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Contents

1  Cover

2  Title Page

3  Copyright

4  Dedication

5  Contents

6  Note to Reader

7  Introduction

8 A Note on the ‘New Zodiac’

9  Glossary of Astrological Terms

10  Aries

11  Personality Profile

12  Understanding an Aries

13  Horoscope for 2021

14  Month-by-month Forecasts

15  Taurus

16  Personality Profile

17  Understanding a Taurus

18  Horoscope for 2021

19  Month-by-month Forecasts

20  Gemini

21  Personality Profile

22  Understanding a Gemini

23  Horoscope for 2021

24  Month-by-month Forecasts

25  Cancer

26  Personality Profile

27  Understanding a Cancer

28  Horoscope for 2021

29  Month-by-month Forecasts

30  Leo

31  Personality Profile

32  Understanding a Leo

33  Horoscope for 2021

34  Month-by-month Forecasts

35  Virgo

36  Personality Profile

37  Understanding a Virgo

38  Horoscope for 2021

39  Month-by-month Forecasts

40  Libra

41  Personality Profile

42  Understanding a Libra

43  Horoscope for 2021

44  Month-by-month Forecasts

45  Scorpio

46  Personality Profile

47  Understanding a Scorpio

48  Horoscope for 2021

49  Month-by-month Forecasts

50  Sagittarius

51  Personality Profile

52  Understanding a Sagittarius

53  Horoscope for 2021

54  Month-by-month Forecasts

55  Capricorn

56  Personality Profile

57  Understanding a Capricorn

58  Horoscope for 2021

59  Month-by-month Forecasts

60  Aquarius

61  Personality Profile

62  Understanding an Aquarius

63  Horoscope for 2021

64  Month-by-month Forecasts

65  Pisces

66  Personality Profile

67  Understanding a Pisces

68  Horoscope for 2021

69  Month-by-month Forecasts

70  About the Publisher

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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 2021 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 2021, 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 2021 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 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 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’) 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.

Aries

THE RAM

Birthdays from

21st March to

20th April

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 2021
Major Trends

Last year, 2020, was a big improvement over 2018 and 2019. And 2021 is even better than 2020. Two long-term planets – Saturn and Jupiter – were in stressful alignment with you and now they have moved away. Overall health and energy will be a lot better this year: with more energy comes more success.

There is only one long-term planet – Pluto – in stressful alignment with you, and this has been so for many years. By now you know how to deal with his challenges. This alignment shows much dealing with death and death issues: perhaps surgery or a near-death experience. This seems to involve bosses, parents or parent figures – or people involved in your career.

Saturn and Jupiter are both in your 11th house of friends this year. Thus, friendships seem bittersweet. On the one hand, you are making new and important friendships – happy ones – but on the other, there are disappointments with existing friends. You seem to be of two minds when it comes to friends. A part of you wants to cut back here while another part wants to expand this area. More on this later.

Spirituality has been important in your life for many years. Neptune has been in your spiritual 12th house for many years and will be there for several more. But this year, Jupiter will make a foray into your 12th house from May 14 to July 29. This will be an announcement of things to come. Jupiter will bring an expansion of your spiritual life. Many will meet a teacher – a guru. Many will have spiritual breakthroughs. There will be much progress here. Next year the progress will be even greater, as Jupiter moves into your 12th house on December 30 for the long haul.

Your chart is very interesting this year, Aries, in that all the long-term planets are in the Eastern sector of your chart all year. (This was the case last year as well.) This is unusual. The Eastern sector is the sector that relates to self – to me and my interests – to what I want to do. Relationships are relatively less important. There will be times when the Western, social sector of your chart will be stronger, but it will never dominate. If you can find a lover who gives you independence, the relationship can work. But you need to have your own way these days, and for those of you who are single this can be a problem.

Your most important areas of interest this year are finance; career; groups, group activities and friendships; and spirituality.

Your paths of greatest fulfilment this year are communication and intellectual interests; friendships, groups and group activities (from January 1 to May 14 and from July 29 to December 30); and spirituality (from May 14 to July 29 and from December 30 onwards).

Health

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

Health, as we mentioned, is vastly improved over recent years, with only Pluto in stressful alignment with you. All the others are either in harmonious aspect or leaving you alone. So, health should be good. If you have a pre-existing condition you should see improvement in this too.

Of course, there will be periods in the year where your health and energy are less easy than usual – maybe even stressful. But these are temporary periods caused by the transits of short-term planets; they are not trends for the year. When the planets move away from their challenging transits, your normal health and energy will return.

Good though your health is, you can make it even better. Give more attention to the following – the vulnerable areas in your Horoscope (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 head and face are always important for Aries (Aries rules the head and face). Regular scalp and face massages are always good for your health, and craniosacral therapy is also beneficial for the head: the plates in the skull need to be kept in right alignment.

 The adrenals too are always important for Aries. The important thing here, as our regular readers know, is to avoid anger and fear – the two emotions that stress them out.

 The musculature. You don’t need the physique of a body builder, Aries, only good muscle tone. Weak or flabby muscles can knock the spine and other bones 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 important.

 The lungs, arms, shoulders, small intestine and respiratory system are areas that are ruled over by Mercury, your health planet, and so are also always important for Aries. Arms and shoulders should be regularly massaged – especially the shoulders. Tension tends to collect there and needs to be released.

Regular readers will know that Mercury is a fast-moving planet. In any given year he moves through all the signs and houses of your Horoscope. So, there are many short-term health trends that depend on where Mercury is at any given time and the aspects he is receiving. These trends are best discussed in the monthly reports.

Mercury will be in retrograde motion three times this year (his norm), from January 30 to February 20, May 29 to June 21 and September 27 to October 17. These are not periods to make drastic changes either to the diet or health regime. Nor are they particularly good times to schedule procedures or tests (results are often wrong or misleading under a retrograde). These are periods for reviewing and for gaining mental clarity on your health.

Home and Family

Your 4th house of home and family hasn’t been prominent for some years now and there is not much going on here. It is not a major interest in 2021. Career and outer activities seem more important. During the course of the year there will be periods where the 4th house does become important – June 2 to July 31, for example. But this is a short-term trend, not a trend for the year.

Also keep in mind that there will be two lunar eclipses this year – one on May 26 and the other on November 19. These tend to bring dramas with the family and often repairs in the home. We will discuss it further in the monthly reports.

When a house – an area of life – is empty, it tends to the status quo. You are probably content with things as they are and have no need to make major changes. It can be seen as a good thing.

The spouse or current love seems more fertile this year. He or she would like to make renovations in the home. A move, though, is not likely.

A parent or parent figure is focused on finance and seems prosperous this year. The other parent or parent figure has a fairly stable financial year. Neither seems likely to move.

Siblings or sibling figures in your life are also having a stable family year. Moves are not likely. However, they have good career success, and 2022 will be even better.

Children or children figures could be making renovations in the home. And, though their relationships are being tested, there is no lack of love in their lives. Grandchildren (if you have them) are more likely to move in 2022 than this year.

If you’re planning major renovations in the home, June 12 to July 31 would be a good time. If you’re just redecorating or buying art objects for the home, June 2 to June 27 would be a good time.

Your family planet, the Moon, is the fastest moving of all the planets. Where the other fast-moving planets will take a year to move through all the signs and houses of your Horoscope, the Moon does this every month. So, there are many short-lived family dramas and emotional upheavals that happen every month. For example, every time the Moon moves through Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius in aspect to volatile Uranus. These are best covered in the monthly reports.

Finance and Career

Your money house has been strong for a couple of years now, since 2019 when Uranus moved there, and it will be strong for many more years to come. This, of itself, is a good financial signal. It shows focus and interest. By the spiritual law we get what we focus on – good, bad or indifferent.

The strong focus also shows a willingness to overcome all the various obstacles that arise in finance. It tends to prosperity.

Many of the trends that we have discussed in previous years are still in effect – Uranus is a very slow-moving planet. So, you have been throwing out all the ‘normal’ rule books about finance and discovering what works for you. There is nothing innately wrong with the rule books, but you are wired up in a certain way and what works for others might not work for you – and what works for you might not work for others. You are learning about finance through trial, error and experimentation – and this is the way true knowledge is acquired.

Uranus rules science, astronomy, technology, new inventions, innovations and the online world: all these areas can lead to profits. They are good as jobs, businesses or investments. You have a good intuitive feeling for these sorts of companies.

Uranus also rules astrology, so you may profit from an astrology-based business or through using the insights of astrology in your financial life. (Some of you might even practise the craft.)

Uranus likes the ‘new’. It favours start-ups, and many of you are involved in start-up businesses these days. This can be on a personal level – starting a new business or getting a job in a new venture – or investing in one.

Friends seem helpful in finance. Your good networking skills likewise.

Saturn has an impact on Uranus this year (in various degrees of exactitude), which means that earnings can take longer to materialize than usual. Saturn’s impact could introduce some caution in your financial decision making (I feel it is a good thing – you tend to be too impulsive and speculative by nature).

Fast-moving Venus is your financial planet, moving through all the signs and houses of your chart each year (and this year she will move through your 10th house of career twice). Thus, there are many short-term financial trends that are best discussed in the monthly reports.

You’ve been ultra ambitious in your career in recent years. You’ve worked hard and gone the extra mile to please your bosses. This is paying off now. You seem to be in a career ‘groove’. You’re experiencing the rewards of all your work. Your career achievements have put you in a new social circle. You are more friendly – more social – with your bosses and superiors. Your friends are helpful careerwise too. Your career planet, Saturn, will be in your 11th house all year. This spells success as the 11th house is always beneficent. Fondest career hopes and wishes are coming to pass. Your high-tech expertise is not only important in your financial life but in your career as well.

Love and Social Life

Your 7th house of love is not prominent this year. Yes, there will be times when it becomes active and powerful, but these are short-term trends caused by the transits of the fast-moving planets; they are not trends for the year. For the most part, the 7th house is empty and this has been the case for some years now. I read this as a good thing. It shows a tendency to the status quo. You are basically content with things as they are and have no driving urge to make changes. Those who are married will tend to stay married, and singles will tend to stay single.

There is another issue in love that we discussed earlier. For the past few years the Eastern sector of the Horoscope has been dominant. All the long-term planets are congregated in the East (the sector of self). And, while the Western social sector will get stronger at certain times, it will never be dominant. Thus, you are in a cycle of independence, of having things your way, of taking care of number one and your personal interests, desires and goals. Others are not that important. The social life is not that compelling. Anyone involved romantically with an Aries will need to understand this. Let them have their own way, so long as it isn’t destructive.

Venus is your love planet. And, as has been mentioned, she is a very fast-moving planet. There are many short-term love trends that depend on where Venus is and the aspects she receives, and these are best dealt with in the monthly reports.

So far we have been discussing love and romance. However, the area of friendships, seems much more active. (The 7th house rules friendships of the heart, while the 11th house rules friendships of the mind.) Here things are bittersweet. On the one hand you want to limit these activities, while on the other you want to expand them. I feel you will be successful in this area. Your career planet, Saturn, will spend the year in your 11th house, indicating that this area is a big priority in life and that you’re willing to overcome any challenges or disappointments that occur. Also it shows that you are mixing with people who can help you careerwise. Your networking abilities further the career.

With Jupiter also in your 11th house for almost all the year you’re expanding your circle of friends. Some look to be from foreign countries. Group travel opportunities also seem to be happening. (You enjoy travelling in a group rather than on your own.)

Parents and parent figures in your life have a stable social year. Children and children figures have love indicated this year – perhaps even marriage if they are of appropriate age. Siblings and sibling figures have a status quo love and social year.

Self-improvement

Prepare for big and monumental changes. The spiritual life, which has been active for many years, becomes even more active this year. Those of you already on the path (and many of you are) are going to see the results of your previous work in the year ahead. Jupiter is joining Neptune in your spiritual 12th house in 2021. Although it is only a flirtation this year – he will enter your spiritual house on May 14 and retrograde back into your 11th house at the end of July – it is the announcement of things to come. During this period your spiritual abilities and insights will increase. Your ESP powers likewise. You will have important – and monumental – spiritual breakthroughs. And, when these happen, the whole perspective on life changes. There will be spiritual peak experiences this year – and even more next year.

Neptune in the 12th house favours the Bhakti spiritual path of love and devotion – a powerful path. This generally involves mantra chanting, dancing, singing and drumming. It involves practices that elevate the emotions. But when Jupiter enters your 12th house it will favour exploring the mystical paths of your native religion. Every religion – no matter how seemingly dogmatic and regimented – has its mystical side. Usually it is ignored, but this is a year to explore these things.

For those not on the spiritual path (are there any Aries who are not?) this is a year to embark on it. You will be shown (as the saying goes) that ‘there is more to me than what you see’. The spiritual world – and the angels and masters who live there – know how to gain your attention. You will experience all sorts of meaningful coincidences that can’t be explained logically. You will dream of someone and they will call you. Or, you will think of them and they will call you. You will have a hunch to stay out of certain areas and learn afterwards that there was some terrible accident or crime that happened just at that time. These and other types of experiences will put you on the path.

The Hindus refer to Jupiter as the ‘Guru’ – an apt name. His entry into your house of spirituality shows that a guru is coming into your life. Someone who will guide you on to the next steps. My teacher used to say that meeting a real guru is the high point of life and that if it happens, you can consider your life a success.

Two eclipses happen in your 9th house of religion and philosophy this year. One on May 26 and the other on December 4. This shows a shake-up – a testing – of your religious, theological and philosophical beliefs. Spiritual revelation often causes this and it is generally a very good thing. Many of these beliefs need to be corrected, modified and sometimes discarded altogether.

The year ahead is one of spiritual revelation, but 2022 will be even more so.

Month-by-month Forecasts
January

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 9, 10, 18, 19, 28, 29

Most Stressful Days Overall: 5, 6, 12, 13, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 2, 5, 6, 10, 21, 22, 30, 31

Best Days for Money: 2, 5, 10, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 5, 12, 13, 14, 23

Though your overall health is good this year, this is not one of your best periods and health needs watching this month. Make sure you get enough rest. Until the 8th give attention to the spine, knees, teeth and bones. Back and knee massage will enhance health. After the 8th give more attention to the ankles and calves – massage them regularly. Also follow the guidance given in the yearly report.

Though health could be better, there are still many nice things happening. You’re in the middle of a yearly career peak until the 20th. The 23rd and 24th also seem good. The new Moon of the 13th is going to clarify many career issues as the month progresses. All the information you need will come to you in very normal and natural ways.

The month ahead also seems prosperous. Until the 9th your financial planet will be in Sagittarius, your 9th house: a positive financial signal. Earnings increase and you feel confident. On the 7th, Mars will move into your money house, indicating great focus here. Focus is the key to success. By the spiritual law we get what we focus on. On the 9th your financial planet Venus moves into Capricorn. While this is less ebullient for finances, less happy-go-lucky, it does show sound financial judgement. Bosses, elders, parents and parent figures – those in authority over you – seem supportive of your financial goals. Pay rises – official or unofficial – could happen. Your good professional reputation brings referrals and extra income.

The planetary momentum is overwhelmingly forward this month. There will never be less than 90 per cent of the planets in forward motion and there will be times – from the 14th to the 30th – when all the planets are moving forward. This shows fast progress towards your goals. Things in the world and in your life happen quickly. (Just the way you like things.)

Love is happier before the 9th than afterwards. Venus, your love planet, is not that happy in Capricorn. You (or your partner) can be too serious, too down-to-earth. There is a need to lighten things up a bit. There is more caution in love. The good news is that you advance your career by social means.

Mars travels with Uranus from the 18th to the 21st, which is a dynamic transit. Avoid rush, anger or risky activities. On the positive side, there are happy meetings with friends.

February

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 2, 3, 8, 9, 23, 24

Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 10, 11, 20, 21

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20, 21

Best Days for Career: 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 20

Health dramatically improved last month after the 20th and is wonderful this whole month. You have all the energy you need to achieve any goal you put your mind to. Pre-existing conditions magically disappear. Though health is good, you can enhance it further with ankle and calf massage. Your health planet Mercury is retrograde until the 21st so avoid making major changes to your health regime until after then.

The month ahead is very social – not necessarily romantic, but social. You are very involved with friendships, groups and group activities. New and significant friends are coming into the picture; this is the trend all year, but especially so this month.

The 11th house is a beneficent house and, since this is where the power is this month, the month ahead is happy. Fondest hopes and wishes are coming to pass. Of course, once this happens, you will create a new set of fondest hopes and wishes. This is the nature of things.

Though your love aspects are good this month, the problem seems to be lack of interest. All the planets are in the eastern hemisphere of Self. You are very independent and comfortable in your skin. You like things your way (and this tendency will get even stronger in the coming months). And so you might not be paying too much attention to romance. Friendships, which allow more freedom, are more appealing to you.

On the 5th and 6th your financial planet, Venus, travels with Saturn. There are good and bad points to this. The good points are that the financial judgement is sound – even conservative. You have a realistic perspective on your finances. Bosses, elders, parents and parent figures seem helpful, but also controlling. The bad points are that you might have extra financial responsibilities thrust on you. You might feel a sense of lack even though you’re basically prospering. But this will pass after the 6th. Venus travels with Jupiter from the 8th to the 11th and this should bring a nice payday. Earnings will increase. (The 8th to the 11th is also a good period for romance, if you can maintain an interest.)

When Mercury moves forward on the 21st all the planets will be moving forward. Thus, events in the world and in your life move forward and pretty quickly.

March

Best Days Overall: 5, 6, 14, 15, 24, 25

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

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 24, 28, 29

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 28, 29

Best Days for Career: 1, 7, 8, 9, 19, 28

Health and energy are still excellent this month, and after the 20th they will get even better. If you want to enhance the health further, give attention to the ankles and calves until the 16th, and to the feet (with foot massages) after then. Spiritual healing methods are very powerful from the 16th onwards, but especially so from the 29th to the 31st.

The month ahead is very spiritual. It would be normal to want more solitude, to want to feel your own aura and to get away from the ‘madding crowd’. There is nothing wrong with you. In fact, this solitude is a great gift. Life-changing events rarely happen in the crowd or the marketplace (this is only the side effect). They happen in the stillness and silence of your communion with the Divine. It seems like nothing is happening outwardly, but inwardly tremendous things are happening. Cherish the solitude.

The month ahead is happy and prosperous. On the 20th the Sun crosses your Ascendant and enters your 1st house, and you begin one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks. This is a time for enjoying all the pleasures of the body. The spiritual breakthroughs you made earlier in the month now manifest as personal pleasures. Moreover, the next day, the 21st, Venus moves into your sign. Even if you are not looking for love, it will find you. You won’t escape it. Furthermore, you will have it on your terms. If you are already in a relationship, your beloved seems eager to please. The same is true financially. Financial windfalls will come. Financial opportunities as well. They will find you. The money people in your life seem devoted to you and eager to please.

Clothing and accessories will come to you after the 20th, and it will be an excellent time for buying these things too. Your taste is especially good right now.

Health is good, as we mentioned, but you also look good. You have star quality and charisma. Venus in your own sign gives grace and beauty: the opposite sex will certainly take notice.

Venus, your love and financial planet, will have her solstice from the 23rd to the 25th. During this time she is stationary (in her latitudinal motion) and then changes direction. This brings both a social and financial pause in your affairs. It is a pause that refreshes, before a change of direction.

April

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 29, 30

Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 18, 19, 25, 26

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 11, 12, 23, 24, 25, 26

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 23, 24, 26

Best Days for Career: 3,4,6,7,15,16,25,26

The planetary power is now in its maximum Eastern position, and so you are even more independent than in previous months. You can and should have things your way. Your way is the best way now. Others should be treated with respect, but if they are not in agreement, go your own way. The cosmos supports you. This is not selfishness: how will you be able to help others if you are not right? So, make the changes that need to be made. Design your life for your happiness. You can do this in future months, but it won’t be as easy as now. Also, with all the planets moving forward until the 27th these changes should happen quickly.

It is a happy and prosperous month ahead, Aries. Enjoy!

Until the 20th you are still in a yearly personal pleasure peak. After the 20th, as the Sun moves into your money house, you enter a yearly financial peak. Your money house is easily the strongest in the Horoscope after this date: 40 per cent of the planets are in there. This is a lot of financial power.

Health and energy are still excellent this month. On the 24th and 25th your health planet travels with Jupiter, so you will hear good news on the health front. A happy job opportunity will come. Children or children figures in your life will have a good financial day.

Venus travels with Uranus on the 22nd and 23rd. This transit can bring unexpected money. Sometimes it brings an unexpected expense, but the money to cover this expense also comes, although you might have to make some financial changes or adjustments. This transit also indicates sudden, unexpected romantic meetings or social invitations.

The Sun travels with Uranus on the 29th and 30th. This is a great social or romantic period for children or children figures.

Mars entered your 3rd house last month and remains there until the 24th. Mars, as the ruler of your Horoscope, is a very important planet. Thus, communication and intellectual activities are a great interest this month. Students should do well in school.

Mercury has his solstice on the 6th and 7th. He pauses in the heavens (in latitude) and then changes direction. There is a pause at work and in your intellectual life – then a change of direction.

May

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 15, 16, 22, 23, 28, 29

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 13, 22, 23

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 4, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24

Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31

It is an eventful month ahead, with many changes. Jupiter will make a move out of Aquarius into Pisces, your 12th house. Retrograde activity is increasing, too. By the end of the month 30 per cent of the planets will be retrograde. This is far from the maximum for the year but is still a substantial increase over previous months. To top it off, we have a lunar eclipse on the 26th. The cosmic chessboard is being re-arranged.

In spite of all this, your month looks healthy and prosperous. The changes are fundamentally benevolent. More retrograde activity is perhaps annoying, but it isn’t serious. Jupiter’s move into Pisces fosters your spiritual life. Even the lunar eclipse is basically benign, though you should reduce your schedule over that period.

This eclipse occurs in your 9th house and affects the ruler of your 9th house, Jupiter. For college-level students (or those applying to colleges) there are changes in schools or educational plans. Sometimes there are shake-ups in the college; sometimes course or curriculum changes. Sometimes students change schools or paths of study. There will also be shake-ups in your place of worship: dramas at the place itself or in the lives of worship leaders. This is not a good time for foreign travel. If you must travel try to schedule your trip around the eclipse period. If you are involved in legal issues, expect a dramatic turn one way or another. Every lunar eclipse brings dramas at home and in the lives of family members (the Moon is your family planet), and this one is no different. The good news is that the ruler of your Horoscope, Mars, will be in your 4th house all month – so you are paying attention here.

You are still in a yearly financial peak until the 21st so earnings remain good. By the 21st your short-term financial goals should have been achieved and you can shift attention to the mind, to mental development, to education. (Isn’t the whole point of money to give a person freedom for self-development?) This is an excellent month for students at school – there is success in their studies. The mind and communication faculties are enhanced; learning goes better.

Singles find love and romantic opportunities as they pursue their financial goals or with people involved in their finances – until the 9th. After the 9th romantic opportunities happen nearer to home in your neighbourhood (perhaps with neighbours), at school events, lectures or seminars.

June

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 24

Best Days for Love: 11, 12, 18, 19, 21

Best Days for Money: 1, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 21, 20, 27

Best Days for Career: 18, 19, 24, 25, 26

Retrograde activity increases even further this month. By the end of the month 40 per cent of the planets will be retrograde; events are slowing down. There are more delays to deal with. Babies born at this time will tend to be late bloomers. They will come into their own – their full potential – later on in life. Parents need to understand this.

On the 10th we will have a solar eclipse that occurs in your 3rd house of communication and intellectual interests. This eclipse is the polar opposite of the lunar eclipse of last month. That one affected college-level students; this one affects students below college level. There can be changes of schools and educational plans. There can be dramas and shake-ups in the school. Cars and communication equipment can be temperamental – often repairs or replacements are necessary. Drive more defensively during this period. Every solar eclipse affects your children or children figures in your life, so keep them out of harm’s way and try to ensure they take things easy at this time.

Health, too, needs more attention this month – especially after the 21st. This is nothing serious, just short-term stress caused by the short-term planets, but make sure you get enough rest. This is always most important. Enhance the health in the ways mentioned in the yearly report. Avoid making important changes to your health regime until the 21st. Good mental health is important this month. Keep your thoughts positive and constructive.

The planetary power is now at its maximum lowest position in the Horoscope. It is approaching midnight in your year. The focus should be on the home, family and your emotional wellness. Career is important, but it can be put on the back burner this month. This is a month for creating the psychological infrastructure that will support career success later in the year. It is a month for inner psychological rather than outer career progress.

Venus, your love and financial planet, will be ‘out of bounds’ from the 1st to the 17th. Thus, in love and finance you’re outside your normal spheres. Probably there are no solutions to be found in your usual haunts and you must look elsewhere. Sometimes this transit indicates that the spouse, partner or current love is also operating outside his or her normal sphere.

Venus makes beautiful aspects with Jupiter from the 3rd to the 5th. This brings financial increase and a happy romantic experience.

July

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 22, 23

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 12, 16, 17, 21, 31

Best Days for Money: 3, 4, 5, 8, 18, 26, 31

Best Days for Career: 6, 7, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25

Continue to watch the health until the 21st. Enhance health through right diet and abdominal massage. (Massage of the stomach reflex point would also be good; this is shown in the reflexology chart in the yearly report.) After the 21st the health rebounds very dramatically, and you have the energy of 10 people. You also enter another of your yearly personal pleasure peaks. A time to enjoy your life. With nearly half the planets still retrograde this month, you might as well enjoy yourself as nothing much is happening in the world.

Personal creativity is vastly increased this month – this is the case all month but especially after the 21st. Those of you involved in the creative arts are greatly inspired now.

The family as a whole – and especially a parent or parent figure – is having an excellent financial month. Last month’s solar eclipse forced him or her to make changes and they are paying off this month.

Though you are still very independent and self-willed, there are more planets – short-term ones – in the Western, social sector of your chart. The social life is more active now, and you’re more aware of others and their interests. I would say that you are also more personally popular these days as well. You’re keeping a balance between your interests and those of others – you’re not ignoring either.

Venus, your love and social planet, is in your 5th house until the 22nd. This shows ‘happy’ money. You earn money in happy ways and you spend it on happy things. You would probably be more speculative too, although caution is advised as Saturn opposes Venus. On the 22nd Venus will enter Virgo, your 6th house of work and health. I consider this good for finance. Perhaps it is not as much fun as earlier in the month, but the financial judgement is better. Unemployed Aries have nice job opportunities towards the end of the month – next month will be even better for this. Even those of you already employed will have opportunities for overtime or second jobs, if wanted.

Mars will be in stressful alignment with Uranus on the 3rd and 4th. Avoid conflicts and temper tantrums. Avoid rush. Be mindful on the physical plane. There can be a disagreement with a friend.

The 12th and 13th, as Venus travels with Mars, bring both financial and love opportunities.

August

Best Days Overall: 7, 8, 16, 17, 24, 25

Most Stressful Days Overall: 5, 6, 12, 13, 18, 19

Best Days for Love: 1, 11, 12, 13, 20, 30, 31

Best Days for Money: 1, 11, 13, 20, 21, 27, 28, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 2, 3, 12, 18, 19, 20, 30

Retrograde activity increases even further this month. After the 20th half the planets will be moving backwards, and next month the percentage will increase even further. So, the lesson these days – especially for Aries – is patience, patience, patience. Slow down and do everything as perfectly as you can. This won’t stop the delays but will minimize them.

You’re still in a yearly personal pleasure peak until the 23rd. So relax. Take your mind off your problems and do enjoyable things. Right now, with so many planets retrograde, there are no quick solutions. Time will solve your problems. When you change your focus of attention and allow more joy in your life, you will often come up with answers. The stress was blocking you.

The Western, social sector of your Horoscope, while not stronger than the Eastern sector, is as strong now as it will ever be this year. You are in a more social period, therefore. While you’re not giving up your independence, you are balancing your needs with those of others.

Health and energy are still good this month. You can enhance it further by giving more attention to the heart (chest massage and massage of the heart reflex, shown in the yearly report) until the 12th; the abdomen (abdominal massage) and small intestine from the 12th to the 30th; and the hips and kidneys after the 30th. The power in your 6th house this month (it is easily the strongest in your Horoscope) shows a decided focus on health. Since nothing seems really wrong, I presume this focus involves healthy lifestyles and preventive measures.

This is another good month for job seekers – there are many, many opportunities. You are in the mood for work (especially after the 23rd) and employers pick up on this. Like last month, even those who are already employed will have opportunities for overtime or to take on second jobs.

Venus in Virgo is good for money – you earn it the old-fashioned way, through work and service – but the transit is not that great for romance. Be careful of destructive criticism and of being too judgemental of the beloved, even in your heart – this will chill any romantic moment. The love life will improve after the 16th as Venus enters romantic Libra. The social graces will be much stronger.

September

Best Days Overall: 4, 5, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 8, 9, 14, 15, 29, 30

Best Days for Love: 8, 9, 19, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 9, 18, 19, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 26

Retrograde activity will be at its maximum extent for the year after the 27th, with 60 per cent of the planets in retrograde motion. Like last month, learn patience, patience, patience. Generally, these retrograde periods are not life threatening, just annoying and frustrating. But understanding what’s going on is a big help in dealing with this.

This retrograde of Mercury (from the 27th to October 18) will be stronger in its effect than the previous ones this year. This is because there are many other planets retrograde with him. If Mercury is retrograde by himself, or with just one or two other planets, that is one thing. But when many planets are retrograde it is much stronger. So be more careful in your communications. Double-check emails before pressing ‘send’. Allow more time to get from one place to another. A customer service call that should take 5 or 10 minutes can go on for hours – and sometimes days pass until the issue is resolved.

The headline this month is love and romance, Aries. Your 7th house of love is the strongest in the Horoscope. It is strong quantitatively as well as qualitatively. So, from the 22nd onwards you will be in a yearly love and social peak. (You will probably feel this even before the 22nd, as Mars moves into your 7th house on the 15th.)

You are more proactive in love this month. You’re seeking it out. Singles are not playing games. If they like someone that person will know. You are forward and direct. You will tend to be more popular as well, as you seem supportive of those you’re involved with. Singles will have many romantic opportunities. While these don’t seem to lead to serious relationships or marriage, you can enjoy them for what they are. The area of friendships also seems active and happy.

Health needs keeping an eye on after the 23rd. Overall health is excellent, however; this is a short-term issue caused by the short-term planets. But make sure you rest more. Athletic performance will probably not be at its peak. This is just a function of energy levels. Enhance your health through hip massage and massage of the kidney reflexes (see the reflexology chart in the yearly report). Work to maintain harmony with the spouse, partner or current love and friends. Good health for you is about good social health. Problems here can impact on your physical health.

A very happy romantic and financial opportunity comes on the 5th and 6th. Be careful of overspending on the 29th and 30th.

October

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20, 28, 29, 30

Most Stressful Days Overall: 5, 6, 12, 13, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 5, 6, 10, 18, 19, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 6, 7, 10, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 5, 12, 13, 14, 23

Retrograde activity reaches a crescendo this month and then drops off dramatically. The month begins with 60 per cent of the planets retrograde and will end with only 20 per cent retrograde. Stuck projects are getting unstuck. Events in the world and in your life are starting to move forward.

You’re still in a yearly love and social peak this month. You’ve had stronger social peaks in your life, but for this year, this is the peak.

Health still needs attention until the 23rd so review our discussion of this last month. The good news is that you will see a big improvement in your energy levels from the 23rd onwards.

Venus, your love and financial planet, will once again go ‘out of bounds’ after the 11th and this time will remain so for many weeks. So, in your pursuit of romance you’re moving outside your normal boundaries. Perhaps the spouse, partner or current love is also outside his or her usual sphere. This is the situation in your finances too. There are no answers in the usual places – you need to think outside the box.

There are happy job opportunities on the 2nd and 3rd and on the 8th and 9th. Though energy could be better, there is good news on the health front on those days too. There are happy experiences with children or children figures in your life on the 7th and 8th – also happy leisure activities.

On the 23rd the Sun enters your 8th house, and Mars follows on the 31st. The spouse, partner or current love is having an excellent financial period now. Finances could have been slow for him or her but now they pick up. You’re in an excellent period for detox or weight-loss regimes – children or children figures as well. This is a good transit for tax and estate planning (if you are of appropriate age). It is also good for either paying down debt or taking on loans, depending on your need.

Venus moves into Sagittarius on the 7th and stays there for the rest of the month. This is excellent for both love and money. The only issue is impetuousness. You could be too quick to jump into a relationship or financial deals. Take more time to consider things.

November

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 2, 3, 8, 9, 22, 23, 29, 30

Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 8, 17, 18, 27, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 3, 8, 11, 17, 18, 21, 27, 28, 30

Best Days for Career: 2, 8, 9, 10, 20, 29

Venus continues to be ‘out of bounds’ for the whole of November. Thus, like last month, your pursuit of profits and love are taking you outside your normal boundaries – your normal sphere of activity. The money people in your life, and perhaps the spouse, partner or current love, are also outside their normal circles. There are no answers there and you (and they) must go searching in new places. Going into the unknown like this often brings great insecurity in love and finance.

A lunar eclipse on the 19th occurs in your money house, further compounding the insecurity in financial matters. Changes need to be made. Your financial thinking and planning haven’t been realistic and you must set a new course. This lunar eclipse is relatively benign for you, but it can bring dramas at home and with family members – especially a parent or parent figure. He or she has personal dramas and crises with his or her friends. Children and children figures are making career changes. Grandchildren (if you have them) or those who play that role in your life have dramas at work – job changes are likely now or in the coming months. This eclipse impacts on Jupiter (but not too directly, it is more like a sideswipe), so it can affect college-level students. There are changes in educational plans, perhaps changes of school or courses of study. There are also dramas in your place of worship and in the lives of worship leaders.

Health, however, looks good this month. By the 7th all the planets will either be in harmonious alignment with you or leaving you alone. Health gets even better from the 22nd onwards.

The power all this month is in your 8th house and the 9th house (from the 22nd onwards). So, the month ahead is a banner financial month for the beloved. You seem very involved in his or her finances. You’re still in a good period for tax and estate planning and for attracting outside investors to your projects (if you have good ideas). Like towards the end of last month, it is a good time to purge the extraneous from your life – possessions you don’t need, and mental or emotional habits that are not helpful. A good month to give birth (or to further the birth) of your ideal self.

The power in your 9th house after the 22nd is wonderful for college students as it indicates focus in their studies. It is good for foreign travel and for making religious or philosophical breakthroughs. If you’re involved in legal issues, this is a good month to focus on them.

December

Best Days Overall: 4, 12, 13, 22, 23, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 5, 6, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28

Best Days for Love: 5, 6, 14, 15, 24, 25, 27, 28

Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 18, 24, 25, 28

Best Days for Career: 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 27, 28

The fourth and final eclipse of the year happens on the 4th. It is a solar eclipse that occurs in your 9th house. Though you have the urge to travel, try to avoid doing so around the eclipse period. Schedule trips either a few days before or after the eclipse. This eclipse brings more educational changes for college students: perhaps dramas and shake-ups at the university. The spouse, partner or current love should drive more carefully – you too. Since this eclipse affects Mercury, students not yet at college are also impacted. They too are changing educational plans and dealing with disruptions at school. Siblings and sibling figures are forced to redefine themselves – the way that they think of themselves and the way they want others to think of them. Thus, there will be a change of image and overall presentation in the coming months. Their marriages or relationships are getting tested. A parent or parent figure has to make financial changes. He or she could have job changes as well. All these things will work out well in the end, but it is disruptive while it’s going on.

In spite of the dramas brought by the eclipse, the month ahead is happy and successful. It is true that health is more delicate from the 21st onwards, and energy levels could be better. Nevertheless, you are successful in your outer life and goals. You enter a yearly career peak on the 21st.

Venus, your love and financial planet, makes one of her rare retrogrades on the 19th and will remain retrograde for the rest of the month ahead. So, love becomes more delicate. Relationships can seem to go backwards instead of forward. There is hesitancy in love. The social confidence is not what it should be. Try to avoid making important love decisions after the 19th. Wait until Venus goes forward again next year.

The same holds true in the financial life. Earnings are perhaps slower than usual. They will happen, but with delays and glitches. Avoid making important purchases or investments from the 19th onwards. (Do your Christmas shopping before the 19th.)

Enhance the health with thigh massage until the 14th and with back and knee massage afterwards. A visit to the chiropractor or osteopath might be a good idea. There is nothing serious afoot, just a period of lower energy.

Taurus

THE BULL

Birthdays from

21st April to

20th May

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. Taurus carries everything through. 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. They even dislike changing their minds! On the other hand, 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 2021
Major Trends

Ever since Saturn moved into stressful aspect with you in March last year, health and energy became more delicate. Certainly, your energy is not as high as it was in 2018 and 2019. Still, overall health should be good. Perhaps a few years ago you could bike 20 miles or do many push-ups or sit-ups. Now it is not so easy. More on this later.

Career, like last year, is the main headline this year. Last year was very successful careerwise, and this year it will be even more so. There are promotions and elevations in store this year. You are a magnet for career opportunity as well. Details later.

Ever since Saturn moved away from your love planet Pluto last year the love life has been much better. Singles will certainly date more this year and have more social confidence, but marriage or serious commitment is challenging. More on this later.

Uranus has been in your sign since March 2019 (and was for some months in 2018 too). He will be there for the rest of the year ahead and for many more years to come, so many of the trends that we discussed in previous years are still very much in effect. You’re learning to embrace change. Change is becoming your friend. You’re breaking out of established ruts and exploring more personal freedom. It is not easy for a Taurus to embrace change, but this is the spiritual lesson these days. We will say more on this later.

Romance can be unstable, but friendships and group activities are happy. This trend will get even better next year. You’re meeting spiritual and artistic types of people these days. More details below.

Your areas of greatest interest this year will be the body, image and physical appearance; religion, theology, philosophy, foreign travel and higher education; career; and friends, groups and group activities.

Your paths of greatest fulfilment in the year ahead are finance; career (from January 1 to May 14 and from July 29 to December 30); and friends, groups and group activities (from May 14 to July 29 and from December 30 onwards).

Health

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

Health is reasonable this year, Taurus. You do have two long-term planets – Saturn and Jupiter – in stressful alignment with you, but Jupiter’s stress tends to be mild. Nor will Jupiter be in stressful alignment all year. From May 14 to July 29 he will be in a harmonious alignment. So, while your energy is not what it was in 2019 and 2020, it is still reasonable.

With Saturn in a stressful aspect, listen to your body. The body is sending messages. If you’re exercising and feel some pain or discomfort, take a break. It is not advisable to power through the pain. If you feel tired, rest. Overall, though, health should be good.

Good though your health is you can make it better. Give more attention to the following – the vulnerable areas of your Horoscope this year (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 heart is not usually a vulnerable area for Taurus, but since 2020 it has become so. There is a consensus among spiritual healers that worry and anxiety are the root causes of heart problems. So, develop more faith.

 The kidneys and hips. These are always important for Taurus and the hips should be regularly massaged. This will not only help the hips and the kidneys but the lower back as well. A herbal kidney cleanse every now and then – especially if you feel under the weather – might be a good idea.

 The neck and throat. These areas too are always important for Taurus. Regular neck massage will be beneficial this year. Tension tends to collect there and needs to be released. Craniosacral therapy is excellent for the neck too.

The ruler of your Horoscope, Venus, is also your health planet. This gives important messages. First, it shows that health is important to you and that you focus on it, which is basically a good thing. Secondly, it shows a vanity component to health. Good health for you also means ‘looking good’: it is not just about ‘no symptoms’. The state of your health impacts very dramatically on the physical appearance. (This is not so for everyone.) And so, good health will do more for your appearance than hosts of lotions and potions. If you feel under the weather buy a new outfit, get your hair done, do something that enhances your appearance. You will start to feel better.

Our regular readers know that Venus is a fast-moving planet. During the course of the year she will move through all the signs and houses of your chart (and this year she will move through your 9th house twice). Thus, there are many short-term health trends that depend on where Venus is and the kind of aspects she receives. These are best covered in the monthly reports.

Siblings or sibling figures in your life can be having surgery this year, although it may be only recommended to them. They have a tendency for this. Parents or parent figures likewise. Children and children figures seem very focused on health. They should have best-case scenarios if problems arise.

Home and Family

Your 4th house of home and family hasn’t been prominent for some years now, which tends to the status quo. It shows a feeling of contentment. There is no pressing need to make dramatic changes. There is no need for excess attention.

Your family planet, the Sun, will be eclipsed twice this year – once on June 10 and the other on December 4. These events can provoke family dramas, repairs to the home and unstable emotions. We will deal with these in the monthly reports.

Your home and family planet is a fast-moving planet, moving through all the signs and houses of your Horoscope in the course of the year. So, there are short-term trends depending on where the Sun is and the kinds of aspects he receives. These are best dealt with in the monthly reports.

A parent or parent figure in your life is having their relationship or marriage tested. This began in 2020. Things are a bit easier now. However, this parent or parent figure is having a good social year.

Siblings and sibling figures have a family situation that tends to the status quo. Moves are not likely this year, though there is nothing against it. Children and children figures have love this year – perhaps even marriage – but moves are not likely. Grandchildren, if you have them, are doing well financially, but moves are not likely either; again, there is nothing against it, but nothing especially supporting it.

If you’re planning a renovation of the home or major repairs, July 31 to September 16 is an excellent time. If you’re planning to redecorate or make minor improvements, June 27 to July 22 is a good time. This is also a good time for buying objects of beauty for the home.

Finance and Career

Money is always important for you, Taurus, but this year less so than usual. (This has been the case for a few years now.) The focus is more on the career than on mere finance. Your public and professional status is more important than money. (Generally, when the career is going well finances follow suit so this is good thinking on your part – though you might have to wait for the financial increase.)

Your empty money house shows a stable kind of financial year. You are basically satisfied with your earnings and have no need to make any dramatic changes or to pay undue attention here.

The Moon’s north node will be in your money house all year. This would show good fortune in finance. Also, it tends to show ‘excess’ – a good problem to have. You could have excess funds that you don’t know what to do with. Sometimes too much of a good thing can be as much of a problem as too little.

There will be a solar eclipse in your money house on June 10. This could create important financial changes. Generally, it is for the better, but it might not be so comfortable while it’s happening. The events of the eclipse will show you where your financial thinking and planning have been amiss and thus you can make any corrections that are needed.

Mercury, your financial planet, is one of the fastest-moving planets (only the Moon moves faster). Mercury’s movements are also often erratic. Sometimes he speeds through the skies, sometimes he moves slowly, sometimes he is still and sometimes he goes backwards. This mirrors your financial life. But it also shows someone who is flexible in finances – someone who can turn on a dime and profit from short-term fluctuations in the market. Thus, there are many short-term financial trends that depend on where Mercury is and the aspects he is receiving. These are best covered in the monthly reports.

Mercury will be retrograde three times this year – from January 30 to February 20, May 29 to June 21, and from September 27 to November 19. As regular readers know, these are not times for major purchases or investments. These are times for a ‘wait and see’ attitude, for research and reviews of finances.

Career is the main headline here this year, and this is going great guns. There are so many positive things happening here. Your 10th house of career is very powerful – the most powerful in the Horoscope. This shows ambition and drive. It shows a willingness to overcome any challenge that arises. Moreover, Uranus, your career planet, has been in your own sign since 2019. This shows a great relationship with the ‘power people’ – the authority figures in your life. They are devoted to you. It shows that happy career opportunities are seeking you out; they fall into your lap – there’s nothing much that you need to do. (Sure, once the offers are accepted there will be much action, but you don’t need to do anything special to attract the opportunities.) You have the image of success. You dress that way. People see you this way. People look up to you. You seem a power person in your own right.

Jupiter spends most of the year in your 10th house of career. This is a classic indicator of success and expansion. Your career horizons are broadened and expanded. Of course, you’re working hard and earning your success – Saturn in your 10th house is showing this – but you see the results of your efforts.

Saturn in your 10th house indicates that there is much career-related travel this year.

Jupiter, the ruler of your 8th house, in your 10th house shows that you could be dealing with dramas in the lives of parents, parent figures, bosses and people involved with your career. There could be surgery or near-death kinds of experiences in their lives (sometimes it is actual death, but this is rare). But all these things will serve to enhance your professional and public status.

If you are involved in politics this is a good year to run for a higher office.

Love and Social Life

As we mentioned, Saturn’s move away from your love planet last year has removed many blockages in the love life. But it is still advisable to go slow and allow relationships to develop as they will.

Pluto, your love planet, has been in Capricorn for many years now and will be there for a few more. You are conservative in love. You don’t fall in love right away. It takes time – and you should allow the time. There is a healthy caution about love. (In past years it could have been fear – which is not good.)

As in previous years there is an allurement to foreigners, religious and highly educated people. You are attracted to mentor types. Students would tend to fall in love with their professors. There would be a strong attraction to the worship leader in your place of worship. Romantic opportunities would happen at school, the place of worship, or these kinds of places. They could also happen in foreign lands. A trip to an interesting foreign country could lead to romance. It could also enhance an existing one.

But there is another issue that is complicating love. Uranus has been in your sign since 2019 (and will remain there for many more). This makes Taurus passionate about personal freedom. On the one hand you’re a more interesting and exciting kind of person, fun to be around. But on the other, your independence, your sense of freedom, is not helpful in love. Relationship is about a limitation of freedom. It is not about me, it’s about us. Independence in itself is a good thing, but in a relationship it might not be. Also, you could be attracting people who are not serious about commitment. So, as mentioned earlier, love seems unstable. Sure, singles will be dating more. But the question is, how stable are these dates?

With Uranus in your own sign and house you are on a course of continuous personal redefinition. You keep changing your image and personality. You upgrade it constantly. This could complicate love as well. Your beloved fell in love with Mr or Miss A but now he or she has morphed into Mr or Miss C or D. Do I love this new person?

Marriage doesn’t seem likely. (It’s probably not advisable either.) Those of you who are already married are having their marriages tested. If you’re involved romantically with a Taurus, give them as much space as possible so long as it isn’t destructive.

A committed relationship could work if there is much freedom within the relationship.

Friendships, platonic kinds of relationships, seem much happier and more stable than romantic ones this year. Your 11th house of friends is very strong. Jupiter moves into your 11th house briefly this year – from May 14 to July 29 – so new friends (significant ones) are coming into the picture. Since Jupiter rules your 8th house, this can show relationships that are ‘friends with benefits’. Not necessarily romantic, but perhaps sexual in nature.

Self-improvement

Your 12th house of spirituality is empty this year. Only short-term planets will move through there and their influence is only temporary. It would seem that the spiritual life is not that important and not a major focus in the year ahead. But life has a way of giving spiritual lessons in ways that are outside normal spiritual practice. You have a few of them.

We have discussed the Uranus transit through your sign in terms of career and love. But there are other important lessons happening. As we mentioned earlier, the need is to get comfortable with change, to get comfortable with the unexpected. This is not easy for a Taurus. Taurus loves the status quo, loves their routine, loves the predictable. But this is not how things are working now. Anything can happen at any time. Your ruts get shattered. Really this is the Cosmos’s way of liberating you. Once out of your so-called comfort zone (which in many cases was a prison) new vistas lie before you. The unexpected makes things more interesting. Embrace the changes. Embrace the unpredictability. Enjoy it.

Uranus in your sign is having other effects too. Yes, you’re constantly re-inventing yourself as we mentioned. But you are also being more experimental with the body. The body has greater capacities than we know. Most of its limits are self-imposed. So, through experimentation – testing its limits – we can do more than we ever thought we could.

What is needed is a safe way to experiment with the body. Thus, I like exercises like yoga, tai chi or martial arts. Avoid the dangerous ‘daredevil’ type stunts – though many of you will be sorely tempted.

Neptune, the most spiritual of all the planets, has been in your 11th house for many years now. So, you are attracting spiritual-type friends. And, though your personal spiritual practice doesn’t seem that important now, you’re probably getting the teachings and guidance from friends.

Astrology, ruled by the 11th house, will also become more important this year. (It has been important for some years now as Uranus, the planet that rules astrology, is moving through your sign.) To read more about astrology, and other metaphysical topics, visit my website: www.spiritual-stories.com.

Month-by-month Forecasts
January

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 7, 8, 14, 15, 28, 29

Best Days for Love: 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 13, 21, 22, 30, 31

Best Days for Money: 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 23, 24

Best Days for Career: 3, 12, 14, 15, 21, 30

The month ahead is happy and successful. Career is successful all month, but perhaps there is more work involved from the 20th onwards. You are in a yearly career peak after the 20th, but it comes with a price-tag attached – more work. Even family and family members are supportive of your career goals this month: perhaps they see it as ‘family project’. The family as a whole seems more elevated and successful these days.

Health needs more attention from the 20th onwards as well. The demands of the career are burdensome and you need to be careful of working yourself into the ground. Be sure to get enough rest. Until the 9th enhance the health with thigh massage (massaging the liver reflex will also be beneficial – see the reflexology chart in the yearly report). After the 9th back and knee massage will be good. A visit to the chiropractor or osteopath would be a good idea too.

Mars will move into your sign on the 7th. This has good points and bad points. On the positive side he gives more energy, more courage, more élan. You are a dynamic kind of person – a doer – an achiever. You would achieve your personal best in exercise regimes or athletics. Since Mars is your spiritual planet, you are more idealistic. Perhaps a spiritual teacher comes into your life. You will learn how to use spiritual techniques to mould and shape the body as you will. On the negative side, however, you could be too combative (unconsciously). You would not suffer fools lightly. You would seek confrontation (and certainly would not back down from them). Mars in your sign can make you impatient. Rush and haste can lead to accidents or injury. When Mars travels with Uranus from the 18th to the 21st, these tendencies can be even stronger. Make haste by all means, but in a mindful kind of way. Drive more carefully and defensively during this period. Avoid conflicts at work or in the career at this time, too.

The month ahead seems prosperous. Mercury in Capricorn until the 8th indicates sound financial judgement – a conservative approach to finance. You could feel financially tight on the 9th and 10th but this is short lived. On the 11th and 12th a nice payday is happening. Try to make major purchases or investments before the 30th. On the 30th your money planet starts to retrograde.

Love seems happy this month – next month it will be even better.

February

Best Days Overall: 1, 8, 9, 18, 19, 27, 28

Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 11, 12, 25, 26

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21, 28

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 11, 12, 20, 21

Best Days for Career: 8, 11, 12, 18, 27

Career is still going great guns – very successful. Pay rises (official or unofficial) and promotions are likely. You are at the top of your world and people look up to you. Probably you are dressing and presenting yourself accordingly.

Health is even more delicate than last month. The important thing now, as regular readers know, is to maintain high energy levels; this is always the first defence against disease. A person with a strong aura (the spiritual immune system) will repel any virus or destructive bacteria. So, rest when tired. Ankle and calf massage will be beneficial until the 26th. After the 26th foot massage will be powerful (massage the whole foot).

With the planetary momentum overwhelmingly forward this month – 90 per cent of the planets are moving forward until the 21st, and all of them move forward after that – events move swiftly, both personally and in the world.

Mercury, your financial planet, will move forward from the 21st. Until then maintain caution in your finances. Oh, you shop for groceries and necessities, but expensive items or major investments should wait until after the 21st.

Mercury spends the entire month in your 10th house of career. This gives many messages. First, that finance is a high priority; there is focus, more so than usual. It often shows pay rises, either official or unofficial. Bosses, elders, parents or parent figures – authority figures in your life – are favourably disposed to your financial goals. And that your good professional reputation is important financially – guard it well.

Mercury’s retrograde will not stop earnings but will slow them down a bit. There are nice paydays happening this month – but with delays. The Sun and Mercury travel together on the 7th and 8th. A parent or parent figure is helpful financially. You might be spending more on the home. From the 8th to the 11th, Venus travels with Jupiter and this too should produce a nice payday. Mercury travels with Venus and Jupiter on the 13th and 14th – another nice financial period.

Mars is still in your sign all this month, so review our discussion of this from January. Be more mindful on the physical plane on the 6th and 7th and on the 20th. Drive carefully and avoid confrontations.

March

Best Days Overall: 7, 8, 16, 17, 18, 26, 27

Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 9, 10, 24, 25, 30, 31

Best Days for Love: 3, 4, 8, 12, 13, 18, 24, 27, 30, 31

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 9, 10, 19, 20, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 7, 9, 10, 16, 17, 26

Health improved dramatically on February 18, and it improves even more in the month ahead. You still have two long-term planets in stressful alignment with you, but the short-term planets are now in harmonious aspect. You can enhance the health even further with foot massage and spiritual-healing techniques, until the 21st. After the 21st scalp and face massage will be powerful. It will also be beneficial to exercise more – according to your age and stage in life.

Though you are past your career peak, career is still going well. Pay rises (official or unofficial) are still likely. Mercury’s forward motion restores financial confidence and clarity. But other things are also happening financially. Mars, your spiritual planet, is moving into your money house on the 4th and will remain there for the rest of the month. In addition, your financial planet, Mercury, moves into spiritual Pisces on the 16th. This gives many messages. Your financial intuition is much stronger than usual. You will be more generous and philanthropic this month. You will explore the spiritual dimensions of wealth in some depth and will experience ‘miracle money’ – money that comes to you in ways you never imagined or expected. Financial information will come to you in spiritual ways, through dreams, psychics, tarot readers, astrologers and spiritual channels. You will find that the Divine is very interested in your prosperity.

The month ahead is very social, not so much romantically (although this is good too) but it will be more about friendships, groups and group activities. You will find that this kind of involvement is not only fun but profitable – in a bottom-line kind of way. The period from the 9th to the 11th will be a good time to build teamwork in the family. In general, you’re attracting spiritual-type friends and they seem important in your growth.

On the 20th the Sun moves into your spiritual 12th house. Venus, the ruler of your Horoscope, moves in there the next day, on the 21st. You enter a deeply spiritual period now. You are closer to the invisible world, and its denizens are letting you know that they are around. The dream life will be more active. There will be increased ESP and synchronistic experiences. Your spiritual studies and spiritual practice will go better.

Because the Sun is your home and family planet, the message of the Horoscope is that your spiritual understanding and growth will help you understand your family issues. Get yourself right spiritually and the family situation will take care of itself.

April

Best Days Overall: 3, 4, 13, 14, 23, 24

Most Stressful Days Overall: 6, 7, 20, 21, 27, 28

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 4, 11, 12, 14, 23, 24, 27, 28

Best Days for Money: 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 23, 26

Best Days for Career: 3, 4, 6, 7, 13, 14, 23, 24

The planetary momentum is still overwhelmingly forward this month. Until the 27th all the planets are moving forward, and even after that date the figure is 90 per cent forward – which is still very high. Events in your life and in the world move swiftly. There is fast progress towards your goals. For those of you born early in the sign of Taurus (April 21 to April 26) this is a great period to launch new products or ventures. The planets are moving forward and you have waxing (growing) cosmic and personal solar cycles. Even Pluto’s retrograde on the 27th will not detract too much from the favourability. Your projects will have more ‘oomph’ – more cosmic support – behind them.

The Eastern sector of your chart – the sector of the Self – is ultra powerful this month. At least 80 per cent (and sometimes 90 per cent) of the planets are in the East. This was the case last month too, but now, the short-term planets are moving into their maximum Eastern position. You are in a period of maximum independence. Thus, it is easier to have things your way now. You know what’s best for you. This is the time to go for it. Make the changes that need to be made. Your happiness is up to you. You can make changes later on in the year, of course, but it will be more difficult and the outcomes less successful. Others might disagree with your plans but go for them anyway. They will come round to your point of view eventually.

You’re still in a very strong spiritual period (until the 20th). So, cultivate solitude – a great gift – and focus on your spiritual practice and studies. The new Moon of the 12th will clarify your spiritual conundrums in normal and natural ways as the month progresses. The information you need will just come.

On the 20th the Sun enters your 1st house and you begin one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks. Family members seem more devoted to you and are going out of their way for you. There will be financial windfalls and happy opportunities from the 19th onwards, as your financial planet enters your sign. You look good. You have star quality. The opposite sex takes notice.

Love also seems happy this month. The only issue is the retrograde of your love planet Pluto on the 27th. This will not stop love from happening – singles will still date and meet people – but it slows things down. Your love planet will be retrograde for many months, so go slow in affairs of the heart. There’s no rush. Let love develop as it will.

May

Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 10, 11, 20, 21, 28, 29

Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 18, 19, 24, 25, 30, 31

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29

Best Days for Money: 2, 4, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 20, 21, 28, 29, 30, 31

Jupiter’s move into Pisces on the 14th – a brief flirtation – brings spiritual friends into picture; these are significant ones. The sexual life too is being elevated, refined and spiritualized. This will be a good period in which to study the spiritual side of sex through disciplines such as Tantra, Kundalini yoga and hermetic science.

Jupiter’s move also improves your health and energy: Jupiter moves out of a stressful alignment into a harmonious one. Health is basically good this month. You have energy, you look good and dress fashionably. You can enhance the health further through neck and throat massage until the 9th and after then through arm and shoulder massage.

A lunar eclipse on the 26th occurs in your 8th house. Reduce your schedule over this period; this eclipse can bring encounters with death (generally on the psychological level) and near-death (close calls) kinds of experiences. These should be considered as love messages from the Cosmos. Life is short. It can end at any time. Start doing what you were born to do. This eclipse forces important financial changes for the spouse, partner or current love. Their financial strategy and thinking need to change. Every lunar eclipse affects the siblings or sibling figures in your life and this one is no different. They need to redefine themselves: how they think of themselves and how they want others to think of them. In the coming months they will be presenting a new image to the world. If they have been careless in dietary matters, the eclipse can bring a detox of the body. (This is not sickness, though the symptoms can be similar.) Cars and communication equipment can be temperamental and often repairs or replacements are needed. It will be a good idea to drive more carefully around the time of the eclipse too. Students below college level have dramas at school and change their educational plans. Sometimes they change schools. Parents or parent figures are making important spiritual changes.

You’re still in the midst of a yearly personal pleasure peak until the 21st. So, it is good to enjoy all the pleasures of the body and to get the body into the shape you want. On the 21st (and you will probably feel this even earlier) you begin a yearly financial peak – so the month ahead is prosperous too.

Basically, this is a happy month, Taurus, with some eclipse challenges thrown in just to keep you on your toes and keep things interesting!

June

Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 8, 16, 17, 24

Most Stressful Days Overall: 14, 15, 20, 21, 26, 27

Best Days for Love: 8, 11, 12, 17, 20, 21, 24

Best Days for Money: 1, 9, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27

Best Days for Career: 6, 7, 16, 17, 24, 26, 27

You’re still in the midst of yearly financial peak until the 21st, so the focus is on finances – as it should be. There is prosperity, but it is complicated these days. First of all, your financial planet Mercury is retrograde until the 21st. This doesn’t stop the prosperity but it does slow it down a bit. In addition, there is a solar eclipse on the 10th that occurs in your money house. This forces important financial changes. Your plans, strategies and thinking haven’t been realistic – the events of the eclipse will show you why – and a course correction is in order. Not a good period to be speculating. Children and children figures are also affected by this eclipse, so make sure they reduce their schedules and avoid stressful kinds of activities. Like you, a parent or parent figure also needs to make important financial changes – and for the same reasons. The thinking and planning haven’t been realistic. All of you should be more careful driving, especially siblings and sibling figures. If they are students, there are changes happening in their educational plans.

Finances become clearer after the 21st when the dust settles from the eclipse and your financial planet starts moving forward again.

Career is going to be important all year, but now that most of the planets are below the horizon – in the bottom half – of your chart, the focus should be more on home and family and your emotional wellness. Shift some attention from the career to the home. Mars moves into your 4th house on the 12th, so this is a good time for repairs and/or renovations.

Health is good all month but after the 12th, as Mars moves into a stressful alignment with you, it needs some more attention paid to it. Enhance the health through right diet and abdominal massage until the 27th. After the 27th chest massage and massage of the heart reflex will be beneficial.

With regards to romance, relax and just allow love to happen. This is not a marriage kind of month, or even year. You’re an interesting and exciting kind of person these days, and people enjoy being around you: you’re a breath of fresh air to others. But your love planet is still retrograde and there’s no rush to commitment.

July

Best Days Overall: 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 23, 24, 31

Most Stressful Days Overall: 11, 12, 18, 19, 24, 25

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 5, 12, 14, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31

Best Days for Money: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 20, 21, 26, 31

Best Days for Career: 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31

Planetary retrograde activity increased last month, and it increases even further in the month ahead: 40 per cent of the planets are retrograde this month. Things are slowing in the world. Objectives take more time to achieve. Retrograde activity can be annoying – frustrating – but it has its uses. We are forced to slow down, to take stock, to review our goals and see where improvements can be made. It is a time for attaining mental clarity in many areas of life. Then, when the planets start moving forward again in a few months, you are ready to move forward along with them.

Retrogrades are frustrating, but you, more than most, handle them well. You are patient by nature. And though we have a lot of retrograde activity we are not yet at the maximum for the year – this will happen in September.

Career is still important these days. Jupiter is moving back into your 10th house of career at the end of the month. But this month the power is in your 4th house of home and family: 40 per cent, sometimes 50 per cent of the planets move through there this July. Your challenge will be to balance a successful career (and there are strong work demands on you) with a happy and harmonious domestic life. You tend to swing from one to the other, but you can afford to give more focus to the home and family at this time.

This is still a good month for doing renovations, repairs and redecorating the home. It is a good month for making psychological progress. Those of you undergoing formal therapy will gain new insights, but this will happen even if you’re not involved in formal therapy. The past will come to mind spontaneously. Old memories – old traumas – will resurface so that you can look at them from your present state of consciousness. Things that were traumatic to a six-year-old merely bring smiles at your present stage. Opinions or judgements you made under stress get revised in the present. You don’t change history; you only reinterpret it, and that brings healing.

The month ahead is prosperous. Mercury moves speedily through three signs and houses of your chart. This indicates confidence and someone who covers a lot of ground. Earnings require more effort from the 12th to the 28th but they come.

August

Best Days Overall: 1, 10, 11, 18, 19, 27, 28

Most Stressful Days Overall: 7, 8, 14, 15, 20, 21

Best Days for Love: 1, 11, 14, 15, 19, 20, 28, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 13, 18, 19, 21, 28, 29, 30, 31

Best Days for Career: 1, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28

The focus on home and family is still strong until the 23rd. Review our discussion of this last month. On the 23rd the Sun moves into your 5th house and you begin another one of your personal pleasure peaks. This personal pleasure peak is a bit different to the one you had in April and May. There it was more about physical kinds of pleasures. This month it is more about leisure and creative kinds of pleasures. It is vacation time. Even if you are still working and not officially on vacation, there are more fun and leisure activities happening.

Though retrograde activity increases even more than last month – half the planets are moving backwards from the 20th onwards – finances don’t seem affected. Mercury, your money planet, is still moving at a fast clip. Like last month he moves through three signs and houses, showing that money and financial opportunity happen in different ways and through different people and situations. Until the 12th money comes through the family and family connections. You spend more on the home and family as well. From the 12th to the 30th it comes in fun kinds of ways, as you’re enjoying yourself or involved in leisure activities. You spend on fun things as well. It is a period of happy money and speculations are more favourable as well. On the 30th and 31st it comes through work and through social connections. There will be a brief pause in the financial life as Mercury has his solstice from the 28th to the 30th. He pauses in the heavens (in latitude) and then changes direction. This is what happens financially too – a pause and then a change of direction.

The family as a whole – and especially a parent or parent figure – prospers this month. Very happy career opportunities are coming from the 12th onwards. Love too seems happy from the 12th onwards. Love is complicated, however, as Pluto, your love planet, is still retrograde. There is still a need to seek mental and emotional clarity in love. Singles have options between love affairs – fun kinds of love – or serious committed love. But again, there is no need to rush into anything.

Venus, the ruler of your Horoscope, will also have her solstice this month, from the 16th to the 19th. She pauses in the heavens and then changes direction (in latitude). So, there is a pause in your affairs and then a change of direction. This is a good pause – a pause that refreshes.

September

Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 14, 15, 24, 25

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

Best Days for Love: 7, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 25, 29, 30

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

Best Days for Career: 6, 7, 14, 15, 17, 18, 24, 25

The Western, social sector of your chart began to become more powerful in July and is approaching its maximum strength this month. It will never be dominant, as most of the long-term planets are in the East, but it is stronger than usual. Thus, you are in a more social kind of period. Although you are trying to be there for others, you never quite manage to put them ahead of yourself. However, you are working to balance your interests with those of others.

Retrograde activity will hit its peak for the year on the 27th, when 60 per cent of the planets will be moving backwards. This will challenge the lives of babies born during this period. They will be late bloomers and parents should understand this. They have much internal development that needs to take place.

A Mercury retrograde that occurs when many other planets are also retrograde is much stronger than if it happens alone. So, be careful with your communications. Take the time to understand what others are really saying and make sure your message gets across properly. And, since Mercury is your financial planet, be especially diligent in your finances. If you need to make major purchases, investments or decisions, do so before the 27th. Often in life, doing nothing is better than leaping into action without full understanding.

Your 5th house of fun is still strong until the 22nd. This makes it a good time to take a vacation. Nothing much is happening in the world and you may as well have some fun.

Your 6th house of health and work is very powerful this month, with up to half the planets moving through there. This is a wonderful transit for job seekers – though you’ll need to be very clear on the details. What you see is not what you get. The same holds true if you’re hiring people. There are plenty of applicants but more research – more vetting – is necessary.

This is a good month to do all those boring, detail-oriented jobs that you keep putting off. You are more in the mood for these things and they should go well.

The 5th and 6th and the 19th and 20th are good financial days – though things could happen with a delayed reaction.

October

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 8, 9, 14, 15, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Love: 4, 8, 9, 10, 13, 18, 19, 22, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 23, 24, 25

Best Days for Career: 3, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22, 31

We have a study in extremes this month. October begins with 60 per cent of the planets retrograde, the maximum for the year. It will end with only 20 per cent of them retrograde – a drastic reduction. So, by the end of the month stuck projects start to ‘unstick’, they start moving forward. From here on retrograde activity will gradually lessen even more.

Health needs more attention from the 22nd onwards. As always, make sure to get enough rest. Do your best to maintain high energy levels. Enhance the health with detox regimes and through massage of the colon and bladder reflexes until the 7th. (You can locate these reflexes in the chart shown in the yearly report.) Safe sex and sexual moderation are important. After the 7th thigh massage and massage of the liver reflex will be good. A herbal liver cleanse might also be beneficial.

Your love planet Pluto starts to move forward on the 6th after many months of retrograde motion. So, there is more clarity in love. A current relationship will start to move forward – little by little. Still, singles are better off enjoying unserious love affairs rather than committed relationships. You’re in a very strong social period – a yearly peak – from the 22nd onwards, but marriage is not advisable. Enjoy the social activity for what it is; it can be fun in its own right, regardless of where it leads.

The spouse, partner or current love is having a good month. He or she looks good and seems successful. You seem very involved in his or her finances.

Your financial planet Mercury is still retrograde until the 18th, so avoid major purchases or investments until after that date. Money seems to come the old-fashioned way this month, through hard work and productive service to others. Joint ventures or partnership opportunities can also arise. Your social grace, and social contacts in general, are important in your finances.

On the 22nd the upper half, the day side, of your Horoscope becomes dominant. It is time to focus more on your career and outer activities. Even the family will be supportive here. You can let home and family issues go for a while.

Though Uranus, your career planet, is still retrograde, the other planets involved with it are moving forward this month. This means that much of what was blocking your career progress is ending.

November

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

Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 10, 11, 25, 26

Best Days for Love: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 17, 18, 27, 28

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

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

A lunar eclipse on the 19th seems likely to affect you strongly, so take it nice and easy that period. Sensitive people will often feel the oncoming eclipse as early as two weeks before it actually happens. But the Cosmos will send its message to you in its own way, in a way that you’ll understand. Some weird freakish thing happens. It will alert you that you are in the eclipse period and it is time to take it easy.

This eclipse is strong for many reasons. First, it occurs in your own sign. Secondly, it impacts on Venus, the ruler of your Horoscope (a very important planet). Thirdly, it also affects Jupiter, the ruler of your 8th house, so it forces you to redefine yourself. It is best if you do this for yourself, otherwise others will define you and that won’t be so pleasant. This redefinition will lead to a new presentation to the world in the coming months. You will do your hair differently, dress differently, accessorize differently. You will create a new and upgraded image of yourself. If you’ve been careless in dietary matters, this kind of eclipse can bring a detox of the body. Since Jupiter is affected, there can be encounters with death (generally on the psychological level rather than physically). Surgery can be recommended, or perhaps you have some near-death experience – or perhaps someone close to you has such an experience or close call. There can be a health scare or job changes or dramas at the workplace. Children or children figures in your life have to make dramatic financial changes. Parents or parent figures need to drive more carefully. The spouse, partner or current love also has to make important financial changes, and he or she can have dramas with friends.

Health still needs watching until the 22nd. So, as mentioned last month, be sure to get enough rest. Enhance the health through thigh massage and massage of the liver reflex until the 5th. After the 5th back and knee massage is potent. Health and energy will improve dramatically after the 22nd.

You are still in a yearly love and social peak this month. Marriage is not likely but there is more dating and social activity. On the 22nd, as the Sun enters your 8th house, the spouse, partner or current love has a banner financial period.

Your finances are good on the 1st (as Mercury makes good aspects with Jupiter) and the 27th and 28th (Mercury and the Sun travel together). Be careful of overspending on the 19th and 20th, however. A very happy career opportunity presents itself on the 18th and 19th.

December

Best Days Overall: 5, 6, 14, 15, 16, 24, 25

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 7, 8, 22, 23, 29, 30

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 5, 6, 14, 15, 16, 24, 25, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 4, 8, 9, 13, 14, 17, 18, 24, 25, 28

Best Days for Career: 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 24, 25

Venus, the ruler of your Horoscope, has been ‘out of bounds’ since October 11, and remains this way until the 7th. For the past few months you’ve been moving outside your normal circles, especially in health and work matters. It could be that work responsibilities pulled you out of your comfort zone, or it could be that a job search did this. Perhaps health goals did it. However, by the 7th you will be back in your normal sphere. (Perhaps your sphere has expanded, and this is now your ‘new normal’.)

Health and energy are good this month. When the Sun enters Capricorn on the 21st they will get even better, and when Jupiter leaves Aquarius on the 30th health becomes better still. If you want to enhance it further, back and knee massage is still potent. An occasional visit to the chiropractor or osteopath might also be good.

Love seems happy this month. For singles there is a romance happening. Venus, the generic planet of love, makes a station – she camps out – right on your love planet Pluto. So something is happening here. The only issue is the stability of it. Remember, Uranus is in your sign for the long term.

The solar eclipse of the 4th affects your finances but is otherwise benign for you. It occurs in your 8th house and so the finances of the spouse, partner or current love are also disrupted, and changes have to be made. There can be dramas with taxes, inheritances, or insurance claims. There can be (psychological) encounters with death. Perhaps surgery is recommended (it doesn’t mean that you have to undergo such treatment). Perhaps there are near-death experiences or close calls with you or people close to you. These encounters are love messages from above. Reminders. Life is short. Get down to the work that you came here to do. Children and children figures in your life also seem affected. They should reduce their schedules and avoid stressful activities at this time. There can be dramas at home and with family members too. If there are hidden flaws in the home now is the time you find out about them, so that they can be corrected.

Jupiter’s move into your 11th house on the 30th – and this time it’s for the long haul – brings new and significant friends into the picture. You get new, good quality, high-tech equipment and gadgets. Your understanding of science, astronomy and astrology will increase. (This will go on for the coming year as well.) Many people have their personal Horoscopes done under this kind of transit.

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