January 28, 2023 | 7:18 am (PST) | Keyword: Misleading
The Moon is languorously moving through the sign of Taurus highlighting an emotional need for security. You’re resourceful and determined to work diligently toward your goals by taking decisive action to gain success (provided that you’re not distracted by too much overindulgence in the luxuries of life). The focus is bringing form to your desires and manifesting them to fruition, particularly those endeavors involving communication. Your presentation in a public capacity where teaching, writing, or public speaking is involved has the power to make a lasting impression and place you squarely in the spotlight. You appreciate talent and understand that clear focused action produces the best results. Part of the appeal may be the noble, religious, or spiritual soul in the role of popular rogue challenging authority in a way that is loved or appreciated. The events that unfold this week are likely to include a person with strong Taurus in the natal chart (sun, moon, rising).
The Moon’s influence strongly supports fields that are meant to integrate the conscious and unconscious mind such as a writer, psychologist, artist, or crafts-person. This is a cycle that promotes original thinking, great insight, and bursts of creativity encouraging you to experiment with new ideas and concepts. The energy can indicate a full flowering in art, beauty and creative effort. Your work may display an acute awareness of and interest in the different, the romantic, or the difficult lifestyles of others making you more of a public personality, especially in your own community or area of expertise.
Alternatively, you could decide to withdraw to use this time to meditate, do research, or think. The purpose may be to organize information for greater understanding and practical accessibility or to start a long-term project that involves a great deal of contemplation, study, or research. In some cases, you’re involved with religious or spiritual concerns and trying to make a leap of consciousness through integrating information to arrive at true wisdom and understanding. This is an excellent period for intellectual pursuits that open you to new areas of thought such as science and technology, yoga, astrology, or the occult. You’re capable of learning information within a short period of time or dealing with fast-paced classroom situations, but may choose to study independently and move at your own pace.
Information you acquire through studies, conflict with others, or intuitive insights will change your perceptions in some way causing your reality to undergo a period of adjustment. Because your opinions are likely to change, it may be advisable to use caution in your remarks. You should not limit your thoughts to what you know or seems rational, but allow your mind the freedom to operate creatively, intuitively, and unconsciously. Insights will come to you through reading between the lines without judgment until all of the information is gathered.
For some, the strong need to communicate is largely driven by subjective thinking that lends itself to exchanges based on emotion rather than rational thought. This has the potential to produce problems with siblings who are unreliable, unpredictable, or where there are conflicts of interest. You may disagree with neighbors or friends, or alternately, they may need your help or assistance. Perhaps you’re divided about how you feel on issues and this may be due to mixed messages you’re receiving. This can be especially true when addressing topics concerning the struggles of society in relation to the different religions and cultures within it. Even casual conversations tend to carry an emotional undertone, and in some instances, you may inadvertently reveal things through automatic responses that are motivated by past experiences, habits, and reactions. Although it may be your honest opinion, these comments may not be appropriate to the situation, in your best interest, or in the interest of others.
Without a constructive focus such as learning, you can be prone to jealousy, compulsion, obsession or anxiety instigated by your fixation on what’s desired. Additional tension may be attributed to constant interruptions, hectic schedules that make it difficult to maintain a routine, and attempting too much. Your daily activities tend to include crisis situations because of the demands on your time, and your response to the stress may be temperamental outbursts and the tendency to say things you later regret.
However, with the planet of communication in the house of the hidden stimulated by the energy of a stellium, you may be keeping your opinions, thoughts, feelings, or perhaps even secrets to yourself. It may be that you’re avoiding certain issues and feelings from the past or attempting to preserve peace by remaining quiet. As a result, you could have difficulty in knowing your own thoughts or how to express them, and may not communicate even when you should for fear that what you say will be held against you. In fact, you may not disclose your true feelings or the truth even if caught in a lie. On the other hand, the conflict between rational thought and emotional feeling may be due to inaccurate information you’re receiving and the possibility exists that you’re being lied to or purposely misled.
In fact, the keyword for this cycle is misleading which suggests you can be the victim of deceit or treachery. A delay and hindrance inducing interception of the resource axis indicates your attitude towards money, possessions, personal values, and self-worth needs work. Other problem areas are views about sex and sexuality in general, as well as how you relate to the values of all groups you belong to.
This cycle augurs abundance and is a positive indication in questions of wealth, prosperity and career, but you should avoid things and circumstances you don’t understand. You’ll receive blessings, good fortune and support and acquire much by work and application, but it’s important to protect your gains from the greed of others. Be careful of taking a laissez-faire approach in allowing the management of your affairs to fall under others or to put yourself in the hands of others when your own well-being is concerned. Overindulgence when confronted with too much of a good thing is also a challenge.
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