Your year ahead will be lively, energetic and outgoing at times and rather withdrawn at others. You will want a chance to ponder over important personal issues. You’ll need to tackle joint finances. If you don’t take control then it won’t happen.

You will head for what you want, and won’t be shy about stating your fancy. You may be accident-prone as you are reckless and looking for adventure. At work you may be uncertain about your future plans but your intuition will serve you well. But this isn’t the right time to make rigid plans for the future. You need to hang loose, and wait to see what happens after more water has flowed under the bridge.

You will focus on domestic and emotional matters. Put your energy into the family or relationship areas of your life. Neptune hovering around your mid heaven for a long period makes you very compassionate, spiritual and creative, but often a little unrealistic where career ambitions are concerned. You do need to sort out fact from fantasy and be really clear about what is going to be possible, and what is just a pie-in-the-sky.

Close mates at work could get edgy if you are tactless. Guard against a tendency to run or drive too fast, which makes you accident- prone. Your tendency of blaming others for getting in your way won’t go down too well. Today your head will be in the clouds and you could end up with communication muddles or confused travel plans. Keep your feet on the ground and focus on details. Then everything will turn out better.

Neptune is passing through the most confidential area of your chart and this will bring up strange feelings, a need for something that lies beyond everyday reality. You have to watch that you also continue to pay attention to the everyday details, especially around money. You will be more stubborn than usual and slow to make decisions. But your patience will give you the strength to push for what you want over a longish period.

With Mars in your own sign at the moment you are fiery and not always sensible. But you are also telepathic, sensing what is not spoken, or knowing about events before they happen. It may help you to understand what is going on with close partners, who don’t seem to find it easy to express what they feel. Reading between the lines and second- guessing others may give you better answers than direct questions.

At work you may fail to take the decisive step which would win you the argument. But you are happy to hand over credit elsewhere. With Neptune around at the moment your system will reject anything which feels damaging. You won’t be able to get away with straining your body by overwork or excess of any kind. You really need to treat yourself with kindness and delicacy and then your physical self will respond very well.

With Mars in your chart area of friendships and long term planning, your dynamic energy will go into making sure everyone is pulling in the same direction at work. Neptune is around for a long period in your chart area of love and self-expression. You need to be wary of idealising your loved ones. If you are not careful you will only see what you want to see, and then when the reality finally dawns you will be very disappointed.

With Mars in your chart area of career and ambition, your dynamic energy is being channelled into work and achieving your ambitions. There could be misunderstandings at home which could be a distraction. Maybe you feel you are being asked to sacrifice too much for your closest relationships. It could feel as if there is a tug of war between the expression of your individual identity and the needs of the family.

Decisions may not be easy to make with Neptune hovering around. It  makes you very imaginative but not too concerned with practical facts. Write down your conclusions before you leap into conversations. You will head straight to the heart of the matter and could be candid to the point of bluntness. Your honesty can be unnerving to more thin-skinned companions. Don’t try to force others to accept your viewpoint.

Highly impressionable, you may be taken in by a good sob story. So you need to be more hard-headed and discriminating when it comes to your personal finances, or you could be disappointed. You may not wish to sound miserly, but that doesn’t mean you can’t protect yourself. You will be deeply secretive, planning how to get your own way with joint finances. And you certainly won’t easily forgive anyone who lets you down.

You could be like a chameleon, changing to mirror the people you are with. You will soak in the emotional undercurrents in the surrounding atmosphere which can land you with other people’s problems. There may also be heated encounters along the way since you will tend to attract competitive companions. Even loved ones will seem rather too outspoken at times, so you may have to really work to keep the peace.

Feeling spaced out, you aren’t sure you are happy in the real world of business at the moment. You want to disappear into your private retreat, harbouring dreams of far away places. Exploring your artistic talents could be a relief as it will take you constructively into fantasy land. Try to put attention into boosting your physical stamina. With Mars in your chart area of work you can get your everyday schedule better organised.