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LOVE: Your giddy, hyperactive experience of love turns thoughtful as the year begins. Recognize your effect on others, and see if you want to change it. You're more social after January 21st. Expect better communication with your lover, or maybe you'll find the resolve to find someone that fits your new self. For most of February you play the field without committing, but near the 22nd, you fall hard for the man or woman of your dreams. If this person wrapped you around his or her finger, you couldn't imagine a better place to be.

By the fourth week in March, pride and dignity rear their heads. You've been pushed around before, and you know how to push back. This period of passion and tension stretches into early May. On or after the 3rd, your love becomes less inner-focused and more universal. A casual relationship dissolves without hard feelings. You're destined for something more rewarding after the 20th, when a meeting of the minds leads to the possibility for romance. The last week of the month has you wondering if it's all happening too fast, but the next few days resolve your doubts.

Summer begins with a flood of intensity. At first you don't mind just being together without saying much, but after a month you're hungry for conversation. The person with whom you have an easy, witty rapport in late July could become your next partner. This transition might take eight or nine weeks, some of which will be a stressful cat-and-mouse game. The quality of romance might also suffer between August 28th and September 19th. The person you desire isn't paying attention. On the 20th, his or her focus shifts to you, where it obviously belongs.

Past or current relationships get resolved after September 27th. By the end of October, this accord may be showing some wrinkles. Instinct drives you more than you care to admit. Your best chance to control it comes on the 25th; otherwise, expect months of an uphill battle with yourself. Passions rise against the teetering balance of male and female energy. Is something about to change for good? As the Sun comes to Capricorn, you appreciate the necessity of staying together through the bad as well as the good. However you reach commitment, it's a giant step.