Sagittarius - November 22nd-December 21st

January for Sagittarius often puts a focus on finances, being the month that represents your solar 2nd house. Therefore it may be prudent to think long and hard about the issues of personal security and positive times for this can be around the 13th, 8th and 24th.

Mercury is in your own sign before the 8th, directly impacting the lives of those born after December 11th. For this group there will be a real awakening of the desire to communicate, particularly with partners and you will have a buzz of ideas and your mind will be a little like a washing machine and restlessness will be part of the picture. Constructive thinking will be very powerful around the 7th and 8th, but beware on New Year’s Day of some irritability and wars of words being a potential.

Also, after the 27th if born up to November 29th, your intellect will be razor sharp, particularly around the 28th when intuition should be trusted. Before the 14th for all born after December 5th the ability to combine heart and mind will be powerful and texts, letters and emails can hit the mark perfectly in a way that is very endearing, particularly around the 13th.

From the 14th for all born up to December 14th, home feels like your castle and this is a particularly splendid time for enhancing your domestic environment but there will be a temptation to possibly over-indulge.

Mars is in a tricky angular relationship to Sagittarians, being in Virgo, and this is likely to be an irritant to those born December 12th to 17th as it is directly squaring your Suns, and this means that there will be some possible problems from authority figures in your working life or possibly in your personal life. Irritation rather than anger will be the manifestation of this, but impatience and lack of self-discipline can be problematic. Stop and think before you react and don’t take other people’s spontaneous irritation with you too personally. For females the attention of males in one’s life may be quite caustic and there may be irritation between the sexes.

From the 24th when Mars moves retrograde, there is a different tone that starts to evolve and which will last for several months, and this is going to be a period when one has to change one’s values and rethink quite profoundly. There is a feeling that one becomes more subjective, more watchful and less in control of events, and it may be a time when any anger or stress may be internalized and sat on, hopefully not to an unhealthy degree. It is a time for reflection and inwardly reviewing what is happening. It may be a time to go with the flow and realize that a certain amount of paralysis is part of the journey. Exhaustion may be part of the picture but with inner psychological stamina keeping you going. It is also a time when you will feel the need to become a crusader and a pioneer for other people and self-centeredness may well be shelved.

For those born after December 20th, Saturn and Neptune are both sextiling your Sun, creating a potent combination which is very, very positive. Saturn gives you discipline, gives you control, patience and an ability to apply intelligent, measured activity to challenges coupled with a great sense of duty and responsibility, whereas Neptune gives inspiration, care, compassion and spiritual belief in what it is you are doing. This combines with a real emotional intelligence. Putting the two together this group will find themselves embarking on activities that work brilliantly because of the preparedness to put together inspiration with perspiration, whether that be on an altruistic or an artistic level.

For those at the other end of Sagittarius, if born any time after November 22nd until the 26th, Uranus is enhancing your energies and awakening and enlightening you to new freedoms, new innovations and indeed to the future no less. He is bringing exciting events around creative inspiration that has a real sense of the new, the experimental and the diverse and the use of technology may be part of the picture in a very advanced way. Also romantically it brings a desire for the new, the novel and the inspiring and you will seek people out who will present you with new ideas, new vistas, new horizons and who show you new ways of being, thinking and seeing. The need for freedom and to believe in the future and get away from an oppressive past will be a major focus and can be very successful, and belief in your own individuality and uniqueness will be a motivating force. Along with that goes the belief in other’s uniqueness and individuality as well.

Thought for 2012: It suits you to see life as an ongoing journey, rather than an arrival.