2012 is a powerful professional year, but it's also likely to be a lucrative year for income opportunities and growth, with a chance to inflict some serious damage on any glass ceilings. This comes from a partnership or alliance between 3 separate areas of your chart that came together last year, but will reveal its full potential this year. With Jupiter, planet of luck in your career sector until the 12th June, Pluto in your work sector all year and Mars, warrior planet of the cosmos in your income sector until the 4th July, independently they're creating huge opportunities, but collectively this creates the potential for a breakthrough. For your work, career and income sectors don't operate independently of each other, putting the planets involved at a very positive aspect to each other, which will come together at many different points during the first half of 2012. In Mars' case this is his longest visit to your income sector in 47 years, staying 8 months instead of his normal 6 weeks, ensuring that as you breakthrough professional barriers that the financial returns are there as well. This makes 2012 an auspicious year for both professional and financial matters, though it's important to remember that when a lot is on offer, more is expected of you and that you don't find opportunities without also finding challenges. The difference this time is that rising to the challenge will be easier and a lot more beneficial. While Pluto will remain in your work sector until 2024, giving you the resources to finish what you start, with Jupiter leaving your career sector in June and Mars leaving your income sector in July, the first half of the year is the more financially and professionally dominated. From mid year your social life, your friendships and being a team player will become more important, with home and family matters becoming more important from October.

Love
You're moving into 2012 with planetary activity in both your romantic and relationship sectors and with urgency on both fronts, especially as they both need your attention. But with Mercury, planet of communication leaving your romantic sector on the 8th January and then no more planetary activity here until Mars returns on the 7th October, in the first week of 2012 giving your heart a voice is a priority. However Venus, planet of love will have something to say about that, especially as she's due to leave your relationship sector on the 14th January. This creates some real urgency on the romantic and relationship fronts in the very early days of the year, which is going to raise the bar on both fronts. The real urgency however is on the relationship front for with Neptune, planet of dreams and fantasies leaving on the 4th February and then not returning again in your lifetime, this is his last chance to work with Venus to define your relationship expectations. This is one time when how you move into a new year and how you define your romantic and relationship expectations, really will define your reality for the coming year. You'll retain a sense of romantic direction through to late August, with a lunar eclipse in your romantic sector on the 4th June bringing the element of fate and destiny into play, but it's the period from the 7th October 2012 to the 9th January 2013 that are the most romantically charged months. On the relationship front it's the early months of the year that are the most defining and where most of your attention needs to be. While Venus will leave your relationship sector on the 14th January, the planet of love will leave behind a lot of love and the confidence to walk the talk during what are not only the most important relationship weeks of the year, but ever, for they will define your expectations moving forward. Those weeks are the weeks leading up to Neptune's departure from your relationship sector on the 4th February and the weeks immediately after, running their course on the 19th February. The most defining point in what are defining relationship weeks will be the 23rd January, hosting a New Moon that creates an opportunity for new beginnings and a chance to make a commitment to the future.

Money
While you've had your fair share of financial ups and downs and challenges in previous years, considering how the money gods are favoring you this year, chances are it's all in preparation, giving you the work out required to appreciate an opportunity when you see one and to come out of your corner fighting. Some of the most lucrative weeks of any year are going to be when Mars, planet of passion, drive and ambition and the warrior planet of the cosmos moves through your income sector, igniting a sense of justice and entitlement as well as the courage and confidence to fight for what you want and deserve. Mars will normally visit once every 2 years, for around 6 weeks and while his return to your income sector on the 11th November means that as you move into the New Year he should have just left, he's still there, he has both guns drawn, your passions pumping and your fighting spirit engaged. The message from Mars is that he's not going anywhere, anytime soon and will in fact stay until the 4th July, nearly 8 months after arriving, making this his longest visit to your income sector in 47 years. What adds to the power Mars has to break through glass ceilings is the support that he's getting from Jupiter in your career sector and Pluto in your work sector. During Mars' retrograde phase from the 24th January to the 14th April you'll have a chance to both work behind the scenes and retrace your steps, making sure no stone has been left unturned. Even after Mars leaves your income sector on the 4th July with the Sun moving through from the 23rd August to the 23rd September, Mercury from the 1st to the 17th September and Venus from the 3rd to the 29th October, there is plenty of support to continue the fight, giving you the potential and the tools to make 2012 a very lucrative year. Keeping Mars and the planetary activity in your income sector on their toes is Chiron, in your financial sector since February and here until February 2012 and from the 4th February Neptune, who will remain in your financial sector until 2026. There is a lot of planetary activity in your financial sector at the start of the year, with Venus moving through from the 14th January to the 8th February, Mercury from the 14th February to the 3rd March and then back for a double dip visit from the 24th March to the 17th April and the Sun from the 19th February to the 20th March. These will be very defining weeks on the financial front, when most of your financial priorities for the year will be set. However, as this will put them in opposition with Mars in your income sector there may be some financial pressure or tension, yet it's more likely to motivate you.

Business
If how you begin a new professional year is any indication of how it will play out and what you will accomplish, then you have 2012 in the bag before you even begin. This is one year that is yours to lose, when the odds are so much in your favor that all you really have to do is show up and opportunities are likely to come your way. You begin the year with Jupiter, planet of luck not only in your career sector, but having just turned direct on the 26th December, ready to get things moving again. Jupiter's retrograde phase has taken him right back to the very start of your career sector, so instead of starting where you left off, you've gone back to the starting line with a chance to start over, this time with both luck and hindsight to draw on. You're moving into 2012 aware of where the pitfalls and the shortcuts are and a lot more aware of what you're aiming for. With Jupiter not leaving your career sector until the 12th June, with ongoing support from Mars in your income sector and Pluto in your work sector and more active support from the Sun, Mercury and Venus as they move through, this is likely to be a pinnacle professional year for you. It's Venus' return to your career sector from the 5th March to the 4th April, the Sun's from the 20th April to the 21st May and Mercury's from the 9th to the 24th May that will give Jupiter the support, tools and resources to get you over the line. These are also likely to be some of the most successful professional weeks of the year. The aim, by the time Jupiter leaves on the 12th June, is to have things on the path that they'll continue on for the next decade and beyond. With Mars in your income sector until the 4th July this is also likely to be a lucrative time, especially with Mars enjoying a close relationship with Jupiter. With Pluto in your work sector from 2008 to the 2024, there is a very long rebellion or revolution taking place to move you out of a rut, but it's when Pluto has direct planetary support that this will break the surface and start manifesting as real movement on the work front. As is normally the case, this is more likely to be at the start and end of the year, with the Sun in your work sector until the 21st January and Mercury here from the 8th to the 28th January. With no more planetary activity in your work sector to keep Pluto energy at an intense level until Mars returns on the 17th November, no New Moons here this year and Venus not even popping in, it's the early weeks of the year that will define things on the work front.

The two most powerful forces to shape any year are Jupiter and Saturn, one the planet of luck and the other the planet that gives you the determination, strength and power to move mountains if you have to, one making things happen relatively easy and the other asking more from you, but where you're able to receive a lot of rewards in return. Saturn will not only spend the whole of 2013 in your home and family sector, he's been here since October 2012 and won't leave until September 2015, bringing you to one of the most powerful points in your lifetime on the home, family and/or property fronts. This is a year for building strong foundations and while Saturn usually brings challenges and asks a lot from you, there is more than enough support to ensure that you're able to build something strong and solid, that the rest of your life can stand on. This makes 2013 an extremely important year for home, family and/or property matters. Jupiter, on the other hand, will divide his time between two very different areas of your chart. Until the 26th June Jupiter is still making his first visit to your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking in 12 years, an important and auspicious 12 months for building strong and important friendships and alliances and for being a team player. While things may be moving slow in the early weeks of the year, by May and June you'll have reached your most important point in over a decade for personal and professional networking. Yet on the 26th June Jupiter will begin the 12 month wind down of your current Jupiter cycle, which began in 2002, in preparation for his return to your sign next July. This brings you into a more introspective phase, where it's all about bringing things home, closing old doors and wrapping things up as you sense that one life chapter is ending and another is due to begin. However, life will go on and there'll be little time for navel gazing. What you have on your hands this year is a much better money year, which is good news after a few challenging years. You'll find it easy to keep your financial game on track all year, with the best income opportunities to be found in July through to September, but the real opportunities coming between the 16th October and the 8th December. Meanwhile, there is something special developing on the relationship front in the early weeks of the year, giving your relationships a boost that they'll benefit from all year.

Love:
For the first time since 2000 you'll move into the New Year with Mars, planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos in your relationship sector, but in a way that you haven't seen since 1983. Back in 2000 Mars' passions and warrior spirit were tempered by more moderate forces that were deliberately keeping the pace at a slow and easy level, reining in some of Mars' unbridled passions. The last time Mars moved into your relationship sector on his own, with no restraints, was in 1983 and with no planetary activity in your relationship sector since February 2012 there's a lot of making up for lost time to do. This brings a fairly dramatic start to the year on the relationship front, with your passions engaged and a readiness to fight for what you want and against what you don't want. While more moderate forces will come into play from the 20th January, it will be too late to put the genie back in the bottle by then, with your relationship needs unplugged and unwilling to settle for less. Between the 20th January and the 26th February you have a chance to establish what you want from your relationships and what they need from you and to put your relationships on the track that you want them to continue on, for it's from that point that you'll be on your own, apart from a pair of Full Moons, the first on the 23rd July and the second on the 21st August. This makes it important to start the year the way you want it to continue, with the love gods putting almost all their relationship focus into the first 2 months of the year. If the early months of the year belong to your relationships then the middle weeks and the final months belong to all things romantic. While your romantic sector won't become active until the 8th October, running without a break through to the 9th January 2014, Venus' return to your sign from the 28th June to the 23rd July brings the promise of some midyear romance. This creates a year with 3 separate and distinct chapters, making the first 2 months all about your relationships and the middle weeks and the last 3 months of the year the most romantically charged.

Money:
For the first time in your lifetime you'll move into the New Year with Neptune, planet of dreams and fantasies in your financial sector and while he's been here since last February and will remain until 2026, this is the first time you've had a chance to move into the year with a Wish List rather than a list of financial resolutions. After some challenging financial years in the past, you've reached a point where you're now able to start building for the future, knowing that you have a solid foundation and a planet that you can count on being there, for years to come. Neptune isn't here to deal with financial practicalities, which the faster moving planets can take care of when they move through, rather to keep you inspired and to have something to aim for. Things will become more practical when Mars, warrior planet of the cosmos moves through your financial sector, from the 2nd February to the 11th March. It's then, with your financial passions and fighting spirit engaged and with Mars and Neptune teaming up for the first time here in your lifetime that you're able to take a serious approach to turning dreams into reality. The Sun, Mercury and Venus will move through your financial sector from the 6th February to the 14th April, making these the most active and proactive financial weeks of the year. Meanwhile, with no continuous planetary activity in your income sector, like you do in your financial sector, this means that there is no ongoing financial tension, while also allowing you to channel your main income thrust into a very specific time of the year. Those times are around the time of the Full Moon in your income sector on the 26th February, however this is more likely to bring income opportunities from things initiated in 2012. The first fresh blood and new opportunities you'll have to break through any glass ceilings will come from the 23rd July onwards. With Venus in your income sector from the 23rd July to the 17th August, the Sun from the 23rd August to the 23rd September, Mercury from the 24th August to the 9th September and Mars from the 16th October to the 8th December, it's the second half of the year that will hold the most income potential, with plenty of time and resources to explore and exploit all your options.

Business:
Your professional year will always get off to a powerful start, with the Sun always spending the first 3 weeks of any year in your work sector, shining the solar spotlight on your work options and matters, giving you the push to start the way you intend to go on. This year you're likely to find that you're even more motivated and fired up than usual, for even though the Sun is on his own as you move into 2013 with Mars, warrior planet of the cosmos having only just left your work sector on Boxing Day, your passions and fighting spirit are still engaged. With Mercury returning to your work sector on New Year's Day and Venus on the 9th January it won't be long before your desires and expectations kick in and you have the intellectual savvy needed to work smarter and to walk the talk. With Pluto, planet of change and revolution now a long term resident in your work sector, here from 2008 to 2024, all you really need is to get the momentum going and things pointed in the right direction, with keeping the momentum going not a problem. After a busy and frenetic end to 2012 and start to 2013 your work situation, in this early part of the year anyway, needs to have reached critical mass by the 2nd February, which is the point where the Sun, Mercury and Venus will have all moved on and Pluto will be back on his own, there to keep the momentum going. You'll return to focusing more on your work situation later in the year, but apart from a Full Moon in your work sector on the 23rd June, it's about keeping things on track. This gives you a chance to focus more on your overall career objectives, especially from the Sun's return to your career sector on the 20th April until Mars' departure on the 31st May. This is a short 6 week push to get your professional game up to speed and with a solar eclipse here on the 10th May there may be some surprising new opportunities. By the time you reach the 1st June however, on both the work and career fronts your professional year will have gained all the momentum that it needs. What should be left is some tidying up on the work front in the final months of the year, with the Sun returning to your work sector on the 22nd December, as he does at that time each year, ready for your launch into 2014 and Mercury on Christmas Day. However, the gods are throwing in an extra surprise in the form of Venus' return to your work sector on the 5th November, for what is normally a 4 week visit aimed at attracting opportunities and getting a clear sense of what you want. This time Venus won't leave until March 2014, her longest visit in over 200 years.