Aries (March 20-April 19)
To an unusual degree, you may find yourself in circumstances where your leadership and wisdom are called upon every moment. This is one of those times when you'll need to remind people to tie their shoelaces; when your career will more resemble running a home for children; and when you'll need to give a few safer sex lectures. It's all in your job description, if you ask the astrology. So prepare for the work, keep your home well supplied, and set the ground rules that inside your four walls and for considerably beyond, discussing anything with anyone is acceptable.

Taurus (April 19-May 20)
For many months, you've been pushing certain emotional or domestic issues, clearing physical and psychic space, reconsidering where you stand with certain people, and mainly, assessing whether you feel safe. The reason for this process will become apparent as the holidays approach. "Family issues" surface at this time of year a little more often than usual, and while this year will be no exception, how you handle a certain highly sensitive situation that arises later in the month will surprise you. As Sinead said, there's life outside your mother's garden, life beyond your wildest dreams.

Gemini (May 20-June 21)
Holidays are supposedly a time for the rewards of faith, but at the moment we need more than that. You're in possession of an idea that can bring people together in an unusual way, and have mastered a gift of diplomacy that can facilitate communication where such may have seemed impossible before. To do this, you need to avoid being the focus of any controversy yourself, which will be easy if you keep your objectives in mind. Families are minefields, and codependency is a constant trap. In the end, the equation comes down to whether you can be honest with one particular person.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Early winter brings the months when your encounters with others deepen and become more direct, which often arrives with a sense of expectation. You're particularly susceptible to this because to use a French word, you're the sympa type -- an empath. However, you have a crucial goal at this phase of your life, which is to not get overwhelmed by your own emotions or psychological habits, nor to feel like you owe everyone everything. You need new emotional spaces to inhabit, and to this end, you could donate half of what you own to charity and feel a lot better about your life.

Leo (July 22-Aug. 23)
Jupiter in your 4th house of home and security is a rather unusual transit for you, because you have Scorpio in this house. What makes you feel better is precisely what makes most other people feel like they have something to hide. Long ago, you discovered that there are no taboos, and now you're in a great position to send this message to your environment. So why don't you hold a naked holiday party and invite all your relatives and neighbors? Well, you can probably think of a few good reasons -- but for some things, it really is the thought that counts.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22)
The Seven Wonders of Nature will become eight if anyone in your household actually opens their mouth voluntarily and tells the truth, but it's not your job to push. It is, however, your responsibility to feel absolutely safe being yourself, and to know what is real from what is not. Ultimately, whether people speak up is a matter of how they feel about revealing a degree of sadness that they would rather not talk about. And this is not something you can really push; there is a real risk involved. But you can hold the space open to allow people to be themselves.

Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23)
You have your own idea of fun and I can tell that you're finally noticing that it has very little to do with what anyone thinks is a good time. And once you're done going through the motions of everyone else's idea of a party, make sure you get with the people who really understand and let the good times roll. It is a fact that the world is in quite a bit of turmoil and that few people see any genuine hope for tomorrow. But you, personally, are noticing that things are pretty good today.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22)
The past three months have been a little odd where some of your most trusted relationships are concerned, and I doubt it's been easy getting to know new people, either. But astrological developments over the next few weeks will turn the tide, and bring a series of sweeping changes through your environment. Remember, there is no compromising how you feel. When you can feel that in your body, it's a powerful thought. And while you don't have to bully people as you may have done in times past, you can stay comfortable within yourself, and give people a chance to get used to you.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22)
You've been extraordinarily tolerant at allowing a state of chaos or at least brisk activity and unpredictable change in your home space, to the point where at times it barely feels like your own. But you know you're a guest in the world, just as you are a guest in your house. In a strange way, acknowledging this improves your sense of belonging, as if you don't have to be attached to what happens, so therefore you don't have to control it. Honestly, if you want actual peace and quiet, I suggest you put on your most masterful negotiating skills and get your way -- or go somewhere else.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20)
You've become accustomed to the developments in your inner world and the world around you, but I think you're fundamentally the same person. Yet a financial situation that emerges later in the month will demonstrate, indeed, prove, that you are who you think you are. Money is energy, but few people ever get to a point where they can notice it's a possibility, much less put the principle to work. The bizarre thing is that money is energy in the form of an idea -- just like you. Your quality of life will go up as your ideas about yourself improve, even if it takes a momentary crisis to shock you awake.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
There are few people who have the ability to be feeling as good about life as you do now, but light and shadow are often close to one another. You deserve to feel good, but at the same time, you need to be careful that certain issues that may arise in a domestic partnership or living arrangement don't drag you down. These matters will work themselves out as long as you don't give them any more power than they deserve, or neglect them with less attention than makes sense. Everyone is free, and often this is an equation that works to the mutual benefit of all.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
You can be happy that there are certain people who don't seem to go away. The benefit for you is that, unlike at most times in your life, you don't have to work particularly hard convincing anyone to stick around. You have your mind on the greater possibilities, and are likely to spend most of the month focused on a particular goal that now has your attention -- and should. Someone else may be focused on the past, which in all honesty is your usual position. Now you have a chance to feel what it's like to dedicate yourself to a positive goal without worrying what anyone else may think.