Love and Social Life
Ever since Jupiter, your love planet, started travelling with Uranus, your love life has been unstable. Exciting yes. Interesting, yes. Filled with sudden surprises, yes. But highly unstable. As Jupiter moves away from Uranus – little by little – love will start to stabilize.
Those in existing marriages or relationships saw them severely tested. Fundamentally sound relationships survived, but there has been many a divorce and separation among you.
This has been an especially interesting love period for singles, as they have had more freedom to ‘follow the new’. Love came suddenly and could have left just as suddenly.
Jupiter is basically a slow-moving planet. He tends to stay in one sign and house for an entire year. But this year he is moving exceptionally fast – he actually moves through three signs and houses this year. He begins the year in Pisces, your 10th house. Then he moves into Aries (your 11th house) from January 22 to June 4. Then he moves into Taurus (your 12th house) from June 4 onwards. This is all highly unusual, and gives us important messages about love. First off, it shows that you are dating a lot, mixing with different kinds of people in different kinds of situations. Your needs in love – and your tastes – change relatively quickly.
This speedy movement of the love planet suggests that you have a lot of confidence in love and that you are making rapid progress towards your goals. Also you are in a ‘social smorgasbord’ now, tasting first this delicacy and now another – seeing what you like and what pleases you.
Marriage could easily have happened last year (and divorce, too) and can still happen this year. However, I prefer 2012 for marriage – especially if you are single working towards your first marriage.
You are idealistic in love, but you also want someone of high status and position, someone who can help your career. Yes, the passion of love is very important, but you want some ‘worldliness’ as well. As Jupiter moves into Aries (January 22 to June 4) you want friendship with the beloved. You want a relationship of equals. You instantly know whether a person is right for you or not. Again this is exciting, but your tendency might be to leap into serious relationships too quickly. After June 4 you become more conservative in love. More cautious. You want to give more time for love to develop. Again you become idealistic in love but with a need for worldliness. You don’t care if the beloved is of high status, but he or she needs to be a good provider.
Self-improvement
Uranus travelling with Jupiter, your love planet – late last year and early this year – brings a sense of freedom in love and social activities. In some cases this will lead to serial love affairs or friendships. All the rule books are being thrown out and you are learning about love by trial and error – seeing what works for you. Experimentation in love is basically good, so long as it isn’t destructive.
Your biggest challenge in love early this year is the mood changes. These are quick and bewildering. Passions can be so high, so tender, one moment and then shift in an instant to hate, anger, resentment. This is true of you or of the partners you are involved with. It will take hard work to bring these feelings into control. These mood changes make love a constant soap opera – interesting, but obsessive and unstable.
Uranus is moving into your 11th house of friends on March 12. Before that, the excitement was in your romantic life; now it shifts to the friendships. By the time Uranus is finished with you – the next seven years or so – you will be in completely different social circumstances. Existing friends are not meeting your needs, (perhaps they can’t – they are unable to), so you will need to move into a circle where these needs can be fulfilled. This is a period where you need to give a lot of freedom to others – work on non-attachment. You can be somebody’s friend, be there for them, enjoy their company, in a non-attached way. This is your challenge for the next seven years.
Month-by-month Forecasts
January
Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 16, 17, 24, 25
Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 8, 9, 22, 23, 28, 29
Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29
Best Days for Money: 3, 4, 9, 10, 13, 14, 18, 19, 24, 28
Best Days for Career: 7, 8, 9, 17, 25
You begin your year with most of the planets (after the 7th the percentage is 80–90 per cent) above the horizon of the chart. Thus you are very much in the ‘day’ of your year. A period for career focus and the pursuit of outer success. Reinforcing this is the fact that your 4th house of home and family is empty (only the Moon moves through there on the 22nd and 23rd), while your 10th house of career is strong. So reach for the Sun, Moon and stars now. You can safely downplay family responsibilities (you can’t ignore them altogether) and focus on your career. Sometimes we serve our families best by being there, and sometimes by providing for them and being successful. This is a time for the latter.
The western, social sector of your chart is also overwhelmingly dominant now. So the dictum, ‘not by might nor by power, but by my spirit’ applies to you now. Personal ability and personal merit seem to matter little these days – it is the grace of others, your likeability, that get you to your goals.
You are just coming out of a yearly social peak (it happened last month) but your 7th house of love is strong until the 13th. So love and social matters are going well. You are more popular these days as you put the interests of others above your own. You are there for your friends – on their side, devoted to them. You are also more aggressive socially, taking the bull by the horns and creating social events and friendships – you initiate these things. If you like someone, that person knows it – you are not afraid to make a direct approach. Many of you have got involved in serious love relationships over the past few months, and it could still happen this month – suddenly and unexpectedly. Of late you have become a ‘love at first sight’ kind of person. You know immediately whether someone is for you or not. And with your love planet moving into Aries on the 22nd, this tendency will only get stronger. When the aspects are kind, everything works well and you save a lot of time skirting all the niceties of courtship. But when the aspects are not kind, there can be hurt and pain. In the next few months you are called to develop fearlessness in love. Actual success or failure in relationships is not really the issue – the fact that you conquer fear, timidity and shyness is the real issue. That is your victory.
There is a solar eclipse on the 4th that occurs in your 8th house. This causes financial upheavals and financial change for your spouse, partner or current love. These changes will be good in the long term, but fearful and disruptive in the short term. If you are involved in tax, estate or insurance issues, there is a dramatic turn of events – things start to move forward and get resolved one way or another. Though this eclipse is benign to you, it does force you to confront death – usually on a psychological level.
Job-seekers have good fortune after the 13th. Likewise those who employ others.
Health is much improved over last month and gets even better after the 22nd. You can enhance your health even further in the ways discussed in the yearly report.
February
Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 12, 13, 20, 21
Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 6, 18, 19, 25, 26
Best Days for Love: 6, 7, 8, 16, 17, 25, 26
Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 25
Best Days for Career: 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 21
Last month your 8th house