The place the Heart Lies – Large Sky Astrology

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Reindeer Video games

The Solar in its Capricorn season shines most brightly on particular person ambitions. That is the time of yr after we ponder what we intend to construct, obtain, and create within the coming calendar yr – by and for ourselves.

However being a contented human means balancing the supremacy of the person with the human must really feel a part of a bunch. Twice annually, when the Solar trines Uranus (Jan. 13, 2025, 00:13 am PST), concord appears to reign: we like who we’re, and others like us, too.

It’s a quick transit, however instructive. Seeing solely by the photo voltaic lens of particular person ambition is isolating. Right here’s a day or two for becoming a member of within the reindeer video games and having fun with easy pleasures. The world wants its leaders, however we want each other, too.

The place the Heart Lies

This week’s Most cancers Full Moon (Jan. 13, 2025, 2:27 pm PST, 23ºCancer) is conjoined Mars, opposed the Solar in Capricorn within the neighborhood of a conjunction with Pluto. Mars and Pluto are fairly incendiary, and it looks like numerous issues are burning down – and never simply in Los Angeles, the place terrifying wildfires proceed to rampage as I write this. Even 120 miles away in San Diego, it’s been terrifying to look at these fires, as a result of the identical state of affairs might so simply occur right here.

We’re leaning right into a time of speedy change, with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the Lunar Nodes shifting into new indicators in a interval of simply six months. The winds of change can candy us up and deposit us someplace new and thrilling, however they’ll set off damaging fires as properly. When an excessive amount of modifications too quick, we will really feel disoriented and lose our middle.

Most cancers is the signal of dwelling and household; of these we love and need to take care of. It’s arduous, when issues get robust, to maintain trudging ahead, reaching out, giving our hearts to those that want us. However that’s the place the middle lies.

Issues Change

Venus squares Jupiter this week (Jan. 14, 2025, 11:48 am PST) at 11º59’ Pisces and Gemini. This facet asks us to look at why getting what we would like doesn’t at all times fulfill us, and the way getting an excessive amount of of an excellent factor doesn’t mark the street to happiness, both.

This lesson has loads to do with mindset. We consider Jupiter as a fortunate planet, however you realize what makes people fortunate numerous the time? It’s the dedication to be glad and to see no matter comes their approach as luck.

And naturally, it’s not at all times clear what’s luck and what isn’t, besides in hindsight. Within the movie Issues Change, Don Ameche performs Gino, an aged shoeshine man who resembles a infamous gangster and who agrees to go to jail his place. As a younger gangster supervises him earlier than his courtroom date, Gino meets a sequence of modifications in fortune – cash gained, cash misplaced, mistaken id that generally works for him and generally doesn’t. Whether or not the wheel of fortune swings up or down, the previous man’s response is a relaxed shrug, and the commentary, “Issues change.”

In the long run, this sq. reminds us that issues change, and what may appear lucky might quickly flip unlucky. However the reverse is true as properly. Whether or not we’re up or down, what makes us fortunate – and glad – is the power to search for the sunshine after the storm.

Storm within the Canyon

The Solar opposes Mars this week (Jan. 15, 2025, 6:39 pm PST, 26º12’ Capricorn/Most cancers) on the Sabian symbols 27 Capricorn: A mountain pilgrimage and 27 Most cancers: A Storm in a canyon. The Solar’s Capricorn season does encourage climbing on our particular person mountain pilgrimage with sluggish, regular dedication.

But it surely isn’t that simple to maintain your eye on the path with a storm raging in a canyon beneath. We generally overlook the diploma to which regular help at dwelling contributes to success exterior of it. As Mars continues its journey by Most cancers, conflicts or emergencies linked to dwelling and household may make it tough to deal with these extra worldly New 12 months’s targets.   

Birds of a Feather

The Solar in Capricorn is the manager who delineates the trail to achievement for everyone. However Capricorn can generally be slightly harsh, slightly too dedicated to the underside line, and impatient after we don’t reside as much as its requirements.

As the Solar in Capricorn sextiles Neptune in Pisces (Jan. 17, 2025, 3:20 pm PST), it’s guided a bit by softer concerns. How can our buildings, types, and plans work to make the world a greater place? How can they assist others in want and to make us higher folks as properly?

The Solar is at 27º35’ Capricorn on the Sabian image 28 Capricorn, A big aviary. We’re birds of a feather, all of us, flapping round collectively in a single large earth-shaped cage. If we should deal with the constrictions of that cage, let it remind us that to get alongside, we’ve to be versatile about our boundaries and share our house and assets.

Grace for Your Battle 

When profitable artists are requested to present recommendation to younger folks contemplating a profession of their subject, they normally say one thing like, “For those who might be glad doing the rest, try this as an alternative.” Success in sure fields is so unlikely, such an extended shot, that you simply want be not simply completed however tenacious and decided to be able to succeed.

That’s the lesson of Venus conjoining Saturn (Jan. 18, 2025, 5:26 pm PST). Generally, we solely know what we actually worth when are confronted with adversity, self-doubt, and discouragement. For those who actually want one thing, you’ll cease at completely nothing in your pursuit of it.

However this fast transit of Venus with Saturn presents one thing else, too: grace on your battle. While you’ve been attempting arduous for thus lengthy, breaking your again, choosing your self up and dusting your self off repeatedly, it may be simple to neglect why you wished to do one thing within the first place. It’s possible you’ll be on the point of giving up altogether. Till…

…A phrase of encouragement comes your approach. An excellent evaluation, perhaps, or some cash. A kindly hug from somebody older and wiser. A little bit contact of Venus to brighten the lengthy, tiring days, and to remind you what you really liked within the first place…about this profession, or this mission, or this individual.

Little Photo voltaic Techniques

The Solar enters its Aquarius season this week (Jan. 19, 2025, 12:00 pm PST). Every time I battle to grasp Aquarius, my reverse signal, it helps me to consider it this fashion: The Solar at all times signifies the place we shine, and the place we come alive—and for a sure form of Aquarius, that occurs inside group. As a Leo, I worry the eclipsing of my hard-won individuality inside a bunch. A Leo with a stronger sense of self may fear that, just like the Solar itself, it have to be on the middle or else the universe will careen off into chaos. The primordial Leo motto, immortalized by my double Leo cousin as an adolescent, is “What about me??”

I do know there have to be some individuals who take refuge in teams as a result of they don’t need to take the chance of standing out. However then there are Aquarians who merely come alive inside fraternities of shared curiosity, whether or not they collect to make music or construct a group; who discover their gentle by enjoying with others.

People are tribal creatures, and it’s the uncommon few of us who might be pleased with a very solitary existence. However I feel it’s uncommon, too, to bloom so spectacularly inside a group backyard—as a result of we’re every of us little photo voltaic techniques, too, with ourselves on the middle, sovereign Suns who must shine. The Solar in Aquarius season invitations us to grasp one thing of what life might appear to be from a much less heliocentric vantage level. See the way it feels to let your self wander into one other orbit for a short time, to be a satellite tv for pc pulled by the gravity of one thing bigger than your self. Does it appear darkish and chilly, slightly scary… or are you able to let your self glide fortunately by the celebs, Aquarius fashion, dancing fortunately by the sunshine of different photo voltaic techniques?

Writing and pictures © 2017-25 by April Elliott Kent

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