There is something so wonderful about the idea of a new year and a chance to wipe our slates clean and start over with a fresh new approach full of hope and positive energy! This is especially true after we have weathered the storms of a difficult year like 2008.

In numerology, the year number 2009 can be broken down in a few different ways. First, it is a 29, which represents a changing of the guard, along with some testing and transformation. The number 2009 also reveals the master number 11, which indicates a powerful year of change and inspiration ahead. The number 11 relates to new technological developments, scientific breakthroughs and the rapidly advancing spiritual evolution of humanity.

In 2009, I feel that we will continue to experience some uncertainty and instability in the world, especially in October. At least until mid-February 2009, we may continue to reverberate from past events. In March 2009, the United States Mars mahadasha will begin to stabilize, so that we may begin to feel some more positive movement forward, at least in terms of the economy and national morale. However, the potential for our collective insecurity and malaise may continue until Saturn leaves Leo in September.

The Lunar New Year culminates at the New Moon in Pisces in March 2009. The mundane horoscope for the 2009 Lunar New Year reveals further catharsis and upheaval on the material plane, but also the potential for auspicious transformation, balance and new growth.

The 2009 Lunar New Year chart has many similarities to the natal horoscope of Albert Einstein, which indicates that 2009 might very well be a year for amazing revelations, profound scientific discoveries, and deepening spiritual understanding that triggers an evolutionary leap in humankind.

I believe this will be a breakthrough year in technology, the science of consciousness and the evolution of thought. We will see more and more people embracing the emerging paradigm of transformation, which bridges modern quantum physics and the ancient metaphysical wisdom of the masters.

Many on the planet are now awakening to the truth of this paradigm, which is that reality is totally based on how we choose to observe it. The world we see is a manifestation of Divine Play, and we are the players as well as the One behind the play!

We have the potential to create heaven on earth when we embrace this higher truth of our being. As singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell said, “We are stardust...we are golden...”...we are the manifestation of divine love and grace!

I will soon be writing more about the various cosmic energies that are channeling onto the Earth in 2009, so please stay tuned to my website in the coming weeks for astrological news at: www.astralharmony.com/blog.html

If you want to know how the 2009 Jupiter transit in Capricorn and the profound Capricorn eclipse in late January might specifically affect you, please email or call me for a new year's reading. I have a wait list of about 3-4 weeks so if you are interested, please contact me soon so that I can place your name on my list!

And finally, for my students and others who may be interested in studying astrology with me, I have decided to significantly lower my fees for private astrological tutoring. Please see my website (Services) section for the updated fees: www.astralharmony.com/services.html

For New Beginnings
Oh God,

We thank you for this earth, our home; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the ocean and streams, for the towering hills and the whispering wind, for the trees and green grass.

We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of fields of golden wheat, and taste autumn's fruit, rejoice in the feel of snow, and smell the breath of spring flowers.

Grant us a heart opened wide to all this beauty; and save us from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory.

For each new dawn is filled with infinite possibilities for new beginnings and new discoveries. Life is constantly changing and renewing itself. In this new day of new beginnings with God, all things are possible. We are restored and renewed in a joyous awakening to the wonder that our lives are and, yet, can be. Amen. (Appleseeds.org)