You have entered a more adventurous, expansive vibration which tends to encourage more opportunity to get beyond the mental horizons that you are used to. With increased opportunities to escape from the daily grind, you may be drawn to more launch into an enterprise or into an interest which is teaching you things you didn't know before. It could be a good time to travel, take a break or plan a holiday. However it is for you, you are more likely to be in a place where you can zoom out and see the bigger picture or refresh your mind and spirit.

Until the 8th, authority figures will tend to see you in a good light and you could find an ally - possibly a female - who is invaluable to your success or who facilitates you in some way. Someone could play a supportive role to your making a move in the right direction or a create a good impression in the right places at the right time or with bureaucracy or others you wish to make a good impression upon. Some of you may have more positive interaction with parents or guardians at this time.

From the 8th is a good time for making friends or new associates or for teaming up with a group of kindred spirits or those with a common aim either in person or over the wires. Venus, is in a very sociable mood which means you get more support from this area of flow where new contacts can be make or old connections are revisited. Friendships and groups can be friendly and interesting and facilitate positive experiences. Some of which may be lucrative for you or provide you with useful material resources.
Until midmonth, Mercury will also be laying on a more adventurous flavour giving you the urge to push the envelope of daily life and learn through getting more information under your belt. This energy could manifest as finding ways to take you out of the daily grind and refresh your spirit. Mercury is in a very communicative sector which also covers higher laws, higher meanings, so it will probably be easier for you not to stress the small stuff stay in a philosophical frame of mind or get the eagle-eye view. You may be learning new stuff and have more contact with teachers, guides or advisors. So it's a good time to take a break or plan a holiday, or maybe receive the advice or teaching which lets you zoom out and see the bigger picture.

From midmonth, discussions, correspondence, plans and ideas may be centred around your general life-direction, an enterprise, career or image and presentation. You may feel your ideas are being questioned or confirmed by the powers that be. You'll care more about the effect you have on others through image or public persona or as an authority yourself as will be inclined to take your public responsibilities more seriously and show authority, but also put mental effort into communicating in a conscientious and competent manner as to get the result or have the effect you desire.

Mars is at the root of your chart for several months to come which means you could be busier than usual getting organized in and around the base of operations with more demands on your physical energy. This may be centred around property, a living space, or be related to family or tribe within a neighbourhood or over the wires. This month and until April Mars is retrograde it may take a while to get the inner needs and intuitive knowing to align with the external circumstances, but you are working on it! You may feel you are making huge efforts to set foundations in place but its like Salmon swimming upstream and the route is peppered with dangers and distractions. However, from April you should be in no doubt what your inner priorities are and get things sorted on basic levels connecting the future and honouring the past in a balanced manner. Overall Mars here until July could mean a lot more hustle and bustle on the home base or increasing demands on your ability to get and keep your house in order. There may be moments of tension which surface now and then and affect your mood. This transit tends to trigger memories or emotional patterns rooted in the past. If this is the case, get on with practical tasks which are useful and perhaps provide a service to others which takes your attention off any inner turmoil.

THE SLOWER MOVING PLANETS:
Jupiter has moved into a background area of your Solar chart until next June. Jupiter will be helping you grow most through working on yourself, study and the efforts you make to nurture and create behind the scenes. You will be more interested in serving and facilitating because you believe it will help others. Taking more time for inner reflection and healing activities, either because you have to, or because you choose to as a preventive measure would be a smart way to use this energy. Some of you may have to deal with health issues yours or another's, at this time. This is a good transit for developing any artistic, healing or spiritual ability too.

There could be a special relationship, one which teaches you a great deal, blossoming quietly in the background. However this is working for you, it means you'll be expanding your ability to be self-reflective and to give more of your time or understanding to something, or someone, worthwhile. And that includes yourself…..
The longer transit of Saturn in Libra, there until Autumn 2012 is potentially a great ally for you if you are persevering. In this Saturn cycle you are learning how to overcome barriers and delays to activities you find personally empowering, fun or self-expressive. Or to delays in spreading the word on something you wish to promote.

So you are in a long cycle of having to be better organized with anything which potentially has a connection with the affairs of children, romantic partners, animals, creative pursuits, speculative projects, or the kinds of activities you find entertaining. Adverse conditions or obstacles are more than likely to affect any of these areas and therefore you must adopt a more patient, methodical approach as things slowly come together. Structure and discipline will be needed at times and those of you involved in the arts or leisure industry, promotional or performance-type activities, should be more self-disciplined, and take the long view, as nothing will happen quickly in these areas. Geminians born around 19th/20th June or with 28/29 degrees of Gemini rising will feel this influence the most.

Uranus has finally ceased it's previous 7 year cycle of bringing change and uncertainty into your career and area of general life direction and begun transiting a progressive, futuristic sector related to your hopes and dreams. Uranus works well from this very sociable part of your solar chart emphasizing group efforts and new friendships. So it's doubly likely you'll begin hanging out with a new circle of people and be more and more exposed to fresh, even, ground-breaking influences which will inspire you to think along very interesting and unusual lines. Access to a certain group may be intermittent and but there is an enlightening, inspirational feel to this.

Geminians born 21st-26th May or with up to 5 degrees Gemini Rising will feel this vibration most strongly this month.

Since 1998 Neptune has been making it's influence felt in the area of how you escape from the usual box. This is where you may have been most illogical or starry-eyed about exotic foreigners, studying certain subjects which may have a philosophical or spiritual bias, or idolizing things about a faraway place. Neptune completes it's transit of this area on Feb 4th and moves into its home sign Pisces for several years. For you Gemini, it may mean you have to lay aside your own desires related to career or general life-direction and make yourself available in a more selfless or nurturing way because it serves or promotes goodwill. This transit will be great for those involved things like medicine, spiritual healing, film, photography, acting, counselling, boating, hospitality, healing, spirituality, charities and anything which serves the common good. This vibration will also support you artistic Geminians and spur you to greater flights of imagination.

However, when it comes to acclaim, do not look for it as, with Neptune here, it can sometimes mean you become the 'invisible' power behind the throne and you may feel overlooked or unappreciated or perhaps misconstrued by others.

Early Geminians born around 21st/22nd or with up to 2 degree rising will tend to feel this energy the most.

For many years to come, Pluto is quietly underpinning a slow gear-change where your emotions, affinities or sense of deeper awareness is concerned. This is also an emotional rebirth for you. Pluto will help you dismantle old conditions related to joint finances and property, inheritance or corporate business. It's likely that radical changes in society, large-scale economic or political organizations or the cycles of Mother Nature herself may have a bearing.

Geminians born May 27th-31st or with 7-10 degrees of Gemini rising will feel this influence most over this month. It could also underpin psychic ability and insight into taboo areas.