This is the first official week of the New Year. In a few short days, we will have a Solar Eclipse at about 25 degrees of Capricorn. This is the time of the year, in the Northern Hemisphere, where things are cold and silent and may seem as though nothing is going on. However, there is a lot more than meets the eye.
This is the incubation period where we sit with ideas and thoughts and visions and turn them around in our minds to figure out the best way to birth them and bring them forth in the spring after Spring Equinox. The Solar Eclipse is associated with events outside of our lives — things happening in the public — and surrounding world leaders. The interesting thing is that the growing lack of resources, exacerbated by this eclipse and the fact that many planets are in Capricorn, particularly Mercury, which is still retrograde and beckons all of us to re-organize our budgets, spreadsheets and review what we need to release and what we keep.
In addition, Saturn, which rules Capricorn, is slowing down, getting ready to go retrograde as well very soon. That and Mars retrograde still in Leo suggest our entry into the New Year offers tremendous opportunities to delve deeper into what it is we really need versus what we really want. Minimalism in living and spiritual refocus are a very good plan over these next two weeks.
