OutSmart astrologer Lilly Roddy shares hints for a more manageable new year. By Lilly Roddy Illustrations by David Eduardo Flores Perez Photo of Lilly Roddy by John Conroy
The big change for this year is that Pluto, planet of transformation, regeneration, detoxification, and death and rebirth is entering the sign of Capricorn, where it will abide for the next 14 years. When Pluto changes signs, we always have big shifts in focus, economy, and awareness. Pluto will be most directly affecting the cardinal (action) signs of Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn. For those of you born in the earlier days of those signs, your life is in major flux right now.
Generally, Cancer/Capricorn has everything to do with the housing industry, and you are all aware of the shifts that are going on there. You can expect that this decline in the housing industry and difficulty with credit and loans will continue through the middle of 2010. Houston's housing industry may not be so affected until 2010.
The Federal Reserve (“born” December 23, 1913) is very affected by this movement of Pluto into Capricorn, and the financial and credit crunch on t...
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AIDS WATCH HIV Testing, Texas Style
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Audacious hopes for the New Year.
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OUT & ABOUT
CALENDAR January Events
Performing arts, radio, art/photography, day-by-day, and HIV testing
Compiled by Sheri Taylor Bockelman
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SIGNOUT Lilly's Starship
The times they are a-changin'.
By Lilly Roddy
