Your Personal Horoscope 2016

The spiritual life is the main headline this month. Last month was spiritual and so is the month ahead, until the 19th. This is a period for internal growth. This type of growth is not seen by the senses but it is very real. Later this month – and next – it will reveal itself by your outward actions. Ever since Uranus moved into your 12th house, spirituality has been important, and these days even more so. This is a wonderful period for spiritual studies – the study of sacred literature – and practice. It is a period for transcending physical conditions, rising above physical limitations. A period for spiritual breakthroughs, enhanced extrasensory perception and a super-active dream life.

The interesting thing is that as you focus on your study and practice, very happy career opportunities come to you naturally and effortlessly. The month ahead is successful both spiritually and in a worldly kind of way.

Health and energy are good all month but especially after the 19th. The Sun crosses your Ascendant then and enters the 1st house. This is one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks. A time for getting the body and image in right shape and for enjoying all the physical delights.

There is prosperity this month too. On the 6th your financial planet Mercury crosses the Ascendant and enters your 1st house. This brings financial windfalls and opportunity. It is as if money is chasing you rather than vice versa. Personal appearance is a big factor in your earnings. It is a good month to spend on yourself, on clothing and accessories. Right now, you’re the best investment there is.

The love life sparkles this month as well. Your love planet is part of a beautiful Grand Trine in Earth. Only keep in mind that Pluto starts to retrograde on the 18th – no need to rush into anything too serious just yet.

May

Best Days Overall: 6, 14, 15, 24, 25

Most Stressful Days Overall: 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28

Best Days for Love: 6, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27

Best Days for Money: 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 24, 25

Best Days for Career: 4, 5, 12, 13, 22, 23, 27, 28, 31

Another happy and successful month for Taurus. Enjoy!

Many of the trends that we wrote of last month are still in effect. You’re still in a yearly personal pleasure peak, enjoying all the physical delights. And, with Mercury in your 1st house, you have the wherewithal to indulge yourself.

You look great. You have energy, charisma, sparkle and star quality. The opposite sex certainly takes notice. Venus is in your sign until the 24th. This gives beauty and style to the image. The personality is more graceful and pleasing. Last month was good for buying clothing and accessories, but this month – until the 24th – is even better. If you need to take or submit photographs of yourself for business or personal reasons, this is an excellent time to do so.

Like last month you’re in a period of maximum personal power and independence. So, if conditions displease you, change them. Take the bull by the horns and create your own happiness. (Later on it will be more difficult to do.)

Like last month there is a beautiful Grand Trine in Earth – your own natural element – all month. This is comfortable for you and you feel very at home. This Grand Trine involves important planets: Venus, the ruler of your chart; Mercury, your financial planet; and Pluto, your love planet. This spells love and money. Romance is good all month. Singles have no problem attracting the opposite sex, and those already in a relationship are enjoying more harmony, more romance, within that relationship. The 13th and 14th are especially good for love. Singles are meeting significant people.

Prosperity – always important to a Taurus – is very strong all month. Mercury, as we mentioned, is part of a Grand Trine in Earth. Mercury spends the entire month in your sign. Thus windfalls and financial opportunities are seeking you out. You just have to show up. You’re spending on yourself and giving the impression of wealth. People see you as prosperous. The only complication is Mercury’s retrograde motion until May 22, which slows things down a bit. ‘Gift horses’ need more scrutiny and might not be all that they seem to be. Don’t make important financial decisions until after the 22nd. On the 20th the Sun enters your money house and you enter a period of peak earnings.

June

Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 29, 30

Most Stressful Days Overall: 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 23, 24

Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 23, 24, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 1, 8, 9, 18, 19, 23, 24, 27, 28

Health was great last month and is still good in the month ahead. The Grand Trine in Earth is still in effect until the 13th. You can enhance your health even further by giving more attention to the lungs, arms and shoulders until the 18th. Tension in the shoulders should be released – massage, acupuncture or acupressure are very good for this. After the 18th make sure to eat right. Pay more attention to the stomach and breasts (for women). Mood control – good emotional health – is important after the 18th.

You’re still in a strong prosperity period – a yearly financial peak. This will go on all month, even after the Sun leaves the money house, because your financial planet, Mercury, enters the money house on the 13th and stays there for the rest of the month. Good sales and marketing – good PR – is always important for you, but these days more so than usual. This is an excellent month for launching an ad or PR campaign. It is also a prosperous month for teachers, writers and journalists. Students, below college level, seem successful in their studies.

Finance is more of a priority than love this month and the love life could suffer because of it. Avoid power struggles in love, especially after the 18th – there is no need to make things worse. After the 18th you seem more distant from the beloved. You seem on opposite ends of the spectrum, seeing things in opposite ways. If you can overcome these differences romance can bloom.

Be more patient with family members on the 8th, 9th, 23rd and 24th – they seem more temperamental. It won’t hurt to stay out of harm’s way on the 8th and 9th either. There’s no need for stressful kinds of activities; spend more quiet time at home instead.

A financial disturbance on the 23rd or 24th is short lived but it forces some needed changes. Avoid over-spending on those days.

On the 21st your 3rd house of communication and intellectual interests becomes strong. This is a good time to take courses in subjects that interest you, to read the books and magazines that you’ve wanted to read, and to catch up on the phone calls and emails you owe. Your financial goals are mostly achieved and you have the freedom to indulge your intellectual interests.

July

Best Days Overall: 8, 9, 18, 19, 27, 28

Most Stressful Days Overall: 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21

Best Days for Love: 3, 4, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 24, 25, 27, 28

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 14, 15, 18, 19, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 6, 7, 15, 16, 20, 21, 24, 25

The lower and upper half of your Horoscope has been basically in balance since May. Neither one half nor the other dominates. I read this as someone who is balancing the needs of the home and family with the demands of the career – someone who wants both a successful career and a good domestic life. This is not so easy to do, but this month, especially after the 22nd, you seem to manage it. There is happiness at home and happiness in the career. One supports the other.

Finances are good this month, but less of an interest than in the past two months. Your financial planet, Mercury, behaves strangely this month and this will reflect on your financial life. From the 1st to the 9th he is ‘out of bounds’ – thus you’re going outside your normal sphere in search for earnings. There is a need to do unorthodox things. On the 1st and 2nd Mercury transits an eclipse point, provoking a short-term disturbance that perhaps causes you to do unorthodox things. On the 7th Mercury squares Pluto, your love planet. There is some financial disagreement with the beloved. On the 10th and 11th Mercury squares Uranus, causing more changes and perhaps an unexpected expense. So there’s a lot of financial excitement this month. You’ll get through it, though. There’s good family support from the 14th onwards, and on the 26th and 27th there is good financial support from a parent, parent figure or boss.

Be more patient with the beloved on the 1st. Stay out of harm’s way on the 6th and 7th and be more patient with bosses, parents and parent figures in your life.

Health needs watching from the 22nd onwards. However, any problems don’t seem serious and appear to be of a short-term nature. Sometimes when people schedule scans or blood tests during these times they can test falsely positive. This is because the energy level is lower than normal and the body reflects this. Take the same test when your energy is high and the result is negative. As always, make sure you get enough rest and maintain high energy levels. If pre-existing conditions seem to act up, there is no need to be unduly alarmed. Low energy is most likely the cause and the solution is more rest. Health can be enhanced in the ways mentioned in the yearly report, but also by eating well and giving more attention to the stomach and breasts – until the 13th. After the 13th give more attention to the heart. Avoid worry and anxiety.

Neptune spends the month conjunct to the south node of the Moon. This indicates a lot of drama in the lives of friends. It could also make you feel ‘deficiency’ in friendships.

August

Best Days Overall: 4, 5, 14, 15, 23, 24, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 29, 30

Best Days for Love: 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, 23, 24, 31

Best Days for Money: 4, 5, 14, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31

Best Days for Career: 2, 3, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 29, 30

Your 4th house of home and family became powerful last month and is still strong until the 22nd of this month. So this is a time to get the home and family life in right order. Like last month you’re doing a great job in balancing home and career and making a success of both.

This is a period for making psychological-type breakthroughs. Your understanding of your moods and feelings – and those of others – is increased. Those of you involved in psychological therapies make good progress. It is normal to feel nostalgic, to remember the ‘good old’ or ‘bad old’ days. It is normal to be more interested in history too. When the 4th house is strong, the past calls to us. It has lessons to teach us and this is a time to learn them.

Last month, on the 22nd, the planetary power shifted to the Western, social sector of your chart. The planetary power moves away from you and towards others. Personal power is lessened because less is needed. Your good comes through other people and their good graces now, not because of your innate abilities or through personal initiative. Your social graces are the important thing now. Let others have their way – so long as it isn’t destructive – and your own good will follow naturally. It is now more difficult to create the conditions you desire. You can, of course, but it will take greater effort. Now, it is better to live with the conditions you created in the past few months and make the best of them. If you have built well, life is pleasant. If there are flaws in your creation, take note and when the planetary power shifts back to the Eastern sector next year, you’ll be able to make the changes that need to be made.

On the 22nd the Sun enters your 5th house and you begin another of your yearly personal pleasure peaks. This is party time. A time to enjoy life, a time for more leisure and recreation. You’ve been having fun the whole year, but this month even more so. With your financial planet also in the 5th house all month, you have the wherewithal to enjoy yourself. In fact, happy financial opportunities will come as you enjoy your life. Perhaps you meet an important contact at the golf course or theatre, or at a resort.

Children and children figures in your life are prospering and seem supportive. If they are very young, they motivate you financially. Speculations are favourable until the 30th. Avoid them afterwards. There are nice paydays from the 20th to the 24th and from the 26th to the 28th.

Health is greatly improved after the 22nd. The Earth element is strong this month from the 22nd onwards and this is comfortable for you. Love is much happier than last month – especially from the 5th onwards.

September

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 28, 29

Most Stressful Days Overall: 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 25, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20, 23, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, 29

Best Days for Career: 8, 9, 13, 14, 17, 18, 25, 26, 27

With two eclipses happening, the month ahead is turbulent and eventful. Aside from the eclipses, Jupiter makes a major move this month from your 5th house to your 6th house of health and work on the 10th. The party is winding down; it is time to focus on your work, on being productive for others. It’s like going from being the playboy or playgirl to being the servant. A shift in psychology.

Service, say the sages, is love in action. There are other, hidden, pleasures in productive work and serving others that are not found in the theatre or night club. This is a time (and it continues well into next year) where you explore this.

Jupiter’s move into your 6th house is great news for job seekers. A dream job awaits you. It’s not going to be ‘just another job’, but something really wonderful. Even those of you who are already employed will have new and better job opportunities coming. Jupiter is going to show you how to be more productive in your work. Generally new technology or systems come that do this.

The solar eclipse of the 1st occurs in your 5th house and impacts on children or children figures in your life. They experience life-changing kinds of dramas. Sometimes they are quite normal – like sexual awakening, or graduation – but these are still life changing. Good to keep them out of harm’s way during the eclipse period. Those of you in the creative arts make important changes to your creative work. Family members tend to be more temperamental during a solar eclipse and need more patience. There can be dramas in the home, with family members and with a parent or parent figure. Flaws in the home are often revealed under this kind of eclipse and often repairs are needed. This eclipse impacts on two other planets – Mars and Saturn. It is always a good idea to reduce your schedule during an eclipse period, but with the ruler of the 8th house involved it becomes even more important. This can bring encounters with death – not literal death but close calls or brushes with it. Many of you will have dreams of death during this period too. This is just a gentle reminder that life, here on earth, is short and it is time to get serious and do our job. With Saturn involved in the eclipse, foreign travel is best avoided – reschedule trips for a better time if you can. Students at college or post-graduate level make important changes in their educational plans.

The lunar eclipse of 16th occurs in your 11th house. This creates disturbances in professional organizations you’re involved with. It will also test your high tech and phone equipment. Make sure important files are backed up and that your anti-virus, anti-phishing software is up to date. Cars will also get tested during this period.

October

Best Days Overall: 8, 9, 17, 25, 26

Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 10, 11, 23, 24, 30, 31

Best Days for Love: 3, 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31

Best Days for Money: 1, 10, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 30

Best Days for Career: 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 23, 24

Most of the planets are still in the social Western sector, and Venus (a very important planet in your chart) is in your 7th house of love until the 18th. So, you’re right in tune with the stars. You’re putting others first, you’re there for your friends and the current love. You’re basking in social popularity. This is a very nice month for love. On the 23rd the Sun moves into your 7th house and you enter a yearly love and social peak. A very active social month.

All of you seem more aggressive in love these days. You’re not waiting for the phone to ring but are proactively shaping and creating the social life that you want. If you like someone they know it. You’re not playing coy. Existing relationships are more harmonious and romantic. Singles have very nice love opportunities all month. Love opportunities are still found in educational or religious settings – just as they have been for some years now – but family and family connections are also playing a role here from the 23rd onwards. There will be more socializing from home and with the family. An old flame can be back in the picture, but most likely this is only in order to resolve old issues.

Mars travelling with Pluto from the 18th to the 20th inflames the libido. Both you and the beloved need to reduce your schedules and avoid confrontations and high stress situations. It will be a good idea to take it easy from the 27th to the 29th as well. Parents or parent figures should also do this. There can be some disturbance in your industry or company over that period.

Prosperity is strong this month too. A nice payday happens over the 11th and 12th. Children or children figures in your life also have a nice payday then. Speculations are favourable. Your social connections play an unusual role in finance all month. You have the kind of aspects of someone who likes to do business with friends and who likes to socialize with those you do business with. A partnership or joint venture opportunity is likely this month.

Neptune spends the month camped out on an eclipse point (the solar eclipse of September 1). This indicates dramas in the lives of friends and perhaps the testing of a friendship. Like last month, make sure important files are backed up and your anti-virus software is up to date.

Give more attention to health matters after the 23rd. Overall your health is good, this is a short-term issue. As always be sure to get enough rest. If you feel under the weather a good night’s sleep should solve the problem. You can enhance the health further by paying attention to the colon, bladder and sexual organs until the 18th, and to the liver and thighs after that date.

November

Best Days Overall: 4, 5, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 6, 7, 8, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28

Best Days for Money: 1, 6, 7, 10, 15, 16, 19, 20, 24, 25, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 19, 20, 29, 30

Last month the planetary power shifted once again. Now the upper half of the Horoscope is overwhelmingly dominant. This sector was strong all year, but now even more so. At least 80 per cent (and sometimes 90 per cent) of the planets are in the upper half. This shows a strong career focus. A focus on the outer, worldly objectives. Your career planet, Uranus, has been in your spiritual 12th house for some years now. On the 9th, Mars, your spiritual planet, crosses the Mid-heaven and enters your 10th house of career. This is a very strong message and it reinforces what we’ve been seeing for some years now: the spiritual life, the spiritual practice, is ultra-important for the career. Spiritual insight and understanding will solve many career problems. If you’re involved in a worldly career, you enhance it by getting involved in charitable and altruistic activities. These seem more important than your professional achievements.

You’re still in the midst of a yearly love and social peak this month. Romance blooms. There is an especially happy romantic or social meeting on the 24th or 25th. Singles are meeting someone significant.

Venus, the ruler of your Horoscope, is ‘out of bounds’ all month. This shows that you’re moving outside your normal sphere this month. This is so on a personal level and in terms of your job. In health matters too you’re involved with the ‘unorthodox’. Health is more delicate this month – until the 22nd – and this is perhaps why you’re exploring unorthodox therapies. A good night’s rest will clear up most problems. You just need to maintain a high energy level. You can enhance your health by giving attention to the liver and thighs until the 12th. Thigh massage and a liver cleanse will be wonderful if you feel under the weather. After the 12th the spine, knees, teeth, bones, skin and overall skeletal alignment become important. Regular back and knee massage will do wonders. Good dental health is also important.

We see you going outside your normal sphere in finance too. Mercury is ‘out of bounds’ from the 19th to the 30th. Going a little ‘out of bounds’ is healthy for a Taurus. The tendency is to be too conservative – too stuck in your ways – and this often blinds you to opportunities.

Venus, your ruling planet, pauses in the heavens this month. She stays at the same latitude from the 13th to the 16th. This suggests a need for a cosmic pause in your activities. This pause is a good time for festivities, prayer and meditation. It is a pause that refreshes.

December

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 19, 20, 29, 30

Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 16, 17, 24, 25, 31

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 4, 5, 8, 9, 16, 17, 26, 27, 31

Venus is still ‘out of bounds’ until December 3. Thereafter she is back in bounds – and so it is with you. You’ve made a brief excursion to your ‘outer limits’ and now you’re going back to your normal sphere.

The month ahead looks very successful career-wise. The upper half of your Horoscope is still overwhelmingly dominant – often 90 per cent of the planets occupy the upper half. On the 7th Venus crosses the Mid-heaven and enters your 10th house. You’re very motivated career-wise. You’re focused. You love your career for its own sake. You seem elevated, raised in status. You’re recognized not only for your charitable works, but also for who you are. Personal appearance and overall demeanour seem ultra-important in the career. You’re the ‘image’ of success this month. Your good work ethic is noted by your superiors. Your career will be even better next month.

Health is much improved this month. You can enhance it further through back and knee massage (like last month) until the 7th and by ankle and calf massage after that. You’re more experimental in health matters after the 7th and are not as conservative as you usually are.

Finances look good too. Mercury, your financial planet, is still ‘out of bounds’ until the 17th. Thus you pursue earnings outside your normal sphere and perhaps with people outside your normal sphere. Until the 3rd you earn more and you spend more. But after the 3rd, as Mercury enters conservative Capricorn, the financial judgement becomes more sober. You’re more careful with your money. You take a step-by-step methodical approach to wealth. You’re working to build wealth for the long term. Taureans enjoy savings and investment plans, budgets, etc. and this is a good period – from the 3rd onwards – to set these things up if you haven’t already done so. On the 19th Mercury begins to go backwards again. Try to do your major holiday shopping before the 19th. Afterwards, as always, the goal is to gain mental clarity about finances. It is a period for study and review, not for making major purchases or investments.