Leo

Year-Ahead Outlook For year commencing Jan 2008

Overview
Your focus will be on close relationships and what you want to be doing in the years ahead, as well as on work. Feeling more physically exuberant or robust, you'll be better supported in what you are trying to do, though you'll need to watch that being too stubborn doesn't backfire. Ease up and go for gentle persuasion. You'll need to be more adaptable and flexible with those close early on especially if they are lacklustre or preoccupied. Then after mid year you'll be making your own decisions, and carving out your own destiny. Your closest relationships will prosper at the year end as a result.

Romance
There will be a sea change in your closest relationships, nothing sudden or dramatic, but a sense that you are not so uptight or tense about insisting they toe your line. Your significant other will continue to be vague, at times evasive, but you'll be happy to let them go their own way. You'll continue to chop and change your mind about what your emotional commitments are. But if you think a more fulfilling bond is what you are after then from February onwards you'll need to push yourself to be more co-operative and to share more freely. May will find you in dazzling social form, though July is when your charms will be most effective. Around your birthday and beyond you'll go your own way briefly until you know exactly what you want. By December you'll be in vigorous social high spirits.

Money
Sorting out your personal finances is a priority and keeping a watchful eye on joint finances especially towards the year's end. This may mean cutting back on certain frivolities or extravagances just temporarily until you feel more secure. Saturn in Virgo, your chart area of personal cash, hints that being realistic is vital, which means re-organising and eliminating waste and muddle. Money you are with others whether at home, work or financial institutions, will be roller coaster but that's nothing new. Partners at home will be erratic so try to ensure you are protecting yourself from getting dragged into madcap schemes. Luckily Jupiter will bring a sprinkling of good fortune along the way.

Work
Feeling more enthusiastic about your chores at work, you'll attract encouraging support and find that either better pay or better conditions makes your daily toil more enjoyable. OK so there may be one or two no-win discussions since Pluto will prompt you early in the year and late to upgrade, reorganise or otherwise implement new schemes to your liking which may not meet with universal approval. Just be strategic since confrontations won't work well. March to May may be slightly slow since circumstances won't allow you to speed ahead as you'd like. Just be patient. Thereafter you'll be firing on all cylinders and not letting anything stand in your way. You'll stamp your foot and insist on your efforts being valued. Just have a care towards December since you'll have challenging situations to handle require ingenuity and determination.

Health
Jupiter in Capricorn all year should lift your energy, make you feel revitalised and help any passing ailments disappear quickly. Though it's also true that Pluto in the same place from late January to June and again after late November will produce a few challenges. At these times you need to ensure you don't waste energy by pushing against immoveable objects. Take the long way round tricky situations and you'll feel better physically. Your rest and relaxation phase is July when you need to take the chance to recharge your batteries. Late in the year be extra specially careful not to over stretch yourself.

Symbol - The Lion / the Sun
Fire + Fixed sign. Attention seeking, colourful, stubborn, imaginative, impractical, you need a position of prominence and an audience. You can be extravagant, rather dramatic. Always sentimental about the family, you like a flashy home. You like parties, children, sport.

Birth Stone Your birth stone is ruby or tiger's eye, the colours of fire and passion. Ruby aids intuitive thinking, increases energy levels, and helps with disorders of the blood or circulation. Tiger's Eye increases self-confidence, and combats psychosomatic ailments and hypochondria. Your metal is gold.