There’s an urge to write about our more unusual and forward-thinking ideas today. With Sun trine Lilith in Virgo, these could be new ideas about health and healthcare systems. Healing methods that may have seemed too unorthodox may come to light now. Mars trine North Node in Libra and Uranus semisextile Chiron spells music therapy. Journalists may want to write articles about treating certain conditions with sound therapy or music therapy. As the Moon moves into Aquarius and sextiles Saturn (now in Sagittarius), the focus is on breaking away from old ways of looking at emotional health. Fiction writers may want to bring music or other new emotional healing methods into their stories.

While the Sun and Moon move into Capricorn, we want to work, yet don’t seem to be able to make much progress. Saturn is still holding us back in Scorpio for another day before it sets us free in Sagittarius. The best you can do today is to remain committed to your project, and know that this strain is just temporary. Try to feel how your writing will affect others, and gain strength from knowing that you’ve been doing the best you can. The waters have broken, and we’re in the birth canal. It’s a little tough going today, but by noon tomorrow, it will be like a brand new life!

It’s a HUGE day today! A New Moon at zero degrees Capricorn brings our writing hopes down to earth and makes them real. Uranus stations before turning direct, charging its batteries for a coming jolt of energy that will allow us to leap any remaining hurdles. Add to that the solstice, and Saturn in the last degree of Scorpio, and it’s like a birth just before the waters break. This is the beginning of a whole new era in your writing life. This is the real New Year. So celebrate!

The optimism from yesterday is still growing, but it’s an optimism tempered by reality. Ceres in Sagittarius trine Jupiter in Leo allows us to nurture our dramatic expressions. The long retrograde of Jupiter until early April gives us the time and space to go over old material or old projects and polish them until they shine. We can get inklings today of ideas from out of the blue that just seem to fit and enhance our work. Tonight we’ll feel extremely motivated and ready to get down to some real, enjoyable writing as the stellium moves into Capricorn through January.

As the Moon approaches conjunction with Pallas and Saturn, we get a real sense of direction. Optimism about our writing builds throughout the day. These are the last few days of Saturn in Scorpio, so the intensity of the last two years will lighten up by Tuesday. Saturn has forced us to look at the deep structure of our writing, such as plotting and outlining and character development and online marketing systems. It has been a hard taskmaster. Soon, we will be able to go free again, and write from our hearts. Yet, now we know we have a firm foundation beneath our feet from which we can leap into flights of fancy without missing the mark.

This morning will be a process of digging up last minute notes or adding additional details to what you’ve been writing. It’s not editing and cutting, it’s adding and enhancing. Because the Moon is in Scorpio, these should be details that deepen the work on an emotional level. Look at any interpersonal exchanges between your characters, especially the intense ones, and see if you can improve those by adding something. For example, maybe you just need to add a symbolic gesture during an intense conversation. This should all be done by late afternoon. Then it’s full speed ahead again as you work to finish the piece you’ve been working on.

If you remember dreams, write them down this morning. You’ll have done work on your art form during the night. Mercury enters Capricorn bringing your thoughts down to earth, so you can actually capture those dreams in concrete form. It’s amazing how much writing you can get done before breakfast. You may even compose some work in your head before you even get out of bed. This afternoon is good for writing about balancing the yin/yang, masculine/feminine dynamics in relationships. With Moon quintile Jupiter, you could write that coming out story or stories where hidden emotions are exposed.