By Mark Dodich and Alicia Katz
The sun enters Aquarius on January 19. Read about Aquarius here!
Mars turns retrograde on Jan. 23 through mid-April, so it is time to turn your ambition towards organization, efficiency, healing, cleansing and simplification. There is a more extensive explanation in the winter column at www.astromark.us. Be careful of impatience in the days ahead because the shifting of direction can be annoying.
The New Moon itself on Sunday the 22nd sets up a challenging pattern called a T-Square (insert “motivational” if you prefer that to challenging). An Aquarius New Moon is good for expanding your circle of friends or exploring new groups, ideas, or changing aspirations. The challenge the new moon makes is to Jupiter which wants to expand in a large way, and Saturn with wants slow-but-sure changes. Find your balance between these two polarities or you are likely to find yourself in hurry up and wait situation.
This also begins the new year of the dragon, a free-spirited energy which does not like to be held down. It represents an enthusiastic do-it-big year, so a good time to review your ambitions.
As always, the week by week forecast is atwww.astromark.us/report.htm.
