Your Personal Horoscope 2014: Month-by-month forecasts for every sign

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

The years 2011 and 2012 were very challenging healthwise. If you got through those years, you’ll get through the year ahead with flying colours. Since 2011 we note a steady, gradual improvement in health and energy. Though challenging, 2012 was better than 2011; 2013 was better than 2012; and 2014 will be better than 2013.

Though health is improving it still needs watching for the first half of the year, until July 16. Three long-term planets will be in stressful aspect with you. On July 16 Jupiter will move from a stressful aspect to a harmonious one, and on July 26 Mars will move out of his stressful aspect. You should feel a big positive difference in your overall vitality from July 16 onwards.

With your 6th house of health basically empty for most of the year (only the short-term planets will move through there) the danger is that you won’t pay enough attention here. And you should. You will have to force yourself to pay attention to your health – to follow good health regimes – even though you don’t feel like it.

Uranus has been in your sign since 2011. This often indicates experimentation with the physical body – a tendency to test its limits. Basically this is a good urge. Our bodies are capable of much more than we think and we only learn about this through testing it. But these experiments should be done in mindful and conscious ways, otherwise there could be a tendency to indulge in daredevil kinds of stunts and this can lead to injury. Testing is best done through regimes such as yoga or martial arts, which are basically disciplined and safe ways.

The most important thing for the first half of the year is to maintain high energy levels. When energy is high – when the auric field is strong – the body resists disease. It is basically immune to microbes and destructive kinds of bacteria. But let the auric field weaken for whatever reason and the body becomes more vulnerable to these sorts of things. The auric field is the spiritual equivalent of the physical immune system. Weakness in the auric field, in overall energy, has other consequences too. The vision, the hearing, the reflexes become a tad slower than normal. They are not up to standard and this can lead to accidents. So, rest when tired. Don’t burn the candle at both ends. Work rhythmically and alternate activities. Wear the colours, gems and aromas of your sign (see the Personality Profile at the beginning of this sign). Have regular massages or reflexology treatments. This will enhance your energy in subtle ways. It might also be advisable to take weekends (or longer holidays) at a health spa – depending on your finances.

Health can also be enhanced through regular scalp and facial massage. The head and face is one of your vulnerable areas. When you massage the head and face you not only strengthen those areas but the whole body as well. There are reflexes there that go to the whole body. Also enhance the health by paying more attention to the lungs, arms, shoulders and small intestine. Arms and shoulders should be regularly massaged. Tension tends to collect in the shoulders and needs to be released. The heart is also more vulnerable this year. The reflexes to the heart are shown in the chart. Avoid worry and anxiety – the main spiritual root causes of heart problems.

Mercury, your health planet, is fast moving. During the course of the year he will move through all the signs and houses of your Horoscope, as our regular readers know. Thus there are many short-term trends in health that are best dealt with later in the monthly reports.

Mercury goes retrograde three times this year – from February 6 to February 28; June 7 to July 2; and from October 4 to October 25. These are not times to make drastic changes to your health regime or to make important health decisions. These are times for study and review.

Favourable numbers for health and healing are 1, 3, 6, 8 and 9. If you are exercising or making affirmations do them in sets of 1, 3, 6, 8 and 9 – you will get more out of your exercises.

Home and Family

Your 4th house of home and family is a house of power this year, so there is a great focus here now. With Jupiter in your 4th house since June 26 2013 it is a happy area of life.

Many of you moved in the past year. If you didn’t then, it can still happen this year. As our regular readers know, Jupiter moving through the 4th house does not always indicate a ‘literal’ move but an ‘as if’ move. Sometimes people buy additional homes or properties. Sometimes they buy expensive items for the home, or renovate or enlarge the existing home. The effect is ‘as if’ a move has occurred. The home is enlarged and more comfortable than it was before.

Since Jupiter is the ruler of your 9th house of travel, many of you are moving or thinking of moving to foreign countries or faraway places in your own country. Or, as we mentioned, are acquiring properties in these kinds of places.

The family circle gets enlarged under this kind of aspect. Generally this happens through birth or marriage, but it often also happens through meeting people who are ‘like family’ – who are emotionally supportive. They play the role of ‘family’ in your life. In many cases the ‘like’ family can be more supportive and helpful than the actual biological family.

As we mentioned earlier, this aspect indicates heightened fertility for those Aries who are of childbearing age. This will be the case all year – even when Jupiter leaves the 4th house and enters the 5th on July 16. The focus then will shift from family as a whole to a focus on children.

Jupiter in the 4th house shows that the family as a whole is prospering and more supportive this year. When people are prosperous and optimistic it is only natural that they will increase their support. They are much more generous this year. If you need a favour from them – especially from a parent figure – this is the year to ask for it.

Children (or children figures in your life) become more prosperous after July 16. I have noticed that it doesn’t matter what age they are. Even infants and toddlers prosper under this aspect – they receive expensive kinds of items or a parent or grandparent sets up a fund for them behind the scenes.

Jupiter is the planet of religion and higher education. Thus I can see many of you holding religious services in the home – perhaps classes too. The family as a whole seems more religious. Moreover, many of you will be adding a library to the home or expanding your present one. The home is a place of study as much as a home.

Finance and Career

The year ahead will be prosperous. Things will start slowly, but as the year progresses, and especially in the latter half, prosperity will increase.

Your 2nd house of finance is not a house of power this year, so finances are not a major focus. And perhaps this is the major weakness. You might not be giving them the attention they deserve. You can be too distracted by family, home, personal freedom or the desire for personal pleasure. If finances are troubling you, the solution might be to give the area more attention. Force yourself.

With Uranus in your own sign you are in the mood for new ventures, new start ups. You are an experimenter with almost everything in your life, including finance. You tend to be a risk-taker by nature, and these days even more so. And when you hit the big time, it will be BIG. Failures however – and there will be a few – can also be big. Risk taking – speculations – are much better during the latter half of the year – after July 16 – than before.

Venus is your financial planet. Regular readers assuredly know that Venus is a fast-moving planet. During the year she will move through all the signs and houses of the chart. Thus there will be many short-term financial trends, all depending on where Venus is and the aspects she receives. These are best dealt with in the monthly reports.

With Venus as your financial planet your social skills (and, Aries, you need to develop these more) are a huge factor in earnings. It’s not so much your innate ability and merit, though these are important – it’s the likeability factor, people skills, the ability to get on with others that are important. When Aries develop these qualities, there’s no stopping them. The sky is the limit.

In the Personality Profile (#u63a97a46-2246-4edb-a094-a37aa901b6e7) we discuss the best financial areas for Aries. These should be reviewed this year.

Your spouse, partner or current love is having financial challenges. He or she feels squeezed. Perhaps some new expense or financial burden has been placed on them. They just need to reorganize things, shift things around here and there, and work to get financially healthier. If they do, they will find that they have all the resources they need. They have been making very dramatic financial changes in the past two years and there is more to come. But after this year, their finances should stabilize.

If you are involved with estates or tax issues, be patient. Only time will resolve things. Borrowing – accessing outside money – is more challenging this year. Again patience and persistence will win the day.

Your favourable financial numbers are 2, 3, 7 and 9.

Though money is not that big a deal, career is very important. What I like here is that you have a great single-minded focus, an intense drive to succeed. This tends to success. We get what we focus on. The only problem here is that you might be too career driven – too fanatic about it. This leads to conflict, strife and perhaps to making some dangerous enemies. There is sort of a ‘tunnel vision’ when it comes to the career and it can make you unaware of whose toes or turf is being stepped on.

Pluto in the career house indicates that there is great change and transformation happening in your company and industry; deep and fundamental change. The rules can be so changed that it is ‘as if’ you have embarked on a completely different career. Often Pluto brings ‘near-death’ experiences in the career. But always keep in mind that after death or near-death experiences comes resurrection and renewal. This is a cosmic law.

Bosses, parents and authority figures in your life are having surgery or near-death kinds of experiences too. The company you work for can be having a near-death experience as well.

Love and Social Life

Your 7th house of love, romance and social activities is a house of power until July 26. Thus there is great focus here. Focus tends to bring success.

However, love is complicated this year. You’ve recently come through some very stressful love years in 2011 and 2012, perhaps even traumatic years. Many of you divorced. Relationships that survived those years will probably last forever. Although 2013 was a little easier in the love department, it was nothing special.

If you are just coming out of a divorce, you need some quiet time. There is no need to jump into a new relationship too quickly – though perhaps you want to. Uranus in your sign is not especially good for marriage or committed relationships. Uranus craves personal freedom. Too much personal freedom doesn’t go well with a committed relationship, which by definition is a ‘limitation’ of freedom. Those involved romantically with Aries need to understand this. Give them as much space as possible so long as it isn’t destructive.

You are very socially active until July 26. You tend to be aggressive and go after what you want. You are creating the social life that you want. You are popular and well liked and you go out of your way for others. This is good. But will this lead to marriage? Unlikely.

Love affairs, though, are very favourable this year – especially after July 16. However, these are more in the nature of entertainment than serious love. My advice is to enjoy them for what they are without projecting too many expectations on to them.

Those working on their first or second marriages are not likely to marry this year. They will date and have fun, but most likely will not marry. Those working on their third marriage, however, will have a serious love opportunity in the latter half of the year. September looks especially good for that.

With Venus, a fast-moving planet, as your love planet there will be many short-term trends in love that are better discussed in the monthly reports.

Parents or parent figures who are unattached have good romantic opportunities this year. It will be a good social year for them. Children of marriageable age have strong love opportunities in September. Those already married are having their marriages tested this year (this has been going on for a few years now). Single siblings (or sibling figures in the life) are not likely to marry this year. Married siblings (or sibling figures) will have their marriages tested late in the year – after December 24. Grandchildren of marriageable age are having a ‘status quo’ kind of year. Those who are married will tend to stay married; singles will tend to stay single.

Your favourable numbers for love are 3, 7 and 11.

Self-improvement

The planet Neptune is always radiating a refining, elevating, spiritualizing kind of force. But now that Neptune is in his own sign and house – Pisces and your 12th house – his power is greatly magnified. You are feeling this. Many of the things that appealed to you in the past have lost their appeal. Many of the things that you considered important are not that important any more. A new and more powerful energy is coming into you. If you are already on the spiritual path you are making greater progress now. You are having dramatic spiritual experiences and revelations. Your spiritual faculties – soul faculties – are opening up and becoming stronger. Those of you who are spiritual practitioners are much busier and more in demand than ever before. More and more people are interested in your work.

Those not yet on the spiritual path will most likely enter onto it this year or in future years. Neptune will be in Pisces for the next 11 or so years. The Cosmos has its way of bringing you into the fold. In some cases people have vivid Technicolor dreams that are real but don’t make sense to the rational mind. In some cases there is this vague feeling of dissatisfaction that pervades the worldly life. Though the person attains the things or goals that were thought to make them happy, they find that they are not happy. They have a feeling of disillusionment. Sometimes a problem child brings them into the fold. They are forced to examine things more deeply, to study things to find answers. Sometimes tragedy does it. It is different for each person.

When Neptune – the ruler of the highest heaven – is active, the things of this world seem tawdry and cheap – pale imitations of what is possible and doable – which is the cause for the inner dissatisfaction that many experience. Let this feeling be seen as a call to deeper and higher knowledge and not as an excuse to overindulge in alcohol or drugs.

Synchronistic experiences will increase these days. Those on the spiritual path will understand them completely, while those not on the path will scratch their heads. You’ll think of someone and they call you. You’ll feel your phone buzz in your pocket only you don’t have your phone in your pocket, but when you get home you’ll see that someone messaged you at the exact time that you felt the buzz!

Saturn is still in your 8th house of transformation and regeneration for practically all of the year ahead (until December 24). This shows a need to re-order the sex life and the use of the sexual energies. Better less sex but quality sex than many mediocre experiences.

Month-by-month Forecasts

January