Aries Monthly Horoscope February 2018

Aries (Born March 21 to 31)
AND Aries Ascendant from 0 to 10 degrees Aries:

February 2018 Aries Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

Overview.

The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness

Until February 18th:

The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar eleventh house. During this cycle, you are planting seeds for the future, dreaming up plans that you might begin to develop two months down the road, if they still seem viable then. You are more aware of the benefits of networking, and you might find some great ideas through others now. You might be working in a team now.

You could be questioning some of the rules you have been living by and you could be ready to try something totally new. You are more attracted to that which is progressive or unconventional during this cycle.

From February 18th forward:

The Sun travels through your twelfth house now, marking a time of retreat and regeneration. Think about the attachments you have--to things, people, and routines--and consider which ones are dragging you down. This is a time when competitive energies and the ego are on a bit of a break.

It's not the time to push ahead with brand new projects. Rather, it's a time of reflection, dreaming, and recharging your batteries. Situations that have naturally outgrown their usefulness in your life can now be put behind you. Endings of natural cycles may be part of the picture at this time of year. Your energy is largely applied to personal and private affairs now. Your disposition is introspective. Rest and reflect, and prepare for a more outgoing cycle when the Sun moves into your first house.

Eclipse

A Lunar Eclipse Occurred on January 31st:

A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.

This Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar fifth house. Surprises coming from a romantic partner or child may be part of the picture. Something that has been brewing or "in hiding" comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. Your house of creativity, romance, pleasure, and children is involved. This could manifest, for example, as a romantic proclamation from a lover, a creative project bearing fruit, a child revealing something significant to you, and other such possibilities.

A Solar Eclipse Occurs on February 15th: A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings. The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar eleventh house, suggesting that a new approach to friendships or new friendships altogether, a new path towards happiness and fulfillment, new associations or affiliations, or plenty of social activity are in store for you. You may see the light in a friendship, realizing its importance in general, as well as the importance of acceptance and camaraderie. Circumstances may be such that you bring a new spirit of friendship into a romance or other connection in the next months. This can be invigorating.

Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort

Until the 10th: 

Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It's a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won't enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.

From February 10th forward: 

Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.

Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation

Until the 18th:

Mercury continues to journey through your solar eleventh house. This is a time when conversations with friends and various networking activities are much appreciated and offer learning experiences. Your ideas just now are especially progressive and unconventional, as you are questioning the rules you typically live by and entertaining some wild ideas.

Not all of these ideas are necessarily going to last or lead to new projects, but it's a time of dreaming up new possibilities and new possible solutions to problems. You are especially interested in spending time with people who are like-minded. Social interactions are more frequent, light, and fun during this cycle.

From February 18th forward: 

Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.

This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.

You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.

Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage

All month:

Mars continues to animate and energize your solar ninth house. Your energy levels and sense of timing are good during this cycle. You are strong and bold in your beliefs and convictions as well, and others tend to naturally follow your lead. You actively seek out new learning experiences and have a strong desire to set out on new adventures, however big or small. Others find you easy to be around, even inspiring and energizing, and are attracted to your assertiveness and courage.

Overview Horoscope:

January & February 2018: The New Moon on January 16th is a powerful one for matters related to reputation, career, position, and life-path goals, dear Aries. There is an unusually strong showing of planets, including heavyweights Saturn and Pluto, at the top of your solar chart, suggesting a significant new beginning or emphasis on any (or many) of these aforementioned themes. The weeks following are important for making changes and tweaks to your work and goals so that they're more realizable and fulfilling in the long run. This emphasis occurs in the sign of Capricorn, after all -- a sign that has its eye on what matters in the long term -- and to reap its rewards, you pretty much have to think like a Capricorn regarding professional and reputation matters right now.

Supporting your goals are Mars and Jupiter in your intimacy sector. You'll find it easier than usual to get the backing you need and to draw upon your own inner well - your strength and persistence come shining through in January, and you may very well gain recognition or reward for work you've put in through the years, not only recent efforts. You're strategic until January 26th, after which you are your direct, straight-to-the-point self.

Uranus in your sign competes with all of these planets at the top of your chart, and your own independence and desire for personal freedom might often feel at odds with what you feel you need to do for others or to advance your professional goals. This is a long-term issue that you're familiar with but is especially pressing mid-January, after which you find it easier to fill both needs without too much conflict.

Mid-January is also a time for the exact aspect of Jupiter and Pluto -- a wonderful influence that will play out until September and that helps you tune into your ambitions and goals so well that you end up making all the right moves to realize them. This is a powerful time for putting more resources (cautiously) into your work, career path, or life path goals, and perhaps receiving some solid support for doing so. It's an excellent time for working on transforming your work or image in careful, calculated ways that have long-term viability. Strategy works! This theme extends to your intimate life and finances, as well, and you'll enjoy it for the first nine months of 2018.

The Lunar Eclipse on January 31st is the second Full Moon in January (there are none in February) and reinforces themes that began mid-2016. A Lunar Eclipse happened in the same area of your solar chart in February 2017, and another (the final one) will occur in February 2019. This set of eclipses awakens your need for friends, community, and fresh dreams to believe in, and this particular Lunar Eclipse can prompt a revelation about romance, children, or creative endeavors.

In the middle of February, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your friendship sector, and it's time to begin anew. This may point to a new connection or a reconnection. In fact, February brings a lot of interest to your happiness goals, social life, and networking or community activities. It's a great time to plant a seed or begin a project (after a week has passed) that blossoms in the summer. As the month progresses, a period of extra rest, recovery, healing, and reflection comes into focus. This period helps you prepare for the birthday year ahead of you.

Standout days in February include the 6th for good news and favorable connections, as well as the 21st and the last two days of February, which are brilliant for you for work efforts, emotional confidence, and support or backing. Past efforts are rewarded. You have more faith in general regarding your career and the direction in which you are headed. Superiors or partners back you now. An intimate connection or a new understanding of a past connection boosts you.

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See also general trends for Aries in 2018.

Aries (Born April 1 to 10)
AND Aries Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Aries:

February 2018 Career, & General Trends

Overview.

The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness

All month:

The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.

This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.

Eclipse

A Lunar Eclipse Occurred on January 31st:

A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.

This Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar fifth house. Surprises coming from a romantic partner or child may be part of the picture. Something that has been brewing or "in hiding" comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. Your house of creativity, romance, pleasure, and children is involved. This could manifest, for example, as a romantic proclamation from a lover, a creative project bearing fruit, a child revealing something significant to you, and other such possibilities.

A Solar Eclipse Occurs on February 15th: A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings. The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar eleventh house, suggesting that a new approach to friendships or new friendships altogether, a new path towards happiness and fulfillment, new associations or affiliations, or plenty of social activity are in store for you. You may see the light in a friendship, realizing its importance in general, as well as the importance of acceptance and camaraderie. Circumstances may be such that you bring a new spirit of friendship into a romance or other connection in the next months. This can be invigorating.

Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort

Until the 19th: 

Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It's a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won't enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.

From February 19th forward: 

Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.

Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation

Until February 7th: 

Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.

From February 7th to 23rd: 

Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.

As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.

From February 23rd forward: 

Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.

This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.

You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.

Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage

Until February 12th:

Mars continues to energize your solar eighth house. This is a less outwardly assertive or aggressive stage for you as you take the time to process recent events in your life and to develop strategies for going after what you want in the future. You are more observant than active during this cycle, and more strategic and deliberate when you do take action. There may be an increase in sexual appetite now. It's an excellent period for eliminating wasteful activities. Shared finances can come into focus, and you might feel an increased need to take charge of these matters. This could lead to disputes and disagreements if you are not careful or sensitive in your dealings with others.

From February 12th forward:

Mars animates and energizes your solar ninth house. During this period, you are especially enthusiastic and more bold than usual. Some restlessness and hunger for adventure is experienced now. Essentially, you are looking to expand your activities, and you may find that you have a lot of energy for higher studies, travel, or simply new subjects. Negative potentials include being excessively opinionated or getting easily fired up over differences in points of view, or legal fights.

Overview Horoscope:

January & February 2018: The New Moon on January 16th is a powerful one for matters related to reputation, career, position, and life-path goals, dear Aries. There is an unusually strong showing of planets, including heavyweights Saturn and Pluto, at the top of your solar chart, suggesting a significant new beginning or emphasis on any (or many) of these aforementioned themes. The weeks following are important for making changes and tweaks to your work and goals so that they're more realizable and fulfilling in the long run. This emphasis occurs in the sign of Capricorn, after all -- a sign that has its eye on what matters in the long term -- and to reap its rewards, you pretty much have to think like a Capricorn regarding professional and reputation matters right now.

Supporting your goals are Mars and Jupiter in your intimacy sector. You'll find it easier than usual to get the backing you need and to draw upon your own inner well - your strength and persistence come shining through in January, and you may very well gain recognition or reward for work you've put in through the years, not only recent efforts. You're strategic until January 26th, after which you are your direct, straight-to-the-point self.

Uranus in your sign competes with all of these planets at the top of your chart, and your own independence and desire for personal freedom might often feel at odds with what you feel you need to do for others or to advance your professional goals. This is a long-term issue that you're familiar with but is especially pressing mid-January, after which you find it easier to fill both needs without too much conflict.

Mid-January is also a time for the exact aspect of Jupiter and Pluto -- a wonderful influence that will play out until September and that helps you tune into your ambitions and goals so well that you end up making all the right moves to realize them. This is a powerful time for putting more resources (cautiously) into your work, career path, or life path goals, and perhaps receiving some solid support for doing so. It's an excellent time for working on transforming your work or image in careful, calculated ways that have long-term viability. Strategy works! This theme extends to your intimate life and finances, as well, and you'll enjoy it for the first nine months of 2018.

The Lunar Eclipse on January 31st is the second Full Moon in January (there are none in February) and reinforces themes that began mid-2016. A Lunar Eclipse happened in the same area of your solar chart in February 2017, and another (the final one) will occur in February 2019. This set of eclipses awakens your need for friends, community, and fresh dreams to believe in, and this particular Lunar Eclipse can prompt a revelation about romance, children, or creative endeavors.

In the middle of February, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your friendship sector, and it's time to begin anew. This may point to a new connection or a reconnection. In fact, February brings a lot of interest to your happiness goals, social life, and networking or community activities. It's a great time to plant a seed or begin a project (after a week has passed) that blossoms in the summer. As the month progresses, a period of extra rest, recovery, healing, and reflection comes into focus. This period helps you prepare for the birthday year ahead of you.

Standout days in February include the 6th for good news and favorable connections, as well as the 21st and the last two days of February, which are brilliant for you for work efforts, emotional confidence, and support or backing. Past efforts are rewarded. You have more faith in general regarding your career and the direction in which you are headed. Superiors or partners back you now. An intimate connection or a new understanding of a past connection boosts you.

See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.

Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.

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Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.

Romantic Compatibility Reports

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romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.

See also general trends for Aries in 2018.

Aries (Born April 11 to 20)
AND Aries Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Aries:

February 2018 Aries Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

Overview.

The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness

Until February 8th:

The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar tenth house. Satisfaction and fulfillment during this cycle come from doing your professional best, shining as a responsible and capable person, and contributing to the world in practical ways. You might have a chance to receive acknowledgement or praise for your work or good character now. Landing support from authority figures is easier at this time. Avoid the pitfalls of pride or arrogance standing in your way of success.

From February 8th forward:

The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.

This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.

Eclipse

A Lunar Eclipse Occurred on January 31st:

A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.

This Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar fourth house. Surprises surrounding your home, family, and domestic life are in store. Something that has been in hiding or brewing under the surface of things comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. Your sector of house and home, property, family, parents, and foundations is involved. This could manifest, for example, as the culmination of a project on the home, an event involving a family member or parent that grabs your complete attention, a flurry of activity in your home that demands attention, and other such possibilities.

A Solar Eclipse Occurs on February 15th: A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings. The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar eleventh house, suggesting that a new approach to friendships or new friendships altogether, a new path towards happiness and fulfillment, new associations or affiliations, or plenty of social activity are in store for you. You may see the light in a friendship, realizing its importance in general, as well as the importance of acceptance and camaraderie. Circumstances may be such that you bring a new spirit of friendship into a romance or other connection in the next months. This can be invigorating.

Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort

Until February 3rd: 

Venus continues to transit your solar tenth house. Relationships with authority figures, superiors, and with the public are in focus during this cycle. It's a strong period for diplomatic relations, although a negative expression of this position could be bending over backwards to please rather than positive, friendly relations. It's a time when being a team player reaps the most rewards, and you may be mixing business with pleasure now. This may be a time when you are especially enjoying your career or position and making the most of it.

From February 3rd to 27th: 

Venus graces your solar eleventh house now. Forming harmonious, warm social friendships, possibly related to group activities within a club, can figure now. You may meet someone through such group activities; consequently, your interests will be shared. Whether or not you do, the bottom line is that sharing interests with someone is what makes you happy during this cycle. Venus here enlivens your friendships and group associations with charm and grace. You are more peace-loving than usual and slightly detached on a personal level. If a romance were to begin during this time frame, it would be characterized by a strong feeling of camaraderie, but it could also be rather impersonal and perhaps lacking in depth and intimacy.

From February 27th forward: 

Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.

Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation

Until February 12th: 

Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.

From February 12th forward: 

Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.

As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.

Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage

All month:

Mars continues to energize your solar eighth house. This is a less outwardly assertive or aggressive stage for you as you take the time to process recent events in your life and to develop strategies for going after what you want in the future. You are more observant than active during this cycle, and more strategic and deliberate when you do take action. There may be an increase in sexual appetite now. It's an excellent period for eliminating wasteful activities. Shared finances can come into focus, and you might feel an increased need to take charge of these matters. This could lead to disputes and disagreements if you are not careful or sensitive in your dealings with others.

Overview Horoscope:

January & February 2018: The New Moon on January 16th is a powerful one for matters related to reputation, career, position, and life-path goals, dear Aries. There is an unusually strong showing of planets, including heavyweights Saturn and Pluto, at the top of your solar chart, suggesting a significant new beginning or emphasis on any (or many) of these aforementioned themes. The weeks following are important for making changes and tweaks to your work and goals so that they're more realizable and fulfilling in the long run. This emphasis occurs in the sign of Capricorn, after all -- a sign that has its eye on what matters in the long term -- and to reap its rewards, you pretty much have to think like a Capricorn regarding professional and reputation matters right now.

Supporting your goals are Mars and Jupiter in your intimacy sector. You'll find it easier than usual to get the backing you need and to draw upon your own inner well - your strength and persistence come shining through in January, and you may very well gain recognition or reward for work you've put in through the years, not only recent efforts. You're strategic until January 26th, after which you are your direct, straight-to-the-point self.

Uranus in your sign competes with all of these planets at the top of your chart, and your own independence and desire for personal freedom might often feel at odds with what you feel you need to do for others or to advance your professional goals. This is a long-term issue that you're familiar with but is especially pressing mid-January, after which you find it easier to fill both needs without too much conflict.

Mid-January is also a time for the exact aspect of Jupiter and Pluto -- a wonderful influence that will play out until September and that helps you tune into your ambitions and goals so well that you end up making all the right moves to realize them. This is a powerful time for putting more resources (cautiously) into your work, career path, or life path goals, and perhaps receiving some solid support for doing so. It's an excellent time for working on transforming your work or image in careful, calculated ways that have long-term viability. Strategy works! This theme extends to your intimate life and finances, as well, and you'll enjoy it for the first nine months of 2018.

The Lunar Eclipse on January 31st is the second Full Moon in January (there are none in February) and reinforces themes that began mid-2016. A Lunar Eclipse happened in the same area of your solar chart in February 2017, and another (the final one) will occur in February 2019. This set of eclipses awakens your need for friends, community, and fresh dreams to believe in, and this particular Lunar Eclipse can prompt a revelation about romance, children, or creative endeavors.

In the middle of February, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your friendship sector, and it's time to begin anew. This may point to a new connection or a reconnection. In fact, February brings a lot of interest to your happiness goals, social life, and networking or community activities. It's a great time to plant a seed or begin a project (after a week has passed) that blossoms in the summer. As the month progresses, a period of extra rest, recovery, healing, and reflection comes into focus. This period helps you prepare for the birthday year ahead of you.

Standout days in February include the 6th for good news and favorable connections, as well as the 21st and the last two days of February, which are brilliant for you for work efforts, emotional confidence, and support or backing. Past efforts are rewarded. You have more faith in general regarding your career and the direction in which you are headed. Superiors or partners back you now. An intimate connection or a new understanding of a past connection boosts you.

See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.

Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.

Know More About Yourself and Others

Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.

Love & Romance Forecast Report

Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.

Romantic Compatibility Reports

Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.

See also general trends for Aries in 2018.

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