Aquarius 2010 Overview
The Major Trends and Themes
Jupiter expands whatever he touches. He usually spends about 13 months in each zodiac sign. His job is to bring joy, adventure, open-mindedness, advanced education, travel, global perspectives, and a sense that we are all one big happy family and not so very different from each other. Because of his expansive tendencies, he brings “prosperity” and “abundance” to whatever concept he is focused on. If things are good, he brings an abundance of good. If things are bad, he brings an abundance of bad.

As 2010 begins, Jupiter is still in Aquarius and your first house until January 18th when he moves into Pisces and your second house. Normally, Jupiter spends about 13 months in each zodiac sign, but this year it is a bit different. Jupiter flies through Pisces at mock speed and then moves into Aries and your third house on June 6th. Later, he turns around and heads back into Pisces and your second house on September 9th. Then on January 22nd, 2011, he moves back into Aries and your third house again, where he will remain throughout the first half of 2011.

While in Aquarius, Jupiter focuses on social networking, friendships, group activities, the Internet, and teamwork. Aquarius rules over independence, freedom, eccentricities, and wanting to be seen as both a unique individual and a great team player. “All for one and one for all”, “We are all in this together”, “Together we stand, divided we fall”, and “I am my brother’s keeper” are Aquarian philosophies that Jupiter is working to encourage and embrace. Globally, this has been one of the major themes of 2009.

For Aquarius, this has been happening in your first house of “me”. This has been a delightful energy for you to work with. All things Aquarian in nature have been lucky. You might not have felt too lucky while the economy tanked, but in reality, you were quite blessed to have Jupiter looking out for you over the last year.

In Pisces, Jupiter focuses on kindness, compassion, charity, emotional well-being, spirituality, intuition, empathy, and bringing a sense of “magic” to the world.

For Aquarius, he will still be in your second house of personal wealth and self-worth. Pisces can have a bit of a “now you see it, now you don’t” affect on your finances. Jupiter can make that concept “bigger”. You could find that money magically falls into your lap and then magically disappears again. Overall, Jupiter is doing his best to bring you good luck, prosperity, and abundance into your finances, but when he clashes with other planets, you could find that big ticket items, overwhelming expenses, etc could cut deeply into your normal budget. As Jupiter blesses your financial efforts, you could find that your self-confidence is also growing. Jupiter helps you to be proud of your ability to earn your own way in the world.

In Aries, Jupiter embraces Aries’ pioneering spirit, enthusiasm, fiery passion, and willingness to compete for the sheer entertainment of it. Unlike Aquarius’ teamwork approach to life, Aries is all about racing to the top and being number one. Aries is generous, boisterous, and charming. The competitive nature is not a selfish or mean energy, but a childlike “last one there’s a rotten egg!” type of playful energy. Jupiter can have great fun bringing more of this optimistic can-do energy into the world.

For Aquarius, it happens in your third house of community, commerce, and communications. Jupiter in third house Aries will be focusing on innovative and entrepreneurial commercial activities. You should be able to come up with some wonderful ideas for increasing business, getting along with family members, and negotiating to get your needs met. It is a charming and upbeat energy, so you should not be coming across as too obnoxious. However, keep in mind that Aries is the zodiac sign of warriors, which is great when you are building your business and aspiring to greater heights, but it can be quite confrontational when crossed. Therefore, you might have to be careful about not coming across as an ogre whenever Jupiter is battling other planets during his stay in Aries.

When Jupiter backtracks and revisits Pisces, you could find that your finances are bogged down in bureaucratic problems, self-destructive behavioral problems, and/or you just get a bad attitude and waste time pouting about a lack of money rather than brainstorming for new ideas. After the razzamatazz energy of time spent in Aries, Pisces could feel as if you are slowly plodding through deep mud. It could also be a good time for using your intuition or the power of prayer/mediation to help you achieve your financial goals.

Saturn creates our personal challenges and “tough love” learning experiences. He usually spends about two and a half years in each zodiac sign. His job is to create learning experiences that are often uncomfortable but ultimately quite meaningful. Saturn also rules over karma, cause and effect, ethics, and our sense of civic duty. Therefore, it is not only important that we learn our life lessons well, but that we also conduct ourselves with honor and integrity while going through these challenges. If we stay out of trouble, behave ethically, buckle down, and learn our lessons well, then Saturn rewards us with a gift just before he leaves that zodiac sign. For example, if Saturn were traveling through the area of our charts that deals with professionalism, leadership, and success, then he would teach us some tough lessons about those concepts. Then, if we learned our lessons and we behaved ourselves while doing so, Saturn would reward us with a job promotion, professional kudos, public recognition, etc. We would be better at our jobs, better at leading our companies and communities, and/or we would be better at marketing and advertising ourselves. If on the other hand, we did not learn our lessons, or we were unethical, blamed others for our problems, cheated, lied, etc then Saturn would simply move on to the next zodiac sign and we would have nothing to show for all the drama and trouble that we had just endured. Saturn gets a bad reputation because many people think he is simply mean for the heck of it, when in actuality, he is like a “tough love” parent forcing us to grow up and act like a responsible adult. Might not be very fun, but the rewards are well worth it.

As 2010 begins, Saturn is still making a preview visit in Libra and your ninth house. He will backtrack and revisit Virgo and your eighth house from April 8th until July 20th. During that time, he will make sure that you learned the life lessons you were taught over the last couple of years. Then he will return to Libra and your ninth house where he will remain until October of 2012.

While in Virgo over the last couple of years, Saturn focused on our ability to feel like useful members of society. Virgo rules over daily work tasks, to-do lists, coworkers, productivity levels, organizational skills, tools, and our physical health because if you are not physically able to do your fair share of the work, then you are not able to feel useful and productive. The idea is that we are contributing something to society and not just lazing around picking daisies and playing Frisbee. As lovely as eternal vacation might seem, at some point in our development, we all get bored of constant playtime and need something important to do. “Did my life matter? Did I contribute anything meaningful to the world? What is my legacy, if any?”

For Aquarius, this happens in your eighth house of trust and sharing, intimacy, fidelity, loyalty, joint finances, spouse’s income, commissions, royalties, stock options, loans, inheritances, and other forms of profit sharing. When Saturn passes through this area of someone’s chart, they are often challenged with financial problems, sexual dramas, and/or trust issues. Lessons in loyalty, fidelity, and/or fair distributions of profits could have been tough on you over the last couple of years.

While in Libra, Saturn focuses on our partnerships. As you know, Libra rules over marriage, best friends, business partnerships, and competitors (think yin-yang). While in this zodiac sign, Saturn forces us all to look at who we choose to partner with, what kind of partnerships we like, and how we behave within our partnerships. It is not uncommon for marriages to suffer, best friends to “break up”, and for business partnerships to dissolve. Competitors can become vicious, especially if they are pointing out real flaws in our character and not just making stuff up. Libra rules diplomacy, fairness, justice, and mediation too. Globally, we could see these topics becoming quite challenging for all countries. Various government leaders will be challenged to pick carefully which countries they choose to partner with and which they choose to keep as enemies. They would do well to remember Saturn’s focus on karma, integrity, and civic responsibility.

For Aquarius, Saturn’s time in Libra will occur in your ninth house of long-distance travel, multicultural teachings, languages, religions, laws, philosophies, universities, mass media, and global awareness. You could experience challenges concerning cultural, religious, political, and/or philosophical differences with people in your life. You could also struggle with your own opinions about such matters. Saturn expects you to have a well thought out grown up belief system. You could also experience challenges regarding language barriers, long-distance travel, and/or academic pursuits. Aquarius college students could find that they have never had to work harder to learn new things, but they are also taking their education more seriously than they have before. It is easy to allow your inner-critic to convince you that you are not all that smart just because you might be struggling a bit with your studies. Saturn’s goal is not to defeat you, but to fine-tune and polish you so that you can become a respected leader within your community. So, do not allow your fears and doubts to mess with you too much. Libra rules over fairness and justice and the ninth house is the area of the chart that governs over legal matters (rules of society). Therefore, legal issues could be a big problem during Saturn’s visit through this area of your chart. If you are on the side of ethics, diplomacy, fairness, and justice, then Saturn will not cause you too much trouble as he passes through your ninth house. Just respect other people’s belief systems and stay true to your own.

Uranus is the eccentric genius, rebellious teenager, and social networking guru of the zodiac. He usually spends about 7 years in each zodiac sign. He rules over friends, teams, clubs, committees, professional associations, networking, science (interconnectivity), electricity, and the Internet. He can bring teamwork, friendships, networking, and a sense of belonging to something bigger than yourself into your life. He can also bring stubbornness, eccentricity, rebellion, and perversity. This is because at his core, he is trying to convince us to be our unique individual selves but also to be a great team player. Thus, like a teenager, he is trying to find himself while being very susceptible to peer pressure. Those who master Uranus’ teachings often make charming and charismatic leaders. Uranus also encourages us to think outside the box and brings a certain eclectic brilliance into our lives. Like the eccentric genius and the rebellious teenager, he brings pleasant surprises and unexpected chaos. Uranus promotes humanitarian ideals like brotherhood, “all for one and one for all”, and “united we stand, divided we fall.” He is not asking us to be sheeple, following the crowd mentality with blind faith. He is asking us to know our unique gifts and to be strong enough in our self-knowledge to be able to work well in a team and to be able to socialize without losing our sense of individuality.

As 2010 begins, Uranus is still in Pisces and your second house. He will stay in this area of your chart most of the year, but will be visiting Aries and your third house from May 28th through August 13th. Then he moves back into Pisces and your second house until he makes a more permanent move into Aries and your third house in March 2011.

There are zodiac signs where Uranus shines and is emboldened to bring about wonderful brotherly love and incredible scientific advances, like when he was in his own zodiac sign, Aquarius from the middle of 1995 until the early part of 2003. While there, the everyday use of the Internet took root and blossomed. Prior to that, he was in Capricorn building the systems of the Internet. Yes, the Internet has been around for a long time, but it was during the time that the planet in charge of the Internet was traveling through the zodiac sign in charge of the Internet, that the Internet seriously began to grow and expand into the incredible tool that it is today.