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Vedic Astrological Monthly Newsletter: January 2025
January 2025 Outlook: Time to Reset Priorities and Understand the Big Picture
As each year begins anew, it helps to put one’s priorities back into position and focus. We can perform a “mental reset” and clear the slate in our mind’s eye. Now we have a fresh clean, uncluttered canvas to create a new reality, to shift perspective in a direction that is more aligned with our current life situation, goals and orientation. We can use the knowledge of Vedic Astrology to help us “see” the road ahead more clearly. It helps us to understand how our own unique personalities have enormous weight and impact on how we perceive life events unfolding, and the consequential choices we make at every fork in the road during all stages of one's life.
The application of Vedic Astrology truly reflects the orientation and attitudes of each personality. It is a great tool for understanding one’s psychology and personality structure. Vedic Astrology confers a deeper awareness and self-acceptance when applied at this level. When you understand and respect “who” you are, then you experience life at a deeper, meaningful level, you gain more self-confidence, and you live a more fulfilling, satisfying life.
Upon further reflection, we can do our own mental "reset" anytime. We don't need January 1st or the start of a new year to remind us to start over. It is a convenient time on the calendar to reflect and make new plans, but why not consider it at other times of the year as well, when it would help to clear the mental confusion, overwhelmed feelings, discord, etc. When life feels too overwhelming, hit the stop button and do a mental reset. It's not just for computers or cell phones.
My brilliant Guru, my father Chuck, used to say, when things bothered him, he would put them in the shredder. Annoying mail went right into his trusty grinding machine. I can't tell you how many times I have put things in my "mental shredder" all throughout the year. It's not just for papers anymore! What a great piece of simple empowering advice for clearing the air and clearing out daily annoyances. You'd be amazed at how it opens up and relaxes your spirit on so many levels. The power of thoughts and how they can clog up your mind if left unchecked. When meditation is not possible, such as in rush hour traffic, the mental shredder device works wonders!
Venus' movement between Aquarius and Pisces this month
At the start of January, Venus is transiting through Aquarius, conjunct Saturn and aspected by retrograde Mars, and will transit there through the entire month. On 1/3 Venus enters Shatabhisha nakshatra and will transit there until 1/16. Then Venus enters Purva Bhadra until 1/31. On 1/27, Venus will move to Pisces, its exalted strong sign position and join with Rahu, an intense, powerful placement for Venus.
First, Venus tends to do well in the air signs, and Venus in Aquarius is beneficial for group, and humanitarian social activities in general, as well as for deeper research endeavors. However, with this particular January Venus transit, Venus is also conjunct Saturn and receives the aspect of retrograde Mars, weakening Venus considerably. Therefore, there are likely to be issues, conflicts, struggles and problems arising through all sorts of organizations and group activities this month. It will be more challenging for groups of people to come together for the greater good and work on projects. It is not a good month for trying to negotiate with larger organizations, big companies or businesses. In general, with such an afflicted Venus, relationships tend to suffer and it is not a good month for starting new associations.
This afflicted Venus transit in the nakshatra of Shatabhisha focuses attention on health and medical problems, including addictions to food, alcohol and drugs. Problems are more likely to flare up during this month and this may open up the opportunity to work toward resolving them. It may take several attempts, several consults, several meetings with different healers to get to the bottom of the problem, and this can be frustrating, tedious and disappointing. But, this is a month when it is worth a try, especially if a medical problem is complex and requires deeper investigation. Sometimes a novel, alternative approach is required, if traditional medicine has not solved the health problem. Planets in the nakshatra of Shatabhisha can point a person in the direction of trying several alternative approaches to get to the core reason for the problem, which may not be obvious or observable on an MRI, CT Scan or X-ray, for example.
Another aspect about Shatabhisha is to make some type of genuine sacrifice to improve your life situation. Consciously giving up an unhealthy habit, belief or attachment can lead to a gain, success or complete healing. With Venus so weakened this month, it is a good month to make a conscious decision to give up something which is a harmful agent to your body or mind. This is a remedial measure directed right at the weak Venus moving through Shatabhisha.
Then on 1/16 to 1/31, Venus enters Purva Bhadra, which translates as "the front lucky feet of a funeral bed." This nakshatra can indicate endings, letting go, transcendence, as well as death (physically or of ideas or events). Since Venus is afflicted while passing through Purva Bhadra, the ending of a marriage, relationship, friendship or deep attachment seems apparent in the atmosphere during this phase of the month. We might witness the breakup of large businesses, companies or other organizations may dissolve later this month, which is interesting to monitor as the month progresses.
Venus is in exact conjunction with Saturn on 1/18, which is a particularly weak point in the month for Venus and what the planet represents. On the other hand, Saturn benefits all month long from Venus' conjunction. Recall that Saturn transiting its own sign of Aquarius is a strong position in and of itself and Venus is a great friend to Saturn as well. Therefore, January is an excellent month for making "Saturnine" progress in all endeavors. Saturn is the working planet and loves productivity, getting down to business, meeting commitments and responsibilities and demonstrating perseverance, patience and putting in the hard work it takes to get results. January is a great month for getting down to business, working hard, and being productive. Perhaps it is a better month for doing things solo rather than trying to get groups to get on the same page with a project. Let everyone take responsibility for their own part of the project, make progress and report back to each other in February, when Venus is exalted with Rahu and not aspected by Mars or Saturn, as one way of working well with this transit.
Mars Retrogrades back to Gemini on 1/20:
A few months back, I discussed the complex retrograde motion of Mars and its challenging transit that continues well into 2025, at least for the first half of this year. For January, Mars continues to transit through the debilitated sign of Cancer until 1/20, when it then moves back to Gemini. This is overall a weak position for Mars during the entire month. But, when Mars moves back to Gemini, it won't be aspecting Saturn for the time being. However, the retrograde Mars will aspect Mercury for several weeks (Mercury will be in Sagittarius and Capricorn in January). This creates a tendency to speak or write harsh words, offer strong opinions, be impatient with others, debate, argue and make rash decisions. It is important to slow down, think things through and hold back from the temptation to fire off angry words, irritations or hostilities. It is not a good time for feeling understood, to gain empathy or sympathy from others this month. That being said, we can still control our speech and self-expression. If you are feeling particularly rushed or impatient with someone, it is a good month to step back, take a deep breath and let go of it by putting it all in the shredder.
