The House deals with what people in society do for their own amusement. That's show business, cultural activities, the arts, but also for example sports. Things we don't have to accomplish or consume for our survival, but do for our own delight. That which makes life pleasant.

     And pleasure is the key word for Venus, the planet appearing first in the House. It blooms in this House, showing that 2012 will be full of pleasures and delights within the field of entertainment – especially the kind that makes us reflect and become wiser. Our culture advances, explores, innovates, more than most years.

     Aquarius is a serious sign, so everything is not exactly joyous in the conventional sense, but definitely interesting and thought provoking. The development of entertainment and art is towards the profound, into depths we have not yet been familiar with.

     This in confirmed by Neptune, which has traveled through this House for several years. It entered in 2002, so that's when artists in every genre started to explore what were until then mysteries, seeking new ways of expression and subject-matters of increased profundity. Of course, that's what artists are always doing, but rarely to this extent.

     Actually, this dreamlike quality emerging in the entertainment world is quite unique in the history of modern society, since this is the first time Neptune enters this House of the world horoscope.

     It was not until 1884 Greenwich Mean Time was adopted world-wide. Before that year a world horoscope like this one was not possible to chart. Neptune takes about 165 years to pass through the whole Zodiac.

     During 2012, Neptune will move into Pisces, although remaining in the same House until 2016. This means that the visions and imagination of artists will move from finding to searching, from the known to the unknown. They feel lost and long for new moods of expression. Entertainment will still have the Aquarius characteristics, since show business evolves slower that the artists that contribute to it. But a sense of bewilderment and uncertainty will start to be felt.

     Venus has a sextile aspect to the North Node in the 3rd House, showing that much of the creativity in the entertainment world has to do with new solutions for communication. Things like the Internet will have an increased role to play, which comes as no surprise. During this year, other innovations of communication might be initiated by the entertainment industry for its own purposes, but still finding wider use.

     Neptune has a trine aspect to Saturn in the 1st House. That means the innovative minds of artists go in harmony with ethical principles we cherish in society. It also means that principles regarding freedom of the arts and of artistic expression stimulate them very much. Artists dare to extend their quests to new areas, feeling the support of society as a whole.