PLANT ~

The seventh year of the cycle is ruled by Neptune. At best it is a year of serenity, peace, and gentleness. At worst it is a time with no direction, blown about like a leaf on the wind with nothing being accomplished. A time of hazy goals, and dreamy emotions. The psychic element will be very strong, and it is a time both of serious revelations and of false illusions.

ANIMAL ~

The Animal year is ruled by Mars, and is imbued with both His positive and negative qualities. It is a time of energy and vitality, reproduction and proliferation. The Life Force is strong and bursting out all over. Ambition, aggression, and even ruthlessness are marked. Confusion, the result of the surging life-force, is likely to be rampant, due to many people running in many directions in pursuit of different goals. Headless chickens will be common. Everyone will be out for his/her own, and not too concerned about how they get it. It might seem as if society is at war -except there are far too many sides, and all of them fighting at the same time. You will find boundless energy bounding all over the place!

STONE ~

The Stone is the final year in the cycle and will lead back to the Sun. It may also be rendered the "Mineral" year. It is ruled by Uranos. It also has an association with Saturn. You should remember that stone takes many forms including sand, rock, crystal, and molten magma. Mountains are of stone, but so is lava. Influenced by Saturn stone may be static and enduring. Influenced by Uranos it is also explosive and changeable. Stone people and years will be marked by a strong idealism and by a coolly dispassionate sense of logic and judgment. There is a tendency toward strange and eccentric ideas and behavior, a love of the new and different, and an absolute demand for personal freedom -which by no means is necessarily intended to be extended to anyone else. Stone persons are romantic, and humanitarian, often with a great sense of "cause" and a deep desire for justice -but many times in a very abstract sense, divorced in some ways from the people they seek to help, and utterly unwilling to see anyone's side but their own. In addition there may be a certain tendency toward fickleness. The occult and the psychic may be expected to be somewhat popular.

 

~The Basement~