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ARIES
Mars, your ruling planet is having a big impact this month and that means this will be a fast, exciting and vibrant month. It will also be a month of two halves, with 14th February being the line in the middle. Until 14th February, Mars is wrapping up a visit to Aries that began on New Year's Day. This is when Mars comes home, you receive a fresh burst of energy, motivation, passion, drive and warrior spirit, ready to once again take on the world. When Mars comes home to Aries, you are once again plugged into the mains power supply.
Mars' departure from Aries and return to your income sector on 14th February has the potential to be game changing, making this one of his most significant visits ever. Mars returns every 22nd months, always after leaving Aries and when you are pumped up, ready with a cause to channel that drive and energy into. Here Mars is able to channel his warrior spirit into giving you the confidence to fight for what you deserve and not just on the income front. What makes this visit so game changing, is the timing.
Mars returns to your income sector just weeks before Uranus is due to return to begin his seven year visit early next month, but also to a massive amount of planetary activity on the career front. Like the Sun and Mercury before her, Venus returns to your career sector on 4th February to find a formidable line up of support already underway. This is the start of a powerful partnership between income and career forces that will continue for years. Meanwhile, there is less danger of life becoming all work and no play than you might think, with Jupiter staying put in an adventurous part of your chart.
TAURUS
This is very much a month of two halves, with Venus and Mars having a big impact on which way the pendulum swings. Yet this is a swing rather than a shift, with the balance of power pivoting on two central and important areas of your chart. Those two areas are Saturn and his entourage in an adventurous part of your chart and Jupiter and his entourage, in your financial sector. Venus and Mars begin the month supporting Jupiter, but one by one shift their focus onto Saturn's adventurous mandate. Yet Venus and Mars also have their own mandates and for the most part this is more about your heart and passions and what they align with.
The month begins with Mars still in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart, with the wind down of your current Mars cycle still keeping the wind out of your sails. However, this puts Mars at a friendly aspect to both Jupiter and Venus in your financial sector. This is helping to fuel your financial confidence, passions, insights and imagination. Venus will leave on 4th February and Mars on 14th February, but with more than enough support surrounding Jupiter to keep your financial confidence fuelled and the wheels of this financial year turning.
On 4th February Venus will return to an adventurous part of your chart, where she will shift her focus to align with Saturn, where there is some serious support for adventure, travel, learning and discovery. Mars' return to Taurus on 14th February will have implications there on the personal front. This is the start of a new Mars cycle, bringing the wind back into your sails, as he fuels your passions and fighting spirit. This puts Mars back into a friendly aspect to Venus and the rest of the planets in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery. It won't be long before you find a passion for adventure fuelled.
GEMINI
Venus and Mars are both on the move this month, but wherever they are, there is just a nine day period when they are not on the same wavelength. The month begins with Venus in your relationship sector and Mars in your communication sector, where since early last month they have been working to give your relationships a voice. With lucky Jupiter in your relationship sector for all but the final weeks of the year, this is a massive year for relationship building. Mars' return to your communication sector on New Year's Day and Venus, the planet of love's return to your relationship sector eight days later, got this off to an auspicious start.
Venus will leave your relationship sector on 4th February and Mars will leave your communication sector 10 days later, but forces left behind will continue what they started. This will see Venus take off her planet of love hat and don her planet of money hat, as she returns to your financial sector on 4th February. After supporting Jupiter for the previous 25 days, Venus will then turn her support to Saturn, who has already set the scene for a powerful financial year, especially when it comes to taking your financial power back.
Mars' return to the nostalgic, reflective but also intuitive and imaginative part of your chart on 14th February will have two main implications. The first is that this might take the wind out of your sails, as you reach the final stage in your current Mars cycle. This is a chance to slow down and recharge your batteries, ahead of the warrior planet's return to Gemini at the end of next month. This also puts Mars at a friendly aspect to Venus and the other planets in your financial sector, fuelling your financial confidence, passions, insights and imagination.
CANCER
This is a month where all is not quite what it seems from first impressions or at least not as extreme as they might seem. January and February are not typically busy months, with the focus on work and job matters usually running their course in December and the Sun not returning to your career sector until March. However, instead of things dialling back in January they heated up and on both the job and career fronts at the same time. Chances are, whether on the job and professional front or with anything that keeps you busy and occupied, you move into February still in the fast lane.
As this has been your reality for the whole of January and is the same as you move into February, you can expect more of the same. In fact things may have become even busier, with the last planet in a playful part of your chart having left late last month. That buffer you had, policing a balance between work and play is gone. This is good new professionally, but you could never maintain this pace. Fortunately, you have the best of both worlds. Venus' departure from your work sector on 4th February and Mars' from your career sector 10 days later will take the heat out of things, without taking away any benefits or momentum.
Venus and Mars will continue to work together, with Venus returning to your relationship sector 10 days before Mars' return to your friendship sector on 14th February. This is the first step in what is the start of a major period for personal and professional networking, friendship and relationship building that will deepen next month and continue to build for not just months, but years to come. In the meantime, with the Sun in your financial sector until 19th February, this should be a good month for money matters. The period from 18th February to 20th February could bring unexpected income developments.
LEO
It is less that this month pulls a 'bait and switch' on you, advertising one thing and delivering another and more that there really are some major shifts this month. What makes this more extreme or gives such a wrong impression at the start of the month, is just how extreme this is. However, even then all is not what it seems. You begin the month with Mars in an adventurous part of your chart and Venus in a playful part of your chart. Not only that, support between the two is creating a massive mix of playful and adventurous forces that is being supported by none other than lucky Jupiter himself.
With the Sun and Mercury having both left your work sector last month, the remaining forces settled back and career influences low key at most, the pendulum is definitely on the playful and adventurous side of the scale. Yet February 2019 is probably the most significant professional surge seen in decades, opening the doors to game changing developments that change everything. It begins with Venus' return to your work sector on 4th February, revealing that while the Sun and Mercury have left, the party doesn't even start until she gets there.
It is Mars' return to your career sector 10 days later on 14th February that will really fire things up. However, what turns this from a month where job and career opportunities were on idle to suddenly opening up to such a game changing monster, is what comes next. Uranus will return to your career sector early next month, teaming up with Mars here for the first time in eight decades. This brings this powerful planet together with Saturn and Pluto in your work sector, this time with the three working together as a team through to 2024 and beyond. What I alluded to before when I said 'all is not what is seems', is that while this professional swing is real, playful and adventurous forces will ensure life doesn't become all work and no play.
VIRGO
Despite the fact that you begin the month with the Sun and Mercury in your work sector, you will find that this isn't as all consuming as things were last year. While you don't want a repeat of the manically busy year you had last year, what you won't say no to is the momentum and untapped potential this has created. With Mercury leaving on 10th February and the Sun on 19th February, you will even find that this doesn't intrude too much on the month and your life, giving you the best of both worlds. There is also likely to be lucrative income developments from this, though the real fruit might not be ripe for picking until March and April.
What is becoming a big deal this month are romantic and relationship matters and a major coming together of playful and adventurous forces. If finding a balance between work and play was a challenge in 2018, this year you won't be able to stop it, even if you tried, though I don't know why you would? What is happening on the romantic and relationship fronts is happening independently of each other, but the timing is perfect. Matters of the heart get a boost when Venus, the planet of love returns to a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart on 4th February. Here she finds one of the most powerful line ups ever to assemble.
This will be impacted by Mars' return to an adventurous part of your chart on 14th February, putting him and the major forces following in his footsteps at a friendly alliance to playful and romantic forces. Meanwhile, Mercury, the planet of communication and your ruling planet not only returns to your relationship sector on 10th February, but instead of his usual two week visit, he is here for over two months. This gives Mercury a nine day jump on the Sun, who turns the solar spotlight onto your relationships on 19th February.
LIBRA
There are three main camps or areas of influence this month and Venus and Mars are aligning themselves with the two most powerful of those camps. In the third camp we have the Sun and Mercury, who to a large degree are doing their own thing. They begin the month in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart, where the Sun will always spend the majority of the first three weeks of February. With no other planets there or other areas of your chart that feed into this, this is a standalone visit. Mercury will leave on 10th February and the Sun on 19th February.
It is when the Sun and Mercury then return to your work sector that they will team up with the powerful forces there and on the career front, so this is exciting. These aren't the most powerful areas of your chart this month. Those two camps surround Saturn and Pluto in your financial sector and around Jupiter in your communication sector. It is in both these areas that Venus and Mars will have a strong impact this month. Mars is in your relationship sector until 14th February and while Venus will leave your communication sector on 4th February, powerful forces on both fronts will continue what they started.
On 4th February Venus will return to your home and family sector, where she will team up with Saturn, Pluto and the South Node. Venus is able to take some fairly serious and responsible conditions and use the power this gives you to create something special on the home front. It is 10 days later that Mars will return to your financial sector and into a friendly alliance with planets on the home front. This kicks off an alliance between home and financial forces that will strengthen considerably over the coming months.
SCORPIO
The most significant factor about this month for you, is not what 'is' happening and more what 'isn't. For the first time since September 2017 you move into the new month with no planetary activity in Scorpio and none due until Venus and Mercury return in October. It was Mercury's return to Scorpio in September 2017 that cleared the way for Jupiter's return just days later, and the planet of luck and expansion didn't leave until November and Venus and Ceres only left last month. This has created a huge amount of momentum and with so many seeds planted, this is the point where the journey begins, especially on the personal front.
All the planetary activity that was in Scorpio has now been dispersed, with Venus and Ceres both starting the month in your income sector, where Jupiter will spend the majority of 2019. Along with Mars and Uranus in your work sector, this has created some real momentum on the income and job fronts and this will continue, despite the fact that he and Venus are both on the move this month. They are both on the move, but apart from a short period they will continue to work as a team. Venus is the first to break away, with Venus leaving your income sector on 4th February and Mars leaving your work sector 10 days later.
Venus returns to join a formidable line up of planets in your communication sector, taking her planet of money hat off as she leaves and donning her planet of love hat as she returns. To start with, just how fortuitous the timing is won't be obvious, until 10 days later when Mars returns to your relationship sector on 14th February. Venus and Mars will be back on the same page, no longer focused on income and job matters and instead on a mission to give your relationships a voice. This is the start of something that will strengthen even after they leave next month.
SAGITTARIUS
Beginning the month with Venus, Ceres and Jupiter in Sagittarius means you are not quite ready to commit to the journey ahead, despite the fact that the planet of luck and expansion has been in Sagittarius since November. It was Jupiter, your ruling planet's return to Sagittarius that opened the doors to a new 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion, with his time here until leaving in December, all about opening new doors, major new beginnings and planting seeds for the future. The Sun and Mercury have already been and gone but Venus, the last of the faster planets is still here.
It is Venus' departure on 4th February that will leave you with a better sense of what you want from the coming year, but with Ceres here until November, this is the point where it becomes more about the journey. Venus' departure will have implications in other areas of your chart and on the income and job fronts in particular. Venus will return to your income sector on 4th February, just as Juno moves into her final week in your work sector. Juno is a very small player and it looks like even this small amount of focus on work and job matters is about to wrap up.
However, nothing could be further from the truth, with Mars' return on 14th February changing everything. Venus returns to your income sector to find some of the most powerful line up of planets ever to assemble here and with Uranus returning to your work sector early next month, this is the start of a major coming together of forces on both fronts. A Full Moon in your career sector on 20th February could be a catalyst for developments across the income, work and career fronts. However, there is enough influence in a playful part of your chart to ensure life doesn't become all work and no play.
CAPRICORN
Held back by a retrograde phase in the second half of 2018, Venus is late returning to Capricorn this year. So late that the Sun and Mercury have left and your birthday month is over. Yet Venus, the planet of love might be late returning, but her timing couldn't be more perfect. And not just because with the more mundane aspects of getting a new solar year off to an authentic start over, she doesn't have to be part of any housekeeping. There is that, but the biggest implication is that Venus will be here when Mars returns to a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart on 14th February.
Venus is only in Capricorn until early next month and Mars will leave a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart at the end of March. However, planets far more powerful and slower moving than them, will keep forces locked together for years. This is all thanks to Uranus' return to a playful part of your chart early next month, where he will not only spend the next seven years, but from where he will support Saturn in Capricorn until 2020 and Pluto until 2024. This is major and one in a lifetime advantage for you and for all things fun, playful, romantic and creative.
In the meantime, on a very different note, while there are no planets in either of your two professional houses, this is an important month for income matters. Mercury will leave your income sector on 10th February and the Sun on 19th February. However, with so much momentum created across the income, work and career fronts during the course of 2018 and even into January, this could be a lucrative few weeks. If not now, then Venus' return early next month will see her bring to fruition what they are able to lay the foundations for.
AQUARIUS
Whether you are a January or a February born Aquarian, this is your month, with the Sun always spending the majority of the first three weeks of this month in February. This year, despite the false alarm from a lunar eclipse during the first full day of your birthday month and rocky start this may have created, this is a low key and easy birthday month and the launch of a new solar year. You don't need the complications and as Mars only wrapped up a six month visit to Aquarius in November, a week before the South Node wrapped up an 18 month visit, you have been there and done that.
You also begin this new solar year with a lot of momentum, untapped potential and a clear sense of what is already in motion. With Mercury leaving on 10th February and the Sun on 19th February, this is in a way a rubber stamping of your passport as you move into a new solar year, which is exactly what you need. It will be a different story when first Mercury and then the Sun return to your income sector, with some exciting implications across the income, work and career fronts.
Mars only wrapped up a six week visit in your income sector on New Year's Day, 15 months of planetary activity on the career front only ran its course in the final days of January and the North Node is spending its first, last and only full year in your work sector in 17 years. Already the lead up to a total solar eclipse in early January has begun. No wonder then, unlike the 17 days Mercury will spend in Aquarius, he will spend over two months in your income sector. Mercury and the Sun return to a scene ripe with potential across the income, work and career fronts.
PISCES
This month there are two levels at which things are playing out. The first is where all the bright and shiny things are, which are grabbing your attention. These are on the income, work and career fronts and as the month continues, exciting developments for personal and professional networking, friendship and relationship are building. The second layer is the more mundane wind down of your old solar year, which is in real danger of being ignored. The Sun will always spend the majority of the first three weeks of February in a nostalgic, reflective but also intuitive and imaginative part of your chart, bringing your old solar year to a close.
In reality, with Mars having spent six months here last year and the South Node having only wrapped up an 18 month visit in November, there isn't a lot required. The Sun's job is to resolve the past, close old doors and bring a chance to reflect before your birthday month and new solar year begins. Yet for the most part you have been there and done that. What you are in danger of ignoring is the chance to spend time in the slow lane. With so much developing across the income, work and career fronts this might be easier said than done, but it is important to take time out to hear yourself think.
Meanwhile, while the Sun doesn't return to Pisces to begin your birthday month and new solar year until 19th February, as is the case at this time every year, Mercury will return on 10th February. This is a chance to get your head in the game and start getting ideas and options on the table before the Sun returns. This is the start of a long visit for Mercury, with the planet of communication and smart thinking normally here for two weeks. Instead, Mercury is in Pisces for over two months this year. Mercury will be here with a Full Moon in your relationship sector during the first full day of your birthday, on hand to ensure the communication lines are open. |
