Overview

With three major planets in dominant chart sectors, 2011 stands out as a year of reshaping, especially where relationships and career are concerned.

Jupiter in your sign gives you faith in your talents, making it easier to pursue your dreams. Saturn, continuing through your relationship zone, highlights the value of partnership in ways that help you see commitment as a positive experience. Work wise, Pluto’s ongoing transit continues to give you a powerful professional edge and transformative abilities to help you make an intense impact in your chosen career.

Simmering frustrations about a lack of balance between personal dreams and professional commitments come to a head as Jupiter and Pluto link February 22 to March 2, an ideal period for making major adjustments. If you are no longer honouring your personal beliefs through your work, changes made now are especially invigorating. Daring to chase your true desires, personally and professionally, helps you make the most of the dynamic energies for change available then.

You are larger than life through the first half of the year, Aries, as expansive Jupiter transits your sign. The period from January 22 to June 5 is a special time of growth and opportunity as doors open without much effort at all. Your biggest choices centre on prioritising the many experiences, especially on a personal level, that become possible in 2011.

With Jupiter around, adventure and travel are typically abundant. Many Aries will set off on once-in-a-lifetime learning adventures or holidays under this influence. Jupiter visits your sign just once every 12 years. You may revisit life goals or dreams from 1999, which was the last time Jupiter energised your sign.

The influence of your patron planet, Mars, reinforces the “me first” theme aroused by Jupiter. One of your missions in 2011, should you choose to accept it, is to explore how honouring commitments, to yourself and others, actually creates more joy in your world. You also become acutely aware of the ongoing juggling act of trying to balance personal priorities with relationship goals. Mars visits your sign April 3 to May 12, bringing extra confidence, energy and drive. You are at your determined best then and a little effort takes you a long way. You’re cosmically blessed to take action about the passions closest to your heart then.

A minor blip on your radar arrives courtesy of communication planet Mercury, who retrogrades (reverses) through your sign from March 29 to April 22. Double-check details and read the fine print as things aren’t quite as they seem then. You could be unusually indecisive as the information you need to make fully informed choices is delayed or temporarily missing. If you can, avoid finalising major decisions through this period. Instead, make it a time to review and revise, personally and in regards to relationships. Mercury retrograde in your sign is an ideal period for research and rethinking, so take as much time as you need to dig deep into the details of life’s dramas at this time.