Your stars for 2010

No more drama for Leos, Virgos take the plunge and all change for Taureans. Expect the unexpected in this year's horoscopes

ARIES
20 March - 19 April

This may be one of the most exciting years of your life, although at the start you'd be forgiven for thinking it the most challenging. Difficulties involving close alliances, at home or at work, continue to cause concern. With eclipses in January and midyear shaking things up, there's no simple solution. Patience is required, and scrupulously honest discussions. While you'd prefer to make any necessary changes right away, events - and others' demands that you take it more slowly - result in frustrating delays. In fact, they're in your best interests, as they ensure that you can take advantage of the life-changing ideas or offers promised by Jupiter's rare and fantastic encounter with Uranus, in Aries, on 8 June. What occurs then revolutionises your thinking - and your future.

Theme New era
Challenge Practising patience
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TAURUS
20 April - 20 May

Try to ignore unexpected developments that upset your life or daily routine and you could miss what's best about 2010. Disruptive changes are driving you to question both longestablished habits and pleasures. Try to begin this process by broadening your horizons early in the year. That way, when more powerful events between June and August introduce enforced but ultimately beneficial changes, you'll be in the perfect frame of mind to make the most of them. True, some are sudden or mean venturing into unfamiliar territory. Usually, you'd do all you could to minimise changes. Instead, take the plunge and you'll soon be exchanging doubts for amazing, if unexpected, encounters and discoveries. These add excitement to your work or other obligations and unanticipated joy to your personal life. And instead of dreading the new, you embrace it eagerly.

Theme Venturing into new territory
Challenge Recognising value in the unfamiliar
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GEMINI
21 May - 20 June

You may be inquisitive by nature. But even you have blind spots and issues you firmly refuse to recognise. During 2010, a combination of changing circumstances in your own life and shake-ups in the world around you opens your eyes to these undiscovered areas of your life - and mind. Some involve practical, domestic or working issues and, because you feel trapped, you insist they're preventing you from exploring certain potentially worthwhile options. Others have to do with who or what brings you joy, and here, too, you've been toying with new ventures but devising lots of excuses for not taking that first step. Now destiny takes a hand. If, initially, the form in which opportunities appear is shocking, once you're actually in the midst of them, you'll be glad they occurred - and wonder why you waited so long.
Theme New possibilities
Challenge Overcoming self-created obstacles
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CANCER
21 June - 21 July

It may not seem like it at the time, but the unsettling events triggered by both the potent Cancer eclipsed Full Moon that occurred on 31 December 2009 and the Cancer solar eclipse, in mid-July, are about breakthroughs, in your personal life and in elements of your work and lifestyle. These, plus dramatic events in the lives of those closest to you, and in the world around you, alter the circumstances that you have to deal with, often with stunning swiftness. In most cases, this involves lifechanging opportunities. These force you to look beyond what you've always regarded as your limits, in terms of your skills, interests - and sometimes even your courage. This is timely, since as you prepare to pursue longcherished dreams, unexpected developments clear the way ahead. Your biggest challenge, however, is taking that very first step. Once you've done that, your confidence will grow with every day that passes.

Theme Breakthroughs
Challenge Taking that first step
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LEO
22 July - 22 August

By early 2010, you'll already be conscious that you need to rearrange elements of your life, some of which you've been struggling to keep as they are. The problem is, you won't be sure where or how to begin. Resist the tendency, as a Leo, to do something dramatic. Ideally, in fact, you'll keep things loose until early June, when Mars, the planet of ego and courage, ends its lengthy stay in Leo. Happily, events then clear your path, both for those changes and for you to pursue goals you once regarded as unobtainable. True, this means taking chances and leaving familiar elements of your life behind. Once you begin, you'll realise that you needn't do it all at once. Suddenly, contemplating new ventures and exploring various unexpected options is fun. And you actually enjoy your ever-changing vision of the future.

Theme Being true to yourself
Challenge Loving the unknown
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VIRGO
23 August - 22 September

Between September 2007 and last October, during which Saturn was in the sign of Virgo, life may have been tough. But now that you're in a position to look back over that period, you're beginning to realise what you dealt with and accomplished. And it was an enormous amount. Review this now. First, savour what you've achieved. Then consider what you still want to tackle when Saturn returns to your sign, from early April until late July. Between now and then, however, many elements of your way of living and, more importantly, how you look at life, are changing. Add equally dramatic changes in the circumstances of others, and you'll revise your priorities, probably several times. Knowing that, forget about making a master plan. You soon realise that there's no justification for your usual caution and you'll absolutely thrive on taking chances and doing exactly what you want.

Theme Feeling entitled to make demands
Challenge Recognising your deepest desires
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