Your Stars

2018-02-17 -

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Why does it have to make sense to be valid? “Making sense” isn’t a universal law like gravity or motion. In fact, much of what works won’t make sense today, and much of what makes sense won’t work.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): In the way that big moves require the packing and transfer of many boxes, big projects will have you working in a world of details. By the day’s end, you’ll have “packed” about a hundred “boxes.”

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The omens say your energy increases as you trust your inner light. Practical voices are pretty sure it’s dark inside your body but you can get your energy going with exercise under the outside light.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You have a gift for discerning what’s necessary and what’s not. This will be perhaps be even more valuable to others who are struggling with focusing on the wrong things. Don’t hesitate to help them out.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Success is not an achievement, it’s a feeling. If you don’t allow yourself to feel successful until a certain metric has been met, that’s a choice and not a fact based on the rules of success. Feelings don’t follow rules.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Your life could take many different directions from here. As you entertain possibilities (even just in your imagination) you’ll be joined by flashes of memory and ghost guides from the past.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You don’t have to believe in reincarnation to understand you’ve lived many lives and you will live many more. So what do you need to do to become your next version? Don’t worry. You’ll become it.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): There are amazing talents around you and here’s hoping you’ll use them as inspiration instead of comparison. You are capable of your own kind of greatness, and that’s a very good place to put your focus.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): And your picture of life won’t look anything like your neighbour’s because even though you connected the very same dots, you didn’t do it in the very same order.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Respect lasts longer than attention. Those who make a grab for the spotlight without delivering something of real value soon lose their audience and their credibility with you.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Anyone exerting pressure on you to make the best choice (most likely yourself) simply doesn’t realise there is no best choice. Many are good. All lead to the future.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): It’s said you can never be over-educated. Yet you wonder if you’d be better off not knowing some things. It’s better to learn even more about it because the wider picture will be somehow more palatable.

Previous Cryptic solution

Across 1. Sickle 4. Wander 9. Airport 10. Lined 11. Chin

12. Mean 13. Elk 15. Hobo 16. Lisp 19. Rag 21. Ugly

22. Gown 24. Avoid 25. Parking 26. Trends 27. Resent Down 1. Search warrant 2. Cornish 3. Look 5. Atlantic

6. Dunce 7. Red sky at night 8. Steer 14. Abounded

17. Promise 18. Slips 20. Globe 23. True

Previous Quick solution

Across 1. Abates 5. Rabbis 9. Umpire 10. Corner 11. Jilt

12. Disguise 14. Cohere 16. Prissy 19. Disaster 21. Span

22. Images 23. Icicle 24. Muesli 25. Eighty

Down 2. Bambino 3. Thistle 4. Speediest 6. Among

7. Bandits 8. Sorcery 13. Supervise 14. Cadmium