Overview

2011 represents a tapas plate of a year, with triggers to a wide variety of your chart sectors ensuring that, for you, there’s never a dull moment. Your social life, group connections and community involvements are in focus and flux in 2011. Expansive Jupiter and unconventional Uranus trigger your friendship zone helping you reprioritise and revamp these areas of your life.

Spiritual, soulful Neptune dips into your career zone from April 5 to August 5, bringing you a taste of what’s to come professionally in 2012. You are on the cusp of a major transition regarding work cycles. This period offers insights as to how you can best combine career goals with your growing sense of compassion and desire to give back. If you experience any initial lack of clarity or vagueness about career direction through this time, that’s OK. Neptune’s way is to speak to you through dreams, intuition and feelings rather than logic and planning.

A dynamic eclipse in your sign on June 1 helps provide the catalyst for radical change, especially for Geminis born May 30 to June 3. The desire for expansion grows under this eclipse and all Geminis crave new realities. The only caution? Don’t push beyond what you can manage. Making choices then involves carefully weighing up the cost of expansion.

As with every sign, you’re particularly sensitive to the moods of your personal planetary patron. With Mercury spending three periods of approximately three weeks retrograde (moving backwards) each year, you get a few chances to hit the brakes and catch up with yourself and on life. In 2011, your retrograde review periods are March 29 to April 22, August 3 to 25 and November 24 to December 14.

Each retrograde period has its own area of focus. In March and April, take time to review social and group contacts. Communications with friends may require extra effort as crossed wires and misunderstandings are more likely than usual. Double-check details regarding social plans and major events.

In August, personal communication and self-expression are in focus. Study, learning and teaching rituals come under scrutiny as you open yourself to the possibility that there may be better options. At this time, details regarding project deadlines can be unclear, so double-check due dates and requirements, especially for anything related to study, teaching or siblings.

In November and December, it’s your primary relationships that need to be reworked. Crossed wires with loved ones or significant mentors/business partners could inspire you to question the higher purpose of your relationships. Patience and persistence with communication help ensure your ideas are heard and understood in intimate and close working relationships.