Pisces 19th FEBRUARY - 20th MARCH

This could be a month when you find some leadership skills are really excelling. Many friends and associates are demanding your presence which can be powerful and productive, particularly around the 13th. Indeed between the 8th and 27th your intellect can impress and giving presentations, etc, can be triumphant, and only your most intelligent friends will do for company.

Before the 14th Venus in your solar 12th house indicates that many of you will be feeling a particular love of quiet and solitude, and social contacts may be secretive. A little bit of shyness is in the air and as usual, in typical Pisces fashion, the need to escape the rigors of the planet for a while may be strong, but artistic inspiration comes from a very deep-rooted place. Your feelings may be quite over-sensitive and there is a desire to shield yourself, but the desire to help others is strong too. However, from the 14th Venus moves happily into your own sign, particularly is illuminating the lives of those born up to March 12th. This will underline your charms and your charisma and it is a wonderful time for good taste, particularly when it comes to your wardrobe and your appearance in general. It will be a “good hair” period.

The important news all month is that Mars, god of assertion, if not war, is in your opposite sign (relationships/others) all month, specifically directly affecting all born March 10th to 15th, although you will all feel the energy. Quite simply for many of you, this means that there is a great sense that others are challenging your position or over-reacting in a way that can make you feel somewhat uncomfortable. You too may be over-reactive to others. It can also make others quite predatory and they will refuse to take “no” for an answer when it comes to getting what they want from you. Equally this group themselves may be unreasonably insistent that their needs and wants are honored by others.

However the big issue this month is that Mars moves retrograde from the 24th and stays there until mid April. This will certainly bring a new dimension into your relationship area. Either other’s behavior or your own attitude to someone will go through a very circuitous journey. Motives on your behalf or on their behalf may not be understood but will be triggered by subjective powers that may come from very deep in the past and you may not understand and indeed a significant other may not understand why this particular way of behavior is manifesting. It may be wise to let partners have privacy and time alone, just as you may need the same, in order to work the issues through because they are hard to identify by the conscious mind. This interplay of energy can threaten identities, as all is uncertain and shifting. It gives the opportunity however, for you and others to courageously explore the unconscious. It is also a time positively when one can become a crusader and pioneer for others altruistically and by dismissing self-centered needs we often gain. Serve or suffer , no less. This is probably the best use of Mars retrograde.

Jupiter is well-disposed now to those born February 20th to 23rd as he is enhancing brain power and giving you the power of wisdom when communicating, whether by speech or writing. There are opportunities to take advantage of here that can bring luck and growth which can help enhance your reputation.

Saturn is a general background noise in your chart, suggesting that you all should be aware of the need to take much care over dollars, particularly those that are tied up somehow with other people or invested. Caution and playing safe is the order of the day, particularly as Uranus in your house of personal finances is suggesting that there is a sense of the unexpected in the air re dollars and an income may be erratic.

Finally, Pluto is constructively empowering those born February 26th to 28th. You felt this energy between February and June of last year and now he is back with a vengeance to allow you to further the cause, and indeed you have until January 2013 to fully exploit this power. It is not one that lands in your lap, it is one that you can see and access and take advantage of and it is about the intelligent use of leadership skills and also about others in your orbit bringing you out of your shell and encouraging you to show what you are made off. Take advantage of people who have contacts and you can also be an empowerer of others. Contacts from other countries or in an academic environment are certainly forces that you should take advantage of, and your passions and deeply held beliefs can get heard constructively and your insight and x-ray vision to the truth can make you quite charismatic. Intelligent empowerment through self-belief and self-reinvention is the key.

Thought for 2012: Though often feeling alien to this world, your sensitivities and gifts are much needed by the planet. Engage.