Your Personal Horoscope 2012: Month-by-month forecasts for every sign

Home and Family

Your 4th house of home and family is only temporarily strong this year. Mars spends an unusual amount of time in this house – more than six months from January 1 to July 3. This suggests various things. The most obvious is that there are heavy-duty repairs going on in the home, perhaps even the construction or reconstruction of a home. In all likelihood you are installing high-tech gadgetry in the home and in general being more experimental with your house.

However, there are other meanings here too. Family life can be quite stormy now. Passions run high within the family. Tempers are flaring. There can be conflicts between family members, and if you are not careful even violent behaviour. Your challenge will be to maintain some semblance of calm within the storm, to maintain your emotional equilibrium. This is easy to say but not so easy to do. You should strive not to make matters worse and avoid inflaming an already inflamed situation.

The house should be checked for dangerous items. Matches, knives, weapons or dangerous objects should be kept out of the reach of children. This is always a good policy, but especially so for the first six months of the year.

A friend seems to be staying at your home for a prolonged period. Friends are having many personal dramas this year and this could be the reason for it. A parent or parent figure could be having surgery. Also he or she is more impatient than usual, more in a rush, and this can lead to accidents. This person needs to slow down and watch their temper.

Another parent or parent figure enters a more spiritual kind of year. He or she seems more idealistic, looking for more meaning in life. If he or she is on a spiritual path, this will turn out very well; but if not, this search for meaning could lead to alcohol or drug abuse. This person is likely to move or renovate the home this year, or perhaps buy an additional home.

Children also seem to be doing renovations in the home. Grandchildren could have moved in the past year, but if not it can happen this year as well. Siblings or sibling figures are better off staying where they are, making better use of the space that they have.

Finance and Career

The year ahead is prosperous and you should see a natural increase in your wealth, in your earnings and in the value of assets that you already own. In the first half of the year you are getting prepared for it – the stage is being set. By June 11 it begins, and it continues well into next year.

When Jupiter moves into your sign at the beginning of June a great feeling of optimism sets in. And this innate optimism, this ‘happy go lucky’ spirit, helps you financially. Wealth is not really a sum of money, it is a lifestyle. People often confuse the two. It is not so much the money that we want, but what it can buy. Often these are tangible, material things, but quite often they are intangibles – a feeling of freedom, security, comfort, etc. Whether or not you have tangible cash assets, you will be living as if you had them. You will be living above your income level, travelling to exotic places, eating in the finer restaurants, wearing expensive clothing and accessories, and somehow (the cosmos arranges these things very individually) you will have the wherewithal for it.

There is a feeling of luck that comes to you too. And there is luck in speculations in the latter half of the year. No matter how grim a situation seems, you feel inside that you will get through and shine. Overcoming discouragement and setbacks is said to be 90 per cent of the art of success.

Jupiter also happens to be your love planet. So there is love in your life this year. From the financial perspective this would show a happy business partnership. In astrology the aspects for a business partnership and a marriage are the same: the same planets are involved. There is nothing much you need to do to make this happen. It will find you. Just go about your daily business.

Career though is more complicated. You always tend to be idealistic about your career, but now, with Neptune moving into your 10th house on February 3 and staying there for the long term, this idealism is greatly increased. Your career has to be meaningful. It has to be good for the planet. It has to be altruistic and spiritual. Any career path that violates your spiritual principles or ideals will not make you happy or last for too long. And it is not so easy to integrate spiritual values with worldly values – it can be done but it will take work and creativity on your part. Everyone finds their own way of doing things. Sometimes they enter a spiritual career such as the ministry, charity work, working for a non-profit organization, or missionary work (and this could happen). Sometimes people pursue a worldly career while doing much charitable work on the side.

On a more mundane level, with Neptune in your 10th house there is much non-disclosure in career matters, much behind-the-scenes activity and manipulation, and so you need to do your homework before making important decisions. Often there are scandals or unpleasant revelations regarding the authority figures in your life (bosses, parents, parent figures, elders). On a personal level you need to stay ‘squeaky clean’ in your career. Don’t do things that you don’t want to see on the evening news or ‘twittered’ all over the Internet.

Love and Social Life

Though your 7th house of love and marriage is not strong, other indicators in your Horoscope are showing a very strong love and social year. Love is definitely in the air. And it seems happy.

Two important trends are happening this year. The first, as we mentioned, is that your love planet (Jupiter) is crossing your Ascendant and entering the 1st house on June 11. It will be in your 1st house for the balance of the year. This is a powerful love indicator. Secondly, Venus, the generic love planet of the zodiac, will spend an unusual amount of time in your own sign. Now normally Venus will spend about one month in a sign. Here she is sort of camping out in your sign from April 3 to August 7. This too is a positive love indicator. Indeed, from June 11 to August 7 the two love planets in your Horoscope will be in your own sign.

Love will certainly happen and perhaps even marriage as well. The beauty of these transits is that you don’t need to do anything special. Love will find you. Just go about your normal business and it will happen. What I also like here is that you have love on your terms. The lover puts your interests way ahead of his or her own interests. You come first. You have your way.

The same applies to social matters. New friends – and devoted ones – are coming into the picture this year. Existing friends are more devoted than usual as well. You don’t need to run around searching for social opportunities; again, they will come to you.

The two love planets in your own sign show that your personal appearance shines; regardless of your age or stage in life, it is better than usual. You exude more grace and charm. You dress more beautifully and stylishly. You have an excellent sense of beauty these days. The opposite sex will certainly take notice.

The above is true for all Geminis but especially those working on the first and second marriages. If you are already married, your spouse is paying more attention and is much more supportive than usual. Those of you working on your third marriage are probably better off not marrying, just dating. Love seems too unstable this year (and for years to come). But those working on the fourth marriage have a wonderful opportunity, and a marriage is likely.

Siblings have a more or less status quo kind of love year. If they are single there is good opportunity after June 11. Children are having their marriages and relationships tested this year, and break-ups are likely. Grandchildren of marriageable age have a status quo kind of year. Singles will tend to stay single; marrieds will tend to stay married.

Self-improvement

With Neptune on your Mid-heaven all year and Jupiter in your spiritual 12th house until June 11, you are in a very strong spiritual period, as we mentioned. The invisible world is letting you know that it is around. This is a year (and especially the first part of the year) for all kinds of supernatural kinds of experiences, for an active and prophetic dream life and all kinds of synchronistic experiences. The spiritual world – and the world at large – is waiting for you to step into your real work, your real mission.

Your spiritual life will become the main mission in life for many of you. As you change your own energy field, the energy fields of those you come in contact with will also change. Your individual work will change families, communities and even the country at large.

In June and July you will face one of the classic spiritual conflicts that many people face. Jupiter and Neptune are in stressful aspect with each other. Thus there is a feeling that if you follow your true mission there is some love or social sacrifice involved, and this is always difficult. The so-called sacrifice is only ‘apparent’ and not real, but it is a good test of your commitment. If you pass the test, love (the equivalent or better) will be restored to you.

Also, your spouse or current love, while very devoted to you personally, is not very supportive of your career, Perhaps they feel a bit jealous about this, and this will need some effort on your part to work out.

Uranus in your 11th house indicates much instability with friends. It shows many dramas in their personal lives and this could impact on your relationship. While you are socially successful this year, you find it difficult to make long-term social plans as you never know who is available when. Being comfortable with social change is one of the main lessons of the year and for years to come.

Month-by-month Forecasts

January

Best Days Overall: 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 23, 24

Most Stressful Days Overall: 12, 13, 19, 20, 25, 26

Best Days for Love: 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28, 30

Best Days for Money: 3, 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 21, 23, 24, 30

Best Days for Career: 7, 15, 24, 25, 26

You begin your year on a happy note. Your benevolent 9th house is strong from the 20th onwards. Very unusually, all of the planets are moving forwards (until the 24th), bringing rapid progress and achievement. So this is a happy and successful month. You cover a lot of territory and do it well.

Your year begins with 70 per cent of the planets above the horizon. From the 18th onwards the percentage jumps to 80. You are in a very strong career period. Keep the focus on your outer goals. You can downplay home and family issues. You serve your family best, and attain emotional harmony, by being successful in the world. This is the time to attain to career goals through outer, overt, physical actions.

Most of the planets are in the social, Western sector of the Horoscope. This is soon to change but for now you are in a strong social cycle, where you develop your social and diplomatic skills and where you attain objectives through consensus and co-operation rather than through personal initiative. Uncomfortable conditions are more difficult to change right now; you have to adapt to them as best you can.

Your 8th house of transformation is very powerful until the 27th, which means this is a great period for losing weight, detoxing the body and getting rid of old and useless possessions. Clean up the house – not just the physical house but the mind and the emotions as well.

Health and energy are good this month, and will get even better after the 20th. Detox regimes go well as we mentioned, and especially between the 12th and 14th. You can enhance your health in the ways mentioned in the yearly report. This is also a sexually active month.

Mercury, the ruler of your Horoscope, squares Uranus from the 8th to the 10th, bringing a very dynamic aspect. Family members can be more temperamental. You should be more mindful on the physical plane, especially when driving or when handling dangerous objects.

Love is more challenging after the 20th but this is a short-term trend. Overall the love life looks good.

Venus travels with Neptune from the 12th to the 15th. You are getting spiritual messages either directly, through dreams and intuitions, or indirectly from psychics, channels, ministers, astrologers and the like about your career. The dream life is very active at this time too.

February

Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 11, 12, 19, 20, 29

Most Stressful Days Overall: 9, 10, 15, 16, 22, 23

Best Days for Love: 1, 5, 6, 9, 15, 16, 17, 24, 25, 27, 28

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 17, 21, 22, 27, 28

Best Days for Career: 4, 13, 21, 22, 23

This month, the planetary power will shift from the Western Sector, where it has been for many months, to the East; 60 per cent (and sometimes 70 per cent) of the planets will be in the East. So you are entering a period of greater independence, greater personal power. You have greater power to create conditions as you like them and no longer have the need to adapt to things. You can have life on your terms. Hopefully you will not abuse this power – many people do. However, when the cycle for ‘paying karma’ comes – when the planets shift to the Western Sector again (in about six months’ time) – you will have to live with your creations, so build well. The main headline this month is your career. Half of the planets are either in or moving through your career house this month. This house is strong quantitatively and also qualitatively: two out of the three most important planets in your chart spend a lot of time there – the Sun and the ruler of your Horoscope. So you are in a period of great outward success. Pay rises, promotions, elevations (perhaps even honours) are happening now. If your career goals are ultra, ultra high you might not attain them this month, but you will see great progress happening there. Career is a life-long project – our life work – one month is not enough to attain these things. So long as we are making progress we can consider ourselves successful.