Overview

In 2011, with both Jupiter and Uranus triggering your 10th house of work and public roles, you start a new career cycle of growth, expansion and innovation.

Jolly Jupiter energises your career zone from January 22 to June 5 and this once-in-12-years cycle helps open doors and create opportunities professionally. Others see more of you than they ever have as you boldly reveal your true talents in work environments. Travel and study feature on the professional agenda as you realise there are unexplored career horizons you’d like to investigate. Jupiter boosts confidence and self belief, helping you take a professional risk or two through the first part of 2011. Your biggest career challenge? Not taking on more than you can handle. Jupiter expands whatever he touches, showing your career is a major focus from January to June. Stay focused on your personal big picture and you’ll channel your energies into the opportunities that are most closely aligned with your inner compass.

Innovative Uranus settles into your career zone on March 13 for a seven-year stay, which promises to enliven and re-energise your professional spirit. Whether you work at home or in an office, for a company or for yourself, it’s time to explore emerging and new technologies to put you at the cutting edge of your field. Uranus brings restlessness and a desire for change, so if there are any professional or public roles or responsibilities from which you’d like to be liberated, 2011 is your year. Uranus is unpredictable by nature and, while work may be busy, contracts or projects may be sporadic and last-minute rather than steady this year.

Your health and wellness sector is in focus at three different periods throughout 2011. Venus helps boost your sense of self worth, making it easier to put your wellness needs first, from January 8 to February 5 and then again from November 3 to 27. Teaming up with female support then makes a big difference. Mercury, planet of organising, has a retrograde in this sector from November 24 to December 14, helping you make time to take time out. Checking back in with your needs — physically and emotionally — helps you revamp your daily schedule so you have time in your regular schedule to stay fit and well, physically and mentally.

Energy planet Mars visits your sign from August 4 to September 20, giving you courage and firing up your determination. You could be impatient through this time, but you’ll also be prepared to put yourself first. Mars helps you invoke your inner warrior so you stand up for the passions closest to your heart.

Venus in your sign from July 5 to 29 helps you primp, preen and make yourself pretty, inside and out. This period is less about conforming to external images of beauty and more about reconnecting with a personal sense of individual beauty. Through this time, self love precedes all other kinds of love.