Rozanne Kay Coaching and Astrologist

The Astrology of 2023

Happy New Year! As an astrologer you’ll hear me saying that again in March at the Spring Equinox- Astrological New Year.

The Spring Equinox has supportive energy towards growth as the sun begins to make its way higher in the sky and the light begins to overtake the darkness. We become more energised. There is a reason why our New Year resolutions often fail – the energy simply isn’t supportive. Imagine trying to plant a seed in frozen ground; it perishes. That’s essentially what we’re doing when we try to initiate change in the depths of winter. It’s not that we should avoid initiating things or creating change, it’s more a case that we will have much more success when we’re working with the energy rather an against it.

If you’d like to work with natural energies to support positive change and growth, understanding your unique astrological birth chart and the planetary movements interacting with it will provide you with the most success. However, generally speaking - initiating something new gains support in springtime; in summer, what was initiated reaches it’s potential; autumn time bears fruit for harvest and in wintertime you can take stock, reflect, go within and plan for the next spring. Such are the cycles of nature.

So how does the Astrology of 2023 look? As an overview, we have global shifts of energy, a sneak preview into 2024 and beyond, a wrapping up of themes we’ve been dealing with since January 2022 as well as a revisiting some of the archetypal themes in our lives from 2015. Astrology is the study of cycles within cycles; with each revolution we move forward into the new. t’s not so much that we’re going round in circles, more like a corkscrew, revisiting similar themes as we move forward to gain deeper understanding and wisdom.

In the years preceding 2023 we had some major planetary clashes which manifested as the struggles that we experienced globally. It’s felt like we’ve had a foot on the accelerator and the brakes at the same time. These planetary clashes and the associated events were a battle between the old, established way of being and the new - the future. We are entering a new era and can finally release the brakes and move forward. There is a lot of potential available to us, both as individuals and as a collective, as we move into the new year – what we do with that potential, and whether we realise it, is entirely up to us. Let’s have a month by month look at 2023…

January There is hope and optimism abound as we begin the year with Jupiter, planet of expansion, at 0° Aries -the initiating point of the zodiac! We will be wanting to move forward straight away and feeling enthusiastic about it. However, Mars (planet of action) and Mercury (planet of communication) will appear to be moving backwards in the sky. Retrograde motion supports a time of introspection, retrospection, reflection and review. Taking time to journal and give yourself a thorough review of your experiences, worries, frustrations and the way you have acted and communicated- or been prevented from acting and communicating- will be beneficial. Initiating new plans will be most supported by waiting until both planets are direct after 18th January.

Uranus (planet of shock and sudden change) in Taurus begins forward motion on 22nd - upgrading our ideas of what we consider to be valuable. We may experience some shocks, surprises and sudden changes in relation to what we value in a specific area of life. Those born around 4th – 9th May, August, November and February will feel this the most. The intention is to shake you out of your comfort zone in order to upgrade and revolutionise your sense of self, purpose and way of being in the world.

February We now begin to gather momentum with all planets direct. Direct motion of planets creates less resistance to our efforts as we move forward with our plans, goals and visions.

With the sun in Aquarius at the beginning of the month we can get sparks of ideas and inspiration for the future. A full moon in Leo on 5th puts us in touch with our creativity, playfulness and joy and reminds us of those hot summer days to come. The full moon is in an aspect of tension to Uranus; those sudden changes – and potential awakenings - from the end of January may bring frustration and drama in relation to expressing our joyful side. We may feel that recent instability in our resources creates irritation when it comes to experiencing joy. However, Uranus asks us to be innovative with our resources when creating joyful experience. During the full moon there

will also be a conversation between Venus in Pisces and Mars in Gemini asking us to consider how realistic we are in love, relating and romance. Can we find balance between the head and the heart?

March Happy New Year! Remember those resolutions you made in January? Now is the time to initiate them; The Sun enters Aries on 20th March marking Astrological New Year – a time when initiating new incentives, goals and visions is supported. Additionally, all planets are still direct, so we won’t be pushing against the tide! Whatever you wanted to achieve in 2023 – take action and go for it!

March is a HUGE month with massive global shifts in energy. Let’s backtrack to see how this may feel. March 2020 – Saturn - planet of restrictions, limitations, boundaries, responsibilities and authority - met up with Mars (who activates) at 0° Aquarius, the sign of the people and community. Lockdown began. December 2020; Jupiter - planet of hope - met with Saturn at 0° Aquarius. Vaccines were introduced. Saturn has been performing management and governance duties in Aquarius since then. of integration – we will be given the opportunity to heal from, and integrate our experience of, the past few years. Saturn is the planet of reality; Pisces is the sign of mysticism and dreams. Collectively, we may experience confusion over reality - particularly as it relates to shapeshifting authority and governance. As such, this is an opportune time to engage in some soul searching; going within to find the answers, discovering our own inner authority and asking ourselves, “what is my personal truth?” This energy supports working to materialise dreams – providing they’re realistic - giving them concrete, material form. It is also a wonderful time to discover where we have overly idealised certain aspects of life and to get real.

Another massive shift in energy occurs on 23rd March as Pluto leaves Capricorn (where he has been since 2008) and enters Aquarius. Pluto intensifies; he’s about power, transformation, corruption, manipulation and control. We’re not quite done with the lockdown narrative – as Pluto hits that activation point of 0° of Aquarius he will expose more; bringing what was hidden to light.

This transition of Pluto into Aquarius is a global shift that will transform the world between now and 2043. No-one alive today has experienced Pluto in Aquarius – the last time he was there was between 1778 and 1798 - intensifying the industrial revolution, transforming life for humanity. We are likely to see powerful technological advancement, invention and innovation, changing how we live yet again over the next 20 years. Here we get a sneak preview and the opportunity to prepare for the outcome we’d prefer.

Pluto in Aquarius could result in either power and control over the people by means of advanced technology. Or empowerment of the people with increasing decentralisation and local community self-governance. It really is up to us as individuals to step into our power to create the future we want. Note that Aquarius also rules rebellion! On a personal level, we will each get a sneak preview into an area of life to be transformed over the next 20 years. Those born on the cusp of Aquarius, Leo, Scorpio and Taurus will feel this quite powerfully!

April April brings yet another shift in global energy with a total solar eclipse in Aries on 20th. It is worth paying attention to events that occur around the time of this eclipse as it will introduce important themes that we will be focused on over the following 18 months. Pluto will be having a conversation of tension with the sun

and the moon during the eclipse; potentially bringing something shady up to the surface to be transformed. The last time an eclipse occurred in Aries was 2015 - topics from around that time may return.

On the 21st April, Mercury will station retrograde in Taurus – Mercury retrograde likes to deconstruct things in order to see how they work; during this retrograde he will be dismantling our value system to help us to understand it better. Since resources have been an issue for some time, we may gain deeper understanding of them as a result of this retrograde transit with the potential for tangible results being created when he turns direct in May.

May Eclipses always come in pairs; following on from last month’s solar eclipse we will have a lunar eclipse in Scorpio on 5th May. This eclipse will begin to wrap up the themes of 2022 and the first half of 2023 – we will gain deeper understanding of our finances as we continue to develop greater wisdom about what we consider to be valuable. Additionally, the lunar eclipse in Scorpio supports a purging of toxicity and may – over the following 6 months - expose any dubious goings on behind the scenes as well as make us more aware of some of our darker emotions.

Jupiter enters Taurus on 16th May bringing about a sense of expansion in awareness of our values and value systems. With the instability of recent years in mind, as Jupiter moves through Taurus we will desire and may experience a sense of greater stability, particularly when it comes to resources. It will feel optimistic with the potential to increase our value in the area of life Taurus rules in our individual charts. This is a great time to expand personal resources and consider ways of increasing income or self-worth and the value we create. All that said, optimism and expansion may come about as a result of a form of rebellion and a push back from the people as Mars enters Leo on 20th May, opposing Pluto and Squaring Jupiter. This could create a short-lived tension between people and state in relation to our resources. Take note of any personal themes that crop up around this time, we will be revisiting them in December 2024 when Mars goes retrograde.

June The sense of optimism and stability and the desire for such will be greatly increased when Jupiter conjoins the north node of the moon in Taurus on 1st June. Whichever area of life Taurus rules in your chart may have an allconsuming focus upon it. This energy conjures up the image of an ancient Roman banquet with all its fine wine, fine food, luxury clothing, art, beauty and decadence. There will be a risk of going to excess in at least one area of our lives. Soon after, on 5th, Venus – planet of fine wine, food, art, beauty, romance – enters Leo, sign of joy, courage, vitality and the heart – this is

the time to put your heart and soul into expressing yourself in a unique and potentially experimental way. While this energy will feel great, we will be at risk of overindulging and overspending!

The sneak preview of the future, which began in March, now ends as Pluto returns to Capricorn to finalise his transformation of the structures which govern our society. This will feel a little like going back to normal, in the same way coming out of lockdown felt like going back to normal – with a strange sense that things will never be the same again.

July Did you take note of the themes around the time of the solar eclipse in April? This month we will get a clearer understanding of those topics and what our focus will be on for the next 18 months as the north node of the moon moves into Aries on 17th. The nodes are like two points of fate

which change signs every 18 months and indicate which signs the eclipses will occur in. The north node signifies what we will be focused upon while the south node (which will be moving into Libra) is the area of life that’s being ‘emptied out’.

To illustrate – During the lockdown years, the north node was in Gemini which governs your local neighbourhood and the south node (what was “out”) was in Sagittarius which rules long distance travel. From January 2022 until now the nodes have been on the financial axis. The north node in Taurus put our focus on our material resources and earned income while the south node in Scorpio emptied out or savings- Scorpio governs the finances that we’ve got stashed away and kept hidden.

With the north node moving into Aries the focus will be more on “I, me, my” and moving away from “we”; creating drive, assertion and going after what “I want” to the detriment of balance and harmony with others. The purpose is to teach us a more enlightened selfishness and develop leadership skills. Additionally, to create clear, healthy boundaries through knowing ourselves better and to let go of codependant tendencies such as people pleasing, seeking external validation and being untrue to ourselves for the sake of keeping the peace. How enlightened we are in this process will determine how much conflict is involved!

On 22nd Venus – ruler of the south node now in Libra - turns retrograde to review all that joyful expression which began in June. During the retrograde period we will be given the opportunity to reflect upon the desires of the heart as it specifically relates to whichever area of life Leo governs in our individual charts. We will likely be reviewing some of the indulgence of June including our spending habits and relationships. Look back to summer of 2015 to see if there are similar themes occurring.

August We’ve had so much excitement and shifts of energy in the year so far and now it’s time to get down to earth with a Mercury retrograde in Virgo beginning 23rd August. Mercury’s trickster nature will be slowing us down and creating frustrations in our daily routines and habits. Being in his home sign, Mercury will be paying specific attention to detail as he deconstructs, reviews and over-analyses certain areas of our lives. If we’ve overindulged earlier in the summer, he reminds us of the importance of mundane day to day life, possibly by creating mischief in it!

September – December The astrology begins to quieten down as we reach the latter part of 2023. If we did go to excess and overindulge through the summer, we may increasingly begin to feel the hangover or some form of

“buyers remorse”. If we were mindful, we will be able to settle into a feeling of comfortable hibernation. On the 3rd September, Venus goes direct in Leo; what we value in relation to our sense of self, our passions, joyful expression and living in the heart with courage and leadership have shifted and it’s time to put the new you into the spotlight. The following day Jupiter turns retrograde in Venus’s home sign of Taurus reducing or even quashing – depending on how you handled it when direct - that optimism and hope from earlier in the year.

In October we have a further pair of eclipses, a solar eclipse in Libra and a lunar eclipse in Taurus. The solar eclipse will deepen the themes along the Aries/Libra nodal axis illustrating the polarity between “I/me/my” and “us/we/our”. The Taurus lunar eclipse will finally wrap up the financial axis themes and support the growth of our wisdom in terms of what “value” means to us. We have one final Mercury retrograde for the year beginning on 13th December where he will appear to move backwards from Capricorn into Sagittarius – pulling apart how we understand responsibility as it compares to (potentially indulgent) optimism. As the year ends, Jupiter begins to move forward again – creating a sense of hope for 2024.

Overall 2023 calls us to trust in the process as the new era begins to unfold – everything is exactly as it should be. Astrology as a tool for guiding you through life. Astrology is a powerful tool for understanding yourself, the world and your place in it. Our personal natal birth chart is unique to each individual and can help us to understand ourselves on a much deeper level. Similarly, planetary movements in the sky and how they interact with our natal chart can help us to understand the deeper meaning behind the events in our lives. You can generate your own birth chart by doing an internet search for “astrology birth chart calculator” and entering your date, place and time of birth. Alternatively, book an astrological consultation with me to interpret your birth chart and look at how the major transits of 2023 will affect you personally.

Rozanne Kay is an Astrologer, Tarot Reader, Healer and Life Coach. She helps people to become empowered and to live a more fulfilling life through greater self-knowledge and removing their blocks to their greatest fulfilment. She uses a variety of techniques to help her clients to integrate their experiences, remove blocks, fears and limiting beliefs and begin to create the life they want. She is trained in Jungian coaching techniques, Hypnosis, NLP and EFT (tapping) and is a Reiki Master/ Teacher. Rozanne is also available for public speaking, events and parties. You can book a consultation with her or enquire about her work at: info@rozannekaycoaching.com

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