2019 Zodiac Astrology in a nutshell

The astrological signs are usefully sorted into groupings that have matching types of expression and this method helps to show what similar themes apply in 2019 for related signs
If you want a global perspective on 2019 a detailed forecast is posted on this site

In this forecast the zodiac Sun Signs are presented in their groups CARDINAL FIXED and MUTABLE

 and their shared group themes are revealed

The Cardinal group is Aries Libra Cancer Capricorn

In 2019 all these signs are unusual in that they are all dealing significantly with cardinal issues. Cardinal issues are those that involve:

•  working on your personal style of self expression or personality
• improving how you function in relating to others especially private relationships
• dealing with career issues, matters of true calling or vocation
• focussing on family, roots, the meaning and function of home

All of these are on the table for cardinal signs in 2019 -for many this is a continuation lasting several years. All that differs is the degree of emphasis of the cardinal themes and where additional influences - Jupiter, Uranus Neptune and Pluto - play out:

• Aries is likely to be pulled towards living, studying or travelling overseas with an emphasis on seeking retreat. Money/income changes/unstable. A lot of personal change needed. Partnerships have less of a focus. Habits and expectations around survival needs undergo major change.
• Libra has a home and family/parenting focus. Personal and partnership needs hard to cater for. Resources/assets undergo unexpected changes. Health is weakened. Digestion especially weak/sensitive. Service work or volunteering is a positive expression. Contact with foreign language - perhaps a new study. Habits and expectations around survival needs undergo major change.
• Cancer has an emphasis on the challenges in partnerships & these can cause issues re home/location and career. Friendships affected by change -new beginning, some ending. Spiritual study or travel, better healthcare and nutrition are all beneficial. Habits and expectations around survival needs undergo major change.
• Capricorn is required to do a lot of personal growth regarding self expression, self management -switching away from controlling others to controlling self. Less energy for home, family, career. Personal retreats/going within and reading spiritual self help are all beneficial. Relationships with children, lovers are changeable. Try to find a new creative outlet. Habits and expectations around survival needs undergo major change.

The Fixed group is Taurus Scorpio Leo Aquarius
In 2019 all these signs are dealing significantly with mutable issues. In addition points are made regarding  where other important influences - Jupiter, Uranus Neptune and Pluto - play out:

Mutable issues are change/adaptation/movement conditions that involve:

• the mind - how it functions and grows, thought patterns, ideas, beliefs, mental patterns

With a strong mutable effect the fixed [stubborn, rigid, obsessive] signs are being pressured to become more easy going, tolerant, educated, lateral, laid-back, accepting, forgiving through making changes to their conscious and subconscious ways of thinking.

• Taurus has a strong emphasis on mind expansion drawn from overseas experiences or with other nationalities at home or the energy can be used through higher education/spiritual studies. Demands of work and health may conflict with these goals. A change of personality is on offer to shift you from old attachments and values.  Habits, behaviours and expectations around relating in general undergo major change. Becoming a community volunteer and finding greater empowerment from esoteric explorations and sexual intimacy are all beneficial options.
• Scorpio is mostly asked to transform through you  altering your everyday communication style -making sure any overbearing, domineering and controlling traits are corrected . If obsessive, vengeful and destructive thinking takes hold help should be sought as it truly is time to continue the process of making your mind more healthy. Try to channel mental energy into reading, writing and education. Work and health are areas of challenge during 2019. Relationships are set to be unconventional and or unstable. Financially a good year. Romantic energy may best be put on hold and be used in an imaginative creative outlet. A compassionate role with children is a beneficial option. Habits, behaviours and expectations around relating in general undergo major change
• Leo has a strong continued emphasis on service types of employment and health matters. This issue could conflict with any travel plans and educational options. Changes are sustained in the career sector -new goals or discovery of a true calling. Involvement in charity or philanthropy is beneficial. Romance, creativity and children are focus areas all offering potential growth and positivity. Habits, behaviours and expectations around relating in general undergo major change.
• Aquarius is best focussed on retreating from the world -whether by choice or through forced circumstances such as health. Changes in the home and or family circumstances are indicated. Travel with friends or to be in a group is very beneficial for learning and growth. Money and assets can be much less significant as part of this withdrawal towards a greater spiritual emphasis. Habits, behaviours and expectations around relating in general undergo major change.

The Mutable group is Gemini Sagittarius Virgo Pisces
In 2019 all these signs are dealing significantly with Fixed issues. In addition points are made regarding  where other important influences - Jupiter, Uranus Neptune and Pluto - play out.
Fixed issues are those that involve:

• survival: this will be faced in the context of any or many of the following aspects of daily life - financial position, income, assets, resources, personal power/self empowerment, charisma/attractiveness, love and attention, feeling of being supported through networks of friends or contacts or community in general

• Gemini - changes regarding resources previously shared with others or gained through others can become a factor propelling you towards the responsibility for accumulating greater personal resources. Personal empowerment or charisma needs to be developed now. Fixed ideas around love and attention need to be revised. You are on the path towards making meaningful spiritual contributions to the world at large. Changes in the subconscious clear away obstructions. Best growth area in 2019 is through partnerships and an overseas factor could be in that mix. Issues around love and friendship are being resolved in order to reap the relating benefits.
• Virgo will develop most in areas involving areas of creative expression such as love affairs, children and the arts. A big emphasis on overseas is noted  -coming either through travel, study, home relocation. Beneficial energies also relate to expanding the home or family and through having a spiritual [not boozy or druggy] partnership -such as a teacher-student interchange. Fixed mental patterns involving control, power, jealousy, revenge need to be revised.
• Sagittarius has a big focus on material and financial assets and how to manage and transform them. Living by water or in a spiritual environment is beneficial. A very positive year of freedom adventure, success and personal growth. Changes in health and health routines, nutrition/diet are all worth exploring. Routine work situations also subject to change. Fixed beliefs involving freedom  and independence need to be revised.
• Pisces has a big focus on friendships, networks, communities, expanded contacts. Personal expression continues to move towards more spiritual compassionate responses to the world in general. Fixed mental patterns are subject to significant change. Career or true calling is very positively linked to overseas or people of other nationalities

2012 - 2015 Zodiac Forecast - who is most affected?

2012-2015 Forecast 

- looks like very rough & tough for many. We are about to face a tough four years when an energy pattern not seen since the 1930's will bring dramatic changes to the lives of many around the world.
This forecast was published on Dec 30 2011

• Uranus and Pluto are set to turn the world upside down both literally and figuratively during a phase of readjustment which affects people and places.
• We know so much has to change in order for a better world to develop. Many imbalances have to be rectified so that the extremes of too much and too little cease to devastate the planet and people's lives.
•  Already we have started to experience the foreshadowing of what is to come due to early interactions between these two planetary energies setting the scene for the tide of change to come more emphatically - political unrest, economic austerity and conditions of social adversity. 
• The Occupy movement has made a start in publicising the need for equity and fair practices, but despite this, corruption related to money is rampant

1. All energy patterns occur within an electromagnetic matrix that exists throughout the universe.
2.  For any prevailing energy pattern to affect someone -whether actively by triggering a behaviour or passively by attracting a behaviour - the person will have a resonant or matching vibrational pattern aligned to the vibrational frequency of the planetary energy.
3. Astrology is simply a language for this patterning, using the symbolism of the planets and the descriptive terms identifying the type of energy created when planetary bodies form geometric relationships, called angles -such as square (90degrees) or opposition (180degrees)
4.  Like people, places also have a resonant energy pattern and thus some people and some places seem especially targeted by a particular planetary pattern.  When you are born - place, time, season, generation - are all highly significant in unfolding your destiny or karma. 

Though it is hard to simplify such information, it is possible to highlight particular groups of people who will be most challenged by the changes to come during 2012-2015.

Firstly I have looked at particular birth dates (Sun position) and secondly birthdates of the 8th harmonic group ( 45 degree multiples).
Both of these categories have been identified in relationship to the positions of Uranus square Pluto during 2012-2015. 
The zodiac degrees from 7 to 15 are involved which affects those born on the dates
Feb 14-19
March 27-April 5
May 14-21
June 28 to July 7
Aug 16-23
Sept 30 to Oct 8
Nov 16-22
Dec 29-Jan 6

There will be affects for people across these date ranges, but when Uranus and Pluto are exact at 90 degrees separation, the effects are pronounced.

This data covers the year, the key months and which birthdates (born any year) are very strongly affected

2012
June & Sept :
Feb 12-13, March 27-28,  May 12-13 , June 28-29,  Aug 14-15, 
Sept 30-Oct 1, Nov 14-15, Dec 29-30                                       
                                    

2013
May & October-November: 
Feb 14-15-16, March 30, May 14-15-16 , June 30, July 1,  Aug 16-17-18, 
Sept 2-3,  Nov 16-17-18, Dec 1-2,  

2014   
April                         
Jan 4 , Feb 17-18, April 3,  Oct 6,  May 17-18, July 3, Aug 19-20-21, Nov 19-20-21

2015
March 
Jan 6, Feb 19, April 5, May 20-21,  July 7, Aug 22-23,  Oct 8, Nov 22


Some flexibility is needed re the dates which means that effects can occur on or around the dates specified because highly specific info can only be provided when individual birth time-date-place data is provided.
For the same reason this data cannot cover all the birthdates of people affected - having the Moon or other planets like Mercury, Venus, Mars etc in one of the target degrees will result in obvious effects. 
(You need a personal astrological birth chart analysis to  know this.) 

The keys signs of the Uranus-Pluto pattern are Aries and Capricorn but Libra and Cancer are intrinsically implicated being the rest of the cardinal sign group.  Bodily stresses for this whole Cardinal sign group include head injury or injury from weapons; issues with blood, fever, bones, knees, teeth, kidneys and stomach.

The 8th harmonic group is fixed signs Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, Scorpio -with body weaknesses being heart, circulation, throat, thyroid, neck, sex organs, reproductive/fertility issues.

So internal stresses -bodily - are equally possible effects -  as are outward stresses for an individual -eg those involving their environment, locality, nation and the world at large.

New Structures is the necessity of this planetary pattern. 
To create something new can mean the old must be destroyed, replaced, deconstructed, remodelled, transformed, possibly annihilated. 
Radical changes are likely to be commonplace in order to break with the past, tradition, old habits and practices. Resistance to change will also be evident and people in the 8th harmonic group -the Fixed zodiac signs are most likely to passionately avoid going with the flow willingly.  
For this reason they are most likely to experience enforced changed coming from more powerful forces -eg weather, nature, political policies, social unrest. 
To prepare for change which may be imminent for you, take time to reflect on what is really not working in your life and personal state of being. 
Start there and you will contribute to the collective shift instead of ending up in the highly stressed resistant group. 
Better to go willingly