LOVE:
For
some time now, your love life has been in a holding pattern. It hasn't
been dull -- you get the same endorphins from jogging in place that you
do on a cross-country run over varied terrain -- but you're feeling
restless. At the beginning of the year, you'll sense the opportunity to
deepen a friendship or reignite a relationship that you'd begun to take for granted. Pay attention to the cues that indicate your partner
is ready to take your connection to a more intense level. From January
through March, give yourself plenty of time and opportunity to ease
into this exciting change. Weekend getaways to unusual destinations,
like a natural hot springs or a quirky amusement park, will help you
two focus on each other's hopes, however outlandish or potentially
embarrassing.

Around
the middle of March, your ability to concentrate on the softer side of
life will be somewhat diminished. Two eclipses, one in the spring and
the other at the beginning of fall, suggests that major changes in your
day-to-day life are coming, and your focus will be needed in other
areas. You can keep your sympathies supple through all this upheaval by
lavishing attention on yourself. Massages and daytrips to the spa will
help you relax. Classic novels with passionate, inward-focused
characters will remind you of your emotional needs, even while your
ambition is being prodded by more pragmatic challenges.

By
the time the winter holidays arrive, you will begin to feel more
confident with the path your life is taking. And perhaps to your
surprise, your clear-eyed vision of the future may not include a
certain romantic
partner. Think deeply about the situation, but if you feel like
cleaning out your closet to make way for something new, don't
second-guess your preference. You're coming into contact with new
people every day, and if someone else is better aligned with your inner
self, you won't rest until your lives run parallel in all the best ways.

CAREER:
Your powerful, restless energy generally
means that if you're not moving up, you're itching to move on. That can
be frustrating, as it might often seem that you're packing up (or
wishing you were packing up) just as you finally get settled into a new
position. Raw ambition can only get you so far, though, and early this
year you will find yourself inspired to take a new look at your current
position -- or maybe the next one in line -- as worthwhile on its own
merits. You won't be shedding your ambition so much as fulfilling your
desire to see longer-term plans come to fruition. Expect a two-month
period of solid, deeply satisfying personal growth.

After
all that, you will find substantial new territories to explore in the
spring. The lunar eclipse just before the Ides of March brings subtle
changes to your core mission. If your timing is just right and
circumstances favor
you, it will be a time of explosive growth. Your competitors don't
stand much of a chance -- unless, that is, you let yourself get too
distracted by the sheer volume of opportunities to pick a few and focus
on them. The end of summer brings a more intense solar eclipse and a
slower, quieter time for you and your clients. Spend the early autumn
working on negotiations or other interpersonal interactions -- your
strengths will lie in that domain.

Toward
the end of the year, you might feel the urge to move on yet again. Try
to channel that energy into something different -- jettison some of the
less profitable or interesting components of your work, for example, or
restructure your current approach. When you reflect on the changes 2006
has brought to your working life, you will see the deeper pattern that
you likely missed while it was developing all around you. And you're
still trending upward, even if it feels like you've stalled out. In the
end, you will have found the stability necessary for true growth.