Aquarius (Born February 10 to 19) - 20 to 30 degrees Aquarius:

2008: Aquarius Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

2008 Overview. A more free-spirited and faithful attitude towards life is with you in 2008, dear Aquarius. Your intuition is heightened to possibly even uncanny levels this year. While the year is a contented one on many levels, you enjoy an increasing feeling of hope, optimism, and spiritual protection. You are building your resources, getting your finances straightened out, and learning a great deal about what makes you, and the people around you, tick. In 2008, you are working on perfecting the art of intimate bonding with another person on a deep level. You are also getting a grip on finances, especially those that you share with or that come from others. Life is certainly clearer for you than it was last year. The area of life that is subject to the most changes is your close relationships, or partnerships. Re-evaluating sexual and intimate expression could figure. Your spiritual life is richer and more rewarding than ever. Help is available exactly when you need it. Some of your work is done in seclusion, or you work behind the scenes this year. Love finds you most readily mid-February to mid-March--a power period for your powers of attraction. An especially active period for career matters occurs in October.

2008 Details. Jupiter, the planet of abundance, graces your solar twelfth house from March forward this year. During this period, activities that take place "behind the scenes" or otherwise privately are especially beneficial. This is a cycle in which you become more compassionate, empathetic, and sensitive. Jupiter in the twelfth house is said to offer one spiritual protection. A deep faith that everything will work out is with you now. This is a time when you can rid yourself of self-destructive tendencies, deep-seated fears, and deeply-ingrained tendencies towards guilty feelings. Jupiter here does act much like a guardian angel. You are more able to get in touch with your subconscious mind. Charity, giving anonymously, volunteering, and helping others without expectation of reward will be most satisfying during this cycle. Work that involves serving others may begin now and bring you much joy. Your dreaming world is especially rich, lighter, helpful, and more intuitive. Meditation and retreats may be particularly beneficial to you now, acting to regenerate and invigorate you. You may pick up New Age studies, dream interpretation, or research during this cycle. Some people enter into a private romance during this cycle. In general, help seems to be there when you need it. You are building your faith now. These positive circumstances won't necessarily fall into your lap, and are unlikely to come all at once. You need to keep your eyes open for opportunities in these areas of life.

The most favorable periods for these matters occur while Jupiter is in direct motion in your solar twelfth, from the last week of March through the first week of May, and then from the second week of September through December. The very best times occur when direct Jupiter trines Saturn in September and November.

Saturn continues to transit your solar seventh house much of the year, until November. Saturn motivates us to do "spring cleaning" in the areas of life it touches. In your case, significant one-to-one relationships have needed to be considered and understood during this transit. This is a time when you need to define, understand, and crystallize your significant relationships with others. If you already have a partner, this is a time when any issues surrounding compromise, flexibility, and the ability to give your heart to your partner will surface. Healthy partnerships can be the outcome of this partnership, whether they are new ones or strengthened existing partnerships. Saturn always brings with it a fair measure of reality and objectivity, so that whatever relationships you may have at the beginning of this transit, or want, will be defined and re-defined. Relationships are seen now as serious matters! Partners are no longer simply for amusement or mirrors of your ego. Responsibilities to partners, the need to compromise, and the realities of the needs of others, become clear. You are forced to begin seeing others as individuals, and to improve the manner in which you relate to and with them. Depending on your age and life circumstances, "significant partnerships" can mean partnerships with loved ones, business partnerships, and even deep friendships. By the end of this transit in November, quantity in the relationship department will have been replaced with quality, and this process involves time, soul-searching, frustration, and eventual fulfillment.

Saturn transits your solar eighth house from November forward. How do you handle power? Your desire nature? Intimate relationships? What kind of obsessions and addictions do you have? What are your deep-rooted compulsions? What are your unhealthy attachments? When Saturn transits our eighth house, you feel pressure to answer these questions. You are likely to be more sensitive to what seem like outer world pressures that force you to examine some of your deepest desires and attachments. These include your sexual relationships, your finances (especially with regards to debts and shared finances), and your need for control. Sometimes, Saturn transiting the eighth brings about sexual dysfunctions, whether we encounter these in ourselves or in our partners. You may face some difficulties satisfying your libido and/or encountering problems with intimacy. These pressures are "designed" to make you more aware of your desire nature, and what exactly it is you want. Dissatisfaction and frustrations getting what you want, especially with regard to relationships with others and with your resources, often characterize the first part of the transit. You may discover that previous methods of controlling your environment and the people in your life simply are not effective any more. You may not even be aware just how you have been employing power and control before this transit. Another realm over which the eighth house reigns is our mortality. With Saturn here, you become much more aware of your mortality. Saturn transiting the eighth house often brings with it a realization that we do not live forever. Of course, we know this as a fact at the back of our minds, but Saturn reminds us in no uncertain terms. Saturn's presence here also urges you to organize your finances. On a psychological level, you face some of your fears that are of a compulsive nature—those fears that lead you to believe you need certain things in order to survive. Take a small example of a superstition. Perhaps you perform some kind of small ritual that you feel will help protect you or give you good luck. If you do it often enough, it becomes an addiction. You are afraid that if you don't do this little ritual, you will set yourself up for bad luck. If you get rid of this superstition, you feel strong. It requires courage in order to do it, but it is empowering to do so. Something as simple as a superstition or ritual for good luck can undermine us. Why? Because we are giving away our power over ourselves to this compulsive behavior! We are denying that we have power over our own lives. The same is true of any form of compulsive behavior and addiction. We attempt to control our lives through these behaviors, but what we are really doing is letting the addictions control us. Towards the end of this transit next year, you will have eliminated some deep-seated habits and attachments that have been keeping you back from feeling emotionally free. You emerge healthier and stronger. When we give in to compulsive behaviors, we give up self-control, and guilt undermines our lives. We are not ourselves. By attempting to control others, we give away our own power over ourselves. By the end of this transit, you will feel considerably more emotionally healthy. You will have nixed some of your addictions, and mastered your superstitions. You will feel more powerful because you have given up attempting to control things you cannot or should not control, and you will have gained a feeling of self-mastery instead.

Positive connections made from your twelfth house to both the second and eighth houses this year suggest that you are likely to discover resources that you never knew you had. Help seems to be magically there when you need it, and your own awesome strength and faith is always there to draw upon. Imaginative undertakings could boost your income this year. You could be working on a project in solitude or behind the scenes, and when you do come out with it, it could be quite profitable. This year, you are learning that too much emphasis on the importance of material possessions can work against you. You are learning to put more value in the intangibles in life.

The influences of Uranus and Neptune this year are similar to last year for many of you, and represent long-term trends. Uranus in your second house brings about subtle changes to your value system. Some of you are moving towards a less materialistic value system, and others may be encountering unexpected circumstances that bring about a fluctuating or uncertain income. There may be a trend towards Uranus-ruled areas as the major source of income in your life, such as through new technologies, science, computers, the Internet, or metaphysics. You are also inclined to take a few more risks with your finances, or unusual ways of making money could be in place during this cycle. The best advice for increasing your earning power now is to nurture your latent inventive or progressive, future-oriented talents. Neptune continues to transit your sign and solar first house. You are increasingly less focused on your own self-centered needs, more universal in your concerns, and more open to the intangible realms of inspiration and beauty.

However, Aquarians born February 10-14, and those with an Ascendant of 20-24 degrees Aquarius, experience the Neptune-Sun conjunction in 2008. This influence sensitizes your mind, body, and soul to a higher energy. It can act to soften your disposition, as you become more attuned to the subtleties in your environment and in everyday activities. You absorb the mood of those around you quite easily now, and your temperament is somewhat changeable as a result. This transit can add a mysterious aura to the way you project yourself to others. You tend to be less practical than you are idealistic, dreamy, and sensitive. Some of you may find the mundane concerns of life too boring, too drab to grab your attention! Some may feel less confident, as their direction in life is suddenly uncertain; others may attune themselves to a stronger spiritual purpose.

Many of you are going into businesses for yourself, or using your own personality and image in your money-making endeavors.

Eclipses mostly activate your first and seventh houses this year, and are thus very personal, occurring in your own sign and the sign opposite to yours. You will be exploring issues of dependence and independence in your life. Too much dependence on others can undermine your own self-confidence--and your relationships in the process. Excessive self-interest and willfulness can undermine your close personal relationships--and can actually work against your better interests. This year, through some trial and error, you are discovering how to balance these issues. Learning to rely on yourself as well as enjoying a close partnership is what the 2008 eclipses are about. Issues of personal courage, confidence, and independence come to the fore. You may, for example, receive a cosmic push towards expressing yourself more creatively and experience an increased drive to take charge of your life. Issues surrounding your personal appearance, your body, and your image become especially important and, in some cases, critical. Basically, you will be learning to stand on your own two feet! This sequence of eclipses also alerts you to the need to interact with others--either the public, or through a close partnership. For some, marriage or divorce will be an issue. For most, carving out a personal identity that includes a significant other who furthers their own personal growth will come into focus. These eclipses give you a push towards a stronger identity as well as a sense of purposefulness through close partnership.

Some key periods in 2008 for you: The best times for magnetizing what (and who) you want into your life are March 4-12, June 10-18, and December 25-31. Your strongest financial periods in 2008 occur from March 10-20 and March 29-April 6.