Your Personal Horoscope 2013: Month-by-month forecasts for every sign

Finance

Aries people often excel as builders or estate agents. Money in and of itself is not as important as are other things – action, adventure, sport, etc. They are motivated by the need to support and be well-thought-of by their partners. Money as a way of attaining pleasure is another important motivation. Aries function best in their own businesses or as managers of their own departments within a large business or corporation. The fewer orders they have to take from higher up, the better. They also function better out in the field rather than behind a desk.

Aries people are hard workers with a lot of endurance; they can earn large sums of money due to the strength of their sheer physical energy.

Venus is their money planet, which means that Aries need to develop more of the social graces in order to realize their full earning potential. Just getting the job done – which is what an Aries excels at – is not enough to create financial success. The co-operation of others needs to be attained. Customers, clients and co-workers need to be made to feel comfortable; many people need to be treated properly in order for success to happen. When Aries people develop these abilities – or hire someone to do this for them – their financial potential is unlimited.

Career and Public Image

One would think that a pioneering type would want to break with the social and political conventions of society. But this is not so with the Aries-born. They are pioneers within conventional limits, in the sense that they like to start their own businesses within an established industry.

Capricorn is on the 10th house (career) cusp of Aries’ Solar horoscope. Saturn is the planet that rules their life’s work and professional aspirations. This tells us some interesting things about the Aries character. First off, it shows that, in order for Aries people to reach their full career potential, they need to develop some qualities that are a bit alien to their basic nature: they need to become better administrators and organizers; they need to be able to handle details better and to take a long-range view of their projects and their careers in general. No one can beat an Aries when it comes to achieving short-range objectives, but a career is long term, built over time. You cannot take a ‘quickie’ approach to it.

Some Aries people find it difficult to stick with a project until the end. Since they get bored quickly and are in constant pursuit of new adventures, they prefer to pass an old project or task on to somebody else in order to start something new. Those Aries who learn how to put off the search for something new until the old is completed will achieve great success in their careers and professional lives.

In general, Aries people like society to judge them on their own merits, on their real and actual achievements. A reputation acquired by ‘hype’ feels false to them.

Love and Relationships

In marriage and partnerships Aries like those who are more passive, gentle, tactful and diplomatic – people who have the social grace and skills they sometimes lack. Our partners always represent a hidden part of ourselves – a self that we cannot express personally.

An Aries tends to go after what he or she likes aggressively. The tendency is to jump into relationships and marriages. This is especially true if Venus is in Aries as well as the Sun. If an Aries likes you, he or she will have a hard time taking no for an answer; many attempts will be made to sweep you off your feet.

Though Aries can be exasperating in relationships – especially if they are not understood by their partners – they are never consciously or wilfully cruel or malicious. It is just that they are so independent and sure of themselves that they find it almost impossible to see somebody else’s viewpoint or position. This is why an Aries needs as a partner someone with lots of social graces.

On the plus side, an Aries is honest, someone you can lean on, someone with whom you will always know where you stand. What he or she lacks in diplomacy is made up for in integrity.

Home and Domestic Life

An Aries is of course the ruler at home – the Boss. The male will tend to delegate domestic matters to the female. The female Aries will want to rule the roost. Both tend to be handy round the house. Both like large families and both believe in the sanctity and importance of the family. An Aries is a good family person, although he or she does not especially like being at home a lot, preferring instead to be roaming about.

Considering that they are by nature so combative and wilful, Aries people can be surprisingly soft, gentle and even vulnerable with their children and partners. The sign of Cancer, ruled by the Moon, is on the cusp of their solar 4th house (home and family). When the Moon is well aspected – under favourable influences – in the birth chart, an Aries will be tender towards the family and want a family life that is nurturing and supportive. Aries likes to come home after a hard day on the battlefield of life to the understanding arms of their partner and the unconditional love and support of their family. An Aries feels that there is enough ‘war’ out in the world – and he or she enjoys participating in that. But when Aries comes home, comfort and nurturing are what’s needed.

Horoscope for 2013

Major Trends

Ever since Uranus, one of the most dynamic of planets, moved into your sign in March of 2011, change – sudden and dramatic – has been the theme of your life. By the time Uranus is finished with you in about five years’ time, you will be in radically different conditions and circumstances than you are now. All of you are feeling the changes, but those of you born early in the sign of Aries (March 20 to April 5) are feeling it the strongest. Part of this is not so pleasant. Sometimes we cling unconsciously to negative situations, relationships or mental patterns – we cling to a status quo that is actually destructive to us – and so Uranus has to take dramatic measures to release us from this bondage. Sometimes it is an earthquake, a tsunami, or some other natural disaster that does the trick. Sometimes other dramatic events happen. None of this is punishment, only liberation. With Uranus involved there is little we can do consciously to prevent the change; these things are not something you can plan for. The events are generally sudden and unexpected – things you wouldn’t dream of in a million years. With Uranus you can only expect the unexpected. But when the change happens, suddenly you are in a new life; suddenly you are free to follow the true desire of your heart. This is the blessing here.

The last two years were very challenging, filled with crises. Happily you got through; the worst is over with. Most of the long-term planets have moved from their stressful aspect to you, and there should be a tremendous increase in your health and energy in 2013. More on this later.

Saturn moved into your 8th house in October of 2012 – a very nice transit for you as it moved away from its stressful position. This year you need to scrutinize your sexual activity more closely. There is a need to focus more on quality than quantity. Saturn knows how to do this.

Last year, on February 4, Neptune made a major move out of your 11th house and into your spiritual 12th house. The spiritual life is much more emphasized than usual and this will be a long term trend.

Your main areas of interest in the year ahead are the body, the image and personal pleasure; communication and intellectual interests (until June 27); home and family (from June 27 onwards); sex, death and rebirth, reincarnation, past life regression, occult studies and personal reinvention; career; spirituality.

Your paths of greatest fulfilment in the year ahead are communication and intellectual interests (until June 27); home and family (from June 27 onwards); sex, death and rebirth, reincarnation, past life regression, occult studies and personal reinvention.

Health

(Please note that this is an astrological perspective on health and not a medical one. In days of yore there was no difference, these perspectives were identical. But now there could be quite a difference. For a medical perspective, please consult your doctor or health practitioner.)

Health and energy is much, much improved over the past few years. If you got through 2011 and 2012, you will coast ahead this year; you will be stronger than ever. Your 6th house of health is basically empty this year, with no long-term planets there. The short-term planets will move through briefly, but these transits are temporary and not trends for the year. I count this empty 6th house as a positive for health. You don’t have much of a need to focus here as nothing is wrong. You can sort of take good health for granted.

Good though your health is, you can make it even better. Give more attention to the following organs: the head, face and scalp (regular scalp and face massage is always a powerful therapy for you, craniosacral therapy likewise – the bones in the skull sometimes get out of alignment and need to be re-aligned); the lungs, small intestine, arms, shoulders and respiratory system. Arms and shoulders should be regularly massaged, and air purity tends to be more important for Aries than for most. Since these are the most vulnerable areas keeping them healthy and fit is sound preventive medicine.

Uranus is in your own sign now for the long term. This tends to make you experimental with the body. You are into ‘testing’ its limits. Basically this is a good thing. This is how we learn about ourselves; this is how we expand our physical limits, expand athletic performance, expand physical strength and endurance. But this testing needs to be done in a mindful way; disciplines such as yoga, tai chi and other martial arts would be good. You can test the body and expand its limits but in a safe and controlled way. This trend is in effect for many more years.

Reflexology

Try to massage the whole foot on a regular basis, but pay extra attention to the points highlighted on the chart. When you massage, be aware of ‘sore spots’, as these need special attention. It’s also a good idea to massage the ankles and top side of the feet.

Mercury is your health planet (a great health planet to have by the way) and this is his natural domain. He is strong and powerful on your behalf. In the physical body he rules the lungs, small intestine, arms, shoulders and respiratory system – hence their importance in overall health. Our regular readers know that Mercury is a fast-moving planet. In the course of the year ahead he will move through all the signs and houses of your Horoscope. Thus, there are many short-term trends in health, depending on where Mercury is and the aspects he receives, that are best dealt with in the monthly reports.

Home and Family

Your 4th house of home and family becomes strong – and in a happy way – from June 27, as Jupiter moves into that house and stays there well into 2014. Jupiter moving through the 4th house brings good fortune in the purchase or sale of a home, and often it shows a move – a happy move to larger and better quarters. But one doesn’t need physically to move to achieve happiness and more space in the home. Often a renovation will do. Sometimes the addition of a new frill or accessory ‘expands’ the home and makes it different. Sometimes people buy additional homes or properties. However, whether you move or not, the opportunity to move will come to you – and when this happens you can decide what to do.

Jupiter in the 4th house shows happiness and pleasure from the family. There is good family support this year. You are generous with the family and vice versa. It brings prosperity to the family as a whole, but especially to one of the parents or parent figures in your life.

This aspect also shows the ‘expansion of the family unit’. Generally this happens through birth or marriage. Sometimes through meeting people who are ‘like’ family to you; people who support you unconditionally. Perhaps the best thing that happens is that the emotional life will be up and optimistic. Good moods draw good events.

Not everything is rosy with the family. In-laws are having a rough time with surgeries, perhaps near-death kinds of experiences and dramatic personal changes. But somehow the family bands together and stays optimistic. There is a ‘can do’ spirit in the family.

Aries of childbearing age are much more fertile than usual this period. This is so in 2014 as well.

You have the kind of chart of someone who hosts religious services, scripture studies, or prayer meetings at the home – especially after June 27. In fact the family as a whole seems more religion oriented.

If you’re planning renovations (and especially construction) any time after June 27 would be good, but July 13 to August 28 is best. If you’re beautifying the home, redecorating or repainting, June 3 to June 28 is good.

Siblings and sibling figures in your life are prospering this year. Overall they are having a good year, but don’t seem likely to move. If they have been single, they seem involved in a serious romance. Parent figures could be having cosmetic-type surgery (although this could have already happened). Children are not likely to move this year. They want to, but they are better off making better use of the space they have.

Finance and Career

Your 2nd house of finance is not a house of power this year. You are coming off a banner financial year in 2012 and seem more or less satisfied. This is a status quo kind of year. You have no special need to make dramatic changes. However, there is a Solar Eclipse on May 10 that occurs in your money house and this will create some change. This will be short term though.

Fast-moving Venus is your financial planet, thus there are all kinds of short-term trends depending on where she is and the aspects she receives. These are best dealt with in the monthly reports. In general though, money tends to come to you in a variety of ways, through a variety of people. You are very flexible when it comes to earnings.

With Venus as your love planet as well as your financial planet, your social connections are of utmost importance in finance. Basically Aries is an independent sort who likes to chart his or her own destiny, but when it comes to finance, they need others.

With Venus as the financial planet you can never measure the native’s wealth just by their financial statements. Their real wealth is in who they know, in the relationships that they have built up. In the corporate world they often place a monetary amount on this ‘goodwill’, above and beyond the actual physical assets that the company has.

Though the money house is empty this year there will be periods when the short-term planets move through there and activate it temporarily. These will be peak financial periods for the year. This year it happens from April 20 to May 31.

Your spouse, partner or current love is feeling financially stressed this year. They need to reorganize their finances. If they juggle things around a little, they will find that they have all the resources they need. Over the next two years they will become financially healthier; they’ll get rid of a lot of waste and learn to manage their money better. It’s not always pleasant but is really a cosmic workshop in financial management.

Career – professional status and prestige – is much more important than mere money this year. Money and career tend to be related, but not always. Many people will sacrifice earnings for a more prestigious position. Not everyone is like that but many are, and you are one of them.