Joseph Polansky - Your Personal Horoscope 2009 - Month-by-month Forecasts for Every Sign

We also see a complete transformation of your industry, the leaders of your industry and your corporate hierarchy in coming years. This won’t happen overnight, but over many years. A few years from now you will hardly recognize your industry or your corporate hierarchy; the changes will be deep and profound.

With ALL the long-term planets above the horizon of your chart (and Pluto right on the Midheaven) there is great ambition. You need to be careful not to ignore family or to ride rough shod over others in your drive to the top. Your intense interest could be seen as a ruthlessness by others.

Your most prosperous periods this year will be from February 3 to July 5.

Your best career periods will be from January 1 to 20; April 19 to May 20; August 22 to September 22 and December 21 to 31.

Your 7th House of Love and Marriage is not a House of Power for most of the year (until October 29). Thus, until that time I expect a status quo kind of situation. Marrieds will tend to stay married and singles will tend to stay single. Of course singles will date and have fun—they will have a social life—but there doesn’t seem to be anything special on the horizon.

As Saturn moves into your 7th House on October 29, he will bring many changes to your love and social life. As we mentioned earlier, he will test existing marriages and business partnerships in the same sort of way a company road tests a new vehicle. It gives the vehicle some rough handling—abnormally rough handling—to see where the flaws are—to see how the vehicle handles stress—and to see how reliable the vehicle is. This road testing is very valuable to the maker; improvements can either be made or the vehicle can be released for production. So it is with your marriage and business partnerships. They get some rough handling. If you perform well, you will have an enduring marriage or partnership and will know where and how you can improve things.

Faulty marriages, like faulty vehicles, will probably get destroyed by the road testing. The cosmos wants the best for you, and will send you another partner in due course.

The Horoscope is not only showing us the problems in love, but also the cure. If the marriage is troubled, there is a need to make it the priority in your life, to keep your full focus on the marriage. You sort of have to make it your ‘spiritual mission’ for the year. Only that kind of priority can save it (and both parties have to be willing to do this). Also, it might help to be more helpful in your spouse’s or partner’s career; be a staunch advocate and supporter of it.

There is a whole reorganization of social life happening after October 29. Jupiter in your 11th House is bringing you all kinds of new friends and acquaintances. Perhaps you are socializing too much to the detriment of other areas of your life. So, Saturn will come and test these friendships and force you to focus only on the good ones. Saturn’s philosophy is ‘better to have a few good friends than to have hordes of mediocre ones’.

After October 29 singles are probably better off staying single. There is a need to review your love attitudes and what your true needs are. Date less, but make the dates you go on more serious and of a higher calibre. You are in a period where the cosmos is showing you that love and marriage is not just a ‘good time’ but has many serious responsibilities attached to it.

Saturn moving through the 7th House is not considered an especially happy transit for love. Yet it does have some very positive points to it, some of which we mentioned. When he is through with you, your marriage, partnerships and social life will be solid indeed, reliable, of good quality and healthy. Also, it shows that you will be mingling with people of high status—his political or corporate power—in the year ahead. You will have a more practical approach to love.

Saturn, your career planet, in the 7th House often shows the classic office romance: romance with the boss or superior. The danger with these kinds of relationships is that they can become purely material and utilitarian, without any deep feelings of love involved.

Our discussion above relates to those in or working on their first marriage. Those in or working on their second marriage will have a status quo kind of year. Marrieds will tend to stay married and singles will tend to stay single. There are love opportunities with friends, introductions of new friends, and in groups and organizations.

Those working on the third marriage have very wonderful marriage aspects now and a marriage or serious relationship is likely.

Your best love and social periods this year will be from September 23 to October 22 and from October 15 to 29.

Venus will make one of her rare Retrogrades from March 6 to April 17. This tends to introduce glitches in the love life. Relationships seem to go backwards instead of forwards. But there is a spiritual purpose here: to review your current love situation and see where improvements can be made. Better to make long-term love decisions after April 17. (By the way this Retrograde also applies to finances.)

Spirituality has been an important focus for some years now and the trend continues in the year ahead. Uranus is in your 12th House. Thus you are (and if not, you should be) exploring the scientific side of spirituality. A good scientific understanding of what you are doing will be a great help in keeping the faith during the tough times. The spiritual side of Astrology also seems interesting.

Uranus moving through your 12th House shows that you have been (and will continue) making dramatic changes in your spiritual regime and practice. It seems to me that these changes have been coming from inner revelation. And you can expect more of this in the year to come. Revelation will hit you with the suddenness of a lightning bolt. You might practise, practise, practise and nothing seems to be happening. Then one day, when you least expect it, boom! You have inner revelation and everything in your life changes.

This is a year for friendship and group activities, but it seems to involve spirituality as well. You are attracting spiritual kinds of friends. You are involved with spiritual groups and organizations.

Your spiritual mission for the year ahead (as it has been for the past two years) is staying healthy, learning more about your health, and incorporating healthy habits into your everyday life. It is also about developing your own personal healing abilities—we all have them. Being of practical service to others will not only help you in your worldly career, but also spiritually as well. Leadership is a form of service to others and you are seeing this more clearly in the year ahead.

After October 29, your spiritual mission will change. It will be about being there for your friends and spouse, supporting them and helping them.

Best Days Overall: 3, 4, 12, 21, 22, 30, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 10, 11, 16, 17, 23, 24

Best Days for Love: 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 6, 7, 9, 10, 16, 18, 19, 25, 26, 28, 29

Best Days for Career: 6, 14, 15, 23, 24

You begin your year with 80 to 90 per cent of the planets above the horizon. Your 10th House of Career is very powerful: 50 per cent and sometimes 60 per cent of the planets are either there or moving through there this month. You are right in the middle of a yearly career peak. This is the main interest and focus in the coming month. Your 4th House of Home and Family, by contrast, is empty. So you can safely de-emphasize family concerns and focus on your career. No question that this is the best way to serve your family. You are working hard, no question about it, fending off competitors and doing whatever you need to do to reach your goals. What I like here is that you are personally recognized, not just for your career achievements but for who you are. You are honoured and appreciated by the powers that be. You are on top, probably above everyone in your family and above your spouse or current love. You are calling the shots. Last year was a beautiful career year, and the trend continues this month. Pay rises and promotions are still likely. The only fly in the ointment (here on Earth things are seldom perfect) is the Retrograde movement of your career planet, Saturn. This suggests that you need to do more homework on the various career opportunities or promotions that are coming your way—they might not be what they seem.