This year show everyone that love makes you a better person and the world a better place. You're okay with personal questions, but by mid-January the dialogue goes somewhere you don't like. Liberty isn't so great when it hurts. You recover poise after Mercury goes direct in the first week of February. If you're now single, it may be a while before you meet with an ideal partner. Even if you have someone in mind, that person may be unavailable. Get used to this level of consciousness and severance, because on some level it will happen again at least twice this year. Those with downbeat attitudes walk into a self-fulfilling foresight at the end of March. By dwelling on your state of aloneness, you just missed a beautiful opportunity. The one that waited is moving on. Absorb this lesson quickly, because around April 21st the Taurus Sun introduces somebody that meets your needs. New relationships have more to do with security than love. Mercury retrogrades on May 15th, opening your eyes to exactly what is happening around you. If you're still a couple after three intense weeks of assessment and adjustment, maybe you two are meant to be. By late June, ardour replaces arguments. A terrific physical compatibility is more than just raging hormones. Demanding partners admire instead of being difficult. Even if you once feared your feelings, you celebrate them as Summer progresses. New couples getaway for a few days, set up housekeeping, or start a significant project together. When Mercury retrogrades again on September 14th, you have three existential weeks as half of a pair rather than part of a whole. A solid romance, however, is never endangered by moments of individualism. By the first week of October, partnership stabilises comfortably. Venus and Saturn retrograde on the 10th and 11th, helping you find yourself in the scheme of things. An uneasy edge enters your relationship that, toward the end of November, might cut through passion and into pain. Between Diwali and the Christmas holidays, someone grows delicate and temperamental. If the reasons lie beyond your relationship, make things better by comforting instead of demanding. Capricorn enlightens the dark side of co-dependency in the final days of December. You always knew that the holidays are more about giving than getting.