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ARIES
This is a big week as far as your professional situation is concerned, with the end of one era making way for a new era to flourish in its place. It is on Tuesday that Jupiter, planet of luck, good fortune and expansion leaves your career sector, not to return again for over a decade. Yet this is far from the end of the story with the Sun, Mars and Pluto staying behind in your career sector, to work with you to transition away from what was a year of professional opportunity, where the focus is a lot more long term. While the Sun will leave your career sector at the end of the month and Mars, planet of passion, drive and ambition early next month, Pluto is here for the next 16 years. In the meantime competitive drives continue to escalate.
TAURUS
Themes developing on the professional front this week are so big, that they represent the culmination of everything you have been working towards, for the last decade. Ever since Neptune, planet of dreams and fantasies first moved into your career sector in January 1998, you have been holding and nurturing professional dreams that have been waiting all this time, to find their moment and their breakthrough. That finally comes this week when on Tuesday Jupiter, planet of luck, moves into your career sector, joining forces with Neptune to turn dreams into reality, over the course of the coming year. It is on Tuesday that one of your luckiest career years ever begins, with the next 12 months holding some of your biggest professional opportunities ever.
GEMINI
As Venus, planet of desire and attraction, spends her first full week in your career sector, alongside Uranus, there is a growing sense of where your heart is leading, even if that means flying in the face of pressure. This is one year when it's your heart that is leading the way forward, with forces and conditions that will eventually support those desires, still lagging way behind. This creates a situation where your professional desires don't yet match your professional realities, which could lead you to mistake pressure as a sign that your desires are off base. Trust that over the coming weeks and months your heart will be proved right, with a need to hang in there, despite the odds and despite a lack of support. Dare to dream and imagine, even if it does mean having to be patient.
CANCER
Whether you're heading back into the office this week or you still have some holiday time up your sleeve, you'll notice something very different about the landscape you encounter. The almost manic work drives that you left behind at the end of last year, that were nearly wearing you to the bone just aren't there. Don't waste time looking of your shoulder or expect that superhero complex to set in, because it's gone for good. What you are going to find though, is that even though that constant drive to push yourself beyond normal human limits is gone, the advantages haven't. You have put so much energy into your work sector, that its momentum will continue to bring advantages for months and years to come, minus the sacrifices. This gives you a chance to eye up your next goals.
LEO
Driven and passionate work stars have hardly skipped a beat over the holiday period, to a point where even if you did manage to take some time off, it's going to be business as usual, as you head into the new working year. There is a real sense of urgency and hype in the air on Monday as Jupiter, planet of luck, spends his last day in your work sector. Once he leaves on Tuesday, while the urgency will be gone, the passions, the competitive edge and the hunger for change will still be there, creating a situation where Jupiter may have moved on, but everything else remains. With the Sun, Mars and Pluto still in your work sector and with Pluto here for the next 16 years, you have only just begun your rise to success, with some major changes likely over the coming weeks and months.
VIRGO
It may be a little early in the year to be throwing yourself back into your work situation, but whether you're on holiday or you're heading back to the office this week, your focus is going to be on your work situation. However this year the focus is less on a sense of duty and the things you have to focus on and more about realising that this is the year, when you finally get to follow your dreams. Things take a drastic and irrevocable turn for the better this week when on Tuesday Jupiter, planet of luck, moves into your work sector. It is here that he joins forces with Neptune, planet of dreams and fantasies, opening the door to the opportunity to turn dreams into reality or finally achieve that dream job, something that has been building for 11 years now.
LIBRA
As Venus spends her first full week in your work sector, you're moving into the new working year with a very clear sense of what you do and don't want, with your heart and a sense of synchronicity in control. This creates a very different situation than the conditions in play at the end of last year, which could see you return to work with a very different opinion of how things will play out. 2009 is a year when simply going through the motions was never going to cut it, especially not now that Venus and your heart are in control of where things lead on the job front. It is where there is pressure that there is also likely to be opportunity, for it's alerting you to things that you may have been ignoring in the past.
SCORPIO
Give yourself permission to take whatever time you need, to ease into the new working year, whether you're heading back to work this week or not. The reality is that it won't be until next month that you have to really start focusing on your work situation, with a 4 month period of work opportunities beginning on the 3rd February. Until then, focus on doing whatever is going to allow you to be the most creative, whether that means taking extra time off or turning your attention to the things you enjoy doing. The start of any new working year gives you an opportunity to put things in perspective, while not having to make any immediate choices. Focus for now on finding the right balance between work and play.
SAGITTARIUS
Whether you're heading back to work this week, you've had to work through or you don't start until later, give yourself permission to take things slowly, gliding rather than rushing into things. With Saturn in retrograde motion in your career sector since New Years Day, there is nothing to be gained at pushing things forward and if anything, you'll achieve far more if you create the right kind of work/life balance, that from the get go sets the standard for the rest of the year. This is a good time to ditch any old habits that served no practical purpose last year and won't this year either. With income opportunities continuing to dominate your chart throughout the coming year, keep your options open and get your head around where the money and the opportunities are.
CAPRICORN
As the new working year begins, whether you're back at work yet or not, keep your options open. Jupiter, planet of luck and good fortune, moves into your income sector on Tuesday, making 2009 a year where the focus is on money, with your energy and attention needing to go into the areas that hold the most potential and opportunity for you. As your confidence grows, you're likely to be considering bolder choices and options, with a need to avoid committing to anything too soon, especially if you sense that there might be something better ahead or if you don't feel that this is 'it'. You have time on your side, with the Sun in your sign until the end of the month and Mars, planet of passion, drive and ambition until early next month.
AQUARIUS
2009 is your luckiest and most expansive year in over a decade and it all starts this week, with the arrival of Jupiter, planet of luck, into your sign on Tuesday. This is a year you've been building towards ever since Neptune, planet of dreams and fantasies moved into your sign in January 1998, where he has been inspiring your dreams ever since. Give yourself permission to settle into this year with the respect that a year this big needs, refusing to get caught up in the details or to adopt a business as usual approach. Something big and fundamental has changed and both your personal and professional expectations are going to get caught up in this. Give big dreams time to settle before deciding which ones to chase and commit to.
PISCES
The one thing that you'll find missing, as you move into the new working year, with Christmas and New Year behind you, is the almost manic professional drives that consumed you, right up to the very last few days of 2008. With Pluto in your career sector since 1995, an era that Mars didn't finish wrapping up until the closing days of December, this is going to take a bit of getting used to. At first you could be tempted into thinking that you've lost your edge, until you realise that while the manic drives are gone, the advantages remain. After a lot of hard work and constant climbing to reach the top, you've now reached a much more level and sustainable playing field. Refuse to create challenges where there are none, just because you've come to expect them. |
