January 22 2017 We Live by the Sun Feel by the Moon Libra Moon Astrology

General for Week Commencing: Monday 23 January 2017

Aries Monday 23 January 2017  Mar 21 - Apr 19 This is the week where things start to get interesting and for you, there is an opportunity for a personal breakthrough. To begin with it is likely to be business as usual, apart from the fact that the Sun is spending his first full week in your friendship sector. While this has taken the spotlight off your career and professional situation, matters and options, there are plenty of forces staying on in order to tie up loose ends. In fact, you’re likely to find that professionally this is when most things will start falling into place. For you though, the year itself begins with Mars’ return to Aries on Friday. This will mean your energy levels will pick up, Mars will fire up your passions and fighting spirit and all of a sudden you feel alive, plugged in and back in the game. Where the wind has been taken out of your sails, a steady breeze kicks in.      Taurus Monday 23 January 2017  Apr 20 - May 20 It is the money and professional gods that will have your attention from the get go and most likely keep it once they have it. That was always going to be the case as the Sun moves into his first full week in your career sector and the Moon’s first visit to your financial sector for the year gets underway. On both fronts the Sun and Moon return to what is already a work in progress, with the Sun able to highlight your career and professional situation, matters and options and the Moon sharpen your financial instincts. You not only start the week with your financial instincts sharp, but with a smart head for money and a lot of resolve. The Moon allows you to read between the lines, making this the ideal week to finalise your financial game plan and resolutions. On the career front you’re just starting to explore your options.      Gemini Monday 23 January 2017  May 21 - Jun 21 You have reached a week where you will need to have your professional, relationship and money hats on from the get go, but where things will become a lot less intense by the weekend. You may even find that you’re able to find a better balance between work and play. While Mars’ final days in your career sector brings an urgent need to have your professional hat on from the get go, even without the Moon putting the focus first on your relationships and then on money matters, nothing is as urgent as the warrior planet of the cosmos likes to make out. Yes, Mars will leave your career sector on Saturday, but this is far from the end of the story. With Venus staying for another week and plenty of support to keep the wheels turning, the only urgency surrounds drinking in as much of his professional passions, fighting and competitive spirit as possible.      Cancer Monday 23 January 2017  Jun 22 - Jul 22 For the most part it is likely to be business as usual or so it might seem, apart from the fact that the Sun is spending his first full week in your financial sector. This is the point in the year when the solar spotlight is always going to shift onto your financial situation, matters and options. Yet this is more likely to confirm what you already know, with a clear sense of what you’re fighting for from the get go. By the time you reach Saturday’s New Moon you should be ready to commit to the principle of what you want financially from the coming year, without going into too many details. While starting the week with the Moon in your work sector will give you an intuitive read on work matters from the get go, just what a game changing professional week this is won’t be fully appreciated until the weekend.      Leo Monday 23 January 2017  Jul 23 - Aug 22 The week is dominated by two cosmic moves, one that happened last week and another that will take place over the weekend. The first was the Sun’s departure from your work sector and return to your relationship sector. While this has taken the solar spotlight off your work situation and matters, the Moon’s return midweek will reveal this is still very much a work in progress. In the meantime, the Sun’s first full week in your relationship sector puts a lot more focus on your relationships. Meanwhile, a New Moon here over the weekend will bring a chance to commit to your relationships, the future and the journey ahead. The second cosmic move is the big one, with Mars’ return to an adventurous part of your chart on Friday changing everything. All of a sudden simply going through the motions is no longer enough.      Virgo Monday 23 January 2017  Aug 23 - Sep 22 There are some tying up of loose ends this week, especially when it comes to getting things clear in your own mind. That is especially so on the home front. The week begins with the Moon in your home and family sector, where its first visit for the year comes just as all your options are on the table. Whether you’ve been considering your options or ready to take action, there is something about this visit that suggests by midweek you’ll have a much better sense of where things stand. In the meantime, the Sun’s first full week in your work sector has the solar spotlight on your work situation, matters and options, revealing new options, but also bringing a lot more clarity. In the meantime, there is a chance to take a more ballsy approach to financial matters from Saturday onwards.      Libra Monday 23 January 2017  Sep 23 - Oct 23 While life will remain busy, even after Mars’ departure from your work sector over the weekend, your personal life is starting to fight back and is doing so on all fronts. It is not just that this is an important week for home and family matters or matters of the heart, but by the weekend your relationships get some very special support that will both shake and spice up your relationships. Busy work forces, especially on the work front, aren’t going to move aside anytime soon, making a balance between work and play important from the get go. The Moon will have a big influence this week, as it tracks through the different areas of your chart. Starting the week in your communication sector, this is a chance to get the communication lines open ahead of the weekend’s developments.      Scorpio Monday 23 January 2017  Oct 24 - Nov 21 Don’t just make the most of what is a relative calm before the storm, especially when it comes to busy times ahead, but the playful influences in play. One of this year’s most important events is Mars’ return to your work sector on Saturday. Not just because of the busy work opportunities and developments this will trigger, but what this will open the door to. Mars is the planet that smashes down the door, with other developments during his six week visit taking this to a whole new level. Until Mars returns to your work sector over the weekend it is business as usual, but from Saturday fasten your belt and get ready for a busy ride. Yet before returning Mars himself is asking that you make the most of his final days in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart. Here he is fuelling your romantic and creative passions and fighting spirit.      Sagittarius Monday 23 January 2017  Nov 22 - Dec 21 In a week where there is a lot of planetary movements, forces having just moved and those getting ready to move, it is the Moon that has the most personal impact for you. Having returned to Sagittarius on Sunday, you will start the week with the Moon in your sign, for the first time this year, but also the first time before everything was finally put out on the table. When your birthday month ended just before Christmas there was still a lot of unfinished business. It was Mercury’s double dip visit back into Sagittarius earlier in the month that brought a chance to take care of any unfinished business and spend time back at the drawing board. By Monday Mercury has been gone for 10 days, with the Moon finally giving you the intuitive edge needed to draw all the strands together. Finally you’re ready to not only embrace 2017, but this new solar year.      Capricorn Monday 23 January 2017  Dec 22 - Jan 19 The Sun’s departure from Capricorn on Friday may have brought your birthday month to an end, but chances are you don’t feel ready to commit to the journey ahead. Even if you have a game plan or a list of resolutions, chances are they don’t feel complete. Don’t worry, you’re not procrastinating. You really aren’t ready to commit, because you are still considering your options. On Tuesday Mercury will move into his final two weeks in Capricorn, but it’s not until the Moon returns on Wednesday that the process of finalising your game plan and resolutions will really begin. Yes, the Sun has laid everything out on the table and Mercury brings the ability to make smart choices, decisions and plans, but it is only the Moon that allows you to read between the lines. Every additional day you can work on your game plan is a gift.      Aquarius Monday 23 January 2017  Jan 20 - Feb 18 The Sun’s first full week in Aquarius is a chance to get your first real look at your birthday month and new solar year and the year ahead, or is it? Chances are, with Venus and Mars having already moved through Aquarius and just recently, you already have a good sense of what you want from the coming year and of what excites you. Neither Venus or Mars will return until 2018, so will play no further role in shaping this new solar year, yet their influence is everywhere. What the Sun is able to do is validate those passions, desires and expectations you moved into the New Year with. With Mercury not returning to Aquarius until early next month, it is far too early to work on a game plan and resolutions. Instead, when Saturday’s New Moon calls for a commitment, it is more a commitment to the essence of what you want from the coming year.      Pisces Monday 23 January 2017  Feb 19 - Mar 20 While this week does have the potential for being confusing, as long as you realise that it’s all about balance, this can be an exciting week. The problem is, even if you can consider it a problem, is that you have reached the first full week of the month long wind down of your old solar year. As the Sun brings your old solar year home, there is a greater than normal need to pull back, navel gaze and take time to hear yourself think. The problem is again, if you even consider it a problem, is that Mars is in his final days in Pisces and he doesn’t believe you have time for navel gazing. The Sun wants you to spend the week with your foot on the brake and Mars wants you to spend the week with your foot on the gas. Yet this is like getting in your car and worrying about how to know when to apply the brake and when to push down on the accelerator. You just know.

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January 15 2017 We Live by the Sun Feel by the Moon

General for Week Commencing: Monday 16 January 2017

Aries Monday 16 January 2017  Mar 21 - Apr 19 A lot of things start to settle into place this week, but it is still going to feel like you have the handbrake on. Professionally, with the Sun leaving your career sector on Friday and Mercury back on board, it is time to start tying up loose ends. Yet the Moon’s position in your work sector in the early part of the week is likely to suggest unfolding developments across the income, work and career fronts that you haven’t even begun to touch on yet. Overriding everything is the fact that you are now in the final weeks of a Mars cycle that began back in February 2015, with a lot of batteries now running on empty. It is Mars’ return to Aries next week that will turn the lights on across the board, giving you the energy and drive to throw yourself into all the opportunities now opening up.      Taurus Monday 16 January 2017  Apr 20 - May 20 While you have reached an important week for money, work and career matters, nothing is likely to seem as onerous as it did. Chances are you may start to feel that maybe you imagined the work tension and job pressure in the final weeks of 2016. However, you’ll have a taste of it midweek, not enough to cause a problem, but enough to remind you of a need to pace yourself. To start with the week has a playful and adventurous feel, so much so that you may finally be starting to get into the holiday spirit. That might not be such good timing if you’re back at work, but the playful and adventurous forces in play are here to stay and will always be there in the background. It’s midweek that things start to get busy, as the Moon returns for its first visit to your work sector. All this in the lead up to the Sun’s return to your career sector on Friday.      Gemini Monday 16 January 2017  May 21 - Jun 21 Just as things are becoming more settled on the personal front and you start to appreciate what an important year this is for matters of the heart and your relationships, your new professional year is also opening up. This will call for some smart time management and in the early part of the week there is a chance to address any work/life balance issues. For with Mars in his last full week in your career sector and Venus as back up, professional forces won’t be slowing down anytime soon. It starts with a belief that you can have it all. This is also an important week for having your money hat on. With the Sun leaving your financial sector on Friday, the final days of your annual financial review are all about having an authentic starting point. You’ve got the smart head for money needed to take it from there.      Cancer Monday 16 January 2017  Jun 22 - Jul 22 A busy and diverse week will have you on your toes from the get go, making it important to work smarter. With Mars returning to your career sector later next week and Venus early next month, the professional pace is only going to increase. By now you have a clearer sense of the work load you’re dealing with, your resources and restrictions, giving you a better chance to manage your time effectively. At the end of the day there are only 24 hours in every day and there is nothing you can do to change that. That makes it all about how you manage the time that you have. Yet despite the fact that you’ll need to keep your work and professional hats on all week and from the Sun’s return to your financial sector on Friday your money hat as well, there is a sense of adventure in the air that refuses to be ignored.      Leo Monday 16 January 2017  Jul 23 - Aug 22 Starting the week with the Moon in your income sector is always going to be an advantage, giving you a nose for money from the get go. That is especially so with the Sun leaving your work sector on Friday, Mercury back on board and new income and work developments over the coming weeks. It’s that nose for money that will alert you to the fact that there is more to this new professional year than meets the eye. The Sun might leave your work sector on Friday, but there is plenty of support to keep work matters leaving. It is then that the solar spotlight will shift onto your relationships, as happens at this time every year. You began the year with a clear sense of what you want from your relationships, with the Sun able to take this to the next stage. In the meantime, continue to take a ballsy approach to money matters.      Virgo Monday 16 January 2017  Aug 23 - Sep 22 With so much focus on relationship matters this week, the Moon’s return to your communication sector on Friday and position here over the weekend has to be seen as one of this week’s important events. This will make up for the buttons the Moon is likely to push in the early part of the week. Already in Virgo as you move into the new week, the Moon will always evoke some strong emotional responses and even push some buttons. Moving into opposition with Venus and Mars in your relationship sector, this may even see relationship tensions come to a head. Yet if it does the timing couldn’t be better, for it comes just as Mars is aligned with the planet of healing. This is more likely to push old buttons, with a chance to lay some old relationship ghosts to rest. By the weekend this will have turned into an opportunity for a breakthrough.      Libra Monday 16 January 2017  Sep 23 - Oct 23 The further into the year you get the more you will be coming to terms with what it feels like to have lucky Jupiter in Libra and the major new doors this is opening. You will have a better read on this when the Moon returns to Libra midweek, with this first visit for the year a chance to get your personal bearings and listen to your inner voice. You may struggle to find time to hear yourself think, with a busy week on your hands, both at work and at home. Yet as urgent as things seem, on both fronts you have both time and support. Any urgency on either front is coming from the fact that Mars is spending his last full week in your work sector, while the Sun is leaving your home and family sector on Friday. You want home and family matters sorted by then or at least out in the open, but then Mercury is staying on until early February to help tie up loose ends.      Scorpio Monday 16 January 2017  Oct 24 - Nov 21 This is one week where you will have to play it as you go, with the different days calling for a different approach. It is the early days of the week that contrast with the middle days quite starkly and it’s all because of the Moon. The early days of the week are vital for talks, networking or meetings in general. The Moon’s first visit to your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking for the year comes during the Sun’s final days in your communication sector and Mercury’s early days back. This makes the early days perfect for personal and professional networking and meetings in general. Yet by the time the Moon returns to an intuitive part of your chart midweek you’ll be ready to put out the 'do not disturb' sign. With life set to get a lot busier from next week, this is a chance to work behind the scenes.      Sagittarius Monday 16 January 2017  Nov 22 - Dec 21 Starting the week with the Moon in your career sector will always ensure your professional instincts are sharp from the get go and in the Sun’s final days in your income sector that’s a real advantage. However, it’s less that your professional instincts are sharp and more what this is picking up, which are developments across the income, work and career fronts at a time of year when that isn’t normally the case. At this stage they are still in the future, with new developments on the career front next week and on the job front in early February, this is not far away. This comes just as you’re likely to have found your own personal compass bearings for the year ahead, which is more important than you might think. Any indecision you may have moved into the year with is gone, with that Sagittarian arrow of yours now pointing in a fixed and firm direction.      Capricorn Monday 16 January 2017  Dec 22 - Jan 19 The final days of your birthday month will bring you to a point where you’re finally able to commit to both 2017 and your new solar year, ready now for the journey ahead. This is something you would not have been ready for last week, with Mercury’s departure taking your head out of the game and a Full Moon throwing up all kinds of reality checks. Yet things are on a much more even keel this week and thanks to Mercury’s return on Friday, you have your head back in the game and ready to embrace the journey ahead. However, don’t worry if your birthday month comes to an end and you don’t yet have a game plan. Mercury will stay on until early February to help with that. In the meantime, the Sun will move on to explore and expose new income opportunities, in the early weeks of this massive new professional year.      Aquarius Monday 16 January 2017  Jan 20 - Feb 18 After last week’s Full Moon in your work sector brought a chance to jump start your new professional year, with work and job matters in particular, the focus this week is on income and career matters. Unlike last week’s Full Moon in your work sector, the Moon’s return to your career sector on Friday and position here over the weekend is more a chance to sharpen your professional instincts and get your professional bearings. However, it is the timing that is significant. This will ensure your professional instincts are sharp as Mars moves into his final week in your income sector and Venus her final two weeks. This will make up for the financial wakeup calls you might receive during the early part of the week, able to turn any financial tension into motivation. In the meantime, the Sun’s return to Aquarius on Friday kicks off your birthday month and new solar year.      Pisces Monday 16 January 2017  Feb 19 - Mar 20 A combination of events will make a lot of things fall into place this week, including on the personal, work, relationship, professional and financial fronts. A lot of this is due to the Moon, who makes its first visits to your relationship and financial sectors for the year, while having wrapped up its first visit to your work sector for the year over the weekend. All the Moon will do is highlight forces behind the scenes, bringing home what an important year this is for both relationship and financial matters. On the professional and income fronts this is coming from something very different, with powerful professional forces stabilising just as you begin lining up for next week’s income developments. In the meantime, while the month long wind down of your old solar year begins on Friday, there is unlikely to be much time for navel gazing.

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January 8 2017 Weekly Horoscope We Live by the Sun Feel by the Moon

General for Week Commencing: Monday 09 January 2017

Aries Monday 09 January 2017  Mar 21 - Apr 19 In the final two weeks of 2016 we saw the major planets in the solar system come up behind the scenes, creating some very intense major developments. Planets that work behind the scenes for years, never drawing attention to themselves and quietly going about steering things in the right direction, all threw the toys out of the playpen at the same time and took centre stage. Personally and worldwide, this made the final weeks of 2016 very intense. This week they have all taken a seat, allowing more mundane forces to take the field and as a result, things are getting back to normal. This comes just as most of us are heading back to work or to our normal routines after the holiday period. Yet in the process something has shifted and this is personal. You’ve been woken up to the fact that living your own truth is now the only option.      Taurus Monday 09 January 2017  Apr 20 - May 20 All eyes are on Mercury this week, as he makes a rare double dip visit to your financial sector. This is in the ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ category, which is surprising as he’s only moving at a crawl. Having retrograded back in last Thursday, Mercury is already in direct motion and will leave on the Friday. Barely sticking his head in the door, this is an opportunity for a do over, this time with a smart head for money and 20/20 hindsight. Already you need to be wrapping this up and from the get go working on your financial game plan and resolutions for the coming year. The Moon’s return to your income sector on Monday is a complication and will keep you on your toes, but the timing is invaluable. A bit of financial tension is a small price to pay, considering the nose for money this brings in the early days of a major year for job growth.      Gemini Monday 09 January 2017  May 21 - Jun 21 It is your relationships that benefit from Mercury’s short double dip visit back into your relationship sector. However, you might not think so in the early part of the week, as the Moon makes its first visit to Gemini for the year. Mercury is only back in your relationship sector for eight days, on a mission to make doubly sure the communication lines are open. That the Moon should return a day after Mercury’s direct turn puts them in line for an opposition. This could see personal and/or relationship tensions right in the early part of the week. Yet with the planet of communication making a rare double dip visit back into your relationship sector, the timing couldn’t be better. The Moon will fuel your emotional responses and even push buttons, just as you have a rare opportunity to give your relationships, the past and unsaid words a voice.      Cancer Monday 09 January 2017  Jun 22 - Jul 22 This is one of those weeks where you won’t know where to look first, there is so much going on. However, what we have is a rushing in of mundane forces, having been pushed aside by some major forces over the holiday period. What you have is life getting back to normal. To start with there is a chance to iron things out on the work front. Mercury has retrograded back into your work sector for eight days, bringing a chance to rethink the way you work, catch up or even have a complete rethink. This is a rare opportunity to return to the drawing board and with a huge year for work and career matters, the timing couldn’t be better. It is the second half of the week that a Full Moon in Cancer on Thursday will shine the spotlight on your own needs and about time. This is when you get to ask ‘what about me’?      Leo Monday 09 January 2017  Jul 23 - Aug 22 It is hard to imagine a more professionally charged start to a week, nor one that gives more of a false impression. After an alliance in your work sector over the weekend and the Moon’s first visit to your career sector for the year wrapping up on Monday that certainly looks like the case. However, with Mercury having retrograded back into a playful part of your chart and a sense of adventure taking hold, this is being held in check. That will suit the professional gods just fine, because until Mercury returns to your work sector on Friday this is more a chance to get your bearings. If this throws up any balance issues between work and play, then get used to it, for welcome to 2017. While major forces in play across the work, playful and adventurous fronts this year, this is something you’ll have to get used to.      Virgo Monday 09 January 2017  Aug 23 - Sep 22 Because Mercury turned retrograde just before Christmas, it’s hard to say whether the last retrograde phase of 2016 has just wrapped up or the first retrograde phase of 2017. Either way, the handbrake holding 2017 back was released over the weekend. With the chocks removed, it won’t be long before the wheels start turning. Yet if you’re heading back to work after the holiday period don’t be surprised if between Christmas and now you’ve lost your drive. This is temporary. From Venus’ departure from your work sector last week and the Sun’s return next week, there is a chance to let things settle. However, a break from work matters leaves room to look at your professional goals as a whole. Things that you began exploring back in mid December but had since put on hold, might come back into play in the early days of the week. Expect some movement on the home front as well.      Libra Monday 09 January 2017  Sep 23 - Oct 23 Any fears that a dream start to your professional year was a flash in the pan are being well and truly allied this week. Not only is a team for planets in your work sector literally becoming tighter by the day, even 2017’s first Full Moon is in league with the professional gods. This is not just the Moon’s first visit to your career sector, but Thursday’s Full Moon has the potential to be a real wildcard. This has the power to bring career and professional matters to a head, turning and/or tipping point. However, it’s the team of players on the work front that will take the ball and run with it. Yet whether still on holiday or back at work, this is more about what this is triggering. On the work front in particular, the more you can do to keep the dream alive the better, even if that means keeping your work hat off for as long as possible.      Scorpio Monday 09 January 2017  Oct 24 - Nov 21 There is a need to have your money hat on from the get go, but be warned things could get a little intense in the early part of the week. However, don’t see financial tension or pressure as a sign that something is wrong and instead, a sign that everything is going right. What presents as a case of bad timing, is in fact incredibly good timing. On Monday Mercury, who retrograded back for a short double dip visit to your income sector, is already in direct motion and on his way out. Due to leave on Friday, this gives you just a few days to get your head in the game and around your income options, coming up with a game plan if you can. Imagine Mercury’s horror then, when the Moon returns to your financial sector on Monday and moves into opposition. Mercury has no time for emotionally charged lunar vibes, yet they’ll keep you on your toes and provide a full picture.      Sagittarius Monday 09 January 2017  Nov 22 - Dec 21 It is being brought home in the early part of the week, just how short Mercury’s double dip visit back into Sagittarius actually is. Mercury left Sagittarius in early December, in the early part of your birthday month. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then, so Mercury’s return last Thursday was a welcome chance to return to the drawing board. With the gift of hindsight, this bought you a valuable chance to return to the drawing board and rework your game plan and resolutions for the coming year. But already in direct motion and due to leave on Friday, this brings home what a short window of opportunity this is. In the meantime, Thursday’s Full Moon is likely to be a timely jump start for both income and financial matters, getting your new financial year off the ground.      Capricorn Monday 09 January 2017  Dec 22 - Jan 19 If it feels like your birthday month has been put on hold, it’s because it has. When Mercury retrograded back out of Capricorn last Thursday, his parting words were ‘hold that thought, I’ll be back’. And he means it. By the time Mercury returns on Friday you’ll be in the final week of your birthday month. Having had a chance to take your head out of the game, focus less on the details and more on the big picture, by Friday you’ll be ready to bring things home. By the weekend the serious job of finalising your game plan and resolutions for the coming year, will be well underway. Just hours before Mercury’s return, Thursday’s Full Moon is likely to push some buttons, but will bring the wakeup calls needed to ensure you’re paying attention. While you’re waiting for Mercury’s return, there is a chance to look at work matters, especially in the early part of the week.      Aquarius Monday 09 January 2017  Jan 20 - Feb 18 After Venus’ departure from Aquarius last Tuesday, you now have to wait for the Sun’s return next Friday to take up from where she left off. The update to Venus returning so far ahead of the Sun is that your heart got to have its say first. This has allowed you to start the year on your terms, knowing what you want from the get go. However, this has meant you now have to wait for the Sun, somehow keeping the confidence and intuitive edge you moved into the year with free from over thinking things. This really is your biggest danger this week. For with Venus gone there is a danger of not only second guessing yourself, but doubting whether what your heart has told you is right. Had the Sun returned a week later, the lights would have come on and doubt can’t survive in the shadows. Keeping yourself busy should do it.      Pisces Monday 09 January 2017  Feb 19 - Mar 20 This week’s key features are the end of Mercury’s retrograde phase and the first Full Moon of 2017. They’re not the only things happening this week, but they are the events that will grab your attention. The problem is, if you could even consider it a problem, is they couldn’t be more different. Having retrograded back into your career sector last Thursday, Mercury is already back in direct motion and due to leave on Friday, he needs you to have your professional hat on from the get go. The first Full Moon of the 2017 falls in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart and the timing couldn’t be better. This is a Lovers Moon and by coincidence, falls during Venus, planet of love’s first full week in Pisces. Your new professional year is finding its feet, just as the romantic drought breaks.

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January 1 2017 Weekly Horoscope We Live by the Sun Feel by the Moon

General for Week Commencing: Monday 02 January 2017

Aries Monday 02 January 2017  Mar 21 - Apr 19 As much as there is a sense of confidence moving into the New Year, there may be a lack of motivation. This has nothing to do with a lack of willpower and more a genuine need for time to hear yourself think. Even the things that will normally drive things forward in the early days of a New Year are holding back, giving you time to find your feet. The most useful thing you can do this week, is spend time navel gazing. While the early days of the week will be the most important, your imagination will be on fire throughout the week, allowing you to jump in whenever you feel the desire. The early days of the week are also likely to be the most serendipitous, so don’t hide yourself too much away. One thing is clear, you have time to consider your options before jumping into 2017.      Taurus Monday 02 January 2017  Apr 20 - May 20 While you have moved into your biggest year for job growth in over a decade, there is none of the urgency you would normally expect. Even the work tension and job pressure that may have come to a head over recent weeks has scaled back. Yes, you will need to have your work hat on from the get go, but you have a whole year stretching out in front of you. There is also a need to have your money hat on from the get go, but then that will always be your reality. With the Sun always spending the first three weeks of every year in your financial sector, the solar spotlight is always on money matters at this time of year. Until Mercury retrogrades back out of your financial sector on Thursday, measure twice and cut once when it comes to money matters. This gives you a valuable chance to spend time back at the drawing board.      Gemini Monday 02 January 2017  May 21 - Jun 21 While you will always have your professional hat on in some form or other, it is hard to imagine a better start to your professional year. Having begun the year with your professional passions and dreams aligned, this will deepen in the early part of the week, with your heart and emotional responses quickly becoming engaged. While this is balanced by adventurous forces in the early hours of the week, once Venus leaves an adventurous part of your chart on Tuesday there will be nothing holding professional forces back. Whether on holiday or working through, there is too much excitement to keep your professional hats off for too long. While you will find it harder to keep a sense of wanderlust, curiosity and adventure or the holiday spirit alive after Tuesday, you must at least try.      Cancer Monday 02 January 2017  Jun 22 - Jul 22 While the solar spotlight will always be on your relationships at this time of year, this year comes with a bonus. Until Mercury retrogrades back out of your relationship sector on Thursday, there’s a chance to give your relationships, the past and unsaid words a voice. Holding the doors open to the past and second chances is making it hard to move forward, but you’ll get that chance next week. Taking the time to connect and even make up for lost time shouldn’t be a problem. That is despite the fact that whether on holiday or working through, things are already coming together on the work and career fronts. Yet on neither front is there any kind of urgency. Where things are more urgent is on the financial front, especially in the early part of the week. From the get go there is a need to trust what your heart and financial instincts are telling you.      Leo Monday 02 January 2017  Jul 23 - Aug 22 2017 might be just 24 hours old by the time you move into the new week, but chances are you already like it. You might have a problem putting your finger on what has changed, but it is more than just an opportunity for a fresh start. Yes, as is always the case you’ve moved into the New Year with your work hat on, but there are playful and adventurous forces balancing this out. Yet those same forces were in play last week, so what has changed. Missing are the roadblocks and a balance between work and play will seem easier, but that’s not it. The reality is, the only thing that has changed is your perception. Everything is as it was last week, but the prism through which you see things has changed. It’s less that your thinking has gone from ‘glass is empty’ to ‘glass half full’ and more the stars themselves.      Virgo Monday 02 January 2017  Aug 23 - Sep 22 Of all the things coming together or falling into place this week, there is just one area of urgency. And wouldn’t you know it, while most of us are still in holiday mode or just thinking about heading back to work, that urgency is on the work front. However, it’s not as bad as it seems, for this is all about an urgent need to listen to your heart and your instincts, especially in the early part of the week. You have moved into the New Year with the Moon and Venus in your work sector, but by Tuesday both will be gone. The Moon isn’t too much of an issue, for returning later in the month as a New Moon, this is more an intuitive edge should you want to use it. However, once Venus leaves on Tuesday she won’t be back until 2018, so listening to your heart is where the real urgency lies. This comes at a time when you’re likely to be wearing many hats.      Libra Monday 02 January 2017  Sep 23 - Oct 23 If moving into the New Year with Jupiter, the largest and most powerful planet in the solar system in Libra was going to be a heavy burden, you will have felt it last week. Instead, from the get go there is likely to be a sense that this is your year. If you had a lot of things to deal with last year, then this would have been in preparation for the major new doors opening up this year. Yet having pushed buttons and created roadblocks in order to get your attention, now that you’re here 2017 holds no urgency at all. Yes, you have a dream start to the year when it comes to work matters, but this is being balanced by something playful and even romantic in the air, especially in the early part of the week. It’s as though aware of what a huge year this is set to become, it now becomes more about the journey. Getting to the starting line was the hard part.      Scorpio Monday 02 January 2017  Oct 24 - Nov 21 There is a curious sense of balance this week that is falling into place naturally. This is ironic, for this is likely to be something you worked hard to achieve for most of last year and especially in the final weeks and months, yet didn’t achieve it. Yet move into 2017 and it falls into place naturally. Can everything change in just a few days? Yes it can, but it has nothing to do with the date on the calendar and everything to do with conditions that came into play on New Year’s Eve and have already taken root. The shift is so subtle that it comes down to just one word having been swapped out on your internal tape. All that has happened is the word ‘should’ has been swapped for the word ‘will’. Instead of the tape playing ‘I should have more fun, I should find a balance between work and play, it now plays ‘I will have more fun, I will find a balance between work and play’.      Sagittarius Monday 02 January 2017  Nov 22 - Dec 21 You have some big challenges on your hands this week. Challenges like keeping your work hat on, finding something to worry about and the biggest challenge of all, trying to sweat the small stuff. All those old excuses you used to hide behind just aren’t there. From the moment you moved into 2017 you knew they weren’t going to work, for it has been a worry free zone from the get go. Something has definitely shifted, but a lot of it comes down to the fact that you will genuinely feel happier. What will take you by surprise though, is what makes you feel happier. It is joy found in life’s simple pleasures. Chances are, home is where your heart is this week and if you’ve been on holiday, you probably can’t wait. You may even find yourself saying no to invitations, happier with a quiet night at home.      Capricorn Monday 02 January 2017  Dec 22 - Jan 19 Despite the fact that, for the first time in 12 years you have moved into the New Year with lucky Jupiter in your career sector, there is little if any urgency. If anything, this was a heavier burden last week, as you struggled to keep your professional hat off over the holiday period. Something has shifted and whatever power struggle was going on between your home and professional lives, they seem to have sorted it out by themselves. Yes, you will need to have your professional hat on from the get go, but apart from that the professional gods make no demands. Instead, they would much rather you keep your money hat on, especially in the early part of the week. While you moved into the New Year with a nose for money and a sense of confidence, this is a crucial part of pointing this powerful professional year in the most lucrative direction from the get go.      Aquarius Monday 02 January 2017  Jan 20 - Feb 18 Starting the year with the Moon and Venus in Aquarius and aligned as you move into the new week, is a huge advantage but also an urgent one. This has been a chance to move into the New Year with your heart and instincts not only engaged from the get go, but on the same page. With the Moon leaving on Monday, Venus on Tuesday and both joining up with overwhelming developments on the income front, the early hours of the week are essential for listening to your heart and your gut. It was never about how long they have been here or when they will return and all about giving your heart and instincts a sense of direction from the get go. Like a bell that can’t be unrung, you’ve begun the year with an intuitive read on what your heart is telling you and your heart never lies. This allows you to start the year on the most authentic path, excited about the journey ahead.      Pisces Monday 02 January 2017  Feb 19 - Mar 20 There is a sense of moderation in the air this week that wasn’t there last week and it is helping you to find the balance that may have eluded you last year. Yes, you will need to move into the week and the year with your money and professional hats off, but not in the all or nothing way that has been in the past. It is on Tuesday that the romantic drought breaks, finally bringing the fun, play and even romance back into your life. With a romantically charged Full Moon next week, a balance between work and play is not only achievable, it is a must. However, the most important balance emerging is on the financial front. Where you may have struggled to find a balance between money coming in and money going out, they seem to have come to their own agreement. From the get go this is a year for following your heart, embracing your passions and daring to live your dreams.

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