Still feel the new year hasn't really started?
Me too. And with good astrological reason.
Mercury is now moving backwards in Capricorn. When
Mercury starts going backwards we all hit snags to be sorted out before we
can move on. The key phase is when Mercury in reverse meets the Sun going
forwards; it sounds like a traffic accident, but actually it's a good thing
� it's the point at which the fault is identified. Then it's a question of
putting everything back together the right way, and moving on. That key point
happened last weekend, and Mercury turns to go forward next Thursday, so
we're now in the fault-fixing and re-assembly phase, and we'll be back on
the road soon.
Another reason we don't feel the year has got going yet is that most planets
are still in the signs they were in at the end of 2002. We need Mars, the
planet which provides the push for most big things, to move out of sexy but
secretive Scorpio, and into bright and breezy Sagittarius. Happily, that
happens today, and indeed by the time you read this it will already have done
so.
Hooray! 2003 gets moving at last.
This week the Sun has been rising alongside the star which forms the left eye
of the goat of Capricorn. Ancient authors believed this signified treachery
or deception. Expect another political scandal.
Adam Smith's AstroDiary
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