excitedly anticipate the jiggle that will join us. Then, even if we’re tilted, we roll along together.

Jupiter is the landlord for the wide open spaces of Sagittarius. He inspires the celebration of Thanksgiving with his cornucopia of abundance. The goddess of love has joined Jupiter to make this year’s Thanksgiving Day lavish and flamboyant. Plus, Messenger Mercury parades in Thursday evening with brassy honesty, offering you a trip to the realms of the higher mind that are the hunting grounds of Sagittarius.

The Force of gratitude is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for the week of November 23rd to 29th, 2014:

ARIES  ☀  (March 20-April 19)

You’re thinking about your life’s purpose just as your horizon lights up with a more optimistic vision of what’s possible. You want to act swiftly, and you’ll have no problem doing this when opportunity presents itself. Fall in love with an idea about your future that doesn’t involve struggle, but does involve a break with tradition. Tuesday, November 25th, you send an intense message, or you receive one, that is sobering and is likely about a commitment you have. Wednesday is a gloriously loving and happy day for you--as long as you’re up for surprises. There’s lots of sizzle behind your desire to free yourself, which will happen in an unexpected way. Your solar 9th house of higher education, philosophy, and travel is loaded with thinking outside the box. You’re better equipped than most to deal with the energetically enthusiastic Sagittarius planets. You’ll take the odd juxtaposition of ideas and use them as the ingredients of great humor. Do it and you’ll have fun. Laughter is the perfect “medicine” because it breaks the grip of fear, allowing love to enter.

TAURUS   ☀  (April 20-May 20)

Illusions, like a wall made of feathers, blow open this week in unexpected ways. With the line-up of planets in Sagittarius growing, you may feel like your thoughts are going faster than your words can form. It’s true. You’ve been sloshing around in the intensely emotional waters of Scorpio since September 28th, and now you’re suddenly taking a quantum leap into the open mind fields of fiery Sagittarius. You can experience undreamed of realms of consciousness, but you will first have to risk letting go of the need to control the outcome. The middle of this week, you’re asked to reconcile two sets of needs that you’ve been perceiving as opposites. Blending them requires seeing where you actually want the same things. Tongue twisters arrive for Thanksgiving dinner when Messenger Mercury joins the Sagittarius gang. Because all of this is occurring in your 8th solar house of transformation, your solutions will come through prophetic insights about the process of death and rebirth. It seems that you are always choosing between Love and fear, and yet Love has no opposite--being the only real thing that exists. What an easy choice.

GEMINI  ☀  (May 21-June 20)

Let your free flag fly. You can literally thank God that you’re reached dry land after a nine week deep dive into murky emotions. The Sun, Venus and Mercury move into your opposing sign, fiery Sagittarius, this week. The heat is on your self concept and your self confidence. It’s time to know your one self, a purely spiritual being temporarily housed in a human from. Gemini is here to integrate, not debate, intellectual curiosity about how things work on the earth plane with knowledge from the higher realms. The place where you easily join with Sagittarius is the devilish mirth of poking fun at the ego’s lies. You’ve got a quirky sense of humor, and you’ll notice people around you are putting an odd spin on what you say--and vice versa--unless you stop and think. Which you won’t feel like doing. The “choice” between Heaven and hell only seems to be a choice. Heaven is real and hell is just a nightmare from which you can awaken. You dear Gemini, can help the world end this debate! Use your inside words.

CANCER  ☀  (June 21-July 21)

You’re trying to make sense out of the things people are saying to you, but it seems they are constantly shape-shifting and elusive. Your 6th house of health is extraordinarily activated through December 16th, giving you the power of healing touch. You are by nature very sensitive and easily wounded, and the overload of Sagittarius bluntness is hard to take. You gotta just laugh at all the incongruity. The odd combinations of ideas around midweek has you wanting to travel the world and stay in your comfy home--all at the same time. Too much activity may throw a fog over your highly visionary self, but don’t let it keep you from trusting your intuition and clairvoyance. What’s going on is a lot of talk talk talk that’s creating an inner tension with your spiritual need for peace (and quiet). You need only remember that what’s real is the love in your heart, everything else is an illusion.

LEO   ☀  (July 22-August 22)

Sunday rolls the week out in wheelbarrows loaded with hope and generosity. This will help you stretch into positive thinking as your work week begins with trying to bend oil and water. You want to implement you carefully crafted work, which you can, but you also want it to be appreciated and recognized, which won’t happen quite yet. Expect lightning bolts of love from an effervescent goddess who offers you pleasant surprises on Wednesday. For your Thanksgiving, Jupiter wants to give you the gift of basking in the sunlight of your own enthusiastic spirit. Your special love of children will be a tremendous source of joy. By dinnertime Thursday evening, your thoughts are decidedly uplifted and you embrace ideals that at other times seemed impractical. Friday seems to impose limits on your plans, but actually it’s just some temporary fog. The solution? Get out your guitar and sing.

VIRGO  ☀  (August 23-September 22)

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Really, you may have no idea. There’s a midweek aspect with warrior Mars that makes actions unpredictable, something that’s rarely true about you. What’s happening is the movement of planets from intensely emotional waters to the creative fires of your higher mind. Scorpio has encouraged you to play your cards close to the chest for the past nine weeks, and now Sagittarius shows up and wants you to spread them all over the table--face up. There you’ll see two things that have appeared to be in competition are clashing because they actually want the same things. Let this surprise you on Wednesday. Imagine good things coming to you, not because you’ve had to work hard to earn them, but because they’re yours by right of who you truly are, by right of your divine birth. You’ll sit at the head of your Thanksgiving feast and realize that Love has set the table.

LIBRA  ☀  (September 23-October 22)

Sagittarius enthusiasm and straight talk is wildly rampant this week, landing squarely in your 3rd solar house of communications. You can give thanks for the grace that’s built in to Libra energy, because Sagittarius is known for foot-in-mouth bluntness. You’ll have so much to say that you’ll be tripping over your own words trying to get your point across. You may even pull out your soap box for Thanksgiving dinner, still trying to convince someone that you’re right. Venus in Sagittarius is setting up a few preposterous pairings of people and ideas that tempt you to try to join two sets of roles that aren’t naturally related. It doesn’t work out well because it creates inappropriate expectations. Then, disappointment. It seems that you are constantly choosing between truth and lies, right and wrong, yet only truth is real. Lies are simply a fabrication of ego, a smokescreen “protecting” you from seeing the truth of who you really are. It doesn’t matter whether you’re aware of it or not, you are love.

SCORPIO  ☀   (October 23-November 21)

Giving, just for the joy of it, is Jupiter’s style. And yours. Don’t miss the opportunities he offers you because they seem to come so easily. You don't have to earn his gifts, and that’s why it feels like “dumb luck.” Venus, Sun and Mercury have left Scorpio this week for the blatantly honest and open fires of Sagittarius. In a way, Sagittarius is a reaction against the secretive energy of Scorpio, calling you to break the strain between you and another person by telling the truth. Pretend they already read your mind, so you’re just putting words to what is already there. It’s not an invitation to butt heads, rather it’s a lesson in reconciling what seems to be irreconcilable opposition. This challenges you to a creative leap in which you learn to blend by jiggling (see above). Take care of business before dinner on Thursday when Messenger Mercury trips over your words into Sagittarius. It’ll be hard to bow out gracefully after that. Your mental clarity will return on December 16th, so just enjoy the ride, the hilarious mish mash, until then. Rest in quiet, and simply receive.

SAGITTARIUS ☀   (November 22-December 20)

Are you saying, “Houston we have lift-off?” There’s incredible power and punch loaded into the Sagittarius Sun for your birthday this year. You have a charismatic enthusiasm that makes you down right effervescent. The only exception this week is Monday, which is duck ‘n cover day. If you find yourself in a competitive struggle--it’s a no-win so just walk away. Venus is joined with the Sun in your sign to add her most flamboyant displays of affection. You are a lover-of-life. This may be the best Thanksgiving you’ve had in many years. Messenger Mercury moves into Sagittarius in time for dinner, and your thinking and communicating is fueled by a combustion engine of straight talk. Anyone who doesn’t want to hear the truth from you had better run! Remember Sagittarius is a reaction against Scorpio’s secretive and often deceptive extremes. Venus in your sign is a prime example of wanting to be frank and outspoken about your inner feelings, particularly when it comes to those you love. Nothing dispels fear as quickly as Truth.

CAPRICORN  ☀  (December 21-January 19)

You’re ready to get down to business on Monday, November 24th, as the Moon moves into Capricorn, steadying your nerves and bringing you a strong sense of well being for the next two days. Also on Monday, you’ll need to reconcile something that seems irreconcilable, and so it pushes you to take a creative leap in order to solve the problem. No worries, because Wednesday brings you more emotional objectivity, just don’t let your head rule your heart. You may want to dismiss the idealism you’ll feel on Wednesday because it appears to be unrealistic. Look closer. It’s really a call to shift a spiritual belief. For Thanksgiving day you’re served a dish of blunt truth. Some belief, in which you’ve tried hard to conform to social standards, has holes in it. Just because it’s popular, doesn’t make it right. If you’re feeling restless, irritable or discontent on Thursday, it’s because a revelation is itching to come out. Sagittarius tells the truth in a “whatever comes into my head runs out of my mouth” kind of honesty. No filters. You’ll be giving the gift of simply overlooking a lot of faux pas gabble, and being thankful for your disciplined inner warrior who is showing up with decisive action. Emotional calm returns to you on Friday afternoon to make your weekend full of empathy and sensitivity for others. You’ve made the only choice there is. You choose Peace.

AQUARIUS  ☀   (January 20-February 17)

Practice telling a few jokes that nobody’s heard before. The fresh air from three planets moving into truth-telling Sagittarius makes you the humorous life of the party. On Wednesday, November 26th, the Moon in your sign offers an unusual array of feelings, and you will not tolerate being fenced in. You’ll find yourself in at least one conversation that just does not compute. It’s because your basic needs clash, although you really want to find the common ground. Give thanks for Jupiter’s cornucopia spilling out feelings of well-being into your house of relationships Thursday and Friday. Friday also holds an emotional goodbye, perhaps to the limitations you may have placed on speaking your mind. Jupiter has the effect of fertilizing a new love relationship or expanding an existing one. Fear is not an enemy, it’s just a bad dream. Hence, the need for awakening.

PISCES  ☀  (February 18-March 19)

Never in your wildest dreams will you guess where Monday’s banana peel has landed. There are so many Sagittarius fires being set this week by thoughtless comments that you can’t put them out fast enough. Talk to that ocean of sensitivity that characterizes your feelings, say “toughen up.” This is a great week to practice taking nothing personally. Thanksgiving dinner will be an opportunity to remind yourself that what other people think is really none of your business. All of the planets in Sagittarius are in tense relationship to visionary Neptune in Pisces. Imaginations run wildly toward too much illusion, landing in a fog bank. You are reading people’s minds, but the information coming to you doesn’t seem to match what they say. It will be easy to tune-in to your calm center beginning Friday, November 28th, when the Moon drifts serenely into Pisces. In spite of Black Friday, the holiday events find you with a peaceful centered consciousness.

Sagittarius fires burn up lies

Just say it! Pretend you’re talking to Spock, and he’s going to Mind Meld you anyway.

Talk about truth! Venus, Sun, and Moon and are lining up in Sagittarius this week for the beginning of a truth-telling festival led by 76 trombones. Saturn is right on their heels.

Venus gets vivacious in Sagittarius today, November 16th. The Sun gets his adventurous fire on the 22nd when he rises in the Sagittarius constellation. The Moon joins in 3 hours later to form a New Moon (4:32 AM, PST).

On November 21st, feelings and intuition delve into the shadow side of ambition. We’re in the last 4 weeks of Saturn in Scorpio, which began in October, 2012. We’ve had the job of accepting our responsibilities with a serious emotional intensity that has sometimes been burdensome. We’ve all felt a powerful drive for success that has been characterized by thoroughness, persistence and determination.

However, those who fell into Saturn’s shadow subverted their energy into scheming, and a desire for retribution and revenge that brought misery and losses (if you haven’t seen this you will). Beginning December 24th, secrets and lies meet the bright lights of Saturn in Sagittarius for the next two years, which brings a caught-with-your-pants-down kind of honesty. This should be fun!

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”  

Mark Twain

The Force of just say it is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for the week of November 16th to 22nd:

ARIES  ☀  (March 20-April 19)

You won’t mind hearing the truth, in fact you’ll probably be the one telling it, when the goddess of love moves in to your friendly fire sign, Sagittarius today the 16th. This puts love, beauty and art squarely in your ninth house of teaching and education of the higher mind. Since this will make a harmonious link to your Aries Sun, you’re loving your life with great enthusiasm once again. Just hang on, because you’re like a new born butterfly who must sit a while in the Sun to dry her wings before she can fly. Totally worth waiting for. And you’ll probably take off on the 22nd, when the Sun moves into Sagittarius just a few hours before joining the moon for the New Moon (4:32 AM, PST). This is definitely the beginning of a different kind of journey for you, and inner adventure and outer broadening. In the days preceding this, you’ll feel a seriousness about your goals for your career and your ambitions in general. Don’t worry if you feel a little gloomy on the 21st--it’s darkest (and coldest) just before dawn.

TAURUS   ☀  (April 20-May 20)

Sunday morning begins your week with a revelation about something from your past. Because you’ve been willing to look with the eye of a good detective, you’ve come up with exactly what you need. When the Moon sinks into Scorpio around bedtime on Wednesday the 19th, you have an abundance of feelings that are a little too serious, seeping up from a dream. In other words, the solar power of your Taurus Sun sheds light on the shadow in the Scorpio Moon. Visionary Neptune has turned to direct motion, helping you utilize your heightened power for visualization. You’re coming to the end of a month long journey through the deep emotional waters of four planets in Scorpio.  Now comes the drying off. Venus, the goddess of love and your muse, leaps with enthusiasm into the openness of Sagittarius this Sunday, the 16th. This puts her (and the New Moon to come on the 22nd) in your 8th solar house--a classic astrological indicator of inheritance or financial gain through partnership. Friday the 21st is a great day to get work done and to consolidate some financial gains. You may even be caught up in over working. On the New Moon on the 22nd, you begin a new journey in your relationships that will be characterized by honesty and a strong dose of the embarrassing blush of joy from your sensuous nature.

GEMINI  ☀  (May 21-June 20)

It’s a huge understatement to say that your relationships are about to become the focus of your life, and perhaps the kind of focus you see in the center ring of a three ring circus. Beginning Sunday the 16th, the goddess of love moves into Sagittarius and she’s going to quickly be followed by the Sun and Moon, all their way to the New Moon on the 22nd. All of this falls in your 7th house of relationships. The idealism that this inspires does not come with practical feet. However, the gallant romantic gestures, and the flamboyant adventures ahead, more than make up for the mess. You will settle for nothing less then complete honesty in your relationships. People will know exactly where they stand with you, and you rightly expect the same from them. Otherwise you’re not interested. Even though we are entering the winter months, you are restless for adventure, and the more unusual the better. Go for it. Not because life is short, but because life is stretching out as far as your eyes can see. This is only going to get better. When stodgy Saturn moves into Sagittarius on December 24th, he joins the merry band of travelers tromping through your house of relationships. For the next 2 1/2 years he’ll add the pursuit of knowledge and the constructive ideas that will make you a teacher of higher spiritual laws.

CANCER  ☀  (June 21-July 21)

You get kissed by a sweet memory on Sunday the 16th that sets your week off with a little nostalgia, but also brings you the sense of support and love from your family. From your relationships in general. You can expect some surprising occurrences and revelations on the 18th that can lead you to discover what you really need. There is some intensity on the 19th and 20th about your work, and issues of fairness and honesty. The goddess of love moves into the fire sign Sagittarius on the 16th, which lights an itch of restlessness in you for more adventurous relationships. You want to travel but it may require some work to pull it off. You have all the energy and organization you need for that on the 20th and 21st. In fact, you’ll have a tendency to overwork. So easy does it as you approach the Sagittarius New Moon on the 22nd. This falls in your 6th solar house, so health and healing will come from opening up a sensitive part of yourself so that others can see more of who you really are. New Moon’s are new beginnings, and Sagittarius says you always want people to know exactly where they stand with you, and vice versa. This will contribute enormously to your health and sense of well-being over the next four weeks. Just pretend that you are Spock, and you can do Vulcan mind melds. And that works two ways. You know those big rushing rivers of feelings that you think are protected because you hide them? You’ll find out that the people who love you heard them all along. This is a time in your life that will bring you greater knowledge of spiritual principles, and they will help you accept your true Self.

LEO   ☀  (July 22-August 22)

By the end of this week you’ll get your shine back on and feel a renewed vitality. There have been a lot of business and financial issues behind the scenes, some of it shrouded in mystery or tainted by a lie. Now the truth will be evident in the light of the Sagittarius honesty. Beginning at this Sunday the 16th, your relationships begin an adventurous journey as the goddess of love leaves soggy Scorpio and jumps into the big open arms of optimism. You’re interested in spiritual ideals, and you’re more than willing to explore new realms of knowledge. Making your surroundings more beautiful with splashes of color will give you an outlet for that rather flamboyant style you’re drawn to right now. The new Moon in Sagittarius on the 22nd is a very powerful new beginning for you, as it  will get solar powered by your Leo Sun. Your natural spontaneity and playfulness combines with adventurous Sagittarius to fire up an urge to travel. It could be a journey into the higher mind as well as travel to foreign lands. You’ve always had an enormous spirit of generosity toward your family, and this year you’re like a walking cornucopia! You feel the urge to teach, and if you have to present your ideas to someone it will go very well for you. You might even dust off that soapbox you occasionally love to use, and put yourself in the limelight.

VIRGO  ☀  (August 23-September 22)

If you haven’t already invited everyone in your family for Thanksgiving, you’ll want to do so by the end of this week. As 3 planets leave the serious intensity of Scorpio for the idealistic optimism of Sagittarius, they’ll be lighting up your 4th house of home and family. In other words, your home becomes a lavish display of generosity and thankfulness. People will be drawn to your home for it’s beautiful aesthetics. An undercurrent of tension can surface if you try to over do it. All this fire motivates you to act swiftly, so pace yourself. You are headed for a month when you’ll enjoy being outdoors and engaging in almost any kind of sports activity. Take a few trips to satisfy a restless urge to incorporate something new and unusual into your life. The New Moon in Sagittarius comes along on the 22nd, and its time for you is to put all your cards on the table--being open and honest about things that you’ve kept to yourself for fear of hurting someone’s feelings or for fear of being misunderstood. Now you might as well just blurt it out with as much diplomacy as you can muster but without letting that hold you back. Otherwise you’ll just feel anxious. You are very active, you’re in forward gear, and intent on achieving your goals. Friday the 21st could be an extremely productive day. Beneath the holiday festivities that are coming up, you won’t mind attending to some hard work that you know has the potential for success.

LIBRA  ☀  (September 23-October 22)

If you’ve been feeling like you were just a little too late to the party, or that romance and creative projects have bogged down in seriousness--that all changes today. Venus moves into the fire sign Sagittarius, which falls in your third solar house of communications and ideas. She will beautify your words and turn your communications into works of art. This is an excellent time to write and to get your point across with diplomacy. Any legal matters will run very smoothly for the next three weeks, so if you need to settle a dispute this is the time to do it. This is especially true with a New Moon in Sagittarius on the 22nd. It opens your mind to spiritual truths and the pursuit of higher knowledge. Teaching, or being taught, is foremost in your mind through December 10th. The most challenging day for you this week is the 18th, when you may encounter some heavyweight commitment issues--Venus has a stressful encounter with the need to transform and the need break free. The moon is in Libra on the 18th, and surprising intuitive hunches can bring you important revelations. Mark this on your calendar, because they will reappear on December 14th in a bigger way. Friday the 21st you can get a lot of work done if you don’t succumb to that little raincloud that will quickly pass over your head. If you can, avoid overindulgence in daydreams and memories, particularly on the 21st. You can make good use of this time to get your finances in order. Jupiter’s cornucopia is spilling creative ideas at your feet. When the Sun enters Sagittarius on the 22nd, a month of feeling much more optimistic is ahead. It’s no accident that Thanksgiving occurs under the Sagittarius influence of Jupiter’s generosity, which gives voice to your deep sense of thankfulness. You’ll want to say it out loud. Because it is the truth.

SCORPIO  ☀   (October 23-November 21)

A beautiful dream, probably from something stored in memory, begins your week with a revelation. This week is remarkable for you as a Scorpio because one-by-one several planets we’ll be leaving your sign for the fires of Sagittarius. As Venus leaves Scorpio on the 16th, the restless urge for adventure sparks some spontaneity in you. What you are called to do now, is to gather the spiritual wisdom you’ve accumulated, and heat it up with optimism. It’s not to say you don’t already know how to think positively, but let’s face it, it’s not your strength. When the New Moon in Sagittarius comes on the 22nd, you’re going to feel an enormous shift--as if you’ve left a quiet game of solitaire in your library for a neighborhood picnic in the great outdoors. Open air and unusual “strangers” call you to have more fun. The 20th and 21st will be very good days for you, especially to get work done and manage finances. In fact, as you enter the last month of Stern Saturn in Scorpio, wrapping up the responsibilities that have at times been burdensome is something you can focus on and look forward to completing. You may also feel like making adventurous investments.The sometimes wet blanket that Saturn has thrown over your Sun for the past two years is drying out rapidly. It’s not too soon to cheer!

SAGITTARIUS ☀   (November 22-December 20)

Today, Sunday the 16th, you get the old fire back. Venus the goddess of love has entered your sign--your relationships got a get out of jail free card. Your emotional responses come from your ideals and are spiritually motivated. As it is true for your Sagittarius Sun, Venus moving into your sign is a reaction against the secretive shadows of Scorpio. Hence your naturally blatant honesty, even if it steps on some toes, bursts forth from the frustration of being withheld too long. The 18th and 19th will still feel a little too serious for you, so try not to withdraw in discouragement. The fire in you is gaining oxygen. The big blaze comes on the 22nd, with the New Moon in Sagittarius coming just hours after the Sun moves into your sign. This starts your birthday month with enthusiastic celebrations. A new journey begins for you on this day that will set the course for the year to come. It’s an this auspicious new beginning, as something fresh and brand-new is enters your life. You’re on your way to a Thanksgiving this year that is particularly lavish with love. Go ahead, give in to an urge for flamboyant displays of your gratitude. Everyone will love your colorful and spiritually uplifting self.

CAPRICORN  ☀  (December 21-January 19)

Sunday the 16th gives you a wink and a nod from friends who have something important to tell you. This can also work in reverse. You begin to feel the itchy restlessness of the approaching shift of 3 planets from Scorpio to happily adventurous Sagittarius. You may have the sense that you’re not ready to jump, but what you’re leaping into with all your faith is a journey through the higher realms of consciousness. The adventure for you will broaden your spiritual knowledge. As you’re readying yourself, It’s a really good idea to go ahead and act as if people can read your mind--you know you can read theirs. The new Moon in Sagittarius on the 22nd brings optimism and generosity of spirit to your relationships in particular. Sagittarius cares about truth and honesty, but it doesn’t always come with diplomacy or good manners. You’ll fee the adventurous excitement of just telling the truth. You’ll be able to get an enormous amount of work done on Friday and Saturday. For you, the beautiful gift of broader horizons falls in your 12th house of hopes, dreams and visions. Expect miracle--those sudden shifts in perception from fear to love.

AQUARIUS  ☀   (January 20-February 17)

Gregarious is your keyword for the month ahead. You feel how much you love your life, and how vital the support of your friends is to your happiness. On the 16th, as the goddess of love enters the sign of Sagittarius, your relationships start to shift dramatically. It’s as if you’ve decided to suspend judgement, to accept people, including yourself, “as is.” As wonderfully perfect. This week several planets are leaving the intensity of Scorpio for the open and honest big spaces of Sagittarius. They will all journey through your 11th house of groups and friendships, filling everyone’s cup with kindness. On the 20th and the 21st a little sogginess remains that threatens to dampen your spirits. But that lifts with the New Moon in Sagittarius on the 22nd. You want to travel but you don’t want to travel alone. You want to have adventures, but you’d prefer to do it with a group. Honesty will now be everyone’s best policy, but for you this fuels your beautiful sense of justice and fairness for all. For the next four weeks you feel downright zealous about speaking up for the rights of others. The emphasis on career and ambitions, that has been somewhat heavy for the past two years, is coming to a close. You’ve developed wisdom about what it means to have success in the marketplace. Now you want to share it. You’ll also be able to share the load of responsibilities you’ve been carrying. Other people will literally say, “lean on me.”

PISCES  ☀  (February 18-March 19)

The depth of spiritual knowledge and wisdom that you have gleaned over the past two years, particularly since Saturn whet into Scorpio in October 2012, will now find its expression through your career. Starting November 16th, as Venus moves into the sign of Sagittarius, you’re goals and ambitions take on an artistic beauty. Use this week, particularly the 20th and 21st, to complete some work that needs to be brought to a conclusion. You get a not altogether unwelcome surprise on the 18th, and it will set the stage for a spiritual epiphany on the 19th. You have an opportunity to get deeply in touch with what you really need. When the New Moon in Sagittarius arrives on the 22nd, it will initially open up feelings that are awkward and irritating and give you a sense of restlessness. What you’re really feeling is the fresh spark that’s lighting the fire of the professor in you who has something valuable to teach. Just when you thought you had nothing new to learn, the loving force of the universe sends you for your spiritual PhD. Don’t worry, you’re really going to enjoy this.