New Year 2010

Mars hurries through your sign for the first half of its journey until mid December, and is bound to arouse, awaken or alert you to the more dangerous areas of your impulses and desires. In January when some hard facts come tumbling out of the wash, it may be good to remember that sometimes there is the call for 'tough love'. Someone you care for creates a situation in which you don't know whether to support them or condemn them. The ‘tough' part comes in not condoning their actions and in this you are actually supporting them in the long run. If this applies to a situation you can recognise it's because you are ready to move beyond the confines of where the situation has brought you so far - which is perhaps an impasse - to a healthier and more progressive place. But the first stop is balance. And the reversals made between January and March can ensure that the balance, however temporary, can become a stable fixture for June.

The second half of the Mars-through-Leo journey begins in March and it tends to finish what was begun in late October but halted just before Christmas. Fairly strong measures are called for, or at least strong feelings. This accent on your intimate life is supplemented by the transit of Jupiter through pisces - lasting only until June .. one very quick return signifying a marked need to hear what others say but then to see whether they deliver, and what they deliver. It is worth noting that the aim should be independence within plans by the time June arrives. If this is not the case then the whole thing has to be revised between September and January 2011. Independence is the necessary ingredient if you are to eventually split a responsibility or a duty equally and subsequently halve the time and energy invested. And this is not possible if you are joined at the hip with someone, or you are so reliant on others that all progress is refined to a fixed and generic time scale.

We know that Valentine's Day falls in February but, this notwithstanding, the days around then and following into the third week of the month are ones which can be very romantic for you. Lots of idealistic possibilities, so bask in the warmth of that, and then get grounded for the end of the month and ready to drag something into a new dimension of reality and practicality as March unfolds. Or there will not be the cohesion you figured on in April, but instead a clunky sort of movement forward. Saturn retrogrades back into virgo in April for the best part of four months and will require a resettling of assets or debts left over from the autumn of 2009 before a better basis is formed for the schemes set up or tried out between November last and January to March this year. There is a solid and gradual movement to the way things are laid, which bodes well for the long-term but cautions walking before running - blazoned in red paint. June is the more go-ahead month, with the popularity and acceptance factor to back it up. 2010 is the time to share plans with others that can be built separately but may prove jointly or mutually beneficial or useful. Going it alone and going in a spirit of co-operation is a tricky balance, but offers the best yield.

May Update

Now that Mars is on the last leg of the almost eight month journey through your sign since last year, the chances are you are either rejuvenated and there's no stopping you, or you are just a little cowed by what has taken place since then and questioning your former ways or beliefs. The thing is, you either see where the false values lie or these very same values have flattened you by courtesy of their hidden repercussions, which of course are hidden no longer. If it is the latter you will naturally need some time to regroup and get your bearings before you see all too clearly how not to repeat some of the arrangements and options that lead to it. There are very few leos who do not invite others to depend on them in some way, and there are very few leos who do not relish the thought of being central to the nub of matters, whether these be family or business or social. The differentiating factor between all of this is how you've been personally coping and feeling within some very restrictive situations; now is well past the point of where you should consider throwing in the towel, if you've not been fairing well.

The most important planetary news is the movement of Uranus into aries in June. Not just because this marks the end of a seven year chapter but becaue it forms part of a major aspect already in existence between Saturn and Pluto. The results are to say the least remarkable. The fact that Jupiter walks a little way with Uranus until Uranus backs off in August - albeit temporarily - means that there is for a while a safe access to new routes while Jupiter is present in June and July. It is like having a tour guide in a place you never went before. If you get lost it's your own fault. It's showing you the best way through changing and interesting times. There are, in June and July, the cutting of ties, the breaking of bonds and the forging of new ones in places forming the basis of radically different sorts of working and professional practises. Or just in lieu of certain kinds of security in which you placed faith.

For many, there are financial changes which are not of the usual nature and evolve from a need to be perhaps more forward looking or more independent. There are various possibilities in the area of your working and vocational life and where this impacts on your every day living and routine. The Mercury retrograde motion happening between the middle of April and the second week of May will set the scene for some turn about in career or worldly events which sees you having a clearer idea of what is likely to yield fruits and what is not, by the end of May. But the choices you make in June are what really help to support the way through to more creative or more enjoyable forms of financial planning. (Financial planning being either a happy method of spending or a need to count every penny). And there has to be some anti-climax wherever you are and whatever you have in the bank as July folds and August get underway. However, keep in mind that every anti-climax is a way of forcing you back to the drawing board and not simply an end in itself. It may be November/December before some curfew or restrictive practise is lifted from your habitual routine and you can begin to get more comfortable with the visions you had in spring this year. The spring time is a challenge to take a different view of the usual path before you can fully understand it in 2011.

September Update

Once Jupiter is back into pisces - second week of September - you may feel that old and intimate situations and arrangements are better than the current ones which lack that magic or allure you so much value. This is not the case, but you might have to find that out for yourself between September and December, by going into old and even very ancient territory to try something out or revisit people and places you left behind because the time wasn't right. The times is never right, but sometimes it's more apt than others. Time is not what we think it is and if a gap appears before you with a signal blazing, then either take it and access the gap - assuming you want to - or understand that it will never present itself in the same way again, no matter how much something replicates the bygone era or imitates the climate which once was. We get fooled by this thing called time, we get seduced into thinking we can manage it when really it is managing us.

The need to firm up on the conditions in your everyday schedule or immediate environment which are likely to enhance your vocational progress, or impede it, is startlingly real again. You had from November last to play around with serious matters (mixing of metaphors is purposeful) because maybe you didn't take it so seriously back then. Whatever ... it is serious now, but it is also more optimistic, provided you follow the clues in September, which get more intricate in October. And don't be upset by the refusal of partners and lovers in October/ November to stay on course or above the radar so that you can feel secure. It just isn't going to happen. The more you demand or want the higher the stakes are raised, and so the more cautious or involved the circumstances and the need for thought or deliberation which might seem to border on avoidance. You cannot say you want the romance or the intrigue and then expect it to be logical or clear-cut, it is either a transformation of your previous mind-set into a braver new world, or it is a passing experience which disappointed you becaue you lacked the full understanding of it.

The Mercury retrograde aspect in August/September led you to decipher facts in the financial sense or change your purpose towards them. Perhaps you see a better way of proceeding at the end of September, but by October you may still need the co-operation of people who can cut you the cloth to suit your means, because without that at the right price the design doesn't happen. Go back to where you found some good contacts in May this year and negotiate again, right out to mid November, until there is mutual respect and agreement. The end of the year takes you beyond the rigid conditions of service, either personally or professionally, imposed on you for the last year or so, but only if you can join with the correct team using the vehicle that stands the rigours of the present economic climate to 2012. We are not saying it is plain sailing even then, but it's the wider ocean rather than the lake.

More insights New Year 2011

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