This is a new world for you, Leo, in a new year, and riding on a positive time of powerful change. Filled with the metaphor of leaving the past behind, you are seeing optimism and opportunity in everything. Relationships are active and the foundations of your life constructive. Only, you have to be as aware as you can be, step up to the plate and really commit to changes that you feel in your core. You are fulfilling your concept of service to the surrounding collective, and your spiritual health and even your good condition physically depends upon that. There is a way right now to really set yourself free, and that is to find the path that your soul purpose insists upon, and to put your feet upon that one and no other.
As the month begins, you are feeling your way through the wake of the Full Moon from the last few days of December, that opened doors for you inside your mind and your emotional body. You are lately on a deep-sea dive in search of hidden treasure, all arising from the exploration of your inner world. There have been dragons of the depths that you have wrestled with and the struggle continues into this new year, but the positives outweigh the potential downsides of your situation as you enter with optimism and flair into what might turn out to be a brave new universe.
The factors of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto are emphasized in your chart for the beginning of the year, with Jupiter located in your sector of societal connection and future plans. This is perhaps the perfect placement for Jupiter, whose symbolism connects to future thought patterns, which now take on a more enthusiastic outlook, just in time for the general forward-looking that accompanies this moment of the calendar year. You not only want to see a very different future from where you have been but you possess the implicit belief in yourself that it can be possible.
Your fundamentally optimistic attitude at this time is tempered by a good dose of hard-nosed practical thinking that is in the picture for you as well, with Saturn residing in your home and family sector. You are likely reassessing and renewing family bonds in some way, or perhaps working on your living space. You are also more serious than ever about changes that you feel that you need to make. Regarding New Year's resolutions that have been taken up and abandoned in the past, this month could well be the time of the seriously renewed intention.
All this is happening in the context of the factor of transformative Pluto, more highlighted than ever, and residing in your sixth sector of daily experience and health. There could be, in this area of your life as well, issues that have been put aside that must now be addressed, perhaps regarding your physical workout regimen or day-to-day professional and work patterns. Dane Rudhyar called this house of your solar chart "the discipleship to your higher self" and it is possible as well that you will make a new start in this fresh year for finding your soul purpose – the dharma that in one sense makes up the reason that you had for entering into this life – or at least for beginning to clarify what that purpose might turn out to be.
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With the Last Quarter Moon of Friday, January 4th, you are entering into a reflective mode, as appropriate to this final lunar phase, attempting to discern where you have been and the ultimate meaning of recent events from the standpoint of a philosophical reassessment. With so much new information entering the pipeline of your understanding in this continuation of the years of change, much has altered in the way that you see the world around you even over as short a time period as these past few weeks, and it affects your thinking on your self-concept and where you are indeed headed.
The New Moon of Friday, January 11th, brings fresh energy to you and represents a call to action, although the question becomes action in what particular direction' With Sun, Moon and several planets massing in Capricorn, in your sector of your higher purpose, one response is that you look within and discover where you can place yourself into better alignment with your deep intuitional process. Then, too, with the emphasis on Chiron, the Wounded Healer, it is possible that you will have insights that will throw new light on where you have in the past been wounded, and where by acknowledging these prior situations you might find that you can further heal.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, January 18th, is traditionally a time of increased tension, when you could conceivably run into snags regarding your progress with the initiatives conceived at the time of the New Moon, encountering dead end difficulties or else finding the necessary compromises. In this case, you are taking important lessons forward into relationship and professional considerations, and dealing with perhaps overly optimistic future plans in a more practical way.
The Full Moon of Saturday, January 26th, in your sign, is powerful for you, and brings up further issues of self and other as you strive for a point of balance. You are taking in the contrast between radical change and holding back, and of finding new ways to see the world around you while plunging further into your depths, and into new conceptions of your most basic human nature, including your wounded places, to look for the most important answers. Through all your restless searching and even your travel explorations, you are coming right back to basics, finding worlds within worlds inside yourself.
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