The Water Bearer
January 20 to February 19
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Element: Air |
Glyph: Currents of energy |
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Quality: Fixed |
Anatomy: Ankles, circulatory system |
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Polarity: Yang/masculine |
Colors: Iridescent blues, violet |
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Planetary Ruler: Uranus |
Animals: Exotic birds |
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Meditation: I am a wellspring of creativity |
Myths/Legends: Ninhursag, John the Baptist, Deucalion |
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Gemstone: Amethyst |
House: Eleventh |
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Power Stones: Aquamarine, black pearl, chrysocolla |
Opposite Sign: Leo |
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Flower: Orchid |
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Key Phrase: I know |
Keyword: Unconventional |
The Aquarius Personality
Strengths, Spiritual Purpose, and Challenges
At the very heart of who you are lies the one thing that drives you to live your life: being authentic, being true to who you are, being the best version of you that is possible. And in order to do that, you are okay with breaking down the walls, the limitations, and the rules that get in the way of making that happen. Of course, this sets you on a course for a direct confrontation with judgment from the very world you live in. While it feels like everyone else is trying to find a way to fit in, you are resisting any and all attempts to conform, for one simple reason: If you conform, how will you know who you truly are, and how will you be able to live a life that symbolizes the very fabric you are made of?
The only way to answer that is to carve out a path that you and you alone choose. In doing so, you demonstrate your spiritual purpose, which is to be a catalyst—to challenge those around you to look beyond the known, the predictable, and the obvious to find what sets them apart, what makes them singular; not for the purpose of separating from others but for the purpose of being totally present for oneself. So any attempt to dissuade you from following your heart or to force you to kowtow is met with resistance. Your challenge is recognizing what is a request rather than a threat, what is an insight versus a judgment, what is support versus a criticism. You can’t always tell the difference because your automatic reaction is to resist, no questions asked. Then you are confronted with a choice: Do you stick stubbornly to the resistance, even if you end up shooting yourself in the foot, or do you call on your innate objectivity to sort things out?
Relationships
Ah, relationships. So complicated for you when all you seek is simplicity—straight talk, no games, and definitely no attempts by anyone to control you ever. However, in practice, in the real world, this approach creates a lot of challenges in everything from basic social interaction to the closest, most intimate relationships. You just don’t get why it’s such a big deal to call things the way you see them, to ask others to put their cards on the table, and to make it clear you don’t need to be told what to do. So you end up shaking your head in disbelief when everyone thinks you have a problem. And what’s more, they accuse you of being cold and aloof when really you are ill equipped to deal with the subterfuge and duplicity that others accept as not just normal but perfectly okay. Of course, in the end you learn to adapt, but it can leave you with a bitter taste in your mouth while, at the same time, you still seek authentic connection. The true gift you offer others is complete openness to who they are, what they believe, what they desire, and what they choose to do. Because you feel so outside the box yourself, you have no expectations that people should be like you, or anyone else, for that matter. In fact, how boring would life be if everyone was exactly the same?
Career and Work
You fare best in an environment where you can exhibit a large degree of independence. So, of course, you don’t like to be micromanaged. That’s your definition of a nightmare, because it means that your boss thinks you aren’t smart enough to do the job without supervision, and that just won’t do. So the cornerstone of success for you begins with the ability to explore your own talents and abilities without interference. This is often interpreted by others as rebellion, when all you are doing is following your inner call to be yourself, even when you are not always clear what that means. For you, being yourself is a work in progress, not a finite equation, so it’s foolhardy to think you need to have all the answers before you participate in living, or creating a career, or aiming for success. And what works one day, one week, one month, one year, or one decade may not turn out to be the career that sustains you for a week, never mind your whole life. That reality isn’t as hard for you to comprehend as it might be for others, nor does it disturb your equilibrium. You welcome experimentation. It’s that little push that helps you clarify where you want to go and what you want to do.
Money and Possessions
Your attitude to both of these is often quite fluid, so it’s completely normal for you to waver back and forth between periods of holding on to every penny you have and periods of spending every penny you have. The same is true for things. You can use the same spatula for forty years but insist on getting a new pair of boots every winter. The irony is, this isn’t a problem for you, largely because you simply don’t see life as an either-or proposition. Again, decisions are made in the moment, based on incoming data. After all, a forty-year-old spatula sits in a drawer and is used sparingly, while boots in a winter climate are used every day for a minimum of three months of the year. Therefore, it’s logical to need a new pair of boots every fall. Welcome to the Aquarian mind, with its infinite capacity to make sense of its own decisions. The bottom line is that you are not overly attached to either money or possessions. You like them. They’re nice. But they’re not as important as being able to be yourself, do what you want, and go where you want.
The Light Side of Life
Quite a lot in life amuses you. To start with, there’s people, the things they do, and the things they say. In your mind, this isn’t laughing at anyone or anything as much as it is being delighted and entertained by how creative humans truly are, and how as much as we all want to be different—and you know you do—there’s something that is essentially common to us all. We’re human. And we’re all living life. This truth fuels all the other things that bring joy to your life: thinking, reading, talking, friendship, or anything that stretches your mind or takes you places you’ve never been.
Aquarius Keywords for 2019
Courage, willingness, heart
The Year Ahead for Aquarius
It’s going to be a banner year. The only question is, what will the banner say? The answer to that won’t come until 2019 is over, which is both exhilarating and annoying at the same time. You are famous for believing that you never met a change you didn’t like. But the truth is you only like change if you thought of it. Then you are willing to go through the ups and downs, the ins and outs, of the unpredictability that accompanies any change. However, and that’s a big however, you are just as resistant to change as anyone else if you didn’t actively choose it.
Well, get ready to dig in your heels, because Uranus, your planetary avatar, is about to change signs, moving from Aries to Taurus on March 6. Last year he gave you a taste of what that’s going to look like, but now it’s time for full immersion. Are you ready to switch gears from seven years of pushing your need for freedom and complete self-expression to seven years of using that knowledge to shake up both the foundation of your life and the values it’s sitting on? To your surprise, you find that not everything in your life is as new and up-to-date as you’ve idealized and idolized, that quite often you opt to stick to things that no longer reflect where you are or what you desire. It’s time for a complete makeover so that what you say and what you do are more congruent. The truth is, what’s required is an objective look at how you were raised, what you were taught, and how you unwittingly hang on to an ideal or a belief or a value because it was once so close to your heart. Resist the temptation to find fault with any inconsistencies you find. They are nothing more than that, and are not a sign that you are actually a hypocrite.
Living life is an art, not a science with a single, absolute pathway to follow. And you know this. Yet the idealist in you expects that everything you do needs to be a shining moment for humanity. That’s not possible or even desirable. You are human, like everyone else, even if you do feel like you don’t belong on Planet Earth, at least some of the time. And humans are full of interesting nooks and crannies, where stuff gets left behind or forgotten until the spotlight is turned on them. Welcome to seven years of Uranus in Taurus, a time for digging up all those outworn and outdated perceptions about what’s important, dusting them off, taking one last look at them, and then letting them go.
Saturn
Well, enough is enough. Really. Can’t this guy (Saturn) stop rattling around in your unconscious mind, conjuring up all manner of fears and insecurities? Except he’s not conjuring them up, even if it feels that way. The reality is that Saturn is connecting you to what you have stored there and asking you to clean out this particular storage space. You know, the one where you’ve stockpiled and kept hidden anything and everything that dredges up anxiety, panic, or trepidation. Of course, you know you are human and you can’t erase the feelings of rejection, judgment, and insecurity you’ve actually experienced, no matter how much you use your innate objectivity and detachment. However, you can avoid them. And you do. Until you are given no choice but to tackle them. Enter Saturn. There’s nothing he likes better than to demand you take care of business—which, in this case, is to get rid of all that junk, no matter what it takes. However, it’s not that simple. What he is pushing you to do runs counter to what Pluto has been asking you to do since 2008. Saturn doesn’t view what you’ve stored as useful in any concrete way, while Pluto sees it as fuel for transformation. The truth is, you need to find a way to respect and honor what Saturn is challenging you to do. No more hiding from the painful, the ugly, the difficult. Acknowledge it and you find just how strong you really are, because it takes a lot of energy to carry what you’ve hidden from your conscious mind. Once you’ve done that, you can turn the rest of the process over to Pluto.
Uranus
You feel a deep kinship to Uranus, even if you don’t like his methods. His job is to take you outside your comfort zone so you can expand your view of life, so you can get rid of any limitations that keep you from growing, and so you can discover your own strength. All admirable goals, and yet it could be argued that he quite simply likes to stir the pot. Well, after March 6, it’s going to initially feel a lot like the latter as he leaves behind all those exhilarating opportunities he gave you to actually glimpse and embrace a healthy ego and instead challenges you to put your growth into practice in a real and tangible way. Until then, you have one last chance to review the trajectory of your life since 2011 and see whether you have truly applied the insights of Uranus in Aries to find your voice and to express your authenticity from deep within. If you have, then his move into Taurus will open up a multitude of ways for you to demonstrate how true to yourself you really are. Of course, because it’s Uranus, this process is not predictable or without challenges and difficulties. Such is his way: to always keep things just beyond your capacity to anticipate. Therein lies the gift. Just when you surrender to the knowledge that you just don’t have a clue comes that aha moment, that lightning bolt that shifts your whole life, that exhilarating awareness that life can and will be different. This is your life’s blood. You welcome chaos, not because you like it but because it’s better than the alternative: a life of inertia.
Neptune
You are definitely fascinated by the fluidity that is Neptune—until it just goes on and on and on. Then you are just plain irritated and maybe a little frightened. Not that you need everything in life to be nailed to the floor. You don’t. In fact, you welcome the unknown. However, when you are consistently at a loss to find any sense of direction because everything feels like oblivion, it challenges you at your very core. After all, you are an air sign and you like to make immediate sense of things, even if it’s only that things are in upheaval and they are changing. With Neptune that is impossible. The kind of consciousness he represents is limitless and indefinable. You simply have to go with the flow and accept that there are no signposts to guide you, either inside you or outside you. This is scary stuff for you, especially when it affects your sense of self-worth, your understanding of what you value, and the well-being of your resources, the ongoing challenge facing you since 2012. This year promises to bring firmer ground to stand on and more stability as you put to use some of what Neptune has revealed to you. All that wispy, dreamy, and extremely symbolic stuff that often felt nonsensical begins to coalesce into a vision that clarifies just how much the changes you are making demand a new set of values—ones that reflect a blend of idealism and practicality.
Pluto
In Pluto’s world, nothing is to be wasted. Everything has the potential to be transformed—reused, recycled, reanimated. So in 2008, when he entered the space in your life you use to set aside any life experiences you simply aren’t sure what to do with, he awakened a deep resistance you didn’t know you were capable of. Not because you fear change, at least not the kind that is intellectually driven, but because he demanded you dive deep into the underground caverns of your life and dig up stuff you thought was better left undisturbed—stuff that is impervious to any application of logical analysis or thinking, stuff built of pure emotional response, stuff definitely outside your comfort zone. Gradually you let go of your resistance and began to see value in processing that material, if for no other reason than it freed you from carrying around a whole bunch of negative experiences in their raw state, something you weren’t aware you were doing.
This year, things intensify to a degree of discomfort you didn’t think possible as Saturn questions the need for all this poking around, forcing you to take a step back and revisit your commitment to transforming the detritus you accumulated in the recesses of your unconscious. Just remember, it may be time to recalibrate, but it’s definitely not a time to stop or try to turn back. You can’t undo what you’ve already done. And Pluto asks, why would that even appeal to you when you have taken the difficult and turned it into a deeper, more passionate, wiser you?
How Will This Year’s Eclipses Affect You?
Eclipses signal intense periods that highlight major growth opportunities for us in the process of creating our lives. They are linked to the lunar phases—specifically the New and Full Moon—and involve the relationship between the Sun and the Moon and the Earth. A Solar Eclipse is a magnified New Moon, while a Lunar Eclipse is a magnified Full Moon. Eclipses unfold in cycles involving all twelve signs of the zodiac, and they occur in pairs, usually about two weeks apart.
In 2019 there are five eclipses, three solar (two in Capricorn and one in Cancer) and two lunar (one in Leo and one in Capricorn). The first Solar Eclipse arrives on January 5 in Capricorn, triggering a major bout of apprehension over whether or not you can ever move past some of the most difficult aspects of your life. You are suddenly confronted—yet again—with how depressing life has often been for one simple reason: you are always just a little out of step with the rest of the world, not necessarily by design but by just being yourself. Somehow others find this unacceptable or unwarranted or undesirable, which leads to judgment, rejection, or even punishment. All this is like a knife in your heart and totally incomprehensible. Isn’t everyone different? Probably, but they choose to keep it hidden and you don’t. It’s just not in your DNA. So you adapt by doing your best to detach yourself from the impact of such attitudes and responses, believing you’ve dealt with them, when, in actual fact, you’ve simply walled them off.
The Solar Eclipse on January 5 is a cyclical reminder that life’s experiences cannot be erased just because you didn’t know what to do with them at the time. It’s also an invitation to find a way to heal the wounds you experienced by acknowledging the damage done and using the wisdom gained to celebrate your strength, your fortitude, and your resilience. That way you are prepared to open your heart to the possibility of more loving, fun relationships with others promised by the Lunar Eclipse on January 21. You really do need an open heart as much as an open mind in order to follow your prime directive: to be true to yourself and to live your life as authentically as possible.
All the eclipses in 2019, including the Solar Eclipse on July 2, the Lunar Eclipse on July 16, and the Solar Eclipse on December 26, give you the chance to clear away any shadows and limitations currently standing in the way of you growing into the fullness of all that you can be. To do this, you can’t shy away from confronting whatever surfaces, no matter what it looks like or feels like. It’s the only way you can uncover the hidden treasure. What happened to you isn’t as important as what you did with it. There’s nothing buried deep within you that you don’t have the will and the capacity to transform.
Aquarius | January
Overall Theme
The best use of your time and energy isn’t in fighting what you feel is an overwhelming tide of discontent with your life. This is just old stuff surfacing so it can be released. Be aware of that and you refrain from creating unnecessary complications. Plus you give yourself the chance to be free of old pain and old disappointments, a win-win for all parts of you.
Relationships
On the surface you appear to be your usual friendly self, but the truth is you really aren’t in the mood for people, at least not in close proximity. It’s not because you suddenly want to disassociate yourself from the entire human race, but because right now you feel like the walking wounded and you aren’t sure you really want to talk to anyone about it.
Career, Success, and Money
On a heart level, you feel you are missing in action from this part of your life. That doesn’t mean you aren’t working hard and keeping your eye on when is the best time to make some changes you’ve had in mind for some time. You can always count on your brain to keep you going in the appropriate direction while you wait for satisfaction and desire to make a comeback.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
There is a deep sense that somehow you are running out of time. Well, it’s true, but only in one context. On balance, your life is truly good and whatever you are feeling is the recognition that an avenue of change and growth is closing. This always leads to some anxiety on your part that you haven’t taken full advantage of any and all opportunities offered. Relax. You’ve still got a couple of months to address that.
Rewarding Days
12, 13, 25, 26
Challenging Days
Aquarius | February
Overall Theme
If it were possible for you to smile all the time, you would. Life is humming along, the shadows are gone, and you are truly ready to take on anything and everything. In fact, you are in no mood for any kind of interference or resistance. Just remember to exercise a little caution and a little restraint. Not everyone and everything operates at the same hyper speed you do.
Relationships
Be careful that you don’t wear out your welcome with some of the people in your life. In your haste to cast away the dark clouds you experienced last month, you begin to act like everything is all about you all of the time. It’s compensation for feeling overwhelmed by fear and insecurity and the need to reassure yourself that you are fine.
Career, Success, and Money
Keep a careful watch on a couple of things: what you spend and what you say in your workplace. Both could create ongoing problems because you are in touch with external reality only on an intermittent basis. You are being driven solely by a need to do what you want.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
You are so sure it’s imperative that you grab this one last opportunity to define your individuality and make your mark that you are in danger of undermining yourself. Welcome to Uranus on the last leg of his journey through Aries. You might think you’ll never get another chance to stand in the spotlight, but you are wrong. This is a beginning, not an ending.
Rewarding Days
3, 4, 23, 24
Challenging Days
1, 2, 17, 18
Aquarius | March
Overall Theme
The gloves come off, figuratively speaking, as Uranus enters Taurus on March 6. Internally, you aren’t the least bit impressed with the push to shift into a new seven-year rollercoaster ride, so you predictably do what you do: Dig in your heels, on sheer principle. Well, resist away. It’s your way of telling yourself you have a choice. In this case, the choice to be made is when to stop fighting the inevitable.
Relationships
Prepare to meet some interesting new people who offer you a glimpse of the positive potential of this new beginning, as well as the promise of at least one significant friendship. This buoys your spirits and leaves you more open to the whisperings of your inner voice, alerting you to the reality that some of your relationships are definitely due for a much-needed overhaul.
Career, Success, and Money
You find yourself having to answer questions about what you said and did last month that leave you extremely uncomfortable. There’s no sense trying to avoid this reckoning. All it takes is an honest acknowledgment that you weren’t at your best—along with solutions to any problems you created. It’s not like you are unaware. And fixing things is much better than offering endless apologies.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
The truth is, you hate the initial entry of Uranus into a new Sun sign, no matter how many times you’ve experienced it or how well you understand the process. It always leaves you breathless and off kilter, which, if you are honest with yourself, is as invigorating as it is upsetting, often at the very same time. But isn’t this what makes life what you need it to be—unpredictable and illuminating?
Rewarding Days
2, 3, 19, 20
Challenging Days
12, 13, 17, 18
Aquarius | April
Overall Theme
How is it possible to navigate a world that simultaneously feels wispy and heavy? Good question, and one that is likely to challenge your formidable skill in understanding things that are diametrically opposed to each other—not because your brain is missing in action, but because your circuits are on overload adjusting to the new state of your life: upside down.
Relationships
Expect some intense and even heated discussions about life, what’s important, and why. This catches you unawares and strangely unable to make even a modicum of sense out of what comes out of your mouth. That’s because you are already in the midst of a deep assessment about what holds value for you. This leaves you at a loss to say anything with any certainty. Don’t worry. You’ll figure it out.
Career, Success, and Money
So, just at the point where you think you might truly lose your mind, work comes to the rescue with a couple of potential new projects or pathways guaranteed to charge your batteries and give you something to put your stamp on. It’s precisely what you need: something new and something tangible.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
You are definitely irritable, which is a sure sign that you are waging an internal battle between resisting the change you know is coming, whether you like it or not, and embracing the possibility of new growth in your life. This is likely to continue until you once again realize that what makes you tick is the fresh, the innovative, and the different. And that simply doesn’t happen without a little topsy-turvy.
Rewarding Days
11, 12, 26, 27
Challenging Days
13, 14, 24, 25
Aquarius | May
Overall Theme
It’s not that you are unhappy or even discontent. You are just plain tired. So you find yourself looking for a hole to crawl into, anywhere where you can rest, recalibrate, and avoid even a hint of change. You can probably accomplish the first two by taking refuge at home, but dodging the inevitable is only going to amplify your stress.
Relationships
Your internal response to people in general is likely to be “Go away. Leave me alone.” However, instead of telling people you need some downtime, you are likely to be a bit curmudgeonly, which translates to extremely unsympathetic and more than brutally blunt. Try the first option. It avoids the kind of fallout you don’t like dealing with: hurt feelings and anger on their side and guilt on yours.
Career, Success, and Money
You generally don’t tolerate anything that amounts to willful stupidity, which is someone choosing to do something knowing it is likely to fail. What you forget is that not everyone is as perceptive and sharp as you are at seeing the big picture. Remember this when you are confronted with just such a situation at work. There’s no sense in creating enemies or drama.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Everything is getting on your nerves. Normally it’s just the little things that go sideways that earn your disapproval, but this month it seems to be everything. It’s because you feel so out of sorts and out of energy that your usual tolerance is replaced by the attitude that there is nothing in the whole wide world even remotely pleasing. Take a break and don’t talk to anyone, including yourself.
Rewarding Days
1, 2, 26, 27
Challenging Days
8, 9, 21, 22
Aquarius | June
Overall Theme
Enter a rejuvenated, happier Aquarius. Taking a timeout worked wonders, and you return to the world full of your usual optimism and hope. One of the true joys of being you is the capacity to vault yourself out of any swamp you choose to dive into. The only difficulty you face is recognizing that not everyone understands how quickly you shift gears.
Relationships
Time for some play and some fun. Now all you need to do is find someone to do that with. The question is, where did everyone go? The truth is they sought refuge until the storm that was you passed. So it’s up to you to let them know it’s safe to come out and hang with you. Perhaps an apology or two is needed, along with a polite and welcoming invitation.
Career, Success, and Money
The opportunity to fast-track a favorite idea or project tops the agenda, but with one proviso: be prepared for some stalling at the higher levels and the potential for complete opposition from someone you thought you could count on. Be patient, even though it’s not your strong suit. Everything works out in the end, as long as you don’t push.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
It is rare when the space you are in is the same as the one everyone else is inhabiting. Which is fine. What still confounds you and knocks you off balance is the demand that you must conform to the prevailing human condition. So if everyone else is sad, so must you be, and vice versa. Time to disengage from this game. It’s okay for you to be happy and hopeful, even if everyone else is not.
Rewarding Days
9, 10, 22, 23
Challenging Days
4, 5, 17, 18
Aquarius | July
Overall Theme
Your capacity for objectivity and detachment disappears and you find yourself unable to resist the temptation to react immediately and defensively to the slightest shift in life. Recognize that there’s a push from deep inside you to expel a number of fears and insecurities that limit you. Then explore ways to ease this process and find peace. It’s preferable to feeling bad about yourself.
Relationships
Out of the blue, many of the most important people in your life show up to offer you support in dealing with all the negative and unflattering things you believe about yourself. You thought you’d hidden them well. You did, but only from yourself. This surprising turn of events lightens your load and creates new trust in your relationships.
Career, Success, and Money
You feel like you are peddling as fast as you can while going nowhere. It’s a hangover from last month’s difficulties in getting anything moving in what you consider the right direction. Keep focused on what’s truly important and accept that there are days when it looks like no one has a clue. In the end, your clarity of vision succeeds.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
It’s clear that this isn’t an easy month, but hold fast to what you know to be true about yourself. Understand that you absorbed other people’s stories about who you are and what you are about and then buried it all because you just didn’t know what to do with it. Bringing it out into the open is necessary so you can actually see that what was said is not your truth but another’s opinion or judgment.
Rewarding Days
8, 9, 25, 26
Challenging Days
2, 3, 15, 16
Aquarius | August
Overall Theme
August begins and ends with light, love, laughter, and genuine excitement about what is just around the corner. Not only are you unbowed by facing the demons you skillfully hid from yourself, but you are proud of your innate capacity to use your life’s experiences to grow and expand. In fact, you see everything in life as a catalyst of one kind or another.
Relationships
You are truly filled with deep appreciation for the strength and depth of the most important relationships in your life—and surprised as well. Because you are not quite like other people, you tend to see yourself as completely on your own. However, it’s becoming clear that is simply not true. This awareness makes love real and authentic rather than illusory and sentimental.
Career, Success, and Money
You find yourself the center of attention and gratitude. Your foresight and willingness to stay true to what you know is the appropriate course of action keeps a very important company project from compete implosion. This creates an opening for potential advancement—and not just with your current employer.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
The only challenge you face is trusting that it’s okay to embrace the good things that keep finding their way into your life. You really can trust that they will sustain you and not disappear in a puff of smoke. In fact, they are signs that what is happening now is the foundation of the future, while the anxiety you have is connected to the past.
Rewarding Days
9, 10, 19, 20
Challenging Days
11, 12, 30, 31
Aquarius | September
Overall Theme
Much gets accomplished in every area of your life, in part because your belief in yourself reaches a new high. This amplifies your confidence and you set about taking care of business. It’s time to get things in order so you are able to use the energy of change when it starts to shake things up. You know you can’t predict what’s going to happen, but you can make sure you are ready to respond.
Relationships
Your need for deep connection continues to intensify, and you respond by trying to back away. This confuses you, because you really desire the kind of bond that comes from revealing who you are. What’s startled you is how much you actually camouflage about yourself out of fear that you will be judged or criticized. It’s time to trust yourself and let your guard down.
Career, Success, and Money
In the middle of all the effort you willingly put into your career comes a sudden but compelling desire to take a holiday, which leads to a long-overdue look at your finances. To your surprise, things are a lot better than you expected. And as if by magic, a space in your work life opens up so you can take time off. Vacation, here you come!
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
There’s not a lot going on that’s likely to create any significant issues in either your outer world or your inner world. You are standing strong and sure, dealing with any hiccup or thorn in your side with awareness and determination. Embrace this experience and this feeling. You deserve it.
Rewarding Days
5, 6, 28, 29
Challenging Days
10, 11, 22, 23
Aquarius | October
Overall Theme
Life is a little hectic, as you are confronted almost daily with a litany of things big and small demanding your attention. It’s not that you don’t have any solutions. The reality is that there are only so many hours in the day and you’d rather focus on the big things and let the smaller things slide. A better strategy is to ask for help. That way nothing gets ignored or comes back to haunt you.
Relationships
Networking isn’t always that appealing to you because it feels forced and required, and you know how you feel about that. Well, this month offers some once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to meet the kind of people who could change your professional trajectory in ways you only dream about. So set aside your resistance and accept any and all invitations to mingle.
Career, Success, and Money
It feels like the only thing in your life is your career, and yet you are not unhappy about that in spite of the long hours and the increased number of responsibilities. You love nothing better than being able to put all your skills, talents, and abilities to the test and meet the challenge. Nothing satisfies quite as much as that.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
You can get so singularly focused on one thing that you forget to take care of the other things you value: big-picture things like your health, your personal relationships, keeping promises you’ve made, your finances, etc. The best way to ensure that doesn’t happen is to schedule those things when you aren’t as busy are you are this month. Otherwise, life catches up to you in ways you don’t appreciate.
Rewarding Days
10, 11, 28, 29
Challenging Days
12, 13, 21, 22
Aquarius | November
Overall Theme
There’s a face-off brewing between home and family versus career and professional development, and it has the potential to boil over, especially if you don’t take steps to address the issue. It’s not a case of choosing one over the other. It’s recognizing that you’ve put your personal life on the back burner because work is so mesmerizing right now.
Relationships
You are stretching your personal relationships to the limit by expecting those closest to you to continually accept the commitments you make to your work. Take a good look at your attitude and recognize that the people who love you don’t object to what you want to do. They just need you to include them in the decision-making process.
Career, Success, and Money
Stop telling yourself that the only reason you are working so hard is to ensure your financial security. That’s a justification that you think sounds good. Well, it is plausible, but it’s not the main motivation. You truly love what you are doing right now so much that it’s taking up all the oxygen in your life. That’s not healthy or necessary.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Sometimes you are blind to what really matters to you because you get so engrossed in things that are novel or off the beaten path. This leads to a failure to see where you may be sacrificing the very things that sustain you in order to avoid boredom or to prove that you can do what you want when you want. Ask yourself whether there isn’t a bit of that going on right now.
Rewarding Days
3, 4, 8, 9
Challenging Days
13, 14, 28, 29
Aquarius | December
Overall Theme
It’s really not in your nature to look backward. However, as 2019 comes to an end, take time to review what you’ve experienced, not so you can cobble together any kind of report, but so you can gather the insights revealed to you. They will form the platform for how to handle the next year of your life, as well as give you a true appreciation for what you have accomplished.
Relationships
The simple act of remembering how much you desire and need friendship in all your important relationships smooths over any difficulties that surfaced in November. Why? Because you take time to let everyone know how much their support has always meant to you, how much you appreciate their insights and directness, and how much their presence in your world brings a smile to your face.
Career, Success, and Money
It’s been a hectic year and you haven’t had much time to assess all that you’ve contributed or whether it’s being valued beyond the acknowledgment that you did a great job. You are beginning to realize that it isn’t enough to be the person who can always pull a rabbit out of a hat. What you need is more remuneration.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
You can’t help but look ahead and wonder what next year’s challenges are going to look like. It’s one way to distract yourself from acknowledging any missteps you made in 2019. And therein lies your problem. As much as you insist you are okay with your choices, you often find fault with what you’ve done. Instead, be kind to yourself. Accept that choices often have consequences you hadn’t planned on. Then you can celebrate how you handled the unexpected.
Rewarding Days
5, 6, 28, 29
Challenging Days
13, 14, 25, 26
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Aquarius Action Table These dates reflect the best—but not the only—times for success and ease in these activities, according to your Sun sign. |
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JAN |
FEB |
MAR |
APR |
MAY |
JUN |
JUL |
AUG |
SEP |
OCT |
NOV |
DEC |
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Move |
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26, 27 |
2, 3 |
11, 12 |
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Start a class |
3, 4 |
1, 2 |
28, 29 |
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Seek coaching/counseling |
5, 6 |
3, 4 |
30, 31 |
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Ask for a raise |
9, 10 |
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22, 23 |
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28, 29 |
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Get professional advice |
10, 11 |
1, 2 |
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15, 16 |
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Get a loan |
19, 20 |
20, 21 |
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19, 20 |
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New romance |
21, 22 |
23, 24 |
23, 24 |
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Vacation |
25, 26 |
9, 10 |
15, 16 |
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16,27 |
8 |
20 |
27 |
31 |
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