: aquarius - your year in the stars :
Of all the constellations, yours is most linked with change, so 2008/09 will suit you fine, because there is going to be plenty. Most of these developments have been building for years and will still take some time to complete, but the coming twelve months are a time of conclusion and culmination as many activities that you used to enjoy and to believe in, along with friendships, social contacts and closer associations, important beliefs, hopes and dreams that you have long pursued, somehow just don’t seem to matter to you that much anymore.

Some of these changes might look sudden, especially to those who have not been observing closely, because although you’re such a rebel you are also described as fixed, and tend to stick things out for as long as you can and through to the bitter end. But in your heart you’ve seen these outcomes on their way and have had the chance to confront and to assess their consequences, in order to be quite sure it really is the best option for you, no matter how it looks to anybody else. Your course of action is therefore not so unexpected as it might appear…
Much of your progress during the next year takes place on a spiritual level, which doesn’t mean that nothing will be happening at work or in your relationships, because these will form the second fork of an unequal two-pronged attack. But the vast majority of planetary influences highlight your inner life and spiritual direction, and how to fit this in with the practical demands of the material world and of a humdrum existence, is going to be a major issue. Neptune continues to emphasise your sign as it has done for the past ten years, joined by Chiron since 2005. Both of these features mean greater creativity, compassion, understanding, insight and intuition and help you to get a better handle on the workings of the universe, the dynamics between people and if it doesn’t sound too pompous, the ultimate reason why we’re here. Both begin their impact with a period of loss and dissolution, because it is only by facing your own inner fears, you can grasp how insignificant and meaningless they really were. Even if the very worst were to happen then life would go on, or it wouldn’t perhaps, but either way that would still be the right thing to do. As Julian of Norwich said some six hundred years ago, “…All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”

So Neptune and Chiron both take things away from you, because as mystics and spiritual teachers have always known, it is only by having nothing you can comprehend the essential paradox of how much is really yours. The greater the loss, the bigger the growth in philosophical terms and so whatever you are most attached to, that you identify with most closely and that you’ve always believed would be what you would fight to maintain, for appearances, your status in society, your security or because you think it defines your selfhood, will all be hardest hit. Material possessions, failed relationships, worldly ambitions and hollow means of gratifying your own ego, will all be up for your consideration before too long.
: aquarius - january 2008/january 2009 :
Certain things can survive this period and are curiously most likely to if you can accept that you will probably need to live without them. Having tackled your worst horrors and done what you thought was most difficult to do, there is little life can throw at you that you won’t be taking in your stride. Don’t think you have all the answers just yet, because the process you’re undergoing is an enduring one to be reckoned in decades rather than just mere years. Still after all the carnage, doubt, disruption and often the paralysis of the recent past, Jupiter’s movement into the sign before yours is a big helping hand. It’s like cosmic insurance so no matter what happens, your guardian angel is behind you now. Remember though to keep egotism out of this, because what you’ve done is nothing special, no more than anybody would do and a lot less than many, with the necessity of action brought on in the first place by your own foibles and failures as a human being.

Meanwhile, in your everyday world it is likely that your new understanding will be sorely tested since it is hard to find those with any real comprehension of your viewpoint. Changes like these often need to happen when you’re by yourself and although meaningful connections are still possible, it’s going to take a very special person and you must allow lots of time. Materially you are being challenged to follow your own course and you’ll need to be brave and to have faith. Success cannot be guaranteed but any ventures involving new technology, computers, astrology or self-employment generally do well. It may work out and it may not but if you’re honest you don’t have a choice. If you go down with a big splash doing what you have to, then you can trust that what comes along subsequently will be equally right as well.
 © Paul Wade 2008 aquarius - your character
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