AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18)

Creativity

2008 is the beginning of one of your most daring projects as you launch into a completely new creative cycle and take steps and risks beyond which even you cannot see the end. A time of infinite rebirth, you will begin to appreciate that the fuel for this demanding journey is trapped within your habits and assumptions and, if you can release these, you can enjoy what you really love rather than what you think you need.

Apply: Trust

Relationships

Honesty is definitely your best policy in 2008 when you realize you are no longer prepared to go around and around in relationship circles. Something has got to give as the North Node joins Chiron and Neptune in your sign from 8th January onwards, bringing a relationship renaissance whether you like it or not. The mental restrictions you have been placing on your fulfillment will be blown away by June, so hold regular discussions with your Higher Self so that you can remain in the flow you’ve worked so hard to rejoin.

Apply: Unconditional Love

Wellbeing

In 2008 your health relies upon your willingness to accept change. Expanding your heart and mind simultaneously will bring some intense periods of healing from January until March and May until September. However, if you can allow this process, you will have a completely new perspective by November and the inner peace that you've been searching for.

Apply: Harmony

Planetary Partner: Jupiter
Meditation: “I am embracing the guidance of my inner truth.”

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20)

Creativity

You feel like you have a new foundation this year and it gives you some breathing space until April to ground your creative vision for 2008. However, there will be no room for complacency or ego projection in May so make sure you are flowing with your surroundings or what you thought was exclusively yours could turn out to be available to everyone but you.

Apply: Self Discipline

Relationships

Relationships are both supportive and stubborn this year, depending on your point of view. But, as a Water sign, you can easily flow around what others see as obstacles and in so doing unite the whole community. As Neptune continues to uncover inner truths throughout 2008, remember you will also be looking beyond what appears to be into your own personal blind spots so that you can heal as you flow.

Apply: Peace

Wellbeing

You will feel more free flowing this year but don’t think that you can return to the excessive imbalances of 2005 and 2006. Although you have found a better equilibrium, your challenge in 2008 is to maintain this state of being. Nudges from Saturn in healing Virgo in January, April and May should be all you require to assimilate your personal shift rather than skim through them, unable to incorporate the changes that they bring.

Apply: Release

Planetary Partner: Moon
Meditation: “I am acknowledging the learning in each of my sacred moments.”

ARIES (Mar 21-April 20)

Creativity

You are chasing time into the New Year like the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. So much to do, so little time. And yet you will chase away your creativity if you don’t promise your Higher Self to do less and be more. Mars’ journey through polarity could leave you breathless until March, so immerse yourself in quiet time and realize you aren’t playing catch up, nor is the sound of silence deafening. The discord of the first part of the year is to remind you how desperate your ego is to continue conflict and the second half of 2008 will show how committed you are to nurturing peace.

Apply: Power

Relationships

You’d love to inject some magic into your relationships in 2008. However, forcing your way to where you think you want to be is not how you will achieve this. Allowance and understanding are the tools that will support you in attracting new, so don’t let the over-earthly Zodiac convince you to follow the advice of your ego and sulk your way to a painful renegotiation in October.

Apply: Faith

Wellbeing

You could hold up your life in 2008 by insisting on being in control and listening to the dissatisfactions of your ego. This could bring exhaustion in June because you are unwilling to nurture yourself. So, before you start dismantling the great health foundations you built in 2007, be kind to yourself and keep the love flowing, not the conflict going.

Apply: Delight

Planetary Partner: Pluto
Meditation: “I am embracing trust.”

TAURUS (April 21-May 20)

Creativity

Venus is promoting independence in January and this is the major theme of your year. Whether you are branching out or moving out, confident heart-centered expansions will be welcomed with open arms. Although these changes might cause trepidation in your Taurean stability, they are mostly attitudinal rather than material. But this doesn’t mean you won’t need to put them into practice to collect your spiritual rewards.

Apply: Responsibility

Relationships

Although amiable Taurus is never short of friends, you might feel like a fish out of water from April until September when people you never dreamt would want to meet you start queuing up at your door. But this is a not-so-subtle hint from your Ruler Venus to refresh your social nature with a spiritual community that you can only now relate to, even though it has always been there.

Apply: Beauty

Wellbeing

Your energy levels are strong and balanced at the beginning of the year. Your challenge is to keep them that way. The earthy overtones of the Zodiac will have a tendency to emphasize burdens and obligations this year, so make sure you invest in enjoying your life rather than dragging your health down by taking on what you really don’t want to do.

Apply: Unlimited Material Creation

Planetary Partner: Venus

Meditation: “I am opening my heart to Unconditional Love.”

GEMINI (May 20-June 21)

Creativity

Your mind and heart could be at loggerheads at the beginning of the year causing you to question what you believe and trust. However, this is a process of discernment that will ensure your heart takes over your life this year. So be sure to let go of what you want to release so you can truly step forward. Your mind may briefly try a comeback in August but this will be short lived because 2008 is the year love floods your world.

Apply: Balance

Relationships

You will replace the control of logic with the courage of heart in 2008 when you move to a new relationship phase in your life, welcoming in new contacts, friends and lovers fom all sides. No more will your mind make up excuses or talk you out of what you feel is supportive and self loving. So celebrate in October when you look deeper into your world and see the layers of life you are now fully connected with.

Apply: Creativity

Wellbeing

Your health may not cope with everything that you want to do and be in 2008 so make sure your increased zest for life doesn’t leave you with high adrenalin levels and no time to enjoy what you create. Take some advice from Saturn in your sister sign of Virgo and punctuate the business of the first half of the year with gentle but regular exercise, and the highly social second half with self discipline and rest.

Apply: Harmony

Planetary Partner: Moon
Meditation: “I am allowing the flow.”

CANCER (June 22-July 21)

Creativity

Neptune will remind you throughout 2008 how much you have changed and how much this is due to courageous emotional shifts in 2007. Your ego, however, would love this new found clarity to fade after January. But if you are no longer prepared to create with the past in mind, you will have freed yourself from September onward so you can meet like-hearted people and make a deeper connection with your own spiritual guidance that ensures magical and enjoyable creations.

Apply: Gratitude

Relationships

The depth of the relationship changes in 2008 might take you by surprise in March when many aspects that were tempting you to prepare for the worst actually turn out much better than your ego had lead you to believe. So take heart and realize that the inner drama king or queen is taking a back seat this year because you are ready to face the dramas that before appeared too much, too soon.

Apply: Spontaneity

Wellbeing

In 2008 your health and wellbeing depend on your ability to be detached. Many will career off into their usual drama spirals and expect you to accompany them as before. But by May you will have demonstrated amply that you are worth more, and these types of experiences are certainly not adding to your fulfillment nor your peace of mind. Thus, 2008 will become the year when you can love with or without community and the choice will be made from the center of a detached and unconditionally-loving heart.

Apply: Detachment

Planetary Partner: Jupiter
Meditation: “I am embracing Love which is unending, not relying on a place or a time.”

LEO (July 22-Aug 23)

Creativity

2008 gives you the opportunity to move forward with both clarity and courage as you begin to see the shift in your core values being reflected in your environment. Abundance will begin to flow from February onwards, but make sure you don’t grab at short term opportunities in May because you lack the commitment to nurture a more substantial long term creative vision. The Total Solar Eclipse in your sign could give you a second bite of the cherry so in September allow yourself to look at your options with more detachment so greed or security don’t mask long term material and spiritual rewards.

Apply: Brotherhood/Sisterhood

Relationships

You love to lead, but in 2008 you may push so hard to remain independent and in control that you end up isolating yourself from the ones you love. So listen to your Higher Self in January when you see the impact of a bossy and imbalanced Mars and make cooperation the quality you want in relationships this year. In so doing, you will see that being the cooperation you seek will help you take your place in an unconditionally-loving community that values your input.

Apply: Unlimited Spiritual Creation

Wellbeing

Your health needs to be kept at a constant flow this year, rather than burning out of control by September and taking you the rest of the year to recover. 2008 may appear to lack pace but the grounding impact of Pluto and Saturn until June will highlight toxins and imbalances in the second half of the year when excess will become increasingly draining.

Apply: Openness

Planetary Partner: Pluto
Meditation: “I am releasing attachments to control.”

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 22)

Creativity

You’ll be showing a little of your star quality this year as Saturn supports you in productive, progressive and enjoyable creations. But the reason you can shine is because you will be leaving your traditional comfort zone, which could disturb your martyr modesty with some uncomfortable results. So if you want to glide smoothly into the appreciation you deserve, take Saturn’s introvert lead in the first half of 2008 and release inner controls that have been putting the dampers on for the last 4 years.

Apply: Empowerment

Relationships

You stand to make many more connections this year in both material and spiritual ways. Working relationships could easily relax into success and for once you are capable of joining everyone! But as always, this joyous state of affairs is up to you. So, are you going to say it’s too good to be true and prepare for someone who needs you, or are you simply going to surrender into fulfillment?

Apply: New Light

Wellbeing

Your health could undergo some severe shifts in 2008 as you synchronize more deeply with the greater Universe and the energy of Mother Earth. So remember, your health, not your work, definitely comes first and, when you make this commitment, you will find you can break up a demanding creative year into cycles that keep your heart, body and spirit in harmony.

Apply: Abundance

Planetary Partner: Uranus
Meditation: “I am balancing my physical, spiritual, mental and emotional bodies with the energies of Mother Earth.”

LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct 23)

Creativity

You’ll feel Saturn breathing down your neck this year as your mental and emotional balance become closer. But the healing that results appears to make your life temporarily worse. Lover of beauty and gentleness, your ego will invite you into believing you are a victim of your circumstances when, in truth, you are feeling the effects of releasing long term imbalances that your ego has sought to convince you are normal.

Apply: Humor

Relationships

You will see just how important and strong friendship is this year when many fair weather friends bid you farewell. It is highly likely that you won’t be remotely surprised about this. In fact, you could actually be relieved that you now feel sufficiently confident and emotionally honest that you attract those who enjoy the new you and aren’t interested in relating to your past.

Apply: Courage

Wellbeing

2008 is a great opportunity to take a fresh look at your health and seek alternative opinions about any long-standing problems. If your ego has convinced you that you are doing all you can to stay in shape, then ask your heart what you find hard to love about yourself. These realizations will make much more progress with your year-long rebalance than any of the defensive reactions your ego has to offer.

Apply: Trust

Planetary Partner: Venus
Meditation: “I am embracing Self Love.”

SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 22)

Creativity

Investment is high on the agenda this year but the target of your creative investment may not be altogether clear. With Pluto moving briefly into Capricorn in the first half of the year, your commitment will need to be strong, even if you are still unraveling the true nature of your intentions until August. 2008 is not a journey for the faint-hearted but it will be one that is very well worth taking if you are to achieve the creative rebirth that you seek.

Apply: Grace

Relationships

Relationship imbalances within yourself and those who surround you will become very obvious this year with the practical influences of Capricorn bringing out into the open much that has been hidden. But this is not a hint to prepare for difficult times, rather an incentive to look into areas of dissatisfaction and command the changes that need to be made rather than feel you are becoming a victim of them.

Apply: Sisterhood/Brotherhood

Wellbeing

You may need to call upon your hidden strengths and talents this year to ensure your health doesn’t describe the ups and downs that you will be feeling. The routines of self care that you often find restricting, even irritating, will form the foundation of a vital balance. This new balance, if upheld and expanded, could nurture you into a transformative state of being that makes a magical difference to your year.

Apply: Responsibility

Planetary Partner: Venus
Meditation: “I am accepting the responsibilities of Self Love.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Creativity

You will feel great waves of acceleration this year. But your ability to embrace what it takes to move on could mean the difference between riding the wave and getting dumped in a heap on your new shore. You might be legendary for your spontaneous enthusiasm but when Pluto leaves your sign in late January, you will require more than hot air to get you where you really want to be.

Apply: Simplicity

Relationships

A shifting relationship landscape in 2008 could catch you unawares and with no points of reference. A lack of stability at the beginning of the year may cause you to question long term loyalties as they appear to rebel against you rather than support you. However, before you over react, realize that after the Eclipses in February and August, a new wave of friends will flood your life, washing away the stagnation of the past.

Apply: Gratitude

Wellbeing

Your health is strongly related to your emotions this year. So be willing to detach from the past and then your energy will remain relatively balanced all year. You could feel worn out by April so remember to pace yourself and not try to cram your creative vision into the first three months of the year!

Apply: Potentiality

Planetary Partner: Uranus
Meditation: “I am embracing letting go.”

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19)

Creativity

Mars could scatter your world at the beginning of the year but you won’t be surprised by what is left standing in early February. Your grounded wisdoms will be in great demand in 2008, so believe in what you have to give and understand that how you present your creativity will undergo an amazing metamorphosis. Many may be astonished but their faith in you will increase substantially.

Apply: Rebirth

Relationships

If you are prepared to be brutally honest, not pessimistic, this year relationships will move onto a whole new level. However, this doesn’t mean you can be a stick-in-the-mud and stay where your ego wants you to be, nor let long-standing habits control your happiness. Molds are to be broken in 2008 and you could be the Sign to lead the way in shattering personal illusion and nurturing a profoundly loving shift into being.

Apply: Courage

Wellbeing

Your health could give you cause for concern in 2008 if you are not prepared to look at the level of fulfillment in your life. April and May could be particularly draining if you don’t balance your work load and make last minute changes that will release you from a long term drain. So promise yourself that this year is going to be the one when you liberate yourself from the excuses that have held you back in the past, and enjoy doing and being for yourself.

Apply: Truth

Planetary Partner: Jupiter
Meditation: “I am releasing my resistance to growth.”