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A square of Mercury and Uranus puts a precarious spin on communication. Happy people can get carried away by a jovial moment and make promises they won't feel like keeping when their mood dips. Sad people go forward with decisions that will make no sense in a better mood. It's safest to do interact with those who are in their normal range.

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An adage from the ancient east says: "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." And so it goes. The motions of this day will look remarkably like the motions of days before, but this first full day of Mercury in Aquarius brings a brightness of mind that makes for an entirely different ...Read more

As Mercury enters the intellectual realm of Aquarius, stay aware of your two minds -- the monkey mind thought generator and the hovering angel choosing which thoughts seem useful enough to act on. In short, to identify with or believe in the thoughts that bring you down is to make a deal with monkeys instead of angels.

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Use feelings to sense whether a situation is healthy or a person is genuine. Use feelings to try and understand someone, or sense your own needs. Do not, however, use your feelings as a GPS today, as feelings may be unreliable maps, altered by ego drives and immaturity. A judicious Libra moon suggests we let ourselves be guided by what's right...Read more

Though circumstances have propelled each of us through a particular history, we were always partners to some degree, however small. The great cluster in Capricorn's sky suggests a deal with fate that's weighted in the direction of independent control. Feel that? The steering wheel of life just got more responsive to your hand's direction.

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Highly influential planets meet up to change the world. Hanging together in a little cluster of the sky map are Mercury, Saturn, Pluto and the sun. To make matters even more interesting, Venus enters the sign of empaths. So, not only do these planets interact, they are metaphorically feeling each other as they conspire to weave together the ...Read more

Every three and half decades, give or take, Saturn and Pluto meet up like heads of state at an international summit -- ready to settle old debts, sign new deals and cast the die that will color the future. The months to come will show the fallout of what was settled this week. On a personal level, a shift of belief will be sudden and complete....Read more

Tomorrow, Mercury, Saturn and Pluto all line up neatly in Capricorn like a rat pack stealing the stage circa 1960, or a brat pack on screen circa 1985. Whatever your preference of reference, today will have all the buzz of anticipation. Something is about to begin, and this is an excellent time to file in, face the stage and take your seat.

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There's the way you see yourself, and there's the way the world sees you. Between the two there is a gap that varies in size depending on the person. With this Uranus change, there are very real benefits to shoring up discrepancies of perception. Ask for feedback and advice. Record yourself -- anything to get closer to a shared reality.

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It is possible for humans to get older without getting smarter or wiser. In fact, there is an entire segment of things that children are much better at than most adults. The concept will be well-illustrated today when the playful Leo moon casts a spotlight on young thinkers and the way freshness and creativity often trump knowledge.

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Mercury at a fortuitous angle to dreamy Neptune suggests you love yourself in the way you want other people to love you. It's not because other people don't or won't figure it out eventually, but instructive role models make for faster learning. We don't always get self-love ideas right. Still, we are the ones with the most clues about what we...Read more

Moon in sporting, social Gemini reminds us how we get to choose our playmates and call some circumstances of the game. These choices get made whether we're conscious of them or not. It's just more fun when intentional, as there's a special kind of charge that comes with getting aware of what were once our unconscious decisions.

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On a Monday rich in lunar aspects and changes, whatever you put in the top priority of your life will thrive. You'll find yourself making decisions in support of your No. 1 thing and taking risks you wouldn't take for anything else. It won't even be hard because the No. 1 spot comes with all sorts of self-sustaining energy.

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Sagittarius is a fiery station for Mars. Anger stuff comes up. The gurus say meet anger with virtue -- but how? It might be as simple as pausing to listen to what anger has to say. No need to rush to resolution. Also note that anger is like hazardous waste. It shouldn't be kept, but you also have to be careful how you get rid of it. Anger ...Read more

The gurus suggest others do not cause us pain, rather they bring up the pain that is already in us. Maybe so, but in the moment of pain, people don't usually look too deeply into the matter. That's why working on ourselves is so much easier when we're not currently mired in the thick of it. For instance, now, while practical earth sign energy ...Read more

When you want to know where a person stands, understanding words, thoughts or even ideology will be interesting, but perhaps, in the end, irrelevant. People will ultimately find it very difficult to do anything other than what the heart dictates. And what the heart dictates is shown by one thing -- action. So sayeth Mars in his first ...Read more

Sharing pictures of our lives can help us appreciate the small things, look for loveliness and answer it with our own inner beauty and warmth. Except when it doesn't. Everyone has a social media threshold beyond which nothing good comes. The conjunction of Mercury and Jupiter reminds us that life doesn't have to be a competition.

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A soft, diffused Pisces lunar influence glows through the hazy start of 2020. Take a moment to get right internally. We must decide who we are and orient ourselves accordingly. If we're lax, then we'll revert to old, lazy ways. A little willfulness up front will be necessary. Later, an action-oriented Aries moon will direct our follow-through....Read more

The lunar journey of this final day of the year involves aspects to the sun and Neptune that highlight the power of mentorship. We all need someone to check in with. A champion to cheer you on and hold you accountable to your own goals and happiness is important at every life stage. If you don't have this, make it a point to get it in 2020.

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Success is an alignment of actions and aims. To achieve a prize you don't really care about is as much a waste of precious time and effort as not achieving what you do care deeply about. Happiness is figuring out what you want and what you're willing to do about it. Mercury and Uranus favor the effort with a harmonious trine.

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