The Astrology of January + Horoscopes for all 12 Signs!

Okay, here we go, everyone; this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, I am live streaming, and I will be joined shortly by my friend and colleague Alex Amorosi. We are going to talk about the astrology of January with you today. And we'll go through the major transits of the month for January 2023 new year coming up, obviously. So that's kind of exciting. See what the first month of astrology has in store for us. And then, after that, we're going to go through horoscopes for all 12 signs.

Often you'll see me do a video on the astrology of the month, and then I do a separate video on the horoscopes today. We're just doing one happy live stream covering both. We're doing this in part as a way also of raising money for the Kickstarter. We're on the home stretch, the last couple of days of the Kickstarter right now. So I'll tell you about that and how to donate. We'll be sort of ringing the bell for that as we go. Um, yeah, tell me where you guys are coming in from. I'd love to hear it. And I'm going to, in the meantime, just run a little countdown video as people are logging in. We'll get a few more people in here before we get started.

All right, well, welcome everybody. I'd love to see where you guys are coming in from before I get started. Let's see here. We've got Michelle from Charleston, South Carolina. Heddy from Deep River. Hey. And let's see, we've got karma on deck from St. George, Utah. Your student in year one. That's awesome. I hope you're liking the program so far. And let's see Trina. Hey, Trina. Good. I'm so cool to see that you're here. Um, let's see who else we have coming in? Amy Lynn from Canada. Hello, Amy. Welcome. Let's see where else you guys come in from Athens, Greece. Jeremy from Omaha, Nebraska. Astrofly from Dubai. And Sarah from England. Nice. Trina is from Milford gotta represent Michigan. Let's see. Gladis from Virginia, Northern Virginia. Nice. Welcome. A bunch of people from Canada. That's awesome. And yeah, and karma on deck, You're on to year two. Hell yeah. I'm enjoying it. Good. Great. Year two is awesome. Everything. The programs, as you deepen into them, in my opinion, get successively better, so I think you'll enjoy them. That's awesome. Vini says a wonderful seat by a real live fire in a pub in London. Hi. Oh my god. That sounds awesome. Well, I hope that you will enjoy this exploration of January's astrology near your cozy fire. Evelyn's in from Ireland. And Juanita from Kennesaw, Georgia. That's awesome. Cool.

Well, welcome, everybody. As I said, today we're going to take a look at the astrology of January, and then we're going to be looking at January horoscopes for all 12 signs. This should be fun. I'm joined as I have been the past few months today by my friend Alex. I'm going to be calling him on in just a minute, but first, you guys know that. I am in the midst of promoting my annual Kickstarter campaign. One of the reasons that we're doing this live cast today is to drum up support and enthusiasm here on the home stretch. We have just three days left to go in the Kickstarter. Right now. We are almost at 1100 back. Our goal is 1608 by New Year's Eve at midnight; if you would like to donate to the Kickstarter, we could really use your support. And I will show you how to do that it's in the description of this video. If you go to the description, you will find the link, but I'm also going to put it in the comment section. Here's the Kickstarter link; you'll see I'm putting it in the live stream chat box.

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This is a service that we're really excited about. We usually have two goals. There's a base goal, which is like keep the lights on, you know, try to meet a minimum that pays for the basic service of the year. And everything beyond that is usually applied to a stretch goal. The stretch goal this year is the creation of a donation-based reading clinic. We still need a lot of support to get there. So 1092 backers, we need, let's see, I'm gonna do a little quick math here. So we need 1608. Quick math means me using a calculator. Let's see 1092. So we need 516 more backers prior to New Year's Eve. That's doable. Believe it or not, that's doable. A lot of the time, it's the last three or four days that people really show up and say hey, I love this channel. It is something that I listen to regularly. And so I'm, you know, more than happy to throw in five bucks, 20 bucks, whatever I can. It all makes a big difference.

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Okay, with that, let's bring on my friend and colleague, Alex Amorosi. I'm excited to look at the first month of astrology in January. I think there are some big transits to start off the year that will be good to talk about, and it's nice to have you back on to, you know, to do that with.

Alex Amorosi
Thanks. I'm always excited to be here. This is always fun.

Adam Elenbaas
If you guys don't know about Alex, you can find his work at alexamorosi.com or on Instagram @alexamorosihealing. Alex posts a lot of really fun astrology content on his Instagram account. You can book a reading with him on his website. Alex is an alumni of my programs. Anything you want to say about your experience in the programs before we dive into the astrology?

Alex Amorosi
You know, I think taking your year one class is one of the best things I ever did, just from my enjoyment and love of astrology, my sort of love affair with astrology, but also to give me a solid ground on which to be able to feel comfortable practicing.

One of the things I really love of the many things I love about your program, Adam, is that it has a really solid curriculum that is extremely well thought through and gives you an enormously solid foundation and a lot of material that never feels overwhelming. And if you do, there are all these places you can go to, and you can go to somebody and really ask your questions and interact with your classmates.

So I love that, and I'm taking it right now horary, which I also love. I'm getting used to quadrate-based houses for horary; that's something that's just my own little Hellenistic astrology mind.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, if you study natal astrology in my classes, you're using whole sign; when you study horary, you're using quadrant based because a lot of the medieval astrologers use quadrant bass in case that doesn't make sense to anyone who's listening.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, thank you. I was wanting to Geek land without realizing it. But you know, but honestly, Horary has, I find it in of itself really interesting, but it's really helped me with my practice of natal astrology too, especially in the way the symbols are used and the way the symbols come together. In Horary, I have been applying the receptions and the different ways that I things that I've learned in Horary to my natal practice. And that's been, like, life-changing. Yeah. Yeah, they're awesome classes. I love.

Adam Elenbaas
Thank you. Thank you for the plug. I wanted Alex to just, you know, mention his love of the programs, too. If people are sitting on the fence, and you have this really good deal sitting in front of you during the Kickstarter, you know, I think Alex is just he's just been a great advocate for my programs and helping people find their way to good astrology content and creating good astrology content himself. So yeah. Well, appreciate that. Let's turn our attention now to the astrology of January.

So we're going to start with an overview of the major transits of the month for everyone listening, and then we're gonna go into horoscopes for all 12 signs. So we're going to just go through, you know, day by day, the major transits of January and just talk about what to expect.

January 1, the major transit that starts the month, and it's really it's coming through it sort of; I'll just back this up a little bit, so you can actually see exactly it's see it's just past midnight East Coast time that the two planets conjoin. So it's like literally Happy New Year, you know, kissing your special someone, and they, you know, they turn into a monster right there. It's like reverse Beauty and the Beast. You kiss them, and they turn into a monster.

So okay, so it's the first transit of the year. It's happening, basically, at midnight. It is Venus conjoined with Pluto. You start us off. I did a whole video today on Venus's conjunction with Pluto. So I feel like let me hand the responsibility of talking about this transit over to you first.

Alex Amorosi
So I watched that video. And I loved it because I was seeing so much that was happening in my own psyche. But I was out walking today. And I realized I was getting really fixated on something from a relationship from the past. And I didn't know where it was coming from. And I'm like, why am I becoming fixated on this thing that happened? It was last year, and blah, blah, blah. And I realized I'm like, oh, it's Venus and Pluto. And that's one of the things I would say about Venus and Pluto that can have a sort of fixating quality to it, a sort of pinpointing quality to it, a feeling like you're going over something or trying to glean like some kind of lesson from something. And Venus Pluto too often shows where the darkness is that you can look at, so you don't have to be afraid of it anymore. That's been something that really I found Venus Pluto to like; there's that sort of fixation that can happen. And it can turn into an, in a more extreme sense, an obsession, but it also can show you, like, where are you getting hooked?

Where are the shadow places where you're getting hooks in your psyche, particularly Venus-like things around relationships, and sex and beauty and art and all that create those sorts of creative pursuits? And you know, Pluto, that's Pluto's great gift, even though, in the moment, it doesn't often feel like a gift. It sort of shows you that we can bring this up to the surface. It doesn't have to be, you know, they're under the surface in the shadows scaring you anymore. So that came to me today. And I was like, oh, yeah, Venus and Pluto are conjunct. Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's perfect, you know? Yeah, that's exactly the kind of thing that will, you know, will often pop up, or it's like, you're, let's say, you're in a relationship, your partner does something, and it's a simple thing. And you're like, I'm going to end it. You're like, wait, wait, what, why? What, what is that, you know, because they put their spoon down too loud or something, you know, like, what? What is it, and then you, you realize it's this, something's coming up from a deep place. And it's like, Oh, I've been trying and pushing something down. And now I have to deal with it's not about the spoon. It's about somebody, you know, some other pattern or whatever. So that can definitely be a thing with Venus and Pluto coming together.

One thing that I can't help but think about is the sequence taking place between January 1 and January 3. So if you push this forward just a little bit after the conjunction with Pluto, on the third, Venus enters Aquarius, and then on the next day, the fourth, Venus will go into a sextile with Jupiter. Now Venus is an evening star, where she is like royalty. Venus, as an evening star, has a very attractive quality as the Evening Star and is often also associated with wealth and good fortune in the Eveningstar position, she preferred that position according to ancient astrologers, and although her Morningstar position is powerful in its own right, this is like Venus in, you know, a fine, like, you know, a $30,000 dress or something. Its Venus, in her Eveningstar position, is very luxurious and beautiful and sort of fortunate.

Well, she's coming off from a conjunction with a planet in Pluto, whose name means riches, and then going immediately into a sextile with Jupiter, who was associated with abundance. And she's in this Eveningstar position. I can't help but wonder if this sequence does not point towards some kind of extravagance or some kind of something that would signify going to a Venusian extreme, you know, it's okay, let's just say, for example, New Year's Eve, I could see someone getting the idea to buy a $2,000 bottle of champagne on a whim, even though you absolutely can't afford it. You know what I mean? Like, not that I've ever. I've never done that in my entire life. It's that kind of thing where it's like, let's do something really royal, you know, I saw just wonder about riches, wealth, abundance, luxury desire, kind of extravagant sort of feast of Venus qualities around Pluto and Jupiter simultaneously.

Alex Amorosi 18:49
Yeah, I think that too, and I, you know, I also think the good tempering quality of that is it's Venus in Aquarius, and it has that little bit more detached Rational Quality of Aquarius with the two, but I also think like, it could also be with Aquarius, you know, let's do something Royal and eclectic and eccentric, and out of the box, that sort of idea. You know, it's like it's a really interesting idea of Venus just coming into the sextile with Jupiter, who is all hopped up on the first degrees of Aries. That's really impulsive; go get, let's do a Jupiter. So yeah, that's, that is an interesting sequence going through that, but I also think with Aquarius, you Aquarians, Do you have that ability to sort of step back if you can find that if you feel yourself getting sucked into the royal rabbit hole? To be able to like step back from the more, the more detached perspective can help with Aquarius to that Venus.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, there's a little bit of objectivity; Venus is entering Saturn's sign. It won't be long before she's getting really heavy and serious about something with, you know, a Saturday; we're going to talk about that later. Come a little bit later. It's true, though. I mean, it is. It's like Venus and Saturn sign. You know, the thing Is that you could definitely go in the direction of Venus, maybe getting having a little bit of objectivity. It's not like like when Venus enters Pisces later in the month. I feel like that's when you know, every single one of us becomes our inner diva comes out, you know, or your, you know, so it's just so like Venus just completely loses herself in Pisces, and I think in mostly like really wonderful ways. Venus in Capricorn. With Pluto, I think it's a little bit more like a Oh my God, what's the what are the shows? What is it, a cabaret where they dance or no burlesque? Is that the name of the type of dancing? It's kind of Venus in Capricorn heavy Plutonian feeling. Am I getting that right?

Alex Amorosi
I don't know. I don't know it is with burlesque is a little bit more. I think burlesque has a little bit more of like a comedic aspect. Or there's like a little bit more lighthearted. There's sometimes satirical, I think, in burlesque. There's like a satirical quality, which might be the center.

Adam Elenbaas
This is what I'm thinking of right here. I'm going to show you a picture that comes to my mind. I looked up the word burlesque. And that, to me, is like very Venus in Capricorn. Let me just see if I can. Hold on. I'm going to put this up so you can see it and tell me if you think this is Venus in Capricorn. Can you see that? The one on the right, the one on the right in the red dress right here? Yeah, I just looked up burlesque dancing. And to me, all of these are very Venus in Capricorn vibes. What do you think Venus Pluto in Capricorn?

Alex Amorosi
Venus, I was gonna say, Venus and Pluto, for sure. There's like, you know, what's interesting about Venus and Pluto and an earth sign is like, there's often, and this is particularly with Capricorn and Virgo, you can make the argument for Taurus, I think, too, is there's often a sense of needing to hold oneself under control to be sort of like good and right and achieve and whatever. And Pluto sort of shows you, you know, the, under the surface, like, Where does my bad side want to come out in a good way, you know, like, where's an authentic desire within me that's not being expressed, that I'm sort of suppressing in the name of living up to somebody else's expectation or my own expectation of myself. And Pluto kind of brings that quality of, like, you can bring out your darkness to you're not hurt as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else. There's authentic freedom, I think, in Virgo and Capricorn, particularly that wants to be released. Yeah. Hopefully, that helps to do.

Adam Elenbaas
Yes, yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's something about Venus. And no, what is the name of it? There's a type of photography that women will take, or really anyone, but I mean, what I'm used to, they'll often do it for themselves. And I had an ex-girlfriend who did it one time when I was living in New York City. And it was basically, like, pictures like, so she inched this was just purely for herself. It wasn't something she shared with anyone, but it was just like a woman who specialized in taking photographs of women like in lingerie, just for themselves. And this was a whole thing that she did, and mostly it wasn't being published or shared on social media or anything. And there was a name for it, and I can't remember. Oh, yes, that's it. Definitely. Is it? What does that mean? What does that even what does that word mean? Now I want to know; let's look it up.

Alex Amorosi
I feel you mean, not that I know what to do, Professor Satish here, but it's I think it's been doesn't mean better.

Adam Elenbaas
See, hold on. Uh-huh. Okay, I'm looking at the etymology. A room where a lady may retire to be alone or receive your intimate friends. Oh, literally a pelting room to pout or sulk. That's really interesting. Because I what I really like about that is that I remember the woman that I was dating for a while in New York City, who I'm still, like, still friends with to this day. But for her, like, it was very much just something that she like you having your own, I guess, like your own study, or your own office or your own bedroom before you're married or something. It's just like something that she was explaining is like, this is just for me. And I always thought it was really fascinating. Like as a guy like, it never would occur. Like do something like that, you know, but anyway, I probably sound like a real idiot at this point. So I'm going to shut up.

But anyway, I thought that that's a very Venus, Pluto, and Capricorn kind of dynamic because Venus in Capricorn in a Saturn-ruled sign can be about something that's distant or remote or isolated, or private, yet intense and sexual. Which is why for example, today in my video, I talked a lot about people, the need to have secrets that you keep, some things that are just yours, they're just for you, and that they're like dark and rich. They could be it could be a transgression, it could be a joy, it could be a pleasure, but it's just something that's yours. And that's what I was thinking about photography.

Alex Amorosi
You said so well to Adam and just kind of riffing. If that is like, there are certain things you hold for yourself because they hold and gain power as you hold them within yourself; if you speak of them or bring them out to the wrong people, it's like the power diffuses, the riches get diffused to others when they you want to hold that tight and let it radiate out from within you. That kind of idea with a secret.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, totally. I think that's, that's perfect. So anyway, hopefully, we're describing for all of you some Venus in Capricorn vibes. I feel like Venus in Aquarius. Sextile Jupiter in Aries is a bit more like; I'm thinking a little bit more of like if my wife decided suddenly she wanted to get a crotch rocket. I feel I feel like, like, sort of eccentric and like, but like super young but feminine all at once. Like, I think my wife would look pretty hot on a crotch rocket blazing around, you know, I wouldn't want her to because I think they're dangerous. But, I mean, you know, it's like, it feels like Venus moves from a kind of sultry and dark and earthy and Capricornian. Like, okay, so I'm gonna give you another TMI, but sometimes, my wife has a few girlfriends who were sitting around the fire last summer. And they were like; they were talking about when they get their periods. And she goes, isn't there just like, sometimes when you get your periods where you just want to go out into the woods and like, just like sit on the earth and bleed and like, just fuck everyone. I just want that my wife's an herbalist. Okay, so this is probably, like, why she's thinking of this. And I was like, yeah, that's like, that's Venus and Pluto and Capricorn though to me that's it's like it has like an edgy, dark, earthy vibe to it. Very like earth goddess and maybe a little bit of destroyer energy. But then you get if you then if you put Venus in Aquarius sextile to Jupiter, it feels a little bit more like, you know, if a really cool woman took over Twitter and kicked Elon Musk out.

Alex Amorosi
one can dream of that headline.

Adam Elenbaas
So oh my god. Anyway, so I hope you guys are entertained. This is a good thing. I'm drinking a little bit of iced tea. Black iced tea has caffeine in it. So I'm just gonna like I'm getting on my metaphorical crotch rocket as we speak.

Alex Amorosi
That you know of anything, I never expected to hear with that sextile it was that, but that describes it. There you go.

Adam Elenbaas
So there's some excitement from Venus early in the month, the first through the fourth watch for like the Venusian vibes to be pretty strong. Make sense. Venus just appeared as an evening star. She brought forth the Eclipse energy. It's just it's been the Venus show here in December. A lot of it has been. So I think that's, that's it's just really fascinating to see that in the start of January. Venus is, like, off to the races. Yeah. All right. Let's see here. So, thank you to people who are doing us the favor of explaining to translate someone in the chat box. Like, what is the crotch rocket?

Alex Amorosi
That was defined too because for a second; I was like

Adam Elenbaas
you know what a crotch rocket is? Don't you? Oh my god.

Alex Amorosi
No never heard of that. So my first place it went to because it's a crusher. I was like, wow, okay, we're gonna really take it to life.

Adam Elenbaas
Oh my god. No. Okay, hold on. Now I have to, like, I have to show you one so that you can, and people don't think I'm crazy, too. Let's see here. Okay, this is a good one. I've got some pictures. And no way we're where's images. Here we go. Okay, like, I'm just gonna show you the Google image search for crotch rocket. Those are crotch rockets. They're not like they're like motorcycles, but the kind where people are like really, really fast. Superfast.

Alex Amorosi
That was something like, you know, Britney Spears was riding one in her toxic video. I totally remember that there's a really famous shot of her going like this on a motorcycle. Right, right. Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
Opposed to this. Which to me this also to me this is pretty cool too. Like if I were going to, you know, if I were going to drive a motorcycle, a low rider might be cool too. Have you ever heard of those? I don't know if you get kind of like this thing. It's kind of like that. They're like that kind of like a deep.

Alex Amorosi
Oh yeah, I've seen those around. I've seen those. Yeah, those are kind of cool.

Adam Elenbaas
Anyway, okay, now we're totally off on a crazy tangent.

Alex Amorosi
Aquarius took us over? Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. So totally. All right. Well, speaking of eccentric vibes on January 5, let's put the sun trine Uranus up on the screen and start talking about that. So January 5, the sun trines Uranus. And here we go. You can see it coming through the trine there on Thursday, January 5. Now, to me, anytime that the sun and Uranus are in a trine together, there are two things that I experienced; personally, I wrote these down.

One is a ridiculous and completely unrealistic amount of confidence. It's just it could be I will have an idea. Or it may even be an idea. I'll just be like; I'll listen to music like, you know, like, I'm 18. Like just blasting music and like, yes, I've got all of the answers, and everything's rolling. And it feels like you, it's like the universe is giving you a hit of adrenaline or something. And completely off base in terms of what you think you'll get done or what will come of it. And by the next day, I'm like, Oh, that was. Can we do that again? You know? Yeah, but nothing has nothing really comes of it. Or the second thing is that I find that I will have really novel ideas. Usually, it's like something I'm going to teach or changing my curriculum, or an insight about astrology because that's where my head's at all the time. But it'll be like problem-solving, or like lightbulb moments, epiphanies, and sort of breakthroughs. You know, insights that are really important; maybe if I have a therapy session on the day of sun Uranus trine, I might have like a breakthrough that day. Those are the kinds of things that I'm used to. What do you think about sun Uranus?

Alex Amorosi
Oh, it's one of my favorite aspects. Especially because I think, you know, there can be like the seriousness of Capricorn season I've got to get nose to the grindstone sort of feeling. Uranus just brings a really good feeling of just like effort; try this effort. Try this, you know, like I was always kind of in I have a lot of aspects of my own life where I noticed that I could get really can get very bogged down in, in detail. And Uranus coming along with a trine to the sun is just kind of just like, Well, what about this? Well, what about this? What about this? Do you ever consider this? Do you ever look at it from this framework? And because it's a trine, it flows really easily. Sometimes, like you said, you can think like you have come up with the answer to all the world's problems. Like you're just like, oh my god, I have found the thing, and then you wake up the next morning, you're like, that wasn't the thing. That seems like the thing. I'm glad I just kept that in my journal and didn't actually put it out there in the world. But it's actually one of my favorite aspects. Sun trine Uranus.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I feel like the nice thing about this sun trine Uranus is that it's happening during the midst of a Mercury retrograde. So if we look forward just a little bit, there's just two days later, what we're going through two things really, simultaneously; lets we'll just do them in order rather than skipping on January 6, the next day, there is then a full moon in Cancer. So the full moon in Cancer is coming through as the sun is just moving through the trine with Uranus. And then if we take it forward one more day onto into the seventh. Then we have Mercury moving into the heart of the sun through what we call a cazimi, so that's quite a sequence. You got the sun trine Uranus, the full moon in Cancer, and Mercury cazimi three days in a row; just so if you have, that's the first seven days of January. If you're taking all of that, it's Venus conjoin Pluto; we'd even talk about Mercury sextile Neptune, which happens on the second, but also Venus into Aquarius Venus sextile Jupiter and then it's the sequence Sun trine Uranus, which we just talked about the full moon in Cancer and then Mercury Cazimi. So, let's I want to hear before I start blabbing on again because God knows where I'll end up. Why don't you say a few things about this sequence, and maybe how would you put those three things together?

Alex Amorosi
Oh, man, um, you know, I think first of all, just on an elemental level, it's really nice to have this full moon in Cancer where there's a lot of air and earth this month. There's a lot of sort of cerebral practical energy this month. It's nice to have this lovely emotional watery, nurturing moon and Cancer. I think, you know, one of the things you can get really locked into with, you know, we're just looking at Sun Uranus. You could get into this sort of like practical, amazing ideas that just kind of flowing out of you, but the moon A full moon in Cancer brings that wonderful emotional nurturing slower element to it like yeah, these could be really amazing ideas that could be very practical, they could be very sort of productive, but does it have a care behind it, does it have a nurture behind it, does it have a sense of sort of wrapping you up and also creating that like the proverbial sense of home or belonging. That's a kind of how I would start to fit all those archetypes together in that sequence, plus Mercury, to you know, you're getting Mercury refreshed the next day, under the beams of the sun, where the mental processes go through a sort of reconfiguration during the retrograde cycle. It's a really interesting sequence.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, it is an interesting sequence. I'm one of the things that comes to my mind is, um, hold on just one second. All right. So if it starts with the sun, trine Uranus, one of the things that come to my mind is the feeling that I'm ready to go beyond a limit. Especially the sun, and a Saturn-ruled sign is trining Uranus. It just has the feeling of maybe through hard work and determination, sort of Capricornian qualities; I can go beyond a limit. I can surpass it. Now, that could be a good thing. That could be hubris speaking; it sort of depends on the situation. But then let's imagine that the next day you get the full moon in Cancer. The full moon in Cancer gives that. Like you said, there's an emotional check-in.

It's like, okay, well, can your body can your emotions? Can your family know? Can you handle it? Or can the environment around you support it? Will you make yourself sick? Or will you go too far somehow? So it feels like this. If I feel like, you know, Capricorn and Uranus and a trine and an earth trine will like, well, let's climb the mountain. You know, let's do it. Right, and nothing's gonna hold us back. Except for, you know, you're gonna bulldoze your family time, or you're going to these are the things that I think of because of my reality. Right? But so the Cancer full moon might give some kind of gut check about the viability of the situation in a more human, more emotional way. And I think I'm sort of repeating what you said, though. Absolutely.

Alex Amorosi
I was just thinking about security, too. You know, one of the things out from lung cancer to just like, Do you have a feeling of safety around you with Uranus in the sun can be like, wow, you know, like, let's just go dirt biking in the Grand Canyon. You know, like, just, you know, whatever. It's like, Yeah, but do you have to ride a dirt bike? Could you just hike, you know, like, just like, could you just look at it and then go home? Stand there and look at it, you know, there's a little bit more of that, like, you know, that nice sense of like, Yeah, well, okay, let's just double check that with a sense of feeling secure and safe and contained that sorts of Cancer.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, I think the cazimi, then at the end, that's interesting, because whatever the full moon might bring in as. Let's call it an emotional gut check because opposition's will bring up polarities. So whatever the sun is on about, the reason that we're saying it'll get checked by the moon and the full moon in Cancer is because that full moon is in a polar opposite place. And so whatever the sun and Uranus are trying to do, probably something original, inventive, surpass a limit, do something that you know, sort of it has a kind of heroic, ambitious quality. The moon will gut give a gut check, and emotional check, a family check, or something like that from the opposite end. Then Mercury comes through with the cazimi, and that makes me feel like maybe you delegate something, maybe you come up with a compromise, and Mercury, at the heart of the sun, is so many times will be about the synthesizing of something. Because it's a rebirth moment for Mercury. It's as though Mercury is being infused with the archetypal energy of the sun. And it's an It's then going to be reborn as a Morningstar. So maybe there's a change of mind that's happening between the trine and the full moon and the cazimi, like, I'm going to do this thing, there's a check and then a compromise or something like that. Does that make sense?

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, it makes total sense. I wholeheartedly agree. I think that the Mercury cazimi are always, you know, whenever there's a sort of whenever is that that midpoint of the retrograde cycle and any of the cycles I often think of like, that's the moment where you can see the way forward. Right? And exactly what you said, right? You know, it's like, yeah, now I might change my mind. And it might be tempered a little bit with his ideas, but at least I can see if I can actually get there yet. I'm starting to fog is clearing, and I'm starting to see the way I'm going to do this in the modified way; the rest retrograde is asking you to do it,

Adam Elenbaas
right. And this would make sense given that right after the cazimi and the full moon, Mercury then, through its retrograde, hits the trine to Uranus on the eighth. And so it does look like when you have this powerful trine series of trines between the Sun Mercury and Uranus. Those are usually like progress, problem-solving, excitement, and charisma; it's very dynamic. And it's usually about strategy, a change of mind getting excited about something you want to learn, and being empowered in speech. It has all of those qualities. So it's a lot about ambition, with the sun. So it's as though you're not. Those things aren't going to get derailed. But the full moon does mark this point of, like, whatever you think you're off to the races with, you're gonna get this big emotional check from the full moon. I think that's really important.

For example, how many times does this happen in my practice? I can't even; it feels like it's so predictable. Someone is going through a sun Uranus dynamic in their birth chart, like Uranus is trining, squaring, opposing, and conjoining their sun; they'll be going through a personal breakthrough in their life, and their ambition is being clarified there. They're surpassing old limits, and self-doubts are being washed away. And it's like a really exciting time for people. It's one of my favorite transits to talk to people about because people like it, you know, it's like, I don't have to sit there and talk to them about a Saturn transit. So that's always a bonus. But then it's like clockwork, as they're having a breakthrough, there will be a regressive pull from their mom, or their, their drug addict brother, or like some, you know what I mean? Like, there'll be something that like says, No, you can't grow, I don't like it, it makes me uncomfortable, or you can't grow because you're going to leave me behind, or it'll often be from the realm of the family.

Alex Amorosi
It's so funny is that, you know, I think you and I might have talked about this before in a previous video, but I'm every yoga teacher training that I've ever taught for 15 years, the second or third weekend, somebody will ask, and I'm not kidding, this happens, everyone, you know, I'm doing this training. And I'm finding this whole new way of being, this whole new way of exploring the world, and my partner doesn't like it, or my mom's having trouble with it or so and so that it is like, just just like you said in your practice, like for me and trainings that was like clockwork, it's that same sort of idea. And it's a very, I think of the Sun Uranus, we would say in yoga terms is a handstand moment is the first time someone does a pose they never thought they could do. Or they take training, and they never thought they could do it, and it expands out all of a sudden, what's possible, and then there can feel that like, but don't leave me behind. Right? This doesn't feel familiar anymore. You don't feel familiar anymore because you've gone in this radically new direction.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, you're like; it's so it's uncanny. It's like, oh, I have this personal breakthrough. And suddenly, you know, my spouse is telling me that they like other women or something, and you're like, Why? Why, when I'm having a breakthrough, do you have to turn into Freddie, you know, you know, but it just happens. It just happens. Yeah, well, let's go to January 9. That sequel, so that sequence is remember that's the sun trine Uranus on January 5, January 6, the full moon in Cancer on January 7, Mercury cazimi, and January 8 Mercury trine Uranus. So between the fifth and the eighth, you have a powerhouse of transits, just like a power-packed sequence. They're now January 9; Venus goes into a trine with Mars, which is very interesting because on the ninth Venus trines, Mars, the 11th and 12th Mars stations and turns direct after its long retrograde in Gemini.

This feels like another a moment of completion, something it feels nice that Venus is sort of trining Mars as Mars makes this turnaround that feels auspicious. It feels like maybe whatever we have needed to learn or grow through whatever the Mars Retrograde has been about. Look at that whole sign house of Gemini and your birth chart. Whatever transformation has been taking place there since late October. It's nice that the goddess of good fortune is sort of touching Mars with a fortunate Jupiterian trine trends of the nature of Jupiter right as Mars is changing directions feels like maybe there's a sort of like a positive resolution to something.

Alex Amorosi
Absolutely. And you know, In two is Venus in the superior position exerting her presence and force on Mars, she's in the dominant position. And I think that it's really nice for Mars to get that sort of little beautiful little train from Venus on his way out of retrograde but also is thinking like this is a very eclectic playful, fun, cerebral matching of wits type of trine, I would think between Aquarius and Gemini, you know, like there's a very sort of like offbeat, fun kind of quality to it, too. That's kind of on the level of ideas and in the air signs, your new level ideals, and in the more cerebral areas of intellect and stuff like that. But yeah, I think this is a really nice way for Mars to begin to turn around, which has been, at times, a really challenging retrograde, especially at the beginning with the squares and Neptune.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah. Let's say that you have been in the process of trying to redo something. Let's say it's been in your career house because you're a Virgo rising, for example, which would put the Mars Retrograde in your 10th. It feels like this would be a moment where, you know, whatever you've been trying to do, you're like, let's say you've been trying to redesign the approach that you have to getting you meeting your goals at work or something like quarterly goals or something. Venus training Mars as Mars stations and turns direct could be like, the period of trying to implement something new is now paying off. Right?

So you're starting to reap the benefits of having taken the time to revise and completely change the way that you're doing something. And now you're starting to see the first benefits, or you show it to your boss, and your boss goes, wow, that was really innovative. Good job. Like yeah, let's use that approach or something. I'm just making this up. But obviously, the idea is that it's a very fortunate trine from an, as you said, Venus in the superior position, sort of exerting her presence and her energy over Mars as Mars turns direct. So I think that's probably one of the best things you could ask for given that, you know, anytime that a planet stations, it can, it can often feel like a very critical turning point. And when a malefic is stationing, whether it's turning Direct or Retrograde, they're usually turning retrograde; it's harder, but turning direct, you'll often see the signs of something recovering. So when a malefic is turning direct, you'll often see something starting to get better. And then it's being blessed by this kind of trine from Venus. So that feels like you could see things getting better around this time, especially in that whole sign house of Gemini.

So January 11 and 12th, Mars stations and turns direct January 14, and again, look at how prominent Venus is this month. I mean, it's just, it's the Venus show. So oh, by the way, before we go any further, I just want to note this comment from Tiffany Hayden. Adam, you are so correct about Burlesque being Venus in Capricorn. I've been a burlesque dancer at the highest travelling level for 15 years, and I'm a Venus in Capricorn. Yeah, I knew it. I mean, I don't know if there are probably like lots of different types of dancing. That could be Venus in lots of types of different types of art that Venus in Capricorn could represent, but that one came to my mind, so I'm glad to hear that at least one person out there. It's awesome. Yeah. Um, Let's see here.

Okay, so let's go on to Venus square Uranus. On January 14, Venus will go through the square to Uranus. So Venus in Aquarius square, Uranus and Taurus. I don't usually look at reception from outer planets, but the fact that Venus is squaring Uranus in Venus's sign to me is relevant here because this is yet another anytime that Venus goes through the squares opposition's or conjunctions with Uranus and Taurus. I feel like you get these really sparkly radical Venusian breakthroughs. It's almost like Uranus, the God of freedom, revolution, etc. already doing very Venusian things, but it becomes so powerfully Venusian when Venus hits those squares oppositions or conjunctions since Uranus has been in Taurus, but dating back to like May of 2018.

So this is another one of those moments where Venus is squaring Uranus in Taurus, a Venus-ruled sign, and I think we could expect to see themes of whether it's aesthetic, sexual, it's rooted in your appearance, or your wardrobe, or your style, or it's, it's in relationships, you're going to see those moments of greater independence, freedom, revolution, and inventiveness and the need to be free and to break out of anything that feels constricting. So those are the main things that I would watch for; how would you talk about Venus and Uranus together?

Alex Amorosi
From these signs? Yeah, I was just thinking about all of that. And I hate to use the cliche of creative because that's such a broad word. But when you have Venus and Aquarius, squaring Uranus and Taurus like, I could see like an artist who has felt frustrated with their style for a really long time getting a sudden reinvention of like, oh, actually, I want to go in this direction. Or actually, you know, I have this brand new idea of how I want to create or the type of painting I want to do, or sculpt or music; I want to write that there's a there's often with Venus hard aspects here. And it's I found it, and I love that you're mentioning the reception here, too. I haven't been thinking about that a lot. But it makes a lot of sense. There's, there's a need to be free from an old container of some sort that has served its purpose. And there's often like an impulse to immediately jump to a new free way of being creative; I'm just thinking a lot about art here just because I could see someone with a lot of, you know, an Aquarian, like a kind of out of the box Prometheus and this is going to better something it's going to this is going to serve more this is going to bring something new to people type of idea. Got those two very Promethean ideas of Aquarius and Uranus in contact with each other.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah. If someone has taken some, how do you say boudoir? If someone did take those pictures and decided, Well, screw this being just for me, I'm gonna fly my flag. I'm going to show the world how beautiful and sexy, and confident I am. It would happen while Venus was square to Uranus. Like it wouldn't be like, the moment where you would be like, You know what, this isn't so private. I don't give a damn what people think. And I'm gonna put it on my homepage. I don't care if my Aunt Betty sees it. You know?

Alex Amorosi
Billboard in Times Square. Put it up.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, totally. It's, it has that like, you know, if if you've got something that is beautiful and attractive, you know, puff it out like the peacock tail. It's like just put it out there for people to see be your brilliant flaming weirdo amazing self, you know, and just and, and I think being irreverent is a Venus Uranus thing to where it's like, you know? Oh, God, you know, did you ever see there was a movie? What was it called? It was called the Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. Did you ever see that movie? No. Fantastic. I think it came out when I was in like high school. And I think it might have been with Macaulay Caulkins. What's his younger brother's name? Rory Culkin? No, it's the other one. I can't remember his name, anyway. So it was one of his brothers, I think now I can't remember it but anyway in but anyway this movie is a lot it's there's many ways in which it is a Venus Uranus movie. In the movie, they call on that poem from William Blake. Tyger Tyger burning bright in that? Do you know what I'm talking about? You know that? Do you know that poem?

Alex Amorosi
No, but, like, this is Kieran Culkin by the way, was that the other one, coffee?

Adam Elenbaas 54:04
Yes, it's called the Tyger by William Blake, and here is how it goes. Okay, Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat.
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp.
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

Isn't that beautiful? Yeah, that's like one of my favorite poems of all, then, you know, of course, William Blake is a genius. But I mean that the thing about that's very Venus, Uranus to me. And that poem plays a big role in the movie The dangerous lives of altar boys, which in part is about this irreverent tendency that these kids have to make and draw comic books during their Catholic school. And that poem ends up playing a big role as well. But it's sort of that that their irreverence in that movie, their youthful irreverence toward religion toward the nuns toward Catholic school, is sort of progressively being compared to the beauty of the Tiger in William Blake's poem is this terrible beast, right? But it's so beautiful. It's like it's beautiful and terrible at the same time.

Venus square Uranus is like that. Why is it that Venus square Uranus causes people to want to break things that are sort of conventionally beautiful because they're looking for that fearful symmetry. They're looking for the thing that is beautiful but somehow edgy, or deadly or unconventional, or even marginalized somehow. And, you know, so it's the, it's the altar boys drawing dirty comic books in Catholic school. That's Venus, Uranus. So whatever it is, I think it's interesting that Venus is going through conjunction with Pluto at the beginning of the month. And then later in the month, we get to January, mid-month, and Venus is squaring Uranus. It's like it's a very powerful Venusian month.

Alex Amorosi
Oh, absolutely. And then she's gonna go, which we'll get to Chicago, Saturn. Two, she's really getting like not going through this incredible journey of the outer planets this month. Yeah. You know.

Adam Elenbaas
And there's more, too, I mean, we haven't even gotten to the Saturn dynamic yet, but it's Kieran Culkin. You said that too. So someone's confirming it for us. All right. That's cool.

January 17 and 18th Mercury stations to turn direct in Capricorn. So you can look at that whole sign house of Capricorn in your birth chart and get a pretty good feel for where the story is shifting. It has been a lot of emphasis on the house of Capricorn in your birth chart, and Mercury finishing its work in that house might give a sense of relief, especially if you've been stuck on something or there's been a more serious or heavy level of thinking or communication going on around something, you might notice that things start to lighten up where you feel like you're reaching a place of conclusion.

It's interesting to me that Mercury is turning direct, just very shortly after Mars is turning direct because Mars is retrograde or had been retrograde in Mercury sign. I wonder if the full sort of conclusion of that Mars Retrograde happens more like the 17th or 18th of the month. When you see Mercury turning direct,

Alex Amorosi
You know, like when you're trying to start a lawnmower, you're like, that's sort of like I feel like that might feel what it's like when Mars is stationing. Like it feels like okay, whatever Mars, the will that has been in, checked or unable to move forward, wants to move forward, and the voter is trying to start, but it doesn't move like start the lawnmower until Mercury moves. I was thinking that when I was looking at the sequence for this month, it's also by that, and then when Uranus moves Direct, we do get everybody moving direct for a little while, like all the planets moving direct, and there has been such a period of Retrogrades and going backward and going over things and reviewing. I've even been saying this to clients as I think the real forward motion of 2023 begins towards the end of January as we get towards the Aquarius New Moon, like the Lunar New Year; this year really feels like the New Year of where we're going and 2023

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think someone asked while you were going, I was born with sun trine Uranus, is that expressed in the same way that we were describing? I would say yes; I mean, not all at once every single day, but you're going to see those themes we were talking about with the sun Uranus as applicable themes for your own psychology, for sure. Anything you want to add to that, Alex? Yeah,

Alex Amorosi
I would say, like you know, with that end, you might see it with the Sun Sun representing the path of your life, your ambition. As you know, your ideals, your intellect, like the unconventional journey, the desire to be free, the AI leading a life path where it's very off the beaten path in some way that might all be ways that those things come together. But I would say, Yeah, usually you'll see it depends on the houses and the birth chart. It depends on the houses and the signs, but generally, those themes.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, for sure. January 21, we get a new moon in Aquarius. So it's interesting because the 21st is a new moon in Aquarius, and the 22nd is Venus conjoining Saturn. Venus and Uranus, and you want it to appear. And I don't understand how or why, but you're here you are. We're not going to take you; we're going to leave you there. So yeah, so a new moon, New Moon in Aquarius, and right after the new moon in Aquarius. The next day, Venus conjoins Saturn. So you could say that it is a new moon toned by a Venus Saturn conjunction in the same sign. It's as though there's a new moon party happening in a house down the street. And on, you know, on the roof of the house. There's a stargazing deck, and at the very top, Venus and Saturn are like locked in, you know, in a serious eye gaze. You know,

Alex Amorosi
I just got some sort of Disney cartoon from that. Yeah, right, like the superhero on the roof. Like, I'm not gonna let you into that party.

Adam Elenbaas
All right. The New Moon is happening at the first degree of Aquarius, and the Venus Saturn conjunction is around 24 degrees of Aquarius, with a co-present in the same house. So this is, by the way, the moon cycle, the start of the moon cycle that we're studying in my Roots and Spheres program. So we're taking a really hard look at this signature of the new moon around the Venus Saturn conjunction in that in that program and pairing that with our first plant teacher of the month in that new class that Ashley and I are teaching.

I don't want to give all of what I have to say in that class away, right, but the one thing I will say is, you know, a new moon with Venus Saturn square to me would speak to a more deep, serious, heavier weightier, but also more mature, and possibly more valuable things around love and relationships, around sexuality around what you value, what you desire, what you find attractive, or what you don't, what you like, or what you don't like, and these becoming very important pieces of the moon cycle ahead.

The only thing that's a little curious here is that Aquarius could make all of that significantly more ideological or intellectual or sort of mental. And so I'm wondering how that might play out that particular dimension of the new moon with Venus and Saturn. But I think the main thing that I want to stick with is that this new moon seems to present.

We go from Venus being like really going through a lot of dynamic movement from Pluto to Uranus, right? And then the new moon comes through. And it's like, Venus is now getting either checked by Saturn in maybe a way that's really hard or difficult. Like we're talking about a regressive pull when there's a breakthrough. Could there be something similar happening for Venus later in the month or On this new moon, or could it be that whatever breakthroughs Venus has been having, that she's now being met by the need to transform them from the excitement and inspiration period into a crystallization, okay, now move make this real now.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, and moving it forward to the right, that Aquarius idea of like, you know, make it real and then move it, what's the how are we going to move this forward? You know, I was thinking that to Adam and kind of like Venus is going through this almost experimental period of going through the conjunction of Pluto and then the trine to Uranus. And I was reading the comments. And then, you know, Saturn, Saturn, sometimes in a very loving way, can say pick a lane, pick a lane, you're doing all this experimenting, you've tried all these new things, you know, you've gone through all this, you know, these ideas? And now, what do you want to commit to? Now? Where do you want the more durable, longer-lasting sort of tracks of this to bring you? I don't think Venus and Saturn, I think these don't always have to be a tough combo, they can be a tough combo, but I think they have a lot. They have a deep relationship to each other in the zodiac. And so there can also be a sense of grounding that comes from this too, by having to, you know, constrict or make a choice, or I just keep getting pick a lane, right, you've done all this experimenting. Now, which one do you want to commit to you for long-lasting beneficial results?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. And I think that what happens as a result of this encounter, whether it's a difficult one or it's something that's refining, like you were saying, it's almost like Venus and Saturn. Coming together helps Venus to go from inspirational and visionary to more real practical, having to make tough choices. But whatever happens, four days later, Venus enters her exultation in Pisces.

Alex Amoros
And boy, is she happy to get there? Yeah, right.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, totally. Exactly. It's like, you know, it's like, it's like, Oh, thank God moment for Venus.

Alex Amorosi
Having gone through goes off the high dive.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah. And I mean, you know, what I look at this, and I go, Venus is now Venus has now moved through this like encounter with Saturn and whatever has happened. Venus is now exalted. So I just feel like Venus wins in the month of January. It's just it's a thoroughly Venusian month, in the sense of starts with the Pluto conjunction ends with Venus in her exultation. In the middle, there's a square to Uranus and then a conjunction with Saturn around a new moon. And then right after that new moon, you get Venus entering her exultation, still, as an evening star, you know, sort of rising higher, higher green, gaining more luminosity and strength for ancient astrologers was equivalent to luminosity and so forth.

So it's just a month where I think that the Venus Saturn moment is like maybe a little bit hard or getting real about something. But pretty shortly after that, Venus is really happy again. So it looks like a pretty, pretty nice sequence. And I would look, if people were like, well, practically, where do I look for this? I would look at the three-house sequence from late Capricorn to Aquarius to Pisces and track out especially probably Aquarius, tracking out the movement through that house and how Venus is going to be activating the topics of that whole sign house of Aquarius in your chart.

Alex Amorosi
You know, yeah, I love that. And I think, you know, it's like, After that encounter with Saturn to where there might be something that comes from that pick a lane moment where now I often think of like, in like, there's like a formula in rom coms where like, you know, there's all of a sudden, there's a problem like everything was going along great. And then there's a problem or a discovery or whatever, and then it actually winds up strengthening the relationship going forward. Like, as you know, like that's, that's Venus, and you know, being held up in Pisces, like, this is the result of all of that train through Capricorn. Aquarius and Pisces was Saturday in the last stop on the train tracks, so to speak.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, that's, that's, that's a great way of putting it. Okay, well, we got through; there are a few other transits. I didn't get to every single transit of January, but we tried to kind of pick a narrative arc for the month. So hopefully, this will there'll be might be a few other transits that I cover on YouTube in the month of January that we're not looking at here. What we would like to do next is, Why don't we take like a, just a quick maybe we'll just take like a quick bathroom break? We'll come back. We'll leave. I'm going to leave the live stream going.

We're gonna take like maybe three, four, or five minutes or something like that. We'll come back, and then what we're going to do is we're going to go Aries through Pisces horoscopes for January, just pulling out what we think maybe the key transit or two of the month is for every single rising sign I know I've just been drinking a bunch of tea so I'm going to use the bathroom really quick Alex if you need to as well and then we'll just come back shortly awesome okay we'll be back everyone.

Alex Amorosi
All right, perfect. All right, we're back and ready to go.

Adam Elenbaas
No, absolutely. I was like, oh, you know what? We're going into horoscopes, and we need one more iced tea.

Alex Amorosi
Now we're gonna put houses in there. I'm gonna get some, yeah Okay,
I just love that we end the story of Venus in January and Pisces. That feels really nice. In that story. Yeah, exactly.

Adam Elenbaas
It's, um, I just made a video. I think it was like; I don't know, it's like two days ago, I think. And it was like, why Venus is the star of 2023. And this is one of the reasons Venus has this massive, really important retrograde over the summer where it's hitting those squares to Uranus again, but the year also starts off with the same thing. So you have these moments throughout the year, where Venus is doing really important things and hitting Uranus at the same time. And it starts off that way in January. So those themes were visiting now; you'll see them coming back in July and August again, as well.

Alex Amorosi
And even in a really interesting contrast, she'll be in Leo at that time. So like, get the flip side of the equation.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, exactly. We're whatever's coming up. Now. In a sense, you're getting the polar opposite of over the summer, which is fascinating. Okay, Rena says, welcome back. Thank you. Thanks for hanging around waiting for us.

Alex Amorosi
Thanks, everyone. This is so fun doing this live.

Adam Elenbaas
Oh, gosh, we've gotten about ten people who have submitted donations since we started. Before we get started with horoscopes, now, I want to, once again, plug the Kickstarter. So I'm going to put the link to the Kickstarter in the chat box. There it is. We are now at 1100 backers, which means we need exactly 508 before New Year's Eve, we've gone up like 300 backers in the past 48 hours. So people are waiting until the last moment and giving me a heart attack. No, I'm just kidding. Thank you. It's not life or death. It's a great problem to have to be hoping that we'll smash records and be able to build a donation-based Reading Clinic. I'm really fortunate to be stressed about something like this, honestly. But I want to take you over to the Kickstarter page and tell you what you can pick up; I'm going to run you through the rewards. And then Alex and I will dive into horoscopes. So here we go. You can find the link to the Kickstarter in the description of this video; you can find it on my website, which is nightlight astrology.com.

So yeah, here we have it that's 1100 backers that we have with three days left to go until New Year's Eve at midnight, to try to get 508 More backers. We believe that if we get there if we fall around $350,000 earned, that's what we're looking at in terms of the capital that will need to do all of the major things that we do. So what I do, because I like to be transparent and explain to people without getting into a crazy amount of detail, we set aside an amount that we want to hit in order to pay our staff in order to pay myself, and in order to pay the taxes and fees that come out of a Kickstarter, which are a lot more than most people think.

So you know, for example, right now, if we earned exactly what you see on the screen, which is $280,000, immediately $28,000 of that is gone through Kickstarter and credit card processors. On top of that, the revenue from the Kickstarter is taxed. Although a portion of what you use from the Kickstarter, if they're going towards certain goals that help build your business, can be written off like business expenses. So when we want to build something cool, like a donation-based clinic, this serves this works a lot better, right? Because we can, there's a portion of it that we can write off. So that's why we do it. We try to do like these big cool goals that we think will serve the like serve the larger community of the YouTube members, the students, and so forth.

A portion of when the Kickstarter does really well, it also means that I don't really have to care as much about trying to hit certain numbers with regard to student tuition, which then means that student tuition for people who are in need can be provided without a bottom line. Right.

So when the Kickstarter does well, it means that I can offer need-based tuition to people because I've covered enough of what I need to earn through the Kickstarter so that there's not that pressure for the programs to earn at the normal rates. I couldn't provide, you know, 100 students with need-based tuition or something like that. So, at any rate, that's sort of the, you know, the rocket science behind all of it, in case that matters to anyone. But yeah, so we need 508 More backers; when you donate, you can pick up a lot of different things. And by the way, let's see, yes, the roots and spheres class is there on sale as well.

So here's someone who is asking that question, he was asking that question, you can find the link at the top of my website nightlight astrology.com In the description of this video, or in the live stream chat that I provided, it'll be in the chat box in the posted video afterward, as well. When you scroll down, you can see like the basic donation of $25 gets you the Astrology of 2023 calendar, which we have made. It's a digital calendar. And it's something that will tell you what I'm going to be talking about as the year goes on. So I map out my talks a year in advance. I don't always exactly stick to talking about everything that I decide to talk about, right? But sometimes, I go more in one direction than another. But you're going to get a calendar that shows you all of the major transits of the year that I'm going to be covering in my YouTube channel. And that'll give you a sense of kind of what to expect, almost like you have a TV viewing guide for my YouTube channel. It's pretty cool.

At the $50 level, you'll see the astrology of 2023 video that is a long to longer talk on what I consider to be. I think it's the top 12 transits of 2023 and why I think they're a big deal. $75, you can receive access to an exclusive presentation that I did at a conference in Colorado on why I think people are interested in Hellenistic astrology and why it has become popular. There's another one, the year ahead horoscope reading that is like we're doing horoscopes right now; this is for your sun or rising sign; you get a recording that is about half an hour in length. And it's devoted could some of them are a little bit longer, some a little bit shorter, but it's devoted to the top dozen transits or so for your sun or rising sign for the year ahead. So that's a good one that I don't really see anywhere else. And then there are some other ones like the mystical nodes of the moon; I give a whole lecture on what the nodes of the moon meant to ancient astrologers, and I talk a lot about; there's a video that I do on Saturn, and why people have Saturn all wrong. You know, at least a lot of people do. I have a four-hour talk on the ancient meaning of the houses that I do.

Then there's a podcast that I'm doing in the fall called the Oracle Speaks, which is a 12-part series that I'm not releasing anywhere else. And you can get access to that. That's all about why astrology should be thought of as a form of divination and not a science and what it means to develop a relationship with an Oracle, and how that happens. Then there are some readings; I have like a mini reading. And I have asked three horary questions, greatly discounted horary question readings, you could ask three readings, and you ended up getting, like, I don't know what it is they ended up it ends up being like $100, less than the cost of a horary reading would be on my website. The Roots and Spheres class that's coming up on all of those Moon circle gatherings and working with plant teachers that's on sale. The Masterclass series, which starts in February, is on sale. And then you can pick any of my one-year programs on sale for 50% off. And that's also like four or $500 cheaper than our Early Bird rates.

So you save a ton on that. And then you can bundle them together, the best one we have is there's nine of them left. And those are the four class specials. So we've made those for hitting 50,000 backers. And that's where you can take any of the six classes that I offer that are all one year in length. You can bundle any four of them together. In any combination you'd like, at any time you'd like, they never expire. You could even gift one or transfer one of the four to someone else or whatever; that for class pack will take the price of each class down to 75% off the normal rate. So that's a really good deal. There are only nine of those left. Yeah, so that's that is the gist of what you can get in terms of rewards. And again, really a big thank you to 1000, now 1002 People who have contributed really, really appreciate you guys. Hopefully, we can get to our goal. Yeah. That's awesome. Alex has been through my programs. Alex has been through year one, year two, and horary now, right?

Alex Amorosi
I've been through year one in horary. Yeah, I'm still in the middle of horror, which I'm really enjoying. Um, you know, I would also say too, you know, years ago, when I was first studying astrology, my YouTube algorithm brought me to this lovely guy who gave these talks on astrology in this tiny little blue room. And I was like, Who is this and who's read the whole Bhagavad Gita like, Who is this, like, it's just incredible, like I was like, and ever since, you know, I was really in a place where I wasn't sure if I wanted to study astrology or not, and I did Adams first-year class could just really to like, and we enjoy more about astrology, and I really enjoyed out of his talks in his channel. And that class gave me the love of astrology to go into wanting to do readings. And so it's, I also think, to Adam really learning the ancient system and learning it with the seven classical planets. And keeping it simple for that first year made all the difference in my learning.

So if you're really thinking of learning and studying astrology, like one of the things, I don't know if you've reformated it or such, but like, we worked just with the seven classical planets for that first year, and it changed the way I look at my practice, and change the way I look at charts, it made it much easier and more accessible when I added the outer planets back in. It was just a really wonderful foundation of confidence to be able to work with that system and then add in things here and there that I've added back in over the years since that.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I mean, most people don't realize that, you know, what you're getting when you study astrology online is a, like, a mishmash of a lot of different schools and traditions. And you never really know which piece of theory fits where like people will come into my classes with ideas like all over the map about houses, science, planets aspects. None of them individually are wrong, per se, but they don't really know where they come from. And they don't really understand why certain ideas might be completely incompatible with other ideas that they have and how that's creating a lot of confusion when they go to try to read a chart.

Going back to the roots of ancient astrology and studying the foundations, theoretically, philosophically, spiritually, you just you get this, it's, it's like learning to meditate on the earliest hermetic mandala of astrological information, right? It's just like a language that you're learning. You take it in very deeply. And then it's like, you now have an understanding of, you know, Venus that's rooted in her relationship with like four other gods. And then the context that you find Venus in another God's sign will suddenly be way easier to understand than you've ever understood it before.

Because Hellenistic astrologers teach you, they have a way of teaching you by weaving multiple concepts together constantly in order to make sense of any one thing. It's really hard to describe to people how much better you get at astrology if you take some time to study Hellenistic because you end up just sounding like you're trying to say that there's this the best school ever and it's the only school of astrology that exists. And actually, it's like, no, you could study any school of astrology. But if you go back and take time to study the roots, whatever if your evolutionary astrologer or your Uranian astrologer, whatever you are, understand those routes is going to make you like ten times better at whatever kind of astrology you're doing.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, and you know, Adam, totally riffing off that, like I use asteroids in my practice in some of the Kuiper Belt Objects sometimes, but I use them very sparingly and in very different, very selected ways based on having studied that map of a system and the Hellenistic system that also provides you with a lot of why's and I need to know why I don't want to be like, Well, why does that why is the fifth house this? Why is the fourth house this Why? Why was, you know, Saturn signs Aquarius and Capricorn? And one of the things that you know, it's now so ingrained in me, I don't think about it very much. But just even understanding the luminaries and Saturn's relationships with luminaries and all of these other planets, relationships, that helps you understand aspects helps you understand the signs better. It helps me explain signs to people in a way they may not have heard that allows them to explore different depths of them. So it's just with my point also with that is that, like, I've also added in other schools of astrology that I've studied from, but I that's always my base is that the traditional zodiac, the traditional rulers in whole sign houses, and I know why I'm using that, and it makes all the difference.

Adam Elenbaas
For example, most modern astrologers would if you This was me to like before I studied ancient astrology, you are taught that there is something about the first house that has to do with Aries, right? And its meaning has something to do with Aries and maybe Mars or something like that. In ancient astrology, the reason that you get all of the topics of the first house, the native, their body, their appearance, their health, it's their psychology, etcetera. Come from a very nuanced astronomical rationale. It has nothing to do with the 12 signs. So you find a lot of modern students coming into the classes and going, oh, well, the sixth house has something to do with, say, selfless service and sacrifice because it's related to Virgo.

Ancient astrologers did not have that understanding at all. Their understanding of the sixth house was rooted in astronomy and what planets are doing right after they set and disappear in the western sky. And that's where the topics come from. When you are able to pull apart signs and houses, even that for most people completely revolutionizes their practice when they understand the difference between what a sign is, philosophically conceptually, what it does to a planet, what planet changes depending on what sign it's in, what the proper way of thinking about the difference between signs and planets are, what to speak of signs, planets, and how they differ from houses, or what they have in common with the house and what they don't. Those things alone, most people never learn because the honest truth is that modern astrology until very recently, was deprived of the vast majority of the traditional source texts from the earliest period of horoscopic astrology; those texts literally became available to us in English only, very, very recently. And so Hellenistic astrology is not even really a school of astrology as much as it is about trying to take us back to the roots of where all of the concepts come from and kind of pull them apart in more meaningful and coherent ways.

And then teach you how ancient astrologers said, You ought to read a chart. I call my class Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic because the first-year program, because once we've done that, of course, we also want to be able to bring into our practice all of the incredible developments in modern astrology, for example, the combination of depth psychology through people like Freud, and Jung, and the way that Jung was using astrology, we want to bring all of that sort of counseling psychology sensibility, along with us.

So it's really, at the end of the day, about fusing ancient astrology with modern psychological and archetypal astrology. But you, in order to do that, in my first-year program, we pull out the outer planets, we pull out, like everything modern, just to go back to the roots. So you can really understand things in a vacuum. And then in year two, we start to put those things back in and reintegrate them people there, the whole way that they understand astrology completely changes. Alex is a great testimony to that.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, yeah, it's awesome. And also, the other thing you just say quickly is the live readings that you do in year one; I don't know if you do them a year or year two. But that was, like, mind-blowing to watch how you also interact with the client. And then you take all that theory from the year and put it into practice when you're really when you're speaking with a live human being and their life, their actual life, and what's going on with them. And it really shows you how to concretize the theory into a pro, a session that will be helpful in a value and service to somebody.

Adam Elenbaas
Also, when you learn that ancient astrologers were mostly thinking about astrology as a form of divination, it really changes the way that you read charts. And that's something that's like my soapbox and my program, people who take my programs know, like, I tend to hammer on that a lot, you know, because that's my that's a big part of the way that I practice. But anyway.

Lorella says I'm a current student; I decided to do Adam's class because I love the way he incorporates depth psychology and Jungian ideas. Well, that's great feedback. Because one of the things one of the fair criticisms of ancient astrology is that sometimes it just feels like a, you know like a traditional can feel like boring. You know, it can feel sort of historical and academic. And I like to think that my programs are very soulful, and still, very psychologically, and spiritually deep and enriching, enriching. So that's great feedback to hear. Okay, well enough. Enough about that. Thank you, guys, for letting me promote my program, the Kickstarter, I know that you are here to hear astrology and, you know, not the advertisements. But this is also how we build this into cooler and cooler things like the donation-based reading service that we want to provide. So I really appreciate you guys sort of letting me do my thing. And we'll try to give you some good horoscopes.

Now, I'm going to put the link one more time to the Kickstarter in the chat box. So you can find it you can also find it in the description of this video or go to my website, which is nightlightastrology.com. And when you go to the website, you're going to click on the Courses page to learn about any of the courses that you can get in the Kickstarter. And if you see at the top of the page, there's a Kickstarter link as well at the homepage.

Alright, so let's get into it. We're going to start with Aries and go through all 12 signs and give you Some transits for each, and I've picked some for every sign, and Alex is going to help me rap on these things. So for Cancer, although there are lots of transits, we're just picking like one or two big ones for every sign.

So for Aries, rising Aries, Aries, sun or rising, we're going to look specifically at the full moon in Cancer on January 6, as well as the new moon in Aquarius that comes through on January 21. Remember, on the 22nd; Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius as well. So that focuses the Full Moon on January 6, in your fourth house if you're an Aries or Aries rising, and the new moon comes through January 21, with Venus conjoining Saturn on the 22nd in Aquarius in your 11th.

So when I look at these big lunar developments in the month for you to start the year, I think this is about home and social group family identity. Right, you've got Jupiter just entering your house, placing a lot of emphasis on you strengthening within yourself. But then there's a full moon around the fourth house, a lot of emphasis on home family roots, living environment, and family karma, and then a new moon in the 11th house of groups, friends, and allies. So while this looks like a very empowering month for Aries with Jupiter entering your first house, I think it's a lot about home family and social dynamics as the month goes on. I think that's where the importance is going to be placed by the lunar cycles in January. So that's the things that those are the areas that I would look for if you're an Aries. Do you want to say anything about the new and or the full moon in the new moon?

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, we just, you know what you've said, and I think you know, the full moon, particularly in Cancer, I mean, that is the sign very much associated with the proverbial or the symbolic home in the house, the fourth house that represents home, the ancestry and there might be some emotional connection to that or something that's being shined on completion around an emotional cycle around the family or around ancestry. Sometimes even the fourth house, even more specifically related to your dad or your primary, paternal caregiver.

And somehow, that informing the way you intellectualize or bring a more sort of connective quality to your professional or social networks. I often think of the 11th house both as social and professional networks, I've seen kind of effects bowls, and something with Venus hitting Saturn later in the month in your 11th house is sort of like picking a direction or something, feeling like it's sort of whittled down in order to go a certain direction with that those social groups. So that's my two cents on that.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's, that's, again, it's like it's exciting that Jupiter is coming into your first house. But the empowerment there seems to be running through social considerations, the personal, familial ones, and the larger social or professional ones. Alright, let's look at Taurus. So we're putting Taurus on the ascendant now, and for Taurus sun or rising, I want to look specifically at the Venus Uranus Square, which is taking place on sorry, let me there it is. It is taking place on January 14. So followed by the new moon in Aquarius, which is coming through on the 21st. So between the 14th and the 21st, two major transits for Tauruses? Right, you've got your ruling planet, Venus, in your 10th house, squaring Uranus, and then by the 21st and 22nd conjoining Saturn around that new moon and Aquarius. Do you want to lead us off on this one, Alex?

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, you know, this is really interesting. I think that you know your for Taurus rising. Your sense of self in relationship to your career or how you're seen in the world is somehow being liberated. It's there's something, particularly from your sense of self with Uranus there something that has to be freed, something that has to be done in its own way, something that has felt constricted, maybe frustrated for a while, hitting Venus, which is in your career house, which maybe leads to an unorthodox out of the box type of change.

That ultimately feels liberating; I always make with Uranus transits, especially when they have to do with career self or relationships, is they can give the feeling of needing an immediate freedom, and sometimes you just want to take a breath and then check that because it can also be just the feeling like I need to be free. And then you wake up the next morning, you're like, Oh, what did I do? I just did I just get my resignation? And I just throw coffee in my boss's face. Don't do that. But that sort of thing. Yeah, that's where I go with that one to start.

Adam Elenbaas
I think I think of Uranus in the first, with the ruling planet of the first house, Venus being in the 10th. And, you know, it's easy to think that there's okay, there's this house of personal identity, and then there's this house of public identity. But when are the two? What are the two linked together? Do you know? Well, one way that they would be linked together would be if the ruling planet is in the 10th, squaring a planet in the first; it's as though there is an inner conflict or dialogue related to who I am. And how does it appear in the world? Just who I am on the inside or more physically or personally need to shift the way it shows up outside?

Or is that BS? And do I need to stop caring about what other people see or think and that this is just for me, or so I feel like those kinds of tensions between something more public or professional and something that's truly more personal, or maybe even more about your health or your physical appearance or your internal life are having a conversation and trying to create some kind of meaningful change. But how socially determined or conditioned is that change? It could be the kind of thing where, you know, you're like, I don't care what you think. And so I'm going to, you know, dye my hair pink. And then, as soon as you do it, you go, Oh, well, I just didn't need to dye my hair pink to make my point. Do you know What I mean? So if we're on the other hand, maybe you did, maybe you absolutely did need to dye your hair pink. So whatever.

But I think it's that kind of thing, where it's about, it's the personal versus the public. And there's some kind of change going on there. I think it's interesting that the new moon suggests the same thing. Well, how you show up out in the world is going through some really noticeable changes. They are either reflective of interchange or, you know, are you projecting something that's not you? Or, and I wonder if Venus is going to get some kind of gut check more, you know, with the new moon on January 21 and into the 22nd. When Venus conjoins Saturn, that's like, Okay, well, are you real? Is this? What's What are the consequences of the kind of person you're becoming? Or what will people think? Or how will that affect your standing with someone or somewhere, like at work? Those are the things that come to my mind. There. Should we go on?

Alex Amorosi
Let's do it.

Adam Elenbaas
Let's do Yeah. All right, Gemini. So for me, the transit of the month for Gemini, at least the one that really stands out, is Mars turning direct. So Mars is right. I mean, that's in your first house. It's like, okay, yes, Mars is turning direct on January 12. And all the way, let's say up to the 14th, let's just say the 12th to the 14th. I think that's a really big one. I think the new moon in Aquarius in your ninth house is also probably one of the biggest ones of the month; you could go into Venus square Uranus as well. But let's just sort of say the whole sequence of what Venus is doing as it is focused in your ninth house. And as a new moon comes through a week after Mars turns direct in your ninth house.

So we're going to focus on the ninth and the first for Gemini. Let me just highlight them. So we're going to focus on these two houses as the places that are intimately connected this month with Mars turning direct from the 12th to the 14th. And then that sequence that Venus goes through with Saturn and the new moon around the 21st or 22nd. Why don't you start us off with this one as well?

Alex Amorosi
Well, I'm excited for Gemini risings because I think that you know, Mars Retrograde in the first house can that can be frustrating, that can feel frustrating that can feel like it's you're being, it's not possible to get traction on things. It can feel like in your body, your mind. There's a sort of inner need to want to move forward and not feeling like you can move forward. So I think just the Mars turning director can provide some relief with that. And like Adam and I were saying in the, in the when we're doing the overview, it may feel till the 17th 18th When Mercury turns direct in Capricorn, where that really starts to take effect for your fields like the motor really gets going.

And then that leads us into the ninth house where there's some relationship between the idea of what has been happening in the body or the mind or your health, your psychology about that feeling of frustration or maybe being held back or something you were reviewing in terms of how You view power and assertion, really factoring into your belief system, your spirituality, factoring into a sense of how you kind of make sense of the world or even you know, that you become or go to people who gives you wise counsel on how to sort of work with this Mars turning directs, I always find that with the ninth house to being a place where we seek out counsel from those who can give us good advice. And it's an air trying to between these two sciences, very, very full of ideas very, very intellectual, does a lot of the mind involved in this as well, the mental mind involved in this.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I like the idea that this Mars, there's a personal change happening; for Geminis, it's, and it's, it's about changing something, maybe even very physical or something about the way that you communicate or the way that you express yourself. However, it is it appears to be rooted as Mercury is. And as the ninth house is similarly connected to mental and intellectual things. It's this change that is connected to ideas.

So changing your mind changing your beliefs, studying something that the way in which you're, you know, all of us make decisions based on an evolution of how we see the world, what we believe to be true, what we believe to be important, or ethical, spiritual, or philosophical ideas or even our lack of certainty, well, I just don't know, informs a lot of the way we make decisions about really important things. So, however, your changing as a Gemini personally seems to be connected to a reorientation of your beliefs or ideas or your intellect or something like that. And that's why I think you could also say that seeking out counsel, like Alex was saying, Would that would make a ton of sense for something like this, or that, like, maybe you're starting to integrate or reach some meaningful conclusions based on something you've been studying, or someone that you've been learning from even just a book you've been reading, that starts to have an impact on you, and suddenly your self-concept is changing somehow. Those are the kinds of a philosophy that changes your life, a class that changes your life, or something like that.

Alex Amorosi
You're gonna find many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. I just had to bring Obi-Wan Kenobi into it. Sorry, it had to happen. We haven't mentioned Star Wars once. I'm trying to pick up some slack here.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. An episode without Star Wars appearing. It's like; it's not complete.

Adam Elenbaas
All right, we've got Cancer rising. So for Cancer, we've got to go with the full moon, on January 6, in your home sign. Here's the thing. For me, I think that Mars turning direct in your 12th house, just after a full moon in your first, is really, it's very significant. I want to say before I dive into my thoughts on that, that you have activity happening in a couple of different places in your chart this month, you know, at the very beginning of the month, like a Venus Pluto conjunction in your seventh house of love and relationships, like wow, that's a big one. So you could see some action around love and relationships at the very beginning of the month. Jupiter's just entered your 10th house of career in December, so you might still be feeling the intensity of Jupiter like, you know, sort of igniting change and kind of putting down the stake of cardinal sign, you know, and being like, Alright, let's go, let's start something. So, you know, the 10th and seventh are kind of rocking for Cancers right now.

But I'm looking at that full moon, and then Mars, the first half of the month, Mars turning direct. And I'm thinking you are reaching a place of emotional clarity after maybe dealing with a lot of back and forth. A lot of confusion, a lot of turmoil, and a lot of inner debate, with Mars Retrograde in Gemini in the 12th. And I think the full moon in Cancer in the first four cancers is going to bring clarity; it's going to bring a sense of I am, I am content, I'm happy, I'm empowered, I feel clear.

That's what a full moon in your own sign in the first house should give you a feeling of empowerment. And then Mars turns direct in the 12th. And I think that could start to clear the cobwebs. If you've been dealing with a lot of mental and emotional turmoil since late October, maybe specifically involving family members or children or marriage or things that are more personal, You know, maybe their relationships, like friendships or something, but I think of more intensely personal, emotional, internal dynamics that have been a source of turmoil or stress that are starting to come clear. And that would be again, specifically from January, what did I say the sixth, when we've got the full moon in Cancer, all the way to Mars Direct between the 12th and the 12th notes, the is it the 11th and the 12th is right about there. Yeah, so it's like the 11th and 12th.

Alex Amorosi
The 12th. Really, you know, I love this full moon in your first house cancer rising; I really liked this because I think it illuminates with what can feel like, you know, Venus is gonna go through, and you're gonna you can see this more if you go back and watch the general ideas we did for the month, Venus goes through the conjunction of Pluto, then a square to Uranus and a conjunction to Saturn and finally winds up at the end of the month in Pisces. And there can be because this is, you know, starting in your seventh house, there's a lot of there can be some relational understandings things that come up from the surface and Mars Retrograde in your 12th house, the same sort of idea like things that are revealed or things that come to the surface or that are suddenly brought into the light of day that the full moon I think in your first house will ask you a little bit like shining a light on what feels most natural to you as a Cancer rising.

You know, and this would depend on where your moon is in the charts. I'm not gonna go crazy on this, but like, you feel nurtured, you feel cared for you in your body, feel safe, you feel you feel like you can go back into a place that feels comfortable, even when there might appear to be a lot of dipping and diving and changing and subsurface stuff coming to the surface around you for the beginning of the month.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, that's nicely said. Again, it's like it's sort of hard to pick for cancers because you do have that really potent Venus Pluto conjunction at the beginning of the month in the seventh house. I wonder what that's about, like when that can be fun, though. I mean, you know, because it's a quick transit and like, I don't know, I would say like it sometimes you see those things manifest is nothing more than like, we're gonna watch Oh, God, what was the transit that I was just the moon was in Aquarius. Just recently, just a couple of days ago. And it was no, no; the moon was in Capricorn, conjoining Pluto. And we watched Moonage daydream, the David Bowie documentary. Have you seen

Alex Amorosi
Oh, yeah. No, I haven't seen that.

Adam Elenbaas
It was awesome. Like, I really liked it. But what I found so interesting was that I'm like, this is astral like, what's going on right now. And I looked at the moon was conjoining Pluto in Capricorn, and David Bowie was born with a couple of planets in Capricorn in the 12th house. Right? So effectively, like so sometimes, I mean, it was stupid, but like sometimes Venus will conjoin Capricorn with Pluto. And, like, you'll just watch a movie that will somehow reflect the themes of Venus and Pluto in Capricorn, will be like a, you know, murder mystery where the two lovers kill each other or something, you know what I mean? Like so, but watch for that at the beginning of the month because for Cancers, the Venus Pluto dynamic is maybe the dark horse for transit of the month. If not, I think the ones that we're talking about. Okay, so let's move on. Are you a Leo rising or Virgo rising? Alex?

Alex Amorosi
I'm a Leo rising.

Adam Elenbaas
I knew it. I knew it.

Alex Amorosi
The lion right here on my desk.

Adam Elenbaas
Nice, nice. Yeah, dude, for sure. You just have that warmth. And that big Leo energy. So let's see. Here's what I was thinking. But I was going to kind of defer to you since I remembered correctly, you're the Venus, or you're the Leo rising. So I was thinking, let's look at Venus square to Uranus, from the seventh to the 10th, as well as the new moon in the seventh. Does that sound right to you? Yeah. Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna let you talk about this for a couple of minutes because I have drank my iced tea too quickly. You need to use the bathroom. You go to our court; you start us off. I'll be right back.

Alex Amorosi
So for all of us, Leo risings. I think what's really interesting is we've got Venus, the ruler and the planet of relationships if we put that on it in the house of relationships squaring Uranus in the house of the public persona, um, you know, I could say one thing that's been coming up for me a lot lately is how, you know, the way I've been conceiving of myself in my career has been changing drastically. Like I used to be more of a teacher now becoming much more of a professional astrologer, and how that is affecting the way that I'm actually entering into relationships. So the way that I'm the sort of radical way that I'm conceiving of myself because I never considered myself ever that I would be a professional astrologer in my career is affecting the way I conceive of myself as someone who is entering into relationship. And you know, with Uranus and Aquarius, you're talking about two very out of the box. Eclectic, avant-garde kind of the, you know, was often considered to be like outside of the norm, type of ideas of both Aquarius and Uranus. And so both interacting with each other in square aspects might be something about how you're going on a sort of wholly new way of conceiving of your career that is affecting a wholly new and sort of out-of-the-box way that you are. You're going into in relationship, is that? Yeah, Thank you, Adam, for saying I bring the warmth. I also bring drama on a bad day. So I fully own that part of my personality.

Alex Amorosi
I was just talking about how you know, the way I've been, I was talking about how I've been moving from being more of a yoga teacher to a professional astrologer and meet him into it now. And how that's been Uranus in my 10th house in the 10th. House and squaring Venus, I think, is gone a long way. Just squaring my seventh house in general, how I come into a relationship, how I go on dates, and how I present myself to other people has gone through a radical shift. Yeah. And that's, that was just kind of going with those ideas.

Adam Elenbaas
That's great. I like that a lot. Because I think one of the things remember this month is your ruling planet as a Leo is the sun, who will also be moving into Aquarius later in January. To me, when you see Venus going through this house, hitting Uranus in the 10th. Okay, let's just say one of the things that is important to a Leo on an archetypal level. You think about the sun and its rulership over the sign of Leo coming in the middle of summer, as the light is dying, but it's also the middle of summer. This is, in a sense, like you could say, it's like, you know, being an adult, in some ways, you're in your prime, but you're also now closer to death than you are, you know, birth, you know. So a concern for Leos is how to live a good life. And the good life is defined by, you know, having a strong sense of meaning, purpose, dignity, pride, some people might say ego, and maybe even a concern with legacy, well, what happens after I die, which could be spiritual, or it could be about, you know, leaving behind a sense that you did something that was important or powerful or that felt good. And these are usually a big concern for Leo, but along with it comes the need to be seen and liked by others.

Saturn in Aquarius is much less inclined to care what other people think and is more likely to stand outside the city wall in some way. And they may still like to be seen or noticed, but it is more likely to be as an outsider or as someone who is different in some way. So when you think of Venus in the seventh right now for Leo's squaring Uranus, and then this new moon in the seventh, even though it could very well be like just traditional like, oh, it's something to do with love and relationships and something to do with work. Another way of looking at it would be to say that you like, as you were saying, Alex, with your shift in professional identity. It's a big risk for a Leo to be like, Guess what, guys? I'm a psychic fortune teller. I'm not a yoga teacher. Yoga teachers are like God; you have no idea. It's very respectable. Right? Do you know? I mean, I know this because when people when, we owned a yoga studio for 10 years, and people would say, what do you do for a living? My wife and I, even though she's also an herbalist and I'm an astrologer, would say we own a yoga studio because everyone is like, Oh, wow, oh, that's really cool. You know, but if You say, Well, I'm an astrologer, they'd be like, oh, like, you know, immediate, like awkward silence, and that kind of thing, but I'm not gonna tell you, you know,

Alex Amorosi
I'm gonna they look at you like you somewhere between like a serial killer and tax auditor. It's like you do what that is but everyone, but the thing is to you also do find out more and more Though I will say people like, Oh, that's cool. Tell me more about that. I think with younger people, they do, but like you come out of, especially in Boston, like, that's how people know me. I've been purely public as a yoga teacher for a long time. And so it's been really interesting to go through that shift. Yeah. And I still do teach yoga too, you know, so it is still something I'll always do, but it's just that identity shift and how I'm relating, you know?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, well, and so if you think about Venus, Saturn, and the new moon in that seventh, but all square to Uranus in the 10th. It's almost as though there's, you know because we tend to project, whatever's in the seventh house, we tend to easily project or identify in partners or other people, you know, and even though it's a part of us, too, so if there's an Aquarian part of you, as a Leo, right, in a Uranian part of you. So it's almost as though there's, it's about stepping outside of your comfort zone socially, with the way you present or the way you show up, maybe that's your public reputation. But I think that that's one way of reading that it falls in line perfectly with what you were saying, which is not so much, okay, look to the place of relationships and career and maybe you know, you get a new job, and you get a new partner, or there'll be activity in both that are somehow related. That's like, you know, one A, right, but one B, I think, or maybe even right next to one A like slash would be that you're going through some significant you're taking some risks in terms of how you show up socially and publicly.

Alex Amorosi
Amen. You know, Saturn and Aquarius, and Uranus and Uranus. One of the things they share very strongly, Adam is a healthy middle finger when necessary. Yeah, like a healthy like, I don't really give a shit what you think. And you're right for Leos and especially ruled by, you know, Jupiter; it's in my son ruled by Jupiter. It's it can be very concerning. Like, oh, God, no, it's just like, Yeah, this is what I do. I love it. I'm in love with it. You know, that sort of idea?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, it's good for Leos to always; you don't want a Leo to like suddenly become an Aquarius like, but you do; you do need transits where you become aware of the fact that you're if it's your sun or your rising, the opposite sign is always a potential unconscious shadow, you know, and so getting to know that part of your life, it's like, you can't really be a Leo until you get to know your Aquarius sort of thing.

Alex Amorosi
It's like, you can't be the king unless you can go be the hermit for a couple of days on the edge of town. And conversely, for Aquarius, you can't, you know, you want to sometimes be the hermit at the edge of town that comes into town and play pea knuckle every weekend or something.

Adam Elenbaas
You know, it's like, dude, if that's the picture of your retirement that I'm gonna keep in my head forever.

Adam Elenbaas
Let's go, so we're on Virgo rising now. So okay, um, how about Mars turning direct in your career house for one? I think that's definitely a big one. I did the same two that we did earlier with cancers. The full moon, excuse me, is the first one is the full moon in your 11th, followed by Mars turning direct in your 10th. So this is between January 6 and, say, January 12. It's been a period of a week this month that I think is probably pretty important for Virgo risings. So, for example, this is an interest like I can give you an example, actually from my daughter's birth chart, that I think is really interesting because, well, anyway, I'll just tell you the story.

So, my daughter is having trouble articulating certain sounds. Like certain letters, she's great in school, she's, you know, really social, communicative, not embarrassed to speak at all, but she's having trouble articulating a few letters and, and, you know, we're like, just let it develop naturally, whatever. But we got some feedback, where it was like, she might need a little extra help, or like, okay, cool. So she will start work with, like, not, it's not like a speech. I don't know what they're called. It's like a speech teacher. Maybe they're, I don't; maybe they were called speech therapists. But so it's someone who's going to be sitting down with her and helping her learn, like her arms, and her W's and some things like that.

So what I found really interesting was that one of the reasons that this came up is that she wanted her friends are starting to be, like, able to enunciate those things, and she can't. So there's some social feeling of like, I want to be able to she's expressed, feeling socially, a little bit embarrassed about that. And so, and we talked to her teacher, and blah, blah, blah. So this is what we're doing. Well, she's going to be starting it on the sixth. And so she'll have her first week of, like, playing these games and learning to enunciate certain letters with this person between the sixth and the 12th. I thought that was really fascinating for, like, how someone asked earlier, how could you see this showing up in a little person's chart, you know, like your kid. So here's an example for that person that asked the question. So my daughter's chart Mars in Gemini in the 10th house because she's a Virgo rising and will turn direct just after that full moon in Cancer. And she's probably going to go through something of a social transformation as she starts getting some help in enunciating and speaking with something that has been frustrating for her. So during this period of Mars Retrograde in your 10th, she expressed frustration over speech and her social ramifications; we were getting her a little help.

Anyway, I think that's a really great example from a young person's chart that illustrates the, but the idea here would be that there is something that has like social or professional, you know, there's the importance of your social life, or your, the groups of friends that you have, or colleagues that you have or something about the larger social hemisphere that you inhabit. That there's an emphasis on that at well; at the same time, something about either your public image or reputation or your job or your work is going through change.

So you think about how you show up in the world, what you look like, how you communicate, how you think, what your job is, and its connection to what other people think about you, where you fit in, who your friends are, et cetera. So like, those are the two houses that I would really look at for Virgo risings. Does that make sense, Alex?

Alex Amorosi
It makes total sense; I love for her, too, because that can be really hard for a kid right to feel like you're standing out or you're not getting some of your friends are getting in like that full moon in the 11th house in Cancer just feels like such a nurturing like I can feel I'm starting to feel safer again in emotionally safe in my friend group. Scared for, like, stable, I just for that particular story. I just love that full moon in the 11th house. And also I think it's interesting, too, that for Virgo risings, you know, Mars will turn direct, you'll have the full moon, and then you've got Mercury, your ruling planet turning direct on the 17th or 18th. That feels really important for Virgo risings to be in that sequence that your ruling planet will; that's when it really feels like the sequence starts to move forward for you around the 17th or 18th When Mercury turns direct.

Adam Elenbaas
Someone said speech pathologist is the correct phrase. So I'm gonna go with that.

Adam Elenbaas
You know who I thought of right away. This is who I thought of. I'm going to show you; hold on. Because just to show you where my little demented imagination goes when I said little teacher. I will show you immediately thought of this guy from fricking Twin Peaks. Did you ever see Twin Peaks?

Alex Amorosi
Oh my god, years. Yeah. With Kyle McLaughlin.

Adam Elenbaas
Yes, exactly. So I could not help but think like, immediately when I said it, the reason I cracked up see this is what people don't realize people always ask me, like how you seem to crack yourself up a lot. It's not that I think that I'm so funny. It's that usually what happens when I say something is images pop into my mind that are like really fast. I have Mars in Gemini, so I think that's part of it. They just pop into my head really rapidly. And it's like, it's like my subconscious has like a little stand-up comedian that, as soon as I say something stupid, will put a crazy image in my head that then makes me crack up. And so this is what my mind conjured up as soon as I said, Little teacher, I started thinking about the like, creepy dude from Twin Peaks, who was like tap dancing. And do you remember that guy? So that was that was popping into my head. That's why I started laughing so hard. So yeah.

Alex Amorosi
Any image, I would imagine it was not that one. But that's amazing. Love that that's in

Adam Elenbaas
There would be like so. Yeah. And he was like, kind of like a wise Goblin, I guess. Like, what is Twin Peaks got? No one fucking knows what Twin Peaks was about anyway.

Alex Amorosi
So I remember, like, in the second season, halfway through being like, what? It just felt like it was constant. Like, it was like Neptune took over the whole show. And just like, I don't know, man, this is just.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, we've gone really have gone off the rails, guys. Really? Flex. Oh, my God. Well, you know what's really helpful though, is like, I mean, I spent a lot of time in my classes talking about how important it is to have a really super imagistic connection to astrology. Because when you're reading Greek people, as someone just said, Here, who isn't that just said this? Rena said I get it because when explaining astrology and how what people look like? Well, the connection to that would just be that so many times when I'm trying to think of how to describe a transit to someone in reading, let's say it's the images that pop into my head, right? Which is why it's really important, if you're into astrology, to pay attention to small transits and how they show up in something stupid like the movie you're watching because that's where you get that databank like you build the databank that way. First, okay, for sure. Yeah, season two of Twin Peaks was like all right, I loved season one, but season two I felt like this is, like, an acid trip gone terribly bad. Like this is not I can't follow this.

Alex Amorosi
It was just like, I felt like Neptune took over; it's like it was swimming through what? Huh, huh? What like the whole time, but I think that's true, too, about like images. Just want to say that. I always asked before reading I asked the archetypes to speak clearly through me. Speak your speak your language. And they always show up as an image or a representation, or an idea. And that also goes to what you teach so well, which is astrology as divination, your divining meaning from abstract to specific taken from abstract to the specific?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, well, it's like, and I've used this example before, I think maybe we've talked about it before, where I had a former student of mine who kept movie stubs that I'll tell you about that.

Alex Amorosi
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I would use those as they draw them like a Tarot.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. And because they were filled with so many images. And she would; the movie would conjure up an image that she knew would be intuitively appropriate for what the person was asking about. I mean, that's how divination works. It's this weird. It's like this weird neural superhighway, a network superhighway of associated images. And the symbols are really just lightning rods that are connecting the different types of images together, like one mandala to another, and then you're sort of drawing on that to describe things or yeah, anyway.

Okay, so now we're getting so Twin Peaks that we've lost track of Libra, who's next. All right. So Libra Full Moon in Cancer in your 10th house, that's going to be a big one for you on the sixth. That's an angular house. So on January 6 here, let me just back it up a little bit so we can see this. So for Libra Libra rising Here, we go. Alright, there we are. You should be able to see it now it's a little crooked. And let's try it again. So there's the full moon that's on the sixth. And I think that's a, you know, pretty significant one. I think the other thing that stands out to me, let me get my drawer here, is going to be the new moon and Aquarius. So the moon cycle again, to me, this month is a big deal. One of the reasons for that is that Venus is your ruling planet. So whether it's Venus making the square to Uranus, or Venus, this conjunction with Saturn, or the new moon, I think it's all very fifth house based for Libras this month, and then I would give secondary importance to that full moon in Cancer on the sixth. I'm gonna let you talk first since I'm, I'm just babbling at this point. So you go ahead.

Alex Amorosi
Still, trying to figure out what got Laura Palmer? Yeah, exactly. Well, I would say, you know, for Libra risings, you have this new moon, and in your fifth house related to, you know, I would say is to look at if your career providing you with the ability to showcase creativity is allowing you to generate an end. And it sort of brings inception to things that are beautiful and Venus, like, you know, Venus is inner joy.

And the fifth house relates a lot to Venus. Is there something that comes up around family and children, particularly that relates to career and something around career too, with a full moon in Cancer in the career house around, you know, again, your feelings of feeling stable, nurtured, that you can be in your element? Is some of that with a new moon and Aquarius, which can be a little bit more detached? And sort of up in the intellectual mind? Is there some need to sort of that more intellectual or detached sense coming around creativity of merging that with a more emotional, more in the psyche or the mind idea that is happening around a career? I don't know if any of that made sense. But that's kind of putting those two houses together?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, I think the full moon happens first. And it seems to one of the things that I've noticed about Libra risings is that big, big transits to Cancer in the 10th. It can sometimes, for Librans; the family dynamic can be defining your sense of social identity or responsibility. So Librans are like very socially aware. And that's like their strength. Also, sometimes their downside, like who your family told you to be as a kid when you're a Libra, the place or the role that they gave you in the family consciously or unconsciously, will end up often being the role that you take on out in the world. So when you have any kind of Cancerian, transit to the 10th, for Librans, will often translate into, for example, conflicts between who am I and who, who did I become as a result of where I came from, you know, so I wonder if there isn't some conflict between the socially conditioned me that maybe has some connections to my family of origin or my past or my history, maybe even my marriage or my role as a parent or something that's more defined by culture, community and family versus your ruling planet Venus, squaring Uranus in the eighth house conjoining Saturn in the fifth house, which feels like it has more to do with Yeah, but what gives me joy, even if it marginalizes me, or makes me like the black sheep?

Do you know what I mean? So I think that's tougher. Librans like it's I think it's really I think for there's a lot of signs that maybe like, like, I think cancers can be shy, sometimes whatever. But when it comes to, like, I don't necessarily want to put myself out there and tip the scales, right? I think Librans can really struggle with that. But I wonder if this isn't a month where you are facing you're kind of confronting who people think you ought to be maybe based on the culture you grew up in or expectations around family and it's things that are inherited like Cancer full moon in the 10th that then amplifies this feeling of you know, screw it, I need to do something different with Venus in the fifth squaring Uranus hitting Saturn and so forth.

Alex Amorosi
That makes sense. I've been thinking a lot. Yeah, it makes total sense for me to be thinking a lot lately since the last video we did, Adam, about that way of relating to Libra rising a Cancer, you know, the houses and how they relate to each other. And I think that that's what I'm really taking that in as we do this because I'm looking at that in a whole new way of how Cancer will tend to take over that area of life where you know, like, it just never occurred to me, it seems like it was right in front of my face. It never occurred to me how those things kind of interrelate.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's sometimes, especially with the angles; every set of angles is really like a complete puzzle. Right? So, you know, well, let's go into Scorpio rising, and we can maybe work this with Scorpio a little bit. So Scorpio Sen risings, right if you want to understand Scorpio, you also have to understand the tension between Scorpio and Leo Leo occupying the 10 Scorpio, the first, the pressure of the Leo midheaven is to be selected to stand out to be a ball of light that drowns out all other lights that's occupying the midheaven and exerting a pressure or force over by superior square, the first house, which is much more cagey private, intense, internal, deep, guarded, more defensive and potent, but not as like seeking of, let's say, the spotlight. I mean, sort of stereotypical, but so that tension between the scorpionic first house and the Leo 10th is almost always present in the life of a Scorpio, your Scorpio sun or rise or Scorpio rising sign, let's say, but you don't always see it because it's so natural. It's just such a Nethers. Like, for example, a lot of people will say, well, Scorpios often hold their cards close to the chest, but they also will resent or distrust people who are showy, big, and sort of just exude confidence; they'll sometimes want to undercut them, or they'll inherently distrust those people or be annoyed by their ego. Well, that's in part because that's the very pressure exerting the dominant force over the psyche of the first house from the 10th. Right. So it's like, that annoying is built into the psychology of a Scorpio, if you see what I'm saying.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, and I'm actually thinking it was a friend of mine who has Scorpio rising, and that describes him perfectly. Perfect.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, it's crazy from the hip says that's been my problem. As a Scorpio rising, the spotlight often finds me that I'm so private to the point where I don't speak up when I need to, you see, exactly. So a lot of the times it's just like we were just saying with Cancer in the first and Libra on the ascendant, you know, if you understand the tension between those that Angular, those the first fourth, seventh, and 10th houses and the signs there, a lot of the chart can be sort of unlocked by understanding those dynamics between the different houses. And you can do that from the first to the fourth, from the fourth to the seventh. And, it all tends to filter back to the primary importance of the ascendant, that that always is that everything the rest of the angles will filter through that one angle being dominant within the personality.

Alex Amorosi
Yep, that makes sense.

Adam Elenbaas
Scorpio rising. For me, this one is the Venus square Uranus dynamic because it's Angular. So we have Venus in January squaring Uranus, and that is on what do we say the 14th? Is that? Yeah, that's Venus square Uranus on January 14, followed by a New Moon on the 21st in the fourth house and Venus Saturn conjunction on the 22nd in Aquarius; I would look at this again. Now, the pressure between the fourth and the seventh house. I think you're, once again, you're looking, in some ways, some similar themes that we were just talking about with Libra's fourth house is home family, but Venus square Uranus around the fourth, and the seventh is how do I stand out? Or how am I different from those people that I'm close with, whether in love or whether around the more private area of my life, like home, family, close relationships, maybe people you live with?

But to me, this dynamic is about needing to individuate relative to family or close relationships, and the need to individuate is really reflected by Venus, a square to Uranus. Now, sometimes that will actually appear within the karma of a family unit through someone else. So, for example, your need to individuate may be prompted by the fact that a family member is doing something that is wildly outside of care of their character or really unexpected, and you're disturbed by it. Maybe you are happy for them or whatever. And you may think, Well, what does this have to do with me? But it's often the precursor for your own individuation process that a spouse, a lover, or a family member will go through something surprising or unexpected. Because we're all connected around family, and in the fourth and seventh house in our relationships, the changes you see in those spheres will have a ripple effect, and we'll be filtering through to you.

Why do we know this? Because you also have just had A major eclipse in your first house that had the sun conjoined with Venus. Right. So what Venus is going through relates back to that October 25, Eclipse solar eclipse in the house of identity. So this is about you; even if the erratic changes, maybe even come through a family member or a lover, it still relates back to you and is something that's very existential for you. The other thing I would say about this, just that this is the kind of thing where you might see a breakup or moving out where you've been living with someone, like just that sort of sudden need to be free or break free from family or relationship patterns that aren't healthy is like a textbook thing with this transit. But those are the main things I have to say, what about you, Alex?

Alex Amorosi
I love that. I love all that. I was just thinking, like, kind of riffing on your last point about, like, how so often, I mean, this is the big discovery I made in therapy ten years ago, your family dynamics, even the stuff that you know, especially the stuff you're not consciously aware of affects your relational life, it affects the way you interact with your partners, it affects the partners you pick, and how you relate with them. And I feel like there's something about this tension between Venus and Uranus here, especially Venus ruling your relationship house. Of suddenly having insight around how and it doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. It's not always bad, but how my family ancestry, all of that, is informing the way the sort of goggles I put on what I look for and get into an intimate relationship. And then, you know, Uranus often brings you the Oh, that's it, or Oh, shit. Oh, no. That's, that's kind of the more psychological angle I would go with just riffing off your point.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, those are, those are great follow-ups. Let's go ahead and go to Sagittarius. So for Sag, we're going to Mars turning direct. And we're also going to go to the full moon in Cancer. So the full moon in Cancer lands in your eighth house. And then shortly after that's on the six. And then shortly after, around the 11th and 12th, Mars turns direct.

Now I see these two is really intimately connected for savages. The way that I would put this is that you've been going through a process for a while that's focused on the house of love and relationships or your social sphere of your life, how you love who you love, maybe the kinds of conflicts that you've been having the really important ones. Mars in the seventh, sometimes people will think, oh my god, I'm gonna get in a fight with someone I love. If sometimes the best things that ever happened to relationships are those meaningful fights that you get in where underlying, you know, differences and different values have to come up and have to find a way of like reconciling. So whatever you've been going through in the house of love and relationships, it could also, by the way, be related to something a spouse or partner has been going through doesn't have to be that the relationship itself has been going through something, sometimes the spouse is changing jobs, or whatever.

But this comes to me, there's something coming full circle in a house of love and relationships, but it's also tied to the things that your partner or spouse carries from their family, for example, the full moon in Cancer in the eighth is shining a big spotlight on what that person has been given, for good or for bad from their family, from their past from their history. It's about what emotional resources they have or don't have, what they give you or what they can't give you. And it's about coming to terms with that. Maybe celebrating what they can give, or maybe getting really clear, I have to be okay that they can't give me this. This is what they receive growing up. This is why they didn't receive stuff like that. And as a result of that kind of full moon shining a light on the eighth house of what the other person has done. Oh, that's related to lunar things.

Then this turning point comes in the seventh house. So that's to me, that's the big thing that I'm noticing. It's also about maybe there's something there around conflicts that I could see, for example, I love you, but I don't. I can't have your parents as my in-laws. Like, it could be something like that. Or it could be something about feeling rejected by a spouse or partner's family, or you know, but I think it's family. Emotional, historical, and Estoril stuff and relational stuff coming together. And it might be about who has what to give, and who's what you can and can't give, what's shared and what can't be shared on any level, emotionally, financially, and how that's affecting a major turning point in relationships.

Alex Amorosi
So interesting, I was thinking, you know, it kept coming to mind, the image of a ledger kept coming to mind with that full moon. And one thing I find in my practice is people who have either eighth house transits or lots of planets in eighth house, whether they realize it or not, again, it's not always a bad thing, but they're sort of keeping track of the ledger. Like what has been done, what hasn't been done should be done shouldn't be done. Like there's sort of an evening of scales that's up and trying to happen with that. And I'm wondering if this Mars Retrograde in the seventh house for Sagittarius risings as a complete is a review of the way you assert yourself or the way you take action in your communication and relationships.

And then in Gemini, the way you sort of you disseminate information in your relationships, again, I think that we'll come back to Mercury returning, you know, feel full force with Mercury returning direct on January 17, and 18th. But it might have something about like your ability to speak or feel like you can assert yourself or how you do that, right? Maybe it's modified in some way around the ideas. Adam was just mentioning around the moon in your eighth, the full moon in your eighth, which is this idea of, like, what's coming into you, from your spouse, from other people from significance from their family, and even, you know, maybe even a previous marriage with the moon in the eighth house too.

Adam Elenbaas
connected but sort of peripherally the Venus? Well, there it is. Seriously, you know, what I want really bad I really want a sound effect where I can start playing Ode to Joy, like as soon as the arrow comes up, Ode to Joy should just start blasting. Do you know?

Alex Amorosi
You gotta add that to the program. I don't think you can use this program until they add the sound effects.

Adam Elenbaas
Exactly.

Alex Amorosi
I was thinking of the jaws theme.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. That's awesome. All right. Well, so we, the other thing, I was gonna say peripherally. You have Venus ope there; it's coming back. It's so funny. It's like; it's got a mind of its own; I will literally change the font size. And then I'll do it, and it'll come back and be like, Screw you. I'm not going away. And you have no idea why you don't. Maybe I'll go away next time. Maybe I will; we'll just find out.

Alex Amorosi
Tune in next week.

Adam Elenbaas
All right. So we've got Venus with Venus squaring Uranus from the third house. It makes me wonder, with the emphasis on Cancer in the eighth, to you just think about family karma around marriage, broadly speaking, including siblings. So like, it wouldn't surprise me to see a Saj rising, go through something where, for example, their partner's sister dies, or their partner's sibling goes through a divorce. Or maybe your own sibling goes through a divorce.

Because what you're doing is you're just sometimes it's just like, marriage, death and family, karma, siblings and sudden changes and you're just sort of putting all of them together. And it's it really is that simple. Sometimes we overthink things instead of just letting simple associations and key words just sort of snap into place. So it could be that you're just seeing Marriage and Family karma as a big theme this month.

All right. Let's go on to Capricorn. So we're on our last three signs now. So for Capricorn, we do have the full moon on the sixth in your seventh house. And I think the other big one is going to be the Venus Uranus dynamic, the Venus Saturn dynamic, and the new moon in the second. So seventh, house, and second-house topics seem pretty important this month. We'll have this one off to you to start with, Alex, what do you think about the connection between these two houses?

Alex Amorosi
Well, you know, quickly if we're just going with some quick associations, resources, resources, finances, you know, second house is resources, but it's really, you know, we call it which is really talking about money and finances, in relationship to it, you know, kind of going through the problem, maybe the feeling for a need of emancipation in some way or freedom from a way you know, we're talking about I'll go to full moon in a second. But Venus and Uranus just a dynamic that again is like a different way you want to make money that has a more something that sort of feeds your soul type of idea that sort of gives you more joy that brings you more, more pleasure in a sort of out of the box way that sort of the need to the need to feel the freedom to make the money in that way.

But also, at the same time, you know, we were talking about in the overview for the month, the full moon in Cancer being a little bit of a gut check against that intense need from Venus, Uranus to be free of can, you know, does my relationship feel like it somehow becomes unstable? And I need to sort of rebalance that because of those desires, does it feel like I need to sort of recheck my feeling of stability and care nurturance whatever it is around me, my primary intimate relationships, or how I get into primary or intimate relationships? That has something to do with that freedom dynamic that's being called for intensively by Venus, Uranus as we go through the month.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. I thought, here are some images that popped in my head. I'm gonna start an Etsy shop, right? And then your spouse is like, No, you're not; we have bills to pay, you make a good living, and you're not, you're not just to leave your job, right? It's like Venus, in the second house, wants to do something like you said, like a new interesting way of making money. But the reality is that there are you have a family that needs you, you have a spouse, and you have obligations that may somehow check the personal growth or change that you're trying to embody somehow, which likely has either a financial or professional, or creative dimension to it.

But there's what will their family think? What will my spouse think? What will my family think? There's some social, emotional, and maybe regressive pull that's rooted in other people, or I would say family dynamics, again, with the Cancer, full moon, that's trying to either check something that's unrealistic or maybe prohibit something that needs to be free. And so you have to like work through that challenge somehow, though, that's what I would say. I mean, the other thing that comes to my mind, I guess, would be some kind of, well, okay, it's like the image of people going through a divorce and reaching in mediation reaching an agreement to divide assets. So it's like this moment of karmic breakthrough around things and people that you're bonded to and separating things that have been joined. Does that make sense?

Alex Amorosi
Totally, totally. Yeah. So I think that full moon in Cancer may feel a little annoying to the Venus Uranus dynamic because it will feel like it's coming from other people, but it's something to listen to. Yeah, that's a good point. That's something to listen to. Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's a really good point. It is something it is like, like, as a Cancer myself, sometimes as Cancers; I think we can feel like we're the only ones looking out for your best interest here. You know, and, and so sometimes you do need to listen to the cancers in your life who are like, you know, you're leaking, lifeforce energy, because you're not being good to yourself, like, you know, like, cancers are often really aware of that.

The sneaky thing about Cancers, though, is that, you know, you have to be careful with what a Cancer is trying to provide you with, you know, like, let me just help you with this is often really about something that they're giving themselves, you know, it's like a, like a mom, you know, like, you know, I remember that point in high school, my mom would be like, well, don't you just want to stay in and let me do X, Y, and Z, which she knew were like, my favorite food or you know, something, and I'd be like, I see your tricks lady. You know, I'm 15 Screw you.

Alex Amorosi
I want to go out and smoke a joint with my friends and make me dinner tomorrow.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. I feel like my greatest weapon is my guilt trip with my I feel like that's going to be like, I'm like, I'm really with my kids anyway, you know, like, as a parent, like, I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good with the guilt trip weapon I've got that I think is a Cancer thing.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, I've seen that with a friend of a couple I know downtown who has once a Cancer, and I've seen that come out. It's totally it's like, okay,

Adam Elenbaas
dude. Okay, so my grandma was born on July 16, which is I was also born on July 16. So I was born on my grandmother's birthday. And it's just so funny the difference between, well, she has a lot of differences in her chart. too, but when I was visiting my grandparents one summer with my buddy, we went home, and like they had a really cool place because they had like 80 acres of land. And they had, they were like old school, you know, in. And they had a like a cabin in the back 40 acres and my friend and I would stay out in the cabin.

And we could basically do what we wanted, which is why we went there during the summer, you know, my parents, they were very loose in terms of what we did. So one night, we'd go out, and my grandma says, Be back for dinner at, like, 530 or whatever. And this is like, every time that I think of her as a Cancer, I think of this moment, we came back at six, we were just right. We walked into the kitchen, and she was standing there, you know, it was like, it was like summer, and it was like, it was like, you know, the sun had set or whatever it was. Whereas setting you know, I was just the scene, this picture-perfect scene. And she looked like; you know, like someone might as well there's been a little house in the prairie. And someone had, like, burned down her cabin, raped all of her daughters, like killed her husband.

She just was like, completely devastated, covered in tears. And it was all because we were 30 minutes late for dinner. All right. I couldn't believe it. I just didn't, and I was like, I was about 15 or 16 or whatever, you know, and I was like, Oh my god. This is the worst thing. She didn't have to say a word. She just Yes. She said something like I hope you're still hungry. You know, it was like that.

Alex Amorosi
Beware, you might catch pneumonia now that you're eating cold food, but I do exactly. Sicilian. I know this routine, really? Well. I know how to do this. I'm not even a Cancer. I'm just Italian. That's such a great Cancer image too, Adam. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
I know. Alright, so. So Aquarius rising. We're gonna get through this. How about the Venus in your first house? Venus conjoining Saturn Venus squaring Uranus, the new moon in your first house. It's all about the first house this month for Aquarians, maybe the first and the fourth? Connected? Let's start there. What do you think, Alex?

Alex Amorosi
Um, you know, I think if we're going back to this idea of how the house I'm looking at, like the first house exerting by superior position to the fourth house, your sense of self, which you know, for Aquarius, it depends on factors in the chart. But usually, Aquarians are sort of like I'm good with who I am as my individual, amazing, crazy, eclectic self.

And I mean that in the best sense of the word that may start becoming into, you know, I think with Uranus in the fourth house, something about, like, something being sparks or desire for someone in the family or freedom from family, karma or freedom is someone in your family, maybe Dad, your father or something related to Father, primary, paternal caregiver, about some revolution they go through, that you're helping to bring to them by your influence of just being the unique sense of self that you are. That's where I can bring that one. Right now. It's really I think it's interesting, with the first house now exerting its sort of influence on the fourth for Aquarius risings.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I would see this as being, like, the need to individuate relative to your family of origin. You know, like big time, like, I'm, I am not my mom, I am not my dad, or I realize for the first time that I am something that they are or that they gave me that I had previously rejected.

But it's, it's a critical turning point in terms of your self-concept. And its relation to how you were raised, either in all the great ways or all the terrible ways are, you know, some mixture of the two. It's something about a new beginning relative to where you're living, you know, it's like, I'm changing, and so I'm moving, or it could be something about what provides you with a stable sense of identity and psychic security or groundedness. And this may be a month where the way that you create that sense of security for yourself is going through an adjustment, so it may actually not be the most stable period, right?

Because especially with Venus square Uranus, you don't exactly see a stable picture. But, you know, it's like moving, moving is one of the most stressful things, I think, for there was like a list and it was like, you know, this, this and at the top of the list for things that stress people out the most was moving. So sometimes, psychically, we move. Sometimes it's a physical move with the connection between the first and the fourth like this.

But other times, it's a psychic. It's like you're changing residents psychically somehow. And that can be, there can be something very destabilizing about that; for example, I have noticed that many times when you see something like this a first fourth house square, especially with Venus in the first, and around the new year, of course, people will diet, they'll go to the gym. And if you this is a real thing. It's called newbie gains. And they talk about this in gym culture a lot. People go to the gym, and if they hit it hard, and they hit their diet, right, like they're counting their macros or whatever, they hit their diet, right, and they're, you know, working out regularly, they say, five days a week, you'll see a lot of gains really, really quickly.

Meaning you'll burn a lot of fat off, your body fat percentage will drop, and you'll put on muscle. And as someone who's gone through a little bit of that, not that I'm like anything special, but just that I've gone through something like that myself. You have to adjust your whole sense of who you are rather quickly. And even though you're excited about it, it's still a holy shit moment because you physically transformed very quickly. And a lot of psychic weight may be dropped really quickly. And even though that's positive and liberating, it can still spin you out.

It's very similar to, like, you know, in yoga, you know this to you, you want to be careful telling students of yoga, not to go on really intense elimination, cleanses or diets where they only drink juice for 20 days or something. One of the reasons being that there's just a really high percentage, or a really high rate of people who will, you know, swing in the opposite direction right afterward and then feel worse than they did, to begin with. So I think you have to be a little bit careful of those extremes if you're an Aquarius this month, in terms of a powerful, positive breakthrough, personally, psychologically, maybe related to home or family, or just your psychic roots looks good. But it could be a little destabilizing as well. And you want to be careful that it doesn't turn into like a seesaw type of thing of extremes, I would think.

Alex Amorosi
that's awesome. Adam, I love that, you know, just Just to riff off that as we're, is to say, you know, sometimes with Uranus in the fourth house, that's revelations or a sudden understanding about your family that, you know, I found this as I get older, like things I thought were true, I discover really weren't true, or things like just I thought were the way they were in my story or narrative of my family actually weren't true. And it does take a minute to sort of like tailor the new psychic or identity that you were to now conform to the truths that you've learned. The sort of like you have to like go to the tailor in your psyche and have the suit that you wear your identity retailer because you have for Aquarius risings, I can see that being something maybe that you discover or is suddenly revealed, or some insight you get that relates back to your ancestry, which formed so much of our identity without really realizing it, it does.

Adam Elenbaas
You know, I thought this comment was interesting, Alex, which is this person said I need to be more present at home. You know, for an Aquarius, the breakthrough sometimes is the breakthrough very well could be that you feel more grounded or present. Because sometimes Aquarians or any air sign can just live in the mind a little bit more just in not that sometimes people will say, Oh, it's like air signs are dissociated. I think that's not really the right description most of the time. They have an active life of the mind. And that's a whole world, and it's just as grounded to be, you know, it's not like ungrounded for a bird to be in the sky. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, but it could be that there's something more earthy that is suddenly pulling you in a different direction than you're used to, which is why I thought that comment about being more present at home and coming up with what we're talking about is interesting.

Alex Amorosi
I think so too. And I think you know if since Venus is involved here, it's Venus's assignment. Uranus and Venus's in your first house. One thing I found that really cuts in Aquarius deeply. And I've seen this in my practice I've seen with friends who are Aquarians; they're often really trying to help; they're really trying to offer something that will be of benefit and be of benefit to hope, but it can come across without realizing it as the cerebral detach Saturn as like, well, we're just going to do this and this is the way it is, but they're trying to help and when they get feedback sometimes that they're being distant or cold. They're like, I'm just trying to help. I'm trying to bring this in, and I think that like Venus, there it's in Venus a sign I think, you know, Uranus and Venus the sign there's something about the quality of the goddess coming into this, and I think it's gonna be really, really helpful if you If that's something that's going on Yeah, yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, that's well said. I like that as a family, as my family has a bunch of Aquarians in it that I'm just trying to help here, you know, that thing that was a big thing for me over Christmas. Believe it or not, some very, very helpful but very unsolicited Aquarian thoughts. So anyway, but you know, that's whatever. That's the holiday too, I feel like, for everyone.

Okay, so for Pisces, our last is always our last, but now we got to Pisces, we got here, we made it. Short teachers and all sorts of things. So Venus is going through a 12th house trial for Pisceans but ending up exalted by the end of the month in your home sign going through a trial in the 12th house square to Uranus conjoin Saturn New Moon in the 12th house, but then at the end of the month, Venus goes into her exultation in your home sign. To me, this looks like a, you know, I can see it going one of two ways.

One looks at things that are repressed, specifically Venusian things, what you love, what you crave, What brings you happiness or pleasure, who you love, how you love, relationship dynamics, sex and romance, and physical things. And looking at the ways in which those things are problematic, maybe locked up and repressed, maybe you're going to an extreme drinking spending too much. Maybe your sex drive is out of control. I mean, it could be something like overindulgent or something locked up and repressed; I think those would probably be the two extremes in the 12th house. You have people there, for example, who are traumatized, and like a 12th. House Venus transit can be about dealing with childhood sexual abuse. Or on the other hand, it could be about dealing with someone who has a sex addiction, right? It can go like either extreme. So I think you're dealing with Venusian wounds and stuff that's in the unconscious that is of the nature of Venus. There are some breakthroughs. There are some challenges, and there are some trials, but by the end, Venus moving into your first house, to me, suggests that you are coming to a healthy, happy, more integrated, aware, and maybe even a healed kind of place. Does that make sense? Alex?

Alex Amorosi
Yes, You know, I'm kind of gonna work backward a little bit here from that, but like, you know, Venus, when Venus is exalted when a planet is exalted, it's sort of, you know, Adam, you describe it often in classic being held up, right, it's being put on, it's being put on high if there's a, there's something about these trials, or you know, as Adam was just describing, is that when you get to Venus in Pisces in the first house, there's something where you're able to sort of your full glory comes on to display there was something that had been the 12th house is interesting. And this is where you know, in Adams class when I was lovers, we're going on how the houses work astronomically.

The 12th house is a blind spot to the self; it's hard for us to see what's going on in the 12th house. And oftentimes, there's something where if you're working through those repression dynamics or something that maybe is overindulgent. If you can dig down to what's my blind spot here is, do I have a blind spot about having something deeper going on that may be causing this? These behaviors, these thoughts, these actions, these ideas to come to the surface, that when they're when the 12th house stuff, I often find when it's sort of addressed and seen, and sometimes we need some help to see it. When you get to Venus moving into Pisces, there's a little bit like a reinvented, exalted, you know, Botticelli Venus comes out of you out of the shell, so to speak, and is like, here I am in a refreshed, held up for supported form.

Adam Elenbaas
There's a question for you.

Alex Amorosi
No, I am not familiar with it. No, I'm not. I know that. A couple of more Italian Amorosi is, one of whom was a pop singer, Vanessa Amorosi. Okay. No, thank you for that.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I thought I wanted to hear your answer to that one, so I popped it up. Well, I really appreciate what you added in there. And the other thing I guess I would point to would be fears like you were saying kind of like, inhibitions and fears. One of the things that's interesting about it being a sitting Uranus in the third house is that sometimes when there's a 12th house third house square, you'll see that someone's unconscious, baggage, whatever it is, they're trying to let go of something they're doing too much.

They need to do more. If something they're doing too little of, but it's a blind spot, but the connection to why it's happening or why they're stuck is contained in an influence that's coming from the environment. And that's the third house and the trigger of the square between the 12th. And the third will make someone aware of what it is or who it is in the environment that is at least related to or influencing this thing that stuck.

For example, if, okay, let's give a simple example. In my life, I had a 12th house third house dynamic. When a transit that was very important to me when I was dealing with opiate addiction in my early 20s. And the 12th House third house connection was quite clearly when I started having a transit through the 12th impacting planets in my third house; I became aware of the fact that it was the restaurant industry itself, as well as the specific restaurant and the staff that I was working with, that were a huge influence upon drinking and doing drugs all the time because that's what everyone did after their shift was over basically.

That was the 12th house, the third house transit in my house; I have a Mercury and the sun in the third house. Anyway, so. And at any rate, my point is that Venus is going through the 12th house and hitting the square to Uranus in the third for Pisceans. Just don't be surprised if whatever the unconscious dynamic is that your unpacking, which really does look like it's in a much better spot by the end of the month with Venus moving into her exultation and your first house. But just note that something of someone or something in the environment could be a part of the issue. And maybe a part of the answer or the solution or the breakthrough, but watch for things in the environment around you as well.

Alex Amorosi
So interesting. The third has been a joy, the moon, and then it's the environment Adam to that's really interesting.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. Eureka. Well, I'm glad that a few people seem to find that little piece about the third 12, You know, helpful. When we made it, we got through; we did this has been a three-hour live stream, where we did the astrology of the month ahead. And we did. We did horoscopes and everything. Alex, thank you so much for being here and just putting in the time to help me with the Kickstarter. You've been just super, super helpful.

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Alex Amorosi
You will see the Leo rising come out on my Instagram. That is where Leo rising is out there.

Adam Elenbaas
What's the degree of your ascendant? 15 Yeah, I was. I thought so. I was like, you know, because my natal ascendant ruler is Venus in Leo, and I have so many friends where the vibe that I share with a lot of my close friends and colleagues to it seems to constellate around, you know, my natal Venus and Leo being like close to your ascendant or on like a planet and Leo that you have, or something like a lot of my bet like my best friend growing up his moon is on my Venus right so random. I always have, like all my tight friends, Leo planets.

Alex Amorosi
So, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah. I always enjoy this, Adam; thank you for him. Having me do this, and I'm happy I was able to support this for you because you just do such amazing work. I think we all just appreciate it so much.

Adam Elenbaas
Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Appreciate you. You guys all have a great rest of your day. We will see you again tomorrow with more content. Hope you guys have a great rest of your evening. Take it easy, everyone. Thanks, Alex.

Alex Amorosi
Bye