2016 Gemini Horoscope Preview

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Gemini Horoscopes, Year 2016: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Gemini, the Twins.

2016 Gemini Horoscope Overview

The following is an overview horoscope for the zodiac sign of Gemini for the year 2016.

2016 Horoscope Previews

Areas of Expansion in 2016 for Gemini: Home, Family, Attachments, New Beginnings in Business, Romance, Love, Play, Creativity, Hobbies, Children

Your Gemini 2016 Horoscope, Jupiter Profile, points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Until September 9, 2016, your inner world, family life, domestic activities, and domestic arrangements continue to expand and grow. Relations with family can be more pleasant and supportive during this warm cycle. You might move to a new home, likely a bigger one, or expand real estate holdings. Some of you can get a mortgage or support that allows you to expand your home base. Family itself can expand, or there might be an addition to your home. Some might take on a roommate for example, or bring more friends to their home. Others might pool resources with a partner and move in together. Entertaining in the home can be emphasized, if that is something that makes you happy. Otherwise, you can experience a stronger sense of peace and privacy in your home life.

Generally speaking, more positive energy is brought to your domestic world, and long-standing problems with family might be put to bed. Do be careful about overextending yourself with home improvements, or larger accommodations that are beyond your means. Your personal life tends to overshadow your professional life or material activities during this cycle. Relationships with family can improve significantly now, although pre-existing problems might be magnified initially just to get them out into the open for easier resolve.

On a more psychological level, confidence in yourself and feelings of security increase during this period. This influence has been with you since mid-August 2015.

Because the ruler of your partnership sector is now moving through your home and family sector, there can be a stronger desire for harmony with others and especially a partner in order for you to feel secure and at peace. You are looking for nurturing and comfort in a partner during this cycle. For some, this is a time of clearing the decks and starting over.

Potential negatives: Excessive money spent on home improvement, too much emphasis on the home to the point that other areas of your life suffer, or some unwillingness to expand your horizons.

Avoiding or escaping responsibilities is a stronger potential in mid-February to March, late May, and mid-August. Uncertainty in your career, lack of definition of your life plan, relationship challenges, an erratic social life, and lack of direction can be struggles and can impact your feelings of security and family life. However, until June, strong energy continues to be available for enjoying the more positive effects of this transit. For the most part, you are likely to feel emotionally secure and supported during this cycle that began in October 2015.

This is a time of nest-feathering. It’s a strong time for psychotherapy and purging as you are willing to look at the root of problems. It’s a good time for long-term financial planning and strengthening your financial picture through some form of pooling of resources. There can be more power and resources available to you to establish yourself, especially through home or property, but also for long-term business endeavors.

From September 9th onward, your focus turns to having a fun time, enjoying life, and expressing yourself in freeing, rewarding ways. Your romantic and creative worlds begin to expand and grow. You are learning to express yourself playfully and creatively without apology, and more willing to take some personal risks in order to do so.

Romantic opportunities tend to abound during this cycle; or chances to kick back and have fun, express yourself in unique ways, and pursue hobbies and entertainment are abundant. Creatively speaking, you can be filled with ideas and plans for realizing a dream.

This can be a fertile time on many levels, physically and emotionally.

While this position is associated with casual dating, because Jupiter rules your partnership sector, you could be seeking more playfulness in a committed relationship during this period.

This enhancing, supportive influence is with you until October 2017.

Potential negatives: Excessive emphasis on, or attention to, having fun to the detriment of other life departments. This is more likely to occur in late November and late December, when the appeal of gambling or taking other forms of risks can be strong. There may be problems with defining relationships in terms of their level of commitment during this period, and you may be wrestling with your own feelings about someone. Watch also for indiscriminately lending to friends during this period, as well as recreational escapism that goes too far.

However, for the most part, you are likely to feel supported and confident during this approximately year-long cycle. Stronger times for all of these matters occur from the last week of September to mid-October, when creative expression is strong, particularly related to writing, and when matters of the heart can be fortunate.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity: Partnerships

Your Gemini 2016 Horoscope, Saturn Profile, points to areas of contraction, restriction, and necessary “slimming down” in order to test for stable foundations. There are always areas of life that require more simplicity. Tests may be part of the picture as you learn that life with only growth and expansion can run away with itself.

In 2016, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your chart that rules close personal relationships, such as marriages and other committed partnerships, long-term associations, open enemies, negotiations, agreements, and contracts. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life, as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak foundations may very well crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.

This influence began December 23rd, 2014, and will be with you until December, 2017. (It took a short hiatus in the summer of 2015). It can be felt most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Gemini. This year, those born with a Gemini Ascendant of 10 to 21 degrees, and those born from May 31st to June 12th, are most directly affected.

For those of you who are in committed partnerships, there can be some strains on your bond this year. A partner might feel like a “heavy” in your life, and any feelings of restriction that you feel or have felt in this area of life may seem magnified in your mind now. A partner might also seem cautious, distant, critical, or defensive. You need to open your mind to the possibility that a partner is providing you with important life lessons – about traditions, simplifying your life, and responsibilities. While this might seem difficult now, you might later look back on this time of your life and think, “Oh yeah – now I see it”. So do not automatically discard what he/she has to say. Take your time on this one. If, however, a partner is challenging you to the point of breaking (and this is more likely to occur, if at all, towards the end of the year), then steps need to be taken to improve the situation.

For those of you who are not in committed relationships, it is quite unlikely that you’ll enter a new long-term partnership or commitment rashly. Some of you might begin one, but will do so quite cautiously and carefully. Some of you might be attracted to older or more mature and established people as partnership “material”.

Those of you who are single might nevertheless feel some angst or pressure. This lack in your life might suddenly seem magnified, like a gaping hole in your life. You might lose hope, temporarily, that you’ll ever find a strong, committed partnership. Feelings of loneliness may run deep this year, but the universe is sending you a message through this experience regardless. It is awakening you to a need. In time, you will find ways to satisfy this need.

Some of you could be making a commitment this year. A relationship can encounter some tests or complications, but if it’s strong, it will weather the storm and you could decide to take it to another level. If not, remember that relationships “lost” during a Saturn transit to your partnership sector generally are not good for you in the long run. Some of you could be making a commitment to someone whose background or culture is very different than your own.

This is a time when you may be seeing the less flattering side of others, and through your relationships, of yourself as well!

In late March and late May and then in June and September, the challenges of this position are more likely to be felt. Some of you could encounter a conflict between attention to partnership and attention to family and career. Some might fail to see eye to eye regarding long-term goals, finding it difficult to find mutual interests and goals. You may be facing a lifestyle change or upheaval as the result of a partnership. Strains on a relationship can occur as the result of your struggle with finding a life path or defining your career especially when Saturn squares Neptune, peaking in June and September.

With Saturn opposing your Sun this year, you might feel that you’re not often getting what you want. Others may be restricting you, or, at least, that’s how you might perceive things, and you may not be at your best in terms of overall energy. Some areas of your life may seem to be breaking down before they get better. There can also be bone and teeth problems – something that often happens with hard Saturn transits. Tidy and organize your life as much as possible in order to minimize the challenges.

Opposition from others can take many forms, but the lesson here is to strike a balance. There will be times when you long for a life with few restrictions and responsibilities. However, some responsibilities and restrictions are necessary. Seek ways to balance your life in terms of pleasures and responsibilities. Don’t turn your back on commitments and traditions entirely, and aim to learn and grow as much as possible from the challenges you face.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed: Friendships, Long-term Plans, Networking

Your 2016 Gemini Horoscope, Uranus Profile, points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you are able to take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.

In March 2011, you entered a lengthy period in which friendships and group associations may have been unpredictable and unusual, but also inspiring and exciting. This long-term influence continues throughout 2016 and beyond (until March 2019). You are more attracted to people who are free-spirited, individualistic, and possibly even eccentric. Your social life is bound to be very colorful this year and in coming years. You can feel especially passionate about a cause or belief.

Challenges in friendships may come in March and August, when unreliability or abrupt changes can pull you away from your emotional center. There can be difficulties balancing your social life and attention to family. You could be struggling with a need to take a few risks and strike out into the world, and a need for comfort and familiarity. Periods of liberation and opportunity are especially prominent in April and May, when excellent energy is with you for making new connections. Your perspective can change completely, in a very positive way, through a new or unusual friend or new information that comes your way.

As well, an influence that begins in December 2016 and extends well into 2017 brings greater opportunities to strike the right balance between tradition and innovation. Independence and stability are not mutually exclusive, and this influence proves it!

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation: Finances, Sharing, Intimacy, Home Life, Career, Friendship

Your 2016 Gemini Horoscope reveals areas of life in which change and transformation take place. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new”.

Attitudes towards dependencies on others, finances, and intimacy continue to transform this year. Until June is especially strong for these matters. You are more able to see the practical or long-term benefits of making important changes. Some of you could gain support through a partner or loans in order to push forward a work project or business, or a property/house deal. You might make important lifestyle changes now. In November, some confusion in a relationship, or about your feelings for someone, can emerge. This can also be a time when temptation to go overboard with risk-taking, spending, lending, or gambling is strong.

In 2016, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to affect your sectors of friendships, group associations, creativity, and romantic involvements, and these areas of life continue to evolve in important ways. However, this influence ends with the March Lunar Eclipse that acts as a final push towards managing your friendships and connections.

As well, you continue to be challenged to balance out your attention to personal and professional pursuits. Your career and family life demand attention and changes are required in order to strike a balance between the two. The North Node in your home and family sector all year points to a real need to get your domestic life into order, as this can bring wonderful benefits and much joy to your life, particularly around the eclipses in March (career, responsibility, and public life eclipse) and September (home and family eclipse).

In August, a new set of eclipses that affect your communications and transportation sectors begins, and you’ll be dealing with matters revolving around how you connect with others and get around.

Your Planetary Ruler in 2016: Your ruler, Mercury, moves through the zodiac fairly quickly, and reflects your many and varied interests. Mercury’s retrograde periods are times for reflection and perhaps some backtracking. In 2016, Mercury retrogrades four times, and these periods are from January 5-25, April 28-May 22, August 30-September 22, and December 19, 2016-January 8, 2017. For the most part of these retrograde cycles, Mercury is in Earth signs and your emotions/soul sectors, and these periods require reassessing issues of intimacy, family, and connection with your inner world. More power to you when Mercury is in your sign, and this year, this occurs from June 13-29.

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