Good morning. Today for all readers, I’m posting one of our monthly horoscopes for January 2010, called Inner Space. This has been quite a solstice, and it’s not exactly over: the Sun makes its conjunction to Pluto and square to Saturn this week. Inner Space offers an interpretation of how this astrology shakes out by sign.

The column covers Mercury retrograde in Capricorn, the eclipses in Cancer and Capricorn, and the sign change of Jupiter.

If what you feel you read about on this page is mostly the technical side of things — the place to look is the horoscopes and our Cosmic Confidential astrology reports, which sort out the information on a personal level. My weekly and monthly horoscopes are available to our subscribers — those who have signed up for Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light.

Occasionally (such as today) we sample them for the readers of our main page. Here is your link. That takes you to today’s edition of Planet Waves Light, our “horoscope only” product that’s published each Tuesday and Friday. You can select combined subscriptions at the top right of this page.

More news later today on the Mars retrograde section of Cosmic Confidential.

Editors Note: One of the research methods I’ve used preparing Cosmic Confidential was surveying my readers to ask how they responded to their astrology the past year or so. There were hundreds of detailed responses, which have been sorted by Genevieve Hathaway in Seattle. She has read through all of them, and provided a condensed version that will be included with Cosmic Confidential as a resource area. I asked her what she learned from doing this project the past few weeks, and this is what she wrote to me today. I thought I would share her thoughts with you. You can read the unedited full responses at this link. — efc

Dear Eric:

Hope the holidays are treating you well!! Ready to tackle finding quotes for the transits. Will work on Saturn Return this weekend.

As for what I learned from the signs – it was really insightful to pick out quotes. I learned that there were general themes for each of the signs. Astrology is real!! Well, duh, we already knew that.  It’s just so cool to see astrology in action, bringing each sign it’s own specific adventures and themes and things to work on.

The Aries year seemed a lot about security and companionship and where the professional life intersects the personal life. Where career and relationships meet. There was a lot of discussion of expansion, especially in regards to people’s professional life.

For Pisceans, it was a year of delving into the self; redefining themselves; breaking down the old, outdated self and building a new self; building a foundation of self for the future; loving themselves and putting themselves 1st in their own life. There was also a lot of internal healing, new ways of viewing relationships and letting go of the people that energetically suck them dry. Aquarians’ year was about awareness (not surprising with Chiron there). There was a lot of instability and lack of pattern/routine in life, and people were having to make friends with it. Also more internal questioning and redefining of self.

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アメリカの占星術師、エリック・フランシスによる星占い。占星術を出発点に皆さんと考える米国情勢、アメリカ文化、恋愛や性のあり方。世界各地からの流麗なフォト。

It always happens that as I am trying to wrap up the year of PW and devote myself to the annual edition, the news goes wild. I’m not taking this personally of course; the gods and congress are mad; we all know that. Thankfully, the last Friday edition of Planet Waves Astrology News is done and out for the year. (We will have monthly editions the next two Tuesdays, including the short version of the annual forecast for all subscribers on 12/29; this is the January 2010 Planet Waves Monthly, always a bit heftier in January and warming things up for the full annual website.)

In case you’re not a subscriber, here is a gift (not a ‘free issue’): Earth Stations Retrograde. This is one of my favorite editions of the year, with the lead article written like good journalism should be — fast. The lead article and sidebars were, well, an afterthought. At 7 pm on Thursday, I realized I hadn’t devoted any significant coverage to this most significant issue. So, I put on my daily newspaper reporter hat, did some research, and well, there you have it — Earth Stations Retrograde.

This issue includes a survey not just at the climate change conference, and the wider issue of global warming; and from our standpoint, the cosmic angle: a perspective on what this all means in the very long run, how we see the karma of humanity being acted out, and astrological commentary on the long-term and immediate developments.

This week’s edition also comes with two short, focused astrological studies of key charts involved with the process (including the hacking of the emails in the ‘climategate’ scandal — published for the first time on Planet Waves); an essay called ‘Om’ for the Holidays by my old friend Scott Kalechstein; a new essay by Judith Gayle; and my weekly horoscope, with an intro on the planet Nessus called ‘Do You Trust Your Tribe?’. All great stuff, some of our best, and it’s been a banner year Planet Waves: still, a year I am happy is now over (from a Friday publishing standpoint) so that I can wrap up the Big One, Cosmic Confidential.

I am very happy to have a lot of research and writing done as a down-payment on this city in the sky, and today my plan is to run through one of the aspects for all 12 of the signs. I’ll let you know which one when that bit is done.

Antarctica is thawing. Here’s a question: whose is it? It’s a continent with no other humans down there except for a few scientists. When Antarctica thaws we will be left with pristine, treeless landscape, wet and fertile.

I can see the profile of its prior landscape in my mind’s eye. I can see the colors, lush red and purple forests. The seeds have survived through many thaws and refreezes of the continent. They offer herbs and fruit plants the like of which we have no idea. Centuries away.