2018 Astrological Changes for Nira
The overall theme for this year is emotional purification. 2018 – Your job will make you feel you are outside of your comfort zone, this brings change, possible new job, enhanced travels, long working hours, but you are feeling that the testing phase is over. New hope for moving ahead, new visions, the heaviness of the past ends this year. Financially a very uplifting year. Business gains will increase and possible gifts from people close to you. This shows after August. Your deep loneliness will change this year and you may be surprised to feel this is a big adjustment. Good year for love live to flourish after July. March through June are not good for this but then things change. Also, things with your family will improve. This year is good for foreign travel and relocating to a new place. Leave behind old impressions and failures and open yourself up to new hope this year.
Mars Jupiter exact conjunction in Libra Jan. 2 -7th. Emotional volatility, power struggles, political battles, difficulties we can see. More tension, sexual harassment issues, women standing up for their rights around the rules.
Mars is in Sagittarius in your 2nd house, making Saturn less of a problem. 2018 has Mars dominating. Mars through Capricorn for 6 months which is unusual, April 30 through November 3. This is involving your 3rd house. You will identify strongly with your ideas and own opinions at this time and must avoid arguments and taking things too personally. A positive working out of this transit would be to rise above the personal interpretation and work together with neighbors and people you encounter on a daily basis. If you have to sell an idea (or sell yourself in a job interview) this is the time to do it, as long as you do it with an even temperament. Watch closely for when it draws close to Ketu, May-August as this is amplified by Ketu.
Feb 15, Solar partial eclipse in Capricorn. Ketu wide orb, but still eclipsing in the sign of
Aquarius. Ketu is in Capricorn. Finishing themes Aquarius themes from last 2 years, will show a strong concentration of energy around the world you want to stand for and leave for your children, higher creativity. Mercury and Venus closely associated and Aspected by Saturn, immense creativity. Could be positive for social change, eclipses are unpredictable, sudden shocking changing in governmental policies, shake ups in our government.
Looking at what house this falls in for you personally it is in 4th. This can make you itchy for a change.
March 2-9 Mercury into Pisces. 3 months in that sign, retrograde to look for also. Confusing communication, watch speech, prepare for this transit. Mercury is debilitated in this sign. Retrograde March 22 through April 14, then it is both Direct and Retrograde, this tends to mitigate some of the problem of the debilitation. Confuse details, more hesitation than normally and rather than speaking all of the confusing things we will wait before speaking and question ourselves more. It isn’t great but it is less bad. Reversed and slowed down. March 1 until May 9, then it goes into Aries. A long time to have Mercury in Pisces. This then moves from your 5th house to your 6th House with your Moon. This will be the best possible time to express your feelings and to have more awareness of how your feelings impact others. A good blend of reason and logic and feelings takes place with this, so you will be communicating on all levels. Work at staying centered and calm before you speak. That way people will want to hear what you have to say. Your empathy is increased by this transit thru May 27th.
Jupiter also retrograde March 3rd until July 11th, Jupiter in Libra’s expansion of trying to communicate fairly and get a handle on our own women’s issues and in the world, reflecting on those themes and hopefully improve them. In general, this has us personally trying to make our relationships better and then retrograde seeing how we are handling those Libra themes of give and take. Ability to compromise brought into question, am I losing my higher purpose and principle? This all in your 12th house so it is very hard to be objective about how your spiritual life comes to life. Full moon this month brings this out more, our balance of give and take in our relationships. You can look dispassionately and compassionately at yourself. You have a new understanding that we are all in the same boat and what is done to help one person is done to help all. This is a time you may find a spiritual teacher and you may find it someone unexpected. This person will help heal you inside. You are very concerned with spiritual truth and wisdom now and your study of this level of life increases.
Saturn April 18, turns retrograde in Sag. We should evaluate these cycles through September 7, almost 5 months. Reflecting on what we are committed to and focused on. More focused on what inspires us, what we want to teach and learn. And then be committed to that. Beliefs, religion, gurus teachers are things we want. In your second house this means more discipline with things we value. Do you still value the things of old? What needs changing? What is your role in this?
Long Mars in Capricorn cycle. April 30 generally, now for 6 months to November 3 dominated by the retrograde cycle. 2018 has Mars dominating. Mars exalted in Capricorn, shows courage to commit to what needs to be destroyed and fought against. We would be better letting go with higher stature, choose better battles to fight, choosing the higher road. 6/26 through 8/5. Reflect and face our own inner struggles and be more disciplined. Fix some things that have not been working. The royal road to discipline is transforming our anger. This in your 3rd house, what impulse is arising from your heart that needs manifestation? When your soul and your action is in sync then you will know it is right action.
Eclipses (solar) July 13 9:00PM in US end of Gemini. This will be a wide angle solar eclipse, communication, getting clear about your information, overcoming the misdirected speaking off the top of your head, using discrimination. Notice the pain and the problem of that. Deep questioning and purification of your communication style. This leads to one more eclipse August 11th in Cancer shows deeper connection in your spiritual heart (9th house), not just our emotional reactions. Two partials spreads out the energy, Gemini cancer progression of life lesson is being shown. Gemini is about info and Cancer how it should be anchored in the heart. Summer dominated by these two partial eclipses. Your 8th house of collective resources, expression with a partner, and health issues eclipsed. Darkness before the light is transforming, big changes.
Venus is going into Libra August 31 through January 2019. Four months with retrograde motion. Long time in Libra, when retrograde, reflecting on our relationships conflict in compromise is lessoned from Jupiter’s time there, we want to experience that beauty and creativity in our lives. Jupiter is about Principles and philosophies that take us out of the world, but Venus is more in the world and how we are related more personally. Show your desire to spread happiness to others, ultimately knowing where to compromise and where to assert ourselves. October6 – Nov. 16th, we reassess this. It reverses what was happening before. Starting a relationship or end one depends on where we have been compromising. This in your 12th house, which is a sorrowful house. Issues around social well-being are enhanced after a letting go of previous expectations. Themes of service and surrender and being more sensitive to needs of others are in order here.
October 5 for a year, Jupiter enters Scorpio, for next year. Big shift, moving from Libra will bring out a sense of transformation and needing to shift toxic emotional situations. Very good for mystical and metaphysical teaching, excellent placement for going deeper into our desires and spiritual practice. Transforming into devotion, take your teaching and teachers to the next level. This in your first house which is your outward self. This axis reveals personal drive and relationship needs. Jupiter is an expansive energy that will expand your potential for new relationships.
Mars finally leaves Capricorn after 6 months November 3. Into Aquarius to take that inner debth of strength and power and take it into the world socially. Capricorn is where we reflect on our fears and stresses and worries and have the courage to face them. After we do this, money and health, good for strengthening those things, getting money in tact, health in shape.
Capricorn getting clear on what we want and Aquarius bringing out it into the world.
(How Mars will operate in all 12 signs. Very important to understand each placement.
When Jupiter moves to Libra it will be felt strongly. Sidereal calculations, for the general population, we are all under the same sky. If you really want to understand how these things affect you they will fall under different houses depending on Rising sign not for moon.)
Scorpio. Mars is your ruling planet so more important it shows identity. Rules 1 and 6th. Scorpio tends to bring stress, spread the stress, everything is going to feel hard. Learn how to not always expect a fight, feel like you are a servant (6th house) and this lightens the load, ironically. No one is more service oriented and devotional when your heart in the right place but if not then at times you are feeling like just a servant and not good enough. Mars in 3rd brings need for variety curiosity, finding new ways to think about emotions besides the whole world should revolve around your feelings, 3rd house gives the courage to challenge and test that and not just be triggered emotionally by it. However well you are handling those things in your life, that variety can be very liberating if you are not attached or stuck, you should want to adjust and be flexible and creative in the highest sense. To keep trying to make your story work is not the way to go. Try something new. Change your story. You have the power to do this.
Ketu brings a very strict almost explosive quality to if feeling stuck and we may have some kind of fits and starts of explosive moments where we have to put the structure back together again. Mars is dangerous and in Capricorn it can temper that, watch when it gets close to Ketu at different times of the years. May, June then July and August via Retrograde motion.
2018 – Your job will make you feel you are outside of your comfort zone, this brings change, possible new job, enhanced travels, long working hours, but you are feeling that the testing phase is over. New hope for moving ahead, new visions, the heaviness of the past ends this year. Financially a very uplifting year. Business gains will increase and possible gifts from people close to you. This shows after August. Your deep loneliness will change this year and you may be surprised to feel this is a big adjustment. Good year for love live to flourish after July. March through June are not good for this but then things change. Also, things with your family will improve. This year is good for foreign travel and relocating to a new place. Leave behind old impressions and failures and open yourself up to new hope this year.