For Geminians, 2016 is an important year for home and family.

Jupiter's transit through Gemini's 4th house, backed up by Mercury retrograde, ruler of Geminians, in the same house, focuses a big amount of energy toward home and properties during the first 9 months of 2016.

Usually, a transit like this ends in buying, building, extending or modernizing living spaces, moving into a bigger home or at least acquiring some long-term-use goods that enhance the esthetics, comfort or value of the home.

In some cases, similar events could target other properties such as the yard, garden, land, maybe business headquarters, commercial spaces, workshops. You might redecorate, build an annex or invest into an orchard, farming land, and so on.

The benefic aspect made by Jupiter with Pluto, that is in one of Gemini's financial houses, proves an investment is valuable and profitable. But you should expect various difficulties, delays and hassles, because Jupiter also receives unfavorable aspects from Neptune and Saturn.

The first 9 months of 2016 could also prove difficult for couples, friendships, associations and collaborations. Situated in Gemini's house of partnerships, Saturn makes you demand more from those around, or encounter a lack of cooperation, benevolence or flexibility from them. You need a lot of patience and diplomacy to avoid confrontations and even breakups, especially during the March-May term and in August 2016, when in Gemini's house of partnerships will be temperamental and conflict-monger Mars.

Geminians' career goes through a rough patch as well until fall. The relational and professional climate improves considerably beginning with September 2016, when Jupiter steps into a luckier zone and makes a friendly aspect with Saturn, situated in Gemini's house of couple and collaborations.

But 2016 is interesting in regard to collective, organizational activities or those gathering larger groups of people with common objectives.
Gemini 2016
Love and Relationships Forecasts

Sentimentally, 2016 isn't the most exuberant year for Geminians.

With Saturn in Gemini's house of relationships, your love or marriage might be tested. Your couple could encounter objective difficulties (related to career, home, properties or parents), your partner could seem cold, lacking understanding or be confronted with professional or health issues.

If you're in a smothering relationship or in one where commitments aren't upheld, it could fall apart. Actually, Saturn tests the strength of the connection and wants you to better understand what you expect out of a relationship, what you desire from those around, what your partner would desire from you and what you could offer. And it wants you to build bridges between souls in a responsible way, with patience and maturity. Sometimes, Saturn could force you to make choices, and those decisions, even if theoretically correct, could be accompanied by frustration or regrets.

As if Saturn's transit wasn't enough, Gemini's house of couple is beset by Mars' transits that, in retrograde cycle during January-September 2016, comes and goes between Scorpio and Sagittarius. Mars is hot and full of initiative, but rash, aggressive, and prone to conflict.

The worst moments for Geminians' love life are between March-May and August.

In September 2016 things start to turn for the better. Venus arrives into Gemini's house of love, which it enters on the 9th and Jupiter, the Greater Benefic, is determined to stay in this cozy (and lucky!) spot until October 2017. The event is all the happier since Jupiter is the ruler of Gemini's house of relationships, and from this new position it will be cooperative and benevolent with Saturn. The configuration contributes to the harmony and consolidation of connections.

So, with Jupiter in Gemini's house of love, there's a sexuality reorganization and a more intense experiencing of pleasure in sight. You're more relaxed and surer of yourself in matters of the heart, and if you're single, a new love could appear at any point. And loves that appear during the last months of the year begin under auspicious circumstances.

One more thing: fertility is rising, a relevant thing if you want kids. If you have them already, Jupiter gives you reason to be happy or proud as a parent.