Astrology Forecast for January 2016

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Astrology Forecast for January 2016: Confusion to Come

by Kathy Biehl

January 21016 launches the year in clouds of soft, swirling fog. It’s a fitting start, given the atmosphere of confusion that will be with us through the summer. Grab your favorite grounding stones; turn on your fog lights and internal GPS. They are in for a workout.

What is real and what is an illusion is an ongoing puzzle, and January 2016 puts us through our paces grappling with it. The origin of the puzzle is still going strong, a shoving match between forces of structure and order (Saturn) and forces that evade and dissolve structure and order (Neptune).

Now comes a companion influence that not only amplifies vagueness, confusion, and reasons to question someone’s sanity, but also makes them inescapable and personal. This one holds the promise of epiphanies, clarity, and mundane, bankable answers by the end of the month. Hang on to that as the journey progresses, because it promises one weird ride, indeed.

Just when our minds are on the brink of flying again, finally, we plummet back to earth. January 2016 brings a confounding jumble of snarls, glitches, and malfunctions in communicating and getting around. Yes, it’s time again for Mercury retrograde, when the usual rules of operation go out the window for information flow, technology, and transportation.

This year has four Mercury retrogrades instead of the usual three. The first one runs from January 5 – 25. It starts with the motivation in place to confront, dive deep, and research; qualities that come in handy for this transit. This comes when Mars, ruler of our drive, plunges into Scorpio on January 3. He kicks Mercury as the messenger slows to turn around on Jan. 5, and off we go.

He’s just getting a taste of objectivity and swift-footedness at the gateway of Aquarius when the about-face drags him back down to the methodical, practical, long-term perspective of Capricorn, on Jan. 8. Brace to be hypersensitive to all. His return to this terrain comes with a triple whammy of practicalities: impulses to rethink, reorganize, and improve (thank Jupiter turning retrograde in Virgo on the 7th), a decided seriousness in matters of the heart and money (Venus meeting Saturn on the 8th), and the Capricorn New Moon (also on the 8th), which launches a four-week refresher course in adulthood.

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