A January Month of Conflict, Intuition, and Incipient Idealism
Henry Seltzer – This month is wild and wooly, stemming from the Capricorn New Moon that took place at the end of December, just before the 1st, and that will run out the Capricorn thirty-day lunation cycle through most of the January month.
This New Moon features retrograde Mars in close opposition to the transformational intensity of Pluto – residing at the 1° mark of Aquarius – which could bring out repressed emotions such as violent anger or else an exuberance for life in the faster lane with powerful emotions and a go-go-go attitude.
Trickster Uranus is also aspected by the Sun and Moon in this New Moon configuration, a sesquiquadrate, while Mercury is trine to Chiron, the Wounded Healer, which whispers to us about inner wounding that lies in disregarded portions of our hidden interior layers.