January 17-24, 2025

“We all have a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

Jane Austen

Underlying Theme for All the Signs: What would living life on your own terms look like? Rather than just react like a rebel without a real cause, it takes courage to reject conformity with the use of profound reflection and the willingness to ask important questions. You shouldn’t avoid what you don’t understand or jump to conclusions motivated by your emotions. Instead, carefully consider all options and available perspectives. The call is to tune out the noise and tune in to your inner desire for independence by diplomatically removing yourself from situations that don’t concern you or that tend to waste your time. Protect yourself from those who willingly exploit your energy, ideas, or resources for their gain.

Break free of the groupthink to attend to your own needs and what you know you must do for yourself. This requires that you access clear thinking to remain objective in order to find the best solution. This week, a new way of multidimensional thinking affords an effective strategy for a new way of doing things that you never thought of before. The reminder is to follow your own voice, even when it leads you against the current.

Be sure to look at your Sun, Moon, and Rising signs for an expanded perspective. You can click any card to enlarge the view.

Aries

• Closing the door to the outside—need for playfulness, socializing
• Closing off to those who don’t think like you
• Private party; celebrating behind the scenes; keeping plans to socialize under wraps
• A need for discretion—may be regarding a collaboration, partnership or friendship
• Keeping thoughts private from friends OR sharing a like mind but keeping it to yourselves
• Private negotiations concerning a collaboration or partnership
• May need to spend time alone together with a friend or partner
• Encounter with individual who is difficult to know, very private, or difficult to access

Taurus

• Profound and unsettling changes that link to possible travel centered on crisis, emergency, an ending or transformation that results in completely different circumstances
• A need to relax, movement or exercise (possibly due to surgery, reproductive concerns, psychological issues, etc.); traveling for surgery
• Travel expenses, car repairs; investment in or an expensive vehicle, inheriting a vehicle; inevitability of the need for a vehicle
• Matters linked to car or travel insurance; travel tax, road tax
• Celebration that may honor someone who has passed; funeral procession; plans tied to beginnings or endings—birthday, retirement, etc.
• A change in plans or open doors that may tie to travel or a celebration
• Celebration of sexuality
• Good news surrounding release of funds, investments, taxes, debt, insurance, inheritance or resolution to a stressful situation
• Significant dealings with Scorpio persons (sun, moon, rising sign)

Gemini

• Surprise or shock related to accommodations, overnight guest, bedroom decor, physical overture, etc.
• Surprise getaway, honeymoon, or romantic getaway
• Shock or surprise due to unexpected news
• A need to open to new possibilities (may link to intimate surroundings, different room, close connection, etc.)
• A blast from the past (old roommate, someone you were once intimate with, close alliance)
• Surprise at relationship deepening in ways that may lead to greater physical and/or emotional intimacy

Cancer

• Jewelry for or from a romantic partner; exhilaration at receiving gifts, recognition or good fortune
• A need to open to love—in search of the ideal
• Romance centered on “the one”; a focus on partner with the traits, values, and attributes you desire
• New relationship OR moving relationship to the next level—marriage material; partner worth spending a lifetime together
• Being in the spotlight in the honeymoon phase of relationship
• High magnetism and powers of attraction (you or romantic interest)

Leo

• Fearlessly taking action in consideration for the strength of privacy; privacy wall (literal, digital); powerful barrier meant to protect privacy
• Need for discretion linked to hidden romance; a need to spend time alone with a partner
• High self-esteem in or motivated by something taking place behind closed doors
• Closing the door on the external in order to gain strength (health, intellectual, preparation, etc.)
• A need for balance and grounding—the strength to close the door on certain situations
• Keeping decisions concerning having a child or surrounding children private
• Working on creative endeavor behind the scenes
• Encounter with individual who may be difficult to know, is very private, or difficult to access
• You or another Leo (sun, moon, rising sign) plays a significant role behind matters

Virgo

• Luxuriating—someone may be seeking the royal treatment; sense of entitlement (you/others)
• Control (or lack of) related to pampering yourself
• Reveling in power (you/others); authoritarian; domineering or aggressive behavior (you/others)
• The splendor of self-control, mastery—the need to recognize inner beauty
• Control over appearance, image, persona
• Control issues that may link to someone you find highly attractive; excessively demanding (you/other)
• Recognition that one partner is taking on most of responsibility in or for the relationship
• Recognized as an authority (skill, expertise, talent, knowledge, etc.) (you/other)

Libra

• Class action lawsuit; group justice; law colleagues; lawyer friend; law partnership; celebrating a legal win; adjustments in the law; justice for all
• Finding balance between self and “the group”; weighing options concerning the group; adjustments made for the group
• Important decisions may include whether you want to join a group or organization; choosing between two partners
• Collaborative efforts or partnerships involving negotiations; working on agreements for equitable resolution
• Finding balance—a need for playfulness and socializing; balancing professional and personal life
• Determining what’s fair regarding domestic responsibilities, parenting, finances or assets
• Dual opportunities in connection with kindred spirits or those of like mind

Scorpio

• Repairing electricity or light fixtures
• Clarity concerning healing or about a healer; seeking clarity through healers; self nourishment—time out for healing
• Healing light (literal, figurative)
• Hidden revealed (may be issue in need of healing—medical, emotional, otherwise)
• Something about your interactions brings important issues to light that may be a healing influence; inner/outer healing
• Lightbulb moment brings clarity and healing
• Healing matters by coming to a clear understanding; gaining greater clarity or truth in this relationship

Sagittarius

• Ghosted or ghosting others because of beliefs, fantastical ideas, etc.; more focused on spiritual growth than being in relationship (you/other)
• Sole purpose of relationship is for spiritual lessons
• Spiritual connection to other realms; spirits, ghosts; spiritual messages through dreams or visions
• A need to sort out fiction from reality where spirituality or beliefs are concerned; relationship may bring spiritual evolution
• Creative imagination fueled by faith; magical reality based on spiritual beliefs; faith in imagination and creativity
• Otherworldly connection—deep spiritual link to someone
• Answered prayers brings situation where core values align

Capricorn

• Wearing a game face to overcome a challenge, misunderstanding, or a difficulty in finding your way through a situation
• Hiding true self behind a maze of other concerns (you/others)
• A need to look under the surface for the truth surrounding complexities that interfere with the ease and flow of relationship—third parties, children/partners from previous relationships, office romance, extra-marital affairs, health or financial challenges, etc.
• Seeking a deeper truth in difficult matters that don’t appear to have an exit
• Using discernment to address complexities; discernment about whether something is actually as complicated as it appears

Aquarius

• Secrets tied to transportation or some form of entertainment
• Something you’re hiding—maybe in or about your car, related to fun, or a friends with benefits situation
• Hidden pleasures that link to thrill-seeking, amusement, etc.
• Something you’re not seeing—missing out on the fun or some form of entertainment
• A need for something to come to light (concerning transportation; whether a relationship is serious or not)
• Not seeing that this is not a serious relationship (you/other)
• Stirring up the past may be connected to a relationship that offers pleasure and excitement; mutual fun ride that may or may not develop into something deeper

Pisces

• A need to think outside the box (to get closer to someone, to find a room, sexual technique, ideas for a getaway; to change views about intimacy, etc.)
• New information related to honeymoon or romantic getaway
• Self-awareness in the bedroom or related to issues of intimacy
• New information that may center on sleeping arrangements or finding accommodations
• Revelations concerning a physical encounter
• Intimate revelations; new perspective due to revelations about intimacy; relationship deepening in ways that may lead to greater physical and/or emotional intimacy

Decks: Romantic Love Oracle, Love is a Garden Affirmation Deck, A Word of Advice, The Alchemist Astrologer; The Good Tarot, Collette Baron-Reid; Mystical Healing, Inna Segal

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