Your Daily Horoscopes for Wednesday, January 27th

Aries

There is a greater love of taking care of your daily routines and work these days, dear Aries, and this is a good thing. However, at times you can overdo your attention to the smaller tasks at the expense of the big picture and your needs to enjoy yourself elsewhere. Sometimes you need to relax and let go, which can be difficult to do today. The sheer number of things that need to get done – and that you truly want to do – can conflict with a drive to connect with others, enjoy yourself in good company, or go after a bigger dream today. Try not to pack everything into one day and instead look for better ways to balance your life. What you thought was a “sure thing” may not pan out right now, so focus your energies on realizable projects.

Taurus

You can be feeling a stronger desire to entertain, enjoy yourself, and let your hair down today, dear Taurus. You are generous with your feelings and affections, more than usual. If you’re feeling a little restless and not certain about the source of discontent today, a symptom can be a desire to do something in a big way. However, avoid overdoing and overstating, particularly in a romantic relationship and in your professional dealings. This is not a day for good timing, in general, as we’re inclined to overshoot and bank on things that are not very viable. The trick now is to think in terms of improvement rather than expansion. Bigger is not always better, and this is especially so today.

Gemini

This is another day that emphasizes emotions, personal matters, family, home, and familiar places, dear Gemini. While there can be a lot to enjoy with family, there can also be some impatience on the homefront later today, not necessarily with people but with the process of routine. However, keep in mind that you could be overlooking important details. As much as you may not feel like it, go over important emails or documents before sending or signing. Revision may be necessary. Alternatively, something may be pushed upon you seemingly from out of the blue that needs doing quickly. Keep your wits about you. Find ways to improve your home life, while also reaching out to others or varying your routine to keep things fresh.

Cancer

The Moon once again emphasizes reaching out, keeping your mind stimulated, and learning and sharing today, dear Cancer. Ideally, the busy feeling is just enough to keep you happily stimulated, which can happen if you consciously avoid overdoing, which is a real tendency today. Try not to overstate and overact now for best results, even if Jupiter in your third house can sometimes stimulate a desire to exaggerate and procrastinate. Promising too much can be a bandaid fix that makes life a little easier for now, but unnecessarily difficult later.

Leo

With the Moon in your solar second house aligning with Jupiter today, dear Leo, this is a day when your appetite for pleasure, beauty, and comfort is stronger than usual. You can be feeling generous and in the mood to spoil someone or yourself. Jupiter is clashing with your ruler, the Sun, so that this desire may interfere with other plans and goals now. Your mood might stir up a tendency to go for things that are beyond your means. A partner may be dramatic, take issue with your desire to stay rooted, or could exaggerate an issue today.

Virgo

This can be a day in which your appetite for pleasure is great, dear Virgo, with a tendency to go overboard, however. Whatever feelings you’re experiencing – easy or challenging – they are felt in big ways. You may be overdoing things as well, particularly related to self-pampering, which can be exactly what you need in reasonable doses. However, you are also required to perform and get work done, and this is a personal need in addition to a responsibility, and this can be a bit of a conundrum with the Sun in your work and health sector pushing you to take charge of your routines and Jupiter in your own sign, encouraging you to chase your personal dreams. Finding a balance may not come easily, but is the key to happiness today.

Libra

There is a distinct tendency to pull yourself out of overly demanding or stressful situations today, dear Libra, with the Moon’s presence in your privacy sector all day. With Jupiter here as well, you’re inclined to really enjoy some time to yourself, and perhaps thinking about the past. This is all fine and good, but the tendency today is to overdo this. In fact, the Sun and Jupiter are in disagreement – one part of you is procrastinating and avoiding, and the other part wants to share yourself with others. There can be a real feeling of restlessness stimulated as a result, as the ordinary doesn’t seem to appeal. However, even if it’s not easy to see right now, there is a way to find a balance without having to overdo one thing or the other.

Scorpio

Your inner energies and outside circumstances may not be in synch, and this certainly happens from time to time, dear Scorpio. The trick may be to find a balance rather than feeling that it must be one or the other. A good part of you wants to socialize or spend time with like-minded people, and another part simply wants to cocoon or domestic responsibilities need attention. There is some tendency for going overboard one way or the other, perhaps to compensate, and especially with friends and family. Promises may not be fulfilled, so keep this in mind and avoid overextending yourself.

Sagittarius

You could be feeling that two enjoyable areas of life are competing with each other today, dear Sagittarius. While you have a strong desire to expand your horizons when it comes to your career or public life, personal interests call and you don’t have time to be gung-ho about both. Try to avoid overdoing something in order to compensate. However, with Mercury pulling out of its station, you are certainly going to be seeing roadblocks lift in business and money matters, so if you’re going to tip the scales in one direction, work might be a better choice – just keep things moderate in order to avoid problems today.

Capricorn

There is feel-good energy with you today, dear Capricorn, although it may be a little too easy to push a good thing and go too far. Watch for overindulgence today – you can too easily blow your money on impulse buys or indulge your sweet tooth with regrets soon following. The desire to expand your horizons can compete with a need to stick with familiar things and people. However, there is nothing wrong with thinking in especially big terms, and it’s good to do so now. Just keep actions moderate for the time being. Enjoy optimistic feelings, and possibly a sense that blocks are clearing as well with Mercury moving out of its station.

Aquarius

This can be a strong day for digging deeper into a subject and making headway, dear Aquarius. There can be good energy for coming to new insights into the motivations of an important person in your life, or simply for feeling your deeper emotions more vividly. There can be a bit of an inner conflict experienced today, as there is a strong pull to be “present” in the world around you, but an equal tug at your need to observe rather than act and to retreat within yourself. Be careful not to promise more than you can deliver because even though you mean well, you can fall short of your promises.

Pisces

The Moon in your partnership sector puts a strong focus on partnerships again today, dear Pisces, and while this can be quite enjoyable, another part of you is very much in need of quiet time and that wants to retreat in your shell. The tendency now is to feel a little restless, and this can prompt you to take some impractical risks in an effort to make your life more exciting. Another thing to be cautious about is overstating your feelings to a person who might take you a little too seriously. However, if you focus on making improvements rather than grand gestures or big moves, you’ll more thoroughly enjoy your day and your relationships.

The Balance of the Signs & the Elements for January 27th

VIRGO STRONG
Meticulous, discriminating, pure, practical, health conscious, hard working. Can be hyper-critical, petty and perfectionistic.
CAPRICORN STRONG
Disciplined, responsible, reliable, industrious, conscientious, practical, achieving. Can be pessimistic, overly conventional, rigid, materialistic, callous.
AQUARIUS STRONG
Humanitarian, innovative, group conscious, progressive, serving others. Can be rebellious, eccentric, aloof, emotionally superficial, overly extroverted.

BALANCE OF ELEMENTS
FIRE WEAK
We are not very goal-oriented right now, or motivation to pursue our goals may be waning/lacking. Changes feel overwhelming. Enthusiasm may be low, we argue less, and we think more than we take action.
EARTH STRONG
We are especially in touch with the physical world. We consider what we’ve learned and experienced in the past in order to make the most of the present. We can be cautious, practical, and possibly unimaginative. We are deliberate and can pace ourselves well. We need hands-on experience and are not impressed with theory as much as we are with results. Routines are tolerable and comforting.

BALANCE OF MODES
The modes are balanced.

A Watershed Year for Relationships

a message from Selacia

To view more of Selacia’s insight, please visit her site, Selacia and the Council of Twelve

 

For divine changemakers 2016 can be a watershed year for relationships. In this article I describe what this means in general as well as how it may apply to key relationships in your life. I will show you how pretty much everything wonderful you want to manifest this year is contingent upon your mastery of relationships. In fact, I will describe how harmonizing even one key relationship could be significant in changing your whole life.

Personal Level – A Key Relationship

Let’s begin with the significance of a key relationship – a partner, family member, or other person who tends to push your buttons. Most likely one comes to mind immediately. Everyone has at least one.

I suggest for the purposes of this inquiry, focusing on the one key person who leaves you feeling the most exasperated.

Your feelings of irritation can come from just thinking about this person – even if you seldom see him or her. The “troublesome” person can even be long gone. It’s not uncommon to carry anger and grudges towards people for many years after they have passed, too – the mind is powerful and it can keep any battle going if you allow it.

For most people, the key button-pushing relationship at the core of all other discordant relationships is a family member. Not only that – this unresolved discordant relationship is often the underlying source of general unhappiness people experience.

Typically the family member involved is a parent, because of the foundational role that person plays in forming how you see the world. Whoever raised you will have a pivotal influence on your character and how you develop.

If you are a parent, the family member pushing your buttons could be a child – triggering very old issues within you, perhaps from your own childhood. Patterns tend to get handed down from generation to generation. Sometimes parents, having experienced family dysfunction growing up, may unknowingly overcompensate with their own children, trying to protect them. This can backfire and things will need to be put back in balance.

It’s in Your DNA

DNA is involved, regardless of whether your key person is a birth parent or other guardian. Children soak up ideas and prejudices like a sponge – they internalize many things they experience and these become a part of their DNA. As a child, you picked up parental thoughts telepathically and you learned by simply observing how a parent navigated life. You were much more perceptive than your caretakers realized.

Adults will often say they are nothing like their parents. That’s a misconception. People will carry within themselves – at a DNA level – tendencies and beliefs that originated with family and the genetic lineage. Even memories from previous generations can be passed on to offspring through DNA.

To heal these old wounds, you must address the DNA-level patterns across the generations.

Common DNA-Level Patterns

DNA-level patterns humanity is in process of healing at a collective level are surfacing with increasing intensity during these times of radical planetary changes. Individuals and families carry the patterns, too. Common themes of patterns: trust, truth, justice, abandonment, separation, disconnection from spirit, boundaries, violation, control, and self-love.

Each time you heal even one part of an issue like those mentioned, you advance spiritually and you help the collective heal. You also help your family line, including those no longer living.

Spirit Orchestration of Birth Dynamics

Did you know that the circumstances of your birth are largely a spirit orchestration? This includes location and birth family, as well as your birth astrology with indications of life path and potentials. There really are no accidents. You are not a victim of a cruel joke or bad luck. That is nonsense.

As you evolve as a soul, you incarnate over time to grow spiritually and learn key things. The family you are born into is part of the package. Oftentimes, you will incarnate with the same people in various scenarios in order to develop mastery on this physical plane.

You are each other’s’ teachers and you tend to catalyze things unique to your shared situation. That’s why it’s said that you will often learn the most from your most challenging relationships. They are the perfect mirror.

2016 Opportunity

Use this mirror in 2016 to address and harmonize a key relationship. Decide now that you will do whatever it takes to heal old wounds. Your power comes from facing this directly, in the present and with an aware consciousness.

Refuse to get bogged down in the minutia of discord, ruminating about past hurts and blaming the other person. Focus on you and how you can respond differently – focus on what this person is here to teach you. Don’t make it about them. Consider how you can communicate in a different way.

Elevate Your Communications for Healing

To break an impasse in a relationship prone to communication difficulties, listening is more important than speaking. Engage your heart and stay present, your mind still, and actively listen to the other person – to the words, tone, nuances, and silence between words.

You don’t need to see eye-to-eye with someone to love them or to feel loved by them. Love is not about agreement, satisfying agendas, or settling scores. It is a pure healing energy that must come from within. No one agreeing with you can give you that. Remember: you are love already – it is naturally within you.

As you endeavor to come from love in a key relationship this year, something wondrous can occur. Your love can be instrumental in harmonizing things with this person, setting in motion a ripple of beneficial energies that change your life in many ways. It may at first seem at a personal or micro level, but then you will notice impacts on a much larger scale. Your increased happiness and higher frequency indeed will magnetize much different types of situations and people – a bit like someone turned on a light that wasn’t there before.

Big Picture – Big Interconnected World with Limitless Potentials

In the big picture, what matters is not how many relationships you have or whether you have a life partner. Virtually everything you do and manifest is in some sense dependent on your interconnections with the larger world – and how you manage those connections. Those connections all involve relationships and relating with the whole. Some people you will see but many will be invisible and off your radar.

Examples: (1) Your next creative project could be birthed from your own imagination after a trip to the store and hearing two people talking about something they enjoy. (2) A new home you have dreamed about could become your new residence after a frustrating drive in traffic, your slowing down enough to see a for rent sign out front. (3) A new friend you meet casually at a conference could become your business partner in a brand-new type of venture that neither of you had envisioned before meeting each other. (4) Your ability to stay up late when it’s quiet and write your novel is possible in part because of electricity others produce and you have remembered to pay your electric bill.

In each of these examples, the successful outcome results from you being present, heart-centered, and taking some kind of constructive action. This way, you are consciously managing your connections and creating opportunities. It’s like an energy exchange you are facilitating with the outside world – receiving and sending all the time! Trust that this year can be the time when you become more fully engaged with your vast potentials to be your best self.

Creation Spell

Items needed: One 8-pointed star print on green card stock; one green candle inscribed with the symbol of Venus; a vial of rose oil.

Begin by anointing the candle with the rose oil as you chant:

“Goddess of creation, Star of love,
Descend to me from far above.
Grant me wisdom, bring me power,
As I invoke your name this hour.”

Next, write out your desire on the back of the eight-pointed star. Light the candle, place it on top of the star, visualize your desire, and invoke Ishtar.

Lady of the Morning Star,
Queen of the heavenly sea.
Power of the mighty wind,
And keeper of the mystery.
Lady who guides the mighty Angels,
Mother of selfless devotion.
Enchantress of the mysteries,
Guardian of time and motion.
Lady I now invite thee here,
As the Virgin of pure love.
The one who moves the soul man,
With her splendor from above.
Lady I now invite thee here,
As the Mother of sacred Earth.
Whose power is beyond compare,
So to my dreams give birth.

Allow the candle to burn for four hours, and then extinguish. Carry the star with you or place it in your desk at work. Repeat this spell once a year to ensure creativity.

January 27

Day of Ishtar

In ancient Babylon, Ishtar was acknowledged as the “Light of the World” and the Goddess of the morning and evening. Her symbols were an eight-pointed star and crescent moon. She was divine personification of the planet Venus and the dispenser of the Never-Failing Waters of Life. Fertility and all aspects of creation were her epiphany.

The More You Know – Wednesday

Wednesday is ruled by the planet Mercury and named for the Norse god Woden, or Odin. Odin is the father of the gods and represents ultimate wisdom. In Roman mythology, Mercury is the messenger of the gods and is often viewed as an aspect of Odin; both deities are characterized as wanderers with sharp wits.

Rites and spells for Wednesday involve communication and the sending and receiving of messages. Developing your attunement to goddesses and gods to receive an oracular communication would be a desirable effort for a Wednesday divination. Work involving communication with spirits, with a pendulum, runes, or some other tool with which you have some expertise would be suitable as well. Writers, poets, and scholars will also benefit from the influences of this day.

Judy Ann Olsen, A Witch’s Grimoire: Create Your Own Book of Shadows