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Hau'oli Makahiki Hou! Happy New Year!

The planets begin this year (2002) with a few planets in different signs than last year's beginning (2001).

We have the personal planets of Venus and Mars shifted from Aquarius and Scorpio (last year) to Capricorn and Pisces respectively.

Venus:

Venus, our planet of reception on all levels, will now be earthy, solid, and perhaps filtering reality in black and white modes. The challenge for all is to receive without fear or control and to find all the shades of gray between the extremes of black and white.

Mars:

Mars stays in a water sign. The passions of Scorpio are released into the Divine connection of Pisces. Knowing that free will is the gift of our Creator, the fish swim in any direction they choose to express themselves. It is the gift of this year, 2002, to choose -- every day this year -- the alignment with Divine Will  as we seek what we desire.

Mercury:

Mercury does not change its sign, staying in Capricorn, and its Sabian Symbol for the year is Duality. Therefore, our mental agility will shift between the polarities inherent in Capricorn's sign.

Jupiter:

Jupiter is continuing its annual pilgrimage around the signs and has moved from Gemini to Cancer. Air to Water. Expansiveness in emotions, nurturing, and humor. It may be hard to stay on a single track this year, as there is the potential for many diversions. May they be joy filled!

Saturn:

Saturn, too, has shifted since January 2001. Moving from Earth to Air, it is busy showing us our mental fears. We also face those constructs we have created to chase away fear that were not built on solid and real concepts.

Chiron:

Chiron has moved from the vibration of Fire to Earth. Its highly elliptical orbit is now moving into the phase where it moves less speedily through the signs. It will spend the next four years moving through Capricorn, which brings all of us the ability to heal the controlling issues that are inherent in the nature of the Sea-Goat's sign. Surrender to the physical waves of release as the new octave of healing enters.

Uranus and Neptune continue their progress through Aquarius.

Uranus:

This will be the last full calendar year where Uranus is in its own sign. The radical pattern breaker takes seven years to progress through a sign and whenever a ruling planet is in its own sign, we never are the same again as a people. Use this time, especially all Air and Fire signs, to enjoy the freedoms Uranus brings. The Earth and Water signs are not as easily able to harness the power of Uranus in Aquarius though you are impacted in ways that demand changing your old self expressions.

Neptune:

Neptune will be in Aquarius for many more years, continuing to bring the Divine connection by breaking down old boundaries in communities.

Pluto:

Pluto's duties are to deconstruct the thoughts and forms of Sagittarians for another six years. We will continue to rebuild new and appropriate schools, legal systems, government structures, libraries, and cooperative groups. There will be one more opposition of Saturn and Pluto in May of 2002. We'll need to bring the lessons we've learned from the prior two oppositions into a new archetype in our consciousness without being based on dread, dismay, and horror. Forgive ourselves, and each other, of our past errors as well.