The theme of change continues to predominate throughout your coming year, running astrologically from the instant the Sun enters your constellation in 2013, through to when it returns to the same position twelve months later. From this point of view there isn’t very much difference between the year that lies ahead and your preceding one then, since the familiar refrain of transformation and metamorphosis has been apparent for ages, since Pluto arrived at the top of your chart in 2008 and particularly, once Uranus reached your birth sign during 2010. Both these planets are agents for exceptional change, yet they do function rather differently. Pluto is the tardier of the two, with its sixteen year transit across the uppermost sector of your solar chart, in the mechanism of its action and the transmutations it always heralds.
Pluto’s effects are irresistible, cumulative, gradual and profound. It is a primitive and unstoppable force that tests, questions and reforms existing structures where these are found to be wanting, ultimately replacing them with something better, but requiring you to examine a number of factors along the way. These may take you into some unexplored psychospiritual spaces, as you face challenging experiences around power, control, jealousy, money, property, possessiveness and sex meanwhile. Since its arrival, Pluto has put the spotlight on your career affairs, professional interests, worldly ambitions and goals in the broadest sense. You have already seen a number of alterations, where what you wanted previously no longer seems so appealing and perhaps other objectives haven’t worked out, no matter how you tried. |
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In the interim, where you have locked horns with authority figures like your superiors at work for instance, your tutors at school or college, government officials and even your parents you have come off worst, usually after a bitter struggle that wounded you by turns, economically and emotionally. Various concerns remain that you continue to fight for in the hope, they’ll one day yield the outcomes you anticipate. But this is a close call, when obviously no one ever succeeded by giving up at the sight of the first hurdle, yet wasting time battering a deceased equine doesn’t get you anywhere either.
Simultaneously Uranus, planet of independence and individuality continues its journey through your region of the sky for another six years. Throughout its stay any compromises you feel coerced to make prove especially difficult to tolerate, since you are more intent than ever on expressing your true potential and on making a real mark, unhindered by the prevailing views of those who might seek to confine you within a more closely circumscribed role. You want to be yourself and to shine in every way you can, but with Saturn in Scorpio during the coming period and beyond, somehow you are nervous about taking the final steps that render your freedom total. Thus you continue in a state of limbo, where although you are unhappy with the influence others possess and the strictures this places on your self-expression, you are scared of sticking out your neck, going the final few yards or upsetting the existing equilibrium.
Normally, a little friction wouldn’t bother you in the slightest since you’re often at your best in a crisis. Drawing yourself up to deal with tricky circumstances is still an instinctive response. Nonetheless, as Neptune and Chiron journey deep into your subconscious and through Pisces, the sign preceding yours, it is apparent perhaps to you and in your most honest moments, that your confidence has sustained a few knocks and collateral damage over the short term. |
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The numerous obstacles, impediments and the pedestrian rate of progress you’ve needed to counter have all taken their toll, making you a wiser and more circumspect individual than you used to be beforehand. However, although in common with other ongoing influences in your horoscope these trends will also demonstrate favourable consequences eventually, all you are left with in these early stages are doubts and insecurities, because it seems the old rules don’t apply and the new ones are alarmingly vague. But your intuition is heightened and since this could take some time, you certainly ought to seize the opportunity for listening to your dreams and learning what these have to teach you.
Look inside yourself and try to uncover what you want nowadays. It is likely you will find these answers in seclusion and alone during your quieter episodes, so you are better not depending on other’s resources for your security, whether this means financially or otherwise. In fact self-reliance proves your best option throughout the coming year. This does not preclude any loving interactions, but you’d be wiser to stick with those relationships that function on an equal and egalitarian basis, rather than where it transpires one partner owes the other plenty. Plus, scan the horizon to discover all you can about alternative approaches to your problems. Until June people prove eager to hear what you say, after that you’ll be focussed on your home and family with a move maybe in the stars, home improvements or a new addition on the way. |
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