The New Year holidays will shake us up, give us vivid impressions, but they will hardly pass in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity. The air sparkles with cheerful excitement, and the atmosphere itself is emotionally exciting thrilling, dynamic, and here and there alarming, as the culmination of the Mars-Pluto confrontation occurs on January 1-5. One should keep one’s cool in hand and avoid excessive pathos, even when opening a bottle of champagne. Meeting a provocative, demanding, envious or insolent person is not excluded. Hurt pride and self-esteem, or taking something too personally, may cause emotional turmoil or a rise of the blood pressure. On January 3-14 Jupiter’s loop in a destructive degree will help to expose false authorities, light-fingered ones, and open your eyes to the naked truth. However even the slightest lack of knowledge and information, the lack of respect for public officials, superiors and teachers will make itself felt. January 5-7, the risk of false or inflated hopes and cheating increases, unreliable acquaintances may let down, but trustworthy and responsible ones will earn your respect. From January 6, the global situation will develop by inertia; open and irreconcilable confrontation will be replaced by personal motives to vent grievances and seek revenge on the sly. On January 7, increasing around the next Full Moon, a powerful spiritual aspect will channel our mental energies inwards: to intimacy, loved ones, and home. For those who didn’t have time or couldn't get away in early January to relax in a peaceful home atmosphere, see family or bosom friends – now it’s your chance! Inspiration will come from visiting churches and temples, exhibitions and vernissages, museums and historical sites, as well as antique shops, flea markets, swimming pools, baths and spas. Increased intuition, imagination and sensuality will help lovers and creative people to find the right strings. These days offer the opportunity to feel deeply the underlying market conditions, to find your own flow, to succeed in financial speculation and in secret or double plays. This is an auspicious time for yoga, healing, massage, dancing and esoteric practices.