Aquarius 2012 Horoscope

MERCURY RETROGRADES 3 times for approx 3 weeks each in 2012:

March 12th - April 4th: Pisces/Aries
July 14th - August 7th: Leo
November 6th - November 26th: Scorpio/Sagittarius
Both Venus and Mars will be in extraordinarily long transits this year.

Venus will be in Gemini from 4th April - 8th August and will be sharing the stage with Jupiter from June.

Venus will be in a great aspect to your Sun sign over this period bringing romance into your life or more of a social life centred around leisure pursuits or entertainment or performance, whether formal or informal.
Mars will stay in Virgo until July 2012. A long transit dynamically activating your joint resources and shared property sector. Physical effort may be expended getting things how you want them to be in these shared areas and you may have an encounter with someone or some situation which has a strong effect on you. Depending on how helpful or unhelpful this feels you may do best by modifying your position towards commitment or look for the loophole which can lead you into better conditions.
Someone could be bugging you with their behaviour, but also at this time you and someone may be getting a lot closer and things can get pretty sizzley. Or it could be that you both share a passion, a deep interest in common which jointly you find compelling.

Out with the old and in with the new is a feature of this time. And an internal gear-shift in your feelings may send you off in new direction. Conflicts can occur but you tend to keep your frustrations bottled up so the advice is to take up an activity or have a heart to heart talk which allows you to let off steam.

Until June 12th, Jupiter moves into your home area highlighting expansion related to the home-base, property and also your emotional sense of belonging and feeling integrated.

This is the area of your innermost being and this transit should gradually instil a sense of security and rootedness. Externally, your comfort zone, family or community relationships should improve. Your base of operations may grow or expand into new areas. Travel, a different culture or environment may become part of daily life. You could be learning a lot on the base of operations or not far away. Over this period helps you to find a space or place you prefer.

Travel, foreign connections, higher education or liaising with those at a distance could be a part of the picture. All Aquarians or Aquarius rising will feel this vibration at times until mid year.

From June until June 2013 Jupiter, planet of abundance and expansion is positively influencing your Sun sign.

This is a time when your creative self-expression will be amplified. It will encourage a lighter energy and could help bring romance into your life, or create conditions for a more entertaining, or loving environment - or both! You may grow through your contact with children or have more access to activities where your inner child can come out to play. Also this is a time when money can be made from speculative ventures or making use of talents which tend to be enhanced at this time. You may be rubbing shoulders with others who are sporty or competitive, or have more access to a socially playful or performance orientated environment or lifestyle. You should feel confidence growing over these months as your spontaneity comes to the fore and you tap into your personal power. Aquarians born up til 6th February or up to 17 degrees Aquarius rising will feel this vibration the most.
Saturn continues its transit of Libra until October 2012 which means achieving possibly great results through communications, literature, education, legal matters or long distance connections. You could be integrating new understanding of concepts, language, culture or a system of thinking. Developing an ideology or understanding a field of knowledge will be gradual like chipping a shape out of stone. So be consistent and patient.

One way or another a different dimension will open to you through unfamiliar places and people or just those with a different mind-set or background to your own.

Over this time you will have the opportunity to put some of those rosy ideals and pet theories to work in the field, a time when you will feel tested as you sample the daily reality of living with an ideology cut down to size. Some things will be a delight - other aspects will be a huge reality check. Either way your eyes will have been opened…. Aquarians born 10th-19th February or from 21 degrees Aquarius rising will feel this vibration most until the end of the 3rd week of October.

Saturn enters Scorpio on 6th October and begins its 2 and a half year transit. Early Aquarians - those born from 20th-30th January or with up to around 10 degrees of Aquarius rising will feel the vibration the most.

From 6th Oct Saturn begins a 2 and a half year transit of Scorpio. Slowly, this will help you redefine your place in the world, your image and life direction. You will be restructuring your outer world and inner world in gradual stages. If you are old enough, look back about 28/29 yrs to get the gist of what is unfolding now by recalling where you were then and what happened subsequently. Can be quite an eye-opener! Of course you are older and wiser now and you'll have been through the cycle before so you know what to expect and can prepare accordingly.

You'll know this is a time of perseverance related to profession and standing in the world.
Uranus your ruling planet will be moving from Pisces in March where it has been bringing uncertainty and sometimes destabilization into emotions or the area of finances and your basic material security.

Uranus, will now be working from Aries for about 7 years and gradually will be changing the way you think and even the language or jargon you use. It will bestow wonderful opportunities to open your mind to new concepts, and through daily encounters expand your thinking and learn a great deal you didn't know before. Certain knowledge may feel like quite a revelation at times. Everyday matters may have more of an edge to them and you may take up the study of something weird like astrology or something ground-breaking in the sciences. This energy also favours, anything innovative in the field of IT or sustainable energy, or other areas you might term 'alien' and which put you ahead of the rest of the field.
For about 15 years Neptune has been making it's influence felt in your sign. Neptune can be about sacrifice and distorted perception. Some of you may have suffered a serious loss over this time. This may have meant you had to work harder to find or inhabit your own identity in a more true to yourself way instead of being pulled into being different things to different people. Either being put on a pedestal or not being appreciated for the real you at all both of which feels false. You may have allowed others to lean on you more or you may have sacrificed your own preferred style to serve the common good in some way. Over this long period you will have learnt to draw your line in the sand and understand better where you end and they begin so as to get a stronger sense of self-identity.

Neptune will slide out into its home sign Pisces on 4th February there to stay until 2025. This new position of Neptune means that slowly your values will be changing and that a sacrifice may have to be made for something or someone worthwhile to you. On a mundane level it would be wise not to overlook things or allow blurred boundaries when it comes to money or property.

The life-changing force of Pluto now in Capricorn means regeneration from deep levels regarding letting go of ingrained patterns and scenarios from the past. Letting go of an old way of being and a gradual re-birthing into a new being is in progress. There will be a subtle gear-shift deep within you as the old order is crumbling and the decks are clearing in preparation for a reinvention of yourself.

There are 2 solar eclipses this year, May 20th and November 13th. The first one is at 0 degrees Gemini and the second one - a total eclipse - is at 21 degrees Scorpio.
The first one in Gemini will send out a pulse of energy through the coming months, and, providing there are contacts from the eclipse degree to points in your natal chart, will help trigger new beginnings with children or romantic partners and with what you really enjoy doing which gives you the chance to express yourself more competitively, powerfully and spontaneously. Doing the kinds of activities which allow you to shine in your own special way.
The second one in Scorpio will send a pulse of energy during the coming months for you to make the changes necessary which help you achieve goals in major or minor ways providing there are strong aspects from the eclipse degree to points in your natal chart. From mid 2012 key contacts will be instrumental in you establishing a good reputation and the structure or support they provide may help you achieve success.