This is an exciting month because surprise developments will bring needed changes. With two eclipses due this month, one in Aquarius and one in Virgo, it's clear the world is in flux, and that your life is, too. Your chart is particularly intriguing, especially when viewed in the context of what you've been doing over the past two years.

A little over two years ago, in mid-July 2005, Saturn moved into your house of career achievement and set up a two-year period of challenging tests of your skills. Higher-ups were hard to please and they really put you through the wringer to see how you'd react, because that's how taskmaster Saturn typically teaches its life lessons.

Saturn remained in part of your solar chart for a little over two years, and during that time you grew in experience and you became more seasoned and mature. Your grasp of your job grew and you were being encouraged to show initiative by making contributions to improve productivity and performance. Last September 2007, Saturn finally moved on, releasing you from much constant pressure to prove yourself to higher-ups. Subsequently, you may have received an impressive promotion as a result of challenges successfully met. You paid your dues so in the last quarter of 2007, it was time to collect the rewards. You are still in a similar reward period, so that period hasn't necessarily ended.

Now you will be able to use the experiences you gained over the past two years to even greater advantage. The eclipses of 2008 will, after this month, move out of Virgo-Pisces where they have been for two years and start to appear in Leo and Aquarius. Leo rules your solar house of career so this means your career is about to show exciting growth again. The eclipse that will touch that sector strongest will arrive August 1.

This month, Leo's polar opposite, Aquarius, will be accented with a new moon solar eclipse in your house of home on February 6. As a result, you may move house, for an eclipse in the area of home usually suggests an impending change. It is alternatively possible that you may change your present space by buying new furniture, painting several rooms, or by planning renovations or repairs. You may also reorganize furniture to make better use of your space.

Whatever is going on with your home this month may be tied to developments that are going on in your career. A solar eclipse will also bring in the activities of the house ruled by Leo - in your case that would be your solar 10th house of career status, honors, and achievement. With both your career and home lit up, it's possible the two are connected in a casual relationship, with one leading the other. On the other hand, it may also be that your rising status may now allow you to afford to upgrade your home environment.

Still, since the transiting Sun is now going through your sector of home, I feel you may be contemplating the start of a home-based business, which would be a great idea. Eventually your business may grow too big to be based there, but for now it should be, for home is where you will be luckiest. Entertaining clients and VIPs from work at home may be another way to make use of this sparking energy to your advantage.

Alternatively, it is possible that you may need to relocate quickly to accept a big job offer that you would hear about on or just after the solar eclipse on February 6. Moving takes time, so you probably wouldn't actually complete your relocation until mid-year, but you'd start to get clues now about what is coming later in the year.

Certainly that February 6 eclipse will be your friend, for it will bring you many options. Neptune will work in a close and friendly way with Uranus (in what is astrologically called a mutual reception). Uranus is currently in your house of creativity and Neptune is in your house of home, so you will soon prove yourself to be a bountiful idea factory, especially when working at home You seem to need a creative outlet badly, and you may hit on the perfect one this year.

I am not sure if your ideas will be directed toward your work, or directed toward improving the look of your decor - or both. Both areas would benefit from your brainstorming, so there's no need to limit your thinking to one direction or the other.

Meanwhile, you have Jupiter, planet of financial benefit, expansion, and good luck visiting your 3rd house of communication throughout 2008. It follows that you would learn to communicate in a new way, a big area of personal growth for you in the coming year.

This leads me to wonder if you might start a Website or online community, run a radio show out of your home, or write software code for clients there. Writing, speaking, doing research, editing, proofreading, and other communication arts will be other areas of growth for you. You may decide to edit manuscripts at home or do design work for clients on your computer there.

This month, four heavenly bodies will move through your sector of home in Aquarius - ruling the new digital age and all things newly invented. Aquarius also rules social networks and community. These are areas that you may be thinking about working within. Aquarius also rules fundraising, humanitarian efforts, and political campaigns, so you may do social work or join a political campaign as a staffer.

Astrology and other concepts that are not completely understood yet by science are also ruled by Aquarius, such as astrology. You may do readings at home for clients who stop by there - this month you seem ready to beautify your environment to be sure clients feel comfortable there. If working at home full time interests you and you have the room to create a serious home office, this would be the right month to build it.

Since Aquarius governs astrology (the sign so strongly emphasized by the February 6 eclipse), you may open a consultation business where clients come to your home for readings. Or, you may choose to offer other massage therapies at home. I think you get the idea.

No matter what your plans happen to be, your career will soon show definite signs of growing into a more developed phase, something you will see plainly from May 9 through June 30 and then again, with more emphasis when the friendly eclipse arrives in Leo on August 1.

I am not saying that the side work you may be doing at home will necessarily become your full time work soon, although it might. I suspect you will be doing both while you nurture your home based idea.

The days that follow August 1 will be your best of the year to interview for a prestigious new position, or to begin your new job. (Note: If you don't start August 1, it may be August 4). Any job you interview for starting in August or begin then would represent an increase in status.

The second eclipse, a lunar eclipse due February 20, will be the last in the series of Virgo-Pisces. While the earlier solar eclipse will mark a beginning, this lunar eclipse will arrive as a full moon in your sector of friendship and mark some sort of ending. You may see a close friend move away, or more troubling, have a falling out with a friend. (Let's hope it's not that!)

This eclipse will align closely to Saturn, a weighty influence, so there will be other ways things may play out. You may hear of a friend in need and want to be at her side to help her through a crisis. I say "her" because the friend is likely to be female, as a lunar eclipse will always point to a woman. Your friend may be in need of emotional support, and since she is showing up so clearly in your chart, you will want to be there for her. She will be grateful for your good advice and cheery optimism, too.

In a less positive interpretation of this trend triggered on February 20, you may be upset about something a friend says or does. You may later feel that you never quite understood this person's character or that you both had very different assumptions about how you'd interact with one another. Or, you may be amazed to learn that your friend had harbored certain resentments toward you or that your friend has betrayed you in some way.

Let's think positive thoughts. Since this house also rules groups, you may decide to run for office in a club or take over an important committee within a group you belong to. If you are on the tenants committee, you may decide to help out by coming up with important improvements to the building you live in, and gain the respect of all the other tenants for your get up and go.

Virgo is a sign that relates well with yours, and that's the sign where this eclipse on February 20 will fall. If you were born on or within five days of October 24, you will benefit from what you learn or do at this time.

During this very busy month, you may get a chance to travel a short distance on February 1. If so, this trip would be quite special. It appears a friend will invite you over and you may be able to bring your partner, too. This would be a great moment for a quick trip, for it would have all the elements for fun. You may want to spend the ensuing weekend together, too. With Venus conjunct Jupiter, you cannot go wrong!

On the same day, February 1, you may get extraordinary help, advice, or good news from your sibling. Be sure to call to check in. Actually, all email, phone calls, or other news you receive on this wonder day would sparkle, so keep your cell phone powered up!

Speaking of keeping batteries charged, this month brings Mercury in retrograde from the month's start until February 17. Mercury brings all kinds of communication snafus and mix-ups, so you'll have to go the extra mile to be sure that messages you send are received accurately and vice versa, that you understood them correctly, too.

Although you might assume it is safe to begin signing contracts and making big purchases soon after Mercury turns direct, that won't be the case this month. You will have that somewhat somber eclipse on February 20, and another hard aspect, Saturn opposed to the Sun, on February 24. This would be no time to announce decisions or launch new endeavors, for you will first need to see what messages the eclipses deliver.

On February 24, when Saturn opposes the Sun, you may hear that your company is having problems and has planned a few cutbacks. Although your job seems secure, you may feel you won't have the budget to institute plans you had assumed you'd be able to do. As a matter of fact, what's going on at work may also impact your domestic plans.

Until you get to the end of February, you won't know the whole score. Keep your options open and don't agree to anything just yet. March will bring a more stable, settled atmosphere in which to announce your decisions and announcements. Sit tight for now.

Romance may not be your number one priority in February, if only because several elements in your life will need all of your focused attention and energy. Also, there appears to be a reason you can't be with the one you care about, perhaps because you or your partner will be traveling or involved with studies and exams. That situation will resolve next month, so be patient.

Attached? Of all the Scorpios, you'll have the biggest advantage in matters of the heart this month. As mentioned earlier, there'll be no better way to rejuvenate your relationship than through travel to a sweet bed and breakfast on February 1-3.

When Venus sends Uranus a flirtatious vibe on February 6, your partner may surprise you in truly exciting ways. In fact, this day could turn out to be even more thrilling than what happens on Valentine's Day!

On Valentine's Day, instead of going out, you might decide to whip up an enticing, sexy meal at home - a super way to use the full extent of your lovely at-home star power and enjoy the privacy that as a Scorpio you would truly appreciate. Mars, your ruler, will send a golden beam to the Sun, so this day for lovers should please you, for sure.

Your most romantic evenings this month include February 1-3, 8, 14, 16, and 26.

Summary

Home will be the center of your focus in February. With Mercury, Neptune, the Sun, and new moon solar eclipse filling this sector, you'll make exciting progress in this, the most private area of your life. You may move to a new address, buy new furnishings, or design blueprints for a stunningly beautiful renovation. Venus will enter this same sector soon, suggesting changes will be truly gorgeous, and ones you'll long enjoy.

This month will provide you with exceptional planetary help for home-related changes, but once you reach month's end, your vibes will fade and your attention will be drawn elsewhere. Focus on your domestic plan any time from February 6 to 19 while you have so much working in your favor! Keep in mind however that Mercury will be retrograde until February 17 - proceed carefully and try not to order any expensive furnishings, renovations, or electronics until early March. Just when you think you will have uncovered all the facts about your purchase you'll discover there are even more elements to consider. If you act too quickly, you may regret doing so.

If you feel you're "all set" at home, you may instead do lots of entertaining during this period, with equally exciting, positive results (and reviews!)

Events in your career will have bearing over home-related plans this month, too. Relocation to a new city may be necessary. Alternatively, it may be that you feel you can finally enjoy your recent career success in a more material way.

With Saturn now out of your professional sector, the pressure you've been under over the past two years is over. You've proven your worth and now you can collect the rewards. It appears that you may be starting a home-based business, one that is communication or community-oriented, and if you think that's possible, spend time this month designing your new home office.

If you can take a vacation day on February 1, for a long weekend away to a close but romantic location with your steady partner, do so. Jupiter will conjoin Venus then, making for a truly outstanding day for travel and love. The kind of memories you spin will last a long time - possibly forever.

A female friend may be hit by a crisis at month's end, near the lunar eclipse February 20. Although you are busy, if you are truly this person's friend, you will need to be there for her. She will need your advice and emotional support, and she appears to be your whole focus at month's end.

If you belong to a club, you may be elected to a high office now or volunteer to take on a very high profile committee. If so, the fact that this is an eclipse suggests this project will become a cornerstone of new developments to come - an area in which you will be quite proud. Saturn is very prominent at this eclipse so it's clear you'd work hard, but in life you get as good as you give. You'd gain experience that you can put to good use in other ways, most likely in your career.

There is another, less positive way this lunar eclipse due February 20 may play out, however. That is that you may suffer a betrayal of a friend or have a falling out over a piece of information that surfaces that you were never privy to.

Eclipses can be learning experiences, so no matter what you are asked to do or learn near February 20, be glad for the experience. As odd as this sounds, this eclipse could allow you to find a happy ending, due to its fine angle to Pluto and Mars, both being co-rulers of Scorpio. If this friend is important to you, keep lines of communication open. You may be able to untangle difficulties and actually grow closer as a result. If you feel you can't be friends, then make a clean break now, and don't look back.