2012: Aries Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
2012 Overview for All Aries. Your identity crisis, of sorts, continues in 2012, dear Aries, as you fight your way towards a more authentic life path. At times, you will need to slow yourself down and choose your battles wisely. Heavyweight planets are directly affecting the sectors of your chart that rule how the world views you, both professionally and personally, as well as in terms of committed relationships. You are moving away from false paths and relationships that no longer serve you well, or transforming the same into more suitable ones. It can be stressful at times, most definitely, and the first half of the year requires that you take more time to reassess goals and pay more attention to your health. Romance may be on the back burner until April, as you have much work to do in other life departments. It can become a hot topic in the mind in May and June and yet remain in a state of stalling, and then can really heat up July through September. June brings strong energy for new interests, projects, and learning endeavors. For some of you, professional challenges lead to the need to learn new skills or to take on new projects. Do avoid overloading your plate, however, as your enthusiasm, while wonderful, can also lead you to take on more than you can reasonably handle. Financial boosts are likely in the first half of the year, although spending should be managed well in order for this to last in the long term. Existing projects can enjoy handsome payouts, and some of you could receive special bonuses and other forms of support, in March. Health and fitness are top priorities in the first half of the year. It's also a good time for analyzing how to better approach achieving your goals, both personally and professionally, as you may have reason to believe that recent approaches have been less than successful. Conserve energy for things that truly matter. Career shifts can be sudden this year, especially in June and September, and you will need to be adaptable. More day-to-day contact with friends and family can be healing and pleasurable.
2012 Details.
Until June 11th, Jupiter continues to move through your solar second house.During this cycle, you are likely to see and enjoy benefits to your earning power and value system. Jupiter in this part of your chart could very well bring a profitable and productive period. You are likely to feel more confident and enthusiastic about your ability to earn a living, and this can help you to attract more income, as long as you are realistic. You might decide to develop your talents during this Jupiter cycle, which in turn boosts your earning power. Your income might increase, and there may be an opportunity to improve your future financial situation. However, you may also be just as inclined to splurge on yourself, opting to plump up your nest or your store of personal possessions in order to feel more secure. Money problems from the past may clear up during this period if you use it appropriately, developing budgets and working out ways to better manage your resources. You may be adding to your possessions, you might receive a large item or gift, or a major purchase or sale might occur now. A significant gift or bonus may come your way. This is a good time to work with financial institutions, go for a raise, or apply for a loan. You may need to curb an inclination to overspend--feeling good could bring you to the stores as you temporarily forget about the future! The positive circumstances listed here won't necessarily fall into your lap, and are unlikely to come all at once. You need to keep your eyes open for opportunities in these areas of life.
Because Jupiter rules your sector of travel, foreign affairs, and publishing, these may be sources of income for you during this period.
Jupiter entering Gemini on June 11th puts this planet of growth and expansion in your solar third house. From June 2012 to June 2013, educational and communication opportunities present themselves. You may increase your knowledge and skills set, and find much enjoyment in so doing. During this long-term trend, neighbors or relatives could be especially helpful in your life. You express your ideas with more enthusiasm and positivity, and they are received well. You are able to comprehend more complicated subjects and problems, and you are able to explain them in such a way that others can readily understand; thus, teaching, authoring, or otherwise delivering information may be prosperous now. Higher level studies, courses, and perhaps some travel opportunities might arise during this cycle. Many of you will benefit from taking courses if you aren't already doing so, and those already involved in studies will benefit more than usual during this period. You may decide to buy a new car, or transportation opportunities present themselves, making it much easier for you to get from point A to point B. Gifts, benefits, or other opportunities may come through visits, short trips, messages, emails, or they could come through contacts with siblings, classmates, and neighbors. Some sort of positive news or announcement is likely to be part of the picture. If you're an author, teacher, or other position in communications, you will find more opportunities to advance your trade as your creative juices flow nicely. If you're a student, school is especially favored. If you're in business, you are likely to find sales are especially strong. In general, you find much joy in communicating, learning, and socializing. These positive circumstances won't necessarily fall into your lap, and are unlikely to come all at once. You need to keep your eyes open for opportunities in these areas of life.
The most favorable periods for these matters occur while Jupiter is in direct motion in your solar third house, from June 11th to October 4th. (This transit lasts until June 2013).
Jupiter transits sextile your Sun/Ascendant from June forward. This is a feel-good transit that offers you opportunities to rise above petty concerns and to achieve a more balanced approach to your life. Relationships with others tend to be easygoing, friendly, and positive. It's natural for you to cooperate with others, and others find it easy to cooperate with you! This is a time when you really enjoy life, appreciating the good things and rarely harping on the more inconvenient or annoying elements of life.
Saturn transits your solar seventh house again this year until October. Saturn motivates us to do "spring cleaning" in the areas of life it touches. In your case, significant one-to-one relationships need to be considered and understood during this transit. This is a time when you need to define, understand, and crystallize your significant relationships with others. If you already have a partner, this is a time when any issues surrounding compromise, flexibility, and the ability to give your heart to your partner will surface. Initial frustration in the early stages of this transit this year may take the form of feeling criticized and "examined" in this area of life. By the end of the transit in October, however, you will have learned much about commitment and compromise. Those of you who are single are likely to feel the initial pressures of Saturn transiting the seventh house as well. A feeling of loneliness is possible in either situation (whether you have/had a significant partnership or not), but instead of an issue of re-committing, the single person will seriously think about commitment in general. If involved in a casual love relationship, when Saturn transits the seventh, a pressure emerges concerning the need for evaluating your commitments. Often this transit corresponds with an urge (or pressure) to make a commitment or a re-commitment. Healthy partnerships can be the outcome of this transit, whether they are new ones or strengthened existing partnerships. Saturn always brings with it a fair measure of reality and objectivity, so that whatever relationships you may have now or want to have will be defined and re-defined. Relationships are seen now as serious matters! Partners are no longer simply for amusement or mirrors of your ego. Responsibilities to partners, the need to compromise, and the realities of the needs of others, become clear. You are forced to begin seeing others as individuals, and to improve the manner in which you relate to and with others. Depending on your age and life circumstances, "significant partnerships" can mean partnerships with loved ones, business partnerships, and even deep friendships. By the end of this transit, quantity in the relationship department will have been replaced with quality, and this process involves time, soul-searching, frustration, and eventual fulfillment.
Saturn transits your solar eighth house from October forward. This transit will last until 2015. This is a period when getting what you want from others can be challenging, as you ultimately learn to rely on yourself. You are likely to be more sensitive to what seem like outer world pressures that force you to examine some of your deepest desires and attachments. These include your sexual relationships, your finances (especially with regards to debts and shared finances), and your need for control. You may face some difficulties satisfying your libido and/or encountering problems with intimacy. These pressures are "designed" to make you more aware of your desire nature, and what exactly it is you want. Dissatisfaction and frustrations getting what you want, especially with regard to relationships with others and with your resources, often characterize the first part of the transit. You may discover that previous methods of controlling your environment and the people in your life simply are not effective any more. You may not even be aware exactly how you have been employing power and control before this transit. Saturn's presence in this sector of your chart also urges you to organize your finances. On a psychological level, you face some of your fears that are of a compulsive nature—those fears that lead you to believe you need certain things in order to survive. Taxes might be a big issue during this period. Towards the end of this transit, you will have eliminated some deep-seated habits and attachments that have been keeping you back from feeling emotionally free. You emerge healthier and stronger. When we give in to compulsive behaviors, we give up self-control, and guilt undermines our lives. We are not ourselves. By attempting to control others, we give away our own power over ourselves. By the end of this transit, you will feel considerably more emotionally healthy. You will have nixed some of your addictions, and mastered your superstitions. You will feel more powerful because you have given up attempting to control things you cannot or should not control, and you will have gained a feeling of self-mastery instead.
For those born approximately March 27-31, and those with an Ascendant of 5-1/2 to 9-1/2 degrees Aries, Pluto squares your Sun in year 2012, and fundamental changes in the way you see yourself, how you treat others, and in the direction your career is headed are in store. How you have handled issues of personal power and the sharing of power with others in personal and professional relationships come to the fore. You are likely to experience events that pull up the necessity to share and trust. This year, events and circumstances are such that you learn about your own personal strength. You may have to deal with willfulness and issues of power and competition this year--in others and in yourself. There are likely to be times when you feel on edge, volatile, or even threatened. There is an inner drama taking place this year, and a feeling that external circumstances are undermining your own feeling of powerfulness. In the process, you may be able to get in touch with your internal motivations. A tendency to want to control your life through some form of manipulation is strong during this influence. Meeting with obstacles in your path, however, can force you into the position of using all of your resources to fight back, and you can discover resources you never knew you had in the process! You may slowly uncover a new direction in your career--one that reflects more of the "true you". You may also experience tangles in your close personal relationships, perhaps more so with males. Watch for jealousies and manipulative behavior. Things will not go in your favor if you resort to tactics to get what you want. If you have been feeling somewhat of a victim in your job, for example, then this will be a year when you feel it more acutely and feel the need to do something about it. You could have problems staying calm, cool, and collected at times. Buried resentments come to the fore and demand to be dealt with. Avoid focusing on regrets or dead-end situations, as the tendency to obsess over things that can't or shouldn't be changed runs very high. Resentments and regrets left unattended can have toxic effects, so it's wise to work on overcoming these rather than letting them spoil your life. By the time this transit ends, you are more equipped than ever to go after exactly what it is that you want in life. Superficial areas of your life will be removed or transformed, and you are freer to express your authentic self.
For those of you born March 21-31, Pluto is in your solar tenth house this year. Your ambition is more intense and the need to find deep significance with regards to your social standing or professional life becomes very strong. Some of you might attract negative attention from superiors or from others in your field who are jealous of, threatened by, or finding fault in the work you do. However, any trials and tests that could be stimulated now will push you onto the right path and challenge you to become stronger and more confident in your own abilities. Some of you may be changing jobs or long-term professional goals. Some might continue along the same career path but alter their goals and duties. Others might discover a deep inner need to grow and develop their existing careers or businesses, uncovering ambitions that they never knew they had. Fears of underperforming can come to the fore under this influence, and it's time to find ways to eradicate them.
For those of you born March 24-30, and those with an Aries Ascendant of 3 to 8-1/2 degrees, Uranus conjuncts your Sun/Ascendant and is in your solar first house. This will bring a burst of energy and awareness into your life, marking a time of monumental changes to your identity. Freedom of expression is deeply important to you now. You are making breaks from elements from your past that have limited your freedom or that have kept you from expressing your individuality. This is a time when you are more willing to take personal risks. Uranus is the Awakener, and often "awakens" your consciousness to areas of your life that it touches in surprising ways. As such, there may be unexpected events that free you from confining situations or past conditioning patterns. You are more inspired this year, and your personality fairly bubbles with bursts of enthusiasm. Impulsiveness is something to watch out for, however. Your need for freedom can be so strong that you leave cherished things (or people!) behind. Alienating those close to you may occur now if you're not careful. At the very least, people around you are surprised by your more rebellious and risk-taking nature. While you shouldn't resist change now, you should avoid completely impulsive behavior. Changes in the image you project to others, and perhaps your personal style and appearance, take place this year. You might go through a series of personal makeovers. You are breaking free from the expectations of others now. Your behavior tends to be more spontaneous, and perhaps a little rebellious. Freedom of personal expression is immensely important to you now, and if you turn a few heads or raise some eyebrows in the pursuit thereof, you don't particularly worry about it!
The influence of Neptune is similar to last year for most of you. Neptune continues to transit your solar eleventh house, as it has been doing for a number of years, adding some color and imagination to your social life. For some years now, you may have been faced with the need to draw some boundaries with friends and the demands of others. Your loyalty to certain groups or friends may have been misplaced, for example. You have experienced, and will continue to do so, a subtle yearning to belong with a friend or a group who shares your own ideals. This can lead you to attach yourself to unusual, more spiritual, or downright wacky friends...colorful ones at the very least! However, for those born March 21-23, Neptune begins its transit of your solar twelfth house, It's a pleasant placement for this mysterious and elusive planet. Dreams are especially rich and involved. You pay more attention to synchronicities, signs, symbols, and omens in your life. You are building your faith in all that is "unseen".
Your ruler, Mars, is retrograde from January 23rd to April 13th. This is a time for internalizing and reflection on your actions as well as your personality. Watch for mild paranoia (this is especially true with Pluto in your tenth house), accidents. You may need to reassess your current projects, your approach to getting what you want, and your desire nature. You may be hesitant about taking action, second-guessing your instincts or your natural impulses rather than acting upon them. The way you react to situations under normal conditions doesn't necessarily work for you now, or you don't exactly trust it. When anger is internalized, there can be some rather negative byproducts, such as tension, resentment, depression, apathy, and even some paranoia. On the other hand, it can also be personalized and made more intimate. The goal of a Mars retrograde period is not, however, to simply sit on our impulses or to squelch our enthusiasm. Rather, it's to better understand our impulses, our survival instincts, our anger, our sexuality, our inner courage, and the ways we go about getting what we want from life. The cosmos are asking us to look before we leap rather than throw ourselves into action, just for the time being.
Watch health more closely during this period. Symptoms may be harder to diagnose and may be psychosomatic. Concentrate your energies on reorganizing work or work centers. After April 13th, you will be better equipped to move forward on work projects and to establish new and improved health and fitness routines. From July 3-August 23, relationships heat up. Problem areas in current partnerships become insistent and can be dealt with hands-on. Single Aries might begin to pursue a relationship more heartily and with more confidence. You might meet more aggressive or assertive people during this cycle. From November 16-December 25th, energy is poured into work and establishing a professional reputation.
Eclipses in 2012 fall in your third and ninth houses and your second and eighth houses. You are receiving a cosmic push to become more active in your immediate environment (neighborhood, with siblings/relatives, etc.), and/or to learn and communicate facts that fuel your opinions. Transportation and mobility may become an issue. For example, some of you may be learning to depend on others for getting from point A to point B, and others may be learning to take charge of their own mobility. As well, some drama with regards to a spouse's income, or your taxes and investments, may occur on a mundane level. It may be time to settle some of your debts, financial or otherwise. What makes you feel comfortable and secure needs to be balanced with attention to other people's needs and comfort levels. Shuffling around your finances is likely this year. You might find others are supporting you financially, but you need to avoid creating dependencies that will put you back where you started.
From June to September, you may encounter some challenges between your personal goals and the demands of your career. The urge to expand and pursue your worldly goals is great, but you are also intent on a certain level of freedom to explore life. Of course, in order to further your career, you need to cultivate some self-discipline. This naturally comes at the expense of your personal freedom at times.
A positive connection between your second and tenth houses in March suggests some material benefits coming from your career. Increased focus on plumping your income figures strongly. Alternatively, you may have more resources to invest into your career or business. You may find that you are more able to earn a living from what you truly love doing. More determination to boost your income is likely. Financial support may be easier to come by, and tricky financial problems can more easily be resolved during this period. Publishing or promotional efforts can be especially persuasive. Those of you involved in higher education studies are likely to find that you're more focused and determined.
