This is one year when first impressions are not so much wrong, for they will be accurate at the time, but they could soon change thanks to some significant shifts in the first 12 days of the month. First impressions suggest that this will be a big and busy year across the income, work and career fronts and things are definitely getting off to an empowered start. However, as if marshalling their resources to gain as much initial traction as possible, there will soon be a shift that will allow things to level off. The first shift happens on 6th January, when two months after returning for what should have been a six week visit to your income sector Mars will retrograde back out. Once back in direct motion, Mars will return again but not until April, by which point there will be some massive and major developments taking place on the career front. It is two days later that over two months after returning for what is normally a 14 to 15 day visit to your work sector, on 8th January Mercury will not only leave your work sector but leave it empty until later in the year. Four days later, after 18 months of guiding things forward and providing a sense of professional direction, the North Node will leave your career sector on 12th January. Within 12 days the forces that are getting the year off to such an empowered start across the income, work and career fronts, will have disbanded, giving you a chance to pull back but also for things to play out. This is also a chance to rest, with things firing up again when Neptune returns to your career sector in March. Meanwhile, Mars’ return to Cancer will see him form new alliances, namely with the asteroid Juno in a playful and creative part of your chart and Venus, who will return to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery on 3rd January. As always, the Sun will spend the first three weeks of January in your relationship sector, before shifting the spotlight on your financial situation, money matters and the considerable support building there on 20th January.