This is a transcription of the following video for Libra in January 2021.

Libra

September 23–October 22

It’s Capricorn season and Capricorn forms the base of your astrology chart. If you think of the base of something, it holds the weight. It’s the roots; it’s the foundation; home. It’s family. You’re in this season where it’s about nesting, focusing on the home. Maybe there’s a move. Maybe you’re making changes in your home. Home and family were areas that saw a lot of focus in 2018 and 2019 and 2020. Something that I’ve been telling the other signs is that you can’t look at the astrology of one month and see it as this sort of separate entity. It’s interwoven into something much larger and it’s important to understand where you were in order to understand where you’re going.

Saturn was in Capricorn from 2018 up until December 17, 2020. Again, this part of your chart is roots and foundation, and maybe you made some major changes in your family. Maybe changes in home, your home environment. And now that the Sun is there—because it’s Capricorn season—it might echo back to some bigger themes you were juggling with the past few years.

Venus, your ruling planet, is also in Capricorn as of January 8. You’re nestling in, connecting with family, or maybe you’re feeling the responsibilities that we have to our loved ones. Maybe it’s complicated.

There is a Capricorn New Moon on January 13, but this one is going to be in the same exact place in the sky as Pluto. Pluto has been in the home and family part of your chart since 2008. It’s possible that you’ve seen a lot of big changes in the home and family department over the last 13 years. Pluto is, or has been, digging into your deep, emotional and psychological material—ancestral stuff, home, and family—and really trying to excavate the stuff in your foundation that’s just not supporting you anymore. Maybe there’s been problems with family members and maybe you’ve sort of separated or distanced yourself from family members that are not supportive of you. Maybe you have to create your own family. This new moon that’s on January 13 echoes back to a story that’s been going on for 13 years. The next four weeks is about the length of a lunar month, which takes you into February. You might see a move; you might see big changes in the home; big structural changes, big emotional changes.

Mars finally leaves Aries, your relationship sign, where it’d been since the end of June 2020. That’s six months. Normally, Mars spends six weeks in a sign. Having spent a long time in your relationship sign, you’ve had to do a lot of back and forth, a lot of negotiation, with a partner or somebody else in your life. It doesn’t have to be romantic partner, but that’s been a big focus and maybe even an uncomfortable focus. Mars can make things hot; it can make things testy, pushing buttons. Mars was retrograde from September 2020 to November 2020 which meant that you had to go back and really work through with something with a partner or something from the past.

Mars goes into Taurus on January 6. Imagine you have a house. That house has 12 rooms and every room has a very different function to life. Taurus is the part of your chart that is the bathroom. The bathroom is a room where we have to go to face ourselves. It’s a deeply psychological, transformative, and uncomfortable room. Mars is going into this room and it’s bringing up a lot of things around vulnerability. Are you safe? Can you be vulnerable with a partner, vulnerable with anybody else? Who has power? Going into February , something is being brought up for you to look at so that you can do the necessary transformation work. Mars, as it goes into this part of the chart, starts to activate these themes, but then it makes something called a square to Saturn on the January 13—the same day as the new moon.

Saturn is now in Aquarius. Aquarius is a part of your chart where you have to know exactly who you are. Saturn is asking you a simple question: Do you know who you are over the next two years? You need to take yourself seriously; you need to take your talent seriously. You need to carve out a sense of identity and persona and be absolutely true and faithful to who you really are. This part of the chart does talk about children, so children, pregnancy—those things—are very highlighted going into March 2023. Maybe this sense of identity, of who you are, has been influenced externally by other factors or other people or other events—maybe from childhood. As you’re being forced to dig into a lot of deep stuff, it may start to push some buttons. Who are you? If who you think you are is based on things that happened in the past, like traumas, and these things have been added to you like letters to your name, you’re in a time where it’s about deconstructing that so that you can really get into the heart of who you are. There’s a bit of psychological tension in January for you, Libra. You have to look at themes of the self, self-preservation, self-destruction, self-revelation, self-transformation. All of these deeper themes on intimacy and vulnerability and even sexuality and romance. How do you get naked with somebody, metaphorically? Perhaps even literally as well. How do you strip down to who you are? How do you have the faith and courage to open up to somebody?

Vulnerability is a big theme going into 2021 and it’s something that’s going to come up again and again because Uranus has been in this part of your chart since May 2018 (besides a brief retrograde from November 2018 to March 2019). You’ve already been in this several-year story of needing to get vulnerable, of needing to separate yourself from something from the past or something that’s feeding negative ego. Mars joins Uranus on January 20. That could shake things up in the relationship department or shake things up around some of these deeper themes of vulnerability, trust, and security. By then it is Aquarius season, so the Sun will be in the part of your chart that is about self and self-expression and creativity but also children.

The Sun will meet up with Saturn on January 23. This is the first time the Sun meets up with Saturn in Aquarius since the 1990s. It is what is called a conjunction and it’s one of those milestones for understanding what this new Saturn in Aquarius era is about. Pay attention to the themes that are coming up. The astrology almost all month long is not easy. That new moon on January 13 is not easy, but even going into the end of the month things are heating up. There is a Leo Full Moon on January 28 and this full moon is at 9 degrees of Leo. It’s going to square Mars, Uranus, and Saturn to bring forward a story that’s going to take us into 2021. It’s going to be one of those themes that are going to be very present with us all year long. So really pay attention; take notes. I always tell people to Journal around the transits because it’s part of a bigger story that you’re going to return to over and over again. There is a thread and it’s important to see it so that you can understand what the planets are asking of you right now.