The Most Important New Year Resolutions

Every three years there's a shift in what areas of life we need to manage better and just before New Year 2018 kicks in a stronger than usual message has been delivered by the cosmos because the planet related to resolutions -Saturn - began it's cyclic three year passage through the most demanding zodiac sign Capricorn -just in time to help you clarify what's really going on

Within 24 hours close to Christmas two young men in motor vehicles died in different locations. Both of similar age. Both were drivers.

They represent an age group that has just become highly vulnerable. Their birth years 1996, 1997 hold the main clue. They - and everyone born in the periods April 1996- to start of June 1998 and Sept 1998-to start of March 1999 is vulnerable in some way to the difficult life lessons under the new cycle of Saturn through Capricorn.

the three zodiac groups

From Dec 22 2017-mid Dec 2020 Saturn passes through Capricorn affecting very strongly certain age-sets of people. [ only the period April-May-June 2020 is exempt]

Saturn periods are consistent with times when things can go horribly wrong -to the point of fatal or at least severely debilitating - like a major illness or injury - or major losses occur. Huge readjustments are involved whether that be at work at home but invariably in the context of how you handle your relationships whether personal, professional, family or to humanity in general.

The young men who died  Dec 23-24 2017 were born in the Saturn in Aries period.

Aries is an energy corresponding to all high risk activities and cars and speed are in this context.

All zodiac signs belong to an energy quartet -so the relevant group beginning to be affected starting Dec 22 2017 is Aries Libra Cancer and Capricorn.

This means requirements are to be made of you -or a price is to be paid - if you were born with planet Saturn in any of those zodiac signs or if your sun sign is one of those.

For example being born a Capricorn with Saturn in Aries would be a double whammy in this period.

Every 30 years Saturn returns to the same sign for close to 3 years.

During the Saturn in Capricorn period the Aries group needs to manage strongly any tendency for impulsive hi-risk behaviour, to manage anger and aggression, to curtail selfish motives and do the ethical adult thing.

The Cancer group will be challenged by home/family/household issues as well as heavy responsibilities in public or career roles. The pull will be away from the home but the prioritising of work over home and family could cause stress. Some may resolve this by working from home or a home-based business.

The Libra group needs to sort out finances and relationships with big doses of reality and acceptance of responsibility. Ending marriages or partnerships is one option. The other is to endure a difficult period of estrangement while the personal growth of both occurs.

The Capricorn group are at their potential best at climbing the winding pathway to the top during this 3 year cycle. Slow, sure-footed patient and steady is the strategy. Setting goals, reaching them, becoming recognised for experience and level of skill or authority. Following long-held ambitions.

Arguably Aries and Librans will have the toughest time during the timeframe.

Due to the timing of the entry of Saturn into Capricorn just before Xmas and New Year the relevance of resolutions is clear.
The kick-start you need could come in the form of:

Coming down to earth -- 

with the chance of a heavy landing

The starting point for framing those noble [but for those most affected, very serious and essential intentions] is to ask the sort of questions that apply to your most obvious current areas of  difficulty.

[As this is a broad-brush outline you personally may not be born when the Sun was in Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn - but you could easily have one or more planets in one of those signs -meaning that this will all apply in a particular context ]

The Questions

These questions show the pressures that can arise during a Saturn period

Select the questions most relevant for your situation

• In what area do I need to face reality?
• Where do I need to cut back, conserve, reduce or save?
• Where do I need to slow down, apply the brakes, obey the rules?
• What commitments are due?
• What responsibilities are ready for me?
• What hard work is waiting for me to start?
• What do I most need to focus on?
• What areas of my life are crying out for better management?
• What sort of discipline am I lacking?
• What activities or behaviours do I need to stop or control better?
• In what ways do I need to grow up?
• What goals, ambitions, achievements can I aim for?

Framing resolutions around these requirements of Saturn will give a much higher rate of success.
When Saturn finally hits the soft spot you've tried to ignore what stands before you won't come as a surprise out of nowhere. You will have had due warning likely more than once already to change the things that need changing. The soft spot is when time really is up. Time to act. Now. Often this process will occur in 3 hits over a one year time frame because it's going to take you that long to get unstuck from one spot and take root in another, better position.

Another relevant example group 

The adults with Saturn in Libra were last born in the period late Sept 1980-Dec 1982, and May 1983-late Aug 1983 [your personal birthdate is needed to clarify for those born at start or end periods as these are simplified here ]

PM Ardern

The past 3 years up to end of 2017 saw the group of Pisces Gemini Virgo Sagittarius experience the full demands of Saturn in Sagittarius - with arguably Pisces and Virgo having the hardest time.

Then add in those with Saturn in Virgo in that period - which includes the woman who became Prime minister of New Zealand in 2017 after 9 years with a much lower political profile. Saturn in Sagittarius delivered for Leo born Jacinda Ardern [July 1980] a heavy workload as she transitioned into the top job in the country.

Being born early in Leo, Jacinda Ardern will experience Saturn opposite her solar energy just once in the coming cycle - in January 2021. She already has the hallmarks of someone who knows how to comply with Saturn -"just buckle down and do it" - so her Saturn periods are more likely to be positively developmental

After Capricorn, Saturn enters Aquarius in late Dec 2020 -affecting Aquarius, Leo, Taurus and Scorpio and anyone with Saturn in one of those signs at some point during the 3 year period.

Specific personalised times for when the most intense periods are due to occur are only readable on the basis of a person's actual birthdate.