more nimble, less fixed in your ways.
Because Mercury is so fast moving, there are many short-term trends in finance that depend on where he is and the aspects that he receives. These short-term trends are best dealt with in the monthly reports. In addition, he will go into retrograde mode three times this year: from February 17 to March 9; June 18 to July 11; and October 14 to November 2. These are times for financial review, not times for overt action. If important financial decisions have to be made during those periods (life likes to sometimes force issues), do more homework and due diligence than usual. Resolve your doubts.
The real headline this year is the career. Your career planet, Uranus, entered your sign in March 2019 and will remain there for many more years. So we are dealing with a long-term trend. This is actually a positive long-term trend. It shows that career opportunities are seeking you out. There’s nothing much that you need to do; they will find you. You have the image of someone successful, someone of status. You dress this way and project yourself this way. Others see you as successful. You have the favour of bosses, elders, parents and parent figures – the authority figures in your life. They seem devoted to you. They have a personal interest in you.
Saturn will make a foray into your 10th career house between March 23 and July 2. Then, on December 18, he will move in there for the next two and a half years. The message here is that your career success involves taking on more responsibility. The opportunities come easily, but in the end you have to perform – you have to be the best at what you do. In addition, Jupiter will move into your 10th house on December 20. This brings career elevation, promotions and overall success.
Career is good this year, but next year it will be even better. Most of this year is preparation for the next. Your career success might not bring extra earnings right away; it is more about status and prestige than actual earnings. But increased earnings will come later down the road.
Love and Social Life
The love life has been complicated for the past two years. Saturn has been travelling with your love planet Pluto, and this is not a great aspect for marriage. Often it shows a fear of serious relationships or serious commitment. If this is the case with you, it should be examined. These transits promote an excessive caution. Caution is probably a good thing. Fear is not. Saturn and Pluto are still travelling together for most of 2020, so these tendencies are still in effect. But this year Jupiter is in the picture too. Jupiter is benevolent and expansive, and is travelling with your love planet until December 20.
So, love is in the air this year. There is a serious relationship for singles happening. But the message of the Horoscope is not to rush things, to let things develop as they will – slowly and methodically. Marriage, as we have mentioned, is not likely. But one can enjoy love without getting too committed.
I can see two relationships happening, and you seem torn between the two. Both seem to be with highly educated and refined people. Both could be foreigners or people you meet in foreign countries. One seems older and more settled – a more conservative person. With the other sexual magnetism is much stronger. We see a similar scenario for those working on their second marriage too.
Pluto has been in Capricorn, your 9th house, for many, many years, and will be there for many more to come. This makes you conservative in love. You gravitate to conservative people. You like to go slow in love. You don’t fall in love very quickly but like to test it and see the lie of the land. And, if you are not like that, you have been attracting these kinds of people.
Love and romantic opportunities happen in your place of worship or through the intervention of people in your place of worship. They also happen in college or university – or through college events or functions and in foreign lands. Foreigners are especially alluring these days.
While sexual magnetism is always important to you – Pluto is the generic ruler of sex – you need more than that. You like someone you can learn from, someone educated. These are the aspects of the person who falls in love with their professor, minister or worship leader. Good philosophical compatibility is probably just as important as sexual chemistry.
Self-improvement
Problems in life take many forms. They can be financial, social, psychological or health-oriented. But whatever form the problem takes, underneath it is a theological issue. Problems are really theological problems deeply disguised. This will require some meditation and reflection to understand, but it is so. Clear up the theology and the problem will tend to dissolve.
What do we mean here? Do you believe in a Higher Power (by whatever name you choose to call it)? Whatever your answer, there are psychological consequences to it. And these will impact on various sectors of life. Track down every problem in your life and underneath it is theology. Thus the current planetary power in your 9th house of religion and philosophy will help resolve a lot of these issues.
Uranus in your sign has already been discussed. The important thing is to experiment with the body – to test its limits – in safe and mindful ways: daredevil stunts can be dangerous. But this transit also shows other things. A continuous redefinition of the self, the self-concept and image is going on now. Your personal evolution is speeding up. No sooner do you settle on one image than a new and better idea comes to you. And this goes on and on. You upgrade your image the way others upgrade their software. This can be a problem in relationships. When you fell in love you were one kind of person. Now you are another kind is the love still there? It is even more perplexing for the spouse, partner or current love. He or she fell in love with person ‘X’ and now he or she is dealing with person ‘Y’ or ‘Z’ or beyond. It’s hard to keep up with you. The good news is that you are an exciting person to be around these days. There is never a dull moment.
Spiritual Neptune has been in your 11th house for many years now, and will remain there for many more. We have no doubt discussed this in previous years’ reports, but the trend is still in effect. It indicates spiritual friendships. You are attracted to spiritual groups and organizations. It is the very spirituality of these people that you find alluring. It also shows friendships with creative and inspired kinds of people – poets, musicians, dancers, people in the film industry – high-glamour kinds of people.
January
Best Days Overall: 5, 6, 14, 22, 23
Most Stressful Days Overall: 12, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26
Best Days for Love: 6, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 23, 27, 28
Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 22, 23, 25, 26
Best Days for Career: 4, 5, 13, 14, 22, 24, 25, 26
You are in an amazing career period all month, but especially from the 20th onwards. A lot of success is happening. On the 11th your career planet, Uranus, starts to move forward, and on the 20th the Sun enters your 10th career house. So you are in a yearly career peak. The lower half of your Horoscope is practically devoid of planets. There is only one planet (not counting the Moon) that is below the horizon – and just barely at that! Home and family can be safely ignored as you focus your full energy on the career. Normally this can create some problems with the family, but for you not so. The family seem fully behind you, supporting you all the way. They see your success as a ‘family project’. Also, this aspect (the family planet in the career house) often shows that the family as a whole is succeeding, and being elevated in status.
A lunar eclipse on the 10th – the first of four in the coming year – occurs in your 3rd house and impacts on the ruler of that house. So, cars and communication equipment will get tested. Be sure to drive more carefully. Students below college level have dramas at school and perhaps make changes in their schooling. Mercury, your financial planet, is affected too, so a financial ‘course correction’ may be needed.
In spite of the eclipse your finances look good. Mercury travels