Welcome to Jonathan's 2003 Year Ahead LOVE introduction Click on the zodiac signs below to read the Love & Relationships section plus an Overview for 2003 Click here to go back to the Index page Click here to read Jonathan's piece on the "Year of the Martian Invasion!" �Never did the course of true love run smooth.� So wrote William Shakespeare. But then he was a Taurean and people born under this sign are famously down to earth when it comes to love and romance. We all, of course, want 2003 to be the year in which our hearts thaw while our pulses race. There�s a very good chance that our wish will be granted. For this year Mars will come closer to the earth than it has been at any point in the last 73,000 years. Mars is the planet of passion. It governs wild, torrid outbursts of determined desire. It is the planet of invasion and intrusion, conquest and consummation. There�ll be plenty of all that kind of thing going on this year as the red planet begins to dominate our night sky. This may be good news for those who are looking for electric action in their love-life. But it does not bode so well for the planet as a whole. Mars is the classic symbol of unthinking, uncaring aggression. It is the planet of anger, attack and machismo of the kind most often demonstrated by hot-headed males. Indeed, the very symbol for Mars is the same as the traditional symbol for �male energy�. If you look closely at it, you can soon see why. Right now the �big men� all over our planet are beating their chests and banging their drums of war. They don�t much care who they harm as long as they prove their petty points. They are all, of course, insisting that they are in the right � that they do not really want a fight at all � and that it is all �the other guy�s fault.� This is classic Mars talk. People who are hell-bent on battle invariably argue that they have no choice � other than to resort to violence. What force can possibly counteract this worrying warmongering? Only one. There only ever has been one sure way to disarm dangerous men with a mad mission. Their hatred must be met with compassion. Their intolerance with forgiveness. Their ignorance with understanding. The Beatles once sang �All you need is love.� Right now we need it more than ever � but it will not be the love of cosy couples that saves our world from being taken to the brink of destruction this year. It will be the ability of ordinary people to love and respect their fellow human beings � and to recognise the horrible futility of going to war with one another. LOVE FOR...? Chris Evans April 1, 1966 Billie Piper September 22, 1982 Billy is a Virgo, Chris is an Aries. Most astrologers would expect this pairing to fail nine times out of ten. But this is the tenth occasion. It may not be a smooth and simple future, but it does have a future. We�ll be watching their ups and downs for many years to come. I wrote this shortly after they first got together and I still stick by my prediction. Catherine Zeta Jones September 25, 1969 Michael Douglas September 25, 1944 Catherine is a Libran, so is Michael. They even share the same birthday, albeit 25 years apart, but their charts are significantly different, suggesting tension. Tension can be a good thing in a relationship, keeping it full of excitement, drama and passion. There�s plenty of that here � and plenty to indicate an ongoing constructive power struggle. They agree about very little � other than the fact that they enjoy disagreeing with one another. This appraisal was one of the first things I wrote for The Mirror. The critics said this one would never last either but I predicted otherwise long ago. And I still stand by this. Prince Charles November 14, 1948 Camilla Parker Bowles July 17, 1947 Charles is a Scorpio, Camilla is a Cancerian. Interestingly, Diana was a Cancerian too. But when you look at their full charts you soon see that this relationship is very different. Some while ago I wrote: �They are gloriously compatible. In answer to those who ask, �What does he see in her?� the answer is, he sees the sun, the moon, and all the stars in her eyes. And he is every bit as much a star in her eyes too.� Later this year we shall all see just how true this is.

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