SCORPIO HOROSCOPE

Scorpios know all about life's ordeals and the transformations they bring, but that's not the only way you grow as a person. You also grow when you find love. One of the benefits to Jupiter's transit in Cancer is the feeling of hearth and home you currently enjoy in your life. This may be with the family you're related to or the family you chose. In any case, Jupiter's opened your heart and soul in a way that would have been unimaginable years ago. This could wreak irreparable damage on your tough-as-nails reputation, but judging from the way you feel now you probably won't miss it.

Familiar formulas of success could leave you feeling empty these days. Now, this isn’t to say they haven’t delivered results (they have), but maybe not in ways that do it for you anymore. Feeling stuck in a rut is to be expected when Jupiter, the planet of higher purpose, has been traveling backwards in the sky since your birthday. Thankfully, it comes out of retrograde on March 10th which is when you'll start to feel the winds of inspiration fill your sails again. This promises an uptick in mood and fortunes, so get ready to chart a new course and in an entirely different direction.

You're entering an extraordinary time of year. It lasts for a little over five weeks, and you could make a lot of headway as long as you manage your anxieties and redirect your insecurities. So much depends on making friends with those who once barred your way. Nothing changes people's minds like success, and yours has certainly converted critics and naysayers. They are on your side — and whether they like it or not doesn't really matter, because what matters most is that their fortunes are now intertwined with yours. Ironically, they will protect and support you in ways that trusted allies never could or would.

The Mars/Uranus square on February 27th is going to make you feel like a loose cannon firing off charges in all directions. Your problem stems from racing to the rescue of someone in trouble. Being a loyal Scorpio, you tried to help this person out but now find yourself being blamed for making matters worse. Never the self-sacrificing type, you'll probably wind up giving this person a piece of your mind along with everyone else involved in the debacle. The scene won't be pretty, but people will get over it. In the future, let this serve as a reminder that no good deed goes unpunished.

Developments close to home on February 17th will rock your world, but this will be for the better rather than the worse. For months you've been stubbornly clinging to a hope or wish that's been holding you back. Part of you knew that it wouldn't materialize, but another part of you was also more than happy to use this as an excuse to put aspirations on the back burner — hence life in limbo. It's never pleasant to experience a top-to-bottom shakedown initiated by a Solar Eclipse in Aquarius, but what you get as a result is freedom and a whole new lease on life.

Co-workers, clients, and even your boss will be treating you like their personal confessor this week. They’ll be sharing doubts, confiding their misgivings, and divulging some sensitive information. It will be tempting to chime in with some criticisms of your own—especially when they talk about faults that you yourself have accused them of—but don’t. They trust you and really feel like they can open up to you, and that’s the highest compliment that anyone can hope to be paid. Trust that they are working things out for themselves and will come to the conclusions you want them to come to on their own.

Uranus coming out of retrograde on February 3rd resuscitates matters that had been put on the backburner. You've no choice but to address them. Yet what's nice about the timing is that it's given you and the other party a cooling off period so you can reflect on what you each want. Things were quite tense when Uranus reversed direction last September and now it feels like you can have the discussion that would have been impossible back then. Chances are you'll pick up right where you left off – arguing – but given a few days you'll see the conversation become more conciliatory and supportive.

A matter close to home requires your full attention this week. This could be a property concern, something to do with a loved one, or a fundamental decision that has a lasting impact. This won't come as a great surprise. In fact, you've been anxious about it for weeks, but now that it's here you'll find that you're ready to deal with it. Your two Ruling Planets, Mars and Pluto, at the nadir of your solar chart, show that they're solidly in your corner. It's funny how the planets that presage a rough passage are also the same ones that help you get through it.

Mars enters that part of your solar chart that pertains to hearth and home on January 23rd. This will transform that once-peaceful sanctuary of yours into an occupied territory for the next 5½ weeks. Expect to be on call to put out fires between unforgiving family members, demanding in-laws, and even outraged pets. It will feel as if everyone decided to have their meltdowns all at the same time. And guess what? They did! Thankfully, you were born under a zodiac sign that comes to life in a crisis. If anyone can save the day while putting people in their place — it's you.

People don't always fall in love at first sight. Sometimes it takes months—maybe even years—to see that the person you've chosen is the right one for you. This is something that will be uppermost in mind as Venus, the Sun, Mercury, and Mars form their last sextile to Saturn in Pisces and trine to Uranus in Taurus between now and January 20th. And if you're one of those Scorpios who hasn't found their soulmate? Then this will be a time to revisit that idea. It may seem too late to contemplate such a thing, but the planets show you're ready to try again.