Your Personal Horoscope 2016

Saturn moved into your 8th house of transformation late in 2014 and will be there for all of the year ahead. This suggests a need to tone down the sexual expression. A need to focus on quality rather than quantity.

Your most important interests in the year ahead are: children, fun and creativity (until September 9); health and work (from September 10 onwards); personal transformation and reinvention, sex, occult studies, taxes and estates; religion, philosophy, higher education and foreign travel; friends, groups and group activities; and spirituality.

Your paths of greatest fulfilment this year are children, fun and creativity; and health and work (from September 10 onwards).

Health

(Please note that this is an astrological perspective on health and not a medical one. In days of yore there was no difference, these perspectives were identical. But now there could be quite a difference. For a medical perspective, please consult your doctor or health practitioner.)

Now that Saturn has left his stressful aspect with you (which he did late in 2014) your overall health and energy are super. All the long-term planets are either in harmonious aspect with you or leaving you alone. Health should be wonderful this year. If you have pre-existing conditions, you should see improvement with them.

Of course, as our regular readers know, there will be periods in the year where health is less easy than usual, perhaps even stressful, but these are temporary things caused by the planetary transits and not trends for the year. When the difficult transits pass, normal good health and energy return.

Health doesn’t even seem a major concern until September 10. The 6th house of health and work is empty for the most part and you sort of take good health for granted. After that date, Jupiter moves into your 6th house and gives greater focus here. But it seems to me that the focus will be more on work than on health. Perhaps you’re getting involved in a healthier lifestyle, but not much more than that.

Good though your health is you can make it even better. Give more attention to the following – the vulnerable areas of your Horoscope (the reflexology points for these areas are shown in the following chart):

 The neck and throat. These are always important for Taurus. Regular neck massage will do wonders for you, and craniosacral therapy is also good for the neck.

 The kidneys and hips. These areas are also always important for Taurus. The hips should be regularly massaged. Regular herbal kidney cleanses are also beneficial.

 The liver and thighs. These only become important from September 10 onwards. Thighs should be regularly massaged and a herbal liver cleanse or detox might also be a good idea.

Jupiter rules your 8th house of transformation, and his presence in your house of health from September 10 onwards suggests that detox regimes will be helpful after that date. It also indicates the importance of safe sex and sexual moderation.

Venus is your health planet. She is a fast-moving planet and every month she will be in a different sign and will receive different aspects. Thus there are many short-term trends in health, depending on her condition. These trends are best dealt with in the monthly reports.

Home and Family

Your 4th house of home and family has been strong for the past two years, but not this year. Many of you have moved or made any renovations that needed to be made. This year you can coast. You seem satisfied with the status quo and have no need to make major changes. There’s nothing in the cosmos against it, by the way – just no compelling urge.

Jupiter has been in your 5th house since August 2015, and will remain there for the first half of this year. This indicates enhanced fertility for Taureans of childbearing age. Pregnancy wouldn’t be a surprise.

We have two solar eclipses this year. One on March 9 and the other on September 1. Since the Sun is your family planet, these eclipses will affect the home and family situation. Generally, these are the times when we discover any hidden flaws in the home. Often repairs are needed. Family members will tend to be more temperamental during those periods too – so more patience is needed with them.

A parent or parent figure in your life is prospering this year. He or she is likely to be more generous with you. This same parent figure could be having a surgical procedure this year.

Children and children figures are prospering, and siblings or sibling figures in your life are likely to move or renovate their homes in the coming year – mostly likely from September 10 onwards. (It could happen in the first half of 2017 as well.) If they are of childbearing age, the women are more fertile. The family circle will get enlarged through birth or marriage.

Children and children figures in your life may want to move – they feel cramped where they are – but it is not advisable this year. They are better off making better use of the space that they already have. Grandchildren have a stable, static domestic year.

Siblings and sibling figures seem burdened by health issues. They can improve their health by paying more attention to the liver, thighs, spine, knees, teeth and bones. They need a daily disciplined health regime. Children and children figures can benefit from head and face massage.

If you are repainting, decorating or beautifying the home, July 12 to August 22 is a good time. This is also a good time if you’re buying art objects for the home.

Though there doesn’t seem to be a need for major renovations this year, if you choose to do these things (this is free will on your part) March 1–6, April 21–May 20 and July 22–August 22 are good times to do them.

Finance and Career

Taureans are always interested in money – it is basic to their nature – but this year less so than usual. It’s merely a question of intensity. Some years are like that.

I read this as a very good signal. You are basically prosperous and content with things as they are. You have no need to pay too much attention here. However, should financial difficulties arise (and this is not likely until after September 10) the solution is to start paying more attention to this area of your life.

This is a prosperous year. Jupiter in the sign of Virgo is making fabulous aspects to your Sun, which is a classic indicator of prosperity and overall success. This aspect gives optimism and the feeling of good fortune. You catch the lucky breaks in life.

Jupiter in your 5th house for the first half of the year gives luck in speculations. If guided by intuition it might be a good idea to invest harmless sums on the lottery or some other kind of speculation. Prosperity need not happen this way – a person needs the right natal chart for this – but it is one of the avenues the cosmos can use.

A parent figure prospers and is more generous with you. There is good family support.

Jupiter is the ruler of your 8th house of transformation, and this gives many messages. There is good fortune with estates, taxes and insurance claims. There is good spousal support. It is easier to borrow and your line of credit is probably increased. Outside investors are easier to attract if you need them.

As we mentioned earlier, Jupiter will enter your 6th house on September 10, bringing very happy job opportunities to you. You’re a hot commodity from September 10 onwards.

Career doesn’t seem much of a focus this year, not the way it usually is. Your 10th house of career is empty with only short-term planets transiting through there. This is more of a party year than a career year. I read this too as a good sign. You’re basically content with the status quo and have no need for dramatic change. It will be a stable kind of year.

Your career planet, Uranus, has been in your spiritual 12th house for many years now. A strictly worldly kind of career is not appealing these days. You need something that is meaningful, something that benefits all of humanity, something idealistic. This aspect is excellent for careers in the non-profit world, with organizations dedicated to causes or charities. It also shows that even if you are in a worldly kind of career, being involved with charities and causes would advance your status. Bosses and superiors would make note of this. Important connections can be made in these kinds of activities.

With Uranus as the career planet, you need a career that offers much change and variety. It favours a freelance type of career. Also, your technological expertise is very important here. You need to stay up to date.

Love and Social Life

When Saturn left your 7th house late in 2014 a dark cloud lifted off you. The love life had not been happy. Marriages and serious relationships were tested, and many dissolved. The first half of 2014 was very serious in this regard.

Jupiter’s move into Virgo last year was also a big help as he started making nice aspects to your love planet, Pluto. Right now – especially until September 9 – you are in a great love and social period. After a few years of stress and testing, you’re a better person and more able to handle relationships.

The good thing about stress is that it reveals inherent flaws – both personal and in a relationship. Thus, it is easier to correct these flaws. Relationships that survived the past few years are good and will probably last for ever.

Love is happening now, but there’s no need to rush into marriage. Take your time. Next year is much better for marriage than now.

Your love planet, Pluto, rules sex, among other things. Thus the sexual magnetism is the primary turn-on in love. There’s nothing wrong with this, but sometimes people make too much of it. By itself, sex is not enough to hold a relationship together. (Many of you learned this over the past few years.)

Pluto rules your love life from the sign of Capricorn. This shows a practical approach to love. You like the good provider, the person of status, the person who can help your career. Also it shows more caution in love. You are slower to fall in love now than before 2008, when Pluto was in Sagittarius. You’ve become more careful.

Pluto will remain in your 9th house for many years to come. This is good. It shows that besides the sexual magnetism you like someone educated and refined. You like people you can learn from – mentor types. You like people who share your philosophical and religious beliefs. Philosophical differences will eventually sink even the best of sexual chemistries. Good sexual chemistry has a lifespan of about a year. But if there is also philosophical harmony, the relationship can last much longer – even for ever.

Love opportunities happen in religious or educational-type settings these days, at religious or university functions and through the introduction of people you worship with or attend school with. Foreign countries can also be the venue for romance these days. Foreigners are alluring – and the more exotic the better.

The love aspects are especially good for those working on the first or second marriage. For those working on the third marriage, this is a status quo kind of year. Next year will be a lot better.

Self-improvement

Your spiritual life has been important for some years now. Your career planet Uranus is in your spiritual 12th house and in many cases Taureans are opting for a spiritual-type career, working to balance that with the normal material concerns. In other cases, the spiritual life, the spiritual practice is the career. It is the most important thing these days, the mission in life.

Uranus in the 12th house shows much change, fermentation and experimentation in the spiritual life. Many are running from one teaching to the next, from one teacher to the next, from one practice to the next in search of the path that works for them. The danger here is ‘faddishness’. It is great to be experimental and to try out different things, but more homework should be done. The fact that something is new and hot – popular – doesn’t necessarily mean that it is good. This kind of attitude can set back your spiritual progress for years. On the other hand, experimentation often leads to new knowledge and insight. It’s a mixed blessing.

Uranus in your 12th house suggests that you benefit most from a scientific approach to the spiritual practice. There is a deep and beautiful science behind all these strange and mysterious practices and teachings. It is good to understand this as it will enhance both your faith and your practice. Faith is very important in spiritual practice, and when it is bolstered by scientific understanding the practice will go better. Taureans are down-to-earth, practical people. So, letting go of evidence-before-your-eyes-based thinking and ideas is quite a challenge. This is another reason why the scientific approach will help you.

Uranus in the 12th house brings much ferment and change on its own. But this year, your spiritual planet, Mars, is more erratic in his motion than normal. He will be retrograde (which only happens once every two years) from April 17 to June 29. Then, for almost three months, from August 9 to October 30 he will be ‘out of bounds’. The retrograde period of Mars will be good for reviewing your spiritual life and seeing where improvements can be made. Intuitions and dreams need more time to be deciphered and digested. Intuition needs more verification during this period. When Mars is ‘out of bounds’ it shows that you’re going outside your normal sphere in search for spiritual truths. You’re moving outside your ‘box’.

With all this upheaval going on it is good that Neptune is in your 11th house of friends. This shows that you’re attracting spiritual kinds of friends – and you need this now – to keep your practice stable.

All this spiritual activity and growth is challenging your personal religion and philosophy of life. This whole area is getting reformed. It is dying and will be reborn in a new and better form. It is wonderful when old and false beliefs die. These have been the cause of many of your problems. But, good though it is, it’s not that pleasant while it’s happening.

Month-by-month Forecasts

January

Best Days Overall: 9, 10, 17, 18, 26, 27

Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 11, 12, 24, 25, 31

Best Days for Love: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 26, 27, 31

Best Days for Money: 9, 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27

Best Days for Career: 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 16, 24, 25

You begin your year on a happy and successful note. Overall health looks excellent. The large number of Earth signs in your Horoscope sits well with you and plays into your comfort zone. It promotes prosperity too.

The planetary power is 80 per cent (and sometimes 90 per cent) above the horizon. The power is in the upper half of your chart. On the 20th, as the Sun crosses the Mid-heaven and enters your 10th house, you enter a yearly career peak. The focus is on the career – your outer world objectives – as it should be. Family is important, but they are supporting the career too. Your family could be more ambitious for you than you are for yourself. Both you and the family as a whole are successful this month. Your overall status is elevated. Happy career opportunities come and it looks like they are through family or family connections.

Finances are good, but they are more complicated this month than last. Your financial planet Mercury is retrograde from the 5th to the 25th. This will not affect the overall prosperity that you’re having this year, but it slows things down a bit. Glitches and delays – some not your fault – are more likely to occur and your financial judgement might not be up to its usually high standard. Thus it is better to make important purchases or financial decisions before the 5th or after the 25th. During the retrograde period work to attain mental clarity on your finances. Resolve doubts and do more research. In addition, be more careful in how you communicate with superiors or authority figures (or the government) from the 5th to the 9th. Make sure you understand what’s being said – sometimes they like to speak in jargon or vague generalities. Ask questions. Say what you mean and make sure as much as possible that your listener understood your message as you intended. Mis-communication is probably the greatest career danger right now. Be especially mindful how you communicate about finances.

The Western, social sector of your chart is still the most powerful for now, although this will change next month. But for this month you’re still in a strong social cycle. Others come first. Your good happens through others and through their favour, so your social skills are more important than your innate abilities.

Mars moves into your 7th house of love on the 4th and spends the rest of the month there. This signals a socially active kind of month. You seem more aggressive in the pursuit of love. You’re attracting spiritual-type people into your life. On the 5th and 6th there is a happy romantic or social opportunity through the family or family connections.

Make sure to get enough rest from the 20th onwards.

February

Best Days Overall: 5, 6, 13, 14, 22, 23, 24

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 7, 8, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29

Best Days for Love: 1, 5, 6, 13, 14, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26

Best Days for Career: 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, 12, 20, 29

Health became more delicate on January 20 and needs some attention being paid to it this month – until the 19th. This, however, is a short-term problem and isn’t the trend for the year ahead. The most important thing is to maintain high energy levels. You’re busy and successful, but don’t overwork. Enhance the health further by paying more attention to the spine, knees, teeth, bones, skin and overall skeletal alignment until the 17th. A back massage or a visit to the chiropractor or osteopath might be just what you need if you feel under the weather. When overall energy is not at its optimum, pre-existing conditions tend to flare up. There is no need to be overly concerned; more rest will most likely bring relief. Detox regimes are powerful from the 5th to the 8th. After the 17th give more attention to the ankles and calves. Massage them regularly.

Unnecessary foreign travel should be avoided from the 1st to the 5th. Students at college or post-graduate level can have dramas at school and perhaps make changes to educational plans.

Finances are much better this month than last. Mercury moves forward and there is more financial clarity and confidence. Until the 14th it is good to set up savings and investment plans – ways to achieve long-term financial goals. There is financial opportunity in foreign lands and with foreign companies. Foreigners in general can be important on the financial level. The 5th to the 7th brings a nice payday, as your financial planet makes wonderful aspects to Jupiter.

There is a sudden, unexpected romantic or social opportunity from the 5th to the 8th. The 9th to the 11th brings sexual opportunity. Your spiritual planet, Mars, is still in the 7th house of love this month. Again, you’re attracting spiritual-type people into your life. Spiritual compatibility is perhaps just as important as physical chemistry these days.

Family members (and especially a parent or parent figure) are more idealistic on the 28th and 29th – and perhaps even before that. This is a good time to install high tech equipment in the home and to build team spirit in the family.

You’re still in a period of career success this month – a yearly career peak. Venus, the ruler of your Horoscope, enters your 10th house on the 17th. You are personally elevated and seem above everyone in your world. Pay rises are likely from the 14th onwards, and you have the financial favour of bosses, elders and authority figures.

March

Best Days Overall: 3, 4, 12, 13, 21, 22, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 6, 7, 18, 19, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 13, 16, 21, 22, 26, 27, 31

Best Days for Money: 3, 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 28, 29, 31

Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 18, 19, 28, 29

Though two eclipses this month shake up the world and people around you, for you the month ahead looks happy and successful.

When Mars leaves his stressful aspect on the 6th there are no long-term planets in stressful alignment with you. Venus, a short-term planet, will move away from her stressful aspect on the 12th. The Moon will occasionally make stressful aspects – and we list them above – but that’s about it. This shows good health and abundant energy. You have the energy to achieve whatever you set your mind to. Pre-existing conditions should be much improved too. You naturally have more energy and these conditions die back down. You can enhance the health even further by giving more attention to the ankles and calves until the 12th, and to the feet from the 12th onwards.

Career is still happy and you still seem on top of your world. But the focus this month is more on friends, groups and group activities. (This has been the case since February 19.) Though there is romance this month – especially from the 12th to the 20th – this is not the main focus. It is more about friendship, mixing with people of like mind and like interests. The month ahead is also very spiritual. The Sun is in spiritual Pisces until the 20th and then it enters your 12th house. Spiritual studies and spiritual practice go well.

The solar eclipse of the 9th (in America it is on the 8th) occurs in your 11th house. This tends to test friendships. Often it indicates important dramas in the lives of friends. Every solar eclipse affects the home and family. Family members tend to be more temperamental at this time so be more patient. It can bring dramas in their lives and the life of a parent or parent figure. Often flaws in the home are revealed and repairs have to be made.

The lunar eclipse of the 23rd occurs in your 6th house of health and work. Thus there can be job changes or changes in the job environment. If you employ others there is instability with them. Siblings and sibling figures in your life are having dramas – neighbours as well. Often under this aspect the neighbourhood gets renovated. Cars and communication equipment get tested too.

April

Best Days Overall: 1, 8, 9, 17, 18, 27, 28

Most Stressful Days Overall: 2, 3, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30

Best Days for Love: 6, 14, 15, 22, 23, 25, 26

Best Days for Money: 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 27, 28

Best Days for Career: 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30

The planetary power is now moving towards you, to the Eastern sector of your chart. This shift began in February and is now much stronger. Though the Western social sector of your chart is still powerful – there will always be at least 40 per cent of the planets there – the Eastern sector has, for now, become slightly more dominant. You are in (and next month too) the height of your personal power for the year. Certainly there were years where personal power was stronger than now, but we’re talking about the current year. It is easier now to create the conditions that please you. Though other people are very important in your life, you’re less dependent on them than usual. Use the energy to create your personal happiness. A few months down the road it will be more difficult to do this.