Depending on its use, your home office should be either close to the front door or in a secluded area of your home. If you receive clients or customers, the best place for your office is close to the front door. Because a home-based business that receives clients and customers, or traffic, is yang by nature, it should be located in the most yang area of your home, namely, in a front room. Also, a home-based business that receives clients should be kept completely separate from the more private areas of your home. If your work requires quiet concentration—if you are a writer, artist, or researcher—your office should be in a secluded area of your home. Read the rest of this entry »

Difficult position. Be meticulous at work, and take care to refrain from entanglements and quarrels. Do not take the goodwill of others for granted. Sincerity will lead to success.

Difficult position. Be flexible and patient. Stubbornness will cause you to lose the support and respect you need from others. When facing hardships and obstacles, seek expert help. Read the rest of this entry »

Using the Predominant Element of your Surroundings

No matter what the element of the surrounding environment, there is always an element that will support your business. You will find that element in the following table. To use this table, first locate the predominant element of the surrounding environment in the left-hand column. Then locate the element that rules your business in the top row. You will find the element that supports your business where the appropriate elements in the left column and top row meet. Read the rest of this entry »

Overall Arrangement

The most important points to consider in arranging the workplace are the position of the main office, or CEO’s office, and the ease of movement of personnel and operations. Once the location of the main office is determined, it will be relatively simple to figure out where everything else should go.

Short of considering compass directions, the ideal locations for the CEO’s office are at the power and money points of the overall space. Read the rest of this entry »

This post is addressed to architects, designers, and CEOs who are plan_ fling an office space for an entire company. If you are designing or redesigning a workplace, aim for comfort of movement and simplicity of form. Think of the space as a suit of clothes that either fits, letting people breathe and move comfortably, or doesn’t. Clean, straight lines always promote ease of thought and smooth activity. Geometric patterns in either overall layout or decor embody chi_; they are like codes. Some patterns promote movement and positive growth, while others promote stagnation and decay. Read the rest of this entry »

1. Venus: As per Pluto. Venus transits last for up to a month, but take note of those times when Venus is retrograde, because this can lengthen and intensify its effects.
2. Mercury: As per Pluto. Mercury’s transits last for a couple of weeks; however, watch out for retrograde times.
3. Chiron: This planetoid has an eccentric orbit, but it usually spends a couple of years in a sign. Its transits can therefore last for several months, especially when it turns retrograde and back again.
4. The nodes of the Moon: These take about a year or so to work through each sign, and their effect can last for a few months when aspecting a particularly sensitive spot.
5. The Moon: The Moon takes two and a half days to work through each sign, so its transits are very short lived. However a new Moon, a full Moon and especially an eclipse will have a powerful effect on anything that it aspects. An eclipse which conjuncts a subject’s Sun, Moon or ascendant is bound to be strongly felt.

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Solar returns

Solar returns are also sometimes known as solar return directions, and they are a form of transit, so they can be read in much the same way as any other list of transits. I think these are easiest to interpret when they are read as a stand-alone chart, rather than being put against a natal chart. Please try both methods for yourself before you make up your mind.

A solar return is arrived at by taking the Sun back to the exact spot that it occupied at the time of a subject’s birth. This usually happens on the subject’s birthday but it can occur a day before or afterwards. In plain English, it shows where the planets actually are in the sky at the time of the Sun’s return, and this is, of course, a picture of the transits at the moment that the Sun returns to its natal position. Read the rest of this entry »

Ox Husband + Rat Wife

He is always dependable enough to bring home the bacon and she is loving and doting enough to cook it just the way he likes it. Very satisfying and rewarding union. He is strong and silent and loves being fussed over and admired by his outgoing wife and she is content with the security and stability he provides. Both will have few complaints. Read the rest of this entry »

Sun in challenging aspect to Mars

You could suddenly become quite aggressive, impulsive, argumentative and unlivable with. A competitive streak could suddenly emerge and you may become keen on dangerous sports. You will have to guard against accidents associated with weapons or machinery. Impulsive financial speculation can lead to losses, and uncontrolled desires can lead to almost anything! A slipped disc is a strong likelihood with this progression and care should be taken to keep control of your temper and of your life. Read the rest of this entry »

The Rat is reputed to make an excellent writer and this is not surprising at all. He makes it a point to know practically everything about everyone in town. He keeps tabs, has an uncanny eye for detail, a good memory and is incredibly inquisitive.

The native of this year will be successful in whatever he chooses to do because like his sign, the Rat, he will adapt himself to the situation at hand. He has the ability to cope with difficulties and is at his best during a crisis. Levelheaded and alert, he possesses keen intuition, foresight and business acumen. Adversity merely serves to sharpen his wits and he is always busy cooking up some scheme. Read the rest of this entry »

Water Element

Persons born in a year dominated by the Water element have a better than average ability to communicate and to advance their ideas by influencing the thoughts of others. Other people’s minds are their vessels and help carry their creative ideas into positive action. They are basically ruled by sympathetic vibrations and convey their feelings and emotions to the best degree that their native animal sign will permit. Read the rest of this entry »

Jupiter

Jupiter takes 12 years to make its return. If you understand natal charting, when trying to interpret this return you will need to take into account the sign and the house that natal Jupiter occupies as well as any planets that aspect Jupiter natally.

If you don’t understand natal charting, then just remember that Jupiter is a bit of a double-edged sword. As you begin to read and learn about astrology, you will soon come to see Jupiter as ‘the great benefic’, or the planet that, along with Venus, bestows all kinds of good things upon its subjects. Read the rest of this entry »

Third house

Mercury

This is a great time for communications and for having an active mind. Don’t wear your nerves out by thinking too much! Try to finish one task before starting another.

Venus

Good relationships with those who are around you and a peaceful frame of mind are likely. A good old gossip with a woman friend from time to time will perk you up. Socializing with neighbours and siblings will be pleasant. Read the rest of this entry »

Chinese Horoscope Rat Born withPisces: Water + Positive Water

A very pleasing personality, as the Piscean is melodious and psychic and the Rat well versed in taking care of his family and interests. A subject formed by the combination of these two signs will always be able to demonstrate his creativity, even if he is shy and not desirous of facing the public. He could be a prolific writer because of the Fish’s deep appreciation of human emotions. Read the rest of this entry »

Progressed Moon through Capricorn

Capricorn/Capricorn

Pure Capricorn: all the Capricornian traits are emphasized.

Capricorn/Taurus

This is a good money-making combination and a practical attitude to money and possessions will be needed. You may become more interested in creative or artistic hobbies and pastimes. Read the rest of this entry »

Progressed Moon through Leo

Leo/Leo

Pure Leo: all the Leonine traits are emphasized.

Leo/Sagittarius

The rather heavy and dramatic Leonine attitude will ease and a great sense of humour will begin to develop. Look back to the Sagittarian interests in the Aries/Sagittarius section. Read the rest of this entry »

Moon in challenging aspect to Neptune

Neptune being the vague planet that it is, this is a hard one to analyse. You may feel as though your life is on a kind roller- coaster, with the chief victim being your own emotions. The past could come back to haunt you in some way and you may have to face up to some pretty awful memories or feelings that have been buried for years. You will become oversensitive and terribly vulnerable, and if you are daft enough to fall in love at this time it could turn out to be a painful experience. However, with Neptune it is your unconscious and your dream life rather than anything really practical that is most likely to be attacked. This means that you may be able to live your life on the surface without making any real changes, while inside chaos reigns. Guard against deception in financial and business dealings and, if possible, leave any important decisions until well after this progression has passed. Artistic and creative ventures will be especially badly affected by this, so leave them alone. Read the rest of this entry »

Moon in challenging aspect to the natal Moon

Domestic and family matters are likely to be strained just now and this is a bad time to call in the builders or to try to move house. Your emotions will be stretched and you may go down with some kind of ailment as a result of stress. Travel is not well starred, although you are restless enough to try it anyway. Read the rest of this entry »

Moon in happy aspect to Uranus

Uranus always brings the unexpected but at least the surprises should be pleasant ones. This should convey good news in connection with family and domestic matters and it could bring unexpected visitors or an opportunity to visit other people in their homes. You will make new friends and you could also join a group or an organization that looks like being fun. Any business that concerns food, women’s interests or domestic matters will go well. You may be a bit overemotional and overexcited at times, but so what? Enjoy it! Read the rest of this entry »

When doing day-for-a-year progressions, these lunar aspects assume a terrific importance. In fact, coupled with transits, this is probably the most accurate and interesting form of predictive astrology that there is. Each progression will last for about a month but it can have a tremendous and lasting impact on your life. Lunar aspects are the triggers of your life, setting off trains of events that are fascinating to watch and to live through.

Moon in happy aspect to natal Moon

This would be a good time to change your address or to invest in property. Family matters will go well, as will anything that involves women or women’s interests. You may be emotional and rather restless at this time, so take a journey or two, because travel is well aspected now. Read the rest of this entry »