2023 ANNUAL ASTROSCOPE by JOHN DELANEY http://www.delaneyastroscope.com/2022.html ARIES 2023 Even more so than in recent years, 2023 begins with a strong need to “sleep it off” – whether or not you or yours went out for a night on the town on New Year’s Eve. Put bluntly, Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March insists that, whatever happened during the very recent Retrograde Mars, whether it was very, very good, (more likely) very, very bad or, alternatively, very very good & very, very bad (whee!), whatever happened is unsustainable. Keep irrational psychology firmly in mind. Many businesses that hoped to launch initiatives during the summer of 2020 did so during Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023. Some of these businesses absolutely cleaned up financially – and some of these businesses got cleaned out by large-scale retail thieves. What the Hell happened? Yes, exactly. It seems that it lies in certain individuals’ financial interests to foment trouble. Manipulation behind the scenes, both on social media (Facebook again? Maybe – maybe not) and on the street, seeks to disrupt civil order on a national basis for selfish political benefit during 2001-SQ73 opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023. Anger, once unleashed, cannot become restrained. Count to ten – then count to one hundred. Release no anger which will inflict another person. Yield the street to strangers who will not control themselves. For that matter, yield the road to insane, reckless drivers willing to risk their lives & yours to beat a red light. Road rage amongst automobiles on highways, sidewalk rage amongst pedestrians and motor scooter scofflaws, and train rage about subway and light-rail seating accelerates and escalates throughout 2003-WL7 in Virgo from October 2022 through February 2023. However, avoid taking premature practical action regarding such public hazards during Thereus conjunct Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023. Accept the fact that even if the standoff is ten million to Mitch McConnell (especially about money), it matters not who has the moral high road but who has the power of the purse, both now and throughout the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. More importantly, it undermines your financial interests to behave recklessly, immorally & criminally. The prevalence of your videotaped image on surveillance cameras near municipal purveyors of vice, and the number of visits to certain websites by your computer laptop and IP address, make you vulnerable to criminal investigation and identity theft during Elatus in Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023. Don’t’ be fooled by counterintuitive policing deployment and methodologies as 2002-GZ32 trines the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023 – you may be under surveillance remotely, but a cop will show up out of thin air should their presence be necessary. This is a warning for you to upgrade your lifestyle and your technology before late 2023. All this begs the question, “So where exactly do my interests lie?” Not a question with an easy & compact answer – frankly, you need time & space to analyze & to ponder it. Luckily, you have such time & space. Forewarn true friends, “I’ll be off the grid and under the radar doing my own thing in my own way,” during Jupiter in Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023. “One covers more ground and infiltrates deeper when one flies alone. Ten-four. Over and out.” During this phase, find the right experts to whom you can ask questions & from whom you can get answers. To that end, assemble the smartest people that you can in such groups to determine what thinkers they admire, follow and listen to, then notice upon which they act, so that you can research these intellectual movers and shakers for your own list as Chariklo conjuncts 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027. You don’t know but you can find out. Indeed, Jupiter conjunct Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 during March strongly suggests that Aries the Ram may indeed be the missing link between universal ignorance & spine-tingling collective sartori! Nothing like the breadth of pure knowledge to invigorate the spirit – now is the time to go out & to catch the bad guys! (Warner Wolf announces, “Let’s go to the videotape!”) After all, Saturn conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February asserts that all the information you need to know about who stole how much when is all recorded on surveillance film or video – whether it happened during the summer of 2020 or, more recently, as Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022. Of course, once you, your bosses or law enforcement actually detain whoever it is that stole or damaged property at that time, such an individual will complain, “You’re just trying to bring me down! You know I didn’t do it!” during Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini during February. But you know that that individual did do it, and you will confront them, “How can you say you didn’t do it when it is all here in black, white and color?” during Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July. Of course, you may add, “Are you saying that something is wrong with our cameras? Are you suggesting that this is all a staged performance or animation & that that person with a crowbar stealing a plasma screen TV just looks like you?” during Amycus in Aquarius from March to July – but save that little nuance for when the entire legal case is at stake. After all, some individuals – particularly criminals who have just been caught – can only bear so much truth. When forced to ingest more truth than their befouled organs can digest, they are likely to lash out – and lash out they will, at you as Mars squares Neptune during March. In that way, you will learn, once & for all, why those who declare “guilty” in a court of law never have to say they are sorry, both now, and throughout, Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026. So, in that spirit, let them curse as viciously or as loudly as they like during Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March – and let them complain even more viciously & even more loudly during 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April! After all, it is their last hurrah. As for yourself, note the authority figure in the classroom, at your workplace, in the gym, at your church, who always seems to stand at the front door in a position to prevent your entry or exert – which, during Crantor in Pisces from April to August suggests, they may be really trying to do. But all of that is not the ugly part. Even though you will be working upon that ugly part, for one reason or another (The paperwork that you endure during Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June will never seem to diminish or to go away), Pluto in Aquarius during April & May forces you to set your sights firmly upon the future. (And what is that future? Don’t be surprised to meet a new, captivating, intellect or scientist who seems to anthropomorphize the future as a flesh & blood human being!) The expanse of this wide new world represented by this brilliant & exciting individual leaves you somewhat intimidated & vulnerable during Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October. Your insecurity about your non-existent intellectual shortcomings segue into emotional vulnerabilities as family members will complain bitterly & harshly throughout Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026. Don’t make this unpleasant insecurity worse by yelling at adolescents & children, or by letting adolescents & children yell at you, during 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June. Speak in subdued & civil tones. Demand that others do the same. The intense focus on the distant future, and that now anthropomorphized representative of it, becomes less daunting as Pluto transits Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, while Amycus transits Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September. You see how to work with what you have now when you actually start to proceed in making those trips to that future. You all see that now anthropomorphized representative of that future dealing with the flesh-and-blood human beings with whom you deal on a mundane, quotidian basis, like Ixca Cienfuegos, the spiritual animus of Mexico City walking along El Paseo de Reforma within Where the Air is Clear. Natural, not supernatural – but, sometimes, supernatural. Human, not divine – but, occasionally, godly. Indeed, the concept of “as above, so below,” is extremely important throughout Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 because, while all may be conceived in Heaven, all the work is done, and all the money is made, on Earth. (A ton of work but also a decent amount of money, too.) Even so, as the Greeks & the Romans surmised, sometimes the gods (plural) fight above, causing problems below (The sixth line of K’Un, The Receptive, Hexagram 2 of the I Ching, “Dragons fight in the meadow – their blood is purple & yellow”) – as is the case when Jupiter squares Mars opposite Pluto in late May. Watch from an appreciable distance. Act when your marching orders become clear as Jupiter conjuncts the North Node in late May. The specter of intimidation at the initial ingress of Pluto in Aquarius wears off, and, like everybody else, you are hungry for something new & the whole new era as the North Node transits Aries from July 2023 through January 2025. Even so, Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September insists that you can’t start what is next until you complete all outstanding business. Luckily (?!?), all the paperwork you will . . . um. . . need, will all be in & at your disposal during Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September. Furthermore, everybody will be in a mood to get all of this out of the way as Jupiter sextiles Saturn during June. Many hands make light work. Bosses offer their own version of . . . let’s just call it, “encouragement” (No matter how “encouraged” you may feel) to get everything signed, sealed & delivered, during Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September. Of course, there exist many people who need not wait for the bureaucracy to rubber stamp their existence, who are more than willing to take the bull by the horns & steer the bull where they want it to do – which is exactly what such types will be doing quite gleefully as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 from July through October. Personal, emotional & familial matters are neither as cut & dry nor as optimistic. The storm clouds of bad news, or, hopefully, just an evil mood, passes over your household & family during Asbolus in Cancer from July through December. An ugly reversal or disappointment in romance during Retrograde Venus in Leo during August further darkens your emotions. Emotionally, you are tied to the rack of the Catherine Wheel as negative circumstances & attitudes, as well as other peoples’ selfishness, attempt to pull you apart during Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November. Control your temper – not just once but all the time! – throughout Pluto square the North Node from July to October. That covert authority figure may not see you or may let you slide during Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October – but enough people, allies or enemies, will have seen you, and it will hurt your reputation. With all the work that you’ve been doing to put the past in the past, you finally begin to wonder, during Retrograde Jupiter from September through December, “Is the past ever really going to end?” Really, all the major deadlines, and dates & exam appointments are clearly posted during Pluto square the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August, but the conveyor belt of your quotidian routine does not make you feel that this phase of your existence is winding down at all. Without getting an answer, bosses turn up the crank on the conveyor belt, even as Lucille Ball chomps down on a whole pound of chocolate (Better than Vitameatavegamin, eh?) starting during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030. (This won’t last forever – otherwise, law enforcement would never find out where the employees buried the bosses’ bodies.) A more realistic attitude descends from decision makers as Pluto transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, while Amycus transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December. Bosses realized, after a lot of hit-and-miss, what is possible from what really cannot be done in a short timeframe during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024, and is willing to quit while they are ahead. On the flip side, Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028 informs these bosses what other people are willing to take, and, ultimately, what is the most that they have to offer – and what will inevitably happen if bosses push too far. Indeed, word moves fast amongst cloistered professional & political associates about bosses they like & bosses they despise during Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius during September & October. On that note, some jerk who did not read the memo pushes too far too fast as Mars transits Scorpio during October & November. It becomes necessary to tell family members, “You don’t have to wait for the police or your bosses to read you the riot act in order to start running like Hell,” during Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. Don’t you worry – once they see what happens for themselves during Saturn in Pisces trine Asbolus in Cancer from September through December, family members will follow that advice as Jupiter in Taurus opposes Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November. Then, after letting such family members tell you a full account of all that happened written by a professional journalist for the local newspaper as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer trines Elatus in Scorpio during October & November, you advise those family members, particularly young women, to stay far away from crowds during Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November. Unfortunately, research in organizational psychology about how to motivate others to outperform ends, temporarily, to recommence research into the next young male psychopath who bought a semi-automatic machine gun – legally – during 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. As a direct result, younger female family members will see the dangers of the world as they really are during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces during December and they will learn then know to whom to listen & to whom to ignore during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024. Like the IRS doing paper tax returns during COVID-19, work on the past finally looks like it is getting done once & for all as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024 – and, really, the money doesn’t look so bad. (Truth be told, you will only realize how well you really did financially during Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024.) But, as good as the money is, the money seems even better, as oppressive moods lift & the cold wind clears stagnant & fetid air during Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036. Such optimism empowers all to quash what threatens as a looming crisis during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024 connotes a reason to hope about a bright future – for you & for all.   TAURUS 2023   Transactions, partnerships, relationships, communications, friendships – some are a pleasure, some are straightforward, some are strained, some are convoluted, some are inspired, some are contentious, some are downright perverse. With Mars in Gemini since August 2022, you’ve had many relationships of all kinds – and, as Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022, you had many more than your share of contentious, convoluted, perverse, outright frigging weird transactions, partnerships, relationships, communications, friendships than you ever wished to maintain. Now, Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March will restore many such transactions, partnerships, relationships, communications, friendships to “normalcy” – and not former President Warren G. Harding’s “normalcy,” please. You, to your credit, have seen this coming. Many of the attitudes and ideas expressed during your marketing campaign in March & April 2022 proved to be prophetic. If you, as a businessperson, already had a plan in place and in full effect which circumvented or solved this problem, then more power to you when you clean up during Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023 – and good for you! While you may come from good stock, the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 reminds you that you have so much experience as a brick wall, and you do so well at it, because the indignation and insults of the world, “the school of hard knocks,” taught you to build that brick wall brick by brick by brick, like an old-world bricklayer who may not know English, but who will not be fooled. Taurus the Bull has always been a firm believer in the principle that foresight & planning forestalls regret. Indeed, logistic problems, especially involving high technology, can go from bad to much worse during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from October through February 2023. Let other lemmings stampede off the cliff first. Continue to maintain all your old interpersonal and electronic interfaces and protocol throughout Thereus conjunct Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023 until you decide to overhaul everything – and, when you do it, don’t do it piecemeal, but once, totally and absolutely. Determine what works and what doesn’t. If you have the personnel and the capacity, deploy a destructive testing research and development specialist to find ways that cheaters can try to hurt you. But those are only computers, cell phones, cars, machines – then you have to deal with customers & clients, real live people. First of all, immediately & right up front, determine not only what the other side of the negotiating table really wants, but exactly why they mistrust you and your side, as 2001-SQ73 opposes Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023. Realize, moreover, as an important, and, in fact, critical footnote during Elatus in Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023, that the mention of race may wind up being the large pink elephant in the very small room that many people will avoid discussing. Even mentioning race will induce many hostile people to insist upon discussing many other things, right now, immediately. Know how and when to stick to your subject – and your subject is doing business & exchanging cash for product. Turn your attention back to the hard work innovating as a result of what you learned from market research conducted in March and April 2022 commencing Jupiter in Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023. Of course, determining what people want is not a question of demand & supply – and this is not something that anybody can truly take for granted. Realize, however, that expanding your business during 2002-GZ32 trine the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023 requires, first, compartmentalization, and second, consolidation, within more lucrative, volume-intensive compartments – a truly convoluted logistic complication. Yes, the problems seem daunting, but a lot of people want this to happen. Saturn conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February suggests that all sorts of people both locally & at a distance are now working extremely hard & dealing with all sorts of people to deliver the goods where people will buy them. Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini during February emphasizes that complaints are simply opportunities articulated by a pessimist. Keeping this optimistic philosophy in mind, don’t cave into angry shouting matches with unhappy people, including unhappy people in your family or neighborhood, during 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April. Be cognizant of how complainers make leading comments with loaded words to induce you to shove your dirty foot in your own mouth during Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July. Refuse to get involved in personality conflicts when certain people stoop to criminal activity – especially personality conflicts driven or colored by race. Assert your rights as prescribed by written law. Allow your lawyer to speak for you. Furthermore, don’t do any business with anybody who won’t look you straight in the eye or who won’t make you an offer in clear & explicit terms as Jupiter conjuncts Chiron conjuncts 2000-QB243 during March. Shun the outright perverse & the shifty, whether businesspeople, customers or merchants, as Mars squares Neptune during March. Fortunately, you can discuss politics again with some semblance of hope as TV pundits, academics and local thinkers begin to read, to interview and to associate with actual experts who know whereof they speak during Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027. Smart, informed, educated intellects speak forcefully to clear the air during Amycus in Aquarius from March to July. Indeed, you see the beginning of a new political era dawn during Pluto in Aquarius during April & May – but don’t’ be too eager. This is only a glimpse of change to come further down the line. A lot – an awful lot – has to happen first. One of the most important things that has to happen first is the end to the bad faith & deceit of politics as we all know it – which Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026 will now bring about. You will notice during Crantor in Pisces from April to August, both amongst groups of allies & groups of adversaries, a clear leader who coordinates his or her gang against the outsiders, before resuming their ongoing dialogue with you (as they own the last word). Expect complaints from those who suffer the consequences of their actions during Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March. Simply continue to follow all rules & to obey all laws during Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June. No big deal. New initiatives are unnecessary & not encouraged. Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October declares that such new initiatives involve too much exposure & too much vulnerability without any real payoff. If you don’t have all the people on the same page to complete what you need to get done, it will not necessarily matter what other resources you possess, during Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October denotes that manpower is the key resource without which you cannot do. Pluto in Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, and Amycus in Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, both confirm that an awful lot needs to be dismantled before anything new can take hold. Farmers don’t plant seeds at the same time that they turn over the soil. Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 informs you that where payoff lies is in following through on what you started last summer, as Jupiter traveled early Aries, and upon which you built in the early part of 2023. You’ve been hammering this same nail for many a moon, and now the general public is finally getting the hang of it. Indeed, Jupiter conjunct the North Node in late May guarantees that now is your, Taurus the Bull’s, time to shine! Don’t’ get caught up in trash talk with jealous people trying to distract & to derail you during 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June. Refuse to be squeezed emotionally by the escalating demands of bosses & family during Jupiter square Mars opposite Pluto in late May. Taurus the Bull is the star of this show. Problems & disputes during Jupiter sextile Saturn during June are merely opportunities to show off negotiating skills. Be suave. Be slick. Be smooth Smile. The North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 warns that anger is your downfall. Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September denotes that the system is working to bring certain miscreants, sinners & criminals down via the unraveling of their own karma; such miscreants, sinners & criminals already know this & want to bring other people down with them – something which will happen to a lot of innocent bystanders, as well as guilty parties, during Pluto square the North Node from July to October. Pluto square the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August further qualifies that handwriting experts can determine if that signature is authentic or fake – and that surveillance film or video does not lie. The law does not discriminate. If you succumb to such manipulation, Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September states that representatives of the law will punish you as they assert that you simply should have known better. Don’t get caught in that spider web. Establishing, then maintaining, emotional neutrality will be difficult, but absolutely critical, not only to your professional success & personal happiness, but, in fact, your very survival. Get over romantic disappointments, whether from earlier in the summer, last year, or even decades ago, during Retrograde Venus in Leo during August. Don’t go drinking when you are angry, and never drink with angry people, during Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026. You need peace in your personal life, not intrigue & drama. The quiet bull lying on the grass – not the angry bull stampeding off a cliff. Don’t use athletic, acrobatic or drawing skills to engage in daredevil stunts throughout 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030. Detectives & cops make stunning arrests during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024 – for real, certain detectives & cops sound like they are reading from a television script during Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September. Neighbors, including alcoholics & close pedophiles & perverts, self-destruct in spectacular fashion during Asbolus in Cancer from July through December. But keep doing your thing & make money while doing it. Really, if you see what you want in front of you & all it takes is a little extra effort to get it – and nobody is trying to stop you – then, Hell, yeah! Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 from July through October gives you license to go full-tilt boogie to get what is yours. Don’t stop until you get enough! Starting Retrograde Jupiter from September through December, now is the time to upgrade your methods & to plan for expansion. To that end, write a training manual about the development of new nuances of job protocol as you train new employees during Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November. Make yourself available to any of those new employees who have any further questions during Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius during September & October. Yes, Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028 does recall Bob Dylan singing “Tangled Up in Blue” from Blood on the Tracks, “There was music in the cafés at night & revolution in the air.” Significantly, however, Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024 cannot help but note those now under arrest are absolutely repulsive, total freaks, who nevertheless seem somewhat . . . respectable. As Kurt Vonnegut is wont to say, “And so it goes.” While everybody agrees that it is a steep mountain to climb, Pluto in Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, and Amycus in Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December, emphasize that, once one starts rolling downhill, one just keeps on rolling . . . forever. Given this perspective, whether climbing one’s way up the hard way or allowing gravity to bring one down . . . low . . . one will proceed as if nobody else can stop that one as Mars transits Scorpio during October & November. But, again, whether on the way up or on the way down, somebody will certainly try to stop that one as Jupiter in Taurus opposite Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November. Indeed, gangster mentality targets their chosen victim as Saturn in Pisces trine Asbolus in Cancer from September through December. Oh, yes – yes, they will. Who will succeed? No point spread is provided. Just make sure that whoever is vulnerable is on the sidelines watching, out of harm’s way, during Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November. As for yourself, if you find yourself under siege by such gangster mentality, get yourself out into the center of the playing field or on the street so that surveillance cameras can record all the action targeting or surrounding you in full as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer trines Elatus in Scorpio during October & November. Let those people determined to self-destruct get on with it without your participation, input or attention. Direct your own attention to those with whom you do business to overcome logistic complications during Jupiter sextile Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024 & to those whom you mentor during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces during December. Talk with family members & neighbors to learn what tragedy befell certain particular locals arrested or enduring horrible downfalls during 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. Insist upon getting a straight story, and getting this story straight, for the benefit of all & for the record, during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. Listen very closely to any individual who claim that they saw all that happened live, directly & personally, during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024. Nothing else to do but to keep on doing it during Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024 – nothing succeeds like success, does it? But all work & no play brings no wisdom & no joy. Smart people will develop & express brilliant ideas, about, but not limited to, politics, technology & science during Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036. The trajectory of evolution bespeaks a sharp upward curve during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024. Participate.   GEMINI 2023   If you know astrology – and, if you are a Gemini reading this, you know astrology – you know that, with Mars in your sign for eight straight months, you could expect a detour. When Mars first entered Gemini in August 2022, you were ready to go – but you were also ready for the other shoe to drop. That was why you remained rational and calm as you considered what opportunities you overlooked as they died on the vine in front of you during Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023. It doesn’t bother you. No use going 100 miles an hour only for a speed bump to throw your motorcycle up in the air. But now, as you see new opportunities for what they are, you expect no other shoe to drop during Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March. But you are already exhausted. Well, the time is now. Summon up the energy. Plow forward.  Of course, there was a lot of free-floating mistrust on all levels, amongst all people, as Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022. But now, everything is already on camera as Saturn conjunct Crantor trines Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February – authority figures already know what you did, why you did it & how you earned ferocious enemies amongst the rabble. Get over your mistrust of the world because you have what it takes to whip it into shape. Your self-belief in your market price accelerates and escalates during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from October through February 2023 – particularly if you take courses on the side to upgrade your already formidable skills. Keep your hunter’s eye well-informed and fully appraised as you keep your eyes on Indeed, Robert Half and all available job-hunting boards as Thereus conjuncts Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023. Adjustments will be necessary. For one thing, yes, it is going to cost more money. The recent reemergence of the specter of inflation makes you realize that the numbers that you have calculated which will underwrite your upcoming financial future may require ongoing reassessment (Can you say, “algorithm”?) as 2001-SQ73 opposes Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023. Be proactive. Talk with your financial broker to determine ways to diversify your portfolio so as to protect your important long-term financial assets, particularly your real estate and your children’s college education fund, and to engage in potentially lucrative financial risk, simultaneously, as 2002-GZ32 trines the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023. More importantly, realize & acknowledge that you won’t be the only person making such adjustments. Change occurs – although defined cryptically, yet explicitly, to protect bosses’ interests, during Elatus in Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023. Determine when opaque information is designed to keep you out – and to stay out. You really don’t want to risk or to lose money for any reason – and you don’t have to say anybody is wrong, “Everything requires risk, but I don’t like that risk – once you lose the money, the money is gone.” Truly words to live by throughout the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. Having vision, and working with people with vision, is essential. Engage in meaningful discourse as you recommence professional networking as Jupiter transits Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023. Luckily, clouds over the intellectual environment dispel. Even though geniuses, and, in fact, many geniuses amongst the general public, now emerge, it becomes easier to distinguish geniuses from charlatans as Chariklo conjuncts 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027. If you are truly wise, Jupiter conjunct Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 during March will remind you that nobody need be 100% right all the time, or even about the issue at hand, in order to provide useful insight. It is up to you to take intellectual responsibility – especially if money is involved. Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini during February reminds you to blame nobody else when you didn’t do your own critical thinking. Due diligence! Is it you who is indulging in a dosage of irrational wishful thinking as Mars squares Neptune during March? On that same note, if or when you refuse to take full responsibility for the ideas that drive your foolish actions & the irrational ideas that underwrite your unsuccessful stratagems, 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April will ask, “Why exactly you are complaining with such bitter hostility?” Influential long-time colleagues will chastise you openly in highly public settings during Crantor in Pisces from April to August. Bosses will frown sourly upon such negative attitudes during Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026 & it will hurt your reputation. You must pay attention. The instructions may not be easy to understand or to follow, but Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July declares that the instructions are nevertheless written in black & white. It is incumbent upon you to read & to obey them. You have no reason to be negative. A mentor, academic or intellectual will let you know how much potential for expansion & insight lies within your direct control during Amycus in Aquarius from March to July. Pluto in Aquarius during April & May suggests that the long-term trajectory signaling the transformation of your intellectual & material prospects is steep yet benevolent. But you are inclined to complain during Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March even though the power to improve your life is firmly within your control. Take care of business involving property, retirement savings, your job & your business when Pluto transits Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, while Amycus transits Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, so as to underwrite the emotional freedom that you need to pursue. Unfortunately, Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October indicates that your personal need to assess your own financial accounting infects your intellectual & political outlook with needless anger. Bluntly, Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026 declares that complaining that your employer does not pay you enough, or that you lack money, is juvenile & counterproductive. Write a love letter to your crush or spouse, play your guitar or bang your drum during Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June – and cheer up! Work during Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 will keep you very busy & will bring you all the money you will need – as long as you don’t self-destruct. Expect that chance to undermine yourself professionally so that you will self-destruct in the long run, during Jupiter square Mars opposite Pluto in late May. Maintain your composure under provocation during Jupiter conjunct the North Node in late May and bosses will honor your effort as they protect you. But don’t raise your voice during 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June! Hold your temper even when somebody else is yelling at you! Jupiter sextile Saturn during June demands that you cooperate with bosses – all of your bosses. Curb negativity & puerile attitudes. Can do! Strangely, your real-world responsibilities also serve to transform the quality of your creativity into more accelerated forms of wishful thinking. The North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 suggests that you no longer wish to be a romantic poet or rock star but a philosopher, economist or military strategist. All such ambitions are equally unrealistic. Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October denotes that a boss or professional superior in the workplace sees who you are & where you want to go & will be more than happy to mentor you in the right direction – if you will listen. Really, unless you plan on going to school again for another three to six years, 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030 suggests that you might just want to become better trained & better at what you have been doing for years & what you are doing now. Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September further advises you to aspire to become debt-free – not so that you buy a used sports car, but, perhaps, a condominium, during Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September. Don’t allow misplaced romanticism of any sort to delude, to distract or to derail you during Retrograde Venus in Leo during August. Indeed, the “she/he loves me, she/he loves me not” rose petal, yes/no floaty pen, magic 8-ball during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024 is an obsessive waste of energy. A marriage proposal, whether by or to you, or even on a movie screen, puts real life into hard focus during Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September. Pluto square the North Node from July to October insists that if you wish to pursue any of these impossible dreams (Is marriage an impossible dream? It will be if you don’t have the money to follow through on all that needs to be done as Pluto squares the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August), you must pay down your debt. Don’t delude yourself into thinking that you possess more money than you really have by disregarding your debt as you look over your bank account during Asbolus in Cancer from July through December. Assets minus debts should not just equal a positive number – it should equal the total amount of your assets. Debt should equal zero! Retrograde Jupiter from September through December states that, your own negativity & your foolish work colleagues’ opinions to the contrary, you still need to keep your job – and you must convince bosses that you take your job seriously during Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November. Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 from July through October understands: You need more money & you want more money. However, if you don’t have a viable & legal plan to earn or to get more money, you will not get the money that you need & want. Why other people quit, where they go after they quit & what they do is none of your business. So what, the work colleague whom you have known for all of four months has decided to move across the country to live in some other city on the opposite coast? Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius during September & October reminds you that pipe dreams always advertise greener grass. Be practical. Think logically. You need to keep your job! Take stock of both your assets & your debt as Pluto transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, while Amycus transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December. Is your asset to debt ratio improving? Good! Accelerate the rate of improvement. Debt free! Troublemakers cause trouble in the workplace as Mars transits Scorpio during October & November. You are vulnerable professionally during Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November. If possible, go on vacation during Jupiter in Taurus opposite Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November. Stay out of Dodge! When you return from work after vacation, your boss will look at you differently . . . with much more respect, “What, are you psychic?” Don’t bother to answer the question – when bosses explain the changes in the workplace that will take effect, for the long term, during Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028, you will catch the drift. Be open to the phenomenon that bosses may be trying to communicate to you what is actually happening without explicitly saying it as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer from September through December. Either way, by the time that Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer trines Elatus in Scorpio during October & November, you should be able to put the puzzle pieces together yourself. You will realize that your boss was only half-kidding when your boss asked you, “What, are you psychic?” throughout Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. In fact, it will not really be a joke, as you become much more attuned to all the signals of what is going right & what is going wrong now, both at work and in & around your life. But, for now, focus on work – bosses’ renewed respect for you helps you tremendously with everybody else in the workplace throughout Jupiter sextile Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. Professional latitude at work helps. You will be able to ask questions & to infer instructions that you couldn’t have asked or inferred six months ago during 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. You are still vulnerable, but, during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces during December suggests, you are now a vulnerable boss. Just put your head down, put your nose to the grindstone & plow through your workload during Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. With a positive reputation in your professional workplace, the money that you earn begins to serve you as well as your bank account. Your renewed self-esteem & self-respect helps you to see beyond your job during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024 to a distant future. A more mature & structurally sound plan for your possible future involving possible relocation emerges during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024. However, now that you have something to lose, you can now begin to strategize how to build a series of stepping stones to get from here to there – not over the course of a summer, but, perhaps, over four to six years. Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036 inspires you to contemplate how financial security can help foster, underwrite & accelerate decidedly non-material ambitions – but go slow. Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024 augurs a long, long taxi along the runway. Be patient.   CANCER 2023   Let’s backtrack a little bit. During the North Node’s transit of Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021 – the COVID-19 quarantine era, roughly – you learned whom you could & whom you could not trust, and why you could or couldn’t trust them. It seems, to you, a long time to learn a simple lesson. But it was not that long a time & the lesson was not so simple. You know more people than you realize. There are more variables controlling what you know & don’t know than you acknowledge. You need time to distinguish who & what is important & indispensable from who & what is negligible, damaging & disposable. Once that became clarified, you were prepared – but prepared for what? In human terms, who you could & who you could not trust when & where. In astrological terms, the long-term transit of Mars through Gemini from August 2022 through March 2023. For one thing – one very big thing – you learned, as Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022, how much damage the dishonest, prejudicial or biased judgment of strangers can hurt another person legally. That is why one of the Ten Commandments reads, “Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” Even so, you can neither control nor can you combat gossip and slander behind your back during Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023. Rules, laws & commandments, after all, are made to be broken. Just not by you. Okay – so you had the 100 level, the 200 level, the 300 level, the 400 level college courses, the internship, the externship, the first year on the job & the annual conference, with & about whom you can & whom you cannot trust, who, how & when, and Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March now puts you in the home stretch at the Belmont. The actions of whom you can & whom you cannot trust will all be more of the same – but you will not be more of the same. You’ve grown through this & you are about to grow past this. Some people will complain harshly, bitterly & loudly during Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini in February because they simply did not learn their lessons. Some people failed outright, whether they continued to bear false witness (most likely as Mars squares Neptune during March) or whether they did not learn when to trust & when to mistrust – and their reward or punishment manifests, in disturbing & unhappy ways, on small & very big levels, throughout Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026. All this is a reminder to know what you believe & why you believe it, not only for right now, but for the next several years, as Crantor transits Pisces from April to August. On logistic levels, much of this is clear as a bell. As Warner Wolf says throughout Saturn conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February, “Let’s go to the videotape!” Then the lawyers bring in the signed contracts while the forensics team in the police department bring in the wire-tapped telephone conversations during Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July. Where is the argument for the defense? (Answer: The answer is cursed at the top of his or her lungs during 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April.) “We will appeal!” the defense team complains during Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March. “On what basis will you appeal?” the court asks. “Throw out the evidence!” the defense team replies during Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June. In the meantime, the defendant yells, “I’ll sue your ass off” during 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June. (Whose ass will the defendant sue? Nobody is really sure.) What a freak show! Call the zookeeper. Give me a break – get me out of here! Then, surprisingly, you hear or read an intelligent appraisal of the economy, the government and the workplace, either on the Internet, television or newspaper, as Chariklo conjuncts 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027 – delightfully ironically, whose very intelligence you can discern by the number of absolute idiots in the public who outright reject it! The world seems to becoming more sane. Build upon this unexpected breakthrough to build upon your own knowledge of finance, economics & history. Read Saskia Sassen and Thomas Piketty throughout the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 to learn how the world got to where it is today since 1980 – nobody can read these authors in a hurry. For the most part, in such context, follow your mother’s advice, “Mind your own business.” But, still, sometimes, unfortunately, that won’t work. You can’t ask pointed questions of your associates any time that you like – it simply isn’t appropriate. However, at times, such questions are not only appropriate but are necessary. Be aware of the former and alert as to the latter during Thereus conjunct Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023. And, if you ask such questions of bosses, Jupiter conjunct Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 during March states that you should not necessarily expect an answer – the question is valid but no answer may yet exist. Only if you can approve of who you are and what you have done have you the right to criticize what another does – and only then, very sporadically – during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from October through February 2023. But be warned: Other peoples’ standards are not as high as yours. Some people think that they have the right to criticize others even though they themselves are walking, talking, open bags of garbage, “It’s a free country, isn’t it?” You must anticipate that other people whom you criticize will lack shame – hopefully, before you choose to criticize them. At other times, it is your moral & civic duty to speak up – but you must be very careful what you say. Consequences are at stake. The smoking gun that you discover during Elatus in Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023 – the videotape, the hand-written signature, the IP address, the string of computer code – may contain glitches which obfuscate the truth. Don’t jump to conclusions. Remember: Your reputation, the infrastructure, professional superiors and the law protect you. Don’t abuse the privilege. You, particularly, must fulfill other people’s expectations. Furthermore, the demands of spouse & partners make it difficult for you to fulfill them. Your marital relationship or business partnerships evolve and mutate on extremely exciting levels. Your spouse or partner, as a result of their increasingly occult, recondite and rarified alliances and associates, becomes a minister, guru or feudal lord who can only be approached from a distance of one-quarter mile along a red carpet leading directly to their throne during 2002-GZ32 trine the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023. Many responsibilities accompany such privileges. But, if you fulfill such responsibilities, accelerated prestige & social graces bless you significantly. The increasingly occult, recondite and rarified alliances and associates of your spouse or partner view you as a profound figure of pure mystery, not unlike either Lady Grantham, Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham from Cincinnati, Ohio on Downton Abbey, Cicely Tyson, wife of Miles Davis, or, for that matter, James Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio or Arthur Miller, the husbands of Marilyn Monroe, during 2001-SQ73 opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023. Don’t worry: Cancer is a cardinal sign – you’ll know how to play it. As a matter of more straightforward good news, the credit and rewards that you earned during April and early May will be forthcoming as a promotion or a raise as Jupiter transits Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023. In such circumstances, now more than ever, you need to work with an expert in the capital markets or real estate whose logic & temperament you trust during Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October – and, if you don’t trust their logic & temperament, fire them & hire somebody else whose logic & temperament you trust. A sign of times to come. Indeed, a new political, scientific or sexual visionary expounding new views during Amycus in Aquarius from March to July clears the air briefly & sharply – but you question how much of what this visionary asserts is viable & how much is wishful thinking. You receive the answer to your question, in preliminary form. Recall Karl Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach, “The philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways – the point is to change it.” Realize that these ideas are fresh & no ironclad alliances have become established to lock anybody out. The path is clear & the frontier is uninhabited. Go boldly forth – in the beginning, alone. That being said: Pluto in Aquarius during April & May warns that somebody else feeling the same energy will be Machiavellian, if not Hobbesian, in their approach to power. Beware those who assert, “If you want to cook an omelet, you must break some eggs.” But don’t lay down stakes. Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October recalls the lessons of the inhabitation of the Americas by Europeans, reminding explorers everywhere that those who go first may not always be able to defend themselves & their claims from either the natives or those who come second. To that end, Pluto in Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, and Amycus in Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, advises you to explore only insofar as you are able to qualify & to quantify how much of your philosophical vision you will be able to underwrite via your available Hobbesian power & Machiavellian currency. You can’t always be a nice guy. Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026 states in no uncertain terms that there will be many people over the next four years who will just start yelling their complaints right in your face. What did you do to deserve this? Absolutely nothing. However, such ugly behavior protects you from naïve utopian idealism. Luckily, such ugly behavior attracts those allies whom you require who are willing to provide you with physical, legal, political & financial protection, all in one ham-fisted package. Indeed, Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 will provide you with a whole herd of allies willing to stampede any troublemakers who give you a hard time – when that whole herd is not actually stampeding to the gold mine during your next all-private bull market. You will need such protection in the form of practical & timely financial advice almost immediately. Extreme stress exists within your own financial priorities as you determine how much cash you need now & how much should go to property, retirement, health insurance & your children’s education as Jupiter squares Mars opposite Pluto in late May as well as how to balance the funds needed for your children’s education with money for travel for you & your family as Jupiter sextiles Saturn during June. Really, such financial advisors have the answers you need during Jupiter conjunct the North Node in late May – they are the heroes trying to save the day. Once the plan is in place, it is all a matter of grinding it out throughout the North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025. Grinding it out presents problems of its own – particularly with your spouse – during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September. For many, this is a marathon that they did not wish to run. Indeed, bosses will push your spouse or partner too far, too often, during Pluto square the North Node from July to October – so how are they going to blow off that steam? Tell them, “Count to one hundred – then count to one thousand.” Remind your spouse or partner how much you all have to lose. However, if it gets to the point where problems with your spouse’s employees affect your children’s grades, or living expenses increase beyond your ability to live where you are right now, then Pluto square the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August demands that you speak with your spouse or partner so that they can address their professional work situation. A business associate of either yourself or your spouse suggests a professional opportunity. Rather than resign yourself to economic fatalism, Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 from July through October implores you to look long & hard at that opportunity they offer. One necessary step as you look long & hard at that opportunity is to contact that financial advisor or real estate broker whom you have already decided that you trust early in 2023 during Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius in September & October as you prepare plans for what to do next. Prepare for financial shortfalls, whether as a result of fiscal overexpenditures, unforeseen setbacks or inexplicably deleterious circumstances, during Retrograde Venus in Leo during August. Be able to draw money from savings – but don’t bemoan the unfairness of it all – particularly, if you are married & your spouse is doing all your spouse can during Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September. More ingeniously, reinterpret your current weakness as your more enduring strengths turned inside-out during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024. You & your spouse must hold on. You must be in a position to act without doubt upon legal information dating from earlier in the year or favorable offers for your children or about real estate during Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September – and you must take a very deep breath, then count to twenty, before you take this or any other irrevocable action that affects you & your entire family during Asbolus in Cancer from July through December. Obey overwhelming intuition & instincts as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer from September through December. Trust such overwhelming intuition & instincts to determine whether or not you trust information you are being told as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer trines Elatus in Scorpio during October & November. Most importantly, keep your emotions out of it, and do not raise your voice during, any negotiations about property in the short term, or anything at all in the long term, during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030. Once the energy of the summer changes into survival mode as Pluto transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, and as Amycus transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December, other people will remind you that are you aren’t the only person looking forward as you make plans & adjustments for the future. Expect a lot of conversations amongst those who may be allies or adversaries but still want to know, for now, where you stand & how you plan to face upcoming inevitable changes during Retrograde Jupiter from September through December. As you & they babble at the office watercooler, Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November implores you to retreat from all risk to resume the path of least resistance. Distinguish danger (politics, power struggles & crime) from excitement (sex, alcohol & legal drugs) as Mars transits Scorpio during October & November. (Excitement? Talk dirty to your spouse often, at moments when your spouse least expects it or can do anything about it, throughout Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028.) Stop discussing politics as Jupiter in Taurus opposes Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November, or you will inevitably make intractable enemies. A long overdue correction befalls, a long overdue reward empowers, little old you, during Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November. Be reassured that, once you identify a hidden enemy during Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024, that hidden enemy can no longer hurt you. Immunization! While preparing for Thanksgiving, make your strategy for the next 12 to 18 months about how to make professional adjustments for the long term. Ask yourself, realistically, how much money you will need for your current “twenty-year plan” during Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036 – with that financial advisor or real estate broker whom you have already decided & confirmed that you trust, or with the financial advisor or real estate broker who replaced them, during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024. Based upon these numbers, develop your medium-term education agenda during 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. Revisit plans on how to balance the funds needed for your children’s education with money for travel for you & your family during Jupiter sextile Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024 to refine them accordingly. Save your nickels & dimes to that fund – and don’t quit your day job! – during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces during December. The primrose path of least resistance! Evil bastards from the past get their just desserts during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. Neither you nor anybody else will give certain individuals any slack ever again! You know where you stand & you know where allies & adversaries stand as you all go happy hunting in the capitalist jungle during Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. You don’t know exactly what the future holds, but you know how you plan to proceed, during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024. Just remember: Man plans, God laughs.   LEO 2023   You can’t get around it – the customer or the client is always right. This is true, frankly, even & especially when the customer or the client is wrong. The customer or the client wants what the customer or the client wants when the customer or the client wants it. End of story. Of course, nuances exist. It is possible to persuade the customer or the client that the customer or the client is not right, and to influence their thinking, ultimate decisions or actions. However, in order for that to happen, the customer or the client must trust you. And, like all matters of trust, trust is hard won over a long duration of time as the result of a series of successful conversations & transactions, before being lost forever in less than ten seconds. Trust, moreover, is not only interpersonal but is in fact institutional. You, as a vendor, representative of a vendor or outside counsel, can engender & facilitate trust, but if you work with fools & thieves, nothing you say or do will engender or maintain such trust that is the coin of the realm in the lay of the land. Inevitably, however, mathematical reality will reassert itself more and more throughout the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. Therefore, aggressive and angry clients who demand a redress and reform of business relations with you, your employees and your company overall, target the entrenched corruption of a very specific group of employees during Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023. You knew this already via discussions with customers & clients, as well as via your own observations of & discussions with that very specific group of corrupt employees when Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022. But, because of all the inertia amongst employees within your company, things had to get worse before they could get better. That’s all over now. Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March announces that the powers that be & all the good people have had more than enough of such nonsense. Furthermore, mathematical reality will reassert itself more and more throughout the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. Implement new employees & upgraded protocol. Thereus conjunct Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023 insists that there is no reason to despair whatsoever. You have all the skill and experience in the world – and you have deep resources of employees, skilled vendors and potential employees and vendors upon whom you can call should you need to make any personnel changes yourself. This short-term strategic application should prove quite durable. Leave saboteurs to your expert consultants, who can coerce corrupt practitioners into making incriminating decisions in writing, on camera, or within computer databases or programming protocol as Elatus transits Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023. Consultants you hire during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from October through February 2023 force the issues – but if they force the issues in specific ways, corrupt practitioners will be unable to cause any backlash – although corrupt colleagues will curse you to your face during Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini during February. After these skilled professionals bring their influence to bear upon the workplace, once Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March, every time a client or customer complains, a lax or rogue employee will be fired. You will demand absolute justice, and you will yell, threaten, berate & condemn the guilty until you get absolute justice, during 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April. A major ace in the hole for you augments your already strong hand during Saturn conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February – film, audio recordings & videotape do not lie. Indeed, you have significant footage with which to work during Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July. Be ready for that same very specific group of employees, that squad of corrupt cheaters, to try to return to their same bag of tricks as Mars squares Neptune during March so that you can nail them in the act! Even so, should you or somebody else actually catch rogues & cheaters in the act & they are punished, fired, arrested, convicted & sentenced, you will not rejoice throughout Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026. Indeed, you refuse to celebrate other peoples’ misfortune personally at all – and, in this way, you cite Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June, “It is not up to me – the evidence convicts.” The only way for you to get this nasty stench out of your nostrils is via the incense of pure innocence. Then, suddenly, and dramatically, cold, clean air during Amycus in Aquarius from March to July. The hype of the long-term future hovers on the horizon as a blurry haze of blinding sunlight during Pluto in Aquarius during April & May. You can now look forward to no more fools, knaves or charlatans, but, instead, partners, only legitimate professionals and real, genuine experts, as Chariklo conjuncts 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027. You as well as bosses are committed to keeping that air & your professional workplace clean. To that end, bosses implement a key piece of organizational psychology during Crantor in Pisces from April to August: Deploy an experienced employee & supervisor to administer all sorts of integrity tests to these new employees in the group where all the old corrupt employees have been arrested & fired. It pleases you how bosses leave you to your own capable devices – as best they can. Indeed, bosses do laugh in appreciation, but then want to set up a meeting with you, with the warning, “Your management of your current work group, of whose performance I heartily approve, is about to get a lot more complicated,” as 2002-GZ32 trines the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023. Even more cryptically, your boss suspensefully asserts, “We must protect you from the interference of the infrastructure at this company who only exist so as to serve you,” as 2001-SQ73 opposes Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023. All these positive contradictions clothed in a convoluted subjunctive mood lead you to believe that now may be the time to expand your client base, operating territory and professional opportunities as Jupiter transits Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023. Then again, now might not be the time, either. That big fat “maybe” dampens your own or certain individuals’ enthusiasm during Jupiter conjunct Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 during March. There is much to be gained & much to be lost. Laws, rules & regulations, as well as foreign registrations, are deliberately vague. It is up to you to do your research to show yourself & everybody else whether it was a great idea or the ravings of a drunkard during 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June. Now, nobody is actually discouraging you from trying to expand your business. However, truth be told, you can try & fail. Even if you do not try at all . . . right now . . . there is plenty of outstanding work for you to complete as Pluto transits Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, while Amycus transits Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September. While expansion – particularly international expansion – makes you vulnerable to loss during Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October, maintaining routine brings a steady, if unspectacular, profit during Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024. That being said, Jupiter square Mars opposite Pluto in late May warns that you will get absolutely nothing, and will lose what you have, if you refuse to control your temper in a power struggle fated to mark a division for the ages. No matter how turbulent this power struggle is, bosses are unlikely to fire you over any such internecine tug of war. Really, Jupiter conjunct the North Node in late May suggests that bosses, and especially new bosses, are reformers – they champion truth & honesty. Indeed, Jupiter sextile Saturn during June promises that, if anybody is going to displace that corrupt faction within your professional organization, it will be them. In that context, bosses like the progress taking place amongst that new group of rookies replacing that old group of corrupt rogues – and therefore decides to commence making changes with both the group’s leadership & the group itself during Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October. For your own part, you do not yet have the luxury of looking to the future – Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September denotes that you & your work group have much unfinished business to complete from the recent past. Much of this represents processing completed paperwork & invoicing from past cycles during Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September. Some of it demands the firm & aggressive intervention of a demanding professional superior who expects answers & commands immediate results during Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September. (A new young employee admires this professional superior’s style & deploys it against some of their own corrupt colleagues during Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November.) As you go through the pile, do not deflect your attention span from new professionals intending to weave a new spider web of pure deceit during Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026. Calm acute frustration. Even though the North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 denotes that new & far horizons call, that, although you wish to respond, you are not ready. Don’t let your frustration show. For one thing, bosses have a ferociously ambitious agenda to fulfill during Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 from July through October and a very short window in which to fulfill it. You also must complete all the work of the recent past – and Pluto square the North Node from July to October indicates that you oversee certain recalcitrant employees who really do not want to do it. Confrontation is not the solution – 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030 declares that hiring a ringer to threaten their job security is! Don’t you worry – once these recalcitrant employees notice that these ringers & rookies have to clean up from the recent past as Pluto squares the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August, they will sit down, shut up & keep their noses in their own business. Retrograde Venus in Leo during August augurs an upcoming transit of 2001-73 in Leo from May 2024 through June 2032, an introductory phase of which commences 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024. On one level, 2001-SQ73 connotes soul-searching & therapy; on another level, it connotes a scientist’s, engineer’s or a detective’s deductive skills. The Retrograde transit of Venus will alert you as to the task, much of which involves convoluted deleterious circumstances, the labyrinthine schemes of shady agents & your own consolidated phobias throughout Asbolus in Cancer from July through December, as well as the tools you will need for the upcoming cycle. Much more work is necessary for you to earn the same fairly meager profits, if that, during Retrograde Jupiter from September through December. Therefore, experienced employees & colleagues will know quickly, and explain to rookies, why all of you are being kept on much shorter leashes as Pluto transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, while Amycus transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December. Then, in a real-life instance of poetic justice, a villain from the past returns to work in that same professional workplace – most likely in that same corrupt working group that had been causing all of you so much trouble, for so long – during Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius during September & October. Are they in for a surprise! Watch closely from afar as these slick players from the past make incorrect presumptions about their new professional associates as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer from September through December. The sting happens as the double agent firmly on the side of your professional employer entices this slick player with the incriminating evidence you need to secure an arrest & a conviction as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer trines Elatus in Scorpio during October & November. On the positive side, why all of you are being kept on much shorter leashes recedes in importance during Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. Part of the reason for this is your ability to allow protocol & institutional psychology to communicate insults that you would prefer not to verbalize personally – a device you will employ for both praise & censure throughout Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028. Hold you own temper as certain bosses use similar tactics against you as Jupiter in Taurus opposes Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November. Indeed, you must control your habit to vent if you are to manifest your will to power as Mars transits Scorpio during October & November. Bosses are cooperating with their colleagues to trim from the payroll corrupt employees who have long outlived their usefulness as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024 – and some may be just as inclined to deploy the same professional cooperation to marginalize or to fire you. Instead, concentrate your dark energy upon leading, managing & motivating your professional workgroups – and saving worthy rookies from hostile intrigue & almost certain entrapment by their corrupt colleagues during Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November. Do not reprimand these brave rookies too harshly during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces in December. What you learned as a result of what happened to them puts you in a position to complete projects of institutional reform during 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. Articulate core platitudes upon which everybody in your professional workplace can act & forever emulate as long as you work there during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024. Expect clients prone to complaint to express core genuine appreciation for the improvements that ensue during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. All vestiges of economic downturn end during Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. Extremely positive long-term personal & professional opportunities come into clear focus during Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036 – but go slow. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Master the baby steps during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024. VIRGO 2023   You must listen when Jupiter in Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023 reminds you, once again: You are simply not allowed to be that good. “Why?” you ask. Really, you are much smarter than that. But, to answer the question anyway: Apologists will assert that it is important for you to communicate that you are a team player while realists will note that certain bosses – including, most likely, your direct professional superior – envy you. Both arguments are true. On one side of the coin, a totally unexpected blessing, a truly capable new professional with complimentary skill set and proven experience, joins your workgroup as Chariklo conjuncts 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027. On the flip side of that same coin, an unresolved issue, including a personality conflict, involving a boss or bosses who dominate the work environment during Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023. The possibility that you can destroy yourself by raising your voice and cursing out your boss is real. However, during Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March, these unresolved issues reach a point of equilibrium. Bosses know what they are going to do, and to do with you, when, going forward, and you know where you stand. This, of course, can change. Relationships that bosses have with colleagues & employees must be factored into the equation – especially as both sides gauge who is guilty of workplace theft, abuse of professional authority or sexual harassment (Warner Wolf proclaims, “Let’s go to the videotape!”) as Saturn conjunct Crantor trines Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February. Bosses’ own negativity & hostile public statements, whether at, to or about you, corrupt the thin, polluted air, during Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini during February. But you need not contribute to your own demise. Unfortunately, making matters much, much, much, much more treacherous, you are inclined, prone and in fact willing to escalate conflict during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from October through February 2023. Realize this upfront so that you don’t unwittingly and unintentionally destroy yourself by raising your voice and cursing out your boss. Most importantly, do not be the individual to use a word, phrase or even computer code during Elatus in Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023 which will result in immediate termination, universal public disapproval and permanent condemnation. Be professional. Keeping disturbing apocalyptic extremes firmly in mind, draft up master resumes and know the full extent of your skill set. Thereus conjunct Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023 promises that you will then have the advantage while hunting on the job market. Know what you want so that you may pounce on it when you see it. Also, don’t spend money you don’t have. For Virgo, fiscal conservatism represents upward professional mobility throughout the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. Under such conditions, it is imperative that you maintain positive relations with spouse or partner. You already saw how much damage you did to yourself personally & professionally both by overreacting & by projecting anger from boss onto spouse, and vice-versa, as Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022. You now know who is who & what is what – and Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026 strongly warns that relationship, marital & partnership issues bring forth challenges of their own. Therefore, do not allow personal & professional confusion to cloud your emotions & to prejudice your emotional response as Mars squares Neptune during March. Specifically, parents: Issues involving children, especially teenage children, are likely to complicate your relationships. Anticipate new laws and new rules for student athletes, high school and college athletic coaches and parents of student athletes, as well as parents of all students, as 2002-GZ32 trines the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023. Mothers of students and student athletes now begin to flex their political power as they enlist capable lawyers, law enforcement officials and private detectives on their side pro bono during 2001-SQ73 opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023. Take heed. Be practical concerning the politics of your personal & professional inner circles. Crantor in Pisces from April to August advises you to recognize that, even when dealing with your spouse or your bosses, that there are certain people who influence their thoughts & actions more than others. Keep such people on your side. Of course, the workplace will present its own problems; however, because many of the stresses of the workplace will burden your unconscious rather than your conscious mind, it undermines your ability to control your response to them. Speech, attitudes, protocol & misbehavior will infer, suggest & sometimes even outright state, “You will not be allowed to be that good,” as Jupiter conjuncts Chiron conjuncts 2000-QB243 during March. (“Harrison Bergenon” by Kurt Vonnegut!). Also, remote surveillance & corporate security services will . . . somehow. . . seem very heavy-handed & overstated as 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April. Slow down your verbal speech & proofread emails which you compose very carefully before you hit the send button to prevent & to forestall the occasional Freudian slip during Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July. Notice how the approval or disapproval of your spouse (as well as your boss) filters down throughout the larger group during Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October. Most importantly, you must control not only your tendency to lash out, but also a propensity to internalize reproach into your solar plexus, inducing you to succumb to self-loathing, as bosses reprimand you harshly & caustically, perhaps for no reason whatsoever, during Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March. Keeping all this in mind, Amycus in Aquarius from March to July whispers in your ear, “You are allowed to be that good.” You feel the thrill of adrenaline as you hear this. You indulge a surge of confidence – before Pluto in Aquarius during April & May whispers in your other ear a necessary addendum, “But at a price.” You don’t need to consider these issues right away – and, during Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October puts your professional & financial interests under other peoples’ control, you really shouldn’t. For the moment, concentrate upon rent, mortgages & financial obligations, with deadlines incurred by signed contracts, during Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June. Furthermore, you will hear many of your associates harshly complain & bitch – some with hostility to your face over preferential treatment under your contract – during Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026. Do not contribute. Complainers base their complaints upon the maxim, “You are not allowed to be that good” – which Pluto & Amycus in Aquarius teach you to contradict. For the moment, however, life is good. Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 rewards you for skills you have been cultivating & refining over many years. Furthermore, although much is changing, Pluto in Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, and Amycus in Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September declare that there is still much to be accomplished professionally using such skills. However, do not neglect, and continue to discipline, teenagers, especially children involved in varsity sports – and especially, for boys, read: football. You learn the potential costs of demonstrating how good you really are as a professional episode involving corporate security & work colleagues explodes loudly during Jupiter square Mars opposite Pluto in late May. Corporate security will overreact grandiosely during 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June. Recede from the glaring, harsh, spotlight. You are due to receive a raise & a reward as Jupiter conjuncts the North Node in late May. Behave circumspectly with all appropriate caution. Control your emotions. Let Chris Rock say whatever he wants! Pay your bills until you eliminate your debt during Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September, and share your good fortune with your spouse – on your spouse’s terms – as Jupiter sextiles Saturn during June . . . while that good fortune lasts. Hammering that same nail: If you are not winning big during Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 from July through October, you are losing big. Stay on the right side of that thin, dotted line. The North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 denotes that some type of financial misfortune or setback is likely to befall you. Either way, once the ball starts rolling, you will not be in a position to stop it or to induce it to change direction during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030. This would also mean you could become fabulously wealthy, winning the lottery, inheriting money from family, receiving a lucrative personal injury settlement or winning the Super Bowl. (Try to be realistic.) If you want to forestall the worse-case scenario, frankly, buy fire insurance for your home. To buy time, happiness, good credit & good will when things are bad, it is important to lavish benevolence & cooperation when all is going well. Prepare for the worst by demonstrating magnanimity when success is at its peak. As for your teenage quarterback son or volleyball queen daughter – be prepared to put him or her on a very short leash for what he or she may view as a minor infraction during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September. More especially so to forestall inevitable teenage hubris during Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September. More especially to prevent him or her from mouthing off to another authority figure, whether teacher, professor, coach, referee or cop, as Pluto squares the North Node from July to October. An ounce of prevention is worthy 100,000 pounds of jail as Pluto squares the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August. Discipline before the fact is better than your spouse or a mother’s emotional histrionics after the fact during Asbolus in Cancer from July through December. Discipline before the fact is better than a husband or father’s heart attack after the fact during Retrograde Venus in Leo during August. Speaking of heart attacks: Are you over the age of forty? If so, 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024 advises you, especially, to see a cardiologist. Nothing may be wrong with you – but get a baseline while the skies are still blue. Wisely dispensing good fortune to worthy family members is a proper use of such resources. However, Retrograde Jupiter from September through December warns of harsh karmic backlash if you abused such good fortune. If you did not abuse such good fortune, can afford it, have taken care of family obligations or are single, travel widely for an extended period. Clear your mind of psychic detritus. Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November makes your teenage children, including athletic teenage children, physically vulnerable. Such athletic teenage children are particularly vulnerable to injury as Pluto transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, while Amycus transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December. Make certain that such athletic teenage children are not overtraining & are getting the proper physical rest & sleep. Whether such prominent individuals foster good or ill will, Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius during September & October denotes that the spiritual gatekeeper of your professional workplace now imparts a leftover message from the recent transit of Saturn through Aquarius from December 2020 to March 2023. Use this message to make things better rather than to make things irrevocably worse. Indeed, bitterness, hostility & envy amongst you & your colleagues & acquaintances as Mars transits Scorpio during October & November can help set the precedent for bad habits such as cursing, mockery, talking trash, insults or brinkmanship throughout Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028. Back off from troublemakers who have nothing better to do than bring others down as they destroy themselves as Jupiter in Taurus opposes Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November. Your spouse may express benign or malign indifference when they look at other people destroying their lives through bad habits during Saturn in Pisces trine Asbolus in Cancer from September through December – as long as they don’t tell them & theirs directly to their faces. Local women go through a very rough time during Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. Overtly care for your spouse or your daughter – they endure a very vulnerable phase during Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November. Instruct your spouse to program the local police phone number into their cellphone for immediate one-button or voice activation speed dialing during Saturn in Pisces trine Asbolus in Cancer trine Elatus in Scorpio during October & November. As a result of this & other episodes, you will want to share more with your spouse to show them how much you care for them as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024 – particularly because you feel blessed as good fortune returns during Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. Tell your spouse & your daughter how proud you are of them for their emotional strength under duress during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces during December. Oh! And speaking of heart attacks again: If your cardiologist didn’t tell you to cut down or to curb your alcohol intake, 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024 confirms that your astrologer does. Better your astrologer than your cardiologist! Because bosses only have themselves to blame for the trouble in which they are now enmeshed during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024, you feel liberated. The spiritual gatekeeper of your professional workplace now expresses idealistic & uplifting aphorisms & platitudes to induce other people to embrace their better selves during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024, “Kumbaya, dude.” Keeping all this in mind, Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036 whispers in your ear, “You are allowed to be that good.” You feel the thrill of adrenaline as you hear this. You indulge a surge of confidence – before Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024 whispers in your other ear, “At a price you may be able to afford.”   LIBRA 2023   The fishing expedition continues – and you are the fish. The move to create a revisionist historical narrative of all that you have accomplished gathers considerable steam during Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023. As part of that effort, every email you have ever sent and the exact language of every phrase you have ever uttered becomes legal fodder for or against you as Elatus transits Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023. The same employees who accused you of various peccadillos, infractions, indiscretions & crimes as Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022 remain employed by your company – and they have not changed their story. Take these environments and these concomitant perpetual plaintiffs as a sign that you should search for greener pastures where that blank slate is real during Jupiter in Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023. You don’t understand why you can’t just walk away. As far as you are concerned, those accusing you either have evidence or they don’t. (Saturn conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February reminds everybody how, and how often, Warner Wolf said, “Let’s go to the videotape!”) But Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March suggests that authority figures, including judges, want to engage due process to put this behind everybody once & for all – particularly, as Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini during February suggests, how perpetual plaintiffs demand their (day) (week) (month) (lifetime) in court. You’re not fishing for victims. You are not hunting for prey. This is true financially & legally. You are trying to identify the good, the right & the true so that you can uphold & champion it. Indeed, whether discussing budgets, corporate expenditures, professional audits or criminal charges, the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 is not a continuum, the sum of all your different legal or professional stands divided by that number, but, really, a holistic statement of the things in which you believe. Be open to discussions and communications with those who say that they have information which will help your legal case or cause as Thereus conjuncts Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023 – but don’t solicit their total cooperation or full divulgence immediately. Wait until very uncomfortable and contradictory facts come to light as 2003-WL7 transits Virgo from October through February 2023 before welcoming full communication and cooperation. As legal issues improve, expect to hear the same colleagues & employees repeat the same accusations against you, whether proven or disproven, as Mars squares Neptune during March. The pertinent information will rise to the surface during Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July. Expect to review the same evidence & non-evidence as Jupiter conjuncts Chiron conjuncts 2000-QB243 during March. Then, somebody you heard perfectly fine before decides to yell so everybody can hear them during 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April. While all this suggests that you may in fact win in court, what exactly do you win? Nothing really – not as much as others lose. Indeed, Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026 suggests that certain colleagues & employees may lose much more than they ever expected – in fact, their good name. But this does not necessarily mean that you can fire them. You may have to continue to work with them indefinitely. Complicating matters, there is a lot of speculation, discussion and hope about all the money coming into the city, state or province during 2001-SQ73 opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023 – and where exactly it is going to go. Don’t play games with this – big money on infrastructure upgrades is involved during 2002-GZ32 trine the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023. Remember former Charlotte Mayor and convicted felon Patrick Cannon. Luckily, you now discern environments or meet people where innovators, including political scientists and think-tank level political ideologues, collaborate with genuine experts, some of them in the political circles you inhabit and favor, as Chariklo conjuncts 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027. Indeed, this inspires you & piques your appetite during Amycus in Aquarius from March to July. Your ambition absolutely percolates as you plan multiple stratagems during Pluto in Aquarius during April & May to pursue the brass ring. But first things first. Most importantly, the client will remind you during 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June that the client comes first – and, if you fail to acknowledge the client, the client will say this louder & more harshly. And, again, the same employees who accused you, and now accuse you again, of various peccadillos, infractions, indiscretions & crimes remain employed by your company – and they repeat the story they have not changed. Do not be concerned – whether this ends well or badly, this will end. (Of course, those who do not get what they want will complain loudly & harshly during Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March – but end it nevertheless will.) In the meantime, during Crantor in Pisces from April to August, know who in the office sits where, and know who in the office works remotely, as you play Pacman & Ms. Pacman to avoid your enemies within a grid as you seek to eat the superhuman cherry. Note which part of the office remains mysteriously empty, except for he or she who shall not be named for the evil that he or she wrought, during Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October.  No matter where the chips may fall for you legally, once it is all done, you may be inclined to believe that you are ready for a fresh start. However, Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October suggests that you are not in a strong enough position. For one thing, Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June denotes that certain long-term tasks & projects have assigned you a social role which you can only shed once the task or project is complete. Furthermore, Pluto in Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, along with Amycus in Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, insist that, in order to pursue ambitions, you must complete projects & all their concomitant loose ends – and you must proactively satisfy the demigods of hypersensitive clients throughout 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030. This, of course, includes paperwork. Assuming all of this is under control, you must accept “the subjunctive mood” of Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024. That “subjunctive mood” is the karmic component within astrology: You will be rewarded or punished for your most immediate past words, attitudes & efforts during the recent transit of the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. Complicating this interpretation, karmic reward or punishment may come during, or as a result of, your words, attitudes & efforts during the very explosive & potentially massively destructive aspect of Jupiter square Mars opposite Pluto in late May. Be warned that bosses, particularly female bosses who are also mothers of young or teenage children, are likely to lash out at you, whether for good, bad or no reason, throughout Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026. That fresh start, new partnership or new professional opportunity you crave which you thought might happen earlier in 2023 begins to tantalize you more consistently during the North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025. The reward or punishment for the past cycle is likely to come very soon, most likely as Jupiter conjuncts the North Node in late May. Accordingly, auditors, lawyers & police investigators interrogate employees about the recent past as Jupiter sextiles Saturn during June. That piece of paper where your colleague forged your boss’s signature? That is your trump card. Use it sparingly – most likely when Pluto squares the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August – and use it only to kill. Bosses demand a review of past records during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September, which manifests during Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September. The past has not yet ended – and, moreover, and more importantly, bosses will view your complaints about this reality as an indication of your professional insubordination as Pluto squares the North Node from July to October. Whether those conducting such investigations mean well or mean ill, Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 from July through October asserts that they will brook no quarter & will not stop until they get what, and all of that which, they desire. Power brokers & authority figures will be surly, difficult, obsessive & paranoid during the late summer & will not tolerate even the suggestion that you may be cultivating a bad attitude. Indeed, autocratic clients don’t even wait to hear your voice during Retrograde Venus in Leo during August – they simply demand that you submit & succumb. Realize, in fact, that such autocratic clients are using psychological warfare against you during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024 to identify your psychological boundary line dividing obedience from insubordination. As for bosses, they are just waiting for the absolute worst to happen during Asbolus in Cancer from July through December as they search for somebody to blame. Do not provide an easy target. Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November advises that you simply return to your desk & get back to work. Something bad is indeed going to happen – but to you or your bosses? Who knows? Retrograde Jupiter from September through December states that that depends upon whether you & they stuck to the straight & narrow legally over the past several years. If you & they obeyed the law of the land, then all should be well – but somebody out there didn’t. That somebody is going to get punished during the cusp of the era of reform. The temptations of & the propensities for corruption continue. The slick are brazen & unrepentant during Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September. Crime, graft, and the investigations of crime & graft overlap & continue. Continue to keep your nose clean as you remain cognizant of the coded language of crime & criminals throughout Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028 while shunning participation in it. Either way you look at it, a fellow participant in political circles will remind you during Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius during September & October that you have everything to lose if you did not keep your nose clean and everything to gain if you did. You can move forward with confidence as Pluto transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, while Amycus transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December, if you have been able to distinguish right from wrong professionally over the past several years & if you have never transgressed that boundary. Significantly, at this time, Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024 denotes that your bosses do not know where such boundaries lie as they withdraw of their own accord. More power to you. Just because Crantor in Retrograde exited Pisces to enter Aquarius does not mean that you should ignore the interior layout of your office – you still want to avoid transgressing into a “bad neighborhood” as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer from September through December. You have no doubts that you have identified the evil code which you hear loud & clear as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer trines Elatus in Scorpio during October & November. Or so you think. The evil that you now shun as you hear the coded communication of crime & criminals will not be shunned so easily & effortlessly by you as Mars transits Scorpio during October & November. At such times you would welcome the interference of now absent bosses – but it is up to you to reject Satan & his offers of bribes that you personally find delectable, particularly as Jupiter in Taurus opposes Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November. Young employees watch how you respond during Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November. Do the right thing. Difficult clients who challenged you since your bosses’ status reports on you, your performance & your character during 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024, as well as young employees, approach you with admiration, as long as you did the right thing, during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces during December. If this is the case, that you are admired for the right reasons, you become a go-to player in ongoing effort to curb & to reverse corruption in the workplace as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. As long as you play for the team wearing white hats, financial circumstances stabilize tremendously during Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. (Indeed, a long-term political advisor may clue you into what you need to do to actualize a long-term political future during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024.) If not, expect increased, ongoing turbulence. Either way, legal matters go forward, for or against, based on the same criteria, during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. Whether you maintain a positive reputation or otherwise will put you at an advantage or at a disadvantage, respectively, going forward – but the times themselves go forward during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024. Ambitions to get on TV or in politics now become overwhelming. Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036 reminds you that those with the best credentials, most positive reputations & steadfast convictions get the best opportunities – and those with the best credentials, most positive reputations & steadfast convictions do not cave into criminal pressure as they follow the straight & narrow so as not to surrender any natural advantage. For long-term success, turn down the illicit booty. Stay on the right side of the law.   SCORPIO 2023   Contrary to popular belief, Scorpions do not like to cause trouble. Scorpions are not afraid of trouble. Scorpions do not shun trouble, and, in fact, Scorpions often attract trouble – but start trouble? Like all people – and more than most people – Scorpions are busy people, “You think I have time for this? Get real!” One reason you are busy is because you will go out of your way, often to help others, in order to get done, what needs to get done, done. As a result, people love you for it. Add onto that the fact that you shared with your loyal work crew why you felt vulnerable about your adversaries back in March and April 2002 and – Voila! Scorpio has earned a fan club for life. This open-handed approach with those loyal to you paid off in spades as adversaries absolutely become enemies by going radically dirty against you during Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023, “Nobody is going to play me or us against you – because I and we are loyal to you. Word.” Damn! Not even sex is as seductive to a Scorpion than such unconditional adulation. In this circumstance, therefore, Crantor in Pisces from April to August states that nothing & nobody is more valuable to you in this situation than that one within your posse of unconditionally zealous devotees who can play the part of a conditionally zealous devotee – known, in more formal & stratified circles, as a “devil’s advocate.” Keep the pace slow – very slow. 2001-SQ73 opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023 demands that you take care of all ongoing business according to all city, state, provincial and federal guidelines – or else. Furthermore, rivals, partners and bankers will determine your status for the long term during the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. One step at a time. Slow and steady wins the race. And keep politics and business far apart. Enemies think that they can get over on you, especially disloyal partners who betrayed you – but there is no chance of that. Your loyal workgroup went through that from the beginning to the end as Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022 – really, nobody will be changing sides now. Saturn conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February confirms that their guilt & your innocence are all captured on videotape under your control. Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini during February proves the maxim that the loser always complains & objects more than the winner – because for what reason does the winner need to complain? Now your team, that loyal work crew, really wants to kick ass in the playoffs, even though the playoffs haven’t exactly started just yet, during Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March. Nurse that enthusiasm judiciously. No joke! Your (employees) (devotees) (fan club) view you as a rock star. You’ve got to stop being so modest. Really, if your name is not in lights as Elatus transits Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023 . . . buy some lights. Time to assert your O.G. workplace genius status – and to make the next generation respect and proclaim it – as Jupiter transits Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023. Ziggy played guitar! You still have to take care of business. To that end, hire or formalize official business relations with that long-time technical consultant ally to take care of immediate business immediately and over the medium-term duration during Thereus conjunct Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023.That long-time technical consultant ally has their own radical, aggressive and hilarious ideas about how you can control the public relations agenda over the long-term during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from October through February 2023. Think tank only for the moment. Hear them out. Business is very good – but it is work. Outstanding projects are complicated, labor-intensive and slow. Concentrate upon each individual task necessary to execute business as 2002-GZ32 trines the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023. Again, keep politics and business far apart. As for projects currently on your own & your team’s plate, you can’t see the project for what it is – is it the project that is hard to see or is something wrong with your eyes? Your eyes see fine – but Jupiter conjunct Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 during March declares that your eyes accurately see how the project morphs & evolves right as you are looking at it. Of course, just because an argument is not only correct but in fact tautologically axiomatic does not mean that your enemies will respect its accuracy & truthfulness – in fact, Mars square Neptune during March declares that the outright perversity of convoluted, debased thinking is poised & destined to shoot at you as an easy target. You could ignore it – but consult a lawyer during Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July to determine if you have a viable & lucrative enough case to sue. However, be careful – 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April warns that you do not wish to perpetuate & to escalate such hostilities. Rather, you want to end & to move past them. Enemies don’t want to move past them during Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March because they only win if they can bring you down to their level – and what does that tell you? Furthermore, the presence of an enemy will serve as an unhealthy focus for your loyal work crew throughout Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026. Keep it light. Keep it enthusiastic. Keep it optimistic. Keep it idealistic. Outside the workplace, exciting developments evolve across your city, state or province. Real political scientists with academic credentials and street credibility join forces with the more radical, reckless and extreme factions within your company, party, city, state or province as Chariklo conjuncts 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027. Intelligent visionaries address the political & sociological makeup of that city, state & province during Pluto in Aquarius during April & May – and look up to the genius prophetic political scientist urban planning eccentric emboldened by Amycus in Aquarius from March to July. This has serious potential – but make no public announcement about any of this – it will not play well. Listen in. Coordinate with the players so as to acquire introductions. Develop your own vision as those more experienced are forging theirs. All that is for a much longer term. Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 signifies a new start, and perhaps a new romance or more likely new business partnership, for the next year. Critically, most importantly, Jupiter square Mars opposite Pluto in late May strongly advises not to commence any new romance or new business partnership with an individual with an immediate score to settle, which they will proceed to settle, immediately, in extremely spectacular fashion. While this individual needs this attention for this issue which is important to this individual, 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June confirms: You don’t. After all the drama is over, great – Jupiter conjunct the North Node in late May guarantees that your relationship is starred. Indeed, Jupiter sextile Saturn during June declares that this partner will work brilliantly with your loyal workgroup, who, as of late, has become somewhat depressed – even though your new partner scares them half to death! While some of your loyal workgroup are indeed depressed, the conditionally zealous devotee (Remember? The “devil’s advocate”) is merely sober, realistic & pragmatic. Therefore, when that conditionally zealous devotee gives you advice on how to handle your local politicians & power brokers, Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October reminds you that that conditionally zealous devotee knows how these types can hurt you. By definition, after all, a “devil’s advocate” must, on some level, really know . . . the Devil. Even so, anybody in your loyal workgroup will acknowledge that your new beloved partner is on the same team, and you all pursue absolute world domination, so venture forth! But, while you & they long to sail unchartered waters, Pluto in Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, while Amycus in Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, announce unfinished projects which require no announcement & many bills yet to be paid. Really, if you think about it, paying the bills, fulfilling professional obligations & doing your duty is the best possible legal defense that Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June has to offer! Therefore, remind yourself & everybody else not to get too excited & not to get too depressed, but to come to work & to stick to business. Furthermore, as this is a marathon & not a sprint, Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October reminds all of you to go slow, don’t tax your body & to take care of your health. Remain positive. Whether you lose or more likely win legal cases, and whether you are denied entré into international markets or whether such entré is delayed or negotiated, ad infinitum & after the fact, Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026 will cause too much negativity to hover over you & your people like clouds always threatening to rain. Really, Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September denotes that the best you can do is to get all your paperwork in order. Remind yourself & everybody during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September to stick to business, come what may. You can’t always control the results. The North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 insists that you must like the work & the people with whom you do it. Clearly, this is a challenge – at times, a daunting & harsh challenge, as demonstrated during Pluto square the North Node from July to October. But the point is the work & cooperating with your team, because this is all that you & your team can control. But you only learn, sometimes, by mistakes. However, the mistakes you make about “control” – attempting to control things, people, circumstances & institutions outside of & beyond your purview – will only bring either harsh backlash from unkind & oftentimes cruel authority figures during Retrograde Venus in Leo during August, or negative, perverse & convoluted legal consequences, perhaps in a different city, state, province or country, during Asbolus in Cancer from July through December, or both. (Who really knows what laws some of these jurisdictions have on their books as Pluto squares the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August?) Furthermore, realize, during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024, like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis & Texas Governor Jim Abbott, that certain authority figures & power brokers will go to profound & profoundly immoral strategic lengths to penetrate your legal & personal vulnerability. To that end, during Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 from July through October, find a political advisor akin to the political backroom strategist Charlie Halloran, playing by William Frawley (“Fred Mertz” to you I Love Lucy fans) who told the Honorable Henry X. Harper some home truths he didn’t want to hear to keep him in elected office in the Christmas classic film Miracle on 34th Street. Tell employees who tend to stray to stick with the group during Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November. Put a worthy & accomplished colleague in charge of your loyal work crew during Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September. Prepare important expansive strategic & innovative initiatives with skilled & highly paid players during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030. Interface with the public throughout Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028. Monarch of all media! Don’t get paranoid that new partners are disloyal during Retrograde Jupiter from September through December. Remember during Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius in September & October that that unconditionally zealous devotee behaved like a conditionally zealous devotee to keep you clear & realistic enough to distinguish friends from enemies. Control freaks may be difficult, but they are not disloyal. Most likely, you will be enduring flashbacks of a past nightmare during Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. Don’t project your irrational & paranoid fears onto others in the absence of facts as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer from September through December. Conversely, act aggressively & decisively in the presence of undeniable & uncontestable facts as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer trines Elatus in Scorpio during October & November. Purge all psychological & emotional demons so that you can logically & strategically conduct square business with all individuals with whom you have dealings as Pluto transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, and as Amycus transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December. Escalating tensions with new partners about whom you have become paranoid explode during Jupiter in Taurus opposite Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November. Scream & yell at each other & throw objects against the wall – both of you! – but not in front of other people! This is a bonding ritual! Tell that partner that during Mars transits Scorpio during October & November – as you inform that partner that in fact Mars is transiting Scorpio during October & November! – and they will be duly impressed. Somebody outside of your immediate circle of close associates reminds you during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024 that your real enemies are out there – and not amongst that core group of unconditionally zealous devotees! A collective effort of everybody on the team is necessary to untangle complications, to search for hidden solutions to problems & to promote international business interests with officials difficult to identify, to locate & to contact during 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. At the same time, a young rookie needs mentoring & protection in your rough & tumble business world during Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November. Work hard to communicate your differences so that your loyal work crew feels comfortable working with these partners as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. To build his or her confidence, give that rookie a project wherein they can show some initiative during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces during December. Give those new business partners the latitude to lead the way as you retain veto power during Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. You can trust them – notice their sharkish grin as they look you in the eye & say, “Don’t you worry! Your friends are my friends – and your enemies are . . . . my enemies,” during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. That genius prophetic political scientist urban planning eccentric sets up permanent shop in your city, state or province – perhaps even in your office building! – during Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036. Stop by for a visit & get to know them – (even) (especially) if you disagree vociferously – during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024. Talk turkey.    SAGITTARIUS 2023   You didn’t need to watch the television or to read the newspapers about disintegrating world affairs, whether in your city, the U.S.A., Canada or the Ukraine, in order to feel disturbed. Upsetting hidden & unconscious problems of family members which came to light as Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022 unnerved everybody in your entire family. Other problems in your home which lie beyond your experience and ken plague you. A spouse becomes spasmodically neurotic and emotional, harboring their own disturbing secret during Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023. R-rated and X-rated discussions at the dinner table with all the generations present during March and April 2022 now come back to haunt you. If you can afford one, hire a private detective to find out if the secret your spouse harbors involves just your spouse, or your spouse on the lookout for the extracurricular activities of your son or daughter, as Elatus transits Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023. As relations with spouse reach a reasonably workable status quo as Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March, you may be tempted to pass off a lot of misbehavior amongst your family, especially amongst teenagers, as growing pains – but don’t put your head in the sand. Saturn conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February denotes that you will be provided with videotape & cell phone videos – and videotape & cell phone videos don’t lie. Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July denotes that you will be provided with credit card statements – merchants demanding money don’t lie. Furthermore, because your spouse objects & reacts badly to all of this during Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini during February – why would you tolerate lying? There is no benefit to hiding your head in the sand. Indeed, Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026 indicates that these family problems are long-term, not ephemeral, problems. You’ve got to face the music sooner rather than later – sooner, in fact, then when the bad actors repeat their misbehavior as Mars squares Neptune during March. Strangely, what happens as a result of all this conflict & drama is that an underappreciated & overlooked family member whom everybody else takes for granted winds up being the truthteller whom everybody would prefer to ignore during Crantor in Pisces from April to August. How did this underappreciated & overlooked family member suddenly ascend to this position? Because they have been listening & looking, drama-free, while everybody else in the family sought to play their part on Shakespeare’s stage where everybody in a player – except that underappreciated & overlooked family member, “Really, I can’t be bothered – and for that matter, Shakespeare’s overrated.” Unfortunately, in the short term, you cannot use the workplace as an escape. While it is hard to say whether bosses are hard on you because they feel that you are underperforming or because they envy and fear your skills, the fact is that Thereus conjunct Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023 gives bosses the knowledge and the opportunity to manipulate you psychologically at will. Even worse, you will be under much more pressure from psychologically punitive, demanding and emotionally bi-polar bosses as 2003-WL7 transits Virgo from October through February 2023. This does not mean that you cannot be productive or that you cannot score victories on the professional front. While contracting and consulting work inconveniently includes unusual and convoluted payment methods as 2002-GZ32 trines the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023, you can make the inconvenience work for you. Since you are already use your ingenuity professionally, you should use it financially as well. Hire a reputable accountant knowledgeable about all the methods wherein you can declare expenses and deferred income against your tax bill during 2001-SQ73 opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023. And remember: The North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 asserts: The only part of the equation of the profit margin that you totally control – market price minus expenses – are the expenses. But that does not constitute an escape from your problems. Are you still looking for an escape from these problems? Pour unprecedented energy into your creativity. Indeed, creative geniuses now float around your neighborhood & city. Whether funnier or better comedians with more advanced routines, accomplished, well-published political theorists, visionary scientists with decades of laboratory experience, genius filmmakers or renowned novelists, some brilliant people show up in your hometown or neighborhood out of nowhere as Chariklo conjuncts 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027. Invite some such individuals to a local experimental theater performance or to a rock club during 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April to garner some mutual inspiration. Make their acquaintance. Moreover, don’t overlook the fact that one of these creative geniuses is you! Proceed with a creative master project which stalled earlier in 2022 starting Jupiter in Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023. Intellectually, there is copious room for optimism. Pluto in Aquarius during April & May declares that a change in the air augurs a break from the ignorant materialism & brute force optimism of the past forty years. If you or others are not subtle enough to detect this “change in the air,” a brilliant local herald of the future leads the way with their own unprecedented theory & worldview during Amycus in Aquarius from March to July. As you & your people get to know who’s who & what’s what amongst tomorrow’s rock stars, continue to attend local experimental theater performances or rock clubs with them & other like-minded acquaintances & associates during 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June. Back on the family front, a spouse is still hostile & angry, albeit more logical & stable, during Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March. In the end, they will not argue with the veracity of paper & electronic trails whose contents speak for themselves during Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June. The necessity for stable, ongoing employment becomes readily apparent as Pluto transits Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, and as Amycus transits Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September. Luckily, this coincides with a new group of straightforward & industrious colleagues & employees during Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024. Unfortunately, you will be unable to trust the erratic temperament, to the extreme, of new bosses, during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030. You do not have the same luxury – an explosive confrontation with a client, customer, representative or colleague during Jupiter square Mars opposite Pluto in late May can ruin your career. Don’t alienate yourself from an extremely beneficial long-term affiliation with a specific new work colleague as Jupiter conjuncts the North Node in late May by succumbing to your kneejerk temper. Consider working from home if you need either to take care of an elderly parent or to distance yourself from specific difficult work colleagues, in the short term, as Jupiter sextiles Saturn during June. The hope for much more intelligent life on earth that you experienced as Pluto & Amycus first ingressed into Aquarius in the spring gives you real impetus & incentive to clean up all the loose ends of the past & to save money on a regular basis from your paycheck during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September. However, the fact that you poured heart & soul into the escape of your creativity around the same time now induces you to pursue that creativity non-stop to the neglect of everything else during the North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025. This is a mistake: In the Olds-Milner experiment where the rat tapped on one bar for food & the other bar for intellectual stimulation, some rats foreswore food to the point of death! Incidentally, sometime during Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October, you & the rest of your family learn that that underappreciated & overlooked family member had a secret creative life which nobody else in the family realized. More to the point, Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October states that, as creatively inspired as you had been earlier in the year, you are not in a position to finish ambitious projects that you have already started. Indeed, Pluto square the North Node from July to October warns that you cannot reject the practicalities of life. You must pay your bills, you must show up for work – then, you must do your job. Pluto square the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August further warns that you can’t, like Republican congressmen & congresswomen, ignore lawyers & official correspondence from them. Don’t toss out everything that you need for your survival out of the window – and don’t shred the subpoena which demands your appearance in court. Habits surrounding vice, including alcohol, sex clubs & pornography, starting Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026, will lead to harrowing episodes of absolute personal damnation throughout Asbolus in Cancer from July through December, and, in many instances, far beyond. Refer regularly to electronic & paper trails involving bills, invoices & performance reports for employees during Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September for status updates of where you are improving & indications of trouble spots likely to get worse over the next several months. As you continue to associate & to affiliate with a new rising intellectual local vanguard, and as you spend more time attending local experimental theater performances or rock clubs, new creative ambitions come to you during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024. You sense real growth potential, not just financially but spiritually, in the medium term, during Retrograde Venus in Leo during August. Pursue further. Jump all over work projects which require copious amounts of overtime labor as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 from July through October. Arduous demands in multiple work projects demand your effort & attention during Retrograde Jupiter from September through December. A work mentor exhorts, then trains you, in ways where you can outperform sustainably during Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September. Curtail creative projects completely to concentrate upon work & taking care of your family during Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November. Once you completed & diligently execute that duty, a peer reintroduces you to your preferred playground of life during Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius in September & October. Spoken, behavioral & forensic “code,” including slang, to participate in crime, bypasses those who are not savvy because such code is addressed only to the initiated. If you are privy to this code as Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024, this means that you associate with the wrong group of friends. You may be in too deep. Staining your consciousness with such code will distract you throughout Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028 even if you get rid of such friends now. Steam clean your virgin consciousness. You can pile up savings in a big hurry as Pluto transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, while Amycus transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December – that is, if you do not succumb to abundant indulgence in vice, including legal & illegal alcohol use, drug use & sex, as Mars transits Scorpio during October & November. Certain work colleagues want you to indulge in such vices as Jupiter in Taurus opposes Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November – and will reject you with hostility as a contemporary version of a square, fink or nerd if you refuse. If, worse yet, such work colleagues invite you to a strip or sex club, a stripper or gigolo can manipulate your brain & genitals so as to buy you as their slave during 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. Say no & back it up with action. Denounce evil by returning to your preferred playground of choice as a conquering hero during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024! Do nothing immoral to disgrace your family as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer from September through December. Saturn in Pisces trine Asbolus in Cancer trine Elatus in Scorpio during October & November states that you have no idea, until it happens, how much your mugshot will hurt your family emotionally. May it never happen. Realize how much a family member needs your active support & money during Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November. Deliver that support to that family member as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. That family member will not heal overnight, but will stabilize, with your support, during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces during December. You get rich working hard & living the straight & narrow without vice during Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. Return the favor of those who tried to corrupt you by telling them how little you need them during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. That brilliant local herald of the future with their own unprecedented theory & worldview establishes themselves permanently in your city, state or province for the long-term during Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036. The future taxis the runway for long-term takeoff during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024. Prepare in earnest.  CAPRICORN 2023   Who could forget the rioting, looting & widespread disorderly conduct during the COVID-19 summer of 2020, whether (POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ALERT, AMERICA!!!) during the George Floyd protests or the January 6, 2021 Insurrection against the certification of Joe Biden’s election as President of the United States? (Okay, that didn’t happen during the summer – but whatever.) But . . . um . . . do you remember them? Good! Merchants: Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023 provides a useful & helpful update: Theft rises to the surface. Police: Hordes of motorcyclists, bicyclists & operators of electric scooters not only try to take over entire city streets, sidewalks & even municipal highways by riding en masse to deny the road to automobiles as they all drive in convoys in the legally correct direction, but will even try to take over entire city streets, sidewalks and, again, even municipal highways by playing chicken & riding en masse in the legally wrong direction against automobile & pedestrian traffic. To all that, Saturn conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February disagrees, in part, and agrees, in part, with Gil Scott Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” off Small Talk at 125th and Lenox. For, in truth, this revolution, successful or aborted, will be heavily recorded & televised – surveillance video will be copiously available & enterprising videojournalists will not miss this for either the Revelation of St. John or the end of this cold, cruel world – really, this is pyrotechnical! In the past, Gil Scott Herron pegged the sponsorship angle perfectly, “The Revolution will not be brought to you by Coke.” Updating Herron’s insight, this whole operation is even alien to NPR – National Public Radio. No matter – evil people will meet bad endings beginning, and throughout, Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026. Furthermore, one trained to discuss such issues – a priest, minister, rabbi or highly moralistic journalist – will explain how & why during Crantor in Pisces from April to August. This phase will not last forever. Mars kept going backward, first as it formed a profoundly irrational, very rowdy, delusionary group-minded hard aspect as Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022, simultaneously, as the amount of sunlight in the day diminished for the rest of the calendar year, yielding in full to demonic citizens who ruled the night. The rationality of Mars moves forward as sunlight increases at the beginning of 2023 during Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March. Law enforcement, and the forces of good & logic, will not tolerate repeat performances, as Mars squares Neptune during March. There is considerable business – law enforcement business – to conduct in the interim. No matter – 2001-SQ73 opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023 exhorts you to protect your self-interest through detective work involving both police and private investigators. Matching up videotape with cellphone video with license plate numbers with prior convictions is hard work during Elatus in Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023. Objections will proliferate. To those who complain the most, and the most vociferously, echo Shakespeare as you assert, “Methinks you do object too much,” during Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini during February. Continue to corroborate videotape & cellphone video with documented cases of prior accusation, charges & convictions of repeat offenders during Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July. Much more importantly, you need sleep. You need to take care of your domicile, home & family. Regenerate at home after all the tumultuous activity at the end of 2022 during Jupiter in Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023 until you feel comfortable and reassured that all is deeply well with all the members of your home amidst all the changes in your neighborhood, city, state or province and country. Critically, you must familiarize with yourself with the ambiguous changes that happen to your children, particularly your son, during Jupiter conjunct Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 during March, so that you may prepare for what happens later that year. Take care of personal business. Yes, your appetites are formidable. Yes, you desire to live the high life & to love beautiful men & women. Yes, your inspiration to create some beautiful objects, books & buildings is extremely pronounced. But you cannot spend money which you do not have. The North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 insists that the buck does stop somewhere – and that somewhere is with you. Do not default on bills or invoices – judgments against you may escalate during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from October 2022 through February 2023. Don’t put yourself in a position where you put many of your own potentially lucrative professional opportunities at risk. 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April further warns that even a slight delay in mailing a bill payment past its due date can accelerate your debt to unmanageable proportions. Assuming that you have addressed such professional & financial problems & crises aggressively & proactively, you can turn your attention to creative affairs. Publishers, TV producers, record labels and art galleries observe the release of your upcoming creative product as they decide whether or not to make you some exciting and at times extravagant offers as Thereus conjuncts Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023. Furthermore, discuss your upcoming art projects or novels during political events and lectures to add some sugar to the bitter coffee, as well as to prepare your fan base with some of the more advanced and obtuse artistic ideas which you have ever espoused, during 2002-GZ32 trine the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023. Stretch the minds and perceptions of your audience as far as you can in as many directions as possible all at once. The biggest changes & the biggest room for growth occur in the political sphere. Enthusiastic excitement infects colleagues & peers during Pluto in Aquarius during April & May – and, indeed, a new & fresh intellectual genius emblazons such individuals’ spirits & imaginations during Amycus in Aquarius from March to July. Moreover, many political science experts promulgate positive and intelligent political strategies and messages during Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027. Find those whose messages can do the most good for your city, state, province and country, then invite them to speak at a local university – or pressure that local university to get them a position to teach there for the short term. Practical affairs can & will easily interfere with your enthusiastic pursuit of such interests. For one thing, you have to keep on top of whoever is minding the store & the workplace as they keep thieves at bay during Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March. You have to keep up with lawyers & law enforcement investigating past thefts & crimes in your workplace as they present evidence, pleadings & contracts for you to sign & demand your time to discuss their agenda, which is your agenda, during Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June. Most importantly, you won’t be able to do anything at all unless you pay down your debt regularly & completely during 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June. But, in the end, there is no need to hurry. Pluto transiting Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, and Amycus transiting Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, reassure you that, before you meet the future, you must clear out & complete the past – and there is plenty of time to do so. Stay on top of it. The fact is, Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 states that you want to have fun, you want to pursue your creativity, and you want to do it immediately – especially as Jupiter conjunct the North Node in late May inspires you so profoundly. However, your ability to act upon your inspiration depends upon your finances – and, no matter how much cash you have, Jupiter square Mars opposite Pluto in late May guarantees that you can & will break the bank if you spend more money than you have or that you can get. You must have more assets than debts – preferably, 100% to 0%! The weight of your own ambition exhausts you. Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October denotes that you don’t want to start because the scale of what you are now trying to accomplish is too daunting. You must determine what is impossible before you can attempt what is merely extremely difficult. Stop viewing friends & colleagues as individuals to whom you must report or who must report to you. Stop putting these friends & colleagues into a hierarchy! Jupiter sextile Saturn during June now pulls out your kindergarten report card. Do you play well with others – or do you insist that all the sand in the sandbox is yours? Cooperate! On that note, Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September confirms that nobody need tell you that you are not playing in any sandboxes . . . with bosses. Starting during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September, the emphasis of your life uncomfortably falls upon you. The finishing touches of Pluto’s long-term transformation or debasement of your eternal soul causes profound & considerable discomfort – mainly because the North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 focuses upon your role in your family & your home. Aries in Capricorn’s fourth house of home, family & core motivation tends to make Capricorn feel that they are the most important individual in the household. This sometimes induces those with whom you share your household to tell you (after they have overcome their feelings of intimidation that you consciously or unconsciously create in them), “Are you the most important individual in this (family) (apartment) (house)? Because, if you think you are, you may soon become the only person in this (family) (apartment) (house)!” Did you realize that Confucius regarded the nuclear family as the core political unit of the state? Even so, Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October declares that, as a parent, you must maintain the mantle of leadership amongst all the members of your family. Young men in their home enduring growing pains project their rage & hate onto you as the callous authority figure who does not care as Pluto squares the North Node from July to October. The complaints of your spouse will be not only histrionic but outright caustic during Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026. Disregarding how your family feels is a guaranteed recipe for outright tragedy. On an entirely different front that nonetheless converges in the same place, Pluto square the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August urges you not to let the insults of impersonal professional superiors to infect your already strained relationships with both spouse & family. Indeed, the more that you try to detach from all this, the more aloof that you try to be, the worse that it will all come back to bite you where it hurts during Asbolus in Cancer from July through December. Continue to consolidate or outright clear your debt during Retrograde Venus in Leo during August – or expect interference, sanctions & restrictions from regulatory agencies, credit card companies & political auditors, during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024. Moreover, as much as you are creatively inspired to make your artistic statement for the ages, Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 from July through October states that, if you are going to spend significant money on creating art, you must by necessity make significant money from that art. Don’t rationalize – a hobby where you spend money that you cannot afford is no longer a hobby but an indulgence, if not an addiction. Don’t make excuses for yourself to yourself. Realize that 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030 will, by definition, escalate the stakes, scale & consequences of all your current legal affairs. You want to stay on the positive side of legal developments. You want your business to expand not just to Pakistan & Bangladesh but to India itself, for example. You don’t want your real-estate default to catalyze a personal bankruptcy. All this pressure – both economic & familial – makes you feel exposed & vulnerable even in environments where you normally shine. Therefore, curb your normally cocky attitude when given significant erudite & sophisticated attention during Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September. Deflect some of that adulation to those teammates who need an ego boost during Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November. Be a good teammate – much more powerful & accomplished players will notice this touch of class as they seek to work with you for the long term during Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028. Pluto transiting Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, along with Amycus transiting Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December, are about completing loose ends. Legal issues & ongoing security needs predominate at the store & the workplace as Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024 – these are issues which you cannot offload & delay. As for creative projects: Retrograde Jupiter from September through December denotes that you must finish all that you have already started before you begin anything new. Furthermore, you must receive explicit correspondence & notice from your creditors that you are solvent & in good standing as Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius during September & October. If you make a positive impression creatively or romantically, Mars in Scorpio during October & November declares that powerful, accomplished, visionary, artistic associates will want to work with you. If, however, you cannot lead the dance – which is likely – Jupiter in Taurus opposite Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November advises you to back off. Partnerships & relationships that do not commence in stellar fashion as Saturn in Pisces trined Asbolus in Cancer from September through December are destined to end badly. No master-slave relationships – no power struggle. A simple Bing or Google search of potential partners & their past history during Saturn in Pisces trine Asbolus in Cancer trine Elatus in Scorpio during October & November will give you all the information you need to know – no need to read between any lines once you see a red flag. Instead, mentor the female college senior doing an internship at the office during Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November. Forget & shun “blood sports.” The female college senior doing an internship at the office feels her female college senior oats during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces during December – she wants to work with the big kids & you on speculative creative projects as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. If she can contribute, why not? Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024 promises that everybody capable & with something to contribute is welcome to cooperate with you on your project as a member of your loyal team. (“Hello, teenage America. My name’s Suzy Creamcheese. I’m Suzy Creamcheese because I’ve never worn fake eyelashes in my whole life and I never made it in the surfing set and I never made it in the beatnik set and I couldn’t cut the groupie set either. And . . . um. . . actually, I really f***ed up in Europe. Now that I’ve done it all over and nobody else will accept me. . . I’ve come home to my Mothers.” From “The Voice of Cheese,” off Uncle Meat by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.)  Heed ongoing correspondence from financial creditors whom you recently repaid during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024. Monitor your FICO score closely. Cooperate with them on rebuilding creditworthiness. Agree to attend a therapy session with your spouse during 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024 to unearth long-buried feelings which unduly influence & undermine your relationship. Merchants, executives: Double down on security & security protocol as the likelihood for trouble increases during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. That new & fresh intellectual genius returns & entrenches themselves as a local fixture during Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036. The future has almost, but not quite, begun, during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024. Stay tuned for the final & most informative flashback.   AQUARIUS 2023   Aquarians can be very quick to forgive envy – you don’t even necessarily see it as a vice. Somebody tells you about their good fortune, about their upcoming trip to somewhere exotic, about their fabulous meal at some hidden restaurant, at their new book or their new album, and what do you say? “I’m jealous!” Then you add, “That’s great! Good for you.” Plus – “By the way, (where are you staying) (what are the cross streets) (when are you releasing it)?” For somebody who is jealous, you are quite an enthusiastic, supportive & encouraging fan! But people who really do cultivate envy, who do indulge jealousy, do not support others with their enthusiasm. The envious & the jealous do not wish you well at all! They want the good things & the good experiences & the good fortune that you & others have & they want you & others . . . to get nothing – and like it. How mean! You have recently had a taste of this ugly behavior. You’ve been practicing your instrument, writing, painting or exercising your unique creative skill all year before you played that open mike at that same club, or participated in a group art show or poetry reading, sometime during Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023. Of course, as Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022, your loyal posse was rooting for you to excel, either ignoring or competing with some other rock star or painter – but the competition wasn’t real to you or to them. To you & your team, it was all in fun. But not for your competition. Your competition was your adversary. Your adversary did not wish you well. In some cases, your adversary did not believe, “May the better (musician) (poet) (athlete) win.” No! During Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini during February, you realize that what they really mean is, “May I beat you. I am better than you. You are nobody.” How ugly. (Your competition claims that you are exaggerating or lying? Show them & everybody else all the photographs & videos during Saturn conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February.) Strangely, what this perverse attitude yields is “the unofficial representative of the band,” within band & band & band amongst bands, during Crantor in Pisces from April to August. Nobody outside of the band talks to anybody within the band without first consulting the “unofficial representative of the band.” Weird – but a quickly evolving necessary reality. An important interruption from IT & the local police: Extreme security protocol surrounding property, automobile, computer and cell phones in full effect throughout 2003-WL7 in Virgo from October through February 2023. Remember: These creeps will hover, and will try to break down your resistance and your children’s resistance, again and again and again, throughout Thereus conjunct Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023. In many cases, they may need only successfully breach you or your children once to cause considerable damage. Share no passwords. No, they cannot sleep over. No, they cannot drive you home – I will come over there now. Explain to teenagers, “Don’t share” your cell phone, computer or car because your . . . um . . . “friends” demand it! The past is now all prologue – Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March denotes that you know the score. Let your competition (for they are now your competition) behave any way they see fit. Let your team & your fan club know, “You are better than that – and I expect you to behave better than that.” Exhort & implore them not to play down to the level of that unruly, rude & unenlightened competition as Mars squares Neptune during March – because, if they do, they will become what they dislike during Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026. You may need to remind your team more than once – particularly as certain opponents escalate their negativity against you personally during 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April. Show your loyal fan club, tram & all the losers what true class is all about! Interjecting some gratitude into such juvenile nonsense, you should openly acknowledge to others as well as to yourself, that the fiscal security that the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 still provides blesses you & them – don’t you & they realize that there are millions of people across the globe willing to die or to kill to secure what you & they take for granted? But don’t let anybody take you for granted. Act like the musician who explains to club owners withholding your hard-earned cash from you, “I have a day job and I get paid well, and I am not working on my own time to funnel any tax-free discretionary income to you,” during 2001-SQ73 opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023 – especially if you are that musician! You have good reason to be ambitious – it will, at the very least, save you from a long-term downward spiral. Indeed, you feel, and you don’t need to know, empirically & logically, that Pluto in Aquarius during April & May augurs a long-term challenge for you to transform or to debase. The new politicians, experts and partners with real skill, experience and accomplishments who enter your life as Chariklo conjuncts 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027 therefore impel you to cling to & to develop further on your own unique, rarified skill during Amycus in Aquarius from March to July – but, really, you should view yourself as occupying a position of strength. You should exude confidence. You are not the Beatles post-peak playing Let it Be but the Beatles pre-peak playing Help! And other people will want to Help! They all want to play for a winner. But you must get your own head straight. Ask real, material questions of yourself, for which you have meaningful and substantive answers upon which you can build a new life, as Jupiter transits Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023. Not every such question will be serious & dark. Thrash through a series of names for your band as you do so until you get one that fits during Elatus in Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023. Then, every time that that ugly competition tries to talk you down during 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June, continue to collect & to organize your press clippings, and to distribute your press kit to get more business, during Jupiter conjunct Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 during March. Not even horrible bosses can argue with the good press written about you during Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July. In the end, the more they curse your name & try to shout you down during Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March, the more that you are winning. On the work front, convoluted and obtuse changes at work and in the world at large during 2002-GZ32 trine the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023 will exhaust you. Do not disregard. Pay enough attention so that you remain firmly within the loop. Keeping your mind upon quotidian, mundane business is the best way to get along. Pluto transiting Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, along with Amycus transiting Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, denote that there is still much to finish in this last cycle. Even though, mentally & psychologically, your mind is focused at a distant point along the horizon, it is premature to act upon any actual agenda. Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October connotes that you will receive little & weak support forcing current initiatives. Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 exhorts you to be content with all the material comfort you enjoy – which is considerable. Don’t allow an explosive power struggle during Jupiter square Mars opposite Pluto in late May to disrupt it. The good press written about you breeds even more good press written about you during Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June. But, in the end, that doesn’t matter. There are many people you know & have known for years who can, want to & will work with you, as will become heartwarmingly apparent as Jupiter sextiles Saturn during June. You’ve worked hard to earn that sense of security – Jupiter conjunct the North Node in late May advises you to revel in it. Unfortunately, much of what happens in this cycle involves what you say to, and how you handle, your enemies. You don’t need to be told once, let alone twice, during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September, how many people, if not big institutions, will be operating behind your back, knife in hand. The North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 governs what you say to them. Just like that “unofficial representatives of the band” to whom you must consult if you want to communicate with the band, Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October insists that you deploy your own representative to whom others must speak if they want to communicate with you. Why? Because you don’t need any more trouble. Remember well: You can call your best friend, not a jerk at all, a total jerk, but you cannot call your worst enemy, Hall-of-Fame all-time lowlife jerk, a jerk at all, ever – you call them, “My best friend.” Acknowledge, and remember, this Machiavellian truism, when colleagues & employees yell in your face during Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026. Acknowledge, and remember, this Machiavellian truism, as undeclared enemies endeavor to attempt to manipulate you psychologically into declaring absolute war as Pluto squares the North Node from July to October. Acknowledge, and remember, this Machiavellian truism, as absurd, obnoxious & dangerous colleagues, employees, merchants & wage-slaves assert toxic, stupid & dangerous nonsense during Asbolus in Cancer from July through December. Any further questions? Contact your lawyer during Pluto square the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August. Heed what they say. Acknowledge the written law & evidence upon which they have consulted & to which they refer about what they tell you. All this having been brought out on the table for all to see, realize that, at times, conflict between you & power brokers in the infrastructure escalate to a point where you cannot represent yourself. Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September denotes that there is somebody in the hierarchy whom you respect, whom others cannot disrespect, who will give you a fair shake. Do not make the mistake of confusing this power broker with a friend. At the same time, Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius during September & October reveals under what blind spot you labored as Saturn in Aquarius transited its fall in your 1st house of self & identity from December 2020 to March 2023. This is a blinding & harsh epiphany to process. Don’t try to do anything based upon this epiphany just yet. Simply watch punishment & censure happen to bad people as a result of their evil & criminal actions as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer from September through December in contemplative silence. For your own part, cite the veracity of paperwork, photographic or videographic evidence, and demand that adversaries adhere to due process & the rule of written law, during Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September. Even if they do not, the manifest truth, the veracity of paperwork, photographic or videographic evidence, will bring them to trial, convict & sentence them, as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer trines Elatus in Scorpio during October & November. Retrograde Venus in Leo during August augurs a new long-term dynamic, the first phase of which occurs during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024. Putting a complex dynamic as simply as possible, both Venus & 2001-SQ73 in your opposite sign of Leo, the Lion, the actor, the showman – as opposed to the Waterbearer, the statesman, the discrete diplomat – puts you on an “extroversion/introversion” continuum. Within that continuum, the more extroverted you behave with others, the less extroverted others will be towards you, on you or at you. If, however, you clam up, recede, withdraw into your shell – oh, the bombast you will endure! Take note that Ashton Kutcher, is an Aquarian. Take further note that, despite Ashton’s rowdy, spirited & aggressive ways, he does endure interrogation & psychoanalysis from a persistent, self-assured & cocky Leo – his wife, Mila Kunis. Of course, at times, you do want to recede from the spotlight. However, as you do so, recede into a posse or group of friends that you trust during Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November – never alone. If you really want to recede from the spotlight alone, the recede back to your home. And, by the way, when you are out making a living in the big, bad world, Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 from July through October demands that you do all within your means to protect & to secure your home so that it remains your home & the home of your family – despite all the changes in your city, state, province or country. If the following paragraph looks familiar, it should: Extreme security protocol surrounding property, automobile, computer and cell phones in full effect throughout 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030. Remember: These creeps will hover, and will try to break down your resistance and your children’s resistance, again and again and again. In many cases, they may need only successfully breach you or your children once to cause considerable damage. Share no passwords. No, they cannot sleep over. No, they cannot drive you home – I will come over there now. Explain to teenagers, “Don’t share” your cell phone, computer or car because your . . . um . . . “friends” demand it! Speaking of psychotherapy: Why are you thinking about the time you got an A+ in your high school freshman literature essay? Why are you thinking about winning the game in the Little League playoffs by making that one-handed backhand grab near the outfield fence? Because Retrograde Jupiter from September through December reminds you of it. Why?  Because you are older now – and you know what game you are playing. Pluto transiting Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, along with Amycus transiting Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December, are bringing the current long-term game to a conclusion, potentially to a climax. Unlike when you were younger, stakes are involved – and you know what the stakes are. You know that whoever wins this contest will plaster their name, their logo, their agenda, codified in policy, now & throughout Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028. Certain bosses & power brokers feel entitled to this right, like Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, as Mars transits Scorpio during October & November. Those who oppose such individuals (Read: You!) during Jupiter in Taurus opposite Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November will have the fight of their lives. Unlike individuals jealous of you late last year & early in 2023, you have good reason to personalize this fight during Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. But that doesn’t mean that you should. It also doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t. In the end, Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November reassures you, “Your friends will remain your friends.” Competitions? Consider the boxer losing the fight in the mid-Nineties McDonald’s commercial. The boxer’s manager, his father, manipulated the boxer, his son, to knock out his opponent, because his opponent had stolen his French fries on his birthday twenty years ago! In short: Whatever works – but only if it works. Talk to your manager, coach, mentor or spouse. Either way, win or lose, friends tell you, “Friends are friends,” during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces during December. Those friends will do anything for or with you as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. And if some such friends want you to share some drinks to tell them what’s on your mind, how you feel, what it was like, 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024 urges you to pick up the tab, and tell them. Then return home, to your sanctuary, where nobody can or is allowed to bother you, no matter who they are, during Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. But, in the end, other people will indeed be jealous of you – and a few will not wish you well – during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. That is their problem. Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024 announces that you are the future. The future may not be here yet, but, as far as others are concerned, they are the past. In such context, some will ask what makes you so great – but others who champion you will answer that question. Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036 states that you already know the answer & you have an outlier’s advantage. Furthermore, you have an unexpected insight to share during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024 which just might blow the public’s mind. Build on it. Show less mercy than Michael Jordan.     PISCES 2023   Potential business partners who watch you make mistakes as Thereus conjuncts Aphidas from September 2022 through August 2023 have the answers to the questions that you have yet to ask. Certain individuals who witness as you take that loss during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from October through February 2023 suggest that you might need new business partners, or just business partners in general – meaning, them. Assert, “I’d need time to think about it.” Their offers are credible, perhaps even generous. But the timing is bad. Retrograde Mars in Gemini from November 2022 to Martin Luther King Day 2023 signifies that the problems in your family, schools, neighborhood, city and state or province are now reaching critical mass. Family comes first. Charity begins at home. And the home within which your family lives resides in your city. Other responsible adults may have had no clue as to what was happening in their family, neighborhood, city, state or province – but not you. The first gang symbol, coded language and gang signifier that you saw induced you to familiarize yourself with gang symbology, coded language and gang signifier protocol more profoundly during Elatus in Scorpio from December 2022 through March 2023. Concentrate only upon the gang symbol, coded language and gang signifier that you see now as it pertains to the current crisis. As it turns out, that offer to do business with new associates proved to be one of several. Truly, it is all about how value monetizes, or translates into Loonie Dollar Peso, during the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. Some big money player allies and associates who detailed a potentially lucrative but vastly complex work project or private equity investment opportunity during 2002-GZ32 trine the North Node from December 2022 through January 2023, act like they are E.F. Hutton, that E.F. Hutton is talking and you are listening. And you are listening – but only, during Jupiter conjunct Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 during March denotes, to see how this all integrates with your own self-interest. Indeed, if you thought the deal was good enough, you would try to get some of your own teenagers and adult children involved in the nuts and bolts of the project during 2001-SQ73 opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from December 2022 through February 2023. That is, if your teenagers & adult children were in no professional or legal trouble. Unhappy episodes conclude, and you enter the relative calm of an aftermath during Mars in Direct Motion in Gemini from January to March. But the saga is not concluded. The painful words exchanged as Mars squared Neptune in October & November 2022 resonate in everybody’s ears. The hard evidence (Warner Wolf announces, “Let’s go to the videotape!”) spares nobody guilt or embarrassment during Saturn conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct Bienor during February. More & equally bitter family arguments occur during Bienor in Retrograde in late Gemini in February – especially if you are in the midst of a divorce & your spouse’s lawyer makes harsh claims against you regarding the behavior of the rest of your family during Elatus in Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra from February to July. To that end: If a spouse or ex-spouse wishes to use such painful words against you again as Mars squares Neptune during March, that is their prerogative – but you don’t have to, and you should not, play that game. With all this chaos going on within your family, you must contain yourself personally & professionally. You must maintain your job, your salary & your financial security as you address your personal problems throughout Saturn in Pisces from March 2023 through February 2026. Complicating matters, people seek you out as their personal steppingstone to power during Crantor in Pisces from April to August, but you don’t know how to handle, whether to reject or to accept, their self-seeking overtures. In short, your financial interest isn’t clearly involved. Not doing something is still doing something. Seek an institutional policy to obey. Luckily, work goes well. Banter & bombast increase, but overtime also increases, during 2003-WL7 in Retrograde in late Leo during March & April. As long as you keep your head down & do your job, all goes well. Continue forward making those initial steps to increase your income exponentially during Jupiter in Aries from late December 2022 through April 2023. Conversely, the big changes spook you. An unusually crisp bite in the air during Pluto in Aquarius during April & May alerts you that long-term changes are in the works – a bite in the air that makes you feel uncomfortable. Therefore, when you hear a renowned expert at a local college or forum, during Amycus in Aquarius from March to July, you listen closely, with focused trepidation & quiet desperation. Simultaneously, the smarter politicians, scientists and visionary thinkers and writers align in new partnerships with some of the truly radical local players as Chariklo conjuncts 2003-CO1 from December 2022 through March 2027. Introduce yourself and show all appropriate respect – but remain aloof. Joke, “My idea of microeconomics is unusually small – it involves the paper money folded within my wallet.” You think, unfortunately, but actually benevolently, that you don’t have too much time to consider such things. Legal issues with your spouse during Elatus in Retrograde in late Libra from April through June, concurrent with emotional issues stemming from those legal issues with spouse & legal issues involving family during Bienor in Direct Motion in late Gemini during March, demand that you take proactive responsibility as everybody now chooses to question you as their scapegoat. Work continues to get busier during 2003-WL7 in Direct Motion in late Leo during May & June. You must keep up the pace. Most distressing of all, you may be unable to hold onto as much money as you planned in the face of unexpected expenses during Okyrhoe in Aries from April through October. Children & teenagers will disapprove of “making do” financially during Bienor in Cancer from April 2023 to July 2026. What all this leaves you, at the moment, is your relationship with fellow professionals & power brokers as Pluto transits Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, while Amycus transits Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September. At the same time, harshly, Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 confirms that there are a lot of transactions to complete, a lot of work orders to fill, a lot of invoices to pay. Furthermore, Jupiter conjunct the North Node in late May suggests that a lot of such transactional business is likely to derive from one individual source very happy with how you do business.  Unfortunately, Jupiter square Mars opposite Pluto in late May warns that, within this overall matrix, you will encounter conflict between people who show up in the job everyday & people who insist upon working remotely. Put mildly, these two opposing forces do not want to ever operate with each other, at all. You must work with everybody in order to execute the transaction. Saturn in your 1st house of self & identity resides in its fall; although you catalyze the cause, you remain unaware of the effect until much further down the line. However, keeping this in mind, under the influence of Jupiter sextile Saturn during June, you cooperate to execute the transaction. The forms of cooperation change with each transaction. Communicate no preference whether you have one or not. Finalized contracts & legal agreements, especially involving your marriage & your legally defined relationship with your spouse, ex-spouse & children, manifest during Elatus in Direct Motion in late Libra from July through September. You must establish positive protocol with ex-spouse & child so that the child does not spiral into a negative state of arrested emotional & academic development during Asbolus in Cancer from July through December – despite your tenuous financial status during Okryhoe in Retrograde in Aries & Pisces from July through November. Circumstances force the true bottom line of your relationship with specific personal associates during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn from June through September. You may try to act as if such personal relationships are impersonal relationships as you fade into the darkness during Crantor in Retrograde in Pisces & Aquarius from June through October, which may work – but is there any chance you want to deal with such individuals in the future? Such knowledge comes at an awkward yet karmically revealing time. The North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 flatly denotes that you must concentrate on making & accumulating money, for & by yourself, in order to create a new life, for yourself. Unfortunately, what these specific personal associates reveal to you during Pluto square the North Node from July to October is that they want what is yours – and this involves an ex-spouse in relation to your real estate & children during Pluto square the North Node opposite Elatus conjunct the South Node during August. The epiphany is ugly. Suffer no compunction as you demand what is yours outright in abundance as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 from July through October, come Hell or high water. Choose your next business partner extremely wisely during 2003-WL7 in Virgo from July 2023 through July 2030.  While bosses have the official status wherein they are in charge of the workplace, Retrograde Venus in Leo during August suggests that you & your colleagues will be in a competition, no matter who started that competition, to determine who actually runs it. Be alert to psychological manipulation from peers who want to codify your modus operandi & search for your Achilles Heel during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024. Act only in your official capacity. Neutralize personal inclinations. Stick to your system of processing & executing a lot of transactions to complete, a lot of work orders to fill, a lot of invoices to pay, during Retrograde Jupiter from September through December, until you face circumstances where you must alter, add to or transform it. As you do so, maintain your game face as “institutional man” during Crantor in Retrograde in late Aquarius during September & October. Establish or accelerate a positive dialogue with accomplished professional associates during Retrograde Amycus in late Capricorn during August & September, but make no promises – especially with money. Furthermore, retreat from a demonstrative public presence long before family problems threaten to undermine everybody in it during Asbolus in Retrograde in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. Do everything you can to maintain positive relations with professional associates & power brokers as Pluto transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, and as Amycus transits Direct Motion in late Capricorn from October to December. Opportunities which arise as Mars transits Scorpio during October & November may carry with them significant personal risk – physical danger more than financial – but brand-new opportunities can emerge which empower you to become an industry sector expert, particularly if you are in a niche profession within law enforcement or law enforcement forensics, during Elatus in Scorpio from October 2023 through November 2028. Do not get into personally contentious relations about personal money matters as Jupiter in Taurus opposes Mars in Scorpio in late October before Uranus opposes Mars in mid-November. If you owe somebody money, pay them back. If somebody refuses to pay you money they owe you, never talk to them again – and move on. Do not try to discipline a teenage child directly who gets themselves into truly awful trouble as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer from September through December – even if there is a very strong chance that what they did can lead to a criminal trial & conviction as Saturn in Pisces trines Asbolus in Cancer trines Elatus in Scorpio during October & November. You will need a family member to persuade & to influence that adolescent first. If you try to interfere & to discipline them, it will only exacerbate the problem. Truth be told, you are emotionally overleveraged with children & family members during 2001-SQ73 in Retrograde in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. You are physically overleveraged & vulnerable to illness during Okryhoe in Retrograde in late Pisces during November. Stay at home. Get more rest. You feel stronger & more confident but are still vulnerable during Okyrhoe in Direct Motion in late Pisces during December. Don’t allow yourself to be blindsided by the recurrence of a longstanding family crisis during Asbolus in Retrograde in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. Let colleagues take the lead in work projects as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. Maintain a steady pace at work, with friends, in your daily routines, during Jupiter in Direct Motion in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. Plan to live beyond your current crises. You continue to live your persona as “institutional man” out of habit during Crantor in Direct Motion in late Aquarius from November 2023 through January 2024, but, at the same time, you know that you are outgrowing it. You now need to identify & to address why ambitious people approached you in order to use you as their personal steppingstone for their self-serving ambitions earlier in 2023. You were blind as to why they sought to use you & what they wanted – but now, they, and many more like them, are on their way back. You must ask yourself, “For what entity exactly do I represent their gatekeeper? Why hasn’t anybody told me? What exactly have I overlooked?” After all, the pace of life will begin to accelerate sharply for the long term as Pluto transits Aquarius from January through August 2024 – but not completely, not just yet. Indeed, you need expert advice on how to handle the next twenty years of with all the changes that all of humanity now faces during “the last days.” A scientific or political genius will have answers as Amycus transits Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036 – but which genius? To what questions? Look. Listen. Learn. Do not follow.   To contact John Delaney directly: delaneyastroscope@delaneyastroscope.com