Free Capricorn Horoscope for January 2012
Happy New Year Capricorn. As your sign continues to enjoy favor from planets in all of the earth signs, let’s start by talking a bit about the Jupiter in Taurus part of the equation. Jupiter is in your solar 5th house, the one associated with creative projects. With the sun in your own sign until the 20th, you have a double dose of energy relating to imagination, originality, and new ideas that Jupiter in Taurus can help you capitalize on productively.
If you’d like any of these potential ideas to pay off in a financial sense, then January is good for that also. You have quite a number of planets in your solar 2nd house of finances, including the sun when it moves into Aquarius on the 20th. You’ll need to plan and set goals that can be developed reasonably quickly (by mid-February), but you can do that. Aquarius is a team-oriented sign, so collaborations are especially favored from the beginning of the month (because Venus is already in Aquarius as the month opens). With planets in all the earth signs and Neptune moving into environmentally conscious Pisces, “green” projects seem promising. Note that Jupiter in Taurus also relates to activities involving your children, so don’t feel you have to be scraping around for money-making ideas if that’s not your interest.
The other big earth sign energy of the month is Mars in Virgo, which stations on the 23rd and then starts moving backward. Mars is a restless planet, and he’s spending a lot of time in your solar house of travel. He gets claustrophobic and itchy when he can’t get out and move, so you may need to accommodate him either via actual travel or by just getting outdoors and into some nature or some sports activities that will let him burn off a little energy. Mars stays in this area of your chart for fully half the year, so expect the need for movement and action to continue throughout much of 2012.
Now let’s talk a little bit about the rest of your year ahead in 2012. We’ll start by talking about your house. Your literal physical house. It’s represented in your chart by the sign of Aries, the sign that Uranus is currently inhabiting and not planning to leave any time soon. In 2012, Uranus spends a lot of time challenging Pluto. Really challenging. You can see this in world affairs in a multitude of countries wherein people are standing up to government or authority in one way or another, including in places like Syria, where doing so is really really dangerous.
Pluto is in your own sign, and it may annoy you greatly to see Uranus trying to challenge a planet in your own sign. You may consider what Uranus is doing potentially dangerous to your habitation. Therefore…you might want to take Capricornian precautions against damage to your house in 2012–by getting things inspected, repaired, fortified, secured, and generally made less potentially dangerous. Uranus may not affect your physical house so much as your family or the group of people you live with. The time to watch is mid-July, which is when Uranus stations.
The second thing to know is that Neptune moves out of your solar second house of assets early next month and doesn’t come back. Neptune’s been concentrating for well over a decade on typical material assets like possessions and property and so on. Now, however, he’ll concentrate on a different type of asset–assets of the mind and character, such as skills, talents, physical and mental capabilities and so on. That doesn’t mean you’ll lose all your material assets–it just means you should be conscious of husbanding them because Neptune won’t be focused on trying to endlessly expand them anymore.
Pluto in your own sign will continue with his general mission of taking you on some sort of a journey that you’re pretty sure you didn’t sign up for on purpose. He’s still concentrating on those folks born in December, so if you are a January birthday Cap, you can breathe a sigh of relief. If you’re a December born Cap, it may help to remember that the point of a journey is to actually get from one place to another. Pluto is not trying to take you any place that you don’t actually want to go. What you didn’t realize was that the route to the place you want to go wound through such unfamiliar territory. Pluto knows what he’s doing.
Pluto’s an extremely competent guide. He knows more than you do. It sounds facile to say ‘trust in the process,’ so I’ll say something perhaps a bit more to you liking. Trust but verify. Hang on and don’t give up. You’ll be amazed at where you end up.
Jupiter will move from your solar 5th house to your solar 6th house in mid-June. This will move Jupiter’s areas of attention from creative projects and children to work and health.
Finally, we can’t wrap up without mentioning your ruler Saturn, who has perched his risk-averse self at the top of your chart where he can put his nose to the grindstone of your career and eyeball the specifics of your professional life with incredibly detailed attention. Saturn will leave this spot in October and you may find the change to be a real liberation. Saturn in the 10th house can be productive but also quite discontent without quite being clear what you can do about the problems he points out. Once he leaves this spot, you may well be able to take judicious risks again, be more assertive, more playful, and more powerful. Put bluntly, a Saturn transit often pays off when it’s over, not while it’s in progress. So you have something to look forward to.
