2016 Libra Horoscope Preview

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

2016 Libra Horoscope Overview

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

2016 Horoscope Previews

Areas of Expansion in 2016 for Libra: Spirituality, Charity, Private Life, Personality, Body Image

Your Libra 2016 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Until September 9, 2016, your spiritual world, compassion, private life, and tolerance continue to expand and grow. Matters from the past are magnified in your life now. You tend to sort through the attitudes that serve you well, and the behaviors that need to go in order for you to grow and improve – a cycle that began in August 2015.

This is generally a warm, protective cycle, although with Jupiter in the background in your chart, there may be some sense that you are not truly living or experiencing your life to the fullest, or that your joy in life is not as obvious to others. With the ruler of your communications sector in the sector of your chart that rules private matters, anonymity, healing, and endings, you could be keeping a lot of your thoughts, personal interests, or projects to yourself during this cycle. For some of you, there can be work on a project in relative solitude or privacy. Your close personal relationships tend to be private and possibly involve some sacrifices.

Potential negatives: Escapism. You might often be tempted to escape your everyday responsibilities and challenges, and should avoid reliance on drugs, drinking, or other “glamorous” forms of escape.

Jupiter’s influence is generally considered positive, and it is, ultimately. However, it acts to magnify the area of the chart that it affects, and at times it can be uncomfortable if you are having difficulties in this area. In your case, if you are lonely or if you feel helpless, and if you have troubles facing your past, then this influence can heighten these issues. Ultimately, it’s for the good. The cosmos asks you now to surrender some of your attachments, and to surrender to the unknown. Releasing control is necessary. Building your faith is the work you are doing now. While your tendency is to play a supportive role to others, if taken too far, you will need to draw some boundaries when it comes to your energy and time. In mid-February to March, late May, and mid-August in particular, there can be some strains on health, a feeling of overload with daily affairs or communications, and possible pressures in a partnership. Difficulties keeping up with daily schedules, which can be (or seem) demanding at these times, can be an issue. You might feel that you’re not being adequately “heard” or that your feelings are being ignored.

There is stronger joy in being of service to others, but do be careful that you take care of yourself as well.

However, for the most part, you are likely to feel emotionally secure and supported during this cycle. Your perceptions heighten. Your ability to make sacrifices for others increases, and you might build your confidence in yourself as you help and support others. Until June is an especially strong period for strengthening ties with family as well as getting into better touch with your inner world and deeper feelings. This is also a good period for material renovations, as well as financial strategy and improvement.

From September 9th onward, Jupiter is in your sign! This approximately one-year transit comes only every twelve years and serves to bring you out of your shell. You’re ready to take on the world. This is a time for exploring your needs and pursuing your dreams. Your personality, image, body image, and confidence in yourself expand to new levels with Jupiter in your sign until October 2017. You are seeing whole new possibilities, and your vision of life is panoramic.

If you’ve done your inner “work” well while Jupiter was transiting your solar twelfth house from August 2015 to September 2016, this can be an especially rewarding period. Your confidence in yourself and faith in the world are growing exponentially. Freedom is something you seek, but be wary of the costs of freedom when it’s pursued without necessary attention to responsibilities.

You are more willing to enjoy new experiences and to rid yourself of those things that have been holding you back from truly living and owning your life.

There can be new projects begun now that have long-term potential. You may not yet know where you’re headed with them, but you’re certainly enthusiastic about beginning anew.

Expanding your horizons through higher learning or travel might also figure strongly. This is a time for aligning your behavior with what you believe is right. You are taking more “me” time, which is in fact long overdue.

This is also a strong time for communications, connections, and learning. Jupiter is the natural ruler of your communications sector in your solar chart – a sector that also rules your neighborhood, transportation, schools, and siblings. This comes at the same time as a Saturn transit to this sector, so that there may be some restrictions or buckling down involved with these areas of life as well. There is generally good energy for bringing more structure and simplicity to the ways you connect with others, learn new things, and get around town. This influence can help you to actualize certain dreams.

You are seeking out a new beginning – a fresh start, of sorts – and your desire to do right is especially strong. Work or projects that you have been working on in private or behind the scenes may now begin to pay off. There is less focus on serving and helping others now, perhaps because this is no longer as necessary (for example, a child can go off to college, or even the end of a relationship that took up a lot of your energy and resources, from which you are now enjoying some level of freedom), and now you can put some of your personal interests on the front burner.

You won’t feel like sitting around during this period of your life. You are hungry for new experiences. Everyday stresses that may have frustrated you in the past now seem almost inconsequential, as your vision is lifted above the mundane. As such, your ability to manage stress and pressure increases. You are more tolerant in your attitude towards others, and you’re considerably more confident about expressing the playful, creative, and fun side to your personality.

Late September and the first half of October is strong for a more empowered feeling in general and good relations, particularly with friends. November can bring creative work to the table.

Potential negatives: Weight gain, pompous behavior, restlessness, over-confidence, wastefulness, and excesses in general. See to it that these things don’t ruin an otherwise excellent period. As well, in your desire to start over, watch that you don’t blind yourself to responsibilities.

There might also be times, especially in late November and late December, when others may feel threatened by your newfound displays of freedom and independence, when your personal desires conflict with home and family matters, or when you have troubles with self-discipline, budgets, and limits.

Otherwise, this can be a time of opportunity. You might choose to pursue a new channel for self-expression or mental interest with great passion. There can be a strong sense of release and freedom from previously limiting, rigid, or stifling conditions. This can be an especially communicative time when you’re more engaged than usual.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity: Communications, Daily Life

Your Libra 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 governs communications, learning, and local transportation. 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 on December 23rd, 2014, left in the summer of 2015, and will be with you until December, 2017. 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 Libra. This year, those born October 3-14 and with Ascendants of 10-21 degrees of Libra are most directly affected.

Challenges can come to your communications. You may feel pressure to produce ideas, and to make them work in the “real world”. A certain somberness in your outlook may be characteristic of this phase, as it could be a time of worry. It may seem like acquaintances and sometimes siblings are blocking your growth in some manner, and these relationships may be strained as a result. Although you have a desire to make contacts, you are now rather preoccupied with learning or other mental projects, and you may view idle chit-chat as a waste of time. You may feel an unusual pressure to structure your time and effort, and to cut out communications that seem unnecessary. You may at times feel rather overwhelmed by such things as errands, red tape, and other such day-to-day “disruptions”. By the end of the transit, however, you will have ideally gained a greater depth of understanding, having focused on information and communication that you really can use to feel more effective in the world.

There is a great need now to structure your life by way of schedules, managing daily details and your time more effectively. There can be some problems with local transportation — getting from point A to point B. There can be some restlessness or an urge to get out and about, but you might feel weighed down by your daily responsibilities.

This can also be a time when communications with family become especially important and critical. There can be issues with mobility and transportation during this transit, and mechanical breakdowns can present challenges. From September 9th forward while Jupiter is in your sign, the more pleasant side of this transit is likely to be experienced more fully. In late March, late May, mid-June, and then in September, the challenges of this position are more likely to be felt. You may be dealing with some inner reticence about your skills or abilities to produce, or additional responsibilities to serving or helping out others, and these can interfere with the responsibilities of studying or maintaining a schedule. Health matters or uncertainty with work can present some challenges.

However, this is also a time of increased practicality and esteem. You are more reliable than usual. You procrastinate less. Teaching can be in strong focus. There can be a partnership that helps advance your work or projects from December forward. There can be a greater love of the less glamorous aspects of your work, studies, and projects, and you are capable of tremendous effort to further your goals. There may also be more balance of innovation and steadiness in a partnership.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed: partnerships

Your 2016 Libra 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 cycle in which partnerships and relationships with others may be unpredictable and unusual, but also inspiring and exciting. This influence is with you throughout 2016 and beyond, until March 2019. You are more attracted to people who are free-spirited, individualistic, and possibly even eccentric or unstable as close partners; or you attract these types of people into your experience without necessarily wanting to!

You are learning about giving freedom to others, and this isn’t always easy, particularly in especially in March and August, when insecurities can surface. In December, there can be difficulties as you are more strongly seeking out your own freedom with Jupiter in your sign encouraging you to explore new horizons.

As a Libra, learning to detach yourself from some of the too-dependent elements of partnering can be a difficult thing, but if you learn that you can in fact subsist independently, you are more able to relate to others on a healthy level, more able to choose what and who is right for you in a relationship, and less likely to allow others to take advantage of your obliging nature.

In April and May, very strong energy is with you for doing all of this, however, and you could be treated to a very friendly, progressive period. This is a time for exploring, taking healthy risks on a social level, and letting go of pre-conceived ideas of what friendships and relationships “should” be. From December forward, you might find it easier to agree to disagree.

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation: Family, Inner Foundations, Home Life, Personality, Partnership, Inner World, Spirituality, Friendship

Your 2016 Libra 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 home and family continue to transform this year. There can be a retreat into yourself during this cycle as you explore, on a very deep level, your roots, childhood conditioning, and feelings of personal security. Until June there can be especially rewarding change and development in your home life, as you are particularly wise about what needs to go and what needs to stay. Building your “nest” comes into strong, positive focus. A more challenging period is possible in November, when personal needs and plans seem to conflict with the changes you’re engaged in on the inside, and with home or family life.

In 2016, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to affect your sectors of independence and partnership, but only until March. The Lunar Eclipse in March provides a final push towards sorting out a close relationship and your own needs from partnership.

As well, your sectors of spirituality, work, and health are in focus. Watch for bad habits that affect your health. Recognizing your personal limitations in terms of just how much you can give to others and just how much compassion and understanding you can show is essential now. You are also learning to rid yourself of guilt about under-performing, and to develop faith and trust in a larger more spiritual plan. It’s time to let go of some of your fears that you are not doing enough, to develop more compassion and understanding of others, and to be humble, feeling safe in the knowledge that you (and others) are not perfect. The North Node in your sector of endings, spirituality, and privacy all year points to a real need to connect to your inner world, as well as to help and support others, as these things can bring wonderful benefits and much joy to your life, particularly around the eclipses in March and September.

A Lunar Eclipse in mid-August introduces a new theme involving friendship and romance. This is a time for exploring your need to connect with a cause, group, or your community.

Your Planetary Ruler in 2016: Venus is your planetary ruler. Venus forms a freeing trine to your sign from February 16th to March 12th, and this is an especially warm and expressive period for you. In mid-April, Venus in your partnership zone forms a trine to Mars and then Saturn in your communications sector, stimulating wonderful creativity and personal magnetism, as well as the practicality to bring form to your dreams and creations. The first week of June brings the fruition of a project or the blossoming of a relationship. More power to you when your ruler is in your sign, and this year, this period is from August 29th to September 23rd.

2016 Yearly Overview Horoscopes:

See also 2016 Summary Horoscopes for neat summaries of the year ahead for each sign and 2016 Love Guides/Horoscopes for Each Sign for forecasts in the areas of romance and relationships.

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