Between now and the middle of March is a time when you should put forth
a concentrated, determined effort toward the goals that are meaningful
to you. Not only will you have the Sun and Saturn exchanging with each
other, bringing that focused, concentrated energy ~ you will also have
an exalted Mars and an exalted Venus working on your behalf. But even
with that help, it is very easy to knuckle under to fear, scarcity and
the mistakes of the past when facing a lot of Saturn energy. The
exaltation of Mars is especially auspicious now because it totally
resurrects debilitated Jupiter by transit. There is no modification of
debilitation more powerful than having a debilitated planet joined an
exalted one.

Currently in the sign of Capricorn we have a debilitated Jupiter, an
exalted Mars, the North node, the Sun exchanging with retrograde Saturn
~ and soon to be Mercury, again. Now it's really the time to get your
mind around duties, responsibilities and your capacity for hard work and
determined effort. You may feel like you're working really hard right
now. I hope it is for something that you believe in. We are starting to
face the times I spoke about last year when Jupiter and Saturn were in a
trinal position with each other. At that time I spoke about following
your inspirations and putting into play things you will be willing to
commit in 2009 ~ because we have a lot of hard work ahead of us.