in September 2007 where he’ll stay until October 2009, putting more focus on your relationships, than you’ve experienced in 3 decades. This is going to be demanding and even challenging, but then, when a lot is on offer, a lot is also expected of you. Saturn is raising the price of being in the game, no longer letting you slide, getting away with putting minium effort into creating authentic and phenomenal relationships, while expecting a lot back. It doesn’t work that way, especially when Saturn becomes involved.

He will make you deal with challenges, get real and take the blinkers off. At first this might look as if things are going wrong, but what Saturn is doing is shaking the tree, getting rid of anything that isn’t healthy, in order to make way for new growth. At the same time that he’s doing this with your relationships, he’s also urging you to be authentic across the board and to wake up to the incredible journey that is your life.

If you’ve been sipping cocktails on the poop deck, while your ship sails blissfully off course or too focused on work, then it’s time to snap to attention, take the wheel and start steering your life and your relationships, in the direction you want them to go.

With Mars spending the last 3 months of 2007 in your romantic sector, this delivers you to the doorstep of 2008, more aware than ever of what you want from love, and from life.

At the same time that Saturn puts his focus onto your relationships Jupiter, planet of luck and expansion, now puts the focus onto your friendships, making 2008 a year that is very much about people. Here, there is much more of a focus on sharing the load, learning from others, with your own luck now coming from who you are aligning yourself too, rather than having to carry the load on your own. It is the old mantra, ‘it’s not what you know but who you know that counts’ is going to ring very true over the course of the coming year.

Expect your imagination and your sense of intuition, always your most effective tools, to be a lot sharper this year, clearing away any fog that may have hung around things in the past, giving you a strong sense of direction that needs to be trusted.

Mars’ retrograde move back into your home and family sector, for the first two months of the year, corresponds to other cosmic events destined to bring many second changes, when it comes to a home, family or property matters.

With none of the hard asks of the past, if 2008 came with a label, it would read – ‘best served with good friends and companions’.