Your Personal Horoscope 2020

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 these perspectives were identical. But now there could be quite a difference. For a medical perspective, please consult your doctor or health practitioner.)

Health, as we have said, looks very good this year. There are no long-term planets in stressful alignment with you until December 18 – practically the whole year. They are all kind to you, which is highly unusual, and so your health and energy are abundant. You tend to be disease resistant, and if you have any pre-existing conditions they seem to be under control.

Another good health signal is your empty 6th house. Only short-term planets will move through there this year and their influence is short-lived. This shows that you don’t need to pay too much attention here; you can sort of take good health for granted. Sure, there will be periods in the year where health and energy are less ‘easy’ than usual. These periods come from short-term planetary transits and are temporary and not trends for the year. When the difficult transit passes, your normal health and energy returns. We will cover this more fully in the monthly reports.

Good though your health is it can be made even better. Give more attention to the following – the vulnerable areas for you, Taurus (the reflex points are shown in the chart below):

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. Taurus rules the neck and throat and these are always important for Taureans. The neck should be regularly massaged, as tension tends to collect there and needs to be released. Craniosacral therapy is excellent for the neck.

 The kidneys and hips are also always important for Taurus. Hips should be regularly massaged. If you feel under the weather, a herbal kidney cleanse might be a good idea.

 The lungs, arms, shoulders, small intestine and respiratory system become more delicate between April 3 and August 7, when your health planet Venus spends more than four months in Gemini. During that period arm and shoulder massage will be beneficial; breathing exercises too.

Your health planet Venus is a very fast-moving planet, as our regular readers know. This year she won’t move as fast as usual as she will have one of her retrogrades. In spite of that she will move through 11 of your 12 signs and houses this year, so there are many short-term health trends that depend on where Venus is and the kinds of aspects she receives. These are best covered in the monthly reports.

Siblings and sibling figures seem more stressed this year, and could be facing surgeries. The health of parents and parent figures seems better than last year. The health of children and children figures needs more attention from March 23 to July 1, and from December 18 onwards.

Uranus in your sign for the long term indicates experimentalism with the body. You are testing its limits. Basically this is a good thing. Often our physical limitations are not what we think – we can do more than we think we can. The only way we learn is through experimentation. However, this should be done in a mindful way. Thus, exercises like yoga, tai chi or other martial arts would be good. These are safe ways to test the physical limits.

Home and Family

Though you are probably travelling more and staying in various places for longer periods than usual, a permanent move is not likely this year. There’s nothing against it, but nothing that especially supports it either. Your empty 4th house (only short-term planets move through there) tends to the status quo. You seem basically satisfied with the current domestic arrangements and family situation and have no need to make major changes.

There are the usual two solar eclipses this year and, since the Sun is your family planet, these will bring some disruptions here. They will bring dramas in the lives of parents, parent figures and family members. Often unexpected repairs are needed to the home. But then the dust settles and things get back to normal.

As already mentioned, siblings and sibling figures in your life seem stressed out. Four lunar eclipses this year hit them twice as many times as usual. So, they will have personal dramas, a need to redefine themselves and create a new image for the world. This will go on all year. The two solar eclipses bring financial changes to siblings too. However, they don’t seem likely to move.

These four lunar eclipses will affect the neighbourhood where you live. There might be construction work or other disruptions there. Relations with your neighbours will need work.

Parents and parent figures could move this year, although there seem to be many delays and glitches indicated. Their marriages or current relationships get tested this year too. One of the parents or parent figures seems unusually devoted to you. Children and children figures in your life are not likely to move; if they do they will probably stay in the neighbourhood. Grandchildren (if you have them) are having a quiet domestic year.

If you’re planning any house renovations, July 22 to August 22 would be a good time. If you’re redecorating the house in a cosmetic kind of way, or if you’re buying objects of beauty for the home, September 6 to October 2 would be a good period.

Because your family planet, the Sun, is a fast-moving planet, moving through all the houses and signs of your Horoscope over the year, there are many short-term family trends that depend on where the Sun is and the aspects he receives. These are best dealt with in the monthly reports.

Finance and Career

Finance is always important to a Taurus, but for the past few years it has been less so than usual. This trend continues in the year ahead. The money house is basically empty with only short-term planets moving through there. I read this as a positive. You’re broadly content with finances as they are and have little need to make major changes. A lunar eclipse at the end of the year – November 30 – will occur in your money house, and this could show a need for a financial course correction. But for most of the year, things are quiet.

Being earthy Taurus you have a natural affinity for real estate (especially rural real estate, farmland and the like), agriculture and agricultural products, copper and sugar. With Mercury as your financial planet you also have a good feeling for telecommunications, transportation, retailing, trading, advertising and PR. Whatever you are doing, good PR, advertising and good use of the media is very important.

Mercury is a fast and erratic planet. He is perhaps the most ‘flexible’ of all the planets (with the exception of the Moon). The message of the Horoscope is that in finance you have to be a bit ‘un-Taurean’ – you have to be more flexible, more nimble, less fixed in your ways.

Because Mercury is so fast moving, there are many short-term trends in finance that depend on where he is and the aspects that he receives. These short-term trends are best dealt with in the monthly reports. In addition, he will go into retrograde mode three times this year: from February 17 to March 9; June 18 to July 11; and October 14 to November 2. These are times for financial review, not times for overt action. If important financial decisions have to be made during those periods (life likes to sometimes force issues), do more homework and due diligence than usual. Resolve your doubts.

The real headline this year is the career. Your career planet, Uranus, entered your sign in March 2019 and will remain there for many more years. So we are dealing with a long-term trend. This is actually a positive long-term trend. It shows that career opportunities are seeking you out. There’s nothing much that you need to do; they will find you. You have the image of someone successful, someone of status. You dress this way and project yourself this way. Others see you as successful. You have the favour of bosses, elders, parents and parent figures – the authority figures in your life. They seem devoted to you. They have a personal interest in you.

Saturn will make a foray into your 10th career house between March 23 and July 2. Then, on December 18, he will move in there for the next two and a half years. The message here is that your career success involves taking on more responsibility. The opportunities come easily, but in the end you have to perform – you have to be the best at what you do. In addition, Jupiter will move into your 10th house on December 20. This brings career elevation, promotions and overall success.

Career is good this year, but next year it will be even better. Most of this year is preparation for the next. Your career success might not bring extra earnings right away; it is more about status and prestige than actual earnings. But increased earnings will come later down the road.

Love and Social Life

The love life has been complicated for the past two years. Saturn has been travelling with your love planet Pluto, and this is not a great aspect for marriage. Often it shows a fear of serious relationships or serious commitment. If this is the case with you, it should be examined. These transits promote an excessive caution. Caution is probably a good thing. Fear is not. Saturn and Pluto are still travelling together for most of 2020, so these tendencies are still in effect. But this year Jupiter is in the picture too. Jupiter is benevolent and expansive, and is travelling with your love planet until December 20.

So, love is in the air this year. There is a serious relationship for singles happening. But the message of the Horoscope is not to rush things, to let things develop as they will – slowly and methodically. Marriage, as we have mentioned, is not likely. But one can enjoy love without getting too committed.

I can see two relationships happening, and you seem torn between the two. Both seem to be with highly educated and refined people. Both could be foreigners or people you meet in foreign countries. One seems older and more settled – a more conservative person. With the other sexual magnetism is much stronger. We see a similar scenario for those working on their second marriage too.

Pluto has been in Capricorn, your 9th house, for many, many years, and will be there for many more to come. This makes you conservative in love. You gravitate to conservative people. You like to go slow in love. You don’t fall in love very quickly but like to test it and see the lie of the land. And, if you are not like that, you have been attracting these kinds of people.

Love and romantic opportunities happen in your place of worship or through the intervention of people in your place of worship. They also happen in college or university – or through college events or functions and in foreign lands. Foreigners are especially alluring these days.

While sexual magnetism is always important to you – Pluto is the generic ruler of sex – you need more than that. You like someone you can learn from, someone educated. These are the aspects of the person who falls in love with their professor, minister or worship leader. Good philosophical compatibility is probably just as important as sexual chemistry.

Self-improvement

Problems in life take many forms. They can be financial, social, psychological or health-oriented. But whatever form the problem takes, underneath it is a theological issue. Problems are really theological problems deeply disguised. This will require some meditation and reflection to understand, but it is so. Clear up the theology and the problem will tend to dissolve.

What do we mean here? Do you believe in a Higher Power (by whatever name you choose to call it)? Whatever your answer, there are psychological consequences to it. And these will impact on various sectors of life. Track down every problem in your life and underneath it is theology. Thus the current planetary power in your 9th house of religion and philosophy will help resolve a lot of these issues.

Uranus in your sign has already been discussed. The important thing is to experiment with the body – to test its limits – in safe and mindful ways: daredevil stunts can be dangerous. But this transit also shows other things. A continuous redefinition of the self, the self-concept and image is going on now. Your personal evolution is speeding up. No sooner do you settle on one image than a new and better idea comes to you. And this goes on and on. You upgrade your image the way others upgrade their software. This can be a problem in relationships. When you fell in love you were one kind of person. Now you are another kind is the love still there? It is even more perplexing for the spouse, partner or current love. He or she fell in love with person ‘X’ and now he or she is dealing with person ‘Y’ or ‘Z’ or beyond. It’s hard to keep up with you. The good news is that you are an exciting person to be around these days. There is never a dull moment.

Spiritual Neptune has been in your 11th house for many years now, and will remain there for many more. We have no doubt discussed this in previous years’ reports, but the trend is still in effect. It indicates spiritual friendships. You are attracted to spiritual groups and organizations. It is the very spirituality of these people that you find alluring. It also shows friendships with creative and inspired kinds of people – poets, musicians, dancers, people in the film industry – high-glamour kinds of people.

Month-by-month Forecasts

January

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 12, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26

Best Days for Love: 6, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 23, 27, 28

Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 22, 23, 25, 26

Best Days for Career: 4, 5, 13, 14, 22, 24, 25, 26

You are in an amazing career period all month, but especially from the 20th onwards. A lot of success is happening. On the 11th your career planet, Uranus, starts to move forward, and on the 20th the Sun enters your 10th career house. So you are in a yearly career peak. The lower half of your Horoscope is practically devoid of planets. There is only one planet (not counting the Moon) that is below the horizon – and just barely at that! Home and family can be safely ignored as you focus your full energy on the career. Normally this can create some problems with the family, but for you not so. The family seem fully behind you, supporting you all the way. They see your success as a ‘family project’. Also, this aspect (the family planet in the career house) often shows that the family as a whole is succeeding, and being elevated in status.

A lunar eclipse on the 10th – the first of four in the coming year – occurs in your 3rd house and impacts on the ruler of that house. So, cars and communication equipment will get tested. Be sure to drive more carefully. Students below college level have dramas at school and perhaps make changes in their schooling. Mercury, your financial planet, is affected too, so a financial ‘course correction’ may be needed.

In spite of the eclipse your finances look good. Mercury travels with Jupiter from the 1st to the 4th and this should bring a nice payday or financial opportunity. Your financial planet is in your 9th house until the 16th, which is another positive financial signal. The 9th house brings expansion and good luck. Mercury will be ‘out of bounds’ until the 12th, which shows that in financial matters you’re going outside your normal comfort zone. Perhaps you are doing this consciously, perhaps financial duties are pulling you there. You’re thinking outside the box financially, and it pays off.

On the 16th Mercury enters Aquarius, his sign of greatest ‘exaltation’, his most powerful position. Another good signal for finance! Mercury in your 10th career house often brings pay rises (official or unofficial) and the financial blessing of bosses, parents, parent figures and even the government. Your good career reputation is an important factor in earnings.

February

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20, 28, 29

Most Stressful Days Overall: 8, 9, 14, 15, 21, 22

Best Days for Love: 2, 7, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 26, 27, 29

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29

Best Days for Career: 1, 9, 10, 18, 21, 22, 28

On an overall level, your health is excellent, but since January 20 it is a little less so (and this is the case until the 19th). Make sure you get enough rest. You can enhance your health in the ways mentioned in the yearly report, and also through foot massage until the 7th and through scalp and face massage after then. Physical exercise would be good after the 7th as well. Health and energy will improve after the 19th.

You remain in a yearly career peak until the 20th, so there is still success happening there. The night side of your Horoscope, like last month, is almost devoid of planets and your 4th house of home and family is basically empty. So continue to focus on the career. You still have good family support for this until the 19th.

Finances are good, but are a bit more complicated this month. Mercury moves into your 11th house on the 3rd, which is another positive for finance. The 11th house is a beneficent house and your financial intuition will be excellent. However, when Mercury starts to retrograde on the 17th your intuition will need some verification. Mercury’s retrograde, as our regular readers know, will not stop earnings, only slow things down. There will probably be financial delays, but you can minimize this by paying more attention to financial details, such as by making sure cheques are dated and signed properly, and online payments are made correctly – make sure you click in the right places. This is the problem with the online world; it is very easy to make mistakes.

The month ahead looks more active socially and romantically. Your 11th house of friendship is strong all month, and Pluto, your love planet, receives very nice aspects from the 19th onwards. Pluto stays in a sign for many years, so love trends tend to be long term in your case. You favour highly educated, refined, even religious types. Romantic opportunities occur at university or religious-type functions. Sexual magnetism is always important for you, but you also like philosophical compatibility.

Venus, the ruler of your Horoscope, will have one of her solstices from the 8th to the 10th. She pauses in the heavens (in her latitude) and then changes direction. A pause in your affairs now would be likely and benevolent.

Children and children figures in your life are having a very active and happy social month – especially after the 19th. Romance can happen this month or next. If they are not of the appropriate age for romance, they will be making friends and attending more parties and gatherings.

March

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 6, 7, 12, 13, 19, 20

Best Days for Love: 1, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18, 27, 28

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 1, 8, 16, 17, 19, 20, 26, 27

Saturn crosses the Mid-heaven on the 23rd and enters your 10th house of career. This transit is basically good for the career and it indicates career-related travel. The demands of your career are strong and you must succeed by sheer merit – but you will succeed. Saturn is usually a challenging planet, but in your chart he is more benevolent. He is the ruler of your 9th house, which is always a beneficent house. You might be called on to mentor others these days and this mentoring will be helpful to you. Educational opportunities related to the career will come to you, and you should take them.

There is more good news in the career. Venus, the ruler of your Horoscope, moves into your own sign on the 5th and travels with Uranus, your career planet, from the 6th to the 9th. This indicates career opportunity and elevation. A new career opportunity can appear – and suddenly.

Health is good this month. There is only one long-term planet, Saturn, in stressful alignment with you, and only from the 23rd onwards. Indeed, most of you won’t feel this too much; only those born early in the sign of Taurus (April 20–21) will feel this strongly. But you can take steps to enhance your health with scalp massage, face massage and exercise until the 5th and through neck and throat massage from the 5th onwards. Your state of health always affects your personal appearance, but after the 5th even more so. You should be looking good this period.

Your dream life seems very active this month – especially on the 8th and 9th. Pay attention to your dreams as they have important information for you.

Finances remain complicated this month until the 10th. Mercury is not only travelling backwards, but he changes signs twice. He begins the month in your 11th house, moves back into your 10th house on the 4th and then returns to your 11th house on the 16th. Financial intuition needs verification until the 4th, but after the 16th it seems very reliable. Avoid major purchases or investments until after the 10th, when your financial judgement becomes more reliable. Your financial planet in your 11th house is a positive for earnings: it is a beneficent house where fondest hopes and wishes come to pass. So this should be a prosperous month. It starts off slowly but picks up steam after the 11th. Friends seem helpful in finances. You could be buying high-tech equipment or gadgetry too. Being involved with groups and professional or trade organizations will also help the bottom line.