PISCES: 18 February – 19 March

What will 2009 hold for Pisces?

By Shelley von Strunckel

Finance Work and Achievements

This year promises to be a watershed year in terms of your material wellbeing, your activities out in the world and your goals. If you have a career or go to a job, you'll also find that exciting developments or intriguing opportunities seem to come, often from out of the blue. While these will be unsettling, they'll also be exciting. The reason for this is not so much what you do but how you approach this side of your life. Often, as a Pisces, you get so involved in the needs of others that you, and your interests, come second. During this year, however, you'll need to balance your concern about others with your own pursuits and interests. While you're doing this, however, you'll need to ensure that others understand that, sometimes, no matter how demanding they feel their needs or requirements are, they'll just have to wait. This will also allow you to review your own objectives and here, too, you might find that the time has come to leave certain goals behind and focus on others, particularly those that appear unexpectedly during the year, in May, July and December, when the planet of opportunity and growth, Jupiter, actually meets your ruler, Neptune.

Health and Wellbeing

During this year of growth and expansion, when life is good and events are exciting, you'd think that it would be easy to look after yourself. But, actually, you'll be so busy focusing on certain goals and exploring what arises, you could actually neglect yourself. Besides, as those intriguing ideas and offers turn into various obligations and you're trying to keep up with others, you could feel overwhelmed. This is where looking after yourself comes in. While you might not actually have time to do what you need to, you can find ways to weave in activities that will benefit you. You'll make activities that will improve your health and wellbeing fit into your routine and your daily life. This could involve something you do with others that encourages you to eat well or exercise. Or perhaps you will organise a venture with others that includes some kind of physical pursuit. You could even turn such activities into a holiday with friends. Adopt this habit early on in the year and not only will you benefit from the year's extraordinary developments, you'll end the year fitter than you were when you began it.

Love and Close Relationships

There are times when close relationships sail along smoothly. By the time that 2009 begins, however, you'll be well aware that this is another kind of year entirely. In fact with changes in your own life - many of which are as exciting as they are unexpected - you'll be dealing with some wonderful developments. It's just that even what's most welcome will demand time and that could disrupt close relationships. But you must also consider the influence of tensions the lives of others and in the world around you. Those in situations you and others are dealing with may seem nothing but a distraction. When it comes to the lives of others, you'll need to work hard to keep your closest of relationships on an even emotional footing. Some situations may involve problems. But, both difficulties and more opportune developments will give you an opportunity to talk things over frankly in a way that you don't usually make time for. These discussions will, in turn, create a new closeness and understanding between you, one that allows you not only to remain close but to develop a new understanding for the new world and life that is unfolding before you.

Mind, Body and Spirit

Every Pisces has an intuitive streak. This is something that others come to rely on and that you do as well, although sometimes you don't even think about it. During this year it will be important to pay close attention to what your instincts tell you however, since these clues that arise about everything from those closest to practical matters will prove to be illuminating, informative and may enable you to act on opportunities that you might otherwise miss. Even more importantly, stay close to this inner core, and when things are tough and when they're good, you'll have that Piscean sense of what comes first in your life.