2024 ANNUAL ASTROSCOPE by JOHN DELANEY http://www.delaneyastroscope.com/2023.html ARIES 2024 Many people would like to believe, after all the protests & revelations that occurred during the COVID-19 quarantine in 2020 & 2021, that all work surrounding our individual & collective past is complete. Such people now want to gather as much speed upon the runway as possible so as to take off & to fly in all the uncharted directions of the future. Almost – but not yet. Yes, Pluto in Aquarius from mid-January through August connotes a reason to hope about a bright future – for you & for all. But Pluto does not enter Aquarius for the long term until the end of 2024. The transition between past & future is not yet completed – and you really don’t want to bring the baggage of the past into the pristine clean future, do you? The specter of intimidation at the initial ingress of Pluto in Aquarius has worn off. You, like everybody else, have developed an appetite for the whole new era as the North Node transits Aries from July 2023 through January 2025. Even so, you lack your characteristic confidence during Okyrhoe in Aries from January 2024 through January 2026. Furthermore, as Okyrhoe will continue to transit Aries when Neptune ingresses over the cusp of Pisces & Aries in 2025, you will lack not only such characteristic confidence but also an understanding of who you were, are & want to be. Transformation is not something that happens all in one shot. The pendulum swings back & forth along the cusp, from past back to future, from future back to the past. “Before” is the thing from which you must evolve. “After” is the thing to which you arrive. Yesterday, you were bound by the materialism of the workplace. Tomorrow, you are encouraged to pursue your freedom in any direction you choose. Unfortunately, even though nobody wants to admit it & nobody wants to tell you, limitless personal freedom may prove too much for those trained to subsist in economic servitude – even for those compensated very, very well. You don’t have to admit that you feel safer within the confinement of family, friends, church or employer during Crantor in Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034. You can continue to complain about how they confine you, if you would like – particularly as you feel overcrowded by the presence of too many people during 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026. But use the protections afforded you by these institutions to prepare your self for that limitless personal freedom – if you want it. Luckily, throughout Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024, safety, security & money are not an issue. You did a ton of work to make a decent amount of money – but the work & the money grounded you. Bosses thought you would have done more work, but they distinguished, after a lot of hit-and-miss during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024, what was possible from what really could not be done in a short timeframe. If, however, given an opportunity to demonstrate such ambition again to earn a different scale of even more money as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March, do not hesitate. Bosses could not quit while they are ahead. Indeed, after COVID, politicians, bosses & cops seemed much more human – which empowered you, your family & all citizens to act upon your common sense during dangerous situations throughout Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024 when you, your family & all citizens most needed it, “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.” 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 you earn doesn’t look so bad. (Truth be told, you will only realize how well you really did financially during Direct Motion Jupiter 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 clean air does a lot for the spirit. You can feel that change in the air as Pluto changes signs right in the middle of Mars in Capricorn during January. Indeed, such optimism empowers all to quash what threatens as a looming crisis during Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. Nothing sounds scarier to Aries the Ram than the words, “a bright future for you & all.” The whole discussion of this “bright future” during Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March makes you recall Raymond K. Hessell on his knees in the back of the convenience store with Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden tapping the back of his skull with a revolver in Fight Club, “The QUESTION, Raymond, is what did you want to be?” Unlike former President Barack Obama, you do not find hope “audacious.” You find hope to be a sugar high before you crash. You are not sold. If you talk about these issues during Venus conjunct Mars in Aquarius in late February, you will attract many who will validate them. Other people want to put expectations high; this makes you skeptical. Financial problems undercutting everybody at the knees as Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 square, first Venus, then Mars, in early March seems to confirm such pessimism. But such appraisals are not that simple. Gamblers look at Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 during April, currently in your 2nd house of money, and they say, “Payoff!” Maybe for some – but what happens unexpectedly during games of chance may neither benefit nor defeat anybody’s wager. What this aspect suggests is a project for something perhaps twenty-five years in the pipeline – an invention, or, like Apple, a company that languished for ages – before exploding exponentially into prosperity. Ultimately, what it suggests to you is that you follow the party line as determined by your broker & the intelligentsia that that broker follows, with one, and only one, potentially high-risk investment in which you openly but not blindly gamble, within reasonable limits, as your “lottery ticket.” This isn’t exactly like playing numbers. Indeed, as your broker will confirm, considerable analysis during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during March will be necessary to determine not only what is going on in the financial markets, but, more importantly, what to do about it. But sudden, sweeping changes might level playing fields everywhere. What your broker says when conducting the same analysis several weeks later after what you experience during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April may indeed resemble a different planet. The key changes happening right now have endured long-term scrutiny by the brightest minds ruling society internationally. Well are these brilliant minds aware of the upcoming unbounded changes as Pluto enters Aquarius permanently in November & as Neptune enters Aries for a preliminary stay in early 2025. Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September denotes final tweaking & corrections to long-term changes in the pipeline since Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008. However, Jupiter sextile Neptune during May signifies a new, deep, sweeping development, an injection of cash into various types of infrastructure – including, quite possibly, the infrastructure of the Roman Catholic Church, long overdue for a profound overhaul amidst inexorable tectonic shifts. Even so, do not try to extrapolate all that happened recently regarding the rectification of a long-term past with an augury of what will happen in the next twenty years at the commencement of Asbolus in Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043. These aren’t the personal planets. These are the outer planets, enacting massive, worldwide, decades-long changes. They do not augur the trajectories of isolated, individual lives. Indeed, the iron-willed heroes & villains who permeate groups of regular mortal peers as Saturn conjuncts Nessus from May through August give you the feeling of a battle begun by ancestors long dead generations ago. Indeed, the Chinese probably confess, “We all live in interesting times.” In this context, the best way to deflate the balloon of an oppressively solemn, ostentatious, operatic atmosphere is to tell a stupid & dumb but funny joke – knock, knock, why did the chicken, your mother, seriously lame. There it is, amongst other things: Jupiter in Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025. Keep it light & keep it tight. The Freemasons, the Bilderbergs & the Vatican have all just finished redesigning the world, but we still have to go to work tomorrow. “Except you,” your boss points at some random sucker. “You’re fired.” (Gemini rules hiring & firing.) But, seriously (Seriously, that guy got fired!): The next enormous change, already in the pipeline, affects your life where you work & live. You see not only all the informal adjustments but all the initiatives to link up the local with the national & the international as Jupiter trines Pluto in early June. Even so, a lot of those formal initiatives are mere announcements – the hard work, and a lot of it, overwhelms throughout Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November. Work isn’t everything. Why not analyze the depths of your own self by taking an acting class or by becoming part of an acting troupe during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from May 2024 through June 2032? Of course, you can work all of the time – if you’d like. But what does it mean anyway? Work on yourself with others working on themselves. Find out what you mean. There is too much to do. You believe that you will need to hire a lot of employees & to request a number of volunteers to get the work done, but Jupiter square first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and, lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September, states that, although that may work in the beginning, it will not be enough. Truth be told, there is too much to do. Crantor trine Asbolus trine Elatus from July through September denotes that you will make discoveries to come to conclusions that spawn other equally important tasks. You will need to hire a bunch of employees to work under supervisors who will report to you. There is too much to do for everybody. The leadership of your acting class or acting troupe plans to produce a cabaret night of a series of one-act plays later in the year starting at the beginning of Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025. Truth be told, leadership is aware of a peer in your midst throughout Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027 who eclipses absolutely everybody in terms of potential & talent, but that leadership actually has to run actual productions in order to identify personnel in a position to support & to underwrite the new superstar. After all, Michael Jordan could not play all five positions for the Chicago Bulls sixty minutes a game. If leadership wants you on the team for the first time, give it your best college try. If you like it & they like you, expect other opportunities. Even so, all the work that must be done has a purpose much closer to the surface than is usually the case. Really, everybody understands, and really wants to, make & bake the cake of the past, cover it with icing, and eat it, during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn during September and early October. This preference motivates all those who want to see an end to the bad old days. Many of the smarter & more motivated individuals also now see where they can have a hand in creating tomorrow as Jupiter sextiles Chiron from September through November. For such smarter & more motivated individuals, this is akin to having their cake & eating it, too. All of this is true if everything runs smoothly. Unfortunately, during Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025, it becomes necessary to untangle complications in order to regroup. Some complications seem inextricably knotted. This will exceed the time originally budgeted. Disturbingly, a charismatic individual whom nobody knows shows up at exactly a place where nobody can ignore them during Thereus in Libra from October 2024 through April 2025. Heed your intuition regarding this individual – their timing is too suspicious to be summarily disregarded. Nobody is trustworthy simply because they assert it – far from it. The masses feel the zeitgeist begin to move forward, like the Incredible Hulk skateboarding on tectonic plates, during Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November. The pace of the life slowly but palpably accelerates. As the power structure plans to metamorphize into its next malevolent manifestation, avoid indulging world anxiety & pain by redoubling your commitment to theater projects during Mars in Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025. This does not facilitate logic. As a result, many people are and will be, for many years, on & off, quite nervous, right on the surface, but for no good reason, as Pluto transits Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043. Negative groupmind via fear becomes more & more contagious. In all cases, the circumstances will determine the need to push the panic button, not the ingress of Pluto or the weather. But, really, Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025, speaks of the need to take control – not only of the situation at hand, but of one’s more irrational emotions, including fear. You get an excellent opportunity to work through very practical fear by appearing on stage or by executing instructions from backstage of a theater performance during Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025. Simultaneously, you see not only who the superstar is, but who both the team-player & troublemaking supporting actors are, who may or may not be in subsequent productions, during Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025. Again, disturbingly, that charismatic individual who showed up in October now makes a star appearance with a rather exuberant partner as Thereus conjuncts 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025. While it becomes clear that this pair is taking an adversarial position, the overall agenda has not yet risen to the surface. Avoid, but monitor. Indeed, in untangling complications, Jupiter square first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025, states that the protocol is not that much different than it had been the previous time as Jupiter squared Saturn in late summer: Assign some of the people supervising specific problems to untangle. Don’t get too bent out of shape if they have too much difficulty disentangling it. Simply assign the task to somebody else. The key is not to panic, and not to succumb to emotional despair, during Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025. Some, eventually, will seek safety & camaraderie in numbers, losing themselves in the masses during Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trine Neptune in January 2025. Others will force issues, as is their fate, during Saturn conjunct Nessus in January & February 2025. Don’t try to induce somebody to act against their natural instincts. In the end, savvy local power brokers & well-informed politicians & spies have their eye upon everybody in the local area as they remain fully aware of what each group wants, whether the group has revealed it to them directly, during Jupiter trine Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December. Don’t let any of this bother you. Carry on. Do what you have to do.   TAURUS 2024   Yes, the trajectory of evolution bespeaks a sharp upward curve during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024. You would like to participate. But the debasement of municipal police power & authority as well as the collapse of the government in different municipal, state, provincial & federal sectors, in addition to a sharp uptick in violent crime, towards the end of Pluto’s transit of Capricorn since 2008 disturbed you. Yes, detectives & cops make stunning arrests during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024 – for real! (Even though certain detectives & cops sound like they are reading from a television script.) However, Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024 cannot help but note that those now under arrest are absolutely repulsive, total freaks, who nevertheless seem somewhat . . . respectable. They are not respectable! But you cannot say that. None of this has anything to do with you – frankly, it doesn’t make your daughter feel safe. The cliché may repeat that it is a steep mountain to climb. However, Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from October 2023 to January 2024, and Direct Motion Amycus in late Capricorn from October to December, emphasize that, once one starts rolling downhill, one just keeps on rolling . . . forever. Watch what you say. The North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 warns that anger is your downfall. If somebody challenges the expression or object of your anger throughout Okyrhoe in Aries from January 2024 through January 2026, you are likely to lose. Do not underestimate your own vulnerability or other peoples’ viciousness. Furthermore, you are well aware of the extended political opinions of many in your local area – do not gratuitously challenge them throughout Crantor in Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034. No, it is not good news – but a little local morality play might help you keep your quick & violent temper firmly in line. Talk with family members & neighbors to learn what tragedy befell certain particular locals arrested or enduring horrible downfalls during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 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 Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. Take greater control over that over which you already have control. Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 informs you that where payoff lies is in following through on what you started during the summer of 2022, 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. Hammer even harder, as if you have everything to gain or to lose (which may in fact be true) as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March. More specifically, 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.  Of course, all work & no play brings no wisdom & no joy. Amidst intelligent casual discourse, 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. Give your brain the liberty to thrash through truly intelligent content. But, professionally, nothing else to do but to keep on keeping on during Direct Motion Jupiter in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024 – nothing succeeds like success, does it? Keeping your mind focused on your own self-interest is what you need to do to keep your mind off public affairs which make you angry. News about cops, crime & government, whether incompetent or corrupt, make you wonder during Mars in Capricorn throughout January if society is ready to survive all the changes which will accompany Pluto’s transit through Aquarius. Whether it is or it isn’t, forget about it! Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March denotes that it only makes you angry. If the romance reported on the evening TV news is or is not inherently frivolous as Venus conjuncts Mars in Aquarius in late February, ignore it! If the breakup of the romance reported on the evening TV news is or is not inherently ridiculous as Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 squares, first Venus, then Mars, in early March, disregard it! None of these issues have anything to do with you. All of these things are distractions designed to divert your attention. The only thing which should be on your mind is your financial self-interest. Whether such news is or is not stupid & ridiculous, if it is funny, then laugh. If it is not funny, the Hell with it! Interesting new transplants to your local area may be charmed by your bluster against such media-driven nonsense during 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026. A hearty laugh is often an auspicious segue to a more substantive discussion. Moreover, given that your local area, like the local areas of many communities worldwide, is undergoing rapid change, now is a useful & perhaps meaningful time to make new friends. Some such new friends, over alcohol, may ask your political opinions, whether about local issues or otherwise, during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during March. For one thing, moreover, much more than discussing politics, Asbolus in Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043 declares that drinking alcohol with individuals you do not know so well is a very bad idea & should be off-limits for all but the smallest group of long-time friends. As for discussing politics: Far too soon. Demur. But keep this door open. During Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 during April, many investors will risk capital speculatively. If you have been wise, you have been investing time & small quantities of capital on side ventures where you’ve been hoping to lure clients. Luring unexpected new clients to your side business is a positive expression of that energy which you can expect & that you want. Making a speculative killing in the capital markets forces you to make a lot of moves very fast to protect that money – and it is much more likely that speculation will kill your financial security & all your capital first. The biggest red flag of all is if you decide to make investment decisions, alone, by yourself, which are not mirrored by investments in the stock portfolios of those peers & mentors with whom you habitually & routinely act in concert. Should you run into some of these recent new friends after the sweeping economic shifts of April, you can resume your dialogue about this & other issues during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April. Let experience & time help you to build trust. Avoid significant decisions, whether regarding investing money, changing jobs or moving to another part of the world, until after Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September. Then, whatever decision (you think) you are making, postpone it for until after Pluto changes signs for good in November. For now, be very wary of those who now try to sell, whatever they are now trying to sell you, as “the future.” Whatever such people are now trying to sell you are whatever such people are now trying to sell you – nothing more, nothing less. Such people do not have their finger on the pulse of the transforming zeitgeist. Politicians, governments & institutions old & large enough to be governments now institute sweeping, massive changes which are intended to end, summarily, the recent historic past as Jupiter sextiles Neptune during May. You more than most know the reason for these broad & sweeping actions, and you wisely keep silent about what you know as Saturn conjuncts Nessus from May through August. Conversely, because these institutions did not try to sell you anything, you, or more likely, droves of hostile troublemakers in the masses, may be angry that you or they were not consulted. Well, if such institutions did actually try to consult you or droves of hostile troublemakers in the masses, for you or their input, what exactly would you or they say? That is their problem – what are you going to do, teach them the history of the world in 25 words or less? All these big, broad, massive, international, intergalactic, transformative transitions dazzle so many, but it serves to lead you out of what your natural, kneejerk reaction might be to a more informed analysis, “What does that mean to me, from where I stand, from where I grew up, from the beginning of forever to tomorrow morning?” 2001-SQ73 in Leo from May 2024 through June 2032 impels you to look, and to look hard, for the answers. Luckily, as Jupiter transits Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025, you will be making all sorts of transactions of all sorts of scales as merchant & client, client & vendor, wholesaler & retailer, that you won’t have the time to consider political science or philosophy. As long as you simply take care of business during Jupiter trine Pluto in early June, the changing zeitgeist seems to take care of itself – which is one less thing that you need to consider. Unfortunately, although this is easy in the beginning, Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November, declare that these simple tasks increase in difficulty strictly because of volume. The more transactions, the more people with whom you will be dealing – and the more people with whom you will be dealing, the more people, just as that part which serves as a percentage of the whole, will aggravate you. This whole dynamic becomes very hard during Jupiter square, first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September. You slow down transactions to ensure that both sides of the transaction are correct – and everybody else complains that transactions move too slow. Don’t worry about going too slow – continue to be very careful. At a certain point, you & your peers learn how to weed out the easy seamless transactions from the complex headaches to the attempts at fraud during Crantor trine Asbolus trine Elatus from July through September, and then to implement a more efficient system based upon it. Until that happens, you must wait until the complaints become violent & horrible because the first person loudly accuses somebody else of stealing. Questions about your family or your local area persist. As far as you can tell, some giant of an individual made their mark upon your ancestry, lineage or history. Copious research is necessary to find out who that individual is as Cyllarus conjuncts 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027. As you do such research, you find a reference in a book servicing as a general history about how that giant of an individual made that mark sometime during Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025. Read it – a broad overview never hurts. Whether anybody else is willing to admit it or not, the invocation of crime into mundane commerce that had, until that moment, gone well, is exactly what all needed as Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn during September and early October brings back yet another correction to how society at large view municipal police forces during COVID. Whether that person first accused is stealing or not, at some point, somebody will be stealing. To the police, stealing is still a crime. Police seek to punish, discourage & deter stealing. To you as a merchant & a customer, Jupiter sextile Chiron from September through November will provide private sector solutions to get thieves out of the system of commerce & into the law enforcement system which, hopefully, by, or, more likely, at this time, will replace the revolving door of injustice with an impenetrable & indestructible lock, “Theft is a crime & thieves will be arrested, tried, convicted & incarcerated to the full extent of the written law.” “Easier said than done,” Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025 asserts, not only about theft, but about everything involving commerce. Retrograde Jupiter augurs the implementation of all second-half adjustments. Adding even more complexity to the situation., an overlooked fact sticks out like a sore thumb as Thereus transits Libra from October 2024 through April 2025. How does this fit into all that is happening? Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November will make a big deal about this & all these other second-half adjustments which segue from the practical commercial realm to the realm of the written law so that law & order may reign & rule once again. Hence, the permanent presence of an auditor, accountant, paralegal, lawyer or detective in your workplace as Thereus conjuncts 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025. Much time, energy & cold, hard cash has surrounded, and been invested in, the society-wide transformation commencing during Pluto in Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043, which many people think have been driven by all these manufacturers of AI as some sort of foregone conclusion advertised as a public service announcement. This does nothing but offend you – just because some high-tech reprobate wants a billion dollars so that he can be a bigger jerk than Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg does not impel you to salute them like a flag for which you will die. Rather, Mars in Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025 compels you to be much less professionally robotic & to reestablish your priorities for how you spend your time within your family, city & homeland. Your research about how your giant of an individual made their mark upon your ancestry, lineage or history begins to influence your perspective as you begin to assign the individuals with whom you share your life into lines of historical influence during Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025. However, identifying how that giant of an individual made that mark is offering resistance during Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025. Why is it that local historians & city fathers want this individual forgotten? While you might get a clue to answers of such questions from very negative & low-minded locals as Saturn conjuncts Nessus during January & February 2025, you are too disciplined to ask them any direct questions. Induce them to talk without interruption. Endeavor to research some of the names that they drop. Professionally, the refinement of logistic challenges during high volume commerce forces you to focus upon a different problem & irate client or customer every single day as Jupiter squares first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025. But these are mundane problems. Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025, demands that you address unresolved emotional issues from your childhood & your family’s past. Ultimately, Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025 insists that you must learn to express your emotions so that they assuage, fix & heal problems within your home, and between you & loved ones or between you & your neighbors whom you have known forever. Furthermore, Jupiter trine Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December declares that you & many other individuals in your local area approach the issue of the billionaire artificial intelligence high technology cartel with all their macros, encryptions & firewalls from your own, and from your neighbors’ childhood emotions. (“Whatever happened to all the summertime cookouts?” sings Biggie Smalls from “Things Done Changed” off Ready to Die). How you express your heartfelt emotion will bond you with everybody with whom you share your common humanity as Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trine Neptune in January 2025 protects you with the love, and from the irrationality, of the collected masses.   GEMINI 2024   The long-term transit of Cyllarus opposite Pluto across the money houses of your natal horoscope from 2007 to 2023 brought about a benevolent role reversal of miraculous proportions. The heavy debt you endured as Cyllarus in late Gemini opposed Pluto in late Sagittarius in 2007, just previous to the collapse of the capital markets concurrent with the election of U.S. President Barack Obama, made the intellectually inclined Twin wonder if they were destined to endure economic servitude for their next three lifetimes. However, by the time that Cyllarus in early Leo opposed Pluto in early Aquarius in 2023, you realized that you had the potential – not yet the actual capability, but the potential – to determine what it is you want to do for the rest of your life. Whatever miracle that Cyllarus in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn, both cardinal signs involving finance, did across your 2nd house of money & personal income opposite your 8th house of joint finances is beyond your ken to identify, let alone to analyze. But forget about the past. 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. Wow! Fantastic! One thing, though – what are these decidedly non-material ambitions? What exactly is it that you are trying to achieve? Don’t run when you should walk. You have all the time in the world – Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024 augurs a long, long taxi along the runway. Be patient. You have plenty of work to do. 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. Furthermore, because you will be so busy at your job, you will also be in almost perpetual touch with bosses, colleagues & employees in the workplace, whether you or they are in that physical workplace or if you or they are working remotely. This really make you wonder why bosses, colleagues or employees would be so surprised as they ask you, only half-kidding, “What, are you psychic?” throughout Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. Really, it should not be a joke – as you have 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. Put your head down, put your nose to the grindstone & plow through your workload during Direct Motion Jupiter in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. Bosses’ renewed respect for you helps you tremendously with everybody else in the workplace throughout Jupiter sextile Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. And if bosses want to promote you, half-jokingly, to “Workplace Oracle,” whether during or after the Christmas holidays, be a good sport & play along with the joke, “No applause, just throw hundreds!” Be as silly as you like, but make sure that all the silliness is happy & peppy with a very distinct upside during 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026. You have a lot of people to convince. Keep it light, airy & simply, “Don’t worry – be wealthy.” Indulge your imagination – especially where it is professionally sanctioned. Especially, moreover, as it codifies the esprit d’corps of a confined professional work environment as Crantor transits Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034. High priest of the office pantry! Strangely, your real-world responsibilities also serve to transform the quality of your creativity into more accelerated forms of wishful thinking. For one thing, 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. More seriously, 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. Accept such dreams as symbols attempting to codify new burgeoning ideals as Okyrhoe transits Aries from January 2024 through January 2026. Don’t misunderstand the situation. Professional associates will give you all the personal & public space to be as flamboyant, imaginative or just plain weird as you really are. They may even be willing to tolerate your expert level of interest in astrology! However, what really matters to these associates is that you are a true professional in the workplace who can & does deliver the goods when the chips are down on a routine basis with an absolute minimum of drama. Mutual professional latitude at work helps. You will be able to ask questions & to infer instructions during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024 that you couldn’t have asked or inferred six months ago. For your own part, try not to cut off associates when they need a big chunk of your time to thrash through the deep background of problems that affect everybody in the workplace. Mutual tolerance of personal, but, more importantly, intellectual idiosyncrasies, can go a long way not only to a peaceful, but also an extremely productive work environment. With a positive reputation at your job, 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 Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024 to a distant future. Use the extremely benevolent expanded scope which occurs as Pluto exits Capricorn to enter Aquarius during Mars in Capricorn in January to identify what you really want & if you can really get it. Given that you now 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. Don’t take good fortune for granted – pull out an Excel workbook & calculate different best-case & worst-case scenarios during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during March. Now that you, bosses, colleagues & employees have all agreed to an attitude of mutual intellectual tolerance, the universe tosses you all, not a curveball, but a breaking slider, in the form of a potentially lucrative challenge, during Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March. The upside to everybody is obvious as Venus conjuncts Mars in Aquarius in late February – but what your bosses, colleagues & employees need to hear from you is the imminently upcoming downside, due to come very soon thereafter as Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 squares, first Venus, then Mars, in early March – before it actually happens. Much depends upon the sophistication of the diplomacy with which you deliver your messages.  Accountants: You know how bar charts flatline over the course of a period of time, meaning no profit, no loss? Not during Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 during April! But does that segment spike up – or spike down? Well, that depends upon whether, and how, you followed the advice in the previous paragraph – but that is short-term. What you were able to do to maximize gains or to minimize losses in February based upon what you did in January depends upon how well the protocol of your enterprise operated last August & September. You won’t earn profits by doing the right thing for two weeks after neglecting your business for an entire year. Even so, whether irrational exuberance or illogical despair, any argument you present will in no way change the direction of a stampede already manifest as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March. Return to the office from COVID! Review these best-case & worst-case personal financial scenarios that you calculated during March to codify a financial strategy for the rest of 2024 during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April. Additionally, speak with a sales representative of the insurance industry to determine which types & how much insurance you will need over the next two decades as Asbolus transits Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043. Which leads to what you really should be doing during Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September: Fix the overall protocol of how your enterprise operates as you prepare for the long-term future when Pluto transits Aquarius from 2024 to 2043 while Neptune transits Aries from 2025 to 2039. Believe it! Not sure of where to start on this Herculean task? Luckily, bosses provide you with a checklist in order of priority during Jupiter sextile Neptune during May. The work of the entire enterprise is cut out for you. Indeed, many examples of an extremely difficult logistic problem surfaces as Saturn conjuncts Nessus from May through August. Handle all of these yourself. Your situation is complicated. Don’t you worry – Jupiter in Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025 guarantees that you absolutely comfortably reside in your bosses’ good books. Bosses already have the confidence that your solutions to technological problems, including implementation of the integration of software throughout your entire system, will be effective & will increase functionality for everybody firmwide as Jupiter trines Pluto in early June – bosses didn’t promote you to “Workplace Oracle” for nothing! What concerns bosses more, not specifically about you, but about whether or not you can handle a good part of it, involves the grunt work of what Saskia Sassen calls “the backward technologies” – the old way of doing things that do not lend themselves to automation – which threaten to expand to untenable levels during Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November. A very difficult part of your job involves asking questions of your employees so that they offer complete answers. 2001-SQ73 in Leo from May 2024 through June 2032 dictates that you learn to write or to speak such questions so that you are soliciting just one answer to one question. Don’t request three different answers within one sentence. Request one thing in one sentence as you write or speak three separate sentences. The clearer & more precise that you are in spoken & written communication, the more that your reputation as an outstanding manager will grow exponentially as Cyllarus conjuncts 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027. Bosses are well aware that you may not want to solve these problems – these problems are as unsexy as anything there may be in the workplace. But Jupiter square, first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September signifies that these issues regarding “backward technologies” are exactly what is mission critical to the enterprise professionally, whether you stay where you are or whether you choose to go. Why? Because these “backward technologies” are what will stop not only you, but, in fact, everybody, the entire enterprise itself. Segregating work that falls under the task heading of “backward technologies” will give you more enthusiasm to tackle all that work as a self-contained single project as Crantor trines Asbolus trines Elatus from July through September. This is why bosses want you to switch roles from I Robot of the future to the monarch of your back-office fiefdom during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn during September and early October. These are old-school problems which demand an old-school solution from the master of the old school personally. Now that you’ve practiced & honed your communication skills with colleagues & employees, you must put together all your communications in reports to bosses to depict, simultaneously, the status of you & all concurrent professional relationships during Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025. Again, keep it simple – but, if you keep it simple, it will prove too long for bosses to review. That’s okay. Expand with clarity before you compress your message. As a result of such demonstrative priorities, review the performance of the technology upgrades you implemented throughout June as Jupiter sextiles Chiron from September through November. Remove all bugs that prevent functionality as you seek to maintain that optimum level of functionality through early 2025. Keeping the future & the past in mind at the same time, Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025 states that no further room exists to accommodate a new agenda. The progress of both the I Robot future & the “backward technologies” must be analyzed to determine the overall functionality of the enterprise’s protocol until Jupiter turns Direct next February. As it is happening, demonstrate reserve from an enthusiastic colleague or social contact who suggests a romance or professional partnership as Thereus transits Libra from October 2024 through April 2025. The timing is more than a little suspicious. What do they want? But now, during Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November, the number one priority involves putting the past to bed. While this is a hard deadline, Mars in Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025 complicates its execution. Why? Because the past will not be put to bed by that time. Yes, the future moves towards you at a fast & furious pace which can & will destroy the greediest during Pluto in Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043 – but, really, to Hell with all of them. After all, technological progress involves the use of what can be dangerous weapons. For now, however, Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025, denotes that, because issues involving not only “backward technologies,” but, more likely, integrated protocol between old & new technololgies, the airplane of tomorrow’ future is not yet ready to lift off from today’s runway.  Meanwhile, that enthusiastic colleague or social contact shows up with another unknown face as Thereus conjuncts 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025. Again, the timing is more than a little suspicious. What do they want? Heed your suspicions. Trust your intuition. Bosses review your status reports during Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025 with criticisms & comments. Bosses also offer criticisms & comments upon your communications with colleagues during Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025. Yes, all these reviews, criticisms & comments absolutely involve the grunt work of what Saskia Sassen calls “the backward technologies.” No, you will not be blamed if you don’t get all this work done by yourself – really, Jupiter square first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025, declares that there is an enormous amount of such “backward technologies” grunt work to get done. Review your analyses of, and attempts to solve, extremely difficult logistic problems as Saturn conjuncts Nessus during January & February 2025. Resolutions to these specific difficulties can distinguish you from the mediocre throng. Otherwise, such labor upon “backward technologies” is not sexy. And, the less of it that is actually done by you, the more that your boss, you & your colleagues will be hiring grunt workers to do it during Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025. Indeed, bosses will heed closely your advice on how to address such work, including whether or not to implement different levels of AI, as Jupiter trines Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December. Which, frankly, is fine. It is no secret to you that the I Robot future has alienated masses of people by its antihuman, egoistic, elitist spirit. Be grateful that the “backwards technologies” phase of this launch has the capacity to bring much of the masses together during Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trine Neptune in January 2025 – before the elitist Plutocrats find another way to get rid of them upon their self-determined expedited secret deadlines.   CANCER 2024   You knew that when Jupiter transited Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024, you planned to cooperate with select members of your Marxist economic class to make a lot of money. This agenda provided you with a whole herd of allies willing to stampede any troublemakers who give you a hard time while that whole herd is stampeding to the gold mine during your next all-private bull market. Financial advisors have already provided you with the plan that you needed. Now that the detailed plan is in place, it is all a matter of executing it. But the North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 complicates issues: You have either become the boss, are becoming the boss or are the power behind the throne of the boss. You didn’t get to this position by doing a bad job, but, even so, Okyrhoe in Aries from January 2024 through January 2026 declares that you are professionally vulnerable in all directions. Keeping your own affairs as simple as possible puts you in a position where you can pivot in your official capacity whenever you need to do so. These are your marching orders. 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. As changes accelerate, go to church or participate in a spiritual practice with clergy & spiritual leaders based upon ethical & philosophical discussions throughout Crantor in Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034 for all the guidance & solace you need. Indeed, you might be surprised at how many like-minded individuals join you during 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026. Not that you will change your mind – nothing will induce you to do that. But, during Mars in Capricorn during January, you will feel the energy as Pluto enters Aquarius. You are not sure what you will do in the long term about this energy – it’s the same energy which flummoxed you as Neptune segued back & forth over the Capricorn-Aquarius cusp during 1998. But you know it augurs something that you are used to addressing: How other people’s opinions enable or prevent you from doing what you do, and doing what you do to earn money. Strategize over the next 12 to 18 months about how to make adjustments for the long term. Discuss with long-standing financial advisors, realistically, how much money you will need for your current “twenty-year plan” during Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036. Based upon these numbers, develop your medium-term education agenda during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. Revisit plans on how to balance 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. Plan for the near term. It is essential that you stand back from the maddening crowd. You will not be answering to other people as much as you have in the recent past. Other people will be answering to you. This includes those people who prefer not to answer to you. Such people will instead be trying to manipulate you. The early phase of this realization will be easy. Once you identify a hidden enemy during Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024, that hidden enemy can no longer hurt you. Immunization! Then, as you consider this hidden enemy false ally frenemy, do more than a little self-analysis. Reinterpret your current weakness as your more enduring strength turned inside-out during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024. Commit to knowing yourself better. Do not spare the rod from those who intended & tried to hurt you! Evil people know what they are doing & why they do it. Evil bastards from the past get their just desserts during Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. Nobody will give certain individuals any slack ever again! Long story short, you should know exactly where you stand, and where allies & adversaries stand, as you all go happy hunting in the capitalist jungle during Direct Motion Jupiter in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. That’s exactly where you will start. Proceeding forward, Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March states that it is imperative for both the long-term maintenance of your professional status & your personal peace of mind that you exude your authority & command unapproachable personal space unconsciously, without saying a word, without thinking about it at all. The environment for making money in business is outstanding during Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March. You must concentrate your full attention to it. What is presented to you as a spontaneous romance or friendship as Venus conjuncts Mars in Aquarius in late February may be an attempt to distract you from making decisions or to challenge or to undermine your power. This is particularly the case if you represent a particularly conservative institution while dealing with skilled activists in sexual orientation politics. Attempting to engage such individuals at all is a mistake. You have no agenda – they do. Your analytical skills demand top dollar during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during March. No distraction is worthy of that time & money. Allow your potential allies to deal directly with such individuals anyway they choose as Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 squares, first Venus, then Mars, in early March. Make any & all necessary apologies amidst all preplanned fallout. But take your mind off such political grandstanding. Financial advisors posit a radical new investment direction during Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 in April for implementation immediately. Whatever it is they prepare makes no difference to you. What interests you intensely, “What hedge have you strategized in the event your radical ideas are timed incorrectly or are just plain outright wrong?” Other people as well as yourself intend to act upon the analysis you make during March during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April. Emphasize that you do not intend to walk off the plank of somebody else’s pirate ship. Power moves during February based upon some social or sexual political agenda overstays their welcome, temporarily, as the political consensus of the public mood returns to the status quo with which you are familiar during Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September. Do not summarily disregard the agenda of aggressive & adversarial actors during February, but attempt to interpret what it is they demand & represent over the summer & early fall. Nobody can or should underestimate the agenda of Jupiter sextile Neptune during May, especially regarding the Catholic Church. Both inside & outside of church, Saturn conjunct Nessus from May through August denotes the need to rectify the sins & injustices of the historical past dating back not only generations but in fact centuries. Therefore, placate loud voices making their own sectarian demands so that everybody else may focus upon the main event. Moreover, given how well Jupiter sextile Neptune during May dovetails with your more fiscally & socially conservative agenda, make reference in public discourse to these adversaries so that you may be able to coopt their more radical demands within a stabile professional system nonetheless undergoing profound & sweeping transformation & redress. Politicians making public statements on a platform behind a microphone in a city’s downtown, or a CEO speaking on a Zoom meeting to all colleagues across any office in every city where they are located, clearly cannot be everywhere at once. However, after making proclamations during the middle of May, Jupiter in Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025 sets up the necessity for such leaders to go to as many neighborhoods & to as many remote offices as possible to implement those changes which they heralded. These are unchartered waters. People making these plans are more inclined to be logical rather than intuitive or instinctual. However, an intuitive & instinctual approach to planning, not only in the short term but in fact for many years, is necessary. Asbolus in Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043 asserts that if you are within the power structure, it is your duty to employ your own considerable intuitive & instinctual capacities in the service of the infrastructure. On one level, these local visits are political campaigns hammering the same message home, particularly as Jupiter trines Pluto in early June. But neither you nor they, are fooled – Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November, strictly connote that there are many more opinions represented in numbers that nobody has yet articulated, and learning what these opinions are involve much more than telemarketers on telephones conducting polls. In that sense, political & personal connections you make with clergy & spiritual leaders may be a good place to get some initial guidance as Crantor trines Asbolus trines Elatus from July through September. Individuals amongst the masses do not wish to be led towards the ends which you, or anybody else, have predetermined – they want their voices heard in a way that the overall plan accounts for or provides the things that they want. This involves sitting down with smaller focus groups as Jupiter squares, first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September, where voices with visions of their own thrash out alternatives to the official agenda. What is important under such circumstances is not your intellect – nobody will doubt your intelligence – but the force of your character. What 2001-SQ73 in Leo from May 2024 through June 2032 demands of you is not just your ability to hear everybody out & to have a meaningful discussion about your differences but for those who hold those differences to put them aside in order to work with & to follow you – because they trust & respect you. It is incumbent upon you to determine if your attempts to integrate the agendas of more radical activists from February into your overall plan is feasible, not only to your constituency, but also to their adversaries, during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn during September and early October. Bluntly, both your constituency & your adversaries will respond to you more throughout Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025 if you demonstrate that you will not try to be all things to all people. To that end, you must confer with all on your team with whom you ventured out into these remote neighborhoods & offices of different cities to thrash out all that you learned as Jupiter sextiles Chiron from September through November. After all, you may have the potential to create within yourself a broader & deeper empathy, emotionally, spiritually & politically, but Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027 insists that to do this, by definition, you must take into account discussions & negotiations with various individuals with much different belief systems than you. While you must speak in good faith to maintain public credibility, there are those who represent either you or others who do not, and some will not. Such dishonest representatives are particularly dangerous. Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November favors the old order – but only extremely briefly & fleetingly. One such dishonest representative will stick out like a sore thumb during Thereus in Libra from October 2024 through April 2025. Otherwise, you must identify these individuals during Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025. Weed them out. Public credibility is extremely important to you personally. You are who you say you are & intend to prove it during Mars in Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025. After all, those who lack nobility have no business whatsoever representing the people – particularly as Pluto in Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043 will emphasize, over the course of a generation, that you will represent those who not only disagree with you, but in some instances, will now & always hate you. As mentioned earlier, sometimes it is quite easy for you to identify those whom you mistrust – the suspicious character who arrived on the scene during October, for example, now brings with them company, as Thereus conjuncts 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025. To identify other potential troublemakers requires a deeper & more persistent insight. To that end, it is imperative that you ruthlessly inventory your own personal integrity, or lack thereof, both in the recent & remote past, during Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025. For another thing, you must be prepared to grow emotionally when presented with the unprecedented & inexplicable. Therefore, you must take the time now to remove those feelings from your past during Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025, which will only inhibit such future growth. (Don’t be surprised when a long-buried dark memory unnerves you intensely during Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025.) Realize & accept that political, professional, spiritual & personal rivals are also coordinating in discussions as they prepare for extended negotiations with you as Jupiter trines Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December. Only then will you be in a position to identify those who pass & those who fail the same test in your own estimation, whether they are on your team or speaking from the vantage of the general public, as Jupiter squares first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025. You can’t be too hard on yourself. The stakes are way too high & they depend upon the inherent legitimacy you exude during Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025. Saturn conjunct Nessus during January & February 2025 reminds you that it is addressing the need to rectify the sins & injustices of the historical past dating back not only generations but in fact centuries. Your final deadline involves a direct encounter with masses of people as Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trine Neptune in January 2025. You are or you are not. Good luck.   LEO 2024   The world may be poised to transform rapidly, but your professional responsibilities, for the most part, are & have been the same, and are subject to no change. The North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 denotes that new & distant horizons call, and that, although you wish to respond, you are not ready. Nor, as Okyrhoe in Aries from January 2024 through January 2026 signifies, will you be ready anytime soon. For one thing, you will need significant financial reserves, plus insurance, to forestall all possible loss. While expansion – particularly international expansion – makes you vulnerable to loss, maintaining routine as you save money for a rainy day brings a steady, if unspectacular, profit during Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024. Tasks recently presented to you were neither self-evident nor subject to robotic, automatic protocol. 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024 demanded, on one level, a need for soul-searching & therapy, but, on another level, it connoted a scientist’s, engineer’s or a detective’s deductive skills. In some instances, convoluted deleterious circumstances, the labyrinthine schemes of shady agents & your own consolidated phobias predominated. Some bosses now cooperate with colleagues to trim from the payroll corrupt employees who have long outlived their usefulness as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. Once all these corrupt employees are out the door, bosses would like to put in place in that department an unofficial “priest,” a “Mr. Rogers” type, one who opines & verbally emphasizes their opinions as to the right thing to do, at all times, as often as possible, during Crantor in Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034 – if, for one thing, to clear the air of those who have already left the firm & who shall not be named for the evil that they wrought. You can be as cynical as you want about “Mr. Rogers.” If “Mr. Rogers” all of a sudden launched into an ongoing rendition of “The Ten Commandments” on a tape loop, it couldn’t annoy you more. But 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026 states that this “corporate preacher” is not there for yesterday’s holdovers, but for tomorrow’s rookies. There will be more rookies tomorrow. Rated G, buddy. But, for the most part, this unspoken threat against you involves the resentment of adversaries who now realize that, as a result of your leadership, they are going to lose. But you are neither scared nor ungrateful. For one thing, why all of you are being kept on much shorter leashes recedes in importance during Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. For another, what you learned from the experience of brave rookies trapped in untenable circumstances puts you in a position to complete projects of institutional reform during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024 – as it also gives you brave soldiers to reward. You therefore have good reason to expect clients prone to complaint to express core genuine appreciation for the improvements that ensue during Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. Moreover, bosses & colleagues are still vigilantly monitoring these corrupt employees soon on their way out the door to pick up all of their tricks during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during March. You & all the good people at your job intend to purge all lingering aftereffects. As a result, all vestiges of economic downturn end during Direct Motion Jupiter in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. Bosses itch to participate in what they anticipate to be the next upcoming Bull Market as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March. You are deeply grateful for these year-end holidays. Which is why you are annoyed to hear from some unexpected & unsolicited oracle that all this “drama” of the recent past is prologue as you prepare for the next twenty years. Nothing could possibly annoy you more, “I’m certainly not preparing for the next twenty years but I am preparing for dinner!” But don’t kid yourself. Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024 is just the movie trailer. When this transit of Pluto starts, for real, later in 2024, it will be a sea change. However, by no means will you be lost at sea – extremely positive long-term opportunities come into clear focus during Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036. Even so, there is no rush. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Master the baby steps. To start, notice subtle changes in how colleagues & employees in the workplace, speak, act & even walk as Pluto changes signs from Capricorn to Aquarius during Mars in Capricorn during January. Notice the identity & the personalities of visitors to the office. Don’t overanalyze for now. Simply notice differences, before & after. Concentrate your attention upon long-time efforts to do business internationally or in different cities, to get a lucrative position or to procure acceptance to a prestigious college or university, or to get a grant or a visa to work in a different country, during Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March. It is not as easy as it looks because of the bureaucracy & diplomacy involved. There is a lot of hurry up & wait. The key is not to wait while you should be hurrying up and (much harder for you) not to hurry up when you should be waiting. As for your recent “Plutonic impressions:” Don’t be surprised if a business partner or rival starts talking about Pluto, or even that a new romance in your professional & social circles makes explicit & protracted reference to Pluto, during Venus conjunct Mars in Aquarius in late February. All these individuals are likely to discuss Pluto in just such a way that turns you off the most, which makes you grateful when your boss tells all those under him or her who offend him or her about Pluto to shut up & to concentrate upon their work as Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 squares, first Venus, then Mars, in early March. Accentuating bosses’ serious attitudes are the permanent terminations & arrests of the corrupt during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April. But don’t dismiss intelligent observations from individuals you regard as flakes, airheads & know-it-alls. And certainly do not insult any of these people! The truth be told, changes in the infrastructure are likely, but announced completely out of the blue, during Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 in April. Your boss may or may not remain with the company. Your boss may be promoted. Your company could merge or go bankrupt & dissolve. Whatever may happen, the makeup of your general work environment is likely to change. Don’t take too much for granted. It is paramount that you immerse yourself in mundane protocol during the transition period of Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September. To clarify, this transition is back from the future to the most recent past in order to fix everything that needs to be fixed from the recent & even the remote past so as to move forward to the next transition period of the future. And what, exactly, needs to be fixed from the recent & even the remote past? This becomes radically clear, if not outright explicit, as Jupiter sextiles Neptune during May. Furthermore, mind you, certain transactions which represent the eradication of the deep & dark past to the crystal-clear future will aggravate you extremely deeply as Saturn conjuncts Nessus from May through August. Aggravating you even more is the fact that new types of corruption will evolve in the near future as a result of current changes. If & when this happens, Asbolus in Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043 indicates that you may become so suddenly irrational & righteous that you will terrify the good & the evil all around you. But nobody will dare contradict you. No way. All that involves not only your company, but also your city, state, province, country and, in fact, the whole world. Getting micro from macro for a second, Jupiter in Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025 highlights what the clients want. Moreover, if you’ve developed some sort of specialty or have outperformed in the market in some specific way, you can expect more clients – never a bad thing. Ironically, such clients or business partners may express concern about strategies in the marketplace of the upcoming future, and some such client or business partner may even reference “Pluto in Aquarius” as some sort of popular indicator or moniker, as Jupiter trines Pluto in early June. All that being said, clients, business partners & enemies alike wonder what it will take for you to respond or to react when any one of them peeps the word “Pluto” not only now, but throughout 2001-SQ73 in Leo from May 2024 through June 2032. Everybody is just beginning to recognize, but none have come to terms with, the fact that any & all challenges to your authority & personage as Cyllarus conjuncts 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027 are going to make you much more formidable & irrepressible than you already are. That all very sexy & exciting, but a lot of the real work, involving not only past clients but also new clients, is to get more troublesome, recalcitrant and, frankly, corrupt departments, perhaps billing & accounting, to cooperate, during Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November. Split up tasks so that specific employees work with specific clients during Jupiter square, first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September. Enemies of corruption weave in & out amongst & between all different assigned groups as Crantor trines Asbolus trines Elatus from July through September, not as psychological manipulation (although it does make everybody extremely paranoid), but as a result of the what data is discovered. You & your peers will, or should, also be charged with contacting clients working with individual employees to say, “Should you have any comments, questions or requests about any of the procedures & protocols of this department, do not discuss them with your representative, but email or call me directly.” Expect such clients to email or call you directly just before or just after Labor Day during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn during September and early October. But back to work: This is going to take more than one email or phone call. Many of these emails or phone calls involve taking the most immediate work out of that employee’s hands to satisfy an outwardly cordial but seriously irate client. Solve the problem yourself. After you confirm with the client that that client’s problem is solved, insist, “Email or call me directly if there is anything else you need.” On a more thrilling note, some clients will be impressed by your efforts at national or international business expansion, or, if you are an academic, some publishers will be quite impressed at your ideas or your writing, as you get all sorts of lucrative & challenging offers as Jupiter sextiles Chiron from September through November. Only after you make sufficient contact & conversation with clients & their representatives should you then address the employee who almost completely screwed up your company’s relationship with this client, whether with your company’s management or with the employee directly, during Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025. Whether this means firing, laying off, retraining, demoting or reassigning depends upon the personal character of the employee – and whether or not “personal character” is an oxymoron. However, if nobody is pushing you into making a final decision, take your time & integrate all the pieces of the puzzle to get a proper detached overview during Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025. That way, you will know what needs to be done, and you may have already done it, during Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November. After all, this is something you have done many times in the past. The resolution of this particular episode makes you feel not only strong but also proud as Mars transits Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025. Still, you get the sinking feeling that this is not the end of the problem, but, in fact, the beginning. Then, as you have a meeting with some prospective vendor, contractor or client as Thereus transits Libra from October 2024 through April 2025, you speak with this individual for less than three minutes when you wonder, “Is this person lying to me?” All of this is unusually unnerving. As a result, you notice how some people make a big deal out of Pluto in Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043, but you feel that you are visiting some other country celebrating its own Independence Day. The employee who almost completely screwed up your company’s relationship with the client made you realize that you are not yet looking forward; during Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025, you are definitely looking backward. Seeing that prospective vendor, contractor or client with some other unknown, suspicious, yet supremely confident face as Thereus conjuncts 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025 sets this distinctive gloom within an even more oppressive pall. The can of worms has already been opened.  Once again, split up tasks so that specific employees work with specific clients as Jupiter squares first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025. But don’t just “rinse and repeat.” Add the nuance of your newly formulated analytical overview during Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025. You & your peers will, or should, also be charged with contacting clients working with individual employees to say, “Should you have any comments, questions or requests about any of the procedures & protocols of this department, do not discuss them with your representative, but email or call me directly.” Then, you must execute even more of these transactions which represent the eradication of the deep & dark past to the crystal-clear future during Saturn conjunct Nessus during January & February 2025. Again, expect more emails or phone calls “about any of the procedures & protocols of this department” than you can handle during Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025. While you figure that all this represents more than enough stress, several representatives of your client, very happy with your outperformance, nevertheless seek to communicate with you privately with many ideas of their own about how to improve their performance & protocol as Jupiter trines Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December. Yes, you are correct, no, this is not good. This is what one may term, “A harvest of neglect,” as Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trines Neptune in January 2025. But, no, you are incorrect, yes, this is very good, this is, in fact, excellent. Problems exist. You address the problems. It is entirely possible that you alone solve the problems. Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025, declares that you growing into your future role as the one, the only, the sole individual to whom to turn to make it all happen. Congratulations. Soon, thereafter, however, Neptune enters Aries for an abbreviated transit before entering Aries to stay from 2026 to 2039. At that point, your efforts at national & international business expansion can expand exponentially, or you may be on your way to getting tenure while writing & publishing your second or third book. As for problems your client endures with your employer’s more difficult employees & departments, you now have your deadline.   VIRGO 2024   For the moment, life is good. Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 rewards you for skills you have been cultivating & refining over many years. But the North Node in Aries from July 2023 through January 2025 is worrisome. The North Node in your 8th house of sex, drugs, transformation, joint finances, taxes, property, crime, the occult & what is written your tombstone denotes a sharp break with your past, possibly as a result of some type of financial misfortune or setback which is likely to befall you. If this break with the past does not happen now, either that financial misfortune or setback, or that absolute break with your past, will inexorably threaten to occur the entire time that Neptune transits Aries from 2025 to 2039. Such optimism about such political good luck notwithstanding, Okyrhoe in Aries from January 2024 through January 2026 declares that the most vulnerable you will be for the rest of the decade are during the next two years. Psychologically, you tend to believe that your professional skills shield you from such misfortune. You feel exhilarated when 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.” All this makes you believe that nothing can go wrong. You feel, some days, invincible. You must keep you mind upon boring yet practical issues which prevent the seduction of your ego by fantasies of your omnipotent power. You must pay more attention to your health. 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. Share more with your spouse to show them how much you care for them as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. Demonstrate explicit gratitude because you feel blessed with good fortune & your spouse during the commencement of Direct Motion Jupiter in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. If you think that advice is too corny & you don’t want to listen to it, Crantor in Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034 will make you realize that your spouse is the brick wall which will crush both you & the SUV you drive into it. Then, after you have demonstrated such open & explicit gratitude, do not be surprised if your spouse exhorts you to cut down or to eliminate your alcohol intake during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024, right in the middle of the holidays, as your spouse echoes how your cardiologist told you to cut down or to curb your alcohol intake. Stop complaining! Somebody cares about you. Other people suffer. Think about local women who go through a very rough time during Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. Just because a woman has a good job doesn’t mean that they have a happy home life devoid of karmic-driven tragedy – or that their boss is not trying to grope them in the pantry. These single women may not have anybody in their lives who cares about them . . . at all. And this does not even address the most vocal of unhappy women: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and #MeToo.  Some very unhappy incident may actualize you to speak publicly during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during March. Enough unhappy women speaking up equals local political action during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April. All that is well & good if the political action women take is based upon logical means. But when political action women take is based upon profound unhappiness, Asbolus in Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043 asks, “Who knows to what lengths such sorrow & despair, politically organized, may lead?” When you return to work in early January, you will get the opportunity to benefit professionally because of bosses’ suffering. Ultimately, because bosses only have themselves to blame for the trouble in which they are now enmeshed during Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024, you feel liberated. The downside to this observation is that you will tend to believe that bosses’ mistakes cannot happen to you. Maybe not – but the North Node in Aries warns that you have a very vulnerable Achilles Heel of your own. Such bosses receive the just desserts of their own negative karma, you feel profoundly exhilarated as Pluto enters Aquarius during Mars in Capricorn in January. Be explicitly warned: This is exactly the moment when the unforgiveable sin of hubris sets in. Feel the power but maintain your humility. All eyes will be on you. Including the eyes of rivals during Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March. You say you have no rival – keep saying that. You, like many other people, intuit, smell & itch for a Bull Market soon, now, as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March, and you want to capitalize. You say you only have allies, then go about proving it as Venus conjuncts Mars in Aquarius in late February. But keep in mind that it is your rivals that are choosing you. You are not choosing your rivals – and these rivals intend to bring you down to their envious & Machiavellian level. Remain aware. Alliances forged break up as new professional tasks separate the overall group as Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 squares, first Venus, then Mars, in early March. Does this mean that your allies are not rivals? Not at all. Maintain your idealistic & exemplary attitudes & behavior. But keep your feet on the ground. Robust business expansion provides much more opportunity per individual employee during Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 in April. There is more for each individual to do than each individual can handle no matter how efficient & talented that individual may be. Rigid discipline underwrites inspiration throughout Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September – or such inspiration goes nowhere. Massive professional expansion during April may have direct consequences leading to an increase in your paycheck as Jupiter sextiles Neptune during May. Increased income denotes that you can now afford to take your relationship with your fiancée, spouse or family to the next financial level. Therefore, you must honor & respect, if not necessarily fulfill, whatever demand your spouse has for you during Saturn conjunct Nessus from May through August, whether it involves marriage, children, a new home or investing in your children’s educational future. But the flood of new employees at your job, new citizens in your city or new congregation at your church during 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026 is a stark warning that you will soon be living in a very different world. As long as, of course, everything goes well at work. How could it not? Well, it depends upon who your boss is, or, much more likely, who your new bosses will be, as Jupiter transits Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025. This is a brick wall that you cannot go through. As confident as you had been earlier in 2024 when you first felt Pluto enter Aquarius, Jupiter trine Pluto in early June makes you realize that these bosses felt that same surge of energy as they developed agendas far beyond your own, whether such agendas are humanly possible or not. But, then again, they are the bosses. Further, recall how well you worked with everybody in the workplace around Valentine’s Day – all alliances & no rivalries. Well, the introduction of the new bosses into the mix causes a competition of blame to seep into the overall environment during Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November. All sorts of consultants & regulators working from all different perspectives raise all sorts of very uncomfortable questions in disturbing contexts as Crantor trines Asbolus trines Elatus from July through September. Interactions between bosses with partners & colleagues, as well as interactions between bosses with you personally, will not feel edifying at all during Jupiter square, first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September. Additionally, all types of workplace surveillance increase as 2001-SQ73 transits Leo from May 2024 through June 2032.  That’s okay. All this is an exhortation to you to tune out all corporate & bureaucratic manipulation. Focus upon muscling out the work by putting your nose to the grindstone during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn during September and early October. In the meantime, Big Brother downloads the security camera onto his cell phone so that he can still look at his Instagram. If somebody in your department is in any trouble, then Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027 reminds you that Big Brother will show up, personally, “You ready for lunch, buddy? You’re buying.” The fact that surveillance in the workplace is so pervasive does not make you feel comfortable. The whole phenomenon is distinctly dystopian. But, taking into account an overview of how you may perceive such surveillance, Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025 makes you realize that, if you are or are not currently in the good graces of the state, and, who, amongst you, do not share in the state’s good graces. Unfortunately, many months ago, during February & March, you put your head in the sand as to those rivals in the workplace who chose you. Bosses don’t’ need to be told this by anybody – they smell it, and seek to manipulate their communications with these rivals & you during Jupiter sextile Chiron from September through November in order to “motivate” you. This marks the starting point from which bosses try to direct every aspect of your professional behavior during Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025. In the short term, you feel that you can surmount this by sheer hard work during Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November. Unfortunately, this is the furthest progress that you are likely to make for many months as you begin to suffer cabin fever & confinement in a workplace full of adversaries & enemies you cannot avoid as Mars transits Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025. A new associate whom you meet during Thereus in Libra from October 2024 through April 2025 repels you instantly. Veil your aversion as best as you can. The confidence that you felt as Pluto changed signs in January now debases into fear during Pluto in Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043. Bosses have raised the bar to truly untenable & unrealistic levels. This fear is a feeling you are going to need to identify, to control & to master over time. Indeed, that is exactly the foe that you are supposed to conquer now: Not flesh & blood bosses or rivals, but fear. Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025, is reminding you of all those times in your past when you let weaker & less skilled people manipulate you into offering them space in your heart & your head. Unpleasant work environments skew toxic. Workplace surveillance seems impersonally contemptuous during Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025. Personal surveillance representatives of impersonal Big Brother dislike everybody before they meet anybody at all during Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025. Everything & everybody seems extremely mean. What about your work colleague allies? Remember that none of these work colleague allies were rivals at all before new bosses arrived. When bosses try to set one person against another as Jupiter squares first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025, forget that you actually know any of these people. These people are neither friends nor enemies; act like they do not exist. Execute logistics, like a power hitter in baseball taking batting practice from a pitching machine. When that new associate who repelled you in October shows up in public during Thereus conjunct 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025, whether alone, with another individual or with a group, do whatever you need to do psychologically to remove them from your attention span now & forever. The modus operandi of how enemies plan to manipulate you switches from intimidation & humiliation to emotional acceptance & rejection during Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025. But if you controlled your mind & spirit at that point, nobody will be able to touch you. Indeed, if you executed that single-minded focus necessary to get through this extremely hateful dystopian challenge, then you will impress bosses inclined to oppose you & you will win back those work colleagues as not only allies but also as fans as Jupiter trines Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December. Furthermore, your spouse will unfailingly respect you as Saturn conjuncts Nessus during January & February 2025. At this point, talk to your lover, fiancée or spouse about all that is happening during Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trine Neptune in January 2025 – they will be more than happy to coach you expertly through it. Except you might no longer need such counsel. You may have indeed achieved superhero status.   LIBRA 2024   That fresh start, new partnership or new 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. That fresh start, new partnership or new opportunity is absolutely possible for you to achieve – as long as you do not go too far too fast. Okyrhoe in Aries from January 2024 through January 2026 denotes a high level of vulnerability in any new ventures. Getting the ball rolling with low expectations won’t hurt. However, given that mighty Neptune will make a cursory ingress into early Aries during early 2025, you might want to get out the tricycle’s training wheels. Right now, however, there is unfinished business. You must accept “the subjunctive mood” of Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024. The “subjunctive mood” references the recent transit of the North Node through your 8th house of sex, drugs, transformation, joint finances, taxes, property, crime, the occult & what is written your tombstone from December 2021 to July 2023. That “subjunctive mood” is the karmic component within astrology: You will be rewarded or punished for your most immediate past words, attitudes & efforts. Many will demand that you get these rewards & punishments, in spades, as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March. Believe it. Your karma notwithstanding, the times themselves go forward during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024. Ambitions – to get on TV, to go into politics, to conquer the world of entertainment with or without Taylor Swift – now become overwhelming. Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036 reminds you that those with the best credentials, most positive reputations & the most steadfast convictions get the best opportunities – and those with the best credentials, most positive reputations & the most steadfast convictions do not cave into criminal pressure as they follow the straight & narrow so as not to surrender any natural advantage. Did you turn down the illicit booty? Did you stay on the right side of the law? Yes, it is enough to take care of yourself. Still, you must pay attention to what happens around you. Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024 denotes that your bosses do not know where boundaries between right from wrong professionally lie, and, in order to protect themselves, they withdraw of their own accord. As bosses struggle with their consciences, somebody must supervise the employees – not as one of the other chores that needs to be done, but fulltime, on location, amongst the employees, as the job itself, throughout Crantor in Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034. The bigger the company, the more company expands, the more employees there are, and the more supervisors will be needed during 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026. This leaves more power to you. Is this a blessing or is this a curse? 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. This makes you just want to take your ball & go home, “I don’t want to play anymore.” Unfortunately, it is not your ball. Either way, legal matters go forward, whether for or against, during Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. Invariably, difficult clients who challenged you since your bosses’ status reports on you, your performance & your character, as well as young employees, approach you with admiration during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024 – as long as you did the right thing. Why wouldn’t they? It begins to bother & to annoy you how some jealous people, and especially some powerful jealous people, take themselves so seriously. Give those powerful jealous people more credit & more slack. It is highly more likely that they, rather than you, navigated a treacherous moral gray area in the recent past, and that they will wonder deeply & darkly how well they did, during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during March. You? Most likely, you were tempted by an ambitious devil on an evil Triple A minor league farm team. Show more respect for powerful players’ karmic hangover. But don’t pay too much attention. As long as you play for the team wearing the white hats, financial circumstances stabilize tremendously during Direct Motion Jupiter in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. Even so, you really must wake up & pay closer attention to how people view you, about how colleagues, rivals & bosses look for that big, bright letter in the middle of your chest. Yes, you are a superhero – and this is not Comic Con. You have become the go-to player in the ongoing effort to curb & to reverse corruption in the workplace as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. Again, try not to think about it too much. Take life day by day until a real challenge should arise. As you start out 2024, go through your daily routine. However, during Mars in Capricorn during January, you discern a sharp change from earthbound drudgery to buoyant electricity. You will have just experienced the shift of Pluto from Capricorn to Aquarius. This experience helps you put astrology in an entirely different context. This lofty & uplifting experience makes you believe that you should be doing something – but go slow. Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March reminds you that this is how you should be feeling all year – but you intensely feel that urgency now. Meditate upon I Ching hexagram #2, K’un (The Receptive), Line #2, as per wisdomportal.com: “Movement in a straight line, as well as magnitude, is a primary quality of the Creative. But all square things have their origin in a straight line and into turn form solid bodies. In mathematics, when we discriminate between lines, planes and solids, we find that rectangular planes result from straight lines, and cubic magnitudes from rectangular planes. The Receptive accommodates itself to the qualities of the Creative and makes them its own. Thus, a square develops out of a straight line and a cube out of a square. This is in compliance with the laws of the Creative; nothing is taken away, nothing added. Therefore, the Receptive has no need of a special purpose of its own, nor of any effort, yet everything turns out as it should.” Don’t try to do something when there is nothing to be done. You will need to execute your duty soon enough. Until then, don’t spin your wheels – and keep the powder dry. But you are hard to persuade – particularly if you are single. Yes, romance beckons as Venus conjuncts Mars in Aquarius in late February – but you have heard the phrase, “Ships that pass in the night?” Well, birds, as do airplanes, move faster than ships. Don’t give your heart away. Be prepared for when unexpected strife makes romantic partners scatter during Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 square, first Venus, then Mars, in early March. Then, unbeknownst to you, a gold rush that has been in the planning stages by those seeking to induce a stampede launches during Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 during April. Is this a legitimate money-making opportunity? Is this a wicked harvest of evil criminal influence? Now you learn why you should have shown those powerful players battling with the consciences more respect during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April. If the answer were so black-and-white as these questions present themselves to you, you would act, or, rather, react, immediately, in a kneejerk, Pavlovian fashion. What makes this well-planned gold rush a problem is that it seems legitimate enough. The smell in the air intrigues you. Is it robust & delicious? Is it charismatically funky & deceptively toxic? Gravity begins to reassert itself during Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September. What, at first, seemed as abstract as geometry when you felt Pluto lighten your step in January now becomes replete with confounding substantive context. Enormously sweeping public policy from the government, or religious doctrine from the Catholic Church, as Jupiter sextiles Neptune during May, philosophically informs your idea of Pluto, your ideas of Capricorn & Aquarius, your ideas of gravity & air, deeply, profoundly, disturbingly. Adding urgency but also alarm to such gravity & air, these new professional supervisors & all those new rookie transplant employees warn you & your bosses about new forms of sharp practice & skimming off the tops of transactions during Saturn conjunct Nessus from May through August. This must be stamped out proactively because the karmic cost of exposing this scandal will have consequences far beyond this short mortal timeframe. You stop obsessing as if you woke up from a bad dream, or as if the lights in the cinema illuminated where you had just seen some director’s obsessive masterpiece, as Jupiter transits Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025. This informs who you are in light of everything you have experienced so far in 2024. In the horoscope of Libra, which rules the law, Gemini resides in the 9th house, which rules, amongst other things, the law. Libra, ruled by the Number 8 card of the Tarot’s Major Arcana, Justice, wears a blindfold while holding an uplifted sword in her right hand & while holding the scales of law & justice in her left. Gemini is binary – in computer code, zero or one. Put it all together, and you have “not guilty” or “guilty.” However, either way, “not guilty” or “guilty,” the sword is the sword. The verdict goes into effect. Only thing is, the law is not binary. The law is gray, maddeningly complex, contradictory & labyrinthine. What seems simple is not always simple. Conversely, what somebody claims is complicated, really is simple. All that being said, if you are the type of Libran with a distinct capacity for intuitive & instinctual introspection, before making an explicit & public decision which absolutely defies symbolic logic, then professional superiors may see fit & clear to make you the boss during Asbolus in Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043. Such professional superiors would see you in the modality of Canadian Vicar General John Ralston Saul’s post-Enlightenment mindset exemplified by his treatise Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. The world is not always rational. All that being said, during Jupiter trine Pluto in early June, political consideration, beliefs, promises, assumptions drive legal decisions. The political nature of these decisions destines them for reconsideration by the appellate court.  Some things are legal issues, and some things are not legal issues. However, whether it applies to legal or non-legal issues in your life (it does apply to both legal issues & non-legal issues in general), Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November denotes “volume.” Under such circumstances, work closely with consultants & specialists who identify benchmarks for many different types of schemers & sharp practice during Crantor trine Asbolus trine Elatus from July through September. Which is to say, a ton of baloney in a five-pound bag, three thousand people in a night club with a legal occupancy of three hundred. Which is to say, legally, endless evidence, more commonly known as “discovery,” including convoluted electronic discovery or “e-discovery,” demanding review. A big part of Jupiter square first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and, lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September, wherever you are, and whatever you are doing, involves making what is unmanageable & sprawling manageable, orderly & not only understandable, but available for analysis so that you & bosses can form policy & strategy. Regarding the curtailing of corruption, moreover, this is how regulators think – the new types of corruption which these consultants & specialists now investigate & punish are the effect from a cause. Regulators intend to reset the cause, sooner rather than later, as 2001-SQ73 transits Leo from May 2024 through June 2032. Another subsequent ingress into gravity during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn during September and early October allows, and in fact empowers, you & your team to go deeper, to get to the bottom of the problem & to put it in order, to rearrange everything from scratch, from beginning to end. Amidst all this Herculean effort, regulators & their consultants with whom you work for the first time dazzle you with their methodology & analytically-driven insights as Cyllarus conjuncts 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027. All those converging demands & dynamics blast your way forward to truly superhuman excellence as Jupiter sextiles Chiron from September through November. At the same time, these superstar regulators & their consultants begin to teach you how the application of a type of worldview underwrites the application of their methodology & analytically-driven insights during Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025. Ideally, you will finish a preliminary draft of this epic task before the very beginning of Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025. From here on out, it is all a matter of “review & refine.” Indeed, the hard but straightforward work inherent in this new task will liberate you during Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November as you consider a shift in your long-term future from fulfilling responsibilities to your family, employer, city, state, province or country to more expansive & exciting creative or political possibilities. For the moment, lay low. Don’t socialize with anybody now outside of your professional circles as Thereus transits Libra from October 2024 through April 2025. Distrust strangers – indeed, one such stranger tries to make very direct personal contact with you as you are clearly defending your privacy – before giving anybody the benefits of doubt. These regulators & their consultants introduce you to a new player as Mars transits Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025. This new player is uniquely skilled to execute a complete accounting of all that you have just finished organizing while appraising it for consistency & validity. Moreover, this new player knows those methodologies & analytically-driven insights and is here to let you into the group during Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025. During Jupiter square first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025, you repeat the process of making what is unmanageable & sprawling manageable, orderly & not only understandable, but so that this new player may analyze all that you done so far & form their own opinions about upcoming policy & strategy. Your stellar organizational skills & the job you did with them put this player in a position to interpret what is organized with not only practicality but also profound creativity & truly fresh insight. Profoundly, this new player now mentors you based upon work which you have already accomplished, and accomplished well, during Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025. This new player can see things that you couldn’t originally because the whole process of organizing all this sprawling material blinded you. Pluto in Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043 will empower you & not undermine this player at all. The buoyancy provided by Aquarian Pluto will allow this Leonine player to pick up speed – they bought their own supply of gravity at Home Depot. For many people, over time, however, you see that this buoyancy, this Unbearable Lightness of Being, as per Milan Kundera, is a curse, not a blessing. Aggressively, that stranger who tried to force him or her self upon you now reappears with a tag-team partner to try to approach & to infiltrate your new partnership as Thereus conjuncts 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025. Your new partner now surprises you with the hostile bitterness of their aggression as they tell those strangers, “Go screw, Jill & Jack.” Right now, however, a W is a W. On the two of you go, a fabulous team. The push & pull between you during Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025, is not a power struggle but the forging of a masterpiece. Your partnership with this individual brings out the boss of you, which you normally prefer not to be, during Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025. Good for them! Of course, you want to know who these strangers are besides unnamed enemies. Your partner replies, “Put simply, they want to know what we know, which involves proprietary information. To that end, can you write?” As it turns out, publication is necessary, and your partner is inferring that you are to write about the whole modality & project for industry publication as Jupiter trines Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December. This psychological promotion puts the two of you in a position to tackle an unexpected escalation of the mess that you have just finished straightening out together as Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trines Neptune in January 2025. Again: This must be stamped out proactively because the karmic cost of exposing this scandal will have consequences far beyond this short mortal timeframe as Saturn conjuncts Nessus during January & February 2025. All in a day’s work.   SCORPIO 2024   Scorpions are not Narcissists. Indeed, Scorpions don’t understand people who are in love with themselves, “What have you done to make you believe that you are so great?” Indeed, Scorpions are particularly aware of the competency/confidence continuum: The more competency, the less confidence; conversely, the less competency, absolutely egoistic confidence. This is because you know what the task ahead of you demands. This is why the new start, and perhaps the new romance or more likely new business partnership, connoted by Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024, proved to be such an enormous blessing for Scorpio. You are not one to love yourself, to shower yourself with affirmations. You hate the word, “deserve.” It is more important that you respect yourself than like yourself. You have work to do. You can’t always control the results. As a result, 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. Sometimes, you get stuck & you are not sure what to do next. Sometimes, somebody else gets stuck & is not sure what to do next. You or they ask them or you for help during Okyrhoe in Aries from January 2024 through January 2026. That’s why it is important to like those with whom you work. Clearly, this is a challenge – at times, a daunting & harsh challenge. But the point is the work & cooperating with your team, because this is all that you & your team can control. Yes, this is your corner of the universe, and if you are happy here, you will only allow those who support your happiness within. You feel that way even more intensely because developments in your city, state, province or country do not make you happy. One thing which makes you seriously happy is tackling a problem & solving it. A second thing which makes you deliriously ecstatic is working with a group of people who all become seriously happy to tackle a problem & to solve it, whether alone, with a partner, with a group, the more the merrier, during Crantor in Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034, “We’re us & we’re great. Yeh for us!” No joke, 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 Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. Work hard to communicate & to negotiate through your differences so that your loyal work crew feels comfortable working with these partners to solve all outstanding problems as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. If it takes more than just you to solve those problems, then so be it – as long as everybody there is really contributing. Then again, while you may need a work crew, you probably don’t need a battalion. There is no offensive line in basketball. In that context, there are only so many people on your team, and during 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026, everybody else will be looking at you from the outside, “We’re us & we’re great. Yeh for us!”  This isn’t an egoistic power trip – this is a job. But some individuals want to rule the world. A genius, prophetic, perhaps famous, 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. You see all the changes in your city, state, province or country that you don’t like and this genius, prophetic, perhaps famous, political scientist urban planning eccentric is directly responsible for it. Is this genius, prophetic, perhaps famous, political scientist urban planning eccentric an egomaniac who wants to rule the world? Stop by for a visit & get to know this particular genius, prophetic political scientist urban planning eccentric – (even) (especially) if you disagree vociferously – during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024. Talk turkey. You already feel a little emotionally shaky. Most likely, you will be enduring flashbacks of a past nightmare during Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. Don’t project your irrational & paranoid fears onto others in the absence of facts. Even so, just because you 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 should in no way make you too paranoid. Keep it light. You’re on a team with players that you like. Give those new players the latitude to lead the way as you retain veto power during Direct Motion Jupiter in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. Less practically & more psychologically, take a closer look to analyze them & you realize that, like yourself, they are slightly paranoid & ruthless yourself. But you trust them! Hey! They see the stampede coming in the distance just like you as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March. Notice their sharkish grin as they say, “Don’t you worry! Your friends are my friends – and your enemies are . . . . my enemies,” during Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. You may begin the year by barking orders, but, as Pluto enters Aquarius as Mars in Capricorn during January, you will be more inclined to let those under you take control for themselves as you close the door to your office. You need to adjust to this change. You can’t think about it until you get greater familiarity with, and control over, your feelings about it. Quite fortunately, those who needed to take control of workplace protocol in the absence of your micromanaging style outperformed during Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March. Therefore, concentrate upon yourself. But getting a handle on how you feel about all the changes now happening, not only to your family, city, state, province or country, but also to your changing feelings, is not something about which you can seize immediate control. This is why romance, frivolous & fictional or silly yet real, as Venus conjuncts Mars in Aquarius in late February, irritates what disturbs you. When a business partner tells these “romantics,” or fans of such “romantics,” to cut the crap & to get back to work as Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 squares, first Venus, then Mars, in early March, you feel relieved – the ire of those reprimanded gaze away from you. Close the door to your office. Keep your mind & your attention span away from annoying frivolity. Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during March denotes that you have considerable research to do to determine the procedures & protocol necessary to secure permissions for certain types of business & academic pursuits. You learn such information in stages. Close your mind to other peoples’ stupidity & follow through on your task. Extremely sudden & good fortune happens to a spouse or business partner during Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 during April. If their good fortune has anything to do with professional innovations developed in your workplace, or if your spouse still loves you, you benefit directly financially. This calms your nerves as Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September also quells much of the nervous energy which made you so jumpy early in 2024. Just don’t deceive yourself into thinking that that Aquarian energy will be going away forever. Execute upon the research you conducted during March during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April.  Depending upon who had all that good fortune, your spouse suggests making more babies in your family while your business partner suggests hiring a group of new employees to staff a new department as Jupiter sextiles Neptune during May. While you do not oppose any such suggestion at all, such intimations of growth are always more attractive when you flush with cash than when you are suffering. The pros of your suggestion are obvious & wonderful, but the cons are not nearly as obvious, and sometimes hidden, all of which makes this suggestion downright scary. Then, the shift of Jupiter in Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025 spooks you, making you feel outright uncomfortable. Share your deep misgivings about, and your doubts concerning, other peoples’ loyalties, with spouse or business partner during Jupiter trine Pluto in early June. The shared destiny amongst those members of your loyal workcrew becomes more pronounced, obvious & defined as Saturn conjuncts Nessus from May through August. You know who will be loyal. You know who will betray. You know who will save your face & save the day. You know if you will all win or lose. Believe that the shared destiny is more important than your individual experience of it, because your individual experience of it is mandated by the divinity. More people, of every sort, present troubles in & of themselves. Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November, indicate that your responsibilities for all those people in your life for who are already under your charge will now increase. That’s fine, as far as it goes, as you already know & trust them. However, Jupiter square, first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September will bring up circumstances where you wonder whether or not you should trust them. You’re all smart. You can all read the signals provided by Crantor trine Asbolus trine Elatus from July through September. Given your shared destiny, do you really think the interpretations of said signals will really change anything? But you’ve trusted people who have betrayed you before. It is your Achilles Heel. So, bottom line, why would you want to increase the number of people whom you may or may not trust right now? Much depends upon whether your proposals for international business expansion, academic accreditation, publication or third-party funding succeed. These are large, ponderous developments and, if the answer is, “Yes,”, they change everybody’s lives. Asbolus in Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043 reminds you that the intuition & instinct of the captain on the ship on the ocean in the late 18th century was guided by looking up at the sky at the constellation gleaming at night as the boat moved forward, primarily upon currents generated by unfathomable & irrational waters. One thing which certainly has the capacity to cloud your vision is your need to cooperate with representatives of other sovereign institutions who are deciding whether or not to grant your requests during Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025. Your quotidian needs & your overweening professional ambitions force you to be nearsighted & farsighted simultaneously, which is impossible. Such a metaphor is apt. 2001-SQ73 in Leo from May 2024 through June 2032 denotes that authority figures whom you have never met from sovereign institutions either nationally & academically or internationally may demand adjustments that you not only fail to understand but even to fathom. Don’t let this unconscious paranoia creep into how you deal with your children at home or these employees in the workplace during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn in September and early October. Furthermore, forestall paranoia about whether employees who outperformed in February & March are happy or unhappy working for you by giving them a raise & taking them out for a celebration dinner as Jupiter sextiles Chiron from September through November. Talk frankly with this player. Enlist & empower as you give a solid hip check to competitors who may try to steal them from you. Talk again to spouse or business partner about the paranoia you feel about betrayal at the beginning of Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025. While this is something that makes you utterly irrational, this is not something that bothers either spouse or business partner, as they can appraise the attitudes & actions of other people more objectively. Such objectivity is invaluable now as you struggle with communications with extremely accomplished & noble power brokers determining the worthiness of your ideas & your worth as a noble person as Cyllarus conjuncts 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027. Indeed, you do not fully understand that you are growing emotionally. Your perception is skewed. While, and because, astrologically, Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini is exactly the perfect time for saboteurs to plan a betrayal that they would theoretically launch after Retrograde Jupiter turns Direct in February 2025, give your spouse & business partner much more latitude to address this pressing psychological concern in the knowledge that they are watching your back. If you do, then, during Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November, you will be able to interact with everybody at home & in the workplace in confidence & in peace. A lawyer sends correspondence, but not service, or a detective approaches you personally, as Thereus transits Libra from October 2024 through April 2025. Do not engage. Report this incident to spouse or business partner. Given that this lawyer or detective will return, give spouse or business partner the authority to find out what that lawyer or detective wants. As you also continue to pursue your ambitions regarding international business expansion, academic accreditation, publication or third-party funding, you need to talk with spouse, business partner, agent or academic about how to handle direct communications & interviews with authority figures whom you have never met from sovereign institutions either nationally & academically or internationally during Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025. Hone your presentation. Furthermore, conducting deep research about such authority figures whom you have never met from sovereign institutions either nationally & academically or internationally is not optional, but imperative & mission critical, during Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025. You recognize the nervous energy that you felt earlier in 2024 as Pluto begins to transit Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043. You have resigned yourself to find a way to acclimate yourself to it over the long term even though you have no idea how to do so right now. Unfortunately, and fortunately, an auditor, law enforcement official or regulator – or, if no legal issue is involved, authority figures whom you have never met from sovereign institutions either nationally & academically or internationally – makes arduous demands upon you & your office amidst threats to your company & personal freedom as Mars transits Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025. Unfortunately, because this behavior is intimidating on its face. Fortunately, because this phenomenon, if it is a legal issue, is not some nameless, illusory phantom – this problem is manifest. If it is a legal issue, this is clear & present danger. Conversely, if this auditor, law enforcement official or regulator is wrong, it just proves that you are as good as you say you are. All that being said, service, arrests & lawsuits escalate as Thereus conjuncts 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025. Remember your agreement to let a spouse or business partner control the monitoring of home & business to identify signs of betrayal as Jupiter squares first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025. What your spouse or business partner might propose is an open discussion or a veiled interrogation session at home & at work to determine if anybody contacted the offices of those representatives who visited – before the investigation gets too far, preventing you from talking with each other outright. You may get some truth & some deceit. You might get stonewalled. But bringing this issue up publicly shows that there are no secrets harbored against each other where you are. And your spouse or business partner might propose something else. None of this contradicts the concept that all of you are participating in a predetermined shared destiny as Saturn conjuncts Nessus during January & February 2025 – but none of you can just stand around waiting for an axe to fall. Cooperate as best as you can. If the subject about which the auditor, law enforcement official or regulator interrogates does indeed involve legal issues, then further service, arrests & lawsuits may indeed come your way during Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025. A summons & complaint will offer many more clues about such betrayal than are being withheld – and then you will know where you stand. Whatever the auditor, law enforcement official or regulator foretold, legal proceedings accelerate during Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025, and you will know whether or not any family members in your home or employees in the workplace betrayed you, and everybody else, as Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trine Neptune in January 2025. Of course, none of this might involve any such dark & unhappy legal issues at all. Truth be told, all these astrological aspects may instead foretell that authority figures whom you have never met from sovereign institutions either nationally & academically or internationally may require any & all sorts of personal investigations, interrogations, interviews & discussions about national & international protocol which may indeed involve law enforcement clearance. Your ambitions may be exceeding your capacity to interpret events. Come to honest terms with not only your conscience but your ability to maintain objectivity. Carry on. Any way that you look at it, whether you are struggling with punitive legal issues, overweening multicity or international business expansion, accelerated or heightened academic affiliation, or a combination thereof, you get the attention of the local media & the municipal, state or provincial government as Jupiter trines Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December – perhaps as the result of the influence or interference of somebody within your loyal workcrew. You can view this as a betrayal if you like, but it would be far wiser to view your own inexorable ambitions in life leading you to circumstances that you simply cannot control personally, or alone, anymore.   SAGITTARIUS 2024   However it happened, the initial, brief ingress of Pluto into Aquarius during April & May 2023 inspired you deeply! Whether you felt compelled to write a masterpiece novel, film a genius movie or spend every night behind a microphone, the inspiration that you felt was electric. Yes, it could simply have been the presence of some intellectual giant in your city that magnified your latent ambitions, but, still, you became a wire that constantly buzzed. Profoundly, benevolently, that brilliant local herald of the future with their own unprecedented theory & worldview established themselves permanently in your city, state or province for the long-term during Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036. As a result, you may be able to attend all their public forums, plus lectures, events, performances or concerts after work – which is a nice way of saying you should be getting a job. If you can get that job, you can attend those public forums, lectures, events, performances or concerts with your friends. The necessity for stable, ongoing employment coincides with a new group of straightforward & industrious colleagues & employees during Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024. Yes, of course, 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 arise during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024. You sense real growth potential, not just financially but spiritually. Then again, if work colleagues invite you to a strip or sex club, a stripper or gigolo can manipulate your brain & genitals so as to control you as their slave during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. As for that, uh, no. Since we are on the subject of . . . . those types of people . . . 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 during Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024, this means that you associate with the wrong group of friends. Don’t get in too deep. Long story short, the fact that you poured heart & soul into the escape of your creativity over 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! The simple fact that the extremely impatient Archer must accept is that, as for all of their creative ambitions, they have all the time in the world to execute them. But, before you can use any of that time, Okyrhoe in Aries from January 2024 through January 2026 demands that you get enough money to pay for it. The future which taxis the runway for long-term takeoff during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024 is merely preliminary, a movie trailer, to the very long transit of Pluto through Aquarius starting in November. The subscription plan will prove too expensive. Accumulate what you will need before you start. Short-term, right now: 1) Realize how much a family member needs your active support & money, and deliver it, as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. Get a job not only for yourself but to help family & those whom you love. 2) Crantor in Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034 reminds you that just because you offer an elderly ancestor or parent medical support & money does not change the hierarchy of your nuclear & extended family. (Although it will give you legitimate authority to chastise members of your extended family inclined towards counterproductive mischief during 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026.) 3) You get rich working hard & living the straight & narrow without vice during Direct Motion Jupiter in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. Yeh! Money for you. While you’re at it, return the favor of those who tried to corrupt you by telling them how little you need them during Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024, “Go screw, buddy.” Well, that’s that. So, after telling that corrupt creep off, you are at work during Mars in Capricorn during January, waiting with a small cadre of fellow employees waiting at the pantry to get your coffee, when you launch into a spontaneous yet relatively mild tirade, “Really, when are Americans going to learn that one does not live to work, but that one works to live?” Which attracted another interesting troublemaker in line (all troublemakers are interesting to Sagittarius), who replies, “Many of them are going to learn that in another week, as Pluto enters Aquarius!” Good news! Fascinating! But you are not sure you believe it, “But I thought that Pluto was no longer a planet?” Well, don’t believe everything that you read – unless, of course, you write it. Which Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March now inspires you to do – to write it, to draw it, to paint it, to film it, to write a play or sitcom or a screenplay about it. Creativity expands the experience & the fulfillment of life. On top of that, Chiron never was a planet! Furthermore, there are people out there who believe that Pluto is a planet still – but, whether it is or not, that does not mean that Pluto does not influence the opinions of Americans about how & why they work! People who take themselves so damn seriously get on your nerves! That is why you are the life of the party when you go out with your friends to a bar or restaurant – or when you get on stage telling jokes from behind a microphone – as Venus conjuncts Mars in Aquarius in late February. Romance? Absolutely! (If you want.) But, goddammit, you are hilarious! You can make some serious money off that. But not at your day job. Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 square, first Venus, then Mars, in early March reminds you that your boss doesn’t laugh. You need your day job. Remember Mayor Burgermeister Meisterburger in Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, “No toys!” Well, no jokes, no fun, no laughs at work – or else. Don’t forget: Everybody on your job, in your industry sector & on the workforce is concentrating upon making money on the preannounced gold rush to take place as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March. All work & no play – this means you! He’s a mean one, that Mr. Grinch. To repeat: 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 during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during March, this means that you associate with the wrong group of friends. Don’t get in too deep. Disassociate more abruptly. Workwise, there is not only plenty to do, all of a sudden, but there is an enormous amount more than just plenty to do during Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 during April. This is by design. New tools, some AI driven, will enter your skill set. You won’t be able to do some of this the long way. Pay attention.  Unsavory friends now toxic with vice should now begin to avoid you during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April. Anyway, you meet your European-American friend as the two of you wait at the pantry to get your coffee during Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September. “Thank you so much!” you thank your friend. “Your timely news about Pluto gave me hope that not all of us Americans will be working as slaves forever!” Your European-American friend takes pains to smile wanly. “I’m glad you liked the whole idea of it,” your European-American friend replies while pouring a light-and-sweet, “except all of us Americans will have to wait until next year now that Pluto has gone Retrograde.” This disturbs you. “Retrograde?” you exclaim, exasperated. “Does that mean that Pluto is still not a planet?” “I’m sorry, I don’t do politics,” your European-American friend replies. “Back to work!” Well, that’s no fun! You were actually beginning to cultivate some hope. But, really, the news that this European-American friend provided proves to be a blessing in disguise. Jupiter sextile Neptune during May denotes that you need as much extra money as you can get to pour into a disintegrating domicile, an elderly parent or a brood of children preparing to attend college in the next three to six years. More important than what money you put into the care of an elderly ancestor or parent is their emotional need to communicate with you. Saturn conjunct Nessus from May through August empowers these elderly citizens with the insight provided to those on the other side of mundane, quotidian reality. Put bluntly, what they say to you now they will repeat to you down the line from the other side of Ouija Board you bought because you became desperate to communicate with them. That is all exotic & sexy, of course – but listen to them, and hear them out, now. Do you have all the money that you need? Some of it, probably, maybe even most of it. More pertinent to how you feel right now: 2001-SQ73 in Leo from May 2024 through June 2032 asks, “Will you have all the money you want to get all that you want & to travel to all the places where you will want to be for the rest of the decade?” Really, this European-American concept has you inspired! Jupiter in Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025 is making you wonder if you should make professional changes in order to earn a lot more money to get that baseline treasure chest which your lifestyle requires. The idea of you traipsing around Paris or doing the nightclub scene in Berlin thrills you so much it becomes your primary motivation as Jupiter trines Pluto in early June.  Despite such dreams, whatever responsibilities you have at your home or in your family, whether a disintegrating domicile, an elderly parent or a brood of children preparing to attend college in the next three to six years, you must prepare to satisfy them as they multiply & become even more arduous during Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November.  Simultaneously, you are now on the other side of that toxic vice which plagued you for many years as Asbolus in Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043 begins. Why you must remain clean now should be apparent to you, given your familial responsibilities. However, as you grow further out of this phase, do not allow lowlife to convince you that you are any different than you were – you are better than you were. More answers will come with more questions. Trust the process. Case in point: That elderly ancestor or parent informs you of problems involving specific members of your extended family as Crantor trines Asbolus trines Elatus from July through September. But back to Paris & Berlin. Real simple! You just do the math: Paris and/or Berlin plus a disintegrating domicile, an elderly parent or a brood of children preparing to attend college in the next three to six years equals . . . what? Jupiter square, first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September declares, “This is your number.” That is the money you need as a baseline. And, as a lesson worth repeating, Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025 reminds you that “baseline” usually denotes & always connotes “the least amount.” Economists figure into their calculations “the cost of living.” Sagittarian Archers must figure into their calculations “the cost of appetite.” Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027 guarantees that the first wealthy, jet-setting cosmopolitan who shows you how to live the good life will blow your Excel spreadsheet to the other side of nuclear-bombed Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Most likely, your ability to procure that number within any reasonable timeframe, given your current income level, is impossible. Therefore, Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn during September and early October indicates quite clearly that what you must do is save your money until you get a viable plan where you can earn much, much more money.  Which brings us back to all that creative activity you did, writing, drawing, filming, constructing TV shows & movies during February & March. Smug microeconomists call such things, “Lottery tickets.” Well, in that context, that focused creativity can easily become your “lottery ticket” as Jupiter sextiles Chiron from September through November. But you need a plan. Then you need to work that plan. Back at the pantry at work, your European-American friend sees you coming for your daily caffeine jones. “Sorry to tell you the bad news,” your European-American friend smiles sadly, “but it looks like it is all about the U.S.A.,” during Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November. This disturbs you greatly. “Oh, my God,” you exclaim. “Is there no hope?” Because Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025 happens around the same time, your European-American friend has the truth to speak in reply, “There is hope, if you have a plan, and that you work the plan, and that you continue to work the plan, until the plan works.” All this delay & work is getting on your nerves – what is this, you’ve been waiting now for nine, ten, eleven months! But don’t despair. If you want to go, Mars in Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025 says you can go – you can go wherever you like! Flights are always for sale. But, like Gwen Stefani imprisoned in a gilded jail cell in “The Sweet Escape,” that is not “freedom,” that is “escapism.” Be warned: Thereus in Libra from October 2024 through April 2025 will introduce you to a friendly face who is no friend. This friendly face has you pegged as an isolated individual unsure of their moral & ethical values. Everything about this person is trouble. Shun. One indulges escapism when one avoids one’s problems. In order to be free, in order to live the European way, where one works to live, Pluto in Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043 in your 3rd house of transactions & the local environment demands that all the economics of your 2nd house of money are already completely solved. Because, in a very scary wakeup call, if you don’t have the money to pay the landlord, your taxes & the devil during Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025, it is all over. Hopefully, most likely, you do have the money to pay the landlord, your taxes & the devil. If that is the case, upgrade the numbers on your Excel spreadsheet, “Paris and/or Berlin plus a disintegrating domicile, an elderly parent or a brood of children preparing to attend college in the next three to six years equals . . . what?” to make it immune from obsolescence by wealthy jet-setting Plutocrats with nuclear appetites during Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025. So, ultimately, the wisest thing to do is to postpone such travel, travel which represents not “freedom” but “escapes,” to develop . . . the plan. Because remember the original equation: Paris and/or Berlin plus a disintegrating domicile, an elderly parent or a brood of children preparing to attend college in the next three to six years equals . . . what? Yes, it will be necessary for you to update all the numbers as you upgrade the plan as Jupiter squares first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025 – but the plan is still the plan. And, as you update the plan, Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025, advises you, if you can, to set an upper limit for which wealthy jet-setting Plutocrats with nuclear appetites you may be willing to entertain. The evil friendly face you met in October hovers in & around you with another evil friendly face as Thereus conjuncts 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025. You really don’t have to be too nice to either of them . . . at all. Late breaking news on your lottery ticket: All the time you spent trying to make other people laugh in public, from 2020 through 2023, as well as this past February, has contributed to your reputation as a hilarious person, “You’re a hilarious person, you know that?” To which you reply, “What’s it to you, buddy?” Well, truth be told, Jupiter trine Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December reminds you that being hilarious is a job skill – hilarious people are paid well. But don’t say, “Yes.” Say, “Let’s try it.” Go slow for now. Keep it real. Add a little more dark truth to your happy fantasies. Debt increases as opportunities to make money temporarily shrink during Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025. This forces you to change that equation once again to ensure that no matter what happens, your family will get the money it needs, whether it is necessary to fix a disintegrating domicile, to care for an elderly parent or to have enough money for a brood of children preparing to attend college in the next three to six years – or all of it at the same time – as Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trines Neptune in January 2025. All this is temporary. Circumstances become hard when you refuse to think – but just because you refuse to think does not make you stupid. Saturn conjunct Nessus during January & February 2025 reminds you these elderly citizens still have the insight provided to those on the other side of mundane, quotidian reality. Put bluntly, what they say to you now they will repeat you down the line from the other side of Ouija Board you bought because you became desperate to communicate with them. But this isn’t good enough for this elderly ancestor or parent – they have something to say to you now.   CAPRICORN 2024   The future has almost, but not quite, begun, during Pluto in Aquarius from January through August 2024. However, 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. Don’t let any temptation dissuade you from this mission. Put this behind 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. If you do not feel completely comfortable with each & every individual in your home, this is where you are most prone to cultivate & to express anger. Because 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, you must come to terms with this unspoken ultimatum, “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)!” Furthermore, and more importantly, a son, daughter or younger family member is much more vulnerable emotionally than you as Okyrhoe transits Aries from January 2024 through January 2026. Your anger can destroy them. Disregarding how your family feels is a guaranteed recipe for outright tragedy. Some responsibilities are burdensome. For one thing, legal issues & ongoing security needs predominate, whether you work in a store or at an office, during Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024 – these are issues which you cannot offload & delay. In fact, it is imperative that you double down on security & security protocol as the likelihood for trouble increases during Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. More importantly, and on both the business & the home front, continue to eliminate your debt – or expect interference, sanctions & restrictions from regulatory agencies, credit card companies & political auditors – during 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024. Yes, Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 already knows that you want to have fun, you want to pursue your creativity, and you want to do it immediately. However, your ability to act upon your inspiration depends upon your finances – and, no matter how much cash you have, 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%!  Yes, it can happen – a financial bonanza from an astounding creative success can lift you from debt to wealth. But Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March confirms that to rely upon this is a very bad plan.  Money is only part of the issue. Agree to attend a therapy session with your spouse during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024 to unearth long-buried feelings which unduly influence & undermine your relationship. If you don’t get along with, and, in fact, show love to your family on a routine basis, you risk undermining & losing them. Do not expect this to be your only therapy session. These are all real, genuine problems that must be solved if you are to be free of the past. Other than security problems at work, the rest of it is all patty cake patty cake. The female college senior doing an internship at the office feels her oats – she wants to work with the big kids on speculative creative projects as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. If she can contribute, why not? Direct Motion Jupiter in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024 promises that everybody with something to contribute is welcome to cooperate as a member of your loyal team. But, in that context, do you treat strangers in the workplace better than you do your own family? Crantor in Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034 declares that this is the most natural behavior for a work-focused Capricorn the Goat. But it still solves no problems. Put bluntly: 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026 distinguishes, “Lots of strangers – very little family.”  Well, that’s a lot of problems to solve – what’s the upside? If you keep going to therapy with your spouse, then not only will your relationship with your spouse improve during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during March, but you & your spouse will be working out a methodology which will not only heal your emotional problems but will allow you to manage & to solve the problems of your family. That new & fresh intellectual genius returns & entrenches themselves as a local fixture during Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036. You have the next twelve or so years to engage in meaningful conversation & a new worldly vision with them. First things first. You may not have noticed it as it happened when, first Amycus, then Pluto, exited Capricorn to enter Aquarius for abbreviated transits in early 2023, but you will definitely feel it in your body when Pluto exits Aquarius during Mars in Capricorn during January. Yes, the enormous taxing of your spirit & personage that began when Pluto began its long-term transit of Capricorn soon after the collapse of the capital markets in November 2008 is really now about to end. The very idea that you may be liberated from your past is outright surreal – but its manifest reality? Review relationships with spouse & family during a therapy session during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April. You can in no way soft-peddle or overlook issues involving your relationships with children in your family – particularly if you are a father, and, amongst your children, you have sons. Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March denotes that there is no way you will know where grief from a son will come – whether they make you question who you are, or who you were, or whether they make you doubt your authority or your capability to be a parent. Whatever it is that your children or your spouse makes you feel, you cannot expect to heal the wound underlying it in a short timeframe. All that you can do in the short term is to contain the crisis so that all of you can move forward with your lives at hand. Go slow, partner. If, and however, Valentine’s Day fits into your business model, for God’s sake, exploit it as Venus conjuncts Mars in Aquarius in late February! Don’t take any short-term or long-term financial risks upon them – then you will lose money based upon them almost immediately as Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 squares, first Venus, then Mars, in early March. Once the concert is over, stop selling the “Tyler & Travis” black t-shirts. Don’t overthink this one. Whether you are an investor, a publisher, a gallery owner, a music producer, a film producer, a writer, an artist, a musician, an actor, an actress or a director, respect genius for its own sake during Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 during April. Works of art that represent pure genius may be accepted & rewarded or rejected & punished in the marketplace of the day. That being said: Conversely, a gimmick on a saleable work of intellectual property can break the bank under the same influence. But don’t confuse one with the other. Take your concomitant curses & blessings in stride. As this drama in the marketplace continues to play out, you begin to realize the purpose, and are grateful for the wisdom provided, by your recent Plutonic transformation during Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September. Others may choose to speak flippantly about all that now occurs, but you, who stand to gain financially depending upon how you leverage your position, will remain silent. Proper behavior during this time serves you well as a solemn demeanor becomes mandatory for whatever occasion of sweeping international importance will occur as Jupiter sextiles Neptune during May. Distance yourself emotionally from all in the workplace as Saturn conjuncts Nessus from May through August. Concentrate upon healing emotional problems at home exclusively. Multiplying your emotional problems by multiplying the places where you have emotional problems is the key to the destruction of your monarchy. Of course, this includes shunning extramarital affairs – duh!  Presenting a respectful & respectable, serious countenance is exhausting & unnecessary. The niggling minutiae of the professional workplace actually relaxes you – at least you can complain, laugh & let your hair down. Really, you are underestimating the psychological value that the workplace provides – all the random, stray little problems, customers, complaints, demands & inhospitable demands of bosses & all sorts of so-called “people” during Jupiter in Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025 helps you to keep it light, to keep your mind from epic bouts of light & darkness, as you concentrate upon a sitcom that really isn’t that funny. But, at the end of the day, the fact that business is good & clients are paying makes you feel exuberant as Jupiter trines Pluto in early June. Even so, responsibilities are heavy. Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November bring with it a series of problems which you & your employees must address on a daily basis until you get these problems all under control. Regarding inventory, you have way too much of what you don’t need & way too little of what you do. There is a high volume of customer complaints. Theft is high – are employees stealing or perhaps even embezzling? Competition cut you off from the resources that you need. This is not a business that will run itself. You must stay on top of all that responsibility that you’ve taken. And that’s just work. Your shared therapy sessions have turned your spouse into a diabolical living oracle, like Mary Tyrone, the wife of the actor James Tyrone in Eugene O’Neil’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, although your spouse does not drink or do morphine, during Asbolus in Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043. Really, if you thought you needed such an oracle, you would have moved to Delphi. But, truth be told, you’ve put your head in the sand for many years. You believe what you want to believe. No more of that! Metaphysical psychodrama aside, 2001-SQ73 in Leo from May 2024 through June 2032 demands that you get control of your debt. You earn only so much money, but you also have been avoiding the problem. You need to apply your best problem-solving skills to this mission-critical crisis before it expands beyond your control. Back in the workplace, you must delegate authority to supervisors during Jupiter square, first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September, with whom you will be meeting individually & collectively over time. However, you, personally, should meet with consultants in the workplace not subject to supervision as Crantor trines Asbolus trines Elatus from July through September to determine what is falling through the cracks & why. Because this is a role in which you will feel familiar, you can draw upon emotional & logistic experience to carry out all that needs to be done during Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn during September and early October. Your skill in handling your job roles professionally gives you more confidence to handle ongoing family crises with your son, children or spouse as Jupiter sextiles Chiron from September through November – as long as you don’t try to leverage any logistic advantage that you may have within your home. Quite disturbingly, a new professional superior of the opposite gender who hopefully is not your direct boss arrives on the scene during Thereus in Libra from October 2024 through April 2025 to screw you. Sexually? Absolutely. Professionally? Absolutely. Danger, Will Robinson. Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Shun. After considerable analysis, you came to the conclusion that the solution to your debt crisis involves borrowing more money. Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027 concurs with you if you plan taking out a secured loan putting up collateral rather than requesting an unsecured loan at a sick rate of interest. Is this is gamble? No. Is this a sure thing? No. What this is is a struggle. This requires monitoring & vigilance throughout Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025. Merchants, traders: Seek surpluses that you can purchase at a distinct bargain on the cusp of Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025 that you can sell during the Christmas season. However, the accumulation of your own subjective, yet, nevertheless, epic personal experience that you exude during Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November makes you feel supreme confidence – another day above ground & one more day in the office. You feel ready for your next challenge “Lay it on me.” Well, you asked for it – and it is heavy. One reason it is heavy is that it is of your own making – and you have heard this song & dance before. Mars in Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025 says that you owe a lot of money & you need to pay it down as soon as possible. Does this mean your plan is failing? No. Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025 declares that this is a function of monitoring. You needed to apply your best problem-solving skills to this mission-critical crisis before it expands beyond your control. Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025, observed that what you did was to apply your best problem-solving skills so that this mission-critical crisis expanded within your control. That is your story. Yes, you are sticking to it. Now, you must make it happen & prove it. Now, it could quite well be that you already went through that phase of debt & already paid it off post-COVID, finishing it off sometime in 2023. Everything is possible. However, if you still owe that money, Pluto in Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043 is telling you that you do not have any money of your own until you pay your debt off. If you have paid off that money, and are out of debt, then you will be compelled to borrow a significant amount of money as a business loan to expand your business & to increase your net worth – because, despite the fact that you paid off all that debt, the money that you have which is left over is not enough. Discretionary speculative purchases of commodities you buy in early October can bring big sudden windfall profit during Christmas as Jupiter trines Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December. Either way, the pressure this puts upon those in your family or at work really rattles them. As for how much this unnerves your spouse during Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025, you really must account for the fact that they did not ask for this. You must consult with them – preferably before you take any action which will change their status & position, no matter what they do or not. But, as for employees, Jupiter square first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025 states that they will have a lot less slack. And they will feel it. That new professional superior of the opposite gender begins to toy with some devastating sexual politics during Thereus conjunct 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025. The only way to save your own face is to withdraw very awkwardly & aggressively. Move hard & fast away from the aggressor as you accidentally break things along the way. Again: Distance yourself emotionally from all in the professional workplace as Saturn conjuncts Nessus during January & February 2025. Concentrate upon healing emotional problems at home exclusively. Multiplying your emotional problems by multiplying the places where you have emotional problems is the key to the destruction of your monarchy. Of course, this includes shunning extramarital affairs no matter how often such potential paramours try to entrap you. Duh! As long as you handle one relationship at a time, and that one relationship is a legitimate relationship, all should go well. If you do, your spouse will know that he or she has enlisted a staunch ally and has not created a lethal enemy during Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025. However, if you don’t have that staunch ally ready, willing & able to tackle all the trouble that is created during Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trine Neptune in January 2025, it might be better that that lethal enemy conduct a mercy killing. Praying mantis!   AQUARIUS 2024 Be grateful for the lessons that Saturn in Aquarius in your fall in your 1st house of self & identify taught you from December 2020 to March 2023. No matter what you did, you couldn’t tell if it was wrong, right, smart, stupid or outright irrelevant. It was like shooting a Revolutionary War musket in the day of semi-automatic machine guns. 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. Their story is written. Your story? You can ascend to, or descend to, infinite eternity, as the greatest good or the absolute most evil. No pressure. Day by day – don’t get ahead of yourself. Keeping your mind upon quotidian, mundane business is the best way to get along. Even though, mentally & psychologically, your mind is focused at a distant point along the horizon, it is premature to act upon any actual agenda. Jupiter in Taurus from May 2023 through May 2024 exhorts you to be content with all the material comfort you enjoy – which is considerable. But the future? You have to pay attention to other people – but, please, do not pay attention to everybody. To start, other people will indeed be jealous of you – and a few will not wish you well – during Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. That is their problem. You must take certain adversaries seriously. As current long-term competitions conclude, potentially to a climax, Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024 signifies that you have good reason to personalize this fight. That doesn’t mean that you should; it also doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t. 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, by telling his son that his opponent had stolen his French fries on his birthday twenty years ago! In short: Whatever works – but only if it works. Some individuals, ally or adversary, require considerably more nuance. 2001-SQ73 in Leo from August 2023 through February 2024 augurs a new long-term dynamic. Putting a complex dynamic as simply as possible, 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! Much of what happens in this cycle involves what you say to, and how you handle, your enemies. Okyrhoe in Aries from January 2024 through January 2026 makes it imperative that you put considerable distance between yourself & strangers or enemies who try to approach you. You don’t need to be told once, let alone twice, 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 those outside of your social circle. Bluntly & succinctly, you, personally, do not want to engage. Why allow random losers to confront you & your personal vulnerability? Just like that “unofficial representatives of the band” to whom you must consult if you want to communicate with the band, Crantor in Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034 advises that you deploy your own representative to whom others must speak if they want to communicate with you. In the end, you want that representative to be one of your friends, because if he or she is not, he or she will one day alienate. . . . one of your friends. Indeed, it is entirely possible that you are approaching the level of popularity where fans whom you never met seem like fans & vice versa, and, if that is the case, then 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026 states that the lame douchebag who failed in their duties as your official representative has an excuse, “Seems to me like everybody is your friend.” Well, tell the lame douchebag, “Not everybody is my friend, which is why I hired you. You’re fired.” Believe it, yo. Hire a friend. Strangers, enemies & institutions don’t need to know what you think – they don’t deserve to get that close to you. You require latitude to be diplomatic. Demand it. Either way, in the end, your friends will remain your friends – and those friends will do anything for or with you as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. 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, Retrograde 2001-SQ73 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 Direct Motion Jupiter in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. But wait just a minute here – why not spend time in your home with your friends in the first place? If you really are getting a little too well-known or famous to be comfortable in public & your domicile is big enough to accommodate some or all of them, why not try your skills out at gourmet cooking or mixology at home with your peeps during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer throughout March? So, the ideal operating dynamic: There are those who adore you, and there are those to whom you are a mystery. Maintain that posture, and nobody will ask what makes you so great. Amycus in Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036 will allow you to be your best within the personage of your most natural self – but with an outlier’s advantage. You are well familiar with that feeling that you get – feeling lighter on your feet, enjoying clean, crisp & electric, not stagnant, air – as Pluto enters Aquarius during Mars in Capricorn during January. And, if you are astrologically sophisticated, you will feel content that the current changes in the outer planets will not hamper you as Saturn did just a few short years ago. But don’t get overconfident. Be especially careful not to tell anybody off, no matter how you might feel about what they say & believe, during Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March. Those who might agree with you might not stick around to become your allies, but those whom you insult will keep long memories. Choose & use your words carefully. Do not get overconfident when Venus conjuncts Mars in Aquarius in late February. Yes, you might attract sexual & romantic affection by your radical comments; however, once the initial attraction wears off, those who felt attracted to you because of what you said may soon view you as a weirdo. Any way you look at it, get out of the spotlight before backlash approaches your head in the form of vicious reactionary insults, if not bottles (“Bud Light bottles for you, you weirdo!”) as Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 squares, first Venus, then Mars, in early March. Okay, social conservatism bores you – so remain outright silent until you can express yourself, unreservedly & unabashed. However, realize that, during Jupiter conjunct 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March, people everywhere intend to make a killing in the stock market, crypto currency exchanges or anywhere they can, and they intend to buy everything & every property that they want as soon as they get that money in hand. As for now, as long as you cover every possible angle for loss with your property, you may be in line for an increased appraisal on the home where you live, or you may locate an ideal property at just the right price during Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 during April. Pay careful attention as to how your ongoing expenses regarding your property are due to fluctuate over the next 12 to 16 months, starting during Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September.  In the meantime, have another gourmet cooking or mixology party with your best & closest at your most exclusive digs during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April – but document the awesome tastes & beautiful ones for Instagram Immortality! It will be hard to underestimate the long-term effects of sweeping changes announced during, and implemented soon after, Jupiter sextile Neptune during May, whether they involve the banking system, national economic policy or a broad reform of the Catholic Church. Nobody is likely to feel the consequences of these decisions immediately, but many will certainly begin to notice them in mid-September & early fall. Simply keep abreast of such remote yet critically important news. A lot of that will show up in the official history books, but, as for you, yourself & yours, Saturn conjunct Nessus from May through August denotes that “Instagram Immortality” will become far more than just a phrase – particularly if your fame in one area of endeavor or another is now growing. Consider the photograph of The Irascibles and how it defined a generation of Abstract Expressionist artists in mid-century New York City. Consider the black & white film of the John Coltrane Quartet playing My Favorite Things in Comblain-La-Tour, Belguim in 1965. Consider Kurt Cobain & Nirvana on MTV’s Unplugged in the late Nineties. You really would like to believe that you will be having more fun during Jupiter in Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025. For one thing, you will soon be enjoying the type of attention that you prefer, as the media, the public & the people in & around you appreciate you for who you really are as Jupiter trines Pluto in early June. However, Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November, strongly warn that there is a high financial price you will pay if you stand out from certain crowds – work colleagues with nothing to contribute except petty blackmail & complaints, judgmental authority figures who are not your employer or your boss but somehow still feel they have a duty & a right to judge you not only openly to your face but amongst your peers and to the media. Given your vulnerability in this upward trajectory, particularly if you are graduating from an anonymous public posture to one of some modicum of fame, that friend who took over for that lame douchebag you hired to represent you to those outside of your social circle before your friend replaced same said lame douchebag now assumes a different role within your group as Crantor trines Asbolus trines Elatus from July through September: Your friend has to make sure that nobody within your group is pursuing either interests antithetical to your group by engaging the media, or is using & self-destructive. And those gourmet cooking & mixology parties: Asbolus in Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043 highly recommends that you keep this rated PG. Keep the loser pukers in the low-rent bars downtown. For friends only – no groupies. Keep these parties intimate. Never invite too many people that you cannot keep track of anybody & everybody with a cursory glance all at the same time. And if you don’t use, invite nobody who does. Ever. Do not fly too high in the presence of moral authoritarians. Jupiter square, first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September, warns that these moral authoritarians do not respect your love of freedom & will try to clip your wings if given half a chance. Whether you are anonymous audience or centerstage behind the microphone, 2001-SQ73 in Leo from May 2024 through June 2032 denotes that you are going private & introverted or public & extroverted. Given that we all exist in a surveillance state, the powers that be change their relationship to you & yours. As long as you are happy with who you & your people are – and you regulate all your people – all is chill. Really: You survived this long. Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn during September and early October asserts that you can survive this a little longer. Then, unexpectedly: Exactly what you need: A new ally who doesn’t want to put up with any puritan reactionary crap from a bunch of losers as Jupiter sextiles Chiron from September through November. Make that new ally think, and make that new ally laugh, with a piece of well-timed advice, “They already know that you hate them. You don’t have to announce it – it just gives them more power than they deserve.” Yes, you & yourself are beginning to feel your power, again, whether anonymous audience or centerstage behind the microphone, during Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027. Like Miami sunshine on a New York pall on January 31. Tell your peeps, “Don’t let it go to your head.” Once you understand that you & yours are not getting your message, it becomes incumbent upon you during Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025 to realize that nobody is going to be as careful for your own fate, or the fates of all of your inner social circle, as you – especially as all the fates of everybody in your inner social circle rely upon you. You don’t need to suffer a downfall based upon the hubris of any friend who did not completely earn their good fortune. It is a painful revelation to acknowledge that you may be a genuine success as an absolutely glamorous law-abiding citizen hanging out with a group of friends amongst which one person is breaking the law & endangering all the rest of you during Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025. This threatens everybody. So, again: You survived this long. Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November asserts that you can survive this a little longer – because, really, there is not much more time left at all. Some newjack tries to infiltrate your inner social circle during Thereus in Libra from October 2024 through April 2025. That friend who took over for that lame douchebag you hired to represent you to those outside of your social circle before your friend replaced same said lame douchebag whispers in your ear, “If you had drugs, this creep would be a narc – and, since you don’t have any drugs, maybe this creep will plant them on one of us.” Unacceptable! Deploy a club bouncer to remove this triple agent. Time to return to the gourmet cooking & mixology weekends. But hold up, partner! Truth be told, Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025 is now warning you, your newfound ally & everybody like you, that all short-term social advantages are temporarily in remission. This is not the time to rebel against any of those who try to restrain your freedom of expression. To bide your collective time over the next several months, both you & your newfound ally, as well as many other like minds, would enjoy studying the history of flamboyant jailbreaks, the most remarkable of which in modern times involved the first & only breakout of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, near the Canadian border, in June 2015 by David Sweat & Richard Matt. But keep the source of such fascinating entertainment private.  An open adversary, rival or enemy thinks that they can intimidate you commencing Mars in Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025. Quantify their arrogant affront as an index of the current & future power which manifests under your command during Pluto in Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043. Engaging such an individual in any dialogue whatsoever is to cede to them power that they in no way deserve. Before creepface narc spy shows up with official badges to try either to intimidate you or to shake you all down as Thereus conjuncts 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025 (Yes, they are coming), empower that friend who took over for that now long gone lame douchebag to conduct a necessary purge of your inner circle during Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025. This won’t take long – nobody may even be guilty at all.  However, that friend who now represents you to those outside of your social circle may assert, “I’ve retained counsel.” Reply, “Good.” Conversely, that friend who now represents you to those outside of your social circle may ask, “Should we retain counsel?” Reply, “Yes.” Assert loudly to all in your group, “We all are & will be as pure as the driven snow – and I’m not talking about Boston George’s blow to you X-rated douchebags.” The future!  Instead, confound this & other enemies as you immerse yourself more deeply amongst the group of socially conservative frenemies who deeply yet silently envy you as Jupiter squares first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025. Indeed, they will all wonder what you are doing & why. What you are doing, of course, is conserving your energy, and biding your time, throughout Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025. You are not interested in drawing any attention to yourself if it does not serve you.  Then again, if you would benefit from an open demonstration of attention-grabbing public assertion, take the stage & take no prisoners. Indeed, you might get more than one opportunity as everybody with a camera wants ten pictures of you & yours as Jupiter trines Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December.  On another level, Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025 signifies that there is a lot of work that did not get done from the transition of Pluto in Capricorn to Pluto in Aquarius workplaces. Outperform all colleagues with a deliberate & palpable vengeance as Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trines Neptune in January 2025.  Yes, of course, outperform professionally complete with all the gourmet cooking & mixology, but all as part of work that needs to be done. As far as you are concerned, you & yours have already earned their “Instagram Immortality” – but Saturn conjunct Nessus during January & February 2025 demands that you prove it to those excluded from your group who are suspicious, jealous & bitter. Well, that’s the reward for such low-minded losers – as for you, assert, “We all are & will be as pure as the driven snow – and I’m not talking about Boston George’s blow to you X-rated douchebags.” Word.       PISCES 2024   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. That’s the last thing in the world that you want. People have been moving too fast for their own & everybody else’s good for your entire life – and now they will continue to do so at an accelerated clip for the next generation. You speak bluntly with a neutral demeanor, “People hold the wrong priorities.” Forget about them. Focus on you & yours. Retreat from a demonstrative public presence long before family problems threaten to undermine everybody in it during Retrograde Asbolus in Cancer & Gemini from October 2023 through February 2024. Whether it is Donald Trump, robots or live streaming murders on social media, it seems like so many people live in public without any family. (Forget Donald Jr., Eric & Ivanka – ex-President Donald might have hired all of them off of Indeed.) Indeed, you require as much energy as you personally have to keep an eye upon your own family. As a result, you are emotionally overleveraged with children & family members during Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in Leo & Cancer from November 2023 through March 2024. Do not try to discipline a teenager who gets themselves into truly awful trouble directly. You will need a family member to influence that adolescent first. If you interfere, it will only exacerbate the problem. Keep in frequent touch with that family member until you feel that the situation is well within their, and, by extension, your control. This will forestall your being blindsided by the recurrence of a longstanding family crisis during Retrograde Asbolus in late Gemini from late December 2023 through February 2024. Know who in your family you can trust. That being said, Retrograde 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during March declares that you must come to a conclusion about whether or not a child with whom you have been encountering difficulties is telling you the truth. Either way, let that family member you have empowered take charge of that child for now. Otherwise, business is business. 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. There is a lot of money to be made as Jupiter conjuncts 1999-OX3 in Taurus during February & March. Every transaction has its complexities. All these complexities have their dangers. 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, you cooperate to execute the transaction. The forms of cooperation change with each transaction. Communicate no preference whether you have one or not. Let colleagues whom you trust take the lead in work projects as Jupiter sextiles Saturn from Christmas 2023 through March 2024. You & other colleagues will be in a competition, no matter who started that competition, to determine who actually runs the workplace. 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. Withdraw from power struggles. Maintain a steady pace at work, with friends, in your daily routines, during Direct Motion Jupiter in Taurus from New Year’s Eve 2023 through May 2024. Stay far away from those who try to inject toxic drama into your daily peace of mind. Plan to live beyond your current crises. You need to dispel misconceptions about all of these people. You may try to act as if personal relationships are impersonal relationships – but is there any chance you want to deal with such individuals in the future? Such an uncomfortable question 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 is that they want what is yours. The epiphany is ugly. Suffer no compunction as you demand what is yours outright. Of course, not everybody will give you what you demand even though you may be entitled to it – after all, Okyrhoe in Aries from January 2024 through January 2026 makes you vulnerable. Learn the means by which you can cut these people off psychologically even if you are forced to see them every day for the rest of your life. Remember: 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. While Crantor in Pisces from January 2024 through January 2034 would normally recommend using the inherent power of your personage in direct interpersonal interaction, under the current influence of Saturn, this might backfire. You can, however, use the inherent power of your personage in direct interpersonal interaction within your official capacity. Realize, simultaneously, that 2001-BL41 in Pisces from Valentine’s Day 2024 through January 2026 demands that you save enough personal power to deal with many more people than just those people in your social circle – potentially several hundreds of people every week. Yes, it is true, 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.” Scientific, psychological or political geniuses will have answers as Amycus transits Aquarius from December 2023 through December 2036 – but do all these other intellectuals live on the same planet that you do? Do these intellectuals talk about how to deal with less than brilliant, less than enlightened, less than morally upright individuals, who now & will behave more like an animal than a human if it saves their own lives, and if given half a chance? Read psychiatrists & psychologists like the University of Toronto’s Jordan Peterson, who talks about being a worthy individual in an unworthy world. Listen to & read intelligent writers who understand that you & others inhabit a world with people that they would prefer not to see. You become more aware, perhaps obsessively so, how some people in your workplace, on your commute to your job, move much faster, more impatiently, almost robotically, as Pluto enters Aquarius during Mars in Capricorn during January. If anything in your life remains the same, and everything proceeds as normal, disregard. Borrow no trouble. The lack of any discernible change in your own life induces further obsession about how much money you will need when during Chiron conjunct 2000-QB243 conjunct the North Node from February to March. Such obsession is counterproductive & unhelpful. Seize upon a task you can control & do well – your own taxes. Circumstances must change for your income to increase, and you don’t control circumstances. You can control your taxes. Do not allow those seeking worthless, gratuitous attention to distract you. Venus conjunct Mars in Aquarius in late February augurs the type of flamboyant distraction that can only irritate you. True romance does not require your attention to validate it. Do not allow bullies aggressively shutting down those seeking worthless, gratuitous attention to distract you during Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 square, first Venus, then Mars, in early March. Revisit with that child with whom you have been encountering difficulties & the family member you empowered to oversee that child during Direct Motion 2001-SQ73 in late Cancer during April. Determine if your dialogue with that child has improved. Professionally & financially, the juggernaut astrological aspect Jupiter conjunct Uranus conjunct 1998-SM165 conjunct 2002-PN34 during April can present many simultaneous dynamics, some complicated. One dynamic involves windfall profit. Frown like New England Patriot Head Coach Bill Belichick with a toothache, put the money in your pocket & head straight to the bank. A second dynamic involves windfall profit going to an acquaintance who owes you money. Demand that they pay you forthwith. Take only cash as an answer. A third dynamic involves financial loss. If the entity causing loss is ruined, offload – unless you want to purchase distressed assets. If the entity causing loss is publicly traded & you have faith in them for the long term, buy more of it at its nadir. A fourth dynamic, and the one most likely to happen in most different market arenas, involves an enormous spike in business transactions. There is only so much you can handle. In dividing workload, offer to handle the most complex transactions slowing up the overall process. Realize, moreover, that, during Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius & Capricorn from May through September, most people in the world are learning there is only so fast one can proceed efficiently. You already know this. Expect many of these people to defer to you. In larger arenas across a much longer timeline, you are due for a unique social & professional honor as Jupiter sextiles Neptune during May. Expect some type of award or reward of varying degrees, either internationally, nationally, within your own city, state or province, within your company or in your family. Whatever the scale of the honor, international, national, municipal, professional or personal, you will receive honorary awards & perhaps monetary rewards because you have demonstrated time & again that there are some key tasks, transactions & interactions that only you can execute. Bask in the glow of this tribute for the rest of 2024! However, do not try to leverage, politically, any of those rewards or honors to try to execute a separate power agenda during Saturn conjunct Nessus from May through August. Again, 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. This will backfire not only in the short term but in your biography long after you are dead. Jupiter in Gemini from June 2024 through May 2025 shifts the spotlight from you to your home & your family. You hope intensely that you have solved all the problems plaguing you & your family for the past several years. An enormous amount of healing can take place if you & your family refuse to look back on the bad old days after you all have straightened out your nasty & outright illegal misbehavior. You honestly, really have your doubts about whether you or your family can do this. The guilt that weighs on your conscience & the fear of the consequences that you or your family may feel as a result of such guilt as Jupiter trines Pluto in early June scares you half to death.  Furthermore, few astrological signs have the imagination to consider what awful things Asbolus can produce for your child – or, really, any individual on Earth – but Asbolus in Cancer from June 2024 through May 2043 knows that you, Pisces, get this. This also scares you half to death. But Pisces the Fish, Pisces the Dolphin, Pisces the Whale is a massively powerful sign willing to accept the burden of karma. 2001-SQ73 in Leo from May 2024 through June 2032 signifies that this gives you strength unfathomable to many other people. You proceed forward out of a sense of duty no matter what – you will do what you have to do. Very persuasively, however, that family member who helped you monitor that child & many of that individual family member’s associates have agreed to keep their eyes on that child, in various ways & in various environments, as Crantor trines Asbolus trines Elatus from July through September. No red flag will be ignored. Immerse yourself in your work as you distance yourself from terrifying emotions throughout & beyond Jupiter square, first, 2001-BL41, second, Saturn, and lastly, Nessus, all in Pisces, from July through September. Just as you did during April, you not only take control of the most complex, convoluted, oddball transactions as they happen, but, during Saturn, Neptune, Nessus & 2001-BL41, all Retrograde in Pisces, from July through November, you actually commence, whether in a database, a notebook, a separate handout or all three, examples of these oddball transactions which recur so that other employees may be able to take action upon them over time. Strangely, Retrograde Pluto in late Capricorn during September and early October declares that you may even be able to find some meaning in this task as you work at your own pace in such a way so as to facilitate other people’s speed. Given, moreover, that this is work which pays overtime, put in as much time as you need – especially as it gives you the necessary distance from your family so that you will be able to provide for them without chastising or obsessing over them. Extremely positively, the gym liberates you during Echeclus in Leo from September 2024 to January 2025. Ever notice a weightlifter staring straight ahead for three minutes before pumping an intolerable amount of weight for ninety seconds? Do you know what that weightlifter is doing while they are staring? They are obsessing about their personal life. \ The money that you make doing these tasks will allow you to provide for your family very well throughout Jupiter sextile Chiron from September through November. What is absolutely imperative, however, is that you do not allow anybody in the family know that you have been earning this extra money. Everybody in the family has their own priorities, but only your priorities will be the priority of your family. Money spent once is gone. Be discreet, be circumspect, think long & hard because that money is spent briefly, quickly . . . and permanently. The special project over which you presided at work begins to wrap up during Direct Motion Pluto in late Capricorn from mid-October to mid-November. Simultaneously, you can return your attention to your family during Retrograde Jupiter from October 2024 through January 2025. You can check their progress growing up & growing out of their protracted bad behavior – but they also just need you & your personality around. Be there for them. But your ex-spouse? Counsel for your ex-spouse or your former business partner tries, dishonestly & dishonorably, to contact you personally & directly concerning a current or an upcoming & unannounced action as Thereus transits Libra from October 2024 through April 2025. Instruct them, “Contact my counsel.” Record the time & date, and what was said. As a result of this snake maneuver, you worry about your relationship with your troubled children during Retrograde Echeclus in Leo & late Cancer from November 2024 to April 2025. Let it go. Spend even more time at the gym for workouts guaranteed to make your entire body extremely sore so as to kill all emotional pain during Cyllarus & 2001-SQ73, both in Retrograde, from November 2024 to April 2025. That’s what makes Pisces the Fish, Pisces the Dolphin, Pisces the Whale absolutely beautiful as Cyllarus conjuncts 2001-SQ73 in Leo from June 2024 to July 2027: Pisces the Fish, Pisces the Dolphin, Pisces the Whale owns its pain. Kurt Cobain sings “All Apologies” from In Utero, “Everything’s my fault. I take all the blame.” And be there for yourself, too – get to the gym! You have been working too hard & worrying too much about your family for too long – Mars in Leo from November 2024 to early January 2025 will provide you with the exercise you need to sweat, to let out all that steam & to get all that enervation out of your musculature. Furthermore, you may notice that, the more that you exercise, especially with weights, the better you will be able to counterbalance the neurotic speed not only of your work colleagues, but, in fact, the masses, throughout Pluto in Aquarius from late November 2024 to early March 2043. Whatever service you receive from opposing counsel, ex-spouse or former business partner as Thereus conjuncts 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2024 to April 2025, forward to your counsel. Forward your notes regarding your previous conversation with opposing counsel. Pleadings & instructions from the government arrive concerning your troubled child or regarding your ex-spouse as Jupiter trines Chariklo conjunct 2003-CO1 conjunct 2001-KF77 during November & December. It is entirely possible that one has nothing to do with the other. It is entirely possible that it may contain good, bad, no or good, bad & no news. Comply as instructed. Do not obsess. A side benefit of getting back to the gym to take care of your health is that you will cultivate relationships with youth – not as an authority figure, but as somebody else working out at the gym – during Retrograde Mars in Leo & Cancer, stationing conjunct Echeclus conjunct Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73, from December 2024 through February 2025. These youth are also inured to value systems imposed upon them; these youth now see in you a mentor to an alternative lifestyle. As for yourself – when you return to your newfound specialty at your job during Jupiter square first Nessus, then Saturn, both in Pisces, from November 2024 through early January 2025, you find that you can do it more efficiently & with greater clarity of mind than ever before. Work aside, the younger generation beings to influence you more directly during Retrograde Mars in late Cancer during January & February 2025. The liberation & joy this can provide your beleaguered spirit can be truly enormous as Saturn conjuncts Nessus during January & February 2025. Yes, 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. Yes, Saturn in your 1st house of self & identity is still in full effect. However, if you have complied with it in an absolutely honorable way, and accepted the suffering imposed by karma & the divinity, you earn the admiration of legions of youth who see you as an individual they deeply admire, committed to improving themselves in every way possible over time. You become larger than life by accepting what life has demanded that you master. The symbiosis transforms the transference to the countertransference, then back again, as Retrograde Mars conjunct Retrograde Echeclus trines Neptune in January 2025. Enjoy your newfound reputation as the ancestral monarch of all the local free weights!   To contact John Delaney directly: delaneyastroscope@delaneyastroscope.com