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My dear Libra,

You are the justice oriented sign of the zodiac that weighs the pros and cons to every situation and with due diligence delivers their statements with a lot of diplomacy. You, my dear Libra, are the peace keeper of the zodiac. Your goal is to keep the peace and everyone happy. To that end you are willing to allow a few white lies every now and then, since relationships, to the fairness seeking sign of Libra, are basic units of political maneuverings. The end goal of justice is to see everyone’s right to be fully self-expressed respected and upheld, and to you that is more than a cornerstone, it is your essence. You desire to fulfill your life by bringing light to a cause close and dear to your heart – whether it s your job, spouse, or community.

Saturn has not entirely allowed you to enjoy the bounty of life, since he has been peering over your shoulder, watching you sign every financial document, just totally scrutinizing your house of money. From October 5, 2012 to December 23, 2014, Saturn’s transit through your second house of money, has brought tests that exposed the weak links in the financial foundation of your life, at times exposing such deep ruptures that some streams of income completely broke and ended. What you do for a living becomes more a question of are you pursuing your passion and living a fulfilling life? Saturn is the disciplinarian planet of the zodiac and the god of wisdom whose only tool to teach you is through life. This is not to say that you do not have freedom of choice according to your will. The Universe is so bountiful in her love for all things, she blesses all with the universal right to free will, from the galaxies, to the constellations, to the planets and human beings, and our dogs and cats. You ultimately choose the life you live and Saturn will make you gain wisdom from the experiences of your life. Saturn’s tests are not intellectual and easily acquired from reading a book, but rather obstacles and hardships that make you fall so you uncover the power necessary to always get up. His scrutinizing gaze in your house of money has illuminated you to your earning power and also your self-worth. You stand confidently declaring your worth and the Universe agrees. You have withstood Saturn’s tests in your house of money and dammit, you made it! You are worth every damn second of your life and you can now confidently demand the salaries and bonuses you know you are worth, because you know the depth of your reliable work ethic and follow through – and you are the diplomatic peace-keeper who is the best team player, coach and a great example of being coachable. A reliable stream of income is a guaranteed blessing of Saturn’s for meeting his challenges head on.

Now that Saturn exits your second house of money, he turns his scrutinizing eyes to your third house of communication ruled by the passionate fire sign, the philosophical Sagittarius, from December 23, 2014 to December 19, 2017. This is the house which brings about a total transformation of your voice to the power of love. Peace-loving Libra is a master wordsmith as you understand the delicacy that must be used in delivering messages to others, especially difficult messages critical of someone or something else. When Saturn tours the third house of communication he tests the integrity of your word and compares them to your actions. You may experience some hiccups as you make your word integral with your actions, and in the worst of cases may burn bridges – though in the rarest of occasions. Saturn’s tests are extreme at times and the simplest slip up can arouse hurricane storm winds. The grace you exhibit under the pressure of these storms will reveal to you, and Saturn, the effortless way in which you ride into a storm with ease, agility and honesty. You will attain from Saturn’s visit through your third house a great inner peace that teaches you the language of love, as that is the chosen language of the wise. Your words themselves will transform and the actual structure of your sentences, along with the energy radiating from your spoken words, they will all be tuned to the frequency of love. Your words will imbibe love as the essence of love begins to transform the vibrations of your thoughts. Your thoughts will reveal to you the golden rule of the wise: the language of love lives when spoken out in the open, but can only exist if spoken to oneself deep within. Your mental awareness will be keen as Saturn’s scrutiny will expose the weaknesses in your communication, and weakness is but an expression of insecurity and unhappiness. The voice you hear deep inside you will be heard loud and clear over the next few years, and the message you are speaking to yourself. Your internal monologue will become strong and alive and finally you will be master of the voice within you. Great mental clarity and peace of mind will be given to you once you learn the value of communicating from a space of love as you attain the wisdom you need to nurture others in the power of your words by connecting with love.

The month of love has many great gifts in store for you, dear Libra, so there is much to be happy about. The Sun, the source of the light and breath of life, and the god of generosity, tours your fifth house of true love, fun and children. This is the one time of year when you can enjoy all of the blessings of the fifth house because the Sun is bringing all of his life-giving rays to this part of your chart. You will enjoy many opportunities to remember that no matter what age you will always remain forever a child at heart. You will have the Sun energizing your house of idealism until Wednesday, February 18, so be sure to soak up all the rays he beams down to you!

Mercury is in retrograde at the onset of the month and he will be close by the Sun, bringing people from your past that you will love reconnecting with once again. Mercury, the poor little guy, has a lot on his small plate and he gets a lot of grief, but if you only knew how much he has to handle! He is the personal assistant to the stars – literally! Like Earth, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, all of the planets, including the Sun! And these are no Hollywood stars, these are the stars that made #diva a hashtag to begin with. So no wonder this little guy gets to go on vacation a couple of times a year. He has to sort through the celestial baggage of these big planets that otherwise can’t take care of themselves #needymuch.

Mercury being in retrograde in your fifth house of fun definitely brought a lot of stress to your life that quite honestly made having fun impossible. That is how every Mercury retrograde phase begins, and once you surrender to the fact that fun takes a backseat for the moment, Mercury’s retrograde blessings begin to arrive. By draining you of the energy reserves you intended for fun and making you work instead, Mercury allows you to get rid of the stresses in your life that keep you from having fun. As he goes back in orbit, he is also allowing you to enjoy reliving a fun night out like the old times. You may even enjoy reflecting on some of the fantasies you so strongly believed in as a kid. This is a great time for you, dear Libra, to remind yourself of the things you thought were possible and slowly, because of life, lost faith that they were. Now is the time to reclaim your wonderment and tap into the spirit of the child that is deep within you. When Mercury goes direct on Wednesday, February 11, you will feel an instant upswing in the fun and enjoyment of life! You will throw your hands up and dance to the rhythm of the music deep within you. Mercury will get into the full swing of things immediately and begin to travel forward with agility and impressive progress, since he does have the shoes endowed with wings of speed. You will see your life as a playground, a welcomed prospect for the hard pressed Libra.

You will enjoy a double dipping of all of the Universe’s fun, when the sweet-like-honey drippings of the New Moon on Wednesday, February 18 ooze over in your fifth house of love. On this night, the Moon is shedding her cloak and going bare into the mysterious dark void of the night and becoming one with it. The Moon is your celestial best friend, as she is the goddess of compassion and empathy. She cries by you with so much empathy for your sufferings, that she makes you feel she is the one suffering and not you. Her love abounds with joy and on this night, she is going down to the essentials and completely opening a new door for you in your house of true love. This is a night that comes to bathe you in romance that inspires so much fun you actually turn a long cherished fantasy into a dream come true. Only you can now what dream ultimately comes true, but it will be one sure to delight with fun, idealism and romance!

At work you have been learning the value of charm and sincerity, as Venus, the goddess of love and peace toured your sixth house of daily habits and work. You have come to enjoy a lot of satisfaction in your hobbies, and with Venus shedding her attention to your daily habits, you have been able to redefine how you live your life, and the schedule you set, from hygienic habits and your eating habits, and breathed rejuvenation and newness to your day to day life. The sixth house is the house where we venture into our hobbies and our crafts, and pursue our passions. Venus is inviting you to seek out a hobby that engages your sense of right and wrong, like community service, or a new work out regimen that allows you to release aggression and bring balance to your spirit by exercising for inner peace, or quitting a habit that no longer serves a purpose and you seek to rid yourself of as a way of nurturing your development and growth, and ultimately arriving to a state of inner and outer balance.

The white forces of peace by Venus are harmoniously cohabitating in your sixth house of daily habits and routines with the red forces of war by Mars. Mars is the action planet, and the god of will-power and ego-driven determination. Over the past couple of weeks you have been able to punctuate your current role at work with your expertise and professionalism, highlighting the fact that you are an authority in your field. Mars can be so self-assuring in his egotistical pursuits that rather than inspiring confidence, he breeds hubris and creates his own downfall. You will luckily have none other than Venus, his celestial lover and master of indulgence, to soothe the aggression of Mars and soften the message of Mars’ war call, with tact, diplomacy, charm and sincerity.

As the white and red forces of peace and war churn in your sixth house, Neptune is close by, bringing an element of dreams to the dance floor. Neptune, the god of dreams and inspiration, is hosting the celestial couple as he himself tours your sixth house of daily habits. You have been under Neptune’s influence for some time in your daily routines, allowing you to craft the most ideal way of living for you. As Venus and Mars dance in this house with Neptune overseeing them, you will be invited to a whole new re-envisioning of your life, totally redefining its direction towards fulfillment in the development of a craft, a new skill and passion. Now is the time to use the energy percolating so vibrantly in your house of daily routines to really make sure you are using your time on Earth intelligently, extracting the most out of life that you can by pursuing your passion.

The month of love gets started on the loveliest of notes for you, Dear Libra, and I have been saving this for last! The Moon, your celestial counterpart, will beam her glorious rays of compassion and empathy, upon your eleventh house of dreams that come true and social gatherings. February is bound to be full of activity with friends and social circles, and invitations to fun events! On Tuesday, February 3 you will enjoy the wonderment of seeing a wish so close and dear to your heart come true, and the love of caring friends will be right there in your arm’s reach! As Mercury is retrograde, there is an opportunity for you to enjoy the presence of a person from your past, and take part in the realization of their dream. The Full Moon on this day opens up your heart to the generosity of love that is the basic makeup of the Universe, making relationships with close friends even deeper. Alliances will be formed and cemented, so maybe news of an engagement (if you already haven’t gotten engaged) will arrive.

Leo, my passionate friend,

As a fire sign you possess boundless reserves of epic will power and confidence. The Lion is the emblem of pride of the zodiac and strides in your life are naturally made to impress. The greatest source of pride for Leo is the confines of the domestic domain. For Leo, a passionate fire sign that burns with great love and appreciation for culture and art is encyclopedic in their knowledge of all the hottest brand names of the moment, from artists, and actors to fine cuisine and shows. At home, style is extracted with flare and a love for showing off your goodies in the bank on your couches for your living room, accented perfectly with a select art piece that compliments not just the colors, but heightens the subtle energy created by the collective ambiance of the room.

For the past three years from October 5, 2012 to December 23, 2014, you housed Saturn, the great disciplinarian of the zodiac and god of wisdom in your fourth house of home life and relationships with your parents. You have experienced a lot of stress, both real and psychological, in the quarters that matter most to Leo – their home base and their parents, for parents are the great home base for our roots to this Earth. In many cases, some Leos saw the total loss of their connections with their parents due to Saturn’s heavy transit through this house. Loss and ends that come with harrowing traumatic finalities are natural products of Saturn’s obstacles and blows. Saturn tests you with love at the core, though the tests may have felt like you were thrown into a downward spiral of hell and anguish. He wants you to be able to stand strong on your own two feet by procuring the most authentic you and re-establishing the sincerity in your connections with those intimately around you in close quarters. As a teacher, Saturn’s preferred method is your life itself. This is not to say that you are not endowed with free will. Quite the contrary, actually, for you, better than anyone else in the zodiac, know that your will is not one to control or limit. In fact, no one can alienate your free will and get away with it because the will power of the Lion comes from the self-reassuring ego of the Leo mind that does not cower in the face of challenges to their knowledge and authority. What’s more, the Universe wants you to be happy, dear Leo, and the last three years have been tests to see just how much you trust the Universe is working in your favor.

Saturn’s tests could have manifested themselves by not only ending a relationship with a parent through the permanent loss of death, but your very home might have had to be totally demolished, remodeled or recreated. Saturn directs his focus with exacting quality, piercing the surface to peer deep down into the foundation. The comfort and security of your home may have come into question as insecurities and weak links exposed themselves, as ultimately Saturn has made you realize that the foundation you built your life upon at home and with your parents is cracked beyond repair. Saturn made you question the validity of relationships or realities at home that rather than empowered and nurtured your growth, hurt you and made you feel insecure. In some cases, you just had to move out and finally assert the independence that has been percolating for quite some time, but needed the help of Saturn to fully take away the veils of your rosy perception to bring your awareness to the fact that a house depends on the fortitude of its smallest component.

In the last three years you have learned a great amount from the mistakes of the previous generations and after your own scrutiny, uncovered that there are better, more efficient, less destructive and improved ways to manage your home life. After three years, Saturn exits your fourth house of home life and your relationship with your parents and enters your fifth house of true love, fun and children from December 23, 2014 to December 19, 2017. As Saturn leaves your fourth house, you feel greater confidence in the home you have created for yourself and start to grow in your approach towards fun in your life.

Saturn is stern in his deliverance of his lessons and the only tool he has to teach you is life itself. You have the right to choose the life you want and the Universe wants you to live the life you love – since you only get this one, there are no re-dos. Through Saturn’s entrance in your fifth house of true love, children and innocence, there will be experiences that quite literally rock your world, highlighting in some instances your lack of maturity in these areas of your life. Saturn teaches you wisdom through gained experiences, not intellectual wisdom acquired through study, since wisdom only has reason when experience backs it. When Saturn transits through the fifth house, he begins by looking at you like you are a fool with your hands raised, having fun singing your lungs out to the sky approaching the edge of the cliff you don’t see – and Saturn is quite literally making you blind so he can push you over the edge. Some of you may fall over the cliff and into a state of free fall. Free fall, give in, and you will learn to trust the Universe since even in the suspense of being in an existential free fall, she always carries you in her embrace. Your innocence in life runs deep in the highly egotistical power of your mind, dear Leo, and, with innocence and ego, illusions and fantasies can arise. Saturn stares down at these fantastical tales you told yourself of love, and how you could always win at fun no matter how questionable you went about having it, and if you have children (and yes, pets definitely do count as children), you may experience a conflict and disturbance in your ability to relate with them. Heartbreak may occur to you in the upcoming years, my dear Leo, as suddenly life’s heavy doses of reality make you grow and learn that certain defenses are needed to protect yourself from hurt. You will develop a practice of diplomacy underscored by grace and tact as you will realize that your bitterness is directly resulting in your child’s loss of innocence, as rather than fun and the deeply magnetic you that you are deep in your heart you are controlled by the stern disciplinarian, Saturn. Saturn will test your ability to have fun through all of the tests of the next three years to shed your old skin, wrinkled from resentment, regret, hate, bitterness, and alienations, and you will enter a new state of wonderment about life. There is a newfound reality and through Saturn you will be transformed to see how to protect all the blessings of your life. You are living your ideal life, dear Leo, it is right now and you are perfect as you are, and wiser now about how to be a provider for yourself and others while having fun and taking accountability.

Saturn’s lessons in the fifth house transform our most joyful relationships by nurturing wisdom that empowers and allows joy to grow in an environment that is safe and sound. From December 23, 2014 to December 19, 2017, Saturn puts the fantasies and illusions you have come to believe were true and demolish them. His lessons, though jarring to the core, will bring about a wiser you that is in love with the reality of your life. You are not a victim, dear Leo, of anything. You are a soul voyaging through the cosmos in the vessel of your human body encountering celestial bumps, detours and blockages along your way. Saturn scrutinizes your willpower and ability to overcome these bumps, and as you progress, you will learn the lessons he means for you to have in order to gain the wisdom you need to continue forth on your celestial journey. The lesson of the fifth house as Saturn transits through it: let go and be open all at once. Saturn totally cleanses your sight and your soul, empowering you to let go of the bitterness that has festered from years of accumulated heartbreak, and you learned how joy is wisdom in practice, and that even at old age you remain forever a child at heart.

You begin the month of love in the glorious sweet-like-honey drippings of the rays of the Full Moon in your first house of self-identity. The Moon is your celestial best friend, she is the god of emotion and the scribe of every emotional lesson you have ever endured, dear Leo. In her illumination she brings the reflection of compassion to your soul, and makes you feel as though it she was, not you, that experienced everything you ever did. On Tuesday, February 3, the Moon fully dressed in her glory will bring to fruition a whole year of personal growth and development. In the background of the mysterious void of the night lurk hidden truths that under your nose were percolating, but only with the illuminating rays of the friendly Moon could you finally see them. These are not terrible secrets, but rather, upon this night, the Moon will bless you with personal revelations that may be life-changing as suddenly great expansive potential for growth opens right before you. You will be made aware of your true emotional state inside. This is your own personal Full Moon so use her power and her rays to make reality something that has long been deeply hidden and make it shine!

Jupiter, your celestial body guard and god of good fortune, joins forces with the glorious Full Moon, making this day your very own for the taking. From June 2014 to July 2015, Jupiter will be highlighting your personality and bringing great charm to your appeal. Over the next year, you have Jupiter showering you with gifts so bountiful in number that you have every reason to be happy, dear Leo. The first house governs your sense of self, your personality and your identity. The Universe is allowing you to enjoy the benefits of being taken at face value. Jupiter is so expansive in his reach that he is endowing you until July 2015 with the opportunities to make your personality shine authentically. Jupiter can only shower you with gifts when he knows what to give you, and yet, he also demands that what you ask for be in alignment with the vision of the life you love. Therefore, Jupiter is encouraging you to grow in your sense of self-awareness, to overcome your insecurities and refine your strongest attributes. A passionate and ego-driven mind like the Leo will not falter in declaring what they really want and the Universe will grant you rewards for simply being sincere in requests from the skies.

The month of love has so many gifts in store for you, dear Leo, as Venus is also gracing your eighth house of rebirth and the transformation of the soul. Venus, the goddess of love and peace will grace your house of soulful transformations with her white forces of peace. During this transit until Friday, February 20, you will undergo the transformation of your soul down to its very essence. Venus in her indulgence of romance and pleasure brings you the chance to reflect up on the state of your soul’s well being. Is your soul fully self-expressed? With Venus you will be given the security and love of searching through your own self worth and value with sincerity.

Mars, the great action planet of the zodiac whose energy is necessary for creating and completing tasks, will grace the same house of rebirth with his red forces of war, ego and determination. In the month of February, you will discover wells of energy, will power and determination that over time and with the passage of the seasons erode. You have a very wonderful chance as Mars tours the eighth house of your soul’s rebirth to really discover the soulful prerogative of your existence. Only you know that, and only you can know that. With Mars you are given the confidence and ego-reassurance that makes you fearless and dauntless as you venture forth into the recreation of your soul. Until Thursday, February 19 Mars will energize your search for truth and authenticity, so much so that he can even inflate your ego and make you believe you are a lot more powerful than you really are. Not to worry, as the delicate white forces of peace from Venus will help keep Mars’ ego in check.

This great celestial interplay of the white forces of peace by Venus and the red forces of war by Mars will take place on the dance hall hosted by none other than the planet of dreams and inspiration, Neptune. Neptune will energize vision of your new soulful rebirth with his powers of making the ideal life you desire a reality. To do so, Neptune is inviting you to ask yourself authentically what kind of energy are you giving off and thus impacting the life you are living. As Venus and Mars both encourage you to re-envision your prerogative, Neptune is energizing your very essence and changing the vibrations of your soul, so that you are fundamentally, down to the cellular level, transformed and vibrating a new frequency to your energy.

This is great news to hear, as very rarely do we get an opportunity to truly start anew, and that is precisely what the Universe is giving you: a whole new carte blanche. To make this transformation of your soul even sweeter, Mercury, the god of communication, will be retrograde in your seventh house of relationships with others. This poor little guy has a lot on his plate and he gets a lot of grief, but if you only knew how much he has to handle! He is the personal assistant to the stars – literally! Like Earth, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, all of the planets, including the Sun! And these are no Hollywood stars, these are the stars that made #diva a hashtag to begin with. So no wonder this little guy gets to go on vacation a couple of times a year. He has to sort through the celestial baggage of these big planets that otherwise can’t take care of themselves without him #needymuch.

As Mercury goes retrograde in your house of relationships with others ruled by Aquarius, the forward and innovative sign of the zodiac, you are encouraged to look at the state of your current closest relationships and ask yourself how you can improve upon them. In fact, this is a time that many of you may even get engaged, as Mercury allows you to truly look at the connection and judge if it is solid. The seventh house rules relationships of all sorts, from romantic to professional, so at the same time you get to completely transform and redefine your sense of self down to the very essence and vibration of your soul, you are empowered by Mercury to make your relationships with others direct reflections of your newfound sense of self. You are being given the opportunity to realign the purpose and direction of your closest relationships so they can be with you. The seventh house is more appropriately the mirror to your soul, as those we surround ourselves with are but simply reflections of what we see in ourselves. You have had to let go of relationships whose end you never envisioned or wanted to accept with Mercury going to retrograde, but that is to allow for the greater gifts that the Universe has in store for you able to move in with the space being freed up. You will feel great momentum in your significant relationships, as the past is finally put to rest and the future is taken in great strides on Wednesday, February 11 when Mercury goes direct.

One full week after Mercury is back from vacation and moving forward in full swing, you will invite a fabulous New Moon on Wednesday, February 18 in your seventh house of significant relationships. On this night, the Moon sheds her cloak and goes bare into the mysterious dark void of the night to open a celestial door to new opportunities.