February 2001


We all have a right to our eccentricities during the season of Aquarius; flaunt your oddness.

Aquarius likes to stand back from emotional rushes and roils in order to Get On With It. However, Getting On With It is an absurd task while Mercury is in retrograde motion from the 04th through the 25th. Our patience is tested as the impish ruler of thinking and communication invokes stalls and gridlock in decision-making, meetings of minds and communication technology. Appointments disappear into thin air while your phone, postal person and electronic mail hub become possessed by awry forces armed with antics. The upside of Mercury retrograde cycles is that past potentials can realize fruition while Mercury is moving backward.

Aquarius encourages us to be aloof rather than overly engage in co-dependent dynamics. Unorthodox Aquarius also urges ample rebellion; sometimes what Aquarius wants to Get On With is agitating and toppling potent status quos. Reigning forces are scheduled for sassy confrontation.

We all have a right to our eccentricities during the season of Aquarius; flaunt your oddness.

Madame Venus, ruler of desire and relationship dynamics, struts into egoist Aries on the 2nd. She's feeling autonomous and aggressive, invoking your own red streaks of independence and sass. Desires are impatient to be sated. Relationship dynamics feature fire, sauce and sparring.

The Moon is full in theatrical Leo on the 7th (11.12pm PST); unleash your most audacious upstaging techniques-you'll need them if you want to be a contender. The motivated Sun and wild card Uranus are on the verge of merging on the 9th, adding dashes of hazard to the baying Full Moon.

Warrior Mars enters fiery Sagittarius on the 14th; carousing, comic relief and the spirit of curiosity and adventure prevail. Mars is hot for rhythm while in Sagittarius. Latin beats are inspiring. Sweat with abandon.

We enter sensitive, psychic and poetic Pisces on the 18th. Behind-the-scenes maneuvering is revealed as we travel through a sign which is compelled to reveal what we would rather avoid.

The Moon is new in Pisces on the 23rd (12.21am PST), emphasizing a month long cycle of resolving what has been ending-impaired.

Mercury pivots into forward motion on the 25th while Venus is feeling mighty as she joins forces with empowering Pluto; inhibitions are unleashed; decisiveness rears like a match lit on a moonless night.


  Aries . . . Taurus . . .Gemini . . . Cancer . . . Leo . . .Virgo . . . Libra . . . Scorpio
. . . Sagittarius . . . Capricorn . . . Aquarius . . . Pisces

  Aries

As we travel through inventive Aquarius you'll find that necessity is indeed the mother of invention. As Madame Venus, ruler of desire, travels through Aries for the next four months, you'll find that your personal yens and passions are the mother of necessity.

You're sporting a new you out onto the catwalk of the world. You're packing a lot of influence this month; lead us into tasty unorthodox temptations; knock over a few false altars, as well. Whether you're maintaining power or whether you're agitating existing power, you're a force to be reckoned with. You work and play well with others. Mercury's retrograde movement suggests that you need to act on inspirations of the past and you need to finish what you previously started (the quintessential Aries bane); you're also scheduled to seize a piece of the future with others that was not yet ripe enough for picking in the past.

Your planetary ruler, unruly Mars, swaggers into fiery and changeable Sagittarius on the 14th; your visibility increases; your presence invigorates and provokes. Sagittarian optimism spurs you through retrograde frustrations. Share your concepts and ideals while straddling a cannon. Saturn and Jupiter press you to pioneer new directions (fade in theme music from the original Star Trek).


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Taurus

Our jaunt through Aquarius accentuates a re-forming Taurean public identity. You're in the process of attracting new audiences while also refreshing old audiences. New spins on old aspirations are as attractive as nouveau ambitions. While Mercury is retrograde from the 03rd through the 25th, your eyes cross while stitching-up loose ends and putting closure on resolution-impaired situations. You can also recoup an opportunity that merely teased in the past.

Your planetary ruler, Madame Venus, is a minx as she travels through sassy Aries. She's apt to incite all sorts of relationship antics over the next four months as she moves into retrograde motion in March. She'll also inspire you to take a couple of frisky risks that you were too fatigued or squeamish to take in the past.

Warrior Mars struts into comedian Sagittarius on the 14th, fanning your regenerative flames -- you'll need these fiery second winds while Saturn continues invoking endless tasks and hard-won battles. Re-energize and blow off steam via dancing and martial arts, preferably with one you would like to conquest (and maybe you are conquering your self).


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Gemini

Your planetary ruler, thinking and scheming Mercury, is in retrograde motion from the 03rd through the 25th. You'll need to go with the schizophrenic flow of some situations; pace and hum weird ditties while stuck in scenes that are temporarily grid-locked. Digression tests your powers of versatility and resourcefulness. A quixotic diversion may stimulate you.

Now is the time to release all the rebellion that you have suppressed over the past few months. You're also scheduled to pull-off a couple of heroic feats; somebody will revere you as you fly off into the Sun to perform another deed. Madame Venus sprints into Aries, endowing you with fiery influence in the public sphere; ad-liberation garners more gain than fret-ridden calculation.

Mutual back-scratching creates collective rewards. Warrior Mars swaggers into Sagittarius on the 14th, releasing any underlying tension in relationships. Stimulating sparring is featured. We enter Pisces on the 18th; a stint of hibernation proves to be regenerative -- screen your calls.


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Cancer

Regeneration is featured. Second winds may pant and wheeze, but they emerge none the less. Inhibitions struggle for release -- perhaps, you are in a new position that is freaking you out. Mercury's retrograde jaunt through Aquarius emphasizes a need for a battle plan or the necessity of re-examining the battlefield of whatever situation(s) has been vexing you.

Mercury, the messenger, is traveling backward through a terrain of secrets within the Cancer solar chart -- exposure is on the agenda. Madame Venus struts into combative Aries, bestowing you with able allies and also agile adversaries in the professional sphere. You are visible, provocative and enticing; some may bite their nails while watching you in Action.

The home front features either vociferous bickering or equally loud cold-shouldering while subconscious delights surge to the surface of your environs. Warrior Mars enters Sagittarius on the 14th, highlighting multiplying multi-tasking; people can be so demanding. The Full Moon on the 7th emphasizes sprees; your appetite is prodigious.

Our movement into Pisces on the 18th opens a cycle of ideological splitting -- why can't we all just get along? The New Moon in Pisces on the 23rd accentuates your upcoming role in policy-making. Your escape urge is bound and gagged for the time being.


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Leo

Relationships, connections, networking and other peopled thrills permeate life of Leo. Mercury's retrograde motion emphasizes relationships -- past, present & future -- that align toward a common vision; kindred souls rub your elbows prodigiously.

Eccentrics are drawn to you. Past potentials that were put on hold in the past break out of gates like red horses. The competition is surly and buff while Madame Venus is strutting impressively through combative and guileless Aries. You'll need to flex your confidence and continuously polish your contender belt. The Moon is Full in the Lion on the 7th, emphasizing a wrap-up of whatever you have been trying to grip in your hot paws; the thrill of risk is emphasized with this Full Moon while the motivated Sun and hazardous Uranus simultaneously merge forces.

Warrior Mars moves into Sagittarius on the 14th, featuring unbridled self-expression and leadership that will probably necessitate ticking-off a few people. Our entry into Pisces on the 18th unleashes any self-doubt that lurks beneath your robustly confident exterior; oh the occasions you'll rise to.


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Virgo

Aquarius features your cooperative instincts. You'll be in the midst of corporate mergers or dramatic protests; you'll organize ride-shares or a union genesis; you'll oppose authority or spin authority. You'll work your skirt into a sweat, too; schedule a few massages or what-have-you amid your cavalcade of tasks.

Your planetary ruler, thinking and scheming Mercury, embarks into his first retrograde stint of 2001; re-organization and re-evaluation of collapsing situations will get your attention. What you would rather avoid circles you like a taunting pugilist. Madame Venus, ruler of desire and relationship dynamics, struts into fiery and impatient Aries, accentuating people who get under your skin the most. Moderation is laughable.

Warrior Mars marches into fiery Sagittarius on the 14th, detonating fireworks in your family and home. Latent anger rushes to the surface, bringing color to your cheeks. Our entry into Pisces on the 18th accentuates needy people and causes; many paw at your generosity. Your usually logical nature is flooded with emotions.


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Libra

Aquarius emphasizes your ability to stage a new chapter of your life. Accentuate the epic proportions of living while Aquarius breathes extremities into your balance-compelled essence; embrace your inner thespian and chew the hell out of scenery -- pathos prevails.

Thinking and scheming Mercury is retrograde, creating some re-writes and re-works of above mentioned chapter; loose and fraying ends of the past beckon to be tied-up, tied-down and dominated; conquests and victories are hard-earned. Your planetary ruler, Madame Venus, Salsas through audacious and egoist Aries; relationship dynamics become as hot as the Latin rhythms that are moving the Madame; your scheduled to cause an occasional commotion rather than serve as the reactionary.

Warrior Mars marches into adventuring Sagittarius on the 14th; hot debates, heated discussions and invective take much of your energy. Indecision and spinning wheels are apt to irritate you until Mercury pivots into forward motion on the 25th. Our entry into Pisces on the 18th accentuates a cycle of purification -- purges prevail.


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Scorpio

The season of Aquarius accentuates your home; whether you're moving, re-decorating or re-arranging the personalities within your abode, you'll expend a lot of energy in negotiating askew energies and the eccentricities of those who surround you. Thinking and scheming Mercury embarks into his first retrograde cycle of 2001; his backward movement through Aquarius throws disagreeable peoples into your life -- your own stubbornness offers equal resistance to those who defy you.

Madame Venus, ruler of desire and relationship dynamics, is a vixen as she struts through combative Aries; the Madame's position in the Scorpio Solar chart emphasizes your control-freaking tendencies -- but, you'll probably gain evidence that you do indeed have to do everything yourself. Warrior Mars guns into Sagittarius on the 14th; you'll have to fight for yourself and what you want over the next six and half months; initially petty situations can potentially shape-shift into epic chapters of your life.

Our entry into Pisces on the 18th gives you a seductive edge in most situations; charm the pants off of allies and adversaries. You're apt to be feeling more overt than usual, too; keep a couple of cards up your sleeves.


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Sagittarius

Aquarius emphasizes the way you map your life. Are you wandering, tripping over fate? Are you idling, killing time? Are you compulsively pursuing one route toward one destination? Whatever your attitude at the moment, Mercury's retrograde motion in Aquarius confronts you with decisions that you have managed to avoid or he'll throw you into an alternate route in spite of your concise preparations.

Thankfully, Madame Venus Sambas into hot-for-thrills Aries, invoking some feisty relationship dynamics amidst stalls, glitches and obstacle courses. Rogues, scoundrels and arterial personalities offer attractive diversions. Warrior Mars enters Sagittarius on the 14th; he'll go retrograde in the Archer in May, offering-up an extensive six-and-a-half month tour in your Sun sign this year; you're going to learn a lot more about your self as your self-imposed limitations are peeled like a grape and then shed like dead skin.

In February, utilize the Sagittarian flavored martial energy to spar with unresolved relationship dynamics and to indulge your notorious spirit of adventure - you're scheduled to literally collide with new potentials that wink for the fire of your soul.


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Capricorn

Aquarius emphasizes all that blows up your skirt. Titillation, pleasure and lip-smacking desire are the driving forces in your life right now. Mercury is retrograde, enhancing the gorgeous agony of suspended satiety; obstacle courses spur your ambition while also upping the ante of your frustration.

If you can invoke some patience, your ultra-motivated perseverance can achieve some surprising results at the end of the month. Aquarius is a wild card; unexpected gains and losses add some impetuous spice to the overly calculated facets of life; the more elasticity you can achieve, the better you can ride the Aquarian bronco.

Madame Venus struts into cheeky Aries, highlighting passion, lust and sparring. Your family and home are featured; fireworks, pitched plates and flaming lust are featured.

Warrior Mars shoots himself out of cannon into Sagittarius on the 14th; for the next six-and-a-half months an alternative life emerges insistently. Parts of your life that have been shelved are scheduled to fall onto your feet. Our movement into Pisces on the 18th opens-up a month long cycle of seductive decisions.


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Aquarius

Our jaunt through Aquarius inspires people to seek out progressive change and you have the aura suggesting that you can deliver the fresh goods. This period of initiation is hard-earned while Mercury's retrograde motion creates a die-hard clause in situations that defy conclusion.

Angst-ridden relationships cling like lint on pantyhose; old demons chortle while haunting. However, both Madame Venus and Mars are eager to propel a couple of lurches ahead in life of Aquarius. Madame Venus invokes the thrill of risk as she struts through audacious Aries; the Madame will urge you to say what you need to say, particularly where you have been silent or overly restrained in the past.

Warrior Mars marches into fiery Sagittarius on the 14th, accentuating the need to slay whatever diversions have been getting in your way ad nauseum. Important decisions approach you, whether you are on the receiving end of them or not. Mars in Sagittarius is athletic, nimble and adventuresome -- defy immobilization and don't permit the contagion of mass hysteria to infect you.

As of the 25th, allow self-indulgent compulsions to lead you into well-earned satiety.


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Pisces

This is a cosmic time of the year for Fish; your psychic forces are buffed-out and highly expressive. Synchronicity and coincidence are like pep squads affirming directions and spasmodic hunches.

Fate and Free Will perform a tight Tango on the dance floor of your life. You are also more sensitive than usual to the forces that surround you, brush by you and come at you like reckless runaway trains. This sensitivity is a plus if you're grounded; this sensitivity can drive you into taking a hasty powder if you tend to blow like paper with the wind.

Mercury's retrograde motion opens-up your Pandora's box of suppressed subconscious antics; hooray, you get to change. Madame Venus Sambas through Aries, heating up your passion and desire; impetuosity is the name of the Aries game; sate your desires as they fall off your cuffs in spontaneous fashion. Fiery relationship dynamics open you up.

Warrior Mars marches into Sagittarius, accentuating your ambition; the trick is drop-kicking diversions to your goals, yet not becoming so rigid that you miss out on weird opportunities that appear in the periphery. Shake a stick at self-doubt. Our entry into Pisces on the 18th is followed by a New Moon in the Fish on the 23rd; your on-the-verge positioning finally busts a groove.


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