Libra 2010 Overview - Astrology Forecast, Horoscope Prediction

Jupiter expands whatever he touches. He usually spends about 13 months in each zodiac sign. His job is to bring joy, adventure, open-mindedness, advanced education, travel, global perspectives, and a sense that we are all one big happy family and not so very different from each other. Because of his expansive tendencies, he brings “prosperity” and “abundance” to whatever concept he is focused on. If things are good, he brings an abundance of good. If things are bad, he brings an abundance of bad.

As 2010 begins, Jupiter is still in Aquarius and your fifth house until January 18th when he moves into Pisces and your sixth house. Normally, Jupiter spends about 13 months in each zodiac sign, but this year it is a bit different. Jupiter flies through Pisces at mock speed and then moves into Aries and your seventh house on June 6th. Later, he turns around and heads back into Pisces and your sixth house on September 9th. Then on January 22nd, 2011, he moves back into Aries and your seventh house again, where he will remain throughout the first half of 2011.

While in Aquarius, Jupiter focuses on social networking, friendships, group activities, the Internet, and teamwork. Aquarius rules over independence, freedom, eccentricities, and wanting to be seen as both a unique individual and a great team player. “All for one and one for all”, “We are all in this together”, “Together we stand, divided we fall”, and “I am my brother’s keeper” are Aquarian philosophies that Jupiter is working to encourage and embrace. Globally, this has been one of the major themes of 2009.

For Libra, this has been happening in your fifth house of personal pleasure, romance, children, pets, playtime activities, creative talents, luxury, and happiness. This has been a delightful energy for Libra to work with.

In Pisces, Jupiter focuses on kindness, compassion, charity, emotional well-being, spirituality, intuition, empathy, and bringing a sense of “magic” to the world.

For Libra, he will be in your sixth house of daily work, coworkers, productivity, physical health, and “feeling useful”. Hosting Jupiter in this area of your chart should be great for your professional goals, but it could be harmful for your waistline. Jupiter brings more work, more coworkers, more prosperity, etc to your daily tasks. You should find that you are luckier when trying to get key assignments and you should be able to accomplish a great deal during this time. Physically, Jupiter encourages you to eat more, drink more, and to gain more weight. If you can refocus Jupiter’s energy towards physical fitness with a mind-body-spirit type of approach, then you could see some lovely results.

In Aries, Jupiter embraces Aries’ pioneering spirit, enthusiasm, fiery passion, and willingness to compete for the sheer entertainment of it. Unlike Aquarius’ teamwork approach to life, Aries is all about racing to the top and being number one. Aries is generous, boisterous, and charming. The competitive nature is not a selfish or mean energy, but a childlike “last one there’s a rotten egg!” type of playful energy. Jupiter can have great fun bringing more of this optimistic can-do energy into the world.

For Libra, it happens in your seventh house of marriage, best friend, business partnerships, and competitors (think yin-yang). Libra rules over this area of the zodiac and so it is only natural that you would want to be number one at choosing great partners and number one at being a great partner. Your romantic, social, and business partnerships will do well with Jupiter blessing this area of your chart. If you are looking for a new partner, this could be the time to ask friends and acquaintances to introduce you to all kinds of new people.

When Jupiter backtracks and revisits Pisces and your sixth house, you could find that he is either bringing back clients, employees, coworkers, projects, etc that worked well in the past, or he is simply giving you a second wave of strong positive energy to work with. Once again, you will be able to accomplish a great deal. If you do not already love your job, then you could consider finding a new job that you do love. Jupiter wants you to be happy and to feel like jumping out of bed excited to get to work each morning. If he did not help you accomplish this the first time he passed through here, you might want to reconsider it this time. If nothing else, you might just come to realize that sometimes just having a job that pays the bills is “lucky” enough for now.

Saturn creates our personal challenges and “tough love” learning experiences. He usually spends about two and a half years in each zodiac sign. His job is to create learning experiences that are often uncomfortable but ultimately quite meaningful. Saturn also rules over karma, cause and effect, ethics, and our sense of civic duty. Therefore, it is not only important that we learn our life lessons well, but that we also conduct ourselves with honor and integrity while going through these challenges. If we stay out of trouble, behave ethically, buckle down, and learn our lessons well, then Saturn rewards us with a gift just before he leaves that zodiac sign. For example, if Saturn were traveling through the area of our charts that deals with professionalism, leadership, and success, then he would teach us some tough lessons about those concepts. Then, if we learned our lessons and we behaved ourselves while doing so, Saturn would reward us with a job promotion, professional kudos, public recognition, etc. We would be better at our jobs, better at leading our companies and communities, and/or we would be better at marketing and advertising ourselves. If on the other hand, we did not learn our lessons, or we were unethical, blamed others for our problems, cheated, lied, etc then Saturn would simply move on to the next zodiac sign and we would have nothing to show for all the drama and trouble that we had just endured. Saturn gets a bad reputation because many people think he is simply mean for the heck of it, when in actuality, he is like a “tough love” parent forcing us to grow up and act like a responsible adult. Might not be very fun, but the rewards are well worth it.

As 2010 begins, Saturn is still making a preview visit in Libra and your first house. He will backtrack and revisit Virgo and your twelfth house from April 8th until July 20th. During that time, he will make sure that you learned the life lessons you were taught over the last couple of years. Then he will return to Libra and your first house where he will remain until October of 2012.

While in Virgo over the last couple of years, Saturn focused on our ability to feel like useful members of society. Virgo rules over daily work tasks, to-do lists, coworkers, productivity levels, organizational skills, tools, and our physical health because if you are not physically able to do your fair share of the work, then you are not able to feel useful and productive. The idea is that we are contributing something to society and not just lazing around picking daisies and playing Frisbee. As lovely as eternal vacation might seem, at some point in our development, we all get bored of constant playtime and need something important to do. “Did my life matter? Did I contribute anything meaningful to the world? What is my legacy, if any?”

For Libra, this happens in your twelfth house of mental health, spiritual mysteries, secrets, bureaucracies, and hidden forces that work behind the scenes. Whenever Saturn travels through someone’s twelfth house, there is an increased chance for depression and dark brooding. Part of this is because Saturn forces us to face the reality of our attitudes, our self-defeating behaviors, our addictions, skeletons in our closets, self-destructiveness, and how sometimes life just is not fair. Bureaucracies, red tape, stupid policies, and such can cause all kinds of challenges and it is very difficult to create smart simple solutions to these problems. Life lessons involving these topics can feel hopeless and as if there is no point in even trying to overcome them. It is not unusual for people with Saturn in the twelfth house to become suicidal or to at least withdraw from “reality” as best they can. The desire to avoid feeling bad is a very powerful motivator in all of us, so it is not surprising that suicide, drugs, alcohol, and other escapist tendencies become more appealing. The good thing is that this episode is pretty much over. Saturn will come back and revisit it for a short time in late spring and early summer, but he is only double-checking that you got it right the first time and that you are not backsliding into bad habits again. This is also a quick second chance to get it right. The good news is you will not have to deal with this again for about thirty years.

While in Libra, Saturn focuses on our partnerships. As you know, Libra rules over marriage, best friends, business partnerships, and competitors (think yin-yang). While in this zodiac sign, Saturn forces us all to look at who we choose to partner with, what kind of partnerships we like, and how we behave within our partnerships. It is not uncommon for marriages to suffer, best friends to “break up”, and for business partnerships to dissolve. Competitors can become vicious, especially if they are pointing out real flaws in our character and not just making stuff up. Libra rules diplomacy, fairness, justice, and mediation too. Globally, we could see these topics becoming quite challenging for all countries. Various government leaders will be challenged to pick carefully which countries they choose to partner with and which they choose to keep as enemies. They would do well to remember Saturn’s focus on karma, integrity, and civic responsibility.

For Libra, hosting Saturn in your own sign and your first house of “me” can be very painful. The core of who you are, what you believe in, how you present yourself to the outside world, just being Libra’esque in your life is what is being challenged. It is easy to feel as if you are in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation while Saturn travels through the first house. Your clothing, hairstyle, posture, personality, self-image, and overall presentation are being questioned. You could find others are judging you, challenging you, and/or just mad at you for being so very “Libra”. Or you could find that you are the one who is being so critical and hard on yourself. This is when your own inner-critic is in overdrive. Remember that the goal is for you to have more self-confidence, to present the best possible version of yourself, and to learn how to showcase your Libra qualities in a favorable and effective manner. Be open to self-analysis and critiques but be careful not to buy into every single grouchy person’s opinion of you. After all, the lesson Saturn might choose to teach you is the ability to say, “Your opinion of me is really none of my business!”

Uranus is the eccentric genius, rebellious teenager, and social networking guru of the zodiac. He usually spends about 7 years in each zodiac sign. He rules over friends, teams, clubs, committees, professional associations, networking, science (interconnectivity), electricity, and the Internet. He can bring teamwork, friendships, networking, and a sense of belonging to something bigger than yourself into your life. He can also bring stubbornness, eccentricity, rebellion, and perversity. This is because at his core, he is trying to convince us to be our unique individual selves but also to be a great team player. Thus, like a teenager, he is trying to find himself while being very susceptible to peer pressure. Those who master Uranus’ teachings often make charming and charismatic leaders. Uranus also encourages us to think outside the box and brings a certain eclectic brilliance into our lives. Like the eccentric genius and the rebellious teenager, he brings pleasant surprises and unexpected chaos. Uranus promotes humanitarian ideals like brotherhood, “all for one and one for all”, and “united we stand, divided we fall.” He is not asking us to be sheeple, following the crowd mentality with blind faith. He is asking us to know our unique gifts and to be strong enough in our self-knowledge to be able to work well in a team and to be able to socialize without losing our sense of individuality.

As 2010 begins, Uranus is still in Pisces and your sixth house. He will stay in this area of your chart most of the year, but will be visiting Aries and your seventh house from May 28th through August 13th. Then he moves back into Pisces and your sixth house until he makes a more permanent move into Aries and your seventh house in March 2011.

There are zodiac signs where Uranus shines and is emboldened to bring about wonderful brotherly love and incredible scientific advances, like when he was in his own zodiac sign, Aquarius from the middle of 1995 until the early part of 2003. While there, the everyday use of the Internet took root and blossomed. Prior to that, he was in Capricorn building the systems of the Internet. Yes, the Internet has been around for a long time, but it was during the time that the planet in charge of the Internet was traveling through the zodiac sign in charge of the Internet, that the Internet seriously began to grow and expand into the incredible tool that it is today.

In Pisces, Uranus is somewhat subdued. Pisces rules over the hidden forces that work behind the scenes. Therefore, things like mental health, secrets, self-destruction, addictions, spiritual mysteries, bureaucracies, and “fogginess” are ruled by Pisces. Therefore, we now have gambling, porn, and other self-destructive activities available online. We also have government bureaucracies trying to legislate for or against Net Neutrality and spam. We have all kinds of spiritual, mental health, self-help, and “positive attitude” information readily available as well. Is it any wonder that people are becoming addicted to the Internet? On the other hand, Uranus’ time in Pisces has helped us to befriend people from all over the world that we otherwise would not have gotten to know. Global brotherhood is much easier to encompass. Pisces believes in sacrificing for the greater good and Uranus is a huge fan of humanitarianism. Together, they bring us websites that work to educate and promote helping those less fortunate in other countries. Uranus may not have the razzamatazz in Pisces that he has in some other zodiac signs, but he is not without his charms within this area of our lives.

For Libra, this has been occurring in your sixth house of daily work tasks, to-do lists, coworkers, productivity levels, physical health, and feeling useful. Hosting Uranus in this area of your life can be exhilarating. Those of you working in telecommunications, Internet technologies, science, web hosting, handheld electronic devices, and cell phone technology have probably found this to be an excellent energy to host in your daily work sector. Those of you whose jobs require teamwork, social networking, large group activities, committees, professional associations, etc probably found it much easier to get these groups working together towards a common goal. At times, coworkers, productivity levels, job assignments, and your health may have been chaotic and uncertain, but overall, things should have been more enthusiastic and brainstorming solutions should have been a bit easier. You could also have found yourself longing to change jobs or maybe you did jump around from job to job looking for something more meaningful and more inline with your authentic self. Uranus in the daily work sector is going to push you towards finding work that matches your core personality. An extrovert is not meant to be working in solitude. An innovative trendsetter should not be working in a heavily bureaucratic environment. The idea is that if we find work that matches our natural talents, then we have an easier time succeeding. We are then able to give better performance levels to our employers. You are not trying to be a spoiled brat, you are trying to find where you naturally fit into the scheme of things.

Once Uranus moves into Aries, he can have some fun. Aries is innovative, entrepreneurial, competitive, and loves being the first one to come up with a new idea. Uranus is in love with new technology, teamwork, being unique while being part of something bigger than one’s self, and a brainstorming genius. Both are extroverted, social, and stubborn. Both are clever, fast, and pride themselves on their uniqueness. At first, Uranus will enjoy a lovely summer visit into Aries and then later next year, he will formally move into Aries for the next few years. He reminds me of a teenager visiting a college campus before moving there permanently during the college years. This first visit will be exhilarating and then going back into Pisces will feel stiff and too confining before he makes the official move to Aries. Globally, we will probably see the Internet and new technology take off like crazy. It will be interesting to see how the planet of teamwork and brotherly love affects the world while in the zodiac sign of warriors and “me first!” Does “me” or “we” prevail?

For Libra, Uranus will also be moving into your seventh house of marriage, best friends, business partnerships, and competitors (think yin-yang). Your various partners will be chaotic, unpredictable, rebellious, and/or stubborn when planets negatively interact with Uranus while he is in this area of your chart. These same partners will suddenly become charming, funny, team-oriented, brilliant, innovative, and full of pleasant surprises when Uranus interacts positively with various planets. This ADHD type of extreme positive, extreme negative drama in a marriage or business partnership can be very disruptive. If a best friend is going through it, we can sort of write it off as if they are just going through some type of metamorphosis – which they are. (Your partners are learning to embrace their unique individuality and independence while also being great team players and part of something bigger than themselves.) When a business partner or spouse is going through this kind of upheaval, it is very difficult to cope. It is not unusual for one or both of you to decide that the partnership is no longer working and to want to end the relationship. It is not so much because you no longer care about each other, but that it is easy to conclude that ending the partnership is the only answer to creating stability in your own life. Unfortunately, all that means is that you get to then embark on a roller coaster of dating or interviewing potential business partners that is just as crazy and unpredictable. You see, it is your partnership sector that is hosting Uranus’ genius, charm, and rebellion, so you will have to deal with it regardless. To a point, it is about your ability to cope with chaos, extreme good and extreme bad in a partnership. Your competitors could become a bigger than normal problem too. This is because they can trick you into thinking they want to create an alliance or team approach to things and then they can abruptly stab you in the back for trusting them. This is a difficult placement, but not without its charms. Internet dating, Internet business partnerships, and entrepreneurial activities should flourish.

Neptune tries to bring emotional well-being, spirituality, and a touch of magic to whatever he touches. Unfortunately, he also has a tendency to bring self-destruction, bureaucracies, and gullibility too. He usually spends about 14 years in each zodiac sign. Neptune rules over mental health, attitudes, intuition, secrets, spiritual mysteries, paranormal activities, charities, bureaucracies, and other hidden forces that work behind the scenes. If things are good, he brings compassion and a touch of magic. If things are bad, he brings delusions and fogginess.

As 2010 begins, Neptune is still in Aquarius and your fifth house. He will stay here until January 2012.

In Aquarius, Neptune is behaving in sort of a yin-yang energy to Uranus. Uranus is in Neptune’s zodiac sign and Neptune is in Uranus’ zodiac sign. They are each doing their thing, but focusing on the other’s topics. While Uranus is creating brotherhood online, Neptune is trying to make mental health, spirituality, and bureaucracies work for everyone. One brings teamwork to humanitarian causes; the other brings humanitarian causes to teamwork. One says, “I am mentally healthy and self-assured so that I can be a great team player.” The other says, “I am a great team player so that I can feel mentally healthy and self-assured.” Is it any wonder that “Yes we can” became the global motto in 2008? To some, it is a delusional concept full of lollypop dreams and gullible “kool-aid” drinking. To others, it is the logical and necessary blending of global teamwork and universal compassion.

For Libra, Neptune has been blessing your fifth house of personal pleasure, romance, lovers, playtime, children, pets, hobbies, creative talents, music, theater, the arts, luxury, and happiness. You already approach these topics from an Aquarian “all for one and one for all”, brotherhood, and originality perspective. You naturally have a “live and let live” approach to your own happiness and towards allowing others to find their own path to personal happiness. With Neptune traveling through here over the last few years, you have found this to become an almost spiritual belief system. Helping others, finding inner peace, being a loving and compassionate person towards yourself and others has become just that much easier. You find joy in helping others to find their joy. You love falling in love with the ideals of humanitarian concepts. You could never be happy at the expense of others. Your love life can be magical and beautiful, but it could also be delusional and so focused on an ideal soulmate that you actually stop yourself from being able to maintain a loving relationship. You could love your children so much that you are blind to their flaws. You could push for fun and playtime to the point that you are addicted or self-destructive. Your heart is pure and your motives are wonderful, but you can have trouble seeing where fantasy and idealism stops and reality begins. This is one of the best areas of the chart to suffer such overwhelming compassion and idealism.

Pluto psychoanalyzes, empowers, and/or heals whatever he touches. He has an uneven pattern and can spend as little as 13 years or as much as 32 years in any given zodiac sign. His job is to uncover the hidden truths within our lives and to either empower us with passion and self-righteousness, or to heal us by forcing us to go through a Phoenix Rising type of experience. It can be painful to endure Pluto’s scrutiny, but it can ultimately prove to be incredibly uplifting. Personal rebirth is often the result of Pluto’s passage through certain areas of our life. Pluto rules over trust and sharing. It is often through hidden motivations, hidden assets, hidden agendas, hidden resources, and/or through loyalty and fidelity matters that we find out what we are really made of and we find out what our partners are really made of. Pluto can reveal gifts, assets, stamina, and psychological resources that we had no idea existed within ourselves. And Pluto can reveal the selfish, greedy, and emotionally crippling aspects of ourselves too. All too often, he uses our need for sexual intimacy and financial teamwork (trust and sharing) to teach us these lessons. The reason that Scorpios are known to be so revengeful is because Scorpio co-rules over the trust and sharing concepts with Pluto. Breaking trust is the worst thing you can do to a Scorpio. From Scorpio’s perspective, nothing could possibly be more important that the ability to trust others.

As 2010 begins, Pluto is still in Capricorn and your fourth house. He moved into this area of your life in 2008 and will stay here until January 2024.

In Capricorn, Pluto focuses on doing the right thing because it is the thing to do. Capricorn rules over professionalism, leadership, goals and aspirations, success, civic duty, public recognition, and earning the respect of our peers. Remember earlier when we talked about Saturn and how he teaches us about karma, cause and effect, and “tough love” style life lessons. Saturn rules Capricorn and so Capricorn embraces the concepts of “tough love”, doing one’s civic duty, and ideas like “If I don’t take care of this, who will?” When in Sagittarius, Pluto promoted exploring the world and all of the various cultures, peoples, religions, etc. Sagittarius promoted freedom to explore and to dabble in various religious and cultural teachings. The idea that all religions are more alike than different and therefore we can pick and chose bits and pieces of which ones we like is a very Sagittarian approach to religion and spirituality. We focused on global travel, politics, and mass media. Pluto had a good time digging deep down into the truth about our political beliefs, our religious practices, our international diplomacy, and such. Now, he is focusing on the business systems, ethics, integrity, and professionalism of our world. Do the large corporations follow ethical business practices? Do we have integrity in our government agencies? Do we as individuals, as communities, as states, as countries… do we take on a parental role and look out for those in need or do we focus on our own personal agendas? It may not feel like a lot of fun, but this is the perfect energy for fixing the economic system, the environmental policies, the human rights violations, the health care system, welfare programs, voting fraud, etc. Big systems that are broken can be fixed, healed, restructured, and/or demolished in a smart and tenacious manner. We have the planet of passion, truth, and rebirth focused on the zodiac sign of responsibility, integrity, and leadership.

For Libra, Pluto is in your fourth house of real estate, housing matters, roommates, parents, childhood issues, retirement circumstances, and “coming home”. You could find great profits and personal growth if you work in real estate, mortgages, elder care, retirement planning, landscaping, interior decorating, home construction, remodeling, home improvements, and/or anything in the “home” industries. This includes those of you who run businesses out of your home too. Telecommuting may also work well for you, but not as much as those industries focusing on the concept of “home”. This is also an excellent time for healing your childhood issues, forgiving your parents, and/or for learning how to be a more dependable roommate. If you live with a lover or spouse, you could find that your love life is really boosted by this new energy in your private life. If you are planning to retire soon, this is a great energy for helping you to create a stable comfortable retirement situation for yourself. You have the planet in charge of profit sharing, fidelity, psychological forces, and hidden truths in the house of “home”, retirement, parents, and roommates. This is also an excellent time for psychological, spiritual, and romantic healing, growing, and exploring. The energy encourages you to create a safe, loving, trusting, and financially stable home life for yourself over the next few years.

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