Love and lust
Love is coming into your life like an erupting volcano. "Why now? Why this person?" you'll wonder. You will feel as if cupid has picked on you at random. All this would be fine if it only happened once, but months later there you are
again. Like Icarus, you seem to fly too close to the sun. At some point you'll need to learn to love properly. A natural predator, you enjoy the hunt and the kill. It's the settling down with the cubs you struggle with. Work at this in 2008. If you're married, you have to learn to give security rather than rock the boat.
Work and money
No more mad spending. If you've been wild with your money in recent years, these are difficult times ahead. Saturn enters your money house and wants to put things in order. Finances won't be easy. No sloppiness will be tolerated. But you will learn to enjoy the pain. You'll see it's possible to find pleasure on a strict budget. Discipline is good for you. It points you in the direction of success.
Life and leisure
You need hardly step outside your home this year. Not only is all the fun to be found there – the best parties and the smartest dinners with friends – but increasingly you find it is an ideal setting for work. As your family planet makes a move from your house of fun to your house of health and work, you find that nowhere are you more clear-headed than in the domestic setting. Want to build an extension? Wait till the autumn, or embrace chaos.
Watch out for
The savage beast of your libido. This year's sexuality is one long experiment in your personal limits.
Robert Redford
Big Bob puts down his clapperboard and placards about climate change and replaces them with… 'Redford for President' boards, promising to give Barack and Hillary a run for their money. Lions for Lambs co-star Meryl Streep steps up and offers to be his deputy.
Hayden Panettiere
Heroes star Hayden leaves the prime-time show in a bid to punt a script for a new Free Willy movie, following her 2007 run-in with Japanese fishermen over a dolphin hunt. She then insists on whale sounds as the backing track to her new album, released later this year. AM
VIRGOLove and lust
Prepare yourself for an assault course. Uranus in your house of love is causing all kinds of trouble and there is no doubt your relationships will be put through the mill. Surviving the year is partly about resilience, partly about giving your partner freedom to be him or herself. Avoid behaving as too much of a unit. Singles will feel love is fun, but up, down and all over the place. You will be notching up your conquests on your bedpost. Meanwhile, love for you is all about doing things for people. But when will you get back what you give?
Work and money
It's all very well to say money doesn't matter, but you should be careful not to entirely neglect your finances this year. There will, after all, be many ups and downs, as your financial planet charges through the houses. Meanwhile, work is all over the place. Don't look to outside institutions for stability. Rather, turn to your inner resources. Strike out on your own and set up your dream business.
Life and leisure
Now is the time to let yourself live the dream. A lot of big changes have happened in the family recently and the next year is all about settling in and enjoying it. Pluto is now moving out of your house of home and family, and freeing you from its purges and changes. You can relax now. Your family planet is in your fifth house, inviting you to come and join the fun.
Watch out for
A major style change. Saturn is about to give you the full Trinny and Susannah treatment.
Sean Connery
Sir Sean vows to join this year's Strictly Come Dancing competition and succeed where Kenny Logan failed, in a bid to show his unflinching support for independence. He makes it to the finals but is later disqualified when it's discovered he's used 007-style gadgets to manoeuvre his way around Brucie and the panel.
Cameron Diaz
Venus is in view as Cameron dusts herself down and brings sexy back. She embarks on her very own Shrek tale by kicking out all memory of Justin Timberlake and embarking on a passionate affair with big-beaked Gérard Depardieu.
LIBRALove and lust
Romantic love isn't the only spark that can light up someone's life. And if you're just not that interested in the hearts and flowers this year, that's because you've got so many other fires burning. Socially, things are getting easier. A difficult phase with a group of friends should be over – you have purged the unworthies – and you are now having fun. In fact, fun is a feature of almost every area of your life, from work to getting it on. There will be affairs. There will be experimentation. There will be a vast increase in carnal knowledge. Go wild.
Work and money
The time for having the odd flutter is over. This year, as Pluto, your financial planet, moves into Capricorn, you begin to be more cautious. Gone is the wild spender and gambler of recent years. No longer do you trust schemes for getting rich quick. Instead, brick by brick, you build your house of wealth. Meanwhile, you'll have to keep your nerve in the workplace. Jobs appear to hang by a slender thread. Have faith and you will survive.
Life and leisure
Talk is the key word for this year. You'll have to keep that tongue of yours in permanent action, whether it is to question your way to the truth of an issue, resolve a problem or just plain revel in the pleasure of shooting the breeze. Meanwhile, Jupiter in your house of family comes bearing gifts, not of the material kind, but of conviviality and cosy pleasure, and possibly even new additions.
Watch out for
A problem you thought you had solved that rears its head again. This time you
will nail it.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Continuing to honour her vow to be a full-time mom, Gwynnie only has two movies and one perfume campaign to keep her occupied. That and the proposed Spanx promotional campaign. And flying in the face of rumoured trouble in their marriage, she and hubby Chris Martin start a sideline in relationship counselling. Lesson one – how to ensure your child gets bullied at school: name them after a fruit.
Clive Owen
Inspired by a new lunar cycle, Clive goes in search of love. He's snapped by an army of paparazzi but claims it was all in the name of research for Sin City 2. Elsewhere, it pays to keep your friends close and your enemies closer as Clive's success Stateside leaves fellow Brit stars green.
SCORPIOLove and lust
This year doesn't see you getting bogged down in the serious matters of love. Rather, romance is one big party, and you may well find yourself having the odd wild and dangerous dalliance. Singles will be having a riot, bouncing from love affair to love affair. As soon as you are bucked off in the rodeo, you get right back on a different horse. On a mildly more serious note, this is a year of experimentation, of testing your ideas of how a relationship should be. You are working out what you want.
Work and money
That grubby obsession you had developed with the filthy lucre is almost at an end. Over the course of the next year, your ruling planet moves out of your money house and into your house of communication. Now you feel money's only real purpose is to allow you access to otherwise inaccessible chambers of knowledge. Maybe you use it to fund a course. Those working in the media or anything else involving communication should find their work goes stratospheric.
Life and leisure
When it comes to friends, you have two lists this year: the 'in' list and the 'out' list. Over the coming months, you will be sorting out who goes in which. Blame Saturn for this. Whenever he's around there's always some cleansing and decluttering to be done. You are sifting the wheat from the chaff, throwing out those who bring you down and sap your energy. Meanwhile, children are on the 'in' list. You find ways of making time and space for them. You also invite your inner child to play.
Watch out for
A new pipe dream. Your current one will disappear in a puff of smoke to be replaced by something far more powerful.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leo begins the year with elevated spirits and boundless energy for a good cause. Using the benefits of his high profile, the cherub-faced actor throws himself into all things green, preaching to the masses about the environmental crisis of the Noughties. Uranus suggests he'll bag himself a hot babe in the process. Not that this was his motivation, you understand.
Demi Moore
Demonstrating all of the alpha qualities of a Scorpio woman, Demi begins the year in suitably magnetic fashion. Professionally proclaiming the need for Better Character Roles for Ageing Hollywood Women, she remains the best advertisement for cosmetic surgery in years.
SAGITTARIUSLove and lust
There is no single, big story for you this year. In fact, one of the features of the coming months is the fickle nature of your heart. I'm not saying serious relationships will be trashed on a whim. Rather, what you look for, whether it be from one partner or many, will go through many twists and turns. Marrieds should be careful to keep open lines of communication. And with your love planet, Mercury, going retrograde three times in the year, you will be given three chances to rethink as you tread water.
Work and money
You want both – a dazzling career and excess riches – and naturally you consider they should come together. This year, with Jupiter, your ruler in your money house, you are raking it in. It's as if you won the Lotto rollover twice. What's interesting about this is it comes in a year when you shrink from taking risks. Meanwhile, bling's the thing as you dress to impress. It has the desired effect. There will be promotions. But do you really want the responsibility?
Life and leisure
It's not easy chez Sagittarius this year. Back in the homestead, where Uranus has been lurking since 2002, there is plenty to fry the nerves. If you're not having the entire place rewired, you're moving house. All this comes alongside plenty of screaming and plate-throwing in the family. Your real challenge is to try to keep some sense of routine in the middle of all this. When everything seems to be going off the rails, you need to remain emotionally on track.
Watch out for
A sudden ease with yourself. As Pluto moves out of your sign, it feels as though a long tortuous phase of self-examination is over.
Britney Spears
Fortunately for young Britters, Sagittarians have a knack of changing a negative into a positive and often find that the path to enlightenment comes from guiding others. Those looking for parenting classes and style advice should form an orderly queue, as the world prepares for the tell-all tome of the ups, down and hair-lopping strains of the pop princess's outrageous (mis)fortunes.
Brad Pitt
Part-man, part-Sagittarian pack horse to his ever-expanding rainbow brood, Brad makes good on his promise to give more time to the needy and less to the silver screen, with an eco-friendly master plan to help rebuild New Orleans. Prepare yourself for the Brangelina massif, complete with Nobel Peace Prize nomination and an army of tiny tot additions to the Jolie-Pitt camp.
CAPRICORNLove and lust
All in all, it's a pretty cosy year for Capricorns. You will barely want to leave your big, battered sofa of status quo contentment. Instead, all the real action in your affections will surround friendships. As Pluto hops in and out of your sign throughout the year, you'll find yourself pursued by others who want to nail you as their friends. Most of these will be very special. Some, however, will be nigh on stalkers. Be careful who you give your phone number to. You are a powerful people magnet.
Work and money
When it comes to work, you are going to have to be an all-round gymnast this year. If you want to score a perfect ten, don't let your feet touch the ground. You may even find yourself vaulting from one job to another. Wherever you land, one thing is guaranteed: your wealth will build. It's a slow process but you will soon find there are plenty of pennies in the jar. Those with their own business will annihilate the opposition.
Life and leisure
Last year saw you getting all airy-fairy and spiritual. In 2008, friends will think they've got the old down-to-earth Capricorn back. They'll be wrong. In fact, you still feel a greater connection with the cosmos. But rather than blabbing on about it in a vague, incoherent way, you are quietly and systematically applying it to your life. Photography and painting are key hobbies to explore.
Watch out for
A riddle wrapped up in an enigma. You'll be intrigued by this mysterious being, but don't waste your time trying to decipher him or her – there's actually no mystery there.
Sienna Miller
Whether it's food, fashion or flirting, the Sun sign defines Sienna's journey for 2008. The actress has four new movies coming out this year, including Hippie, Hippie Shake, where she bares all once again, only because it's essential to the story. Whether she ever stops holidaying with Rhys Ifans long enough to make any movies for 2009 remains to be seen.
Mel Gibson
Few can hope to be as practical with their talents as a Capricorn, and after a year of lying low after that outburst, Mel goes back to what he knows best: an old buddy movie with long-time collaborator – and Lethal Weapon director – Richard Donner. Hey, if it ain't broke… The Capricorn's willingness to accept responsibility bodes well for the transition from Mad Max to Monk Mel.
AQUARIUSLove and lust
Sometimes, the last thing in the world you need is a thunking big love affair. It's a bit like that for you this year. What you really need is breathing space, the chance to churn through the events of recent years and put past mistakes into context. Singles probably need to revel in a carefree, independent life and avoid commitment wherever possible. The dating market should be played strictly for fun and pleasure. Meanwhile, marrieds will want to sit back and enjoy a year of gentle sailing. Don't rock the boat.
Work and money
Earnings just get better and better. Money wasn't bad last year, but this year your salary goes sky-high. Not only that, but you have an instinct for exactly where to invest whatever cash you have left over at the end of the day – and mainly that is in yourself or your own business. The more you put in, the more you get out. Meanwhile, you're not bothered about hauling yourself up the corporate ladder. Indeed, as your career planet moves from your house of friendships to your house of spirituality, you shun the grind of the rat race. You have a greater vision for your future.
Life and leisure
It's a gradual process, but slowly over the next year your body is returning to its peak performance. This requires no arduous training or stark diet. It's all to do with how good you feel in yourself. Meanwhile, friends just seem to keep disappearing. Every few months another hops off on his or her travels to cloud cuckoo land. But don't worry, they'll be back.
Watch out for
Your new guru. He or she will help you in this year's cleansing faith detox.
Jennifer Aniston
Boasting the spiritual sign of a thinker, Team Jen strives for life balance in 2008 as she weighs up a way to preserve her privacy and independence. She also has the long-anticipated He's Just Not That Into You coming out in the spring. Maybe it's time to reconsider Friends: The Movie.
Robbie Williams
As an all-singing, all-dancing Aquarius, the Rob's spiritual home is somewhat light on planets in early 2008. Typically unpredictable and stubborn, the flailing pop prince will show no initial plans to rule the world with his fellow Take-Thatters, preferring instead to zigazigah with three of his former squeezes, aka the Spice Girls. AM
PISCESLove and lust
There are highs and lows in the year ahead, breakthroughs and set-backs. Saturn's movement through your house of love puts you through a test akin to the seven trials of Hercules. A relationship is repeatedly tested. As the year goes on, you gain in certainty about your true heart's desires. You cannot afford to compromise them. When it comes to love, there is no halfway. Singles are unlikely to find themselves swept off their feet. Rather, they might stumble across a seed of something special and allow it to grow. Slow-cooked is the way.
Work and money
It's not your job title that matters over the next year. It's who sits in the desk next to you and whether the gossip round the water cooler is good. In other words, work is, for you, more about socialising than industry. However, those who want to take a great leap into the blue will find the risk pays off. There is a job out there in which you can be your fun, creative self and gab about the boss's personal life too. There you will find others who share your dream.
Life and leisure
It's your friends that count in the long run, right? Well, as Pluto tentatively enters your house of friendship this year, you will be assessing which ones will be with you for the long haul. You will also find a few new faces stepping up to provide support for the coming couple of years. Indeed, some very special people are coming your way.
Watch out for
The small print. Particularly in prenups or anything involving a romantic partner. All is not as it seems.
Charlotte Church
Her voice of an angel credentials allowed this Welsh wonder to say the most outrageous things – Gavin is hunky and smart? Early 2008 will see her professional and personal life collide as she strives to find balance between motherhood and her desire for a cheeky Vimto.
Bruce Willis
The vest-wearing action man flexes his emotive muscles this year, as his love/life planets collide. Impressed by his ex-wife's relationship with a younger man, Bruce will endeavour to find time amid saving the world to find some arm-candy of his own. She might even be older than his own daughter this time.
ARIESLove and lust
Sometimes love can be like an asteroid collision: world-shattering. And who wants that? Think yourself lucky that's not what you're getting. Rather, since your house of love is relatively empty, you find yourself quite happy to drift along. Singles will be enjoying the merry-go-round of dating but there won't be any trip on the marital big dipper. Meanwhile, if you're already coupled, you won't feel the need to decouple. Really, it's friendships that float your boat this year, and not just any friendships. Certain people are coming into your life who are unusual. They bring with them new and eccentric ideas. Anything seems possible. But is it really?
Work and money
You don't want their money, honey, you want their love, and only big promotions will prove you have it. With Jupiter in your house of career all year, you should find yourself vaulting up the job ladder. But you don't just want any job, you want the one that in the long run will land you the plaudits. Little do you know how far you'll have to go to get what you want. A bitter pill may have to be swallowed.
Life and leisure
You're off the leash this year and free to stray from the safety zone of the kennel. Adventures are to be had further afield, possibly at work. That's not to say there won't be the odd flash of drama at home. In February and August, it will seem as if someone set light to the fireworks. Expect big bangs.
Watch out for
Those healing hands: you discover previously untapped powers.
America Ferrera
Ugly Betty's America prepares to get her de-braced gnashers on to the big screen with The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 and continues to deny rumours that she and long-term love Ryan Piers Williams are going to get hitched. In la-la land, viewers everywhere encourage her to dump Henry and hurtle towards her destiny, and bag the dishy Daniel.
Ewan McGregor
After lukewarm reviews to his performance as Iago, McGregor hops on his motorbike and takes the long road down to panto – Widow Twanky has never looked so good – and ponders whether Sharleen Spiteri is still up for that much-anticipated duet. Anna Millar
TAURUSGeorge Clooney
Gorgeous George looks to his domestic life for light relief and warm moments this year, as he channels the energy that the planets – and women everywhere – are propelling towards him. A renowned bachelor, the silver-haired charmer will cast aside his love of farm animals and embrace the love of a good woman.
Renée Zellweger
Mmm – bit of a coincidence, this. Relationship disaster Renée and super-smoothie George are both looking for love this year – and are appearing together in the upcoming rom-com Playing Dirty. Should we be looking for wedding hats in the sales?
Love and lust
Gone are the days when love was just a matter of shaking your tail feathers. In recent times, your fix to any romantic problem was a quick bit of nookie. This year, however, the success of a relationship is all down to grey matter. You'll have to use intellectual athletics to provide your argument resolution. This is because your love planet is moving from your house of sex and death to your house of education. And as it does so, love gets more mentally exciting. When looking for a new mate, check their IQ first. If the head's not attractive, it won't matter if the butt is.
Work and money
They had better not try to buy you off with a big, fat bonus this year. For once, money's the last thing you're interested in. Rather, you are determined to make work as socially useful as it can be, regardless of the payback. This is not about work, but about your calling. You have a belief in something. But how to get to a position of power when you don't want to backstab along the way?
Life and leisure
Over the last year, you've had a touch of claustrophobia. You've been feeling hemmed in, but all that should be over. Not only do you manage to bargain yourself a bit more space, you also get away to new lands. Meanwhile, this is the year you learn that a bit of discipline never goes amiss, particularly when it comes to children. Just watch you don't overdo it with a lover or spouse.
Watch out for
Grey hairs and wrinkles. Chances are you'll be falling head over heels for an oldie.
GEMINILove and lust
Suddenly it seems you are content with what you've got. You don't need to charm the pants off every available singleton. Nor do you need to talk into the early hours about the meaning of life and the intensity of your feelings. What you do need, though, is regular and inventive sex. Love this year is all about satisfying physical urges and needs. Meanwhile, romantic opportunities crop up in the weirdest of places. Stuck for a date on a Saturday night? Try the A&E of your local hospital rather than the local pub.
Work and money
No one could be less interested in their bank statement than you, but that doesn't mean you won't get drawn into the world of money. A lover or close friend turns to you for advice, which unexpectedly comes good. Meanwhile, at work it seems no one and nothing can be relied on. The challenge for you is to create a stable platform, your place of security, your port in the storm.
Life and leisure
Lately you acquired a few new skills. You know when to say things for maximum impact. You also know when to shut up and get on. All this will be put to good use in the coming year. As Pluto, your health planet, moves into Capricorn, you find you are more in touch with your body. You are aware of the ways in which health is under your control. Mind and body are connected. Gemini, heal thyself.
Watch out for
The urge to be your own shrink. Before you put yourself on the couch, Dr Freud, consider, perhaps, the professional option.
Angelina Jolie
Mother Earth incarnate, Angelina is a great conversationalist prone to developing intimate relationships quickly. This year sees her continue to walk the tightrope between saint and sinner, while speculation grows as to whether another Jolie-Pitt 'blob' is on the way.
Donald Trump
After some major planetary alignment, Big Bad Don decides golf is just too crazy in Scotland and considers setting up a super boules tournament for the French or a vodka distillery in Moscow. AM
CANCERLove and lust
Your heart is going to get a serious workout this year. It's not just that the scene is set for the kind of big love that ends in wedding bells and pitter-patters. It's that there will be complications along the way. The problem is, almost, too much of a good thing. There is more than one love out there, tugging on your heart, and you will find yourself swinging this way and that over the coming months. What do you want? The fast burn of the overwhelming chemical attraction? Or the serious love you can build on? Health and love are linked this year. Perhaps you fall for a nurse or find love at the gym. Perhaps the way love goes has a profound impact on your health.
Work and money
Your bank account is in fine shape, which is good because you don't want to do any nursing. There are other aspects of life you'd rather focus on. Meanwhile, you are inspired by a partner's dream. Rather than obsess over your own projects, you are happy to follow his or hers. A solar eclipse in your house of money on August 1 announces change. Expect all your pennies to be thrown up in the air.
Life and leisure
Home isn't the centre of your world this year. Rather, you are looking outwards towards new activities, things that re-ignite your sense of adventure. Meanwhile, your family planet moves fast through the chart, and you find yourself needing to adapt quickly.
Watch out for
That hyper-critical mind of yours interfering with the path of true love. See the beauty mark not the mole.
Tom Cruise
Following their much-publicised affection for the Spice Girls, TomKat decide to try their hand as a Sony and Cher act for the Noughties generation. Fellow scientologist John Travolta signs up as the resident backing dancer.
Debbie Harry
Still going strong, the Blondie bombshell taps into the fearless and tenacious qualities associated with her star sign, and decides to sue Kylie for copycat crimes against fashion following the release of the diminutitve Aussie's latest album.
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