Your Stars

2019-10-02 -

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You get a surge of power from helping. Seeing how you can favourably impact another person starts a trend that you definitely should not leave yourself out of – impact your own life favourably, too!

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You can see good in people, even when their actions don’t particularly reflect it. Don’t give more leeway than is good for you. Distinguish decent but temporarily inept from dangerously toxic individuals.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You’re socially versatile, and could find common ground with an alien. You don’t always have to be agreeable. Sometimes the best rapport is built by recognising and accepting differences.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): There are terrible listeners in your life who are prone to making wrong assumptions... you know who they are. Avoid communication errors by going extra lengths to be understood. Put it in writing if need be.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You’re going through a cycle of increased sensitivity. It won’t last forever, but in the days to come, you’ll need more sleep, less noise, more peace and less exposure to rambunctious people and environments.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Connection is built with compromise. Ideally, the compromise will be inconvenient enough that you feel it and take notice but not inconvenient enough that it seems to steal from your time and energy.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Natural and/or aesthetic surroundings will lift you. Go to green spaces, open sky or anywhere there will be pretty things to delight your eyes. Beauty is soul balm!

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Don’t expect to process things as they happen. It’s inhuman – we are always fractions of a second behind the present due to our slow senses. Some complexities take decades to come to terms with.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): As for your rarer traits, don’t waste a second wishing you didn’t have to deal with them, because they will be the source of your most cherished gifts. Figure out what’s good in this.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You have to find that reward system that really works for you. It’s the best thing you can do for your health and your overall sense of self-control.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Sensibilities vary. You’ll hear things that aren’t meant to offend but nonetheless could. Consider letting up. It takes a lot of energy to be offended, and many times it’s not worth it.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You understand the way a person is and will try to help that person navigate in a world that is not so accommodating to special needs. This is an act of protection and love that won’t soon be forgotten.

Previous cryptic solution

Across: 2. Basil 5. Foot 7. Only 8. Demotion 9. Reversal

11. Deed 12. Public gallery 15. Icon 17. Outlying

19. Immersed 21. Whey 22. Slag 23. Derby

Down: 1. Bandeau 2. Bay 3. Sides 4. Lamella 5. Fit 6. Ozone

10. Ellen 11. Dally 13. Crossed 14. Runners 16. Camel

18. Tudor 20. Egg 21. Wry

Previous quick solution

Across: 6. Edible 7. Absurd 10. Eternal 11. Impel 12. Veto

13. Doyen 16. Comic 17. Scar 20. Itchy 21. Against

22. Entrap 23. Primal

Down: 1. Reserve price 2. Liberty 3. Clung 4. Obliged