Daily Horoscope:

Energetic strides push you forward. This harmonious blend of personal charisma and aesthetic sensibility enhances social grace. Professional advantages may arise through artistic expression or diplomatic interactions. This especially affects your career ambitions. A dynamic fusion of willpower and assertive Aries energy emerges. Channel this potent combination into ambitious projects or physical pursuits requiring sustained effort. Lunar Influence: The seed of Taurus softens Aries' flame grounding the impulse into form. Here, passion finds a purpose, and beginnings are blessed with endurance.Gentle tenacity guides your rhythm. This harmonious blend of personal charisma and aesthetic sensibility enhances social grace. Professional advantages may arise through artistic expression or diplomatic interactions. This especially affects your beliefs and learning. Passionate Taurus energy enhances creative and romantic pursuits. This dynamic combination requires channeling intensity into constructive expressions. Lunar Influence: When Taurus meets itself, stillness speaks. The world slows to reveal beauty in repetition, richness in patience, and comfort in being enough.A lively mind fuels your path. This harmonious blend of personal charisma and aesthetic sensibility enhances social grace. Professional advantages may arise through artistic expression or diplomatic interactions. This especially affects your inner transformation. Pessimistic thinking limits creative solutions. Challenging restrictive assumptions expands possibilities. This especially affects your relationships. Lunar Influence: Taurus offers Gemini roots, while Gemini offers Taurus wings. Together they learn the art of stability with movement where thoughts bloom in fertile silence.Deep instincts shape your path. Harmonious alignment of will and emotion facilitates authentic self-expression. Creative endeavors and personal relationships benefit from this integrated Cancer energy. This especially affects your relationships. This harmonious blend of personal charisma and aesthetic sensibility enhances social grace. Professional advantages may arise through artistic expression or diplomatic interactions. Lunar Influence: Earth cradles water Taurus and Cancer create sanctuary. In this harmony, nourishment becomes holy, and love takes the shape of time.Playful energy shapes your actions. This harmonious blend of personal charisma and aesthetic sensibility enhances social grace. Professional advantages may arise through artistic expression or diplomatic interactions. This especially affects your daily routines. A dynamic fusion of willpower and assertive Leo energy emerges. Channel this potent combination into ambitious projects or physical pursuits requiring sustained effort. Lunar Influence: Taurus steadies Leo’s light pleasure becomes art, and creation gains depth. This is devotion born of beauty, where loyalty fuels the muse.A calm precision steadies your spirit. Pessimistic thinking limits creative solutions. Challenging restrictive assumptions expands possibilities. This especially affects your home life. This harmonious blend of personal charisma and aesthetic sensibility enhances social grace. Professional advantages may arise through artistic expression or diplomatic interactions. This especially affects your creative pursuits. Lunar Influence: Two earth signs, two keepers of form Taurus and Virgo refine the material world. Together, they mold chaos into ritual, and affection into service.A charming glow lifts your path. This harmonious blend of personal charisma and aesthetic sensibility enhances social grace. Professional advantages may arise through artistic expression or diplomatic interactions. This especially affects your home life. Pessimistic thinking limits creative solutions. Challenging restrictive assumptions expands possibilities. This especially affects your communication style. Lunar Influence: Venus meets Venus Taurus and Libra craft elegance through essence. They teach that love is balance, and aesthetics is soul made visible.Fierce resolve lifts your journey. A dynamic fusion of willpower and assertive Scorpio energy emerges. Channel this potent combination into ambitious projects or physical pursuits requiring sustained effort. This especially affects your communication style. Passionate Scorpio energy enhances creative and romantic pursuits. This dynamic combination requires channeling intensity into constructive expressions. Lunar Influence: Taurus meets Scorpio opposites in orbit. One guards the surface, the other digs deep. Transformation comes by surrendering control to love’s alchemy.A free soul shapes your path. This harmonious blend of personal charisma and aesthetic sensibility enhances social grace. Professional advantages may arise through artistic expression or diplomatic interactions. This especially affects your values and resources. A dynamic fusion of willpower and assertive Sagittarius energy emerges. Channel this potent combination into ambitious projects or physical pursuits requiring sustained effort. Lunar Influence: Taurus steadies the archer’s aim. Dreams made manifest require discipline. This union bridges fantasy and form, truth and touch.Pragmatic strength guides your spirit. A dynamic fusion of willpower and assertive Capricorn energy emerges. Channel this potent combination into ambitious projects or physical pursuits requiring sustained effort. This especially affects your personal expression. Pessimistic thinking limits creative solutions. Challenging restrictive assumptions expands possibilities. This especially affects your spiritual side. Lunar Influence: Taurus and Capricorn build legacies. Their loyalty is a slow fire, their commitment carved in stone. Together they sculpt time itself.A flash of genius defines your way. Pessimistic thinking limits creative solutions. Challenging restrictive assumptions expands possibilities. This especially affects your social connections. This harmonious blend of personal charisma and aesthetic sensibility enhances social grace. Professional advantages may arise through artistic expression or diplomatic interactions. This especially affects your spiritual side. Lunar Influence: Taurus anchors Aquarius’ storms. Ideas meet embodiment, and revolution is rooted in practicality. Here, the future has a foundation.A soft muse inspires your day. This harmonious blend of personal charisma and aesthetic sensibility enhances social grace. Professional advantages may arise through artistic expression or diplomatic interactions. This especially affects your social connections. A dynamic fusion of willpower and assertive Pisces energy emerges. Channel this potent combination into ambitious projects or physical pursuits requiring sustained effort. Lunar Influence: Taurus holds Pisces gently where dreams become art, and spirit finds texture. This is the hymn of the earth and sea tender, timeless, true.

Aquarius Birthstone:

Garnets are the modern birthstone for January. They are the Zodiac birthstones for Aquarius, and an alternate for Capricorn. Garnets are given on the 2nd and 6th anniversary. Garnets are associated with strength, perseverity, prosperity, and health.

As a gemstone, garnets have had a mixed reputation. Garnets do possess high indices of refraction, are hard enough, have pretty colors, are wonderfully transparent, lack cleavage and are durable; thus making good candidates for gemstones. However, many people consider garnets to be inferior to other colored gems. This may be due to garnet's relative abundance and widespread use, and therefore a (typically) low price. Garnets are greatly variable in colors and varieties, though, and many of these are both rare and beautiful, producing genuinely precious gemstones. Some garnets are truly unique in the mineral kingdom and have much to offer as both gemstones and mineral specimens.

The main differences in physical properties among the members of the garnet group are slight variations in color, density and index of refraction.

The most common crystal shape for garnets is the rhombic dodecahedron, a twelve sided crystal with diamond-shaped (rhombic) faces. This basic shape is the trademark of garnets, for no other crystal shape is so closely associated with a single mineral group like the rhombic dodecahedron is with garnets.

Most garnets are red in color, leading to the erroneous belief that all garnets are red. In fact a few varieties, such as grossular, can have a wide range of colors, and uvarovite is always a bright green. As a mineral specimen, garnets usually have well shaped and complex crystals and their color and luster can make for a very beautiful addition to a collection. At times, garnets are accessory minerals to other valuable and pretty gem minerals such as topaz, beryl, tourmaline, vesuvianite and diopside making these specimens extra special.

Element: Air
Ruling Planet: Uranus
Life Pursuit: To understand life's mysteries
Vibration: High frequency
Secret Desire: To be unique and original.

Description:

Special note for Aquarians: With the new Millennium heralding the Dawn of the Age of Aquarius, at this time, ready or not, your sign is regarded as the zodiac's leader. You are the trendsetter for the future and because of this high responsibility, many under born your sign will be undergoing at this time, as we approach the Millennium, the pressure of personal change (particularly in your values and what makes you content and happy). Yours has always been a philanthropic sign. Now more than ever these qualities will be highlighted.

Those born under the sign of Aquarius not only march to a different drummer, they make up new music as they go along. They are 'mind oriented' individuals, whose thoughts never stop tick-tocking over. Because of their high focus on intellectual exploration, many inventors, eccentrics and highly original trailblazers are born under this sign. Their intense ability to live on many mental levels, holds both pain and pleasure for Aquarians. For example, in the American Hall of Fame there are more Aquarians than any other sign, yet statistics reveal that in mental institutions there are more Aquarians than any other sign too. Many extremes can surround this sign and these extremes can take them to both heaven and hell.

But in everyday terms, most Aquarians are extremely humanitarian and often involved in social programs that assist others. They can also be objective in judgement, for they never let their emotions get in the way. Outgoing and amiable, Aquarians attract friends wherever they go and those whom Aquarians befriend have their unswerving loyalty.

Aquarians are the zodiac's most mysterious and unusual people - and no two are anything alike. Those born under this sign - ruled by innovative and non-conformist Uranus - march to the beat of their own drum. They see life in a different way. Others quite frequently think their habits and ideas are eccentric or crazy in some way, but it is this uniqueness that makes them so special. The Aquarian mind is extremely quick and they never seem to stop thinking (it is interesting to note that many born under this sign suffer from insomnia.) Aquarians usually have strong political, environmental or social beliefs. But whether it is a relationship, career or cause - Aquarians are happiest when they have "something" to believe in and nurture.