Your Personal Horoscope 2014: Month-by-month forecasts for every sign. Joseph Polansky

      The most important thing for the first half of the year is to maintain high energy levels. When energy is high – when the auric field is strong – the body resists disease. It is basically immune to microbes and destructive kinds of bacteria. But let the auric field weaken for whatever reason and the body becomes more vulnerable to these sorts of things. The auric field is the spiritual equivalent of the physical immune system. Weakness in the auric field, in overall energy, has other consequences too. The vision, the hearing, the reflexes become a tad slower than normal. They are not up to standard and this can lead to accidents. So, rest when tired. Don’t burn the candle at both ends. Work rhythmically and alternate activities. Wear the colours, gems and aromas of your sign (see the Personality Profile at the beginning of this sign). Have regular massages or reflexology treatments. This will enhance your energy in subtle ways. It might also be advisable to take weekends (or longer holidays) at a health spa – depending on your finances.

      Health can also be enhanced through regular scalp and facial massage. The head and face is one of your vulnerable areas. When you massage the head and face you not only strengthen those areas but the whole body as well. There are reflexes there that go to the whole body. Also enhance the health by paying more attention to the lungs, arms, shoulders and small intestine. Arms and shoulders should be regularly massaged. Tension tends to collect in the shoulders and needs to be released. The heart is also more vulnerable this year. The reflexes to the heart are shown in the chart. Avoid worry and anxiety – the main spiritual root causes of heart problems.

      Mercury, your health planet, is fast moving. During the course of the year he will move through all the signs and houses of your Horoscope, as our regular readers know. Thus there are many short-term trends in health that are best dealt with later in the monthly reports.

      Mercury goes retrograde three times this year – from February 6 to February 28; June 7 to July 2; and from October 4 to October 25. These are not times to make drastic changes to your health regime or to make important health decisions. These are times for study and review.

      Favourable numbers for health and healing are 1, 3, 6, 8 and 9. If you are exercising or making affirmations do them in sets of 1, 3, 6, 8 and 9 – you will get more out of your exercises.

      Home and Family

      Your 4th house of home and family is a house of power this year, so there is a great focus here now. With Jupiter in your 4th house since June 26 2013 it is a happy area of life.

      Many of you moved in the past year. If you didn’t then, it can still happen this year. As our regular readers know, Jupiter moving through the 4th house does not always indicate a ‘literal’ move but an ‘as if’ move. Sometimes people buy additional homes or properties. Sometimes they buy expensive items for the home, or renovate or enlarge the existing home. The effect is ‘as if’ a move has occurred. The home is enlarged and more comfortable than it was before.

      Since Jupiter is the ruler of your 9th house of travel, many of you are moving or thinking of moving to foreign countries or faraway places in your own country. Or, as we mentioned, are acquiring properties in these kinds of places.

      The family circle gets enlarged under this kind of aspect. Generally this happens through birth or marriage, but it often also happens through meeting people who are ‘like family’ – who are emotionally supportive. They play the role of ‘family’ in your life. In many cases the ‘like’ family can be more supportive and helpful than the actual biological family.

      As we mentioned earlier, this aspect indicates heightened fertility for those Aries who are of childbearing age. This will be the case all year – even when Jupiter leaves the 4th house and enters the 5th on July 16. The focus then will shift from family as a whole to a focus on children.

      Jupiter in the 4th house shows that the family as a whole is prospering and more supportive this year. When people are prosperous and optimistic it is only natural that they will increase their support. They are much more generous this year. If you need a favour from them – especially from a parent figure – this is the year to ask for it.

      Children (or children figures in your life) become more prosperous after July 16. I have noticed that it doesn’t matter what age they are. Even infants and toddlers prosper under this aspect – they receive expensive kinds of items or a parent or grandparent sets up a fund for them behind the scenes.

      Jupiter is the planet of religion and higher education. Thus I can see many of you holding religious services in the home – perhaps classes too. The family as a whole seems more religious. Moreover, many of you will be adding a library to the home or expanding your present one. The home is a place of study as much as a home.

      Finance and Career

      The year ahead will be prosperous. Things will start slowly, but as the year progresses, and especially in the latter half, prosperity will increase.

      Your 2nd house of finance is not a house of power this year, so finances are not a major focus. And perhaps this is the major weakness. You might not be giving them the attention they deserve. You can be too distracted by family, home, personal freedom or the desire for personal pleasure. If finances are troubling you, the solution might be to give the area more attention. Force yourself.

      With Uranus in your own sign you are in the mood for new ventures, new start ups. You are an experimenter with almost everything in your life, including finance. You tend to be a risk-taker by nature, and these days even more so. And when you hit the big time, it will be BIG. Failures however – and there will be a few – can also be big. Risk taking – speculations – are much better during the latter half of the year – after July 16 – than before.

      Venus is your financial planet. Regular readers assuredly know that Venus is a fast-moving planet. During the year she will move through all the signs and houses of the chart. Thus there will be many short-term financial trends, all depending on where Venus is and the aspects she receives. These are best dealt with in the monthly reports.

      With Venus as your financial planet your social skills (and, Aries, you need to develop these more) are a huge factor in earnings. It’s not so much your innate ability and merit, though these are important – it’s the likeability factor, people skills, the ability to get on with others that are important. When Aries develop these qualities, there’s no stopping them. The sky is the limit.

      In the Personality Profile we discuss the best financial areas for Aries. These should be reviewed this year.

      Your spouse, partner or current love is having financial challenges. He or she feels squeezed. Perhaps some new expense or financial burden has been placed on them. They just need to reorganize things, shift things around here and there, and work to get financially healthier. If they do, they will find that they have all the resources they need. They have been making very dramatic financial changes in the past two years and there is more to come. But after this year, their finances should stabilize.

      If you are involved with estates or tax issues, be patient. Only time will resolve things. Borrowing – accessing outside money – is more challenging this year. Again patience and persistence will win the day.

      Your favourable financial numbers are 2, 3, 7 and 9.

      Though money is not that big a deal, career is very important. What I like here is that you have a great single-minded focus, an intense drive to succeed. This tends to success. We get what we focus on. The only problem here is that you might be too career driven – too fanatic about it. This leads to conflict, strife and perhaps to making some dangerous enemies. There is sort of a ‘tunnel vision’ when it comes to the career and it can make you unaware of whose toes or turf is being stepped on.

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