While it is business as usual on both the romantic and relationship fronts at the start of the year, as business as usual means that romantic and relationship matters have what they need but are making no demands, this is good news. However, it does give a false impression, with the love gods' not only starting the year with a pair of wildcards up their sleeve but playing them in the first two weeks of the year. For the second time in as many years, you begin the year with the North Node in your romantic sector and this is where the first wildcard will come from. While the North Node has been here since November 2018, quietly but confidently keeping matters of the heart on track, it is very different when a New or Full Moon falls here. It is the lunar nodes that create eclipses and this is the reason why the Moon's first visit to your romantic sector for the year, from 9th January to 12th January, will create a lunar eclipse on 10th/11th January. This is a super charged version of the romantically charged Full Moon that will always fall at some point within the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year, but as an eclipse gives the North Node and the element of fate a foothold. {ads_delimiter}This is the love gods' first wildcard and they will play their second just days later. It is just two days after the Moon wraps up both its first visit to your romantic sector for the year and the lunar eclipse this will create when on 14th January Venus, the planet of love will return to Pisces. With the North Node holding onto the romantic residue from the lunar eclipse and Venus moving into a friendly aspect in her early days, this will give the planet of love access to everything that has been triggered. Meanwhile, while there is no planetary activity in your relationship sector you have the support of Uranus in your communication sector. Uranus begins the year in retrograde motion but a direct turn on 11th January will ensure the communication lines are open and flowing smoothly by the time the Moon makes its first visit to your relationship sector for the year, from 14th January to 16th January. The Moon will return just hours before Venus' return to Pisces on 14th January.