All is a matter of self-improvement. Working out a way through the valley of shadows. Life.

Feels like a crucifixion. All that you know is being challenged.  All you wanna do is wrong. Grand Cardinal  Cross of Uranus Pluto Mars and Jupiter calls for awakening of common sense. You ride on the energy of Green Horse, heading for the ultimate aim, however,  slow down and take a look on the inside. Growing discrepancy between your will and the circumstances may lie in your own behavioral patterns hidden in the unconscious that you need to set free from first. Liberation. Raising awareness of the concepts of self improvement for the sake of overcoming inner mechanisms that are standing on your way. The greatest sophistication lies in simplicity and that is the way to go. It is an accomplishment. Peace. Requires a little self-analysis and self-awareness. Purify the shadow, bring in the light. They say the greatest luxury is the sofa, a cup of tea and the book. Information, philosophy, art. How about taking care of your own personal well-being starting from the inside. There it’s at. Just by purifying your own thought, action and deeds you get in the position to get what you want. Self-realization is the long way of passing through the tunnel in order to reach the light. Freedom is like jazz. Live to be free enough to live your own individuality like jazzers do. Expressing their own personal idiosyncrasies in perfect harmony thus producing the music. Become an entity. Find yourself.

Everyone is original. Preserve. Jupiter in Cancer calls for awakening of the traditional values making sure we don’t lose our way but also raising awareness on the past and the issues in the personal history. Releasing from the past is a task that requires comprehension and  forgiveness. Forgive them all and forgive yourself. Appreciation and faith. With upcoming Jupiter in Leo you will soon enough be in a position to show your face, step on the scene and let the heart lead enough to be safe. Examine the fears, prejudice or guilt. The burden you can do without. Release the baby from pressure. Find your state of mind. You want to be free.

Only then you reach success. Only then you find love.                            

Generation gap. The East and the West. Culture. Responsibility. Faith.

Learn the rules, examine the options, recognize the opportunities.

Determinism of  Pluto and Indeterminism of Uranus. Master plan.

Mars in Libra – Find the balance.

Life has a strange ways of settling the score and that’s exactly what we have been through in the past12 months. It was a unique checking-up point where we should have just shown the passport to get through. Either You have actually drunk that whiskey or You might have been forced to learn the rules of the game. Anyhow, after being hypnotized by Snake-like, karmic energy that has squeezed the life juice out of us for the sake of learning a valuable lesson, we should have drawn the line and preferably grasped the big picture. When You hit the bottom line, the only way is up. Exactly to a saddle of the focused, determined and liberating Green Horse that has got the clear outlook on what is to be done. Hopefully, after paying the dues, You should just pick up the pieces and ride straight ahead. Everything seems to shape up now providing a clear overview of the state of the matters on the threshold of the new cycle. You might as well face the reality of the discrepancy of what You have got inside and what You get from life, so make sure You send a message loud and clear of who You are by means of all-necessary accurate communication and adequate deeds. The Horse is focused on it’s own impulses more than anything and being generally independent to a measure of considering freedom an imperative, You might as well be inclined to face Yourself and figure out what You can do for Yourself in order to feel good. This year of the Horse is a unique wake-up call in order to shake You up a little and remind You of what You have wanted in the first place some time when You realized Your own dreams. The accent is on individuality and freedom of choice, moreover of the awareness that future is Yours as long as You recognize the will of God. Life is a battlefield where only by synchronizing Your most intimate urge with fair playing You become a winner for a lifetime. The Year of the Horse is a challenge of facing that most intimate urge for the sake of realizing sheer individuality and becoming a realized personality. The Horse knows what he wants and reaches out for it without letting people interfere so make sure You abstract all the influences and bring out to the surface Your true inner self that seeks to shine, particularly starting from July when Jupiter enters Leo strengthening and exposing the inner self. Now is the time to be true to oneself. Individuation process demands facing one’s own inner self as well as self-improvement towards the achievement of realization of one’s own true self. Raising consciousness along the way considers overcoming circumstances thus being at peace with who You are. And always keep in mind that in the movie called life God is a director and before His eyes we are all superstars. Now is the time to show it. Ride high!

We are witnessing the transit of Venus in Capricorn up to the beginning of March. Overall, it is a petrifying experience. Whether you have encountered a person that arouses icy chill along your spine warning you of a possible trespass, or your expectations turn out to be dashed, you might as well decide to close the door for a while. Stoned immaculate is how you feel behind the walls of civility and self-restrained conduct. You may be aroused by the deepest inhibitions of the unconscious you need to face and bring out into the consciousness. Self-improvement issue is now being activated to a point of dealing with your own ghosts from the past. What you could do is to trace them and purify your karma by settling the score by lucid comprehension. As a result, you need to break free and liberate yourself from your own kind of insecurity or fear that is blocking your emotions. Current Mars in Virgo is exactly the trigger that stimulates your inner drive to let go of all the restraints by self-improvement. However, it won’t help you feel in love but you will make a step forward in the progress of your own self-awareness process. Don’t forget that Saturn in Scorpio is calling for working out on intimacy issue and maturing on self-control of the deepest passion with the aim of expressing your sexuality in a dignified and controlling ways. This point exactly to the issue of sexuality as the one in the spotlight with the necessity of raising awareness on the importance of personal self-control that has to be either developed or imposed by governmental structures.
Venus in Capricorn evokes the pain of suffering for various reasons that has the purpose of realizing our emotional karma with the tendency of purifying our past experiences thus acquiring emotional accessibility. The doors are shut in order to contemplate on the issues of our personal, emotional evolution with the task of mastering the emotional or artistic self-expression. Venus is “petrified” in order to face the deepest insecurities and fear in order to overcome the underlying “intimacy issue” that may be blocking healthy emotional development. With the awareness on responsibility and self-respect, the move is the cautious self-defense with the tendency to brood over the gains and personal task of self-purification and liberation from the patterns from the past.

It’s been a while since Jupiter, the Great Benefactor, has entered the sign of Cancer thus expressing the utmost benevolence in the turbulent times of suppressed tension and pressure, calling for the faith, awareness and wisdom. Cancer is the sign where Jupiter shows the best quality and Jupiter naturally represents the consciousness, perspective, belief and the urge for cultivating all the basic impulses of the psyche. Cultivation, culture, good judgment. Education and dignity. Knowledge.

It  is that good feeling in the stomach, the evoke of the old school, traditional values just to make sure we don’t lose our way. It is the revival of the family, t is the good advice we have just picked up from mom, it is the best feeling we have when at home. It is outrageous out there. But the moment when you see a little dove coming to your home when you are in a Zen state of mind is the most precious of the precious. The safest way for getting out of the labyrinth is by sticking to just one wall. For all that haven’t chosen a side. In the times of Saturnian, Scorpionic black and white paradigm, when you hit the bottom line the only way is up. What uplifts us and guards us through the labyrinth is just Jupiterian, angelic energy that comforts us and promises that eventually it is all going to be all right. We just need to perceive what is the original purpose and what is the misuse. All over the place. It is the moment just before the sleep when sweet conscience revises the day leading us to a new morning. Faith. Have some. Being in the dire straits of Uranus-Pluto square of enormous tension, rebellion, pressure, conflict, overturn, the guiding light is exactly Jupiter calling for raising awareness on all the personal, interpersonal and intra-personal relations. In the psycho-dynamics this benevolent stream of positive energy heals all the pain and malfunction. All we need is to lift the head up, purify all the fears, prejudice, suspicion, purify your shadow. Let the inner child plays innocently and carelessly. Make yourself a profile by self-awareness, knowledge, wisdom. Dignity and attitude. Set yourself free. Be happy. It’s all there is.

Jupiter in Cancer – going back to the roots. Back to basics. We all know where we come from. Respect and self-respect. Culture. What happened to the civilized world. We made it. Making affirmation of one’s own spiritual origin is this Jupiterian task. Home as a place to be.

Turbulent times. As soon as we adjust to the tide, there’s the new mood swing.  So many eclipses. Hard to keep up with the tendencies of the roller coaster times of Saturn in Scorpio. The amplitudes are of the extremes. Things happen so fast. Yesterday news are like of the last month’s. The disclosure of Jupiter in Gemini boost of information.  Where are we running? To catch up with the demands that are getting even more severe.  Due to the Uranus Pluto Saturn dance, cash is more expensive than ever. Either you’re a  super pro or you’re out of business. Life has become an extreme sport. However, in the mash up of various tendencies, everything is possible. Neptune is preserving the dream and  calling for rejuvenated belief. Revival of the old school just to make sure we don’t lose our way. Uranus is getting faster calling for a revolution within. Egocentrism is passé. Fast food and fast love are passé. Pretense is passé. Either you’re a real McCoy or you’re lost.  People see through everything these days. Saturn in Scorpio is calling for choosing the way in the black and white paradigm. Diamond life or a diamond lie. Depends how good you are.

New Capricorn Supermoon is making the new switch of the trend and announces the new mild tide of Jupiter in Cancer. We are starting to feel like at home. Going back to the roots. Family is back. The word in the spotlight is vintage. Quality, tradition, reputation.  No more fools for anything. The truth is coming out. Capricorn  is evoking the serious outlook on the perspective in the months to come. Or at least announces the new attitude. Serious gaming. Maturing is taking place within our reach. Chit-chats tends to be more serious these days. Private life gets in the spotlight  and the imperative is to find peace. The quality. Inhibitions are coming out to the surface and demand dealing with. Purification takes place in the karmic year of the Snake. Clearing the basement and shining from within. Getting serious about our own happiness cause it largely depends on us. Finding peace is just at hand.  Serious play.

The year of the Water Snake 2013 according to the Chinese zodiac is in full swing and we most certainly witness important overturns and changes in our lives. Along with Saturn in Scorpio, it seems to be drastic and important. Knowing that or not, there is an underlying message of the utmost importance to our general well-being and prosperity. The direction of movement is most certainly turbulent like of the roller coaster, the swings of trends tend to develop into a logical resolution from the perspective of wisdom.

Namely, the year of the Snake is executive karmic power of the previous 12 year cycle and you may say that we are all in some sort of a checking-up  point. Now, do we have the passport, that is the question. The previous 12-year cycle pretty much reflects the experience, there is no coincidence in sudden overturns, blows of faith, ultimate breakthroughs. For all the people that has been playing by the rules, working hard and doing the right things in their previous cycle, there is an important tendency of growth, success, revelation, accomplishment. For all of you, this is the year of the unique reward that has to reflect in your business, social life or love. However, for all the misjudgments, mistakes or trespasses we experience some sort of a karmic event of the utmost significance. Well, someone might just teach us a lesson or we may experience some sort of loss, but that should only provide the insight into  the big picture, a preferable perspective in the first place.

Riding high. They say, when someone is being born in the year of the Snake, the family prospers. That age is energetically very powerful and brings a lot of good energy, cash or well-being in the surrounding. When the Snake gets employed, there’s going to be more cash in the company. You guess right, the year of the Snake endows people with potential and ability to influence financial flows. Of course, you have probably all experienced that people in the year of the Snake just are not the ones to turn to when we need a loan or a favor, but if you manage to find the mutual interest, the Snake will invest in you. From that point of view, in the year of the snake, financial flows really switch in the favor of those who have earned it. Through hard work and high professionalism. Don’t be mistaken, Snake is all about aristocracy, high professionalism, elite, eminence and wealth, you have probably noticed that these people always mingle among the powerful  or are powerful themselves. Somehow, they either give or take away the power and are on the checking-up points where they channel some sort of a Harvest. The world is getting sped up, everything is available, life demands seem to be higher, everybody knows everything, you need to be a tough professional if you want to beat the competition. No mistakes allowed. Regulus in Virgo. The urge for self-improvement up to perfection. Only then you are in the game.  And the Snake lets you in. The year of the snake.

However, if you get tricked by one, it is probably what you deserve  for some reason. Such is the year of the snake. You might experience the love to remember this year, but hey, be careful there, it is not accidental at all and it is a karmic development for sure. Think about what is the hidden message and why you have met. You will most certainly find out the reason soon enough. Reward or a lesson, you will figure out.  If you seem to get tricked in any way, it is probably because you haven’t played your cards right at some point and the ultimate aim of the karmic situation is your personal karmic purification. Remember, karma is all about self-improvement, becoming a better person and setting yourself free. Free from prejudice, fear or pain. The inner limitations create outer ones. Freedom is the natural result of the complex process of this intelligent workout and the only way to happiness.  Life is a set of rules, for all that have played accordingly this harvest is the one to remember.

There are four Royal Fixed stars in the sky, the Four Guardians of Heaven during the Persians, and at the same time the brightest stars of Milky Way Galaxy:
1. Aldebaran (2000: 9Gem 47), “Right Bull’s Eye”, named “Archangel Michael – Watcher of the East”, once associated with spring equinox.
2. Regulus (2000: 29Leo50), “Lion’s Heart”, named “Archangel Raphael – Watcher of the North”, once associated with summer solstice.
3. Antares (2000: 9Sag46), “The Heart of a Scorpion”, named “Archangel Oriel – Watcher of the West”, once associated with autumn equinox.
4. Formalhaut (2000: 3Pis52), “The Fish’s Mouth” or “The Eye of the Fish”, named “Archangel Gabriel – Watcher of the South”, once associated with winter solstice.
Although they are fixed stars and they always belong to their original constellations, they seem to be moving slowly, watching from the Earth. Namely, they transit each sign of Zodiac for more than 2000 years. It takes 72 years for a fixed star to move for one degree, due to a phenomenon of precession i.e. orbital motion of the Earth. Those are considered to be oscillations of the Earth axis. The signs of Zodiac represent the path of Sun, watching from the Earth, which is divided into twelve known signs. That path is called the Ecliptic.
The fixed star Regulus, within the constellation of Leo, known as “The Lion’s Heart”, due to the precession, is seemingly moving from the sign of Leo into the sign of Virgo after more than 2000 years, taking into consideration the Ecliptic, i.e. watching from the Earth. Regulus continues to be a star of constellation Leo, it is just seemingly moving into the sign of Virgo since the geocentric astrological mechanism shows Regulus as a part of Virgo 0 degrees, due to the Earth’s axial movement.
There is certain symbolism in the movement of Regulus from the sign of Leo into the sign of Virgo. This star is also called “The little King” and as a star of constellation Leo represents male principle, hence the apparent movement into the sign of Virgo, emphasizes the female principle so that there is a sort of change in the collective archetype as well as collective consciousness. Essentially, there is a switch from ego centered point of view to a reasonable tendency for self-improvement and personal development issues as the basic necessity for accomplishing life goals. Namely, the incoming time announces a conscious workout on personality issues as a more massive necessity as the expression of a personal and professional development issues for the sake of general progress. Raising awareness on the issues such as protection of the environment, ecology, health care or nourishment, for instance, is exactly in the symbolism of this transit. Cultural imperatives are also getting into the spotlight as the issues of the highest importance and necessity by means of spiritual awakening, self-improvement, cultivation and ennobling the mind. In spite of the mechanisms of material reality.The year 2012 was generally important considering the breakthrough on a spiritual level, raising the collective level of consciousness and there has to be a general turning point at perception of reality in the sense of raising a perspective. The question of evolution is getting into the spotlight and we are witnesses of incoming time that has to have a result in greater choosing abilities and enhanced responsibility for one’s own destiny.

High charge of Uranus-Pluto square and the taste of revolution in the air. A temperate bomb of the inner pressure and the drive for overturn,  living on the edge. High voltage but the inability to speak. Saturn in Scorpio is holding back the fire. Smoke on the water. Get wiser, dig deeper. You gotta change the frame of the game. Get  down. When you hit the bottom line, the only way is up. Time to grasp the essence of your burning issue. It’s got to be a diamond or else you won’t break on through. Your eager urge to oppose, to confront, to rebel is just the reflection of your inner conflict. No more but you’ve got to know how. Life is a set of rules. Learn them. Time to get wiser. Sooner or later we play by the rules. Or else you suffer till you figure out the way. The principle is universal. Do not make  mistakes if you want to get there. Think. You need to be a player out of this. Only then when you learn the rules like a pro you are allowed to break them like the artist. Picasso. Performing brilliance lifestyle. When you know exactly what you are doing, you can’t beat the feeling. Worth a shot.

 Turbulent times. Two eclipses and sudden overturns. Frequent seismic activity of your personality. Get used to it. You’ve got to be a pro and avoid overreacting. Saturn is holding you back anyway. Pain. Karma. Learn your lesson. What are you doing wrong. Get real. See through lies and deceit. Liberate from all the illusions of your self-comfort. Overcome the self-indulging impulse and stick to the facts. Grasp the truth about yourself and break free. You might feel the revolution in the air but the point is that the truth is the only revolutionary act for the time being. Face it.

We are witnessing the configuration known as Pandora’s box right now in the sky, that consists of triple Yod of planets. Yod is considered to be God’s finger and this particularly refers to Gemini, Scorpio and Aries, however we all may have revelation moments of truth and insight into recent but also distant past that may flash back in front of our eyes. The unresolved issues from the deep unconsciousness burst into the consciousness and we suddenly become aware of ourselves, the truth is hitting us right in the face. Scorpios learn their lessons, Gemini realize the truth  along with the blessings they have in their lives and get uplifted while Aries actually do something that has larger significance than they think at least for the time being. Since we all have planets somewhere , for those positioned around the 10^th degree is the inner awakening from the mesmerizing confusion of the recent and distant happenings that actually begin to shape up all of a sudden. Thus we get the answers for so many unanswered questions if we take time to consider what has been troubling us. If we dive into the heart of the matter thus trying to grasp the essence, we will realize the truth about ourselves and our behavior and no matter how heavy that may seem, what lies in the bottom of Pandora’s box is the hope to guide us. Mars initiates some action possibly in some form of the reward, Moon in Virgo draws us into analysis while Saturn is conveying the message of what is to be done in order that we purify our karma and learn the valuable lesson. Since Saturn may seem to be on top of this configuration, maturing on some important issue, within the area of life, of the significance in natal chart, results in establishing new criteria and raising awareness in general.  Virgos and Capricorns are also included in the big picture of Pandora’s drive for knowledge and consciousness expansion with the aim of reaching the ultimate truth about themselves . Within the frame of self-preservation, personal energetic potential  and wisdom that represent our personal power, what seems to be the lesson is exactly  recognizing and accepting the set of rules of life we sooner or later abide by. The truth sets us free enough to overcome the boundaries but also to set up our own limitations with respect to the “holy trinity” of self-love,  self-respect and self-control. Self-improvement  for the sake of becoming  a better person seems to be the right way to happiness.   Accepting responsibility and holding a more serious attitude to relevant issues of interest lead to more successful accomplishments in life. Only then we are capable of fulfilling the purpose. The forgiveness purifies the soul and after all what keeps us going is the hope of deliverance.

Up to the 15th of December, Venus is in the sign of Scorpio creating a specific emotional battlefield, particularly in the lives of emotionally involved people. We may as well feel charged with high emotional voltage and experience outbursts of passion that may be varying between the extremes of Shakespearean love up to the greatest animosity. Emotionally trigger- happy and impulsive, people may feel driven by emotions more than usual, fiercely expressing overwhelming blows of passion in a way that could regret a little later. Edgy and dramatic more than usual, the emotional experience may seem to be life and death issue with the uncompromising gas in intimate relations. Everything seems to be black or white, we may as well feel we want all or nothing even if that’s not in our nature. The taste is somewhat bittersweet, it hurts but we are loving it, grunge is how we vibrate. The call for transformation of the approach with the loving one, the purification through burnout of extreme emotions has to lead to overcoming the old patterns, destroying and recreating. We may feel that we have just had enough. Fed up. Sick and tired. Cutting edge emotion, definite decisions, radical change. What has to be the result of the turmoil of this rolling in the deep is the emotional rebirth. Coming clean by the 15th in all the relationships is the way to go. Then comes the rebirth and we may finally dress up in white of Sagittarius with the diamond of truth we have been cutting in the previous month, seriously thinking of the essence, perspective and the purpose. Seems like the ingenious extremes of impulses provide the essential insight into affairs of the importance and there comes the truth as the bottom line. Make sure you do the homework in the intermezzo of the emotional blitzkrieg that is taking place. Essentially, it is the “Fight Club” film that we take part in, so make sure you examine your own shadow instead of chasing it. Anyway, enjoy the ride.