Starcodes January 19, 2024 Heather Roan Robbins

This week marks a turning point, whether it’s a soft curve or sharp angle depends on us, as the Sun conjuncts Pluto and both leave Capricorn to enter Aquarius.

We can feel an astral pressure to make a decision, to end and begin. We might feel some personal professional deadline tapping on her shoulder telling us it’s now or never. Notice a brush with mortality, and the forks in life’s road, small and large, and contemplate what could be found in each direction. Consider whether the deadline is real — and a decision needs to be made — or is it just an illusion of anxiety.

For the next few weeks, let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work; what effort we put in now can build some interesting and liberating progress. Negotiations are in progress, decisions will be made, so let’s stay involved and aware. Mercury and Saturn conjunct in executive-functioning Capricorn, peaking on January 28; Jupiter and Uranus are both in Taurus and conjunct later in the spring — all in pragmatic and competent earth signs.

This lineup in earth signs can be a pragmatically ruthless combination, we can expect budget cuts here- fresh funding there- reorganizations, layoffs, and hirings. It’s up to us to keep the heart connected to the head, compassion and soul connected to that bottom line. And if we notice the desire to tell people what to do and how to fix their…