With Venus in your zone of marriage and significant relationships in the first part of the year, its combination with Neptune indicates you are idealistic about romance, particularly in the first few months. Excellent planetary omens, including the Sun and Mercury in the same zone in February, propel you forwards and give you great confidence to enjoy relationships and improve your communication style.
In late February and March, the combination of Venus and Uranus spices up your love life and makes you take chances. Gambling on love will be appealing during this cycle. Why not? What have you got to lose, I say. but your personal relationships might feel stale, too, and this may cause you to fight back or even seek clandestine affairs outside the normal or acceptable social structures.
Any meeting at this time with a stranger can trigger uncontrollable urges which, if acted upon, will later be regretted. Alternatively, you can use this near-miss in a kiss-and-make-up scenario, which will strengthen your love with the partner you currently have. There may also be pressure from one side or the other to make firm commitments, but this scenario will not be in keeping with previous agreements. This can also cause disputes.
In April and May, your work and social lives overlap and you have opportunities to meet people through work, or to find work through social acquaintances. This is fine as long as you don’t become obligated to them should something big come through. Get clarity on the terms first.
You Feel Great about Yourself
In August, when the Sun returns to your Sun sign, you feel elevated in spirit and attractive in looks. This is an excellent time for you to showcase yourself.
Throughout the early part of August, the combination of Mars and Saturn highlights a difficulty in communicating with those closest to you in life. You’ll be better off holding back until you feel less angry about a particular topic.
Dynamic Mars enters your zone of romance and love affairs in October and spends some of November also in the same area. You will be feisty and even aggressive in going for what you want at this time. Enjoy your relationships to the fullest, but don’t let competitiveness ruin an other- wise excellent time frame for you.
There is a sense of excitement for you as the year commences and, when Mercury forms favourable aspects to both your zone of social affairs and communications on the 27th, you’ll find yourself in perfect circumstances to capitalise on your communication by making new friends and cementing existing friendships in your life.
Leading up to the 14th of February, Mercury highlights your need for sexual intimacy. Not only will you be experiencing the physicality of this but the mental aspects are very strong. You want understanding, not just sex.
In March, love affairs reach a peak, particularly between the 2nd and the 22nd. A journey you may have planned could suddenly be rescheduled. Further opportunities for love and romance will be found after April 17th.
Think carefully because you may be impulsive. You may overwhelm your- self with friends and communications in May and June. You may want to say ‘yes’ to everyone and find yourself disadvantaged through trying to please them all. Do something for yourself as well.
A relationship that may have stalled can be kick-started in June after the 26th. Things go well up to August when Mercury transits the Sun, and then again after September 17th, when Mercury triggers love, friendship and some lifelong fulfilment.
October is once again important for deepening your knowledge of sex, intimacy and personal transformation. After the 29th your creativity and relationships are intertwined.
In November and December, be careful not to commit to something you haven’t investigated enough beforehand. You don’t want to end up with a broken heart.
Work and money
In 2012 you are serious about making money, and lots of it, Leo. This is evidenced by the fact that Mars, one of your most favourable karmic planets and also a planet of industry and drive, spends considerable time in your income-making zone. In fact, up until July it spends six months of the year focused in this one area of your horoscope. It’s quite clear that you will be activated and driven to achieve a lot in this department of life.
There are some moments where this planet runs into a few hiccups. They could cause some frustrations for you, but you mustn’t let a few
bumps in the road to success deter you from achieving your objectives, which you can do in these twelve months.
As I mentioned earlier, the combination of industrious Mars with the gracious and attractive Venus in an excellent position in your horoscope means you need to find the perfect balance between these two planets and their energies to come out financially successful in this important year of 2012.
Neptune Clouds
You mustn’t let your ideals become clouded or confused by Neptune. You must also not let others confuse you with their opinions and suggestions as to how you are best able to earn money and be successful in your work. Please, rely wholly and solely on your own intuition, even if what others have to say sounds interesting at the time.
Between July and August, Mars will also prompt you to investigate ways of doing business and you must not be lazy in learning some new skills in the way you communicate and the way contracts are handled. This could be noticeable because the combination of Mars and Saturn during this cycle causes you to be frustrated at the pace of things. You are indeed highly powered, impulsive and hungry for success.
With the new Moon of the 16th of September falling fairly and squarely in your zone of income, you can expect new opportunities to arise during this phase. Don’t be afraid to show off your skills, even though others want to employ the tall poppy syndrome to try to cut you down. It’s up to you to ‘stick to your guns’ and achieve the best results possible, irrespective of others’ opinions.
Financial Tips
I’ve already mentioned some general dates throughout which your finan- cial and moneymaking energies will be at a highpoint. Most importantly, the September new Moon brings to a peak many opportunities, but the full Moon of the 29th of October is also very telling on the opportunities that you can expect.
Once again, the full Moon of the 28th of November activates your profit-making sector, and it is near the position of Jupiter, bringer of good fortune and hefty turnovers. If you’re working as an independent operator or sales agent, this period should be very fulfilling and it is a nice bonus for the end of the year.
One area I have conspicuously left out that I should mention here is real estate. In December, Saturn, Venus and Mercury, along with one of your karmic planets, bring to the fore opportunities to make money in this area.
Eclipse Highlight
The eclipse on the 14th of November occurs in your zone of family activities. Upheavals may occur in this sector, so delay moving or any unnecessary spending. Patience results in positive benefits.
With the Sun in the speculative area of your horoscope and the new Moon on the 13th of December strongly amplifying these energies, it might be prudent to consider investing in the real estate market. On the other hand, you may want to spend money doing up your current place of residence and this too is a form of investment that can, at a later stage, return handsome results to you. Good luck in your moneymaking ventures for 2012, Leo.
Karma, luck and meditation
In your horoscope, your most prominent spiritual and karmic planets are Jupiter and Mars. Jupiter rules your future karma, with Mars ruling your past karma and the deeds that have been conducted in this life and previous lives (that is, if you believe in reincarnation).
Your past karma shows this year that you have indeed learned the lessons of work and making money and understand clearly that your effort—on other words, hard work—is essential in achieving the results you want in 2012. by the same token, let me advise you that working smart is just as important as working hard. So please, Leo, combine these two very important components to come out a super success in
2012.
After the 14th of January, and also the 16th of June, Jupiter brings with it not only an excellent work environment and co-operation from co-workers and employers, but also enhanced profits. The future does look very rosy for you in these terms. We mentioned previously the effects of learning the lessons of the past.
Mars moving through your zone of contracts and communication after July the 5th tells me that you need to recollect those times when your words were damaging rather than diplomatic. Pay close attention not just to what you say but how you say it at this time because it will impact dramatically on the success or otherwise of your efforts.
Career Insights
As far as your future karma is concerned, I can say emphatically that Jupiter moving through your zone of career highlights that an expansion at your work is most likely. This can be verified by going back twelve years to see whether or not the same type of events happened. For the most part, I think you’ll agree that’s the case.
When Mars, the planet ruling your past karma, enters your fifth zone of future karma after the 8th of October, you can expect some upliftment that will bring great happiness and contentment to you.
Finally, on December 27th when Mars creates one of its encouraging aspects to your zone of life accomplishment, you will feel as if 2012 was well worth it. be careful, however, not to place too much emphasis on how big you think you are as a measure of how good you are seen to be by others. The two are not necessarily linked.
You will be overemphasising personal success and wealth as a yardstick for how lucky and karmically blessed you are. However, your destiny is more about who you are as a person. Take precautions when you attempt to ‘strut your stuff’ because doing too much of that could back- fire on you.
