2012 ANNUAL ASTROSCOPE by JOHN DELANEY ARIES 2012 Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026 represents the final of three clarion calls of a new era for humanity. However, unlike the quest for personal liberation during Uranus in Aries from March 2011 to March 2019, and the make-it-or-break-it demands of bosses & the professional workplace during Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024, Neptune’s Ingress into Pisces means, for Aries the Ram, the complications & obstacles presented by other people. While Uranus connotes that Aries the Ram need only please himself or herself, and while Pluto connotes that Aries the Ram need only please Aries the Ram & Aries the Ram’s immediate professional superiors (much easier said than done!), Neptune denotes that Aries the Ram must consider, and in many instances please, everybody. Clearly, the dynamic has changed since Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012 promised – and sometimes delivered on that promise – that other people represented your liberation & freedom. Neptune in Pisces now insists that other people represent your responsibilities. (Recognize the t-shirt slogan, “I can only please one person per day – and today is not your day”? During Neptune in Pisces, nobody who sees Aries the Ram wearing that t-shirt will find it amusing – or will respect Aries the Ram . . . at all.) Not to worry – many transiting planets and aspects thereof augur that Aries the Ram will receive sufficient, if not abundant, opportunities to learn the various protocols of cooperation. Luckily, Jupiter in Taurus from January to June suggests that such cooperation will not prove bad for your finances – provided, however, that you, of course, cooperate. Indeed, if you do cooperate, you will find (at least as long as the North Node transits Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012) that bosses & clients will treat you with kid gloves & will give you all that you need, as well as some of what you want. And so they should. After all, opportunity knocks for the first time in a long time during the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node. Of course, everybody know that there are & will be risks involved throughout Chariklo conjunct Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012 and that cooperation will be more than necessary – one might indeed assert that cooperation is now mandatory. Moreover, because everybody is extremely aware that the weakest link in the chain can do enormous amounts of damage throughout Pholus conjunct Hylonome conjunct 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013, privacy will not even be presented as an option to you – or to anybody. Cooperate proactively. Cooperate with whom about what? While Neptune’s Ingress into Pisces may announce the final three-part dawning of a new era, Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April declares that everybody, individually & collectively, must now make many, myriad adjustments, in the workplace & involving business practices, dating not only to Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009, but more importantly & more profoundly, to those bad business habits begun when, and entrenched soon after, Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000. Unwittingly helping your case will be work colleagues who refuse to cooperate with both bosses & with you during Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April – a lack of cooperation which will frustrate absolutely everybody behind the scenes during Chiron square the North Node in March & April. Bosses may tolerate such lack of cooperation for the short term; however, because irrational fear of even more bad news will infect absolutely everybody during Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May, bosses will no longer willingly support anybody who willfully lowers everybody else’s morale with their selfish & self-serving ways. Of course, while some of those bureaucrats behind the scenes will seek to blame you for the lack of progress, Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March signifies that bosses will provide you with the team players that you require to get your part of the overall project done with considerable flair. Don’t worry too much about identifying what exactly you need to do – marital & business partners will communicate exactly what needs to change during Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June. And don’t worry about your undeclared, behind the scenes enemies – bosses can & will take care of them throughout Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November. That way, while you & your team stand together in the winner’s circle, uncooperative work colleagues & undeclared bureaucratic enemies have a go at each other’s throats during Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May – as it should be. See how it all works out? However, in no way must you take bosses for granted. You will be on a roll during Uranus trine the North Node in April & May. And you may be more inclined than usual to talk some egoistic trash during Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June – although, you will learn, at some point during Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013, that your own trash talk will lead to the escalation of the egoistic trash talk of troublemaking competitors. Such trash-talking troublemaking will serve you poorly as you will be forced to engage in adversarial discussions and relationships throughout Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September. Eventually, however, something arrogant or untoward that you do or say will annoy your bosses – and Uranus square Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October warns in no uncertain terms that bosses have the last word. The new order should be quite firmly in place by the end of Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September. New faces obeying the new protocol as per the new order during 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018 remind you not to get too comfortable – everybody is in fact replaceable. Lessons learned – or not – regarding cooperation with new protocol that directly effects & indirectly influences your personal finances will either underwrite or undermine your professional performance & personal financial stability as Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013 augurs an increase in business transactions, business partnerships, work colleagues & ongoing correspondence. You will need to develop a personal protocol to manage all these interpersonal interactions so that you may integrate that protocol which employers, institutions & partners demand. Slow down all transactions & correspondence as the capacity for errors involving arithmetic, hard currency & spelling increases during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June – and as the potential damage done by errors increases exponentially during Asbolus in Gemini from July through October. Seek official approval via multiple cash counts & proofreading sessions with vested professional superiors throughout Jupiter square Chiron in July. Regulatory & law enforcement authorities will ask you & many others questions about protocol during Saturn trine Neptune in October to gauge both your own & other individuals’ intentions. New regulations & stricter protocol during Saturn trine Chiron in November & December seeks to close loopholes creative by the negative intent discovered by such regulatory & law enforcement authorities. As long as you are doing your level absolute best to do the right thing, do not be intimidated even when bad, dangerous & outright scary things happen during Mars in Scorpio during September. Be punctiliously careful. Show good will & an explicit willingness to cooperate. Don’t expect to create a perfectly functioning rapport right off the bat – simply make useful adjustments throughout Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013. More importantly, don’t complain when some cost-cutter takes away some of your favorite professional perks during Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November. Instead, express gratitude for all that you still have. Approach this whole new regulatory environment throughout Saturn sextile Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013 with the attitude that you are working with all legitimate authorities to make an entirely new system work – which, if you act in good faith, will in fact be the truth. Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014 denotes that bosses treat the push for reform as both total & interconnected – bosses will overlook nothing. That being said: While one may or may not know, initially, what does or what does not work, one should know what is right from what is wrong, and what is edifying from what is harmful. Ignoring ethics & morality will get one in trouble with the law throughout the North Node in Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014; disregarding health & safety throughout Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014 may get one killed. Careful!   TAURUS 2012   The shift into Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026 will feel abrupt. After all, under Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012, bosses & the public forced you to express yourself explicitly, disregarding what you truly mean as they focus exclusively upon the literal meaning of the words you spoke. The exact opposite dynamic now predominates: Both allies & enemies will intuit what you think & where you stand by how the environment feels when you occupy it. In truth, this new paradigm, over time, will prove much less abrasive – and much less intellectually dishonest. Even so, the transition from the overemphasized verbal to the understated non-verbal for the plain-spoken & frequently blunt Taurean will feel awkward – particularly since that Taurean will remain in the spotlight throughout Jupiter in Taurus from January to June. Rather than complain about how such judgmental & socially conservative environments make you feel insecure, you should in fact be expressing gratitude. As Neptune’s Ingress into Pisces makes you respect not how other hyperintellectual brains think but how all flesh-and-blood human beings really feel, other long-term outer planetary transits will also keep you in line. Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024 provides the carrot by continuing to reward you for embracing fiscal & social conservatism both professionally & financially via opportunities to travel & to publish. Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June applies the stick as it punishes you when you succumb to temptations presented by Uranus in Aries from March 2011 to March 2019 to allow the “needs” of your own id & ego to eclipse the demands of the collective – and when you have the nerve to mouth off to people who call you on it during Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September. Indeed, Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April connotes that the temptation to allow your own “needs,” whether involving sex or other types of fast-paced thrill-seeking, to supersede collective will & propriety will be extremely strong. As the North Node in Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012 transits the Taurean 8th house of criminal activity, neither you nor anybody who cares about you should want you to consider & to ponder, let alone indulge, such temptations. Ultimately, however, because push will eventually come to shove, there do exist some inherently very basic primal needs, amongst them basic shelter, real estate & sex, which you must address & fulfill – a stark & potentially terrifying reality which imposed itself upon you during the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node. How you fulfill such primal needs may cause you a distinct public relations problem. For example, if you choose to shack up or to do the nasty with somebody twice or half your age during Chariklo conjunct Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012, then you will raise some eyebrows – but as long as what you are doing is completely legal, then why should you care about other peoples’ eyebrows? However, truth be told, because so many people will be breaking the law, and so many people will be arrested for having broken the law already, throughout Pholus conjunct Hylonome conjunct 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013, you do not want to flout public opinion so aggressively that somebody out there – particularly law enforcement officials – believe you to be a sociopath. Recall how certain associates deigned to judge you & your “behavior” (“behavior” which they interpreted negatively as “misbehavior” as a result of their own unabashed social bias) as Saturn in Virgo opposed Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009. As strong as your will to power impels you to do so, resist the almost overwhelming urge to settle scores with such political enemies during Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April. Such political enemies still retain the capacity to obstruct your progress during Chiron square the North Node in March & April, which may lead to a face-to-face personal confrontation during Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May. Instead, put forth your very best effort under the guidance of powerful bosses & financial benefactors during Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March, as you allow such powerful bosses & financial benefactors to speak in your behalf & to pull strings for you throughout Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November. Furthermore, jog your memory so as to anticipate what business creditors & partners will demand of you when crises unfold during Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May. Recall the punctilious requirements of an overburdened & disorganized infrastructure during Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000. Heed well the acute accuracy with which the powers that be apply the “concomitant opprobrium” while you work very hard to stay on the right side of the fence. Beware overconfidence during Uranus trine the North Node in April & May. Bosses will regard you harshly throughout Uranus square Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October, and you may suffer a permanent loss of credibility, if you allow your temporarily inflated ego to induce you to view bosses not as legitimate professional superiors but as junior partners. Indeed, during Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June, you will suffer under the illusion that you are the most dominant partner of anybody with whom you are a companion in any situation – which is yet another reason you should choose your recreational associates & drinking buddies so carefully throughout 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018. In the long-term, this leaves you open to extremely untoward, loud personal confrontations with worthless associates during Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013. In the short-term, this leaves you personally, financially & treacherously vulnerable to manipulation & deceit at the hands of undeclared political & professional enemies during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June – before they destroy you completely during Jupiter square Chiron in July. Vaunt your inappropriately large ego in a social setting such as a gym, restaurant, park or bar where you ultimately have nothing to lose. Be circumspect in situations where you confront real stakes. An increase in the number of transactions that commences during Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013 can debase into curses in disguise (or, in some worst-case scenarios, during Asbolus in Gemini from July through October, undisguised curses) if you are disorganized. Importantly, you must not allow anybody, whether colleague or client, to rely upon your expertise as they sucker you into cleaning up the stray details for which they alone are responsible. Be diplomatic during Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September as you explain to such individuals that you are “doing them a favor” as you clean up all those stray details to provide these clients with exactly what they need. During Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013, you will be too busy executing all your accumulated transactions & responsibilities to keep up such a generous & counterproductive practice. Indeed, whether such customers or clients wind up spending nothing, a little or an awful lot, during Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November, such individuals will demand your full & undivided attention. Get in the habit of telling such people unaccustomed to cleaning up their own messes that you can no longer do anybody any more such “favors” before Saturn transits Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014 – and before they decide to get as nasty as nasty can get during Mars in Scorpio during September. Communicate to incorrigible manipulators during Saturn trine Neptune in October that you must confer with their direct competitor or professional superiors before endeavoring to do further work for them immediately. If such string-pullers don’t get the message, ask such direct competitors or professional superiors to intercede directly on your behalf during Saturn trine Chiron in November & December. Defer to legitimate authority throughout Saturn sextile Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013 so that legitimate authority will aggressively & openly protect you. Openly communicate, as public relations for both yourself & your bosses throughout Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014, the need to think & to act not only out of self-interest but from a strategically holistic perspective. Thereafter, and throughout the North Node in Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014, if anybody decides to give you further grief as you disregard the slovenly to empower the truly self-reliant, speak this Christian sentiment . . . and repeat it religiously, “Like the Lord Himself, I help those who help themselves.” Hallelujah.    GEMINI 2012   When outer planets move into water signs, other astrological signs experience religious ecstasy or existential dread. Gemini, by contrast, endures increased workloads with accelerated deadlines. And so it goes under Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026. And not just more work, mind you. You also endure the enormous logistic and emotional chaos of bosses who either oppose evil to do good or who engage stealthily in brazen corruption. Indeed, you may, at times, feel like a bureaucratic administrator at the Wellspring Church within "Old Town" in the fictional city of Zenith, Winnemac in Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry – no matter which church secretary Reverend Elmer may be feeling up at the moment. Moreover, whether you align yourself with the white hats against the bad guys or whether you willingly accept the dirty money, on the down low extramarital sex or high purity cocaine on the sly, you still must answer your phone, honor your appointments & file all due diligence reports in a timely fashion. For good or for evil, your existence will reflect the binary cartoon motivation of Pac Man: You will avoid goblins when goblins can destroy you & you will chase goblins when you become empowered after you eat the magic nuclear white dot. Moreover, as long as the North Node transits Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012, be warned: Whether you win or lose, at the moment, as the hero or the villain, you will absolutely, in all circumstances, lose everything if you “flip.” Nobody loves, and everybody hates, a disloyal traitor. Of course, the most effective way to prevent or to forestall the betrayal of loyalties lies in not forging any loyalties in the first place. In this sense, because business partners call the shots for many months as a result of the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node, you would be wise to do as you are told. If what business partners instruct involves the potential that you will assume liability – which may indeed be the case during Chariklo conjunct Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012 – decline politely . . . with a knowing smile, “This is a limited liability partnership.” In such instances, business partners who do not respect boundaries will be exceedingly creative in finding new ways to violate yours during Pholus conjunct Hylonome conjunct 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013. For that reason, Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013 reinforces that it is imperative that you do not escalate legal matters & partnership conflicts until it is absolutely unavoidable. Do not cry wolf. Oh, and by the way, did anybody mention your increased workloads with accelerated deadlines? Well, whoever originally affirmed it, Jupiter in Taurus from January to June confirms it. Your employer has plenty for you to do! And, just in case you forgot, your employer will remind you, intermittently if they are happy & frequently if they are annoyed, that, although they are currently bereft of any ludicrously fictitious Bull Market profits under & throughout Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024, they still, in fact, pay you regularly. If that is the case (that is the case), render services to justify payment for services rendered – done deal. And don’t cop an attitude! Grumble as you will, a boss that hires & employs – and pays! – you is no fool, and pays attention to your personal character as much as you pay attention to theirs. And – admit it! – these bosses did grant you enormous slack for you to advance your “opposing editorial” viewpoints throughout Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012. For these (and other) reasons, your boss does not need to know that Uranus will be transiting Aries from March 2011 to March 2019 to surmise that, employee though you may currently be, you are, at heart & at root, a free spirit & a free agent – but one who, out of respect for your employer & your job, does not express such freedom vocally, irresponsibly & to the detriment of the greater good and who instead builds esprit de corps as the team player of all team players during 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018. Keep it that way. Easier said than done. There will be temptations to allow your ego to inflate – especially when certain associates casually admire your efficiency & intelligence, or when a new client offers you a plum opportunity, during Uranus trine the North Node in April & May. Realize that if you do let your ego run amuck, you will potentially pay for it, very heavily, on a professional basis when & after Uranus squares Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October, and on a romantic basis during Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September. This is not about personal confrontations & power struggles. Bosses pull all the strings during Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November because bosses hold all the cards – after all, it is the bosses’ casino. To keep that ego in check, Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June advises you to recall those times when you suffered financially, including when Saturn & Elatus transited Gemini from 2001 to 2003. Recall what you did & said incorrectly back then so that you can play it more conservatively now. Realize how errors executed – not only by you but also by a large percentage of the population – during Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000 have made you and many other people counterproductively gun-shy for the long term. While it will be clear that some people never learn necessary lessons during Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May, this does not necessarily mean that you are in fact one of them. If you absolutely know for a fact that you are not repeating your own or anybody else’s mistakes – and you have a plan & a battle plan – then move forward into the untamed wilderness. Restore that stiff upper lip. Put some more baby oil on your reptilian tough skin. The world is a tough place – throw punches at yourself in the mirror to remind yourself that not only can you take a punch but that you can also give as you get. Don’t let the bastards get you down. While showing a healthy respect for organizational psychology helps to secure your weekly paycheck, in order to show such healthy respect, you must rectify & eradicate all internal psychological imbalances – a task with which you will be charged during Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April. To ascend to even more profound levels of professional performance when you get the opportunity to do so during Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March – and also to stop putting so much pressure upon your love life during Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June – you must address these emotional scars endured during the heat of battle. Recall not only how brutally the professional workplace impinged upon family relationships but also how acutely domestic crises undermined your professional ambitions during Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009. How did you survive these challenges in order to succeed? Employ this knowledge now so that business partners will be unable to manipulate you psychologically during Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April – in which case those business partners will attempt to manipulate bosses during Chiron square the North Node in March & April. Bosses will in turn address the problem by putting pressure directly upon you during Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May. EST Standard Training – transform! During Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013, all the accumulated work of the past year empowers you as you ascend to the status of “local expert.” Congratulations! As a reward, you will be expected to make tough decisions that nobody else is willing to make. In fact, Asbolus in Gemini from July through October indicates that certain bosses envision you as the harbinger of doom, death & destruction for those employees who refuse to tow the party line. While this is not exactly a role which will enable you to grow in popularity, popularity is not important for the time being – although you might want to sugarcoat bitter pills during Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September so that you will not feel so alienated during Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013. The fact that you have attained a position of authority wherein you make tough decisions does not give you license to speak like a hypercritical curmudgeon. After all, certain partners, rivals & employees will already view you as the Grinch after you take away some of their privileges during Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November – why make them absolutely hate you forever with your uninvited editorial commentary? Indeed, while it may irritate you that bosses do not know what they want during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June, you would be wise to withhold any & all sarcastic comments. Bosses will not know what they want because circumstances will be treacherously vague. If you add grief to their life as they try to untangle confusion, they will add grief to your life soon thereafter, during Jupiter square Chiron in July – perhaps by firing you. While bosses will admire, respect & fear the hard work that you do as you correct some of their more stupid mistakes, refrain from starting a bad habit of extremely mean & sarcastic speech during Mars in Scorpio during September. Moreover, if you do make more than nominal attempts at protecting whatever popularity you currently have, you will be in a much better position throughout Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014 to deliver truly painful home truths to those employees & colleagues who simply do not want to hear it . . . at all. Remember, first & foremost, that what is at stake, throughout the North Node in Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014, is the degree to which your credibility serves your ambition. Make no mistake about it: Bosses will test your credibility by asking you the tough questions during Saturn trine Neptune in October. Don’t bluff – deliver the information that you can personally verify succinctly. After all, bosses do not test your mettle in a spirit of casual boredom. Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014 signifies that bosses themselves endure real & real-time pressure to fulfill the true scope of all of their responsibilities & liabilities – or to face potentially severe consequences for both themselves & their employees. If you succeed, bosses will bring you into the inner circle to effect a strategy to fix the problem during Saturn trine Chiron in November & December. Therefore, make certain that you do succeed, as Saturn sextile Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013 denotes that this inner circle is where you want to be. Align yourself with all the players who make those decisions that nobody else can make because they, like yourself, do jobs that nobody else can – or wants to – do. Indispensible!     CANCER 2012   Whatever lifestyle obsessions dominated your attention span, friendships, daily routine & personal life under Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012 (political partisanship, living in exile in a different country speaking a different language, alternative sexual relationships) must now either go through a sudden, intense & irrevocable period of transformation to a new level of participation – or you must leave them all behind. The third of three deep & broad shifts into a new era, Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026, announces a new set of socially conservative & even overtly religious terms to which everybody must adjust. If you feel absolutely comfortable with the countercultural or politically partisan persona that you have developed out of the modeling clay of your own zealously sectarian beliefs when Neptune transited Aquarius in your 8th house of personal transformation or debasement for the last fourteen years, you must redouble that commitment as the pendulum of public support empowers more cautious & mainstream sentiments. If you harbor any doubts, however, you will act upon them – but will you be escaping via “instant karma,” you “karma chameleon,” you? One must pay a high price for switching sides. Uranus in Aries from March 2011 to March 2019 in your 10th house of status insists that you must stand alone in the public spotlight – what you say, think & do should be what you decide to say, to think & to do completely by yourself, alone. Jupiter in Taurus from January to June asserts that political allies will remain loyal to you, even if they disagree with you, as long as you in turn remain true to yourself. However, if you abandon who you say you are, such allies will also abandon you to your enemies, who will use & abuse you for their own ends. On a material & marital level, more importantly, Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024 will remind you – at times, harshly – that partners & spouse must trust you to fulfill your obligations. If they do not trust that you will fulfill them, they will threaten to use the law to remove all support from you throughout Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June – and they will act upon those threats during Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September. Therefore, be forthright with bosses about your domestic responsibilities you endure as you are also forthright with family as to your professional obligations during Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September – and realize, most of all, that if you try to play one against the other in order to support a “shadow lifestyle,” you will get caught. Finally, because all of these negative scenarios hold true for you in your relationships to other people, they also, through laws of reciprocity, hold true for all those who engage in any sort of relationship with you. Therefore, if you do demonstrate loyalty to all your commitments while any one of those individual relationships – particularly those aligned with those alternative lifestyles or partisan politics to which you must now commit or which you now must abandon – abandons their loyalty to you, then the North Node in Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012 demands that you must not hesitate to take aggressive action to protect your own personal interests against them as you shun their weak-willed disloyalty. The best way to do that? Shift the focus of your attention away from personal matters to professional & worldly ambitions – especially as the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node affords you so much opportunity. Of course, some risk may be necessary – nothing comes for free. However, Chariklo conjunct Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012 suggests that maintaining & following through the risks that you do take will yield more results than wild random stabs in the dark. (The operative phrase: Calculated risk.) Conversely, hare-brained schemes without the discipline & infrastructure of an actual strategy can cause widespread damage throughout Pholus conjunct Hylonome conjunct 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013. Make a plan. Implement the plan. Work the plan. Work it. Tough stuff. How do you actually come to these conclusions? Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April responds that you & many people in your social & business circles will ask, and will be asked, a lot of questions. (Be grateful, and realize the true gravity of your responsibility, if you are amongst a group of people choosing what questions to ask, and deciding what to do with the answers to said questions, throughout Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March.) Some answers will prove to be music to your ears – but Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April signifies that most answers will be the “death metal” sung by some “canary” or “stool pigeon” who “flipped.” Either you were honest or you were corrupt; either others were honest or others were corrupt. Whether six or one half dozen, Chiron square the North Node in March & April declares that ready or (more likely) not, the end has come. The truth about shady or criminal business practices or about shady or immoral sexual practices from Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009 now surfaces. And, unpleasantly, part of the disturbing & at times nauseating part of the process will be repeated all too frequently during Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May: The facts of the story will be told & retold, written & rewritten, until etched in other peoples’ minds as if in stone. Allies & enemies dating back to Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000 with whom you have seen a lot of water pass under a lot of bridges are now deciding whether or not you are a worthy individual with whom to associate – and you are making the same decision about them. Fear not. The truth will set you free. It will soon be over – most likely accompanied by extremely dark public revelations during Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May – but, before it is ended, it will be ugly. Then, out of a clear blue sky, an unexpected raise & promotion during Uranus trine the North Node in April & May. Congratulations! Now, watch your back during Uranus square Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October – because false allies turned envious enemies now hate you. Don’t take such professional betrayal so insouciantly. To protect yourself, align yourself during Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November only with partners who, individually & as a group, explicitly & punctiliously obey the letter of the law. Begin this process by aligning yourself with, championing & empowering the fresh new faces on the scene & in the workplace during 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018. The good guys! On the dark side, Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June will warn you, again & again, of the damage that such envious individuals can do – not only to you, personally & professionally, if you give them a chance, but to anything that they can, or want to, destroy. Be guided accordingly. Realize & accept that Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013 denotes that you will get only one chance to accuse anybody openly of a crime or of subterfuge in the professional workplace. Because you will get only that one chance, you must at that moment destroy them with your accusation. Otherwise, Asbolus in Gemini from July through October guarantees that this demon can & will do more damage than anybody ever anticipated. All these bad feelings, all these intimations of whether you are or are not loyal, force you to steel your nerve for corporate & industry sector infighting under Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013. You will now have enemies; you will now have competition; you will now have enemies & competition posing as false allies & false friends. Expect such false allies & false friends to try to fool you into doing something blatantly illegal during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June. Then expect such false allies & false friends to accuse you in public or to law enforcement of breaking those laws, whether you broke them or not, during Jupiter square Chiron in July. You will need to wait until Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November for the truth to come out – but when it does, it will entertain you, and you may even laugh! Therefore, do not overreact with violent hostility during Mars in Scorpio during September. While, of course, Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014 confirms that you should not unconditionally trust anybody, you should simply not let anybody else overtly & explicitly know that you do not trust them. Don’t be so heavy-handed. That way, you can ask truly damning questions of such false allies & false friends under Saturn trine Neptune in October with the ostensible naïveté of a gullible child. Of course, the action that you take during Saturn trine Chiron in November & December will demonstrate that, when it comes to legal matters, organizational psychology & professional ambition, that you are not naïve at all. Inculcate this newfound respect by communicating to allies & enemies alike, “One must always keep in mind the brass tacks & scattered details of a very big picture,” throughout Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014. Public relations! On a practical level, Saturn sextile Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013 confirms that you know exactly where your bread is buttered. On a much more ambitious level, all these people who try to play you for a fool will learn, sooner or later under the North Node in Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014, that you are in it to win it. Your will to power will speak volumes for itself – so much so, that, under Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013, you will be so psychically alert & so focused upon what you want that false friends will reveal to you their status as traitor & the strategies underwriting their subterfuge in unintended Freudian slips as you look them in the eye with a dumb grin on your face to laugh directly at them.      LEO 2012   Frenemies’ masquerade ball! Of the three clarion calls of the new era, only the third, Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026, the latest arrival, will cause Leo the Lion significant anxiety. Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024 straightforwardly (straightforwardly for Pluto, that is) states that the business practices to which you have become accustomed since the late Eighties – particularly business practices in the financial industries & the international capital markets – demand immediate transformation & reform. Fine – Leo the Lion works hard. Next, Uranus in Aries from March 2011 to March 2019 augurs significant intellectual & spiritual expansion as a result of protracted & unexpected travel. Well, there are worse things, no? Neptune in Pisces is nowhere near as straightforward – or as benevolent. Indeed, Neptune in Pisces will make you pine for the good old days of Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012, when, if you had differences with personal adversaries or political enemies, you could simply wave bye-bye with a sarcastic smile on your face, “Screw you – see ya!” No such luck anymore. Indeed, the occult maxim, “Keep your friends close & keep your enemies closer,” best expresses Neptune in Pisces in Leo’s treacherous 8th house of joint resources. Now, expect hidden agendas by colleagues who do not disguise their loyalty or disloyalty to you or to the project, but, instead, behave like some extremely well-compensated actor or actress on Seinfeld or The Office playing some total jerk mocking the fact that they have to deal with you! Moreover, the fact that such false joviality masks a bitter & hostile power struggle will not be tonic to your nerves – far from it. Luckily, both Pluto & Uranus denote that you have access to war-making authority should you need it. Because, in fact, you will at times need it, use it accurately . . . and sparingly. The shift of Neptune from Aquarius to Pisces complicates your considerable sexual drive & personal ambition under the North Node in Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012. You must accordingly shift your personality type from “aggressive” to “amiable,” from “competitive” to “cooperative.” However, if you simply take a second look at the problem, you will notice that all of the obstacles preventing you from getting what you want involve issues of style rather than substance. Aggressive sales tactics & straightforward professional protocol delivered the goods during the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node because the need to make substantial progress trumped stylistic cosmetics. However, once Chariklo conjunct Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012 settles in, the more delicate of the underachievers will petition to have the bull kicked out of the china shop. Once these delicate types secure their first tentative victory, straightforward aggressiveness may yield extremely counterproductive, if not, catastrophic results, during Pholus conjunct Hylonome conjunct 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013. Bosses under Jupiter in Taurus from January to June, after all, respect substance over style, but they, like you, have gotten into considerable hot water for calling a spade a spade – and will tell you & the anointed inner circle so in closed door meetings during Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March. However, the door remains closed because bosses don’t want any complications from “employees” & “colleagues” who simply do not know how to conduct business to further the greater good during Chiron square the North Node in March & April – hence the need for strategy sessions during Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April. Of course, such strategy sessions lead to confrontations as your opponents attempt to seize control of the agenda by force – but Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May denotes that, if your opponents must confront the entire team instead of only you personally, your team will triumph. Emphasize formality to insulate yourself from interpersonal confrontation. Rather than asserting, “You are just a jerk who can’t tell their ass from their elbow,” declare, “With all due respect, your analysis of the situation and the solution that you propose is simply & self-evidently incorrect.” Results speak volumes under Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April. Ambitious bosses & capable colleagues no longer tolerate the worldview that there is no correct way, but only individualist styles – a worldview that prevailed during Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009. Bosses themselves remember the nightmare scenario predominant under Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000 when nobody could even identify the industry standard. Therefore, if you & your team show the big bosses what you can do – especially during the onset of a sudden crisis during Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May  – then expect an enormous sudden increase in professional opportunities during Uranus trine the North Node in April & May. This will make your team the team to beat – so the competition, both honorable & dirty, will accelerate during Uranus square Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October. Be careful not to speak & to act upon the low level of meager competition during Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September. Remain high-minded. That is all water off a duck – bosses want the overall mechanism operating at full efficiency during Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November. Moreover, bosses are well aware of how capable clients can make sudden decisions of devastating consequence during Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013. Therefore, if you now demonstrate that, as a player, you get things done, bosses will hear your voice – provided that, throughout Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June, you speak correctly without speaking personally. Simply stick to the facts. Eschew “personalities” & “characters.” Speak frankly. New circumstances, new bosses, new clients, new employees – new job? – under Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013. . . but not right away. Be discriminating – Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June warns that enemies posing as allies may offer you an ostensibly lucrative job or professional opportunity in order to entrap you. Be self-protective & skeptical regarding your newfound popularity amongst a new group of “friends” during 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018. In fact, if anybody offers you a new professional opportunity during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June, stall for time as you assert, “I need to think about it.” Once Jupiter squares Chiron in July, you will see why it was wise to wait. Then, in spectacular fashion, Dr. Jekyll turns into Mr. Hyde during Asbolus in Gemini from July through October.Even so, keep your options open. Continue to speak the language of the impersonal organizational psychologist who, for some reason, forgets “names” under Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September. Realize that the less you show upfront, the easier it will be to hide your cards as the need for secrecy & privacy increases under Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014. Luckily, as a blessing well disguised, Mars in Scorpio during September gives you a reason to become outright paranoid. (Who would think that Scorpionic Mars would look after anybody’s, let alone your, personal well-being?) You will need to ask painfully penetrating questions, perhaps of family members, during Saturn trine Neptune in October – and you must punish untruthful answers to such questions under Saturn trine Chiron in November & December. Protocol & habits which do not help you do your job or complete your familial, domestic or municipal agenda during Saturn sextile Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013 require complete eradication – hopefully, before clients, associates & rivals point out such failings during Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November. Luckily, again, Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014 empowers you with the scope & vision to line up all those ducks in that row. As Sally Brompton might say, “Be ruthless.” Playing it close to the vest becomes more & more important as the year continues for two basic reasons: A) Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013 will remind you that there is more to gain & more to lose than you originally anticipated; and B) The emotional intensity & volatility that you feel during the North Node in Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014 will make you ask yourself if what you are doing personally & professionally fulfills your need for purpose & meaning in your life. (Kurt Cobain did in fact once say, “I didn’t want to be a rock star at all.”)     VIRGO 2012   You became accustomed to, and, in fact, deeply enjoyed, working alone, throughout Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012. Now, with the entrance of Neptune into Pisces in February 2012 completing the third of three astrological ingresses announcing the dawning of the new era, you must emerge from your solitude to confront not only changing conditions, but, in some cases, disturbingly, some all too real facts. To use Information Technology (“IT”) metaphors (which many can in fact take literally), Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026 forces you to switch from writing code & macros designed to automate tasks, to create labor-saving devices & to enhance productivity so as to eliminate personnel, to work “the Help Desk,” where you work with people (including some of the people that your code & macros had been intended to eliminate) to serve people in the service sector – perhaps, as Pisces connotes, in the health care industry sector. Unfortunately, not only will inept colleagues try your patience, but so will capable peers. Proactively streamline this transition aggressively so that you don’t cop a negative attitude prematurely. The two other long-term planetary transits that have already commenced – Pluto in Capricorn & Uranus in Aries – will further disabuse you of the notion that you can & should return to the solitude of your professional & intellectual hermitage. Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024 advises Virgoans differently depending upon whether they are single or married with children: A) Single: You need to find a group amongst whom to mingle in the big bad city in order to find sexual & marital partners; and B) Parents: You must vigilantly monitor your children & their whereabouts to ensure that they are not hanging out with the wrong kids & getting in trouble. Uranus square Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October presents the ugly facts: More than in recent years, boys will vandalize & fall into fights or gang warfare. Moreover, this is the case whether such boys live in the unrehabilitated inner cities such as in Oakland, Philadelphia, Chicago or Newark or more idyllic suburban landscapes such as Chula Vista, Long Island or British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. Children demand your presence & attention – otherwise they & you will suffer the consequences. Get on the same page with your spouse about your children during Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November. Realize that you must be prepared to deal with emergencies regarding your children & your property, alone, at a moment’s notice, during Uranus trine the North Node in April & May. Neglect under Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September can spawn tragedy & catastrophe. Be proactive & remain vigilant. Uranus in Aries from March 2011 to March 2019 will force you to work alone in circumstances & with information much less relaxed & frequently much more dangerous. Property issues, fire regulation compliance, life insurance, burglar alarms, the security & encryption of personal & computer information – all the issues that require hard work & high pressure. You can’t do this work with anybody else – you must do it alone – although such work underwrites the safety & security of your family, workplace, neighborhood & city. This is no leisurely exercise in spiritual contemplation. Attend to responsibilities. That being said, the North Node in Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012 connotes that spiritual contemplation is indeed necessary. Not only must you know who you are, what you are doing & why you are doing it without anybody giving you a pat on the back, but the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node also reminded you that you must be able to reset your emotional & moral compass to True North after the storms of tumultuous emotions have passed. A job well done is its own reward; expect no recognition & no reward. Furthermore, you must realize that certain people, situations & tasks require considerable emotional fortitude; therefore, if Chariklo conjunct Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012 is correct when it suggests that, emotionally, you are not up to it, don’t try it. Accept that if you do overshoot your emotional capacities handling trying situations, then Pholus conjunct Hylonome conjunct 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013 can indeed cause catastrophic disaster. Get a firm grip. On the business front, where your emotions must be under firm control, Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June states that if you don’t know who you are & where you stand, you will send confusing signals to business partners which disrupt collective business. This is exactly why Jupiter in Taurus from January to June declares that you should be reading book after book after book – not flimsy trash, not self-help, make a buck nonsense, but profound novels, philosophical treatises, biographies of substantial personages & meaningful non-fiction that commands you to ask, “Why am I alive? What is the point of the man-made world on this turning globe?” Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April denotes that you recently lost track of who you are, what you do & why you do it – specifically, when Saturn in Virgo opposed Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009. You need to get back on track now – particularly since there is now an opportunity to rectify all that has turned twisted, incorrect & corrupt since Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000. Luckily, Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March connotes that a core group of true teammates knows that your input is necessary to satisfy those long-standing problems once & for all. Accept the esteem that true peers hold for you so that you can overcome the self-loathing generated by Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April – and so that you can feel good that the right people will hate you during Chiron square the North Node in March & April. That way, when confrontation most likely occurs during Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May, you can say to such adversaries, “I’m glad that I annoy you because you don’t know anything . . . at all.” And, more importantly, you can demonstrate that you know exactly what to do in a real-time crisis during Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May. Long story short: You are a part of the solution or you were a part of the problem. Be warned: Bosses will make changes during Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013. Be further warned: A new boss who guarantees doom & gloom – and has the ability to deliver it – takes control during Asbolus in Gemini from July through October. Therefore, heed the message of Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June well: If you bear any grudges against your bosses (and with all that has happened, grudges are likely), either you forgive them completely now or you leave – before you are told to leave. Adversaries, enemies & competitors will try to shuck & to jive you so that you take misguided action that will offend your bosses during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June – and, if you don’t get a grip on yourself, these manipulators will succeed. Demonstrate that you are a team player by keeping your game face on while working well with fellow professionals during Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September. Become an indispensible asset to your boss by embodying the perfect role model for new professional associates during 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018. Don’t kid yourself. Bosses are watching both you & your adversaries because, clearly, your differences are irreconcilable. Under such circumstances, Jupiter square Chiron in July signifies either that you both stay or you both go – which is true not only during the short-term, but also throughout Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013. Get on the right page. Details – logistic details which require that you execute them correctly & with dispatch – predominate during the North Node in Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014. Moreover, you will learn during Mars in Scorpio during September, hopefully by somebody else’s negative example & the inevitable subsequent negative outcome, that when executing those details, you keep your editorial opinions strictly to yourself. Importantly, if you handle these brass tacks well, then you will regain the upper hand in business partnerships. Ask those penetrating questions during Saturn trine Neptune in October. Ask, “Why haven’t you answered my penetrating questions yet?” during Saturn trine Chiron in November & December. Feel your power during Saturn sextile Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013. Throw your weight around. Bosses will reward or punish you for how well or how poorly you execute those logistic details during Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013 – but they will not reward you until afterward to see if you, at any point, “blow it.” How can you blow it? By losing emotional control during Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November or by indulging impatience & bitter sarcasm towards the inept & the foolish during Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014. Big opportunities to lead talented people executing challenging projects await some lucky professional during Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014. Bosses now look at you & ask, “They may have the talent – but do they truly deserve this truly plum opportunity?” Control your temper. Control your tongue.     LIBRA 2012   Managing Director of Romper Room! You had pursued political & artistic ambitions (with a healthy dosage of romance on the side) engaging in elevated political discourse with like-minded allies & adversarial adults under Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012. Under Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026, you discipline children in the professional workplace – whether or not you are an educator. (Get it?)  Aggravation abounds – but don’t complain. Other transits of outer planets denote that you are firmly in control. Of course, partners flake out during Uranus in Aries from March 2011 to March 2019, often exposing a vicious temper in the process. Put up with it until Uranus trines the North Node in April & May, when you can tell partners, with impunity, “You are succumbing to Douchebag Syndrome – stop flaking out!” If partners don’t comply during Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September. explain, “Who else would ever put up with any of your crap? Stop flaking out!” If partners still don’t comply, exile them during Uranus square Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October. Once you exile these flaky partners to their idiotic situation comedy (Charlie Sheen, anybody?), you can continue to hone your long-term goal for your self, family, city, state, province, country or legacy during Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024.   Disturbingly, under the North Node in Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012, some people insist upon making a joke out of these & other serious matters. Keep it serious. Keep it real. Tolerate no puerile nonsense. Hit game-players & jokers with all that you have during the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node – but avoid, if you can, making women cry in public with your brutal interrogations during Chariklo conjunct Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012. Realize that some small carelessness by those who feel too accustomed to your investigative methods may yield the unexpected evidence or answer to your biggest questions at any time throughout Pholus conjunct Hylonome conjunct 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013. Don’t overplay your hand prematurely – Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013 indicates that you can escalate confrontations, legal matters, negotiations or ultimatums anytime that you need to do so. However, if your attempt to escalate matters to higher authorities fails the first time, you will not receive the second chance at that moment when you most desperately need it. Cut fools slack. After all, these characters are not, like yourself, prone to channeling the advice of ancestors & civic leaders dead for one hundred & twenty-five years, as you will be during Jupiter in Taurus from January to June. More responsible adults with whom you enjoy daily dealings may review the transformation or debasement of individual work methodologies or capital markets since Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000 – although the more astrologically astute amongst them will reference the previous two Taurean Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions of 1880 & 1940 to keep a smart one like you on their toes. Ultimately, however, only you will be prone to visions of the remote past or distant future in dreams & dazzling, stunning, truly otherworldly subjective revelations during Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April. You underestimate yourself. Your brain is microprocessing a data merge with Edgar Cayce, Jane Jacobs & some superstar C++ programmers under Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March, while more low-minded characters holding petty grudges with workplace rivals dating back to Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009 are e-mailing Larry David for advice about how to secure the pettiest possible revenge against them during Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May. Ignore the rabble as you continue along the high road. Do not hesitate to use such historically astute professionals & academics as a resource when unprecedented maladies inflict both seasoned financial professionals & savvy politicians during Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May. Don’t overestimate the intellectual capacities of employees & work colleagues during Chiron square the North Node in March & April. Conversely, don’t underestimate the maturity level of new bosses who look surprisingly & disturbingly young during 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018 – after all, the employees whom such bosses will now oversee may be experienced & worldly but not necessarily “responsible.” Don’t presume that anybody shares your psychic or spiritual beliefs during Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April. If you firmly believe that nobody with whom you work & do business will have the slightest idea what you mean when you mention some truly recondite subject, then write down what you think throughout Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November so that you may refer to it & publish it later. And, finally, cut everybody some slack because Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June will remind you that, in the recent past, you have unwittingly scared some people half to death because you did not realize how severe you have appeared. Tell bad jokes about Marx, Freud, Edgar Cayce & the father of Mexican democracy, Francisco I. Madero, under Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013. Why? Paradoxically, to let those in the know what is on your mind & to inform the brain dead not to pay any attention to that man behind the curtain – at least throughout Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September. Tell different kinds of jokes to communicate to the truly empathetic the intellectual, emotional & moral stress that you endure as you address legal, educational & moral issues of weighty consequence during Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June. However, avoid telling dark or “noir” jokes of any sort, especially about committing homicide or suicide, during Asbolus in Gemini from July through October, for people will begin to worry about you & to take your dark jokes seriously & literally – as they should, for Sigmund Freud did say, “There is no such thing as a joke.” When those who can read on the same page as you actually are reading that same page with you at the same time, return to your unusually absurd but hysterically jocular ways as you confuse absolutely everybody with your obtuse sense of humor during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June, “What the Hell is wrong with you? Francisco I. Madero is a total pisser!” Make unabashed power moves when manipulators try to take unfair advantage of your goodwill during Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November. Use that sense of humor as a pivot back to very serious issues during Jupiter square Chiron in July, “Some things & ideas are very funny – but life is not a joke.” No more jokes as danger, treachery, disloyalty, ruthless power moves & outright crime predominate during Mars in Scorpio during September. During Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014, the window entertaining low-minded humor closes as low-minded people commit anti-social acts that could qualify them as much more than petty villains on Seinfeld or The Office. However, petty villains are indeed involved – and will still be when you start your interrogations during Saturn trine Neptune in October. As a result of such interrogations, the first layer of a very rotten onion peels off during Saturn trine Chiron in November & December. Communicate in no uncertain terms during Saturn sextile Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013 that you can & will get to the bottom of this. But don’t show your best stuff upfront – the North Node in Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014 denotes that this battle will prove protracted. Resolve to take no definitive action throughout Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014 unless such action serves to solve three problems at once. Get ready for the protocol to turn ugly during Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013. Give as good as you get & do not back down.     SCORPIO 2012   Many people only operate & execute well when the terms of tasks & transactions are self-evident & straightforward. Once self-evident & straightforward terms break down into chaos, these people discombobulate mentally, emotionally & logistically. Meanwhile, you stand by, bemused, and smirk, “Things are getting interesting.” That being said, Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026 will certainly pique the Scorpion’s interest – creatively, romantically and, on a purely speculative basis (big risks, successfully executed, yield big rewards), financially. Indeed, all the doubt & faith in what is uncertain as represented by Neptune in Pisces profoundly trumps the cut-and-dry antihuman meanness that plagued the politics of your local area, whether city, state, province or country, under Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012. So much more is now possible – and so much of that which is now possible, is also interesting. At last! Now that you have some fodder against which to “cut your teeth,” you have a reason to, so to speak, “sharpen your fangs.” Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024 empowers you to issue forth razor-sharp instructions & to execute tasks punctiliously. Uranus in Aries from March 2011 to March 2019 endows you with extremely skilled, innovative work colleagues & employees capable of executing what you demand on a high level & under a tight deadline. You have all the tools necessary to step forth & conquer! Well, hurry up & wait. Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June commands that you ensure that all regulatory & legal demands are in order & in place. Are your taxes paid? Are your financials correct & disseminated? Do you have all the patents & copyrights that you require? Channel your impatience (the North Node in Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012 makes you impatient because impatience can bring you money) into complying with all rules, regulations & procedures that you must fulfill before you can make any money so that you can begin to make that money. Listen to business partners with much more patience than you during Jupiter in Taurus from January to June so that you don’t take premature & precipitous action. However, do not let the patience of business partners to rub off on you to the degree that you yourself become patient – after all, didn’t the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node teach you to strike when the iron is hot? And doesn’t Chariklo conjunct Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012 consistently badger you with the knowledge that certain opportunities are inherently fleeting? No, your impatience serves a purpose. However, business partners’ patience also serves a purpose – mainly, as will happen during Pholus conjunct Hylonome conjunct 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013, to counteract your impatience at times when such impatience causes carelessness which can, and will, destroy you. Don’t jump over the starting line before the referee shoots his gun! Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April further advises you to hire an equally impatient vendor or ally with whom to tackle all such tax issues, financial reporting & patent or copyright requirements with extreme vigor. Hire a vendor or ally who definitely has an axe to grind as a result of the militant ineptitude of many counterproductive work associates under Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009 – but who also has a dispassionate theory & proven methodology about how to correct the errors that have been committed consistently since Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000.  This vendor or ally has a passion for executing logistics for exactly the right reason: Because this expert has worked with too many people who could not tie their shoelaces because somebody handed them screwdrivers. Indeed, as this hired gun does not withhold any contempt that this hired gun holds for idiots, Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March surmises that some will love, while others will hate, this said hired gun. Such popularity contests are none of your concern. Be grateful for this hired gun’s presence. Give that hired gun absolute carte blanche to handle the ugly municipal business crisis of Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May with the cold-bloodedness that they see fit. Solve problems together. While you hired that hired gun at a pretty price costing you a pretty penny during Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April, those with whom you already work do not like the changes that this hired gun demands – and will say so during Chiron square the North Node in March & April. You are not playing both sides against the middle – you are trying to fix long-standing problems – but both sides will be accusing each other of action taken by the ghosts of their professional past during Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May. Communicate to everybody who has any doubts during Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November, “This hired gun is here to make improvements over the long haul – and if anybody here had been designated ‘short-term’ or ‘non long haul,’ they would have been gone before now!” Esprit de corps – the beatings will continue until morale improves! One thing that this hired gun consultant need not tell you (if you know what is good for you): If you want to keep your new crop of innovative professional talent around you for the long haul, then pay them generously out of lucrative profits during Uranus trine the North Node in April & May. However, tolerate absolutely no dishonesty & corruption from any superstar employee, no matter how brilliant, during Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September. On a more positive note, consult with corporate lawyers, import-export consultants or publicity professionals during 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018 to test the waters for new business opportunities for yourself & your company. Explicate to the smartest & the most aware of the bunch during Uranus square Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October, “I am not paying for loyalty – loyalty is free & freely given (or not). I am paying you for the right to call the shots.” So call them! The reference to loyalty, of course, should get everyone’s attention. After all, you will seethe with the bitterness of past betrayals throughout Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June. Although everybody who knows you & spends time with you now will notice how you grit your teeth with repressed hostility, none of them, ultimately, will be responsible for your current feelings of bitterness – because, if they were, you would have already purged them from your life. Therefore, determine who exactly is an ally & who is an enemy during Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013. Importantly, don’t overreact if you think you “see a ghost” whom you . . . do not like . . . during Asbolus in Gemini from July through October. Count to ten with five deep breaths – careful with that axe, Eugene! Calmly confirm your suspicions in order to act upon them decisively during Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September. You won’t identify every enemy the first time around. In fact, certain enemies will stick to you like your long lost, dead ancestor throughout Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013 because they seek the payoff of a (lifetime) (millennium). Therefore, listen closely to disembodied spirits, dead ancestors who are true ancestors & friends who populate your nocturnal dreams during Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013 to peg extremely sneaky enemies who had earlier remained undetected. This process of determining friend from foe will create paranoia until you actually separate wheat from chaff – especially during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June. Test loyalties that you doubt aggressively during Jupiter square Chiron in July. Don’t internalize doubts & fears. Act upon what you have already decided when Mars in Scorpio during September empowers you with the moral force of total war – but make absolutely no impulse decisions! Let everybody know the score of the game that you are playing – because you are not going to stop playing it at all.  Even though the North Node in Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014 may seem to favor your worldview & approach, ruthless & paranoid as it may seem to others, Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014 warns that your approach to harsh business decisions may seem either or both cruel & barbaric. In fact, you may unwittingly let your morose, introverted & obsessive personality create more problems than certain crises, including the uncomfortable yet nevertheless minor personal financial crises of Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November, command. Because, in addition, you will be enduring extremely potent dreams which may in fact be the channeling of recently deceased spirits, it will be clear that this all adds up to a potentially potent public relations problem. However, public relations will prove secondary. Communicate to all in good faith that you are actively struggling to put all the small details in the correct order of the jigsaw puzzle of the big picture during Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014. You expect truthful answers to difficult questions during Saturn trine Neptune in October. You expect romantic & business partners to explicate the true status of their real loyalties to you during Saturn trine Chiron in November & December. You will act upon what others reply, and other information which only you know, under Saturn sextile Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013. Make those very tough decisions while you still appear to be rational & logical.     SAGITTARIUS 2012   At the beginning of Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel The Marriage Plot, Brown University senior Leonard Bankhead amuses all of his Ivy League friends with his manic depressive, recondite, erudite, semiotic-driven intellectual digressions – until, that is, Bankhead suffers a nervous breakdown manifested by interminable telephonic monologues spiraling into absolute, doom-and-gloom despair. Similarly, your own edgy sense of humor & insight, demonstrated again & again during Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012 made you, like Sagittarius TV persona Jon Stewart, the cat’s meow, the life of the party, the straw that stirs the drink. Now, under Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026, the curtain closes upon the Theater of the Absurd. The consequences of what you now state & observe can no longer remain within the context of detached adolescent humor either for your audience or yourself. What you say, if based upon accurate observations, requires actions & solutions beyond well-crafted puerile satire. Nobody denies that your ideas & insights contain much more than a grain of valid truth – but Uranus in Aries from March 2011 to March 2019 encourages you to become more ambitious with your wit. After all, Jon Stewart & Jerry Seinfeld, for all their money & influence, are merely stand-up comic silhouettes – not Nobel Prize winners, United States Senators or acclaimed novelists. Furthermore, the North Node in Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012 puts the spotlight firmly on you. You had the opportunity to fire on all cylinders during the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node – and, if you were wise, you took it. Next month brings another – and a different – flavor of the month. Indeed, December 2011 represented a rare opportunity for the Archer. To try to do what you did during December 2011 as Chariklo conjuncts Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012 would make you personally, financially & physically vulnerable. And to continue such penchant for such risk indiscriminately as Pholus conjuncts Hylonome conjuncts 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013 constitutes a recipe for self-destruction. Long story short, don’t waste the current yet ultimately fleeting benevolence of this seemingly limitless attention – Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June declares that more than one powerful person is watching what you do with your seemingly limitless, but now rapidly vanishing, professional opportunities. Stop commenting & criticizing. Get out of your head & into your body. Participate. Do good works. Once you get out of your head & into the flow, Jupiter in Taurus from January to June confirms that there will be plenty for you to do. Get to it! Indeed, the more initiative that you show throughout Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April, the more that you will impress bosses who can only remember how overburdened & underperforming you had been as recently as Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009. You, for your own part, remember much further back than such bosses, to workplace snafus dating back to Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000. And, in those terms, you & bosses are on the same page – trying to set things straight. Protect that positive communication rapport with such bosses so that you may be able to reply upon it when it will be tested beyond its natural endurance during Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May. Let bosses therefore have that upper hand as they agree with what you are doing – especially because they will pay you very well and very steadily for it throughout Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024. This does not necessarily suggest that bosses will now go easy on you. Just the opposite: The more that you produce under Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April, the more that bosses will demand. This will take such a toll upon you physically & emotionally under Chiron square the North Node in March & April that you will be wondering if bosses are trying to break you. This is not the case; rather, bosses put the heat on you under Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May to remind you how much you have transformed from the underperforming slob you were three years ago to the hyperefficient machine you have become today. The proof? Bosses show you not only the money & the perks during Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March (money which will come in handy in home improvement projects or investments for your family college fund during Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November), but also, the respect. Inner circle! Outside of the workplace, commence to write a novel or your memoirs during Uranus trine the North Node in April & May. Avoid highfalutin nonsense; talk about the quotidian existence that you live in the real world. More importantly, Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September advises strongly that you do not cop an attitude of superiority towards bosses & colleagues as a result of your “creativity.” Invest in your writing the same wisdom that you employ to earn your living as a day-to-day grunt so that you can ask your boss if your boss wants to read your book, after you have finished writing it, during Uranus square Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October, “You are sure that you are not wasting my valuable time?” Even if you don’t get published, you will have a hobby with which to occupy yourself as you avoid the negative mindset & petty vice of Ocean’s Eleven, Thelma & Louise, Get Your Ya Ya’s Out new associates committed to tempting you to indulge your lower self during 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018. No joke! If you don’t take the opportunity to make your grand statement & to assert what you think before the North Node transits Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014, then the spotlight will begin to move away from you. Partners & rivals have been waiting to claim center stage, which they will do during Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013 – frequently, as Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013 surmises, quite aggressively, and in quite insulting ways – whether or not you are still performing on it. Remember that even if you are not engaging in the same boorish, negative behavior in which envious & bitter adversaries darkly indulge, Asbolus in Gemini from July through October warns that the public stigma of such adversaries’ negativity may indeed stick to you. Take full advantage of having center stage all by yourself . . . while you can. Once your time passes, you cannot expect those next in line to share – whether or not “sharing” is a nice thing to do. Indeed, some partners & rivals want to kick you out of the way, first by casting aspersions against you during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June, and then by veiled & even direct personal attacks during Jupiter square Chiron in July, to express their envy for all the attention you have received. Partners should outgrow this spiteful phase during Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June – but enemies won’t. Moreover, because power brokers & potential allies have been waiting for several months for you to make decisive moves, Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September denotes that such power brokers & potential allies will now be looking at their watch as they judge your performance more impatiently – and much more critically. Don’t procrastinate – if you wait until your enemies organize all their malevolent weapons so that they may more effectively destroy you during Mars in Scorpio during September, it will be far too late. Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014 promises a long-term financial advantage, or warns of the slippery slope of ongoing financial problems, depending upon whether or not you get yourself organized when you have the opportunity. Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014 also states that you will be more prone to mistakes if you rush things – and any mistake under Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013 will work to the advantage of extremely hungry rivals & adversaries. If you are prepared, you will have poise; if you are unprepared, you will exude insecurity. Unless you are in an inviolable position of strength, expect spiteful, envious rivals, declared & otherwise, to cast more aspersions as Saturn trines Neptune in October – and to kick you if they perceive you are down as Saturn trines Chiron in November & December. This is not to say, however, that partners & rivals oppose you or revoke some of your privileges out of spite during Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November. Therefore, you must be prepared to take bad news on the chin as you keep a stiff upper lip. Conversely, however, even if you do have a strategic position of strength, you may be forced to get mean, even if it threatens to get ugly, as Saturn sextiles Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013. Use your opportunities while you can to graduate from a school much more prestigious, and much nicer, than your local Public Ivy, the State University of Hard Knocks.      CAPRICORN 2012   Few other astrological signs fully understand the inherent economic cost, price, profit & value of “controlling the message” – knowledge which you fully exploited, and upon which you capitalized, during Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012. You will be unable to exert such control over “the message” under Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026. When you “control the message,” you are the anthropologist who clinically detaches from interaction with their subjects in order to observe & to analyze them. When you do not “control the message,” you are the anthropologist who involves themselves by participating with their subjects in order to plumb those insights which one cannot gauge through clinical study. Such participation will often feel awkward. Neptune in Pisces, which represents only one of three planets introducing humanity to the new era, can increase the level of stress that you feel to unmanageable levels if you allow your communication to leave you open to unexpected interactions beyond your ability to monitor & to control them. (Remember the game of “telephone” that caused you such legal & logistic problems during Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009?) The other two outer planetary ingresses that define this new era, Pluto in Capricorn & Uranus in Aries, already put enormous stress upon you, emotionally, psychologically & physically – but, ultimately, this is stress, everything else being equal, that you can handle. Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024 emphasizes that your personality & leadership can move mountains – with the rather severe caveat that, once you move those mountains, you must make sure that you put those mountains exactly where you want them, because you won’t be able to move them back, no matter how hard you try. Facilitating your efforts in deciding where to put those mountains: Uranus in Aries from March 2011 to March 2019! You want to know why you are doing what you are doing – not only for a sense of organization, but also for a sense of purpose. In those terms, Uranus, the planet of innovation, will not only give you a sense of mission but a potent dosage of ambition & adventure. Rule number one – and Rules number two, three & four: Don’t do anything boring! Maneuvering the treacherous vagaries in communications represented by the shift of Neptune into Pisces is particularly important while you remain vulnerable to legal action & poor public relations during the North Node in Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012. Not only enemies (who prefer to misunderstand you) but also unassuming colleagues & employees who have no feelings about you one way or the other misinterpret your attitude as negative. Yes, we all know that nobody really did have a reason to be so optimistic & to feel so good as they did during the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node – but, really, you didn’t have to tell them that! Most people would have figured it out themselves during Chariklo conjunct Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012 – and as for those who get ruthlessly annihilated at some time throughout Pholus conjunct Hylonome conjunct 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013 – well, they had it coming to them sooner or later. And, of course, you are entitled to have whatever attitude that you so choose. Still, your carelessly chosen words or actions can, and often do, confirm this perceived negative attitude. Furthermore, adversaries may then present these carelessly chosen words or actions very carefully to courts of law, arbitration or mediation under Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April, potentially causing you enormous problems & potential legal or professional defeat. Therefore, if you can’t “keep it real,” throughout Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November, then at least, for your own sake . . . keep it vague. What protocol can you use to solve all your problems? Live your life as if traffic signals contained no yellow light: Either Red (STOP!) or Green (GO!). How will you tell the difference? “Go” unconditionally throughout Jupiter in Taurus from January to June – that is, until & when professional superiors or authority figures say “Stop” throughout Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June. At first this may seem strange, as you will recall all sorts of obstacles which you endured dating back to Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000 when you wanted to go, go, go but when authority figures, regulators & big money people prevented from acting upon your instincts. Obstacles back then prevented such authority figures, regulators & big money people from giving you the green light – and those authority figures, regulators & big money people have worked hard to remove those obstacles so that not only you, but many, many people can now make the forward progress that you also now enjoy. Such power brokers now trust your instincts & experience enough so that they will continue to give you a green light during the pending tumult of Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May because they know that you will still look both ways before you decide to cross that accident-ridden street. But cross that street you will – because you are chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow at the vanishing point in the middle of the horizon line along that yellow brick road. So move forward now – the light is green! You, personally, professionally & financially, certainly do have good reason to be optimistic – but only as long as you play the game in air-tight cooperation with your chosen team throughout Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March. Legal enemies who willfully misconstrue the intentions behind your actions during Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April plague you on one front while employees, colleagues and (ahem!) friends who “inadvertently” misunderstand your spoken words & “unwittingly” misconstrue the intentions behind your actions during Chiron square the North Node in March & April plague you on the other. The only way that you can avoid choking upon the foot in your mouth before a court of law during Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May is by allowing another member of your team – the popular one who, for whatever reason, is currently invulnerable to criticism – to read “the prepared statement.” Familial restrictions lift, or you become liberated from a long-standing emotional trauma which unconsciously blinded you, as Uranus trines the North Node in April & May. You will therefore be able to deal more directly – and much more consciously – with extremely contentious personal & political situations during Uranus square Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October. Make certain, however, that any strategic maneuvers that you make throughout Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September fall well within the boundaries of clearly written, black-letter law. Of course you should announce to all concerned that you will punish thieves & vandals to the full extent of the law during Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June – and then you should punish them very harshly during Asbolus in Gemini from July through October to send out a message to everybody that this is what thieves can expect throughout Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013. Otherwise, however, restrain strategic violence. This dynamic changes during Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013. Operate under the principle that you do nothing unless & until bosses & authority figures say at some point during Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September, “Absolutely – full speed ahead!” And, in fact, bosses & authority figures will have good reason to do nothing. Confusion will predominate so treacherously during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June that nobody will have a correct & truthful answer to even your most simple questions. Moreover, acting upon the presumption of knowledge during Jupiter square Chiron in July will cause even more permanent & more overt damage. Accept that lingering confusion in the professional environment may prevent the powers behind the scenes from making long-overdue changes until Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November. Wait it all out with a stiff upper lip. Even so, you require the protocol of instructions & command. Do not be afraid – in fact, if you aggressively ask for confirmation of instructions from power brokers, professional superiors & authority figures during Mars in Scorpio during September, you may be surprised at the power & force of the power moves that such power brokers make in your behalf. Pick & choose carefully amongst a group of potential work associates & partners throughout 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018. Communicating strict adherence to protocol builds credibility amongst potential allies & clients willing to make deals & alliances with you during Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014. Think-tank & pow-wow with those new alliances during Saturn trine Neptune in October to determine exactly what it is you need to know in order to solve problems. Once you know, you & your allies will identify what tools & personnel you will need to get that job done during Saturn trine Chiron in November & December. Consolidate those coordinated alliances into a forward-thinking team formally & politically during Saturn sextile Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013 so that your phalanx may impose its will upon any problem that threatens to derail the new agenda. If you made all the right moves to ensure your own personal credibility with such players, then they will supply you with the massive horsepower you need to act upon a multifarious & far-reaching agenda that you currently plan throughout Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014. High credibility, inculcated & accumulated, will empower you with more & more latitude during the North Node in Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014 – latitude which you intend to exercise on a variety of fronts, ending power vacuums that you would just love to fill as the last-word micromanager throughout Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013.      AQUARIUS 2012   For you, the transition of Neptune from Aquarius to Pisces will feel more awkward & abrupt than any other sign in the zodiac. The main reason for this lies in the shift from “public” to “private.” Under Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012, your public persona equaled, exactly, your personality. However, under Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026, this public persona contradicts the financial need for you to maintain your privacy. You no longer need to market yourself as a brand – you need, in fact, just the opposite: You must keep information about yourself, as well as your money, proprietary. A low profile becomes necessary. Given the enormous amount of high quality attention, if not outright adulation, you enjoyed during & as a result of the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node, such a low profile will prove difficult to achieve. Indeed, because you enjoyed such enormous opportunity & such profuse accolades, you are vulnerable to intense public backlash. Going out on a limb with half-baked ideas during Chariklo conjunct Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012 will induce sore enemies to take potshots at you. Realize that you are not invulnerable. Indeed, if you continue your sloppy habits, then there will come a point during Pholus conjunct Hylonome conjunct 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013 where enemies can destroy all your professional credibility & political capital in one fell swoop. This final of three separate ingresses of outer planets which announce “the new era” combines with the two previous outer planet ingresses – Pluto into Capricorn & Uranus into Aries – to create your own private version of “culture shock” amidst some truly unfortunate combinations. Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024 signifies that within the hierarchy (to which you are naturally & violently allergic), hidden enemies plot your demise, downfall or, at the very least, ongoing permanent defeat at the mercy of their machinations. You shrug this off like Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison on the TV sitcom The Odd Couple, “Another Christmas card I won’t be getting.” And you are correct – but you know about such enemies already. However, the influence of Uranus in Aries from March 2011 to March 2019, which will become much more pronounced with the ingress of Neptune into Pisces, can cause you to undermine yourself before these ruthless enemies as you overstate egoistic & egocentric sentiments – even though such egoism & egocentricity no longer serves you. Because you are prone to forget or to disregard this astrological reality, bosses & more powerful clients will allow you to mouth off to them during Uranus trine the North Node in April & May, and to make them look very bad in front of other powerful people, because they know that they can cause you an enormous amount of pain & misery, with absolute impunity, throughout Uranus square Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October. Indeed, once you acquire this strategic & logistic disadvantage with bosses & power brokers, Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September warns that bosses & power brokers have numerous means at their collective disposal to leverage your disadvantage for their own personal gain and, even more cruelly, amusement. Restrain hubris to prevent your own karmic downfall. The threats to your personal & legal safety greatly exceed your current estimation of them. Just as Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009 had warned you years ago, Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April again warns you not to use, drive or ride in any stranger’s computer, cell phone or car – and not to allow any stranger to use, drive or ride in yours. Of course, this might require that you settle for being safe & sound with a silly, giddy group of boring nerds who won’t even put you to sleep because they talk so damn loud during Chiron square the North Node in March & April. Comfort yourself with the knowledge that some private detective for your bosses approves of your new choice of associates during Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November, “You can tell the quality of an individual by the company which that individual keeps.” However, when truly ruthless personal, professional & political enemies try to manipulate you extremely aggressively, or even to force you physically, to use, drive or ride in their computer, cell phone or car, or for you to loan them the use of yours, during Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April, you will realize that their hidden agenda is in no way casual. Therefore, when such personal, professional & political enemies insult you publicly for the group of people with whom you now choose to associate (even though such a group may not thrill you at all) during Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May, respond drily, “At least they are not going to jail.” Take every opportunity to meet new people & to greet new employees in your professional workplace in the hopes of commencing truly meaningful relationships during 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018.  Do not underestimate the destructive force of other peoples’ envy. Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June warns that somebody from the past wants to settle scores. Worse yet, Asbolus in Gemini from July through October signifies that certain mean-spirited individuals do not care how ugly it all gets as they try to settle such scores because, ultimately, such individuals have nothing to lose. Remember during the North Node in Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012 that you not only have many political & professional associates who admire & emulate you, but you also have enemies who would not hesitate to stoop to low, dishonorable tactics in order to hurt you. For that reason alone, you should restrain yourself from engaging in trash talk with envious rivals throughout Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013 – not because you will lose the trash-talking session (you certainly will not!) but because such rivals will resort to much dirtier & much more dishonorable tactics to try to hurt you. Emphasize your own peculiarly Aquarian brand of “social conservatism” – “Blood is thicker than water, buddy” – as you stick close & even closer to your family during Jupiter in Taurus from January to June. Recall all that your family endured, and how you all survived it, during & since Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000. If you do actively demonstrate your closeness to & self-protectiveness towards your family, then law enforcement authorities & legal authority figures will look kindly upon you & yours, should you or they indeed get into trouble, throughout Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June – especially when a new personal & familial crisis, or an old crisis that is rapidly accelerating, puts you under enormous pressure during Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May. At these times when you are neither actively demonstrating such closeness or self-protectiveness nor watching reruns of The Waltons, get practical during Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March with important home improvement projects or designing long-term college education investment plans. If you do remain safe from physical & legal harm, then Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013 promises a more exciting, benevolent & prosperous phase for romance, creativity & children. However, don’t try to buy a lover’s or child’s love based upon vague wishes during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June – or you will discover that you created a monster during Jupiter square Chiron in July. Indeed, participate actively with your lover or children as they, or encourage their participation as you, join artistic contests & juried competitions, as you also realize that polished high school entrance exams & college applications are very well-starred, during Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September. Your will to power will know no boundaries during Mars in Scorpio during September – which can cause you enormous backlash for many months to come. Avoid swagger & bluster revolutionary Stürm und Drang, both in your own & your children’s creativity & in your personal life, throughout Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014. Even though “the times demand” (as Ezra Pound might say) revolutionary activities during the North Node in Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014, law enforcement authorities & legal authority figures are not likely to smile upon you or yours as if you were, jointly, individually, severally or collectively, John, Paul, George or Sheila, singing, “So, you say you want a revolution,” but are more likely to treat you like old Ezra, whom authority figures threw into a cage, “The case presents no adjunct to the muse’s diadem.” If you do stay out of trouble as you do win those artistic competitions or college scholarships, then keep your ego in check during Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013 so that you may garner some popularity by deflecting useless envy. Remember how heavy-handed & mean-spirited Kanye West seemed when he stormed the stage on live television at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards to state that Beyonce should have won Best Female Video over Taylor Swift as Taylor Swift was giving her acceptance speech? Do not emulate Kanye during Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November! Aspire to shine forth as a “class act.” Heed your bosses’ message as they openly approve of your “choice” of personal, political & professional associates during Saturn trine Neptune in October. Furthermore, heed your bosses’ wry observation, “Those who think that they can mix business & pleasure forget that the business of business is all business,” during Saturn trine Chiron in November & December. Whether bosses wink at you in veiled complicity or whether bosses leave you hanging in order to fend for yourself, Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014 urges you to acknowledge & to remember, actively, that there is more to the business of business where you work than currently meets your eye. Accordingly, now that you know your bosses’ . . . um . . . “philosophy,” you will have your marching orders under Saturn sextile Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013. Good luck!      PISCES 2012   The entrance of Neptune into Pisces may overwhelm you physically & mentally – and, if you are feeling weak, you might break down. Say what you want about Neptune in Aquarius from November 1998 to February 2012 in your 12th house of confinement & self-undoing (where Neptune, by the way, naturally belongs), but, on the upside, it allowed you to stay ahead of, and to lead, trends. During Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 through January 2026, however, you cannot strategize consciously based upon the placement of Neptune – instead, you must simply be. You must embody. You become, and therefore you are, larger than life. You, like the individual described at the beginning of Julian Jaynes’ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of Bicameral Mind, now ride in the front of the Ferris wheel. Such status provides you with certain advantages. The more that you acclimate to the idea that it is not your work, but your very personage underwritten by all the work that you have ever done (including much of the work you completed during Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces in 2008 & 2009) that led to your current personal, professional & public stature, the more that professional & political allies can lend you a hand to step up to that pedestal from which the masses may emulate you throughout Pluto in Capricorn from November 2008 to November 2024. Furthermore, neither associates nor authority figures will need to pursue those who attempt to steal your work or to plagiarize your work throughout Uranus in Aries from March 2011 to March 2019. It is now established that you are the expert. You are royalty, you are the saint, you are Kurt Cobain, you are Elizabeth Taylor, you are beautiful, pure, transcendent, unfathomable – and what does that vulgar piece of garbage think that they are doing trying to steal from you? What you say carries weight. Such credibility helps you get published where & when you want during the North Node in Sagittarius from February 2011 through August 2012 – but you’ve been published before (quite possibly, in multiple venues, nationally & internationally, during the Sagittarius Stellium of December 2011 containing Chariklo, Okyrhoe, Echeclus, Amycus, 2003-CO1, Pholus, Hylonome, 2001-KF77 & the North Node). Now, Jupiter in Taurus from January to June suggests that you will be quoted. What you say can cure ills dating back to Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Taurus in May 2000. Just make certain that such quotes cannot undermine your marketability professionally or in publishing – opportunities will prove more scarce during Chariklo conjunct Okyrhoe from December 2011 to November 2012 while pitfalls continue to be extremely treacherous throughout Pholus conjunct Hylonome conjunct 2001-KF77 in Sagittarius from November 2010 to November 2013. Also, if you find that some of those quotes which refer back to the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction of May 2000 have direct implications for certain events unfolding right now, try to use your current quotes about this subject to get yourself a writing assignment about this topic before what you say actually transpires during Jupiter conjunct Asbolus square Nessus during May. Refreshingly, during Retrograde Mars in Virgo from late January to mid-April, former partners & rivals will inculcate the depth & durability of your integrity by their irrational, and at times aggressive, unconditional support for or opposition to you. In many ways, the irrational reaction of such former partners & rivals dates back to the severing of ties – a severing of ties of which one either approves or disapproves under Retrograde Saturn in Libra from February through June, depending upon how everything turned out. For you, whatever happened does not much matter. You have a destiny – and, just as significantly, Pluto sextile Chiron from March through November denotes that you have solid financial & political backing. Keep on keeping on.  Stay out of harm’s way by laying low as partners & clients call the shots during Jupiter in Taurus trine 1998-BU48 in Virgo trine Pluto conjunct Crantor in Capricorn during March. Certain partners & enemies will irritate bosses to no end during Retrograde Mars square the North Node in March & April – and bosses will not tolerate any frivolous complaints from you. Therefore, when you do choose to speak up during Chiron square the North Node in March & April, make certain that you are addressing extremely significant issues. That way, you will have nothing to lose for the long-term when partners & enemies confront you openly & publicly during Retrograde Mars opposite Chiron from March through May. Financial windfalls, possibly as a result of your stunning successes in December 2011, descend during Uranus trine the North Node in April & May. Agents & associates demand their cut throughout Uranus square Pluto conjunct Crantor from May through October. Avoid hostile standoffs & litigation during Bienor opposite Saturn from May through September. Work hard to maintain goodwill. Negotiate. The pain of a past family crisis resurfaces as emotional turmoil accompanies approaching legal & financial deadlines during Retrograde Venus in Gemini during May & June. If you are not emotionally self-contained & physically well-rested, decisions made by others during Jupiter conjunct the South Node square Neptune in June can crush you; however, if you make it past this ugly time in one piece, damage will still linger throughout Jupiter square Chiron in July. Prepare body & mind for potentially very bad news – especially during Asbolus in Gemini from July through October. Damaged family relationships & family members will heal throughout Jupiter in Gemini from June 2012 through June 2013. Parents should host parties for their children or teenagers wherein they also invite the parents of their children’s friends under 2002-VR130 in Cancer from July 2012 through June 2018 in order to find families which support how you choose to raise your own children. As family members heal, plan to move, to negotiate new contracts or to restructure your affairs, possibly based upon a desire to get closer to new families & their children, but, more importantly, to protect your own family members & to open yourself up to more opportunities, during Direct Motion Saturn in late Libra from July through September. Realize, moreover, when dealing with such real estate issues, negotiations, financial affairs or contracts from the past, that you have been too soft & too accommodating. Have a negotiating battle plan ready so that those on the other side of the table will know that you can & will up the ante at any time that it serves you – and not them – during Thereus conjunct 2003-WL7 in Gemini from May 2011 to June 2013. Give as good as you get & do not back down. A new professional, academic, religious, traveling or publishing opportunity which makes you absolutely salivate during Mars in Scorpio during September serves as a mere harbinger for more & bigger opportunities that will come your way during the North Node in Scorpio from September 2012 to mid-March 2014. With such opportunities come a lot of money that can cure a lot of ills within your family & your household throughout Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini from October 2012 through January 2013. Choose from such opportunities carefully – Jupiter opposite first Okyrhoe, then Chariklo, during November denotes that family responsibilities will demand more of your time, attention & energy than in the recent past. Furthermore, retain the right legal minds & negotiating mouthpieces on your side during Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 to mid-December 2014 not only to help close lucrative deals but also to deflect interference from unworthy flimflam artists targeting you as an easy mark. Flimflam artists who play you for a sucker will be unpleasantly surprised. Painful challenges & stunning successes have transformed you from wishy washy doormat to unknown formidable entity. Ask legal questions during Saturn trine Neptune in October that intimate that you know more than you let on – then take action during Saturn trine Chiron in November & December. Remain communicado with power brokers & political allies during your progress in this period so that they will respect your personal & professional jockeying for position as they seek key personnel for highly strategic positions & deployment throughout the upcoming cycle of Echeclus in Capricorn from December 2012 through January 2014. Thank power brokers whose backing during Saturn sextile Pluto from November 2012 to April 2013 liberates you sufficiently to make such hard & fast moves at will as such power brokers assert, “To me, war is a science – but to you, it is an art.” High praise, Lao Tzu! 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