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

Family members are also outwardly successful and seem supportive of your career. You seem on very good terms with the authority figures in your life, your bosses, parents and elders. In fact, you yourself are an authority figure these days.

Health and energy are excellent until the 19th, after that you need to rest and relax more. Your career is busy and taxing, but without good health success is an empty shell. You are very busy this month, but you can delegate or outsource as much as possible. Focus on essentials and let lesser things go. People at the top – as you are this month (each on their own level) – are often targets for the venom and anger of those less blessed. This is another drain of energy. This is the price paid (one of them) for outward success. There are many ways to deal with this, but it is beyond the scope of this report.

Be more patient with children from the 8th to the 10th. Make sure they avoid dangerous and risky kinds of activities. They seem inclined to daredevil kinds of stunts.

Love seems happy this month and all year.

March

Best Days Overall: 1, 9, 10, 18, 19, 27, 28, 29

Most Stressful Days Overall: 7, 8, 13, 14, 20, 21

Best Days for Love: 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 25, 26

Best Days for Money: 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 15, 16, 22, 23, 25, 26, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 2, 11, 20, 21, 30

Retrograde activity increases this month. Mars went retrograde on January 24 and will be retrograde all of this month, and so friends seem to lack direction these days. (Make sure you do your homework before buying new high-tech equipment and software, too; some of the claims are not what they seem.) Saturn went retrograde on the 7th of last month and will be retrograde for many more months. (The spouse, partner or current love needs to be doing a financial review now.) Mercury – and this is the most important one for you – goes retrograde on the 12th. You’ve had a period of great success and now it is time to take stock of where you stand. You seem unsure of what happens next or where you want to go, and so a period of review is in order. You need to gain some mental clarity now. The home and family situation also needs a review.

Retrogrades, when understood and used properly, are the ‘pauses that refresh’. They are no more a ‘setback’ than a good night’s sleep. This is when you gather forces for the next leap of forward progress. The glitches and setbacks that seem to happen come because we are not co-operating with the cosmic intent.

Be especially careful in communicating with family members from the 12th onwards. Don’t take things for granted. Much of the family drama and hurt feelings that happen come from miscommunication and misunderstanding. A little more care in the beginning will save much heartache later on.

Career is still very strong in your Horoscope until the 20th. You are in the midst of a yearly career peak now. Much of what we wrote of last month still applies.

Finance has not been a big issue so far this year. Your money house is basically empty (only the Moon visits there for a few days a month). Career, status, prestige, promotion seem much more important to you than money. I would read this as a good signal; you are basically content financially and have no need to make major changes. The Moon waxes from the 1st to the 8th and from the 22nd onwards, and these will be the times when your earning power is strongest.

The love life is getting even better than it has been this month. Venus, the planet of love, travels with your love planet Jupiter from the 11th to the 14th. For singles this shows a romantic meeting. For marrieds it shows more romance in the marriage and happy social experiences – invitations, social meetings, happiness from friends.

The Sun opposes Mars from the 1st to the 5th. Then it conjuncts Uranus from the 23rd to the 26th and squares Pluto from the 28th to the 31st. Be more careful driving during those periods, and avoid arguments where possible. Mercury, the ruler of your Horoscope, conjuncts Uranus twice this month (once moving forwards and once backwards); again, be careful driving and be more patient with family members.

April

Best Days Overall: 6, 14, 15, 24, 25

Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 10, 16, 17

Best Days for Love: 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22, 24, 25

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27

Best Days for Career: 7, 16, 17, 26

Your 11th house of friends has been strong since last year. Last month, it got even stronger, and this trend continues until the 20th. This means you are more involved with friends, with groups and group activities and with trade or professional organizations. You are always a good networker, but especially so now. You are probably more involved than usual with online activities. You are personally more inventive and original these days, and perhaps a bit rebellious as well. You want to do unconventional kinds of things, and probably you will. The norm, the routine, seems boring.

On the 4th Mercury starts to move forward and thus you have more personal clarity and a sense of direction. Career goals have more or less been attained (although we never completely attain them, in essence they are infinite) and now your interests are social.

The month ahead is a very powerful social month, both romantically and in terms of friendship. On the 20th the Sun moves into Taurus and starts to have an impact on your love planet. The aspect will be more exact next month, but you will be feeling it after this date. Love is in the air, and this is serious kind of love. Singles might not marry, but they will meet people they would consider marriage material. This seems to be in happening in spiritual settings, such as the yoga studio, the prayer meeting, the meditation seminar or the charity event. It also seems to occur in the neighbourhood rather than far away. Siblings and sibling figures are playing cupid, and they too have romantic opportunity now and next month.