Yearly Horoscope Analysis

Chapter I

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INTRODUCTION - THE MEANING OF THE TIME

Chapter II

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THE YEAR'S MAIN THEMES

The dominant energy

Because you tend to live in an imaginal, romantic world, you are likely to gain a deep satisfaction and fulfillment from the underlying energies at work over the next year. Even if you encounter some disappointment or upset in your personal life, this is likely to be accompanied by increased confidence in yourself and a renewed appreciation of your worth as an individual. Your senses may be unusually alive and open to everything beautiful in life, and your encounters with others will probably be deep and meaningful, although not necessarily always harmonious. During this time you can refine your tastes, open up new creative or artistic channels, redefine your values, and focus on what really makes you happy. Such self-definition may also involve discovering what makes you unhappy, since one makes no sense without the other. This is why you might have to face certain challenging relationship issues, and deal with such important matters as compromise, rivalry, and the question of commitment. But even if the ride is occasionally bumpy, this is not likely to prove a sad or depressing time. You are opening up on emotional, sexual and aesthetic levels, and you have the opportunity to discover what truly makes your heart sing. Even if more universal matters have preoccupied you in the past, during the next year you are likely to understand at a profound level why your personal contentment is an essential part of any aspiration toward higher levels of experience.

Love can be burdensome

Relationships may feel a little bumpy at the moment, for you are going through a testing period in terms of your values and your definitions of love. You are probably not at your most confident right now, and may experience feelings of depression and loss of self-esteem. You may also have the distressing sense of being unttractive or unlovable, and may consciously or unconsciously expect those close to you to reject or ignore you because you are not feeling very secure within yourself. It is possible that your partner may give you a difficult time - perhaps for reasons such as financial or work difficulties which apparently have nothing to do with you - or you may experience friction or jealousy in an otherwise stable relationship. You may also be disturbed to discover that your own feelings of love, affection or desire have cooled toward a loved one, or that your previously idealised view of a lover, parent or child has been badly tarnished. Don't expect to feel your best during this period, and don't be surprised if difficulties or unaccustomed feelings of depression and loneliness arise in your personal life. It is important to understand what is really happening inside you, so that you can deal with such feelings and situations constructively.

You may have grown to the point where old values, particularly those concerned with love and relationship, are due for an overhaul. Your definitions of love have probably always been bound up with certain religious, spiritual or philosophical views which attach a higher meaning to relationship. It is possible that you have been a little too demanding or simplistic in your expectations of love, and you may have a hard time understanding or forgiving ordinary human failings and imperfections. Now you may have to deal with disappointments, either in a loved one or in yourself, and you may discover that love can coexist with some very confused and even unpleasant behaviour because human emotions are far more muddled and complex than you might wish. Any feelings of loneliness or isolation may need to be viewed in terms of just what role others have played in your life, and what you have secretly expected of them. Feelings of unattractiveness or unlovability may have to be explored in terms of how you have defined your worthiness to be loved, and what older family patterns, rooted in your childhood and parental relationships, have influenced that definition. If you find yourself in the throes of a separation - whether you or your partner has initiated it - you may need to look hard and deeply at the real basis of the relationship. If a parting occurs, it may be because, without realising it, you have outgrown the values and needs which once dominated your emotional life. If you feel betrayed or rejected, or find yourself in an emotional triangle, it might be wise to look at the deeper issues, rather than simply feeling hurt, angry and eager to find someone to blame.

All this may seem very hard and gloomy. But those bonds which are real and solid - with friends, lovers, children, parents, spouse - will not break because of the emergence of difficult feelings or the need for adjustments and compromises. During this time you can create solid ground for your emotional future, if you are prepared to take your experiences as a challenge rather than simply feeling victimised. Pleasure and frivolity may seem in short supply right now, and you may also experience a certain financial constriction which makes it hard for you to enjoy yourself. Don't panic, or seek comfort or alleviation of your unhappiness by rushing about looking for someone new who will magically make you feel better. Any relationship entered into at this time might prove more difficult and complicated than you think, because there could be a certain desperation in your search and you may attract someone who, because of their own insecurity, enjoys the power of having a needy and insecure partner. Try to cope on your own with any feelings of isolation, and use your energy to discover what you want from others and what you have to offer as an individual. You may need to learn to love yourself more, and to recognise in yourself the same value you have attributed to others. You can come out of this period with a far stronger and healthier appreciation of yourself, and a greater capacity to accept your own and others' human flaws and limitations.

Feeling loved and loving

On the inner level this period is likely to prove one of the most important years of your life. You will probably be challenged to become aware of and stand by your deepest and most important values. Perhaps in the past your values - what you love and respect in others and yourself, how you define love, what you consider worthwhile in life, what makes you happy - have not truly been your own, but have been subtly or directly influenced by your family background and social environment. This may have been inevitable and natural, but the time has now come for you to define what matters to you. During this period each area where a lack of real self-value might have put you into imprisoning or unhappy situations is likely to be spotlighted. Your personal religious or spiritual beliefs and moral attitudes may have been too influenced by others' convictions, and not a true reflection of your own world-view. The process of affirming yourself as a worthwhile individual may involve some degree of pain if, for example, you are involved in a relationship which cannot accommodate such a change. But it is more likely that you will encounter happy experiences at this time which reflect back to you what matters most deeply in your life. You may discover that you are discontented with people and pleasures which in the past seemed perfectly satisfactory. You may also discover a new pleasure and peace in people and things you might previously have overlooked. And you may experience a powerful awakening of sexual feelings, or a new appreciation of yourself as a woman.

Most of all you are likely to discover what really matters in your interaction with others. This may involve a new relationship in which you discover a contentment which you previously never experienced. Your ability to value yourself means that you are likely to break through old patterns of self-denigration which may have created certain relationship problems in the past. You may also find that a long-standing relationship comes to an end - by your own choice, because the other person wishes it, or because circumstances make it unavoidable. But even if you are not the one who initiates the separation, you are probably the one who is most in need of it - even if you experience feelings of pain, anger or hurt pride in the process. It is likely that your unconscious expectations in love, and your definitions of giving and receiving, like those of most people, have been deeply influenced by what you saw in your parents' marriage, and in your family background in general. During this period you can move beyond any destructive patterns from the past to discover your own capacity to give and receive love. This may bring you a new love, or it may mean you must relinquish an old one - or perhaps both. The new love may not be a sexual partner - it might be a child, or a deep friendship. Because this is a period when your values are becoming truly your own, whatever happens will leave you a more authentic, understanding person.

A stronger sense of self-worth may have repercussions in other spheres as well. Human beings define their values not only through relationships, but also through material things. At the moment you may find that you are better off materially than you have been in the past, in part because a belief that you deserve better may communicate itself to the outer world and influence how you interact in your field of work. You may also find that you are able to enjoy what you have, and can give yourself permission to indulge yourself and refine personal tastes through clothes, artistic interests, physical appearance, home furnishings or lifestyle. This is a time of inner flowering. You may have experiences which are sad or difficult. But if you do - particularly any disappointments in love - try to remember that such changes may reflect the breaking down of old conceptions and expectations in relationship. Perhaps you have not been sufficiently true to yourself, or have underrated your lovability and therefore accepted situations which are destructive to your self-esteem. Allow what is within you to blossom. If anything or anyone must be relinquished, you will probably be able to recognise that only now are you on the threshold of being able to allow real contentment and self- acceptance to enter your life.

Conflict in relationship

This is likely to be a challenging time in your personal life. Your values are crystallising and you are leaving many old hurts behind. But this process, although deeply healing, may require effort. A partner or close friend may appear to behave in a rejecting or insensitive manner, and you may feel angry and disillusioned at the treatment you have received. You may also engage in hurtful behaviour yourself, perhaps because you feel justified in striking back at someone whom you feel has injured you. On the inner level you may experience feelings of insecurity or loss of self- esteem; or you may believe you are unlovable. You could be gloomy about the future and disillusioned in your ideals. Your mood is likely to be dark, and it may be hard for you to find any happiness in everyday things. However much others try to reassure you, they will probably not be able to please you or get it right.

But on the deeper level this time is not simply an unhappy time. It could also be potentially healing, and may bring many insights which could free you from old, destructive relationship patterns. It is likely that, whatever you may be encountering in your present life, you have met it before, in the past. Try to focus not on who is doing what to you, but rather, on whether experiences from early life may have given you particular preconceptions and expectations about love and relationships. You may recognise areas in which your own fearfulness or defensiveness has caused you pain and difficulty. Through such introspection you may be able to avoid the excesses of rage or self-pity to which you could, at the moment, be prone. A change is occurring in your values right now, especially in what you believe to be worthwhile in human beings and in life. You may be called upon to develop a more mature and compassionate attitude toward human complexity - including your own. An experience of failure in love, whether through your parents in childhood or through a relationship in your present life, may seem unfair and bitter, and you may be inclined to blame others or yourself. But if you can see beyond conventional assumptions or idealised fantasies, you may develop greater flexibility and wisdom, which could enable you to deal with all loved ones in an open, honest, compassionate, and tolerant spirit.

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Another important theme

There is another important dynamic at work this year, which may sometimes support and sometimes contradict the energies described above.

Because your world is, to a large extent, peopled with the products of your ideals and fantasies, you are likely to experience certain events and inner states over the next year as both strengthening and limiting. This does not mean that you must necessarily suffer hardship. You possess the gift of infusing experience with meaning, and this could allow you to interpret and learn from whatever you encounter in highly creative ways. But you may have to face certain dimensions of earthly life which, temperamentally, you would probably rather avoid. The demands of material reality may challenge the validity of some of your dreams, and financial issues or professional dilemmas may force you to reevaluate what you have built and where you are trying to go. In your personal life you may have to cope with a certain amount of loneliness or limitation, either because a separation forces you to come down to earth, or because your own mood makes it hard for you to feel supported by, and in tune with, those close to you. Try to remember that you will get what you pay for during this time. A willingness to work hard, accept limits, bear feelings of isolation, and compromise overly idealised expectations can help to make this time a productive one, which leaves you stronger, wiser, better grounded, and more capable of using your talents in the most productive ways.

The turn of the Wheel

You may be chafing against many structures in your working and personal life right now, for you are likely to be full of restlessness and vague aspirations toward a freer, bigger, and better existence. A desire for change may be deep and also perfectly valid, for you could be realising the extent to which security needs and defences against hurt and chaos have made you too inhibited or rigid in the way you have interacted with life and with others. You may be trying to grow beyond old patterns at the moment, and this could be an extremely positive and creative shift. But you may need to be careful about how you make changes, and what you seek to change. Because you might be acutely aware of frustrations now which you may have been able to tolerate or even welcomed in the past, you may throw caution to the winds and begin to kick at things which are in fact valuable and meaningful to you. This is a time when you can make constructive changes in your inner and outer life, and also enjoy a glimpse of deeper or higher patterns at work which give your life order, meaning and coherence. It is worth making the effort to do some careful reflecting, because the potentials of the time are very great.

You may need to reevaluate the ways in which you use defences, overcompensation or rigidity to protect yourself from feeling unintelligent or inarticulate in the eyes of others. Something within you may be seeking to move beyond these defences and fears, in order to gain greater confidence in yourself and others. You may also need to understand your own inhibitions, so that earlier painful experiences in your life can assume a positive meaning as important contributions to your inner development. On the outer level these efforts to grow are likely to result in you struggling against restrictions which you feel curtail your freedom and your joy in living. Some structures in your life may indeed be outworn and past their sell-by date, and you may need to make major changes in your material and emotional life. But first try to understand why these constrictions are there in the first place, and why you yourself might have chosen them - consciously or unconsciously - for reasons of your own. When you have your own motives and needs in perspective, you will be able to apply the right combination of optimism, intuition and realism to make necessary changes without betraying your deepest values and needs.

You are likely to be more than usually philosophical and reflective at the moment. This should be encouraged, for you may acquire greater freedom as well as greater wisdom from any efforts you make to handle restlessness in a constructive manner. You may begin to search for answers to some of life's deeper questions, and through such exploration you could achieve a more universal viewpoint which puts personal and transient feelings in a broader perspective. If you feel attracted to exploring deeper subjects such as psychology, philosophy or spiritual paths, by all means do so; you are probably in need of a broader backdrop to understand your life situation right now, and greater knowledge of life and of human behaviour can help you to acquire this backdrop. Whatever happens to you during this time, don't just take it at face value. Consider what the experience might mean to you, and what it has to teach you. You are growing and deepening as an individual, and any effort you make to facilitate this process will probably be well rewarded by increased strength and maturity in the future.

Thinking in depth

During this period your thinking is likely to be serious and deep, and your concentration and powers of mental application especially intense. This might be an excellent time for in-depth research and study, and also for any formal education which requires discipline and an adherence to structures and rules. Your ideas are likely to be quite earthbound, and your mental energy may be applied to the practical world and to ways in which you can develop your communication skills and anchor your ideas in concrete form. You may experience a certain heaviness and sobriety of attitude during this time which could make you sometimes sound a little jaded and world-weary. You may also feel drawn to giving advice to others, as though you were their mentor or teacher. This may be partly because you are now drawing on a solid fund of past experience to formulate precepts and opinions based on reality rather than on abstractions or collective opinion. Therefore any advice you give, even if uninvited, is likely to be sound.

During this period you may be able to articulate the deeper side of your thinking more easily, particularly with those whose attitudes are aligned with your own. You may make new contacts right now who are either older, or more practical and down-to-earth than the kind of people with whom you normally interact. You may display unusual shrewdness about money and business matters, and this could allow you to make sensible plans for improving your resources and work. Even if you have not been especially interested in the mundane side of life in the past, this might be an excellent time to put your material affairs in order and restructure areas of your personal and working life that require planning and greater efficiency. You may be a little too cautious in your thinking right now, and sometimes lacking in humour, especially about yourself. But this is likely to prove a constructive time, when your eyes are focused on the world as it is, and your approach to everyday existence benefits from a healthy injection of realism and common sense.

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Chapter III

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SIGNIFICANT TRENDS IN EACH SPHERE OF LIFE

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1. The sphere of emotions

Generosity of heart

A strong feeling of well-being and emotional contentment may be one of the gifts of this time, as well as an increased sense of self-confidence and openness to others. You are likely to be feeling quite expansive and generous, tolerant of others' foibles, and supportive of their needs. As a result, they are likely to respond by offering their help, support and good will, and you may benefit from others' generosity during this period as well as being especially generous yourself. You may also form new friendships, particularly with women, which could expand your life and bring you many benefits on material as well as emotional levels. You may be a little excessive in your appetites and a little wasteful in your expenditures, but you are unlikely to do this to any dangerous degree, unless you have really thrown common sense to the winds. So you may as well enjoy being a little extravagant right now, because you will probably be able to get away with it. And on a deeper level, the feeling that the world is essentially a good place could help you to heal certain old hurts from the past, and renew your faith in the essential goodness in people and life.

You are likely to feel restless and on the lookout for new experiences, and you might benefit from enlarging your circle of contacts and involving yourself in humanitarian work of some kind. Unless you actively take advantage of the feelings of optimism and adventurousness you are likely to experience, this period will simply pass as a pleasant and happy time when you can enjoy your personal relationships and indulge yourself without harm. But it could also be much more, if you are willing to develop new relationships and make minor but satisfying changes in your everyday life. On the inner level this could also prove to be an important time because you are probably at peace with yourself, and may be able to see the value of past emotional experiences which, at the time, may have been painful but which now could yield important lessons or insights. You could thus make peace with your past as well, and view the future with a more positive and hopeful eye.

There may also be periods when emotional difficulties arise, which you would be wise to deal with in the most honest and generous way you can.

A self-indulgent mood

You are likely to be in the mood for romance and emotional excitement right now, and rather indulgent in your personal habits as well as the ways in which you pursue your personal goals. Your values are changing at the moment, and so are your ideals in love; and this may make you discontented and hungry for a particularly dramatic, larger-than-life kind of emotional experience which can give your life meaning and drama. It is possible that you might begin a relationship at this time which seems to inject the necessary excitement into your life, and may, at least for a while, make you feel a renewed faith in life's goodness and bounty. However exalted you might feel, try to keep your feet on the ground. Although new contacts made at this time are likely to prove stimulating and rewarding, they may not be stable in the long term, and it would probably be most unwise to threaten an existing bond because of a transient state of emotional excitement. Because you yourself are changing, you may be drawn to those who can offer you opportunities to grow, rather than those who can respond on a long-term basis to who you are and what you deeply need. Enjoy any relationships you encounter now, romantic or otherwise; but be careful about making commitments which you may change your mind about before much longer.

You are unlikely right now to turn your back on a chance for pleasure and self-indulgence. There is no harm in this, other than that you may overeat, drink too much, or spend too much on things which, in a few weeks' time, may leave you wondering why on earth you ever wanted them in the first place. But such excesses are not likely to cost you too dearly, unless you combine them with deception or dishonesty. If you play about in ways which are less than straight, with either money or other people's feelings, you are likely to set yourself up to get caught; and then you could wind up paying much more than you intended. Look before you leap, keep possible consequences in mind, don't make promises you can't keep, and try to contain your excesses within reasonable limits. And if you cannot find room in your life to pursue your dreams in a balanced manner, you may find that creative outlets can help to keep you out of harm's way. This would be an excellent time to enjoy theatre, music, and the other arts, not only as an observer but perhaps also as a performer, whether amateur or professional. For it is not so much a perfect love that you are likely to be seeking, as the rush of energy and vision which accompanies any contact with the mythic world. To find that contact, you do not need to risk the security of valued relationships and resources which have been in your life for a long time.

Feeling alone against the world

Whatever is occurring in your outer life, your inner state is likely to be one of considerable tension. You may have a sense that powerful forces are aligned against you. Inwardly, you could be experiencing an almost mythic battle which, although external circumstances might not merit such a dramatic interpretation, may feel real enough to you. A feeling of threat and slight paranoia may afflict you now, and you are probably not inclined to trust life or the people around you. All your most primitive survival instincts are being activated, and it may seem that the only options are total victory or total defeat and humiliation. This is probably not the first time you have perceived life through the perspective of the survival of the fittest. An innate caution about human nature, combined with a large dose of pride and great resources of tenacity and determination which you can call on when you need them, have probably made you a bit of a 'loner' who dislikes crowds and crowd mentality. When challenged by life, you don't expect others to rush in and save you. At the moment external pressures, combined with powerful emotional responses, may make you want to stand and fight ferociously, or else bow your head and submit passively. Neither response may be appropriate, and you might be wiser to hold the middle ground, preserving what you know to be right for you while letting go of any relationships, structures or attitudes which you know you have moved beyond but which you have been clinging to because of security needs. Your life is changing because your inner nature is changing, and you are contacting deeper levels and needs within yourself which you may not have given sufficient acknowledgement to before. Your real battle may be between that in you which knows it is time to bring a chapter of your life to a close, and that in you which fears any change over which you do not have absolute control.

The issues which are triggering your feelings may vary enormously; but the effects are likely to be felt in your religious, moral and ethical attitudes. You may experience profound shifts in attitude, and may discover darker, more primitive feelings and attitudes than you might have realised you possessed. You may also discover the extent of your emotional power and intensity, and will probably not be able to ignore the strength of your feelings. Your reponses to people and situations may not be governed by reason at the moment, but by passion. This might not be not a bad thing, because you could feel much more alive; but you may need to be careful not to unleash your passions in ways which could be destructive to you. Because you are likely to feel threatened, you could react by attempting to gain absolute power over those who seem to threaten you. This could invoke deep enmity and opposition, which would make your life much more difficult. This is not a time to bring in the big guns, for you may risk being defeated in your attempts to achieve what you want. Small guns might be more appropriate; even better are the attributes of patience, diplomacy, and the capacity to watch and wait.

Present conflicts may have roots in the past, and it is possible that, around seven years ago, you made certain decisions whose consequences are now facing you, or you began a new venture or relationship which is now being put to the test. You may need to look to the past, to see where certain attitudes of your own, developing slowly over the last few years, have helped to create the opposition you might now be experiencing. You may have been too rigid, or too unwilling to consider others' viewpoints; or you may have been too insistent on having absolute control. Control and power are in fact the deeper themes which underly this period in your life. You may need to explore just how much you need power, personal or worldly, and what you are prepared to do to get it; and you may also need to recognise that compromise does not have to mean defeat or humiliation. You could discover your own hidden power-drives through facing opposition from others' equally powerful need to control. Jungle warfare would not be appropriate at the moment, no matter how much you might feel like waging it. If you are able to avoid the more savage human tendencies to retaliate and destroy, you can emerge from this time with a much deeper sense of strength and potency.

Disturbing emotional depths

This period may be emotionally fraught, for you are in touch with deeper and perhaps darker needs, conflicts and longings which you ordinarily don't have to deal with. It is as though the lid has been taken off a box marked 'Secret!' and inside are all those intense feelings - jealousy, dependency, desire for power, sexual intensity - which we consider 'primitive', and which can be disturbing and even frightening when they surface in ordinary life. This encounter with the subterranean regions of your nature may lead to a reevaluation of your ideals, moral convictions and general world-view. What you discover about human nature during this time may need to be included in your understanding of life - even if you find it hard to reconcile with your existing beliefs. You may not immediately recognise that the more compulsive side of human nature belongs to you as well as others, and you may initially encounter these depths through other people who display compulsive or uncivilised emotional behaviour toward you. Jealousy and power struggles may disturb your close relationships, but be careful of assuming that it is your partner, friend or rival who is exhibiting socially or ethically inappropriate feelings. You may have something to learn about this side of your own nature, even though it may enter your life from without.

This period could put you in touch with old conflicts and patterns which belong to your childhood and family history. Power battles between the sexes, or manipulation as a means of ensuring emotional security, may be factors in the way your family related to each other when you were small. If so, you may have to deal with these 'inherited' patterns in your present relationship life. You have undoubtedly met these darker relationship issues at other times in your life, although you might not have recognised that they belong to an old and ongoing story. Compulsive emotional patterns which you thought you could do nothing about may become more accessible to consciousness and therefore open to change. You may also discover repetitive patterns in your emotional or sexual life, and may be given the opportunity - if you have enough self-honesty to face it - to free yourself for the future. But there may be times when you feel trapped and bound to an emotional situation or pattern of response which feels 'fated'. Any compulsive emotional pattern may seem 'fated' because often we cannot see its unconscious roots, and are therefore trapped by our own hidden motives and needs. Although you may need to face and accommodate some of the less attractive human emotions during this time, your perception of human nature can grow and deepen, and so can your capacity for compassion and acceptance of what cannot be changed.

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2. The sphere of the physical world

Frustrated goals

You are being challenged to define who you are on the world's stage. Because this is a formative process, you may experience difficulties at work or with those in authority right now. You may feel as though your goals are being blocked or undermined, by others or by unfair circumstances which leave you feeling angry and humiliated. It may sometimes seem that any efforts you make to get others to recognise your need for authority and a position of responsibility are doomed to failure. Because of this, you may feel very discontented in your work, or hemmed in by social or financial factors which seem unjust. You may also encounter conflict with an employer, or experience a painful social rejection or snub which leaves you feeling very unsure of your acceptability in the eyes of the world.

Despite their unpleasantness, you could turn such experiences into a constructive process of learning and change, if you are prepared to look hard at your present goals and question how authentically they reflect who you really are. The image you present to others may be designed solely to please, or might, over the years, have gradually become too rigid or false. You may also need to face life's unfairness and inequality in a more tolerant and compassionate spirit. This is not a good time to indulge in a full-scale battle with those in authority, or to make a public statement of your rights in a spirit of anger or rebellion. You may wind up feeling even worse, because your judgement and timing are not likely to be very sound at the moment, and you may be full of an anger whose roots lie not in the present but in the past. It is possible that you may need to examine where old expectations, going back to your childhood, are colouring your present dealings with others, and also the role you have chosen to play in the world. During this time you could let go of unhealthy or unrealistic expectations, your own or those of others, which have made you disloyal to your deeper needs and nature. Before you pick a fight, start a crusade, or walk out of a job in a huff, try to look inward and understand what kind of internal conflict may be reflected in the external circumstances with which you may now be dealing.

Keep your feet on the ground

This is an important and potentially very creative time, when your sense of individuality is likely to be heightened and you may wish to seek new opportunities for self-expression. You are probably feeling restless and bored with the life you have been living, and your intuition may be telling you that there are greener pastures if only you could free yourself of present restrictions and responsibilities. If you do not do any reflecting right now, you may simply feel intensely frustrated, and inclined to kick against what you imagine to be the obstacles in your path - whether these obstacles appear as your partner, the law, or your bank account. If you pursue such a blind course, you could waste a good deal of time, energy and money paying for the consequences of your actions. However, if you are prepared to do some careful thinking and planning, you could discover new goals and talents which need development, and also a new self-image which gives you greater confidence, flexibility and self-esteem.

For you to feel your life is fulfilling a deeper pattern or purpose, you may need to explore new avenues through which you can gain greater understanding of your own religious or spiritual aspirations. This may involve you in a confrontation with the religious and moral attitudes of your family background. Although you may feel you want bigger and better material or emotional outlets right now, on a deeper level you may be seeking a sense of meaning which can give your life dignity and your individual efforts value. The problem is that, even if you recognise this deeper need, you may be rather impulsive and rash in the ways you seek to make room for more inspiration and expansion. Equally, you may find that your partner acts out your restlessness for you, and disruption in your personal life may provide the trigger for the realisation that you yourself need to move on. Try to reflect on what you really want and believe in. Then turn your mind toward how you can achieve it, while respecting others' rights and boundaries as well as honouring the structures you have built in the past and might still value. This is a time when opportunities may come your way which could take a few years to bear fruit. At first you might not even recognise them as opportunities. Be patient. If you are willing to put what you believe into practise, and are prepared to do the hard work in between, your future could open up and change dramatically and for the better.

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3. The mental sphere

Erratic thoughts

Your intuition is likely to be extremely active now, and so is your grasp of broad principles. This may focus your mind on the future and on an overall picture of where you wish your life to go. At the moment you have the ability to make connections and see beyond immediate facts to the potentials which lie behind them. This could be an excellent time to engage in any study which requires a universal viewpoint and an ability to intuitively understand the relationship between events and facts. You have always had an eye for the big picture, and at the moment this tendency to look toward distant horizons is likely to overwhelm a more cautious or pragmatic approach. You could get many positive glimpses of future possibilities, especially in terms of developing new skills and talents, because you are likely to be more optimistic than usual and able to aim higher because of it. A strong desire to broaden your life may lead you to seeking new opportunities in your work and new objectives for your professional advancement. Thus many important opportunities could come your way right now, unlocking talents and potentials which you could continue to develop for many years to come.

The only problem is that you may be so impatient to grasp the big picture that you could ignore the little one - to your own cost. You might be inclined to sloppiness in your thinking, inaccuracy in your recollection or retelling of facts and information, and carelessness in handling financial transactions and contracts of any kind. Try to make an effort to read the small print if you sign anything, and remember what you have in the bank before you spend or speculate. Also, you are likely to want to follow your hunches and intuitions right now, perhaps to the point where you may feel you have a special telephone line connecting you with cosmic truths. Such a high estimation of your gifts could make you a little dogmatic and self-righteous when you express your ideas to others. All this may be a by-product of high spirits and a healthy influx of enthusiasm and optimism; and there is no harm in believing you are right, as long as you can recognise that others may be right as well, as far as their own lives are concerned. Try to exercise some patience right now, in order to get the best from this creative time. Mental restlessness, curiosity and expansiveness could yield very positive results, as long as you are realistic enough to recognise the importance of the small steps necessary to get where you believe you could go.

Breaking from the past

Important changes are likely to occur now, for you have reached a point in your development when many unlived potentials need to be included in your life. You will probably need a break from the past on some level, whether this is a separation from roots and family background, the entry of an important new relationship into your life, or a change in direction. You need greater freedom to discover your own possibilities right now, and if you do not provide it for yourself, life may provide it through disruptive circumstances which give you the freedom you have secretly needed but were too frightened to ask for. For this reason it would be helpful if you could honestly review your life circumstances, personally and in terms of worldly goals, to see where you may have outgrown certain past patterns, or where you have been trying to fulfill others' expectations at the expense of your own soul. Look particularly hard at your goals and ideals. You may find that you are cluttering your life up with many assumptions and unconsciously held convictions which you need to move beyond, in order to grow and become the individual you are. Although you may have to temper sudden insights and realisations with patience and pragmatism, nevertheless the more conscious you are of what you really need, the less disruption and unexpected upheaval you are likely to attract into your life.

You are also experiencing an important phase in one of the great psychological cycles which affects everyone belonging to your particular age group. This juncture occurs around the age of 21 and again around the age of 63. Both points in life coincide with a change in one's fundamental relationship to the outer world. The first cycle is often a time when we must make vocational decisions which define us as independent adults, and the second is often a time when we retire from working life and must find a different kind of meaning and purpose for existence. Understanding that you are participating in a fundamental human cycle which challenges your relationship to the outer world can help you to view the decisions and choices available to you now with greater wisdom and care. Certain old structures may have to pass out of your life, to make way for new attitudes and the unlocking of unlived potentials. Even if a hurtful experience of separation or change makes you resist moving in new directions, try to step back and look beyond your emotional responses to the deeper patterns at work. You will lose nothing that is right for you for the future; but you may have to part ways with those situations or relationships which have fulfilled their purpose in your life.

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4. The spiritual sphere

The pleasures of home

During this period you may experience a strong wish to change your environment, so that you can find a place where you feel you really belong and can be at peace. On the external level, this could be an excellent time to buy or rent a new home, or make important changes and improvements in your existing one. You may even want to emigrate, seeking a new culture as well as a new environment. But there is a deeper level to this need for change. Home is not only a physical place, but also a symbolic container in which you can put down roots and feel connected with the past and with an inner source of life. In this sense you may be seeking a bigger and better home of the spirit and the imagination. Your energies are likely to be focused on your personal life right now, rather than on your work; and if so, this needs to be honoured. Try to leave plenty of time to explore inner issues. At the moment you may need to balance your external life, and the role you are playing in the world, with a greater sense of expansion in your private life.

You may find that you need more time and space to develop your family life and creative pursuits. In the past these areas of your life may have had to be relegated to second place, or even ignored altogether, because of work commitments, responsibilities, or the expectations of others. But now you may be eager to develop sides of yourself that can give you a greater sense of meaning and joy. This time also marks the end of a cycle in terms of the particular emotional patterns you have maintained within your family. In some ways you may now be outgrowing the structures and world-view into which you were born; and although you may not wish to leave behind what is of value in your background, you may also feel the need to expand your world beyond those boundaries. Consequently you may need to claim more physical or psychological distance from family members. This should be achievable right now without damaging the emotional fabric of your close relationships. But it is also possible that certain individuals may oppose your need for growth. If so, you may have to go your own way, knowing that your life has its own individual meaning and value. And if a particular relationship must come to an end, you will probably experience this as a necessary release, rather than a bitter loss or unpleasant emotional confrontation.

Losing faith

A powerful sense of compassion for the world's suffering may be awakened in you. But this opening of the heart may also require a recognition and healing of your own past. Inexplicable feelings of sadness or loneliness may afflict you for a time, and you may find yourself reliving hurtful past experiences with surprising intensity. You may also experience deep empathy for others who suffer pain or unhappiness, for your own increased consciousness of life's difficulties may make you unusually receptive to human sorrow on a more universal level. You may be especially aware of the risk of social or professional failure, and the unsympathetic nature of the world "out there". It may sometimes seem as though you are wandering through life in a strangely passive, melancholic state. You may be somewhat prone to self- pity at the moment, and you may need to be careful not to believe you are one of life's victims, at the mercy of circumstance. The truth is that you are not a victim; and any unhappy experiences which you might encounter at the moment, as well as those from the past, need to be seen in balance with what has gone well in your life, and what will go well in the future.

The deeper meaning underlying the depressed emotional state you are likely to experience is a need to face, understand, and let go of the pain of the past. You may be clinging to hurtful experiences in ways you have not realised, storing them up and nursing an unconscious sense of grievance and mistrust which may be secretly affecting many of your decisions and responses to other people. It is not that your past experiences are unimportant, or that your unhappiness is or was unreal. But right now you are being challenged to find the capacity to forgive life for not meeting your expectations. If you can see where your idealisation or unrealistic expectations might have led you into disappointment, you could go a long way toward healing these past wounds. Also, you may need to learn to accept life as it is, rather than as you wish it could be. The proverbial choice of perceiving a glass of water as either half-empty or half-full applies to you now. If you see life only in terms of its unfairness, you will become bitter, cynical and martyred. If you see it only as wonderful, or maintain spiritual convictions which are too simplistic or naive, you will be disillusioned when life turns out to be more complex than you thought. But if you see it as a mixture of dark and light, and can be flexible enough to accept both, you will be able to find the resources to cope with the dark while enjoying the light.

You may also be deeply aware of your connection with other human beings at this time. The sense of being different or isolated is one which everyone feels at one time or another, and you may be increasingly sensitive to how all human beings reach out to each other, directly or indirectly, so that they can feel less alone. One of the most constructive possibilities of what you are presently going through is the capacity to forgive and empathise with others. This may sometimes seem difficult, because you may experience hurt or disillusionment at others' hands right now. But it is likely that, if someone hurts you, they are doing it for the same reason you might be so surprised by it - they are seeking some perfect dream which made them blind to the consequences of their behaviour. The issues which underlie any external disappointments in your life right now are profound ones, and you may need to keep this deeper perspective in mind so that you can let go of any accumulation of anger, resentment or bitterness which you might be carrying from the past. This is not likely to be an easy time, but it can soften and deepen you, and link you more profoundly with your fellow human beings.

A challenge from within

At the moment you may feel you are losing your sense of direction, and your clarity about who you are and what you want. You may also feel victimised by life, or lacking in strength and resilience. Your energy may be low, and you could be particularly vulnerable to offers of salvation made by those who seem to know better than you what you should be doing. Be very careful about abdicating responsibility for your life, in your work, your emotional life, or in any quest for spiritual or religious truths. Something within you may be seeking a higher authority which can give you the direction you feel you have lost. But your faculties of discrimination are probably not working especially well right now, and you may find that the authority that seemed so promising turns out to exploit or disillusion you. Or you may simply expect too much, creating your own inevitable disappointment. Although this may be an uncomfortable time, try to remain calm and patient in the midst of the fog, until you have a clearer sense of what is truly right for you. Certain old attitudes and assumptions are being stripped away from you, gently but irrevocably, and you may experience disappointment, denial, or an enforced sacrifice of some kind in your outer life. Neither passivity nor aggressive attempts to reestablish control are likely to help. Patient attentiveness to your inner processes will achieve the most positive results.

Your developing individuality is being challenged right now, perhaps by outer circumstances, but equally importantly, by childlike longings which are opposed to the emergence of a defined and separate identity. In other words, just at the moment when you are really beginning to take shape as an individual, something within you could be panicking because the fear of loneliness is so great. Any expression of a defined individuality involves some aloneness, which is why many people fear it and prefer to blend with the crowd and live lives dictated by collective opinions and values. You cannot live such an inauthentic life right now, and, even if you managed it in the past, probably never will again. A need to formulate an individual spiritual and moral framework is too great to allow you to be content trying to fulfill others' expectations. But it may seem as though what you truly want is being denied right now, or obscured by your own emotional and mental confusion. Over time the confusion will resolve itself into a clearer understanding of yourself as a separate individual. Any losses you experience may in fact be right and necessary on deeper levels, so that you can develop according to your own special pattern and destiny. Any efforts you make to hide from what you are becoming may result in unnecessary unhappiness and disillusionment, which could perhaps be avoided.

At the moment you probably need to find a still place within, where you can abandon the need to control everything around you, yet still maintain a strong sense of your own value and individual identity. In this still place you may experience an intuitive connection with a higher or deeper reality, which could sustain you in the midst of confusion. Ideas of self-sacrifice or abdicating responsibility for important decisions may seem attractive right now, but they are not likely to be the authentic voice of your own soul. You cannot escape becoming an individual, and attempts to forestall this process by giving away what you have not yet got are likely to be doomed to failure. The only thing you may need to sacrifice is any hope you might entertain that somehow you will be exempted from becoming yourself. Try not to become defensive because you feel the landmarks are shifting and your control is slipping. Perhaps it needs to slip a little, although not too much; and you can gain a great deal from such increased openness to subtler levels of reality. But avoid as you would the plague any individual or situation which seems to promise easy money, happiness, or spiritual redemption. This is an important period in your life, when you are moving in two worlds at once, the outer and the inner. Try to maintain a foot in both, and keep both eyes open to what is in front of you, not what your fantasies tell you ought to exist.

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5. The sphere of the Inner Self

A firmer sense of identity

Although you may find this period restricting in some ways, a subtle process of healing is occurring within you which marks an important transition point in your life. On an inner level, you have the opportunity to clarify who you are and what you want, and to define your individuality in a more authentic way. On the outer level, events may occur which through their constricting or saddening nature facilitate this process of self-discovery. But although you may experience some unhappiness or depression, you could learn what you are by discovering what you don't want or cannot have. You have probably always had difficulty in feeling confident and sure of yourself as a special individual, and you may have relied on particular talents, or being needed by others, in order to believe in your worth. But while the pattern of your background and childhood may at times have brought you into confrontation with the unfair side of life, it may also have created great inner strength and tenacity. Even if you experience a loss or separation during this time, or some change in your work which is not of your choosing, such events could serve as harbingers of a time when your path in life is becoming clearer and more grounded in individual values, aptitudes and needs.

For you, a sense of personal fulfillment and meaning is bound up with developing an inclusive world-view, through travel and an extensive exploration of spiritual or philosophical ideas. You may discover during this time that you have not given sufficient loyalty or time to these issues. The process of recognising what you really want, rather than what you think will please others or fulfill family expectations, could prove deeply healing and renewing. You may also be drawn toward the field of healing on a general as well as a personal level, and you may be attracted to the study of the healing arts or wish to work in one of the helping professions. Even if you have not thought in psychological ways in the past, at the moment your perceptions of life are likely to be deeper, more insightful, and also more compassionate toward human fallibility, including your own. While these ingredients may not add up to a time of frivolity and fun, they can lay the groundwork for an enduring sense of unique identity, which could permanently transform many areas of your life.

Building character

You have arrived at an important turning point in your cycle of development, and life is likely to test the solidity and authenticity of your goals and sense of personal identity. You are now considered an adult by society. You may have just finished your schooling and are seeking a direction; or you may have been working for some time but now feel you must commit yourself more firmly to what you are doing. Outwardly you may be perceived as a fully self-sufficient individual. But inwardly you probably feel anything but strong and competent at the moment, and may secretly long to return to the security of childhood where decisions are made by somebody else. Try not to let anxiety drive you into seeking salvation through an impulsive marriage or hurried parenthood. You probably need plenty of time to get to know yourself before you take responsibility for other lives. You may need to give up certain old attitudes and patterns, and begin new ventures or new relationships at thistime, based on an increasing sense of self-sufficiency and more mature goals and aspirations. But you are likely to be challenged not only by the outer world but by your own fears, and what you begin now may have to prove itself in the face of competition or difficulty. You may experience opposition or obstruction to what you are trying to achieve, and certain external situations may trigger deep insecurities. Yet if you are able to stand firmly behind what you know to be right for you, you will emerge from this period with a much deeper sense of your strength and survival capacities, and a greater acceptance of your human limits.

You may have to define yourself more clearly in terms of how you communicate with others. You may need to review the pattern of your educational background and redress earlier failures; and you may also need to look at ways in which you could be defensive and closed to others' ideas due to fears which spring from the early part of your life. Issues of personal boundaries may need to be dealt with, and also the question of just how self-sufficient you truly are. You may experience a strong sense of separateness, even if you are in a stable and loving relationship, and this could leave you feeling lonely and isolated. You may also have to let go of defences or props which you have been using to give the illusion of strength and competence, so that you can develop greater authenticity and more genuine self-respect. Don't pretend that you are something you are not. If you discover areas of weakness within yourself, or find that external situations are not as valid or stable as you thought, you may need to be prepared to face this honestly and do what is necessary to build better foundations. And if some area of your personal or professional life proves to be truly unviable, you may need to let it go.

This is a time of weeding out, consolidating, and defining your ground. It might be better if you don't rush into new relationships or new ventures until you feel more solid and secure within yourself. Don't be afraid of the challenges of this period. Life is not trying to be malevolent; any difficulties or obstructions you experience are highlighting where you need to work on your life, and if you understand the message you can establish much stronger foundations for all your future choices and endeavours. This is also a time when you may experience a kind of psychological separation from your family background and the collective around you - regardless of your age. You may have to define who you are even if it means severing the unconscious fusion or identification with others which previously made you feel safe and secure. Hopefully, this process of separation will not involve actual physical parting from those you love. But if it does, it could mean that such a relationship has fulfilled its purpose, or can no longer allow you to grow and mature as an independent individual. The most painful issue you may now be facing is a profound and archetypal sense of aloneness. If you can learn to cope with this, you will be able to use this time creatively and constructively to build a better future.

Struggling against limits

You may be struggling hard at the moment to handle burdens which are making you feel trapped. The outer world may seem to be conspiring to keep you confined, and you may feel frustrated or depleted. Yet at the same time you are probably discovering new reserves of strength and tenacity, and may feel determined not only to prove that you can manage your load, but that you can also turn it into something constructive. You are undergoing a process rather like steel being tempered. You may be taking a bit of a pounding, but it will leave you much tougher, more realistic and better able to make your own way in life. And you could also discover a much greater sense of self-confidence if you reflect on the paradox of your situation. You are probably finding out just what you really want through having it denied you. This is often a more effective way of discovering values and objectives than any amount of idle speculation or dreaming when things are going well.

You may be intensely aware of yourself as a separate individual responsible for your own life, and this awareness could prove extremely important in helping you to use this time to lay groundwork for the future. Things are not likely to go smoothly or easily, but every inch of ground you gain, you will keep. You may experience a powerful need to affirm your identity through establishing your own spiritual, religious, moral and philosophical framework, independent of family background or external religious authorities. At the moment something may always seem to obstruct your path when you pursue these aspirations. You may sometimes get the feeling that mysterious roadblocks are ensuring that you keep to a route not of your own choosing, but preordained by forces within or outside yourself about which you know little. And it may be that something wiser inside you is guiding you, even though the guidance may appear to come in the form of what you can't do rather than what you can. You probably do need to stand your ground at the moment, and it may be right for you to struggle to achieve a cherished goal; but this does not mean fighting against your deeper needs and nature. You may need to reflect long and deeply on what you are trying to achieve and why, so that you be sure you are fighting for something which truly matters, rather than attempting to prove that you can beat the opposition. Then you can place your strength and determination in the service of who you really are rather than on whom, in the past, others expected you to be.

This may not be a particularly good time to begin new creative ventures, because your energy and self-confidence are likely to be low. But refining skills, and finishing projects which require a period of hard and perhaps boring work, may be appropriate right now. This is also not likely to be the best time to begin a new relationship, as the people to whom you are attracted at the moment may reflect your own sense of heaviness and cynicism. If you believe that life should be hard, you may choose companions who make it hard for you, rather than those who can help you to find happiness and contentment. But working at ongoing relationships, and establishing new and more flexible roles, may prove very rewarding right now, because you are able to define yourself more clearly as an individual and can therefore be more honest with your partner. You may need to consolidate what matters to you, but you may also need to relinquish situations or relationships which are proving to be wrong for you. This is a period of weeding out, battling on, and coming to know yourself and your strengths and limits on much deeper levels. Try to have patience. Any feelings of weariness and hopelessness you experience are subjective, and the time of stress will pass. You are really fighting to discover who you are and what you want from life. Try to be clearer about this before you make major decisions. The more patient and calm you are inside, the better you will feel, physically and emotionally, and the sounder the groundwork will be that you build for the future.

Facing life's sadness

You are gradually leaving behind many old blocks and insecurities which may have restricted you in the past. But this transformative process may require reconnecting with painful issues from earlier in your life. Your self-confidence is likely to be low and you may be feeling rather punched about by life. External circumstances may seem to conspire to pinch all your most vulnerable nerve-ends, and a sense of restriction may invoke many deep feelings of failure and inadequacy. Yet if you try to forcibly break free of the pressures you may be experiencing, you will probably find that either you cannot do so, or the price is too great. The deeper meaning of this time is one of self-exploration, and you might be wise to turn inward rather than outward to find relief and healing. This is one of those more sober periods in life when you may need to examine deeply who you are and what kind of hurts you are carrying which are interfering with your self-confidence and faith in the future. Don't try to avoid the self-confrontation which is required of you, for you would merely be putting off the task until later - when it is likely to return with even greater potency.

As with most human beings, you probably carry feelings of woundedness or victimisation in certain areas, because in some way life has treated you unfairly. Experiences of this kind probably occurred early in your life, and later incidents may have added to a deep-rooted sense of vulnerability, like beads being added to a string. If you look within, you may discover a string of past experiences, all related to feelings of hurt or humiliation in the area of your professional goals and image in society. Although you may have adequate defences to protect yourself against hurt, nevertheless you have great vulnerability in these areas of your life, and at present external circumstances seem to be reminding you of this. You may also be aware of a backlog of resentment and bitterness, accumulated over many years, which may now be distorting your reactions to your present situation and making things seem much worse than they are. It is in self-exploration that the most constructive dimension of this time can be found, for if you are able to honestly confront any accumulation of anger you might have toward life, you can find greater tolerance and compassion, and a more philosophical outlook which allows you to let go of the past and accept what cannot be changed. This could heal many hurts at a very deep level.

You may not have a lot of fun during this period, but you will grow, and if you can handle the process wisely you will emerge as a much more flexible and understanding individual. Most importantly, try to avoid excesses of self-pity, or a bitterness which make you blame everyone else for your situation. It might seem easier to lash out at those whom you feel are injuring you, or who seem to get away unscathed; but such behaviour will not ease your own feelings of inadequacy, nor will it sit well on your conscience later. And you may make unnecessary enemies if you attempt to retaliate against what you feel to be unjust. It is possible that, just at the moment, you are less concerned with justice than with hurt pride. You are being challenged to discover a subtler and more objective perspective on life, so that you can use your resources to change what you can and bow gracefully to what you must accept as an inevitable part of life's unevenness.

Coping with the fidgets

You are likely to be feeling rather fidgety and discontented at the moment, especially with yourself. You are probably longing for change, particularly in your lifestyle and image, and you may find your immediate environment stale or restrictive. But it is likely that you aren't very clear about just what kind of change you need. You may be behaving in an unusually aggressive and provocative manner which surprises you as much as anyone else. Although you no doubt want badly to express who you are and have others acknowledge and appreciate it, you may inadvertently be doing it in an uneven and sometimes exaggerated way. It is likely that you need to have a close, hard look at your lifestyle and personal image at the moment, to see whether it is the right time to alter or even radically transform your appearance, dress, and general manner toward others. You may also need to examine your interaction with those close to you, particularly your partner, to see whether you might be expecting too much, or projecting onto others qualities which in fact secretly belong to you. Such reflection is essential if you wish to avoid stepping on others' toes and intend to thrash around trying to discover how best to be yourself. Probably you are living within the limits of a role and image which have grown too tight for you, and you may need to be a little more adventurous and more confident in your own potentials. But first try to define what this role is, and why you have adapted it, before you make decisions which might be too impulsive or reactive.

You may also experience considerable discontent in your personal life. Relationships which previously seemed satisfying may now seem restrictive or lacking in vitality, and you may find yourself resentful because you feel your partner isn't as exciting as you might wish. Or you may experience your partner displaying such an attitude toward you - perhaps because you have been denying your own need for change and excitement and have become overly restrictive yourself. Either way, this is not a good time to go rushing off because you are feeling antsy. You probably won't feel that way for long, and you could damage or even destroy valid relationships which, while perhaps needing change, may be very fulfilling in the long term. Try to see where your own attitudes and expectations of others may be making your life boring or constrained. It is not up to your partner to provide you with inspiration; it is up to you. The more you are able to express the restless spirit of the time in constructive ways, the more likely you will be to experience a renewal of magic in those bonds which are valid. And if you do need to move on, you might be wiser to do so after sound reflection, and with a minimum of clumsiness or insensitivity.

Absolute truths

Your deepest survival instincts are being strongly activated right now, and this could have important repercussions in terms of how you deal with your outer life. You may be unusually aware of strengths and resources within yourself which make you take on greater challenges than you might ordinarily seek; and this could precipitate the achievement of a long- sought goal. But you may also be inclined at the moment to turn every life situation into a life-and-death combat. This could make you turn relationships into power battles, and work challenges into a struggle to defeat the opposition. You are likely to be more than usually committed to what you want right now, and able to give yourself entirely to what your heart desires. But you may also find it hard to retain a sense of humour about yourself and your endeavours, because everything may seem so terribly important and intense. But you may need to remember that others too have a purpose and a right to pursue their goals, even if these conflict with your own. A little more flexibility and tolerance right now would not come amiss.

Deep changes in your attitudes and world-view may also occur, especially in the ways in which you define whatever you call God. Although the process by which change occurs may involve a certain amount of struggle, this transformation of attitude may be one of the most creative and positive dimensions of the time. You are becoming deeper as an individual, and may be open to many complex aspects of life which might have eluded your awareness before. You may also learn a great deal about your own emotional depths, and could discover many emotional resources you didn't realise you had. But intensity, passion and a quest for absolute truth need to be kept in balance through an objective appraisal of your life as well as a willingness to occasionally laugh at yourself. Most importantly, try not to trample over others, no matter how badly you want something. You may invoke serious opposition which could leave you feeling bruised, humiliated and defeated. And if you feel that others are trampling over you, perhaps you need to get out of the line of fire rather than fighting violently against the opposition. You might also need to question whether and how your own past actions may have contributed to any opposition or sense of oppression you encounter in the present. During this time you may learn many important lessons about the use and abuse of power.

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Chapter IV

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CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

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Suggested further reading

On planetary cycles and movements:
«The Gods of Change» by Howard Sasportas (transits of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto)
«Transits: The Time of Your Life» by Betty Lundsted
«Transits» by Rob Hand

On individual planets and their meaning:
«The Astrological Moon» by Darby Costello
«Prometheus the Awakener» by Richard Tarnas
«Venus and Jupiter» by Erin Sullivan
«The Inner Planets» by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas
«The Luminaries» by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas
«Exploring Jupiter» by Stephen Arroyo
«The Outer Planets» by Liz Greene
«Saturn» by Liz Greene
«Neptune» by Liz Greene
«Chiron and the Healing Journey» by Melanie Reinhart

On the subject of fate:
«Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle» by C. G. Jung
«The Astrology of Fate» by Liz Greene

Other Astro*Intelligence reports written by Liz Greene can enhance the value of this report, because the greater your understanding of yourself, the more intelligently you can work with the meaning of the time. For an in-depth analysis of your birth horoscope, you can order the Psychological Horoscope Analysis. For deeper insight into your relationships, the Relationship Horoscope can offer a new perspective. If you are still looking for your vocation, Career and Vocation can provide new impulses for you. And for a greater appreciation of the unique personality of your child, or of your own childhood, you can order the Child's Horoscope.

A wider view of your personal perspectives for a period of six years is offered by the Long-term Perspectives.

You can order these reports at the same sales point from which you received the report you are reading.

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Technical Information

In order to create this analysis, the following astrological factors have been examined:
- major progressed aspects (conjunction, opposition, square, trine, sextile) of the Sun, Moon, Ascendant, MC, Mercury, Venus and Mars to natal planets and angles.
- major aspects ( conjunction, opposition, square, trine, sextile) of transiting Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Chiron, Saturn, and Jupiter to both natal and progressed planets and angles.
- conjunctions and oppositions of transiting Mars to both natal and progressed planets and angles.
- aspects between progressed planets, especially progressed new and full Moons.
Special importance is given to stations of transiting planets close to natal planets and angles. Importance has been given not only to the nature of the specific progressed or transiting planet and aspect, but also to natal configurations which echo the progressed and transiting aspects, to house positions of natal, transiting and progressed planets, and to the overall balance of elements and configurations in the birth chart. Internally the results of the Psychological Horoscope Analysis are used for the evaluation of each chart.

Because the importance of any transit or progressed aspect is not limited only to the time of the precise aspect, but extends for some time before and after, orbs of aspect have been used. These recognise the buildup and gradual diminishing of the energy of a particular planetary movement. Consequently some configurations are described which may not reach exact aspect until the following year, but which are already beginning to show their effects, or which have already made an exact aspect in the previous year.

The report which results from these considerations is assembled from selected interpretation text sections. Not all transits or progressions which occur during a year are included in the printed report, only those selected by Liz Greene's model of interpretation. As in all works by Liz Greene the Placidus house system is used.