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The early part of your upcoming year, through to your next birthday, dear Pisces, is likely to be spent waiting, planning, imagining, and if you can get yourself together for it, creating–all with the sense that something big could drop anytime–and you’ll be right. It may take a little course-correction, specifically in the way you contact the social sphere and/ or expand your territory, but once done, you could see things take on major proportions. Be ready: there will be some big changes (there will have to be!) and you may be unclear how you feel about developments (or think you feel one way when you really feel another) for a long time to come. Use the calm before the storm (or really, before the shift) wisely, and keep ultimate values in mind (in other words, sometimes there are things more important than ambition fulfillment) and you should do very well in the year ahead. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

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PA Renoir ‘Girl with a Jump Rope (Portrait of Delphine LeGrand)’ 1878 {{PD}}

You know what to do, dear Pisces, the question is, Will you be wise enough to do it? You may hesitate to go forward for a variety of reasons, but you can’t go far wrong if you 1) stay attuned to your inner guidance system, even when it tells you something you don’t want to hear, and 2) keep your highest values in mind at all times. This latter condition will be the most difficult and the most vital, since to neglect what really matters to you could mean that home, mate, or important causes move on without you–and nobody wants that. This may be a more quiet year than most, where the action is largely internal; the biggest external demand, though, may be a significant one, where skills and their practical application may be tested repeatedly. You do get a bonus in the form of an opportunity to heal some significant wound related to the ambition and desire picture–and that’s all good. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

Your year won’t exactly be a picnic, Pisces. George Goodwin Kilburne ‘The Picnic’ c1900 {{PD}}

Doing what’s smart and/ or practical, acquiring key skills, and becoming more attuned to instinct all seem to be your goals this coming year, dear Pisces, through to your next birthday, and whether those goals spring from previous problems or a desire to fine-tune the direction you’re headed doesn’t really matter–they’re worthy aims, no matter what. Don’t expect a lot of fanfare, though; this is slated to be a fairly quiet year for you, one where you can make a lot of progress if you’re content to put your head down and work. Of course, it’s not all grim effort, though there will be one or more occasions where matters of Love or Money will take what feel like fated turns. Too, matters of the Houses in the Natal Chart ruled by Venus may at some point reach crisis mode, and it may take significant attention to work them out. Still, you can end this relatively unglamorous Solar year at your next Return much stronger, more personally powerful, with complete understanding of how the world works so that you become a kind of Force of Nature–now that’s something to look forward to! Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

Anthonis Leemans – ‘Hunting gear, Still Life’ 17th century Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

What is that thing that’s been bothering you, dear Pisces? It’s been hovering around the edge of your consciousness but you can’t seem to grasp it. It may end up tormenting you for a good part of the coming year, through to your next birthday, but that’s really a good thing, as it will prompt you to learn about yourself, specifically about those things in your ‘blind spot’, which is the internal ‘place’ that influences actions and thought but where you can’t perceive that this influences is occurring, but others can. It will also cause you to get on better terms with your instincts–perhaps helping you trust them more, as well as helping you sort them from thoughts and wish-fulfillment–and all this will also aid in you dedicating your life energies to causes, to home creation, or to supporting the mate, in a way and to an extent you never have before. It’s going to be a busy year, Pisces–and a last bit of advice: the emotions are likely to be an early warning system for what’s wise and what’s not–listen to them. Happy Birthday, and good luck!

You have a lively year ahead, Pisces–be sure you get plenty of rest. ‘Sleeping Girl with a Cat’ (1880)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir {{PD}}

I’ve got to hand it to you, Pisces: you are trying to live your highest values like never before. You’ve made a vow to make your life both rich with experience and aligned with all that truly matters to you–and this coming year, through to your next birthday, you’ll see the results of your efforts. Areas where you’ve excelled at translating what you honor into your surroundings, your character, and all that you do will be obvious; what will also show are areas that still need work–special notice goes to those things in your ‘blind spot’–you can learn about these by others’ reactions to you–and you may also find that you must re-assess some things you thought you’d already settled, specifically things related to expression of your personal power, what ‘territory’ really belongs to you, boundaries, especially those between yourself and your offspring (and that includes creative offspring), and in the need to negotiate, which may be something you thought you’d never need to do again. Watch temper and impulsiveness this year; also, take advantage of the emotional ‘reach’ you’ll have–your ability to learn, empathize, and expand your viewpoint through feeling has never been greater. Happy Birthday, dear Pisces, and good luck!

A distant view-from NASA {{PD}}

It feels a little like you’re freewheelin’ it out in space, doesn’t it, Pisces? I can’t get over the impression that you may be a bit disconnected from what’s going on in your world, and I don’t mean that in some insulting, stereotypical Sun sign way, I mean it in a ‘you are actually literally feeling lightened, cured, unencumbered, with all possibilities open before you’ way. That’s really really good–you can make what you want of this coming Solar year, through to your next birthday–and kind of bad–you may find it too easy to drift and dream, and too tough to muster the kind of effort that can make bigger things happen. What will help? A true openness to change (listen to the whispers of the Universe and respond before they turn into shouts), and the Will to actually take action on all those quirky and unique ideas you’re always thinking you’ll get to someday. That day is today, Pisces. Happy Birthday and good luck!

“Ban Mixay Umbrellas” by PTD Phonsavan – Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ban_Mixay_Umbrellas.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Ban_Mixay_Umbrellas.jpg

The asset and power situations will be front and center for you this coming Solar year, dear Pisces, through to your next birthday, and you may find that though acting aggressively to show your uniqueness may be supported by the social sphere it may leave you feeling uncomfortable emotionally–and that feeling shouldn’t be ignored. That discomfort is your intuition talking, with your emotions urging you to be true to your core Self and not worry about how the social scene receives your choices. The challenge for you may be to explore the individuality and your own original ideas and urges without caring whether others applaud them, even without sharing them–that comes later–this is about you getting in touch with a very distinctive spark within, and experimenting with how to bring that into your everyday life, all without worrying about the reception such individuality will receive. Try not to bend to pressures in this area surrounding assets and power; your best outcome lies in bringing your originality and inventive essence to the surface, and letting material matters sort themselves out. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

‘Azaleas and Apple Blossoms’ by Charles Caryl Coleman 1878 {{PD}}

Dear Pisces, this year you may enjoy extraordinary emotional harmony that leads you to confrontations in the home, with the mate, and/ or over causes you support–but why? The tension comes from an internal balance, confidence, and satisfaction that has recently eluded you; now that you have it, you may look around and see that the circumstances you have chosen (or allowed to develop) don’t support this new, healthier you. Changes to values, relationships, the living situation, and the earning one, may be on the agenda. This coming Solar year, through to your next birthday, you get to pursue your individual expression with a one-pointed energy that may appear from the outside as selfish but is actually something you need to do to clarify a unique role you are creating for yourself. Your individuality is blossoming, Pisces–go with it. Happy Birthday, and good luck!