Starcodes Feb 4, 2022 Heather Roan Robbins

Starcodes Feb 4, 2022 Heather Roan Robbins

Now we can get serious, get real, and get started on this year’s plans. Astrologically January was a rehash of the last two years rather than the start to a new year. February, the mood looks up. We get a chance to clean up, make amends, reorganize, and scout out the new territory. Stir the coals on good fires we started last fall but which went dormant when winter arrived. Last week both Mercury and Venus turn direct after many weeks retrograde and will complete their final conjunction to Pluto over the next month, finishing a cycle that began early December. In March we launch into the future realms.

This new year finally begins though it may have a rocky start. We could feel a strong urge to act as the Sun conjuncts serious Saturn on Friday, but we still can’t see very far ahead with Mercury just getting slowly started again after the retrograde cycle. Mood swings, a focus on worst-case scenarios and the long litany of what we’ve done wrong, or what had been done wrong to us, can stay all too close until Mercury clears its conjunction to Pluto in mid-February.

As the Sun conjuncts Saturn it asks us to take responsibility, but not beat ourselves or others over the head with it. Those that are willing to be responsible for the outcomes of their actions and for their own happiness can find some new…