Your Stars

2020-02-01 -

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Boredom will cue you do something different. Take the hint or boredom will develop into something quite different, for instance: irritation, anger, frustration and resentment.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Because you are genuinely enthusiastic about seeing others succeed, you’ll support those around you and make them feel loved. This excellent karma will soon swing back to embrace you.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Life works like an Amazon wish list. If you want something, and make it specific, public and convenient for others to give it to you, then you are very much more likely to receive it.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): The void of longing is a tough one to fill, as it only wants the thing it longs for. Try shoving some creativity into it. That is at least mouldable. It gives you something to work with. It’s involving; it will do in a pinch.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Fear can be as specific, innate and uncontrollable as eye colour. Don’t berate yourself for feeling afraid, even if others are not afraid of the same thing. Your wariness may be owed to having greater intelligence.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): People can be patient when they know that, at the end of the line, there’s going to be the thing they want. It’s the uncertainty about that end result that causes anxiety. How can you make them more confident?

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): “When everybody is somebody then nobody is anybody,” said the operetta writer W.S. Gilbert – right on all accounts. Everybody is somebody, and if there is any significance to be had, it is by the lot of us.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): This one is coming straight from the muses. To be truly brilliant, you can’t be thinking too much about what you’re doing. That interferes with the tunnel. Just let it come through you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Wherever the stuff was, there’s usually more there. Go back to the source; repeat what’s worked. Save the thing that didn’t, but you still have a feeling about it. You’re usually ahead of your time, after all.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): In equations of travel, weight is a significant factor. If you want to go high or fast or gracefully, you’ll have to lighten your load. Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): The brain is a master predictor. This is why it’s so annoying to hear half a conversation. It involuntarily busies other people’s brains to solve a puzzle that will never be solved.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You learn by being involved with people. It’s something that can’t be duplicated. You dream of a hassle-free existence but the hassle is often, the whole point.

Previous cryptic solution

Across: 1. Birthday 7. Pride 8. Regalia 9. Mortals 10. Ells

12. Stepson 14. Elevens 17. Free 18. Jukebox 21. Trading

22. Irene 23. Stranger

Down: 1. Bargee 2. Regulate 3. Helm 4. Aramis 5. Lima

6. Person 7. Portend 11. Tremble 13. Starling 14. Enjoin

15. Sextet 16. Merger 19. Knew 20. Gala

Previous quick solution

Across: 1. Dealings 7. Petty 8. Genealogy 9. Koi 10. Toys

11. Beware 13. Indeterminate 15. Crypts 16. Stem 18. Ray

20. Nuisances 21. Icing 22. Agonised

Down: 1. Digit 2. Annoyed 3. Imam 4. Globe-trotting