Pluto, situated in Taurus' house of voyages and abstract thinking for a long while, receives help from Jupiter in the first 8 months of 2016.

The Pluto-Jupiter trine sharpens your sense of exploring and prompts travel to far-away destinations, full of significations and mystery. It also prompts digging deeper into the garden of superior knowledge, where study, culture, and spirituality bear fruit.

Passion and creativity bring benefits in both cases, and love could either be the agent setting you in motion, or the result of your actions in these areas. In other words, you could travel, study, or develop spiritually due to love, or meet love somewhere far away during activities that have to do with the before mentioned areas.

Taureans' professional life could be frustrating here and there, uncertain or difficult until September 2016, but finds its way to blossoming during the last months of the year.

Even though Taureans have remarkable intuition or ingenious ideas that could bring good money, finances could be a source of unrest, worry or dissatisfaction during the first three trimesters of 2016, particularly when complications have to do with a partnership.

By large, Taureans' relationships aren't going through their best term, no matter if it concerns the couple, associations, collaborations or friendships. Chances are older issues will surface again. You could find out things that will bother or disappoint. You might make wrong judgment calls, go through unclear, hard to define situations.

Taureans' health is within normal limits in 2016, and there's even a surplus of energy in sight. If you're not doing so already, this would be a great time to take up a sport or any other kind of activity (aerobic, jogging, dancing, and so on) to burn the excess physical energy and keep in shape.

October-December 2016 are favorable for taking firm action regarding your lifestyle.

Jupiter, the Greater Benefic, is in Taurus' house of love beginning with August 2015 and stays there until September 2016.

Usually, when Jupiter transits one's house of love, people become more romantic and more sensual, more predisposed toward falling in love. Sexual instincts amplify, interest in adventure grows, erotic feelings are more intense. And things seem to arrange themselves so opportunities to enter a relationship are more frequent, more tempting.

So in 2016 Taureans are very likely to go through a special love-related experience. Because Jupiter is in trine with Pluto in Taurus' 9th house, it's most likely an intense experience, impacting your way of thinking, offering you a new perspective on the world, and changing your term of comparison. The one stealing your heart could be from afar or from a different cultural/spiritual environment than yours.

Despite the strong emotions that it generates and the transforming influence it exercises over you, this stage of your life is not necessarily long-lasting or happy. That's because Jupiter forms a square with Saturn, which means there are hard to face obstacles, and an opposition with Neptune, meaning the situation could be complicated, deceiving, or the object of your affection could be idealized. There's risk of frustration or later disillusion.

Also, Mars, in retrograde cycle, is in Taurus' house of love for more than two months (July 30 - October 7 2016), during which it's retrograde for 3 weeks (August 30 - September 22), muddying the waters all the more.

On top of that, Mars, also in retrograde cycle, goes through Taurus' house of couple in direct motion in January-February 2016, retrograde in June, and again direct motion in July. Mars is very tempestuous, intense, and active, but often brings turbulence and conflict.

So 2016 is a very dynamic year for Taureans in terms of relationships, intense and full of passion, but that comes with a pretty big risk factor.

Careful who you spend time with, and steer clear of confusing situations, with potential for conflict or even violence!