Singles are probably attracted to (and attracting) older lovers this year. Often under this aspect marriage is seen as a career move – a career like any other – and more like a business partnership than a romantic attachment. A person will marry for convenience rather than for romantic love.
Those of you into your first marriage are having the marriages tested right now. Good marriages will survive and get even better. But inherently flawed ones will probably dissolve. Those of you working on your second marriage have opportunities for business partnerships this year. But there are also good marriage opportunities in the first half of the year. Love opportunities happen as you pursue your financial goals and with people who are involved in your finances. Those working on their third marriage have excellent prospects and a third marriage is very likely. There’s not much you need to do – this person will find you.
Saturn in your 7th house shows a need to pare down social activities. You need to focus on quality rather than quantity. In general you are mixing with people of high power and prestige, with people who can help you career-wise this year, as has been the case for the past two years. Many of you will be involved in the classic office romance, especially with superiors.
Self-improvement
There have been many disappointments in love and with friends the past two years, and you are still not finished with this. So there is a need to avoid becoming embittered or vengeful. You can be carrying deep-seated grudges on an unconscious level. This is not constructive and will cause more problems in love and in other areas of life. So, learning and practising the art of forgiveness is very important this year.
Real forgiveness comes not just from the lips. It is an organic forgiveness – the hurt and pain are released from the very cells of the body. With real forgiveness you are able to think of the person who has hurt you without anger, pain, regret, sadness or any other negative emotion. You may not be passionately in love with the person who has wronged you, but at least you will not be emanating more negativity (and thus creating more negative experiences in your life). It might help you to understand that we never forgive the actions – only the people. The actions were wrong and there is no whitewashing these things. But these people’s actions were prompted by their own insecurities and errors and they may have had little control over what they did.
As we mentioned, Neptune, your spiritual planet (and also the generic spiritual planet) makes a major move into your 12th house this year on February 3. Thus spirituality is going to become important for many years to come. Now Aries are activists even in their spiritual life. They serve the Divine through the physical body, through being active in charities or causes. They like to express their spiritual ideals in a physical way. This is all well and good but now, with Neptune’s influence upon you, it might be good to also include the more contemplative, meditative paths. Yes, action is good, but stillness is also good. Stillness, silence, will lead to even more powerful actions – and it seems to me that this is the spiritual message for you. Before rushing into a worthy activity automatically, spend some time in the silence communing with the Divine. Then your actions will be more powerful and effective. This is a time in your life where you learn that non-action and action are two sides of the same coin; one gives birth to the other.
Uranus is in your 1st house for many years to come. Thus, as we mentioned, you are more experimental with the body, testing its limits. But along with this many of you will be more rebellious these days. Sometimes rebellion is called for – there are certain situations that we should not submit to. But sometimes people rebel for the sake of rebellion. Change is seen as good for its own sake, and this is not always the case. The positive way to rebel is to create something better than the thing that you are rebelling against. Find a way that really improves things and practise it. This will do more in the long run than a million temper tantrums.
Month-by-month Forecasts
January
Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 10, 11, 19, 20, 28, 29
Most Stressful Days Overall: 8, 9, 14, 15, 21, 22
Best Days for Love: 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 25, 26
Best Days for Money: 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 16, 17, 21, 25, 26, 30, 31
Best Days for Career: 15, 21, 22
Your year begins with the planetary momentum overwhelmingly moving forward. Until the 24th all of the planets are moving forward (highly unusual), and after the 24th 90 per cent are going forward. Not only that, but the universal solar cycle is waxing. So this is a great month to start new projects or launch new products. Try to find days when the Moon is also waxing (from the 1st to the 9th and from the 23rd onwards) and you’ll have the best of the best days to start new projects.
Last month the planetary power shifted to the Eastern sector of your Horoscope, and this month the shift is even stronger. By the 8th 70 per cent (and sometimes 80 per cent) of the planets will be in the East. You are always an independent sort, but now even more so. This is a time to create your life circumstances, rather than to adapt to things. Your happiness is up to you. Other people are always important, but they will adapt themselves to you rather than vice versa.
Health needs more watching this month especially until the 20th. Energy and vitality are not up to their usual standards so rest and relax more and try to pace yourself better. Instead of a go-go-go rhythm, try a go-go-rest beat. Happily, you seem more focused on health this month and you will listen to your body. You can enhance your health by giving more attention to the liver and thighs (until the 8th) and to the spine, knees, teeth, bones, skin and overall skeletal alignment, afterwards. Fire therapies – heat-oriented therapies – are powerful until the 8th, after that earth-based therapies (mud bathing, soaking in mineral waters and the like) are strong. Your health planet Mercury travels with Pluto from the 12th to the 14th and thus detox regimes are especially powerful that period. Surgery could be recommended that period and you seem inclined to agree, but get second opinions. (Be careful driving that period too. Cars and communication equipment gets tested then and might need replacement.) Your health planet is in stressful aspect with Uranus from the 8th to the 10th – reinforcing the above, but also suggesting the avoidance of risky, daredevil types of behaviour.
Ever since Jupiter entered your money house in June of last year you have been in a prosperity cycle. This trend continues. Financial intuition seems unusually strong and good this month. Venus travels with Neptune from the 12th to the 15th and then enters mystical Pisces on the 24th. You can’t really make financial decisions based on logic alone as there is too much going on behind the scenes now so your premises and assumptions can be faulty. Intuition sees through all these things. Though you are materially minded these days, this is a good month to go deeper into the spiritual realities of wealth. The material thing is only the side effect of a spiritual reality. Spirit is the actual cause of wealth – the activities of the earth are merely effects.
You seem to give more to charity this month. This is good as it opens the doors to the spiritual supply. Involvement with non-profit organizations or altruistic causes brings both love and financial opportunity.
February
Best Days Overall: 7, 8, 15, 16, 24, 25
Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 11, 12, 17, 18
Best Days for Love: 5, 6, 11, 12, 15, 24, 25
Best Days for Money: 1, 5, 6, 9, 15, 17, 24, 25, 27, 28
Best Days for Career: 3, 12, 17, 18, 21
The planetary momentum is still mostly forward this month: until the 6th 90 per cent of the planets are going forward, after that 80 per cent. So this is still a good month for launching new products or starting new projects (and many of you are involved with new projects these days). The planetary power is also still in the East, so keep in mind our discussion of this last month.
The main headline this month is the power in your spiritual 12th house – it is easily the strongest house in the chart right now. Venus entered here last month, Neptune moves in on the 3rd, Mercury on the 14th and the Sun on the 19th. The new Moon of the 21st will also occur here. No question this is a spiritual month. It