Transition time...six days time Saturn goes retrograde, seven days time there's a near total eclipse and we'll all be able to look at our shadow stuff, eight days time Mercury stops going retrograde, ten days time the Moon and Jupiter together enter Pisces - methinks that the world will be a very different place in two weeks compared to now.  I personally have not enjoyed 2009, and what I'm seeing in many people's charts is that 2009 is continuing until about the 18th January.  I like the idea of Jupiter in Pisces, Its team-up with Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius has brought a lot of over exaggeration and hype and spin into our lives, both collectively and personally, whilst in Pisces Jupiter appeals much more to our empathic, compassionate and benevolent nature as opposed to impersonal community issues.  By the end of January one of the three most challenging astrological periods of 2010 will be over.