Your Personal Horoscope 2019

Health is wonderful all month. There are no planets in any stressful kind of aspect with you (except the Moon, and then only occasionally). Health is another form of wealth and should be considered a prosperity factor. You can enhance your already good health by having fun until the 14th, and then by giving more attention to the hips and kidneys after then. A happy love life will do much to enhance the health too. Regular hip massage and an occasional herbal kidney cleanse will also be good. If health problems occur (unlikely), restore harmony to the love life as soon as possible.

Mercury, your financial planet, is moving forward but a bit slower than last month. So finances are moving forward. Until the 14th there is happy money – money that is earned (and spent) in happy ways. There is luck in speculations too. The health field (a huge field) seems attractive to investors. But money will come from solid work after the 14th. This is not a problem for Taurus, though. Taureans like work.

October

Best Days Overall: 5, 6, 15, 16, 23, 24

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 7, 8, 21, 22, 28, 29

Best Days for Love: 1, 5, 6, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 5, 7, 8, 14, 15, 23

Your 6th house of health and work became powerful on September 23 and is still powerful until the 23rd. Thus, in the unlikely event that you are unemployed (rare for a Taurus) there are many job opportunities happening – and good ones. Even if you are already employed there are opportunities for overtime and second jobs. You’re in the mood for work these days and employers pick up on this.

There is also a great focus on health since September 23. With no planets in stressful alignment with you, this can be a kind of ‘over focus’. Be careful not to magnify little things into big things. On the positive side, it’s a good time to get into daily health regimes of a preventative nature. This will stand you in good stead for later in the month when health and energy are a bit more stressful. After the 23rd make sure to get enough rest. Things that you did with no problem over the past few months might be harder now. Until the 8th enhance the health with hip massage and more attention on the kidneys (like last month). After the 8th you will respond well to detox regimes. Give more attention to the colon, bladder and sexual organs. Safe sex and sexual moderation become more important after the 8th.

Love is really the main headline this month. There are a few nice developments happening. First of all, your love planet, Pluto, starts to move forward on the 3rd after many months of retrograde motion. By now you’ll have greater clarity about love, your relationship, and what your needs are. By the 23rd your 7th house of love becomes powerful for the first time this year. It happens little by little. On the 3rd Mercury enters the 7th house; on the 8th, Venus does; and on the 23rd, the Sun. You begin a yearly love and social peak. The love life and social life become very active. There is a lot of socializing that relates to business and work. You have the aspects of someone who likes to do business with friends and someone who likes to socialize with people you do business with. The distinctions between friendship and business are blurred. One merges into the other. There is also more socializing with family members. Family likes to play Cupid these days. You find an allurement to health professionals or to those who are involved in your health. If you focus on your financial, health and family goals, the love life will take care of itself.

Career is more stressful after the 23rd. You just have to put in more work. Part of the problem is the focus on the social life, which seems to distract you. But this is a good distraction this month.

November

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 11, 12, 20, 21, 28, 29, 30

Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 5, 18, 19, 24, 25

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27

Best Days for Career: 1, 3, 4, 5, 11, 20, 28

Health is improving but still needs a bit of watching until the 22nd. Mars in your 6th house of health until the 19th indicates that you get good results from spiritual therapies, such as meditation, the laying on of hands, reiki and the manipulation of subtle energies. If you feel under the weather see a spiritual healer. Spiritual-type exercises also seem good – yoga, tai chi, chi gong, etc. And give more attention to the liver and thighs until the 26th. Regular thigh massage is beneficial. After the 26th back and knee massage will be powerful.

Your health planet goes ‘out of bounds’ from the 15th to the 30th. Thus in health matters you’re exploring things outside your normal experience. There are no answers in your normal sphere and you must go beyond for what you seek. Your job could also be taking you outside your usual haunts.

Venus travels with Jupiter almost all month, and especially from the 22nd to the 24th. This is a happy transit. It brings success at the job and perhaps a happy job opportunity. It also brings love and sexual opportunity. It brings good news on the health front.

You’re still in a yearly love and social peak until the 22nd. And you will still be active socially after that date. Mercury will be in your 7th house all month and on the 19th Mars enters here. Mars’s entrance into your house of love indicates socializing with spiritual-type people. Wealth and family connections are important, but there is a yearning for spiritual connection. Being on the same page spiritually – in your ideals and practice – will be a big help in love. Spiritual-type venues or charity events will also be places of romantic opportunity.

The upper, day side of your Horoscope is very dominant now. At least 80 per cent (and sometimes 90 per cent) of the planets are in the upper half of the chart. So, this is a time for moving forward in your career and outer ambitions. Your career planet is still retrograde, but it won’t stop your progress, only slow things down a bit.

Finances are more complicated this month. Mercury, your financial planet, is retrograde from the 2nd to the 20th. So more care is needed when making important purchases or investments. (You shop for groceries and minor items, obviously, but we’re talking about the big things.) Your normally good financial judgement is not up to its usual standards. So, use Mercury’s retrograde period to attain mental clarity on your finances. When this happens, you’ll be ready to move forward with confidence.

December

Best Days Overall: 8, 9, 17, 18, 26, 27

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 15, 16, 21, 22, 28, 29

Best Days for Love: 8, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 25, 26

Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 8, 17, 26, 28, 29

In spite of the solar eclipse on the 26th the month ahead seems happy and eventful. This eclipse, the third of the year in your 9th house (it has really taken a pounding) once again affects college-level students. There are more shake-ups in their schools and more changes in educational plans. (The eclipses will not leave you alone until you get it right.) There are more shake-ups in your place of worship too. Religious beliefs have been severely tested by the previous two eclipses and this continues. This is basically good – though not pleasant. Some of these things are little more than superstitions and should be ditched. Others might just need some modification. Changes in the belief system will have dramatic effects on every other aspect of life. Our lives are controlled by our beliefs. Jupiter, the planet of religion and philosophy, is also directly impacted here, reinforcing all the above.

It will not be sensible to travel during this period – though the urge is strong. If you can avoid it, wonderful. If not, schedule your flights around the eclipse period (a few days before or after it). The impact on Jupiter signals that the spouse, partner or current love is having a financial disturbance and this will lead to important changes. Siblings and sibling figures also have to make important financial changes. Every solar eclipse affects the home, family and one of the parents or parent figures in your life. So there are dramas happening here too. The good news is that health is good. You have plenty of energy to handle the challenges.

Jupiter makes an important move into your 9th house on the 3rd, and he will remain here well into next year. College students might make changes in their subjects and courses, but the changes will be fortunate. There is success in their studies.

Your powerful 9th house this month (and it’s been strong all year) gives an intense interest in religion, philosophy, theology and higher education. You will find a juicy theological discussion more interesting than a night out on the town; a sermon more interesting than a rock concert. This will be the trend for 2020 as well. This month well over half of the planets are either in the 9th house or moving through there. So these interests are unusually strong.

The career is also going well. Yes, you need to tread carefully and there are many things that are not yet clear, but good progress is happening. Venus crosses your Mid-heaven, for the second time this year on the 20th. This indicates personal success. You are at the top of your world. Everyone else looks up to you. It also shows that your good work ethic is appreciated by your superiors.

Your spiritual planet, Mars, is still in the 7th house of love this month. So, you need someone spiritual in your life. Good spiritual compatibility is ultra-important.

* This technique is discussed in more detail in my book A Technique For Meditation (Mantra Books, 2011).

Personality Profile

GEMINI AT A GLANCE

Element – Air

Ruling Planet – Mercury

Career Planet – Neptune

Love Planet – Jupiter

Money Planet – Moon

Planet of Health and Work – Pluto

Planet of Home and Family Life – Mercury

Colours – blue, yellow, yellow-orange

Colour that promotes love, romance and social harmony – sky blue

Colours that promote earning power – grey, silver

Gems – agate, aquamarine

Metal – quicksilver

Scents – lavender, lilac, lily of the valley, storax

Quality – mutable (= flexibility)

Quality most needed for balance – thought that is deep rather than superficial

Strongest virtues – great communication skills, quickness and agility of thought, ability to learn quickly

Deepest need – communication

Characteristics to avoid – gossiping, hurting others with harsh speech, superficiality, using words to mislead or misinform

Signs of greatest overall compatibility – Libra, Aquarius

Signs of greatest overall incompatibility – Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces

Sign most helpful to career – Pisces

Sign most helpful for emotional support – Virgo

Sign most helpful financially – Cancer

Sign best for marriage and/or partnerships – Sagittarius

Sign most helpful for creative projects – Libra

Best Sign to have fun with – Libra

Signs most helpful in spiritual matters – Taurus, Aquarius

Best day of the week – Wednesday

Understanding a Gemini

Gemini is to society what the nervous system is to the body. It does not introduce any new information but is a vital transmitter of impulses from the senses to the brain and vice versa. The nervous system does not judge or weigh these impulses – it only conveys information. And it does so perfectly.

This analogy should give you an indication of a Gemini’s role in society. Geminis are the communicators and conveyors of information. To Geminis the truth or falsehood of information is irrelevant, they only transmit what they see, hear or read about. Thus they are capable of spreading the most outrageous rumours as well as conveying truth and light. Geminis sometimes tend to be unscrupulous in their communications and can do both great good or great evil with their power. This is why the sign of Gemini is symbolized by twins: Geminis have a dual nature.

Their ability to convey a message – to communicate with such ease – makes Geminis ideal teachers, writers and media and marketing people. This is helped by the fact that Mercury, the ruling planet of Gemini, also rules these activities.

Geminis have the gift of the gab. And what a gift this is! They can make conversation about anything, anywhere, at any time. There is almost nothing that is more fun to Geminis than a good conversation – especially if they can learn something new as well. They love to learn and they love to teach. To deprive a Gemini of conversation, or of books and magazines, is cruel and unusual punishment.

Geminis are almost always excellent students and take well to education. Their minds are generally stocked with all kinds of information, trivia, anecdotes, stories, news items, rarities, facts and statistics. Thus they can support any intellectual position that they care to take. They are awesome debaters and, if involved in politics, make good orators. Geminis are so verbally smooth that even if they do not know what they are talking about, they can make you think that they do. They will always dazzle you with their brilliance.

Finance

Geminis tend to be more concerned with the wealth of learning and ideas than actual material wealth. As mentioned, they excel in professions that involve writing, teaching, sales and journalism – and not all of these professions pay very well. But to sacrifice intellectual needs merely for money is unthinkable to a Gemini. Geminis strive to combine the two. Cancer is on Gemini’s solar 2nd house of money cusp, indicating that Geminis can earn extra income (in a harmonious and natural way) from investments in residential property, restaurants and hotels. Given their verbal skills, Geminis love to bargain and negotiate in any situation, and especially when it has to do with money.

The Moon rules Gemini’s 2nd solar house. The Moon is not only the fastest-moving planet in the zodiac but actually moves through every sign and house every 28 days. No other heavenly body matches the Moon for swiftness or the ability to change quickly. An analysis of the Moon – and lunar phenomena in general – describes Gemini’s financial attitudes very well. Geminis are financially versatile and flexible; they can earn money in many different ways. Their financial attitudes and needs seem to change daily, as do their feelings about money: sometimes they’re very enthusiastic about it, at other times they couldn’t care less.

For a Gemini, financial goals and money are often seen only as means of supporting a family; these things have little meaning otherwise.

The Moon, as Gemini’s money planet, has another important message for Gemini financially: in order for Geminis to realize their financial potential they need a greater understanding of the emotional side of life. They need to combine their awesome powers of logic with an understanding of human psychology. Feelings have their own logic; Geminis need to learn this and apply it to financial matters.

Career and Public Image

Geminis know that they have been given the gift of communication for a reason, that it is a power that can achieve great good or cause unthinkable distress. They long to put this power at the service of the highest and most transcendental truths. This is their primary goal, to communicate the eternal verities and prove them logically. They look up to people who can transcend the intellect – to poets, artists, musicians and mystics. They may be awed by stories of religious saints and martyrs. A Gemini’s highest achievement is to teach the truth, whether it is scientific, inspirational or historical. Those who can transcend the intellect are Gemini’s natural superiors – and a Gemini realizes this.

The sign of Pisces is in Gemini’s solar 10th house of career. Neptune, the planet of spirituality and altruism, is Gemini’s career planet. If Geminis are to realize their highest career potential they need to develop their transcendental – their spiritual and altruistic – side. They need to understand the larger cosmic picture, the vast flow of human evolution – where it came from and where it is heading. Only then can a Gemini’s intellectual powers take their true position and he or she can become the ‘messenger of the gods’. Geminis need to cultivate a facility for ‘inspiration’, which is something that does not originate in the intellect but which comes through the intellect. This will further enrich and empower a Gemini’s mind.

Love and Relationships

Geminis bring their natural garrulousness and brilliance into their love life and social life as well. A good talk or a verbal joust is an interesting prelude to romance. Their only problem in love is that their intellect is too cool and passionless to incite ardour in others. Emotions sometimes disturb them, and their partners tend to complain about this. If you are in love with a Gemini you must understand why this is so. Geminis avoid deep passions because these would interfere with their ability to think and communicate. If they are cool towards you, understand that this is their nature.

Nevertheless, Geminis must understand that it is one thing to talk about love and another actually to love – to feel it and radiate it. Talking about love glibly will get them nowhere. They need to feel it and act on it. Love is not of the intellect but of the heart. If you want to know how a Gemini feels about love you should not listen to what he or she says, but rather, observe what he or she does. Geminis can be quite generous to those they love.

Geminis like their partners to be refined, well educated and well travelled. If their partners are wealthier than them, that’s all the better. If you’re in love with a Gemini you had better be a good listener as well.

The ideal relationship for the Gemini is a relationship of the mind. They enjoy the physical and emotional aspects, of course, but if the intellectual communion is not there they will suffer.

Home and Domestic Life

At home the Gemini can be uncharacteristically neat and meticulous. They tend to want their children and partner to live up to their idealistic standards. When these standards are not met they moan and criticize. However, Geminis are good family people and like to serve their families in practical and useful ways.

The Gemini home is comfortable and pleasant. They like to invite people over and they make great hosts. Geminis are also good at repairs and improvements around the house – all fuelled by their need to stay active and occupied with something they like to do. Geminis have many hobbies and interests that keep them busy when they are home alone.

Geminis understand and get along well with their children, mainly because they are very youthful people themselves. As great communicators, Geminis know how to explain things to children; in this way they gain their children’s love and respect. Geminis also encourage children to be creative and talkative, just like they are.

Horoscope for 2019

Major Trends

Very interesting developments are happening this year, Gemini. One of the major headlines is the love and social life. This looks very happy and active. Jupiter will be in your 7th house of love for almost the entire year, until December 3. Romance is definitely in the air for singles. More on this later.

Uranus, your religious and philosophical planet, is making a major move from your 11th house into your 12th house of spirituality this year. Last year he flirted with your 12th house and you got a bit of an inkling of what is to come; this year, on March 7, he will move in properly and will stay for the next seven years. This is going to bring great change to your spiritual life. It’s going to bring major changes in spiritual or charitable organizations that you’re involved with. More details later.

Your 8th house of regeneration has been powerful for many years, and since last year, as Saturn entered, it has become even more powerful. Thus for some years now many of you have been dealing with death and death issues. In some cases it was literal death. In other cases, only encounters with it. The dark angel has been hovering around you, letting you know that he’s around. These trends continue in the year ahead. You can cooperate with this energy in a positive way by getting involved in personal transformation and re-invention. This is a form of death and will satisfy the angel. It is not physical death but a kind of psychological death – we die to our old selves.

Neptune, your career planet, has been in your 10th house of career for many years now, and he remains there for many more. This shows a need – an urge – for a spiritual-type career – something that is idealistic. More on this later.

There is another interesting observation about the year ahead. The upper half of your Horoscope – the day side – contains all the long-term planets. This means that the lower side of the Horoscope will never dominate this year. There will be times when it is relatively stronger than usual (and we will discuss this in the monthly reports), but it will never dominate. Thus in general 2019 is a more career-oriented kind of year. Insomnia could be a problem for some people.

Your most important interests in the year ahead will be love and romance (until December 3); sex, life and death issues, personal transformation and reinvention; career; friends, groups and group activities (until March 7); and spirituality (from March 7 onwards).

Your paths of greatest fulfilment this year are finance; love and romance (until December 3); and sex, death and death issues, personal transformation and reinvention.

Health

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

Health should be good this year. There are only two long-term planets – Jupiter and Neptune – in stressful alignment with you, which is a big improvement over previous years. And by the end of the year, as Jupiter moves into Capricorn in December, there will be only one long-term planet stressing you. There is much improvement happening in health and energy. Furthermore, your empty 6th house indicates that you’re not that focused on health, which I read as a good sign. You have no need to concentrate on it – health is basically good.

Sure, there will be periods in the year where health is less easy than usual, and we will discuss this in the monthly reports, but these are temporary things caused by short-term transits. They are not trends for the year.