The sun moves into Pisces on the 19th and the annual full moon in this sign takes place on the 21st. Pisces represents your financial sector and also your possessions. Pisces is an indefinite sign by nature, and it tends to take a vague approach to your possessions. If you need to go shopping this month before the 8th when Venus is in Pisces, take someone with you. It’ll be more fun. If you can wait until the 8th or later, Venus in Aries will make it much more obvious what you want. Otherwise, all this Pisces energy basically means it’s time for you to do your annual financial review.

Mars is now moving retrograde through your solar 8th house of intimacy, which makes him wonder–what exactly is the purpose of your relationship these days? This happens to be a good question, and well worth pondering if you have the time. If something is the matter in your intimate relationship, it’s time to ask questions. This may not exactly set the stage for a super-romantic Valentine’s Day, but your chart is actually far more interested in knowing the reality than super-romance.

What about your year ahead? Let’s start with your ruler Uranus, which is moving forward through the early degrees of Aries, in your solar 3rd house. The 3rd house represents basic knowledge, facts, curiosity, statistics, superficial contacts, learning, studying, thinking, and writing. Anything your ruler emphasizes, he wants you to emphasize in your life. Uranus will stay here throughout the year and indeed for about 7 years.

Interestingly, Saturn is in your other knowledge house right now, and he stations this month before turning retrograde on the 7th. Saturn rules rules! That’s right, he governs things such as regulations and principles that can be applied to a sphere of activity. Saturn wants you to structure your understanding of the world, to take the basic and superficial knowledge Uranus has you gathering and turn it into generalizations and principles you can actually use in your everyday life. That sounds kind of abstract because Saturn’s in an abstract house.

But the basic idea can be brought down to earth by doing things such as planning a daily schedule or routine or your yearly goals based on the realization that you must have the intellectual stimulation Uranus wants for you. Structure satisfying your curiosity into your life, and both Uranus and Saturn will be happy. Both planets want to know what is actually happening, and Saturn wants to know how you will choose to interpret things. Uranus is the collector; Saturn is the analyzer and the creator of reference points. Creating your yearly plan is perhaps the most important thing you can do this month. Saturn will stay here, analyzing and creating reference points until October, when he’ll turn his attention to your career.

The other big news of the month is Neptune moving out of your sign for good, for the rest of your life. Neptune’s the planet that wouldn’t know a fact or a statistic if it slapped him in the face, who hates analysis and who operates without any reference points whatsoever. The fact that he’s leaving your sign essentially means you are getting your regular Aquarian mind back, and you’ll be able to think straight without his foggy interference. You haven’t been able to do that since 1998!

Where will Neptune go? Well, he’ll join Chiron in your second house of financial and personal security. Neptune and Chiron can both be favorable financial planets and you may actually find your finances to be in good or at least satisfactory shape as Neptune works his way (for another 14 years) through this part of your chart.

Meanwhile, Jupiter continues to grace the area of your chart that relates to your actual house, the building where you live. Make yours as nice as possible while you’ve got Jupiter’s help to do so. Remember that Jupiter’s motto is bigger is better, and he loves exaggeration. If you do, too, you’re in luck; otherwise temper his enthusiasm with a bit of caution. In mid-June, Jupiter will move on to the sign of Gemini and your solar 5th house of general happiness. Yes, Jupiter will be in a happy mood here with just about everything in your life, including love and relationships.

Finally, let’s talk about Pluto in Capricorn in your solar 12th house. Pluto also emphasizes learning by experience, but he has another agenda as well. Pluto represents power; in Capricorn he represents the combination of power and prestige or perhaps the power of reputation. Pluto here in 2012 (and many years beyond) is trying to sneakily get you to extend your influence behind the scenes and thus increase your power and prestige.

In February, not only will the sun move into your second house of earnings, but so will super-arty Neptune. Neptune is the patron saint of artistic endeavors and he’ll move into your earnings house and make himself at home for years to come. In other words, you can show off your natural creative skills. If you don’t think you have any, start revising your opinion of yourself because Neptune is going to beg to differ. Obtain your money either through artistic products or creative services. Healing arts and services count, too, as Chiron (the wounded healer) has moved into your earnings house as well for quite a long stay.

Of course, the Pisces planets decline to say how much money exactly you can earn (being specific is not their style), but some at least. You may well need it because the other half of the money equation involves Mars in Virgo, also a fairly long-term trend in the sense that it lasts until July. Mars in Virgo represents the expenses and outgo portion of the money situation. Mars stations and then retrogrades this month, on the 23rd. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll lose money, but it could indicate that a lot of it will be exchanging hands.

Now on to the not so long term trends. Try hard to achieve completion on some sort of a work or health project by the full moon on the 9th. The new moon, your birthday wish new moon, is on the 23rd. Go out with your friends before Mercury leaves Sagittarius on the 7th. Use the power of touch for psychological healing when Mercury is in Capricorn from the 8th to the 27th. If you want to take a short trip, Mercury in your sign will give the go-ahead as of the 28th and into next month.

Finally, to move from the concrete to the abstract, January is your traditional annual oneness with life month, as planets gather in Capricorn and your solar 12th house. If wrapping yourself in the warm fuzzy blanket of the universe doesn’t appeal, you could always bring things a bit more down to earth in Capricorn fashion and wrap yourself in a literal warm fuzzy blanket, sip some warm beverages and enjoy the coziness of winter.

The theme of realism starts with energy in all three earth signs, the mighty masters of the real. The earth signs in your chart represent family, sex, and behind the scenes matters. With regard to one or all three of these areas, the message seems to be clear: accept your situation as it is and deal with it accordingly. If this is hard at first–well, practice will make perfect.

On the subject of relationships in general, many different things are going on. Friendship relationships are highlighted in a positive way with the sun and Mercury in Sagittarius as the month opens. You certainly appear to be surrounded by friendly people. Give generously to your friends as your friends have given and are giving to you. This is not just about money and gifts either. Express your feelings to them, let them know of your gratitude for their presence in your life. That’s the best kind of holiday spirit in your chart this year.

Sexual relationships and sexual feelings are highlighted because Mars has parked himself in your solar 8th house of sexuality for an astonishing 7 1/2 month stay! He teams up with planets in Capricorn to help you get real about your sex life this month, whatever getting real may mean in your particular situation. It may simply mean acknowledging the desires you have.

Love relationships are highlighted because there’s a lunar eclipse on December 10 in your solar love life house. This kind of astrological event is the universe’s equivalent of throwing a wild card into the poker game. Things can change in an instant. If you thought you were behind, suddenly you could come out ahead. If you thought the cards were all in your favor, you could suddenly find out your partner is has been concealing cards you knew nothing about. Things could get kind of intense, especially with Venus hiding in the 12th house of your solar chart then, keeping secrets. The bottom line is that you’ll need to adapt. Things do lighten up when Venus moves into your own sign on the 20th of the month.

Now, about that behind the scenes thing I mentioned. There’s a new moon in Capricorn on December 24. If you are following the theme of the month and being realistic, you can use it. Claim your power at this time by exercising influence behind the scenes. None of that out front stuff, not just yet.

Finally, a couple of notes. Christmas looks to be a family party, with festive Jupiter stationing in your solar house of home and family on the day itself. And Mars in Virgo can also mean that you need to be quite careful when it comes to taxes, insurance, and billing matters. Especially with Mercury retrograde during the first half of the month, make sure you remain detail oriented when dealing with paperwork.

The most emotional time seems to be around the 10th of the month, when there’s a full moon in your family sector, Neptune turns direct, and Mars moves from Leo to Virgo. It’s as though some emotional tension is released at this time. Whatever has been suspended is now able to move forward.

Now let’s talk about your career. Show your tenacity during the first three weeks of the month while the sun is in Scorpio, your career sign, and you are likely to achieve success. Stay the course, as a former president used to say. Of course, the fact that it seems that you are to stay the course indicates that someone or something is causing you difficulty or opposing your efforts. This may indeed be the case, because although the sun in your chart wants to focus on your career, other planets have their own agendas and other things they think need to be dealt with. Sometimes this indicates that other people will be getting in your way; at other times it is simply a pile-up of circumstances that causes the crunch.

Thankfully, there’s also new energy non-fixed energy in the zodiac this month. The new energy comes from the sign of Sagittarius, a chatty, conversational sign that represents your solar 11th house of socializing. You appear to be surrounded by people once the sun enters Sagittarius on November 22nd. A couple of days later, on Thanksgiving in the US, Mercury goes retrograde in Sagittarius.

The day after that, on the 25th of November, there’s a new moon eclipse in Sag. Mercury retrograde in this sector seems to indicate that it is time for you to talk about whatever you’ve been dealing with earlier in the month. It’s not entirely clear why you seem to be biting your tongue as the month opens, but that seems to end as Mercury goes retrograde. Explain your situation to others, express yourself, rehash events if you need to.

Mercury will be in Sagittarius, by the way, all the way into the first week of the new year. Throughout the month, you may meet new people or reconnect with people from your past. The eclipse itself is a bit of a wild card. Eclipses, when they affect an individual, can seem like a bit of fate.

Eclipses change circumstances, often without any real effort on the part of the person being affected. That’s not always the case, but this eclipse falls in your sector of hopes and wishes, and that makes it somewhat more likely to manifest in a magical kind of way way. This eclipse may have made itself felt in October or it may not show effects until Christmas time. You can keep your eyes open and see what develops.

Venus is also in Sagittarius from the 2nd through the 25th. Venus in this sector represents the exchange of gifts between you and your friends. Not necessarily tangible gifts, although don’t rule that out! But the gift of companionship, festivity, affection. It’s a nice time to get yourself dolled up, don some bling, and go out to have a good time.

Now, a little bit more about Mars moving into Virgo. Mars moves into the this sign on the 10th, as I’ve mentioned. Due to retrograde, Mars will stay in Virgo all the way until July of next year, about 7 1/2 months.

The sign of Virgo in the Aquarian solar chart represents the sector of depth, the solar 8th house. Depth can mean a lot of different things, and the 8th house is almost always a bit mysterious. For whatever reason in your own life, you seem to be living through some sort of a heavy or uncertain situation for awhile, especially as Neptune makes its way through the end of your sign for a final goodbye. (Neptune leaves your sign for good in February 2012.)

Whatever process is taking place is natural, although perhaps a bit confusing. The purpose of Neptune, it is said, is to teach us that spiritual values are more important than physical comfort or material possessions. Neptune seems to be reinforced in this message because your soul houses (4th, 8th, and 12th) are all highlighted until June, when the energy starts to change. For the moment, strength in the material world comes through attention to the spiritual one.

One is your home life. Jupiter, the patron planet of learning from experience, is currently gliding through your home sector. What have you learned in your life about what you like and don’t like about your domestic life? Take the time to describe your experiences early in the month and you’ll be poised to take advantage of a week of good aspects between powerful Pluto and Jupiter during the time period from the 22nd of the month on. You can bring yourself that much closer to the ideal home if you put some effort into the enterprise.

The month also opens with a number of planets in Libra in your solar sector of learning by experience. This line-up is a bit more philosophical and less practical than outlining your ideal home life. These planets, including Saturn, have more to do with learning about the concept of reliability itself. The sign of Aquarius on its own can veer between extraordinary reliability and complete flakiness. What have you learned about how reliability works in your own life–in yourself and others? Take the time to recall your experiences with this concept; see what you discover.

Apply what you learn to your career starting at mid-month, when Mercury and Venus will enter your career sector. These lessons will be especially valuable if you are self-employed or an entrepreneur. Evaluate your career ambitions as the month continues and the sun enters Scorpio on the 23rd. If you are looking for a new job or career path or angling for a promotion, go big! Study your supervisor or potential supervisor for clues and be ruthlessly honest with yourself about what you will and will not do in pursuit of your aspirations.

Meanwhile, Mars in your relationship sector may  indicate demands that compete with the other items on your to-do list. Neptune in your own sign creates even more need for understanding how you relate to the concept of reliability, because Neptune’s not very reliable at all and he’s getting ready to move his butt off of your sign’s couch for the rest of your life. You may be able to forge a whole new relationship with the concepts of being dependable and not a flake.

The bottom line is that this could be a big, challenging month for you, with lots of planetary weather to contend with. Yet, you will most likely learn a lot and gain valuable perspective.

As it so happens, this musical vibe goes along with energy in your solar 8th house of healing this month. Venus here is an antidote to anxiety and distress and music is proven to diminish both. If your anxiety and distress happen to be financial, Venus in this position (until the 15th) can help with that too. Calm yourself, be gentle with yourself (and others); that’s the gist of Venus in the 8th.

The sun’s in the healing sector of your chart, too, until the 23rd. That means it’s in Virgo. Virgo is a sign of observation and of specifics, of naming and of words. You can use this energy by sorting and classifying your joint financial affairs and debts–not trying to do anything with them, just observing what’s going on and gathering the data. This is an especially good idea if Neptune when it was in Pisces and your personal financial house earlier this year got you all confused and misled about where your finances actually stand.

At mid-month, Venus moves into Libra, which represents your solar house of learning and knowledge and big picture wonder at the awesomeness and majesty of life. Go out at night and look into the starry skies for a dose of the cosmic perspective that this sector of your chart represents.

Speaking of the big picture, the second half of September sees a reprise of heavy energy in the fixed signs like yours. We’ve already mentioned Jupiter in Taurus and Neptune in Aquarius; Mars in Leo gets added to the mix after the 18th. (And Mercury’s in Leo until the 9th.) Planets in fixed signs don’t really like anything to change if they can help it. They’re foot-draggers.

Don’t expect big changes during the second half of September, even if you’re bored and want some. The exception to this would be around the new moon in Libra on the 27th. If you’re involved in legal matters, you may be able to make some changes in your situation then. Other potential changes would be more intangible, such as a change in perspective.

Finally, the energy in Leo this month (Mercury at the beginning, Mars during the 2nd half) refers to your relationships. With Mars in the 7th house, anything can happen in your relationships, positive or negative. In either case, this is a temporary transit, not likely to change the underlying stability of a committed relationship. If your significant other is grumpy, you’re grumpy, or the two of you are feeling argumentative, chalk it up to a mood that will pass.

Still, all the major planets in fixed signs like your own this month are averse to disturbances, and they are generally stolidly uninterested in stirring anything up. So perhaps your first priority of the month should be to follow their lead. Put on your objective Aquarian hat and look about you with the idea “I am neither disturbed nor noticeably affected by conflict or drama this month.”

That doesn’t mean you should be cold or lacking in compassion this month. That’s not at all what these peaceful planets are about. When Mercury goes retrograde and Mars starts stirring up conflict, you absolutely may ask other people what the matter is and render assistance. Check in with other people and see how they’re doing. Your planets make you well-positioned to benefit from sincere expressions of concern for others. A good time to check in would be the second week of the month, which has some gnarly aspects.

So who in your environment is likely to be upset or need tending to? The conflict vibes emanate from your 6th house of co-workers, so that’s a strong possibility. Neighbors are another, classmates, people from foreign countries, people who are ill or hospitalized. Random people who could benefit from random acts of kindness. Regard everyone you encounter this month as an individual worthy of your respect. You’re naturally good at this, so why not make use of your inborn skills? Be understanding.

The reason for all this selflessness, by the way, is not just because Aquarius is often regarded as an altruistic sign. It’s because this is the time of year when the inner planets are heavily weighted on the opposite side of the zodiac. Pushing your own agenda or tooting your own horn or even worrying about your own situation aren’t going to get you very far at this time of year anyway. Rather than fighting the energy, you can use Neptune to help you just go with the flow.

As of the 21st, inner planets start moving into Virgo and your solar 8th house of research, investigation, and inquiry. Excellent time to start a project involving these things is around the time of the new moon on the 28th.

Explore your personal or family history. Decide where you want to go, what point you want to reach in the next 6 years and how you might get there. Your journalistic musings need not be formal. Casual remarks work just as well and maybe better.

Uranus in Aries, Neptune in Pisces, and Pluto in Capricorn will all help with this endeavor too. Speaking of Neptune, it is currently transiting your solar sector of material objects and perhaps encouraging you to want a lot more of them. Time to find your way through the thicket of desires by asking yourself the right questions. Part of it is asking yourself what you ought best to be doing for a living.

Neptune is the planet of wholeness, and in this sector, he wants to guide you toward a source of income that reflects your whole self. At the end of the month (the 29th), Mercury will move into practical Virgo, the sign that wars with impractical Pisces. It’s at this point that you’ll be able to get a glimpse of any ambivalence you have about the way you make money.

On a related note, Aquarians have planets in both sectors of the solar chart that relate to writing. You have a mix of factors that relate both to short pieces (Uranus in Aries) and longer works, such as books (Saturn in Libra). One tactic to deal with both influences might be to work collaboratively with a group by assigning each member a chapter. Or by working in short chapter-length bursts toward a longer project.

Meanwhile, sexy animal Mars is spending all month in your solar sector of love. Get out your friendly Aquarian microscope and study the desires of your significant other so you can learn what he or she wants and needs in matters of intimacy. How much space does he or she need compared to you, for example. The payoff is more and better sex and love, especially as Venus moves into your 7th house of relationships at the end of the month (on the 28th). You can get closer to your lover this month if you just pay attention.

On that note, be present when you are with him or her; think about we instead of I.  An excellent day for amorous communication is the 4th of July. Not such an excellent day, the 7th of July. Thus, a short trip over the holiday weekend might be a real tonic for your relationship if you don’t extend into the week after. By the way, if you have children, pay attention to them too!

There is also a solar eclipse in Cancer this month, on the 1st, which can also impact your relationships. It’s the last one in a series that has been trying to affect your work or health. This eclipse may change your personal relations with co-workers, presumably in a positive way.

Aquarius often gets close with co-workers, feeling them to be like family. With Venus moving into Cancer soon after the eclipse, you may feel a new level of comfort with those you work with. Other possibilities for this eclipse include starting a new health regime or getting a new pet!

There are also two eclipses this month, a new moon eclipse in Gemini on the 1st and a full moon eclipse in Sagittarius on the 15th. You may feel the eclipse on the 1st; you may not. Not all eclipses will affect you. In case this one does, be prepared to use the energy for pleasure, children, or a fresh start in your love life. This is the type of eclipse that can bring someone new into your orbit.

The eclipse on the 15th falls in your humanity-oriented solar 11th house, the house associated with your sign. On a small level, it can affect relationships with a person who is a friend or someone you know through a group. On a broader level, it can signal a shift in your orientation toward people in general. Your ruler Uranus is associated with this house as well, and Uranus is  in your solar 3rd house of communication. During the week or so before this lunar eclipse, give some thought to how you communicate with people in general. Are your communication practices in line with the values you dug up during the first part of the month? If not, adjust accordingly.

Eclipses aside, this is a good time to get together with your family or to invite people over to your home. Mars in Taurus will give an extra boost to your entertaining efforts, so try to schedule your get-together for the days before the 20th, when it leaves for Gemini. In Gemini, Mars will jazz up your interactions with lovers and/or children. Pay special attention to both as the month ends.

You could end up the king or queen of crossing items off your to-do list. If possible, hit the ground running right as the month begins. The 1st, when Mars and Jupiter join forces, is a day full of purpose.

The energy shifts on the 15th and focuses on staying in and tending to the home front. Your chart becomes reluctant to leave the neighborhood, your comfort zone, or to venture out of your immediate environment. By the 22nd, the sun has moved into Gemini, and the only two planets left in Aries are Jupiter and Uranus. The other inner planets are lagging in Taurus. The Taurus energy is related to things, to material objects.

With Mars in Taurus from the 11th through the end of the month, the waning days of May are days to invest in the stuff you need or want for your home. If you have stuff you don’t need or want, get rid of it. If you have things you need to replace, replace ‘em. If you need to invest in some new items for the home, do that.

Mars is also the planet of anger. One consequence of Mars in the 4th house, which is where he’ll be in your chart, can also be anger at family members or people who share your living space. In truth, the same can be said about all the Aries energy. Mercury in Aries can also indicate anger with relatives in general.

However, the Aries energy is softened this month by close harmony between Mercury and Venus, especially during the period between the 8th and the 16th. If tensions are building in your family constellation, it might be good to mend fences before Mars goes roaring into your solar 4th house on the 11th. On the 11th itself, there’s a duo of conjunctions with Jupiter from Mercury and Venus. You should be able to either find agreement on contentious matters or say what you need to say. In fact, the general principle during this fiery month is to say it, not act it out.

That’s kind of the mood your chart is in all April. It needs to arm-wrestle. To win. To impress. It needs to be not afraid.

All of this is due to the sun, new moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus transiting through Aries in April. That’s a lot of things transiting through Aries. The energy actually began in January, and it’s been building ever since.

The thing is, you’re going to arm-wrestle with words instead of your body. As of the new moon on April 3. Mark the date. You’re going to set an intention to use your words in April.

You may already have an idea brewing in the back of your head from March. You may already have word-y projects on your plate that you are required to complete. You may even be drowning in words by the time the bulk of the energy subsides by mid-May. But stay strong and healthy; you have a lot to say.

After mid-May, the emphasis on words in your chart will continue, although at a less frenetic pace, as will an emphasis on casual connections. Uranus will be in the communication sector of your chart until 2018. You’ll be busy; you’ll have a lot to coordinate, and yes, you will win and you will impress. A new era is dawning in your life.

Speaking of which, Neptune sneaks into Pisces for awhile this year, starting April 4. I would like to say that Neptune will bring with him certainty to your finances. But Neptune is a doubting planet, and he will be examining your money situation with a certain anxiety. He’s made a reservation to stay in your financial guest room for 4 months this year, trying to figure out your next moves. In the meantime, deal with the communications imperatives first and let Neptune ponder your cash flow in the background.

The example would be the recent overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, in which a bunch of really angry and formerly frightened individual I Egyptians got together peacefully and turned into a great big effective we. It’s the addition of Uranus to an otherwise ordinary amount of Aries energy that turns turns the paradoxical task of turning ‘I’s’ into a ‘we’ an imperative right now. Venus is also in your sign until the 27th, which encourages you to literally put your best face forward. And Neptune is in the very last degree of your sign, getting ready to move into Pisces in April for a 4-month stay. All of this adds up to a potentially quite satisfactory month for Aquarius, especially when we throw in some inner planets in Pisces to help your money situation.

So how to use all this energy effectively? Actually, you can probably just let things be during the first week of the month. As Mercury moves into Aries on the 9th and Uranus moves into Aries on the 11th, you want to get started prioritizing. You are going to help turn I’s into a we through the medium of communication. What do you want to communicate about first and what do you want to be your vehicle of communication? Decide. By the 21st, when the sun in Aries conjoins Uranus in Aries, you want to grab your insight about how individual experience can be related the universally human experience. Then you want to put your communication strategy into practice, expecting some resistance on the 28th when the sun squares Pluto.

It all sounds rather high-falutin’ but in reality in can be very small scale. It can be patching up a quarrel between friends, easing a tense atmosphere at work or helping your children resolve their differences. You’ll just be doing these mundane things on purpose, because Uranus is informing you how very important they are.

So what does this mean? Let’s break it down bit by bit. First we’ll tackle the Jupiter influence. Jupiter rules a person’s guiding principles. So haul out yours, whatever your personal motto might be and paste it to your forehead or write it on a sticky note and put it in a visible place. You want to be guided by your principles and not your emotions.

Step 2: New moon in your sign. This occurs on February 2nd, nice and early in the month. Write down, or at least articulate to yourself, a sentence that you want to encapsulate what the year of 2011 will mean to you. Do this around the time of the new moon and then let it go. Don’t attempt to force the manifestation into being, just articulate it and let it go.

Step 3: Use the sun and Mercury in your sign to figure out what you must do or what you ought to do and distinguish these things from what you want to do. Figuring out what you have to do will let you know how much space you’ll have for the things you want to do.

Step 4: Now that you’ve been very logical and organized, allow yourself to actually feel the desire for things you want and let that desire rev you up to take at least one solid action toward at least one desire. This set of exercises will get you all teed up and ready to go for your solar year.

As for the year ahead, well I suppose the biggest development will be that Neptune will leave your sign between April 4 and August 4 for the first time since the late 1990s. You probably barely even remember what things were like in your life before Neptune came along. The implication of this is that for 4 months, you’ll be able to be specific about things instead of indefinite and general. Neptune’s been very loathe to let you get down to brass tacks and take full control of your life. He’ll loosen his grip a little soon and you’ll get a peek at what life on the other side of this transit will be like.

Mars and Aries are known as the warriors of the zodiac/planets, so keep that in mind during the second half of the month as you feel your impulses stirring. You can express the energy any way you like, as long as you understand that it’s there. The sun will also be in your sign from the 20th, adding even more kick to the last 10 days of the month. Nor can we forget that Neptune and Chiron are still in your sign, as they’ve been for seemingly forever. The combination of all these influences could end up making you a bit recklessly daring as you get closer to your birthday. You’ll need to decide for yourself whether recklessly daring is just the kind of thing you need to counteract the winter doldrums or if it’s the sort of thing you’ll regret later.

The first half of the month is not without its bold energy, either. There’ll be an eclipse in Capricorn on the 4th, with Mars fairly close by in the same sign. Although an eclipse in Capricorn is rarely that significant for Aquarius, it is possible that you’ll embark upon some venture related to spiritual power and increasing yours. You may also remove a psychological block or receive some information previously hidden from you. With Jupiter and Uranus conjunct in your financial house, you could also begin a bold income-producing venture as well.

As for the rest of 2011, by the time mid-March comes around, you may want to buy yourself a t-shirt that says “I survived the Uranus in Pisces transit.” This transit has hit a lot of people hard; it hit Aquarians mostly in their pocketbooks. It’ll be over for good in March, and you can consider yourself a bona-fide survivor. Admittedly, Neptune will hit the pocketbook part of your chart in April, but it’s not nearly as disruptive as Uranus. Plus, when Neptune moves into Pisces, you’ll be able to get yourself another t-shirt that says “I survived the Neptune in Aquarius transit.” Admittedly, Neptune will only leave your sign between April and July in 2011. But still…you are so close to having gotten through two major challenging eras in your life that your chart can almost taste freedom in the air.