OSCAR CAINER

I LOVE the expression ‘your eyes were bigger than your stomach’. We’ve all been there! There’s a good chance many of us live with the consequences of over-indulging in chocolate or pudding. Why can’t we learn to stop before the dessert? I’m still waiting for the answer. So how about a cosmic explanation? Last weekend, Mars and Jupiter combined in Scorpio for the first time since 1982. Without biting off more than we can chew, life is presenting an all-you-can-eat buffet of opportunity. Tuck in!

ARIES

YOU’RE not going to please people if you get over-excited and noisy in a library, but if you’re in the crowd watching a concert or a match, your vocal enthusiasm goes down a treat. Through a process of trial and error, we learn how to act appropriately. You might have a feeling that you’re acting unsuitably, but in the energy of your ruler’s link to the planet of luck, you can discover more about the situation you find yourself caught in. If you feel good about how you’re responding, chances are that you’re right. Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.

TAURUS

IT’S easy to blame other people when life throws problems our way, but it’s worth thinking about whether we make it easy for people to make it easy for us. Now, without putting your head in a philosophical spin, following the Mars and Jupiter conjunction opposite your sign (the first for 36 years), a unique opportunity has arisen. Someone wants to make your life more pleasurable, exciting, decadent and meaningful. If you decide to let them — it doesn’t make you easy! You’re in control of the situation. Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.

GEMINI

YOUR ability to adapt is legendary. No matter how caught up or trapped you feel or how entrenched you are in your ways, there comes a time to begin to consider your options and start to create an escape plan. Mars has formed a conjunction with Jupiter, just after your ruler aligned with freedom-loving Uranus. The opportunity now facing you is so exciting, it’s a little scary. It might well be necessary for you to wriggle out of one arrangement so that you can begin a new adventure. Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.

CANCER

THE great mystics and meditators teach that learning to concentrate all our attention on our heart beating is a lifelong work. It sounds so simple, yet it is almost impossible to achieve. It requires more years of dedicated practice than it takes to become a neurophysicist. Welcome to your Monday! Yes, it’s true that you face a challenge, but no, you don’t need superhuman concentration skills to solve it. If you act with kindness — to someone who’s been irritatingly annoying — you’ll find an easy way forward.

Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.

LEO

THEY say that what goes up, must come down. This is, on the surface at least, a simple law of gravity that works for everything in our physical world, but it seems to be equally valid in our psychological world too. There’s a similar spiritual law — which is why pride comes before a fall. It seems to work both ways, too: a low period will be followed by a high. The tide always turns. That’s what you’re feeling right now: a tidal shift away from a difficulty. This week will show you that the way ahead, is up. Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.

VIRGO

IT SEEMS that the world is full of experts, people who know more than you. They’ve got more experience, more education, more power-clothes in their wardrobes and more cash in the bank. If you’d only paid more attention, you’d be perfect like they are. You’d also be prone to selfrighteousness and insufferableness. So whose advice should you really be taking this week? Who do you need to search out? Don’t underestimate your own knowledge and intuition. You have the answers you need. Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.

LIBRA

APPARENTLY it’s unlikely you were playing Monopoly over the festive season. It hardly seems coincidental that divorce rates rose sharply in line with the game’s popularity, and declined as it fell out of fashion. Few pastimes are more likely to expose family rifts. And with the Mars/Jupiter conjunction in Scorpio, woe betide anyone who rolls the dice against you as you seek to expand your empire. No need to be aggressive — success depends on you not over-borrowing, or over-extending yourself.

Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.

SCORPIO

COULD you be in danger of pushing beyond a sensible limit? Even if the answer is yes, that could be better than not doing enough. Sometimes you simply have to take direct action and throw caution to the wind if you want to bring about a change. If later you realise that you’ve gone too far, you can always retrace your steps. You have an opportunity to make an important move towards something or someone of great interest to you. Who knows if the chance will come again? Be brave!

Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.

SAGITTARIUS

WHEN someone who has a lot of power sees themselves as helpless and susceptible, it makes them dangerous to be around. They tend to use disproportionate techniques to defend themselves from imaginary threats. True power is not about victory and defeat, it’s about caring and ensuring that the best possible thing can happen. This rarely demands showing off our muscular power techniques. Compassion and inspiration are a winning combination for you this week. Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.

CAPRICORN

YOU might sometimes feel solitary, but you are in good company. The cosmos doesn’t view some people as more important than others — it recognises and responds to sensitivity and compassion rather than an individual sense of right and importance. This is a time when you can put your trust in a power that lies beyond what you see and hear. No matter how challenged you might be by situations here on planet Earth, there’s tangible help available from the skies — and more support than you imagine. Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.

AQUARIUS

WE LIKE to do our best to be honourable. Well, we certainly like to be seen to be upright and worthy — it’s just that we don’t want to have to work too hard to be seen that way. Come to think of it, what’s the point in trying to be virtuous if no one’s going to notice? You might be acting a certain way to please an audience right now, but inside you know why you’re doing what you’re doing. Despite what observers might think, you’re acting from your highest self and for the right reasons. Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.

PISCES

FOLLOWING Mars’ conjunction with your ruler at the weekend, you’re still waiting for things to settle into a new rhythm. You’re exploring a new way of dealing with a situation and developing a new and simple solution to fix a tiresome problem. As we edge towards a triple conjunction, your courage and dedication to a cause will be highlighted and appreciated. Though not always easy to deal with, your sensitivity is a source of strength and will lead you into a beneficial relationship this week.

Tomorrow’s triple conjunction brings gifts to start the year. For your four-minute, inspiring guide to 2018, call 1550 511 611.