I was born on February 13, 1954. Since early September of 2008 my life has been turned upside down. I lost my job, my ex boss sued me, my relationship went sour and I am now in the process of losing my home. With all this happening I have gone back to school to try to find a new path. How does my future look? (CP)

Ouch, you have had so many losses and disappointments recently. I assume you meant September of 2007 as the time these losses began. It was in September of 2007 that Saturn entered Virgo and began to square your 10^th house Mars, the co ruler of your career house, describing your seeming inability to get what you want in any area of your life. Saturn is teaching us to reevaluate what we have, whether it is working anymore and how to choose a more realistic path. The real culprit in your current experience is Neptune which has just completed a transit of your ascendant/descendant angle and is now opposite your natal Pluto and Sun. Neptune, the great dissolver, has left you with no job, no relationship, and soon no home as well as with a lawsuit. This is the Neptunian void when you are neither where you were nor where you will be, yet, as traumatic and unfair as this feels; the truth is that Neptune is your guide. Spiritually this can become a time of letting go, trusting, finding synchronicity and gradually opening to a deeper, better and truer life.

You are wise to seek a new path which will lead to a richer, new life. With the Sun/Pluto on the relationship angle it is time to let go of this relationship and with Pluto ruling the career house to let go of this job. These endings may not have seemed like your choice but they are clearly indicated in your chart. The lawsuit may settle around September or it could drag on into next year but you will find a solution to this issue. I don’t know what you are studying in school but I am sure it is the right time to follow your heart, to follow your Neptunian bliss. In 2009 Jupiter will enter Aquarius and begin a new cycle for you as an Aquarian with Aquarius rising bringing new clarity about your path and your future as well as new friends. Since your aspects for a serious relationship are a bit difficult this year and next year, it is time to be that independent Aquarian and create your own life for yourself. These aspects improve later next year but it would be best to let love come to you rather than go looking for it. Neptune can become our cosmic giver of gifts when we let go and follow our hearts.

I was born on March 20, 1980. I did not have a particularly close relationship with my father as a child and we were not financially well off though I did quite well in my studies finishing my medical education with honors. I studied radiology but for the last 4 to 5 years I have been disturbed by apprehensions, feeling low, phobias and I have a long history of headaches. In addition my career has not gone the way I had expected. There has been a lot of trouble with coworkers. I have gained weight and am not married yet. I feel generally unsettled. I am by nature a sensitive, emotional and compassionate person who is now feeling helpless. Can you help? Thank you. (VV)

As a Pisces you are certainly an emotional, sensitive and compassionate person as well as someone who naturally seeks to feel connected with their soul, their life purpose, their environment, their relationships and their sense of being on the right track in their life. With 4 planets in earth signs a good job that can provide both financial stability and accomplishment is a genuine need. The medical field provides you professional status, an opportunity to serve the ill and the ability to make a good living, all of which are important to you. Your Scorpio midheaven is a common indicator for a medical career though you have Uranus conjunct your career angle which usually indicates someone who takes a more innovative, unusual or alternative path in their work.

Is there another direction in your work that might be more attuned to your personality, your beliefs and your inherent skills? As Pluto rules your midheaven and is now completing a square to your Sun in the 2^nd house of talents and finances it is time to fully assess your talents, to find work which utilizes them fully as this is the work that will be most successful and satisfying. The Sun is not only an indicator of our own life force energy and self but also of our father, therefore, this Pluto time is the perfect time to heal your relationship with your father. If it is possible to talk to him that would be very positive or if that is not possible this healing can be done by you psychologically and spiritually though it would be best to find some professional guidance in this process. In your natal chart the Sun is conflicted by Pluto, Saturn and Neptune making this father relationship a key to your weight, relationship and health problems. This is a healing time for you but you must use it. If you commit to working hard with a therapist on your own healing during this next 6 months, Jupiter crossing your ascendant early in 2009 is a sign of many new opportunities personally and professionally, a fresh start.

This troubling and difficult Pluto time will be over at the end of this year (though it is a necessary and powerful time to break down our old patterns and behaviors propelling us to develop new and healthy choices and possibilities) and in 2009 transiting Uranus will oppose your natal Saturn in the 8^th house potentially leading to new insights, a more authentic inner freedom, release and relief, a new intimacy with yourself and others, genuine healing, and greater financial success. But, you must create the pathway to this new energy and you can in the next months