: sagittarius - your year in the stars :
The Sun moves into your constellation on November 21 and it isn’t long before it starts dawning that this year is different from those that have preceded it. Stargazers may continue to debate and disagree over the status of Pluto, both astronomically and in terms of understanding its astrological effects, but anyone who has experienced the influence of this body is in no doubt over its significant and powerful impact.

Pluto is far out in the solar system and although only discovered in 1930, is estimated to take 248 years to circuit the zodiac and to spend between twelve and 31 years in each sign. At the moment Pluto is moving comparatively quickly and first entered Sagittarius during 1995, some thirteen years ago. Although it’s more important to look forward than to dwell on the past, you’ll understand where you’re heading a lot better if you can also appreciate the events that have brought you to here. Your natural impulse is to dodge difficult issues and to move on swiftly, but by learning all you can from everything that has happened, you will find yourself clearer about where you should be going next.
In essence then, Pluto has changed your life. This planet works on an incredibly slow basis and always at an extremely fundamental level. It changes those things you never thought would alter and in ways you’d never have imagined either. It makes you look again at your conditioning, at your emotional habit patterns and at why you routinely respond in the ways that you do. Often it brings up issues of power and control, your desire to live freely, unhindered by the interference of other people, and your need to have some kind of say-so in what goes on elsewhere. Nothing to do with this planet is easy though, or straightforward to work with on a superficial level. What it suggests is deep-seated, causing you to confront all sorts of things about yourself that certainly you’d rather not. These take forever to sort out, until just when you believe you’ll never escape from the wreckage, that is when finally you emerge again.

So this is where you are today, a person unencumbered by all sorts of baggage that you used to drag around with you. Your life is clear of inappropriate activities, hopes and expectations and although you’re still pretty raw and ragged from the process, it’s now your moment to move forwards instead. It’s time to let go of any lasting resentments and, as soon as you can manage it, to be thankful for all that’s taken place, because nothing has changed that didn’t need to and you’ll be much better off in the end. In lots of ways you’re a different person, with a new outlook and set of things you want to do, so if you can still remember your traditional focus on expansion and broad horizons, then this year you will have plenty to make you feel increasingly optimistic. You can establish a new set of aims, based around the preceding transformation of all that you’ve done before. Although you won’t immediately be sure about your next set of objectives, by reaching out increasing to your surrounding environment and to the world about you, you’ll soon find a whole new brave batch of concepts heading your way.
: sagittarius - november 2008/november 2009 :
Travel and education are especially favoured, because these will help expand your perspective and give you a fresh angle on proceedings that you didn’t have before. Journeys over a longer distance and also closer to home will bring new people into your orbit and encourage an intriguing view of all types of schemes you’d never have considered otherwise. Two areas of your life are especially likely to change and one of these is your home, together with your family set-up and domestic situation generally. It could be you need to move or that you require more space either in terms of your actual circumstances or else metaphorically. It’s good to remember that while common sense may point towards these updates proving unnecessary, the chances are they will happen eventually, over the next two years at the rough outside.

The other sphere of transition is your work, meaning that if you aren’t working currently it could be time to think about starting, while if your career already figures then some alterations will need to take place. To begin with these are most likely to be quite minor and probably in the direction you’re already following, unless this has obviously proven to be disastrous already, in which case sooner rather than later is your best option. However, many will have seen the writing on the wall and will already realise that even if this doesn’t happen now, your present career activities are not sustainable in their current format for much longer. This year you should get all you can out of them, while considering what you’ll be doing subsequently, plus making contacts and getting the necessary training to hit the ground running then…
 © Paul Wade 2008 sagittarius - your character
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