If there's any sign to be during 2008, it's Capricorn. You were born under the sign in which all the action is taking place.
First, with the planet of growth and opportunity, Jupiter, in your sign for the entire year — having moved into Capricorn in December 2007 — you're in a period that's all about discovery.
As a Capricorn, you're cautious by nature, and so when something new comes along, you'll always investigate and ask lots of questions before you commit. You avoid plunging in impulsively, as would your fire sign neighbour, Sagittarius. Yet, with Sagittarius's ruler, Jupiter, actually in your sign, you find yourself borrowing some of that impulsive enthusiasm and taking all sorts of chances. This alone would make it an important year.
However, with the planet of truth and transformation, Pluto, also moving into your sign, entering Capricorn in late January, departing temporarily in June, and then returning for a much longer stay in December, not only will your world become broader, but the fresh perspective and new truths that Pluto brings will alter your life this year, and over the years to come.
Pluto's been in the part of your chart that has to do with situations in which you aren't necessarily in control or must in some way help, assist or serve others, since 1995. Consequently, you've had to face situations where you were either manipulated, where you had to deal with challenging circumstances or were involved with certain arrangements or individuals because of obligations — or feelings of guilt.
Now, as Pluto moves into your own sign, those arrangements end, partly because of the insights Pluto triggers about yourself, and the resulting measures you take, and partly because of changes in circumstances.
What's more, with your own ruling planet, Saturn, in the most expansive angle of your chart, and on brilliant terms with Jupiter, your life is shifting in every way.
Not only will happy circumstances lead to new ideas and opportunities, but because you'll have a new perspective on such developments, you'll pursue things with a greater enthusiasm — and eagerness — than would have been the case, even as short a time as a year ago.
As a Capricorn, you understand that achieving what you want is a matter of hard work and persistence. But the fact is that during 2008, that work won't always be necessary. Sometimes what's best will appear without the usual high price.
These new ideas, changes and opportunities will give you good reason to review all that you do — that is, your existing arrangements. Who and what you're committed to and spend your time on and, even more importantly, what you don't do — the goals and even the personal happiness that you consider to be out of your reach.
The changes that take place during 2008 could make some of those goals easier to achieve. And you'll find that others could be yours, if only you decide to say yes.
But this won't always be easy. The problem isn't the actual situations you're dealing with. It's allowing things to come into your life in this way, without having to strategise and struggle. That's because you're suspicious of anything that comes to you too easily.
Therefore, simply accepting good fortune may be one of the year's biggest challenges for you. But you'd best be prepared for exactly such 'challenges', since during 2008, exciting developments will often appear in exactly that fashion.
Explore everything that comes your way. And make it clear what interests you, making tentative arrangements if you must. But you're advised not to finalise any commitments during the year itself.
Rather, you'll want to wait until one of the most important planetary aspects from your point of view, which is the encounter between the planet of courage, Mars, and Pluto, in your sign, in late December 2008.
By then, the wonderful things you've experienced, your new perspective on life, what you've learned and who you've met, will join together to give you a very different and far more optimistic view of what's possible, and most of all, of what you want to do, achieve and become.
This, in turn, will give you the courage necessary to turn the exciting developments of 2008 — and particularly of late December — into a thrilling new chapter of your life.
