Love horoscopes: What to expect in 2013

Now that we are settling into a new year, see what's ahead for your love life — whether you're single or in a relationship. Christopher Renstrom is turning to your Ruling Planets to break down what to expect, what to be wary of and how you can make positive changes.

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Aquarians are not the androids that everyone makes them out to be. Yes, you can come across as cerebral, aloof and even tightly wound, but you can get wild and crazy when you want to and party like it's your last night on earth. In the morning, when others are shunning the light and fumbling through their purses for the Vicodin, you will emerge perfectly poised with every hair in place and ready to begin your day. You don't mind the unruliness of people's lives. If anything, your rebellious side embraces it.

What you will not tolerate, however, is people's sloppiness. Anyone who goes out with you needs to understand that you can turn it on and turn it off and that they will need to do the same. Equal parts controlled and kooky, you are a walking, talking contradiction. You are hard to get to know, which makes perfect sense because you have no idea who you are either.

The most airy of the air signs, Aquarians are people pleasers and people movers. You will always put the interests of the many above the interests of you. Yet for all of your selflessness , there's an ego in there somewhere struggling to assert itself. Egos are important because they center us on who we are — just as the gravitational pull of the Sun centers the solar system. If you don't have an ego, then you're lost in space. Aquarians are constantly searching for themselves, and when you find that person who can help you to connect to the true and authentic you, then you will be true to that person forever.

Be intimate. Aquarians aren't big on showing affection, and sometimes that's all it takes to set the mood and to create the close emotional bond and experience that you're looking for.

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You were born under the zodiac sign of unconditional love. That means you are capable of running the full gamut of emotions. You can feel unlimited love, hate, pain and hope like nobody else, and you can inhabit these emotions without judgment. This gives you an extraordinary compassion and empathy. Your ability to see things from other people's perspectives gives you easy access to their heart and soul. You really get where they're coming from. This is why people will entrust you with their confidences, secrets and fantasies.

Your Ruling Planet Neptune is the planet of the collective unconscious in astrology. It stirs the memories and the imaginations of the people you come into contact with. This is why someone will walk up to you in bar and ask if you have ever met before — and mean it. It's also why perfect strangers will begin to share the most intimate details of their lives without you even asking. This gives you a hypnotic hold over people, which can be a lot of fun if you think about it. They will fall under your spell almost immediately. But are they getting to know you? Or have they fallen in love with a figment of their imagination that they have projected onto you?

This can get tricky if you start to alter things about yourself in order to please your lover or mate. Seeing things from their perspective can work against being true to your own viewpoint. Remember the story of the Little Mermaid? Everything went to hell in a handbasket when she gave away her voice for love of the prince. Own your voice, and you will never have to worry about being drowned out by others' ideas and expectations of who and what you should be.

Your best time for love this year will be around your birthday. In fact, your peak days will be Feb. 20, Feb. 28, March 6, and March 10. After that it's June 26, July 17, July 19, and July 20. November is the month when you will have to choose between two possibilities. Aug. 25 through Sept. 16 is your most challenging time of year romantically. Do you remember how difficult the summer of 2012 was? It won't be that bad, but it will be close.

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It isn't easy being a woman born under Aries because Aries is a man's sign. Now this isn't to say you've got gender-bender issues or bedroom problems. Far from it! What it means is that you approach love the way that a man does.

When you see something you like, you go after it. There's no giggling in the corner with girlfriends, dropping subtle hints or sitting by the phone waiting for him to call. You will walk right up to the guy who caught your eye and ask him out. And more often than not, the guy will say yes. It's rare when you get turned down. And if you do, it's probably because he's already seeing somebody else.

Men are super comfortable around you. You get where they're coming from, and you're easy to hang out with. That's why you've got more men friends than you know what to do with. Girlfriends are dying to know your secret, but the fact of the matter is, you love watching the game on TV and shooting pool, and you can probably kick most guys' a**es at Modern Warfare 3.

The problem is that you can wind up in a bromance if you're not careful. This is when you have to remind the guy that a romantic dinner once in a while wouldn't be such a bad idea. You may say that you're not interested in coaching the guy in how to be a guy, but guess what? You need to. Yes, it will get a little awkward at times, but he will eventually catch on, and with proper training he will become the perfect boyfriend or spouse that you want him to be.

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You were built for comfort, not for speed, which is just as well since your Ruling Planet is Venus, named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. People born under Venus get more hits with a come-hither look than they do by typing up a new profile. People fall in love with you when they meet you in person. You have an appeal that's comfortable, winsome, relaxed and infinitely engaging. But this only works when you meet in person, so no online dating or Match.com for you.

What you want to do is sign up for a cooking class, go to an art history lecture, enroll in a photography workshop, attend an intimate cafe concert or maybe even volunteer at the community garden. These may sound like impossibly random things to do, but Venus is the planet of art, music, gardens and culture. Do anything that is related to these areas of interest, and you will find a like-minded soul — and better yet, it will be a like-minded soul who's higher up on the money chain than you are.

You know how like attracts like? Well, that's the secret to the magic of Venus. Go to a bar, and you wind up with a drunk. Go to a wine tasting, and you will get a connoisseur. Now this doesn't mean that your courtship will be trouble-free, but at least you'll be socializing with a better class of person — and that's always a step in the right direction. You're a Taurus. You want the finer things in life. Let everyone else scour the sales racks searching for castoffs; you need to be strictly top-of-the-line when it comes to love.

The most stressful times of the year for you will be mid-February, mid-May, mid-November and Dec. 21, 2013, when Venus turns retrograde. These are not the times to get your hopes up romantically speaking. If anything, you'll want to schedule trips away or time with friends so you don't even have to think about it. Meanwhile, the solar eclipse on May 9, 2013, can bring some game-changing developments in love. They won't be what you’re looking for, but they will be something that you will enjoy — and what's wrong with that?

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Born under the sign of the twins, you are on the lookout for your other half. You want a best friend, a lover, a confidant and a partner in crime all wrapped up into one. Your Ruling Planet is Mercury, planet of the mind, which means that he better be smart or you will pass. You don't suffer fools gladly, nor will you put up with an ignoramus — no matter how chiseled those abdominals might be. OK, maybe you'll put up with him for an hour — but not a moment longer than that. You crave intellectual stimulation!

The surest way to your heart is through the brain. There's nothing sexier than witty repartee or more seductive than a well-timed one-liner. Anyone who goes out with you better be up-to-date on the latest news because you love to discuss and analyze people, politics and fashion malfunctions. You are both highbrow and lowbrow in thinking, and you want your mate to be wired the same way. No snobs or nerdy types for you.

What's important to remember when you are born under Gemini is that you've got that sibling rivalry thing going on with your mate. There's an inborn need to compete. This can appear as one-upmanship, fighting to have the last word, arguing for the sake of argument and playing mind games. It can even take on darker tones like jealousy, which is not really what you want to be feeling about the love of your life. Thankfully, you are committed to working out your differences, and you're a big believer in conversation over confrontation. If there's anyone who practices the talking cure on an hourly basis, it's you. There's no problem so difficult or impassable that a good meeting of the minds can't bridge it.

On May 25, 2013, there will be a lunar eclipse in your partner sign Sagittarius. This will settle any outstanding questions and/or issues you had about your relationship. If things are on shaky ground, then they will fall apart at this time. If not? Then you and your other half are solid like a rock, and you can move on to the next stage of your relationship — which could involve more intimate things like earplugs and night guards.

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Cancers are supposed to be the homebodies of the zodiac. Most astrology books portray you as soccer moms who live to cook and clean and whose sole purpose in life is to be barefoot and pregnant. Thankfully, there's more to you than that. You were born under one of the most creative and resourceful signs of the zodiac. Many writers and painters are Cancers as well as real estate moguls, hoteliers, and reigning box office stars like Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep.

Now it's true that your family means a lot to you and any guy who doesn't score a favorable review with the home team is out. You might continue to see him for a while , but you'll never marry him. That's because family — and more importantly where you come from — means everything to you.

You are extremely private and secretive — although you don't see yourself that way. If anything, you see yourself as too forthcoming with intimate details. Your abiding fear is that you will reveal too much, too quickly and frighten away a prospective lover. You walk around with this feeling that you are infinitely readable, which is why you will work overtime to try to cover your tracks. You don't want to be exposed and vulnerable. But what Cancers forget is that crabs are hardly vulnerable. They come with hard shells and claws that pinch. Like the crab, you approach things in a roundabout way, and you know how to blend into the background. You've gotten good at camouflaging your wants and needs over the years, so you're not as transparent as you think you are. Many people have a hard time reading you — especially your lover or mate.

Your most unsettling times of year will be March 21 – April 4, 2013; June 26 – July 10, 2013; Sept. 26 – Oct. 10, 2013; and Dec. 26, 2013 – Jan. 8, 2014. These are crucial turning points that won't be easy, but they're good for you nonetheless. Indeed, you will emerge from each one feeling bolder and more confident than you did before. Meanwhile Feb. 18 – March 19, June 20 – July 21, and Oct. 22 – Nov. 20 of this year are periods of good fortune and protection when you need it. June 26, July 17, and Oct. 25, 2013, are especially auspicious.

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You are the best thing that ever happened in your man's life. He may never say it out loud, but you both know it's true. You gave him the courage and the faith to be the best that he can be, and you will never stop generating that heat and light. You're a Leo, a child of the Sun.

You have a summertime outlook on life where everything is warm and golden and full of life. You know that even when the Sun sets on a hope or a dream, it will always rise on a new day. No matter dark and heavy life gets, there will always be a tomorrow — and tomorrows come replete with promises, answers and opportunities to get things right the second time around.

It's this inexhaustible optimism that gives you the self-confidence that other people yearn to have in their lives. They want to be bold like you — audacious and unwavering. Now obviously, you have your bouts with insecurity. You're not always up and shining. But you tend to keep those things out of sight and out of mind. Nobody places such a high value on individuality as you do. You believe that each person is unique and different and that there is no such thing as a cookie-cutter cutout person.

It is your mission in life to light the way — to show people that the truth you seek is the truth you find only when you are true to yourself. Your man knows that he is unbeatable as long as you are in his corner, just like male lion knows that he can stretch out in the Sun safe in the knowledge that his lioness is watching his back. And like the lioness that is your zodiac sign's namesake, you can wind up doing all of the work in the relationship if you aren't careful.

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There’s nothing remotely virginal about you. You love to get physical, and you're not shy about showing off your body and everything it can do. That's because your body is your temple. And when you think of Virgo sisters like Greta Garbo, Sophia Loren and Padma Lakshmi of Top Chef fame, then you know that you were born under the sign of women who love being women and who celebrate their bodies, their sexuality and their brains.

Virgos know how to work it, and Virgos know how to play people. But you don't do this to deceive anyone. You do it because you feel like you have a better grasp of what people want and need than they do. When you look around you, you see a world of waste. It's hard to countenance the waste of time, talent, money and resources. Many people say that they know what's good for them, but you aren't convinced. If they did know better, then they wouldn't be so miserable, fat and in debt. This is why you will help them to pick up after themselves, to garner and manage their resources and to live a better life. You believe in good health — and that means good mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health.

You have always preached the gospel of self-sufficiency. You know from experience that if you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, then he'll eat forever. This is why teaching, training and coaching are so important to you. You don't practice to make perfect as much as you practice to perfect. Showing people that they are capable by encouraging them to develop their talents and to hone their skills is your way of making the world a better place one person at a time.

Typically Feb. 18 – March 19 is not a good time of year for you, but it could be if you're willing to broaden your horizons romantically and to travel outside of your emotional comfort zone. June 26 – July 20 and Oct. 21 – Nov. 10 are challenging, so don't even try to make plans. They will only fall through. Meanwhile, Sept. 7–13 is a wonderful week for romance.

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You won't be happy until you are in a relationship. Finding your mate will be the overriding concern of your life until the day when you can successfully say “Mission accomplished!” When you're single, then you will single-mindedly pursue any and all romantic leads with the undeterred focus of a heat-seeking missile. And you won’t stop until you hit your target. Once you make that love connection, then you're good. You can think clearly again, touch base with friends and even get back on board with your career plans for the future.

You're not particularly proud of this side to you, but that's the way you’re wired when you're born under Libra, the zodiac sign of marriage. Consequently, you will also stay in a marriage that has exceeded its expiration date. You will tell yourself that you're being true to your vows, that without you he's nothing, or that you're doing it for the kids or the dog or the houseplants. But the truth is that a loveless union seems better than no union at all. You are that afraid of doing anything alone. And it's this fear that will make you stay put inside your golden cage — that is, until you catch sight of someone who can promise you a bigger and brighter future. Once you make this love connection and become convinced that it will last, then there is no zodiac sign going out the door quicker and filing for divorce faster than a Libra.

The plus side to being born under Venus, named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, is that you will attract good things into your life through the people who love you. The downside is that it can make you feel beholden to them. Subsequently, you will never unlock your true potential as long as you live under this kind of lock and key.

Mars' translation of light from March 12 to April 18, 2013, is going to be pretty challenging because it will be taking place in your opposite sign of Aries. This will bring many conflicts, fights and ruptures. However, it can also stir the pot a bit and get you to be more bold and reckless — and there's nothing wrong with that. Meanwhile, Feb. 26 – March 6, June 3–7 and Sept. 3–10 are absolutely wonderful.

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To you, sex is something sacred; it's not something you do between tweets. There are far too many people having sex these days who shouldn't be. They don't know what they're doing or where they're going, and they're a danger to themselves and to everyone else.

But that's not your problem. When you're born under Scorpio, the zodiac sign of sex, then you know what to do — and you have no problem bringing your man up to speed if that's what it takes. Your problem is with the exchange of emotional fluids.

Scorpio is a water sign, and water is the element that rules over our inner life in astrology. You can't help but become personally involved with someone and deeply attached. In fact, you will do everything in your power not to allow that to happen, because when you fall for someone, you really fall for that person in the most naked and needy of ways. This self-imposed detachment can send the message that you aren't really interested and that you are always looking for something else . This back-and-forth, come-hither then get-lost push and pull can create a lot of unnecessary grief and aggravation. But then again, this can be an enormous turn-on for you because you like to mix a little agony with your ecstasy.

This keeps things from going soft and falling flat in your relationship. You never want your partner to take things for granted in your relationship because you never will. Which gets back to sex as a sacrament. Now, this doesn't mean that you expect to shake heaven and earth every time you get together — although it doesn't hurt to try. What it means is that you regard sex as a living part of your relationship. It's something that you will always make time for and not something that you would ever do by rote.

No problem here.

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You were born under the sign of the centaur — a mythological creature that was half human, half horse and a killer shot with a bow and arrow. This makes you sporty, active and focused on hitting the bull's-eye when it comes to love. You have a great passion for the outdoors and for travel. Indeed, "anywhere but here" is your personal motto because you believe that the good things in life are waiting for you somewhere else. This gives you your restless energy as well as your love of adventure and exploration.

Any man who wants to get together with you is going to have to race to keep up, because you're always galloping off in some new and exciting direction. You don't do well with feeling fenced in, which is why you will avoid making any serious long-term commitment for as long as you can. Freedom is very important to you, but you must decide what kind of freedom you want exactly. Is it freedom from or freedom to do? Freedom from is escapist, and this is where Sagittarian women get their reputation for bolting for the exits. Sagittarius is the sign of runaway brides. Just ask Sagittarian Britney Spears. Freedom to do, however, requires mastery over your life wherein you take the reins and consciously decide where you want to invest your energy and your efforts.

The mix of horse and human shows that you can be Party Girl one moment and deeply philosophical the next. You like to horse around, but you also come with a very powerful spiritual side — and it's a spirit that won't be broken.

Make sure that your idea of sexy is the same as your partner's. Sometimes Sagittarians tend to play at being sexy rather than just be sexy. Trust in your sex appeal. It's more seductive than you know.

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You have always been the designated adult in a relationship. Even in childhood, you were taking on the parental role as you stepped in for an absent father or lent moral support to your struggling mother. You know what it's like to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, and you wear it well. Others may groan under the burden, but you make it look easy. It's second nature to you.

Yet the difficulty with being the designated adult in the relationship is that you tend to attract overgrown children. This might have been OK when you were younger — when the guys were sullen, misunderstood and hot. But it can get old with the passage of time as you watch their income levels drop while yours begins to climb.

You should never have to apologize for your ambition. Nor should you have to feel guilty about being successful. Capricorn women are always being raked over the coals for being driven, disciplined and setting their sights on the dollar sign. But why shouldn't you? You're lucky to be living at a time when kicking a** as you scale the career ladder is a praiseworthy trait in women. However, what's also changed with the times are the guys, and a lot of guys know a good thing when they see it — which is a hardworking, upwardly mobile woman. And this is where your natural tendency to take on the burden of responsibility can work against you. If you don't want to turn into someone's Sugar Mama, then you need to figure out how you want the money to work in your relationship. Your partner doesn't have to make as much as you, but he does have to pull his own weight.

Your most challenging times for love will be Feb. 6–13, April 18–25, June 28 – July 6 and Aug. 18–25. And it's not like you are fighting or anything; it's more like one of you is away or traveling. Your best times for love are April 15–24, July 23–31 and Nov. 5–15. You're positively irresistible!

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