Hello, everybody. Welcome to Ann Ortley's Weekly Weather Report. My name is Ann

Ortly, and I'm in the stranger here in New York City, and I'm talking today from my cell phone

because my regular phone is dead. I'm having a really nasty little transit to my mercury here with Uranus, so I have a

horrible static on my phone.

Hopefully this phone will work.

However, it is my cell phone, and I am technologically feeling very challenged these

days.

I keep putting my ear against it and hangs up on me, and so we'll see if we make it

through the show.

That's the way it is here today on the weekly weather.

What we're going to talk about this week is what's coming up in the week ahead and how it works

and what it feels like energetically and what you can do to make it work better for you.

And of course, in my case, it would be like getting my phone fix,

but the telephone company tells me that ain't happening until February 7th.

So probably there's a lot of problems with the phones these days.

So what we're going to talk about this week is the energy and how it works

and how it shows up and how it feels. And hopefully you'll be able to hear the show. And if you can, I'll re-record it on another time slot. Okay, so our week ahead, we have a lovely new moon. It's the new moon of the water snake. Now, we know that the Chinese calendar runs on the, this is the Chinese New Year.

So we always find that the Chinese New Year has a lot to do with how we want to begin things.

And so we had the ground dogs last week, which said to us, gee, you know, I can see your shadow and ready to go.

And it was also Candlemas, which is the cross quarter, you know, I can see your shadow and ready to go, and it was also Candlemas,

which is the cross-quarter day.

So we're halfway through winter, which is why we look at the, we look at the,

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