In our society all kinds of partnerships tend to be based on individualism. Both parties are eager to guard their own interests and integrity. That's really not much of a partnership, so they break up easily. This is a situation we have to live with as long as we stick to Greenwich Mean Time.

     Still, in the 2012 world horoscope the moon is at the very cusp of the 7th House, injecting it with strong emotions, especially that of longing. It means we long for lasting relations, but still only if we can keep our individuality. So, we dream of the right one, a partner with whom these opposites can be united.

     The moon moves very quickly through the Zodiac – it completes one rotation in just a month. In the world horoscope, though, it doesn't diminish its influence, especially since it's right at the cusp of the House. This position is significant and enhances the influence of the moon.

     The longing it awakens is one for a satisfying partnership – or for breaking out of one that isn't, in order to find one that is. So, both marriages and divorces are likely to increase significantly during 2012.

     It's hard to say which one will increase the most, but the Aries sign implies the latter – also it suggests that people will prefer relations that are easy to end. The year will have many examples of very intense but short relations – and this is true for any type of relation, on both personal and organizational level, all the way up to how nations cooperate.

     The moon is in an opposition aspect to the Ascendant in Libra. This points out the conflict between the way our society looks at relations and the way we actually live them. We pretend that partnerships are essential and should last for life, but actually we focus more on our own individual needs. This is particularly true and evident during 2012.

     The moon also has a square aspect to Pluto on the cusp of the 4th House, which indicates a great and lasting change in home and family structures. Our impatient longing when it comes to partnerships is an obstacle, a complication, in our strife to make something more of home and family than it ever was before.

     Towards the end of the 7th House, Jupiter appears. It's when the House has changed from Aries to Taurus. This means that when we learn how to create lasting and rewarding relations, we get countless opportunities to do so.

     On the other hand, the quantity of possibilities tends again to make us restless, wondering if we picked the right one. Jupiter in the 7th House leads to several partners and infidelity, even in Taurus.

     Jupiter is in opposition to Saturn in the 1st House. It shows that we have the tendency to enter several competing partnerships, although we regard this as immoral and know it can't last.

     Jupiter also joins Neptune in the 5th House with a sextile. This is a positive aspect, showing that our tendency to form several partnerships fits well with what new directions our pleasures and entertainments take. Certainly, it's about enjoying life. That might not always work out for the best, but still.

     Neptune has sort of a key function, with its sextile to Jupiter and its trine to Saturn, described above in the text about the 1st House. Imagination brings us to new solutions for old situations – when it comes to our moral standpoints as well as our relations.

     It's in art and in our fantasies that we find a reason for accepting the conflict between individualism and partnership. Our true need is not multiple partners of whatever kind, nor is it to uphold moral principles regardless of emotional needs, but inspiration by which to pursue an excited discovery of our world and what more it has to offer.