The planetary power is now entering its maximum eastern position, from the 23rd onwards. You are in your period of greatest personal independence and should make good use of this. Your happiness is up to you. You can create the conditions that you want in your life – and you should. The world will adapt to you. In astrological parlance we call these ‘making karma’ periods. That is, your personal freedom allows you to make karma (good or bad). The time to pay the piper will come later on in the year, when the planets move to the West. Then you will have to live with whatever you’ve created now. It is good – divinely planned – that your 12th house of spirituality precedes your birthday period. For some of you this happens this month, for others next. This gives you the opportunity to review your past year, make note of your successes and failures, the good times and the bad times, and atone for (correct) past mistakes, forgive those who need to be forgiven and set your goals for the year ahead. It is good to visualize these goals as if you have already attained them. This requires solitude. Too many worldly, 3D vibrations will interfere with the process. Once you have succeeded in this, you will be ready to handle the new cycle with a clean slate. (Your birthday is your personal new year, from an astrological perspective.) Health is good this month and will get even better after the 23rd. The solar eclipse of the 1st could give you a few health scares or cause dramatic changes in your health regime, but you will get through – you have good overall vitality. This eclipse occurs in your 12th house, indicating more changes in your spiritual regime, practice and attitudes. If you didn’t make the necessary changes last month, you will have to make them now. Generally this comes through revelations. When new knowledge and insight come to you, it is only natural to change your practice. You are in a whole new set of circumstances. Events in a charity or cause you are involved with are still not settled; there are more shake-ups going on. This eclipse impacts on Saturn, your work planet; thus there are job changes, or changes in the conditions at work. Those who employ others could see employee turnover now. As usual you are forced to do more re-defining of your image and self-concept. There are major wardrobe changes coming up. On the 23rd your yearly personal pleasure peak begins. Looks like a super-fun kind of period. No one knows better how to have fun than Leo. The only danger from a health perspective is overdoing things. There is always a price to be paid for this. Love is excellent this month – but after the 23rd seems better than before. You look great. You have charisma, taste and style. There is harmony with your beloved this month. The only complication here is that Uranus starts to retrograde on the 9th. If you have recently got involved in a relationship, there is a sort of ‘pull back’ – a re-thinking – going on. You are very much a love-at-first-sight person, and right now even more so. Going slower might be advisable. Finances also look good. It’s a prosperous month. On the 2nd Mercury (your financial planet) crosses your Ascendant. This brings windfalls and financial opportunities to you. Money searches for you, not the other way around. You are a free spender and enjoying your largesse. Speculations are favourable. After the 28th you are less ‘happy go lucky’ with money. Instead, you are more conservative and more into the financial details. It’d be a good time to handle your accounting then.