How the planets affect your sign

The coming year promises much - but how are the planets moving in your horoscope, and how will they affect you?

The Sun

Animate your sensual experiences with a deeper sense of purpose. The Sun symbolises your inner calling or the divine child within you. Over the next six months the solar influence brings you the chance to vitalise your personal glamour. Follow up your choices with self-belief and a sense of vocation. At work or play, some of you will realise your dreams, others will be irresistibly drawn to new experiences and personal transformations. The Sun's energy gives us our unique identities, so be proud to be an individual and give others a chance to see your solar light really shine.

Venus

Pure, unadulterated pleasure awaits you with Venus's influence over the next few months. This planet's energy brings some of you sexual temptations or an appetite for romance. For others, it's all-or-nothing sensual feasting. You'll be craving anything from orgasms to chocolate mousse as Venus enchants you into sensory experience. A ride to seductive heaven is guaranteed in March, when some of you will seduce, tempt or just lick your lips and smile at a stranger. Delightful, indulgent days await others in sensual embraces, or intimate boudoirs, when Venus conspires with Mars for the ultimate in pulsating sexual euphoria in May.

The Moon

The Moon's cycles and rhythms energise your responsiveness and sense of being nurtured. Your inner beauty is enhanced under the glow of the Full Moon, your fragrance, touch, voice and aura become magical and others respond in tune. For some, the New Moons over the next few months will mean you can merge with others and receive delicious feedback such as "I feel as if I've known you all my life". For others, you?ll know instinctively where and when to unleash your wild streak. Ravishment, captivation and spellbinding moments will guide some of you, and heightened awareness will bring more self-acceptance to others. Be guided by the instinctive energy of the Moon over the next six months for complete inner serenity and outer bewitchment.

Mercury

For the next six months Mercury pleasures your mind to give you new connections and ideas, and a voice with which to amuse and entertain yourself and others. Some of you will enrich your communication skills this February and find new pleasure from a renaissance of sensuous ways of communicating. Face-to-face provocations, eyeball-to-eyeball discussions or indulgent pillow talk will provide a feast of magical experiences. Others will bring alive the art of calligraphy, the restoration of longhand, and the creative art of writing music, poetry or love letters with the natural touch of personal script and evocative words.

Jupiter

Explore the pleasure of your imagination, discover adventure through your actions and intentions. From January to June, Jupiter will bring fame and fortune to some of you, while others may discover a secret craving for the extravagant. Indulge in your imagination, in your spirit and vitality. Champagne feasts or wild abandon mean self-gratification for some, while others will enjoy hedonistic body experiences in decadent spas or simply down the pub. Jupiter's energy over the next six months gives you the chance to reap the luscious fruits of giving the best of yourself.

Neptune

Unleash your romantic senses over the next six months and be inspired by glamour and mystery. Fashion your own image, look behind the masquerade of mass seduction, and create your own mystique. As Neptune tracks through Aquarius, some of you will make glamorous friends, or befriend mystery; others will have fantastic dreams that could become reality and the essence of courtly love makes a comeback. Charismatic people will hypnotise you into believing the unbelievable, and some of you will develop your sixth sense, or find spiritual truth through the esoteric arts. Share your secrets with a lover and use your sixth sense to create six months of magic.

Pluto

Animate your relationships with an erotic touch so that you feel alive and loved for being you. Pluto's ride through Sagittarius brings taboo subjects out of the darkness, and the desire for others becomes unquenchable for some, overkill for others. But Pluto is also about bottom-line survival and the desire to make changes in your life that give you ultimate passion and passionate ultimatums. Some of you will find dark horses appearing in your life over the next six months. Others will realise that eroticism is the art of living, rather than the pornographer's art. But either way, hidden and undermining though Pluto's influence is, it is awesomely stirring.