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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

A Note on the ‘New Zodiac’

Glossary of Astrological Terms

Aries

Personality Profile

Understanding an Aries

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

Taurus

Personality Profile

Understanding a Taurus

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

Gemini

Personality Profile

Understanding a Gemini

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

Cancer

Personality Profile

Understanding a Cancer

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

Leo

Personality Profile

Understanding a Leo

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

Virgo

Personality Profile

Understanding a Virgo

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

Libra

Personality Profile

Understanding a Libra

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

Scorpio

Personality Profile

Understanding a Scorpio

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

Sagittarius

Personality Profile

Understanding a Sagittarius

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

Capricorn

Personality Profile

Understanding a Capricorn

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

Aquarius

Personality Profile

Understanding an Aquarius

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

Pisces

Personality Profile

Understanding a Pisces

Horoscope for 2019

Month-by-month Forecasts

About the Publisher

Introduction

Welcome to the fascinating and intricate world of astrology!

For thousands of years the movements of the planets and other heavenly bodies have intrigued the best minds of every generation. Life holds no greater challenge or joy than this: knowledge of ourselves and the universe we live in. Astrology is one of the keys to this knowledge.

Your Personal Horoscope 2019 gives you the fruits of astrological wisdom. In addition to general guidance on your character and the basic trends of your life, it shows you how to take advantage of planetary influences so you can make the most of the year ahead.

The section on each sign includes a Personality Profile, a look at general trends for 2019, and in-depth month-by-month forecasts. The Glossary explains some of the astrological terms you may be unfamiliar with.

One of the many helpful features of this book is the ‘Best’ and ‘Most Stressful’ days listed at the beginning of each monthly forecast. Read these sections to learn which days in each month will be good overall, good for money, and good for love. Mark them on your calendar – these will be your best days. Similarly, make a note of the days that will be most stressful for you. It is best to avoid booking important meetings or taking major decisions on these days, as well as on those days when important planets in your horoscope are retrograde (moving backwards through the zodiac).

The Major Trends section for your sign lists those days when your vitality is strong or weak, or when relationships with your co-workers or loved ones may need a bit more effort on your part. If you are going through a difficult time, take a look at the colour, metal, gem and scent listed in the ‘At a Glance’ section of your Personality Profile. Wearing a piece of jewellery that contains your metal and/or gem will strengthen your vitality, just as wearing clothes or decorating your room or office in the colour ruled by your sign, drinking teas made from the herbs ruled by your sign or wearing the scents associated with your sign will sustain you.

Another important virtue of this book is that it will help you to know not only yourself but those around you: your friends, co-workers, partners and/or children. Reading the Personality Profile and forecasts for their signs will provide you with an insight into their behaviour that you won’t get anywhere else. You will know when to be more tolerant of them and when they are liable to be difficult or irritable.

In this edition we have included foot reflexology charts as part of the health section. So many health problems could perhaps be avoided or alleviated if we understood which organs were most vulnerable and what we could do to protect them. Though there are many natural and drug-free ways to strengthen vulnerable organs, these charts show a valid way to proceed. The vulnerable organs for the year ahead are clearly marked in the charts. It’s very good to massage the whole foot on a regular basis, as the feet contain reflexes to the entire body. Try to pay special attention to the specific areas marked in the charts. If this is done diligently, health problems can be avoided. And even if they can’t be completely avoided, their impact can be softened considerably.

I consider you – the reader – my personal client. By studying your Solar Horoscope I gain an awareness of what is going on in your life – what you are feeling and striving for and the challenges you face. I then do my best to address these concerns. Consider this book the next best thing to having your own personal astrologer!

It is my sincere hope that Your Personal Horoscope 2019 will enhance the quality of your life, make things easier, illuminate the way forward, banish obscurities and make you more aware of your personal connection to the universe. Understood properly and used wisely, astrology is a great guide to knowing yourself, the people around you and the events in your life – but remember that what you do with these insights – the final result – is up to you.

A Note on the ‘New Zodiac’

Recently an article was published that postulated two things: the discovery of a new constellation – Ophiuchus – making a thirteenth constellation in the heavens and thus a thirteenth sign, and the statement that because the Earth has shifted relative to the constellations in the past few thousand years, all the signs have shifted backwards by one sign. This has caused much consternation, and I have received a stream of letters, emails and phone calls from people saying things like: ‘I don’t want to be a Taurus, I’m happy being a Gemini’, ‘What’s my real sign?’ or ‘Now that I finally understand myself, I’m not who I think I am!’

All of this is ‘much ado about nothing’. The article has some partial truth to it. Yes, in two thousand years the planets have shifted relative to the constellations in the heavens. This is old news. We know this and Hindu astrologers take this into account when casting charts. This shift doesn’t affect Western astrologers in North America and Europe. We use what is called a ‘tropical’ zodiac. This zodiac has nothing to do with the constellations in the heavens. They have the same names, but that’s about it. The tropical zodiac is based on the Earth’s revolution around the Sun. Imagine the circle that this orbit makes, then divide this circle by twelve and you have our zodiac. The Spring Equinox is always 0 degrees (Aries), and the Autumn Equinox is always 0 degrees Libra (180 degrees from 0 Aries). At one time a few thousand years ago, these tropical signs coincided with the actual constellations; they were pretty much interchangeable, and it didn’t matter what zodiac you used. But in the course of thousands of years the planets have shifted relative to these constellations. Here in the West it doesn’t affect our practice one iota. You are still the sign you always were.

In North America and Europe there is a clear distinction between an astrological sign and a constellation in the heavens. This issue is more of a problem for Hindu astrologers. Their zodiac is based on the actual constellations – this is called the ‘sidereal’ zodiac. And Hindu astrologers have been accounting for this shift all the time. They keep close tabs on it. In two thousand years there is a shift of 23 degrees, and they subtract this from the Western calculations. So in their system many a Gemini would be a Taurus and this is true for all the signs. This is nothing new – it is all known and accounted for, so there is no bombshell here.

The so-called thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus, is also not a problem for the Western astrologer. As we mentioned, our zodiac has nothing to do with the constellations. It could be more of a problem for the Hindus, but my feeling is that it’s not a problem for them either. What these astronomers are calling a new constellation was probably considered a part of one of the existing constellations. I don’t know this as a fact, but I presume it is so intuitively. I’m sure we will soon be getting articles by Hindu astrologers explaining this.

Glossary of Astrological Terms
Ascendant

We experience day and night because the Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours. It is because of this rotation that the Sun, Moon and planets seem to rise and set. The zodiac is a fixed belt (imaginary, but very real in spiritual terms) around the Earth. As the Earth rotates, the different signs of the zodiac seem to the observer to rise on the horizon. During a 24-hour period every sign of the zodiac will pass this horizon point at some time or another. The sign that is at the horizon point at any given time is called the Ascendant, or rising sign. The Ascendant is the sign denoting a person’s self-image, body and self-concept – the personal ego, as opposed to the spiritual ego indicated by a person’s Sun sign.

Aspects

Aspects are the angular relationships between planets, the way in which one planet stimulates or influences another. If a planet makes a harmonious aspect (connection) to another, it tends to stimulate that planet in a positive and helpful way. If, however, it makes a stressful aspect to another planet, this disrupts that planet’s normal influence.

Astrological Qualities

There are three astrological qualities: cardinal, fixed and mutable. Each of the 12 signs of the zodiac falls into one of these three categories.

Cardinal Signs

Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn

The cardinal quality is the active, initiating principle. Those born under these four signs are good at starting new projects.

Fixed Signs

Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius

Fixed qualities include stability, persistence, endurance and perfectionism. People born under these four signs are good at seeing things through.

Mutable Signs

Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces

Mutable qualities are adaptability, changeability and balance. Those born under these four signs are creative, if not always practical.

Direct Motion

When the planets move forward through the zodiac – as they normally do – they are said to be going ‘direct’.

Grand Square

A Grand Square differs from a normal Square (usually two planets separated by 90 degrees) in that four or more planets are involved. When you look at the pattern in a chart you will see a whole and complete square. This, though stressful, usually denotes a new manifestation in the life. There is much work and balancing involved in the manifestation.

Grand Trine

A Grand Trine differs from a normal Trine (where two planets are 120 degrees apart) in that three or more planets are involved. When you look at this pattern in a chart, it takes the form of a complete triangle – a Grand Trine. Usually (but not always) it occurs in one of the four elements: Fire, Earth, Air or Water. Thus the particular element in which it occurs will be highlighted. A Grand Trine in Water is not the same as a Grand Trine in Air or Fire, etc. This is a very fortunate and happy aspect, and quite rare.

Houses

There are 12 signs of the zodiac and 12 houses of experience. The 12 signs are personality types and ways in which a given planet expresses itself; the 12 houses show ‘where’ in your life this expression takes place. Each house has a different area of interest. A house can become potent and important – a house of power – in different ways: if it contains the Sun, the Moon or the ‘ruler’ of your chart; if it contains more than one planet; or if the ruler of that house is receiving unusual stimulation from other planets.

1st House

Personal Image and Sensual Delights

2nd House

Money/Finance

3rd House

Communication and Intellectual Interests

4th House

Home and Family

5th House

Children, Fun, Games, Creativity, Speculations and Love Affairs

6th House

Health and Work

7th House

Love, Marriage and Social Activities

8th House

Transformation and Regeneration

9th House

Religion, Foreign Travel, Higher Education and Philosophy

10th House

Career

11th House

Friends, Group Activities and Fondest Wishes

12th House

Spirituality

Karma

Karma is the law of cause and effect which governs all phenomena. We are all where we find ourselves because of karma – because of actions we have performed in the past. The universe is such a balanced instrument that any act immediately sets corrective forces into motion – karma.

Long-term Planets

The planets that take a long time to move through a sign show the long-term trends in a given area of life. They are important for forecasting the prolonged view of things. Because these planets stay in one sign for so long, there are periods in the year when the faster-moving (short-term) planets will join them, further activating and enhancing the importance of a given house.

Jupiter

stays in a sign for about 1 year

Saturn

2½ years

Uranus

7 years

Neptune

14 years

Pluto

15 to 30 years

Lunar

Relating to the Moon. See also ‘Phases of the Moon’, below.

Natal

Literally means ‘birth’. In astrology this term is used to distinguish between planetary positions that occurred at the time of a person’s birth (natal) and those that are current (transiting). For example, Natal Sun refers to where the Sun was when you were born; transiting Sun refers to where the Sun’s position is currently at any given moment – which usually doesn’t coincide with your birth, or Natal, Sun.

Out of Bounds

The planets move through the zodiac at various angles relative to the celestial equator (if you were to draw an imaginary extension of the Earth’s equator out into the universe, you would have an illustration of this celestial equator). The Sun – being the most dominant and powerful influence in the Solar system – is the measure astrologers use as a standard. The Sun never goes more than approximately 23 degrees north or south of the celestial equator. At the winter solstice the Sun reaches its maximum southern angle of orbit (declination); at the summer solstice it reaches its maximum northern angle. Any time a planet exceeds this Solar boundary – and occasionally planets do – it is said to be ‘out of bounds’. This means that the planet exceeds or trespasses into strange territory – beyond the limits allowed by the Sun, the ruler of the Solar system. The planet in this condition becomes more emphasized and exceeds its authority, becoming an important influence in the forecast.

Phases of the Moon

After the full Moon, the Moon seems to shrink in size (as perceived from the Earth), gradually growing smaller until it is virtually invisible to the naked eye – at the time of the next new Moon. This is called the waning Moon phase, or the waning Moon.

After the new Moon, the Moon gradually gets bigger in size (as perceived from the Earth) until it reaches its maximum size at the time of the full Moon. This period is called the waxing Moon phase, or waxing Moon.

Retrogrades

The planets move around the Sun at different speeds. Mercury and Venus move much faster than the Earth, while Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto move more slowly. Thus there are times when, relative to the Earth, the planets appear to be going backwards. In reality they are always going forward, but relative to our vantage point on Earth they seem to go backwards through the zodiac for a period of time. This is called ‘retrograde’ motion and tends to weaken the normal influence of a given planet.

Short-term Planets

The fast-moving planets move so quickly through a sign that their effects are generally of a short-term nature. They reflect the immediate, day-to-day trends in a horoscope.

Moon

stays in a sign for only 2½ days

Mercury

20 to 30 days

Sun

30 days

Venus

approximately 1 month

Mars

approximately 2 months

T-square

A T-square differs from a Grand Square (see above) in that it is not a complete square. If you look at the pattern in a chart it appears as ‘half a complete square’, resembling the T-square tools used by architects and designers. If you cut a complete square in half, diagonally, you have a T-square. Many astrologers consider this more stressful than a Grand Square, as it creates tension that is difficult to resolve. T-squares bring learning experiences.

Transits

This term refers to the movements or motions of the planets at any given time. Astrologers use the word ‘transit’ to make the distinction between a birth, or Natal, planet (see ‘Natal’, above) and the planet’s current movement in the heavens. For example, if at your birth Saturn was in the sign of Cancer in your 8th house, but is now moving through your 3rd house, it is said to be ‘transiting’ your 3rd house. Transits are one of the main tools with which astrologers forecast trends.

Personality Profile
ARIES AT A GLANCE

Element – Fire

Ruling Planet – Mars

Career Planet – Saturn

Love Planet – Venus

Money Planet – Venus

Planet of Fun, Entertainment, Creativity and Speculations – Sun

Planet of Health and Work – Mercury

Planet of Home and Family Life – Moon

Planet of Spirituality – Neptune

Planet of Travel, Education, Religion and Philosophy – Jupiter

Colours – carmine, red, scarlet

Colours that promote love, romance and social harmony – green, jade green

Colour that promotes earning power – green

Gem – amethyst

Metals – iron, steel

Scent – honeysuckle

Quality – cardinal (= activity)

Quality most needed for balance – caution

Strongest virtues – abundant physical energy, courage, honesty, independence, self-reliance

Deepest need – action

Characteristics to avoid – haste, impetuousness, over-aggression, rashness

Signs of greatest overall compatibility – Leo, Sagittarius

Signs of greatest overall incompatibility – Cancer, Libra, Capricorn

Sign most helpful to career – Capricorn

Sign most helpful for emotional support – Cancer

Sign most helpful financially – Taurus

Sign best for marriage and/or partnerships – Libra

Sign most helpful for creative projects – Leo

Best Sign to have fun with – Leo

Signs most helpful in spiritual matters – Sagittarius, Pisces

Best day of the week – Tuesday

Understanding an Aries

Aries is the activist par excellence of the zodiac. The Aries need for action is almost an addiction, and those who do not really understand the Aries personality would probably use this hard word to describe it. In reality ‘action’ is the essence of the Aries psychology – the more direct, blunt and to-the-point the action, the better. When you think about it, this is the ideal psychological makeup for the warrior, the pioneer, the athlete or the manager.

Aries likes to get things done, and in their passion and zeal often lose sight of the consequences for themselves and others. Yes, they often try to be diplomatic and tactful, but it is hard for them. When they do so they feel that they are being dishonest and phoney. It is hard for them even to understand the mindset of the diplomat, the consensus builder, the front office executive. These people are involved in endless meetings, discussions, talks and negotiations – all of which seem a great waste of time when there is so much work to be done, so many real achievements to be gained. An Aries can understand, once it is explained, that talk and negotiations – the social graces – lead ultimately to better, more effective actions. The interesting thing is that an Aries is rarely malicious or spiteful – even when waging war. Aries people fight without hate for their opponents. To them it is all good-natured fun, a grand adventure, a game.

When confronted with a problem many people will say, ‘Well, let’s think about it, let’s analyse the situation.’ But not an Aries. An Aries will think, ‘Something must be done. Let’s get on with it.’ Of course neither response is the total answer. Sometimes action is called for, sometimes cool thought. But an Aries tends to err on the side of action.

Action and thought are radically different principles. Physical activity is the use of brute force. Thinking and deliberating require one not to use force – to be still. It is not good for the athlete to be deliberating the next move; this will only slow down his or her reaction time. The athlete must act instinctively and instantly. This is how Aries people tend to behave in life. They are quick, instinctive decision-makers and their decisions tend to be translated into action almost immediately. When their intuition is sharp and well tuned, their actions are powerful and successful. When their intuition is off, their actions can be disastrous.

Do not think this will scare an Aries. Just as a good warrior knows that in the course of combat he or she might acquire a few wounds, so too does an Aries realize – somewhere deep down – that in the course of being true to yourself you might get embroiled in a disaster or two. It is all part of the game. An Aries feels strong enough to weather any storm.

There are many Aries people who are intellectual. They make powerful and creative thinkers. But even in this realm they tend to be pioneers – outspoken and blunt. These types of Aries tend to elevate (or sublimate) their desire for physical combat in favour of intellectual, mental combat. And they are indeed powerful.

In general, Aries people have a faith in themselves that others could learn from. This basic, rock-solid faith carries them through the most tumultuous situations of life. Their courage and self-confidence make them natural leaders. Their leadership is more by way of example than by actually controlling others.

Finance

Aries people often excel as builders or estate agents. Money in and of itself is not as important as are other things – action, adventure, sport, etc. They are motivated by the need to support and be well-thought-of by their partners. Money as a way of attaining pleasure is another important motivation. Aries function best in their own businesses or as managers of their own departments within a large business or corporation. The fewer orders they have to take from higher up, the better. They also function better out in the field rather than behind a desk.

Aries people are hard workers with a lot of endurance; they can earn large sums of money due to the strength of their sheer physical energy.

Venus is their money planet, which means that Aries need to develop more of the social graces in order to realize their full earning potential. Just getting the job done – which is what an Aries excels at – is not enough to create financial success. The co-operation of others needs to be attained. Customers, clients and co-workers need to be made to feel comfortable; many people need to be treated properly in order for success to happen. When Aries people develop these abilities – or hire someone to do this for them – their financial potential is unlimited.

Career and Public Image

One would think that a pioneering type would want to break with the social and political conventions of society. But this is not so with the Aries-born. They are pioneers within conventional limits, in the sense that they like to start their own businesses within an established industry.

Capricorn is on the 10th house of career cusp of Aries’ solar horoscope. Saturn is the planet that rules their life’s work and professional aspirations. This tells us some interesting things about the Aries character. First off, it shows that, in order for Aries people to reach their full career potential, they need to develop some qualities that are a bit alien to their basic nature: they need to become better administrators and organizers; they need to be able to handle details better and to take a long-range view of their projects and their careers in general. No one can beat an Aries when it comes to achieving short-range objectives, but a career is long term, built over time. You cannot take a ‘quickie’ approach to it.

Some Aries people find it difficult to stick with a project until the end. Since they get bored quickly and are in constant pursuit of new adventures, they prefer to pass an old project or task on to somebody else in order to start something new. Those Aries who learn how to put off the search for something new until the old is completed will achieve great success in their careers and professional lives.

In general, Aries people like society to judge them on their own merits, on their real and actual achievements. A reputation acquired by ‘hype’ feels false to them.

Love and Relationships

In marriage and partnerships Aries like those who are more passive, gentle, tactful and diplomatic – people who have the social grace and skills they sometimes lack. Our partners always represent a hidden part of ourselves – a self that we cannot express personally.

An Aries tends to go after what he or she likes aggressively. The tendency is to jump into relationships and marriages. This is especially true if Venus is in Aries as well as the Sun. If an Aries likes you, he or she will have a hard time taking no for an answer; many attempts will be made to sweep you off your feet.

Though Aries can be exasperating in relationships – especially if they are not understood by their partners – they are never consciously or wilfully cruel or malicious. It is just that they are so independent and sure of themselves that they find it almost impossible to see somebody else’s viewpoint or position. This is why an Aries needs as a partner someone with lots of social graces.

On the plus side, an Aries is honest, someone you can lean on, someone with whom you will always know where you stand. What he or she lacks in diplomacy is made up for in integrity.

Home and Domestic Life

An Aries is of course the ruler at home – the Boss. The male will tend to delegate domestic matters to the female. The female Aries will want to rule the roost. Both tend to be handy round the house. Both like large families and both believe in the sanctity and importance of the family. An Aries is a good family person, although he or she does not especially like being at home a lot, preferring instead to be roaming about.

Considering that they are by nature so combative and wilful, Aries people can be surprisingly soft, gentle and even vulnerable with their children and partners. The sign of Cancer, ruled by the Moon, is on the cusp of their solar 4th house of home and family. When the Moon is well aspected – under favourable influences – in the birth chart, an Aries will be tender towards the family and will want a family life that is nurturing and supportive. Aries likes to come home after a hard day on the battlefield of life to the understanding arms of their partner and the unconditional love and support of their family. An Aries feels that there is enough ‘war’ out in the world – and he or she enjoys participating in that. But when Aries comes home, comfort and nurturing are what’s needed.

Horoscope for 2019
Major Trends

One of the major headlines this year is Uranus’s move out of your sign (where he has been for the past seven years) into Taurus. This happens on March 7. You’ve been dealing with sudden personal changes for many years. You’ve been reinventing yourself and upgrading your image constantly. You’ve been breaking free of old relationships and personal limitations. These lessons have been learned, and now – from March 7 onwards – you’re going to be financially more experimental. The financial life will become exciting, but insecure and unstable. More on this later.

Jupiter will spend almost all year in your 9th house. This is a strong position for him as he will be in his own sign and house. Thus this is a year for foreign travel. It is especially good for those either applying to college or already there. It shows success in these endeavours. Those of you involved in legal issues – lawsuits and the like – should also have successful outcomes.

With both Saturn and Pluto in your 10th house of career all year (and with Jupiter entering the 10th house on December 3), you’re in a very strong career year. You’ll be working hard and be very serious about it. And, if you put in the work there will be success. There’s more details on this later on.

Neptune, your spiritual planet (and also the generic spiritual planet) spends the year in his own sign and house – your 12th house. He is powerful there and thus the year ahead is also very spiritual. This has been the case for some years and the trend continues. More later.

Mars and Venus – two very important planets in your chart – will be moving forward all year, showing good forward progress in love, finance and in personal matters. It shows confidence in these areas.

Usually in a given year there are two solar eclipses. This year we will have three, impacting on your children or the children figures in your life and indicating more change and drama in their lives than usual.

Your most important interests this year will be the body and image (until March 7); finance (from March 7 onwards – and for many years to come); religion, philosophy, higher education and foreign travel (until December 3); career; and spirituality.

Your paths of greatest fulfilment will be home and family; religion, philosophy, higher education and foreign travel (until December 3); and career (after December 3).

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.)

Your 6th house of health is not a house of power this year, and so the tendency will be to take good health for granted or to ignore things. This would be a mistake. Two powerful long-term planets – Saturn and Pluto – are in stressful alignment with you, and on December 3 Jupiter will join them in that alignment. So you need to pay more attention.

The good news is that there is much you can do to enhance your health and prevent problems from developing. Give more attention to the following – the vulnerable areas of your Horoscope (the reflexology points are shown in the chart above):

Important foot reflexology points for the year ahead

Try to massage all of the foot on a regular basis – the top of the foot as well as the bottom – but pay extra attention to the points highlighted on the chart. When you massage, be aware of ‘sore spots’ as these need special attention. It’s also a good idea to massage the ankles and below them.

 The head, face and scalp. These are always important for Aries and this year is no exception. Regular scalp and face massage should be part of your health regime, and craniosacral therapy is said to be good for the head too.

 The musculature – another important area for you, Aries. While you don’t need to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, you do need good muscle tone. Weak or flabby muscles can knock the spine and skeleton out of alignment and this will cause all kinds of other problems. So vigorous physical exercise (according to your age and stage in life) is a good thing.

 The adrenals. With the adrenals it is important to avoid anger and fear, the two emotions that stress them out. Ginseng is said to be good for the adrenals.

 The heart has become important in recent years, and will become even more so after December 3. Most spiritual healers affirm that worry and anxiety are the major root causes of heart problems. So try to avoid these; replace them with faith.

 The lungs, arms, shoulders, small intestine and respiratory system. These are always important for you, Aries, as Mercury, the planet that rules these areas, is your health planet. (The reflexes to the lungs are shown above.) Regular arm and shoulder massage, especially the shoulders, is beneficial as tension tends to collect there and needs to be released.

With Mercury as your health planet, good health also means good mental health. It is good to exercise your body, as was mentioned above, but it’s just as important to exercise your mind and to give it proper care and feeding. The intellect needs food – ideas of wisdom and truth – exercise, digestion and expression. So read good books by good writers. Digest them and then express them – either by the spoken or written word. Keeping a journal is good for mental health.

Intellectual purity is a good thing in its own right, but with you, Aries, it can be a health issue. The best cure for error is light. Invoke it often. Learn to turn the mind off when not in use. A hyperactive mind burns energy that the body needs for other things. Meditation is a big help for this.

As our regular readers know, the first line of defence is always high energy – a strong auric field. This is our spiritual immune system. A strong aura will repel germs, microbes and other opportunistic invaders. So make sure to get enough rest.

Mercury is a very fast-moving planet, and in a given year will move through all the signs and houses of your chart (this year he will visit some twice). So there are therapies that will work that depend on where he is at a given time. These things are best discussed in the monthly reports.

Home and Family

Normally when the 4th house is not strong, there’s not much going on on the home or family front: they tend to the status quo. But with you things are different. There will be two lunar eclipses this year, each of which will shake up things at home in various ways. In addition there will be a solar eclipse on July 2 that will occur in your 4th house. This too is going to shake things up. Often there are dramas in the lives of family members, and often hidden flaws in the home come to light and repairs are needed. We will deal with this in more detail in the monthly reports.

A move is not very likely this year – though there’s nothing in your Horoscope that signals against it.

This is much more a career year than a family year. Most of the long-term planets are in the upper, day side of your Horoscope, and the night side of your Horoscope will never totally dominate your chart (though there will be periods where it is stronger than it normally is this year). Thus if problems arise they will be due to inattention – lack of focus. If problems arise pay more attention here.

There will be dramas in the lives of parents and parent figures this year. If they are married, the marriage is being severely tested. If they are in a relationship, this too will get tested. They could also be having surgery or near-death kinds of experiences. There are three eclipses in your 10th house, which rules one of your parent figures. (If you are a woman, it rules the mother; if you are a man, the father.) So there is a lot of drama going on in their lives. The overall health of this parent or parent figure needs watching too.

One of the parents or parent figures in your life has excellent job prospects in the year ahead. And, towards the end of the year, will have a better social life. Moves don’t seem likely for either of them.

Children or children figures are having multiple career changes. They are being more experimental in this area. A move is not likely. They seem more focused on love than on the career, but they can find love through pursuing their career goals. They are working hard – they have many job opportunities – but they’re also having fun. They work hard and play hard. Children or children figures of childbearing age are more fertile than usual this year.

If you have grandchildren of the appropriate age, they too seem more fertile. A move will work better for them after December 3. They will have a prosperous year.

If you’re planning major repairs or renovations (or building a home), May 16 to July 23 will be a good time to do them. If you’re beautifying the home in a cosmetic kind of way, or buying objects of beauty for the home, July 3–27 will be a good time.

The Moon is your family planet – the best possible one to have as this is her natural domain. But the Moon is the fastest of all the planets and will traverse all your houses in any given month. So there are many short-term family trends that are best discussed in the monthly reports.

Finance and Career

Very important financial things are happening now. You had a foretaste of this last year as Uranus flirted with your money house. Now, on March 7, he is moving in there for the long haul. So, in finance, expect the unexpected. By the time Uranus is finished with you, in seven years’ time, you will be in completely different financial conditions than you are now – radically different. They will also be much better. However, in order for your financial prayers to be answered, things need to be shaken up. Obstructions need to be blasted away. There is a need to learn to handle the insecurities that change brings.

Uranus is the planet of innovation and experimentation. So you are throwing out all the old financial rule books – all the old tried and true methods – and discovering what works for you personally. Experiments sometimes fail but these are temporary setbacks and you learn from them. Often, however, experiments succeed, and when they do earnings will skyrocket beyond belief. Money and earning opportunities can come in unexpected ways, out of the blue, and often when things seem darkest.

Uranus is a planet of extremes. The financial highs will be super-high, but the lows can be super-low too. Make sure you set aside money from the good times to cover the bad periods.

Uranus favours the new, and thus you’re attracted to start-up companies and even start-up industries. He rules the high-tech world – computers, software, the online world. He rules companies that are involved with new inventions and innovations. These are all alluring and you have a good feeling for them. You can even be involved in radically new technologies. In fact, whatever you’re actually doing, your technological expertise is important. By all means invest in technology – get the latest software, apps and computers.

Uranus also rules science and astrology. So astrology can be important in earnings – perhaps through consultations or investment. Your friends seems rich and seem supportive and provide financial opportunity too.

Venus, your financial planet, is a fast-moving planet (not as fast as the Moon or Mercury, but faster than all the others). In a given year she will move through all the signs and houses of your chart. (This year, indeed, she will make one-and-a-third turns around your chart – she moves faster than usual.) Thus earnings and earnings opportunities can come in many different ways, depending on where Venus is and the aspects she is receiving. These short-term trends are best dealt with in the monthly reports. The good news is that Venus will move forward all year – a financial plus, showing forward progress.

The career is unusually active this year. Your 10th house is not only the strongest in the Horoscope, but will be the scene of three eclipses in the year ahead. So there is much change happening there. With Saturn and Pluto in your 10th house all year, you’re working hard and methodically. There is a beautiful, single-minded concentration on your goals, which is 90 per cent of success. This is not the chart of ‘overnight’ success, but of success that happens methodically and through steady, persistent work. It shows success earned through sheer merit and for no other reason. You simply must be the best at what you do. It might seem slow and boring, but the eclipses will come and blast away any obstructions and, suddenly, you’ll be where you want to be.

With Saturn in your career house bosses can be more exacting and demanding, and difficult to please. The cosmic way to handle this is to give them even more than they ask for. Pick up the burdens and go the extra mile. By the end of the year, as Jupiter moves into your career house, you can expect promotions (official or unofficial) and recognition. It shows success.

Love and Social Life

This is not an especially strong love and social year. Some years are like that. Money and career seem far more important this year. The empty 7th house indicates the lack of focus. Usually this tends to the status quo: you’re more or less satisfied with things as they are and have no compelling need to make changes.

There’s nothing in your chart against love and romance, but nothing especially favouring them either. Those who are married will tend to stay married. Singles will tend to stay single.

In your chart Venus does double duty. She is both your financial planet and your love planet. Thus love and money tend to go together with you. When finances are going well, love tends to go well; when love goes well, finances tend to go well. And vice versa. Problems in love will often show problems in finance.

The good news here is that your love planet is moving unusually fast this year. Usually Venus will move through all 12 houses in a year. This year she will move through your 12 houses and then repeat the cycle for four more houses. (In effect she is moving (approximately) a third faster than usual.) This indicates social confidence – it shows someone who covers a lot of social territory. For singles it indicates a kind of fickleness in love. The love needs and desires change constantly. Someone who attracted you one month might not attract you the next.

Thus for singles I see a lot of dating in 2019, but not long-term, serious relationships. Enjoy the love life for what it is. It seems about gaining experiences.

Because Venus is moving so fast there will be a lot of short-term love trends, depending on where she is in the Heavens and the aspects that she receives. These are best dealt with in the monthly reports.

The other important development is that with Uranus moving out of your sign, you are going to be more stable in love. There is less rebellion, less need for change. This will bode well for love later on, in the future. You’re becoming a more ‘settled’ kind of person.

Friendship – a different kind of social activity – seems more active. Friendships are not only good in their own right; they will help the bottom line. Your taste in friends seems more stable than your taste in romantic partners. You like them rich and dependable. Being involved with friends and group activities definitely helps the finances. It will be good also to get involved with professional or trade organizations. They are not only helpful financially but seem to boost the career too (especially after March 7). New and significant friends will come into the picture after December 3, as Jupiter starts to make beautiful aspects to Uranus (your planet of friends).

As was mentioned earlier, parents and parent figures are having their relationships severely tested. There will be improvement at the end of year though, after December 3. There is serious love this year for siblings or sibling figures in your life – marriage would not be a surprise. Children and children figures are very focused on love, and this is 90 per cent of the secret of success. They have love opportunities as they pursue their career path or with people involved in their career. Serious love is likely from December 3 onwards (and next year too). Grandchildren (if you have them) are having a stable kind of love year – but they seem very happy.

Self-improvement

The spiritual life, as we’ve mentioned, is very active and strong these days. Neptune has been in your spiritual 12th house for many years now and will be there for many more. Most of you are now on a spiritual path – and if it hasn’t happened yet (unlikely!) it will happen. Those of you on that path are making very good progress.

Neptune is the planet of transcendence. He gives an ability to ‘rise above’ all earthly conditions and circumstances and see things from a higher, broader perspective. This might not seem like much, but it’s very powerful. It is like looking at things from a satellite orbiting the Earth rather than from a car. We see much more. We see the broad scope of things. We measure and judge things differently. Things that seem ‘bad’ in the short term (usually something unpleasant) are seen as good when the whole, wider picture is understood.

Much of what we have discussed in recent years still applies this year. The transit of a long-term planet such as Neptune is not really an ‘event’ but a process. It is a string of many events, all leading to one thing. So, the dream life is very active – and you should pay attention to it as the dreams will be significant and revelatory. Your ESP (extrasensory perception) faculties are getting stronger and stronger. Your intuition is much more reliable this year than in previous years, as Neptune is receiving better aspects from the other planets. (You will see even greater improvement after December 3.) Without this intuitive element, sacred literature doesn’t yield much insight. This must be read as much by the heart as by the mind. Often the intellect can’t understand certain passages, but intuition reveals the true intent. There will be many supernatural kinds of experiences this year. (Some call these synchronistic experiences – meaningful coincidences.)

One of the spiritual challenges this year comes from the power in your 10th house of career. This will tend to pull you in a worldly direction. There is a need to succeed in the world and in your outer goals. And, often, this will conflict with spiritual values. In the world it’s ‘dog eat dog’: get to the top any way that you can. So this internal struggle will need to be resolved. There are no rules for this. Some people marry the two urges by pursuing a worldly career and doing charity and pro bono work on the side. Some people actually choose a spiritual-type career – either ministry or working for a non-profit organization or a company that caters to these things. Some people pursue their worldly career but work to do it in a spiritual way. Each person finds their own solution.

The other spiritual challenge you face has to do with Uranus’s move into your money house. This, as we’ve said, brings sudden changes to the financial life and the ups and downs can be very extreme. There is a need to handle financial instability in a spiritually correct way. Eventually you will learn this; Uranus is a genius who knows how to do his job.

Meditating on the affluence of God will be a great help. In the midst of all the changes and challenges, the Divine flow of affluence never ceases and never wavers. Concentrating on that – developing faith – will get you through with flying colours. Faith is a muscle that needs building up, just like every other muscle.

Month-by-month Forecasts
January

Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 12, 13, 21, 22, 30, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 5, 6, 19, 20, 25, 26

Best Days for Love: 1, 12, 13, 21, 22, 25, 26, 30, 31

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 12, 13, 15, 16, 21, 22, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 5, 6, 15, 16, 23, 24

A wild and challenging month is ahead, with never a dull moment. Nevertheless, the month seems successful. You’re just working harder. You begin your year in the midst of a yearly career peak. Your 10th house of career is very powerful, with half the planets either in it or moving through. Not only that, a solar eclipse on the 6th (in America it’s on the 5th) also occurs in your 10th house. This is the first of three eclipses that will happen in your career house this year. You can’t be bothered with home and family issues right now. You’ve got to focus on the career – the demands here are powerful.

The solar eclipse brings career changes, which can take many forms. In some cases people actually change their career paths; usually though, the eclipse indicates changes in your company or industry. Sometimes the government changes the laws or the rules and regulations. The rules of the game change. Often this will bring personal dramas in the lives of parents, parent figures, bosses and authority figures. The change is not usually very comfortable while it’s happening, but with hindsight it can be seen as beneficial. A parent or parent figure in your life has to make important financial changes. Every solar eclipse affects the children and children figures in your life and this one is no different. It will be a good idea to reduce your schedule until the 20th, and especially this period. The children should avoid risky kinds of activities over the eclipse period.

We will also have a lunar eclipse on the 21st, which also affects children and children figures as it occurs in your 5th house. So let them take it easy over this period too. Like the previous eclipse, this one affects the finances of a parent or parent figure. He or she needs a course correction as their financial thinking and strategy have not been realistic, as the events of the eclipse will show. Every lunar eclipse impacts on the home and family. So there can be some crisis at home – perhaps a major repair or a personal drama with a family member. The lunar eclipse will reveal flaws in the home that you didn’t know were there, giving you an opportunity to correct them. The dream life will tend to be hyperactive this period, but shouldn’t be given much weight. The emotional plane of the whole planet is roiled up and disturbed (even animals are more edgy), and your dreams are more like ‘psychic waste products’ stirred up by the eclipse. Get them out of your system and go on with your life. Family members need more of your patience. Emotions are running high.

The other headline this month is health. This needs more attention until the 20th. Make sure you get enough rest. Keep your focus on the essentials and don’t fret the trivialities. From the 5th to the 24th, back and knee massages will be very helpful.

February

Best Days Overall: 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 26, 27

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

Best Days for Love: 11, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28

Best Days for Money: 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28

Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 11, 12, 19, 20, 28

Health is much improved this month, but still needs some attention. Enhance the health through calf and ankle massage until the 10th, and with foot massage afterwards. Mars, the ruler of your Horoscope, has been in your sign since January 1 and will still be there until February 14. Aries tend always to be in a rush, but more so now. Haste can lead to arguments and accidents, so be mindful on the physical plane. Be especially mindful from the 11th to the 14th as Mars travels with Uranus. Friends should also be more mindful.

There are interesting and happy financial developments this month. On the 3rd Venus, your financial and love planet, crosses the Mid-heaven. The Mid-heaven is the highest point in the chart and perhaps the most powerful point in the Horoscope. Thus she is exercising more influence. This spells increased earnings. In addition, your ruling planet Mars moves into your money house on the 14th, indicating great personal focus here. You have the financial favour of bosses, elders, parents and parent figures. Pay rises, official or unofficial, can happen. You spend more on yourself. You adopt an image of prosperity – people see you this way. Your good career and professional reputation enhance your earnings. What I also like here is that the financial planet, Venus, is in Capricorn from the 3rd onwards. This shows sound financial judgement and a prudent approach. Your financial decisions should be good, and it’s a very good time to set up budgets, savings and investment plans (and stick to them). This is a time to build up wealth for the long term.

Venus crossing your Mid-heaven is good for the love life too. It shows that love and social opportunity will come as you pursue your career goals (and, in many cases, with people involved in your career). Love is high on your agenda this month. Just as in finance, you’re more prudent in affairs of the heart. You favour successful and powerful people, people who can help you careerwise – and you’re meeting these kinds of people too. Singles could be tempted by relationships of convenience these days. Love seems very practical. There is a romantic or social opportunity with a boss or authority figure in your life on the 17th or 18th.

Stern Saturn has been in your 10th house of career since last year. So, your career advances through sheer merit. However, this month it won’t hurt to increase the ‘likeability’ factor. It’s not a substitute for merit, but it does help it along.

On the 19th the Sun enters your spiritual 12th house and stays there for the rest of the month – a good time to focus more on your spiritual practice. This is a period where spiritual breakthroughs are more likely. Your personal creativity is also very inspired these days.

March

Best Days Overall: 8, 9, 17, 18, 25, 26

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 15, 16, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29

Best Days for Love: 3, 4, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24

Best Days for Money: 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26

Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 10, 11, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29

A happy month ahead, Aries. Enjoy! This is a month for making progress on whatever spiritual path you’re on. Spiritual growth and a sound intuition are not only good in their own right, but will pay off creatively in your ability to handle your children, your ability to enjoy life and, after the 26th, in a financial and social way too.

Spiritual breakthroughs and revelations can happen all month, but especially on the 15th and 16th, and from the 24th onwards. Those of you working in the creative arts are especially inspired on the 15th and 16th. Mercury, your health planet, makes a station – he ‘camps out’ – right on your spiritual planet, Neptune, from the 24th to the 31st. This is a wonderful aspect for spiritual healing. If you feel under the weather during this time, you should consider seeing some sort of spiritual healer.

Health is good this month (but keep in mind that two long-term planets are still in stressful alignment with you). And compared to January, it is excellent! Like last month, enhance the health through foot massage and through spiritual techniques such as meditation, prayer, reiki, the laying on of hands and the manipulation of subtle energies. Your health planet is travelling backward from the 5th to the 25th, so avoid making important changes to the health regime then. Any such changes will need more study and research.

Students below college level need more focus. They are too apt to get dreamy and go off into ‘other worlds’.

The planetary power is approaching its maximum Eastern position for the year. As our regular readers know, this means that the planetary power is flowing towards you rather than away from you. You are in a period of maximum independence (and this becomes even stronger after the 20th), so it is time to take responsibility for your own happiness and conditions of life. If those conditions are irksome, make any changes that need to be made (before the 5th and after the 25th are the best times for this). There’s no need to please the world at the moment. If you are happy there is that much less suffering in the world. Self-interest is not evil, and self-sacrifice is not necessarily saintly. It all depends on the cycle you’re in.

Your love planet, Venus, spends most of the month in Aquarius and your 11th house. Thus this is more of a ‘friendship’ period than a romantic one. Many of you are more captivated by the ‘idea’ of love than actual love itself. (And in many cases you attract those kinds of people.) This position favours groups, organizations and the online social media world. And romantic opportunities can happen in these venues. The financial life is also helped by these activities. You need more of an online presence in whatever you’re doing.

On the 26th Venus will enter Pisces, your 12th house. This is Venus’s strongest position (on the celestial level), so the social and financial magnetism are greatly enhanced. Intuition will guide you in both love and finances.

April

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 11, 12, 17, 18, 24, 25

Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 11, 12, 17, 18, 21

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23

Best Days for Career: 7, 8, 15, 16, 24, 25

Another happy month, Aries. Last month, on March 20, the Sun entered your sign and you began one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks. You’re still very much in this peak this month, until the 20th. A lot of leisure opportunities have come already and more are on the way. You’re closer to your children (or children figures in your life), and they seem devoted to you. You are a bit of a child yourself these days and this is why you get on with them. Women of childbearing age are more fertile until the 20th, too. You look great. There is a star quality to your image. Aries generally do not lack self-confidence, but these days it is stronger than ever.

On the 20th Venus enters your sign, and this brings happiness in both love and finances. Love and romantic opportunities seek you out. You can’t escape them. Singles only need to go about their daily business – and enjoy life: love will find them. Those who are married or in a serious relationship receive more devotion from the beloved. Similar things are happening financially. Money seeks you out rather than the other way around. Financial windfalls occur. The money people in your life are devoted to you.

Health is excellent this month. Yes, there are still two long-term planets in stressful alignment with you, but they are out-powered by the short-term planets. The feet and spiritual healing techniques are still important until the 17th of this month, but afterwards focus on the normal areas important for Aries – the head and scalp, the muscles, the arms and shoulders and the adrenals. Physical exercise is very beneficial, and craniosacral therapy is especially good after the 17th. Review our discussion of health in the yearly report.

Last month was a strong ‘independent’ kind of month, and this month even more so. So, exercise your independence and make those changes that need to be made. Later on, as the power in the Eastern sector weakens, it will become more difficult to alter things.

Children and children figures in your life have excellent social and romantic opportunities from the 21st to the 23rd.

On the 20th the Sun moves into your money house and you begin a yearly financial peak. This will be a beauty – it happens with your financial planet, Venus, in your 1st house. This creates a lot of financial energy. Friends and social contacts seem very helpful, and money is earned in happy ways and spent in happy ways.

Career is important all year and this month is no exception. Only now, from the 20th onwards, the lower, night side of your chart is stronger than it has been all year. It is not dominant, but is at its strongest yearly level. So spend more time with the family, and strive towards emotional wellness.

May

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 8, 9, 15, 16, 21, 22

Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 14, 15, 16, 21, 31

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 14, 19, 20, 21, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 4, 5, 13, 14, 21, 22, 31

This month there is another reason to de-emphasize the career a little: your career planet, Saturn, goes retrograde on the 2nd. Thus many issues here will only be resolved with time. Career is still going well this month, but slower than usual. In the meantime it is good to get the home, family and emotional life in order – and you seem to be doing this. Mars moves into your 4th house of home and family on the 16th and spends the rest of the month there. This will be a good time for doing renovations or major repairs on the house.

Mars, the ruler of your Horoscope, has been ‘out of bounds’ since April 21 and will remain that way all this month. This means that you are venturing outside your normal ‘comfort zone’ of life. Probably the solutions you seek are not available in the usual places and you have to go ‘far afield’ to find them. This a more adventurous kind of period for you (but Aries likes adventure).

Another important planet in your chart, Mercury, will be briefly ‘out of bounds’ from the 28th to the 31st. This can indicate various things: the books you’re reading are outside the norm; your job can take you outside your normal sphere. In some cases you are seeing therapists or alternative health practitioners who are off the beaten track.

The month ahead is unusually prosperous. Money is rolling in. You’re still in the midst of a yearly financial peak, until the 21st, and children, children figures, bosses and authority figures are all supportive of your financial goals. Career might be slowing down, but not the financial life. On the 15th Venus moves into your money house and spends the rest of the month there. She is in her own sign and house and is therefore more powerful on your behalf. This spells extra earnings – stronger earning power. From the 17th to the 19th Venus travels with Uranus. This transit often brings sudden and unexpected financial benefit. Sometimes it doesn’t bring physical money, but expensive material objects instead. Your spouse, partner or current love – friends in general – are supportive financially and are bringing opportunity. You’re still in a very independent period (although it’s becoming less so day by day), but in finance the social graces are very important.

The love life is happy this month too. Venus, who does double duty in your chart as both the love planet and financial planet, is still in your 1st house until the 15th. Thus, as we mentioned last month, there’s no need for any special effort in the love department. Venus in your sign signals instant love – impetuous love – someone who falls in love quickly. But after the 15th this changes. You slow things down. You favour wealthy people. Material things – material gifts – attract you. You find love opportunities as you pursue your financial goals and often with people involved in your finances. The money people in your life like matchmaking these days.

June

Best Days Overall: 7, 8, 15, 16, 25, 26

Most Stressful Days Overall: 5, 6, 11, 12, 18, 19

Best Days for Love: 1, 11, 12, 20, 21

Best Days for Money: 1, 7, 8, 11, 15, 16, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

Best Days for Career: 1, 9, 10, 18, 19, 27, 28, 29

Mercury remains ‘out of bounds’ until the 16th, so review our discussion of this last month. Mars, which has been ‘out of bounds’ since April 21, returns to his normal borders on the 12th. Your days of ‘wondering and wandering’ are winding down.

You’re leaving behind two very strong financial months. By the 9th, as Venus leaves your money house, finance becomes less important. Financial goals, the short-term ones at least, have been attained and you can shift your attention elsewhere. Your 3rd house of communication and intellectual interests became strong on May 21, and this month it is even stronger. So the mind is sharp and your communication skills are stronger than usual. Students below college level might want to take advantage of this and attend summer school – learning will be quicker and easier. But even non-students should become students this month. It is a very good time to attend lectures and seminars and to take classes in subjects that interest you. A good time to catch up on your reading as well. Your gift of the gab and intellectual knowledge will help the bottom line. You’re probably spending more on intellectual pursuits, too.

Until the 9th love is still materialistic and down to earth. You are the ‘material girl’ or ‘material boy’ these days. Love and social opportunities still happen as you pursue your financial goals and with people involved in your finances. But after the 9th, the venue for romance shifts. Now it happens in your neighbourhood and perhaps with neighbours. School and educational-type functions – lectures and seminars, the bookstore and the library – become venues for romance. A romantic date might be a lecture or class, rather than a night out on the town. While Venus was in Taurus (May 15 to June 9) wealth was a turn on. Now it is a person’s mind and speech that attract you. You like people who are easy to talk to, people you can share ideas with. In astrology we would say, people with whom there is harmony in the mental bodies.

Health is still good, but after the 21st it needs more attention. As always, make sure to get enough rest. Never allow yourself to get overtired. Low energy is the primal disease. After the 21st half of the planets are in stressful alignment with you, so focus more on health – and especially your emotional health. Diet seems an issue from the 4th to the 27th. Simple dietary changes can produce much wellness, but these things should be checked with a professional. Water-based therapies are powerful during this period. Swim in the ocean or river or lake. Spend more time around water. If this is not practical, take long soaks in the bath. You have a good connection to the healing powers of water from the 4th to the 27th.

Retrograde activity among the planets is heating up this month. We’re not yet at the pinnacle of it for the year (that will happen next month), but we’re close. This is hard for an Aries to take. The fast way, the short cut, might not really be the fastest way. Patience, patience, patience.

July

Best Days Overall: 4, 5, 13, 14, 22, 23, 24, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 2, 3, 8, 9, 15, 16, 29, 30

Best Days for Love: 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 20, 21, 31

Best Days for Money: 1, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31

Best Days for Career: 6, 7, 15, 16, 25, 26

Health is an important issue this month. Not only do we have at least half (and at times more) of the planets in stressful alignment with you, but we also have two eclipses that impact on you in a stressful way. So focus on health this month. Make sure (as always) to get enough rest. If possible, spend more time at a health spa, or schedule more massages or health treatments. Keep the mind focused on the essentials and don’t waste time and energy on trivia. Enhance the health in the ways mentioned in the yearly report. Chest massage is powerful all month, but especially until the 19th. After the 19th be more careful in dietary matters. Health will start to improve after the 21st, but will still need watching.

The two eclipses this month are replays (although not quite exact replays) of the eclipses of January. The solar eclipse of the 2nd occurs in your 4th house of home and family. So, there can be dramas at home – perhaps repairs are needed. There are dramas in the lives of family members (especially a parent or parent figure). This parent or parent figure has some financial crisis and dramatic change is needed (which will happen over the next six months). The family finances, as a whole, need to be changed. The strategy and thinking have been unrealistic, as the events of the eclipse will show. Children and children figures (ruled by the Sun in your chart) are always affected by every solar eclipse. So they need reduce their schedules over this period. Do your best to keep them out of harm’s way.

The lunar eclipse of the 16th occurs in your 10th house of career and is the second of three eclipses that happen here this year. So, there are more career changes and shake-ups. There are shake-ups in the corporate hierarchy and in your industry. Bosses, parents and parent figures – authority figures in your life – have personal dramas. Their marriages are being tested (this happened during the solar eclipse of the 2nd too). Again, repairs can be needed at home. Emotions are volatile in the family – perhaps there is some sort of crisis going on. Siblings and sibling figures in your life have a financial crisis, and dramatic changes will be needed in this area.

Retrograde activity is at its maximum for the year. Half of the planets are moving in reverse from the 7th onwards. Changes and decisions need to be made, but study things more carefully first.

Once the dust settles from the eclipses, you begin a yearly personal pleasure peak from the 21st onwards. Enjoy your life. Handle your challenges, but make time for some fun.

August

Best Days Overall: 1, 9, 10, 19, 20, 28, 29

Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 11, 12, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 20, 21, 30, 31

Best Days for Money: 1, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 2, 3, 11, 12, 21, 22, 30, 31

Retrograde activity among the planets is still intense this month, but less so than in July. On the 2nd, Mercury starts moving forward, and on the 11th Jupiter moves forward. But on the 12th Uranus starts to go backward. Again, patience, patience, patience. With this many planets retrograde, the cosmos is urging you to be more perfect in all that you do. Little mistakes can delay things even further. Go slow, steady and perfectly. This is, ultimately, the fastest way to your goals.

You have been in one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks since July 21, and this continues until August 23. It is not irresponsible to have fun now. It will actually increase earnings and lead to love. It will also have a positive impact on your health and well-being. The cosmos is often counter-intuitive.

The month ahead looks to be prosperous. It is a good kind of prosperity. A happy prosperity. Venus, your financial planet, will be in your 5th house until the 21st. This shows luck in speculations (I especially like the 8th and 9th for this). The 8th and 9th are days of very strong financial increase. It shows money that is earned in happy, joyful ways and that you’re enjoying the wealth you have, spending on fun and leisure and joyful activities. Those of you in the creative arts will find your work more marketable. Children and children figures seem supportive (and you could be spending more on them too). One of the problems here can be overspending. You earn easily and you spend easily. You’re an impulse spender. However, this will change after the 21st as Venus moves into Virgo, your 6th house of health and work. You will have more financial caution. You will seek value for money. You will be less speculative and down to earth. You will earn from work and productive service. Job seekers should have good success from the 23rd onwards as there are many job opportunities happening – even those of you already employed will have opportunities for overtime or second jobs.

Love is happy this month too. The 8th and 9th not only bring financial increase, but happy love opportunities and meetings. Love doesn’t seem too serious these days. Love affairs rather than serious, committed relationships are indicated. You just want to have fun and you’re probably attracting these kinds of people too. Love opportunities happen in the usual sorts of places this month (until the 21st) – at parties, resorts, the theatre and places of entertainment. After the 21st the workplace becomes a venue for love. But love can also happen as you pursue your health goals or with people involved in your health. One of the problems with Venus in Virgo is hyper-perfectionism and hyper-criticism. Do your best to avoid this – even in your thoughts.

September

Best Days Overall: 5, 6, 15, 16, 24, 25

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 22, 23, 28, 29

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 8, 9, 20, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 28, 29

Best Days for Career: 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27

On July 3 the Western social sector of your chart started to become powerful. This means that the planetary power has been moving away from you and towards others. This month the planets are approaching their maximum Western (social) positions. Thus, since July 3, there has been less personal independence. There has been a need to develop the social graces and to get things done by consensus rather than by direct action. It is a time to let others have their way (so long as it isn’t destructive), and to allow your good to come to you through others. It is a time to take a vacation from yourself, and put others first. This, as we have said before, is not especially saintly; it’s just the cycle you’re in. Changing conditions that irk you is more complicated now. Best to make a note of them and make the changes later on, when you’re back in a more independent cycle. While this period brings a lessening of independence, it is wonderful for your love and social life. (Independence is a wonderful quality, but not such a good thing for love.) On the 23rd, as the Sun enters Libra, your 7th house of love and romance, you enter a yearly love and social peak. So romance is in the air, and you’re in the mood for it – open to it.

Venus’s solstice, from the 15th to the 18th, is the announcement of the coming social shift. She pauses in the Heavens (in her latitudinal motion) and then changes direction. And so it is with you. There is a social pause and then a change of direction.

In the meantime, with your 6th house of health and work very strong, it is a good time to do all those boring, detailed jobs that you normally hate to do. You’re more in the mood for this type of work and they should go easier and faster. It is good that you’re very focused on health this month as the care you take now will stand you in good stead after the 23rd, when health becomes an issue.

After the 23rd, up to 60 per cent of the planets will be in stressful alignment with you at times. Your normal superabundant energy is not up to its usual standard. If you feel tired, take a nap. Recharge. No vehicle can run with no fuel in the tank. Work more calmly and shift activities. Don’t fret over trivia. Focus on what’s really important. Until the 14th enhance the health by massaging the reflex point to the small intestine. After the 14th, enhance the health in the ways mentioned in the yearly report. Pay more attention to the kidneys and hips. Massage the hips regularly. A herbal kidney cleanse might also be a good idea. The good news is that good social health (which you seem to have) will reflect positively on your energetic health.

Venus moves into your 7th house of love on the 14th, where she is powerful in her own sign and house. So your finances should be good. Social grace and likeability are always important in your financial life, but this period even more so than normal. Joint ventures and partnerships could also happen.

October

Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 21, 22, 30, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 5, 6, 19, 20, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 10, 11, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 5, 6, 15, 16, 23, 24

This month your 7th house of love becomes even stronger, with Mars’s move into there on the 4th. He joins the Sun and Venus, meaning that two out of the three most important planets in your chart – the Sun and the ruler of your Horoscope – will be in your 7th house. This signals a lot of social power. Your yearly love and social peak is even stronger. Your personal popularity is at its height. You’re there for others and they feel this and appreciate it. You’re a good friend to have these days. You’re also personally more romantic. Singles will have many love opportunities.

Health is still very much an issue this month – especially until the 23rd. Keep in mind our discussion of this last month. The problem this month is that your 6th house of health is empty after the 4th, and so you might not be paying enough attention here – and you should. Enhance the health in the ways mentioned in the yearly report. After the 3rd pay more attention to the colon, bladder and sexual organs. Most of you will tend to be overactive sexually – best to keep it in moderation. Don’t deprive yourself, but don’t overdo it either. A herbal colon cleanse might be a good idea, and you will respond well to detox regimes. Health and energy will improve after the 23rd, when the planetary stress is greatly reduced.

Mars, the ruler of your Horoscope, has his solstice from the 4th to the 11th. He pauses in the Heavens in his latitudinal motion, and then changes direction. It is interesting that this happens as he is changing signs and houses – leaving your 6th house and entering your 7th. So there is a personal shift of gears for you. You become more social.

But there is another shift that Mars is announcing. He is crossing from the lower (night side) of your chart to the upper (day) side. Thus, the upper half of the chart is now totally dominant: 80 per cent (and sometimes 90 per cent) of the planets will be in the upper half of the chart. Now the career becomes all consuming. Last month (on the 18th) your career planet, Saturn, started to move forward after many months of retrograde motion. Things are starting to move forward in your career and you’re ready to take advantage. All systems are go. You are successful now, but you haven’t even touched your peak.

November

Best Days Overall: 8, 9, 10, 18, 19, 26, 27

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 16, 17, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Love: 8, 9, 18, 19, 22, 23, 29

Best Days for Money: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 26, 27, 29

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

The upper (day) side of your Horoscope is not only strong quantitatively – at least 80 per cent of the planets are there – but qualitatively as well. The Sun and Mars, two of the three most important planets in your chart, spend all month here. And there are periods where even the Moon (the other most important planet) will also be here (from the 1st to the 7th and from the 22nd to the end of the month). Your 10th house of career, strong all year, becomes even stronger on the 26th as Venus, enters. Your 4th house of home and family, by contrast, is basically empty. Only the Moon moves through there on the 16th and 17th. So the power and might of the cosmos is in your career and outer goals. Pursue them actively. You have a lot of help.

Your 8th house of regeneration became powerful on October 23 and is still strong this month. Thus the libido is stronger than usual and, as long as you don’t overdo it, things will be OK. The spouse, partner or current love is having a banner financial month. You seem very involved here – especially from the 19th onwards. A strong 8th house favours detox regimes of all kinds – and not only physical detoxing. It favours the detoxing of the mind and emotions, too – the purging of negative habits of thought and feeling – as well as the detoxing of possessions. There is a need to de-clutter your environment, to get rid of possessions that you don’t need or use. Sell them or give them to charity. A strong 8th house is also good for weight-loss regimes, if you need them. Good physical health is often a matter of getting rid of things in the body that don’t belong there (and not so much about adding things to the body). The same is true for mental and emotional health. This is a good month for tax and estate planning (if you are of appropriate age). Good for paying down debt or refinancing existing debt.

The month ahead is prosperous. Venus spends almost all month – until the 26th – in Sagittarius, your 9th house. This is a fortunate place. Earnings are increasing. There is boundless financial optimism. Foreigners might be playing an important role in the financial life. There is business-related foreign travel.

Venus will go ‘out of bounds’ from the 15th to the 30th. This signals that you’re more adventurous in both love and finance. The solutions you seek are not in your normal spheres and you must go outside them to find what you want. And it seems you’re successful. Venus travels with Jupiter from the 22nd to the 24th, indicating a nice payday. For singles this indicates an important romantic meeting as well.

On the 26th Venus crosses your Mid-heaven for the second time this year. On the terrestrial level, the Mid-heaven is the most powerful position for any planet. This is another good signal for prosperity. It should bring a nice payday.

Health is much improved compared to last month. Continue to enhance the health through detox regimes, through more care of the colon and bladder and by sexual moderation.

December

Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 15, 16, 24, 25

Most Stressful Days Overall: 13, 14, 19, 20, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 8, 9, 17, 18, 26, 28, 29

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

Your career is the main headline this month. And, what a headline it is! You’ve been working hard and diligently for the past two years. You progressed inch by inch, slowly and methodically. Now, the payoff happens. Jupiter moves into your career house on the 3rd and suddenly you are the hottest ticket in town. But this is not all. Your 10th house has been strong all year, but this month at least 60 per cent, and at times 70 per cent, of the planets are in or moving through your 10th house. Mighty cosmic geniuses are supporting your rise and success. If you can manage to keep your health (a challenge from the 22nd onwards) you’re on top of the world. Many people in your life are also succeeding this month and they seem helpful to your own career.

On the 22nd you begin a yearly career peak. For many of you it will be a lifetime career peak. The message of the Horoscope is: do your duty, achieve what you came here to achieve, get your outer goals right and everything else in life will sort itself out. You will have prosperity, creativity, love and even health.

Keep in mind our health discussions of the past few months. You won’t be able to avoid working hard or avoid the demands of your career, but you can pace yourself better. Rest when tired. Drop the inessentials from your life or delegate them to others. Get more massages or health treatments. Spend more spare time at a health spa. Until the 9th continue with detox regimes. From the 9th to the 24th enhance your health through thigh massage and more care of the liver. Prayer is potent medicine too. After the 24th, back and knee massage will be powerful. It will also be useful to review the yearly report on health.

A solar eclipse on the 26th occurs in your career house, the third eclipse of the year in this house. It seems to me that, though the eclipse is disruptive, it is positive. (Good things can be just as disruptive as bad things.) It takes time to adjust to the disruption, and you should definitely reduce your schedule over this period. The good news is that the eclipse happens just after Christmas, so many will not be working that day. Travelling, though, wouldn’t be advisable then. Instead, spend some quiet time at home. The same advice goes for children, children figures, parents and parent figures in your life. This eclipse occurs very near Jupiter, so college-level (or college-bound) students are affected. They could change schools, courses or other educational plans.

Venus, your love and financial planet, is still ‘out of bounds’ until the 13th. This indicates, as was mentioned last month, that you feel a need to go outside your normal haunts in order to fulfil your financial and love goals.

Personality Profile
TAURUS AT A GLANCE

Element – Earth

Ruling Planet – Venus

Career Planet – Uranus

Love Planet – Pluto

Money Planet – Mercury

Planet of Health and Work – Venus

Planet of Home and Family Life – Sun

Planet of Spirituality – Mars

Planet of Travel, Education, Religion and Philosophy – Saturn

Colours – earth tones, green, orange, yellow

Colours that promote love, romance and social harmony – red-violet, violet

Colours that promote earning power – yellow, yellow-orange

Gems – coral, emerald

Metal – copper

Scents – bitter almond, rose, vanilla, violet

Quality – fixed (= stability)

Quality most needed for balance – flexibility

Strongest virtues – endurance, loyalty, patience, stability, a harmonious disposition

Deepest needs – comfort, material ease, wealth

Characteristics to avoid – rigidity, stubbornness, tendency to be overly possessive and materialistic

Signs of greatest overall compatibility – Virgo, Capricorn

Signs of greatest overall incompatibility – Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius

Sign most helpful to career – Aquarius

Sign most helpful for emotional support – Leo

Sign most helpful financially – Gemini

Sign best for marriage and/or partnerships – Scorpio

Sign most helpful for creative projects – Virgo

Best Sign to have fun with – Virgo

Signs most helpful in spiritual matters – Aries, Capricorn

Best day of the week – Friday

Understanding a Taurus

Taurus is the most earthy of all the Earth signs. If you understand that Earth is more than just a physical element, that it is a psychological attitude as well, you will get a better understanding of the Taurus personality.

A Taurus has all the power of action that an Aries has. But Taurus is not satisfied with action for its own sake. Their actions must be productive, practical and wealth-producing. If Taurus cannot see a practical value in an action they will not bother taking it.

Taurus’s forte lies in their power to make real their own or other people’s ideas. They are generally not very inventive but they can take another’s invention and perfect it, making it more practical and useful. The same is true for all projects. Taurus is not especially keen on starting new projects, but once they get involved they bring things to completion. They are finishers and will go the distance, so long as no unavoidable calamity intervenes.

Many people find Taurus too stubborn, conservative, fixed and immovable. This is understandable, because Taurus dislikes change – in the environment or in their routine. This is their virtue. It is not good for a wheel’s axle to waver. The axle must be fixed, stable and unmovable. Taurus is the axle of society and the heavens. Without their stability and so-called stubbornness, the wheels of the world (and especially the wheels of commerce) would not turn.

Taurus loves routine. A routine, if it is good, has many virtues. It is a fixed – and, ideally, perfect – way of taking care of things. Mistakes can happen when spontaneity comes into the equation, and mistakes cause discomfort and uneasiness – something almost unacceptable to a Taurus. Meddling with Taurus’s comfort and security is a sure way to irritate and anger them.

While an Aries loves speed, a Taurus likes things slow. They are slow thinkers – but do not make the mistake of assuming they lack intelligence. On the contrary, Taurus people are very intelligent. It is just that they like to chew on ideas, to deliberate and weigh them up. Only after due deliberation is an idea accepted or a decision taken. Taurus is slow to anger – but once aroused, take care!

Finance

Taurus is very money-conscious. Wealth is more important to them than to many other signs. Wealth to a Taurus means comfort and security. Wealth means stability. Where some zodiac signs feel that they are spiritually rich if they have ideas, talents or skills, Taurus only feels wealth when they can see and touch it. Taurus’s way of thinking is, ‘What good is a talent if it has not been translated into a home, furniture, car and holidays?’

These are all reasons why Taurus excels in estate agency and agricultural industries. Usually a Taurus will end up owning land. They love to feel their connection to the Earth. Material wealth began with agriculture, the tilling of the soil. Owning a piece of land was humanity’s earliest form of wealth: Taurus still feels that primeval connection.

It is in the pursuit of wealth that Taurus develops intellectual and communication ability. Also, in this pursuit Taurus is forced to develop some flexibility. It is in the quest for wealth that they learn the practical value of the intellect and come to admire it. If it were not for the search for wealth and material things, Taurus people might not try to reach a higher intellect.

Some Taurus people are ‘born lucky’ – the type who win any gamble or speculation. This luck is due to other factors in their horoscope; it is not part of their essential nature. By nature they are not gamblers. They are hard workers and like to earn what they get. Taurus’s innate conservatism makes them abhor unnecessary risks in finance and in other areas of their lives.

Career and Public Image

Being essentially down-to-earth people, simple and uncomplicated, Taurus tends to look up to those who are original, unconventional and inventive. Taurus people like their bosses to be creative and original – since they themselves are content to perfect their superiors’ brainwaves. They admire people who have a wider social or political consciousness and they feel that someday (when they have all the comfort and security they need) they too would like to be involved in these big issues.

In business affairs Taurus can be very shrewd – and that makes them valuable to their employers. They are never lazy; they enjoy working and getting good results. Taurus does not like taking unnecessary risks and they do well in positions of authority, which makes them good managers and supervisors. Their managerial skills are reinforced by their natural talents for organization and handling details, their patience and thoroughness. As mentioned, through their connection with the earth, Taurus people also do well in farming and agriculture.

In general a Taurus will choose money and earning power over public esteem and prestige. A position that pays more – though it has less prestige – is preferred to a position with a lot of prestige but lower earnings. Many other signs do not feel this way, but a Taurus does, especially if there is nothing in his or her personal birth chart that modifies this. Taurus will pursue glory and prestige only if it can be shown that these things have a direct and immediate impact on their wallet.

Love and Relationships

In love, the Taurus-born likes to have and to hold. They are the marrying kind. They like commitment and they like the terms of a relationship to be clearly defined. More importantly, Taurus likes to be faithful to one lover, and they expect that lover to reciprocate this fidelity. When this doesn’t happen, their whole world comes crashing down. When they are in love Taurus people are loyal, but they are also very possessive. They are capable of great fits of jealousy if they are hurt in love.

Taurus is satisfied with the simple things in a relationship. If you are involved romantically with a Taurus there is no need for lavish entertainments and constant courtship. Give them enough love, food and comfortable shelter and they will be quite content to stay home and enjoy your company. They will be loyal to you for life. Make a Taurus feel comfortable and – above all – secure in the relationship, and you will rarely have a problem.

In love, Taurus can sometimes make the mistake of trying to control their partners, which can cause great pain on both sides. The reasoning behind their actions is basically simple: Taurus people feel a sense of ownership over their partners and will want to make changes that will increase their own general comfort and security. This attitude is OK when it comes to inanimate, material things – but is dangerous when applied to people. Taurus needs to be careful and attentive to this possible trait within themselves.

Home and Domestic Life

Home and family are vitally important to Taurus. They like children. They also like a comfortable and perhaps glamorous home – something they can show off. They tend to buy heavy, ponderous furniture – usually of the best quality. This is because Taurus likes a feeling of substance in their environment. Their house is not only their home but their place of creativity and entertainment. The Taurus’ home tends to be truly their castle. If they could choose, Taurus people would prefer living in the countryside to being city-dwellers. If they cannot do so during their working lives, many Taurus individuals like to holiday in or even retire to the country, away from the city and closer to the land.

At home a Taurus is like a country squire – lord (or lady) of the manor. They love to entertain lavishly, to make others feel secure in their home and to encourage others to derive the same sense of satisfaction as they do from it. If you are invited for dinner at the home of a Taurus you can expect the best food and best entertainment. Be prepared for a tour of the house and expect to see your Taurus friend exhibit a lot of pride and satisfaction in his or her possessions.

Taurus people like children but they are usually strict with them. The reason for this is they tend to treat their children – as they do most things in life – as their possessions. The positive side to this is that their children will be well cared for and well supervised. They will get every material thing they need to grow up properly. On the down side, Taurus can get too repressive with their children. If a child dares to upset the daily routine – which Taurus loves to follow – he or she will have a problem with a Taurus parent.

Horoscope for 2019
Major Trends

Last year Uranus, the planet of sudden revolutionary change, made a brief foray into your sign and then retreated. It was a quick foreshadowing of what was to come. Those of you born early in the sign of Taurus felt it most strongly (those born from April 20 to April 24). This year, on March 7, Uranus enters your sign and will stay for the next seven years or so. All of you will be affected eventually, but again, those of you born early in the sign will feel it strongest. Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a wild ride for the next seven years! Change will be the order of the day. Your lesson will be how to handle (and be comfortable with) sudden change and personal instability. Not so easy for a Taurus.

You are coming out of an excellent love and social year. This year, because of Uranus in your sign, these relationships will get tested.

Jupiter will spend almost the whole year (until December 3) in your 8th house of regeneration. This indicates 2019 will be a sexually active kind of year and a year where projects involving personal transformation and reinvention go well.

Both Saturn and Pluto spend the year in your 9th house of religion, philosophy and higher education. This will impact foreign travel as well, and so this is not an especially great year for foreign travel – go only if you must. College students will have to work harder and be more disciplined in their studies. There will be three eclipses in your 9th house in the coming year, signalling much change and disruption in these areas. Religious and philosophical beliefs will get tested – reality checked. Some will have to be tossed out; some will get revised.

Neptune has been in your 11th house for many years now, and remains here all this year too. This transit shows you’re attracting spiritual friends, and are perhaps involved in spiritual or charitable groups.

The career should be very successful this year. It seems important to you – more important than mere money. Many happy career opportunities will come to you. There are more details on this later.

Your most important interests in the year ahead will be spirituality (until March 7); the body and image (from March 7 onwards); sex, death and rebirth, personal transformation and reinvention (until December 3); religion, philosophy, higher education and foreign travel; and friends, groups and group activities.

Your paths of greatest fulfilment this year will be communication and intellectual interests; sex, death and rebirth, personal transformation and reinvention (until December 3); and religion, philosophy, higher education and foreign travel (after December 3).

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.)

There’s very good news on the health front this year. There are no long-term planets in stressful alignment with you, so the health will be good. Sure, there will be periods in the year where health is less easy than usual, because of the transits of the short-term planets. However, these are temporary and not trends for the year. When they pass your naturally good health and energy return.

Uranus will be in your sign from March 7 onwards this year. This doesn’t show health problems per se, but there will be a tendency to test the limits of the body, to be experimental with the body. If this is done unthinkingly it can lead to injury. So, while it is good to test the body’s limits (we often set arbitrary limits that are not warranted), it should be done in a safe, supervised way. Martial arts, yoga and tai chi are all safe ways to experiment and to push your body.

Your empty 6th house is another positive health signal. It shows that you’re not paying too much attention here. You sort of take good health for granted, and you don’t need to focus overly much here.

Because the aspects are so good and there is more cosmic energy available to you, many of you with pre-existing conditions should notice improvements.

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

Important foot reflexology points for the year ahead

Try to massage all of the foot on a regular basis – the top of the foot as well as the bottom – but pay extra attention to the points highlighted on the chart. When you massage, be aware of ‘sore spots’ as these need special attention. It’s also a good idea to massage the ankles and below them.

 The neck and throat are always important areas for Taurus. Regular neck massage should be part of your regular health regime. Tension tends to collect in the neck and needs to be released (craniosacral therapy is excellent for this).

 The hips and kidneys. These areas are also always important for Taurus. Regular hip massage will be very beneficial; this will not only strengthen the hips and kidneys but the lower back as well. A herbal kidney cleanse every now and then (if you feel under the weather) might be a good idea too.

Venus serves double duty in your Horoscope. She is both the ruler of your Horoscope and of your 6th health house. The ruler of your Horoscope can be compared to your ‘personal trainer’, while the ruler of your 6th house can be compared to your personal physician. Their roles are similar but distinct. The personal trainer is more concerned with cosmetic issues – the physique and personal appearance. The personal physician is concerned with overall health. The fact that the same planet serves both functions shows that for you, good health also means ‘looking good’. It shows that the state of your health (more than hosts of lotions and potions) determines the physical appearance. Stay healthy, Taurus, and you will look good.

Venus, as our regular readers know, is a fast-moving planet, and in any given year she will move through all the sectors of your chart. This year, however, she will move even faster than usual, going through some sectors twice. So there are going to be many short-term health trends, depending on where she is and the aspects she receives. These are best covered in the monthly reports.

Home and Family

Your 4th house of home and family is not a house of power this year. This tends to the status quo: you seem basically content with things as they are and have no need to make major changes.

Yet, in spite of this, there will be changes and disruptions. Every year there are two solar eclipses which impact on home and family (because the Sun is the ruler of your 4th house). This year – highly unusually – there will be three. Not only that, but there is a lunar eclipse on January 21 that occurs in your 4th house, bringing more disturbance. So there will be dramas in the family and in the lives of family members. Sometimes repairs are needed to the home – major ones. We will deal with this more fully in the monthly reports.

Uranus in your sign doesn’t necessarily show a move, although it signals great personal restlessness. A need for personal freedom. We could say that you have a passion for personal freedom, and some want no personal responsibility whatsoever. This often indicates someone who travels around a lot, someone who lives in different places for long periods of time, someone who is nomadic. You could still officially be living in your residence, but you’re a nomad.

Your family planet, the Sun, is one of the faster-moving planets. He changes signs and houses every month, so there are many short-term family trends that depend on where he is and the aspects he receives. These are best dealt with in the monthly reports.

With the Sun as your family planet you like a home that is beautiful and prestigious. You like the home to express your star quality.

One of the parents or parent figures in your life seems unusually devoted this year. He or she could be coming to visit for a long time. A move could happen for this parent or parent figure later on in the year – after December 3. Before then a move is not advisable. He or she seems more temperamental this year, more subject to mood swings.

Siblings and sibling figures in your life are having a great social year – and singles could marry – but a move is not likely. (There’s nothing against it, however.) Children and children figures are likely to move, and it looks happy. If they are of childbearing age, they are more fertile than usual. Grandchildren (if you have them) have been moving around quite a lot in recent years; this year they seem more settled.

If you’re planning major repairs or renovations (or if you plan to build a house), July 1 to August 23 would be a good time for this. If you’re redecorating on a more cosmetic level, or buying objects of beauty for the home, July 27 to August 21 seems a good time. Your taste will be excellent. (Mercury will be retrograde from July 7 to August 1, however, so avoid that period.)

Finance and Career

Though, Taurus, you are always interested in finance, it has become less important than usual over the past few years. Your money house is not a house of power. Generally this shows a basic contentment with things as they are. You have no pressing need to make dramatic changes or overly focus here. It should be a stable, quiet financial year.

However, if financial problems do arise, the empty money house could be the reason. You’re probably not paying enough attention here, and you need to focus more.

Mercury, one of the fastest moving of the planets (only the Moon moves faster than him) is your financial planet. In any given year he will move through all the houses and sectors of your chart. Further, his motion is often erratic: sometimes he races across the Heavens, sometimes he moves at a moderate pace, sometimes he is basically motionless and sometimes he’s going backward. This pretty much describes your financial life. It signals a need to be flexible and agile if you are to attain your financial goals. There is a need (and you have this ability) to take advantage of the short-term trends in the marketplace and profit from them. It favours trading, retailing, sales, marketing, advertising and PR. Teaching and journalism are also favoured here – but the business side of these things, rather than being a practitioner.

Because Mercury moves so fast there are many short-term financial trends that depend on where he is and the aspects he receives. These will be dealt with in the monthly reports.

Jupiter, as we mentioned earlier, spends almost all year in your 8th house. This gives many messages. Money can come through insurance payments or tax refunds. In general, good tax planning – tax efficiency – will boost the bottom line and you need to pay attention here. It shows that the spouse, partner or current love is having a banner financial year. He or she should be more generous with you. Often this position indicates inheritance. Hopefully no one has to die, but you could be named in someone’s will or be appointed to some administrative position in an estate. People involved with estates can be important in your financial life. Those of you of appropriate age are probably doing estate planning now, or making changes here. This position is also excellent for borrowing or paying down debt (according to your need). It shows good access to ‘outside capital’. If you have good ideas there are investors willing to back you.

Career is the main headline this year, however – and it looks very good. Uranus, your career planet, moves into your own sign on March 7. Thus, happy career opportunities are coming to you and there’s not much you need to do to attract them. They will find you. Just go about your daily business. This aspect signals that you have the favour of the ‘higher ups’ in your life – bosses, elders, parents and parent figures. It is true that this devotion can be a double-edged sword: they favour you but also want to exercise more control. But still they are providing opportunity.

Your career planet in your own sign gives other messages as well. You have the image of success. You dress the part. People see you as successful. It also shows that your personal appearance and overall demeanour are big factors in your career. (This is probably why you are dressing and accessorizing this way.)

The whole year looks successful, but especially after December 3 as Jupiter moves into beautiful aspect with your career planet. You can expect promotions (official or unofficial), more honour and more recognition. Your professional status is increased. (This will continue next year too.)

Usually career success comes with financial success. This doesn’t seem the case this year; financial fruits will probably happen later.

The career planet in your own sign favours a career in real estate, agriculture or agricultural products, copper or copper mining (or industries involved with copper), or companies involved with personal accessories. You seem much more personally comfortable in your career path than you have been for many years.

Love and Social Life

As we mentioned earlier, the love and social life are not prominent in this year’s Horoscope. Generally this tends to the status quo. Probably you are satisfied with things as they are, the question is whether your spouse, partner or current love is too?

This complication is not really your fault. You’re under Uranus’s influence (especially those of you born early in the sign), and the influence of a planet can be likened to that of a drug. It’s as if you have taken ‘freedom’ pills, or ‘rebellion’ pills. You might be quite unaware of what you’re projecting, but your beloved will be very aware.

Freedom is a wonderful thing. It’s exhilarating. But generally it’s not helpful for committed kinds of relationship, which, by definition, means a limitation on personal freedom. Does this mean that the current relationship will end? Not necessarily. But it can get severely tested. You and the current love will have to work harder to keep things together. Those of you involved with a Taurus romantically should understand what’s going on and give your Taurean other half maximum freedom and space (so long as it isn’t destructive). This is the first step. Step two is to do unconventional, ‘outside the box’ activities together as a couple. This will assuage Taurus’s need for change and freedom. Inject more excitement and change into the current relationship.

For unattached Taureans marriage is not advisable these days. For a start, you’re probably meeting people who are not interested in long-term relationships. Secondly, you’re better off having serial love affairs – where you can have the change you crave – rather than a committed relationship, which might not last.

Saturn is travelling with your love planet, Pluto, this year, which also indicates the testing of love relationships.

The final complication in love again relates to Uranus’s position in your own sign, which signals a constant, never-ending redefinition of the self and image. You and your image get upgraded the way you upgrade software. As soon as you settle on one image or one definition of yourself, another idea or refinement comes along and you morph into that. If you are different then, by definition, you have different likes and tastes. A person that satisfied the ‘old you’ might not satisfy the ‘new you’. The same is true in reverse. Your lover fell in love with Taurus 1; now he or she is dealing with Taurus 2 or Taurus 3. Does he or she still feel the same way?

In my practice I have seen these things sometimes work out. This doesn’t happen often, but when it does a lot of work went into it.

Your love planet Pluto has been in Capricorn, your 9th house, for many years now, and he will remain there for the next few years too. So, romantic opportunities happen in foreign lands or with foreigners, or in religious or educational-type settings. The place of worship is as much a venue of romance (perhaps more) as the local night club. The same is true with college functions and gatherings. A part of you likes the traditional kind of relationship, but another part likes to be unconventional. So you are of two minds when it comes to love – and these two minds argue with each other. It’s very difficult to satisfy both.

Self-improvement

Taureans are conservative people by their nature. People who don’t like them would call them stubborn. People who like them will say they have tenacity. They have the quality of perseverance and they have it in spades. Often this quality spells the difference between the success or failure of a project. Change and flexibility are not their strong points. They love routine. A Taurean will say, ‘Why should I try this new restaurant or new dish when I know my normal place will be good? Why gamble?’

Now Uranus is moving into your sign for the next seven or so years, meaning that change, the upending of routine, will be the order of the day. How will you handle this? This is going to be the spiritual lesson. Other signs handle this better; for you it is a challenge.

The first step is to embrace change rather than fight it. Recognize that it is for your ultimate good – which it is – and flow with it. When you give up your resistance, you will find that things flow more smoothly. Change doesn’t have the terrible consequences that you fear. Make change your friend and ally, not your opponent.

It is normal that when sudden changes happen that there are feelings of insecurity – even outright fear. Write down your feelings on a piece of paper. Write a short phrase that captures your feelings. Then touch the paper and let it go, touch it and let it go. Do this for about 15 minutes. This will discharge any negative feelings that you have. You will find that you start to feel much better and the mind will be clearer. Solutions will start to come to you. (The solutions were always there, only you couldn’t receive them because of the emotional disturbance.) Make a regular practice of this and things will go much easier for you.*

Some people like to write out what they feel. Set a timer for 15 minutes and write out your negative feelings as they come to you. Don’t hold back. After 15 minutes, tear the paper into shreds and throw it in the bin. As you do this say: ‘These negative feelings are now thrown out.’

Uranus has been in your spiritual 12th house for the past seven years and you have been experimental in your spiritual life. Many of you have been like the wandering holy men of old – wandering from one teacher and teaching to the next, from one book to the next, from one philosophy to the next. This is a natural stage on the spiritual path. But now you’re more settled spiritually. By now, you have a settled path, it just remains for you to walk it.

Neptune, as we mentioned earlier, has been in your 11th house for many years now. This shows much involvement with spiritual groups and spiritual friends. (In fact the friendships you make now should be spiritual-type people – there’s no need even to waste time on others.) These spiritual groups can be a great help and support in the coming years.

Month-by-month Forecasts
January

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 7, 8, 21, 22, 27, 28

Best Days for Love: 1, 5, 6, 12, 13, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25

Best Days for Career: 3, 4, 7, 8, 13, 14, 22, 31

Your year starts with a bang. The fireworks didn’t end on New Year’s Eve. Two eclipses shake things up this month in a foreshadowing of things to come in the year ahead.

The solar eclipse of the 6th (in America it’s on the 5th) occurs in your 9th house. Your 9th house is very strong this month and you would have a natural urge for foreign travel, but it’s probably wiser to reschedule this. If you must travel, then you must; the eclipse shouldn’t deter you. But if you can, schedule your trip around the eclipse period. This eclipse is not only in your 9th house but it affects the ruler of that house, Saturn, too. So its impact is more powerful than usual. It impacts very strongly on college-level (or college-bound) students. It signals shake-ups in their school, shake-ups in educational plans, changes of courses and perhaps even changes of schools. The good news here is that with the 9th house so powerful this month, there is success here. The changes are helpful.

Every solar eclipse affects the home and family (the Sun is your family planet), so there are dramas at home and in the lives of family members – parents or parent figures seem especially affected. Repairs could be needed in the home. Imperfections or hidden problems come to light and need to be fixed. Often this doesn’t happen quickly (they can sometimes take months to fully resolve). Siblings and sibling figures in your life are forced to make important financial changes – this usually comes about through some shock. This is the first of three eclipses that will happen in your 9th house this year.

The lunar eclipse of the 21st is almost (but not quite) a replay of the solar eclipse. It occurs in your 4th house of home and family and it reveals that the problems in the home, with family members and a parent or parent figure, are not yet resolved. They are still experiencing personal dramas. Every lunar eclipse affects siblings and sibling figures, and this one is no different. Again, they need to make important financial changes. This eclipse affects students below college level, bringing changes in schools or educational plans. Often this kind of eclipse shows changes in your neighbourhood, such as heavy construction. There are dramas in the lives of your neighbours.

In spite of all the drama going on, the month ahead is still prosperous and successful. The Sun will enter your 10th house of career on the 20th and you’ll begin a yearly career peak. This seems stronger than the usual career peak. Almost all of the planets are above the horizon this month. The planetary power – almost the whole Horoscope – is supporting your outer life and activities. Even your family is supportive. They see your success as a ‘family project’.

February

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 5, 17, 18, 24, 25

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 11, 12, 19, 20, 24, 25, 28

Best Days for Money: 3, 4, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27

Best Days for Career: 3, 4, 5, 10, 18, 27

Last month was prosperous and so is the month ahead. Your financial planet, Mercury, entered Aquarius on January 24 and he will be there until the 10th. In this position Mercury is strong celestially (he is in the sign of his exaltation) and terrestrially (at the top of chart, the 10th house). Thus earning power, the financial magnetism, is unusually strong. Money is earned rather easily, and financial goals happen quickly and with relative ease. (All the planets are moving forward this month too, so general progress is fast.)

On the 10th Mercury enters the spiritual sign of Pisces. Thus your financial intuition is very sharp – especially on the 18th and 19th. (Be aware of the dream life those days, as it will tend to contain important financial guidance.) Mercury likes the 11th house and is comfortable there, so your finances seem comfortable. Online activities, being involved with groups and organizations, are financially helpful. Your social connections likewise. It’s a good time to spend on high-tech equipment now – it seems like a good investment and you can earn from it. Mercury will make nice aspects to Jupiter on the 2nd and 3rd and this should also produce financial opportunities.

Health is basically good this month, but needs a bit of attention until the 19th. Nothing serious is afoot – just lower energy than usual. Enhance the health through back and knee massage from the 3rd onwards. A spinal adjustment by a chiropractor every now and then might also be a good idea.

Mars moves into your sign on the 14th, giving many messages. On the positive side you’re more active, bolder and achieve things much faster than usual. And since Mars is your spiritual planet, it signals an ability to mould and shape the body through spiritual means – meditation, visualization and affirmation. Keep in the mind that the body has no will of its own; it has appetites and habits (karmic momentums) but no independent will. It is totally amenable to the spirit – and this month, you will learn how this works. Techniques will be shown. The downside of this transit by Mars is haste and aggression. Haste can lead to accidents and injury. Aggression (even unconsciously) can lead to fights. So be more mindful on the physical level.

Love seems happy this month. Venus, your ruling planet, spends the month from the 3rd onwards in the happy 9th house. On the 22nd and 23rd she starts to travel with your personal love planet, Pluto. This will bring happy romantic opportunities for singles.

March

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 10, 11, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29

Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 17, 18, 23, 24, 30, 31

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26

Best Days for Career: 1, 3, 4, 10, 19, 27, 30, 31

The main headline this month, and we mentioned it in the yearly report, is Uranus’s move into your sign on the 7th. Fasten your seat belts and get ready for dynamic and sudden changes. This month, only those of you born very early in Taurus (April 20–22) will feel the effect of this, but as time goes on (and in future years) all of you will feel it. There are many positive things to Uranus in your sign. You are a more interesting and exciting person to be around. You’re not the usual conservative Taurus; you’re more a ‘free spirit’. You are seen as successful by those around you, as someone powerful and prominent. Career opportunities come to you and there’s nothing much you need to do to attract them. These opportunities will find you wherever you are. (You can’t hide from the planets). There are many image and personality changes happening now – a long-term trend.

Love could be a problem now, however. You might not feel it, but the spouse, partner or current love will notice: you seem more rebellious and unpredictable to them. They are not sure of your loyalty. You will have to make special efforts to assuage their doubts.

Health is basically good now. But with Uranus in your sign you seem more experimental with your body, testing its limits. Mars in your sign all month reinforces this. It is good to experiment, but do it in a conscious, mindful way, not in a careless, daredevil-type way. You can enhance your already good health with calf and ankle massage. You seem to be exercising more these days and this could be putting a strain on the calf muscles. On the 26th your health planet moves into Pisces, so give more attention to the feet. Foot massages will be very beneficial, and spiritual-healing techniques too.

Finances are good, but more complicated and perhaps slower than usual. Mercury is in retrograde motion from the 5th to the 28th. As our regular readers know, this is not the time for making major purchases or financial decisions. Instead, it’s a time to review options and to take stock. Gaining mental clarity on finance is the most important thing this period. Mercury makes a very unusual station (he ‘camps out’) on Neptune from the 24th to the 31st. Spirit is delivering important financial messages then. Pay attention to the dream life during this time. Financial information can also come through psychics, tarot readers, astrologers and other spiritual channels. (Sometimes a phrase from a newspaper can leap out at you and send a message.)

April

Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 24, 25

Most Stressful Days Overall: 13, 14, 19, 20, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 13, 14, 22, 23

Best Days for Career: 6, 15, 24, 26, 27

The planets are kind to you this month. With the exception of the Moon – and then only sometimes – there are no planets in stressful aspect with you in April. Health and energy will be good. With good health all kinds of things that seemed impossible before are now possible. And, with the planetary momentum basically forward this month, you should see fast progress towards your goals.

Venus has one of her solstices from the 22nd to the 25th. She pauses in the heavens and then changes direction (in her latitudinal motion). This is a pause that refreshes. You will probably find a pause in your own affairs during that period. There’s nothing to worry about. Enjoy it.

Your spiritual 12th house is powerful until the 20th. This is a period for internal growth, for meditation, spiritual practice, the study of sacred scripture and for involvement in idealistic pursuits. Taurus will never forget worldly things, but at this time it is good to downplay them a bit. A little vacation from the mundane world is a healthy thing. Internal growth always precedes external growth. Things – good or bad – have to happen through you before they happen to you. Once this period is over, the party begins. The Sun enters your 1st house on the 20th and you begin one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks. Time to pamper the body and indulge its lawful cravings. Time to give it the good food, wine and desserts.

This is the period to get the body and image into the shape you want them to be. More important than the physical pleasures are the self-confidence, self-esteem and self-appreciation (which is not narcissism) that occur when the Sun enters your sign. The body glows and has a ‘star quality’ to it. Personal appearance shines (personal appearance has a lot to do with one’s energy levels). Thus it is generally good for the love life.

The family (and especially the parents or parent figures in your life) are unusually devoted to you. They also seem in better harmony with each other this month. You have good family support now. If the parents or parent figures are single, they have good romantic opportunities from the 21st to the 23rd.

Mars, your spiritual planet, spends the month in your money house. This indicates good financial intuition. Intuition is the short cut to wealth. One millisecond of real intuition is worth many years of hard graft. Intuition will not negate the need for work, but the work will be the side effect and not the cause of wealth. Your financial planet Mercury will be in your spiritual 12th house from the 17th onwards, which reinforces all this.

May

Best Days Overall: 4, 5, 13, 14, 21, 22, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25

Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 22, 31

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20, 23, 24, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 4, 13, 21, 24, 25, 31

Mars went ‘out of bounds’ on April 21 and will be ‘out of bounds’ this whole month. This signals, first, that in your spiritual life and practice you’re outside your normal comfort zone. Perhaps you’re exploring exotic or alien teachings. (There’s nothing wrong with this, by the way. Truth is truth and we should welcome it from whatever source.) Generally this happens when the answers you’re seeking are not to be found where you usually seek them and you must go outside that sphere. It takes courage and daring. This aspect would also show that you’re outside your normal sphere in your financial life too – at least partly.

You’re still in the midst of one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks until the 21st. On the 21st, the Sun enters your money house and you begin a yearly financial peak. Now, finances were good last month, and they’re good this month even before the 21st. But after then they get even better. Your financial planet Mercury enters your own sign on the 6th and stays there until the 21st, bringing financial windfalls and almost effortless financial opportunity. Nothing much needs to be done – except to go to the bank! On the 21st Mercury will join the Sun in your money house. Mercury in his own sign and house is more powerful on your behalf and all of this spells increased earnings. There is good family support and you’re probably spending more on the home and family too. Your financial judgement is sound.

Love is good this month, and will get even better after the 15th as Venus enters your sign. This transit produces another mini personal pleasure period. It enhances the physical appearance. It adds beauty and grace – a sense of style – to the image. The overall social magnetism is increased. Venus travels with Uranus from the 17th to the 19th. This can bring you a sudden, unexpected career or job opportunity. Venus in your sign is a good time to buy clothing and personal accessories. Your taste will be spot on. The only problem with love is the retrograde of your love planet, Pluto, which began on April 24. It doesn’t stop love from happening, only slows things down a bit.

Health is still excellent. Like last month, there are no planets in stressful alignment with you (highly unusually). Only the Moon will make stressful aspects, and then only for short periods. You can enhance your already good health with scalp and face massage until the 15th, and with neck massage after then.

June

Best Days Overall: 1, 9, 10, 18, 19, 27, 28, 29

Most Stressful Days Overall: 7, 8, 13, 14, 20, 21

Best Days for Love: 1, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24, 25, 26, 30

Best Days for Career: 1, 9, 17, 18, 20, 21, 27

Things are slowing down in the world – 40 per cent of the planets are retrograde this month – but for you things are mostly moving on time and in good order.

Health is still wonderful. Only after the 27th is there any planet in stressful alignment with you – Mercury. And he is not a major hitter. So, you have plenty of energy and drive. You can enhance your already good health through neck massage until the 9th, and then through arm and shoulder massage.

Finance is the major headline this month. You’re still well into a yearly financial peak until the 21st. Your financial planet Mercury is moving speedily this month, through three signs and houses of your chart. This denotes confidence and fast progress. You make financial decisions quickly and they tend to be good. Money and financial opportunity will come through various people and in various ways. You will tend to spend differently too – it just depends on where Mercury is. Up until the 27th, money is earned through good sales, marketing and PR. Buying, selling, trading and retailing are also favoured. You could be spending more on sales and marketing too – and it seems like a good investment. Family support is strong all month. Family connections are also playing an important role in finances. Residential real estate and earning money from your home are also favoured.

Mercury goes ‘out of bounds’ from the 1st to the 16th. This makes you more adventurous in finance. You’re thinking ‘outside the box’. You’re going outside your normal areas in the pursuit of wealth.

Love doesn’t seem a big issue this month. Your 7th house is empty and Pluto, your love planet, is retrograde and not receiving any especially good aspects. After the 21st you will have to work harder on your current relationship.

Mars is still ‘out of bounds’ until the 12th. This not only affects your spiritual life, as we discussed last month, but now that he is in your 3rd house Mars is affecting your reading tastes – they are outside your usual norm. (You could have experienced this last month too – after May 16.)

Your 3rd house of communication is strong all month, but especially after the 21st. This is an excellent transit for students, signalling focus and success. This might be a good time for students to attend summer school. And even non-students can benefit from taking courses in subjects that interest them. Investors will experience an increase in investment income.

July

Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 15, 16, 25, 26

Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19

Best Days for Love: 1, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 21, 25, 26, 31

Best Days for Money: 1, 4, 5, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 6, 15, 17, 18, 19, 25

Things have gone rather easily for you these past few months. It’s been a placid kind of period. To prevent any lethargy, however, the cosmos throws some excitement and challenge at you this month. First off, there are two eclipses. This almost guarantees change and excitement. But also we see, for the first time since February, a raft of planets (short-term ones) in stressful aspect with you. So health will need attention this month – especially from the 23rd onwards. Until the 3rd enhance the health with arm and shoulder massage. From the 3rd to the 28th pay more attention to the stomach – diet will be an issue this period. After the 28th give more attention to the heart. The most important thing, as our regular readers know, is to maintain high energy levels. Make sure you get enough rest.

The solar eclipse of the 2nd occurs in your 3rd house and affects students below college level. They could change schools or educational plans. There are personal dramas in the lives of siblings and sibling figures – and also in those of neighbours. There can be disruptions in your neighbourhood. Communication equipment will get tested and sometimes will need replacement. The money people in your life are forced to make important financial changes. Every solar eclipse impacts on the home and family, and this one is no different. Thus there are dramas in the lives of family members. Repairs might be needed in the home. The good news is that your home and family are major priorities this month and you seem on the case. The results will be successful. Siblings and sibling figures are also forced to make important financial changes. There is disruption in their financial lives.

The lunar eclipse of the 16th occurs in your 9th house – the second one of the year in this house. This also impacts on students, both at college and pre-college levels. It indicates shake-ups and disturbances in their schools – in the administration, and changes in subjects, courses or educational plans. There are shake-ups in your place of worship too. Again siblings and sibling figures are having personal dramas. The money people in your life still need to make financial changes. This eclipse affects your love planet, Pluto, so there are dramas in the life of the current love. Your relationship gets tested.

Career is important all year – after all, your career planet, Uranus, is in your sign. But these days it can be de-emphasized a bit, and more focus given to the home and family. Emotional wellness will pay career dividends later on.

August

Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 11, 12, 21, 22, 30, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 28, 29

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 30, 31

Best Days for Money: 1, 8, 9, 10, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 2, 11, 14, 15, 21, 30

Health still needs watching this month. However, you will see major improvements from the 23rd onwards. This is just a temporary spell of low energy caused by short-term transits: by the 23rd all the planets will be in harmonious alignment with you. In the meantime, enhance the health through right diet and cultivating good emotional health. It would be good to have some fun too. Avoid depression (another name for low energy) like the plague. Meditation is one of the best natural ways to manage the emotional life.

The night side (the lower half) of your Horoscope is dominant this month, so career issues can be downplayed. It is good, when the night side of your chart is strong, to pursue career goals by the methods of night – by dreaming, visualization and meditation. Later, as the planetary power shifts, these visualizations and dreams will start to become realities. You will see major improvements in the career from the 23rd onwards, but most of your focus should still be on your family (and especially on children and children figures) for a while.

With the 4th house so strong these days (it was very strong last month too), it is a good time for psychological therapies. Those of you already in therapy will see much progress – more so than usual. Breakthroughs will happen.

There is another shift underway. On July 23 the planetary power began to shift from the Eastern to the Western sector of your chart, from the sector of self to the sector of others. This month that shift is in full swing. There is less independence now – and perhaps less of a need for it. It is time to adapt to situations rather than change them. Your good comes through others and their good graces and not so much from your personal initiative. The planetary power is moving away from you and towards others. And so should you. Put others first, provided that doing so isn’t destructive. Your way might not be the best way these days.

Finances, always important for you, Taurus, are good this month. Mercury moves speedily and financial confidence is good. There is fast progress. Things are slower in the world (40 per cent of the planets are retrograde) but you don’t seem affected financially. Family and family connections are still a major factor in finances. After the 28th, money comes in fun kinds of ways and you’re likely to spend more on leisure. Taureans are not especially speculative, but after the 28th you are a bit more so than usual.

There is big improvement in the love life from the 23rd onwards.

September

Best Days Overall: 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27

Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 10, 11, 24, 25, 30

Best Days for Love: 3, 4, 8, 9, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 8, 9, 15, 16, 20, 21, 24, 25, 28, 29

Best Days for Career: 7, 10, 11, 17, 26

Last month, on the 23rd, you began one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks. This goes on until September 23. Your 5th house of fun, children and creativity is chock-full of planets – and most of them are beneficent, friendly planets. So it’s time to have some fun and enjoy life. As you do, you will find that health and finances also improve. Spiritual gurus all talk about the importance of ‘letting go’. Take a vacation from your cares and personal goals and just enjoy the wonderful life that has been given. When you go back to your worries and issues, you will find many of them have been solved or are less severe. You are in one of those ‘letting go’ times.

Since August 18 there has been a beautiful Grand Trine in the Earth signs. Earth is your native element, so things are very comfortable for you. Your financial and management judgement (always good) are super these days. You sense and feel what will work on the physical and material plane. You have a special ability to make dreams and ideas ‘real’ – to materialize them. The Grand Trine in Earth tends to prosperity. This Grand Trine will be in effect all month, although it gets a bit weaker after the 23rd.

Your love planet, Pluto, is still retrograde, but the love life is wonderful this month. Perhaps it is slower than usual. There’s no need to arrange a wedding or make important love decisions, but it seems happy as it is. Love is good all month, but after the 14th it might need more work and effort.

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.

You can make your good health even better. Pay attention to the following – the vulnerable areas of your Horoscope (the reflexology points are shown in the chart above):

Important foot reflexology points for the year ahead

Try to massage all of the foot on a regular basis – the top of the foot as well as the bottom – but pay extra attention to the points highlighted on the chart. When you massage, be aware of ‘sore spots’ as these need special attention. It’s also a good idea to massage the ankles, and especially below them.

 The lungs, arms, shoulders and respiratory system. These are always important areas for you, Gemini. Regular arm and shoulder massage should be an integral part of your health regime. Tension tends to collect in the shoulders and needs to be released.

 The colon, bladder and sexual organs are also always important. There are some spiritual healers who say that all disease begins in the colon, so keeping it healthy is a very good idea. Herbal colonics would be good if you feel under the weather. Safe sex and sexual moderation are always important for you.

 The spine, knees, teeth, skin and overall skeletal alignment have become important in recent years, ever since Pluto, your health planet, moved into Capricorn, and this has been reinforced by Saturn (the planet that rules these areas) travelling with Pluto since last year. So regular back and knee massage is good. If you’re out in the sun use a good sunscreen. Get regular dental check-ups. Give the knees more support when you exercise.

 The gall bladder, which has only become important in recent years.

Your health planet Pluto rules surgery generically, and has been in your 8th house of surgery for many years now. Not only that, the planet that actually rules surgery in your chart – Saturn – is also there, travelling next to Pluto. So you have probably had some surgery in recent years. There is a strong tendency to it, and it will probably be recommended to you. Sometimes these things are necessary. But it is good to explore detox regimes too – these same planets signal that you respond well to them. In many cases detox will do the same thing, but it will take longer.

Your health planet in the conservative sign of Capricorn shows that in health matters you’re conservative. You gravitate to orthodox medicine. And, even if you opt for alternative therapies, you tend to choose old and established therapies – the ones that have stood the test of time.

Saturn and Pluto both rule sex in your Horoscope. (Pluto is the generic ruler; Saturn is your actual ruler.) The presence of both in the sign of Capricorn, your 8th house, suggests a need to reduce extraneous sex – to focus more on quality rather than quantity. Less but of a higher quality is preferable to more of lesser quality. If you stay alert to your body you will know when enough is enough.

Home and Family

Though it is not generally known, home and family are always important to Gemini. They’re not really famous for this. They’re more famous for their brilliant minds and communication skills. Keep in mind that the ruler of their Horoscope, a very important planet, is also the family planet – the ruler of the 4th house.

Important though home and family are, this year they are less so than usual. The 4th house is not a house of power – love and career are much more of a focus. As our regular readers know, this tends to the status quo. You seem more or less content with things as they are and have no need to make major changes.

But this aspect can also show other things. If family problems arise (God forbid) it’s probably due to lack of attention. To correct the issues, you’ll have to pay more attention.

A parent or parent figure is likely to move or renovate the existing home in the coming year. There can also be the fortunate sale or purchase of a home. It looks happy. If this parent figure is of childbearing age, she is more fertile than usual. The other parent figure needs to be more careful about alcohol and drugs. The body is more sensitive than usual – it is becoming more spiritualized – and could overreact to these things. One of the parents or parent figures will benefit from spiritual-healing techniques this year, particularly from March 7 onwards. He or she should read as much as possible on this subject.

Children or children figures in your life seem involved in major repairs in the home. A move could happen late in the year – from December 3 onwards. This, though, seems stressful and complicated and there could be many delays.

Siblings and sibling figures are having a quiet, stable kind of year. There’s nothing against a move, but nothing especially supporting one either; 2020 seems better for a move than this year. Siblings and sibling figures have many job opportunities all year, and especially after December 3.

Grandchildren (if you have them) can have many moves this year. They seem unsettled – nomadic. This trend will continue for many more years.

If you’re planning major repairs or construction work to the home (or of a home), August 13 to October 4 is a good time. If you’re redecorating or planning minor repairs, or buying art objects for the home, August 21 to September 14 is a good time.

The family finances seem stable and more or less the way they were last year. The finances of one of the parents or parent figures in your life will start to stabilize this year after being erratic for many years.

Your family planet, Mercury, is a fast-moving and often erratic planet (it is no accident that the word ‘mercurial’ has this meaning). Sometimes he races through the heavens, sometimes his pace is leisurely. Sometimes he stands still (makes a station) and sometimes he goes backward. This is a good description of your family and emotional life. It is full of twists and turns. Because of this, there are many short-term trends that affect the family life, depending on where Mercury is and the aspects he receives. These trends are best dealt with in the monthly reports.

Finance and Career

The money house is empty this year. This tends to the status quo and I see it as a good thing. There is more or less contentment with things as they are and you have no need to pay too much attention here.

But with two lunar eclipses in the year ahead – one on January 21 and the other on July 16 – there will be financial changes, disruptions and course corrections. It is always a good thing to make periodic course corrections and the eclipses provide that opportunity. The changes will be good, but generally not so pleasant while they’re happening.

The lack of power in the money house can indicate lack of attention and focus. Thus, if financial problems arise, they are probably due to this. The solution is to pay more attention to your finances.

Having said all of that, I feel the year ahead will be prosperous. The North Node of the Moon (this is not a planet, but an important abstract point) spends the year in your money house. The North Node denotes excess. So your problem (and it’s a good one to have) could be an excess of money – not a lack.

Saturn and Pluto will spend the year in your 8th house. This shows various things. The spouse, partner or current love seems to be having financial difficulties. He or she has taken on (or it was forced on him or her) extra financial burdens. So there is a feeling of lack there. There is a need to rearrange the finances, to shift things around and reorganize them. And, if this is done, he or she will find that all the resources needed are there. His or her financial situation will improve greatly after December 3, as Jupiter moves into the money house.

If you are involved in estates or insurance issues, they seem very complicated, with many delays involved. Tax issues can be burdensome too. Borrowing and accessing outside capital also seems more complicated this year. There are many delays. It’s probably best not to borrow money – unless it’s an emergency. Accessing outside capital will get much easier after December 3. If you’re looking for outside investors for your projects, this will also be easier after December 3.

The Moon is your financial planet and is the fastest-moving of all the planets. Whereas the other fast-moving planets (the Sun, Mercury and Venus) will move through all the houses in your Horoscope in a year, the Moon does this every month. Thus there are many short-term trends in finance that are best dealt with in the monthly reports.

In general we can say that earning power will be strongest on the new and full moons and when the Moon is waxing (growing in strength).

Career has been important for many years now, and remains so this year. Many of the career trends that we’ve written about in past years are still very much in effect. Neptune, the most spiritual of all the planets, is your career planet and he occupies your 10th house of career. Thus he is in his own sign and house. He is powerful here and this tends to success, but there are complications.

Neptune in the 10th house signals a need for more idealism in the career path. It favours working for charities, spiritual organizations, or organizations involved in altruistic kinds of activities. In many cases this has already happened, but if not it can still happen. You need to feel that your career is ‘blessed from on high’, that it is ‘divinely ordained’ and is your real mission in life. Just being successful for the sake of being successful – for ego-gratification purposes – will not satisfy you. You need to feel that you are ‘saving the planet’ or ‘saving the world’ – that you are improving conditions for all people.

It also shows that your bosses are like this too. They seem more altruistic and idealistic (or they portray themselves this way).

On a more mundane level, this indicates a lot of hidden things – hidden machinations – going on in the career. There can be some unpleasant revelations here. It would also show a need to do more homework on career matters, for what seems obvious is not the reality.

Love and Social Life

Here we have one of the main headlines of the year ahead. Jupiter, your love planet, moved into your 7th house of love last year on November 9 and will be there for almost the whole year ahead – until December 3. This is a classic signal for love, romance and serious relationship.

But this Jupiter transit is stronger than usual. Jupiter is in his own sign and house where he is most comfortable and powerful. He is basically well aspected. And, as he is also your love planet, social grace and magnetism are unusually powerful right now. For singles this indicates serious romance – a serious kind of relationship. It might not mean a literal marriage (though this is likely) but a relationship that is ‘like’ a marriage.

After two years of having Saturn in your 7th house of love, when relationships were severely tested and the social life in general was restricted, this is a welcome change. Love is doubly happy these days. You deserve it.

For those who are married, for those whose marriages have survived the past two years, this transit shows more romance in the marriage and more socializing in general. As a couple you’re meeting new and significant people. You’re attending more weddings and parties. Your social sphere is enlarged.

Singles will also experience some of this. Aside from romance, the general social sphere will be enlarged.

Jupiter moving through the 7th house can also indicate business kinds of partnerships – these too are ‘like a marriage’.

Many a marriage dissolved in the past two and a half years, and this year the prospects for a second marriage are excellent. For those of you working on a third marriage, the prospects improve after March 7. But even if marriage doesn’t happen you will have a happy social life.

With Jupiter in his own sign and house this year (until December 3), many of your natural love tendencies are greatly magnified. You’re attracted to foreign partners, and highly educated and refined kinds of people. You always have a tendency to fall in love with the professor, minister or mentor, and this year even more so. You like people you can learn from.

Religious and philosophical compatibility is even more important than usual. Even if everything else is good, if there are problems here the relationship will be in trouble. You don’t need to agree philosophically on every little detail, but you need to be on the same page – to agree the basics.

Love and social opportunities happen in foreign lands, at your place of worship, at religious functions or at educational-type functions (college or university functions). A trip to an exotic place can not only lead to romance, but will enhance an already existing one.

Children and children figures in your life have had unstable love lives for many years. There have probably been divorces. After March 7 their love lives start to stabilize. Siblings or sibling figures are having a good social period until March 7.

Self-improvement

Neptune, the most spiritual of all the planets and your career planet, in his own sign and house is more powerful than usual. This has been the case for many years now and will be so for many more. We have discussed the mundane ramifications of this, but the real message here is ‘get right spiritually and your career will fall into place’ – it will be something satisfying and harmonious. It might not be easy – it seldom is – but it will give you fulfilment and be something you’re capable of doing. The best thing you can do for your career is to get into right alignment with the Divine within you (under whatever name or concept you have). We could say that your spiritual practice, your spiritual path, is the real career these days – everything will flow from that.

There are other things – important things – happening in the spiritual life this year. Uranus is making a major move from your 11th house into your spiritual 12th house on March 7. Your spiritual life and spiritual activities are going to become very exciting now – and for many years to come. It will be full of change and experimentation. Spiritual experiences – even peak experiences – can happen suddenly and out of the blue. A lot of your old concepts and attitudes about spirit will get challenged and many will have to be revised or discarded. Spirit itself will show you what is what.

Beginners on the path will be like the sannyasin of old – the wandering seeker who travelled from one guru and holy man to another seeking wisdom and enlightenment. I wouldn’t take this too literally though. Times are different today. Rarely do people wander the forests in search of gurus. Today, they wander bookshops, workshops and seminars. They join different spiritual groups for short periods of time, searching, searching, searching. There’s nothing wrong with this, by the way. It’s a natural stage on the path.

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