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Your January Horoscope by Susan Miller
Scorpio Horoscope for January 2009
By Susan Miller
This will be a solid month and one that should make you very optimistic about your New Year. You appear to be mulling over some rather large questions concerning your living quarters and your next big career move. On both counts, your timing will be excellent if you sort out your options in January but patiently wait to act in February. With that plan, luck will be on your side in a very big way, and you'll see how well the year proceeds!
As you begin the month, there is some indication that you may be traveling. This is a trend that started last month, so it appears that you've been in perpetual motion ever since the holiday season began. Last month you seem to have been living out of a suitcase and enjoying yourself. You were smart to travel then, while you could, because in just a month or two you won't find it as easy to slip away. You still can get away in January, so if you have the yen to go to a new setting, do so straightaway.
As soon as you get back to the office, your BlackBerry will buzz its way across your desk and emails will overflow in your email box. You'll need all your energy to keep up. If you have urgent business, focus on getting things done during the first few days of January, because very soon after that, you will start to notice an annoying slowdown. People will be harder to reach, and if you do reach them, they'll become indecisive. The reason for this is easy - Mercury will go retrograde on January 1. You and I will discuss this in a moment.
More travel seems to come up for you at the full moon January 10, and this time it appears you might be on your way to a foreign country. This may translate into long flight across the Pacific, or a tiny flight across the border. Either way, you it looks like you'll be heading to a new setting within four days of this date. That full moon will send a lovely beam to Uranus, so you may just pick up and go very spontaneously. This will be a full moon, so you won't be away long - it would be completed by January 13 or 14 at the latest.
If you want to go for a longer period, say, a week, then leave earlier. For example, you may want to leave January 2 or 3, and return home by January 11. I like that timetable - see if it works for you.
As a good rule of thumb, you would always want to return from a trip before the full moon completely wanes. Your energy will fade as the fullness of the moon goes down, so you will not enjoy your travels much as you would at the start of your trip. Whenever you travel, always try to finish your journey on the full moon or three days after at the most for best results.
As I mentioned, Mercury will begin to retrograde from January 11 and remain so until February 1, a time you will see a definite slowdown to activities. You were busy over the holidays, so you may welcome the leisurely pace that Mercury will bring. You'll get a chance to exhale and reorganize yourself while the world begins to settle down to a crawl.
You may be asked to deal with a few legal issues this month or be asked to sign papers. If so, study the clauses and build a strategy with your lawyer. Decide on what needs to be done, but take your time. When Mercury retrogrades, you can be sure that the wind will soon change direction and the criteria you are using to make decisions will soon change and be less important as new priorities replace the old ones.
It would not be wise to make any firm decisions about a new venture during Mercury out of phase. The tricky part about Mercury retrograde is that you could easily be lulled into thinking everything is normal and that it's fine to move forward. Alas, it decidedly is not. Instead, it is a good time to look back on past decisions and projects, and to revisit, reassess, and rethink your assumptions. New information that will emerge in weeks ahead could make you regret making a certain decision now. Wait and you will be happy you did.
On top of the confusing situation that Mercury will bring, a solar eclipse is due this month, so trust that there will be big shifts taking place around you. Until that eclipse has spoken - along with the second one that is due February 9 - you won't know which end is up. I know you are action oriented, but be patient, dear Scorpio.
Your home life is about to become a main focus of your attention and an enormous source of pride and happiness. You will see this to be true almost immediately from the moment Jupiter enters Aquarius and your fourth house of home and family on January 5, to stay for a full year.
Jupiter is the planet of good fortune, and he expands everything he touches. Now that Jupiter will be visiting your home sector, you may start to think about moving to new quarters. If so, you will be moving at a simply fantastic time. Jupiter has not been in your home and family sector since 1997, so this trend is brand new. You will notice it in 2009, but particularly so in February! Jupiter is the planet of miracles, so you may get a super deal, too.
If you are searching for a new apartment or house, accept nothing but the largest, most beautiful sunny space you can find. You've waited twelve years for this opportunity, so don't blow your luck on something you don't really like. You can insist on the best, even in tight real estate markets. You won't be ready to act until February, so you have lots of time to look. (With Mercury retrograding in your home sector in January, you should hold back anyway.)
If you are trying to sell a house, listen to your broker's advice and be the one to make the final decision. If you are married, for example, don't let your partner choose the price or do the negotiating - you do it. The only exception would be if your partner is a Scorpio, too. This year, 2009, Scorpio will have the magic touch with all sorts of real estate decisions and transactions. Remember, plan this month but act next month.
If you work in the real estate or home-related financial markets, or in decorating or architecture, you should do really well this year! Actually, this is the one area that will glow brilliantly!
If you have been concerned about the health or welfare of a parent, Jupiter's entry into your home sector should be very good news. You can expect that your parent will show an upturn in health, and if you have been looking for options for a medical diagnosis or physical therapy, or to hire a helper for your mother or father, you should find good choices now.
In order for a new trend to take hold in a chart, you need more than one planet to help out. Remarkably, you will have a whole crowd of happy little planets jumping up and down in your home and property house.
Your first sign that something good is about to happen will be on the monumental meeting of the Sun and Jupiter, an annual event that I call the "luckiest day of the year." These two will meet in your home sector over the two days, January 23-24. Put a star on both!
If you need a new place to live, or want to meet with a contractor to redo your kitchen or bath, this is your year to do it. Get estimates on your luckiest days of the year. You may also find a new piece of furniture or other beautiful things for your home, possibly on sale. Jupiter brings luck, so expect to find bargains. Careful, though - no buying of electronics or very expensive things while Mercury is retrograde. Your item just won't deliver the pleasure you expect from it. You can browse, but plan to shop for those in February.
You can also expect to see luck with your career at about the same time that the Sun and Jupiter meet over January 23-24. The Sun rules your solar tenth house of career status and promotion, so you should expect to receive amazing favor from an authority figure.
Your very best career day of the month - and possibly of the New Year - will be Friday, January 23, but you will also feel excitement one day before on Thursday, January 22. Next month you will have a lunar eclipse on February 9, so you may see a huge professional development then, or within several days of that date. A lot appears to be going in your career, but all of the changes will work in your favor. Have faith!
Your focus will return to your home or property-related situation at the solar eclipse January 26 and in the weeks to follow. An eclipse is always a dramatic event in a chart - even if you had said to yourself, "I will decide about whether to sign my lease later in the year," that time schedule will go out the window now. Perhaps exciting career developments will cause you to rethink your home situation almost immediately. You may even move across country, for eclipses are very powerful.
Your parents are also covered by the fourth house that is so lit up, so one parent, either your mother or father, may be very helpful to you now. If you need family support, ask for it. Your family loves you dearly, and it's showing up in your chart. If you need help, don't be shy about speaking up.
This month's solar eclipse on January 26 will be an unusually friendly one. Jupiter will glide close to the new moon and Sun, so if you search for home or property options, something special should surface.
You are a fixed sign, so massive changes on the home front, or anywhere else in your life, are generally not ones you look upon with enthusiasm. Now, however, the time may be so right to act that you do despite your hesitation - and within weeks become almost giddy with the prospects of your new living situation.
There is always the chance that you would stay home and simply fix your place up. Repairs would go exceptionally well in January, for Mercury retrograde in your home sector will help you get things done that have languished on your list. Next month you can go shopping for a beautiful new piece for one of your rooms, or decide to paint one or more rooms. Sometimes a few new accessories are all you need to make a room seem brand new.
If you need to sell your house, let buyers look, but accept bids only in February for a smooth experience that's hassle free. That would not be quite the case in January with Mercury retrograde. If you need to buy furniture or any electronics, the same rule holds - browse and decide what you need now, but actually buy in February. If you paid for furniture last month, and it is being readied for delivery, ask for a February delivery so it is not damaged in transport.
Romantically, if you are attached, you may be contemplating moving in with your lover. If you hope for marriage, that may not be a good idea. If you have no plans to marry because you have been married before, then it may be fine to do.
Still, Scorpio is a very independent sign, so ending your own living situation is likely to eventually cause you some anxiety, and with Mercury retrograde, you may not have given this enough thought. Uranus in your house of true love can make you impulsive. When it comes to love and living together, the picture is confused, so it would be better to wait.
Generally, love should be bright this month. Venus will travel in Pisces, in your fifth house of true love - great news, for Venus' job is to make your charms very visible. Venus has not been in this area of your chart for a year, so this is news, and Venus will stay until early February. If you want, you can think about changing your appearance, with great results.
Another terrific weekend will actually start on Saturday, January 10, when love may follow you like a magnet. Uranus will be in a beautiful angle to the Sun, so your trip may happen spontaneously. If taken for fun and love, you should be really pleased! This will be a full moon in Cancer, so your feelings will be heightened in the best way.
On January 22, Venus will conjoin Uranus, a truly glorious day if you are single and looking for love, for this day could bring an unexpected, chance meeting with someone very intriguing. Both Venus and Uranus will be in Pisces and will meet in your house of true love. You could not ask for anything more! That day is special for another reason, for Mars, your ruler, will also be in contact with surprise-a-minute Uranus. Gee, dear Scorpio - this is a dazzling day for so many reasons. If you want to travel over this weekend, it may be a superb idea.
Home will be a happy place for you this month, so you might want to give a little party for friends over January 24-25. With Venus in a sexy angle to Mars, it should be a hit!
Romantic evenings: January 1-2, 9-11 (for travel), 13, 18-19, 22 (four stars), 23-25 (home related), and 28-29.
If you have never had a good relationship with your sibling, this year could change all that, so keep an open mind. This December, offer an olive branch. You may see the riff you have between you and a sibling heal, for December 2008 represents one of your best periods in more than ten years for healing your sibling relationship. By January 5, Jupiter will leave this placement, not to return until 2019, so while you have this advantage, use it!
Scorpio (October 23 - November 21)Your December Horoscope by Susan Miller
Scorpio Horoscope for December 2008
By Susan Miller
This should be a fun month, filled with reasons to travel, to shop, to see lots of friends, and to fully experience the joy of the season. In years past you have had to concentrate so much on your work that your career may have cut into time to enjoy the holidays. This year seems different, and for that you'll be very happy indeed.
The month takes off with a truly sterling aspect, for Venus will be in perfect alignment with Jupiter on December 1. This represents a once-a-year meeting of two highly benefic planets, so you will likely enjoy the dazzling spirit filtering the air. December 1 is a day worth planning something special to do - talks and actions should lead you in precisely the direction you had hoped. It's also a fine day for a trip for business or personal reasons.
With Mars - your guardian planet and also planet of energy - now touring your house of personal resources and possessions, you will feel generous and jovial. No doubt, you'll want to spend freely. Even if you are worried about the recent gyrations of the stock market, you seem to have solid confidence in your future and you want to spend for gifts to make friends and family happy for the holiday. Be careful, however. This month is not quite like most, and the one area you will be most vulnerable is in terms of your finances.
Because your spending will be high throughout December, you might want to decide early on how much you can comfortably afford so that you can avoid any untoward surprises later. The holidays are always hard on the bank account - for everybody - and it is easy to spend more than we should. This month you seem to have a harder time than usual holding the line. This may be because one or two unexpected expected expenses will come up, or because you will see the perfect gift to give a friend or relative, and you'll snap it up. These things do happen.
To keep yourself sane, you may want to have a little emergency money set aside for such instances, should you need it. Scorpio is a very savvy sign when it comes to handing money, so I am not too concerned about how you will fare. I just want you to know that until December 27, spending balances will be up.
I need to tell you about a very difficult full moon that's due December 12. It is not easy to deliver this kind of news, but I do so in the hopes that you will be able to plan so you won't feel broadsided. While Mars will be encouraging you to spend more, the full moon will ask you to suddenly pay the piper. The full moon will occur in your house of other people's money, which in everyday terms governs the house of credit and loans - money you owe others. It also rules commissions, royalties, venture capital, pensions, inheritances, child support, division of property in a divorce, a mortgage or refinancing plans, and although I would rather not even say the word, bankruptcy. Let's stay positive.
Perhaps you feel you know what might come up. Whatever it is, it appears that you will be writing a big, unexpected check or that you will get news of a decision that represents a loss or funds you expected but find you are not going to receive. If you have to write a check, with the full moon and Mars in hard angle to Uranus, it looks like what comes up will come out of left field, with no advance preparation.
Pluto will be active, so someone is likely to be very insistent that you pay, and this person will not be flexible. (When Pluto is involved, negotiations become dictates. Pluto is known to foster "scorched earth" types of negotiation, which translates into "my way or the highway." On top of this, Saturn will be in hard angle to the moon too, indicating that there will be no way to avoid acknowledging one's responsibility or alternatively, accepting a loss and moving on. It gives me no pleasure telling you this news, dear Scorpio. This looks like a painful full moon, and I hope you can prepare for it. Pluto is your ruling planet, and Mars is your secondary ruler, so Scorpios of all birthdays will feel this heat.
Jarring financial news will surface as early as Wednesday, December 10, when Uranus will be in hard angle to the Sun. The full moon will follow on Friday, December 12, but all full moons have an area of influence of four days, so things will peak in that time frame. As you see, you won't have much time to maneuver.
Because Mars and Saturn will be at hard angles on the heels of these two aspects on Monday, December 15, the episode will end at that time - by then you'll need a solution. The good part is that events will move rapidly. You will need to find a fast solution, and the episode will be over just as quickly. Be thankful that this full moon falls early enough in December, hopefully not to affect your spirit at end-of-the-month holidays.
You won't see what's coming, so there's not much you can do to prepare. Normally I would say, keep your schedule light near the full moon, but at holiday time, I realize that's nearly impossible. Do the best you can, dear Scorpio.
Once you get to December 21, when the Sun moves into Capricorn, your spirits will rise and life will seem better and easier. A meeting with a powerful person on December 22 could bring you a financial breakthrough and the opening of a new financial path. It is also possible that someone will ask you to sign a contract. If you have studied it beforehand, you can do so.
December 24 brings more good news, quite suddenly, just when you thought nothing much would happen at month's end. Just as the full moon news is to be unexpected, news you get on Christmas Eve will be too, but this time it's exciting news - just the kind you wanted to hear!
If you are close to your sister or brother, you will grow even closer this month - particularly so near the holidays. You will have much greater than usual interaction with one another, and have plenty to discuss. Most importantly, your sibling will have a calming influence on you. She or he may offer sound advice and a few ideas to unlock a current dilemma.
Astrologically, if you find yourself in a tight spot, always look to the position of Jupiter for clues for a way out. In your case, Jupiter is still in your third house, a place this great planet of good fortune has been based throughout 2008. (If you feel Jupiter has not been working, know that Jupiter was retrograde and weak for much of the recent time - but no more. Just you watch and see!).
This is why I mentioned your sister or brother as helpful to talk over your recent thoughts, plans, and any concerns, as Jupiter will enlarge and deepen your relationship in a warm and very wonderful way.
If you have never had a good relationship with your sibling, this year could change all that, so keep an open mind. This December, offer an olive branch. You may see the riff you have between you and a sibling heal, for December 2008 represents one of your best periods in more than ten years for healing your sibling relationship. By January 5, Jupiter will leave this placement, not to return until 2019, so while you have this advantage, use it!
There is another bonus to having Jupiter visit your third house - your ability to communicate clearly, intelligently, and possibly even with humor will be superb all month. and that may help you in a business sense. Your mind will crackle with ideas, and since Jupiter is in Capricorn, the sign ruling humor, you could come across as quite relaxed and funny (even if you aren't)! This will help you be perceived as a winner, and one everyone will want to have you on their side. If anyone tries to outtalk you or paint you in a corner, you'll be sharp and see this to be true - and you won't let them!
If you need to sign a contact this month, do so on December 26, a day that will bring gifts of stability from Saturn and Mercury, or even better, on December 31, when a highly lucrative outcome is likely, thanks to the combined gifts of Mercury and Jupiter. If you need to do so earlier in the month, December 1 sparkles too, due to the interplay of Venus and Jupiter.
Your home may be a focus, and if you want to dress it up with color and flowers, do so once Venus enters your home sector from December 7 to January 3. Next year, 2009, brings sensational news for real estate and fixing up your home. We will talk more about that next month, so stay tuned. Jupiter is heading to this area and that's going to bring huge advantages to you all through the coming year!
Your friends also seem to be playing a big role in your month, and you will see much more of them. Mercury rules the friendship area of your chart and this planet of news will be unusually active in December in a highly friendly, encouraging way. You can count on your friends, and they will be there for you when you need them most. This is a great comfort! You will consider your friends as your family, and certainly they will want you to think of them that way.
You may find that romantically, you will be more involved with group activities, like parties, which, for Scorpio, is unusual. You tend to prefer one-on-one get-togethers, but this month seems to bring you into the center of holiday festivities. It will represent an enjoyable change, so relish the time to see your pals.
Quick, short travel appears to be on the agenda too for a noticeable part of your schedule in December. Even though it looks like you won't go too far, what you do will be fun and relaxing. Your opportunities to get away will open up spontaneously and quite unexpectedly. If you say you have no money for extra gas or overnight accommodations now, this trend will be so strong that it looks like someone loves you and wants to be with you. That person will help make your trip(s) possible.
Once the new moon appears in your travel sector December 27 and in the ten days that follow, even more luck will flow to you. A contract may appear and generally, all kinds of news coming to you will be comfortingly upbeat.
If you were born on October 30 or within five days of this date, you will benefit most.
For New Year's Eve, no matter when your birthday falls, you may drive out of town to accept an invitation to a party or to have a very special dinner out at a luxurious restaurant. The moon will be in Pisces then too, an ideal placement for Scorpio, for the moon in Pisces will encourage meaningful exchanges and tender romantic moments.
Also, Mercury will conjoin Jupiter on December 31 - the only time this year - and this is a sensational aspect, especially for travel and news that reaches you. In fact, all the news you get on New Year's Eve, even earlier in the day, should be completely unexpected and quite thrilling - and that could include news about money. By evening you'll have a certain glow that will be unmistakable, dear Scorpio! Who could resist you?