TOKYO GINZA Astrology

The people you meet this month bring unfamiliar worlds within reach. The Sun and New Moon in the 9th house encourage travel and specialized learning, while Mars and Jupiter in the 7th house enliven one-to-one relationships. Someone whose experience is very different from yours may make a powerful impression. What inspires you in the first half of the month feeds into your professional goals in the second. October broadens your view of the world, then reminds you by month's end how much there is to appreciate about coming home.

In September, someone else's skills or experience can help you move forward with something that was difficult to tackle alone. The Sun and the New Moon around the 11th illuminate the 8th house, the realm of close trust and cooperation in which everyone contributes their strengths. A specialist's ingenuity may make a job easier to carry out, or a conversation with someone knowledgeable may suggest another version of a project: you can get a real taste of what working together achieves. In the second half of the month, your interest in travel and specialized learning broadens, and the Full Moon around the 26th brings answers to messages or matters close to home. Something you have only gathered information about may become an experience you want to have yourself. Admiring someone else's skill could leave you eager to try something of your own.

August brings someone else's strengths to an idea you had been developing alone. The Sun and Jupiter in Leo, along with the New Moon and solar eclipse around the 12th, illuminate the 7th house of one-to-one relationships. In work and love, you may find yourself wondering what you could do with the person in front of you. Someone does not have to agree with you on everything to be a good collaborator. A method or preference you would never have thought of can change the quality of an experience. In the second half of the month, your own skills and value become clearer; working with someone may be precisely what reveals your strengths. This is a month to enjoy the possibilities that two independent people can create.

July brings both the pleasure of improving your everyday work and the wider possibilities of joining forces with someone else. The New Moon around the 14th falls in the 6th house of practical work and daily life. Learning a good method, then hearing from people who have actually used it, may give you more confidence in your skills. Meanwhile, Jupiter in the 7th house of one-to-one relationships expands invitations and other people's expectations of you. Along with enjoying the excitement they bring, you may want to be clearer about what you want to do yourself. Around the 29th, the Full Moon is in Aquarius. This month lets you create a new opportunity both for the capable person you are at work and for the person absorbed in doing something you love.

Something you have enjoyed watching makes you want to try it yourself. In June, the Sun and New Moon illuminate romance and creativity, giving your personal pleasures a more active place in your life. Alongside the question of how well you can do something comes the pleasure of finding out whether you enjoy making it yourself. Around the 9th, Venus and Jupiter come together in the area of daily work, and the satisfaction of using your skills may draw a welcome response from other people. Work and play need not remain separate: a technique you discover through an experience you love may prove useful on the job. From the end of the month, a new phase begins in which joining forces with someone else expands what you can do.

This month, you want to make your home or workspace a place you can enjoy more. The Sun moving through Taurus and the New Moon around the 16th illuminate the 4th house of home and belonging. Beyond having the things you need, you may want a seat where you can look at a favorite work of art, or time to invite someone over and talk. Early in the month, you receive recognition for your work; in the second half, love and creativity also bring unexpected inspiration. When your plans outside come to an end, there is still more pleasure to come. There is something you want to try when you get home, someone you want to see in your own space. May gives you room to make days like these.

April turns words into action. With planets gathering in Aries in the 3rd house, conversations, learning and local journeys become livelier. Visit a shop that has caught your eye, ask someone knowledgeable a question, or give a brief account of your own idea. A small excursion or initiative may lead to your next plan. Early in the month, the meaning of what you have learned farther afield becomes clearer; by midmonth, it is your turn to speak. Later, you feel more inclined to enjoy your home or the place where you base your activities, while new tastes begin to emerge in love and creative work. Something you have been enjoying in your imagination can become an experience other people enjoy with you. That is the kind of development that suits this month.