Starcodes January 17, 2025

The stars deal us mixed instructions this week, dealing us hope and depression, midwinter blues laced with deep compassion, wild power dynamics, a sense of history and probably an extra need for rest to handle our concerns for the world.

Monday brings both the presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King Day, a strange ironic twist. The Sun enters Aquarius on Sunday, sign of our collective community and works towards a conjunction with transformative and powerful Pluto on Tuesday. This conjunction both reminds us of the deep transformation that MLK brought to our country, and, at the birth of this next presidency, indicates we’ll be wrestling with Pluto questions this year. Who oppresses and who is oppressed, and how do we break out of this paradigm. What is important in the face of life and death. What is the difference between empowerment and power-over, what’s a good use of personal power, political power, or electrical-mechanical power. We’ll need to ponder these questions personally as well as through the headlines.

But first, on Friday we can feel scattered though feel work urgently needs doing as the editorial Virgo Moon forms a grand trine with the Capricorn Sun and Uranus in Taurus, bisected by a Sun-Mars opposition. Make progress where possible, stay safe, and don’t take anxiety out on one another.