April 2010 Horoscopes

While it’s not exactly the champagne truffles tray at Fortnum & Mason’s, April’s outlook is far far sweeter than March’s (wasn’t it a shocker?). Energy returns for most and while it’s a bit stop-starty (Saturn slides back into Virgo, and both Pluto and Mercury go retro) there’s a sense of Going Over Old Ground to lay firmer foundations for a Better Future. BIG changes are coming from May through to July thanks to wappy Uranus hoofing into Aries after seven years in Pisces, plus the eclipses. (Those bleepers’ll have you if you’re not nailed down.) Motto of the month: Get your ducks in a row, your ordnance survey map the right way up, and prepare to make tracks to that shiny horizon you’ve been a-hankering for…

And so, friends, I must do likewise. THANK YOU for all your well-wishing emails. You’re lovely you are. Here’s A Big Stroke of Luck to you too. There will be other Tatty blogs acomin if you want to stay tuned, not astro-flavoured, more wanderlust and adventure. News of them will be posted here at the beginning of May.

As is my monthly wont, I’ve picked a pretty toon. This one is for the seekers in us all, vagabond spirits, soul mates, adventurers! Hope your onward journey is a delight, peeps, filled with happy times. This is your middle-class gypsy signing off for now,

Port out!

Ahoy, it’s the delightfully dippy POSH from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzEWodlTFq0


Aries
Liberty, Ram, not as in ‘you’re taking a liberty my son!’ but as in fighting for your freedom, and we’re talking from the day job and from work stresses. The New Moon of the 14th is yours, your only one this year, so by the 16th it’s crucial that you begin to make the adjustments necessary to cut yourself lose. Adventures, the like of which you’ve never experienced, are heading your way from next month. Expect to make a push around the 26th April that hurts (severing job ties, or paying for the stress with health problems) and then making some sort of financial ‘sacrifice’ around the Full Moon of the 28th. Paying off debts, perticalerly home-related ones, is starred. All month money is in the frame and yes you should be quids in. However as Mercury retrogrades in your finances in-tray on the 18th delays in cheques arriving and mix ups at the bank are likely. Sign nothing from 16th – 19th April and check everything’s where it should be after May 12th. Watch your temper: 3rd and 5th. Love gets prettier: in May.


Taurus
Two out of three aint bad, Bull, and by that I mean Venus is with you already and Mercury will be with you come Saturday… The Sun will be along a little later (the 21st). From NOW it’s time to ask questions, seek answers, Be Direct on love and money issues that have been ignored. The Sun’s absence suggests that what’s missing is a sense of peace at home (watch the 3rd and 5th for tense moments). Getting away could be just the ticket and holeedays taken after the 7th should give you time to reflect. The stoppy-starty thing mentioned at the top of the show affects you directly. Negotiations vz money, lovers, chilun, and creative ting are cosmically scheduled for you 18 April – 12 May. Changes are needed so you have the space and time to address work or health (stress) related issues – and are free to embrace the forthcoming summer bonanzas. Your at-a-glance April timetable: Energy dips around the 12th. Lie down. Begin negotiations after the 15th. Energy surges after 21st. Work/health clashes with your Dreams Big Time: 26th (why do you keep getting caught out like that?) Full Moon at month’s end is an emotional peak with one-to-onesies: 28th. Love is good: potentially all month.

Gemini
April 2010 may not go down as your favourite month on record, but it is a month in which some inner adventures and wandering will pay dividends later. What’s ado for you is the tip toeing of Venus and then your stupendous ruler, Mercury, into your 12th house of Meep! Single Geminis are on retreat and camping out behind a forced smile. After the 18th your ruler heads backwards ho into the shadows of your fabalas head, and all Geminis get tongue-tied. It’s time to review how you speak – and when you speak where you speak from (and I don’t mean the larynx). Mars is telling you to PUSH harder verbally, watch the 3rd and the 5th… but this is fear. Mm,hmm, tis. Yes it is. Yes it is. If you’re still carrying a critical parent on your shoulder, maybe it’s time to tell them to get off. Eureka moment due: 12 May. Before then, your annual wishing moon lands: 14 April. Homelife/mortgages need attention: 26th. Work or health issues can’t wait: 28th. Lovelife outlook: unrequited?

Cancer
The summer eclipses are yours, Crab and being an intuitive creature you’ll already be sensing where you want to head to next. What’s imminent (in May) is a feeling that the foreign/studious/philosophical fairground ride you’ve been negotiating for the past seven years is really going to take you somewhere exciting and worthwhile, if unexpected. Uranus in your success zone urges you to be open to deviating off the beaten track. Stout boots and a hip flask, what? I’m telling you this now because preparation is Key. The bulk of April is about your friends, reconnecting with those you’ve waylaid, recognising your confidence grow thanks to the love and goodwill and support of your family of friends. Friends could become lovers under these stars too (watch the electricity around the 28th of the month), just be sure it’s a match based on equality. What you will need to watch is tension rising around the 26th. Lovers and your big shiny future may require a balancing act. Love this month: within the familiar.

Leo
Mars’s on-going roar through your 1st house of you is giving you pace and drive, bebe. Go easy on colleagues who seem to blunder into your path on the 3rd and the 5th; maybe they’re being obstreperous simply because you’ve been too pushy of late? For you April is about (a) foreign dreams and life expansion and (b) Career and Success. A holiday in a desert planning a camel-training school followed by souvenir gifts to keep the minions on side would be top choice, what? The one literal Fly in this martini, is Mercury’s uiiee from 18 April until 12 May. This can be as breezy and opportunistic as an old job offer returning – or as irritating as having to re-write the annual report. Either way, see it as feathering your nest for the future and address it with a smile. Finally for now, money issues rear up on 26 April. Big bills surprise you. The Full Moon two days later is in your home and family zone. Time to postpone the plunge pool/cut the kids’ allowance? Lovelife in April: Not clear cut.

Virgo
A month with a foreign, retro flavour that goes out with a parting salvo… Job number one this month is to tie up finances. In fact, stop reading this and hop to it NOW! The Sun is bringing insight and purpose and Saturn is giving you staying power until the 8th to get cashola ting sorted. After that, the urge to spend rises. Across town, and your focus is diverted by foreign/studious/philosophical pursuits. Venus and your ruler Mercury are in the ‘big-mind-expanding’ 9th house already – the Sun will join them from the 21st too. With all this fabalas energy gathering, Mercury picks this moment to head backwards, as he does from the 18th… A foreign/studious/philosophical pursuit from the past returns, or a foreign/ studious/philosophical idea needs a re-think. Either way, if you take the time to be diligent now, it’ll pave the way for creative success and expansion. Partners may unexpectedly refuse to join you by the poolside (26th) and there may be sore words/travel hiccups around (28th), but make your creative wishes your Number One priority and pursue them with gusto now. The next four months promise take off for the brave-hearted. April Lovelife: Unexpected objections may off-set unexpected delights. Uranius-tastic, as per.

Libra
There’s a niggling feeling that you haven’t quite grown into your new skin yet, that the work/day-to-day pressures you took on in a moment of confident madness are too great. Firstly, yes, the pressures are great. Secondly, you’re doing better than you think. Jupiter sez you can do it, and he’s a cheery cheerleader who’s taking on some of the burden – so you can! Across town energy’s gathering in your 8th house of transformation, letting go, and Big Money. The tax year endeth and it’s time to balance the books. More than that, it’s a time to go carefully out into the world with your credit cards. Money meltdowns are possible now (watch 3rd and 5th and 28th). For coupled up Librans, this 8th house emphasis says (a) love good: you’ll be feeling the intimacy, and feeling more like sharing your inner vulnerable side or (b) love not so good: you’re in negotiations to transform/end a current liaison. Negotiations will be protracted. Take time out now and again. This has to continue until at least 12 May. On the 26th fear/exhaustion bring work issues to a crescendo. With a money crunch likely on the 28th take a financial audit before jumping ship. Love this month: good and getting deeper or O-V-E-R.

Scorpio
While the sun’s bringing vitality to health and your work-a-day world, Venus and Mercury are bringing issues of partnership, love, and equality to your other waking moments. Mercury’s uuiiee here from the 18th suggests that there are still some stones unturned where a close one-to-onesie is concerned and your place at their side (and theirs at yours) will become something of a Fixation after the 21st. Ask questions, spill the beans, but expect the conversation to continue unfolding until at least 12 May. Venus suggests it’s a loving one-to-onesie. For some Scorps, money negotiations will be the soup du jour, and as there’s a New Moon in your 6th house of work on the 14th, if it’s about money honey, begin talky talky after then. By the last week of the month, take some time out for You. The Saturn/Uranus spat brings up unexpected difficulties around homelife or vz creative ting/lovers/and chilun. You’re heading into your annual Scorpio Full Moon so will be Feeling the Emotional Ripples harder. Love for April: potentially ridiculously beauteous.

Sagittarius
There’s joy in abundance with chilun, lovers, and creativity for the first three weeks of the month. Be sure to let these delights in your life flourish, especially around the New Moon of the 14th. Simultaneously Venus and Mercury are lighting up your 6th house of work and health. These are generally omens of news, glad tidings, and even enjoying the 9 – 5, and they are, just watch for responsibilities at the office clashing with your holiday plans around the 3rd & 5th. Mercury retrogrades here from 18 April – 12 May and old work projects may need unpacking and re-doing. On a happier tip, old job offers may pop up again. Time to reconsider? For some Archers, old health niggles can resurface around now too. If you’re heading for a medical check up DON’T schedule 16 – 19 April or 10 - 14 May. Choose before or after these dates. What’s important to remember is that all news won’t be in until after the 12 May. The month ends on a note of transformation. On the 26th, two days before your 12th house Full Moon MEEP!, surprising conversations about money and/or homelife are starred. Forewarned is forearmed. Prepare now where you know you need to! Lovelife now: light and fluffy, but future-oriented...

Capricorn
The summer eclipses are heading your way, Goat, with irrevocable changes to You, those you keep close, and your homelife. There’s a Gateway you need to pass through to reach those shiny, distant places and now is the time to Prepare. In the coming weeks Venus and Mercury are gracing your 5th house of lovers, chilun, and creative expression. Mercury’s uiie here from 18 April – 12 May suggests to this ‘ere astrologer that part of your preparation work is negotiating the way you ‘relate’ to lovers, chilun, and yourself so that the summer changes go well. Understanding your motivations and needs, and irritating habits, accepting these things so that you become less grouchy and so much easier to rub along with is your soup d’Avril, Goat. By the 26th when your future plans get upended by an offer, you need to be At One with beauty and purpose. Money can only ever be a fraction of the whole, friend. Lovelife in April: The time is now! Love right now! Share, speak, care right now!

Aquarius
Home-fires and family reunions is where it’s at, Airy. Venus says being at home is where you Most Want to Be, decorating, spending, idling. Mercury here suggests that any socialising will be done at Airy Inventive Towers rather than out on the town. Lovers may have something to say about this. Watch potential cross words around the 3rd and 5th. Mercury’s uiiee from 18 April – 12 May augurs in some re-negotiating vz home/ family finances and getting any wonga creases ironed out. Sign nada close to these two dates, especially any Aquariuses buying or renting a new mudhut, and be prepared to wait until after 12 May for any new plans/contracts to get the all clear. On a happier note, Mercury’s uiee suggests old family members will be back in touch and coming to stay. Venus and the Sun imply you’ll be happy about this. Phew. The Big Cosmic 'Biggy' lands like a meteor at month’s end, on the 26th. Saturn and Uranus oppose one another and revolution is in the air. It’s the same configuration as when fellow Aquarian Barak Obama won the election. It’s time to stand up and be counted, to make a difference to your home patch and the world. Loving feeling this month: warm but growing irascible later.

Pisces
Enormous changes continue, Fish, and like a spoke in a wheel you’ll feel yourself riding along with them. Soon those changes will involve money – both your daily crust as well as credit cards, mortgages, and savings. From next month the emphasis will shift to safety and the long-view to off-set uncertainty in the short-term. Start your plans from the New Moon of 14th April. Ah, yes, back to April and there’s contact with bros and sisses, there are jaunts out of town, and good times with a Community Spirit. The one spanner in the works is Mercury who retrogrades in this zone on the 18th. Travel plans around that date are likely to go awry; expect delays and flat tyres especially on 16th – 17th – and be sure to back up all computers etc and whatnot. He’s up to his old tricks slap bang in the middle of your zone of communications. Calls get missed, letters go astray yadaada, yadaada. Business Fish plan big mail shots after 12 May! Finally the month ends with two cosmic crescendos. On the 26th partners pull unexpected stunts or friends’ actions unnerve you. With a Full Moon landing two days later, you may feel like running for a sunny coast to get away from it all. Love this month: responsible, possibly burdensome at times.

This week

The switch in energy is coming. The under-the-weather-itis that we’re afflicted with perks up after Monday evening’s New Moon. Tuesday brings a final Uranian bolt from the blue and then it’s all about the Urge To Push Forwards - and the other end of the see saw - the Need to Take Stock. The weekend brings Truth to the table. Set her a place. What she has to say is Very Important.


Aries
Come Saturday, the energy is back onside after a year of gradually running out. What seems incredibly important for you is to use it to Set the Record Straight. Transformation and Becoming Who You Really Are are absolutely your soup du jour and after nigh on seven years of feeling unable to steer your own ship, you can almost feel the wheel beneath your fingers. A few weeks… Just a few short weeks to go… Right now the very best you can do is look at where your health/work commitments are a Picture of where you’ve been taking the strain. As the energy comes back, you get to play a part in balancing those see saws.

Taurus
You may be feeling flat as a biscuit but hold your course just 24 hours more. The New Moon tomorrow eve at 9pm GMT is your annual Wishing Moon, it’s time to recommit to YOU so Take a Moment to Concentrate on the Things That Matter and where you’d like to be 12 months from now. Sparkly things could land as soon as Tuesday when the Sun meets planet of Surprise Surprise, Uranus, in this same zone. Conversely if a friend acts out of character, try and recognise that your watch word right now is Freedom; so you can play that card if you need to. Come the weekend it’s the start of your annual four-week energy low. Work may mean you can't retire to your bed 24/7 but take a note from nursey, strive to book a few extra Zzs in your schedule right now. PJs, hot choc, a good book... ‘Taint so bad, Bull.

Gemini
Monday’s New Moon signals a restart to your Career and an ideal time to launch a New Plan. What follows – the linkage of Uranus to the Sun – suggests that your words have the power to Take You Far so push ahead early doors this week. What is essential to remember is that the eclectic moments from Monday to Wednesday need time to percolate. Don’t bank on anything until time has shown its merit. This week’s big challenges pit your wishes/friendships against your lovers/creative projects. Your clues are to remember, honestly, amidst some of the discomfort, the transformations you need to make... When you are clear where you are now and where you want to be, get ready to discard the things in your way and move towards the changes that will make you All You Want To Be. Huzzah!

Cancer
There’s a nagging doubt in your waters at the moment that the dreams you have for overseas/studious/long-range plans are about to go swishing down the pan without a by-your-leave. Oh no no, Crab! The Dark of the Moon has had you cowering and blue – however, Monday night’s New Moon will give your confidence a shot to the arm by Wednesday. Changes may be needed – money being one of the Big factors – but ideas are coming. What you need to balance is your Career/Sense of Success (whatever that means to you) and an overwhelming sense of responsibility for home and family, partners and children. Teamwork can bring answers. Schedule meetings for next month.

Leo
With the Fire in your Engine on Red Hot you’ll be keen to push ahead with all your future plans. Those who stand in your way this week are going to feel the heat of your breath right up close and personal. Be sure to floss, eh. There are two things that need to be considered in all your Pushing Ahead. (a) Money. You need a plan and a new approach. Surprises early this week could be in your favour or require A New Plan. (b) You need to explain and reassure others, perticalerly work colleagues, exactly why what you’re doing is in no way related to them. With your big bold future zooming up to meet you, you can afford to be generous.

Virgo
Which are your most intense one-to-one relationships right now? If they’re of the lovin variety they’re focussing your attentions on intimacy/transformation; if they’re of a bidnizzy variety they’re focussing your attentions on transformation/cashola. For Virgos with intensity on all fronts, ahem, have a lie down once in a while, eh? Whatever the Focus, what you can draw from the current Cosmic Patterns is that Letting Go is a painful but liberating process. Whether you’re breaking up a relationship or taking the bold step to launch a new approach, or fighting to create a New Era of Compromise and Togetherness in your partnerships by removing some outdated habits/survival triggers you’re clearing space for Something Important to arrive. And it will. In just a matter of weeks. Monday night, Be Honest with yourself vz what you want from your one-to-onesies. Then be prepared to go for it, unflinchingly.

Libra
It may be hard to keep your mind on the day job while issues of relationship are gathering around your pretty ears. However, try hard to make an effort Monday – Wednesday to be 100% in the Office as surprises here early doors will need your full attention. In fact wear comfy shoes if you have them so you can turn on a dime if you need to. From Wednesday it’s time to feel the love – or the lack of it. Planets staking up in your 7th house of one-to-onesies means that finding/forging a healthy relationship is your soup du jour. Single Scales, you’ll be hunting out that balance most assiduously. Coupled up Librans, you’ll be wanting to re-balance the way Things Are. (Watch the weekend for simmering issues with home/family coming out for an airing!). Sweet words and opening your heart may feel scary, but don’t you want the same openness in return?

Scorpio
If you’ve been feeling a little blue about a love affair, creative idea, or child-related adventure, Monday evening’s New Moon and Tuesday’s Sun/Uranus taa daah should add some wind to your whistle. Even breakthroughs/unexpected news vz home and family could land. It’s Uranus in charge after all so Freedom and Surprise are the operative words. A big focus from Wednesday onwards is how what’s going on behind those peepers of yours is having a direct impact on you Work/Every Day life and your Health. In astrological charts your 12th house of mind/fear directly opposes your 6th house of health and daily life. Imbalance in one impacts directly on the other. If you’re feeling overwhelmed right now see a shrink, share with friends, talk things through with a boss/supportive figure. Clearing the Decks is easier with support.

Sagittarius
Hello Archer. What’s causing your current dis-ease is the Stop Start of lovers, chilun, and Creative Ventures. The Fire’s in your belly for shoooowaah and the Future is just there, right in front of your pretty nose, and then…. Problems with/vz Lovers who have Doubts, Career/Success responsibilities that are keeping you from the Fun, or with Children and issues with authority figures need addressing Now. Monday’s New Moon gives you a chance to get your home/family life back in order. New regimes can start to bed in by mid-week. From then on it’s a question of setting out to tackle one issue at a time en route to the future. On Friday/Saturday, that issue-tackling includes balancing cash spendsies.

Capricorn
Planets are beginning to congregate in your 4th house of Home and Family and for Goats redecoration, upheaval at your stumpy, or family get togethers are your soup du jour. You’ll be getting some deep feelings in your water that a lick of paint or a Mother’s Day card aren’t even a sniff of what approaches and you’re right. Wappy Uranus, who has had you commuting here there and everywhere to bring in the dough for the past 7 years, shifts into your home zone in a matter of weeks. Buying, moving, moving out, moving parents in, moving to be nearer family, buying the parents’ house… All this is on your list of Possibilities. What’s sure as sugar is that decisions will be based on making your money work for you. This week, Ma and Pa issues surface. Are you exchanging roles in some way, becoming the parent? Watch your temper at the weekend. If it gets stressful, ask yourself, what would a calm and loving parent do now?

Aquarius
Monday’s New Moon in your money house is important for two reasons. Firstly it’s your annual New Money Moon and gives you a cosmic signal to focus on the Income Column on your financial ledger as a Key Way of solving the problems in the Unavoidable Outgoings Column. Secondly, what’s extra, extra important this week is that this New Moon lands just as the Sun meets Uranus in your money box. It seems the answer to your Income Column involves a partnership dealio- and getting into bed with someone who balances out your business acumen with their sparkly sales flair. Don’t be put off or worry that you’re about to be relegated. Partnerships can be devised to suit both parties. Your goal is to negotiate, remind yourself what your long-term plans are, and then to play to your strengths; finding the solution that fits all, natch.

Pisces
Fishes feeling under par, hold tight! Tomorrow evening’s New Moon is your New Moon so your sense of purpose and direction and being able to see in the dark will grow stronger once again. Early doors this week, a lightning idea strikes vz work opportunities and it’s time to take a (calculated) risk. Money’s at the heart of this and you need to be sure that 1 + 1 = 2. The coming long-range currents suggest big changes to the way you earn money. Tentative steps can begin now. What may be necessary first is to either pay off existing debts before you can make the leap: or to hold fast to your course just a while longer to be sure the pay off you’ve been promised comes your way. Late spring/early Summer look favourite.

This month

March is something of a Cosmic fairground. There’s the ‘Surprise, Surprise’ Uranus Ride which Venus, Mercury, the New Moon, and the Sun all take in turn this month. Then they indulge in the Essential Cardinal Chute of 0 degrees Aries, the It’s a Knock Out clash with Saturn, and the Pluto Bumper Car Fiasco, (which is also – heads up - the ride of choice for the Libran Full Moon aria of the 30th). What I is saying, yeh, is dat Stuff is Going to Happen this March. Uranus = change, Saturn = constriction, Pluto = transformation. Put it together and it’s a month for following the mantra, ‘If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, get out.’ And finally, no, you won’t get by with sitting it out this month. Mars, the little fiery upstart, is heading forwards ho on the 11th after sulking in the tea tent since mid-December. Some wise soul once said, ‘Life is like a wild tiger. You can either lay down and let it put its paw on your head, or you can jump on its back and ride.’ Let’s be brave for each other! It’s off to the ticket booth, people. This is the Year of the Tiger, after all. Roooaarrarr. Meow?

Soundtrack to March. Well, it was verrrrry tempting to have The Eye of the Tiger by Survivor, and while I’m no pugilist it’s a cracking tune to motivate the cells, what? Here it is then… Adweeeaaaan… Adweeeeaaan!! Top work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS4giqtbRBM


Aries
Where you need to be Sweeping Things Aside is in your 12th house of Fear. The cosmos says the more you put into it (the clearance) the more you’ll get out of it (feeling good about You). Where this will immediately pay dividends is in your close one to onesies of a bizniz or lovin’ nature. Been afraid to Ask for what you Want or stand up to the Bullies? Been too afraid to wear the Trousers? Not anymore, Bub. The rumbles begin as early as Monday the 8th and gather energy after the 11th. It’s all out on the ropes after the 21st and at its emotional crescendo by the 30th. Roooooar! FYI Go easy, Tiger, around the 13th – 15th when energy is at an annual low and paranoia at an annual high. This week: A light goes on in the darkness come Thursday and you can see where a lovin’ one to onesie can help/hinder you further. By the weekend a secret flirtation or a desire for chilun motivates your aspic.

Taurus
Wishes and Friendships are your guidebooks to the cosmic fairground of March. With Uranus at the helm until the 17th internet, digital, community, friends and netwhoring are areas where progress can be made. But this is Uranus Territory, so don’t anticipate progress in an orderly fashion. Ideas and exchanges out of leftfield are on the cards. Expect the unexpected and strike on new dreams around the 16th. By the 21st it’s time to embark on your annual downtime. In the coming month Venus, Mercury, and then the Sun pass through your 12th house of Meep! And you begin to feel that the stability of a relationship/finances/homelife isn’t easy to nail to a wall. It’s a necessary appraisal. Far reaching changes are calling your name, Bull, and you may need to give up something now to let those changes in. Work, health, and daily responsibilities feel like they are standing in the way. These will be more on-side during April. This week: ‘Tastic work opportunity through friends due on Thursday and over next weekend. It’s time to transform how you see yourself and present yourself to the World. Big Money/commissions can be part of the deal. Foreign eesa goodya.

Gemini
Connections overseas or through study/teaching, are turning your success stellar in March. You’re capable of changing tack in a flash so when Opportunity Knocks on the 4th, 8th, 16th, and 17th you’ll have the answers and the questions you need to harness the changing winds. The 4th and 8th concern the success of a love affair or creative project and lovers that link up with work. The 16th – 17th are more cerebral and usher in an exchange of ideas to break out of old habits and well worn ruts. What’s getting in the way of all this blossoming energy is (a) a nagging sense that you can’t be responsible AND play like a child/have fun/laugh like a drain and (b) 8th house detritus – the past, old hurts, big money burdens. But this is You we’re talking about and as planets move into your zone of wishes, friendships, and networking from mid-month you’ll begin to find ideas and solutions. The eclipses at the end of June and mid-July herald a financial culmination. Get the begging letters out now! This week: Love and success link mid-week with an overseas/studenty/long-term flavour. You’re ready to talk about this more fully Sunday – Monday the 7th & 8th.

Cancer
Crabs setting up home abroad or moving to study and broaden their internal horizons have the cosmic winds beneath their wings right about now. A galaxy of rocks are bunching up in the skies which govern these areas and as they connect with maverick Uranus, surprise opportunities to belong, commune, film, and broadcast your adventures are There for the Taking. Let these adventures and opportunities spur your sense of Success into new directions. All month and in to April you may need to negotiate with authority figures (parents, immigration officers) and partners to get ahead – and they’ll be putting in some stiff opposition. What your decision will boil down to ultimately is Cash. Mars’s shift to forwards ho on the 11th means bills are set to rise. What’s undeniably true is that you’re on a mission Clawface, and June and July will bring in the sweeping changes. This week: Mid-week surprise support from friends gladdens you. At the weekend and Monday 8th, lucrative career opportunities knock, with a foreign/education flavour. Talk the Big Talk.

Leo
Big Money Lettuce is where your surprises and opportunities lie; but with Uranus throwing the dice the outcomes run from work bonuses to severance pay and mortgage hikes to lottery wins. The days to watch are 4th, 16th, 17th. For some Pussy Cats, offers of boudoir jollies are on the cards too with amorous friends/lovers sharing their fruity imagination. Texts this month could melt your mobile. From the 11th you’re roaring into action with Future Plans that stalled back in December. And as Venus, Mercury and the Sun slip into your zone of foreign connections, study, and travel these are places where you can be sure to make progress, especially from the 21st. With all this wanderlust/lust work responsibilities and the day to day will feel like a prison sentence. Watch out for snarling at co-workers on the 9th, 18th and 22nd. No-one likey a sour puss. This week: surprising money news lands mid-week. Debts may need paying off by June. At the weekend you rally financially. A down-to-earth friend with savvy and a calculator helps.

Virgo
The Uranus effect has been in charge of your 7th house of close one to onesies for years. While you may be hiding behind the couch on hearing that Uranus is in full force once more, please take note that Jupiter is now here too, and at last changes will be On Your Side even if they’re not Of Your Making. Stand out days for about turns with one-to-onesies for love and bizniz are: 4th, 16th, and 17th. Relationships that start on those days are going to be life-changing and unpredictable. Count on them further down the road once time has had a chance to show you what’s what; relationships are going to be a healthy challenge throughout the month. Two people = two truths and while you need to be sturdy in yours, you need to be mindful of Others’. The latter part of the month and April bring opportunities for transformation and letting go. Anything that goes will make room for something better. Money issues bubble up on the 9th, 18th and 22nd but Venus, Mercury, and the Sun head into your zone of Big Cash Lettuce this month too spurring you on to bag some juicy commissions and consolidate credit card bills and loans. This week: surprises and u-turns from lovers on Wednesday. Changes at home look good at the weekend.

Libra
The forthcoming gaga moments of delight and upheaval are due to the footfall of planets clicking with the wirey-haired maverick, Uranus. Dates to note for this about-change are the 4th, 16th and 17th when you, your notions of The Future, and your wishes for What’s Possible get something of a surge out of leftfield. Changes to your Working Life and Attitood to Health and Fitness are your starting points, and some Librans could be swept off their feet by a cutey at work. Look your doe-eyed best at the watercooler all month. Saturn in your sign will be curbing your enthusiasm for all this Potential, and Pluto in your home and family zone may leave you feeling like the weight of the world’s on your shoulders. The Good Stuff is happening, Libra, but it’s a wax on wax off situation-style-scenario. Brace yourself for the 1950s musical philosophising, but don’t forget to count the rainbows in between the sun and showers this month. This week: Big Change on the work front can be driven by you Wednesday/Thursday and Monday week. Aim high!

Scorpio
What’s clear as crystal clear water right now is that you have Some Utterly Gorgeous opportunities in store where bebes, squeezies, and launching your creative innards on the world are concerned. Throughout the month Uranus and Jupiter - surprise and expansion/chance - are yours and Scorpios everywhere will be procreating, dating, or launching innovative creative endeavours. Uranus sez things come out of leftfield and are New; Jupiter says you can run with this. Home changes can be triggered as a knock on effect and income can rise thanks to creative thinking. To sustain all this outward growth, you’re going to need to foster some root-growing action. Short cuts won’t work now. Feeling the Joy means taking on a grown up attitood and ‘fessing up to your deepest truths (aka deepest fears). The 12th, 20th and 26th are days to let your need for love and your quest for intimacy push your guard down. This week: about turns in love and creative whatsit on Thursday and next weekend. Creative approaches to work bring success Monday 8th.

Sagittarius
For you, Archer, the Uranian quelle surprise, is bringing unanticipated malarkey to your zone of home and family. On the 4th surprise visits from friends are likely and at mid-month significant others (partners, mothers) are dropping curveball actions. Jupiter’s presence and the mid-month New Moon suggest that changes vz home and family are ripe. The process/decision for instigating them maybe less straightforward, however. What’s ultra-pretty is that once homefires are attended to, your potential for funsises sky rockets this month. Flirtation, creative adventures, and endeavours with children are on the cards. What’s dampening your bonfire are dour-faced pals and cash. You are one for adventures at the drop of a hat. Be sure the dour-faced pals aren’t angels in disguise and that the plastic has some give in it before you disappear over the horizon. If all’s in good working order, the time to fly is after the 11th. This week: midweek friends drop in out of the blue at your mudhut. By the weekend partners and parents are supportive round the hearth. Sunday’s a great night for a house party.

Capricorn
Spontaneous out of town trips, car problems, and random bursts of verbosity and chatty revelation are all part of your fairground experience this March, Goat. While you’re one for being the steady eddy in the meltdown moments of those around you, this month you get a feeling in your waters that standing on the other side of the line might be good for the soul. Letting your guard down takes courage but you have it, even if you scream and shout first. The thing is, the screaming and shouting is a Big Clue that you’re scared. Once you recognise that, resistance drops, and taking the wild tiger to work instead of the bus becomes much more do-able. Resistance is futile: Tuesday 9th, Thursday 18th, and Monday 22nd. Goats wanting to get going on house changes and family get togethers, pencil dates after the 11th. The end of the month culminates in a Full Moon in your career zone. Get the annual reports and accounts started NOW! This week: You blurt feelings of love to a squeeze, Thursday, then fear you can’t see it through by Sunday. And so the madness of March begins!

Aquarius
The March Fairground Ride concerns your finances/possessions. Before you bury your head in a manual or run for office just to AVOID the sticky wicket of cash, money, lettuce, let me tell you that it’s not necessarily bad. Hot days of surprise Uranian action fall on the 4th, 16th and 17th. What this means, cosmically, are that these are you big days for Financial Surprises. The 4th links to home, the 16th to mortgages/loans/credit, the 17th to partnerships of a bizniz or lovin’ variety. It’s your ruler Uranus at the wheel so use your natural inventiveness to turn opportunities or challenges into lucre. Bear in mind that your long-term goals may need revising; holding on to them could be holding you back. (That goes too for foreign holiday plans right now.) While you like change, you sometimes like change for change’s sake. Transformation has to Transform the Old You. Partnerships gather energy after the 11th. Shouting is likely but so is oobah. This week: Spend money on Aquarius Towers, Thursday. Next weekend and Monday 8th, creative ideas/work bring in the cash.

Pisces
Although you are naturally capable of adapting to changing tides, events may surprise even you this month, perticalerly your Responses to them. On the 4th, 16th and 17th random inclinations are spurring you on. Love, homelife, and work are all up for leftfield Fish spontaneity and lovers moving in, moving out, and revolving doors on the day job are all possible. What’s holding you back is either (a) the past or (b) the spondoolies. Saturn is demanding that you scrub the poop deck vz lingering old heartaches or a bad spending history, so you can start afresh. As the month progresses your focus is on bank vaults and earnings and spendsies. Fishes seeking higher pay brackets should be right on the money after the 11th and your annual New Moon shot to the arm of the 15th. This week: Confessions of love gush out of your fabulous mouth on Thursday. Moving a honey in? Get the mudhut glistening by the weekend.

This Week

Hello there. How was your week? Thank you for all e-s on last week's absence. Intensity Monday; beauty Tuesday certainly rang true for this human bean. How's about you? This week we’ve got some tasty astro picnics in the lead up to a rather fruitful Virgo Full Moon on Sunday afternoon GMT. On Tuesday, primal energy The Sun makes nice to Pluto, he of Truth, Demolition, and Transformation. If you’re keen to make Big Changes the Cosmos is giving you a helpful tailwind. Come the weekend, chatty Mercury hooks up with Neptune and Chiron. Healing conversations are yours for The Taking. If there are important words you want to spit out then don’t lose the moment. Platitudes are for woozies. Go gently, but get right down to the bottom of de Issue at Hand. Our Annual Virgo Full Moon on Sunday has a Jupiter conjunct Sun AND Pluto trine in the mix. Freedom from the past is a tangible option. Breathe it down to your toesies people!

March monthlies with you next Sunday. Have a Big Round Full Moon xxx

Aries
The mid-week window for transforming your wash links your zone of I’m A Success and your zone of Fear; time to put your head above the parapet, stand up and be counted, go for something you’ve wished so many times you’ve had the stones for. Et voila. Come the weekend your Mercury : Neptune : Chiron opportunity sez honesty knocks vz friends and wishes. Time to make amends? Then make ‘em but Zoom nobody, Holmes. It’s time to state those wishes in your heart with your guard down. New friendships started now have a cosmic ring about them. Give them time to come down to earth. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Stop Start in your office and medicine cabinet. Work projects culminate and spur you on to higher goals. Health test results should be pushing you forwards. A light goes on which sez as below, so above. What state of mind is contributing to your state of play in the office or doc’s surgery?

Taurus
You should be feeling buoyant, Bully, thanks to the cosmic line up in your netwhoring, friends, and wishes zone. Even more than that, the Sun and Pluto brunch on Tuesday pushes your Big Goals a step closer and notions for study, travel, publishing, and spiritual pursuits get a juicy cosmic fillip. Friends and close one to onesies are on side too. By the weekend it’s time to check the small print on career contracts. News coming now should thrill you, and could be a dream come true - but in all the glorious haze remember that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Check dem facts is all I is sayin’. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Intensity Central on creative projects, love affairs, and children. La Luna’s link to Pluto and Jupiter this year sez your love-life is getting shaken up BIG time. Venus is on side and Love should be Big and Bold and Transformative. Taurus love affairs ending now are opening doors to future rainbows and starry nights.

Gemini
Planets lining up in your 9th and 10th houses are putting the emphasis on (a) foreign, studious, publishing/broadcasting plans and (b) career. If you can marry those things together right now, Airy Friend, so much the better. Mid-week’s Sun and Pluto hook up says it’s time to tawk and the subject needs to be Money. There’s a huge on-going transformation happening in how you earn, spend, and are controlled by money. Conversations now are shining lights on new strands and new opportunities. Don’t be afraid to change direction (did I really say that to a Gemini?) By Saturday your winged ruler Mercury strikes up a yarn with Neptune and Chiron. This is inspiration and healing on warp factor 11 all with a foreign, studious, publishing/broadcasting connection. Just watch out for porkie pies. Neptune can obscure the blindingly obvious when he feels like it. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: Is your annual home and family emotional high. This year changes are on your mind, linked to finances and success. Is it time to move a lover in or move aged parents into nursing homes and release their equity? (Ask them first of course.) Is it time to change residence to get closer to the success you deserve?

Cancer
The Sun in your 9th house is casting your mind to foreign shores, teaching, studying, and spiritual adventures – and come Tuesday, lovers and close bidniz partners will be a Big Important part of the picture, whether that’s some overseas honey that you’re missing like billio or a damn fine commercial opportunity that could turn your future horizons upside down (err). The cowabunga moment comes next week. In the meantime, it’s time to talk lettuce. Finances are in the frame by the end of the week. Negotiating on big deals could go your way now but AVOID being too afraid to ask for what you really, really need. Your financial outgoings are due to escalate again from early March so you need to make strides now. Forewarned is forearmed. Bite down on any money offers. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is intensity central in your larynx. Now’s the time to state those future intentions and how they link up to love/bizniz partners.

Leo
The mid-week hook up between your ruler, the shiny Sun, and Pluto, he of the undergrowth, is a rather pretty sign that transformations in your work place are bringing in the lucre. Generally, we human beans rail against change, but when the rewards are rich-pickings, then hey nonny, we’re far more amenable. Yes you’re not firing on all cylinders at the mo – but energy will up within a fortnight... why not count your shekels if you’re feeling a little flat? Better, hmm? Come the weekend there are some rather pretty exchanges with loving or bizniz one to onesies. Lovin’ partners are on your side; bizniz partners have inspiring work and money ideas. Check all facts. Neptune’s in the mix, aka Mr Confusion, and he can make a right pig’s ear out of an egg salad. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual earned income kersplat. Either you have a money crisis and are prompted to go out and earn – or you get a tasty bonus or new job. The latter option looks more likely this year.

Virgo
You should be sensing that the energy that’s pushing you onwards right now is coming from some deep place you can’t quite point at. What’s everso true, though, is that it’s an expression of You as You are Today that’s coming to the surface. Tuesday and partnerships are really beginning to show their worth – whether that’s creative, loving, or bebe-makin’. By the weekend your ruler meets up with Neptune and Chiron in your 6th house of offices and medicine cabinets. Neptune = inspiration and poppycock, so if you’re uncertain of anything, then get it in writing. On a good tip, news can be spirit-lifting now. On the workfront, you’ve got the patter Virgo and could sell chocolate fireguards if you so wished. Go for it! Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Emotional High about you. La luna’s tawk with Pluto and Jupiter sez work or lovin’ relationships are bringing in those Big Changes you’ve been hankering for and paving the way for your Greatest Self-expression this lifetime… be it art, bebes, or love-mekkin. Awww lovely!

Libra
Whether you can put it into words or not, the cosmic fairydust mid-week is showing how your successes in the Real World are separating you from your family in that you’re now Accomplishing Things on your own terms. The terrible twos and our teenage years are obvious attempts to cut the apron strings. Current events should be bringing in a calmer and more satisfying sense of independence. For all Librans, opportunities to work from home or move nearer to the office are starred. By the weekend the Mercury, Neptune, Chiron get together docks in your 5th house of loving squeezies. If it’s time to make apologies, or have a second attempt at being Valentinesy, then you got it. Creative projects conceived under these stars are inspired. And tawk of bebes may be on the cards too. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: lands in your 12th house of Meep. Try not to get yourself run down or paranoid. Your wishes really are coming true. Whatever stress comes knocking, remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Scorpio
When your ruler Pluto meets the Sun on Tuesday, it’s a moment of awesomeness – conversations or news from lovers or about bebes are beauteous and life-changing. These are really important moments for love, creation, and expression, the like of which has never happened in your lifetime. Changes and advances and developments can happen themselves under these stars (watch next week for an example), but if you trust that the cosmos is steering you right, then now is the time to boldly go and all that jazz. By the weekend it’s news sharing time with home and family, and time to make decisions about what colour to paint the downstairs karzee. Sea-green sez Neptune. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is a time for celebrating with friends. Single Scorps - friends and social netwhoring could be turning out a few peaches for you to get to know better. Schwing. What’s more, creative projects are bringing in the oof. And kerching.

Sagittarius
Money and home link up on Tuesday, reiterating the cosmic forces this year which imply the moving or expansion of Archer Towers. This time, ideas for changing can be multicultural – whether that’s literally moving somewhere abroad, or bringing the world into your home with ethnic scatter rugs or Japanese tatami mats. The weekend brings visits from bros and sisses and inspired chinwaggy time. Read between the lines of those you pow wow with now. There may be issues they’re holding back on when they’d dearly love your support. Archers making out of town trips at the weekend could be in for a soul-affirming vacation. Just be sure to check travel times. Neptune in the mix can bring all sorts of bewilderment to the radar. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual career emotional high. Projects are culminating now, or you feel pushed to get one signed and sealed. Promotions could be due too for some Archers. Homelife is 10/10.

Capricorn
For you, Goat, the midweek Sun and Pluto blend is a chance for you to Speak Up for what really matters to you. Ducky has lectured you before about silencing the potential bully within since Pluto began steering your boat a year ago. Now is NO exception. A situation does need to change, you’re right, and talking about it is the way to do it, that’s for sure. In the moments of Discussion, try to remember the benefits to you in this process. Without That Situation, would you ever have believed you could be So Bold? By the weekend, earning opportunities look tasty. Remember to bite down on the money before signing. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon: is your annual Long-Range Planning call to action. Foreign shores appeal, as do study courses which broaden your horizons. Any legal issues should be settled quickly now while the tide is in your favour. Chats and weekend jaunts look heaven-sent.

Aquarius
With money as the current Big Focus in your wash, Inventive Brain, this week is set to bring some glad tidings. Tuesday’s hook up of Pluto and the Sun ushers in a need to stop Holding On to possessions and let things become fluid and mobile, a sort of de-cluttering of your inner world being manifested out in front of your nose. By the end of the week you’re on fire with your negotiating skills and it’s time to get the facts together where money and income are concerned. Things may be better than you’d hoped, but just be sure as sugar that you check before you cheque; Neptune can bring chaos. See what’s really there on the ledger sheet, not just what you want to see. Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon is your annual emotional crisis point on the Big Money issues in life – mortgages, loans, savings, pay offs. This year, however, Jupiter and Pluto are making it emotional high good not emotional high bad. Remember, it’s time to stop holding on and to initiate your own successful, transformation.

Pisces
These are glorious days Fish, when things in the tank should be idyllic. Tuesday’s link between the Sun and Pluto should be bringing your closest wishes/friends right up close and personal. Likewise Sunday’s Virgo Full Moon, normally an annual emotional crisis point with close one to onesies of a lovin or bizniz nature, brings emotional highs of a joyous nature, and re-jigs the glories of Tuesday with feelings of love for children, creative outpourings, and squeezies. Fishes saying arrivederci to lovers now know they are heading upstream towards much more fruitful waters. Optimism be thine warm current. The one, steady eddy this week is Saturday’s link with Mercury, Neptune (your ruler), and Chiron in your 12th house of Meep! There are doubts in your mind. Things can’t really be as good as they seem, can they? Pinch yourself hard, or get someone cute to pinch you instead. The truth hurts! See what I did there, ahaha!!

This Week

A busy, busy week earthlings in the run up to the man-made, card-selling phenomenon of Valentine’s Day. While the planets don’t normally give a rat’s patootie what we want from the 14th of February, this year there’s something of a coinkidink and Valentine’s Day chimes with some p-a-ritt-ee feelgood cosmic action. A New Moon… Venus and Jupiter in fluffy, communing Pisces… plus some Hot Commitment Action thanks to tasty hook ups from celestial lovers Venus and Mars to Pluto and Saturn respectively. No, you’re right, this action can’t fall in everyone’s zone of true love… but it can and will give us all a shake up in the eternal human-bean quest for Love and Happiness. In other news: keep your bullcheese radar on high Monday this week and next. Venus and then the Sun cosy up to Neptune. This can mean dweaminess and soulmate love-stuff, or it can mean downright deception and having your head ducked under the briny. Just be sure you aren’t the one churning out the porky pies.

Have a fantastic New Moon on Sunday - and welcome to the Chinese Year of the Tiger! GGGGrRRrrrrrr xx

Aries
The week begins with the hook up of Venus and Neptune in you 11th house of wishes and friendships. This is eyes-meeting-across-a-paddleboat central, but can also be a cosmic version of beer goggles making you mistakenly think that a friend can be so much more. Stay awake at the wheel, Ramface. It’s also a time when friendships can prove deeper than you’d previously thought. From Friday through to Monday partners come under the spotlight. There’ll be some Rams weighing up whether a current squeeze has legs (if you see what I’m saying). For others, big deep talks with the current beau prove how solid you are with each other. (Or if you’re not.) Planning a family from the Spring figures too. Time to book the stork? Sunday’s New Moon: is your annual wishing moon. Make a wish for your future. Turn over a new leaf where friendships and networking are concerned.

Taurus
Monday lands and it’s time to get a Matter of Success clear in your head. Neptune’s commune with Venus, your ruler, suggests that dreaming and reaching for the stars is absolutely the soup du jour. Good news on the career front is due today just be sure to check the small print. Mercury heads into your success zone by midweek bringing money/creative greenlights/a lover; delete as appropriate. Around the same time Venus sashays into your 11th house of wishes, friendships and netwhoring. It’s party time! Venus is due to meet Jupiter here next week, so if your meal for two is delayed until Tuesday 16th, don’t you worry a jot! On Friday and through the weekend hardwork gets rewarded – but there are clashes with Who You Want to Be and home and family. Stand firm. Pluto in your zone of future plans means the Truth = Overhauls. Sunday’s New Moon: Go GO GOO for Gold. It’s your annual Career and Success Moon. Repeat three times a day before meals: Settling for Second Best is no good at all.

Gemini
It’s all about the big tomorrow, Airy One. The week’s activity is lighting up your 9th house of future, travel, publishing, studying, and long-haul plans. On Monday there’s a love/creative link here – lovers overseas, creative night-school classes… By midweek, when your ruler Mercury zips into this sector, you’ll be ready to launch a Big Future Something connected to these 9th house tings. Prepare to negotiate Thursday through to next Monday when conversations on commitment kick up issues that need settling. The proof will be in the eating come April, but right now and in the coming weeks, your success is guaranteed – as long as your feet remain on solid ground (or tied to a rope that’s attached to someone on solid ground). Your valentine’s comes early and late (or just lasts a long time) watch Thursday through to Tuesday next week for romantic whatsits. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual 9th house New Moon (topics as listed above). Make a commitment to one or all of these things and crack on!

Cancer
You’re shifting some old emotional garbage, Crab, which may not sound like the best Valentine’s news, but wait. Sometimes Transforming something old brings on a new glow, and a new allure. What’s cosmically clear is that now is the time to ditch some of your old habits/lovers/fears and start allowing The Good Stuff in. Monday and you’re either inspired/or self-deluded on warp factor 10. As the week rolls on it’s clear that your big future wishes won’t take off if you don’t drop some old ballast. Watch Wednesday and the New Moon on Valentine’s Day for days to Name It. Aiiee! For all Crabs, home and family bring their share of burdens and support at the weekend and money’s in the frame. Are parents acting as guarantors on a mortgage application? Could they? Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual transformation moon. Time to turn over a new leaf, period.

Leo
Mars moving backwards through your first house of you means certain your Big Future Vision for yourself is backed up, leaving you ahem, a tad spiritually constipated. With virtually all the other planetary hoohaa centring on your 7th house of close one to onesies and bizniz partners, your ineffectiveness, malaise, and whinge-iness are going to Out or be Exacerbated By those human beans closest to you. If you can keep your feet on solid ground, Monday this week and next are days when these long-suffering souls remind you what love really is. Saturday watch for being a crosspatch; disagreement can be done without clawing. Prepare to make amends by Monday. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual Close One-to-Onesies New Moon. Time to re-kindle watchuugat/re-kindle the search for something healthy and long-lasting.

Virgo
It’s all about the work and the workout, Virgo. Monday this week (and next) Venus and then the Sun trigger Neptune the God of dreams/illusion. Good news on jobs and health diagnosis is v v likely to land here these days. The caveat is, if it seems too good to be true, then get it checked out. Likewise, don’t fib to the boss or the doc on those days; you’ll be the fool who pays the price in the long-run. Come Friday – Monday week, there’s talk on work and money. Mars in your 12th house suggests that you want a lot but are scared to ask for it/suspect others don’t think you deserve it. Either way, it’s you who will be cross at yourself when you ask for less than you want. What about: “I’d like £xxx a day. How will that fit into your budget?” for starters? In Love News, Venus the planet of love moves into your 7th house of one-to-onesies on Thursday and makes a gorgeous link to powerball Pluto on Valentine’s Day. Hearts and flowers, wistful stares and rice, Poppet. Yeah baby! (And babies!) Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual restart at the office and medicine cabinet. New health regime: new work attitood, check.

Libra
Curmudgeonly Saturn is asleep at the wheel, or at least not watching you like a hawk right now, so while the cosmos is offering you dance cards and honeys to cha cha cha with, go out and grab the chances! Monday brings a swooning moment, from Wednesday news, info, and chitty chat with lovers increases, and by the weekend there’s talk of commitments and future plans. Friends may feel you’re spending too much time sopping, but you know as well as I do that soon your work life is going to take over. So sop til you drop! Sunday’s New Moon: is your annual restart for Funsies! Make a commitment to get creative (bebes, potato-painting, visiting galleries)! Make a commitment to having fun with your lovers or your kids. Single Scales, it’s time to relaunch the search for your dream lover.

Scorpio
You’ve been drawing your energies in and hanging out by the fireside with the family, contemplating your ancestry and your current tribe, and the state of the décor in your humpy. There’s more of this to come (watch Mercury sidle in here on a crest of chitty chat and news from Wednesday) – but it’s also becoming time to get out and have some fun in this pretty yard we call Planet Earth. Venus, she of love and whatnot, pouts into your 5th house of lovers, chilun and creativity on Thursday and it’s time to get breeding, potato painting, romancing… all in time for Valentine’s Day. Woohoo! What’s brewing in time for the 14th is a link up between Venus and your ruler, Pluto. That Huge Truth you’ve been burning to reveal is ripe. Don’t pass the moment without feeeeling it, Scorpio. Conversations about bebes, love, and intimacy/emotional vulnerability are Specials of the Day. Sunday’s New Moon: is your annual wake-up-call vz your homelife, your mudhut, and your family. Time for a restart, Scorp.

Sagittarius
A week of chitty chat and out of town trips, before hunkering down at home for Valentine’s weekend. Of all the signs, Archers need to remain the most vigilant about porky pie-ing this Monday and next. It’s not that you’re natural born fibbers… it’s that the Neptune blur is happening in your 3rd house of chat and when work colleagues or lovers ask a question, your little bon mot to smooth things over might end up barrelling into a Clinton-esque style tribunal. Play safe and if in doubt, say nowt. Likewise, listen hard for others half-truths or whale-sized porkers on Mondays. Across town and Friday – Monday delays vz your long-range, studious, or foreign plans are winding you up. Try to hang fire and start again next week. Venus slides into your mudhut on Thursday. Time to beautify your four walls and entertain at home. Wink. Sunday’s New Moon: falls in your house of chitty chat and commuting. New car or a new phone? Think about how you speak and if it ever gets you what you want…

Capricorn
Monday and it’s time to bite down hard on the money and check it aint chocolate. Yes, you’ve heard that here before – and it’s because pesky Neptune, in your 2nd house of earned income, is making your take on the green stuff less than focused. By mid-week Mercury moves into your earnings zone and Venus moves into your 3rd house of chitty chat. Where you need to talk of settling scores and getting your groats (arf arf), you’ll have the wind beneath your sails/sales bookkeeping-wise. (On also vz money, Mars’s on-going uiee in your 8th house of big-cash-money (mortgages, bank loans etc) is frustrating your need to empire-build too. Watch for losing your rag with impatience at the weekend. You can begin to right that ship next week.) Don’t waste all your current lovely, tawky Venus energy on your accountant, however. Powerful cosmic links say this Valentine’s Day is time to wear your heart on your sleeve and your tongue, Goat. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual Earnings Moon. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, it’s time to revisit your earnsie-spendsie ratio.

Aquarius
Huge gusts of energy are billowing around your ears, Inventive One. First up, Monday brings a moment of truth vz homelife and family. Be sure to check money facts but don’t lose the magic. Then Wednesday, communicator extraordinaire Mercury flies into your first house and Information that you’ve been waiting on for two months (especially from lovers or vz large cash issues) finally lands... You’ve three weeks to grab it, turn it around and get it back out there. In all this airy fury, remember to stop and breathe once in a while, and make sure other people’s ears aren’t bleeding under your torrent. From Friday through to Monday week you may feel the pressure mounting as Mercury links up with Saturn and crosses swords with Mars. Try to see that those closest to you have your best interests at heart, even if they’re not moving as fast as you’d like. Finally, Venus brings money into your house of earnings from Thursday. Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy your love a nice dinner out on the town. Sunday’s New Moon: Is your annual relaunch. So do just that. Start /restart something just the way you want to.

Pisces
The planets, stacked up in your 12th house of meep! May have you feeling a little underpar but fret not. From next week the Sun comes to getcha and your energy levels will crescendo upwards. Before then, this Monday and next be aware that you may be seeing what you want to see rather than what’s really there when Venus and the Sun link to your ruler Neptune in a dark corner of your mind. Yes these links do bring intuitive hunches strong enough to build a garage on, but if you can’t separate your doubting mind from your gut feeling, go easy before letting accusations fly or betting your last dollar on Three-Legged Dobbin in the 3.40. Friday through Monday, you’re feeling fed up at the office. Bosses are renegotiating on big money payments. It may be April before the answers are back in. Fishes have Venus on hand over Valentine’s Day but are too tired for all the shenanigans. Write a lovely poem and have a bubble bath together instead. Sunday’s New Moon: It’s your annual name-and-shame moon. What fears are holding you back? Picture ‘em like tin cans on a wall and then shoot them off quick fire, cowgirl.

This Month

So that was January - and what a week to end on. Hope you’re still standing. February starts on the icky take-no-prisoners square between Saturn and Pluto as mentioned in last week’s scopes. Like being caught in a fishnet, the more you struggle, the more you’re wasting energy. Your Liberty and Truth can only breakout when Your Own Shackles are named and faced. Happily, though, the month then rallies to become a month of feeeeling, highs, and the odd NICE surprise or three. Even Valentine’s Day has the feel good factor so the obvious, pitying, annual card sent by your dad to cheer you due to lack of suitors will probably make you happyhappy this year (girls that is. Boys maybe not so much.) Following the Saturn-Pluto opening salvo this Monday, the 5 – 7th weekend is presided over by a Jupiter opposition to Saturn and a Jupiter sextile to Pluto. Shackles off?!

With all this tawk of restriction and liberty, this month’s tune is by the deliriously talented Rufus Wainwright and Ducky’s current on-repeat-player ‘Release the Stars’ (see what I did there?…) Hairbrush at the ready. Sing it like you mean it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXBE31eDz8

Aries
February’s an important month for socialising and expanding your networks and getting the logistics for future wishes in place before you take your annual energy dip from mid-March. Venus and the Sun start the month in your zone of success, then Mercury sits down at the boardroom table from the 11th. Make Hay! Launch new ideas close to the 15th. From the 17th it’s party hats and social netwhoring with gusto for Rams until mid-March with the last weekend in February a stellar weekend for high times. Just watch you don’t overdo it. The Full Moon in your 6th house of work and medicine cabinets will leave you wishing you hadn’t drunk that eau-de-toilette chaser or emailed the boss at 3am with some destructive criticism. This Week: Monday ask yourself how you can transform your work into a successful career with easier cashola. At the weekend reflect on why you’re hiding behind duty or propriety when there’s a Big Wild World waiting for you out there.

Taurus
The cosmic focus is on your success and career zone all month with your ruler and the Sun here, and Mercury joining them from the 11th. The options to make good are plentiful. Launch an ambitious career scheme just after the 14th. From the 12th your zone of friends and wishes and netwhoring is sparkling with a month of fabulous offers and surprise encounters, and friends and lovers linking up. Work and love have linkage too. The weekend of the 6 – 7th and again Valentine’s Day shows it. Aussi, on a love tip, Valentine’s Day brings surprising words of love and lust and the weekend of the 27th is brimming with about turns and strong feeeeelings. This Week: Monday a business or lovin one-to-onesie logjams with your future/study/publishing/travel ambitions. It seems you can’t have both as they are and keep everyone happy... At the weekend wishes are rekindled and it’s time to focus on the relationship and whether there’s room for transformation or a need to let it go. The future plans aren’t going anywhere but they are under review so there’s time.

Gemini
Overseas loves and foreign interests, publishing and studying, are all written large in the sky above your head. The future is being formed as we speak, Airy One. Ensure it’s got the right amount of love and fun in it. Communicate your dreams! Launch new ambitions in these areas in the days after the 14th. From the 12th it’s time to focus on your career. First up look at the money and the creative, shiny potential on your career ladder: how can you expand that? Pitch ideas from mid-February and include foreign/studious links around the 26th. From March it’ll be time to get down to brass tacks and negotiate (lead) on contracts and the minutiae. Lovewise, your Valentine’s Day links bizniz and romance. Be at your sleekest and wittiest at the watercooler, on the commuter train, and at the conference table (14th – 17th). This Week: Monday recognise where there’s a transformation required at work or vz work, particularly when it comes to cash/money. Fund-raising, redundancies, overtime payments all fall under these stars. At the weekend a career wish comes closer. Push forward with plans from mid-month.

Cancer
These are good times, Crab. You’re catching up with lovers still and sorting out the confusion of early – mid January. Money pressures are about to give way to the bigger picture in life – travel, study, philosophy, and there’s luck in these ‘ere ‘ills! More shortly. First though, for the first two weeks of February keep an eye out for melting the plastic. It’s time to rein in any poor spending habits. Then from the 15th get your shekels in order with 0% balance transfers and savings accounts. Mercury’s in your 8th so it’s time for paperwork in your bank vaults department. Ooh, and some hot conversations about oobah if you don’t mind! Lovely. On the 17th and 26 – 28th of the month your future lights up like a Catherine wheel. Foreign and studying plans, especially opportunities to work or study abroad, just got the greenlight. And overseas love affairs look positively enticing. Send a postcard. This Week: Monday and there’s a Truth Conversation about turning a squeeze into something more permanent, or some truths about Who You Are need to be put out there for a lover’s deliberation. At the weekend lovin’ conversation have F-U-T-U-R-E and F-O-R-E-I-G-N writ large. [Send postcard. As above.]

Leo
After the wobbly last week of January, you’ve got to get up and over Monday, and then begin to roar again. The Sun and Venus continue to sparkle through your zone of one-to-onesies and its being shiny and making the effort that matters. From the 12th Mercury lands here with a New Moon two days later. If you need to clear up the mess left over from last week, or turn over a whole new leaf in your one-to-onesie department, do it then. As the planets drift upwards into your 8th house of sex, death, and taxes this month expect to find yourself: dealing with big money issues, getting a lot more fruity, and experiencing opportunities to transform your life. Jupiter’s here and so you’ve Dr Feelgood helping you through this. Watch the 17th and the last weekend of the month for some 8th house highs. This Week: Monday and a work and homelife issue is at stalemate. Come the weekend an opportunity to transform things creatively arises. Do your homework on all solutions. Money’s going to get tighter for a while come April.

Virgo
The love stuff and fun stuff really is coming, Virgo, and yes in time for Valentine’s Day. Before then it’s important to make strides in work and health. The powerhouse of the Sun won’t be back in this zone for a year so schedule check ups, put the hours in on the day job, and grasp opportunities to shine before the 17th. Monday the 15th looks GOLDEN. Your ruler Mercury docks in this worky/health zone from 11th February so you can do the extra negotiating and verbal chitty chat after then. Vz love ting, you’ll know by now that Jupiter is in your 7th house of close one to onesies bringing expansion, goodtimes and/or the ability to oust those that are less-than-the-best to make room for The Best. This month circle the 6th, 12th, 14th, 17th and 28th for days of Feeling It. This Week: Monday and lovers/children/creative life and The Truth need to meet and there’s an impasse/stalemate/rock-and-hard-place situation-style-scenario. Come the weekend there’s a solution closer to home, quite literally.

Libra
Sweet Scales, life continues apace. While January has been a month of exploring fun and your life vz creativity and bebes, February switches to become a life of worky worky, health, and positive (dramatic) changes in these areas. Get as much recreational fluffiness and potato painting as you can between now and the 12th when your ruler walks in to your office and starts bringing all sorts of offer your way. With Jupiter here, paving the way for advancement, the attentions of Venus and the Sun are making you shine. Watch the 12th, 17th, and 28th in particular (when offers of creative/healing jobs land with a surprise). For you Valentine’s Day this year is perfectly splendid. A New Moon lands in your 5th house of romance and Mercury’s already here giving you wooing prowess and poetry acumen. Declare it Scales! This Week: The costs of running a home and family are proving a heavy responsibility at the moment. At the end of the week bounce ideas off people at work to find solutions – or bounce ideas about work off people. Some may be in a position to help you.

Scorpio
Early February is about your four walls and your clan. Venus and the Sun here are bringing joy and happiness as well as an appreciation of/need for partnership and a sense of your own home reflecting who you are and your own personal standing in the world. From the 12th focus starts to shift to your 5th house of fun. Negotiations vz home and family continue during February, and you’ll be hosting friends, but this is all rather eclipsed by the cosmic rays shining on lovers, chilun, and creative ting. Days for luck, fun, and love are 6th, 12th, 14th – 17th, 19th and 28th. Single Scorpios these are Your Dates for getting your charisma out on the town. Coupled up Scorps, get some fun/some kids into your relationship! All Scorps, creative endeavours launched now have cosmic blessings. This Week: You’re aware that you’ve some old cheese you need to unpack and process before you can move on. You don’t want to. But there’s your fish net… Come the weekend, the shiny goings on in your funzone give you the impetus to tackle your emotional poop deck.

Sagittarius
Where you can make great strides this month is to take some time out. Seriously. Particularly after the 12th, planets are clustering around the base of your chart and it’s time to draw in and focus on home, family, stability, tribe, belonging and expansion of the family. (Watch good news on 17th and 27th from nieces or nephews due in the coming months to mortgages being accepted.) For some Archers it just isn’t possible. Mercury’s ingress to your zone of commuting and out of town trips means career needs are going to keep you on the road. What you can do is balance things out with long lazy weekends with the clan or three course dinners in a den in the sitting room. This Week: Monday and pressures about money are bringing migraines. Finding an earthy friend to help you ground it and plan it out can help. Come the weekend home and family seem to offer up a solution. Renting the spare room? Charging the (older) kids a little board and rent? Loans from Ma and Pa, bros or sisses?

Capricorn
When in doubt, leave it out Goat. After the highs and lows of money in the past week, you’ll be keen to negotiate right now and Mercury’s with you, helping you do just that. Make the conversations about lettuce if you need to – and even better, negotiating on income is the soup du jour from 11th February. From the 12th, Venus, she the Goddess of Love, sashays into your zone of chitty chat and out of town travel. It’s time to talk about and commute for love, just in time for a Valentine’s get away. In fact Goats’ words of love around this time could be filled with the future. Venus is hooking up to Jupiter at the time of the New Moon. Proposals for some Goats are starred. This Week: first though, on Monday your ruler and Saturn are at loggerheads. Beware of bullying others in the office. It won’t make you friends in the long-run. At the weekend there’s an opportunity for dousing your words with a touch of humility and eating humble pie. Don’t be proud. Be educated!

Aquarius
The Sun and Venus are still with you bringing energy, and a focus on the importance of one-to-onesies of a bizniz and loving variety, and to your four walls. What’s frustrating progress is Mercury in the 12th meaning information is backwards in coming forwards and leaving you slightly tongue-tied. This rights itself by the 11th. From then on you can begin negotiations with lovers and sign off on Big Money issues. From the 12th and then 19th Venus and the Sun dive splendidly into your zone of earned income. All month’s a lucrative smorgasbord but circle the 17th and 28th particularly. In fact the 28th has Your Luck in Lettuce written all over it. Buy a lotto ticket that weekend. This Week: Monday and you’re feeling you don’t deserve the things you wish for. Write down the most angst-ridden, moping phrasing you come up with that day. Read ‘em again at the weekend when Jupiter brings rainbows and you’ll be wondering if it was really you who said all that.

Pisces
A low key, slow start to the month is what the doctor ordered. Jupiter may be making you feel chipper about the future, but Venus and the Sun are under your radar for the first few weeks so plenty of early nights, especially after health flare ups over last weekend thanks to the Leo Full Moon. From the 12th though it’s all change. Venus joins you in time for Valentine’s Day and the Sun joins you from the 19th. Energy levels are up and the 17th and 28th bring real highs for money and health. What you do need to watch for is GOSSIP. Don’t be the one perpetrating the chin wags. It’ll come bite you on the aspic on the 27th. This Week: Monday and your wishes for the future aren’t do-able in the shape they are in. Regroup at the weekend. They’ll be even better when they’ve been through the blender a little.

This week

A quickie this week campers. Astroducky has a bit of a headyache and wants to lie down in a darkened room with calming lavender essential oils. The word on the astro street this week is 'ouch'. Venus and then the Sun oppose Mars, there’s a Full Moon on Saturday next to Mars and slap bang in the centre of the oppositions. Then Monday Saturn squares Pluto once more. Ugh…

We all drift along, somewhere in our lives, Ignoring the Elephant in the Room – be it our own ineffectiveness, or the inappropriate behaviours of another, or the fact that It Isn’t Working (whatever that may be). Then weeks like this appear... The Cosmos makes us all over-antsy and FINALLY the fact that there’s an Elephant in the room gets aired at last. I’m going to say something to you now which I know is easier to say than it is to do, but seeds sown and all that. When the ante gets upped as it will, go to your detached place – a shelf on the wall, the top of an empty bus with misted windows, a daisy in a summer field – and then look back at yourself, in your situation, at those moments of fury or doubt or scratching for control and ask your inner knower, ‘What was I born to manifest? What is my greater purpose?’ Then, and only then, when you have that information, make your move.

Next week: Feb monthlies. See you on the daisies xx

Aries
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Money and good times face off. Watch that tongue of yours when the stress gets too high on Saturday. You’re an adult now. You have control over the choices you make. Part of this stress is that people and things aren’t heading as fast as you’d like. Why not take your foot off the gas and drift for a while? Monday week and it’s showtime on the career front. Bosses want to double check facts but explaining yourself isn’t your numero uno hobby. Does it serve a purpose? Does it serve your ultimate purpose?

Taurus
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: If you find insecurity dogging advancements on the career front, name those old self-defeating habits, imagine writing them in the sky, then watch them burn up and disappear. Facing walls is sometimes a call to assail them anew. Home life is stressful and a door closes on Saturday. It’s part of the current upheaval. Bosses/responsibilities are overbearing on Monday week. They’ll have gone through their testing times too, though that’s not your fault… Let their pushiness spur you into recommiting to your long-term, long-haul, studious/publishing plans.

Gemini
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Cat got your tongue? Overseas/long-distance love connections or a choice between lovers is stirring and stressing you. What’s that there? A fear of being earthed, a fear of being tied down? Talk about it. Friends can be sounding boards but the ideal is to name your fears out loud and then let them disappear into wisps of vapour. Remember that yesterday is another yacht ride. Speak now and hear what you say. The future really does have a very different vista. Next Monday and fun and work clash. Use the anguish as a FINAL reminder that you need to make changes to get the balance right.

Cancer
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: It’s all about the money, Lebowski. Career and tips from friends may be bringing in the spondoolies but as your lifestyle gets ever-more Champagne-stylee, the bills get bigger, the pay cheques vanish quicker, and you’re back to being thirsty again… Saturday’s Full Moon suggests you may start over-emotionalising lettuce but use the adrenaline to get your pocket book in order. Next Monday balancing ties to home/family and responsibilities to your close one to onesies is a high wire act with no safety net. No fun bro. What needs to give?

Leo
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: The Cosmic hooha is happyhaps across your 1st and 7th houses ie You and your Close One to Onesies are sparking off each other. Chances are they aren’t making enough of a fuss of you and that’s stinging the royal pride (see what I did there?). However, what’s also getting you riled is the slowness at which everything is happening right now. Others can bolster your esteem, your highness, of course they can. However, a gentle request for help might work better than a goring. Monday week: Conversations are brewing pertaining to work and home and imbalances of power. Prepare now. It’s going to take a whole new approach.

Virgo
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Work and health, emotions and health, work and emotions. If you’re feeling small and retreating, it’s hard to work it work it out in the big bad world. If you’re feeling poorly, it’s hard to stop yourself feeling small, or needing to retreat. If your day job is grinding you down, the stress builds and you get poorly. Do you see? Between lozengers and your liquid lunch it’s time to remember who it is that you are and where it is that you’re going. Transformation and reformations are possible now with a leetle gumption. Monday week: Lovers, creativity, and fun things clash with money. A Big Truth Conversation is overdue.

Libra
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Lovers and wishes and friendships are areas of intense cosmic energy for you this week. Turning lovers into friends, friends into lovers – deciding between two lovers… right now you’re reviewing what you want for the long-haul, relationship-wise. Fun’s fun, for sure, and there are options aplenty – but will any of these admirers lead to something solid? Don’t be afraid to close the door on those who don’t. Monday week: It’s boot camp on the homefront. Big changes are required, as if you didn’t have enough on your plate already.

Scorpio
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Old habits, family responsibilities, and insecurities about money are clashing with The Big Things you want for yourself, that make you feel you’re a success. Work projects, globe-conquering, spiritual uprightness, qualifications… Notice where Old Habits and Insecurities are tripping you up. Those need working on in time for March. For now, though, some aspect of your Success Wishlist needs to make way for home and family responsibilities. Monday week: Your ruler clashes with Saturn. Honest conversations that might hurt are overdue. You’re looking at something that you’ve outgrown and need to let go of. Try to remember, life is a journey, travel light…

Sagittarius
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: The cosmos sez you’re being pulled in two ways as the planets battle it out across your 3rd and 9th houses. The 3rd concerns your everyday life, commuting short distances, the way you communicate. The 9th is a much broader vista – long haul travel, your vision for your future, higher education, and spirituality. A need to travel, runaway, give it all up and go back to school reaches its peak. Progress on this is possible, but from March. Can you begin making plans? Monday week: Boss figures seem to be holding back on the cash. Yet another reason to fly, Archer, fly?

Capricorn
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Like the Cosmic Crab, your stars this week cross your axis of Ooof and it’s all about the money, Lebowski. It seems you’ve money in your hand and you’re keen to splurge it particularly where close one-to-onesies and home and family are concerned. What you need to know is that house bills won’t be fully dusted until 7 June, so keep some lettuce to one side. Saturday’s Full Moon suggests a mini wake up call vz finances is coming, or more happily, that a big debt is finally paid off. Next Monday bosses are likely to pour scorn on your dreams. Brace, brace. It’s a slow season of worky challenges.

Aquarius
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: You and your Close One to Onesies (or lack of them) are coming under the spotlight. Inventive One, it’s your birthday month and you are HOT – but it seems others are dragging their heels, being obstructive, or getting emotional… and that’s the cue. Although uncomfortable, Saturday’s Full Moon is about releasing emotions, recognising the way you feel, recognising what you want, then resolving to make it happen. Monday week: Saturn and Pluto clash and your long-term plans hit a stumbling block. Doing this the right way may take more effort than you want to give, but long-term it’ll be the making of you.

Pisces
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: Work and health, emotions and health, work and emotions. Like Virgos, the Cosmic spat this week is happening across your 6th and 12th houses. If you’re feeling small and retreating, it’s hard to work it work it out in the big bad world. If you’re feeling poorly, it’s hard to stop yourself feeling small, or needing to retreat. If your day job is grinding you down, the stress builds and you get poorly. Do you see? This week it’s time to ask Questions and bring up Topics that may make you feel a little vulnerable. Include check ups at the docs too. For some Fishes, a health problem has been dragging on too long. Monday week: Overseas and long-range plans can’t work the way you want them to. Time to head back to the drawing board or be honest about the finances.

This Week

Ball change! A week in which three planets change into New Zones. On Monday and then Wednesday Venus and the Sun respectively move from earthy Capricorn to Airy, inventive Aquarius. Venus will stay here for three weeks, the Sun for four. Aussi, on Monday lucky, happy Jupiter shifts from Airy, inventive Aquarius to intuitive, dreamy Pisces for a year-long stay. What’s also Big News is that Saturn is now heading backwards until June. Yes, this means the headmaster is on holiday and you could get away with running in the corridors and writing rude words in weedkiller on the front lawn (ooh the japes, Pippin!). But acting the fool is a fool’s game, and you’ll cop it worse dan ever when the Big Guy’s back in town. As these changes happen, a sector of your skies gets a blast of attention. And FOR ALL, pixie Mercury is now back on track and sensible tawky tawky can recommence. (for where this affects you most see last week’s scopes). This week’s horoscope gives you a heads up on the lowdown of where your world eesa shifting. Hands to the wheel, amigo. Notebooks at the ready.

Aries
The Sun and Venus entering your 11th house of friends, social netwhoring, and wish-making is groovy news. There’s fun and high times in store for a month and friends can be become lovers under these stars. Jupiter’s hoof into Pisces means that for twelve months you’ve got the chance to see your shadow side and learn to love it, heal it, turn it into an advantage. Boldly go and whatnot. Saturn’s six-month reversal heads from your zone of close one to onesies into your office and medicine cabinet. Right now, reflect on commitments – why you made them and why you’re sticking to them. Are one-to-onesies giving you the sense of social standing you wanted? Have you done the right thing by those who matter most to you? Watch Friday this week for clues to the answers.

Taurus
The Sun and your ruler Venus enter your 10th house of success this week and it’s a month of mekkin hay while dem Sun he gat his hat on. Jupiter’s hoof into your 11th house of friends, social netwhoring, and wishes sez here comes a year of shared benefits, expansion and growth thanks to the support of those around you. Socialising is the air you breathe. Saturn is reversing from your 6th house of work and medicine cabinets. All Tauruses it’s time to consider whether work commitments are taking you towards your big shiny goal, including emigration plans. Watch this Friday for a comprendo momentito and love stuff with foreign/long-term ramifications. For those working in creative fields (lots of you) the notion of making a living through your art is coming back in April. All Bulls, health issues and old war wounds may seem to abate now. Don’t give up the yoga! You’ll pay harder come July. Now’s a good time to recommit/seek another opinion on health ting.

Gemini
The Sun and Venus land in your 9th house of foreign shores, study, and travel for a month and it’s high times for travel, lovers from overseas, and pushing your energy into studenting and making long-range plans. Jupiter’s shift into your house of success suggests that 2010 is going to be your year to Shine in the Big Wide World. There’s a confidence about you now that will attract support and backing so use it. The only thing to watch for is overexpansion and too much air with not enough substance to carry you through. Where you have though, expect to go far. This is a once in a 12 year opportunity, so grab it and ride the Wild Tiger. Saturn’s uiiee in your 5th house of lovers, chilun, and creativity is a call to reconsider your attitude towards responsibility and commitment in these areas, perticalerly where money may be concerned. Watch Friday for the penny dropping, if you’ll pardon the pun.

Cancer
The Sun and Venus are moving into your zone of hot oobah, money, and transformation, Crab, for a month. Ohmeohmy. Single Crabs will be going up the walls with ardour right about now. Smitten Crabs are likely to be doing little else but the wild thing. All Crabs will be spending big and feeling optimistic about earning big. These are days of Abandon and Letting Go of old habits, and yes, paying your tax bill. Jupiter’s shift into your 9th house offers you a year of expanding your horizons. Many Crabs will travel this year. For others study, working with those from abroad, or those who bring spiritual philosophies to your kitchen table are where it’s at. Saturn’s uiee questions your role within your family. Is it time to stand back from a commitment, or step up to the plate? Is a partner doing enough? Friday this week, the Cosmos shines a light at the right signpost.

Leo
The Sun and Venus are shifting into your zone of close one-to-onesies, your Highness. Bidniz and lovin’ partners just got shiny and/or lucrative. Those you’re attracted to now need to be Achievers; you’re only interested in social standing, beauty, luxury and a Mirror that shows You the You you most like/aspire to be. While in this dizzy space of social climbing, remember the things that really count – honesty, humility, gentleness, laughter. Gold watches won’t keep you warm at night or make you laugh to cheer you after a bad day running the jungle. Jupiter’s shift into your 8th house says that during these next 12 months sex is getting adventurous and that big, cash, lettuce is going to be on your mind. It’s a time for fast expansion of your assets and big bonuses, but also getting tripped up for being a greedy fat cat. Saturn’s uiiee suggests it’s time for appraisals on the work front. Before you throw in the towel, could you ask some leading questions?

Virgo
The big step of the Sun and Venus heading into your 6th house of work and medicine cabinets has the double wammy effect of brightening and energising both of these areas. Recommitment to health: check. Heartiness, drive, and cash and foreign opportunities on the job front: Check, Cheque, Czech! You’ve a month to go bebe, so Work It. Jupiter’s shift into your 7th house of close one to onesies also has a double wammy effect. You’ll do better working in partnerships for the next year at least. But this week’s move also puts Jupiter in an upward curve through your skies. Your luck is on the rise. Don’t let parents and old self-defeating mantras hold you back. You at dem steering wheel now. Saturn’s uiiee in your second house means the party pooper is all about the money, Lebowski. Saving, earning enough and all that jazz. Where can you expand/contract your financial commitments vz creativity, chilun and lovers? Watch Friday for a light going on.

Libra
As your ruler Venus and the Sun sweep into your 5th house of lovers, chilun, and creativity, Scales, the Cosmos is urging you to let your hair down and have a little fun. Back in October you entered a two year Cosmic boot camp of working like a Trojan (you can thank party pooper Saturn for that. More on him later). Now, you’re getting a break. It’s time to see that love, lovers, chilun, and getting creative aren’t part of the problem! They’re your release valve, your safety net, your oasis. Time to give them some time! Jupiter’s stride into your office and medicine cabinet says this is your year to get back to robust health – or put on weight. Seriously! It’s also Your Time to push ahead on the work front. Promotions can be yours now. Saturn’s uiiee in your 1st house of you, yourself, and you, gives you a physical break from the cosh. Your mind will be wondering if you’re good enough however… high time to have a safety net nearby eh? Watch Friday for delicious falling.

Scorpio
Venus and the Sun are hoofing into your 4th house of home and family and it’s time to entertain in your mudhut and spend time with those you consider part of your tribe. The 4th house is a time for retreating inside the mountain and having some quality time doing t’ai chi on the hearth rug and making healthy soups. And staying in a lot. As a result, perhaps, redecorating and beautifying your four walls becomes a recurring thought. Jupiter’s shift into your 5th house of chilun, creativity and oobah means that Scorps the world over are getting expressive. These 12th months are all about fun and recreating yourself out in the world, as art, as bebes, or as a soul lifting your spirits with fun-loving love affairs. Saturn’s uiie in your 12th house suggests there’s a spot you’ve missed during your current two-year karmic cleansing process. Your words aren’t ringing true to who you are today. Watch Friday for an insight into where the record maybe scratched.

Sagittarius
As the Sun and Venus enter your 3rd house you’re looking at a month of chitty chat, news, commuting to distant towns for work ting, and doings with bros and sisses. Some Archers will be investing in new wheels and new comms technology too. For you the really Big News is the move of your ruler Jupiter from Aquarius to Pisces and your 4th house of home and family. Yes this is a time for buying or selling property and for families expanding (are bros and sisses expecting the pitter patter?). It’s also a great time for you to heal old habits that are lingering from childhood that need a looksee. This year is your year to take charge of your own sailing boat. Saturn’s reverse thrust in your 11th zone of friends, social netwhoring, and wishes sez it’s time to consider your commitments, particularly where money is concerned. Subscriptions and club membership fees may be squeezing you. High times with pals due Friday.

Capricorn
You’ll be feeling the weights drop off thanks to Mercury’s turn to forwards ho in your control room, at last. This week, the Sun and Venus leave this zone and head into your bank vaults bringing a four week focus on what you earn and what you own. Acquiring Things is your motto and even lovers need to be shiny and glamorous to keep you satisfied. Jupiter’s move into your 3rd house for a year tells you that in 2010 getting what you want will be all about What You Say, How you Ask, and Whether you Listen. Ecoute et repete, frequently. Astroducky will prod you too. Saturn, your ruler, is having a lie down until June. The prognosis is that you can use this time to consolidate what you have. Pushing upwards on the career ladder is rekindled in July. Nice stuff this Friday though. Money and career stack up well.

Aquarius
After a dragging month and grey clouds, a shiny dawn lands. The Sun is back with you after 11 long months away, and he’s brought you his shiny pal Venus too. Not only will you feel energetic and charismatic, you’ll be projecting a healthy glow and come hither eyes. Venus is the goddess of love and she’s covering you in sparkles for the next three weeks. Work It. Jupiter now leaves your control room and heads into your bank vaults. Earning good bucks is well starred in 2010. The one caveat with Jupiter is always, ‘be wary of overexpansion.’ For you, don’t spend money until it lands – and Save Something. It won’t always be this easy… Saturn’s reversal is a breathing space for you. Take time out between now and April to sketch out a long-haul plan. Include things you were once too afraid to try.

Pisces
Jupiter is coming to get you. You’ve had a year to practise facing up to your fears and working out where you upend yourself, and why things haven’t gone as you’d wanted – and now, for 12 months, you have chances to take chances! Jupiter is a bleeping A for making us ‘overdo it’, so no you won’t suddenly be a world famous opera singer if you’re tone deaf, but you will be able to go for the things you haven’t felt brave enough to go for before. While this all sounds shiny, Astroducky suggests you take a month of You Time before your relaunch. The Sun and Venus are heading into your 12th house of Meep, and energy, love, comfort, and shininess are going to feel harder to come by. It’s a process, so go with the flow and rest. Saturn’s uiee is about big money. It’s time to reflect on your big financial commitments and get those ducks in a row – mortgages, credit card debts, the buy-now-pay later fiasco. A conversation on Friday brings a mini wake up call.