(May 21-June 21)

You’re intensely focused as the calendar turns, pondering changes that have preoccupied you since the holidays. Settling into a new reality, even a happy one, takes time. Call it “cognitive dissonance,” the disorienting transition from one way of life into another. Give yourself the first three weeks of January to adjust. Your ruler Mercury is retrograde (backward) until the 15th, a good time to clear away intimacy blocks, take private time and make your 2010 budget.

You emerge from your private pod on the 19th, when the Sun enters Aquarius, your ninth house of inspiration and wisdom. Travel, study and engagement with the wider world call your attention. On January 17th, expansive Jupiter begins a 2010 tour of Pisces—your tenth house of career and achievement. With lucky Jupiter at the top of your chart, major goals get accomplished. In fact, this could be your most successful year in over a decade. Innovative Uranus is also in Pisces; your career expansion may involve technology, cutting-edge scientific developments or a humanitarian cause.

Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Saturday.