Happy Valentine's Day from Leo!

The Full Moon in romantic Leo sets Valentine's Day on fire!  The let’s-get-together Aquarian Sun lights up the Leo Moon with fresh connections and new beginnings in relationships.   

Kismet!  The goddess of love is traveling side by side with Pluto, the lord of the underworld, in Capricorn.  This intensely passionate pair are digging up karmic ties that look like amazing coincidences.  

Sweets anyone?  For desert, Venus is serving Intense attractions whose purpose is to transform both of you through the power of love.  Vampire myths are an archetypal expression of Venus and Pluto in love.  

Can’t seem to find the right words?  A two-week fog has set in on mental tasks requiring linear movement or sequential logic.  Messenger Mercury in poetic Pisces slowed down for his retrograde turn February 6th, and backed into Aquarius on February 12th.  Brainy and unusual ideas get very personal.  

Best way to navigate Mercury retrograde?  Hire a fact-checker, then let your vivid imagination run free!

“People have been taught to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart.”  Nelson Mandela

♡ Valentine’s Date Night:  Venus in Capricorn and Mars in Libra

Unbridled passion. Venus in Capricorn has Powerful Pluto by her side, making her love ardently vampirish and positively transformational!  Mars in graceful Libra uses his diplomacy to to offer Venus the security she desires: “Venus, my love is more reliable than money, my steadfastness more solid than gold.”  A Leo Full Moon for Valentine’s Day promises relationships of unswerving loyalty and heartfelt words delivered with a regal dignity.

The Force of a rose without thorns is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for February 14th, 2014, and through the end of the month:

(*Astrology Wonks see bottom of this page for “why’s everyone so crazy right now?”)

Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)

Valentine’s Day finds you reaching out your hand in welcome to someone.  The power of love to transform your life is showing up in your house of compassion and empathy for the suffering, and possibilities, of mankind.  Combine this with retrograde Mercury in your house of human kindness until February 28th, and you’ll see your mind hatching ingenious discoveries.  Look inside, to your hopes and dreams.  The Full Moon in Leo fills your 5th solar house of romance and creativity with so much warmth it will melt those chocolates!

Taurus ♉ (April 20-May 20)

On February 6th the Taurus Moon formed a melodious trio with vampirish Pluto and his bride, Venus.  Together they unearth some of your untapped resources, particularly energy and money.  This couple have gone on to intensify the power of love to transform your life through your 9th house of the higher mind. Travel through the territory of your deeply held beliefs should give you a fresh perspective--but only dear Taurus if you’re willing to leave your comfort zone!  The Full Moon in Leo keeps your home fires burning with playfulness and spontaneity (remember the part about leaving your comfort zone?).  You’ll need a fact-checker for your career while retrograde Mercury is in Aquarius for the rest of this month.

Gemini ♊ (May 21-June 20)

The power of love to transform your life reveals itself through your 8th house where you can rely on your higher spiritual powers for the great strength and understanding you have right now.  This also the place of transformation through your sexuality, the body’s metaphor for joining.  The Full Moon in Leo inspires some daydreaming and Mars in Libra propels you to act on your dreams.  Even though Mental Mercury is retrograde, he’s now in your compatible sign, Aquarius until March 18th.  Time to rewrite the story of your life by selecting memories of love, and letting everything else go.

Cancer ♋ (June 21-July 21)

The power of love to transform your life is showing up in your 7th house of relationships where Venus is at home!  You have a profound intuitive ability to gain insight into the motives of others, allowing you to bring a spiritual awareness of the need for constructive cooperation to all your partnerships.  The Full Moon in Leo lands in your house of resources and money, adding a strong need for security and stability at home.   Your thoughts turn inward toward for the rest of this month, where your love of mystery and intrigue finds rich imaginative material.  Perfect for writing a detective story and ferreting out secrets, especially after the Sun swims into Pisces February 18th.

Leo ♌ (July 22-August 22)

It just doesn’t get much better than this!  Your heart expands with love for the whole tribe. The Full Moon in Leo for Valentine’s Day rockets your self-confidence and self-expression into a new dimension.  This Leo Full Moon has been called “the exalting challenge of new opportunities at the threshold of a new cycle.”  From now until April 22nd, your work is on the launching pad.  Mental Mercury in Aquarius is in your solar house of relationships, where your warmth and generosity swells with a willingness to share.  You talk the language of interconnectedness, inspiring cooperation.  

  

Virgo ♍ (August 23-September 22)

Venus is bestowing a sunny outlook and a general love of life!  You can expect happiness and pleasure to arrive with the chocolates this Valentine’s Day. You’d particularly enjoy the theatre, and a meaningful chat with your children. The power of love to transform your life is showing up in your 5th house of romance and creativity (from November 3rd, 2013, to March 4th, 2014), helping you interact with others with a playful spontaneity.  The Full Moon in Leo lights a fire in your 12th house of hopes, dreams and wishes.  Your imagination is vivid, your intuition keen.  You rarely need a fact-checker, even for Mercury retrograde, but pay attention to the details at work.  When the Sun swims into Pisces February 18th in your 7th house of relationships, you’ll assimilate all that is happening as we approach the critical turning point April 22nd.  Your help will be needed!

Libra ♎ (September 23-October 22)

The power of love to transform your life is showing up in your 4th house of home and family.  The desire to be master (not controller) of all you survey is tied to deeply rooted homage to Mother Earth, which Venus turns into a love of green, of nature as inspiration.  Khalil Gibran said, “...in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”  The Full Moon in Leo shines in your 11th house of kinship and community.  The need to belong is very strong in you, and the courageous heart of Leo is your resource.  Retrograde Mercury falls in your house of Leo, taking your thoughts inward to the joy of childhood innocence and spontaneity.  Reconnect with it.    

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)

The power of love to transform your life is showing up in your 3rd house of communications, deepening your strong beliefs with penetrating insights.  This will show up in your house of home and family where retrograde Mercury turns your attention inward to ancestral roots and your need to belong.  Your home is buzzing.  The Full Moon in Leo brings to culmination a career project that has be troubling you.  When the Sun swims into Pisces February 18th, romance and creativity get solar-powered by your Scorpio Sun.  Risk showing yourself.

Sagittarius ♐ (November 22-December 20)

The power of love to transform your life is showing up in your 2nd house of resources and making money!  Venus does love beautiful things!  Money is energy to get things done and your financial ambitions get a rocket booster from the Full Moon in Leo.  This will involve travel, and perhaps a visit with family.  You need to feel secure; surround yourself with people who comfort you.  You’ll need that fact-checker until the 28th, while Mental Mercury is retrograde, particularly when the Pisces fog sets in on the 18th.  Pay attention to the details in all your communications.  

Capricorn ♑ (December 21-January 19)

The Leo Full Moon for Valentine’s Day falls in your 8th house, raising your emotional sensitivities to things unseen.  Lots of I love you’s, and you’ll feel what love really means.  Relentless and obsessive Pluto dug into Capricorn in November, 2008, and since then you’ve been developing an intense self-awareness and psychic abilities that understand the nature of energy fields.  For the past three months Venus has added the power of love to soften the drive of the ambitious, successful survivor that you are.  You’ve overcome many hardships and now, like a beautiful starfish, you are regenerating what was lost.  

Aquarius ♒ (January 20-February 17)

Urgent Uranus, the ruler of Aquarius, is the lever for the tipping point you’re now experiencing.  Revolutionary energy is magnified for you, since you live in the quirky lab of quantum leaps in consciousness.  The Full Moon in Leo on Valentine’s Day lights up your 7th house of relationships with romance and creativity.  As you approach the turning point on April 22nd. You’ll need a fact-checker for retrograde Mercury who backed into your sign February 12th, turning your thoughts inward to ask, Who am I now?  The power of love to transform your life is showing up in your 12th house of universal consciousness.  You get a psychic reading of your wildest dreams, those hopes that defy logic, and your deepest spiritual desires for all mankind.

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)

The power of love to transform your life is showing up in your 11th house of kinship and community where Venus adds a cooperative, loving spirit to your projects.  You’ll attract powerful friends who’ll help you build that green house.  The Full Moon in Leo lights up your house of work with creativity and playfulness.  Even though you're an expert diver into the realms of collective consciousness, you’re still going to need an oxygen tank when the Sun swims into Pisces February 18th. The fog is still heavy since Mental Mercury is retrograde until the 28th and doesn’t return to Pisces until March 18th.  Hire that fact-checker.

✶ Astrology Wonks

February 14th is loaded with more romance and passion than usual. This Valentine's Day falls on the fiery  Leo Full Moon (3:53 PM, PST).  Rebirth of your relationship, renewal of your vows.  

Notes to myself:  I just got a message from a friend asking, Why is everybody acting so crazy?  Even though I think I've said this to the point of being annoying...it needs repeating.  The enormously intense revolutionary transformation (the 5th of 7 squares between Uranus and Pluto) reaches it's most exact and powerful alignment April 22nd!  A sense of urgency is building fast.  

We’re at a crossroads that forces a choice.  We cannot continue in the same ol’ way.  Staying safe, staying the same, is a choice many are trying to make--and they are failing by falling into their “shadow.”  The ego has taken the gloves off.  Fear is being sold like popcorn at the movies.  

Our gifts, our destiny, must come out of the closet of littleness.  God knows we are capable of so much more, we are so much bigger and more powerful than we've been willing to admit.  Love is so much bigger and more powerful than we've even be able to imagine!  

My personal experience has had many surprises, even though I'm taking the temperature of this alignment constantly!  I'm still shocked by the ego insanity that this stressful turning point has unearthed in many of us.  Fear seems to be hard to defeat.  Maybe this is why we see so many movies about zombies and vampires and the undead!  

Carl Jung referred to this as the "sunset effect."  Just as the Sun sets on a finished day, a day (or neurosis) that's over, it flares up big and colorful.  So too our insane fear-driven beliefs.  

Personally, I think Love wins everytime!

What promises do the stars hold for 2014?

Flames of revolutionary transformation flare up with a stressful force that collides for the 5th time this April.  A call to action for the spiritual warrior in all of us.  “Try not.  Do or do not.  There is no try.”  Yoda.

2014 asks for the quantum leap in consciousness that only comes through co-creating; creating as you were created, by Love.  

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”  Helen Keller

The Force of co-creating is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for  2014:

(*Astrology Wonks see bottom)

Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)

Your constant companion is still the god of lightning, and although anticipation of a strike makes you anxious, he is putting a blazing light on the trail your soul wants you to follow. Between now and April 22nd, the electricity builds.  You can expect the first sudden sense of relief with the breakthrough that comes with the Aries Equinox on March 20th.  But the real money is still on the 5th of 7 revolutions that occurs on April 22nd.  Expect ease of action and graceful ways to get stuff done March 6-April 5th, June 24-July 18th, and September 30-October 23rd.  Your birthday month is more loaded with new beginnings than it usually is. Be sure to stop for the hour long total eclipse on April 15th.  Doors open.  You’ll barely catch your breath before Generous Jupiter enters Leo on July 15th and creates a one-year harmonious trine to your Aries Sun.  Great good fortune and success will come from your ardent love of life, your positive outlook, and your altruistic attitude toward others.   

Taurus ♉ (April 20-May 20)

2014 is not a quiet armchair read!  The key player, Warrior Mars in Libra, entered the playing field on December 7th in your 6th solar house of work and service.  Your desk will be piled high with jobs and you’ll have the energy and skill to manage them.  Opportunities to be of service will expand your patience for those who don’t seem to be able to help themselves, for whatever reason.  For the next 7 months your actions have the thoroughness of a skilled surgeon and the craftsmanship of a talented sculptor.  This is the energy that will carry you through the revolutions of April when a shift in consciousness occurs as the result of a major breakthrough.  You love your security, and you’re not asked to give it up, but you will be asked to share.  Powerful Pluto continues to throw up control issues until you realize the impossibility, which may happen around April 22nd.  Your soul knows that the lonely journey fails; that the arc of Love is entered two by two.  May 29th through June 3rd is a glorious time when Venus is in your sign.  Your effervescence will attract fun-loving people and everyday will be a good hair day!  

Gemini ♊ (May 21-June 20)

2014 calls you to stand-up and be counted on to take your part in the transformation of the world.  You have a soulful calling to deeper intimacy and to teaching forgiveness as the “magic” key to loving relationships.  Mars is in Libra until July 26th, making a graceful and harmonious trine to your Sun.  You’ll have a robust vitality and a solar-powered intellect for the next 7 months.  This will carry you through the earthquakes and fireworks surrounding the April 22nd revolutionary square.  You’re struck by an epiphany April 15th, during the time of the total Lunar Eclipse in Libra.  Since Messenger Mercury is your ruling planet, and the gift of your gab, the retrograde periods are especially crucial. February 6th to the 28th is a easy turning inward to the world of ideas; June 7th to July 1st helps you rethink decisions made when Mercury was brilliant in your sign from May 8th to 28th;  October 4th to 25th relieves your worries through logical solutions.  It’s not an easy year, but it is simply transforming!

Cancer ♋ (June 21-July 21)

Tired of putting out fires?  Your soul has arranged some life lessons to help you realize that staying safe is an empty life, and doesn’t bring the security you long for.  If you’ve allowed yourself to have breakthroughs and to take advantage of the opportunities Generous Jupiter has brought you since June 25, 2013, you can now see broader horizons and bigger dreams.  You’re in the home stretch now.  You can maximize your gains, solidify your investments, through July 15th when Jupiter enters Leo and your 2nd house of resources. Then you take it to the bank!  The weeks surrounding the April 22nd revolution in consciousness are peppered with wake-up calls and power struggles that jangle your nerves and threaten to crack your shell wide open.  What’s really happening?  The world is calling for you to come out and show your deep sensitivity and your exquisite antenna.  You’re a leader, not meant to be an escape artist.  You can teach what you know best; that it’s the deep roots of family that allow you stretch your wings in peace.

Leo ♌ (July 22-August 22)

Your divine soul is called into the heart of change where you’re asked to have the courage to be quite flexible--not usually Leo’s strength.  It’s not the courage that tramples victoriously over the bodies of fallen foes, but rather the courage to act from the promptings of your heart in all matters.  Your fierce pride and love of your tribe is your sword.  Your life force is being reawakened by affirmations of your strength.  A sense of urgency will be growing in you from January to April 22nd, when a seismic event in the world opens up an unforeseen pathway.  It has deeper roots than you first imagine.  When Jupiter enters your sign on July 15th, you enter one of the luckiest periods of your life, a new 12-year cycle.  For over one year, until August 11, 2015, you do have dominion over all you survey.  An abundance of energy, the enthusiasm and vitality of a child, will infuse your creative drives and allow you to inspire confidence and enthusiasm in others.  

Virgo ♍ (August 23-September 22)

It’s new partnership territory and you’re the leader.  First, the sudden shifts in consciousness, the epiphanies that at times can be disorienting will be piling up through April and May.  Your right hand holds the wand of successful career ambitions and your left hand is unwrapping gifts of optimism and opportunity.  Maximize your ability to transform, yourself and others, before Jupiter leaves Cancer on July 15th.  After that you’ll be called to put your plans into action, which won’t come until Warrior Mars enters Scorpio on July 27th.  Your main challenge in 2014 is to keep your innovative fires burning while you patiently take baby steps through the muddy terrain of seriousness.  The day to day inertia you encounter in others will slow you down enough to make sure you're pursuing the right goals.  You’ll need patience when it comes to others who seem to bumble along, but it will build your tolerance for mistakes--a talent you need for yourself.   Your divine soul is calling you to see the flaws, and love them anyway.

Libra ♎ (September 23-October 22)

By surfing through some rough waves in 2013, you’ve finally mastered the art of balance--every Libra’s dream!  Now Mars in Libra teaches you to surf with two on board!  Easier to just do it by yourself?  Yes, dear independent Libra.  But your divine soul is calling you to step back and let Love lead you to partnership.  That’s how you’ll catch a bigger wave, one that easily carries both of you.  Watch the April 15th eclipse in your sign for a reboot of your intellectual prowess.  The perfect intro to the 5th of 7 revolutions in consciousness that cracks open the lock on your deepest desires.  You’re on deck with a powerful wind in your sails for the first 7 months of 2014.  Mars puts you in front of groups beginning March 6-April 5th, then hands you the microphone June 24-July 18th, and ensures your role as a teacher of peace and love September 30-October 23rd.  You’re ambitions take off because you’re not alone. Ticket sales expand along with your creativity when Generous Jupiter enters the sign of your fiercely loyal friend Leo on July 15th.  The ambitious path Mars in Libra put you on is now paved with golden opportunities.  

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)

Here’s the promise that ends all suffering; you are not alone.  You are the child of Love Itself and by extending your love you fulfill your destiny of reawakening joy in yourself and others. Structured Saturn remains in your sign until December 23, 2014, keeping some heavy responsibilities on your shoulders and bringing success in the end.  You’ll find that your self-concept has been redesigned by a building of your self-esteem.  This year is therefore a clearing of the decks for you. As tests and challenges reveal what to keep and what to release, your awareness of limitations becomes acute and you’ll turn to make new habits. Mars in Libra through July will call you to a deeper quiet and time for meditation.  The month of April is a crisis of opportunity and change that will affect your 6th house of health and healing.  Then look for a new relationship or partnership to form beginning in May.  When Jovial Jupiter leaves Cancer for Leo on July 15th, he pours opportunities into your 10th solar house of career.  Expect success!

Sagittarius ♐ (November 22-December 20)

2014 is all around excitement!  Bold adventure marks the frontier of your ambitions for 2014. You always keep your soap box handy, and now is the time to get up on it.  Activism is what your soul is calling you to do.  You’ll have an increased involvement in groups and humanitarian needs.  You shift into forward gear March 20th on the Aries Equinox.  The revolutionary transformations being called for during April’s crescendo of activity and heightened awareness will bring you to the edge of an enormous breakthrough in consciousness--but you’ll have to decide to jump in.  It’s not about taking risks, but rather channeling the divine intentions of your soul’s destiny.  Tune-in and listen to the small quiet voice within you during the total Lunar Eclipse on April 15th.  People will need your help, especially children.  When Venus leaves the chilly mountain top of Capricorn March 5th, your love life picks up speed.  

Capricorn ♑ (December 21-January 19)

The New Moon in Capricorn January 1st started your year on a brilliant note of taking the initiative, grabbing the moneywise Taurus bull by the horns!  2014 is your time to rise above the battleground of a clashing world, and from your higher perspective see people’s suffering with the compassion of a loving parent for a wayward child.  Pluto has infused you with a sense of responsibility for reforms that are so sorely needed, and this must include a greater compassion for your own self.  Self-examination is the key to breakthroughs, since it will open up untapped resources.  The total eclipse on April 15th is a sign to stop and reboot your relationships.  When Mars in Libra makes the big stress aspect to Powerful Pluto in Capricorn on April 22nd, you’ll be challenged by persons in authority who would use force rather than diplomacy.  Don’t let it override your careful career planning.  Settle investments and taxes before March 5th when Venus leaves your sign.  The weeks surrounding May 5th are loaded with opportunities to be your authentic self; to go for what you want.  By December 15th you’ve clearly heard the call; to transcend the limitations of physical form and reawaken to your divine destiny.

Aquarius ♒ (January 20-February 17)

You’re traveling in 2014.  You felt the speed build up in late December and it’s going to propel you into the universal school of higher consciousness until late July.  Warrior Mars in Libra brings grace and beauty to your 9th solar house of the higher mind where he makes a harmonious trine to your Sun for the next 7 months.  You’ll feel a physical vitality and enjoy a more robust health.  Your divine soul is being called to teach in a language understood by everyone, and by teaching only Love you extend your belief that everyone is worthy of it and all people deserve happiness and not to suffer.  Your altruistic nature will be especially needed in the weeks around April 22nd when rebels and revolutions try harder to breakthrough outworn structures and beliefs.  This 6th summit forms a grand cross that shakes your foundations, requires flexibility and right action.  Plan to stop and rethink your position during the total Lunar Eclipse on April 15th.  What was hidden is revealed.  Write and communicate about it.  You’ll be speeded on your way by destiny.

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)

It’s your year to experience what you have know intuitively; that we are joined to one another by a Force so strong that it never breaks.  A golden thread is tied from your ankle to the ankles of all those you are destined to meet and help in this lifetime.  A thread so strong it cannot be broken, even if it’s stretched or twisted or remains unseen.   Neptune in Pisces will stay close to your Sun throughout 2014, especially if your birthday falls between February 21-26th.  Your imagination and intuition is so heightened that you may fall overboard into confusion, except that Structured Saturn continues to create harmonious, orderly thoughts in your higher mind through December 23rd.  Saturn’s common sense is one of two things that save you during the stressful challenges in April (see Astrology Wonks below).  The other is Venus in your sign from April 6th to May 3rd which sweetens your self-esteem and adds a charismatic radiance to your appearance.  Mars in Libra has made your 8th solar house a powerful place of getting things done.  You have wind in your sails for success in corporate money and investments through July 26th.  You’ll have the emotional intensity, energy and persistence to go after your deepest desires.  

✶ Astrology Wonks

April 22, 2014: Crisis/Opportunity:  By far the most important time in 2014.  An exact Grand Cross perfects with the opposition of Powerful Pluto in Capricorn to Expansive Jupiter in Cancer; and, Urgent Uranus in Aries opposing Warrior Mars in diplomatic Libra.  This means these four planets in cardinal signs are also square to each other:  Pluto is square Mars; Mars is square Jupiter; Jupiter is square Uranus; and the really big one, the 5th of 7 squares between Uranus and Pluto.  Enough pull to shake tectonic plates under the outworn hierarchical structures and send them toppling.  

April 15, 2014:  A total lunar eclipse, visible in North and South America, lasting nearly an hour will occur at between the Moon in peaceful Libra (next door to Warrior Mars) and the Sun in action packed Aries (with a Uranus-Mercury conjunction).  Peace talks get not just a nudge, but a hammer that surprises everyone.  Relationships and the economy are shaken by sudden events.  

March 20, 2914:  The spring equinox in the northern hemisphere knocks on prison doors, spilling the excess into city streets.  Talking about reforms must move to effective legislating;  As Yoda advised, “Try not.  Do or do not.  There is no try.”

Mercury Retrograde:  February 6-28; June 7-July 1st; October 4-25th.  

Mars in Libra squares Venus in Capricorn:  Venus ends her prolonged stay in Capricorn March 5th, but not before making a troublesome square to Mars just hours before the March 1st New Moon in Pisces.  Mars is in the midst of his prolonged stay in Libra--December 7, 2013-July 26, 2014.  Mars will bring us powerful ambition and instinctual courage two more times in 2014:  April 23rd and June 14th.  He will bring a graceful harmony to relationships/partnerships three times:  March 6-April 5th with Venus in Aquarius; June 24-July 18th with Venus in Gemini; and best of all, September 30-October 23rd with both Venus and Mars in Libra.  Love fest!

July 15th, 2014:  Jupiter enters Leo:  Jupiter leaves Cancer for Leo on where he’ll spill a cornucopia of creativity through August 11, 2015.  Jupiter in Leo inspires our confidence and enthusiasm and takes optimism to dramatic new heights.  We learn that greatness comes from service and devotion to others.  

July 20, 2014:  Serious Saturn in Scorpio is in stress aspect to Urgent Uranus in Aries. Status quo versus innovation.  Revolt against the established order; the secure rug beneath our feet is pulled away suddenly.

December 15, 2014:  The 6th of 7 squares between Uranus and Pluto (see above).  This will finish with the 7th square, the 7th sign, on March 17, 2015.  The Ides of March are particularly prophetic of our world to come.  

What's more important than diarrhea?

Peace of mind must be more important than diarrhea.  Think of all the things you’ll stop doing immediately if you have diarrhea.  Now think of the stressful too muchness you’ll participate in to the point of  losing your mind!  Say, “excuse me I have diarrhea” and stop!

I’m taking a December holiday so I’ve given your horoscope for the whole month.  I’ll be back in January with your 2014 forecast!

The New Moon in Capricorn on December 2nd starts the month off on a note of cool-headed caution and a chance to slow the pace.  Integrity always wins over expediency with Capricorn.  

We’re lifting our horizons, drying our wings, and taking flight as adventurous spirits.  Messenger Mercury will be jumping to sometimes brilliant conclusions in fiery Sagittarius beginning Wednesday, December 4th.  He’ll race through Sagittarius in a short 19 days, unlike the more than two chilly months he had us swimming through Scorpio’s depths, thinking about profound issues and searching for solutions.  Our answers now come from the higher mind.  Our words sing at a higher octave.   

Warrior Mars puts on the robes of justice in Libra beginning Saturday, December 7th.  We’ll take those blueprints we perfected in Virgo to goddess of beauty, money, and creativity in Libra who’ll round out the sharp edges.  The warrior in us may get frustrated by Libra’s need for approval and cooperation from the whole team before she builds anything!  

The really big news this month comes on December 12th with the 2nd of 3 harmonious trines between farsighted Generous Jupiter and responsible Structured Saturn.  We’re offering our charitable gifts, but only to those who will honor and respect them.  Trace the growth of your hopes and dreams by studying the events occurring around these 3 dates:  7/17/13, 12/12/13, and 5/24/14.  Opportunity + Strategy = Good Fortune.

The Full Moon in Gemini on December 17th ushers in the flexible, non-conformist attitude that frees us to see life differently.

The Winter Solstice on December 21st marks the Sun’s entrance into Capricorn, and signals the return of light.  We’ve passed the longest night, and begin to celebrate the birth of Love incarnate.

Mercury rides the back of the sure-footed Capricorn Mountain Goat beginning Christmas Eve.  Our New Year’s resolutions will be ambitious, practical, organized with a side dish of shrewdness.  

♡ Date Night:  Venus in Capricorn and Mars in Libra

What exactly did you have in mind?  Venus in Capricorn is very clear about her intentions, and she sweetly demands that Mars do likewise.  We’re asked to align our desires with our values.  Integrity counts.  Be the first to say “I love you” (even if ego says you’re not sure, not 100%) and you invite truth to enter your relationship.  Your masculine energy is looking for love, beauty, and cooperation through partnership, while our rather aloof and personally ambitious feminine side wants the security of money in the bank.  If you don’t get these conflicts of interest out in the open, they’ll boil over in January.  

The Force of integrity is with you.

Here’s your individual Sun Sign horoscope for the entire month of December, 2013:

Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)

Wings of faith sprout up on your  already zealous pioneering spirit when the messenger planet moves into fiery Sagittarius, your evangelical buddy, on December 4th.  New ideas that were triggered on the Sagittarius New Moon December 2nd catch fire.  Some promises may have gotten too big to keep, either by you or from another.  You won’t bother with much pragmatism until after December 21st, which brings a harvest in your house of career ambitions.  Jumpin’ Jupiter’s big plans get audited on December 12th, and the restraint you’ll feel will help you be patient (yes, even you!).  Christmas will be calm yet busy.   New Year’s Eve requires brinksmanship.

Taurus ♉ (April 20-May 20)

Under the Sagittarius New Moon on December 2nd you’ll get an urge to put more adventure into your life and into financial speculation (though you’re not a gambler!).  It’s a time when you can’t count on anyone else to keep order.  You’re surrounded by a sort of creative chaos that isn’t yet grounded.  Still, the impulse you feel on December 10th is thrilling and will free you.  If Mercury in Sagittarius (beginning December 4th) can keep his foot out of his mouth long enough to complete his sentences, you’ll be in for a wonderful new attitude. Your action energy aims for more loving pleasures when Warrior Mars enters Venus-ruled Libra on December 7th.  You may fear you’ve lost your common sense in a pink cloud, but is there really anything to gain by playing it safe?

Gemini ♊ (May 21-June 20)

When Warrior Mars enters the land of your buddy Libra on December 7th, a wind of brilliant ideas fills your sails.  You feel positively aggressive, yet sometimes thwarted.  Just remember that Libra is built for grace not speed, and while you’ll wish that things could move a little faster you’re not willing to be off balance.  Mercury, your ruler and muse, changes out of the soggy wetsuit he’s been in since September 28th and ignites your adventurous spirit when he moves into Sagittarius on December 4th.  You’re struck with absolute genius on December 10th.  It all comes to fruition on December 17th with the Full Moon in Gemini.  This is your personal harvest time.  

Cancer ♋ (June 21-July 21)

Virgo is usually the most organized and proficient CEO of all the zodiac signs, however that role falls to you around December 12th, and with the success that goes with it.  That’s a very lucky time for you that adds an even broader horizon to the opportunities that came your way July 17th.  Your nerves may be jumpy with so much going on this month, until you get solidly grounded and your life stabilized around the 24th.  It’s just that warrior Mars moved into an air sign on December 7th which brought you some mental confusion.  Thoughts will seem to leave your mind as quickly as they came in!  With the Winter Solstice on December 21st you life shifts. The Capricorn practicality works successfully for you in your career, and adds stability to your relationships.  

Leo ♌ (July 22-August 22)

You can trust the big ideas that jump into your mind on the New Moon December 2nd because two day later they get 18 days of free fuel.  Around December 10th you’re sparkling with brilliant ideas!  Let yourself brainstorm and play with the possibilities until you get some ground under you on Christmas Eve, even though it may be shaking in anticipation of the new paths opening up New Year’s Eve.  The middle of the month is good for successful business dealings, particularly fortunate on December 12th.  But the best day of the month for you is the 17th, when the Full Moon in Gemini helps you wrap up a deal that may involve your siblings or close community.  

Virgo ♍ (August 23-September 22)

You’re caught up in the excitement of a marching band that’s just a little too loud!  But you love the dance.  The New Moon in Sagittarius on December 2nd, and the move of Mental Mercury into Sagittarius two days later, will feel like creative chaos around you.  Step back regularly and enjoy the big picture it brings, but keep your own pace.  December 12th is a magical time of the month for you, adding brilliant strategy to your organized mind.  Where will this take you?  To a higher octave of discernment in which you commit to put your gifts only where they will be honored and respected.  Jupiter’s harmonious trine to Serious Saturn on December 12th expands your generosity of spirit and good will, and it also gives you that easy peaceful feeling!  The Winter Solstice, marked by the Sun’s move into Capricorn on December 21st, starts a very fortunate time of the year for you with a sunny disposition and deep sense of well being.  

Libra ♎ (September 23-October 22)

Sagittarius is the higher octave of the mind, and when the New Moon in Sagittarius occurs on December 2nd your horizons are lifted by optimistic positive thinking.  Two days later the god of communication moves into Sagittarius, brightening the ideas that have been on your drawing board since September 28th.  Like a skilled craftsman you’ve made systematic plans with great attention to detail while Messenger Mercury sojourned in Virgo (October 14th-December 6th), and now you have brains-on-fire for your project!  Finally, Mars enters Libra on December 7th where he’ll energize your muscles and light a fire under your actions until July 25th!  Wow!  Expect a miracle on December 10th wrapped as a surprise.  The Full Moon in Gemini on December 17th is a culmination time for your ideas and projects.  Ambitious Capricorn takes the lead starting with the Winter Solstice on the 21st.  Use it to climb that mountain to success one step at a time.  

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)

Since September 28th you’ve had Messenger Mercury in your sign, giving you mental clarity on old and new problems.  Beginning December 2nd and again on the 4th, your communications will speed up and projects will get off the ground.  You’ll feel anxiety about the rapid pace, like trying to slow a fireball rolling downhill!  Stay on the sidelines (which you prefer anyway!), and around December 12th Structured Saturn in your sign will be working in harmony with Jupiter’s charitable and optimistic bent.  Good strategy is your forte, and because it inclines you to be discriminating it will help you set better boundaries.  You’ll feel wonderful by the time of the Winter Solstice, marked by the Sun’s move into Capricorn, which occurs December 21st.  Good fortune for your career and good ideas for moving forward in 2014.

Sagittarius ♐ (November 22-December 20)

You must be saying, “this is the best birthday ever!”  The New Moon in your sign on December 2nd will be a free makeover of your self-esteem.  You’ve rarely felt this self-confident, which is what will ensure success of a project by December 17th, another powerhouse day for you.  Your mind becomes solar powered beginning December 4th when Messenger Mercury enters Sagittarius.  Your mental clarity is excellent for the next 19 days.  Don’t waste this opportunity to broaden your life just because brilliant ideas come to you so easily.  December 12th is a red letter day for serious-minded, even-tempered decisions that will inspire the kind of confidence in your abilities that bring a promotion or business success.  Really, Happy Happiest Birthday!

Capricorn ♑ (December 21-January 19)

Free power!  The New Moon in Sagittarius on December 2nd is an outrageous amount of energy that it lets you run your ideas on solar power that doesn’t cost a dime.  It doesn’t come with any forethought, so you’ll have to draw on the lucky idea that occurs to you on December 12th--a gold star day for you.  When Warrior Mars enters lovely Libra on December 7th, you’ll have to cool your heels and wait for your partner to join you.  From then on your guiding principle for action becomes justice and fair play, which combines beautifully with your Capricorn integrity.  Providence steps in to carry out your plans as the Sun moves into Capricorn on the Winter Solstice December 21st.  And it just gets better and better when Mental Mercury moves into your sign with enormous doses of mental clarity beginning December 24th. 19 days of sharp wit, disciplined thinking, and brilliant strategy.  Not to mention a wonderfully Happy Birthday month!

Aquarius ♒ (January 20-February 17)

Mercury in Sagittarius on December 4th starts three weeks of inspired imagination, with a brilliant cluster of ideas courtesy of the god of lightning on the 10th.  Surprising, unexpected, and very fortunate.   You have a jet stream tailwind at your back beginning with Mars moving into Libra on December 7th.  This marvelous ease of being at the right place at the right time will continue until July 25th!  It’s huge for you!  The Full Moon in Gemini on December 17th is a culminating time of bringing something to harvest that you started in late September.  The Winter Solstice, marked by the Sun’s move into Capricorn, occurs December 21st and is a grounding time of year for you.  Not as exciting, but very stable.

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)

The New Moon in Sagittarius on December 2nd, and Mercury moving into Sagittarius on December 4th, sets a lot of unruly fires under your ambitions for your career.  Still, better to have too much passion than none at all.  Look for Einstein to speak to you in your dreams on December 10th.  A brilliant time.  Jupiter’s harmonious trine to Serious Saturn on December 12th is one of the most fortunate days of this year for you.  Pay attention to this series of opportunities that clear the path for you on 7/17/13, 12/12/13, and 5/24/14.  The Winter Solstice, marked by the Sun’s move into Capricorn, occurs December 21st.  As usual it brings the return of light, especially to your charitable efforts to straighten out some of our planet’s problems.  Your sights are on humanitarian and global needs for peace on earth. Speak up shy Pisces, the world needs your poetic voice more than ever in 2014.