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

Best Days for Career: 5, 6, 9, 18, 28

Retrograde activity increases further this month. Until the 25th, 40 per cent of the planets are in retrograde motion – a high percentage. The pace of life in the world slows down and this is so on a personal level as well. Patience, patience, patience: this is the watchword. It is a difficult lesson for Aries, but it will do no good to try to circumvent things.

This month the planets are starting to shift to the Western sector of your Horoscope. This is the social sector, the sector of other people. This shift will be more complete next month, but you are starting to feel it now. Over the past five or so months you have created conditions as you wanted them – you have had your way in life. Now, it is time to road test your creation, to enjoy it (if you have built well) or to suffer the discomforts of it (if you have built unwisely). It is more difficult to change things now. You are more dependent on others and their good graces now, and it is best to adapt to things as best you can. Later, towards the end of the year, you will again enter a cycle of independence and will be able to make any changes desired. Now, however, is the time to hone the social skills and gain your way through co-operation with others, rather than on your own. The social side of your nature is being developed this period.

Jupiter is making an important move into your 3rd house on the 11th. For the past year he has been in your money house. By now you have achieved your financial goals and are ready to explore new areas of interest: learning and the expansion of the mind. This is an excellent transit for students, whether pre-college or in college, and there is success in your studies. Learning is easier and more fun. Many of you are taking important tests and exams in coming months and this transit brings good fortune (although you still have to study!). Those of you who are college-bound seem fortunate in this area. (A lunar eclipse on the 4th will create a few bumps on the road, but even the bumps are positive.) Those of you in the workforce will enjoy taking courses, seminars and attending lectures. The mind is hungry and wants to be fed. New and upgraded communication equipment is coming to you, and perhaps a nice car too (looks like an expensive one!).

Siblings and sibling figures in your life are prospering and entering into serious love relationships now.

The lunar eclipse on the 4th will affect you strongly. It not only impacts on the Moon, your family planet, but on your ruling planet Mars as well. So reduce your schedule for a few days before and after the event. Avoid daredevil, risky kinds of activities, and avoid testing the limits of the body – you will have many other opportunities in the next six years to do this in a safer way. This eclipse brings dramas in the lives of family members and perhaps in the physical home as well. If there are hidden flaws there, now is the time you find out about them and take the steps to correct them.

Students can have abrupt changes in school, college or in their choice of studies now. But this will work out in a good way.

July

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29

Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 17, 18, 24, 25, 30, 31

Best Days for Love: 5, 6, 15, 24, 25

Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 12, 13, 15, 16, 24, 25

Best Days for Career: 3, 4, 5, 6, 15, 16, 24, 25, 30, 31

Retrograde activity is still strong this month. The players in the drama change, but the overall percentages are still high. Pluto and Neptune are retrograde all month. On the 13th Uranus will start many months retrograde and on the 15th Mercury will also start to move backwards. From the 15th onwards 40 per cent of the planets are in retrograde motion. Like last month, the lesson is patience. Hurry and rush will not achieve anything, and short cuts will actually create more delays. Take your time and be perfect in all that you do – this is the best way to handle these retrogrades.

Mars, the ruler of your Horoscope and a very important planet in your chart, makes dynamic aspects to both Uranus and Pluto from the 15th to the 21st. You will probably feel the effects even earlier and for a few days later, but this is when the aspect is most exact. Don’t be afraid, but be more careful and mindful when driving or when handling sharp or dangerous objects or electrical instruments. Avoid confrontations and risky activities. Listen to your body more. If you are working out and you feel a pain, stop. If you are engaged in sports and start to feel a pain, again stop. This is not a time to be testing your body’s limits. Your friends should also be more careful then too. Relations with friends seem tense this period: try not to make matters worse. The tension will pass.

In general, health needs more watching this month, especially until the 22nd. Try to rest and relax more. Now is a good time to go on a nice relaxed holiday – and with so many retrogrades, you probably won’t be missing much. The heart, which is important all year, is especially important this month and needs more attention. Sunshine and heatoriented therapies will be powerful. Your health planet goes retrograde on the 15th so avoid making dramatic changes to your diet or health regime then. Study things further.

Health and energy improve dramatically after the 22nd as the Sun moves into Leo. You also enter into one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks. This is a time for enjoying your life. Though your overall energy is not up to its usual standards, there are still nice things happening. Venus is very near to Jupiter this month. The aspect is not exact, but it is still in effect; this brings prosperity and financial opportunity, and love opportunities too.

Like last month, love is close to home. Love happens in educational-type settings – in school, at lectures, seminars, at the library or bookshop.

August

Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 16, 17, 24, 25

Most Stressful Days Overall: 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 27, 28

Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 31

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 11, 12, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 30

Retrograde activity among the planets is still strong but is less than last month. On the 8th Mercury starts moving forward and the retrograde percentage drops to 30 per cent. With Pluto retrograde, any surgery is better off delayed (unless it is an emergency). Elective surgeries need more research doing now. Friends seem to lack direction this month, they seem ‘up in the air’ (a trend for the next few months). Purchases of high-tech equipment and software need more homework too; a new and better version could be in the works, or new operating systems could make them obsolete as soon as you buy them. As we mentioned last month, avoid making important changes to the health regime or diet (or job) until after the 8th when Mercury starts moving forward again. Like last month, enhance your health by giving more attention to the heart.

Having said all this, the month ahead seems basically happy – a fun kind of month. (Having fun will tend to improve your health as well.) You are still in a yearly personal pleasure peak until the 23rd. Health and energy are much improved over last month too. Mars is making fabulous aspects to Jupiter from the 8th to the 21st, which is a very happy transit for you. It brings enjoyable travel opportunities. Students hear good news about school or tests. There are religious and philosophical breakthroughs happening and you have good relations with the academics and religious figures in your life. There is luck in speculations and a general feeling of optimism.

Venus, now moving firmly forward since June 27, moves into Cancer on the 8th. This shows many things. There is more socializing with the family and with those who are ‘like family’ to you. You are probably investing in the home, redecorating it, and spending on objects of beauty for the home. Family and family connections are important financially this period. And family members are playing cupid now. There are a few short-term financial and love upheavals after the 8th but they pass very quickly.

On the 23rd the Sun enters Virgo, your 6th house. This signals a more serious period. You are in the mood for work, and this is a nice transit for job seekers. Job seekers are not just looking for ‘a job’ – they want work that they will enjoy, and it seems they will be successful. Many of you will sacrifice pay for enjoyable work.

Children seem confused and lacking in direction from the 21st to the 24th – a bit dreamy and other worldly. But this will pass. Avoid speculations that period.

September

Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 12, 13, 21, 22, 29, 30

Most Stressful Days Overall: 10, 11, 16, 17, 23, 24

Best Days for Love: 1, 12, 16, 17, 21, 22, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 8, 9, 17, 18, 23, 24, 26

Mars entered your 8th house of transformation on the 24th of last month and will be there for the entire month of September. There are many positives to this. It is a great period for detoxing the body and for losing weight (if you need to), and a good period for delving into the deeper things of life – past lives, reincarnation, occult studies, life after death, etc. Whatever your age or stage in life, libido will be stronger than usual, so it is a more sexually active kind of month too.

This celestial position tends to make a person more serious about life; they see beneath the surface of things, beneath all the façades that people put up. There is also more dealing with death, either physically or psychologically. There is a need to come to terms with death, to understand it properly. Mars in the 8th house intensifies the desires of nature. The desires can be good or ill, but they will be more intense than usual. Thus there is a greater likelihood of success. You go after what you want in a very fierce and single-minded way.

Health is good most of the month until the 23rd. After that you need to rest and relax more. Happily you are focused on health this month. You can enhance your health by giving more attention to the heart (all month but especially on the 1st); the small intestine (from the 2nd to the 17th); and the kidneys and hips (from the 17th onwards). Avoid alcohol and other drugs from the 1st to the 3rd. It is always good to keep harmony in your marriage or love relationship, but after the 17th it becomes an actual health issue. If problems arise (God forbid), examine this area and restore harmony as quickly as possible.

The love life has been stressful so far this year, but things are improving this month. Venus moves into Leo on the 7th so there is more joy in the current relationship and in general. You are more fun-loving in love, not as serious and pessimistic as in the past few years. Also, on the 23rd the Sun moves into your 7th house, initiating a yearly love and social peak. Singles have wonderful love opportunities now, but they don’t seem like serious ones – more like love affairs. Perhaps they can develop into something in the future, but for now they are just love affairs.

Avoid speculations from the 23rd to the 30th. (You are always a risk taker, but this month even more so than usual.) Children need to be more mindful when driving or handling electrical equipment or dangerous objects. They should avoid risky kinds of activities. If the children are very young, keep dangerous objects away from them. Children are prosperous this month, and there is good financial co-operation between you and them.

October

Best Days Overall: 1, 9, 10, 11, 18, 19, 27, 28

Most Stressful Days Overall: 7, 8, 14, 15, 20, 21

Best Days for Love: 1, 12, 14, 15, 21

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 7, 16, 20, 21, 24

Retrograde activity increases again this month: Jupiter moves backwards (for the rest of the year) on the 4th, meaning 30 per cent of the planets are retrograde this month from this date onwards. If you are involved in legal issues there are more glitches and complications these days. Take your time with these things. Students should be more cautious about making important educational changes now. Mars in your 9th house from the 7th onwards shows that foreign lands are calling to you; you have the travel itch now, but Jupiter’s retrograde motion shows that these trips need carefully planning.

Health still needs watching this month. You probably need more sleep than usual. You can enhance your health by giving more attention to the kidneys and hips (until the 5th); the colon, bladder and sexual organs (from the 5th to the 29th); and the liver and thighs (from the 29th onwards). The good news this month is that after the 23rd, your health and energy will dramatically improve. The short-term planets move away from their stressful aspect and, more importantly, after a two-year stay Saturn leaves his stressful aspect in Libra on the 5th. From that date onwards, for the next two years you will feel like a heavy weight has been lifted off your shoulders. If you have had health problems the past few years you should hear good news about it. Keep in mind though that there are still two long-term planets stressing you. So your health still needs monitoring.

Last month was a sexually active month. Now with Saturn in your 8th house for the next two years, you need to be more ‘choosy’ about sex. Sexual activity will probably be reduced and there is a need to focus on ‘quality’ rather than ‘quantity’.

Last month was also good for detoxing, slimming down, personal transformation, occult studies and gaining a deeper understanding of death. Likewise this month, especially after the 23rd.