Another possibility is that weirdness will pop into your work life or health status and refuse to leave when told to. This could actually work to your benefit in the long run; a dose of weirdness could give you a whole new perspective, especially if your concerns are health-related. Whatever you do, try not to worry, brood, succumb to anxiety attacks or otherwise overthink things that don’t need to be overthought. Instead, decide what’s important and expend your mental energy on that. Or–use all that Pisces energy on creativity or following your inspiration.

Saturn also goes retrograde in your sign on the 7th of this month. Saturn has a tendency to use this change of direction to present you with a choice–a rock and a hard place kind of a choice. It’s not that you don’t know what to choose; atypically perhaps, that’s not the problem. It’s more that you’re not thrilled with having to do what you need to do or not enthusiastic about making the commitment you have to make. You’ll do the right thing, though; it’s in your nature.

This is also Valentine’s month, and single Librans may be happy with the general tenor of the skies. Venus and Uranus meet up in your relationship sector on the 9th–a great opportunity to start a new relationship, just in time for the holiday. Oh, I’m not promising eternal romance or anything like that, more like a date a for the otherwise dreaded V-day. Of course, the aspect won’t bring anything if you don’t actually try to get a date, but if you do try, the planets may help.

Pluto in your solar 4th house hasn’t forgotten you, either, especially if you were born during the first few days of October. Pluto is attempting to affect your living situation, residence, real estate, or possibly your family. He’s trying to box you in to some situation, force you to take a stand. Or–he’s attempting to bring depth to a situation you hadn’t examined very closely before. Whatever he’s doing, give these matters some attention now so that Pluto doesn’t have an excuse to pounce on you in April when he turns retrograde.

Things look especially lively during the first week of January, when Mercury is still in Sagittarius, your sign of comings and goings, people dropping by, and so on. If you weren’t planning to have guests this January–well, it might be time to change your plans. It looks as though others have news that they are excited to share. Understand that this is all meant to be enjoyable for you (unless you were born at the very end of September or beginning of October, in which case, Pluto is putting pressure on your sun). In fact, enjoy it while you can because things change next month–permanently.

Part of your challenge for 2012 is represented by the movement of Neptune, currently in Aquarius and your 5th house, into Pisces, your solar sector of work. In October of 2012, Saturn will also move out of your sign and into Scorpio, the sign that represents your finances. This will set up a period of more than 2 years of focus in your chart on the realities of work and money. Theoretically, you’ll need to work hard to prove yourself in ambiguous circumstances, since that is what Neptune usually represents. Which makes it all the more important that you take advantage of those times that are not challenging.

In fact, from January 14 through February 7, you actually have more support than normal at work, thanks to Venus (your ruler) in Pisces. If you need a favor, now is the the time to ask.

In other news, Mars in Virgo starts retrograding in January, as of the 23rd. Mars is hidden in your solar 12th house throughout his extraordinarily long stay in Virgo. This is as good a place for him as any, since it puts him behind the scenes rather than getting in your face all the time.

As we noted above, Saturn is also finally starting to wrap up his long tour of your sign. By the end of January, he’ll have penetrated as far into the sign of Libra as he can go, and he’ll begin his annual retrograde in February. What this means to you is that virtually any Saturn issue you’ll have to face has already arisen and no new problems are likely to pop up.

Next on the agenda: stuff around the house. Literal stuff around the house. Venus in Capricorn until December 20 wants to indulge in the sensuality of holiday decorations and she’ll be whiny unless you give in and indulge with her. Go for it.

Third on the agenda: bustling about. The holiday season is Libra’s traditional time for running to and fro, packing the day with errands. This year is no exception. Bustle away.

Fourth on the agenda: Travel. Maybe. There’s a lunar eclipse in your solar house of travel and sometimes that means there is a sudden, urgent need to travel. The eclipse occurs on December 10, but eclipses wouldn’t be able to create their signature sense of urgency if they stuck to a strict schedule. So just keep in mind that something may come up or that any traveling you do may have an unusual significance for you–even if it’s just a romantic escape from the pressures of daily life. (Which wouldn’t be a bad idea, by the way.)

Fifth on the agenda: gifts. Mercury is retrograde until the 13th, which supposedly means that you shouldn’t be purchasing those coveted electronics til after that date. But people will want them anyway and you’ll need to weigh your schedule, pricing, and product availability. Keep the receipts.

Sixth on the agenda (are you getting the idea you have a long list this month? you do): Ambition. Saturn in your sign is covering new ground in your chart this month and that stirs his ambition. It may ambition related to your career or to be a super-good person or to remake yourself in some way, but whatever it is on his mind, he wants you to not just be competent at something but great at it.

Seventh: relationships. Comforting Venus is in your solar house of love as of the 20th of December, but before that Uranus stations in your marriage sector on the 10th. If you’re chafing under restrictions in your relationship, you may feel a sudden urge to bolt, as both of these influences value freedom and neither favors taking the hard or patient way out of a situation. If you don’t want to upset the apple cart, try engaging in extra physical activity this month to blow off some of Uranus’s steam. If you’re a single Libra, there’s a possibility that a friendship could turn into a relationship, especially around the 21st.

Eighth: family. You didn’t think we’d get away without talking about family did you? The sun enters Capricorn, your solar family sector, at the solstice on December 22. With Pluto in Capricorn for the long haul, there are no easy answers when it comes to family at this most traditional of family times. Those born at the end of September or the very beginning of October have it the toughest. Hang in there. A good day to try to figure things out or assuage any worries you have about family relationships comes early in the month, on December 5.

To some degree, the sun in Scorpio this month increases that desire, because Scorpio values the same thing. Pile on to that the fact that Neptune is stationing this month in your solar sector of lovers and dating relationships. Neptune in his own hopelessly romantic way is interested in intimacy too, in the sense that he thinks any love relationship should also be a close friendship. So far, so good.

The kicker is that it has not been all that easy for a number of Libras to get themselves into or maintain the kind of intimate relationship these planets want because Uranus in your opposite sign of Aries is having a terrible time wrapping his head around the concept of we-ness and togetherness. He’s skidding toward a stop this month and will actually turn direct next month. So while most of your chart is ready for love, the lone laggard is still figuring things out. You can perhaps scooch the process along by doing either or both of two things.

One, if you are in a relationship that you value and want to maintain in spite of Uranus’s occasional weirdnesses, do something concrete to show your lover that you care. Show your support. If you are not in a relationship and would like to rectify that situation, give some thought to what you need in a partner to make you feel cared for. If things are not going the way you want, it’s time to literally think about what the matter might be, rather than just wonder or be frustrated.

You may experience some kind of an event that helps you manifest intimacy around the time of the full moon in Taurus on the 10th, just after Neptune goes direct. The ultimate goal of all this activity in your chart is to ensconce you in a situation in which freedom and connectedness flow in their proper balance. Just so you know.

Another big focus in November is your solar third house of words, talking, communication. The sun, Mercury, Venus, and a new moon eclipse all gather in this part of your chart this month. Apparently, you are supposed to be doing a lot of talking! This is also the sector of the concrete mind, the one that likes facts and real life examples, as opposed to abstractions and theories.

Your sign of the concrete mind is Sagittarius, and Sagittarius likes to cover a lot of ground. Sagittarius likes to look at the big picture (including when it comes to your relationships) and then your solar chart likes to look at the parts that make up the big picture and then figure out how everything fits together. In other words, we’re talking about doing a lot of thinking.

Mercury goes retrograde on the Thanksgiving in the US (the 24th) and the new moon eclipse is on the 25th. Sometime around a week or so before or after this time frame, you may get an insight, a way of seeing how everything is supposed to work out. Keep your mind open.

In its own way, October of this year can be thought of as Libra security month. Where does security come from for Libra? Often from relationships. This year, October emphasizes the sexual aspect of relationships, with Jupiter in your 8th house of sex and inner planets massing in the sexy sign of Scorpio.

So intimacy is one source of security. The new moon in Scorpio this year is on October 26 and can represent a time of new beginnings in that area for you if you set an intention around that time. If your sex life is not at the top of your priority list, this new moon is also your security-focused new moon in general, a time when you can think about what you need to do to reduce any feelings of vulnerability.

Of course, relationships need not be sexual for you to find security within them; the important thing is closeness. This month, the weekend of the 7th can find relationships intoxicatingly romantic, while the Halloween holiday can see them become quite confusing. The full moon on the 11th also highlights your relationships, perhaps bringing an issue to closure.

Even if you aren’t in a romantic relationship, the time when the sun is in your sign (until the 23rd this year), is always a good time for you to be with other people and replenish your reserves of good feeling and fellowship. Party it up! Going out with friends is especially highlighted during your birthday month this year, because Mars is in your friendship sign of Leo.

Another source of security of course comes from a healthy financial situation. This month, Venus urges you to go inward to examine your own such situation from the 9th on. Mercury in Scorpio from the 13th on urges you to think about how you can preserve what you have.

Structure is another source of security. Saturn in your sign is trying to give you a chance to set up a structure in your life, a set of routines to make your life easier. This includes simple things such a hair and makeup routine, a good set of clothing that lasts and doesn’t require a lot of care. Get the little stuff running on autopilot, so you have energy to burn on the big stuff that your chart wants to tackle.

As for your year ahead, you’ll see why I put an emphasis on shoring up your sense of security this month. Because the next 12 months are not scheduled to be astrologically secure or astrologically peaceful. Pluto and Uranus clash and crash, making a ton of noise in the heavens. The ancient gods are fighting it out over humanity. People born around the 1st and 2nd of October bear the brunt of the fallout from this cosmic battle of wills.

Whatever your birthday, Pluto’s ensconced at the bottom of your solar chart, restructuring family relationships and your home life. Uranus is parked in your relationship sector and will get back to lobbing surprises at you come December, when he goes direct again. Saturn continues in your sign for the next 12 months, concentrating his re-structuring energies on folks born during the last third of the sign.

Mars goes retrograde, which it does periodically, and will spend an inordinate amount of time in Virgo. This is not especially fatal for your sign, but it’s not good for inner peace either. From November to July, Mars will move back and forth in Virgo in your solar 12th house, doing his best to stir up a vague or not so vague sense of unease. In other words, planetary disturbances abound during the next 12 months.

Why all the hubbub for poor Libra, who only wants tranquility and harmony? Ah well, the planets occasionally get it into their heads that boredom and stagnation are death, and they’re trying to take particular care to see that you’re not bored and that your life does not get stagnant. This is a good thing in the long run because you end up going so much further than your modest sign would otherwise aspire to. In the meantime, secure your foundations and stock up on provisions. Get as organized as you can and then see where the shifting cosmic winds take you.

In the meantime, we have an interesting planetary line-up that seemingly relates to your career. You’ve got Mars at the top of your chart urging you to go balls out in pursuit of whatever it is your career requires you to pursue, but Jupiter and Venus and the sun indicate that you are to do so while relying on behind the scenes support from others. Even though Mars is an independent planet by nature, the overall configuration is more Libra-like, with its ‘no man is an island’ aspects. You seem to feel safer being a part of a greater whole.

What’s interesting is that it’s as though you are briefly to be the unlikely aggressive face of what is actually a team of people with a common goal. The full moon in your job sector on the 12th also seemingly indicates that whatever your team is looking for or trying to accomplish reaches some sort of resolution around that time.

Speaking of the moon, make a note that your own birthday wish new moon is early this year, falling on the 27th of September. Along similar lines, Mercury opens the month in your sector of hopes and wishes. This gives you an opportunity, should you choose to accept it, to write down what you wish for. If you choose to leave the list where someone can stumble upon it before they do their birthday shopping for you, well nothing wrong with that, is there?

By the 25th of September, the sun, Mercury and Venus have all moved into your sign. This is the time to do those annual health things that we are all supposed to do once a year, such as get a checkup. It’s also time to set your major goals and strategies for the year. If you know enough astrology to consult your solar return chart (birthday chart, essentially), that can help you set goals. Or you can ask an astrologer to help you interpret yours. Getting an annual reading is sort of like getting an annual check-up, but for your life direction rather than your physical health. Mars moving into your goal-setting sector on the 18th can also help you clarify your goals this year and will probably prompt you to aim high.

Saturn in your own sign is still urging you to be frugal; it will be doing this for a long time, so hopefully you are adjusting to its cautious vibe. Finally, Uranus and Pluto are still taking aim at September-born Libras, creating a complex configuration known as a T-square with your sun. Your job for the moment is to simplify, simplify, simplify your life so that you are lean and mean and in shape to deal with whatever outward circumstances may arise.

The truth is, the sign of Libra has been subjected to all kinds of trauma over the past couple of years. You’ve been brave. You’ve been effective. You’ve grown and evolved. You’re sick of it.

Your saving grace for the moment is Jupiter in soothing Taurus, another sign ruled like yours by peaceful Venus. Taurus knows the value of just not doing anything for awhile and Jupiter would like you to sneak in a few moments of that here and there where you can. Jupiter is the healing planet and he is literally in your solar house of trauma. Ergo, time to heal from any traumas or pathologies you’ve had to deal with.

The second prescription is to balance that hiding out by your lonesome with some quality socializing time. Venus and the sun in Leo in your party-loving 11th house make friends supportive and refreshing through the 20th of the month. Mercury will also retrograde in this sector of your chart until the 26th. This will seemingly have you spending more time than normal coordinating get-togethers. Some astrologers (a lot, actually) say that coordinating such things will be more difficult than normal, although quite frankly I don’t see that happening in real life.

After the 20th, Venus and then the sun move into your 12th house of the soul, an influence that meshes quite well with Jupiter in Taurus vibe I mentioned earlier. Planets in Virgo mark the annual pre-birthday period when your chart wants to engage in soul-searching. Peaceful, quiet contemplative soul-searching this year, not raggedly self-critical soul-searching. Keep that in mind.

Okay, now that we’ve gone over the soothing energies, let’s tackle the more active ones. Your career is supposed to be heating up this month and your mantra is scheduled to be something along the lines of ‘my actions are effective in accomplishing my purpose.’ You need this mantra because Mars in your career house will be in conflict mode with most of the outer planets. Excessive ambition is not your friend for the moment. All you need to do is accomplish your specific purpose of the moment and let the rest go.

Furthermore, Mars in your career sector also clashes with Uranus in Aries in your relationship sector. Dealing with the brief clash may require a certain amount of bravery on your part. Hence, the motto above. Stick to your purpose and forgo any temptations toward getting sucked into drama or bullied into backing down. The days when the aspects are closest fall between the 9th and the 11th of the month. Face the potential headaches, deal and move on. You can process it all later if you’d like (like around the new moon on the 28th of the month).

This transit is meant to be useful. It’s supposed to teach you something about connection, about equality, about not being able to control everything and not needing to. The bit about not needing to can be a rough lesson sometimes or a mind-blowing one. It rarely occurs to the sign of Libra that relationships do not depend on their ability to control them.

It doesn’t seem plausible to the sign that the beloved others would be able to survive the ups and downs of life without Libra’s gentle, manipulative, behind the scenes plotting, planning, and soothing. The sign of Libra is typically especially apprehensive about the effect of words on people it cares about, thus the famous Libra tact. And yet, sometimes people just say things, without regard for the consequences. Not necessarily out of malice, but because being tactful is hard work and not everyone has the patience for it.

The betting odds are that you will have to deal with this fact of life somehow or another in July. You maybe dealing with radioactive fallout from someone’s shocking announcement, but you may also be learning that the dangers posed by shocking announcements are not as life-threatening as you supposed. I realize this may be scary. Saturn is in your sign and it is his job to make you scared.

Or at least to try to. But the one thing you do have control over is how scared you allow Saturn to make you feel. Or how scared you make yourself feel by dwelling on your fears. So your task in July is really to figure out how scared or brave you want to be and stick to your decision by not letting the fear get out of control. Some of the drastic effects you imagine Uranus bringing may well be imaginary.

With Mars in Gemini in the part of your solar chart that deals with looking at the future, one potential antidote to fear or anxiety might be might be making definite action plans with whoever you are in a ‘we’ situation with. Libra likes contingency thinking, so things like “we’ll do this if that happens, and we’ll do that if this other thing happens” and so on could represent good strategies. This sector of your chart also represents study, so alternatively, it may be a good month for you to really sit down and systematically study something in a field that is relevant to your life.

There’s also a solar eclipse in Cancer this month, on the 1st, that might affect your career path. It is supposed to represent a new start, a fresh chapter in your professional life. If it affects you, you should feel it soon before or after the eclipse date or approximately a month later. Some may have experienced its effects a month earlier.

Toward the end of the month, things get a bit brighter as both the sun and Venus are in Leo (Mercury is there earlier). You can use the energy of your ruler Venus in Leo as of the 28th to enjoy yourself with friends and de-stress.

So…let’s start with Jupiter. Jupiter has been in your solar house of relationships, and the planet Uranus is still there. Among other things, Uranus is the planet of groups of people, so it may be affecting your relationships with groups or perhaps introducing new groups into your life. Jupiter moves into your solar 8th house, where there is still a focus on relationships, but more specifically intimate relationships where two people unite for a common purpose or form a couple. A keyword might be ‘we.’ Mars is also in this sector until the 20th, making your intimate relationships and joint ventures of any sort the first priority of the month.

Uranus is still strong, by the way, this month especially so for people born around the 26th of September, for Uranus is opposing the suns of September born Libras this year. Even if you weren’t born in September, you may feel its effects as its apparent motion slows in June. Uranus is the planet of sometimes-ness. It affects relationships and couples by making things sometimes great, sometimes not so great. Part of the trick of learning how to handle Uranus here is figuring out what to do with the normal sensation of sometimes wanting to be with a person and sometimes wanting to get away from them. Jupiter moving into Taurus helps this process because it adds a dose of stability to the relationship equation.

While we’re on the subject of your relationships, I should mention that Saturn is stationing in your own sign this month, too. It is mostly strongly affecting those born during the first few days of October, but all Libras will probably feel some effects. Saturn is trying to force you to be aware–to just see what is going on in your relationships without reacting wildly. He just wants you to observe how you behave so that you can gain some control and choice over that behavior. Observing can be a trial of patience, but it is also ultimately quite liberating. This pause to observe started in May and lasts all month, and even creeps into July. Make good use of it.

Now for those eclipses. Eclipses change things. The eclipse in Gemini on the 1st goes along with what I said about learning to observe, for Gemini is an observant sign. If the eclipse affects you it will most likely change what you see and perhaps how you communicate. It’s an enlightenment or learning eclipse. The lunar eclipse on the 15th is likely to be a bit more irrational because lunar eclipses are supposed to be that way. It will probably not affect your life dramatically, but it may make you briefly crazed, absentminded or feeling that you need to run around like a lunatic. It falls into the sector of your chart most associated with the busy tasks of daily life and may throw them temporarily into a disarray.

Follow your instincts. Mercury and Venus are hovering close together throughout the first half of the month and their enthusiasm can help guide you. Mars and Jupiter are on board during this time frame too, and they’d like you to connect on an equal basis with someone. This is right up your alley, so go for it.

The prime period for making a move, and yes, you should be the one to make the first move, is during the period between the 9th and the 16th. The 11th is a super-hot day, when Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus cluster together in Aries. If you’re already in a committed relationship, it’s a day for warm fuzzies. The watchword for this whole week is ‘more’!

The 30th of April and the 1st of May are also hot days, when Mars and Jupiter meet up. The thing is, you may not be conscious of the magnetism your chart is exuding these days, so try to be aware and awake and communicate some of the enthusiasm your chart is feeling this spring. I should point out that Jupiter has been in the relationship area of your chart since January, and that this is his last month in this part of your chart, so the vibes don’t last forever. Next month, Jupiter will be in the sign of Taurus, which focuses more on things than love per se.

Speaking of Taurus, there’s plenty of energy in that sign too this month. The new moon in Taurus takes place on the 3rd. Mars moves into Taurus on the 11th. And the sun, Mercury and Venus all transit through this sign in May as well. Mars is the action planet, so during the second half of the month, Mars will want you to take action regarding the things you have. This may mean cleaning them out and disposing of items that are no longer useful.

In contrast to all this bursting spring activity in certain parts of your chart, Neptune has moved into your work sector and is attempting to doze on the job. Alternatively, it may be encouraging psychosomatic complaints. Maybe you need to cut yourself a break and focus on fun things for a while.

The essence of this potentially tense energy is singleness versus coupleness. Some Libras were born accidentally thinking that singleness is against the laws of the universe. It isn’t. That’s the paradox of Aries energy in your chart; it knows that people in couples are really still just individuals, still immutably, eternally single. That doesn’t mean that some couples aren’t destined to be together; it’s just that even when they are, they’re still separate.

If all that makes sense to you, then you’ll have no problem with the month’s energy, which is partly about moving you to a point of equilibrium when it comes to relationships. When you can take ‘em or leave ‘em, you’re at a point of equilibrium with regard to relationships. Being able to leave them doesn’t mean you won’t have any relationships or a primary relationship. In fact, with Jupiter in Aries until June, you will probably have a relationship if you want one. With Uranus in your relationship sector for the next seven years, you’re likely to have rather extreme relationships during the coming period of your life. The idea instead is to come to terms with the paradoxes of relationships rather than abandoning them altogether.

Meanwhile, Neptune slides into your work and health sector. Neptune will be bringing a magic touch of uncertainty to this part of your life, but really, that’s nothing new. Your work and health sectors have had uncertainty built into them when Uranus was here for the last 7 years. It’s all about going with the flow.

Mercury in the 7th could mean dealings with relatives and neighbors. Uranus in the 7th could mean dealings with groups and with friends. Jupiter in the 7th could mean dealing with teachers or religious figures. Sun in the 7th could mean dealings with significant others, parents, and authority figures. That’s a lot of dealings.

Meanwhile, Saturn in your own sign doesn’t want to deal with any of them, whoever them might turn out to be. In particular, Saturn will turn a stony face toward Mercury and Jupiter this month. Uranus will stay out of the fray, but Uranus is always a contrary planet anyway. Put bluntly, you will need your patience all month long.

Communication will also be key, and you’ll need to use your ‘I’ statements to hold your ground rather than getting into analytical ‘you’ statements about others. For the moment, your responsibility is to yourself to be yourself rather than trying to figure out all those other people. This is especially true around the 28th when a clash between the sun and Pluto indicates that those other people may get into conflicts with each other.

It may sound a bit alarming, but the truth is that nothing dire is on the horizon and you’ll do just fine if you restrain yourself from getting overly involved in other people’s issues.

Jupiter is currently traversing your relationship sign (Aries), easing the way into this alarming lesson by spreading the gospel of optimism and carefree attitudes when it comes to your relationships.  What makes the Libra situation more complicated is that just as Jupiter is preaching courage and freedom from needless worry, Saturn in your own sign is preaching cautious fear and extra worry, just in case. This conflict reaches a head at the end of next month, when the two planets directly oppose each other.

This month, Mars in Aquarius leaps in to the rescue. It’s in your love life sign and also the sign that governs your relationships with children. Through the 21st, Mars in Aquarius mediates between optimism and worry by preaching objectivity. Objectivity. Whatever happens in your relationships this month, Mars is sure it can be handled by a grounding dose of just looking at and analyzing the facts and proceeding from there. He’s probably right.

After the 21st, Mars moves into Pisces, following the sun and Mercury. The implication here is that you can effectively use bold words on the job to get things done if you don’t hold back on expressing what you’re observing and thinking about situations at work.

I should note that although this represents the last eclipse to deal with your home sector, the universe is not done with this part of your life. In addition to the sun in your 4th house this month (which always occurs in January), Mercury, Mars and Pluto are here too. Mercury and Mars can be useful here, especially for things like cleaning up, getting rid of old objects, replacing broken stuff and doing repairs. Pluto here increases the intensity. As in a super-extreme winter clean out, major repairs and even remodeling.

The month’s full moon is in Cancer in your career sector on the 19th. This is another step in the universe’s ongoing plan to make adjustments in this area of your life. The final big step occurs July 1, 2011 when the last eclipse in this sign takes place. See what happens at this full moon to get clues as to the future direction of the universe’s plans.

I kind of wish I could tell you that in 2011 all you’ll need to worry about is your career and domestic situation. But actually…there’s more. Throughout the year, major planets will compete for your attention regarding self-development and personal appearance and health and your job and your relationships and probably even money. It’s as though the planets think you need more of everything. If you want more of everything, this is a good development, I suppose. If handling trying to get more of everything seems a bit overwhelming, you’re going to learn to need to prioritize and tell some of the impatient planets that you can’t do everything at once. They probably won’t believe you, but for the sake of your sanity you’ll need to negotiate the world’s various demands. You can do that!