Sunday, December 30, 2012 - North Shore News - A3
2013 Horoscope A look at the year ahead
Rose Marcus Evolutionary astrologer
BEGINNING with a new term for the U.S. president, a baby for Kate, a hockey lockout, a world economy still on the brink, the Middle East still in turmoil, and the hard sell on tar sands and oil pipelines continuing, 2013 delivers the third year of Uranus square Pluto.
On the clock through 2016, this planetary alignment leaves no stone unturned. It is one that radically reinvents individual and collective reality. Saturn in Scorpio began in October of 2012 and will continue into 2015. The influence is sobering, recessionary and task oriented. While this transit continues we will come to realize that resources are limited and dwindling, that we must make the best use of them we can. Positively, Saturn in Scorpio assists astute management and can reveal hidden advantages. It can be a strengthening, regulating and refortifying influence. When Saturn exerts its authority and agenda, it will employ whatever tough measures and added pressure is necessary in order to get the job done. For the year ahead, Saturn works well with Pluto, so we should be able to put realism, necessity and sovereignty to productive work. In actuality, we have no choice. Wiped out by Jupiter retrograde, who knows what will happened for hockey once Jupiter in Gemini resumes direct motion on Jan. 30, but know that the first quarter of the year is a mobilizing, forward thrust time for all. February’s start is ideal for address changes and new initiatives, but the preliminary window is short due to Mercury in Pisces in retrograde from Feb. 23 to March 17. Aim to avoid or work around it. There can be loss, confusion, epidemics or difficult weather. Mercury retrograde cycles also occur June 26 to July 20 (in Cancer), and Oct. 21 to Nov. 10 (in Scorpio). Jupiter advances into Cancer on June 25. This one-year transit puts a greater emphasis on home, family, real estate, nurturing, nesting and security matters. Expect food prices, household debt, national debt and sea levels to rise even more. Although more isn’t always a good thing, Jupiter will be well aligned with Saturn, Neptune and Chiron. On the plus side, there’s greater emotional unification and potential for healing, building, securing and preserving. As we have seen since our national birthday fell on an eclipse a few years back, Canada is gaining a more prominent influence in the world. Marking the intensification periods of the year, note the five eclipses of 2013, three in the spring — April 25, May 10, May 25 — and two in the fall: Oct 18, Nov 3. The exact alignments of Uranus square Pluto on May 20 and Nov 1 will add dynamic extra fuel. Overall, 2013 appears to be a productive year ahead. Our leaders have faced enough to know that they can’t afford to coast, to cheat, to sweep it under the carpet, or to fall asleep at the wheel. We must recognize this also.
ARIES (March 21 - April 19) The year ahead can keep you working hard for recognition and reward, but trust it’s on the way — it is. Saturn in Scorpio through this year and next keeps you in the thick of major career, financial and relationship transformation. This is a constructive influence, but it’s not an overnight process. Rather it’s slow and fermenting — and often laborious. Along with Pluto’s hammer and nails, Saturn puts added pressure on your time-has-come moment. Uranus in Aries aims to shatter through the ceiling once and for all. Those born March 25 to April 1 will get the fullest jolt from Uranus in 2013, but of course each of us will feel the intensity of this revolutionizing and accelerating influence. Uranus can be disruptive, sudden, extreme and awakening. If it isn’t meant to be, it won’t. Don’t hang on to the bare thread. Instead, place your bet on the upgrades. TAURUS (April 20 - May 20) Watch for Saturn in Scorpio to tighten the squeeze where it will get your attention best. It can reduce your options, place added restrictions on your resources or support, and hold you more accountable. Progressively, this streamlining will serve to chisel you and your life to a rock solid state where you can’t falter or fall, no matter what challenges arise. Saturn signals a time of karmic and actual contract endings, or of partnership and professional solidification. By choice or by force, your social life will continue to downsize, just as it has over the year past. You can do no better than to prioritize the material, health and relationship tasks set before you. Make the commitment, do the work, get the results. It’s the formula that works. Don’t delay on the necessary undertakings, and by late June you should find that life and love starts to hum along quite nicely.
GEMINI (May 21 - June 21) Through the end of June, Jupiter in Gemini keeps you busy with one thing after another. The growth and increase planet finishes its four month retrograde tour on Jan. 30, so use the month to get ready and set, and aim for the full throttle in the first week of February. Note your opportunity is especially short. By Feb. 18, the good momentum will disintegrate thanks to both Saturn and Mercury starting retrograde. Pause or coast until March 20 when Aries month begins and you’ll quickly regain what was lost — and then some.
Setting actual or karmic contracts into play, the May 24 lunar eclipse is particularly catapulting for birthday folk, and also for those born June 8, 9. Of course, all of us will feel its intensity to some degree. Watch for a key person to be instrumental in designing your future, whether a new arrival or someone who is already familiar to you.
CANCER (June 22 - July 22) Use the first half of February to scout, broaden, travel, broadcast or to scoop it up. By design or circumstance, April is also an ideal springboard month. A new personal life or career direction awaits you. Through June, Jupiter in Gemini keeps life motoring along a double track. It may be hard to get clear on what’s possible and what’s next. You’ll have to trust that the universe is conspiring on your behalf no matter what hand you are dealt. While Pluto in Capricorn aims to deliver the final blow to relationships and circumstances that are long past their expiry date, you’ll receive benefit from Saturn in Scorpio, a time-isripe influence that is well aligned with your sign. Make a fuller commitment to yourself, to love, to bettering your best as a parent, and professionally too. Starting in July, Jupiter in Cancer puts you on the plus side of life. LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22) Saturn in Scorpio will force you to break old habits and to change to the way you live with yourself. A renovation, real estate, family or business matters can be especially burdensome. Unrequited needs become harder to live with too. Help to the rescue: Neptune and Pluto in favour to Saturn through the better portion of the year will loan you the patience to work through what you need to and to bide your time as necessary. Have you noticed a distance growing between you and another, or between you and the lifestyle you have set up for yourself? Consider it a natural progression. The first half of February and See Solar page 8