Pisces writes a Valentine about forgiveness

In the peaceful light of perfect openness, nothing is hidden and therefore nothing is fearful. The thousands of petty judgements that the ego offers will always yield to love.

The famous mythological lovers, Venus and Mars, are side by side in sweet talking Pisces for Valentine’s Day. You must feel your way through some deep visionary waters. But who’s going to make the first move?

The power of your decisions can restore a broken link, or keep it forever separate.

The Force of selective forgetting is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for the week of February 8th - 14th, 2015:

ARIES  ☀  (March 21-April 19)

You begin this week with a graceful charm and mellow mood. Ideas that you’ve mulled over will find solutions when Mental Mercury picks up the pace beginning Wednesday. Your mind sharpens. Communications make a course correction and get back on track (machines too). You have an unusual degree of acceptance and understanding in your relationships right now. Someone may need to lean on your shoulder and you’re glad to offer solace. This is not a time in which you get obvious credit for the good work you do. It’s a time for more yoga and meditation to help you be content with being in the background for awhile. Valentine’s Day has a cool reserve, but has a stabilizing effect on your relationships.

Food for forgiveness: “Forgiveness is a selective remembering of only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you.”  A Course In MIracles

TAURUS ☀  (April 20-May 20)

Losing patience with your stalled career plans? Projects that have been moving like molasses will really get rolling beginning this Wednesday, February 11th, when Messenger Mercury shifts to forward gear. Remember, your birthday month will be a giant leap forward as the Sun and Mercury will both be in Taurus. And, for now you have the archetypal lovers, Venus and Mars, giving you a friendly wink from visionary Pisces. What would it feel like to be in a happy relationship that you’ve dedicated to the single goal of unconditional love? To conceive of it in mind, infuse it with the power of desire, brings it to reality. Valentine’s Day is a celebration of friendships. Lots of love and affection, especially as the Moon strikes a harmonious chord Saturday afternoon. A sense of well being fills your weekend.

Food for forgiveness: “When you forgive, you in no way change the past. But you sure do change the future.” Bernard Meltzer

GEMINI ☀ (May 21-June 21)

Trusting your Second Brain? Your muse, Messenger Mercury, finishes his three weeks of dallying around, studying his navel, and revs up your mental engines. Ideas and projects get a kick start from your higher mind beginning this Wednesday, February 11th. The archetypal lovers, Venus and Mars, are cooperatively side by side in your house of career--expect favorable circumstances to attract just the right person to help you advance, to bring wealth and/or a promotion. This can also show up as public recognition for your work. Attitude of gratitude comes easily to you. You have much to be thankful for now.

Food for forgiveness: “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” Martin Luther King Jr.

CANCER    ☀  (June 22-July 22)

You are in a hurry to get outdoors, for sports and for standing on your soap box. Your inner crusader has a lot to say, especially after this Wednesday, February 11th, when Messenger Mercury shifts to forward gear. Get a job in product evangelism or find a classroom to teach. Venus and Mars have found a home in your higher mind, where your ideals are inspired by this loving couple. You’re in for a conscious-expanding experience this week through an encounter with someone you love. All you have to do is give up all your preconceived notions about them! Valentine’s Day is perfect for going to a concert or taking a short pleasure trip. You need something new and different--and you’re going to get it.

Food for forgiveness: “Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin.” A Course In Miracles

LEO ☀  (July 23-August 22)

There’s going to be lots of talk about partnerships you’re in. Beginning Wednesday, February 11th, the messenger planet picks up speed again in your 7th house of relationships, having retreated to more introspective and internal dialogue for the past three weeks. Now the deal gets signed. The archetypal lovers, Venus and Mars, are cooking up a fortunate possibility for financial gain. And, you are ready to live up to the rep you’ve earned, “you’ve never been loved ‘til you’ve been loved by a Leo.” Put it on a Valentine and deliver it with the strong emotional intensity that you feel this week. Your words are deeply meaningful, never superficial. You’re loving the bottom line!

Food for forgiveness: “You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.” Maya Angelou

VIRGO ☀  (August 23-September 22)

You are always the zodiac’s most organized worker, and this week Mental Mercury finally shifts into forward gear in your 6th house of work and service to others. Beginning Wednesday, February 11th, projects that have be brewing since January 5th will gather enough energy for you to bring them to harvest. Of all the 12 signs, you have the best lineup of Venus and Mars for Valentine's Day (actually this whole week). The lovers are sweetly side by side in your 7th house of relationships. If you can harness your aggressive Mars energies, and rely more on Venus for an attitude of cooperation, your relationships will have a perfect balance between “his needs-her needs.” I use the word “perfect” with caution, given your natural drive for perfection, however you’re going to come pretty close to it.  

Food for forgiveness: “Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.” A Course In MIracles

LIBRA ☀  (September 23-October 22)

Your week starts with the Moon in your sign (through late Monday night) giving you a deep resonance with your true feelings about your relationships. Libra’s emphasis on partnerships becomes your hot topic, especially when Messenger Mercury emerges from his mancave this Wednesday, February 11th. He’s been stirring up romance in your 5th solar house since January 4th, and now it has forward momentum. With the archetypal lovers, Venus and Mars, in the deeply compassionate waters of Pisces, and in your 6th house of health and healing, this week is one of reaching out to be of service to others through your work. You have the gift of exceptional craftsmanship right now. You can get an enormous amount of work done and enjoy the process.

Food for forgiveness: “Letting go means some people are part of your history, but not part of your destiny.” Steve Maraboli

SCORPIO ☀   (October 23-November 21)

You get a serene sense of well being this Tuesday and Wednesday when the Moon is in your sign. Communications in or about your home and family really pick up, especially this Wednesday, February 11th, when the messenger planet shifts into forward gear. Ideas that have been “on hold” since about January 21st are energized and pop up to be dealt with. The archetypal lovers, Venus and Mars, are happily side by side this week in your 5th house of romance and creativity. You always feel things intensely (Scorpio never does anything superficially), and now deeply erotic energy is magnified--just in time for Valentine’s Day. Don’t go it alone or the downside of this is jealousy and impatience. Draw on your higher mind for the union of souls, which is what you truly desire.

Food for forgiveness: “I forgive my enemies, but I never forget their names.” John F. Kennedy

SAGITTARIUS ☀   (November 22-December 21)

Messenger Mercury shifts to forward gear Wednesday, February 11th, in your 3rd house of communications which expands your bandwidth. Follow the breadcrumbs back to early January, and pick up the idea you forgot about--it’s now ready to be implemented. On February 13th you have a very fortunate day for chatting it up with your partner or close friends. You can really get your point across now. The Moon in your sign from Thursday morning to Saturday afternoon, lights up your intuition with a new sense of optimism. You have every reason to hope that your life it turning in a very favorable direction, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Venus and Mars in your house of home and family have you creating something lovin’ from the oven. Or, start a DIY project at home. Family roots, including childhood memories, pop up. Pay attention. Here’s a chance to free yourself of them.

Food for forgiveness: “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and to realize that prisoner was you.” Lewis B. Smedes

CAPRICORN   ☀  (December 22-January 19)

If you haven’t written that song about love yet, you’ll get the impetus and wind back in your sails beginning this Wednesday, February 11th. The messenger planet in you house of resources will turn deals your way and give you an original idea about how to earn money. Valentine’s day is packed with so much lovin’ feeling that even you, dear dignified and reserved Capricorn, will initiate public displays of emotion--love that is. Hold up that sign saying “FREE HUGS” and watch yourself be amazed by how many people are drawn to you. Your inner artist is in residence, and your intellect very active. Take advantage of Saturday and Sunday which are your best days this week, especially for communications and contracts. Just watch out for petal-to-the-metal need for speed. The Moon cools your emotions down when she hikes into your sign on the afternoon of February 14th. Forget about the past. Put that poem to music.

Food for forgiveness: “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” Rita Mae Brown

AQUARIUS   ☀   (January 20-February 18)

The big news for you this week centers around mid-week when Messenger Mercury, who’s in a prolonged stay in Aquarius, ends his retrograde journey on Wednesday, February 11th. Your mind is crystal clear and your inbox overflowing. Venus and Mars, the archetypal lovers, bring beauty and wealth as they fill your 2nd solar house with all the lovely things money can buy. You’re ready to initiate a new enterprise. Your birthday month will end on February 18th with an unusually powerful crescendo--a Super New Moon in Aquarius and the eve of the Chinese New Year. This is a major time of initiation for you--plant new seeds. A project or relationship that you begin now will have the effect of shifting your consciousness to a new dimension, a spiritual brotherhood.

Food for forgiveness: “Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.” A Course In MIracles

PISCES ☀  (February 19-March 20)

Activity and ambition is amped up when the messenger planet shifts to forward gear Wednesday, February 11th, having taken you on a journey back to January 5th--about the time you’d begun your New Year’s resolution to get out more. Your dreams are rich with imagination, and you can remember a lovely childhood event in which it was clear that you were loved. Warrior Mars in your 1st house of self-confidence is boosting your aggressive drives, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Somebody’s got to make the first move! You won’t overlook sending love to anyone, and woe be it to anyone who overlooks you. You’re in an affection mood all week, and willing to compromise, but not to bend over backwards. Your warmth and desire for peace attracts others to you.

Food for forgiveness: “To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.” A Course In Miracles

P.S. In celebration and gratitude to the thousands upon thousands who practice forgiveness every day, as if their lives depended on it, and have found forgiveness by taking responsibility for their own behavior:

“Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt. So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making.” Alcoholics Anonymous

Ever seen a Moon jump up for joy?

Sparks of enthusiasm will be trailing in the wake of Tuesday’s Full Moon in Leo (3:08 PM PST). Jovial Jupiter joins this colorful lioness, expanding the horizons behind her with your wildest dreams.

Sit under the stars at sunset and watch the brilliant entrance of this Moon rising, like the protective caress of a warm friendly breeze. And be ready with applause, because Leo insists on being appreciated. :)

The Force of the courage to love is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for the week of February 1st to 7th, 2015:

ARIES  ☀  (March 21-April 19)

Lionhearted Full Moon will rise in your 5th house

You week starts with a roar of lioness energy brought to the affairs of your 5th house of romance and creativity by the Leo Full Moon this Tuesday afternoon. Don’t bother trying to hide your feelings--it won’t work. This is good news. Why? Because what you truly want is the freedom to be yourself, right out loud! If this rocks a friendship, so be it. It needs to leave your life anyway. Your love for someone will be much more intensely felt this week. Nighttime dreams will have a mystical quality, and daydreams can be shaped into your heart’s desire. If you can think it, with intention, you can create it.

Your affirmation for this week: Love is my Companion as I walk the world a while. And those who come to follow me will recognize the way because the light I carry stays behind, yet still remains with me as I walk on.

TAURUS ☀  (April 20-May 20)

The lionhearted Full Moon will rise this Tuesday afternoon in your 4th house of home and family. This is a good time to pull inward, go inside, and allow your feelings and thoughts to come into your conscious awareness so you can take stock of where you’ve placed your loyalties and why. The 4th house of Cancer is the natural home of the Moon and therefore of the sacred feminine. Your emotions are strongly influenced by issues related to mothering. It’s time for a radical change in the way you nurture yourself, particularly regarding unhealthy habits that will be easier to confront now. February 5th and 6th are your best days this week for getting stuff done and tending to details. Your friends are a source of love and comfort this week, and may introduce you to a new love.

Your affirmation for this week: The Love I choose to receive is my eternal gift to those who walk with me. Love itself smiles on me and offers me the happiness I gave to others.

GEMINI ☀ (May 21-June 21)

Daydreaming will be your favorite passtime. The Full Moon in Leo this Tuesday afternoon will make the first two days of the work week a time of operating from your gut reactions to almost everything. Because this lioness Moon will rise in your 3rd house of communications, your emotions will color your thinking and you’ll be quite subjective when making decisions. Your Second Brain brain will be in overdrive, but before you run out and buy a bunch of probiotics (a good idea) tune in to “butterflies” in your stomach. Although the trigger may be unconscious, it’s a signal to trust your gut to guide you to the very creative changes that will be easy to make this week. Even though your guiding light, Mental Mercury, is still retrograde, your mind is sharpened by his dance with the god of lightning at the time of the Full Moon. And then your mental clarity and objectivity is restored Thursday.

Your affirmation for this week: The Voice of Love will answer every question I ask, and a vision will correct the perception of everything I see.

CANCER    ☀  (June 22-July 22)

Mystical and visionary thoughts fill your imagination as this week begins on a heartfelt note. Fabulous week ahead in terms of love and romance. Mars and Venus are side by side in sweet Pisces, making harmonious music with your Cancer Sun. Invite them for dinner. A lionhearted Full Moon on Tuesday will power up your 2nd house of resources and money.You feel a strong need for financial security, it’s uppermost in your mind. Wait until Friday and Saturday to take concerted action, and try to relax in the meantime. This is not the week to get rid of that comfortable, cozy bathrobe even though its seams are undone. Surround yourself with the familiar. Adventurous risks are for another time.

Your affirmation for this week: Love is my companion as I walk the earth awhile. My home is safe, protected by the power and strength available to me when I choose Love as my only reality.

LEO ☀  (July 23-August 22)

Hanging out with your tribe is the way you want to spend most of this week, especially Monday after 9:40 AM and all day Tuesday as the Moon becomes full in Leo at 3:08 PM. You are generous and giving, hoping it will be a two way street. The admiration of those you love and respect is more important to you than you’d like to believe. The need to love and be loved, the wonderful Leo trait that makes for your sunny disposition, strongly colors your emotions which may be changeable. You are much more likely to pick up psychic impressions, and it’s a time when your emotions are strongly affected by your environment. If you’re moody, change the scenery! You know in your heart that you are loved. And, just for a few days, you’d like to be adored!

Your affirmation for this week: My shining footsteps point the way to truth for myself, and for those who follow after me or stay with me a while. Today I give thanks for knowing who I am. I am the spirit of Love.

VIRGO ☀  (August 23-September 22)

You’re strongly affected by memories from the past as the Moon rises to fullness in Leo this Tuesday afternoon. Your 12th house of dreams and visions is stirred up and you may be confused by all the psychic impressions rushing in. Some time away by yourself will feel good to you, but not to go so far as to withdraw you affections or keep your feelings a secret. Your personal truth is a treasure, so you don’t want to just scatter it everywhere.

Confide in a friend you can trust who will honor your boundaries. After 9:45 PM on Thursday the nervousness gives way to a calm sense of well being. Even though you’ll sleep through the beginning, mystical visions and sweet dreams are guaranteed for the next two days.

Your affirmation for this week: Everything I touch takes on a shining light that blesses and that heals. I carry the light with me as I go my way rejoicing.

LIBRA ☀  (September 23-October 22)

Decide that there is no room in your busy mind to doubt the love of your friends, nor to question your faith in their strong companionship. The friendly Full Moon in Leo this Tuesday afternoon will rise in your 11th house of friends and groups, and you will not feel like being alone. Plus, your natural ability to lead is needed by others. Put yourself in the middle of a think tank. You may be surprised by the depth of your feelings this week as the urgency of Uranus shows you interior places where you are not as free as you’d like to be. Be grateful for the appearance of a negative attitude left over from childhood conditioning. It is raised to your awareness so that it no longer limits the scope of your vision.

Your affirmation for this week: I feel the strength of Love in my heart. No meaningless anxieties can come between me and my friends and partners.

SCORPIO ☀   (October 23-November 21)

An itchy sense of urgency arises Monday, leading up to the Leo Full Moon this Tuesday afternoon. It throws some heartfelt courage to act into your 10th house of career and ambitions in the outer world. You’re concluding some business affairs, but you don’t want a public display of your personal life so you decide on transparency as the best policy. You have another full house this week--your 5th house of romance and children is loaded with mystical experiences and psychic connections that greatly enrich your love for one another.  

Your affirmation for this week: The certainty of my faith in Love brings me a joy so deep I can barely comprehend it, a vision so holy my body’s eyes cannot see it. Yet I know it is within me.

SAGITTARIUS ☀   (November 22-December 21)

Lionhearted Full Moon Beginning Monday, you feel like you’ve landed in a beehive of brilliant brainstorming about whatever ails you. You’ll solve any questions you have by the time of the lionhearted Full Moon in Leo on Tuesday afternoon. She will rise in all her regal beauty and enthusiasm for life in your 9th house of the higher mind. You will make, and are reminded of, deep emotional attachments to your “tribe.” Loyalties to beliefs that you’ve carried with you since childhood are up for a needed review. Do they really work for you now? Although Messenger Mercury is still retrograde in Aquarius (messing with your computer!) your mind is alert and your thoughts well organized, particularly this Thursday. Saturday morning the Moon in Libra shines a very sociable light on your friendships--perfect weekend to gather friends around you.

Your affirmation for this week: How holy is my mind when everything I see reflects the love that is within me. My mind is at one with all living creatures because of my unconditional love of them, and of myself.

CAPRICORN   ☀  (December 22-January 19)

You are receiving a download of information this week that has a mystical quality to it. Your mind is full of psychic connections, likely unconscious, that spawn aha experiences. You’re able to express the depth of your love in poetry and music, even though you don’t feel the need for words. The lionhearted Full Moon this Tuesday afternoon will rise in your 8th house of joint resources. This is Pluto’s house, so expect intense sensual encounters that draw you in and change you somehow. This may be in the form of an experience of the spiritual world, or life after death. Communications won’t return to “normal” until Messenger Mercury finishes his reverse gear on February 11th. Computers may run more smoothly after that, but ideas are still less practical than you’d like until March 13th.  

Your affirmation for this week: The strength to see others, and the world, without judgement is my true power, which is available to me in all my undertakings. I can fail at nothing. No miracle is ever denied to me, because I know I am one with Love.

AQUARIUS   ☀   (January 20-February 18)

A romantic Leo Full Moon will rise in your 7th house of partnerships and marriage this Tuesday afternoon. Take advantage of this brilliant lioness energy to express your love, and to let others know how important they are to you--which is particularly true for you right now. Your usual ability to detach from your feelings is out the window! This is good news. Why? Uranus is urgently urging you to give up those limiting beliefs about the role women “should” play. Conditioned in childhood, there are attachments to concepts of mothering and being mothered which need to be brought to conscious awareness. You teach peace, but do you allow the self-nurturing experiences that bring peace to you?

Your affirmation for this week: I see only the loving and the lovable and the appearance of pain gives way to peace. I see only a cry for love in the frantic faces of those who are lonely and afraid, and weariness gives way to strength. I’m able to see all of this because I first recognized it in myself.

PISCES ☀  (February 19-March 20)

There’s a definite buzz in your 6th house of work, service, health and healing this week, fired up by the beautiful Leo Full Moon on Tuesday, February 2nd. You have the courage to resolve a conflict between your need to emotionally connect (which requires being vulnerable) and your need to keep your life in order. At the same time, you are expressing yourself in the world with a deeply spiritual message that comes to you through the sacred inner marriage of heavenly and earthly love. The goddess of love in your sign is sitting side by side with Warrior Mars, also in Pisces, filling your 1st house of self-identity with the inspiration to make all your relationships more loving. Expect to see visions, daydreams, of how this can happen. You simply have to trust the promptings of your heart. Friday and Saturday are your most productive days this week--great time for closet cleaning.

Your affirmation for this week: I look into the mirror and see that I am a perfect reflection of the light of Love. Because I see myself with the eyes of loving compassion, I am at peace.

♡ Date Night:  Venus and Mars are traveling together, side by side, in Pisces this week and next. Are you writing that sonnet? Nothing is too mushy for this pair. They get closer and closer until they snuggle up, in the friendliest of ways, for the dark night of the Aquarius New Moon on February 18th. So if you blow on Valentine’s Day, there’s another chance for new romance. It will also be the Chinese New Year, the year of the peaceful Sheep. Intuit your way.

Venus is her sweetest in Pisces~love is exalted

Messenger Mercury in retrograde motion says, “Now students, let’s review the material from the past 3 weeks that will be on your exam.” Mentally we are retracing our steps back to January 5th, to pick up the threads of meaning that may have been lost in those busy times. Since Mercury is in humanitarian Aquarius, and Saturn is now in truth-telling Sagittarius, it’s time to make decisions based on what we truly value, not on what we were taught.  

Whisper sweet nothings. Tuesday, January 27th, Venus shifts your relationships out of the cooly reserved air of Aquarius and into the romantic depths of Poetic Pisces. The loving sensitivity and artistic inspiration of Venus in Pisces requires lots of hugs and reassurance, because, expecting such depth of soul, we can be easily disappointed. You are called to a more attentive and deeper connection in all your relationships.

Be careful. Foot-in-mouth disease is rampant on Friday, January 30th, when a retrograde Mental Mercury in Aquarius backs into the Sun. Your thoughts fly quickly from head to mouth, without benefit of a filter.

The Force of do-overs is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for the week of January 25th-31st, 2015:

ARIES  ☀  (March 21-April 19)

The week opens with the Moon in your sign, and a feeling of well being. All’s right with the world. A surprise message comes on Tuesday the 27th that brightens your day. There’s a sparkle to all your communications. Also on Tuesday the goddess of love shifts her mood from the rather reserved “I’ll think about it” to the poetic depths of “I’ll write a poem from my heart.” Venus moves into emotionally deep waters until February 20th, when she’ll return to Aries for a rebirth. Until then, your love is quiet and you’ll feel a certain shyness about expressing yourself. For *Valentine’s Day you could expect a friendship to turn to romance. January 30th is a day of brilliant IQ, and unusual ideas. With Mercury in “I love everybody” Aquarius, your humanitarian interests in civil rights is stronger. While Mercury is retrograde, you turn inward for answers to your life’s purpose. Why are you here?     

TAURUS   ☀  (April 20-May 20)

The Moon enters Taurus Monday morning, offering you two days of contented well being, even though you’re called to make a decision on Monday that you’d rather postpone. There are parallel lines of direction running through you this week; on the one hand you are prone to overthink everything; then on the other hand, you’re going to go deeper into your heart's true desire than ever before. You’ll feel a big shift on Tuesday, January 27th, when Venus leaves the reserved intellectualizing of Aquarius and dives into the empathic emotional waters of Poetic Pisces for the next three weeks. This will be very good for you, in-sync with your Taurus love of beauty. Friendships are warmer and there’s a lovely exchange of kindnesses between you and your friends. Warrior Mars was already in Pisces, so the mythological lovers are reunited--it can happen on earth too! You may relapse into overthinking on the 28th and 29th, but very sweet home fires are burning for you on Friday and Saturday. Mercury retrograde asks for inner contemplation on, “Where do I feel at Home?”

GEMINI  ☀  (May 21-June 21)

Brains on fire? Sunday’s Aries Moon starts your week off with innovation and some good news from a friend. Tuesday the 27th begins a three week period of bountiful Venus in your 10th house of career. Often this is a promotion or additional wealth through career. Venus will be in the sign of Poetic Pisces, which for you means things won’t happen fast enough, but lots is going on behind the scenes. Patience grasshopper. Warrior Mars is kind of sluggish in Pisces so you’re deeply motivated but hindered in taking action until February 20th. It’s not your style to wait, but it’s very advisable. The 28th and 29th are your best days--you should trust your intuition and expect a hunch to pay off. The 30th is loaded with communications, to and from. You may read something that sparks a completely new direction in your thinking. It will be good for you.

CANCER  ☀  (June 22-July 22)

If romance and creativity has seemed to be flighty and fleeting, like a bee buzzing around your head, it’s about to get some landing gears. Good fortune and luck in love and creativity comes your way this Tuesday when Venus moves into sweet waters of Pisces for the next three weeks. This will fill your 9th house will travel and adventure. Wonderful time for a vacation. You have a strong attachment to your ideals, which are high. Too high for mere mortals? You’re fine as long as you stay off your soap box. No point trying to convert others to your point of view--even if it’s the “right” one. The Moon moves into your sign late Friday, making the 31st and February 1st the best days of this week for you--a week that ends on a decidedly spiritual, and very very loving, note.

LEO   ☀  (July 23-August 22)

Sunday is serene, yet full of activity. You start the week all fired up for travel and adventure to foreign lands, both physically and in your thoughts. Jot down the expansive ideas you have today, your memory will get a little soggy by the end of the week. It’s wet go-inside weather for romance and creativity starting Tuesday, and for the next three weeks. Let your heart have a bit of hibernation, rest and renewal. You’re really going to need it when spring comes with a bang. The goddess of love is moving into your 8th house, which often means financial gain through partnership or marriage. Anything involving joint assets will go well. Your emotions are quite intense, much more so than usual for you. Watch out for jealousy. The 28th brings a lighter mood and good times, with a special effervescence to your personality on Friday the 30th. Loyalty is your highest virtue, especially to family. Ask yourself, “Am I loyal to my own beliefs?”

VIRGO  ☀  (August 23-September 22)

Your emotions may be fried as you start this week, but it’s going to get a lot better. Monday and Tuesday are good money days, and you’ll feel like beautifying your immediate surroundings to make them more comfortable--you revel in the luxury. And beginning Tuesday the 27th, the goddess of love moves into Pisces and stirs up strong romantic attractions. You’ll feel drawn to each other. Venus will be sweetening your 7th house of relationships until February 20th--this year will be a *Valentine’s Day you won’t want to miss! You’ll find yourself dealing with the public in a very effective way--very helpful and lucky time if you work in the field of psychology, sales or public relations. The 30th and 31st are stay at home days when you’ll be quite content, and at peace. Virgo your question is, “When is it good enough?”

LIBRA  ☀  (September 23-October 22)

Now that romance has been sparked by Venus in your 5th house, the goddess of love moves into Pisces and your 6th house of work and service on January 27th. The best news about this is that Warrior Mars is also in Pisces, so they’re in love like Laura and Dr. Zhivago. Their timing is off and they don’t really make the right moves. Even if you bumble through it, this is still a very romantic time. You’ll fall in love with your work (or someone you work with) which rolls along smoothly and harmoniously. Mercury in retrograde motion asks you to close the library book and really absorb the meaning. Think back to January 5th--did you miss the importance of a message then? Trust your intuition on the 28th and 29th. You feel a balance (one of your favorite things!) in your emotions, and sense of well being. Watch the 30th for solar-powered ideas that give you a more objective look at what motivates you.

SCORPIO  ☀   (October 23-November 21)

Venus is in the wide, compassionate oceans of Pisces beginning this Thursday the 27th through February 20th. Your heart is talking louder than your head. The goddess of love joins Warrior Mars in your 5th house of romance and creativity (and will be there together for Valentine’s Day), heightening your ability to walk in another’s shoes. Your feelings for someone special will deepen. Even if you think it’s obvious, the truth is you never wear your heart on your sleeve--so you still need to say it out loud. Try very hard to express your emotions, particularly around the 30th, rather than keeping yourself in reserve. You’re pulled toward taking things more seriously than they warrant. It’s just that you’re easily disappointed by any hint of rejection (always a sensitive spot for you), plus you’re likely to be wrong about it. As the week ends you have a sense of emotional well being that carries over into February 1st, which begins a time of being exquisitely in sync with someone you love.

SAGITTARIUS ☀   (November 22-December 21)

You start your week on a pleasantly passionate note. Sunday is good day for sitting in the sunshine under the Aries Moon. You feel warm inside and affectionate. How are you adjusting to Serious Saturn in your sign? What you want to do with this energy is to let it give you additional discipline and greater concentration on practical tasks. Put a bunch of stickies around that remind you--”Don’t isolate” and ”Don’t take anything personally.” The Goddess of love is moving into your 4th house of home and family January 27th, where she’ll join her mythic lover, Warrior Mars. She’ll warm your heart and hearth until February 20th. Family relationships can be improved as old resentments or secrets surface into the light, where they can be forgiven. Solving problems is easier on the 28th and 29th. Something that looks like a loss on the 30th, is really meant to leave your life. If your emotions seem to be in overload, it’s only a sign to slow down and take time for contemplation. Afterall it’s the “dead” of winter, when many creatures naturally turn inward.

CAPRICORN  ☀  (December 22-January 19)

The airways have been supercharged, without much time to rest, which is never good for a Capricorn in winter. You’re part hibernating bear. It’s about to get a lot easier. Monday and Tuesday are days you can trust your hunches. Go with what feels right, versus what “should” be done. You’ve been working behind the scenes since January 12th, somewhat because you’re avoiding confrontation, but more because it’s simply not the time to act on sensitive tasks that you know require subtle handling. Beginning January 27th, the goddess of love shifts the action for you by helping you see the psychological underpinnings and lovingly releasing pent up anger--in yourself or another. Venus will be in your 3rd house until February 20th, putting relationships in the forefront and making your communications harmonious. Good relationships with brothers, sisters and neighbors encourages you to help each other. You could be in the headlines of your local paper, or you might just write a beautiful love letter for *Valentine’s Day. The 30th and 31st are your best feeling days of this week. All is well.

AQUARIUS  ☀   (January 20-February 18)

Venus moves into the deep oceanic waters of Pisces on January 27th, where she’ll add a love of beautiful things, including romance, in your 2nd house of resources. Often Venus in the 2nd (until February 20th) brings money. Messages and communications will continue to pour in throughout your birthday month, and all the way to March 12th. Messenger Mercury's prolonged stay in your sign has a period of laser-like focus now, asking you to take another look at your self-concept, or your self-confidence. While Mercury is retrograde, you’re being shown something new about yourself that you might have missed. And as if your inbox wasn’t already too full, on February 11th, Messenger Mercury will shift back into forward gear--just in time to set an honest tone for a sweetly intimate *Valentine’s Day. You’ll get an interesting surprise on the 27th that will come through your in-box or a phone message. Your emotions reach an equilibrium on the 28th and 29th, and you can trust your intuition. When your Aquarius Sun runs head on into Messenger Mercury on the 30th, your brains are solar-powered. Be sure to grab a grounding rod, and take an extra yoga class.

PISCES  ☀  (February 19-March 20)

How sweet it is! Beginning January 27th, Venus is in your sign for the next three weeks. She’s joining her mythic lover, Warrior Mars, who’s been fueling your motivation since the 12th, and you are guaranteed some good times. You feel much more sociable than usual, although you can be easily disappointed, especially around the 30th, if someone close to you withholds affection. Look for a revelation on that day. Your communications and ideas are zipping through your head, some days faster than you can catch them. Now that Mercury is retrograde, you have time to review and rewrite. Think back to January 5th. Did something happen that you could have paid more attention to? The Moon moving into Cancer for Friday and Saturday, the 30th and 31st, offsets hurt feelings because you have a deeply compassionate view of the other person. In fact, you’ll start February on a decidedly spiritual and clairvoyant note.

*♡ Date Night:  Venus moves in with Mars, both in the shy sign of Poetic Pisces, on Tuesday, January 27th. For the next three weeks, until February 19th, these lovers are in unconditional acceptance of one another. “Can you read my mind?” Oh yes. Your feelings have a heightened sensitivity, and lovers are amorously empathic with each other. Your romance can deepen on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14th. Read Rumi, write sonnets about your love, but watch out for the unthinking Sagittarius Moon which has a foot-in-mouth quality. A candle lit picnic under the stars is a perfect solution.