Joseph Polansky - Your Personal Horoscope 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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