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

Last month (December 2008) the planets shifted from the social western sector of the Horoscope to the independent East. This trend is now in full swing for the next 6 months or so. You are very independent by nature and so this trend is comfortable for you. This is a time to have things your way and to create conditions as you desire them to be. You have more freedom of action now. You are not so much in need of the good graces of others to achieve your goals.

But career interest is waning this month and the focus, little by little, will shift to friendships, group activities and organizations. Jupiter will enter your 11th House on the 5th and the Sun on the 19th. So this is a happy and successful area of life now. Moreover, there is a Solar Eclipse on the 26th that occurs in this House. This suggests that now new friends—important ones—are coming into your life. You are re-evaluating existing friendships—friendships are getting tested—and in many cases, existing friendships will dissolve and new ones will come to replace them. This Solar Eclipse brings dramatic changes in the lives of children, dramas (both personal and financial) in the lives of parent figures, and shakeups in religious or educational institutions you are involved in. Many of you (especially students) will be changing your educational plans—changing schools or changing courses. Your college or university might be making important rule changes that affect you. If you are involved in legal issues, there is now a dramatic turn. Since you have basically good aspects this year, I expect legal issues will go in your favour. Avoid speculations during the eclipse period.

Health is good overall, but rest and relax more until the 19th. The ankles, spine, knees, teeth, bones and overall skeletal alignment need special attention.

Best Days Overall: 1, 8, 9, 17, 18, 27, 28

Most Stressful Days Overall: 6, 7, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21

Best Days for Love: 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18, 27, 28

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18, 22, 23, 27, 28

Best Days for Career: 2, 3, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21

Mercury your health planet starts to move forward on the 1st. It was Retrograde last month from the 11th to the 31st. So now it is safe to make changes to your health regime or diet. Health is much improved over last month, but you can enhance it even further by giving more attention to the same organs as last month—the spine, knees, teeth, bones and overall skeletal alignment until the 14th and the ankles afterwards. It might be wise to see a chiropractor more often this month and to give more support to the ankles, especially when you exercise. Regular ankle massage is good too. Until the 14th, as your health planet is in an Earth Sign, you will get good results from being in places with a strong earth energy: mountains, old forests, caves, or mineral springs. Crystal therapy will be more powerful as well. After the 14th, as your health planet moves into an Air Sign, fresh air is good for you. Breathing exercises will also be beneficial.

A Lunar Eclipse on the 9th shakes things up with family, family members and perhaps parent figures. Children are also affected. They seem to be making important changes to their image, self-awareness and spiritual changes—changes to their spiritual regime or practice. (You too are making important changes to your spiritual regime, probably because of new revelation and understanding.) You seem involved in certain scandals; it might not be with you personally but with people you are involved with. Certain hidden information now gets disclosed and there is some upheaval about this. Flaws in the home tend to be revealed by every Lunar Eclipse and this one is no different. Be patient with family members now. This eclipse will also test love affairs. Unsound ones can dissolve right now.

But singles need not worry about love. Venus, your love planet, crosses your Ascendant from the 2nd to the 4th. Love is seeking you and will find you. There is nothing much you need to do—just show up! Love pursues you, not the other way around. And this will be the case for the whole month. Venus in your own Sign also shows prosperity—financial windfalls that come to you, and expensive personal items, like clothing or jewellery, as well. Venus in your own Sign from the 3rd onwards enhances your physical appearance and glamorizes it. Your sense of style is enhanced. You radiate (unconsciously, without trying) charm and grace and the opposite sex takes notice. What the cosmos might take away by the eclipse, it will replace with better.

Financial opportunities are seeking you out and will find you. This is a prosperous month. You adopt the image of wealth this month too.

Best Days Overall: 7, 8, 16, 17, 18, 26, 27

Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 12, 13, 19, 20

Best Days for Love: 7, 8, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 26, 27

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 10, 19, 20, 28, 29

This month you have three main interests. Like last month, it is a very social month. Friendships, group activities and involvement with organizations are still a dominant interest. But your 12th House of Spirituality is also very strong this month, especially until the 20th. A good period to pursue spiritual and charitable interests, to go on that yoga or spiritual retreat, to take meditation classes or get involved in prayer circles and the like. A good period to review the past year, correct mistakes, re-evaluate and set new goals for the year ahead. You are about to have your personal new year—which begins on your birthday. You want to start this new year—this new cycle—fresh, with a clean slate.

On the 20th, as the Sun enters your own Sign, there is a great interest in the body: the image and the pleasures of the body. You enter one of your yearly personal pleasure periods—a time to pamper yourself and enjoy life.

Health is wonderful all month, but especially after the 20th. The Sun in your own Sign gives you the energy of ten people. (Even older Aries will feel more bouncy now.) If there were health problems in the last month you should experience healings now. Until the 8th you can enhance your health even further by giving more attention to the ankles. Massage them regularly and give them support (you seem more active this month, more into sports and exercise, so this is important). Fresh air—air purity in general—is important until the 8th. Afterwards, enhance the health by giving more attention to the feet: regular foot massage would be wonderful then. After the 8th you will also get good results from spiritual-type healing—meditation, prayer, reiki, the laying on of hands and the manipulation of subtle energies. This will be a wonderful period to advance your knowledge of these things.

The love life is just super. Whether you are looking for fun and games kinds of relationships or something more serious, it is there for you—and these people are seeking you out. You are having your way. Just be yourself and go about your business; these people will find you. Marrieds will find that their spouses are more devoted and attentive. However, Venus starts to Retrograde on the 9th. And this complicates the love life. This is a period for reviewing your relationships and seeing where improvements can be made. And though you have many love opportunities, don’t jump into them right away—let them develop slowly (very difficult for you Aries, but it is wise.)

Like last month there is prosperity. Financial opportunities are seeking you out. There is luck in speculations (especially around the Spring Equinox). Your personal appearance plays a huge role in earnings, and since you look good these days this is a positive wealth signal. Prosperity is only going to get stronger in the next few months. Again Venus’s Retrograde suggests that you do more homework with all the financial opportunities coming to you. They may not be all they are made out to be.