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January/February 2010 Cosmic
2010 Predictions: The Year of Conscious Awareness

2012 Arrives Early

Mark Dodich

Get ready for an exciting year. Astrologers have been privately talking about 2010 at astrology conferences for several years, and now it’s time to bring our secrets into the world. If you have been impatiently waiting for 2012, then you will be happy to know that it is arriving two years early.

The heavy-duty outer planets that transform lives are all tied together in 2010 in a challenging pattern called a T-square. Imagine the tension you would feel if you were sitting on a three-legged chair that should have four legs. You can sit on it, but you need to pay conscious attention to your actions to maintain your stability.

Mark Dodich

The least little movement, like reaching for your cup of tea, requires you to rebalance on the fly. Add to that, explosive Uranus moves into impatient Aries this summer to blow up your comfort zone.

Before you rush to call your favorite astrologer, know that this motivating planetary alignment is a good thing. When planets line up in the early degrees of action signs (specifically Libra, Aries and Capricorn), there is an impatient rush to pioneer a new path.

In 2010, the universe reminds you that everything is connected. You must look several steps down the road when you make a decision, because your actions this year will reverberate throughout all areas of your life during the next two years.

The planetary energies of 2012 look calm compared to this summer. The year 2010 does the intense transforming work, so that you are prepared to peacefully meditate on creating a new galactic reality by 2012.

Because these expansive and explosive frequencies do not peak until summer, it is important to begin with relatively uncommon energies currently building toward a summer crescendo.

Warrior Mars, now passing through passionate Leo, begins the year in its rare retrograde cycle. Since Dec. 20, 2009 and through March 10, you have and will be reviewing your ambitions. Leo requires you to step into leadership, urging you to create your life based on your heart’s desire.  

If you are trying to keep a relationship or job in motion, but your heart just isn’t in it, Mars retrograde stimulates you to quietly prepare your battle plan for action come spring. With Mars spending six months in Leo when its normal passage is six weeks, you are getting an aggressive push to align your worldly actions with a passionate, heart-centered path.

Before making excuses as to why you cannot have what your heart wants, remember that summer brings paradigm shifts in your life. Trust that your old beliefs and behaviors will fall away. Now is the time to do the behind-the-scenes preparation before announcing your plans to the world.

The energy of these changes picks up speed by August. Before you run off to a cave in Montana, know that the T-square has already been building since 2008.

Destructive Pluto moved into restructuring Capricorn to change aspects of the world that were sitting on faulty foundations (such as bad real estate loans and money games on Wall Street).

The second leg of the T-square started last October when integrity-focused Saturn entered the relationship sign of Libra. You are called to rebalance your relationships, beginning with your relationship to self. If you have been giving too much of yourself away, then you must reclaim healthy boundaries or risk burning out Libra-ruled adrenals.

On a global level, Saturn was in Libra in the early 1980s and early 1950s. The United Nations was in the news and the U.S. was actively changing relationships with the Russians through the reduction of weapons systems. As this energy was getting started in 2008, the installation of weapons systems near Russia’s border was cancelled by President Obama. The United Nations will go through a restructuring before Saturn leaves Libra in the fall of 2012.

Whether you are looking at global or personal relationships, they are all in the process of change. Good relationships have the opportunity to go to even better levels. Bad relationships must be torn apart to be restructured or released.

Whether this is the relationship of the U.S. with a country in change like Cuba, or in your love, family or work relationships, the key is the same. Libra urges diplomacy, grace and cooperation. Saturn requires long term, patient changes to create a solid foundation for the future.

There is a wild card to add to the mix. Expect-the-unexpected Uranus moves into independent Aries at the full moon on May 27.

Uranus revolutionizes your life and Aries wants it done yesterday. All of your neatly laid plans get hit by a thunderbolt. Uranus wants to sell it all and go on a walkabout. Aries wants to pioneer a completely new path. You must balance this freedom-seeking energy with the stabilizing energy of the other two legs of the T-square.

It is like putting a complex puzzle together while all the pieces are floating in zero gravity. The beauty is that you creatively combine different aspects of your life in a way that has never been done before. The challenge is that you must release old paradigm modes of thinking.

Although my intent is to not participate in doom-and-gloom mentality, it is important to look at the difficult side of this grinding planetary pattern. Personal relationships that have not been working are going to crash and burn. Let them go.

Many people will choose to vacate the planet rather than work with this new energy. A recent example of this is last July when changing emotional energy released Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett, Walter Cronkite and others who represented their generations.

Summer will be a busy fire season and earthquakes will be significant this year. Political and social revolutions will be in the news. The uncovering of corruption and hidden secrets continues to bring new surprises into the media. This same energy brings new inventions in diseases of the heart, natural energy and faster everything.

The phrase “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” does not apply in 2010. Be willing to release old beliefs and behaviors and trust that you are being divinely guided to your highest good.

Mark Dodich has been a professional astrologer and intuitive consultant since 1980. Mark’s specialties include natal astrology, relocation astrology maps and seven ray spiritual purpose astrology. Visit www.astromark.us.

2010 by the Numbers

Lynn Buess

Lynn Buess

The number for the universal year 2010 is 3 (2 + 0 + 1 + 0 = 3). The universal 3 year places emphasis on creativity, entertainment, communications, extravagance, carelessness and overdoing. On the personal level, 3 emphasizes the full range of human feelings and emotions, from the highest of cosmic connection to the lowest levels of fear, abuse and despair.

On the spiritual side, the number of people who experience direct knowing and cosmic influx increases dramatically this year. It is a time that the voices of angels can be heard and the most sublime of higher divine laws are given to humankind, often through the most humble and innocent of souls. More people (often children) come forward now manifesting the most pure gifts of voice, song, poetry, verse, dance, art and sculpture that reveal new ranges of frequency and elevation of vibration. New archetypes appear in the most unexpected of places. In some quarters, crop circles are decoded and the messages for humankind are revealed.

As knowledge of available alternative energy resources reach public knowledge, an outcry comes for more investigation of true resources such as the free energy machines, anti-gravity devices and time altering gateways. These deeply hidden technologies would make fossil fuel apparatuses obsolete and eliminate them from the pollution cycle.

Chinese political, economic, military and social expansionism is evident throughout the planet at this time. Her increased presence in Africa and South America along with her thrust into space and increased cyber warfare further underline her intent to be the big player on the block. Tension grows with other powers and confrontations become nearer.

Russia also continues to flex her military, political and social influences, bringing back a posture similar to that during the Cold War. There is the likelihood of a power play at the top, which will bring a more conservative, proud and protective leadership back into the limelight.

South American and Central American countries continue their drift into the Eastern sphere of influence, which throws the geopolitical balance into a tizzy. Mexico asserts herself into the arena of more influence by becoming more aggressive in wanting her share of the global pie.

Israeli aggressiveness is likely to stir up an old pact between Russia and Iran. Turkey is also very assertive in the region, adding fuel to the already unstable fire. The U.S.-Israeli alliance covets a run at Iran, setting the stage of a potential prelude eerily similar to the biblical scenario for Armageddon. The India-Pakistani tension also is inflamed by the intrusion of external powers and their own differences.

Lynn Buess, M.A., Ed.S., has carved an industrious multi-generation career through the metaphysical and self awareness profession. For his full 2010 predictions, visit www.forevernumerology.com.

2010 Tarot Reading

Shon Clark

As we look ahead to 2010, what will we find? To answer this question, I turned to the tarot and laid out a simple three-card spread, asking “What will 2010 bring us and how can we make the best of the year to come?”

The deck answered with cards for the Ace of Disks, the Lovers and the Hermit.

Ace of Disks

This is the principal card of new beginnings. As such, everything is up for renewal and rebirth. It is time for us to imagine what is possible and to let go of what is out of date. This can be a challenge because we are creatures of habit. However, we must keep in mind that with change comes the opportunity to experience the magic of newness and vibrancy.

Lovers

This card represents the marriage of our inner and outer selves. It is a blessed time when our heads and our hearts can come together to accomplish great things. The great changes of the past few years have opened us up to a time of balanced harmony. This is not to say that the coming year will be lacking in change, but we will be more able to meet the changes in the best possible light.

Hermit

This card represents the need for us to turn our attention inward and to allow the distractions of the outer world to attend to themselves. This does not mean ignoring worldly issues, only that we need to find time for introspection and self-examination. We are in a great need to find our center and to anchor into ourselves in our deep truth. The only way that this can be done is with personal time to process and reflect.

Pulling it all together, the coming year is full of quick and profound changes. We will have incredible opportunities for growth because our inner and outer selves are coming into alignment with one another. We must focus our attention inward and listen to our deep truth, taking time to process these changes. This is the key to our success. 

Shon Clark, who is an internationally known therapist, author and educator based in Portland, also offers readings at New Renaissance. He uses tarot and astrology to assist people to tap in to the great current of creativity. Visit www.whirlingpearls.com or www.newrenbooks.com.