You‘re back in the saddle and ready to work! This week you‘ve got creativity, innovation and ambition pouring out of your energetic Aries nature. You want to gain control over your work situation and show yourself and everyone around you that you mean boss. With Uranus parked in Aries until 2018 you‘re continuing to actualize in preparation of taking the throne. If you‘re already working for yourself this might mean you‘ve got a lofty goal, maybe to build your company big and sell it, or land a major partner or contract. Otherwise, you may be looking to take on a leadership role at your current place of employment. Unfortunately, you still experience bursts of energy and then periods of static downtime, so you fluctuate between two extremes. On the one hand you want to be a billionaire, but on the other hand you don‘t want to do anything. You‘ll struggle with this until you either step into full workaholic mode or your fluctuations render you unemployed, but it‘s nothing you need to worry about in the immediate future. The new moon in Capricorn over the weekend brings you closer to that workaholic outcome, making you think a lot about your ambitions and how to achieve your goals. Ascendant: You can‘t be a billionaire and lazy at the same time, pick one.

You‘re starting the week with a certain gusto that‘s a little too intense for most of the people you interact with throughout the week. And you‘re not solely focused on work, you‘ve got bills piled up, errands that have to be run, and a few things from the previous year you definitely put off doing that frankly, cannot wait another day. You might be taking some time out to clean out the car or organize your desk, to revamp your website, or clean up your friends list on Facebook. For you the new year is about setting yourself up for success. You can‘t do that if your life is a big mess, so instead of Spring cleaning you‘re doing some New Year cleaning. Be cautious that you don‘t get caught up in the details and that when it comes to work you transition to the next task that involves actually making money for yourself or the company. Towards the end of the week you‘re worried about your effectiveness and wondering if there‘s a better way you can get things done. Over the weekend your thoughts circle around this idea, the new moon in Capricorn bringing perspective and clarity on how you can master your own life. Pay attention, this is important.Ascendant: You need to see the bigger picture.

You slide into energizer bunny mode this week, the constant stream of thoughts that usually plagues you is shut off, and you are doing things without really thinking about them. At the same time, you‘ve gone silent, your grand ability to communicate taking a much needed break. In some ways you‘re thankful for the myriads of mundane tasks that force you not to think, and make it easy not to have to communicate with people. There‘s only so much you can take before you‘re exhausted, and before you‘re going around in circles with people talking about the same damned things all the time. You want to focus on things like stuffing thousands of envelopes for mailing or putting stickers on packages, or something equally repetitive and boring. It‘s nice to have a chance not to think, and you need it because sometimes you over analyze and that‘s what leads you to not knowing what you really want, all those paradoxes in your mind colliding against one another. Over the weekend you‘re not even paying attention to this new moon because you can‘t be bothered. You‘re taking a weekend of siesta and simply being grateful for the basic things you have, shelter, food, belonging, companionship. You‘ll worry about more complex things later. Ascendant: Leave the more difficult things to the professionals, right?

You feel like you‘re in a fog this week, detached from reality, but wandering through it like a zombie on auto pilot. I wouldn‘t be surprised if you‘re not sleeping well or if your dreams make you feel like you worked a twelve-hour shift in your sleep. You‘re going through the motions, getting the bare minimum done, not being able to pay attention to things people want you to remember. By middle of the week you‘re hazing in and out of the fog, but forgetting things that had to get done. You really need someone to hold you by the hand this week and guide you along, but you also don‘t want to be seen as incompetent so you‘re trying to figure out a way to both spend your time away from work getting the rest you need and faking the whole knowing what you‘re doing with yourself thing. It‘s okay to be lost once in a while but come the weekend that new moon in Capricorn is going to kick you in the butt and one of two things will happen, you‘ll either break out of the fog, or you‘ll feel like there‘s too much criticism and you want the ground to open up and swallow you whole. Ascendant: I guess it depends on your perspective in life.

It‘s a relatively uneventful week for you, pushing all those personal development problems aside and focusing on the tasks at hand. You know you can spend time attempting to balance out your life, that‘s usually something you‘re good at, doing a little bit of work, having a little bit of play time, working on some longer term goals when other people are watching Game of Thrones. This week you‘ve decided that nothing else in the world exists but work. You‘ll be pulling double shifts, and when you‘re not working the day job you‘ll be pushing forward on some of those longer term projects you‘re hoping will push your life to the next level. Maybe you‘re writing a book or building furniture, or crafting, either way it‘s a side hobby you have full intentions of turning into a business and what better timing this year with Jupiter in Virgo, giving your innovation the good luck it needs for side business ventures to succeed. Be sure to focus on self-made ideas, don‘t join any of those crazy traveling salesman network places, you‘ll be sorely disappointed in your lack of success through those ventures. And if it is books you‘re chasing, you might want to think about the profit margin and your social goals before your financial ones. Ascendant: Who said being successful was a bad thing?

Ahh, a week where you can complete a predetermined to do list without having wrenches thrown into the plans or people around you making more work for you than what‘s necessary. And even if someone does kick the can of screws all over the damned place, you‘ll be locked in your happy work bubble and it won‘t bother you half as much as it usually would have. Plus, you‘re starting the year off with some boundaries, you won‘t do all the work, including everyone else‘s work and the janitor too. You‘ll do what you were hired to do, and you‘ll do it better than anyone else, but when it comes to the incompetence of other people, you won‘t jump to fix their mistakes for them unless you absolutely have to. So the poor guy who knocked over the screws doesn‘t get to look at you to clean them all up. That guy gets to do it himself while you find ways around it so you can complete the project. Come the weekend you‘re feeling pretty good about your new attitude and the ability to transition from work mode to personal mode without feeling the stab of guilt and worry that usually accompanies it. You‘re learning to let go of the things you can‘t change, or things you‘ll have to face at a later date. Ascendant: Sometimes you have to give others a chance to fail.

You‘re having trouble focusing on the tasks this week because you feel largely like there‘s an imbalance in the Force and you‘re wondering when you‘ll need to break out your lightsaber and duel with the clones who have gotten out of control. Of course, the imbalance is internal, and you‘re making it seem like it‘s the outside world that‘s wrong, when it‘s you. You‘ll be resisting the power of the dark side all week, convinced that the fatigue and lack of focus has something to do with Venus in Sagittarius, but that‘s just an excuse to not give you 110%. Fortunately, your issue isn‘t a childish one, but the onset of the retrograde setting off something within your energy that‘s causing you to clash with the world around you. You‘re going to need a dose of green tea with three teaspoons of honey per eight ounces of tea. It‘s not going to taste good but it‘s going to set your center of balance back on point, which as a Libra is your entire equilibrium. If you‘re not in balance, it will feel like the sky is falling on you. Over the weekend the new moon will either throw you into a further tizzy regarding your personal relationships or you‘ll find your way back to serenity and the happy medium you‘re used to.Ascendant: Shut up and drink the tea.

If you managed to survive last week without escaping to your bomb shelter, then you have hope of making it through another week, only with a fantastic Mercury Retrograde that‘s going to turn your usual soap box rants into wild gibberish. I hope you‘re prepared to spend the week over explaining yourself and shaking your head when people don‘t understand a damned thing you‘re going on about. Franky, it seems to you as though everyone left their brains at home, or that they have those brain suckers stuck to their heads like Fry did on Futurama. Either way, extracting intelligence from a society that is so backwards to begin with is a bit of a laughable matter. If you weren‘t so resilient, you‘d put yourself in a strait jacket and send yourself to the mental institution. You know you‘re fighting the good fight, but sometimes when you can‘t get what you want out of other people you have to take advantage of the situation for yourself. It might mean you do something slightly illegal but if people left themselves that wide open, they were asking for it. The weekend will be an interesting one, you won‘t get caught, but you will be turning over a new leaf, only I don‘t think becoming the villain is a good direction to be moving in.Ascendant: Someone has to be wicked, might as well be you.

You set out to change your stars, do things with more persistence and accuracy than you ever have, you want to shed your image and prove to people how much you can handle, but by Tuesday you‘re drowning. It‘s not that you can‘t get things done, it‘s that you can‘t always wrap your brain around the task at hand. There‘s a significant difference between the way you think things need to be done and the way they should be done to ensure the utmost success. You don‘t think you‘re taking shortcuts when you‘re doing exactly that. And worse is Mercury in Retrograde, making it difficult for you to express yourself coherently. You want people see you as the strong Chiron with your bow and arrow, but that archetype is outdated, you are the humanitarian, the modern day Mother Theresa and if your work is connected to caring about people, you excel, it‘s when you have to worry about things like finances, bottom lines and quarterly reports that you become as helpful as an umbrella in a hurricane. Refocus your energy over the weekend during the new moon, Capricorn will help you figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are. Ascendant: Know yourself.

You‘re breezing through the week like a well-oiled machine, having gotten your latest tune up and rectifying some of the common issues that plague all old vehicles. Whether or not that means you did see the doctor is irrelevant, your spiritual, emotional and intellectual health is just important, but it‘s not a bad idea to get yourself all checked out. Work is work, it‘s always something you excel at, always something you can handle, and always something you feel comfortable with. What bothers you is the things surrounding work, the family members who want or need your emotional support, the colleagues who need you to be something more than just a person they work with, the times you spend alone trying to figure out what rewards you want from working so hard. You can‘t just decide to climb Mount Everest on a whim, you have to have some sort of reward at the top to make the journey and the accomplishment worth it, otherwise it‘s another empty victory. Think about hitting the goal that would truly make you feel amazing about yourself this weekend, use that new moon in Capricorn to work for you for a change. You got this.Ascendant: Not every accomplishment comes with the same emotional response.

You just want to clock in, clock out, do the job you came to do and head home. You‘re not interested in having goals to complete, you‘re pretty satisfied with the hamster wheel life has become and you don‘t want to strive for more for yourself. Part of you is taking a big step back from your ambitions, and instead of bending over backwards to make it to your perceived notion of success, you‘re content being mediocre, helping others to succeed while being okay with what you do / what you‘ve done. Not everyone has to be special and not everyone can make it to the top. You‘re still trying to find your niche in the world, that thing that you do better than everyone else. If you‘re lucky enough to have found it, you‘re more or less stuck in the doldrums of your niche only having so many followers and not being the major, big thing out there. And you‘re fine with that, you know that your day to shine will come, for now you‘d rather spend time soaking up the good feelings with your friends, watching your kids grow up, supporting your loved ones with their goals. There is far more reward in being the cheerleader on the sidelines than the person scoring the goal. Come the weekend you‘re rebelling against the new moon in Capricorn, believing that you‘re fine in your own skin, and if you aren‘t, well you don‘t want to add more to your plate to make you feel better, as the old Chinese proverb goes, you have to empty your cup so you can fill it again.Ascendant: What‘s wrong with living the simple life?

It‘s not often you want to join the land of the living, usually you prefer being lost in your own little world, but this week you‘re contributing, brainstorming, and offering up your opinions more than you have in the past few months. You‘ve got this kick in the pants energy flooding your veins with creativity, positivity and inspiration. You want to bring all your ideas into fruition because there‘s only so much satisfaction you can get from fantasizing. The Mercury Retrograde gives you a little more confidence than you‘re used to experiencing, instead of being careful about what you say for fear that you‘re not on the right track, you offer up every idea that crosses your mind, and you don‘t feel the sting of rejection when some of your ideas aren‘t met with positive reactions. You‘re able to shield yourself from being hurt personally when someone doesn‘t understand the inner workings of your mind. You are assuaging yourself with the reminder that everyone is different in their own way, and that while your ideas are eccentric, they likely have some dirty little secrets too. The new moon over the weekend messes you up more than you expected, making you feel uncertain and withdrawn. It‘s like one of those delayed responses, you weren‘t taking things personally and then the weekend hit and you couldn‘t help it, something made it past those shields. Ascendant: Take the time to make better shields for yourself.