Your Personal Horoscope 2009: Month-by-month Forecasts for Every Sign

Best Days for Career: 6, 7, 15, 16, 25, 26

Most of the planets are still in the East. Your own Sign, Aries, is very powerful all month. Your 1st House of Self and Self Interest is very powerful, while your 7th House of others is empty (only the Moon will visit there on the 8th and 9th). So this is the most independent period of your year, much more even than the past few months. This is the time to make those changes you want to make—to change the conditions of your life that might be irksome to you or that you feel can be improved. Go forward boldly. Reach for the stars. Have things your way. If others don’t go along, go it alone (but it seems to me that others will go along). Create your life now—the cosmos supports you—only create wisely. You will have to live with your creation later on.

Health is just super, even better than last month. The Sun is in your own Sign until the 19th and Mars, your Ruling Planet, will enter on the 22nd. You have all the energy you need to achieve any goal you set for yourself. You are dynamic and attractive. You exude energy, life and magnetism. The only problem here—from a health perspective—can come from too much of a good thing. You might overdo things, become overactive and push the body beyond its limits, so just be more aware of the body. Also haste, impatience and temper can be a problem. You want things done quickly and haste can lead to unneeded adventures. Many of you don’t realize your force these days. You have so much energy that a curt or short remark can devastate another person—never mind a temper tantrum. Go out of your way to be gentler with others. Watch your driving too: speeding is the problem.

You excel in sports and exercise regimes this month. Athletes will be performing at their top levels these days, breaking their own personal records. Libido is very powerful now too. Probably a sexually active kind of month.

Your love planet is still Retrograde until the 17th. There is love in your life, no question about it, but it can seem to go backwards instead of forwards. But it seems to me that the lover or love opportunity will come back. Venus will once again cross your Ascendant on the 24th, and love (and financial) opportunities are seeking you out and coming to you.

Finances are wonderful this month. And in spite of Venus’s Retrograde you are prospering. Perhaps there are a few glitches or delays, but the basic trend is good. You will really feel your prosperity after the 19th. Venus will go forward on the 17th (bringing back your financial confidence and judgement) and the Sun will enter your money house on the 19th. You are entering a yearly financial peak—enjoy.

May

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 10, 11, 20, 21, 28, 29

Most Stressful Days Overall: 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11, 20, 21, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29

Best Days for Career: 3, 4, 12, 13, 14, 22, 23, 30, 31

Late last month—after the 24th—the planetary power made an important shift from the upper to the lower half of your Horoscope. This represents the ‘night time’ of your year. The activities of night are highlighted. Night is for regenerating and gathering your forces, for dreaming and planning your next moves, for working towards your goals in a more inner way. Sure, you still have a career, and there are external demands, but now is the time to further your career by internal rather than external means. Visualize what you want to do and where you want to be. Imagine what you would like to achieve. Hold your image steadfast. In due course, your inner seeds will bloom into outer actions and events. Now is a time for cultivating emotional harmony and for preparing the psychological ground for future success. It is during the night, when we seem inert and inactive (outwardly) that the forces are gathered for the success of the day. So, you can focus more on the family now and de-emphasize the career. It is a time for psychological progress.

You are still well into a yearly financial peak this month. There is prosperity. Money is earned in happy ways, perhaps as you indulge in leisure activities. You spend more on these things too. As we have seen in the past few months, financial opportunities are seeking you out; wealth is rushing towards you. You just have to accept it when it comes. There is a short-term financial crisis—perhaps involving taxes or debt—early this month, but you will get past it and the prognosis is bright. You are a financial star. There is luck in speculations (but only do this under intuition). Children also seem prosperous these days.

Love seems happy. There could be a short-term lover’s spat—an upheaval due to jealousy—but let the passions die down and your love will resume. You and the beloved are together, on the same page, seeing eye to eye, basically in harmony. A business partnership or joint venture seems in the works. There is definitely opportunity here. Problems in a marriage can be helped by doing adventurous things together as a couple, like mountain climbing, hiking, white-water rafting or by exercising or indulging in sports together. It seems like a sexually active period.

Health is still excellent. You are magnetic and project much sex appeal. You are glamorous and charming as well. Your sense of style continues to be excellent and it is still a great period for buying clothing or accessories. Your taste is excellent. You can enhance your health even further by paying more attention to the arms, shoulders and lungs; your arms and shoulders should be regularly massaged. After the 14th pay more attention to the neck and throat—neck massage will be very powerful.

June

Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 8, 16, 17, 25

Most Stressful Days Overall: 2, 3, 9, 10, 23, 29, 30

Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 9, 19, 27, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 9, 10, 19, 27, 28

Your yearly financial peak is still going strong. Prosperity is even greater than last month. A business partnership or joint venture is still very likely. Your lover, spouse and friends are very co-operative on a financial level. Social contacts—always important for you—are even more important in the month ahead. What I like here is that you have a strong interest in finance—a strong personal interest—and this focus tends to bring success. You are working hard physically, and this is important, but you also need to market your product or service better.

Health is still very good, but it won’t hurt to rest and relax more after the 21st. Enhance your health by giving more attention to the neck and throat (like last month) until the 14th and to the arms, shoulders and lungs afterwards. Regular neck, arm and shoulder massage will do wonders for you. Until the 14th your health planet is in an Earth Sign (Taurus), so you benefit from the healing powers of the Earth. If you feel under the weather get out into the mountains, or old forests or caves. You will feel much better. After the 14th get out into the fresh air and take deep, deep, breaths—this is also rejuvenating when you feel under the weather. Wind bathing is also wonderful; get as naked as practical and let the wind blow all over your body.

Love is still happy this month. Elders—parents or parent figures—might be obstructing, but love still happens. For singles love opportunities come as you pursue your normal financial goals. Often this aspect (the love planet in the money house) shows opportunities with people who are involved with your money: bankers, brokers, financial advisers, etc. Wealth is definitely an allurement. Material gifts turn you on. This is how you show love and this is how you feel loved. If a marriage is having difficulties, material gifts can do much to help. Also try working on your finances as a couple—share the responsibility and the decision making.

Uranus is very close to your Ascendant this month, within orb of a conjunction. This is especially so with those of you born early in the Sign of Aries, from March 20 to 25. This is manifesting a restlessness, a desire for change, a desire for total freedom. Those of you involved with Aries romantically (especially those born early in the Sign) should take note and give them a lot of space.

Aside from finance and love, the major interests in the month ahead are intellectual interests and communication, home and family. Try to avoid power struggles in your career this month—you don’t need to fight. Ride out the rough spots. Things will change in coming months.

July

Best Days Overall: 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 22, 23, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 6, 7, 20, 21, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 9, 18, 19, 26, 27

Best Days for Money: 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27

Best Days for Career: 6, 7, 16, 17, 24, 25

Retrograde activity is increasing this month and for you this is a challenge. Yes, you like things done quickly—yesterday—but this is a month for learning patience. Forty per cent of the planets are Retrograde now. Make haste slowly. Be more methodical in everything you do. Since it is summer and you are in a party mood, it is a good period for a vacation. Not much is happening in the world anyway, so you might as well enjoy yourself.

Friendships, group activities and organizations are still a major focus this month, as they have been all year. But now, all the planets involved with these things are Retrograde so you need to be patient with your friends. Friendships—or relations with a group or organization—seem to be going backwards instead of forwards, but there is a review going on; everything will work out well in the end.

Most of the planets are below the horizon of the Horoscope and your 4th House of Home and Family is very strong until the 22nd. So, continue to de-emphasize the career and give more attention to the home and family. If you have a choice between making that extra deal or being there for the kids or parents, be there for the kids and parents. Other deals will come. Now you need your emotional harmony. (Of course you can’t avoid your career altogether, but where there are choices, focus on the home.)

Health is not up to its usual standards until the 22nd, but there are no serious issues that we can see here. Just lower vitality. This makes a person more vulnerable. So rest and relax more and enhance your health by giving more attention to the stomach and breasts (from the 3rd to the 17th) and to the heart (after the 17th). Diet is more of an issue health-wise until the 17th, as is emotional health. Work to keep your moods constructive and upbeat. If there are health problems they seem connected to family disharmony (or disharmony with children) or to unresolved traumas from the past. Restore the harmony and chances are the health problem will just fade away. Your normal exuberant good health returns after the 22nd. It’s like magic—a shot of adrenalin. The Sun moves into fiery Leo and you are restored.

We mentioned that you are in a party period now, especially after the 22nd. It is another of your yearly personal pleasure peaks. Enjoy. For singles this is a period for love affairs. But communication and intellectual interests are also important to you. And this is a good period to make those calls you need to make and write those letters that you owe to people. It is also good for taking courses in subjects that interest you—and singles might find more than education at these courses or lectures.

Finances are not a big issue this month. I read this as a good sign. You’ve basically achieved your financial goals and seem satisfied. Like last month though, good communication—good marketing—good use of the media—is very important.

August

Best Days Overall: 1, 10, 11, 19, 27, 28

Most Stressful Days Overall: 2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, 31

Best Days for Love: 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26

Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26

Best Days for Career: 2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 21, 30, 31

Retrograde activity is still strong this month so you might as well keep the party going. Have fun. Enjoy yourself. Explore the rapture side of life. After the 22nd you enter a more serious, work-oriented period.

Home and family are still an important focus, more important than your career. For a time (this is only temporary) you seem content to be humble and let others be in charge. You just want to be happy. There could be important renovations or repairs going on in the home after the 24th. A parent or parent figure could be contemplating surgery, although it looks more like a cosmetic type.

The simple pleasures of the home—far from the peaks of power—seem alluring to you. A home-cooked meal; watching the children play catch; sitting in the living room watching TV. There is something very wonderful about these things. Even love, for singles, seems to happen at home or close to home. Perhaps Mr or Miss Right comes through a family introduction or at a family gathering. Romantic evenings at home, far from places of glitz and glamour, strike exactly the right tone. Giving and receiving emotional support is more important than material gifts. Singles are looking for partners with strong family values now. This changes after the 26th, but this is the way it is for most of the month.

Financial opportunities come at home too. Family seems very supportive financially. There are earnings opportunities in real estate and the family business (either your own or someone else’s). Earning opportunities come through family connections. Most probably you are spending more on the home and family as well.

There is a Lunar Eclipse on August 6 in your 11th House. This will test your friendships, and there have been many new ones of late and they need some testing. The good ones will survive while the flawed ones will dissolve for a time. There are some dramas at home and with the children (or those who are like children to you). And, as with every Lunar Eclipse, repairs could be needed in the home. There are shakeups and upheavals in organizations that you belong to, and this perhaps changes your relationship with these organizations. This eclipse is benign to you but it won’t hurt to take a reduced schedule anyway. There are probably dramas in the lives of friends.

September

Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 15, 16, 23, 24, 25

Most Stressful Days Overall: 13, 14, 19, 20, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 6, 7, 15, 16, 19, 20, 26, 27

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 8, 9, 17, 18, 26, 27

Retrograde activity is still strong this month, so continue to make haste slowly. Patience, patience, patience is the name of the game now. Pluto will start to move forwards on the 11th after many months of Retrograde motion and this will clarify issues involving debt, estates and taxes. But Mercury will be Retrograde from the 7th to the 27th and there are still 40 per cent of the planets moving Retrograde for most of the month.

Mercury’s Retrograde suggests more homework and care with regard to health regimes and dietary changes. These things need to be studied before you implement them. For jobseekers it suggests a need for more study of job offers that come—and by the way they will come. This is an excellent month for jobseekers.

Health is a major interest this month. And health is basically good. After the 22nd you need to rest and relax more. You can enhance your health by giving more attention to the kidneys and hips (until the 18th) and to the intestines afterwards. Drive more defensively early in the month, and be more safety conscious in the home.

This month—after the 22nd—the planetary power will shift to the upper half of the Horoscope (you will feel this more strongly next month, but the shift is beginning now). Also Saturn, your career planet, is receiving much positive stimulation. Your career is becoming more active and important and there should be interesting and happy career opportunities coming your way from the 15th to the 19th—probably as you pursue leisure activities or attend parties.

Home and family is still important this month and you seem focused here; perhaps you are doing repairs or renovations or are involved with parent figures. But very soon, the home and family situation will be where you want it and you can focus on your external career.

Your financial planet is in the speculative Sign of Leo until the 20th. There are some very positive things about this: you earn money in happy ways, speculations tend to be favourable and you have a sense of financial optimism and confidence. You spend freely, and the danger here is overspending. But this will change after the 20th as Venus, the financial planet, moves into Virgo. Then you become more cost conscious and will tend to get value for your money.

Love is happy, but not very serious, until the 22nd. You basically want a good time and will tend to attract people who feel this way as well. But after the 22nd, you enter a yearly social peak and more serious romance is likely for singles.

October

Best Days Overall: 3, 4, 12, 13, 21, 22, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 10, 11, 16, 17, 23, 24

Best Days for Love: 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 26, 27

Best Days for Money: 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 26, 27

Best Days for Career: 6, 7, 14, 15, 23, 24

The planetary shift that we discussed last month becomes very dramatic this month. By the end of the month, 80 to 90 per cent of the planets will be in the upper half of your chart. Day is dawning in your year. Time to use all the energy you acquired during the night for productive purposes. Career is becoming the main focus now for the rest of the year ahead. Push forward boldly towards your goals. You can safely let family issues slide (especially after the 16th) and focus on your career.

The main headline this month is love and social life. Your 7th House of Love and Marriage is where the planetary action is. But it is a kind of bittersweet experience. Singles are meeting new people; there is much going out; but Saturn’s move into the 7th House on the 29th initiates a period where your new relationships will get tested. From the cosmic point of view it is not enough just to meet new friends and love partners: they need to be found worthy. Until the 15th restrain your tendencies to carp, criticize and nit-pick. Sure, you are entitled to perfect love, but criticism—especially of the destructive kind—will not bring it to you. Try to focus on quality relationships rather than on the mediocre ones.

An office romance is developing.

Saturn, your career planet, makes a major move from Virgo into Libra at the end of the month. This shows career changes, and a different attitude to your career. For two and a half years you succeeded the hard way, through hard work and sheer merit. There was nothing wrong with this, but now you need to develop your social skills too. It is not enough that you are good at your job—people need to like you. Those of you who are in managerial positions will advance more on the ‘likeability’ factor than on the merit factor. This transit also shows that you can advance your career by social means—by attending and hosting the right parties and making the right friends.

Health is more delicate now and you need to pay more attention here for the rest of the year (and for the next two years). Pay special attention until the 23rd. Enhance your health by paying more attention to the intestines (and the diet) until the 10th, and to the kidneys and hips after this date. Disharmonies in love can affect the physical health now, so work to keep the harmony in your marriage and with your friends.

Retrograde activity is lessening dramatically this month. By the 18th, 80 per cent of the planets will be moving forward. The pace of life and change accelerates.

November

Best Days Overall: 1, 8, 9, 17, 18, 27, 28

Most Stressful Days Overall: 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21

Best Days for Love: 4, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 25, 26

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 4, 13, 20, 21, 22

The forward momentum of the planets increases even more this month. When Neptune starts moving forward on the 4th, 90 per cent of the planets will be moving forward. You should see quick progress towards your goals. You also have greater confidence in most areas of your life.

Love is romantic and idealistic until the 8th. But afterwards it is less about romance and more about sexual attraction—physical chemistry. For those of you of appropriate age this is a sexually active kind of month. (Even older Aries will have more libido than usual.) There is still an office type of romance happening for you. (The opportunity is there for sure.)

In love you seem to be different people all occupying the same body these days. One part of you is romantic and idealistic and wants only ‘the feeling of love’. Another part of you only cares about the physical chemistry. And still another part of you seems of a ‘practical bent’—the good provider, the person who can advance your career, the power person: this is what allures. If you can find all these qualities in one person, you have the ideal now.

With your 8th House very powerful this month, the period is good for detox regimes, both physical and emotional. It is a time where you have more power to reinvent yourself—to give birth to the person you want to be. It is a very good time now to make an inventory of your possessions and get rid of what you don’t need. It is a time to clean house—physically, emotionally and materially.

Your spouse or partner is prospering this month and will be more generous with you. In general (especially after the 8th) this is a time to prosper by prospering other people, by putting their financial interests ahead of your own. As you succeed at this your own prosperity will happen very naturally. This is also a good month to access outside sources of capital, either through borrowing or through attracting investors or backers. The credit line should increase now.

Health improves after the 22nd but still needs watching. Enhance your health by giving more attention to the heart (all month) the colon, bladder and sexual organs (until the 16th) and the liver and thighs (after the 16th). Safe sex (and sexual moderation) is important until the 16th. Regular thigh massage is good after the 16th.

December

Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 15, 16, 24, 25, 26

Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 10, 11, 17, 18

Best Days for Love: 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 26, 27

Best Days for Money: 2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28

Best Days for Career: 2, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29, 30

The forward momentum of the planets is even stronger than last month. Until the 20th ALL the planets are moving forward (highly unusual); even afterwards, the percentage is still high—90 per cent moving forward. So the pace of life is quick and progress is rapid. For you the only challenge is deciding on what you really want. The Retrograde of Mars (from the 20th onwards) is stronger on you than on most people—it is the Lord of your Horoscope. You seem directionless on a personal level, but success is still happening. On the 21st the Sun enters your 10th House initiating a yearly career peak. Many other beneficial planets are crossing your Midheaven as well—Mercury on the 5th and Venus on the 25th. There are pay rises and promotions in store. This can be with your present company or with another. You are in demand now.

Push forward boldly towards your career goals—reach for the stars now. Let family and emotional issues go for a while. Career opportunities are coming in many ways now—through friends in right places, through attending the right parties, and through good sales, marketing and promotion. (Of course old-fashioned hard work is also part of the equation, but it’s not the total picture.)