AQUARIUS HOROSCOPE

You're bound to feel out of sync when Pluto turns retrograde on May 6th. Aquarians often feel out of sync, but this is different. Before you were marching to the beat of a different drummer, but now it feels like you're being called to leave behind the life you knew. Pluto's transformations are often compared to a caterpillar spinning itself a cocoon where it will be transformed into a butterfly. Obviously you're not going to grow wings and fly away, but you will undergo deeply personal changes over the next five months that will lead to becoming the person you were always meant to be.

It always helps to find one like-minded individual in a group. Not only do you feel like you've connected with someone who gets you, you also have a buddy to hang with. Yet there's so much more you can do. Instead of commenting from the sidelines, you and your friend could go on to change the general mindset and even the way things are done. There's an infectious playfulness to the Venus/Saturn sextile on May 1st that gets others to stop what they're doing and join you instead. You may discover in the weeks ahead that you're surrounded by more like-minded people than originally thought.

Yours is the zodiac sign that will benefit the most from Uranus being in Gemini. Not only does Gemini form a trine by sign to Aquarius (and trines are always unconditionally supportive), but Uranus happens to be one of your ruling planets. This means that Uranus will promote your efforts rather than jumble them. Indeed, you may feel like you're finally coming into your own. But nobody ever does anything by themselves when Gemini is involved, so expect to meet and work with like-minded people. These are your cohorts for the next seven years, your comrades in service to making the world a better place.

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.