We know that industrialization gnawed on the need for workers, gradually replacing them with machines. The computer has done the same with white-collar workers. This process will remain, so unfortunately we can expect to see a continued high percentage of unemployed – for some people all through their lives.

     Astrologically speaking, this will not change until new coordinates are established for world time. But changes still take place, some for the better and some for the worse. Uranus close to the end of the 6th House reveals such a change.

     Since 2006, Uranus has passed through the Pisces part of the House, but in 2012 it's entered the last part of the House, which is in Aries. Uranus is the planet of insight and invention, and Aries the sign of challenge and drastic action. The outcome is easy to compute.

     There will be new developments this year in the field of labor. These will be challenging, so that some adapt to the new situation and prosper, whereas others are left behind. Aries is impatient.

     The new developments will be defended as necessary or even unavoidable, but it's not at all sure that they must be so ruthless. This is just the sign of the time. Uranus has no aspects to other planets, so the stern way by which it is expressed in the work places of our society has no outer reason, although this will surely be claimed.

     The new order for labor introduced by Uranus will be completed rather quickly, already during 2013, when Uranus leaves the 6th House.