AQUARIUS HOROSCOPE

The Mars/Pluto sextile on April 16th shows you working to bring people up to speed. You know that they're capable of learning and mastering certain skills, but they may not share your confidence. If anything, they might stop dead in their tracks right when they're on the verge of making a breakthrough. It's frustrating, but these are also teaching moments for you. What can you do differently to help them over their mental hurdles? Students teach teachers as much as teachers teach students, and this re-examination of your method and approach can update your skills in the same spirit that you're asking them to update theirs.

Born with an innate sense that there's a greater design at work in your life, your struggle is to try to live according to it. Maybe you’re always coming up with innovative ideas or getting quick glimpses of the way that things could be if only you could change this or that. Then again, you may be the agent of change, the one who rocks the boat at work. Right now you're done with trying to breathe fresh life into the old and formulaic, and Mars in Aries for the next 5 ½ weeks shows you ready to blast off in a new and exciting direction.

Squeezed between the tedium of work and frustrated aspirations, it makes perfect sense that you would want to kick over the game board and send all the pieces flying. You’ve done so much strategizing and maneuvering to make your current situation manageable that it’s a wonder you can even see straight. Unfortunately, rash impulses aren’t an option because you would have to go and collect all those pieces and set them up on the board again. The best thing is to see obligations through to the end. You’ve come too far to back out now—especially when you’re so close to mastering a challenging situation.

Saturn/Pluto sextiles are exceedingly rare, and what makes the one on March 28th even more unique is that Pluto in Aquarius is ruled by Saturn, your traditional ruler, in Aries. What this means is that great changes are taking place in your life that promise to move you to the next stage of your personal evolution. These changes will be more organic than you suppose; in fact, they may even carry with them a feeling of inevitability. In the next couple of years, you will undergo an extraordinary transformation when you will feel like you are truly becoming the person you were always meant to be.

Everyone talks about being authentic, but as an Aquarius your authenticity lies somewhere in the future. It's why you don't want to be pinned down or hemmed in because you have a vision of the way life is supposed to be and you won't stop until you realize it. The Sun/Neptune conjunction on March 22nd shows that you're not alone in this; in fact you're surrounded by like-minded souls who can help you get to where you want to go. But don't think of them as contacts; think of them as fellow travelers searching for the same thing. They'll make for great company in the years ahead.

It’s time to rethink your health regimen, but this doesn't mean you have to start chasing after the newest diet or the hottest workout craze. What you’re looking for is something holistic where routines and practices can weave together the separate provinces of mind, body, heart, and spirit. The beauty of Jupiter traveling through that part of your solar chart that pertains to health is that Jupiter is a planet of integration that works to incorporate elements organically and in your own time. Explore things like meditation, healthy eating, and exercise that’s appropriate to who you are and your body will be your temple by July.

Aquarians are pretty laid-back. You give your spouse a lot of latitude, you’re lenient when it comes to loved ones, and you believe that people are free to come and go as they please. Yet all of this changes this week. Maybe it’s the uncertainty of world events or maybe it’s the intense eclipse energy coursing through your horoscope, but suddenly you'll want to keep close tabs on just about everyone you know. You’re not usually this overly protective, and part of you may even feel embarrassed, but your nearest and dearest will relish it. In fact, they'll enjoy knowing that you care this much.

Mars square Uranus on February 27th shows you taking yet another wild spin on the Wheel of Fortune. What was up is down and what was down is now up, and it's anyone's guess as to how the whole thing will play out. Yet there is a greater design at work behind all of this if you're willing to buy a vowel and gain some insight. What looked radical and too “out there” weeks ago now seems infinitely doable. Things aren't as impossible as they once were; if anything, their time has come. This requires you to revisit some of those decisions you made recently.

A Solar Eclipse in your sign closes a door while opening a window of opportunity somewhere else. You probably understand how this is a good thing theoretically, but in truth you would have preferred it if said door had remained open because now you have to go searching for something you didn't really seek or want. Thankfully, the eclipse in Aquarius will be followed by a Saturn/Neptune conjunction in Aries on the 20th. This means that there really is a higher intelligence at work. Deciphering what that is, however, and what that means for you will be your main focus in the months to come.

You often feel like the one who’s out of step with everyone else. Either you’re way ahead of the curve, or your thinking is so outside the box that others can barely follow. The nice thing about Saturn’s stay in Aries for the next two years is that you’ll be meeting like-minded people who totally get where you’re coming from. Not only do they share your innovative thinking, they’re equally inventive. But this is more than just outcasts fraternizing at the school cafeteria table. You’re entering into a series of business and/or creative collaborations that will extend your reach and help you realize your ambitions.