JANUARY 2012

Astrolights

      This month promises to be a bit quieter than the preceding holidays. With Uranus and Jupiter having gone direct last month, we have the opportunity to reassess our resources and how they influence our sense of independence. Of course, this month’s credit card bills will have a very strong effect on our assessment. Yet, we should be looking at something more than just our physical and financial power. Jupiter’s sojourn into the second house of Taurus is combining the wisdom of Jupiter with the practicality of Taurus. How can we stick to our values when we are being pressured for our survival. This makes for an intense internal struggle. Just to survive we feel we must do things that we otherwise would not have considered. With the Moon and Uranus in the first house of Aries we will be more inclined to do things based on our impulse rather than common sense. This might not be a “bad” thing. Sometimes common sense keeps us “stuck.” The Moon and Uranus are giving us the urge and opportunity to gamble a bit. Career dictates quite a bit when we consider our responsibilities, but they don’t always encourage what’s best for us in a personal growth sense. Sometimes we must do things that break us out of the habits we have constructed that “insure” our sense of security. With the job market possibilities getting slimmer and slimmer as the jobs are sent overseas, we find ourselves left more and more with jobs of a service nature. Technical jobs requiring advanced education are moved to countries that have surpassed us in our educational standards. As immigration brings to us a torrent of the uneducated from poorer countries, colleges in this country and the jobs they service find themselves lowering standards just keep enrollment and desperately attempting to fill the need for cheap, qualified workers who can no longer be found in this country. In these days and times a Masters is required (watered down as it its) just to work a cash register. What would happen if we lost power to all the electronic machines that do our thinking for us? Our grade level of math education has become so diminished that our young people can’t even count change back unless the register tells them how much to remit. Where this is all headed is unknown at present but the writing is on the wall that we must become much more innovative in how we support and educate ourselves. We can no longer depend on the political machine to take up the slack for the people it was designed to service. We’re on our own. But that should no longer be a surprise to most of us. When Mars turns retrograde in Virgo on the 24^th, we should get some breathing room to scope out the particulars on how to arrange our efforts to stay afloat.  That will last until mid April. Then what?