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After much thought, I have decided to
discontinue writing forecasts for Ascendants for the indefinite future.
Instead of continuing to write the forecasts, I will devote the time that I
spend providing free astrological services to doing mini-interpretations,
starting sometime in or about July. Please stay tuned for further
details as I announce them.
Click here to learn more about mini-interpretations.
In case you would like to read the past
forecast, it follows below....
QUARTERLY FORECAST FOR
AQUARIUS ASCENDANT: JANUARY THROUGH MARCH 2003
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by Brian Habit
NOTES:
The following forecast is based on your rising sign (Ascendant), not
your Sun sign.
If you do not know your rising sign, please visit
www.astro.com and enter your
birth date, time, and place to determine it.
Due to the need to fulfill pre-paid
orders for work, I have not been able to update this forecast as originally
planned. I apologize for the delay. I hope to post an announcement regarding
an update sometime during the middle of April.
Happy
birthday to those of you who are Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces or Aries! These
next three months may start out relatively slowly. Both curious Mercury (moving
backward in January) and energetic Mars will be spending time in the last house
of your chart during much of this period, helping you reflect on past moves and
rethink future ones before starting a new cycle later in the year. If you’re
planning to finalize any arrangements in such areas in January, then allow extra
time and double-check the details. In February especially, you may experience
some confusion, tension, or indecision in how to present yourself to the world
and in your closest interactions with others. Even if you do, be careful not to
act in an escapist or an overly optimistic manner. Also after mid-February, aim
to make headway in organizing and implementing some creative strategy that
you've been cooking up lately. In late March, plan to slow down the pace in
trying to satisfy your burning drives or ambitions in setting goals and joining
with others to pursue them, so that you can conduct consider which priorities
would truly stoke your inner fires.
Throughout
January, restless Mercury moves backwards through your house of release.
When
Mercury starts moving backward on January 2, those of you who were born on or
near January 18, April 18, July 20, or October 21 are especially likely to
experience this shift. It will either combine with your natal Sun (your general
vitality and sense of identity), square off with it, or confront it. Similarly,
when Mercury starts moving forward again on January 23, it will trigger your
general vitality and sense of identity if you were born on or near January 2,
April 1, July 3, or October 5.
Mercury retrogrades three times each year for 19-24 days at a time.
Around the times when he changes direction (near January 2 and January 23), you
may experience some important change involving communication or travel. At
either time, it could also involve the way that you present yourself to others,
learning or training or teaching, or healthcare, work or other responsibilities.
Use the time between late December and late January to reflect on
the results of ideas that you’ve implemented in the past and to “debug” ideas
that you’ve planning to implement later, especially in connection with imparting
information or ideas to others. Revisit people, places and ideas from the past.
For example, clean out old files, or look up past associates, or travel to
places that you visited some time ago. Double-check the details of any matters
that you don’t want to revisit again before you try to finalize them—contracts,
sales, purchases, travel details, etc. Plan carefully for later, and then move
forward on your ideas at the end of January or later. By that time, you’ll
probably be able to express act on your thoughts, ideas and information more
openly and with less inhibition.
On January 17,
energetic Mars charges into your house of goals.
This area of your chart is
the next-to-the-last stop for the Warrior Planet as he completes a 22-month
cycle through your chart. While Mars is here, you’re going through a period of
setting your direction and your goals, of hooking up with individuals and groups
who will help you accomplish them during the next cycle. It's time to act with
daring and clarity in setting your agenda, even if you have to act independently
to do it. Channel lots of energy into existing or new affiliations with others,
as long as they will follow your lead or respect your self-determination in
cutting a path through toward the future that you envision for yourself. Make
sure they're agenda will not conflict with yours or encourage you to avoid
defining your goals. That would only contribute to you drifting.
Come early March, Mars will go into temporary retreat mode.
During the following two months or so, it'll be time to clear the decks and make
way for a new cycle of developing your will, armed with the agenda that you've
set.
On February
16, expansive Jupiter, currently in your house of instincts, confronts dreamy
Neptune, in your sector of style.
This aspect will build over the course of several weeks,
strengthening as the 16th approaches, and dropping off sharply but still
continuing for a few more weeks after that date. Jupiter and Neptune form an
opposition about once every 12 or 13 years. Each time they do, it triggers
different parts of your chart, so the feel or the theme of it may be similar,
but it’s probably playing out in different parts of your life. This time around,
this aspect is especially significant for those of you who were born on or near
January 30, May 1, August 3, or November 3.
If
you were born in early-mid Aquarius, then Neptune is currently passing over your
Sun, calling on you to define yourself and express your identity in a more
spiritualized or idealistic way. At the same time, Jupiter is opposing your Sun,
confronting you with opportunities that are available if you think of yourself
as more of a performer than you have customarily done.
If
you were born in early-mid Leo, then the situation is the reverse for you:
Neptune is currently confronting your Sun. He’s challenging you to redefine
yourself as a more spiritual or altruistic being, as more of an idealist with a
vision to share, and to demonstrate it through some tangible expression of your
creativity. Meanwhile, Jupiter is combining with your Sun, encouraging you to
have greater self-confidence and to redefine yourself as a person capable of
greater success than you’ve ever imagined.
If
you were born in early-mid Taurus or early-mid Scorpio, then both Neptune and
Jupiter are squaring off with your Sun. In their own ways, they’re each
pressuring you to adjust the way you define yourself and express your vitality.
With Neptune, it’s because your ideals or dreams have evolved to the point that
you can that your old self-image now acts as a barrier to your realizing them.
With Jupiter, it’s because opportunities that were not available in the past are
now within reach, but in order to take advantage of them, you’ll need to think
of yourself in more flexible terms.
Whether you fall in one the
groups listed above or not, this tango between Jupiter and Neptune is activating
the same areas of your chart: your first house of style and your seventh house
of intimacy. For about a year, Jupiter is encouraging you to identify and take
advantage of opportunities that involve establishing and developing long-term
partners. This could mean anything from business partners to committed romantic
partners to close friends. (It could even include relationships with clients or
as a client of someone like a psychotherapist or lawyer or financial counselor.)
Acting in loving ways will help you along in your development of opportunity at
this stage of the game. Just don’t let yourself become addicted to another
person, in which case you might risk losing your own identity in him or her.
Neptune, meanwhile, sings a siren song concerning your style, everything from
the (perhaps unconscious) assumptions you make about how you have to operate in
order to survive in this world to the things that color your first impressions
on others (how you dress, talk, carry yourself, etc.). You’re going through a
phase of a good 10 years or more in your development of spirituality. In this
phase, it’s time to arm yourself with courage and invent or improvise a new way
of approaching life in general and a new “face” to show the world. The hazard to
avoid at this stage is collapsing under the pressure, which could lead to a
sense of confusion and drifting. Neptune appeals to your idealism, to that part
of you that longs for an elevated experience, far above and beyond “the slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune” of someone trying to make his or her way on
Planet Earth. Neptune is calling on you to take a more “god’s eye view” in how
you meet life every day.
Jupiter and Neptune have a lot in common, so they’re often in sync with each
other. They’re both visionary, big picture, idealistic planets. In February,
however, they might be pull you in two different directions, with Neptune acting
in a less tangible way but still somehow tending to get the upper hand in the
struggle. For example, you might find that you are confused or very undefined in
your style now. Maybe you’re not ready to pin down your approach to the world,
as you go through a very fluid, improvisational time, trying out various styles
of operating. Being in such a state might undermine your ability to establish a
close tie to someone or commit to deepening a tie that’s already close. Another
possibility is that, if there are any ways in which you are kidding yourself or
living in a dream world or misleading others, Jupiter may magnify that tendency
now, muddying the waters for you and those with whom you interact closely.
Now, I don’t want you think
that this dance between Jupiter and Neptune necessarily means trouble. It
doesn’t. The potential for excess, confusion, and disillusionment is
significant; but if you mind the usual cautions that apply with these two, it
will help you reap more of the good and less of the bad. Expand on
opportunities, but do it in moderation. Don’t outstrip your ability to juggle
various close relationships or a caseload of clients. Get someone else’s help to
play devil’s advocate for you if you’re considering committing to a romantic or
business partnership. Make sure that you’re considering the cons as well as the
pros of situations before you dive into them enthusiastically. Take care to
communicate clearly. Make sure that what the other person understood equals what
you intended to communicate. If you’re tempted to act in less than truthful ways
in close interactions now, think again. You could find that you’ve dug a hole
for yourself or you have to do some major backpedaling later. Verify details
before committing yourself. Whether anyone intends to misrepresent the facts or
not, it’s a good idea to double-check them. If you’re feeling moved by some
idealistic fervor, try to dial it back a notch. Don’t throw it out, but don’t
throw caution to the wind either. If you take these steps, then Jupiter and
Neptune can serve as your wings, helping keep you aloft as you come closer to
realizing some precious dreams during February.
On February
22, no-nonsense Saturn starts moving forward again in your sector of
self-expression.
Saturn
retrogrades once a year
for almost five months at a time. Whenever he changes direction, some important
change is likely to happen in your life in some matter associated with Saturn.
Let’s review what Saturn represents and then look at this current development.
Saturn symbolizes that part of our consciousness that has to be practical and
strategic in order to survive in the physical world. Saturn has high standards.
He demands self-discipline, commitment, and quality. Saturn is how we develop
self-respect and faith in our destiny. This taskmaster of the planets also
relates to how we make peace with solitude. He’s our ambition, our sense of
realism, and our conscience or superego—that part of us that has expectations
for how we act. Saturn structures and solidifies whatever he touches. In
addition to what I’ve already said about Saturn, for you he’s also related to
your sectors of style and resources. Therefore, this planet symbolizes the first
impressions that you make on others and the way you accumulate and apply
resources (income, possessions, self-worth, etc.). Currently, Saturn is moving
through your house of romance, recreational, entrepreneurial pursuits, and other
ways in which you take creative risks, so this event may also have implications
for matters related to them.
In
mid to late February, then, you may experience a major change in connection with
one or more of the matters mentioned above.
Saturn’s change in direction
is especially significant for those of you who were born on or near March 12,
June 12, September 14, or December 13. At the same time that Saturn starts
moving forward, he either passes over your Sun (general vitality and sense of
identity), squares off with it, or confronts it. For all of you, you’re going
through a pretty serious time when it comes to how you define yourself and
express that part of you that needs to shine.
Once Saturn starts moving forward again, focus on using his energy in a freer,
more direct way in those matters that are related to this planet. If you’ve used
the time that he was moving backward productively (since October 10th) by
planning a solid strategy, you’ll be able to go into a higher gear now,
supported by the shift in his energy.
On March 10,
freedom-loving Uranus catapults into your sector of resources.
He’ll
rumble through this part of your chart for the next seven years or so. As Uranus
cuts a sweeping path through it, he’ll be agitating for you to add a more
individualistic touch to the way that you accumulate and make use of resources.
Here, resources include everything from your earning ability and income, to your
worldly possessions and spending, to your self-worth. Uranus wants you to follow
the beat of your own drum in this department, to earn your cash and spend it in
a way that’s unique and new (whatever that means for you—it could be a more
subdued style or a more flamboyant style than how you were operating
previously), to put your personal property to use in innovative or offbeat ways
even if other people’s jaws drop and their tongues wag, to act on the value that
you place on yourself and everything that you’ve got going for you with more
independence and originality than you’ve ever done before.
With
Uranus, the trick is to take the initiative, to inject some necessary creative
change in your general approach to life before lightning strikes and you find
your approach shaken up by unexpected or unwelcome circumstances. It’s important
to act in an autonomous self-directed manner. This means that you neither kowtow
to the way everyone else does things, “how it’s always been done,” nor that you
do the opposite of what others want, in knee-jerk fashion. That might feel good
in the short run, but it may get you attacked in the public square or run out of
town for no good reason, and it won’t necessarily be true to your deepest wants
and needs.
Bear
in mind that you can expect lots of pressure from others to change back if you
make money in new ways or spend money on unconventional items. You’re starting a
phase of developing your individuality, one in which it’s time to follow through
on a new start that you made in the past seven years or and build your
confidence. It’s easy to feel a loss of nerve in this stage, to want to go back
to “the way things used to be.” Maybe it’s easier to stick with your same old
ways of making a living, for example, than it is to make any waves. After all,
those who are close to you may just want what’s best for you. They may just want
you to be happy. Nonetheless, with Uranus in town, you can count on feeling
alienated from your familiar circumstances if you try to stick to Business As
Usual. Do that, and you’ll be like an empty house that’s been abruptly vacated:
the lights may be on, but no one’s home.
On March 23,
transformative Pluto starts creeping backwards in your house of goals.
Pluto
retrogrades once a
year for over five months at a time. Whenever he changes direction, some
important change is likely to happen in your life in some matter associated with
Pluto. Let’s look at what Pluto represents.
Pluto represents that part of us that wants to transform ourselves or the world
around us, that wants to do something “important.” Pluto represents a sense of
mission or destiny. With this planet, the question is whether you can identify
some sort of wisdom in yourself that could make a great difference in the world
and then fulfill your destiny by humbly sharing it. Pluto offers us tremendous
potential for good or bad. If good, we transcend ourselves and become our
mission. If we learn Pluto’s lessons, we face the absurdity of life. We accept
the fact that we’re mortal, but we also want our lives to count for something.
Instead of feeling overwhelmed by life’s absurdity, we decide to make a
difference. We identify with some purpose greater than ourselves and this
transforms our awareness. With our expression of transpersonal power, power to
affect the masses, we become a symbol. We give body and voice to some cause that
motivates many other people, and our lives have a profound sense of meaning.
For you, Pluto also rules your house of public pursuits, of
the highest goals to which you might aspire in your career or some other
capacity in your community.
Currently, Pluto is moving through your house of the future, of goals and
allies. You’re in a stage lasting 10 or more years, in developing your ultimate
purpose or in taking on more-than-personal significance in the world. At this
point, the name of the game is to set clear goals and priorities, ones to which
you can commit yourself down to the depth of your soul, and then to hook up with
likeminded individuals or groups that will help, not hinder, your progress. If
you procrastinate on committing yourself to any agenda, or you set one that’s
impossibly ambitious or horribly unexciting, then you risk drifting into a stark
sense of desolation.
Around the second half of March, then, you may experience a major change in
connection with one or more of the matters mentioned above.
Pluto’s change in direction
is especially significant for those of you who were born on or near March 10,
June 10, September 12, or December 11. At the same time that Pluto starts moving
backward, he either passes over your Sun (general vitality and sense of
identity), squares off with it, or confronts it. For all of you, you’re going
through a pretty serious time when it comes to how you define yourself and
express that part of you that needs to shine.
Once Pluto starts
moving backwards, concentrate on using his more contained energy in a more
internal or reflective way. Emphasize make plans carefully in Pluto-related
areas. If you do that, then when Pluto turns direct again on August 30, you’ll
have your ducks in a row and you’ll be ready to surge forth like a dynamo,
supported by his freer, more openly expressed energy.
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