2019 ANNUAL ASTROSCOPE by JOHN DELANEY ARIES 2019 Corporate, municipal, state, provincial, national, international disrepair, decay, demagoguery, depreciation, disintegration, dilapidation – it is not, as Adrian Belew of King Crimson might say, “Only talk.” It is hard not to overestimate how much is falling apart, imploding from its own corruption, overuse, obsolescence and lack of political will, whether the New York City subway, the Chicago school system, the street gangs of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, the inner cities of Detroit and Veracruz, the Mexican drug cartels, democracy in the Trump Administration and the nation of Brazil. (And, in your own neck of the woods, certain sinister and malevolent evil genius cops or corrupt local politicians who take advantage of widespread dilapidation of the municipal infrastructure to make matters worse for their own twisted benefit during Pholus in Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019.) Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 afflicts so many people, cities, states, provinces and countries with the entrenched consequences of their bad decisions. Is it possible to take action in a way that will reverse the trends of such overwhelming negativity? Absolutely. Cyllarus conjunct the North Node from January to May emphasizes that integrity is its own reward. When you do the right thing, you gain strength when you look in the mirror. You are bigger than you know. Flex your faith. One reason for optimism lies in the presence of those both in your personal life and in the public sphere who are willing to step up and to take more responsibility for the greater good. New personnel and new policies, particularly in the judiciary, are empowered and able to address the problems created by new, recently emerging loopholes during Jupiter in Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019. New authority figures and law enforcement officials realize the damage done by colleagues earlier in 2018 as they prepare to correct those errors while doing a more outstanding job during 2001-BL41 in Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021. You also possess significant tools to make changes yourself. Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune from January through July urges you to read the reports of academic public experts and surly journalists to give you a wide scope and deep knowledge of the infrastructure of your chosen industry sector. Chiron in late Pisces sextile Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January empowers you with connections to work your way up to the top of the org chart. Chiron in Direct Motion completing its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019 recommends that you ascertain the right and wrong ways to work through channels and to exploit loopholes. If you are not getting what you want, despite the fact that you work properly through channels, because you intuit that somebody is blocking your forward or upward progress, Uranus in Direct Motion completing its transit of Aries during January and February 2019 demands that you ascertain when you should be a rebel and when you should be a staunch reactionary for the standing order. It is inhuman to maintain an interminable cold-blooded strategic neutrality. Love of family, city, state, province or country makes you much more emotionally volatile during the North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020. This love becomes that much more acute because you know that you cannot possibly perceive the long-term changes that you will endure as a result of immigrants who establish themselves where you live, or of the natives whom you meet as you travel, plan to relocate or relocate during 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043. Put a positive face on initial relations as you maintain a neutral attitude. Even though you might be tired of seeing their face and hearing their advice, heed the edifying exhortations of a didactic yet heroic public figure during 2003-CO1 conjunct the South Node during January and February so as to live in harmony with all people as long as is possible. Your world and the world changes at a scale and a pace well beyond your individual control. Increasing numbers of people and a larger playing field throws your personal identity out of whack throughout Chiron in Aries from February 2019 to April 2027. To morph into a megalomaniacal authoritarian dictator over a nation state is just as dangerous to your soul’s evolution as believing yourself to be one lone ant soldier in the Chinese army. Keep your temper as you refuse to join the fury demanding some politician’s head during Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March – you are just projecting your own problems on a worthy scapegoat at a time when the scapegoating does not help you. You must determine where you begin and everything else in the universe ends. Objectivity about your identity and psychological consciousness is critical because, without it, you cannot be objective about your worldly affairs. Admittedly, Echeclus in Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021 concedes that objectivity will be hard to achieve when many different players and parties will be changing directions to respond to everybody else simultaneously. Furthermore, Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September warns that certain people aren’t who they say they are. Deal with strangers cautiously. Personally, Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026 warns that unexpected circumstances and necessary expenditures will make it difficult and, at times, impossible, to get control over your income and net worth. Your financial situation will make you emotional, but you cannot use your emotions as an excuse for mishandling your money. Use all of the electronic banking tools at your disposal as you update your own private financial spreadsheets to get an objective perspective on your money during Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February. You must get, and maintain, a grip. Circumstances beyond your control, you ask? Such as the enormous, deep, potentially cataclysmic, revolutionary or counterrevolutionary changes and upheaval that accompany Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May? And the blunt, inept, hairbrained shortcuts that the “leadership” applies in order to solve the problem? Yes, indeed. In this context, the worldly ways of those people whom you witnessed during your travels to any third world nation will come in handy during Jupiter in Sagittarius in Retrograde Motion from April to August as you encounter unprecedented circumstances (at least for you and for yours) during Saturn conjunct Amycus conjunct the South Node from April through October – including the third-world nations led by smartass, muscle-headed authoritarian dictators. However, blaming a figurehead who no doubt deserves blame during Bienor in Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023 will only multiply the rancor to an extent where it disempowers and blinds the angry at a time that they must claim their share of the responsibility. Remember: You can be frugal without being culturally backward. The brilliant, visionary leadership of the long-term future commencing during the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020 makes an appearance to address a local crisis on a much smaller scale as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from late April to early May. There is no hidden message – qualify the quality of the individual’s character. Conversely, many twenty-something recent college graduates have no clue as to how to handle the current unprecedented chaos as Okyrhoe transits Pisces in May and June. Take them under your wing. Don’t let anybody bamboozle them into thinking that this con artist has all the answers. Seek solace, if not necessarily intellectual or moral guidance, from the formal acts of liturgies of established organized religions, such as Judaism, Catholicism or Islam, as you form relationships with other individuals attending such services during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June. Study seminal current and historical treatises in sociology, philosophy and economics during Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September for insight into current dilemmas. Prosperity resumes – or, much more likely, you realize how prosperous you have been all along as you consider expressing some gratitude for it – as Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. Do a good deed by helping those oblivious twenty-somethings get a job or a routine which is normal during Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October. Consider all the things for which you have reason to be grateful during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October before you hunt a turkey in November and express explicit gratitude for all those things after you buy and cook that bird for everybody within your family or social circle to eat. Ruthlessly and unsparingly separate your needs from your dreams in your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet during Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune during October and November – and appraise what certain bosses, clients and academics need and require as you listen to, and interpret, what they expect and want during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October. Realize, moreover, that while some beggars genuinely suffer as the more aggressive of such beggars’ outright scam, at least one big-time, genuinely prosperous business that had been a pillar of society now genuinely falls apart as Hylonome conjuncts the South Node in Capricorn from September through November.  Buy or upgrade all types of insurance in preparation for violent inclement weather, vandalism or street crime long before Mars in Scorpio during December begins. Distinguish yourself from all the self-appointed professional elite who can only bully bureaucrats as they vociferously complain as 2001-BL41 conjuncts the South Node during November and December. Demonstrate much more overt gratitude for that didactic yet heroic public figure who demonstrates extremely capable and diligent responsibility in all sorts of crises during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020. Protect or favor those young, inexperienced citizens who have no idea why all these people are behaving like animals in a zoo during Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020. How do you win a football game: By scoring more than your opponent or by giving up less points than that same opponent? Jupiter in Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020 favors defense. Spend less – much less – than you make and have. Win that “war of attrition.” Extremely high-level international bankers try to put into place unprecedented, far-reaching and extreme protocol, rules and regulations intended to fix long-standing failures, problems and loopholes in the capitalist system during Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020. Frankly, this sounds like that section of Pink Floyd’s The Wall where the teacher says, “How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?” Jupiter conjunct the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019 says, “Don’t try to answer the question – just eat your meat.” And realize that meat is a pretty good dinner – be glad that you have some to eat. After all, who knows what the future leadership will try to do throughout Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042? How will they try to justify it?   TAURUS 2019   More and more cops once again hit the streets as 2001-BL41 in Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021. Is this good? In general, yes, no and maybe – but now, as Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasize the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020, no. Too many cops appear when a plethora of problems plague unimaginative politicians and crime begins to skyrocket. Of course, your public support of the good, the right and the true both for and against the police will serve you well when shades of gray make political issues surrounding cops that much more complicated during Pholus in Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019 – and this serves you well across the political spectrum. But this just brings you to the realization during Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune from January through July that those engaging in public discourse are not that smart – a realization that those in public office will exploit by adopting an extremely haughty attitude defended by copious amounts of hostile sarcasm. There are exceptions, of course – but, in many cases, their hands are tied. Therefore, when an elected official or public figure speaks during 2003-CO1 conjunct the South Node during January and February, don’t dismiss what they say out of hand, as they are enduring their own struggle to effect the change that they believe necessary. Overall, in the end, you will learn, one way or another, if those in power as elected officials during Chiron in late Pisces sextile Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January are actually serving in your own public interest – whether this is a topic of local discussion or not. But all this involves other people. Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February emphasizes that you must review, qualify and analyze yourself, how well you are doing, holistically and in all your component parts, psychologically, morally, mentally, physically, financially. Of course, you will at some point become enraged because of external worldly circumstances that impede your progress – but Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March declares that such rage is not only futile but counterproductive. Do you mean to say that you don’t expect similar obstacles in your upcoming future? Why are you reading this horoscope? Stop blaming everybody, including yourself. Make a plan that accounts for distractions. Even so, the local body politic takes positive note of those who make positive public statements as Chiron in Direct Motion completes its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019, presuming that negative forces who wish to go on undetected will proceed to hide in the shade as Uranus in Direct Motion completes its transit of Aries during January and February 2019. Does this suggest that you should speak about your ideas in a public forum? Not necessarily. All you really want to do is to go to bars and restaurants with your friends both in your local area and in any city to which you may travel where there is some nightlife throughout the North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020. This is not to say that you don’t have ideas – you will be more than happy and in fact inspired to share many of your more well-honed philosophical thoughts over drinks with friends during Cyllarus conjunct the North Node from January to May. But this is not at all equivalent with the development of representation, of a constituency. Consider, for example, local international diasporas, going far beyond the first impression of representations of foreign culture with the full breadth of who such people are and what they represent. Indeed, 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043 states that this is an introduction to the tip of the iceberg for dummies. The self-evident evolutionary reality of these people in your city, state, province or country should serve as a warning to you that politics is too large an animal to try to tame it in an ad hoc manner without a plan, a strategy . . . and a very long leash. Speaking of leashes – remember all those cops? Those cops, on one level or another represent justice – and Jupiter in Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019, which reminds you that you can have fun or get arrested in any city, is all about justice via the application and enforcement of law. Politics as a gateway to power is also a gateway to friends and enemies is also a gateway to the attention of law enforcement. Interestingly, as Jupiter transits the Bull’s 8th house of sex, drugs and the occult, you will become periodically privy to how some people will be punished today for sins and crimes committed by family members and ancestors over the course of not only generations but, in fact, centuries. Let somebody else out there make this extremely common mistake. Do you know whom to trust and whom not to trust? Maybe sometimes, if you have enough information – but you won’t always have enough information. Truth be told, a lot of unexpected things are going to happen to you out of nowhere throughout Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026; as a result, you will respond in a lot of unexpected ways. You must know whom to trust. You need to build greater flexibility into your plan. Asking Taurus the Bull to learn to think on their feet as fast as their zodiacal neighbor Gemini the Twins is an exercise in futility. Instead, Echeclus in Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021 is suggesting that you contemplate that, but not how, relationship and partnerships will fall apart, and to prepare for alternatives in advance. Ultimately, until you make more elaborate plans that account for inclement weather and flawed humanity, you will spend more time yelling at vendors and merchants during Bienor in Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023 while getting less of what you want and need when you need it. A simple method for evaluating trustworthiness: You look a person straight in the eyes as long and hard as you can as you go back through the ages as Chiron transits Aries from February 2019 to April 2027 – and you heed your clearest instinct. Both long overdue and unusually, extremely drastic, if not outright flippant, changes, not only amongst the administration of the local police, but also amongst obsolete policies of moribund, corrupt local, municipal, state, provincial and national governments, as well as vested universities and colleges, cause a volcanic cascade of all sorts of concomitant problems during Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May. Consolidate your finances in preparation for overweening and potentially unprecedented tax demands and in-route fees, on both public transit and in automobiles, during Jupiter in Sagittarius in Retrograde Motion from April to August. Anticipate, at best, punitive attitudes towards the public and you by police, who will state that permissive attitudes towards an unruly public threaten their lives and society as a whole, during Saturn conjunct Amycus conjunct the South Node from April through October. Realize, further, that those who decide differences between you and the police regarding extralegal concerns and issues under clear dispute during Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September ill most likely rule against you and for the police, as a matter of straightforward bias for authority figures. Genuinely insightful and capable leadership makes an appearance in an unofficial capacity during 2003-CO1 in Aquarius from late April to early May as a harbinger for more widespread influence after the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020. The organized religious beliefs and infrastructure of the local international diaspora causes acute, if veiled, local prejudices, some of which are revealed at some local business’s cash register, during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June. Avoid religious discussions or discussions about the politics of religion during Okyrhoe in Pisces in May and June. More positively, responsible local political leadership works hard to make an immediate difference during Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September. Societal, financial and transportation bottlenecks open up as Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. Unwise and younger people will take this as a signal to move faster in crowds during Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October. Wrong conclusion! Continue to exercise caution. Veiled prejudice about the organized religious beliefs and infrastructure of the local international diaspora rise to public view as a result of how some people handle money during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October. Peacekeeping agents enforcing national equality – aka the police – do their job quite consciously as they make explicit to the recalcitrant their vested legal superiority as Saturn conjunct Amycus sextiles Neptune during October and November. (Indeed, if you talk with police rather than demand something from them or rebel against them, during Hylonome conjunct the South Node in Capricorn from September through November, cops will tell you that they now view themselves as supplicants and victims.) Similarly, people don’t say what they mean or deliberately fail to follow through on promises during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October to try to get away with overt bias. Newer voices in politics are unwelcome during Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020, and should sit back and listen, as they are unaware of the history of all the antagonists involved. Luckily, that same local responsible public official from very early in 2019 takes control of this difficult situation during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020 – a situation made even more difficult by the sheer number of cops as 2001-BL41 conjuncts the South Node during November and December. Many police and politicians who begin their tour of duty will be on the job throughout Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042, but their system of belief, alliances and worldview will date back to this period of significant tumult. Some will develop into demagogues who will continue to cast blame on the same people upon whom others cast blame now. Realize that some of these police and politicians will turn into monsters, yet their misdeeds will also empower other police and politicians who begin their tour of duty now who will ultimately place this current astrological transit into historical perspective. Both lawlessness and extremely violent weather make life dangerous during Mars in Scorpio during December. Such negative conditions empower police commencing Jupiter in Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020. Simultaneously, extremely radical new legislation and political leaders create brand-new far-reaching blueprints for the long-term future during Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020. As a result, what had been evil but not illegal only recently becomes publicly condemned criminal activity for which many are punished during Jupiter conjunct the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019 after having gotten away with it for years, if not decades.   GEMINI 2019   No matter how big your business, no matter how lucrative your salary, no matter how frugal your lifestyle, the protracted emphasis of outer planets and centaur planets in Capricorn since 1984 has made Gemini, the Twin, dependent upon business partners, clients and creditors for capital for every single one of their personal and professional ambitions. Never in your life have you had enough money to secure a loan with collateral that you could pay down with a paltry amount of interest so that, like rich people, you wind up buying what you need and want with other peoples’ money. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 makes it seem as if this hasn’t changed. But maybe things have changed. You are aware that there is a different way to do things and you are waiting for that opportunity to come along. Just because this opportunity is not coming to you at a rate that makes you feel comfortable does not mean that you are failing. You are not acting in desperation, like other people. You are keeping your overall debt and operating deficit as low as possible until the ton of work that you need, and the money that comes along with it, comes through during 2001-BL41 in Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021. In fact, your strong financial position during Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune from January through July puts you in a position to judge, albeit silently, the credibility of bosses who may not share your outstanding credit rating. Restrain unconscious inclinations to show overt contempt. You know that you will soon be able to plan your long-term financial future during the North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020 – but you absolutely must keep the pressure on. Outperformance becomes that much more necessary as Chiron in Direct Motion completes its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019. Explain to longstanding clients who have difficulty paying bills as Uranus in Direct Motion completes its transit of Aries during January and February 2019 that, while you are willing to work out a payment plan for them, you do intend that they pay you. Above all, continue to keep good will. Listen closely to the description of the lay of the land by an old-time financial adviser descended from blue bloods and polished by Ivy League schools as 2003-CO1 conjuncts the South Node during January and February – they will surprisingly impart the down-and-dirty truth. Keep the hostility about delays in receiving your money behind the scenes as those who feel and express such hostility must calculate how they will handle their newfound precarious financial position throughout Pholus in Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019. Accountants, both in-house and freelance: Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February signifies that not everything adds up to the truth. As William Shakespeare might say, you identify the guilty one during Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March by noting, “Methinks one doth protest too much.” These are all logistic obstacles designed to keep you trapped into accepting financial limitations unconsciously as your inevitable destiny. You need not comply with these invisible forces that hunt you and everybody else to induce you to walk into the trapper’s trap, to swim into a fisherman’s huge net snaring an entire socioeconomic demographic. Why? Knowing “why,” not “how,” is what drives you to make a commitment during Jupiter in Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019. Not knowing “how” never intimidated you before. Now, with Echeclus in Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021, you have an intellectual challenge to lay out a plan rather than going at it ad hoc, playing it all by ear. However, don’t get angry at a buddy who tells you, “You can’t do it like that,” during Bienor in Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023. There is more than one way to skin the cat – and take your anger out on the dead cat! Then, accept that getting what you want may demand that you offer more than you planned to give. You may know “Why” you want to do it, but you may never be able to master “How.” Indeed, as new colleagues, new in-laws and perhaps even a new spouse meet and greet you for the first time, speaking different languages and arriving from a foreign country, or as you arrive from a foreign country to meet and greet for the first time, you consider, “Can I adjust to this?” Truth be told, 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043 is not demanding that you adjust – it is demanding that you transform. Don’t underestimate the demands of the zeitgeist in formal parade before you. Keep your priorities in perspective. Cyllarus conjunct the North Node from January to May demands that you must be as strong, as smart, as rich as you need to be, to accomplish what you want. Whatever the challenge is you must prepare to rise to it. Start squarely with the bottom line, which bosses and accountants communicate to you with crystal clear accuracy during Chiron in late Pisces sextile Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January. You are not going to get as much help as you’d like. You burned more bridges than you thought as borderline allies did not appreciate how forthrightly you spoke your mind during Uranus in Aries from 2011 to 2018, causing unexpected gaps in your professional and social networks throughout Chiron in Aries from February 2019 to April 2027. More treacherously yet, the relationship between what your bottom line is and what it will be widens and narrows at a neurotic pace throughout Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026, making you wonder on a fairly regular basis if you will have enough liquid income to meet all your ongoing expense. Past history is a much less effective barometer of current well-being than it has been in many decades. People, businesses and nations accustomed to wealth, surplus and security lose all financial value like a melting glacier during the global warming apocalypse, primarily as a result of unprecedented, flippant, bad decisions and illegal shortcuts, during Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May. Such insolvency cascades, compromising everybody’s ability to pay. Make it policy not to extend any credit whatsoever, even to long-time clients and customers, as you also insist upon tightening belts on your household budgets during Jupiter in Sagittarius in Retrograde Motion from April to August. Be on the lookout for financial con artists during Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September. Pay your own bills punctually, if not necessarily in full. Stay in constant touch with those to whom you owe money to inform them of your current situation with the unvarnished albeit extremely colorful truth as Saturn conjuncts Amycus conjuncts the South Node from April through October. Make use of credit card balance transfers and bank loans to keep interest rates on debt way down. The individual who really knows what he or she is doing financially and politically makes a cameo appearance during 2003-CO1 in Aquarius from late April to early May before receding into the background until their launch onto the stage permanently during the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020. Gauge your various bosses’ ability to conceive of, and to act upon, fiscal reality, as if your entire net worth depended upon it, during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June – and prioritize your time accordingly. Trust long-time financial advisers to steer you through treacherous waters and a pea-soup fog during Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September. In the meantime, don’t rebel against rookie bosses out of their league during Okyrhoe in Pisces in May and June – train them. Demonstrate explicit generosity to your customer base, and discuss with spouse about how to return to more relaxed spending habits as economic conditions improve, once Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. In the meantime, rookie bosses get the hang of it during Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October. You’ve made new allies! Distance yourself or your spouse, whoever may be from a foreign country, from somebody native to the country who acts like they know it all, but shares none of their knowledge, during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October. Ask yourself, “Has your net worth improved since, and as a result of, when you first began to gauge your various bosses’ ability to conceive of, and to act upon, fiscal reality?” during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October. Now, however, Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune during October and November signifies that you will learn that you were not the only employee or boss who was monitoring the overall economic situation, under specific bosses’ direct auspices – and, in fact, the exact way that you personally and professionally handled it. At the same time, financial advisors admit an unusual amount of vulnerability as Hylonome conjuncts the South Node in Capricorn from September through November – although the old-hand blue blood Ivy Leaguer insists, “None of us has cut any of the steak out of our diet,” during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020. Despite such reassurances, 2001-BL41 conjunct the South Node during November and December makes it very clear that not all such industry professionals will be eating steak. Most importantly, financial professional who begin their careers during this time will learn much about market psychology and how to manipulate it. Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042 will produce many who can comfort the extremely wary and just as many who can fleece the extremely savvy. Be warned. Heavy deadlines, financial pressures and harsh weather take a heavy toll on your physical health as Mars transits Scorpio during December. Greater financial stability amongst your employers, creditors and debtors accompany Jupiter in Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020. Collect. Rookie bosses move forward confidently yet cautiously during Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020. Simultaneously, however, extremely broad and deep, and at times wickedly radical, but overall positive, changes to the capital markets and world geopolitics alter the landscape irrevocably during Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020. Not only is it impossible to predict, but nobody will even know what it all means for many years to come. Therefore, don’t overreact. Accept what is coming to you during Jupiter conjunct the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019 with gratitude and without complaints.   CANCER 2019   You learn – and like – who you are during the North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020! You take pride in the fact that you have surmounted all sorts of different professional obstacles as Uranus in Direct Motion completes its transit of Aries during January and February 2019. More importantly, you immerse yourself in your spiritual and religious practices, endeavors and personalized rituals so that you can remain spiritually grounded as you approach a new professional cycle as Chiron in Direct Motion completes its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019. You are not so impressed with other people. The impersonal, control-freak, hyper-efficient, bottom-line approach which so many people refuse to question strikes you as an inhuman way to deal with people. Particularly when these people make a mistake – there is no reason to apologize, there is only a reason to correct errors – because that’s good business. Well, that’s good business to a Jeff Bezos Amabot with a market capitalization larger than some continents – but Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 is not good business to you. To you, when Kurt Cobain, ironically from Seattle, sang, “It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings,” it only begged your question, “What is okay to do with robots – including the robots that work for me – because who the Hell wants to eat a robot?” Indeed, nobody listens to the idealistic and proper sentiments of a classy, well-educated and worthy friend or partner who actually espouses ethics as 2003-CO1 conjuncts the South Node during January and February – but you listen. All of this serves to remind you that not everybody wants to provide you a primrose path upon which you may stroll towards your ultimate success during Pholus in Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019. The end result? Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February denotes that this informs your political worldview – whether you are able to articulate it or not. This political worldview is much bigger and more complicated than those who shout, “Boycott Amazon!” during Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March. Bosses, partners and spouse use Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune from January through July to determine when to hire quality people and to work with quality materials and when to get by with what one has – because, frankly, the clientele is not worth the expense – without demonstrating a haughty attitude about it. Accordingly, it is incumbent upon you to demonstrate your own self-evident value, conspicuously and with dignity, as Cyllarus conjunct the North Node from January to May. It is further incumbent upon you to choose associates worthy of your said self-evident value as Chiron in late Pisces sextile Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January. Don’t let anybody get in the habit of underestimating you. At first, you will be busy. Jupiter in Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019 augurs a lot of simultaneous projects and work which requires thorough follow-up – most likely, with a refinement and expansion of partners, with more skills than those partners who flooded your professional workplace earlier in 2018, during 2001-BL41 in Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021. Curb impatience. If you wish to learn one or more foreign languages to communicate with new skilled employees from foreign countries, it can’t hurt. However, 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043 says that, as you take the several years necessary to learn how to speak in those foreign languages, you should also learn enough about the current government and recent history of those specific foreign countries to be able to discuss with those new skilled employees from foreign countries why they came here in the first place. Don’t hesitate to pick up any small skill that will give you an extra edge. Learning Spanish, French, Portuguese, German or Mandarin is a huge, epic undertaking, as is learning how to code or how to serve as an IT professional. Truth be told, however, true skill sets involve taking the blame when something goes awry when somebody else did something and then fixing that problem. Chiron in Aries from February 2019 to April 2027 understands that there comes a point where all that battering and blame begins to wear you down – but you must remain more resilient. Indeed, Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026 warns that too many “allies” will give you a sucker punch until you prove to them that they will be unable to get away with it. Economic disempowerment enrages you during Bienor in Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023. An intellectual economic epiphany occurs during Echeclus in Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021 when you stop thinking about where you can buy what you want and start to analyze who controls the inventory and distribution – of whatever – and why. It becomes overwhelmingly obvious and in fact official that droves of bosses, partners and rivals, and perhaps even lovers and spouse, have no idea about what they speak as they all brazenly continue to espouse extreme and extremely destructive nonsense while enduring a merciless bombardment of incredibly high karmic payback during Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May. Other peoples’ downfall has nothing to do with you or your ascendancy. Disassociate. You and many others will now have to pick up the pieces of everything that now collapses, but Jupiter in Sagittarius in Retrograde Motion from April to August counters that this is no reason for you to prioritize work before your health. (Important! Only eat fresh food, especially for lunch at work, throughout Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September.) Furthermore, much of this work picking up the pieces of other individuals’ demises carries with it a potentially painful emotional component if you distance yourself from previously very close lovers or spouse who further poisoned failing relationships with horrible and bitter sentiments as Saturn conjuncts Amycus conjuncts the South Node from April through October. A good yoga teacher or astrologer who comes on the scene as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from late April to early May can transform your life – although you won’t believe it immediately. (You will definitely believe it soon after the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020.) Even so, find solace not only in organized religion or New Age spirituality but, in fact, that temple of well-being, the gym, where you can be whoever you want and say whatever you want whenever you want, during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June. In fact, counsel young people who talk about “losing their religion” as Okyrhoe transits Pisces in May and June. Work-life balance flows more naturally as Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. Spend more time with that classy, well-educated and worthy friend or partner from earlier in 2019 during Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September. A boss, partner, lover or spouse who survived the recent karmic purge demonstrates, with emotional and intellectual humility, honest and useful marketing acumen based upon intuitively correct demographics as Saturn conjunct Amycus sextiles Neptune during October and November. More intellectually, discuss Albert Camus’s The Stranger or Edward Hopper’s Excursion into Philosophy with both your friends and the young person “losing their religion” during Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October. Also, your commitment to organized religion, New Age spirituality and the gym, and all the friends you meet there, make you feel stronger every day as Neptune squares Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October. Monitor employees and colleagues whom you suspect of cheating or stealing during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October. A histrionic emotional outburst by a lover or spouse during Hylonome conjunct the South Node in Capricorn from September through November causes a temporary or permanent breakup. That classy, well-educated and worthy friend or partner tells you, “So what? There are lots of fish in the sea. Let’s go fishing!” during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020. And you know what? 2001-BL41 conjunct the South Node during November and December proves them right. Codfish and halibut! Whether your spouse or lover returns or whatever fish you happen to catch, realize the power of your spouse or lover to hurt you, because Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042 will repeatedly teach you that some people are truly perverse. A spouse or new lover is even better than they look throughout Jupiter in Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020. Make time – lots of time – to indulge in a lot of sex with that old or new favorite during Mars in Scorpio during December. Then, commit to a cool off period as you mingle and reconnect with family, and family only, during Jupiter conjunct the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019. That young person who endured “losing their religion” now talks an awful lot about yoga and astrology during Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020. Many different powers that be who put in real time and profound levels of skilled labor and negotiations long before 2019 begin to launch extremely radical solutions to long-standing high financial, governmental and police problems during Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020 so that the collapse of many different systems which occurred earlier in 2019 will never happen again.   LEO 2019   You don’t mind work. Work is a path to wealth and power – and you like wealth and power. Furthermore, with Capricorn ruling your 6th house of work, you often get to be the boss, training employees who will one day get to be bosses themselves. You work to gain wealth and power as you get the respect of bosses for being a boss and training bosses who all work to gain wealth and power. You like work.  Therefore, for you, it is very good news when a better group of very capable new employees arrives on the scene during 2001-BL41 in Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021, coinciding with the commencement of a highly favorable cycle to gain new clients and new business as Jupiter transits Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019. All this suggests that those new clients who have plenty of work to provide will hire you and you will have plenty of skilled employees to do these jobs well. But, disturbingly, as the North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020 progresses, you will be subject to too many people saying and doing too many things well beyond your ability to control them. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 declares that all those new employees come with too many different types of ambitious personalities for even a skilled boss and manager like yourself to control. This could play out in different ways. Lots of new clients may hire you but fail to pay you. Lots of clients may provide too much work, more work than you can handle – particularly if some of those new employees are eccentric malcontents. Most likely, the nature of the work itself, in different projects simultaneously, may involve unprecedented complications. Truly, enormous changes proliferate. Many people with whom you work at the professional workplace believe that foreign-born and foreign-educated skilled employees will have to adjust to the way that you do business. Truth be told, 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043 suggests that the exact opposite might be true – and might become industry standard much sooner rather than later. Nobody is saying you are helpless. Nobody is suggesting that you quit. A noble, accomplished ally within the infrastructure can do much to expedite important administrative concerns as they maintain a high level of high-volume efficiency during Cyllarus conjunct the North Node from January to May. At least one seasoned or new employee proves unusually skilled at untying knots amongst those employees who are neither noble, accomplished, particularly efficient nor even honest as Saturn conjunct Amycus sextiles Neptune from January through July – and they do so without insulting their employees directly until those employees have already been fired. This individual will be particularly useful as you must provide confidential and proprietary information from within your company to big bosses as Chiron in late Pisces sextiles Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January. However, don’t take for granted an intelligent, well-educated and worldly employee underemployed in their position during 2003-CO1 conjunct the South Node during January and February – this may be the only employee at your workplace whom you can ultimately trust. However, the ultimate confidential and proprietary information within your company – how much money is ultimately at your disposal, which includes highly reliable receivables – remains out of your reach during Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February. This is why you cannot interpret why bosses snarl during Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March. But not everything happens at your convenience. Opportunities knock at the worst time – at a time you are unable to handle them – as Uranus in Direct Motion completes its transit of Aries during January and February 2019. Opportunities which overwhelm you empower rogues and scoundrels to seize control as you struggle when Chiron in Direct Motion completes its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019. And, invariably, there are the slackers, capable employees who muddle through, continually returning like a bad penny, during Pholus in Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019. A lot of this points to a struggle for power in anticipation of a new client base as Echeclus transits Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021. However, let lesser minds fight it out – the true long-term assignments become final with the emergence of the complainers amongst that new client base as Bienor transits Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023. Don’t try to sprint through a marathon. This is a long haul. Moreover, you must commence this next stage properly, taking no shortcuts. Chiron in Aries from February 2019 to April 2027 demands therefore that you take a loss or fire a skilled but unethical employee rather than risk long-term profit as a result of somebody else’s sharp practice. Also, you can’t be using up all of your adrenaline all of the time. Finish projects and wait. New circumstances, new clients and new bosses who come out of nowhere during Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026 will force you to adjust on the fly. Remember: Not everything happens as your convenience.  Unforeseen extremely far-reaching worldly events transform or debase circumstances within your professional workplace – whether or not all your employees and colleagues are mature enough to appreciate it – during Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May. You may shut your doors or get the whole business of one or more of your competitors in one shot. Any way you look at it, Jupiter in Sagittarius in Retrograde Motion from April to August will demand that you get on the phone with all your new clients to find a way to keep them all happy – or else. With all this pressure on you, you must trust those employees and colleagues with whom you work for those new clients during Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September. Amidst all these big changes, you meet your ideal business partner or mate as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from late April to early May. However, conditions will not be ideal either for work or for love until the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020. Still, the light shines at the end of the tunnel. Although you will invariably be very busy during Saturn conjunct Amycus conjunct the South Node from April through October, you always feel like the character Joe Williams in the second book of John Dos Passos’ U.S.A. Trilogy entitled Nineteen Nineteen, an ordinary seaman in the U.S. Navy who, for every possible reason under the sun, never, ever gets paid – until, of course, the happy ending (of the second book, not of the trilogy). (And yes, Joe Williams did complain about not getting paid – a lot!) Christmas is coming – but not in July!  Clients demand that you find out who or what within your professional infrastructure prevents you from delivering quality service to your clients at a price they can afford during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June, as well as why you are not receiving proper notice of if, or whether or not, clients are paying you. While the culprit may be a new employee during Okyrhoe in Pisces in May and June, the culprit may not be a culprit at all because nobody may have bothered to train that new employee. While you conduct your investigation, that intelligent, well-educated and worldly employee underemployed in their position demonstrates true value to you during Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September. Another round of phone calls to new clients from earlier in 2019 is in order to determine if new clients are happy with all of your service despite large-scale worldwide disruptions as Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. Expect some references from even more new clients. However, don’t spend too much time negotiating during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October. Make a solid effort, then say, “If not, can we revisit circa Thanksgiving?” If possible, deploy that new employee to make some of those phone calls in your behalf during Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October so that you can monitor what they are doing as you simultaneously train them. You finally and unequivocally know who or what within your infrastructure deliberately impedes you from delivering quality service during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October as well as who is withholding other important information from you. Solve this problem once and for all without informing the client with the help of that seasoned or relatively new employee skilled at dealing with shifty goldbricks within your infrastructure as Saturn conjunct Amycus sextiles Neptune during October and November. However, don’t shift the problem to already overburdened employees during Hylonome conjunct the South Node in Capricorn from September through November, as it just may be the straw which breaks this other camel’s back. That being said, it is important, now and in the future, that you do not take the responsibility, honor and good will of your employees and colleagues for granted. Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042 denotes that relationships with employer, colleagues and employees will be much more adversarial. Open competition in the workplace, as well as covert competition, is based upon a divergence of financial interests. Don’t allow this to move forward on automatic pilot. Take heed. You now go on the warpath to make up for what you perceive to be lost time as Mars transits Scorpio during December. Employees may not notice during Jupiter in Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020, because they have jobs and they are busy. However, working harder for just as much pay does not appeal to you. Rely more heavily upon that intelligent, well-educated and worldly employee underemployed in their position during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020, perhaps to delegate and to supervise all the other employees working in their behalf as 2001-BL41 conjuncts the South Node during November and December. Also rely more heavily upon that new employee whom you supervised more closely throughout Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020 – they contribute much to your ability to maintain control. Extremely radical far-reaching legislation, regulations and protocol enacted and put into place during Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020 again changes the employment and financial landscape. Make no changes during Jupiter conjunct the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019 – give yourself, and everybody else, a chance to process all the unprecedented recent changes.   VIRGO 2019   Testosterone, like estrogen, is not bad in and of itself – but too much of anything is no good. Furthermore, Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 rather obnoxiously asserts that testosterone should be out of style, but is not – a major reason you should heed much more closely the opinions of mothers, especially of teenagers, and all women, respectively, throughout the North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020. But not everybody will heed the opinions of women. A slew of teenage boys, if you are married with children, or young men, if you are single, whether you are male or female, will proliferate your life during 2001-BL41 in Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021, and, just by the law of numbers, many of those teenage boys will not heed what women say or want. Extreme rowdiness will prove the rule rather than the exception. Finding a capable authority figure in the school system or amongst the coaches during 2003-CO1 conjunct the South Node during January and February will prove a godsend in dealing with young bucks. Regardless, as a parent, particularly of teenagers, and particularly of teenage boys, Jupiter in Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019 makes it incumbent upon you to draw your family closer to you to teach them how to behave so that they will be able to control themselves when they are amongst other teenagers who cannot. Don’t fool yourself – if you demonstrate a lack of control in any way at all, Pholus in Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019 guarantees that not so aggressive, but much sneakier young men will find a way to evade your authority. Letting teenagers know the rules, and, in fact, the laws, during Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February, is critical. You need to let them know that not only do they not want to go to jail but they don’t want this on their record – who at Bowdoin, the University of Michigan, Stanford or Reed wants to educate a criminal? Once everybody knows the rules and the laws, then Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March asserts, “There is no reason to complain – is there?” Of course, if you are single, and pursuing creative activities, including writing or painting, then Echeclus and Bienor in Direct Motion in late Taurus in February and March signify that you must do your homework, research and legwork to sell to those who buy the type of thing that you create, In such a context, you cannot possibly know enough. Allowing the wife – whether she be yourself or the spouse – latitude to speak with teachers and administration about your children as Chiron in Direct Motion completes its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019, and to speak with law enforcement about what to tell your daughters during Chiron in late Pisces sextile Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January, will allow the husband to concentrate exclusively upon issues involving property, security and law enforcement as Uranus in Direct Motion completes its transit of Aries during January and February 2019. A proper male role model lurks somewhere in the school system. A physically big male, perhaps a football, basketball or wrestling coach, can and will speak about the correct way to deal with women during Cyllarus conjunct the North Node from January to May, as they also prove that they walk their talk. The older that this role model is, the more that they will be able to tell you how your son deliberately intends to fool all of the adults with the fairy tales that parents like to hear as Saturn conjunct Amycus sextiles Neptune from January through July. Listen to this role model about, and keep your own eyes open concerning, negative influences on your teenagers amongst their peers during Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September. Long gone are the simplistic, wholesome, self-evident moralistic familial prescriptions emanating from Father Knows Best, The Brady Bunch, The Cosby Show. The homogeneity of the American populace – whether all-white or all-black – is also long gone. Indeed, it is incumbent upon you and older family members to demonstrate a much more enlightened attitude towards foreign-born and foreign educated transplants to your local area throughout 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043. Quell, curb and nip in the bud burgeoning bigotry as you and yours adjust and evolve within changing economic conditions. You cannot afford to overlook the dark side of human nature, whether in your own family, in your own neighborhood or anywhere else. Chiron in Aries from February 2019 to April 2027 denotes continued problems with vandalism dating from the transit of Uranus in Aries from 2011 to 2018. Also, disturbingly, titanic power struggles, possibly with local real estate developers or neighbors encroaching on your property line, possibly with local teenage thugs vandalizing your property & harassing your children, and possibly with your own teenagers themselves. From wherever these power struggles originate, should any of them wind up in a court of law, Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026 cannot guarantee any conclusion which favors you. Get in control of those power struggles as quickly as possible. Maintain ongoing extremely high vigilance. Office politics demands similarly high vigilance. Echeclus in Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021 states that you cannot presume that all your bosses hold consensus opinion about you. Some dislike you; some feel threatened by you. Be careful with hierarchal adversaries. Do everything possible that adversarial bosses demand the way they demand it so bosses will be in no position to complain about you during Bienor in Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023 – but they will complain about you anyway . . . for lack of anybody else to blame. One way or another, the excesses of local teenagers, particularly local teenage boys, perhaps but not necessarily in your family, including their attitudes towards the destruction of other peoples’ property and other peoples’ personal injuries, exceed a breaking point during Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May. In worst case scenarios, it is possible that how you monitor your family throughout Jupiter in Sagittarius in Retrograde Motion from April to August is itself subject to supervision by higher authorities or the wider community. In best case scenarios, if none of the teenagers in your family are in any trouble, Saturn conjunct Amycus conjunct the South Node from April through October recommends that you sign them up for some accelerated performance seminars in camp, whether academically (math, science or engineering) or in sports that will help them earn scholarships academically, during the summer. Put skilled authority figures in the position of issuing all the challenges. Within this context, encourage a teenager who gets excited about a particular academic discipline or career path as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from late April to early May – and research where they can work or where they can go for graduate level studies in their subject to boost their income potential after the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020. A spouse does not appraise either the toll that your professional position takes upon you or your family and your children realistically during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June. Say so, but refuse to argue the point. Try to talk to that well-admired teacher, authority figure or coach for some insight during Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September. Don’t burden your spouse with too many harsh truths during Okyrhoe in Pisces in May and June – especially if things are overall pretty good. Let this play itself out. Don’t overexert yourself during Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October. Take care of your health.  Withdraw from hypervigilance towards children and family as the new school year commences once Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. However, pay closer attention to how teenagers act within the family circle during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October. Inexplicably hostile behavior on the part of a teenager may indeed be a cry for help as Hylonome conjuncts the South Node in Capricorn from September through November. Address with spouse their unrealistic appraisal of you, your job, your family and children as Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October. Explain, from earlier this year, “That coach or that teacher at his school explained that this is the type of fairy tale that kids will intend to tell you in order to fool you,”” during Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune during October and November. If that well-admired teacher, authority figure or coach at the school is available, try to set an appointment with them during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020. If you do make an appointment with this well-admired teacher, authority figure or coach at the school, they will impress upon you just how many students they handle and are involved in all such scenarios as 2001-BL41 conjuncts the South Node during November and December. One thing that this coach or teacher at the school might discuss are trends involving educating or coaching boys as a result of pressure from those who have financial interests in leading them in a very specific direction. The coach or teacher speaks philosophically, but the trend, which occurs during Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042, will be long-term. Your teenagers do not get their diplomas in a societal vacuum. Finish deadlines, but pass on overtime at your job, during Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020. Restrain road rage, hostility during your commute and confrontations with strangers at bars, lest they lapse into fistfights and debase into arrests or lawsuits as Mars transits Scorpio during December. If your teenagers behave themselves, they enjoy honor and glory, or, if your teenagers misbehave, they endure the concomitant opprobrium, as Jupiter transits Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020. Either way, anticipate permanent, sometimes untested, radical changes to how law enforcement, the courts, vested sports leagues in high schools, colleges and universities and all academic institutions handle all disciplinary issues related to teenagers – particularly boys – during Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020. Suffer through the cynical opinions of your own teenagers, college students and recent college graduates – as if they know “the ways of the world” – during Jupiter conjunct the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019.   LIBRA 2019   You announce the commencement of an idealistic new agenda with a “Forward, march!” during Jupiter in Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019 – and many of those with whom you discussed the long-term future line up to serve you during 2001-BL41 in Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021. But that idealism, while misplaced, does not represent the current zeitgeist – “disillusionment” does. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 asserts mercilessly that people – especially people in power, politicians, business leaders, educators, cops – will not live up to their best selves. They will disappoint, they will lie, sin and break laws. They will horrify. And they don’t care. Indeed, you must negotiate with those who oppose you or sneaky opponents will find a way to hurt you as they refuse to play by your rules as Pholus transits Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019. A noble, respected prominent local citizen has sage advice for you as 2003-CO1 conjuncts the South Node during January and February. Don’t recoil with the familiarity of contempt. Heed their counsel. The North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020 demands that you keep your finger on the public pulse. Many other people do not share your criteria and values regarding how other people behave. You may know how to keep the professional workplace under control during Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune from January through July, but maintaining a superior attitude requires more psychological energy than makes you feel comfortable. Soft, hypothetical negotiations help you to come to an understanding with colleagues, employees and followers with what you want and expect, as you state what you are willing to provide – as per what you know you already have during Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February – as Chiron in Direct Motion completes its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019. In more meaningful dialogues with such employees, you may learn about their deep contempt for borderline crime that they see in their lives or even in your professional workplace during Chiron in late Pisces sextile Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January. (Nod your head in agreement, but don’t let this conversation turn ugly during Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March.) Of course, let partners speak for themselves as Uranus in Direct Motion completes its transit of Aries during January and February 2019. Take a step back from your own Hobbesian or Machiavellian view of the professional workplace. Bosses aren’t prison wardens or generals during war calculating how many of their own people will die as they progress into enemy territory. Cyllarus conjunct the North Node from January to May challenges you to accept the paradigm where the boss in charge cares for all the people who work there. More broadly, and beyond your paycheck and world economy, while learning the language of the immigrants who move to your local area en masse as fast as possible will yield only short-term logistic and operational gains, 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043 declares that making such efforts now will earn you long-term trust which you will be unable to earn any other way from such people for the next twenty-five years. You personally are more than ready for widespread and deep change that makes the world a better place to live. Chiron in Aries from February 2019 to April 2027 will attract partners and devotees to you who share these idealistic values – but who, like you, know “why” but not necessarily “how.” Then, the Devil on the other shoulder speaks up as Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026 reminds you how you, or how anybody else, will be put in a position of at times extreme temptation by their responsibility to handle “OPM” – other peoples’ money. Your vulnerability to criminal activity should be a wakeup call. Find out what you can and can’t do during Echeclus in Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021. Realize, moreover, that expressing hostile contempt for those who tempt you to engage in criminal activity during Bienor in Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023 is not only wasted energy but only encourages these criminals to tempt you more. You know the law. You report illegal activity to the police. As you do so, maintain a neutral smiley face. These are the challenges before you for the long term. Just to remind you what the stakes are, whether in your family, at your company, in your city or throughout the country, Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May harshly punishes, with a truly inhuman flourish, those who betrayed their duties, responsibilities, missions and people. Ugly did then ugly became and everybody knows. Thereafter, a lot of work remains to restore order and functionality and all that had been damaged – and the solutions to the problems are not always so obvious – as Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Retrograde Motion from April to August. Working in conjunction with either international or national jurisdictions on a local problem involving foreign nationals can solve a lot of problems simultaneously during Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September. Everybody feels the gravity of other peoples’ punishments for their crimes and sins as Saturn conjuncts Amycus conjuncts the South Node from April through October even as they vent their hostile wrath loudly and directly in the faces of those who are guilty. Listen to work colleagues talk about the power of religion and prayer while everybody suffers during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June. Consider who these colleagues may now covertly reference as you draw no immediate conclusions. More importantly, help young, inexperienced new employees unsure of their job roles or their new professional environment as Okyrhoe transits Pisces in May and June. A new politician or new political movement which surfaces as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from late April to early May is prematurely testing the waters for a more widespread launch during the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020. Analyze the overall general thrust of the message. Like concrete that dries, all the attempts to rectify all that had gone wrong now solidifies as Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. Notice that noble, respected prominent local citizen front stage and center during Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September. Consider again what that work colleague had said about religion and prayer in the recent past during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October. That covert reference will now appear transparent. Discipline employees with a light touch and mild sarcasm as Saturn conjunct Amycus sextiles Neptune during October and November – you’ve already purged the worst of them. Encourage and nurture, and do not terrify, those young, inexperienced new employees unsure of their job roles or the new professional environment during Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October. The less that you say, the less that other people can misunderstand you or twist what you say during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October.  Somebody in your family unaccustomed to suffering now suffers, affluent parts of your city now appear destitute, or both, as Hylonome conjuncts the South Node in Capricorn from September through November. That noble, respected prominent local citizen knows why. Listen during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020 – they may give you insight into all sorts of problems just starting or about to happen as 2001-BL41 conjuncts the South Node during November and December. What that noble, respected prominent local citizen describes is something that they have seen before. If you ask the right question, that noble, respected prominent local citizen will tell you what they have not seen before – which is the key to understanding Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042. You know you are on the right track when that noble, respected prominent local citizen replies to your direct question, “Your guess is as good as mine.” The dark side of human nature resurfaces as Mars transits Scorpio during December. Unfortunately, one such young, inexperienced new employee chooses this as the time to express a political opinion about it during Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020 – don’t encourage this. You keep your own counsel as others come around to get you to help them keep their secrets – and that’s fine with you. While in discussions therein, you or other like-minded types mention the necessity for holding the thugs, the thieves and the animals accountable as Jupiter transits Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020. You learn, thereupon, that power brokers and public policy types light years beyond you are launching extremely radical and permanently peremptory media, rules, regulations, systems and perhaps even currencies to hold people accountable during Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020. As a result, the status quo, which would be uncomfortable at any other time, gives you a chance to contemplate the long-term future during Jupiter conjunct the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019.     SCORPIO 2019   The Scorpion, over time, has developed a singular set of ethics because so many people accused them of being gratuitously mean. In this system of ethics, a Scorpion behaves like a jerk in order to make people laugh – not, as some people believe, to get what it wants. (Seinfeld, in which people behave like jerks to get what they want, made people laugh, because people who behaved like jerks to get what they wanted instead got punished for behaving like jerks.)  This is not what you do. You act like a jerk and your friends say, “This is so wrong, you are such a jerk, you are so funny.” You entertain people for a few seconds. People comment then change the subject. You all go to another bar.  But some people really are absolute total jerks. These people behave like total jerks to get what they want, then leverage their jerk behavior to get even more. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 declares that there are more of these jerks in and around you than ever before. Indeed, during 2001-BL41 in Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021, you see these jerks everywhere! Don’t hesitate for one second to hire a self-evidently qualified professional to serve as a proxy for your institution, with their own special high-impact delivery, as 2003-CO1 conjuncts the South Node during January and February to deal with such jerks! But this is not funny! You were all prepared to laugh about your friends’ stupid behavior and now you are contemplating the human condition. The North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020 is forcing you to consider and to acknowledge that something is seriously missing from the soul of mankind – and is demanding that you find out what it is before it is too late. Calm down! To indulge despair is to cede control. Discuss your existential dread with an outwardly unambitious yet highly observant partner during Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February. They will share their informed worldview and perspective borne of careful observation, research and analysis. You ask this partner, “How come I never noticed this?” That partner immediately responds during Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March, “Because you play for control and power while I play for knowledge. Read a book, why don’t you?” Professional and business life continues apace, albeit with some of the same headaches. You will have plugged up all the leaks which have been draining your bank account of money so that now the money deposited therein during Jupiter in Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019 will stay there. But, of course, meddlesome genius employees interrupt and interfere, preventing you from seeing the circumstance for what it really is, as Uranus in Direct Motion completes its transit of Aries during January and February 2019. And that individual or vendor who benefited you can and may cause you harm down the road during Pholus in Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019. But these petty, mundane concerns fill you with distaste. You’d much rather spend time with family. Lovers, children and friends are happy – and say so! – as Chiron in Direct Motion completes its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019. Still, Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune from January through July demands that you understand the need to maintain vigilance in order to promote and to instill a permanent sense of discipline in your children, without insulting them for their all too natural behavior, from the vantage of a hostile adult curmudgeon. Happily, Chiron in late Pisces sextile Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January declares that spouse, friends and extended family support you in your disciplinary role and reinforce it from other angles. Living amidst the happiness of your family allows you to dwell in unfettered contemplation of not only your personal future, but of the future of many different countries and peoples of an ever-changing market. If you are lucky enough to be near temperate ocean water during Cyllarus conjunct the North Node from January to May, you might want to board a boat making reasonable ingress into deep water while considering philosophical, eternal ideas, worthy of the sailor Marlow in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Emerging markets overseas give you scope of how you may want to expand your investments, but as you stare off into the wild blue yonder, 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043 alerts you to all sorts of possibilities, of new markets emerging amongst immigrant diasporas where you live, as well as overseas, where people from your country emigrate to live somewhere else. Open yourself not only to the possibility of promoting new markets, and not only of selling, funding and buying assets and properties in different currencies, but also, in fact, of the prospect of evolution, where various representations of different cultures create existing new hybrids that transform the characters of many different nations. Such profound contemplation will yield to realism soon enough as you must take into consideration new people in your life. New work colleagues & employees that enter the professional workplace during Chiron in Aries from February 2019 to April 2027 are not nearly as confident, slick, obnoxious and presumptuous as the genius employees who gave you such headaches as Uranus transited Aries from 2011 to 2018, but instead fluctuate between almost hapless hesitancy and an incongruously, extremely confident omnipotence. As you seek the most useful and kindest way to deal with these emotionally bipolar employees and colleagues, Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026 burdens you with a crash course of how to deal with the volatilely stubborn and all too aggressive power moves of business partners who provide very little gray area for tolerance and negotiation. Don’t spend so much time demonstrating consideration for partners, employees and colleagues that you overlook your own professional vulnerabilities. Echeclus in Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021 warns that your business model blinds you as to how market competitors can tap a veritable market from within your client base by exploiting a flaw that you never considered. Whether you determine that flaw and fix it or just disregard it, either you or a competitor will be complaining vociferously as Bienor transits Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023. Your ability to manage employees directly by issuing them one-to-one verbal instructions fails utterly and permanently during Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May because both the tone of your voice and the substance of your directions itself imply a haste and desperation beyond reasonable urgency. Legal issues will absolutely ensue if you continue to be so informal and careless. Put managers between you and employees as you provide permanent tasks, the expectation of which you can review without dealing with employees directly. Jupiter in Sagittarius in Retrograde Motion from April to August exhorts you to reconsider your business and how you make your money as the outcome of an absolutely impersonal construct of organizational psychology, not as a result of teamwork driven by your relationship with individual “retail” personalities. An impersonal approach will help you discern why long-term clients threaten to abandon you during Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September. Demonstrate that you fulfill their needs without actually directly addressing them. A local politician, urban planner or realtor posits a twenty-year plan for your city as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from late April to early May. This would most likely launch after the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020. What do you think? In this “impersonal construct,” you will want to tell an extremely lazy employee, dishonest vendor or another business owner how badly you think of them as Saturn conjuncts Amycus conjuncts the South Node from April through October. In what possible way will acting upon such an inclination do you any good whatsoever? You merely invite the insolent to challenge your authority. Really, let your proxy handle them as aggressively as they like during Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September.  In another context along the personal-impersonal continuum, Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June warns that not only will you waste your money trying to buy love, whether from a lover, spouse or children but you will also create within your soul and meaningless and unnecessary obsession. Certain special gifts require that you spend money – but spending money, in and of itself, is not “special.” Spend more time with such lover, spouse or children, before you decide to give them something “special.” Even though your sarcastic sense of humor requires “an acquired taste,” Okyrhoe in Pisces in May and June signifies that younger ladies will not fully understand you, but will nevertheless be intrigued. Now that you have identified the true principle by which you earn money, you can apply those principles starting once Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. Make some subtle, aggressive moves against your market competitor during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October. Furthermore, as you spend more time with such lover, spouse or children, you learn what is “special” to them during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October so that you can give it to them at a time which, because it is special, will cause them transcendence! Don’t make the mistake of thinking kids won’t notice – indeed, Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October denotes that kids are keeping very close score. Such transcendence may empower you at a truly critical moment, since Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune during October and November may force you to tell such lover, spouse or children something that they don’t want to hear. Are the histrionics of employees, colleagues, vendors, merchants or customers justified during Hylonome conjunct the South Node in Capricorn from September through November? Hard to say. Send that savvy, firm proxy to appraise the situation during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020. Make certain that that proxy takes total control before things get out of hand during 2001-BL41 conjunct the South Node during November and December. Even after your proxy regains control for you, don’t sweep this under the rug. The immediate crisis may be ended, but the lesson learned and the tactics cultivated by your opponents now will undergo reflection and gestation for reemergence over the long term of Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042. Be ever alert for those determined to cause you trouble. Heed well the unsolicited political opinion of twenty-something, inexperienced college graduates, particularly women, during Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020. Circumstances which forced you into more impersonal business relations earlier in 2019 favor you greatly during Mars in Scorpio during December as you can use your aggression in ways where nobody can approach or impede you. Business flows in such a way during Jupiter in Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020 wherein you deal with very few of the hands-on details. More spectacularly, profoundly radical core upgrades to all sorts of business and technological infrastructures internally and worldwide during Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020 accelerate the flow of energy and information to the point where it is almost electric. However, certain kinks persist during Jupiter conjunct the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019. Oh, well – not for long.   SAGITTARIUS 2019   Just like early in 2018, a whole crop of individuals, including and especially men, stampede in the same direction as 2001-BL41 transits Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021. For your own part, whether you join them or not, you do not need to submerge your personality by acquiescing or rebelling –remain your sovereign self during Jupiter in Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019. Such sovereignty will prove your salvation. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 declares that that primrose path to prosperity, wealth and peace ranged wide indeed, attracting all sorts of people with possibilities that seemed to entice them and them alone. Such path is proving to be an illusion. For your own part, your hard work, your purpose and your money are systematically focused upon a specific private pain, rooted within your family or your upbringing in a specific city, state, province or country, as Saturn conjunct Amycus sextiles Neptune from January through July. You will not forget who you are amongst too many others who do. To that end, maintaining close partnerships with well-educated, like-minded allies during 2003-CO1 conjunct the South Node during January and February is key to maintaining necessary objectivity about yourself and what you intend to do. Because you possess this deep self-knowledge, many of those lost on this path of illusion need you. You are of value to all those who must follow a new life direction because you know what it means. You’ve withstood and evolved as a result of your family crisis and you know who you are as Chiron in Direct Motion completes its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019. You’ve intellectually processed the realm of vice as you see through the chaos of its deceit and delusion as Uranus in Direct Motion completes its transit of Aries during January and February 2019. Finally, because you see vice as another layer of illusion, after you have already rejected the illusion of false success, you must come to terms with your deepest feelings, regardless of what everybody else in the world is doing, sometime during the North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020, in order to move forward on your own path, alone. Be careful that you do not mislead those who won’t change direction with their lives as they feed off your insights to become bitterly cynical and corrupt during Pholus in Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019. Pain persists while work remains to be done in this imperfect world. Chiron in late Pisces sextile Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January denotes that you will continue to feel this pain – but you must do your dharma. Organize your workload thoroughly first during Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February, then execute it with dispatch. Keep your head down and disregard temptations in the workplace during Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March. The days are long, the years fly by. Simultaneously, you feel your power. You’ve seen the illusion of money and you’ve seen the illusion of vice as you walk in an existential vacuum as Cyllarus conjuncts the North Node from January to May. You’re walking alone to a place only you can go. The angst makes you grow in nobility and power. What seem like easy answers are not false detours but in fact clues. As attractive as the idea of transformation and evolution as a result of your long-term contact with or immersion into a different culture, language and country may be, 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043 declares that the profundity of the change that you and they will undergo is so open-ended, with so few boundaries, that enthusiasm itself, with its inevitable mirror image of dejection, proves overwhelmingly counterproductive. Treat this endeavor as an existential path with no concomitant system of rewards or punishments. Proceed forward with dispassionate neutrality. In strictly mundane terms, you have something that you want to say. However, the less ambition you have in the beginning, the more you will get done in the end. Chiron in Aries from February 2019 to April 2027 urges you to start a “process” which grows into a “protocol” or a “product.” A diary that becomes a memoir. A subject in photography which becomes a gallery show. A short story that allows for a sequel that grows into an episodic novel. A key to your happiness lies in freeing up your time. Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026 will be in a position to reward you if you create innovations and labor-saving devices that will allow you to finish your work faster. Of course, some bosses will attempt to plug up those innovations and labor-saving devices so that you will always have work. Realize, moreover, that you may not always be sure what you are trying to do – but Echeclus in Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021 declares that a savvy friend or partner will. Listen closely. Conversely, Bienor in Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023 suggests that fellow employees and colleagues will notice your efficiency, will try to persuade you to do their work for them and will even complain to bosses that you should help them because it doesn’t seem like you have anything to do. This will prove an ongoing battle. More short-term economic crises will command your attention. Governmental and economic transformations and debasements on an international, national, provincial, municipal or personal level can profoundly expand or permanently eliminate every dollar of your net worth during Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May – or it may not touch one penny in any of your accounts. It just may send President Donald Trump to jail – after President Trump tries to drop a bomb on North Korea, France or Ottawa – or after President Trump attempts a military coup of the United States. A lot that is up in the air is interconnected. Anticipate extremely good or extremely bad or extremely good and extremely bad – but anticipate extremely. The casino mentality of the high roller shouting, “Let it ride,” is a little too prevalent for your financial comfort. Nobody is going to have an easy time of it. Hard work and all sorts of policies of economic exhortations will be announced formally with the punitive wrath of an old-style fire-and-brimstone WASP economist – “We will not suffer contradiction” – accompanying Saturn conjunct Amycus conjunct the South Node from April through October. Take courage: The political message of your future – which you may even promulgate via straightforward statements or standup comedy – enraptures you in epiphany as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from late April to early May. Plan to speak this message to those who will listen commencing the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020. The depth of your personality and worldly experiences fill both you and many around you with the meaning of life as Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Retrograde Motion from April to August– as long as you know who to exclude when throughout Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September. True partners and friends will confirm your wisdom or folly during Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September. Sting of the Police sang on Ghost in the Machine, “When you make your secret journey, you will be a holy man.” Deed is done. Honors conferred. Dispense the blessings. However, your expansive personality will not help elderly, disabled or wounded, drug-addicted or deluded family members whom uncharitable family members and business partners entrap during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June. Do not chastise. Help younger family members escape their asylum within their unhappy family home during Okyrhoe in Pisces in May and June. The need for austerity and for cheering everybody up ends as Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. Pursue more of what interests you – and help out and support younger family members and friends to do the same during Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October. After you make a star appearance to determine everybody’s needs and how you are going to satisfy them during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October, remove your personage from the home front during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October to avoid not only irritating elderly, disabled or wounded, drug-addicted or deluded family members, but also entrenching yourself in their no-win situations. Touch base with younger family members whom you helped escape from the asylum of their unhappy family home to see if they are now doing okay during Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020. Invest money in extremely sophisticated and advanced devices, furniture and programs which are designed to address the plight of these elderly, disabled or wounded, drug-addicted or deluded family members during Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune during October and November – but do not overextend yourself financially during Hylonome conjunct the South Node in Capricorn from September through November. A plethora of distasteful work can nonetheless make you considerable windfall profit as 2001-BL41 conjuncts the South Node during November and December. Coordinate with a long-time partner to take advantage of this largess of carrion during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020. However, Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042 demands that you develop cognizance that somebody’s money may be no good. Some people break regulatory codes. Some launder money. You might carry counterfeit cash in your wallet and not even know it. Banks are not immune. Get savvy quickly. Shun temptations as vice-ridden friends make an unwelcome comeback during Mars in Scorpio during December. Your financial situation improves greatly as long as you stay on the right side of, and enforce, the law, as Jupiter transits Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020. Worldwide permanent peremptory changes in economic policies, financial regulations and banking law during Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020 make your ability to stay on the right side of the law either effortless or impossible. Enjoy the respite afforded by the status quo during Jupiter conjunct the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019 as you consider your future and what to do next. CAPRICORN 2019   You continue to wield increased resources under your control – but only those that you can truly control – during 2001-BL41 in Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021. The operative phrase, of course, “only those resources that you can truly control” should get your attention – it will get the attention of all your competitors who are reading your annual horoscope. Yes, your competition will challenge your control – that you already know. But, throughout the seemingly never-ending onslaught that is Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020, the forces of nature, the international capital markets, the United States of America, the social consequences of climate change, homelessness, the police, Fox News, CNN and the ACLU may all try not only to challenge your control, but may indeed try to knock you off-balance, hoping to knock you off your feet so that you fall flat on your face, causing you so much direct personal pain that you become numb to embarrassment or humiliation. Indeed, outer or centaur planets in Capricorn, including Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Chiron, Nessus and Crantor, amongst many, many others, have given many saturnine Capricornian types a chance at world domination at the expense of many, but not all, other signs, since the end of the Jimmy Carter Administration. Astrological favoritism bolstering Capricornian careerism gives you such a powerful generational advantage that it is no wonder that you will barrel forward throughout 2019 with a target on your back. However, if you demonstrate the nobility of a well-educated heritage during 2003-CO1 conjunct the South Node during January and February, nobody will ever try to hurt you. Of course, not everybody will be in any position to challenge you. Many people everywhere struggle to survive as they stretch their finances to the breaking point during Jupiter in Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019. As a result, and as has happened many times in the past, you benefit directly because many other people do not know how to survive their own bad financial thinking and bad habits as you purchase distressed assets during Chiron in late Pisces sextile Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January like a vulture hunting carrion. However, you are blind to how many locals who see you pick up a dollar for a dime notice how long in the tooth you appear as Saturn conjunct Amycus sextiles Neptune from January through July. Control your penchant for greed, as well as the appearance of haughtiness and arrogance, lest you impel gossip amongst those who would like to bring you down. With such financial gains, you may be able to afford to continue to live where you do now. Indeed, with long-term economic planning, you may be able to live in the best neighborhood in town. Even so, 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043 reminds the Goat, who may wish to stay because of their fondness for the familiar, that the local area where you now live will evolve, devolve, transform or debase far beyond your current recognition of it for years to come. What city will accommodate that person whom you most want to be? But that’s who you will be when you will be there years or decades down the line. Until then, you must maintain good relations with the people in and around you right now. Indeed, public response to the leadership and decisions you make represent the most important upcoming lesson of the North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020. People look up to you to determine how they should behave; ruthlessly pursuing your own self-interest will not only set a bad tone but may backfire. Developing your own creativity through writing, drawing, painting or acting will help liberate you from the excesses of financial acquisitiveness as well as public interaction. Reviewing the past six years will give you a worthwhile idea to express during Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February without the toxicity of naked sarcastic complaints during Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March. Cultivate a vision. Keep your psychology clear. Express societal and religious ideals in behalf of everybody as Chiron in Direct Motion completes its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019 without indulging negativity and anger as Uranus in Direct Motion completes its transit of Aries during January and February 2019. Uplift others – express nobility, like those lovers and business partners whom you admire, during Cyllarus conjunct the North Node from January to May. Conversely, don’t make yourself vulnerable to cunning connivers. Learn when you should appear, when you should hide and from whom you must remain permanently secluded, during Pholus in Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019. A place to which to retreat, whether from your family or within your local area, becomes necessary as you deal with issues of self-esteem, family conflict and pure, unadulterated non-directional anger throughout Chiron in Aries from February 2019 to April 2027. You must learn and you must accept that it must be all about you before it can be about anybody else – and, once you reach that point, then it is all about everybody else. This cycle will repeat – master it. It will help if you are single or if you are some type of artist. Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026 will make you demand a role or a space where you can do or say whatever you want. Multiple lovers do not connote promiscuity. Outrageous artistic or literary ideas do not imply insanity or criminality. Once you determine what you want to do, creatively, Echeclus in Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021 will insist that you set about determining a plan to fulfill that agenda – a plan that might demand you hire employees or cooperate with colleagues. Also, if you must cooperate with employees and colleagues, Bienor in Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023 reminds you that you and they will engage in conflict about how everybody will achieve your goal. That’s not only okay – that’s beautiful! You must be free to be – and you will. If you can start a love relationship or maybe a major creative project during Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May, you can help transform extremely, profoundly, random destructive forces for change for very positive ends. A lot of what you cannot control can happen to you along the way. Think of how Melania felt when Donald Trump expressed to her that he was running for President. Consider what Salman Rushdie thought when the Ayatollah Khomeini sentenced him to death for writing The Satanic Verses. It’s all part of a cataclysmic process of transformation – take that first step so that it will not become part of a cataclysmic process of debasement. Accept the fact that a curve ball can come at you out of a clear blue sky at any minute. Somebody pitches, or your own mind formulates, a brilliant future business plan as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from late April to early May. Plan to launch after the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020. A dishonest salesperson makes you a cunning, duplicitous or fraudulent offer about stuff nobody wants, or a friend asks you a question about such a dishonest salesperson from whom that friend received some such cunning, duplicitous or fraudulent offer, during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June. Now, Capricorn the Goat may be a hard-nosed, no-nonsense businessperson – but honorable Goats do not prey upon the uninformed, weak and the stupid. In that spirit, Jupiter in Sagittarius in Retrograde Motion from April to August implores you, morally, to go after and to help others go after unscrupulous predators. Be especially careful as you go after the slickest players during Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September. Make an extra effort to protect the particularly young and gullible as Okyrhoe transits Pisces in May and June. Level the playing field by removing all criminals. Refrain from open, aggressive, direct public challenges during Saturn conjunct Amycus conjunct the South Node from April through October, lest you appear aggressive or even violent. Throw no gauntlets Accept no duels. Again: Demonstrate the nobility of a well-educated heritage during Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September. You can once again pursue market advantage against capable peers as law enforcement, journalists or industry regulators expose dishonest salespeople as Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. Those young people whom you helped when they were vulnerable will all trust you during Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October, especially as you speak so clearly and transparently. What is dishonest and corrupt about the offers about stuff nobody wants which such fraudulent criminals make becomes public knowledge during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October. Slick operators will have nowhere to maneuver during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October. As a result, those who thought of you as a predator now consider you as a shrewd and extremely aggressive yet honest businessperson – and they will admire you as such – as Saturn conjunct Amycus sextiles Neptune during October and November. These people who now admire you don’t realize that you suffer because your enemies, whom you exposed, pulled strings to hurt you financially or with certain power brokers behind the scenes – not in public – as Hylonome conjuncts the South Node in Capricorn from September through November. Suffer in silence. 2001-BL41 conjunct the South Node during November and December states that hundreds if not thousands of people in your position would cry themselves a river before a microphone in public. Don’t do that! Remember: Demonstrate the nobility of a well-educated heritage during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020. Those young people whom you initially protected several months ago watch during Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020 and know what you endure. Don’t disappoint them. True heroism! The irony of this is that you never thought of yourself as a martyr – the pay is terrible! However, your experience during 2019, as well as Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042, intend to teach you what it took people in the Eighties nearly twenty years to learn: The one who dies with the most toys . . . wins absolutely nothing Overt and aggressive competitors try to knock you off-balance as Mars transits Scorpio during December – but the smart money knows that you hold the advantage as they line up behind you throughout Jupiter in Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020! Then spectacularly, whether miraculously or cataclysmically, the extremely far-reaching, regulatory and spiritual changes concomitant with Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020 influence you on a personal level, like being struck by lightning while making a speech on television. Luckily, you can behave like you have always behaved during the holiday season during Jupiter conjunct the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019. After that, you must show your new face to the world!   AQUARIUS 2019   Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 unequivocally signifies that you have been living in a societal or economic construct of some other individual or social group’s worldview for far too long. A converse flip side is much more useful: The North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020 demonstrates proof that people pursue the cold hard dollar because they need it – even though they would rather be doing something else. Do you need that cold, hard dollar? Would you like to, and can you now, do something else? The likely astrological answers to these two questions? Probably not and probably, respectively. As long as these answers are not definitive, discuss the potential answers to these questions with a like-minded, noble, well-educated kindred spirit behind the scenes in your same dystopian bureaucracy as 2003-CO1 conjuncts the South Node during January and February. Accordingly, you will have a long-term opportunity to revise and to redress all your codified political, philosophical and intellectual ideas during Jupiter in Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019. Simultaneously, masses of people, including allies, become much more motivated by finance and economics, in defiance of their natural inclination, during 2001-BL41 in Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021. Of course, all these allies are more than willing to concede that all those political ideas that you promulgated several years ago eventually all came to pass – but, in their worldview, they have no time to wait around losing money as they wait to find out that you were right rather than actually putting their money on bets which you espouse from the very beginning. Their loss. The application of political ideas that you promulgated several years ago now during 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043 may have seemed like science fiction then, but so much more is possible now – and you have that much more confidence that your mode of analysis is accurate. Work through more and more of your boldest ideas to much more manifest, as well as much more far-reaching, conclusions. Of course, all these analyses are speculative and are all about the world that you and everybody else will live in tomorrow. As for now, safety, security and comfort in the midst of strife become a very high priority as Chiron in Direct Motion completes its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019. To that end, you concede and accept as Uranus in Direct Motion completes its transit of Aries during January and February 2019 that, even though you know what you believe and why you believe it, you need not express those beliefs to everybody all the time. Determine that everything under your control with the family or the citizens of your city and on the home front or in your city is operating smoothly during Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February. Furthermore, solicit complaints from your family or the citizens of your city during Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March. Ensure none exist. You also do not need to tell anybody else that you can afford to take risks that they cannot. Of course, you invest what money is necessary in your home and family during Chiron in late Pisces sextile Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January. However, overall, the advantage provided by your employment as Cyllarus conjuncts the North Node from January to May gives you more latitude to do what you want than you realize – especially through highly privileged institutional and corporate reimbursements and benefits that lowers your overall ongoing expenses during Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune from January through July – because, if you realized it, you would take more advantage of it. On a more paranoid note, somebody at your job who seems to agree with everybody, while nobody is keeping score, as this agreeable slinky spies upon everybody for institutional purposes during Pholus in Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019. Wouldn’t it be wiser simply to keep your own counsel – quietly? “Quietly” seems to be the way to go. Communication becomes an obstacle throughout Chiron in Aries from February 2019 to April 2027. Guard against sounding angry and wanting to start a fight. Then, when unreasonable and hostile adversaries sound angry and want to start a fight with you, don’t acquiesce obsequiously in kneejerk fashion. Gain more conscious control of how you speak and write. Not only must you ensure that you will not enflame your own or anybody else’s emotions needlessly, but you must also keep your emotions in check when unexpected circumstances descend, whether you are the mayor of the city, the adult in your family or merely the individual paying the rent in your apartment, upon your city, family or self, respectively. Whether earthquake, flood, vandalism or sharp rent increase, Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026 declares that weather will create damage, that things will break, that people will get in legal trouble, that the rent sometimes sharply increases in price. Long story short: Not only are problems going to cost you money, but the fact is, you will be forced to use your brain to solve problems, lest they cost you even more money . . . and lest these problems continue. Getting your house, literally, in order, and being able to get your house in order once again in the face of unexpected damages, ultimately underwrites your creativity. Echeclus in Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021 declares that you need the time, the tools and the people to do the voodoo that you do. You should not need to make money in order to do it – although you can do it to make money. Regardless, making money is not the point. The point. If you do it, you will be happy. And, if you don’t do it, you will complain – about everything – during Bienor in Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023. Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May represents an extreme shock to the system from an entirely different quarter: From governmental and corporate bureaucracies. Institutions in place for generations may collapse. Your employer may merge with another large business. Democracies may turn into dictatorships. Who knows what will happen to President Donald J. Trump? Will this be very good or very bad for you? The answer is absolutely, “Yes.” (Which? Good? Bad? Extreme.) Because, moreover, what occurs now will affect you must less than everybody else, you can view everything that happens from a vantage of bemused detachment, “Look how desperate that evil son-of-a-bitch looks!” Just be ready to pivot regarding the change demanded of you. You have an intellectual epiphany of a profound, once-in-a-lifetime change in personal direction during 2003-CO1 in Aquarius from late April to early May available to you after the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020. Heed the call. However, while these extreme changes suggest that your material circumstance can change for better or for worse, Jupiter in Sagittarius in Retrograde Motion from April to August declares that these cataclysmic, catastrophic changes are the best thing that could possibly happen to you intellectually. Indeed, many of the ideas that you have espoused in the past become as timely as many of the ideas that you are expressing right now. On top of that, Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September empowers you with almost endless nuance and insight. You know for a fact that your ideas have a deep effect when you hear or get backlash for it from those bureaucrats who try to provoke you into an exchange of insults as Saturn conjuncts Amycus conjuncts the South Node from April through October. Don’t take the bait. Just make sure that you don’t alienate them so deeply that they cut you off from either the payroll or your closest friendships as Neptune squares Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June. Heed the objectivity of that like-minded, noble, well-educated kindred spirit behind the scenes in your same dystopian bureaucracy during Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September. Know when to hide within the safety of your core support group as Okyrhoe transits Pisces in May and June.  Accept offers to have your writing published or to be interviewed on video or television, as Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. Still, again, know when to hide within the safety of your core support group during Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October. Otherwise, you make vast intellectual leaps in consciousness during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October – more reason to continue to keep your intellectual life and your professional life separate as Neptune squares Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October. Offer nobody passports from one to the other. Consolidate highly privileged professional reimbursements, rebates and gratuities during Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune during October and November.  Financially vulnerable large-scale institutions take a big hit – perhaps even a lethal hit – as Hylonome conjuncts the South Node in Capricorn from September through November. This effects thousands of people, who as a result become very angry, as 2001-BL41 conjuncts the South Node during November and December. You’ve already spoken truth to power during Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020. You are proven right. Ask that like-minded, noble, well-educated kindred spirit behind the scenes in your same dystopian bureaucracy for ideological and public relations advice during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020. Don’t go off half-cocked – people will be further enraged. But let this be a lesson to you. Cassandra may ben gotten angry when nobody listened to her correct prophecy but the only one who got really mad was Cassandra. You told Goliath he was going down – and a lot of people liked Goliath. Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042 signifies that there are a lot more Goliaths out there. How many enemies can you handle simultaneously? You are not Bruce Lee! Survival of the fittest in a Hobbesian universe returns by popular demand during Mars in Scorpio during December – but you’ll keep busy away from the bloodiest action during Jupiter in Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020. Then, an enormous, radical, widespread and peremptory innovation, which had proved intolerable before it was summarily destroyed earlier in 2019, is fixed with 22nd century brilliant and humane upgrades during Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020. Let the newness of it all dazzle you, but don’t try to master all the bells and whistles yet. Wax nostalgic for the bad old days during Jupiter conjunct the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019.     PISCES 2019   Business looks good. Bosses continue to give you a lot of work throughout Jupiter in Sagittarius from November 2018 through November 2019, but it will be a lot more straightforward – and you will get that respect that you deserve. New clients and customers from earlier in 2018 become solid allies during 2001-BL41 in Capricorn from November 2018 through March 2021. Workaday life is copacetic. But don’t all the adults bore you? Adults care about their power games and who controls what and how they can get control of what somebody else has and they want. Adults don’t even know how to have fun at a party! All the power and control games remain in place – and on top of that they have to act cool. Bore me to tears – put me to sleep. All that being said – fun, romance, sports, children, creativity define the North Node in Cancer from mid-November 2018 through May 2020. Yeh! Hip hip hooray! Not really. After all, the karma of the time may be to learn how important children and romance are, but Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 denotes that you will learn how important they are by dealing with adults and politics and work. How does that happen? What does that mean? It means that something is wrong with this picture. First of all: Don’t dismiss the company or influence of a staunch, well-educated, noble and powerful political ally during 2003-CO1 conjunct the South Node during January and February, because you will need their help all year long. A lot of people do not know how to behave. You already knew that, but many of these people will now behave worse because they are not getting what they want. Don’t stoop to their level. Maintain pride without arrogance as Chiron in Direct Motion completes its transit of Pisces from December to mid-February 2019. A staunch but strict ally chastises you mercilessly because of how deep and how important a role model you are during Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune from January through July. Indeed, you may have to step your game up a level, scolding the unworthy publicly, when certain professional peers complain unfairly and loudly, or when some deadbeat client doesn’t pay you, as Chiron in late Pisces sextiles Bienor conjunct Echeclus, both Retrograde in late Taurus, during January. This is serious! Don’t be hostile and yell into the telephone at a deadbeat who refuses to pay you during Direct Motion Bienor in late Taurus in February and March. Determine what these institutions or people really owe you during Direct Motion Echeclus in late Taurus in February and determine all the legal means available to you so that you may get it. But, overall, things are good. Your income will stabilize at manageable levels as Uranus in Direct Motion completes its transit of Aries during January and February 2019. Of course, Pholus in Capricorn from December 2018 through July 2019 will remind you that one or another of those new clients can make your life much better or much worse. Well, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. But, again, fun, romance, sports, children, creativity are the theme of the prom – and Cyllarus conjunct the North Node from January to May makes you the hero or the heroine! You are bigger and better than life itself. Show them all how it’s done! But let’s get back to a purely economic and professional standpoint. You have been lucky that bosses provided you with so much work over the past seven years – even though, more often than not, that work was just the means to the end of a paycheck for a gallon of milk and hamburger for dinner. Now, with all the work coming your way, and all of the work out there which is available during 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius from October 2018 to November 2043, you want work to be much more than a means to an end. What do you really want to accomplish? Moreover, how much money do you want to make? Any way you slice it, and no matter how much money you earn right now, Chiron in Aries from February 2019 to April 2027 emphasizes that you need more money – more money on an escalating scale, over several years. At the same time, Uranus in Taurus from March 2019 to April 2026 will challenge you on a regular basis as you must learn how to interact with individuals who change, alter, slow down or speed up negotiations or transactions. Never agree to transactions where you feel unsure of where the pace of transaction makes you feel uncomfortable. Remember: A transaction is not a weather pattern. Take control before you give or accept money. Lastly, and most importantly, Echeclus in Gemini from March 2019 through May 2021 demands that you appraise your family situation, and whether they are healthy, happy, secure and contented, in their entirety. You must be objective – because, if you are not, you will take the groundless complaints of shortsighted family members during Bienor in Gemini from April 2019 through March 2023 seriously. The power and control games of adults debases from boring and overbearing to toxic, aggressive and criminal during Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct the South Node from February to May. The people who act the most out-of-control actually endure make-it-or-break-it, do-or-die, solvency or bankruptcy, freedom or incarceration circumstances. which they approach with the indifference of a gambling addict having a bad day at the casino. That is not your problem. Extremely volatile economic circumstances force you to regroup, to reinforce your economic stability and to maintain consistency while many other people blow haphazardly in the wind. A therapist, scientist, yoga teacher or astrologer whom you meet during 2003-CO1 in Aquarius from late April to early May will transform your life to unrecognizable heights after the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020. Do nothing out of the ordinary. Allow magic to unfold. You must maintain emotional stability at your job. Jupiter in Sagittarius in Retrograde Motion from April to August signifies that many bosses will be extremely busy as they simultaneously panic. You must also acknowledge that some bosses have no idea how to manage their own time and have no idea whatsoever of how long it takes you to do anything during Retrograde Pholus in Capricorn and Sagittarius from April to September. As they project rage onto you, you should project control onto them, “When will you need this?” We will get it to you.” Adults playing control and power games get nasty, hostile, confrontational, vicious and personal during Saturn conjunct Amycus conjunct the South Node from April through October. Such adults arrogantly talk down to professional underlings and those whom they deem to be societally inferior. However, you find these adults easy to handle. You work hard for bosses during Neptune square Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during June. Even though bosses sometimes get aggravated and hostile, but you never, ever take what they say personally, as you negotiated with them more naturally than all their local peer power brokers. Even so, Retrograde 2003-CO1 in Aquarius and Capricorn from May to September insists that you will still need that staunch, well-educated, noble and powerful political ally when one of these “adults” transgresses all reasonable civilized boundaries. At the same time, a younger version of yourself shows up at your job or in your life during Okyrhoe in Pisces in May and June with no idea of what to expect and what to do . . . kind and wise mentor! Work continues to be busy and bosses continue to be demanding as Jupiter in Sagittarius transits Direct Motion from August through November. Still, overall, the fact that you have refused to take anything personally now makes you look like a larger-than-life, supra-personality as Neptune squares Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 opposite Jupiter during October. Maintain that legendary status by refusing to care! This deeply impresses that younger version of yourself during Retrograde Okyrhoe in Pisces and Aquarius from June through October, who learns more watching you from afar than they ever could by asking you any number of direct questions. Just as impressively, impractical bosses defer to your expertise during Direct Motion Pholus in late Sagittarius in September and October. Maintaining such charisma without assigning blame, passing the buck or pointing fingers will empower staunch, normally extremely arrogant, allies to sing your praises as a superhero during Saturn conjunct Amycus sextile Neptune during October and November. An “adult,” a political or professional associate, flaunts extremely hysterical histrionics as Hylonome conjuncts the South Node in Capricorn from September through November because they are inept and desperate. Lots of other “adults,” peers of this unreasonable individual, also have work for you as 2001-BL41 conjuncts the South Node during November and December, and they are all watching you very closely. Only that ally like that staunch, well-educated, noble and powerful political ally can save the day for you so that you come out looking like a winner during Direct Motion 2003-CO1 in late Capricorn from October 2019 to January 2020. Lesson learned. Rather, lesson taught – did you learn it? Pholus in Capricorn from November 2019 to November 2042 teaches you that power is not inherently fair. Skinny short guys who score a lot of goals in ice hockey need towering thugs to defend them. Are you any different? Realize what you need, politically, in order for you and your income to be safe. An opportunity to travel someplace far away from the usual resorts, or to indulge in truly esoteric spirituality, pumps your blood faster as Mars transits Scorpio during December. You have a spiritual epiphany about why, karmically, that that younger version of yourself showed up in your life, during Direct Motion Okyrhoe in late Aquarius from November 2019 through January 2020. An adult who plays power and control games which favors you enters the scene as Jupiter transits Capricorn from December 2019 to December 2020 – just as the rules, the protocol and the jackpot changes in an unprecedented extremely radical fashion for power and control games internationally during Saturn conjunct Pluto conjunct Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 from December 2019 to February 2020. You won’t be able to tackle all the changes at once – so give yourself some time to think of what to do next as you reflect upon the past as Jupiter conjuncts the South Node during and just after the Christmas Season 2019. To contact John Delaney directly: via e-mail, click here