Scorpio Monthly Forecast

While it is over now and probably all but forgotten, until he retrograded back out of your home and career sector on 6th January, Mars had spent the early days of the year in a fierce battle with Pluto in your home and family sector, as they thrashed out your work/life balance. Mars is gone now and is back in your communication sector until April, but that early reminder is not so much coming back to haunt you but is proving to be the blessing in disguise that it was. It is now, as you move into a month where having the work/life balance will not only be important now but even more so over the coming months. With Mars gone so too is any tension, allowing the Sun, Mercury and the dwarf planet Ceres to spend a stress free final weeks in your home and family sector. The only time this could raise its head is during the Full Moon on 13th February. Falling in your career sector just as Venus is settling in for her extended stay in your work sector and with the asteroid Juno returning to your income sector a week later, this is good news professionally. However, the Moon will face the same pushback that Mars got at the start of the year, but in a way that is a lot more fleeting and just as this professional year is taking off. With Venus not only in your work sector until later next month and even then, retrograding back in just over a month later for a do over, Neptune returning at the end of next month for the first time in our lifetime and Mars returning to your career sector in April, this professional year is taking off in a way that there will be no going back from. Yet making the right work/life balance important is that while Venus will leave a playful and creative part of your chart on 4th February, Mercury's return on 15th February, the Sun on 18th February and with Mars still in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery, this side of life's fence is also powering up.

While the Sun won't return to your romantic sector until 18th February, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto matters of the heart, the month gets off to a romantically charged start and there will be more to come. While Venus, the planet of love will start the month in your romantic sector but leave on 4th February, by then she has been here for a whole month. Normally moving through in just 24 days, this means that Venus is slowing down and while she won't turn retrograde until early next month, by the end of next month she will be back for a do over. The Moon also begins the month in your romantic sector and while it will leave on 2nd February, even in the shortest month of the year, this will give it time to not only circle back for a second visit from 27th February to 1st March, but this time as a New Moon. This means that the Moon will begin and end the month in your romantic sector, with a lot of water set to pass under the bridge between those two visits. The last thing Venus will do before leaving your romantic sector is spend her final days aligned with dreamy Neptune, as has every other planet that has moved through since his return in 2012. However, it is also for the last time and while Venus will connect again when she retrogrades back in later next month, it will be for the last time. That is because after 13 years the planet of hopes and dreams will leave and while he will return later in the year, only to tie up loose ends by the time the Sun and the faster planets come around next year, he will be gone. No wonder Venus was reluctant to leave and will return for a do over. Meanwhile, it is 11 days later that Mercury will return to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page, with the Sun returning to your romantic sector on 18th February, where they will end the month. Meanwhile, after a direct turn in your relationship sector at the end of last month, when the Moon moves through from 4th February to 6th February and connects with Uranus, it will be to find the focus has shifted away from the past.