Daily Horoscope January 9, 2012

Aries: The need to be right is better applied to your own work than to your relationships today, or you may find yourself alone.

Taurus: Analyze your dreams or take direct questions with you in a meditation to get answers to challenges or calm worry.

Gemini: Friends may visit or invite you out, but you may prefer solitary creative work over play & find socializing annoying.

Cancer: An unusual interest or a sudden fascination with a new subject of study could make you consider a career change.

Leo: Use your ingenuity in advertising, marketing or new ways to promote your work or services. The squeaky wheel does get oil.

Virgo: The decision to make a big move in business or a long range life plan can bring a flood of work & details to sift through.

Libra: A change in a relationship - closer or further apart - is for the best. All relationships require boundaries & accountability.

Scorpio: You may lay down some rules or express what annoys, irritates, or disturbs you in a friendship or with a group. Catharsis.

Sagittarius: A new broom sweeps clean? Changing the scenery, the crowd, your tastes makes you feel fresh & creatively energized.

Capricorn: Work could interfere with family or home life. Some may consider relocating for work reasons or take a traveling job.

Aquarius: You mind is on finding ways around your own conundrums while you are frequently asked questions by others.

Pisces: A partner could increase the flow of money in work or the relationship, or you decide to be more financially brave.

The moon in the cardinal fire sign of impatient, assertive Aries forms a busy quincunx aspect to the action oriented planet of Mars, in the mutable earth sign of detail oriented Virgo today. You may want to get to the point of something but get caught up in the details. My lateness in posting the horoscopes today shows just how strongly a single aspect can affect someone. I began writing this very early today, but one interruption after another, the needs of family members and all the little things that had to be done before the next thing could be done intervened. I finally gave up and gave in. As soon as I went with the flow, I ceased to feel frantic or annoyed - both possible feelings that you may feel under this Mars/moon aspect. My own natal moon is in Aries in my 11th house of friends (and the Internet) and my North Node and Pluto are conjunct in Virgo in my 4th house of home and family. My son was in the flow of a science project which required the use of my computer. The pressure I felt to get my writing completed and posted conflicted with my desire to help my son. At one point in the early afte
oon, I felt it was better to remove my unsettled energy from the house and took a walk in the crisp air and bright sun, with the dog and my partner. We literally went off the beaten path, and the shift in location and focus brought me back to center. If you find yourself feeling frazzled today, do something new or out of the normal routine. Later tonight, when the moon joins Jupiter in Taurus, they form a supportive sextile to Neptune in Aquarius, but a problematic square to Mercury in Aquarius. Fantasy and imagination are like a salve that can heal the pain of harsh reality. They are also the tools for creating a life that makes you happy. While you contemplate the challenges you may face now, believe that there is a solution or that things can and will get better.