Some people like only the good news and are happier with reassuring platitudes instead of an honest analysis of your current position and future prospects from an astrological point of view. You’ve never been this way and always prefer to know what’s really going on, so that you can prepare your strategy and organise your defences in advance, as well as getting more from what arises for your efforts in the end.
Truthfully, your year from October 2008 through to October 2009 contains some significant challenges, but the issues are largely along the same lines as those you have encountered already and are probably not so severe, if you can look past whatever superficial guise they are assuming and consider instead the principles that underlie their presentation. In some ways you remain at a peak and in your prime, especially if you are older than your late twenties and have had the time for Saturn to complete more than one full circuit of your birthchart. But as this cycle culminates you are now experiencing a different kind of feeling, as rather than building up to a crescendo anymore, the energies about you instead start to wane and turn inward, so are geared more towards consolidating the progress you have made this far. |
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This is not a negative thing and it’s a necessary influence that you can’t avoid anyway, wherever one of astrology’s longer term planetary cycles is concerned. A phase that focuses primarily on expansion, achievement and interaction with the outside world, is replaced by one during which your private and personal life, your inner and emotional needs and what to do with the gains that you’ve already made are thrust much more to the fore. As this year begins you are finding your feet within this new vibration, because it takes time to adjust and to get used to the different atmosphere. You are in a stage of attainment and fruition, but can also feel the stirrings of a tentative new start, during which it is important to think about the most basic factors and the things that really bring you the greatest comfort, security, safety and happiness. Beyond the next twelve months your life is set to change enormously as all kinds of interests, concerns, activities and even relationships in a broader sense, move out of your orbit to make way for a whole new round of activity and growth. This year in terms of a theme that is behind what takes place, there is a subtle undercurrent that dealt with correctly, encourages you to decide for yourself exactly where your current situation needs to change primarily. You can then make a few plans that in an ideal scenario, you’d be able to put into practice to ensure life turns out to be even more fulfilling in future.
Some of this has to do with compromise and balancing what you’d like in a perfect world, faced with what actually seems possible in the real one, either in terms of money and material issues, your finite physical capabilities, the demands and expectations of teachers, parents, government officials or other authority figures and the space and freedom that your existing duties and obligations will allow. Still this is a crucial time and it’s not a moment to let the experiences of the past, deter you from a more ambitious course or to colour your perspective in any limiting way. |
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Sure, you should learn from your prior experiences, but this is the beginning of a whole new phase for you. As things pan out over the coming few years, the ideas and the precepts by which you used to run your life are firstly in for some rigorous testing and secondly, the biggest reorganisation you have seen for ages. While it’s a process that’s going to start gradually at first, you’ll already have gained some idea of all that is to come during the first half of 2008, and further clues will follow once 2009 is underway. You aren’t the sort of person to change your viewpoint easily, but eventually you’ll be faced with such devastating evidence to the contrary that clearly, it’ll be the only way to proceed.
Much of the next twelve months focuses on your home life, your family and your domestic situation, including children if you have or want them, as well as any romantic liaisons that also impact behind closed doors. This area is the foundation of your birthchart and is singled out for special attention now, after the confusion and often the disappointment that has surrounded you for too long. Again if you are able to take account of what looks pragmatically possible, to guide your expectations in the light of this and not to grow bitter or become overwhelmed by the task in hand, then important developments are on the way that will set the basis and a better foundation for a long while to come. |
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