Monthly Horoscope for Everyone

As we pass through the dark winter months, this is a good time to spend thinking about your friends, community, culture, and planet. In particular, think outside the box (Sun, Mercury, and Neptune in Aquarius).

These planets are trine Jupiter in Libra, which normally would mean growth and balance in the realm of your social life. But from February 1 to June 5, Jupiter will be in retrograde. It still has the same power, but during this phase explore what's OUT of balance with your friends, town, and if you're inclined, the world. Once June 5 comes around, you can start taking action on those well-considered ideas. You'll take your life to the next level!

Adding to the fun, Pluto is sextile both these events, in Sagittarius. That means you'll be tempted to jump in and make changes as soon as you think of them. After February 6, when Mars moves into Capricorn, take advantages of practical opportunities that appear, but have patience and wait to implement big changes until Jupiter turns direct again early in the Summer.

On Valentine's Day, Venus will be conjuct Neptune and Mars will be sextile Uranus. To celebrate your love, surprise your sweetie with something they've always wanted to do that you've never done before!

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Aquarius, January 20 to February 19

• Symbol: Waterbearer
• Element: Air
• Quality: Fixed
• House: 11th, Friends and Society
• Planet: Uranus
• Color: Blue
• Body Part: Ankles
• Trait: Idealistic
• Semi-precious gemstone: Amethyst

Learn Astrology:
The 11th House, Friends and Society

"Houses" are the 12 pie slices in an astrology chart that astrologers use to interpret horoscopes. They're the realms of life within which your personality traits play out. They're calculated based on the sun's highest position on any given day.

The Eleventh House, ruled by Aquarius, influences friends, intellectual pleasures, socializing, and attitude towards society. It shows your goals and ambitions as they relate to your external relationships.

The 11th house represents group consciousness. This can include community service, humanitarian aid, business-support groups, or community living lifestyles.

The sign on the eleventh house cusp tells about how you approach social situations. Virgo on the cusp may indicate shyness in opening to groups, or they end up in the kitchen cleaning up after the party. Aries may know everyone’s first name at an event, but never stick around to know their last name.

What planets you have in the 11th house describe how you get along with people. Having your Sun in the eleventh house may make you magnetically attractive to everyone. The Moon in the 11th may indicate the person who listens to everyone’s problems and nurtures them like a mother.

Read about the other houses

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To the Moon, Saturn!

In 1997, NASA and the European and Italian Space Agencies sent the Cassini mothership to Saturn. In December, its Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon, Titan.

Titan is the first moon other than the Earth's to be explored. Scientists think Titan's atmosphere is similar to that of the early Earth and studying it could provide clues to how life arose here.

Scientists report that the probe has found that liquid methane rains lash Saturn's largest moon, a freezing, primitive but active world of ridges, peaks, river beds and deserts scoured by the same forces of erosion as Earth.

Methane is a highly flammable gas on Earth, but on Titan, it is liquid because of the intense pressure and cold.

"There is liquid that is flowing on the surface of Titan. It's...liquid methane, [which] plays the same big role on Titan as water does on Earth,'' said mission manager Jean-Pierre Lebreton.

It did not appear to be raining when Hyugens descended through Titan's haze on parachutes, "but it has been raining not long ago,'' said Lebreton.

"We've got a flammable world, and it's quite extraordinary,'' said Toby Owen, a scientist from Honolulu's Institute for Astronomy.

And for those of you who have read this far:

"It is characteristic of the miliary mentality that non-human factors (bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc.) are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary....The individual is degraded to a mere instrument; he becomes 'human material.' the normal ends of human aspiration vanish with such a viewpoint.....

"In our time the military mentality is still more dangerous than formerly becasue the offensive weapons have become more powerful than the defensive ones. Therefore it leads, by necessity, to preventive war. The general insecurity that goes hand in hand with this results in the sacrifice of the citizen's civil rights to the supposed welfare of the state. Political witch-hunting, controls of all sorts (e.g. control of teaching and research, of the press, and so forth) appear inevitable, and for this reason do not encounter that popular resistance, which, were it not for the miliary mentality, would provide a protection. A reappraisal of all values gradually takes place in so far as everything that does not clearly serve the utopian ends is regarded and treated as inferior.

I see no other way out of prevailing conditions than a far-seeing, honest, and courageous policy with the aim of establishing security on supranational foundations. Let us hope that men will be found, sufficient in number and moral force, to guide the nation on this path so long as a leading role is imposed on her by external circumstances. Then problems such as have been dicussed here will cease to exist." Albert Einstein, 1947

"WE are the men and women 'sufficient in number and moral force'. All we have to do is SAY so - out loud. If we're going to spread Democracy to the world, let's be one here first. Write a letter to the editor, call your Congressmen and women. Tell them how YOU think the world should be run." A.C. Katz, 2005