We are in for a challenging week. How to best strategize, prepare and utilize the energy's play? This week is the Aquarius New Moon, the onset of the 2025 Chinese New Year.

I will send out another forecast about the year for that New Moon — so far, it's been quite an opening of 2025 — hasn't it?

January 27th has the moon in the sign of Capricorn, a pretty good day. Bare in mind, a good day in a challenging week. The new moon occurs on the 29th, EST. Monday in the dark of moon period has a serious tone about life and what we're doing here.

Even with light-hearted activities, there’s the capacity to deepen into spiritual perspective. The Indians have a term: Maya — the illusion of reality that we all create. Of course, mine is different than my husband’s and is different than my siblings’ — even though we share common experiences; the unfathomable wonder of unique perceptions.

We create and see the world through our own lens. Part of the illusion that we all struggle with is how do we work towards common truth? It's quite a challenge, especially in today's world — where there's alternate truths.

This has always been the case one could argue, but the difference between now and 30 years ago is that realities were not able to be manipulated in quite the same way as they are in our cyberworld. With this moon in Capricorn, it behooves us to look at what is your reality and why? There are benefits to question our worldview and our responsibility within it.

On the 27th, we're invited energetically to reflect on how we view the world and if that's connected to the greater continuum and community. Are we living in a way that is in alignment to what or who we want to be spiritually? For those without a spiritual call, the emphasis is to expand and support the illusion, no matter what seems to threaten or deflate it.

On Tuesday the 28th, inspiration may come to some of us in the morning with a sense of lightness, to feel more love and connection. The new moon occurs on the 29th at 7:36 a.m. ET at 9° Aquarius 51”, Chinese year of the Wood Snake. A 9 year (endings) plus the Snake… expect a lot of shedding this year. Use it to move past stuck energy.

The next day, the 30th, Uranus goes direct —it pushes a lot of electric volatile energies in this brief time.

I go into this week more on the podcast and the Lunation post will be out soon. Please remember, effective power comes when we note our reaction, catch it, and choose how we respond. Be a love warrior.

I'll post about January 20th, 2025 on my blog, Spot on Astrology. It's the USA Inauguration Day as well as when we honor Martin Luther King Jr. Not an easy day; the Libra Moon travels in the sky to make geometric symbols of conflicts with other planets. For one, we see conflicts with communication.

This could be communication blips that occur depending on what we're trying to do or make happen. If you want to bypass that bump, then do most activities past noon EST. However, another wrinkle on this day is signaled by the opposition of the Moon with Chiron.

In the myth, Chiron was known for his healing wisdom and knowledge that was far and beyond other sources. However, Chiron could not heal himself and was in continual agony. When someone has Chiron strong in their horoscope (as it is on this day and therefore the 2025 Inaugural chart for the United States), then we need to learn what wisdom comes from the wound. If we just focus on the wound, then we're raging in pain all the time.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors a man of peace who practiced civil disobedience. With Mars Retrograde in Cancer, people are going to be unsettled, angry, aggressive or frustrated if they are not conscious of constructive ways to utilize that fuel.

If you encounter anger within yourself or someone else, move into a place where you understand its source.

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The Cancer Full Moon on January 13th stimulates emotional drive to engage with spirit and produce a result. What motivates us, makes us feel connected… we're here to do something, not only purposeful, but presented as a gift.

With Mars Retrograde in Cancer, we go over the past — especially family or place of origin — how connected we are to that legacy, our roots. And for some of us, it needs to be reassessed, looked at differently, so that we may decide that we are free of certain things that continually draw us back.

Think about yourself, people who you know or people in the news who cling to grievances and things in the past that they feel wronged by. We may not be able to totally cut off historic influences. Yet in a conscious way, we can step back and choose to proceed with new awareness.

When we go through it in the habitual way, then our experience will be that familiar story. But for those of us who want to grow, especially in this full moon period nudged by Mars retrograde, we can modify the story.

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