Jupiter will be in one of the best positions to protect and provide for you in 2009. No matter how tough the going gets, you'll sail through, and out of difficulties will come blessings. On a practical level, you can do very well in the housing market and renovations and additions to the home will prove very worth while – although those additions may come in the form of new members of the family. You're going to have to break a few of your own rules too: life is changing big time so that old strategies and outdated belief-systems will have to be binned and replaced by more appropriate ones. A journey will prove of great significance in July or August: it may inspire thoughts of a permanent move elsewhere or what happens in a distant place will leave a powerful mark on your life.

LOVE

In 2009 affairs of the heart are not so much about wild flings but finding love close to home and feeling at home with someone, being close and comfortable. It is a year of building relationships and making the fibres that connect you to another person, strong yet pliable. Some Scorpios will be learning the ropes with step-children, while others will be adjusting to fresh developments in a partner's life, and, in general, the duty of love takes precedence over the passion. The Jupiter-Neptune conjunction, which is strongest in late May, early July and late December, promotes divine connections, in some cases bringing the right person into your life, and in others heightening the synergy between you and a partner. June is the perfect month for a wedding or reuniting with a lost love.

AND THE REST

Investing in your own talents and working from home are big themes for 2009, as is being employed by family firms. And did you know you had green fingers? Even if all you can muster is a window box, get planting. The more self-sufficient you can be, the better. There is no such thing as a safe option this year -- indeed, the less dependent you are on one single institution for your money, both in terms of borrowing/saving and earning a salary, the better. With the Saturn-Uranus opposition flanking the creative axis of your chart, getting a new business endeavour off the ground could prove difficult, and such things will be better put off until 2010. You are very resourceful, Scorpio, so even in a time of global turbulence, you will rise, like a phoenix, out of the ashes of other people's failures and mistakes...