Hello you beautiful people and welcome to Aligned Advantage for January!
We’re so excited to go on this deep dive of each month’s calendar together using the power of the woo-woo tools my momma taught me. 😉
Hooray!
It’s time to tackle the January calendar so here we go!
As we near February, we’ll tackle that month’s calendar (our Zoom on January 20th will be about February’s magic). Scroll down to get registered to be a part of that *next* session! ’til then, it’s all about January.
As always, we’ll cover what the numerology of the days mean, what the moon phases tell us, and of course how all this plays out in your favor in the most intriguing and powerful ways! During the Zoom, you’ll get a chance to hop in the hot seat — be sure to bring your birthdate so I can work my magic with you — and we’ll talk about how the woo of the month aligns with YOU!
Please feel free to ask questions in the comments area below and while some will be best-suited for our live Zoom, certainly I’ll do what I can to help explain some of how I make the calendar work for me in the comments before and after our Zooms.
If you need support materials for interpreting the various notations on this calendar, head back over to your Aligned Advantage Welcome page, where I have stored all sorts of goodies for you!
And now… the replay of our live Zoom session about the January calendar and all its juicy goodness! Enjoy! (You can skip the first 10 or so minutes where Bex and I are just catching up while I put on mascara because it was just us… hangin’ out.) 😉
Questions? Keep ’em comin’! I love these discussions SO MUCH and really enjoy sharing all this learning with you.
Y’all, thank you for joining me in this exciting woo-woo venture! I’m so proud to be the astrologer’s daughter and I know Charlsie is so happy to see this happening right now. 🙂
All my love,
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so I tucked my parents in bed with visions of sugarplums in their heads (i’m not kidding, y’all!) & i got to take some time to myself to listen to today’s zoom. so beautiful & amazing! i’m thinking so many things here.
first, i screwed up. i’m coming into a 2-year (not a 3, correct?) of abort or knit booties. & in so many ways it makes all that you disclosed even more interesting.
per your suggestion, moving backwards:
in 2011, i finally completed my dissertation & graduated
(interesting to note i got married in a 1 year…)
in 2002, i quit the corporate world for good, did my first real off-broadway play & starting teaching whilst i finished my phd.
in 1993, i moved to NYC
in 1984, i started HS (not sure of that significance…)
what’s so interesting to me is that, in many ways, it looked like my recent 9-year was the “planting seeds” but i can see how it’s playing differently and which may actually be the seeds this year (my one year). VERY INTERESTING!
anyhoo, i’m so very curious here, especially in how my 2 will play out in what will be a legacy-creating year. + i’m so excited to put some systems in place!!!
i adore that we have three lovely moments of intentions here at the end of 2019: release–career–dreams/feelings. LOVE that & thank you for explaining!
two questions:
i’m still not clear on how your personal numerology plays out. is it, i’m a 6 so each year i approach through a prism of domesticity?
& you discussed the Venus retrograde may-june + the feminine energy leaving in may & ushered in with the momentum to speak up/step into our power, esp. in terms of career. so, how does that empowerment mingle with Venus in retrograde? what might we lean into in may?
thank you & thank you for the zoom. i’m really looking forward to what unfolds in 2020 & the next few years for all of us, the world, & myself.
also, as i was doing some research on the houses, i kept finding that there are a lot of comments that i will encounter my most success-filled events at middle age, so wow! bring it!!!
Bring it, indeed! 🙂
Your 6-ness is just like how I described the year ahead. It’s a 4 year, so that’s a year of putting in the work, universally. Similarly, you are a 6 always, so you are always encountering lessons around domesticity, house and home, comforts and connection of family and community. So, your work in a 4 year can be any kind of work, of course (there are sooooooo many factors at play in our charts and our lives), but you’re more likely to work on 6 type things… I’m more likely to work on 8 type things.
Think of it as the tint to the lens in your sunglasses. 🙂
hiya!
i’ve been meditating a lot on all of this work these past couple of weeks.
what i’m realizing is that my 2-years seem to be the years that big life/career decisions were carried through. and with this being a year of hard work in what sounds like a legacy-making year, i think i can actually FEEL this vibration. it’s intense and it almost scares me (makes my heart pound).
i know that either my project will fly this year or i’ll have to kiss it good-bye and find another outlet.
BUT, intuition has carried me pretty well most of my life, so i really want to release those conditioned expectations and lean into “enthusiasm without attachment.”
i’ll do the work, joyfully, (& with a domestic tint), and we’ll see what happens.
hang on to your hats!
Love this confidence and commitment! Be sure you really let yourself LESSEN the need to use anything other than intuition when it comes to direction and next right action. 🙂 This could be transformative!
oh my goodness! i actually felt space open-up inside my body when i read your comment and thought about allowing my intuition lead me this year, authentically.
like a pressure valve was released.
like my brain doesn’t know the answers but my essence does.
like holy shit – forgiveness & love & gratitude and all those wonderful intangibles!
like actively live in the culture of enough and the rest is gravy.
love you so very much!
I love you too, hon.
Here’s a story you’ll enjoy (I’ll try to keep it brief).
I was at the spiritual entrepreneur retreat in Canada in May of 2017 and we were doing a cord-cutting exercise. I had these ties to a story, “Even if I try to delegate, I end up having to do it myself anyway because my team always ends up messing it up somehow.” I really wanted to clear this story because there’s no way to grow if you’re doing all the things in your business, ever.
I did the cord-cutting work (go to the Clearing Old Beliefs” class in the vault) and this just kept being something I wanted to hang onto. “No one is EVER going to do as good a job as I will do so I should just be the one to always do it because what a PITA to have to clean up after others who just disappoint me because they can’t help enough or the right way or whatever.”
Finally, I had a moment of, “But the universe can help, right?”
HOE LEE SHIT
I am assuming the universe has no hand in my business, in my life… and that I have to be the one to do all the doing always… um… what if I let the wisdom of the universe swirl in and help things move forward beautifully and without my involvement so much?
And of course, from there I would end up on my deep mind-body healing journey in which I HAD TO surrender and of course I learned my business would take care of me in far greater ways than I could’ve grown my business had I stayed all up in it.
Give yourself — your essence, your soul, your spirit — a chance to drive a bit. You can still be copilot with the ability to override… but I bet you won’t want to when you realize how much more ground you can cover when you just enjoy the ride.
FUCK YAAAAAAAS!
absolutely gorgeous!
thank you so much for sharing, Bon. i’m most grateful!
i feel like i might be soaring right now. (kinda like that dream when i was a kid that i was flying through the neighborhood on my tricycle!)
so. much. love.
Ha! I signed up for this course on the 25th because I felt like I needed help with my new career and -sure enough- that was a great day for intention setting for careers. I didn’t even know and I was feeling that energy anyways. I was also working in lab all day long that day -by my choice- instead of christmasing with people. I guess I felt the call.
How right on! 🙂 So glad you’re here, Ivett. We’re going to have a blast. 🙂 Enjoy the Capricorn energy and keep trusting your gut. XO
Like Bonnie I have been struggling to understand how this is a 3 year. I have been doing good work in my 1 and 2 years in bc relationships, acting craft, acting business, writing. But didn’t really see anything that seemed like manifestation, results, eve progress. But what I realized TODAY is that this 9year cycle is about my relationship with structure. It’s really unhealthy, and this 3 year has confronted me with both negative consequences as well as some lighthouses, and the hard work of my 4year is going to be healing my relationship with structure, routines, boundaries, the earth element, whatever you want to call it.
I’m happy to elaborate if anyone would find any more specifics helpful; at the moment, my Garmin moon love for talking and Sag everywhere love of honesty is being checked by a severe sprain on a right hand finger (never fear, 100% recovery is expected), so typing is tedious. And yes, I am aware that having this right now,made worse by my initial decision that I couldn’t possibly have to take it easy or see a doctor, and now having to wear a restricting splint for weeks and follow a plan of physical therapy and splinting in the new year to get full strength and flexibility is a nearly perfect representation of what’s going on in the less tangible parts of my life!
Girl! Yes! All of this! XO
Also, interesting,my progressed moon is currently in Aries, but soon it moves into Taurus.
Applying this work to relationships –
So, a bit ago I mentioned that my man was on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius and Keith and Bon helped me through my DOH moment by saying to find out what time he was born.
A note first – he’s English and his birthday is January 20th.
I asked him for his birth certificate, which he said he doesn’t have.
I was with his parents over the holidays and asked his mom if she had it. She said she has no idea where it would be.
I said I needed to know what time he was born. She said she didn’t think they put birth times on English birth certificates (WTF?!).
His dad chimed in saying he thought it was about 1:45am – 2am.
His brother then said – “Oh, that’s funny – so technically he was born on the 19th if you go by American time.”
Which is both funny and true, but of course we know he was really born on the 20th because that’s the day it was where he was born.
Anyhoo – I’m super irked by the fact that I don’t know his exact time of birth! I believe Bon has mentioned before that as long as it’s not a ton of HOURS from it, it’s okay. But, my perfectionist part is like, THIS NEEDS TO BE PERFECT! haha
So I’m about thisclose to calling the hospital where he was born and asking them if they have a record of it!! HA!!!
Apart from that, any words to talk me off the ledge about being okay with just having an estimate?
And/or do we have any English folk in this group or Expansive Capacity who have had to deal with this when trying to do his or her chart?
It doesn’t have to be perfect. If you plotted one chart for the 20th at 1:45am and another at 2am you’re going to see not a ton of movement in most areas of the chart. 🙂 Go ahead and run those two times at the free chart generator and we can discuss what you find!
Okay, working on it! Will report back.
Bon, I’m working on my content calendar for our other group.
I’m trying to figure out all the Mercury Rx, full moons, new moons, and void moons for all of 2020.
I think I have found resources for all of them, but I have a question about the void moons.
You said you only count them if they are longer than X hours. I’ve forgotten what the amount of X is. Can you please remind me?
I wish there were a way to just look up all the void moons that are longer than that X amount of hours because my eyes are getting dizzy trying to do the quick math on the list of all the void moons for each month! 😉
Unfortunately, the only guides I’ve found are for ALL the void moons (which is why I personally do the math to figure out which ones I care enough about to put on the calendar). The magic time for me is 8+ hours, sometimes I only put ’em on the calendar if they’re 10+ hours. Really depends on the time of day too. A 4-hour void moon that happens SMACK in the middle of the day might be worth knowing about, whereas a 9-hour void moon that happens all night while you’re chilling/sleeping has zero impact.
I love that you’re plotting your 2020 so well! 🙂 Brilliant!
Okay, thank you info and quick response!! <3
It was PERFECT timing (of course) actually – I just did all the Merc Rx, full moons, new moons, and what sign the moon is in on each day, and now it's time for void moon math!
Dude. It's taking me forever (almost 2 hours as of now), but it's so worth it for the learning experience with the repetition of things, and obviously for my world domination when I have this all laid out!!!
Naturally. 😉
When I was Googling some things the past two days for my calendar content planning using astrology, I came across Soulshine Astrology, and it rang a bell because I remember Bon talking about her on the last call.
I downloaded some of her free stuff, and then I found in my notes that Bon talked about her e-book for 2020 that’s available for purchase. I had seen that on her site, and now that I saw Bon mentioned it as well, I will probably buy that, too.
Anyway, putting a note her to second what Bon said that she has some great stuff.
And also to say that when I downloaded her things I got on her email list and she sent one out today which looks like she does one for each upcoming week on Sundays, which is cool.
She also talked in more detail about Pluto and Saturn conjuncting today and I loved what she said. It really spoke to me personally because I feel like I’m experiencing a lot of it right now. But, I thought others might be interested in it, too! So, I’ll copy and paste below what she wrote:
Starting today, a rare event that only happens once every 500 years is occurring as two of the strongest planets in the sky align.
Saturn is our strict teacher planet which requires us to do the hard stuff in life that makes us grow into more disciplined, mature adult versions of ourselves.
Pluto is the planet of transformation & evolution – the undeniable force that shapes our world over long periods of time and forces us to become wise as we are pulled to release anything that is no longer meant to last.
With these two planets joining forces, we are being challenged to let go of anything that has been keeping us from being more disciplined in doing the work we were actually born to do and learning the lessons we promised ourselves we would learn.
On our birth charts, Saturn describes the promise we made to ourselves before we were born that we said we would learn how to do, while Pluto is how we can make the biggest difference in others’ lives. If this sounds serious, that’s because it is!
Essentially, if you’ve always held a dream in your heart that you would write a book, start your own business, or learn how to do something that you know you would be upset over if you happened to die tomorrow without doing it, this is the time to shove off the excuses and DO IT… even if it’s a huge challenge.
We can no longer let distractions or fears take us away from the deeper soul work we are here on this Earth to do. This has become even more obvious with all of the intense shifts & changes occurring on our planet when it comes to the government and environmental issues. I’m sure you know what I mean!
Although there is a lot of pressure in the air, we have to remember that it is through pressure that diamonds are created.
What will come out of this event has the power to shape the entire course of our future. So, are you willing to let go of your excuses and finally let yourself shine?
She also gives a heads up about her latest podcast episode which is about creating sacred daily rituals for success, which sounds cool!
I’m going to post this in EC because that’s this month’s topic!!
https://www.soulshineastrology.com/episode72/?mc_cid=aa3a818f63&mc_eid=6bb1b7017b
Yes! Please do! That’s perfect!! 🙂 Thank you.
Hi Bonnie
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make the zoom meeting because I have class at that time but I had a question. You mentioned last month that this year is going to be a legacy building year. I am an Aries ♈ with a Scorpio moon and a 1, and this will be my 7th year in the cycle. So what does this mean as far as legacy building goes? I’m not sure what should I be focusing on. I’m supposed to be turning inward, but how could that be productive?
Fabulous question, Ivett! I’ll be sure to cover this fully on the Zoom. Hope you’ll enjoy the replay (and of course hope you can join us live next month — February 10th [early meeting due to my travel]).
So I am actually going to be temping in Manhattan and then racing off to teach an evening piano lesson, during the call, unless something gets canceled. Looking forward to replay!
I am looking for advantageous days in the near future to cold email the primary piano and voice teacher in Charleston WV to set up a meeting to talk about the possibility of me doing a master class for his studio next time I go to WV—the meeting would be between Feb 28 and March 2. My goals with doing this are to make the trip I will take in May/June anyway a legitimate business expense, offset the expense to any degree, and ideally get this going 2-3 times a year, so building a win-win over time is more important than making major cash right away.
Gotcha covered. Happy Manhattaning! 🙂
hey y’all – !
won’t be with you AGAIN except in spirit, but i will look forward to hanging live on feb 10th!
question: what are best promo days for end of january and in february?
thank you! can’t wait for the replay!
Gotcha covered! Enjoy the replay, lady!