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ARIES
Because the Moon made its last visits to your romantic and relationship sectors for 2021 in the days on either side of Christmas, you will have to wait until later in the month for its return. This gives you time to get on with the business of adjusting to and getting your head around this brand new year and the very different dynamics in play. With no planetary activity in either your romantic or relationship sectors, the Moon's monthly visits have become a lot more important, making these days that need to be ring fenced and where this needs to be your number one priority.
Equally important is the Moon's return to your communication sector each month, making it easier to give your emotional responses and relationships a voice and therefore keep the communication lines open. The Moon will make its first visit to your communication sector for the year from 13th January to 16th January and with the North Node leaving on 19th January the timing couldn't be better. Since May 2020 the North Node has quietly kept the communication lines open, with the Moon's return each month giving this a boost.
The Moon will make its first visit to your romantic sector for the year just two days later, with romantically charged lunar vibes from 18th January to 20th January making these some of the most romantically charged days of the month. As the Moon's last visit of 2021 ended on Christmas Eve, this could bring back some of the holiday spirit as well. It is just a few days later that the Moon will make its first visit to your relationship sector for the year. Moving through from 23rd January to 25th January, the Moon will bring a chance to become more emotionally engaged and connected.
TAURUS
Beginning the year with Venus, the planet of love not only in an adventurous part of your chart but in retrograde motion is creating a strong mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia from the start and this will only deepen as the month progresses. While Venus won't turn direct until 29th January, she will need to come to a standstill and as the month progresses will begin slowing down. The slower the planet the more potent it becomes and so too will a mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia. Adding to a sense of nostalgia is the fact that you also have the dwarf planet Ceres in retrograde motion in Taurus until 15th January.
The Moon will make its first visit to your romantic sector for the year from 21st January to 23rd January, just as Venus is slowing down ahead of her retrograde turn a week later. A friendly aspect to Venus as it passes through will see these romantically charged lunar vibes add even more fuel to a mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia. It is just a few days before the Moon returns that an event that will make 2022 a very different year to 2021 happens and it will have a big impact on your relationships throughout the coming year. What I am talking about is a shift in the lunar nodes on 19th January.
For the first time in 18 years, the North Node will return to Taurus and the South Node to your relationship sector and for the next 18 months, they will police a balance between your personal and relationship needs. This is something that the Moon will put to the test when it returns to both each month, starting with the Moon's first visit to your relationship sector for the year from 25th January to 27th January. This makes the first Full Moon of 2022, falling in your communication sector on 18th January a valuable chance to go into this with the communication lines open from the start.
GEMINI
Starting the year with the Moon and Mars in your relationship sector is putting a focus on your relationships from the start and with perfect timing. While the Moon will leave on 2nd January and Mars on 25th January, this is pushing a focus on your relationships to the front of the queue, getting your attention but also ensuring that you are emotionally engaged and connected from the start. What makes the timing auspicious is that it is on 19th January that the lunar nodes will end a 20 month policing of a balance between your personal and relationship needs.
Since the North Node's return to Gemini and the South Node's to your relationship sector in May 2020, they have been counterbalancing each other, with things becoming out of balance if either your own or your relationship needs start to outweigh the other. This is something that the Moon puts to the test when it returns to both each month and it will be doing that as you move into the New Year. Yet it also means that you begin the year knowing what you want from your relationships and what they need from you and until he leaves on 25th January, with Mars on hand to help you fight to make it happen.
The Moon will make its first visit to your communication sector for the year from 18th January to 22nd January, ensuring the communication lines are open as the lunar nodes leave on 19th January. It is just a few days later that the Moon will make its first visit to your romantic sector for the year, with romantically charged lunar vibes helping to make Mars' final days in your relationship sector even more special. Having begun the year in your relationship sector the Moon will come full circle from 27th January to 29th January to find the Moon, Mars and the lunar nodes gone and no more clashes between your personal and relationship needs.
CANCER
Because the Moon always spends the last 10 days and the first three weeks of every year in your relationship sector, the focus is always on your relationships at this time of year. However, not to the degree that it is this year, with not only a lot more planets here but with a huge variety of influences. The Sun, as is always the case, will keep the solar spotlight on your relationships until he leaves on 20th January, with a lot playing out during that time. The year begins with Venus, the planet of love in your relationship sector but in retrograde motion, holding the doors open to the past and second chances from the start.
The year also begins with Mercury, the planet of communication here and while he will leave on 2nd January, a retrograde turn will bring him back in for a double dip visit on 26th January. With Venus not turning direct until 29th January, there will be a few days when the planets of love and communication are both in retrograde motion in your relationship sector at the same time, holding the doors open to the past, second chances and to giving the past and unsaid words a voice at the same time. With the Sun gone from your relationship sector by then, this makes it clear that this relationship chapter is going beyond the normal annual scope.
Mercury and Venus' retrograde turns will not only keep the planetary activity in your relationship sector going through to March, but Mars' return on 25th January will add yet another layer, this time a more passionate one. However, long before that, the Moon's return on 2nd January will not only bring a chance to become more emotionally engaged and connected but it is here that the first New Moon of 2022 will fall less than 24 hours later. This month also has a surprise, with the North Node returning to your romantic sector for the first time in 18 years on 19th January. This sets the scene for a series of eclipses during the year while adding to the experience when the Moon moves through from 25th January to 27th January.
LEO
From the start, this is a big month on the romantic and relationship fronts but also a month when on both fronts, this will evolve and develop. Just starting the month with both the Moon and Mars in your romantic sector is extraordinary, for while it has happened with one or the other before, never before in our lifetime have both been here at the same time just as you move into the New Year. Just starting the year with romantically charged lunar vibes in play until 2nd January is advantage enough but to have Mars fuelling your romantic passions and fighting spirit from the start adds a whole new layer. The Moon will leave on 2nd January but Mars is here until 25th January.
Mars will be gone when the Moon comes full circle for its first full visit to your romantic sector for the year from 27th January to 29th January but in time to capture the warrior planet of the cosmos' essence. Before then, as Mars fights to get the year off to a romantically charged start, there is also a lot happening on the relationship front. Jupiter left your relationship sector on 29th December, leaving you to start the year with Saturn here on his own. Where Jupiter has left you with a sense of what's possible, Saturn is now giving you the determination to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes.
However, Saturn won't be on his own for long with Mercury, the planet of communication returning on 2nd January. Normally Mercury will spend 14 to 15 days getting the communication lines open and ahead of the Sun's return on 20th January, the timing couldn't be better. However, a retrograde turn on 15th January will not only extend Mercury's time here but until retrograding back out on 26th January will shift the focus onto giving your relationships, the past and unsaid words a voice. Mercury will not only return next month but will be here when Venus and Mars return in early March, extending the relationship focus for several months.
VIRGO
With the Sun always spending the last 10 days and the first three weeks of every year in your romantic sector, the focus is always going to be on matters of the heart in the New Year but not to the degree, diversity or longevity that you will experience this year. This creates a month that has a mix of the expected and the unexpected and that includes on the relationship front, which doesn't usually get too much attention until later next month. The expected is to have the solar spotlight on matters of the heart and all things romantic until the Sun leaves your romantic sector on 20th January.
While it is not unusual to start the year either with Venus and/or Mercury here but not this reluctant to leave. Venus begins the year in retrograde motion and while she will turn direct on 29th January she won't leave until March. While Mercury will leave on 2nd January, a retrograde turn will see him return for a double dip visit on 26th January. This is just a day after Mars' return on 25th January will fire things up in a way that only the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos can. Just when matters of the heart should be dialling back they will instead be heating up.
Long before that, the Moon's return on 2nd January and the New Moon this will create less than 24 hours later will bring an opportunity for new beginnings and a fresh start, at a time when the doors are open to the past and second chances. Meanwhile, while the Sun doesn't return to your relationship sector until later next month, the year not only begins with Jupiter already here but alongside Neptune. Starting the year with the planets of luck and dreams in your relationship sector is not just a once in a lifetime event but is a taste of things to come. Between 6th January and 8th January, the Moon's first visit to your relationship sector for the year and since Jupiter's return on 29th December offers a chance to become more emotionally engaged and connected.
LIBRA
Jupiter's departure from your romantic sector on 29th December means that the planet of luck and expansion won't spend a moment of 2022 here yet his influence and the impact he made last year will define your romantic expectations from the start. Jupiter was always going to leave you with a sense of what's possible but this is often the point when you are left to your own devices and the romantic confidence and high expectations he leaves you with can start to wane. That won't be the case this time and for two equally important reasons. The first reason is Saturn, who returned with Jupiter in December 2022 but won't leave until next year.
Jupiter left you with a sense of what's possible and now Saturn is giving you the resolve to keep doing whatever it takes for as long as it takes. The second reason why Jupiter's influence and high expectations are unlikely to wane is that backup is on the way. It begins with Mercury's return to your romantic sector on 2nd January, with the planet of communication returning to support Saturn, giving your heart a voice and putting heart and mind on the same page. This is something that will be especially important when the Moon makes its first visit to your romantic sector for the year from 8th January to 11th January.
It is just a few days later that Mercury will turn retrograde on 15th January, something that will see him retrograde back out on 26th January. Mercury will be in retrograde motion when the Sun returns on 20th January, something that will always turn the solar spotlight onto matters of the heart at this time of year. The Sun will still be here when Mercury returns next month, beginning a double dip visit that will still be in play when Venus and Mars eventually return in early March. From Mercury's return on 2nd January to Venus and Mars' departure in April, there will be an unbroken chain of support for Saturn, matters of the heart and all things romantic.
SCORPIO
On both the romantic and relationship fronts there is a mix of the expected and the unexpected this month and in both cases, in a way that sets the scene for what to expect from the coming year. The expected is that there will always be some focus on both romantic and relationship matters, due to the fact that you have Neptune in your romantic sector from 2012 to 2026 and Uranus in your relationship sector from 2019 to 2026. These are slower outer planets that largely operate in the background and only really come to life when there are other planets here and that is what is happening this month.
While the Sun won't return to your romantic sector until later next month, which is when matters of the heart usually come alive, you not only begin the year with Neptune here but with Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion. Jupiter only returned on 29th December so this is something that you are still adjusting to but starting the year with the planets of luck and dreams together in your romantic sector is not just a once in a lifetime event but makes 2022 a lucky year for love. This is something that will continue to develop but the Moon's first visit to your romantic sector for the year will give you a taste of things to come from 6th January to 8th January.
Meanwhile, while Uranus begins the year in retrograde motion in your romantic sector and the Sun doesn't return until April each year, from the start he has company. The dwarf planet Ceres retrograded back in last month and while this was more to focus on your relationship needs and priorities the timing couldn't be better. Ceres will turn direct on 15th January but will still be here when Uranus not only turns direct on 19th January but when the North Node returns on the same day. This begins an 18 month policing of a balance between your personal and relationship needs, which Ceres has been helping you to prepare for.
SAGITTARIUS
For the last 20 months, the lunar nodes have been policing a balance between your personal and relationship needs, the North Node in your relationship sector from your relationships' perspective and the South Node in Sagittarius from your perspective. Over the last 20 months, when the Moon returns to both each month this has put this to the test, creating the potential for personal and/or relationship tension but each time revealing another layer when it comes to better understanding what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. This will be the case when the Moon returns for its first visit to your relationship sector for the year from 13th January to 16th January.
However, it will also be for the last time, with the lunar nodes leaving on 19th January. Fortunately, in these final weeks and when a balance between your personal and relationship needs becomes more important than ever, there is growing communication support. While you begin the year with Saturn in your communication sector and Jupiter having just left at the end of last month, the real advantage comes from Mercury, the planet of communication's return on 2nd January. Mercury will be here when the Moon moves through your relationship sector from 13th January to 16th January.
Mercury's retrograde turn on 15th January will turn this into a chance to give your emotional responses, relationships, the past and unsaid words a voice. Mercury will remain in retrograde motion in your communication sector until retrograding back out on 26th January, with the Sun's return on 20th January adding even more communication support just a day after the lunar nodes leave. Meanwhile, matters of the heart will get a boost when the dwarf planet Eris turns direct in your romantic sector on 11th January. The Moon will make its first visit to your romantic sector for the year from 8th January to 10th January, in time to capture the doors still open to the past and second chances.
CAPRICORN
There are some exciting developments on the romantic and relationship fronts this month, getting the year off to a good start on both fronts. There is a lot of romantic nostalgia in the air this month and that means the doors will also be open to the past and second chances. This is because you not only start the year with Uranus and the dwarf planet Ceres in retrograde motion in your romantic sector but Venus, the planet of love in retrograde motion in Capricorn. To begin with, the three planets responsible for the spirit of romance will all be in retrograde motion, putting a lot of focus on the past and second chances.
However, one by one this will change, starting with Ceres' direct turn on 15th January. While not a major player, as Ceres is focused on your heart's needs and priorities, this is when you will start looking to the future rather than the past. It is just four days later that Uranus will turn direct on 19th January, the same day that the North Node returns to your romantic sector for the first time in 18 years. As well as setting the scene for a series of eclipses over the next 18 months, the North Node is always looking towards the future. However, it is not until Venus turns direct on 29th January that you will be ready to close the doors to the past.
A month that begins with all the romantic focus on the past will start to see new doors open, while the love gods will leave old doors open for as long as they can. The Moon will make its first visit to your romantic sector for the year from 11th January to 13th January, while the focus is still on the past and a sense of romantic nostalgia still dominates. Meanwhile, the Moon will not only make its first visit to your relationship sector for the year from 16th January to 18th January but to create the first Full Moon of 2022. As well as a chance to become more emotionally engaged and connected, this will be a chance to better understand what you want from your relationships and what they need from you.
AQUARIUS
There is a mix of the expected and the unexpected on the romantic front this month as well as some shifting tides. The year begins with Venus, the planet of love still in retrograde motion in a nostalgic part of your chart, where a sense of romantic nostalgia has doubled since she first returned in November. This is being balanced by the fact that you also begin the year with the North Node in your romantic sector, where since its return in May 2020 it has not only kept the focus on matters of the heart but on the future. With the North Node focused on the future, Venus on the past but both on the spirit of romance, this is the perfect balance.
There will be a chance to fully embrace and capture this when the Moon makes its first visit to your romantic sector for the year from 13th January to 15th January. This is something that needs to be captured because it is just four days later that after 20 months in your romantic sector that the North Node will leave on 19th January. This brings an end to the eclipses here but the last one back in November has already given matters of the heart the boost that it needed at the time. With the North Node gone but Venus not turning direct until 29th January, this could see a sense of romantic nostalgia deepen.
While Venus will turn direct on 29th January she won't leave a nostalgic part of your chart and return to Aquarius until early March, with romantic nostalgia continuing its hold on your heart in the early months of the year. Meanwhile, with no planetary activity in your relationship sector, the Moon's first visit for the year from 18th January to 20th January is a chance to become more emotionally engaged and connected. A friendly aspect to both planets in your communication sector as it moves through will also offer a chance to ensure the communication lines are open.
PISCES
With no planetary activity in your romantic or relationship sectors, the Moon's monthly visits to each are especially important at this time of year. Fortunately, having moved through your romantic sector in the days leading up to Christmas and then having spent Christmas itself in your relationship sector, you begin the year with both having just received a boost. Because the Moon made its last visits to your romantic and relationship sectors for 2021 fairly late in the month, you will have to wait for the first visits of 2022 but they will be worth the wait. It begins with the Moon's visit to your romantic sector from 16th January to 18th January.
As the first romantically charged lunar vibes of 2022, this was always going to be important but this also sets the scene for the first Full Moon of 2022. There were no Full Moons in your romantic sector last year, with the romantically charged Full Moon on 17th January a chance to give the spirit of romance a boost. This is a Lovers Moon and can make the first romantically charged lunar vibes of the year a lot more memorable and harder to ignore. With no planetary activity in your romantic sector until midyear, this is the right boost at the right time.
It is just a few days later that the Moon will make its first visit to your relationship sector for the year. Moving through from 21st January to 23rd January, the Moon will bring a chance to become more emotionally engaged and connected and the timing couldn't be better. The Moon will move through just days after Uranus' direct turn in your communication sector on 19th January but also after the North Node's return there on the same day. This is something that in one fell swoop is destined to open up the communication lines, something that the Moon will capitalise on when it moves through your relationship sector just a few days later. |
