Your Personal Horoscope 2018

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 7, 8, 21, 22, 27, 28

Best Days for Love: 1, 7, 8, 16, 17, 27, 28

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 7, 8, 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 22, 27, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 7, 8, 16, 25

Last month on the 20th the planetary power reached its most Eastern position. You were in your most independent kind of period and this continues in the month ahead. With your 1st house so strong, you’re having your way in life (only career responsibilities are limiting you now). If changes need to be made – if conditions are not to your liking – then change them; make them as you wish. You have the power to do this now. (Later on in the year it will be more difficult.)

You also entered one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks last month and this continues, until the 20th of this month. This is a time for exploring (and gratifying) all the pleasures of the body. It is a great period for getting the body and image in right shape, the way you want it to be.

This year’s personal pleasure peak is different from those of past years. Yes, you want to have fun and indulge the body, but you also want to be successful in the world. Career pulls you one way while the fun-loving urges pull you another. With a little bit of creativity you can manage both. There are no rules as to how this is done. Every person finds their own solution.

Last month, the planetary power started to shift below the horizon. The lower half of the Horoscope (the night side) is as strong as it will ever be this year – 40 per cent (and sometimes 50 per cent) of the planets are there. However, the upper half is still very dominant so you still need to focus on the career, but you can allot a little more time to the home, family and your emotional well-being. This is not a big priority this year, but it can’t be completely ignored. Sometimes people need less sleep than at other times, but they still need some sleep.

The month ahead looks prosperous. On the 20th, the Sun enters your 2nd, money house and stays there for the rest of the month ahead. You’re in a period of peak earnings. There is luck in speculations (though please don’t do this with your rent or food money) and money is earned in happy ways. You’re enjoying your wealth. Children – depending on their age and stage in life – are either supportive in a material way or through inspiring you to earn more. Venus in the money house until the 24th is another good financial sign. Financial judgement is good. Conservative. (Though you should be careful of overspending on the 17th and 18th.)

Singles find love opportunities as they pursue their normal financial goals and perhaps with people involved in their finances.

May

Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 29, 30

Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 18, 19, 24, 25, 31

Best Days for Love: 7, 8, 17, 24, 25, 26

Best Days for Money: 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27

Best Days for Career: 4, 5, 14, 22, 31

Venus spends most of the month ‘out of bounds’ – from the 6th to the 31st. This shows that in finance and love, you’re going beyond your normal sphere, outside your normal neighbourhood. You’re thinking ‘outside the box’, which often brings just the right solution. It was the ‘box’ itself that was causing the problem in the first place.

You’re still very much in a yearly financial peak until the 21st. So you’re in a period of peak earnings. The New Moon of the 15th occurs in the money house, making it an excellent financial day. But more importantly, it will clarify the financial life as the month progresses – and well into next month. The information that you need to make a right decision is winging its way towards you.

Uranus, as we have already mentioned, makes a major move into your money house on the 16th, creating excitement and change. This transit is only the harbinger of things to come. It favours online activities. Your financial planet, Venus, will be in your 3rd house of communication until the 19th. This favours sales, marketing, advertising and PR activities. People need to know about your product or service. Good use of the media pays dividends too. On the 19th Venus will move into your 4th house, indicating earning through the family and family connections. Family support is good (and mutual). Financial intuition is strong. Venus opposes Saturn from the 25th to the 27th; earnings can be stalled for a few days, but this is a short-term problem. Indeed, the delays will make the final outcome even better.

Mars, the ruler of your Horoscope, has spent the past two months in your 10th house of career. You’ve been very successful during this period, and now you’re ready to be more socially oriented. You’re still focused on your career, but you’re more sociable about it. You’re there for your friends now, and are probably more popular.

Love, for singles, can be found in your neighbourhood – but not in your usual haunts. There are love opportunities in educational settings – at school functions, the library or bookstore or at lectures. You’re attracted to those who have the gift of the gab and people who are easy to talk to. You like the ‘smart people’ these days. Later on, after the 19th, you’ll crave emotional intimacy and emotional sharing. Love becomes a ‘mood’ issue. The challenge will be to get in the right mood – and get your partner in the right mood.

June

Best Days Overall: 8, 9, 16, 17, 25, 26

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 28, 29

Best Days for Love: 6, 7, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 23, 24

Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 10, 18, 28, 29

You’re in the midnight hour of your year and should be sleeping and letting the inner forces work. But your work in the world is important and you keep breaking your sleep to focus on it. Metaphorically this is the situation. It is the dead of night, but you keep getting up.

This month you face one of the classic challenges that many face. Home and family are important, but so is the career and outer activities. Each claims their due and you can’t ignore either. Somehow or other you have to deal with both. Now you will lean one way, now the other – it’s not easy.

Retrograde activity among the planets increases this month, and by the 26th half of the planets will be retrograde – almost the maximum for the year. (August 7–19 will see 60 per cent of the planets going backwards.) The pace of life slows down. For an action-oriented Aries, frustration is the main challenge at this time. You’re a thoroughbred, built for speed, but now you’re forced to walk (and sometimes backwards). Everything seems so slow, slow, slow! The good part of this is that one learns patience. Do what is possible each day and let the rest go.

Health and energy become more of an issue from the 21st onwards too. Be sure to get enough rest. You can enhance your health through arm and shoulder massage until the 12th. From the 12th to the 29th make sure to eat right, and keep the emotions harmonious and constructive. After the 29th give more attention to the heart.

Love is still found close to home until the 14th. Make sure to keep your mood right. Bad moods will destroy romantic moments and complicate the love life. There is more socializing at home and with the family until the 14th. Don’t be surprised if an old flame (or someone who reminds you of an old flame) comes back into your life. There is a romantic opportunity with someone spiritual at the beginning of the month.

The urge to travel is very strong these days, but if it isn’t necessary avoid it. Jupiter, who rules travel for you, is receiving good aspects, but he is retrograde. If you must travel during this period, allow more time to get to and from your destination. Insure your tickets, and do what you can to protect yourself against delays and glitches.

July

Best Days Overall: 5, 6, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24

Most Stressful Days Overall: 12, 13, 18, 19, 25, 26

Best Days for Love: 5, 6, 16, 18, 19, 25, 26

Best Days for Money: 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 16, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

Best Days for Career: 7, 8, 16, 25, 26

Mars, the ruler of your Horoscope, spends almost the whole month ‘out of bounds’. This indicates that you’re outside your normal sphere, from the 9th onwards. You’re in an adventurous period, meeting new friends and perhaps getting involved with groups and group activities that are outside the norm for you. Adding to the adventure and the sense of ‘being ready for anything’ are two eclipses this month.

The Solar Eclipse of July 13 occurs in your 4th house of the home and family. All of you will feel this, but those of you born later in the sign of Aries (April 8 to April 15) will feel it strongest. You should be taking things easier anyway until the 22nd, but especially around the period of the eclipse. It looks like it will have a strong effect and will bring family dramas and shakeups. Family members are more temperamental at this time, and are experiencing life-changing events. Often, as our regular readers know, repairs are needed in the home. Hidden flaws tend to come to light under an eclipse’s influence. Parents or parent figures are having their marriages tested. Children or children figures are making life-changing kinds of decisions (some can be quite normal, but for them it is life changing). They too should take a more relaxed schedule. The family finances – especially those of a parent or parent figure – need a course correction. Pluto is affected by this eclipse, so you could be involved in near-death kinds of experiences. Death (usually on a psychological level) touches you in some way.

The Lunar Eclipse of the 27th also impacts on the home and family – as every Lunar Eclipse does. So there is more of the same with the family as we’ve written above. This eclipse occurs in your 11th house of friends, so there are dramas – and perhaps crises – in the lives of friends. Friendships get tested, as do computers and high-tech equipment (often these need repair or replacement). This eclipse affects you strongly as Mars is impacted here. So reduce your schedule and avoid dangerous or stressful situations. Spend more quiet time at home. The impact on Mars shows a need to redefine yourself – how you think of yourself and how you want others to think about you. This will be a six-month process. This redefinition is basically a healthy thing: since we are always changing we should always be redefining ourselves. But here it is rather forced on you. The events caused by the eclipse force you into this process.

August

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 19, 20, 29, 30

Most Stressful Days Overall: 8, 9, 14, 15, 21, 22

Best Days for Love: 5, 14, 15, 24, 25

Best Days for Money: 4, 5, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31

Best Days for Career: 4, 12, 21, 22, 31

Just when you thought the disturbances of last month’s eclipses were over, there is another one – the third Solar Eclipse of the year – to keep you on your toes. It is helpful to understand that eclipses are not ‘punitive’ (though it can feel that way). Their cosmic job is to clear the obstructions to your path in life, the obstructions to your good. And, they generally do a good job of it. It is also helpful to know that this is the last one for the current year.

Mars is still ‘out of bounds’ this month – for the entire month. So you are still outside your normal haunts, in unknown territory. So the adventure continues.