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Patience and persistence will be rewarded for Lions in relationships

LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS

A little more conversation could lead to a little more action as your sex life gets a bookish glow-up this year. Finding chemistry through intellectual connection could be a highlight as words and communication become a serious stimulant. Write your own erotica, immerse yourself in saucy audiobooks or get busy leaving someone some spicy voice messages.

If you’re in a relationship, serious chats around cash and property continue to be an ongoing theme. Setting long-term goals and figuring out exactly how you’ll get to them may feel frustrating (March looks especially tricky), but you’ll get there. Patience and persistence will be rewarded, so hang in there.

FAMILY AND HOME

After a two-year period of upheaval and change, 2024 looks decidedly less dramatic on the home and family front. With a new era well under way, your greatest challenge will be navigating the push/pull between home and work. Big career opportunities could pull you away from the smallness of domestic life, particularly in the first five months of the year. It’s a period that will require balance and understanding from your support crew.

The most sensitive familial season of the year comes in December, when the planet ruling your home and family goes retrograde (December 7 until February 24, 2025). This is a time when old baggage you thought was long forgotten could resurface. Well-worn but acerbic dynamics with family – parents especially – could bubble up. If you can move past the initial “ouch” of the situation, there’s some healing to be done ... but it will require reframing the way you express anger.

CAREER AND MONEY

Are you ready to take a chance? With Jupiter and Uranus joining forces to inspire expansion and spontaneity, the world is your oyster. Stay attuned to opportunity when the skies afford you a juicy window to be in the right place at the right time between April 7 and May 13. This is the optimal moment for you to keep your eyes and ears peeled for out-of-the-blue prospects. When the sliding doors open, don’t be afraid to take the leap!

Meanwhile, a new cycle highlighting the way you handle money kicks off on September 18. This is the start of a new two-year phase where old hang-ups and habits around how you earn, save and spend cash will rise to the surface, and you’ll be given the chance to turn over a new leaf. Like all eclipses, you won’t have to go looking for “the thing” to purge; instead, events will naturally run their course. When they start to peel away, the key is to let them go and not scramble to hold on just because they seem familiar.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

You’ve got all of 2024 (almost) to prepare for your biggest health and wellbeing moment of the year, which doesn’t appear until Mars goes retrograde on December 7 (until February 24, 2025). This three-month cycle, which only happens every couple of years, is a time to slow down and stop pushing yourself quite so hard. It’s timely medicine towards the end of the year when burn-out levels are at an all-time high – even without any astrology emphasising the mood. Managing your time and your frustrations with slower, more mindful movements (such as yoga, Pilates and walking) should be your go-to tonics while you navigate the retrograde season.

“Well-worn but acerbic dynamics with family – parents especially – could bubble up”