Aspects for the week beginning 28 December 2008

Pow!  Today’s aspect of Mars conjunct Pluto starts the week with impact.  You won’t forget this day, or this week in a hurry.  It’s a week of change, seeing migrations of planets, and the limelight leaving Capricorn and re-focussing on Aquarius, as a prelude to Jupiter’s entry into that sign next week and next year.  There can be a burst of energy today, best applied to your own needs, well-being, internal dynamics and projects.  When in interrelationship, this can become a collision course.  You may be standing back from a potentially explosive situation involving others.  Be in charge of your own anger and emotions, if so.  Yesterday’s New Moon may have been revelatory and released information and emotions which need to be dealt with or transformed in some way.  The Moon enters Aquarius tomorrow (Monday 29th) which gives a trailer of what is to come this week and this year in terms of an Aquarian harvest or clean-up.  It gets you into the Aquarian mood, and sets you thinking about the future in a more positive way, giving you a vision beyond the current reality.  New Year’s Eve (Wednesday 31st) has an upbeat conjunction between Mercury and Jupiter, while Saturn is taking a retrograde step.  You may take one step forward and one step back, leaving you entirely in the Now on your board game.  Mercury conjunct Jupiter may bring good news, widening visitas (such as a pile of travel brochures), philosophical insights, and help in understanding something you might have felt was beyond you (the right teacher may turn up at the right time).  On the other hand, Saturn Stationary and turning back, may force you to look back over the year to evaluate the reasons for the current state of play.  Don’t start your new diary until you have digested the lessons of the old, or at least started the digestive process.  Mercury the Messenger enters Aquairus on New Year’s Day (Thursday 1st January), with a new message and a new vocabulary, proclaiming the Year of Aquarius.  For Jupiter enters Aquarius on Sunday, which is just out of my brief for this week, but is definitely felt in the air this week.  It would be a good day for an upcoming politician to make a memorable speech, or on a more mundane level for you to catch up with letter-writing and contact those who might have fallen through the cracks of the seasonal communication grid, and to offer more than platitudes.  It would be a good day for a blogger to write a blog on, say, Jupiter entering Aquarius, if she (I) have time and am not doing too much travelling.  I will put a note in my diary to that effect.  Another change arrives on Saturday (3rd January) with Venus leaving Aquarius and entering Pisces.  Aquarians will miss the affection of Venus, but can look forward to receiving the bounty of Jupiter (fair exchange?).  Meanwhile, Piscean hearts are warmed and love takes an idealistic, courtly turn.  Put on the madrigal CD…