Astrological Insight for January 13 – 19, 2025

Shaken into Action

Here are some insights about the opportunities and challenges that this week’s astrology may offer us collectively. If you’re looking to access personalized astrological and self-care insights to help you navigate the now, I’d love to do a Stellar Guidance Session with you.

I am starting this missive by making space for the grief, the devastation, the loss, the sorrow, the shock, the terror, the unimaginable, and the indescribable in the Los Angeles area as well as in other places worldwide that have been scarred and/decimated by fire, water, wind, war, tyrants, despots, greed, racism, and lack of altruistic regard. May we find solace, center, and strength in care, in community, in love, with the natural world and each other as allies.

We open the week with a Cancer Full Moon, which reminds us of the importance of heart and soul, of tending and nurturing, and that feelings and family are at the backbone of the structures and containers that we build in our lives.

The Full Moon ties into jolting Uranus and movement-oriented Mars. This archetypal inspiration has me think of a line I just read in a piece by journalist/author David Sirota on Zeteo, as he reflected on the world in the midst of the climate crisis: “What will it take for us to be shaken into action?”

I think that this is a simple, poignant, and timely question—centering around what it requires for us to be catalyzed into movement, or as he notes “shaken into action”—to ask of ourselves and our community this week (and going forward).

How many times over the last while have you thought that we would finally make necessary changes to work towards sustainability after experiencing devastating events. I know for me there were many times I believed that with things being so bad that we just couldn’t continue on in the same direction, that we would finally be shaken into action to do something to protect ourselves, the earth, our communities.

For example, I thought Hurricane Katrina would shake us into action. I thought the Deepwater Horizon oil spill would. I thought that the tsunami-activated Fukushima nuclear “accident” would. And many many others, both before and after. But alas, no.

Will the LA area fires do so? The hopeful part of me says Yes—please, let us be shaken into action. (And yet I also have a cynical side, unfortunately, which again wonders if anything will change, change enough to make a difference.)

That said, I do think that the invitation of being “shaken into action” that this week brings isn’t just about how we regard the environment (and each other) but also how we orient to our personal lives. There are some times when we know that change is necessary and yet for a variety of reasons we don’t make that change, whether it’s a small or big one.

As such, consider what movements do you want to make in your own life. Reflect upon how you can personally channel the inspiration to be shaken into action in pursuit of having your life feel more aligned with what you need, love, and desire.

This ties into what’s also available to us this coming weekend as we meet the Venus/Saturn Conjunction, an alignment that encourages us to take our values seriously. We may find ourselves feeling a greater call to allocate our resources—money, time, skills, etc.—in ways that has them more supportive of what we cherish. We may also find ourselves facing and seeing the import of bottom lines—what we will tolerate and what we won’t when it comes to how we move through relationships. In that we may more clearly see which alliances gift us with dependability and richness, and which may be built upon shakier foundations.

We may find ourselves shaken into action to say No to certain situations, seeing how doing so help us prune things in our life that siphon off treasured assets. This can then help us to see the power of our Yes, and how to use it more consciously to amplify the richness of our life.

One final note: on Sunday, we move from Capricorn season—a month in which we’ve been focused upon conservation, hard work, and legacy—to Aquarius season, a four-plus week realm in which our attention turns to networks, communities, and both the power and limits of technology.

I wish for you a good week filled with conscious action!

xxStephanie

Astrological Highlights

• January 13: Sun/Uranus Trine; Cancer Full Moon

• January 14: Venus/Jupiter Square

• January 15: Sun/Mars Opposition

• January 17: Sun/Neptune Sextile

• January 18: Venus/Saturn Conjunction

• January 19: Mercury/Saturn Sextile; Sun enters Aquarius; Mercury/Venus Sextile

All days reflect Eastern Standard Time (- 5 hours GMT)

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