Free Leo Horoscope for January 2012
Happy New Year, Leo. Let’s talk about romance first, since the month begins with good aspects for it. As the year opens, you still have a bit of energy left in your solar love life house via Mercury in Sagittarius and you have love-happy Venus in your sector of committed relationships. On the 14th, Venus moves into your sector of sexual attraction–essentially keeping the party going until the sun and Mercury move into your relationship house. In other words, the planets are making sure there are some type of love vibes in your solar chart all month long. Last but not least along this theme, Neptune (the most romantic planet of all) is still in your committed relationship house this month–for the last time in your lifetime. He leaves for good in February, so you have one last chance to swoon when someone walks into the room.
On a different note, Mars in Virgo begins retrograding this month (on the 23rd) in the part of your chart that rules tangible items. This is the sort of influence that can make a person discontented with his or her possessions and start wanting to replace old and worn out items with new ones. If you have items that need replacing and the budget to replace them, go for it.
Otherwise, your solar chart is heavy on the cadent houses this month. What the heck does that mean, you ask. The cadent houses (houses 3, 6, 9, and 12) are the pondering houses, the houses that gather information, reflect on it, organize it, and figure out what to do with it.
You have Saturn still in your solar 3rd house, where its job is to help you gather facts and learn. Your solar 3rd house is represented by the cooperative sign Libra, which implies that you are supposed to gather information about people rather than about abstractions or technical subjects like engineering. This is because part of Leo’s role in the world is to be a natural politician, aware of the sensitivities of others and how to manipulate them toward a worthy goal. A Leo who isn’t paying attention to how others react to things is a dysfunctional Leo. Still, some periods require more effort to navigate successfully and this is one of them. The other people in your world require conscious attention these days.
And you have Uranus in Aries in your solar 9th house. This house also involves learning, but in your case it is more about learning how to express yourself than learning how to absorb information. You take the information in via the 3rd house, then synthesize it and turn it into something worth expressing in the 9th house. The 9th house is where you make the connections between the various bits of information you’ve gathered, where you sense patterns.
Finally, you have planets in Capricorn in your solar 6th house this month. This cadent house is a bit different in nature than the others because it typically puts the focus on work and health information rather than information in general. It’s an important house in your chart these days, because Pluto moved in a few years ago and isn’t planning to budge for a good long time. Pluto’s here to help you marry process to goal, which isn’t as easy as it sounds like it might be.
We all have habits, but often our habits are at odds with what we think we want to achieve. We might have an ambition to excel but a subconscious pattern of assuming that taking on extra work is the way to achieve that goal–when in fact excellence might be a by-product of doing fewer things at a higher level. Pluto’s here to help you figure out things like that by periodically hurting your feelings and pointing out to you that what you’re doing currently doesn’t work. With the sun and Mercury also in Capricorn this month, be prepared to examine your work habits and processes and take the initiative to upgrade them as necessary.
