will also get tested by this eclipse. Sometimes it is the actual relationship that gets tested, sometimes the eclipse brings life-changing dramas in the lives of friends and this shakes things up.
Every lunar eclipse affects the family and home and this one is no different. If there are flaws in the home, now is when you find out about them so you can correct them. Family members will be more temperamental too – so be more patient.
In spite of all the excitement, many nice things are happening for you. On the 20th the Sun enters your money house and you begin a yearly financial peak. The money house is very powerful this month, so prosperity is good. We mentioned that essential travel is called for this year, but try to schedule these trips before the 20th.
Health is also basically good. You have plenty of energy to achieve whatever you want to do. You are very dynamic and charismatic these days – especially until the 20th.
Children or children figures should be kept out of harm’s way from the 4th to the 7th. They should avoid taking risks or doing silly stunts.
The love planet enters Gemini, your 3rd house of communication, on the 11th. Singles will find romantic opportunities in educational-type settings, at lectures and seminars, in the library or as they pursue their intellectual interests. Love is found in the neighbourhood this month.
May
Best Days Overall: 5, 6, 14, 15, 23, 24
Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 8, 9, 21, 22, 28, 29
Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 12, 13, 21, 22, 28, 29
Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30, 31
Best Days for Career: 5, 8, 9, 14, 23
On March 20, the planetary power shifted from the upper half of your Horoscope to the lower half. Saturn, your career planet, started a retrograde move on March 14. And this continues through this month. Career issues need time to sort out. You can shift your focus to your home, family and the emotional life. Symbolically speaking this is the night time of your year. A good night’s rest is essential for us to perform well and the cosmos supplies this to us. Night does not mean ‘inactivity’ but a different kind of activity – internal activity that builds up the forces for the next day. So, this is a time for achieving your career goals by ‘inner’ methods rather than ‘outer’ action, through visualizing, dreaming and imagining that you have already achieved your goals. When the planets shift again in a few months time, you will be ready to put these dreams into action. It is said that in the winter nature sleeps and dreams and in the spring she wakes up and manifests what she has been dreaming. So it is for us.
You are still in a yearly financial peak until May 21. By then most of your financial goals will have been achieved (or at least good progress towards their achievement will have been made) and the focus will shift to intellectual interests. Your 3rd house is very powerful all month, but especially after the 21st. This is the time to catch up on those emails, letters and phone calls you owe to others. It is a good time too to take courses on subjects that interest you and to attend lectures, workshops and seminars. Time to give the mind the nutrition it needs, for it has needs as much as the physical body does.
Those of you involved in sales and marketing should have a good month.
There is only one fly in the ointment here. Mercury, the planet of communication, goes retrograde on the 14th. This means that more care needs to be taken when you are communicating with others, to avoid misunderstandings. If you’re reading a book or attending a lecture, take more time to digest the ideas. The meaning might not be what you think.
Mercury retrograde tends to bring delays in communication – letters don’t get delivered or get delivered late. Emails bounce or there is difficulty accessing the email account. Phone services can be erratic. But in spite of these glitches it is still good to focus on communication.
June
Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 10, 11, 20, 21
Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25
Best Days for Love: 1, 10, 11, 20, 21, 24, 25, 29, 30
Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 13, 14, 20, 21, 29, 30
Best Days for Career: 1, 4, 5, 10, 19, 28
The planets are now at the nadir (lowest point) in your Horoscope. It is midnight, symbolically speaking, in your year. The body sleeps (or should be sleeping) but mighty internal forces are going on. And so it is with you. Career progress is happening, but it is going on behind the scenes, on the inner levels. Prosperity is happening in this way too. Perhaps you don’t see it overtly but prosperity is happening on the invisible levels. This is a time for focusing on the family and for getting the domestic life in order. And it’s also a very good time for getting the emotional life in order. Those of you seeing therapists will make much progress this month.
With the 4th house of home and family so powerful this month (60 per cent of the planets are either there or moving through there) there is a tendency towards nostalgia. The past calls to you. You are more interested in history, both personal and general. Old memories come up for review. Venus has been in your 4th house since May 7 and remains there until June 5. Often this indicates a reunion with an old romantic flame. Sometimes it is a literal meeting, sometimes symbolic. You could meet someone with the same looks or personality quirks of the old flame. This may or may not become a serious relationship, but the purpose is to resolve old issues. It is for emotional healing.
Aries of childbearing age have been more fertile since July of 2013. This trend continues this month, and is even more pronounced over the next few months.
Health is more delicate this month. Rest and relax more. If possible spend time in a health spa, or schedule massages or reflexology treatments.
Your career planet changes signs this month. Saturn moves back into Scorpio on the 15th. Again this shows ‘behind the scenes’ career progress. There are internal changes – and perhaps dramas – in the lives of bosses and authority figures. There are also shake-ups in your industry or profession.
Travel is more favourable this month.
Finances are good. And family support is good. Money and financial opportunities come from the family or through family connections. Your financial intuition is excellent until the 5th. Venus travels with Jupiter towards the end of the month (from the 28th to the 30th), and this indicates a nice payday or windfall. It shows luck in speculations too. For singles, this aspect brings a wonderful romantic meeting.
July
Best Days Overall: 8, 9, 17, 18, 26, 27, 28
Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30
Best Days for Love: 8, 9, 17, 18, 22, 23, 26
Best Days for Money: 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 26, 27, 28
Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 7, 16, 25, 29, 30
Last month on the 21st we had another shift of planetary power, when the planets began to shift to the Western, social sector of your chart. This month the shift becomes even stronger. Though, as we mentioned, there is nothing wrong with self interest, nothing wrong with independence – these are wonderful qualities – now, because you are in a different stage of your yearly cycle, these qualities should be downplayed. Now is the time to be a team player; to achieve your goals through co-operation with others; to focus more on the needs of the other people in your life and let them have their way – so long as it isn’t destructive. The cosmos has its ways of pushing you into this. Since the planetary power is moving away from you, rather than towards you, it is harder to take independent action or change conditions to your liking. Hopefully, over the past six months you have made any desired or necessary changes. Now it is time to live with your creation. You have made your bed, as the saying goes, and now you must sleep in it. If you have built