Your Personal Horoscope 2014: Month-by-month forecasts for every sign. Joseph Polansky
aspirations. This tells us some interesting things about the Aries character. First off, it shows that, in order for Aries people to reach their full career potential, they need to develop some qualities that are a bit alien to their basic nature: they need to become better administrators and organizers; they need to be able to handle details better and to take a long-range view of their projects and their careers in general. No one can beat an Aries when it comes to achieving short-range objectives, but a career is long term, built over time. You cannot take a ‘quickie’ approach to it.
Some Aries people find it difficult to stick with a project until the end. Since they get bored quickly and are in constant pursuit of new adventures, they prefer to pass an old project or task on to somebody else in order to start something new. Those Aries who learn how to put off the search for something new until the old is completed will achieve great success in their careers and professional lives.
In general, Aries people like society to judge them on their own merits, on their real and actual achievements. A reputation acquired by ‘hype’ feels false to them.
Love and Relationships
In marriage and partnerships Aries like those who are more passive, gentle, tactful and diplomatic – people who have the social grace and skills they sometimes lack. Our partners always represent a hidden part of ourselves – a self that we cannot express personally.
An Aries tends to go after what he or she likes aggressively. The tendency is to jump into relationships and marriages. This is especially true if Venus is in Aries as well as the Sun. If an Aries likes you, he or she will have a hard time taking no for an answer; many attempts will be made to sweep you off your feet.
Though Aries can be exasperating in relationships – especially if they are not understood by their partners – they are never consciously or wilfully cruel or malicious. It is just that they are so independent and sure of themselves that they find it almost impossible to see somebody else’s viewpoint or position. This is why an Aries needs as a partner someone with lots of social graces.
On the plus side, an Aries is honest, someone you can lean on, someone with whom you will always know where you stand. What he or she lacks in diplomacy is made up for in integrity.
Home and Domestic Life
An Aries is of course the ruler at home – the Boss. The male will tend to delegate domestic matters to the female. The female Aries will want to rule the roost. Both tend to be handy round the house. Both like large families and both believe in the sanctity and importance of the family. An Aries is a good family person, although he or she does not especially like being at home a lot, preferring instead to be roaming about.
Considering that they are by nature so combative and wilful, Aries people can be surprisingly soft, gentle and even vulnerable with their children and partners. The sign of Cancer, ruled by the Moon, is on the cusp of their solar 4th house (home and family). When the Moon is well aspected – under favourable influences – in the birth chart, an Aries will be tender towards the family and want a family life that is nurturing and supportive. Aries likes to come home after a hard day on the battlefield of life to the understanding arms of their partner and the unconditional love and support of their family. An Aries feels that there is enough ‘war’ out in the world – and he or she enjoys participating in that. But when Aries comes home, comfort and nurturing are what’s needed.
Horoscope for 2014
Major Trends
Life has been exciting – to say the least – since 2011 when Uranus entered your sign. Never a dull moment. It’s been all about change, change, change and then more change after that. Life seemed hectic and frenetic. The unexpected always happened. On the surface this seemed like a ‘craziness’, but underneath there was a deep spiritual agenda happening. You were (and are) being liberated, released from all kinds of attachments and bondages. You wake up one morning and discover that there are no longer any obstructions to following the path of your dreams. These obstructions have been blasted away – sometimes in dramatic fashion – and the path is clear. These trends are continuing in 2014. In previous years it was the ‘early’ Aries, those born early on in the sign, who felt this the most, but now even those of you born later in the sign will feel it. This is a time to embrace change, to make it your friend, to be calm in the midst of it. Beyond the drama there is an open road to your dreams. You are in a cycle where it is important to express your personal freedom.
Neptune, the most spiritual of all the planets, moved into Pisces, your 12th house of spirituality, in February 2012. This initiated a great and powerful spiritual influence generally, but especially upon you, Aries. You are becoming more spiritual. Your spiritual understanding is increasing by leaps and bounds. And much of the change going on in your life has to do with the spiritual changes happening deep within you – unseen and unnoticed by the world. This transit will be in effect for another 12 or so years. There’s more on this later.
Pluto has been in Capricorn, your 10th house of career, for many years now and will be there for many more years. A cosmic detox is going on in your career – both in your actual career and in your attitudes towards it. Many of you are rethinking your career path and perhaps even changing it. Even if you do stick with the present career, it will be with a whole new attitude. Again, there’s more on this later.
The year ahead looks prosperous and basically happy – the latter part of the year, from July 16 onwards, more than the early part of the year. Benevolent Jupiter will move into Leo on July 16th and start making fabulous aspects to your Sun. This brings prosperity, good fortune in speculations, enhanced creativity and just more ‘joy of life’. Aries of childbearing age were more fertile last year and the trend continues in 2014.
Your most important areas of interest this year will be the body, the image and personal pleasure; home and family (until July 16); fun, children and creativity (from July 16 onwards); love, romance and social activities (until July 26); sex, personal transformation and reinvention, occult studies, reincarnation and life after death (until December 24); career; and spirituality.
Your paths of greatest fulfilment in the year ahead will be home and family (until July 16); children, fun and creativity (from July 16 onwards); sex, personal transformation and reinvention, occult studies, reincarnation and life after death (until February 19); and love, romance and social activities (from February 19 onwards).
Health
(Please note that this is an astrological perspective on health and not a medical one. In days of yore there was no difference, both of these perspectives were identical. But in these times there could be quite a difference. For a medical perspective, please consult your doctor or health practitioner.)
The years 2011 and 2012 were very challenging healthwise. If you got through those years, you’ll get through the year ahead with flying colours. Since 2011 we note a steady, gradual improvement in health and energy. Though challenging, 2012 was better than 2011; 2013 was better than 2012; and 2014 will be better than 2013.
Though health is improving it still needs watching for the first half of the year, until July 16. Three long-term planets will be in stressful aspect with you. On July 16 Jupiter will move from a stressful aspect to a harmonious one, and on July 26 Mars will move out of his stressful aspect. You should feel a big positive difference in your overall vitality from July 16 onwards.
With your 6th house of health basically empty for most of the year (only the short-term planets will move through there) the danger is that you won’t pay enough attention here. And you should. You will have to force yourself to pay attention to your health – to follow good health regimes – even though you don’t feel like it.
Uranus has been in your sign since 2011. This often indicates experimentation with the physical body – a tendency to test its limits. Basically this is a good urge. Our bodies are capable of much more than we think and we only learn about this through testing it. But these experiments should