Security and stability may be your middle name but 2009 is all about taking a leap of faith and throwing the rule book away. Preparation meets opportunity and instead of your looking on while other people collect the glittering prizes, you are in the front line of success. You'll see your life expand, whether through professional or personal developments, and you'll look back on this year as a major turning point. Indeed, 2009 has an altogether different aura about it. You may still experience some delays and disappointments with things of a creative nature but as you must know, the best things in life are worth waiting for. July takes you on a long journey, both in the sense of travel and experience, and some of 2009's most impressive developments will be linked to people and places on foreign soil.

LOVE

Neptune has made mincemeat of your dreams in recent times but now that Jupiter is alongside you can afford to dream big. Plus, with relationship ruler, Pluto, in the zone of far horizons, new love for some Taureans will be found in distant places or with people from different cultures, while others will find their long-term relationship recaptures its bloom in a foreign country. If you're thirty-six or forty-eight years of age, the time has come to make your vows or re-take them and, whenever your birthday, if you find 'the one' in 2009, make the commitment. Is there a downside? March could reveal secrets and the cracks in a relationship and if money is also involved protect your interests at all costs. June and July, on the other hand, are all about celebrating love.

AND THE REST

Your career could be the top beneficiary of your improved stars. Your hard work should be recognized, and promotion – even fame – and an increased money supply could be the result. If you're ready to go into business, anything of a humanitarian or artistic nature should thrive and, in general, if you follow your passion you will succeed. Indeed, I cannot emphasize enough the need to be brave and confident about your abilities – when opportunities arise, grab them with both hands – February and August are the months to watch here. The eclipse patterns of the year highlight the life-direction axis; for some celestial Bulls these will inspire a home move, for others surprising family developments and for all a sense that something indefinable has shifted at root level. And it is good.