Where are those planets now?
Updated February 1, 2012
Here is an overview of where each planet is by sign
and its influence while there.
This information applies to all signs.
Sun is in Aquarius 1/20 – 2/18
Key energies during this time:
Mercury Crater
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Mercury is in Aquarius 1/27 – 2/13
Key energies & qualities to focus while Mercury is in Aquarius:
Mercury rules the mental and while it is here it can help you to see things from a new perspective and with a fresh outlook. Keeping an open-mind will likely present you with new options you possibly hadn’t considered before. Mercury here can increase your capacity for creative thinking, while opening you to new information and ideas, especially those that are original and unique. Think in terms of the larger impact and scope of one’s decisions and conversations.
What to watch out for while Mercury is in Aquarius:
- Being erratic and unfocused.
- Not paying attention or listening to “messages” from your own intuition.
- Being too mental, abstract or thinking you know it all when maybe there is another, and better, way.
Questions to ask while Mercury is in Aquarius:
- What areas of my life could benefit from a fresh perspective?
- If a solution were now available to a particular issue in my life, which issue would that be?
- And what would the solution be?
- Am I ready to hear, and to know, that now?
- What aren’t I paying attention to I may need to?
- What areas of my life do I most need to focus on and tend to?
Other things to consider during this time:
To attune to the higher frequencies, stay open-minded; actively seek out originality; practice creative solution solving; be spontaneous and practice tolerance.
Venus & Moon
Venus is in Pisces 1/13 – 2/7
Keywords and energies for Venus (which represents our caring and loving natures) in Pisces:
Focus now on being tolerant and selfless and opening your heart to those around you in an unconditional way. Not needing to be at the center of another’s life, but rather finding how to love without conditions. Spiritual and devotional love.
What to watch out for {lower expressions of Venus in Pisces}:
- Believing whatever you hear because you want so much to.
- Not being grounded and realistic regarding the affairs of the heart.
- Being superficial and seeing through rose-colored glasses.
Ways to enhance the energies of Venus in Pisces (focusing on these will bring in the higher frequencies available now}:
- Actively practicing gentleness and tolerance.
- Focusing on your Love of God through your devotional nature.
- Asking for forgiveness. And forgiving others.
Questions to ask while Venus is in Pisces {remember that these will prompt an inner process}:
- What are my true intentions in relationship? Is it to get my needs met or to learn about love? To experience love?
- How can I connect to the love that is all around me? Am I spending enough time on my relationship with God/Source?
Mars is in Virgo 11/10 – 7/3/12
Surface of Mars
Key energies and qualities to focus on while Mars is in Virgo:
Mars here helps us to get organized and come up with a plan that is thought out and doable, though will likely require several steps and patience to implement. In general, Mars has everything to do with where we place our focus. While Mars is in Virgo it is a good time to place extra focus on the everyday details in your life. You may well be inclined towards organizing closets or de-cluttering your home or workspace.
Things to focus on now include:
- Managing your time well;
- Being productive;
- Taking care of the details of your life;
- Paying extra attention o your health and particularly your diet.
What to watch out for while Mars is in Virgo:
- Be careful about what you eat now as the stomach and digestion can be easily upset during this time. (If you have these sorts of issues anyway, spicy foods, overeating or eating late can all be more problematic than usual.)
- Avoid wasting your time in useless routines or tangents.
- Spending too much or not enough time on the small things.
- Strive not to be overly critical as it is only too easy to do that now…this includes not being critical of yourself.
Ways to enhance the energies of Mars in in Virgo {focusing on these will bring in the higher frequencies available now}:
- Be specific, methodical and more precise than usual.
- Slow down and practice being deliberate.
- Be discerning, paying careful attention to the choices you make, as even the small ones can hold keys to accomplishing what it is you want during this time.
- This is the perfect time to do those things that at other times you just wouldn’t want to do, such as: bookkeeping, budgeting, household chores, office tasks, etc. This said, it isn’t so much that we want to do them, though you may, but that you have the right kind of energy to accomplish them now!
Questions to ask while Mars is in Virgo {these can prompt an inner process}:
- Am I staying on track or do I lose my focus easily and/or often?
- Am I really organized enough?
- Do I manage my time well?
- What can I do to get my life in order?
- Are my regimes supporting my health or hindering it?
- Am I being too critical of either myself or others?
- If I slowed down a bit would I notice some important details I tend to over look?
Other things to consider during this time: This is a very long time for Mars to be in one sign, as it usually stays about ten weeks in each sign. This is because it will be going retrograde in Virgo on January 23rd. This suggests that we all should become familiar with (even make friends with) this influence as it will be around a while!
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Jupiter is in Taurus 6/4 – 6/11/12
Keywords while Jupiter is in Taurus: I feel this will help many with money and financial issues as it opens the door to greater abundance, if you allow it to and do what you must to “make it so”. Basically efforts made now will fall on fertile ground, if you will, and you may be rewarded beyond what you can imagine. Think of it as growing a garden. You must plan, work the soil, plant, water and week before you can reap a harvest. Things you tend to with this sort of focus will thrive. Keep moving in the direction you want to go and during this year that Jupiter is in this most fertile of signs you will very reap a wonderful harvest.
Jupiter's Auroras!
Qualities to focus on while Jupiter is in Taurus Growth, creating what you want, moving in a positive direction, stating who you are and what you want and rediscovering how to have some fun in simple, basic ways.
Questions to ask during this time:
What area of my life is really ready to grow and to take off?
- What is required for that to happen?
- Am I really doing what I need to, to make that happen?
- And is it something I really enjoy?
- What brings me joy?
- Am I willing to work towards, and doing what I must, to create a more secure future for myself?
- What do I need to do to make that happen?
What to watch out for during this time: Jupiter in Taurus can be laid back and even lazy, thinking things will take care of themselves. Also, and this is really important, is that Jupiter and Taurus can incline us towards overindulging, overspending, overreaching in some way. Strive to get a handle on that, as it will help you to really get the most out of this really very benevolent energy.
Other things to consider while Jupiter is in Taurus: This placement of Jupiter may well help certain sectors of the economy. It is wonderful for growth and manifestation. This is a time to consider doing just what you love and what brings you greater joy. Jupiter and Taurus wants us to have fun, to enjoy, but also to be productive, and that combo, in fact, that’s the alchemy about this here, is where what we’re doing, what we’re focused on, what we’re tending to, is also something that is either a passion or a joy for us.
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Saturn is in Libra 7/21/10 – 10/5/12
Keywords: Tests of balance, compromise, relating, loyalty.
Saturn in Shadows
Questions to ask during this time:
- Am I willing to walk the middle path?
- Can I stay away from extremes that are not in my best interests?
- What does stability and security really mean to me?
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Uranus is in Aries 3/11/11 – 5/15/18
Keywords while Uranus is in Aries: Unusual, unpredictable events that change how you view things will occur more often. There is an acceleration of energies. It is indeed, a time to let go of old patterns and attitudes as the represents a new cycle has now begun and many new things are being ushered in.
Uranus Orbits on it's "side"
- Am I willing change those things that will truly change my life?
- Or do I back away from them?
- Do I sabotage myself in this way?
- What would be the first thing I would change in my life that would make it better if I could?
What to watch out for during this time: Being erratic and making changes without any forethought. Seeking freedom and independence in impulsive ways. Resisting new ideas and information.
Other things to consider while Uranus is in Aries: Uranus only changes signs every 7 years, so this is a very significant shift of energies.Read my article on this powerful shift and what to expect here.
Amazing Image of Neptune
Neptune is in Pisces: 2/3/2012 – 3/30/2025
Keywords while Neptune is in Pisces:
Neptune entering Pisces is a most mystical event, primarily because Neptune more than any other planet rules all that is sacred and mystical. And it’s now entering the sign it rules, which is considered to be the most spiritual of the signs. These mystical energies are subtle, yet strong.
Qualities to focus on during this time: Surrender; forgiveness letting go, allowing God; devotion; faith.
Higher expressions of Neptune in Pisces:
- You are more drawn to the inner realms, the only place we are truly safe
- Your devotional nature gets stronger.
- Meditation practice is deeper and results in greater peace
- Intuition increase. Lots of 3rd eye activity
- More sensitive to your environment. Picks up on things. Direct knowing
- In general, a stronger pull towards the divine…seeking becomes even more important.
Questions to ask now:
- Am I willing to truly surrender my will?
- Am I open to a higher path for my life?
- Do I express unconditional love or do I hold on to my “own version” of what love is?
- Do I utilize the Spiritual tools and gifts that I have?
What to watch out for during this time:
- Feeling more spacey and ungrounded.
- Feeling scattered and have difficulty focusing.
- Things may feel more surreal, unreal. As tho it’s a little harder to differentiate between what is real and what is not!
- Imagination is strong, perhaps having you worry or fearful about things that will never happen (mass hysteria being an example of this).
- Drugs, alcohol and addictions in general are greatly influenced by this placement. It is important not to go unconsciousness about the stronger inclination many will feel towards such behavior.
- Panic or fear can become stronger, as well.
- Desire to escape is stronger.
- Picking up feelings from your environment. The “psychic sponge syndrome.”
Neptune has not been in Pisces since the mid-1800’s, and when any one of the three outer planets changes signs it represents a shift. Neptune in Pisces initiates a pull towards the mysterious and deep currents of the subtle realms. No other Planet influences our Spiritual as much as Neptune does and it will now be even stronger now that it is in Pisces.
Read more on the energy and influence of Pluto in Capricorn here.
Keywords for while Pluto is in Capricorn: Profound transformations of government, corporations and society in general. Challenge to the established ways, rules and laws. Greater accountability of those in control of cultural destinies.
Pluto with Moons-NASA
