2011 Horoscope Cancer

Cancer (Born June 22 to July 1) – 0 to 10 degrees Cancer: 

2011: Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

2011 Overview for all of Cancer. With Jupiter moving through your entire career sector from January to June this year, dear Cancer, you’re likely to find your joy in professional or public avenues. You’re also likely to receive some form of elevation – recognition, a promotion, or the like. Some of you will be discovering your true calling professionally speaking. What you’ve learned in 2010 can now be applied to your life in more concrete ways. You’re likely to be feeling very hopeful when it comes to your work, and this attitude can certainly attract positive circumstances into your life. You simply need to watch for a tendency to take on too much! Although it’s a great period for expansion and recognition on a professional level, and you should take advantage of it, choose your projects carefully. Don’t take on more than you can handle. From June through to the end of the year (and beyond), the focus is on making connections – very positive ones – as well as new ideas. Your job might bring you into contact with new people. With Jupiter expanding your social circle and your desire to plant seeds, so to speak, you simply need to watch for excesses. For example, you might begin so many new projects that you find yourself scattered across them. However, while many of them may not survive, some will, and can benefit you greatly later. Those of you born June 22-27 will experience a period in which liberation from restrictive circumstances is a strong drive in 2011. Changes can come, or can be made, very suddenly under this influence that appears to speed your life up and stimulates you to take some personal risks. July through October is especially excellent for making connections, including love connections. A partnership may be attracted or strengthened. Even so, love relationships are far from easygoing and straightforward in 2011. Shifts in power are likely. The general craving is for a more traditional, even old-fashioned, sort of romance, but there are challenges to be faced in this pursuit. You are required to let go of some of the unhealthy habits and attitudes of the past, and July through October is a fine period for working on doing so. Home life continues to need a lot of work in 2011. You might be feeling the weight of responsibilities and feel “alone in charge”. You will be attempting to bring more structure and order to your home life, as you may be feeling a little stifled in your current surroundings.

2011 Details.

Jupiter entering Aries on January 22nd puts this planet of growth and expansion in your solar tenth house. From January 22nd until June 4th, you may enjoy increased personal recognition and professional success. This can be a time of achievement, career advancement, and success in business. Business-related travel or the reaching of a wider audience is possible during this cycle. Your worldly or public status may change for the better. There could be a promotion, new job opportunities, a diploma, an important award, or a marriage–in other words, you might come into the limelight during this period of your life. Authority figures or other influential people tend to look upon you favorably, see more potential in you, and readily help you along, so work it! Something might happen now, or circumstances are such, that your career (or professional interests in general) expands, and you find more joy and pleasure from your work. You could enjoy more freedom, or possibly even responsibilities, in your career. Integrity, directness, and honesty will get you everywhere now. The more willing you are to put yourself in the limelight, the more positive the rewards–this is not the time to be a shrinking violet! Your talents and skills are recognized now like never before. All of the hard work you’ve put in begins to pay off and is rewarded – or at the very least, recognized. These positive circumstances won’t necessarily fall into your lap, and are unlikely to come all at once. You need to keep your eyes open for opportunities in these areas of life. Although it’s a great period for expansion and recognition on a professional level, and you should take advantage of it, choose your projects carefully. Don’t take on more than you can handle.

From June 4th forward, Jupiter is moving through your solar eleventh house, potentially bringing benefits and fresh energy to networking activities, the formulation of broad, long-term goals, acquaintances, clubs, and organizations in your life. You can rely on your friends for their help and support, and your circle of friends could most certainly increase during this fruitful transit. Your long-term goals and wishes tend to be broad and perhaps unusual or ahead of the times just now. You may particularly enjoy dreaming up ideas for the future. Achieving your goals tends to come more easily now. Others especially value your advice and often turn to you for help. You could become more active with friends or in your community. You may have opportunities to join or lead clubs or groups. Group activities and associations could be avenues for fulfilling your own goals. You may take special joy in sharing a common cause or ideals with others. You are especially hopeful and more inclined to believe that if you wish it, it will be! Income from your business or career is likely to increase. You might find yourself more tolerant of others in general, and of differences in values. Reaching out beyond your personal circle can certainly open doors to you and bring joy into your life during this cycle. You might also expand your social circle through work, or while pursuing health goals. These positive circumstances won’t necessarily fall into your lap, and are unlikely to come all at once. You need to keep your eyes open for opportunities in these areas of life. Also, Jupiter can bring too much of a good thing at times, and you might find that your social agenda is crammed or that you have taken on more friends or goals than you can reasonably handle.

The most favorable periods for these matters occur while Jupiter is in direct motion in your solar eleventh house, from June 4th to August 30th, and then from December 25th forward. (This transit lasts until June 2012).

Jupiter transits sextile your Sun from June 4th forward, making it an excellent time to start new long-term projects. You might find that you feel subtly more vital, confident, and optimistic about the future at this time. It’s a good time to resolve conflicts, as you are not as easily angered by trivial matters.

Saturn transits your solar fourth house again this year. Saturn here urges you to get serious about home, family, and domestic concerns. You are building your nest, not in a “plumping your nest” sort of way. In fact, you may be stripping some things away–perhaps even downsizing or de-cluttering–and adding structure to your domestic life. You face issues surrounding your attachments to the past. Sometimes this manifests as literal re-organization of your home. Moving house is not typically associated with this transit as it would if, for example, Uranus was the transiting planet. If moves are made, you might encounter some resistance in yourself. This is not a time when you feel particularly brave in the outer world. However, reorganization in your home, and more importantly, in your soul, embodies the true nature of this transit. Many will go through a major “spring cleaning” inside. Limitations that came from early family conditioning will be brought to the fore. At first, there may be some frustration with your life to date, and how you have limited your opportunities because of early conditioning. A feeling of being alone and unsupported in life may dominate now. You may experience some distancing or frustrations regarding your parents. Family obligations may get in the way of your experience of pleasure and of the achievement of your personal goals. There may be some emotional distancing as well in your home. Your current living conditions may feel restrictive, limiting, too small or cramped (physically and/or emotionally). Delays and slowdowns may be experienced in the areas of health, mobility, and career. However, all of these things are occurring now in order that you face your responsibilities, become more self-sufficient, and more organized. Ultimately, you are learning to rely on yourself and to take care of things that you may have previously neglected but that have undermined your confidence in yourself and in your life.

Saturn is no longer in square to your Sun, so the transit mentioned directly above has passed its acute stage and you are more likely to be at peace with yourself and your responsibilities.

For those of you born June 22-30 and those with a Cancer Ascendant of 0-8 degrees, Pluto is in your solar seventh house this year, and you are likely to be facing the deeper, and possibly darker, elements of your own personality through your close interactions with another. There can be power struggles and the facing of fears before eventual healing.

For those of you born June 27-30 and those with an Ascendant of 5-8 degrees Cancer, intensity is part of the picture this year with Pluto opposing your Sun or Ascendant. Changes in the way you relate to others are afoot. Power struggles are possible in close personal relationships.  Your relationships tend to have distinct themes revolving around personal power, domination, jealousy, manipulation, or self-will. Your biggest enemy during this period is resentment, which can act to eat away your confidence and healthy state of mind. There may be conflicts between partnership goals and family or domestic goals this year, and the challenge could serve to “initiate” you into this new phase of your life. As well, the influence of Pluto entering your seventh house can point to taking a casual romantic affair to a new level.

For the rest of you, these issues will arise in the coming years. Major changes in the structure of your close personal relationships, and in your attitude towards them, are in store. Some of you might already feel these matters rumbling or brewing under the surface.

For those of you born June 22-27, and those with a Cancer Ascendant of 0-5 degrees, Uranus begins or continues its lengthy transit of your solar tenth house. Your career direction changes and your relationships with authority figures may be more challenging during this long-term cycle. Do your best to avoid impulsive decision-making that is built upon your desire to be a free spirit. You may recognize talents that you never knew you had, and this can be a sudden, exciting discovery. For those of you born June 28-July 1, Uranus continues to transit your solar ninth house. If you do get a chance to travel, which could come up quite unexpectedly, unusual and eye-opening experiences may be in store for you. The people that you meet this year tend to stir you into new ways of thinking. You are less inclined towards a personal philosophy that is traditional now, and more attracted to more avant-garde or simply progressive belief systems.

The influence of Neptune is similar to last year for most of you. Neptune continues to transit your solar eighth house, as it has been doing for a number of years. You may encounter some challenges regarding shared finances or property. A loan or other form of support may come through unexpectedly, even in a mysterious fashion. Intimate relationships can be highly colorful, perhaps with spiritual undercurrents, but possibly a little confusing. The boundaries that are normally drawn between what is yours and what is mine may be blurred somewhat this year. A partner could have unsettled finances, and this could impact your own finances. Do be wary of anything that even slightly resembles fraud. Lending others money may be a lesson in frustration during this cycle. However, for those born June 22-23 ( or 0-1 degrees Cancer Ascendant), Neptune begins its transit of your solar ninth house and trines your Sun/Ascendant this year. Your overall perspective on life begins to significantly expand, and you are more willing to embrace unusual, mystical, or spiritual philosophies. Neptune’s influence can be quite magical this year. It stimulates your imagination and intuition. Your words are more poetic and perhaps even inspirational. Participation in the arts, music, entertainment, community service, spiritual practice, or religious pursuits can be enhanced this year. Do what you dream of doing, and trust your inner knowledge and intuition at the point before it gets distorted by logic. Refreshing interludes such as a vacation or other relaxing forms of entertainment are more possible now. Others see you in a sweet light–you are more charming than usual, and your artistic, creative, and compassionate side is apparent and most appreciated.

For those of you born June 22-27, and those with a Cancer Ascendant of 0-5 degrees, Chiron is transiting trine your Sun/Ascendant this year. This influence is a subtly healing one. Others look upon you with more respect, tolerance, and acceptance. You don’t feel the need to prove yourself, and that feels good. You have the chance to shine, largely because you are projecting yourself with self-respect and modesty at once. You are especially appealing and charming during this transit just by being yourself. Opportunities–both personal and professional–are likely to present themselves as a result. You are not looking for credit for what you do, which frees you up to get it anyhow! New friendships are likely to emerge this year–supportive and easygoing ones.

Eclipses in 2011 fall in your solar first and seventh houses and your solar sixth and twelfth houses this year. Issues of personal courage, confidence, and independence come to the fore again this year. You may, for example, receive a cosmic push towards expressing yourself more creatively and experience an increased drive to take charge of your life. Issues surrounding personal appearance, the body, and your image become especially important and, in some cases, critical. Basically, you will be learning to stand on your own two feet! Partnerships may be tested, but there is nothing to fear if the relationship is strong. The seventh house represents an important one-to-one relationship–a marriage partner, significant other, business partner, or an adversary. It’s time to strike a balance between your own needs and those of another. It’s time to compromise and negotiate. Additionally, circumstances urge you to rid yourself of guilt about under-performing, and to develop faith and trust in a larger more spiritual plan. It’s time to let go of some of your fears that you are not doing enough, to develop more compassion and understanding of others, and to be humble, feeling safe in the knowledge that you (and others) are not perfect. It’s time to let go of some of your obsessions with rules, details, and fears of not doing things perfectly. There could be changes necessary in your job or health routines. You can use this surge of emotional energy to make positive changes to your routines. Do something to improve your work conditions if they are annoying you. Get going on your exercise or nutrition program that you know you have to do in order to feel more balanced.

A positive connection between your eleventh and seventh houses this year suggests that friendships can be especially supportive. A friend could be integral in achieving your goals, and partnering with a friend in some tangible way can be part of the picture this year. You might also enjoy a more goal-oriented, free-spirited, and tolerant relationship with an existing partner in the latter half of 2011–you tend to be “on the same page”. Some of you may take a friendship into unexplored romantic territory, or meet a significant person through a friend or group association.

Jupiter trines Pluto in July and then again in October. This transit generally favors business, the law, and commerce. We might enjoy increased influence, faith, and insight now. The desire for more personal significance can lead us to give of ourselves or motivate us to more ambitiously pursue personal or professional goals. The ability to sway or persuade can be enhanced now. One of the most positive uses of this transit involves taking steps to better ourselves. We might solve a problem that has been in existence for some time, or capitalize upon a resource that was previously hidden or unacknowledged. Jupiter also forms favorable aspects to Neptune and Chiron from June forward. For you, romantic relationships can be more growth-oriented, forward-looking, and enthusiastic. Creative endeavors are likely to be quite successful. Relationships with children grow, and opportunities to have fun expand. More tolerance and warmth can be generated in romance now. You are also more focused and ambitious when it comes to your work as well as health and fitness programs during this cycle. You feel inspired and motivated to take better care of yourself.

Cancer (Born July 2 to 12) – 10 to 20 degrees Cancer:

2011: Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

2011 Overview for all Cancers. With Jupiter moving through your entire career sector from January to June this year, dear Cancer, you’re likely to find your joy in professional or public avenues. You’re also likely to receive some form of elevation – recognition, a promotion, or the like. Some of you will be discovering your true calling professionally speaking. What you’ve learned in 2010 can now be applied to your life in more concrete ways. You’re likely to be feeling very hopeful when it comes to your work, and this attitude can certainly attract positive circumstances into your life. You simply need to watch for a tendency to take on too much! Although it’s a great period for expansion and recognition on a professional level, and you should take advantage of it, choose your projects carefully. Don’t take on more than you can handle. From June through to the end of the year (and beyond), the focus is on making connections – very positive ones – as well as new ideas. Your job might bring you into contact with new people. With Jupiter expanding your social circle and your desire to plant seeds, so to speak, you simply need to watch for excesses. For example, you might begin so many new projects that you find yourself scattered across them. However, while many of them may not survive, some will, and can benefit you greatly later. Those of you born June 22-27 will experience a period in which liberation from restrictive circumstances is a strong drive in 2011. Changes can come, or can be made, very suddenly under this influence that appears to speed your life up and stimulates you to take some personal risks. July through October is especially excellent for making connections, including love connections. A partnership may be attracted or strengthened. Even so, love relationships are far from easygoing and straightforward in 2011. Shifts in power are likely. The general craving is for a more traditional, even old-fashioned, sort of romance, but there are challenges to be faced in this pursuit. You are required to let go of some of the unhealthy habits and attitudes of the past, and July through October is a fine period for working on doing so. Home life continues to need a lot of work in 2011. You might be feeling the weight of responsibilities and feel “alone in charge”. You will be attempting to bring more structure and order to your home life, as you may be feeling a little stifled in your current surroundings.

2011 Details.

From March 12th forward,  Jupiter, the planet of growth and expansion, moves through your solar tenth house. Under this influence, you may enjoy increased personal recognition and professional success. This can be a time of achievement, career advancement, and success in business. Business-related travel or the reaching of a wider audience is possible during this cycle. Your worldly or public status may change for the better. There could be a promotion, new job opportunities, a diploma, an important award, or a marriage–in other words, you might come into the limelight during this period of your life. Authority figures or other influential people tend to look upon you favorably, see more potential in you, and readily help you along, so work it! Something might happen now, or circumstances are such, that your career (or professional interests in general) expands, and you find more joy and pleasure from your work. You could enjoy more freedom, or possibly even responsibilities, in your career. Integrity, directness, and honesty will get you everywhere now. The more willing you are to put yourself in the limelight, the more positive the rewards–this is not the time to be a shrinking violet! Your talents and skills are recognized now like never before. All of the hard work you’ve put in begins to pay off and is rewarded – or at the very least, recognized. These positive circumstances won’t necessarily fall into your lap, and are unlikely to come all at once. You need to keep your eyes open for opportunities in these areas of life. Although it’s a great period for expansion and recognition on a professional level, and you should take advantage of it, choose your projects carefully. Don’t take on more than you can handle.

The most favorable periods for these matters occur while Jupiter is in direct motion in your solar tenth house, from March 12th to August 30th, and then from December 25th forward.

Saturn transits your solar fourth house again this year. Saturn here urges you to get serious about home, family, and domestic concerns. You are building your nest, not in a “plumping your nest” sort of way. In fact, you may be stripping some things away–perhaps even downsizing or de-cluttering–and adding structure to your domestic life. You face issues surrounding your attachments to the past. Sometimes this manifests as literal re-organization of your home. Moving house is not typically associated with this transit as it would if, for example, Uranus was the transiting planet. If moves are made, you might encounter some resistance in yourself. This is not a time when you feel particularly brave in the outer world. However, reorganization in your home, and more importantly, in your soul, embodies the true nature of this transit. Many will go through a major “spring cleaning” inside. Limitations that came from early family conditioning will be brought to the fore. At first, there may be some frustration with your life to date, and how you have limited your opportunities because of early conditioning. A feeling of being alone and unsupported in life may dominate now. You may experience some distancing or frustrations regarding your parents. Family obligations may get in the way of your experience of pleasure and of the achievement of your personal goals. There may be some emotional distancing as well in your home. Your current living conditions may feel restrictive, limiting, too small or cramped (physically and/or emotionally). Delays and slowdowns may be experienced in the areas of health, mobility, and career. However, all of these things are occurring now in order that you face your responsibilities, become more self-sufficient, and more organized. Ultimately, you are learning to rely on yourself and to take care of things that you may have previously neglected but that have undermined your confidence in yourself and in your life.

Uranus continues to transit your solar ninth house. If you do get a chance to travel, which could come up quite unexpectedly, unusual and eye-opening experiences may be in store for you. The people that you meet this year tend to stir you into new ways of thinking. You are less inclined towards a personal philosophy that is traditional now, and more attracted to more avant-garde or simply progressive belief systems.

The influence of Neptune is similar to last year. Neptune continues to transit your solar eighth house, as it has been doing for a number of years. You may encounter some challenges regarding shared finances or property. A loan or other form of support may come through unexpectedly, even in a mysterious fashion. Intimate relationships can be highly colorful, perhaps with spiritual undercurrents, but possibly a little confusing. The boundaries that are normally drawn between what is yours and what is mine may be blurred somewhat this year. A partner could have unsettled finances, and this could impact your own finances. Do be wary of anything that even slightly resembles fraud. Lending others money may be a lesson in frustration during this cycle.

Eclipses in 2011 fall in your solar first and seventh houses and your solar sixth and twelfth houses this year. Issues of personal courage, confidence, and independence come to the fore again this year. You may, for example, receive a cosmic push towards expressing yourself more creatively and experience an increased drive to take charge of your life. Issues surrounding personal appearance, the body, and your image become especially important and, in some cases, critical. Basically, you will be learning to stand on your own two feet! Partnerships may be tested, but there is nothing to fear if the relationship is strong. The seventh house represents an important one-to-one relationship–a marriage partner, significant other, business partner, or an adversary. It’s time to strike a balance between your own needs and those of another. It’s time to compromise and negotiate. Additionally, circumstances urge you to rid yourself of guilt about under-performing, and to develop faith and trust in a larger more spiritual plan. It’s time to let go of some of your fears that you are not doing enough, to develop more compassion and understanding of others, and to be humble, feeling safe in the knowledge that you (and others) are not perfect. It’s time to let go of some of your obsessions with rules, details, and fears of not doing things perfectly. There could be changes necessary in your job or health routines. You can use this surge of emotional energy to make positive changes to your routines. Do something to improve your work conditions if they are annoying you. Get going on your exercise or nutrition program that you know you have to do in order to feel more balanced.

A positive connection between your tenth and sixth houses this year makes the latter half of 2011 a highly productive time in your life. Your sometimes Herculean efforts, paying close attention to performance and to details, will not go unrewarded! Some of your most natural talents–the things that come easily–also meet with reward and acceptance. Sometimes in life, those with their nose to the grindstone can be overlooked. Not so for you at this time. The details and the “little things” make all the difference. Perfecting your particular craft is natural this year. Some of you may find that your career is moving in a more service-oriented direction.

Jupiter trines Pluto in July and then again in October. This transit generally favors business, the law, and commerce. We might enjoy increased influence, faith, and insight now. The desire for more personal significance can lead us to give of ourselves or motivate us to more ambitiously pursue personal or professional goals. The ability to sway or persuade can be enhanced now. One of the most positive uses of this transit involves taking steps to better ourselves. We might solve a problem that has been in existence for some time, or capitalize upon a resource that was previously hidden or unacknowledged. Jupiter also forms favorable aspects to Neptune and Chiron from June forward. For you, romantic relationships can be more growth-oriented, forward-looking, and enthusiastic. Creative endeavors are likely to be quite successful. Relationships with children grow, and opportunities to have fun expand. More tolerance and warmth can be generated in romance now. You are also more focused and ambitious when it comes to your work as well as health and fitness programs during this cycle. You feel inspired and motivated to take better care of yourself.

Cancer (Born July 13 to 22) – 20 to 30 degrees Cancer:

2011: Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

2011 Overview for all Cancers. With Jupiter moving through your entire career sector from January to June this year, dear Cancer, you’re likely to find your joy in professional or public avenues. You’re also likely to receive some form of elevation – recognition, a promotion, or the like. Some of you will be discovering your true calling professionally speaking. What you’ve learned in 2010 can now be applied to your life in more concrete ways. You’re likely to be feeling very hopeful when it comes to your work, and this attitude can certainly attract positive circumstances into your life. You simply need to watch for a tendency to take on too much! Although it’s a great period for expansion and recognition on a professional level, and you should take advantage of it, choose your projects carefully. Don’t take on more than you can handle. From June through to the end of the year (and beyond), the focus is on making connections – very positive ones – as well as new ideas. Your job might bring you into contact with new people. With Jupiter expanding your social circle and your desire to plant seeds, so to speak, you simply need to watch for excesses. For example, you might begin so many new projects that you find yourself scattered across them. However, while many of them may not survive, some will, and can benefit you greatly later. Those of you born June 22-27 will experience a period in which liberation from restrictive circumstances is a strong drive in 2011. Changes can come, or can be made, very suddenly under this influence that appears to speed your life up and stimulates you to take some personal risks. July through October is especially excellent for making connections, including love connections. A partnership may be attracted or strengthened. Even so, love relationships are far from easygoing and straightforward in 2011. Shifts in power are likely. The general craving is for a more traditional, even old-fashioned, sort of romance, but there are challenges to be faced in this pursuit. You are required to let go of some of the unhealthy habits and attitudes of the past, and July through October is a fine period for working on doing so. Home life continues to need a lot of work in 2011. You might be feeling the weight of responsibilities and feel “alone in charge”. You will be attempting to bring more structure and order to your home life, as you may be feeling a little stifled in your current surroundings.

2011 Details.

Until April 21st, Jupiter continues to transit your solar ninth house. You may have opportunities to travel, study, go abroad, expand your horizons, and meet people who are of diverse backgrounds. You are more intellectually curious now, and academic pursuits are likely to benefit you and run smoothly during this cycle. Business dealings, particularly long-distance ones and those involving publicity and promotion, are likely to be profitable now. Legal matters might also work in your favor, or long-standing legal problems might now be ironed out. Some of you will be seeking legal advice and find it especially helpful now. A more faithful attitude towards life in general is likely now–you tend to feel that everything will work out in the end. Authors might get published now, receive good reviews, or they could significantly expand their audience. Travel is quite possible now, whether it’s business or personal. Educational and travel opportunities expand your horizons. Teaching and learning are favored now. Writing and studying flow more naturally now. This is also an excellent period for positive dealings with in-laws! Your mind is more expansive and tolerant, and you are under less stress than usual. You are less inclined to sweat the small stuff. These positive circumstances won’t necessarily fall into your lap, and are unlikely to come all at once. You need to keep your eyes open for opportunities in these areas of life. Watch for a tendency towards a “holier than thou” attitude.

From April 21st forward,  Jupiter, the planet of growth and expansion, moves through your solar tenth house. Under this influence, you may enjoy increased personal recognition and professional success. This can be a time of achievement, career advancement, and success in business. Business-related travel or the reaching of a wider audience is possible during this cycle. Your worldly or public status may change for the better. There could be a promotion, new job opportunities, a diploma, an important award, or a marriage–in other words, you might come into the limelight during this period of your life. Authority figures or other influential people tend to look upon you favorably, see more potential in you, and readily help you along, so work it! Something might happen now, or circumstances are such, that your career (or professional interests in general) expands, and you find more joy and pleasure from your work. You could enjoy more freedom, or possibly even responsibilities, in your career. Integrity, directness, and honesty will get you everywhere now. The more willing you are to put yourself in the limelight, the more positive the rewards–this is not the time to be a shrinking violet! Your talents and skills are recognized now like never before. All of the hard work you’ve put in begins to pay off and is rewarded – or at the very least, recognized. These positive circumstances won’t necessarily fall into your lap, and are unlikely to come all at once. You need to keep your eyes open for opportunities in these areas of life. Although it’s a great period for expansion and recognition on a professional level, and you should take advantage of it, choose your projects carefully. Don’t take on more than you can handle.

The most favorable periods for these matters occur while Jupiter is in direct motion in your solar tenth house, from April 21st to August 30th, and then from December 25th forward.

Saturn continues to transit your solar third house until October 12th, and this can bring closure or re-evaluation to issues you have been dealing with regarding learning, communication, personal projects, and relationships with acquaintances. You may have found better ways to manage your time, become serious about your studies, or found that you had less time for idle chat. Some of you could have closed yourself off from acquaintances and family because of increased responsibilities. Some of you have had transportation problems or communication mishaps. This is a time for streamlining your life, getting organized, and solving problems in practical ways. As you come out of this transit in October, you should feel more grounded.

Saturn transits your solar fourth house from October 12th forward. Saturn here urges you to get serious about home, family, and domestic concerns. You are building your nest, not in a “plumping your nest” sort of way. In fact, you may be stripping some things away–perhaps even downsizing or de-cluttering–and adding structure to your domestic life. You face issues surrounding your attachments to the past. Sometimes this manifests as literal re-organization of your home. Moving house is not typically associated with this transit as it would if, for example, Uranus was the transiting planet. If moves are made, you might encounter some resistance in yourself. This is not a time when you feel particularly brave in the outer world. However, reorganization in your home, and more importantly, in your soul, embodies the true nature of this transit. Many will go through a major “spring cleaning” inside. Limitations that came from early family conditioning will be brought to the fore. At first, there may be some frustration with your life to date, and how you have limited your opportunities because of early conditioning. A feeling of being alone and unsupported in life may dominate now. You may experience some distancing or frustrations regarding your parents. Family obligations may get in the way of your experience of pleasure and of the achievement of your personal goals. There may be some emotional distancing as well in your home. Your current living conditions may feel restrictive, limiting, too small or cramped (physically and/or emotionally). Delays and slowdowns may be experienced in the areas of health, mobility, and career. However, all of these things are occurring now in order that you face your responsibilities, become more self-sufficient, and more organized. Ultimately, you are learning to rely on yourself and to take care of things that you may have previously neglected but that have undermined your confidence in yourself and in your life.

Uranus continues to transit your solar ninth house. If you do get a chance to travel, which could come up quite unexpectedly, unusual and eye-opening experiences may be in store for you. The people that you meet this year tend to stir you into new ways of thinking. You are less inclined towards a personal philosophy that is traditional now, and more attracted to more avant-garde or simply progressive belief systems.

The influence of Neptune is similar to last year. Neptune continues to transit your solar eighth house, as it has been doing for a number of years. You may encounter some challenges regarding shared finances or property. A loan or other form of support may come through unexpectedly, even in a mysterious fashion. Intimate relationships can be highly colorful, perhaps with spiritual undercurrents, but possibly a little confusing. The boundaries that are normally drawn between what is yours and what is mine may be blurred somewhat this year. A partner could have unsettled finances, and this could impact your own finances. Do be wary of anything that even slightly resembles fraud. Lending others money may be a lesson in frustration during this cycle.

Eclipses in 2011 fall in your solar sixth and twelfth houses and fifth and eleventh houses this year. Circumstances urge you to rid yourself of guilt about under-performing, and to develop faith and trust in a larger more spiritual plan. It’s time to let go of some of your fears that you are not doing enough, to develop more compassion and understanding of others, and to be humble, feeling safe in the knowledge that you (and others) are not perfect. It’s time to let go of some of your obsessions with rules, details, and fears of not doing things perfectly. There could be changes necessary in your job or health routines. You can use this surge of emotional energy to make positive changes to your routines. Do something to improve your work conditions if they are annoying you. Get going on your exercise or nutrition program that you know you have to do in order to feel more balanced. Additionally, you will be learning about letting go of your attachment to the drama of romance and personal relationships, as well as your willfulness. You are called upon to learn about the value of the team. You may need to give freedom to your romantic partner instead of expecting him or her to follow a script of your own making. You learn the value of brotherly love and the benefits of a sense of belonging to a community. Events are such that you move towards a more objective approach to your life and you cultivate true friendships. A romantic affair may undergo deep, rewarding changes. If love is true, there’s nothing to fear. The demands of your larger goals in life may have been eclipsing your pleasure-seeking activities. Also possible, your children may be going through their own changes and “stages”, and need more attention now.

A positive connection between your tenth and sixth houses this year makes the latter half of 2011 a highly productive time in your life. Your sometimes Herculean efforts, paying close attention to performance and to details, will not go unrewarded! Some of your most natural talents–the things that come easily–also meet with reward and acceptance. Sometimes in life, those with their nose to the grindstone can be overlooked. Not so for you at this time. The details and the “little things” make all the difference. Perfecting your particular craft is natural this year. Some of you may find that your career is moving in a more service-oriented direction.

Jupiter trines Pluto in July and then again in October. This transit generally favors business, the law, and commerce. We might enjoy increased influence, faith, and insight now. The desire for more personal significance can lead us to give of ourselves or motivate us to more ambitiously pursue personal or professional goals. The ability to sway or persuade can be enhanced now. One of the most positive uses of this transit involves taking steps to better ourselves. We might solve a problem that has been in existence for some time, or capitalize upon a resource that was previously hidden or unacknowledged. Jupiter also forms favorable aspects to Neptune and Chiron from June forward. For you, romantic relationships can be more growth-oriented, forward-looking, and enthusiastic. Creative endeavors are likely to be quite successful. Relationships with children grow, and opportunities to have fun expand. More tolerance and warmth can be generated in romance now. You are also more focused and ambitious when it comes to your work as well as health and fitness programs during this cycle. You feel inspired and motivated to take better care of yourself.