Thursday is Groundhog Day. Will the groundhog see his shadow and return to his burrow? It’s also Candlemas Day, a day of astronomical and religious significance that represents a time between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. In the Catholic Church, Candlemas is 40 days after Christmas. The holy child and Mary are presented in the Temple. Beeswax candles are blessed.

Friday, Feb. 3, after 14 years in Aquarius, Neptune enters its own sign of Pisces (after 164 years), remaining there until 2025. Neptune was last in Pisces in 1947 ushering in the romantic era of art, literature and music.

Neptune esoterically is a subtle new state of Soul (Christ) consciousness. Neptune will be in Pisces for 14 years, thus bringing forth a phenomenal change of consciousness for humanity. Changes in healing, the arts, creativity, the uses of water, vibrational medicine, alleviating suffering, spiritual groups seeking deepened spiritual knowledge and understanding.

The emphasis will be to “save the world.” From the heart of the Sun, Neptune streams forth Ray 2, Love/Wisdom, to the world. And we are changed.

Tuesday is the full moon Aquarius solar festival. Saturn in Libra turns stationary retrograde in the early morning. During the night, Venus (economics, money into precious metals) enters Aries (all things new) as Mars continues its retrograde in Virgo (new reality is forming). It’s a busy planetary week. Saturn retrograde means we examine all structures, disciplines, rules and boundaries, assessing their function, usefulness and purpose. What prepares us for the future? We reconsider commitments and responsibilities, reorganize and renegotiate previous agreements. New business opportunities should not be initiated during Saturn retrograde. However, preparations for the future must accelerate. Saturn provides the discipline and structures to accomplish this. We have until March.

The full moon is the Full Snow moon. The Aquarian seed thought is “Water of life poured forth for thirsty humanity.” We are to be the “waters of life” pouring forth our service to uplift, educate and support “thirsty humanity.” Let us accomplish this task together. The two weeks of Chinese New Year festivities ends at the full moon Lantern Festival. Who is having a Lantern Festival party this year? (Read more at www.nightlightnews.com)

ARIES: Slowly, over the next many years, all that is within you, often unknown and unheeded, will surface. So much is buried within. All these, like Vesta, are the “found objects” of ourselves, waiting for the right time and season to emerge. It will surface in dreams, symbols, omens, and talismans. The mystery of yourself will be revealed. You will see unseen worlds. Faith and trust and hope become your guides.

TAURUS: You will enter into a newer and wider group of people: like-minded, socially conscious and spiritually aware. You will all be artistic, creative and quite unusual. You will create, build and form a community that is the template for the new culture. You have yearned for this. Continue to imagine it. You will lead it.

GEMINI: Should you feel uncertain about your work in the world, know that this is part of Neptune’s function, attempting to refine you into the new ways of being in the world. Neptune is slow, but its watery ways slowly undermine any old ideas that you can act like everyone else. You can’t. What you’re left with is your imagination. What do you imagine would make you joyful?

CANCER: There will be an emphasis on entering deeper into mystical and/or esoteric teachings. It will be good to read Rumi. You will also seek places that are far away from home.  In order to learn new ways, enter into new places of knowledge and gather ancient wisdoms. You will also be called to teach. Humanity is thirsty for real knowledge. You understand humanity.

LEO: There may be explorations, deeper and more profound, into issues concerning death, sex, rock-and-roll, and everything else transformational. Taxes, too. And freedoms. And money. Questions like what is death and what is the function of sex? Am I sexy? What’s sexy to me? And how do we want our money to be used to create the new paradigm shift? The world is calling us to be sharing responsibly.

VIRGO: You will see others through the lens of everyone and everything as spiritual. You will see and recognize the life force. Some will see the actual angels (devas) building the kingdoms. You will discover what unconditional love means. First by seeking it. Then by providing it. A sacred contract. You will make new connections. Love will be released. Different than before.

LIBRA: A new authenticity will come forth from within, and your lifestyle will change. Forgiveness will continue. Begin with yourself first. What can you forgive? All daily routines will focus on creating and sustaining vibrant health. Become very careful and caring with health. Unusual allergies may arise. Stay with homoepathics and homeopathic practitioners. As forgiveness comes forth, you become more authentically of service to others.

SCORPIO: You are the master of illusion. You will meet others who also have your gift, protecting themselves against all emotional intrusions. You will come to a point when feelings of aloneness must give way to making true contact. Romance may find you. You can be “romanced” by ideas, by a rare coin or flower, one of the kingdoms calling to you. You will become “intimate” with new ideas.

SAGITTARIUS: There will be a great return to family of origin, family stories, history— the successes, disappointments, strengths and yearnings. What sacrifices did your family make? And how do you hold all of these for your family? What wealth (not necessarily money) did your family build? You too yearn. For closeness and care. Let’s pray for it together.
CAPRICORN: Gradually you will notice the many forms of nonverbal communication and expression surrounding you. It’s as if you can hear (and see) the angels building form out of substance. Read the Findhorn Garden (the picture book) again. Your intuition discovers all the subtle signals no one else sees. This stimulates your imagination. Community, gardens and greenhouses are your keywords.
AQUARIUS: Make sure to be careful with input and output of money. It may feel that the outflow is greater than the inflow. And perhaps it is. Eventually your ideas about money will change. New values will replace previously accepted values about money and how it’s made. A new spiritual reality comes forth and you enter gladly into the new sharing society. Watch for this.
PISCES: You may become a bit more subtle, refined, changeable, whimsical and elusive. You may feel the need for more rest, reflection and contemplation. You may experience Oneness, the Love of God. Your identity may shift and lines may blur around boundaries. You become mysterious and reflect the needs of others. You “save” others by inspiring compassion.

Everyone has heard (and talks) about Mercury retrograde. Lesser known are Mars and Venus retrogrades, joining Mercury retrograde this year. Mars retrograded Jan. 23 (last Monday) a long three-month Mars retrograde. Mars, retrograding only every two years (51-84 days), is very significant for humanity. Mars provides us with the energy, assertion, desires and the will to exist, to be and to act. Mars rules our ability to proceed into the world. Mars, god of war and warriors, gives us strength and directs us outward into experiences that build our personality to become a strong vehicle for the Soul. Mars works with Aries (taking risks to bring forth all things new), with Scorpio (provides the Nine Tests of the Personality) and with Sagittarius (the devic angelic beings that give our bodies life — life force). Mars in Virgo means that our thinking (Virgo works with Mercury) will be internalized; there will be a quickening within us (new life). We will consider appropriate actions to take when the retrograde is over (April 13).

With Mars retrograde in Virgo we ponder upon beliefs and opinions, health, nutrition, medicine and how to better serve. Animals are ruled by Virgo. We notice the animal kingdom becomes irritated, often ill and that many in the animal kingdom die when Virgo is involved.

Hospitals and military staff, social workers, labor unions all may experience unrest. We remember that humanity works within Ray 4, a new harmony resulting from conflict and chaos.

This will be very apparent during Mars retrograde. The US chart has Mars retrograde joining Neptune. Our country can be inspired to tend to things at home. Mars can also be war. During Mars retro we must be cautious. And listen for the still small voices directing us from within. Nothing, with Mars retro, is “normal.” (read more at www.nightlightnews.com).

ARIES: With Mars retro in your 6th house, health must be your focus. All aspects, from dental to eyes to full body checkups. From yoga to exercise to walking to diet to green drinks to pure water, vitamins, minerals and homeopathy. More in-depth medical checkups are also needed. Then you will feel physically safe. Your healthier lifestyle allows you to be more efficient, effective and successful. Then you can truly serve humanity.

TAURUS: You will retreat inward to a place where creativity emerges. Your desire to have fun takes the form of quiet investigation into a particular art form. Take this seriously. Childlike drawings are good. In the outer world responsibilities take more time (especially for children or elders or animals who become unceasingly irritated). It will take more time to complete tasks, and you feel at times your creativity can’t be found. You find it. It’s all about time.

GEMINI: We had a talk last week. Here’s an overview. You’re at a fork in the road. There’s nowhere to go (not yet). You seek like-minded others. Saturn in Libra, for you and humanity, means choices will be given and then a “call.” You must remain where you are now because you are loved. That inner tension prepares you for the changes that will arrive in Right Timing. Patience is your Tarot card. And Understanding. Draw them.

CANCER: Your past is in the present, and it’s shaking your reality. You see all that’s needed at home and feel there’s not enough time, energy or money. This will change as life changes later in the year. So much is needed by family that your responsibility feels overloaded. You may think of moving. But where? Keep gardening. One task at a time, efficiently.

LEO: Think, think and think some more about finances and the economy. And what your values are. Perhaps your values are different than others. Do you feel a lack of a particular resource? Perhaps it’s your confidence and self-esteem. Ponder upon this. Do you feel you have enough to thrive? Build slowly. Ask where you deny yourself. Ask what calls deeply to you. Respond.

VIRGO: Conserving your energy will be most important. Do not push yourself or accidents could occur. Should you feel inactive with no initiative, know that this is exactly how you should be. Slow down, tend to how you look, make over your image and how you dress. Adapt to things slowly and reflectively. Gaze into a deep pool of water. Grow narcissus.
LIBRA: How is your sleep? Overmuch or too little? Dreams that awaken, scare or overwhelm? Do you sense that you can no longer live with tired old excuses? They’ve run out. Write down dreams, day and night ones. Encourage yourself, protect yourself and make yourself happy by being with the right people and seeking places where forgiveness must be given. This is your discipline now. Forgiveness heals and brings understanding.

SCORPIO: Do you know what’s behind the government passage of law NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) that would round up Americans and put them away without a lawyer or justice? The First Amendment needs to be looked at. Many small acts of goodness change the world. We need to act with Goodwill and use our voices to protect humanity’s freedom. You’re first to do this.

SAGITTARIUS: Avoid all conflict, even conflicts in your mind. This will safeguard your future. Thoughts are “things.” They have projectiles. Whatever you think emanates from you and finds a target. If your thoughts are of Goodwill, they too find their target. The hearts and minds of everyone are uplifted. You don’t want to go to war with anyone in your profession. You want more than survival and conquest. What would that be?

CAPRICORN: It’s time to review all goals, assessing their reality without compromise and the details to be worked out after three months. What are the benefits of each goal and how will they direct your life in the future? It’s important to consider greenhouses, one or more, due to the radiation permeating our water, crops, grasses, milk, soil and air. This may be your most important task and goal and you will seek the best way to create it. Think creatively with wood and glass. A family project.

Jan. 20 to Feb. 18

AQUARIUS: You will be relying on your self most of the time, relying on your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual resources. You will recycle everything in order to reconstruct a clearer picture of where you think you’re going and why professionally. You will rekindle relationships that sustain, encourage and care for you. You will return that care. Share.

PISCES: Have as a three-month intention to work with harmony as struggles, confrontations and frustrations appear in relationships. Do not think in cross-purposes but respect what others are saying and doing and be generous with your time and appreciation. Be of good cheer always. Then each moment you will succeed. This benefits your alienation, your future and your healing.

Risa is Founder & Director of the Esoteric & Astrological Studies &
Research Institute, a contemporary Wisdom School in the Ancient
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ARIES: The key thoughts for Aries this year — in order to feel victorious in the midst of transformations in the world — are quality, value, sustainability, right relations with money and resources and being directed by spiritual values that equalize. Take seriously all of Buddha’s words. He prepared the Way for his Brother. Go through everything from the past. Eliminate most. Keep treasures. Take long trips up mountains.

TAURUS: A new artistic ability has emerged much to your surprise, though you have longed for this since childhood. Make contact, a sort of networking on spiritual levels, with many people this year. Telling the truth concerning goals, purposes, the need for resources and resourceful people brings them forth quietly. Continue on your many paths. You have extra-planetary help. Pure foods alleviate what hurts.

GEMINI: Do you know what your future goals are? Sometimes neither Gemini nor Pisces can bring them into language or consciousness. We have goals but they remain hidden, etheric and inarticulated. This is a year of spiritual principles brought into outer practice. You find that principles sustain and create health and vitality. You’ll ask for no boundaries, thinking nothing is impossible. However, discipline is needed and this is a paradox.

CANCER: Whenever you find yourself in a group, observe that you have become quite able at accomplishing multiple tasks. When seeking help and support, along it comes hoping to serve you. It’s important to live life as a cooperative participant. As routines disappear, imagination becomes a source of direction. Maintain daily disciplines for health and well-being. You need strength for the future.

LEO: Work responsibilities expand. At times you may feel overwhelmed, other times you’re glad for the recognition and reliability of work. Sometimes you’re the leader and it helps you focus on what individual gifts and skills you have developed and now they’re needed by the group. This is the Leo/Aquarius paradigm, yin/yang. Actually you’re the yang. Be fun-filled for the festivities.

VIRGO: It’s good to assess all the good things of service you have done for others. These are your deeply personal and creative acts. Stay within these boundaries of goodness lest you feel emotionally exhausted and out of balance. The focus for you is self-identity, expansive trips and travel that sustain your spirit. Work and family are most important. Protect them.

LIBRA: You have shown discipline and structure these last years and they have helped create your self-identity as responsible and successful. Childhood may have felt difficult, harsh and cold, with either abandonment or strictness you didn’t understand. However, childhood was a training ground that has taken you into the fields of humanitarian service, assisting humanity always and everywhere. New resources emerge from the shadows. Someone misses you.

SCORPIO: What personal decisions have you made recently from listening to your inner voice and instincts? Do you find them reliable and do they protect you? Notice I didn’t use the word intuition. Because very few of us have evolved enough into intuition. We must be directed by the Soul and have built all seven levels of our mind to enter intuition. Another name for intuition is Rain Cloud of Knowable Things. You know a lot.

SAGITTARIUS: Wishes are powerful. One day they manifest. Usually when our wish has dissipated and we’re wishing for something else altogether. What have you wished for? What has come true? What are you wishing for now? If our wishes are deep enough we can’t reverse their manifesting in our lives. Most of our wishes are good things. I wish for you Right Resources and Right Use of Money. Love, too, of course.

CAPRICORN: In the next months there are two important things to consider. You are to apply more of yourself to creative pursuits, bringing beauty out of everything. You are also to organize your money and finances, if children are around teach them about finance: how to save, how to give, how to buy things of value and to care for them and having gratitude. All Capricorns are experiencing deep transformations, like inner earthquakes. You are “riding the dragon.”

AQUARIUS: You will feel in the coming months the need for a more stable home that sustains, comforts and protects, enabling you to look into the future and preparing for that future. Soon you will seek a new direction and bring forth new endeavors. You’ve already begun. Have fun now.

PISCES: Chiron is in Pisces and soon Neptune, too. Chiron makes one very sensitive to the needs of the world. Sensitive to the abandoned, the unseen, the hungry, the homeless and the “wilderness” many of us live in today. Chiron’s sensitivity makes you want to serve others. Your mind seeks ways to create an alternative, a template of care for everyone. You seek resources. Ask for them. This is a spiritual journey. A journey of White Magic.