Siblings or sibling figures in your life may want to move – they seem cramped in their present home. However, this is not advisable this year, although after October 5 is better than before that date. They need to make better use of the space that they have: perhaps a renovation would be better than a move. Children in your life have a status quo kind of year. Like you they seem more or less content with the home as it is. Grandchildren (if you have them) are likely to have multiple moves in the year ahead.
One of your parents or parent figures seems nomadic this year, moving around a lot. He or she could also be having surgery or ‘near-death’ kind of experience.
Finance and Career
As we mentioned, this is a prosperous year. You catch the lucky financial breaks. There is luck in speculations (and speculations not only happen at the casino or bingo hall – business people make speculations every day). There is travel, nice clothing and accessories, good foods, good wines, good restaurants, good personal pleasure. The carnal fantasies get fulfilled in happy ways. Your only concern (and this is more from a health perspective) is in overdoing it. Keeping your weight down can be a problem.
Jupiter is the ruler of your 8th house of inheritance. Thus, there is some sort of inheritance this year. Hopefully no one need actually die – instead you can be named in someone’s will or be called on to be an executor or trustee. Sometimes people receive trust funds under this kind of aspect too. If you have insurance or royalty claims, there is good fortune.
Those of you who are looking for outside investors also have good fortune. There is much talk about ‘tight credit’ in the world these days, but for you this is not so. You personally have good access to outside money.
On June 11 Jupiter will move into your money house and this more or less reinforces what we have been saying. With Jupiter in your money house the assets you already own tend to increase in value. Often people are disappointed with a Jupiter transit. Though it always brings increase, sometimes the expectations are unrealistic. If someone is praying for a million pounds and Jupiter brings an increase of only £10,000, they might dismiss the transit. The problem isn’t with Jupiter but with unrealistic expectations. Regardless of your expectations you should finish the year with greater net worth than when you began.
As we see, finance is not the problem this year: it is career that seems more challenging. Your career planet Uranus is in stressful aspect with Pluto and this signifies career changes – a move to another company, another industry, or even a change of career. Friends, your social circle in general, are not supportive of your career goals this year. It will take more work to get them on board and to get them to co-operate. It is best to rely on your own merits rather than on who you know.
With your career planet in the sign of Aries since last year, you want a more independent kind of career – to be in charge of your own destiny. This entails some risk and most likely your spouse or current love will not be in favour of this. Also, as we mentioned, you want a career that is more meaningful, that helps humanity as a whole and is more socially conscious. Many of you have opted for altruistic careers in recent years and this could still happen now. But even in a worldly type of career, you can enhance and further it by getting involved in charity work or good causes.
Love and Social Life
As we mentioned, Uranus’ move into Aries has been putting stress on the current marriage or love relationship. Last year you felt the beginnings of it, and this year the testing of the marriage or current relationship becomes even stronger. Divorces or breakups this year wouldn’t be a surprise. However, these aspects don’t mean that you ‘must’ divorce. Only that this is the tendency. If there is real love between you the relationship can survive, but it will take a lot of effort and dedication to make it work.
Part of the problem seems to be a conflict between your spouse or current love and a parent or parent figure. This seems nasty. Another aspect of the problem could be career issues – the demands of your career pull you away or distract you from your relationship. In the case of those who are not married, you could be transferred to another city, even to another country, far away from your beloved. This too puts stress on the relationship.
Towards the end of the year Saturn will move into your 7th house of love and marriage, which will further strain the marriage. The cosmos is ‘road testing’ the relationship, subjecting it to extra kinds of stress much in the way that a car is road tested. The underlying sturdiness of the relationship will be revealed through these means, and any flaws will easily be seen and can be corrected. However, if it is a bad relationship the ‘road testing’ will be too much for it and it will dissolve. (If your relationship survives the next two years, it can probably survive anything.)
With volatile Uranus squaring your love planet all year, the mood changes in love are swift and bewildering. You and your partner can be madly in love one moment and at each other’s throats the next. Even in established relationships, you don’t know where you stand from moment to moment. It is as if every moment is a new courtship. Taurus people more than most are uncomfortable with this. They like their security, and dealing with instability – sudden change – is one of their biggest challenges.
Those working on the second marriage could reunite with their former spouse or get together with someone who is very much like him or her. It seems to me that there is a spiritual agenda behind this: you get to resolve old issues that couldn’t be resolved in any other way. Those working on the third marriage have opportunities with spiritual kinds of people and in spiritual locales and settings.
Singles should probably not marry this year. Things are too unstable, and especially so after October 5. Singles will probably date less after this date too. There is a need to focus more on quality that quantity. Fewer, more meaningful dates, with meaningful people, are preferable to many mediocre dates. Socializing in general is reduced after October 5 and for the same rationale – to focus on quality, not quantity.
Self-improvement
As we mentioned, Uranus, your career planet, made a major move last year into your 12th house of spirituality, bringing a need for a career that is meaningful for the world at large and not just for yourself. You want a career that doesn’t violate your spiritual principles and ideals, and instead is in harmony with them. No matter how much money and status a company is offering, it is doubtful that you could be happy there (or successful) if there is a violation of these principles.
Different people are at different stages of the spiritual journey. Those just setting out will probably try to incorporate both a worldly career and the pursuit of spiritual goals. Sometimes this is done by being involved in charities or altruistic kinds of causes while the individual pursues their worldly career. Sometimes they choose a more spiritual career, i.e. working for a non-profit organization or being an executive in a charity on a professional level. I know people with these aspects who have opened up profitable yoga and tai chi studios, and some have entered the ministry. But for those of you more advanced on the path, the message here is very clear. Your spiritual practice – your path – is of itself the most important thing and is your mission right now. Yes, these seemingly isolated spiritual disciplines (carried out far from the crowd) do change the world. The world is changed heart by heart, mind by mind, often in quiet and solitude. This is where real change happens. Politicians – people of power and prestige – never create the change; they merely ratify what has already occurred. So, your spiritual practice is of itself a valid career and your mission over the next six or seven years.
Uranus in your 12th house also has other meanings. It is the planet of science and system. Thus the message here is that you need a spiritual path that is scientific and rational. Yes, the Divine is above all mind and all logic. But the path and the practice have a science to them and this kind of approach seems good for you. The spiritual side of astrology also seems good these days. Neptune, the most spiritual of all the planets, in your 11th house of astrology and science reinforces what we are saying here.
Month-by-month Forecasts
January
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