JONATHAN CAINER

Dear Jonathan, I consider myself typical of my sign. I also like to believe I am a reasonably good, kind person. I have a relative of the same sign who is not typical. He is most definitely not a good, kind person. Audrey Dear Audrey, Yesterday, I pointed out that such a difference cannot be explained by gender. Today, I’d like to be brave and ask: ‘Do any of us believe that we are anything other than good, kind people? ’ I must also ask: ‘Are any of us truly qualified to judge ourselves?’ I’ll return to this again, tomorrow.

ARIES Mar 21 — Apr 20 IMAGINE you are out walking in the countryside. You wander into a field that contains a rampaging… well, is it a bull or a behemoth? How can you tell? All you know is that you want to get away but there is no nearby gate. Then your prayers are answered. You spy a hole in the hedge. Stumbling through, you scratch yourself. This becomes a source of irritation for several days. So, do you have cause for complaint or celebration? It is only right and proper that you look on the bright side today. Are you ready for the rest of the month? Your monthly prediction is ready. Make November great! Call: 0906 751 5601.

TAURUS AREN’T you Apr 21 — May 21 supposed to be worrying about something? Isn’t there a problem that needs attention? Surely you can’t afford the time to feel happy? It is all very well being glad to be alive, but aren’t there bills to pay, obligations to honour and conflicts to engage with? I’m sure there are, but right now it is enough just to stop for a few moments and celebrate the simple, perfect, gift of life itself. Make that your priority today, while Venus and Mars form a conjunction.

All else will fall into place. Remember, remember, we’re now in November. Light up your life! Call your four-minute, monthly forecast: 0906 751 5602.

GEMINI May 22 — June 22 A BUS stopped sharply because a rabbit ran across the road. The brakes seized, immobilising the bus and causing a traffic jam. This, in turn, delayed the engineer travelling to repair a broken cable carrying communications from that part of town. This diverted a crucial call to a wrong number. Thus the President’s message, ‘don’t fire those missiles’, was never heard. And that’s how WW III began! Only, it didn’t. Don’t waste your day envisaging an unfortunate, and highly unlikely, chain of events. Are you ready for the rest of the month? Your monthly prediction is ready. Make November great! Call: 0906 751 5603.

CANCER SCHOOLS are fine June 23 — July 23 institutions. And teachers are magnificent people. As for education experts, well — opinion is divided. Some seem to love making lofty pronouncements about the best way to do a job or conduct a process. Others are happy to assume that those who issue such instructions must know what they are talking about. Yet we all risk misadventure if we place too much faith in any mechanism without seeing proof that it works. Don’t rely entirely today on ‘what you were once taught’. Remember, remember, we’re now in November. Light up your life! Call your four-minute, monthly forecast: 0906 751 5604.

LEO SOME people object to July 24 — Aug 23 astrology because it appears to reinforce a fatalistic view of life. ‘All is predestined and we can do nothing but accept our fate.’ That certainly ain’t the philosophy round here in this column. The planets simply tell us whether it is likely to rain so we can make our choices about wearing macs and hoods. Right now, they speak of a certain amount of sunshine on the financial or the material front. You can choose to either put out a solar charger or put up a parasol. Are you ready for the rest of the month? Your monthly prediction is ready. Make November great! Call: 0906 751 5605.

VIRGO IS THE cosmos Aug 24 — Sep 23 cooperative today? Can you expect celestial support or heavenly hindrance? A powerful planetary alignment in your sign suggests that wherever you need help and assistance, it must find its way to you somehow. This is not a promise that your day will be problem-free, simply that, even when or where problems arise, the solutions will never be far away. As long as you supply enough confidence to look for what you need, the universe will ensure it is there to be found. Remember, remember, we’re now in November. Light up your life! Call your fourminute, monthly forecast: 0906 751 5606.

LIBRA Sep 24 — Oct 23 WE ALL seek inner peace. Even if our primary concern is to reduce a state of conflict in the world around us, the reason why we want this is surely so that we can feel safe, calm and comforted. Yet even when our external circumstances are seemingly peaceful, our inner state can be one of turmoil and upheaval. Ah, but surely not on a day like today, when Venus and Mars are in conjunction? Your quest for tranquillity will bring you an enlightened view of how to improve a complex situation. Are you ready for the rest of the month? Your monthly prediction is ready. Make November great! Call: 0906 751 5607.

SCORPIO YOU are aware Oct 24 — Nov 22 of what others expect. You also have high standards you want to uphold. Insofar as these two ideals coincide, all may be well, but where there is conflict you have to ask: ‘Is it selfish to prioritise your own preference?’ Is it, indeed, self-sacrificing to the point of martyrdom to put someone else’s needs before your own? Questions like this have been hanging over you for a while. Today, a helpful cosmic climate suggests you may find a compromise that works. Remember, remember, we’re now in November. Light up your life! Call your four-minute, monthly forecast: 0906 751 5608.

SAGITTARIUS WHAT’S Nov 23 — Dec 21 the point in getting a zodiac forecast? Will you be better off if you know what’s in store? Won’t this simply disempower you, leaving you to feel as if your options have been reduced and restricted by some interfering hand of fate? Might you not better be left alone to draw on your natural spontaneity according to the newly arising need of each newly arising moment? As it happens today, that’s all you can and need to do. Things will work out surprisingly well. Are you ready for the rest of the month? Your monthly prediction is ready. Make November great! Call: 0906 751 5609.

CAPRICORN WISE, Dec 22 — Jan 20 mature adults ‘agree to differ’. Or so we are told. Some of us, it seems, find it hard to accept how other people’s views clash with our own, no matter how wise or mature we try to be. Can it really be wise or mature just to accept a statement or a belief that seems entirely unacceptable? Much depends on what else is at stake. Today, for the sake of one very big thing, you may have to resist the impulse to reject something else which is almost, but not quite, as big. Remember, remember, we’re now in November. Light up your life! Call your fourminute, monthly forecast: 0906 751 5610.

AQUARIUS FROM an early Jan 21 — Feb 19 age we all become preoccupied with fairness. Why is this child allowed that when we are not? How come she is in trouble for something, yet her friend is getting clean away with doing the same? As we grow older, we may become more sophisticated in our assessments of comparative justice, but these issues become no less relevant. We can, indeed, become so irate about an imbalance we can hardly think about anything else. A situation today may well be less unfair than you think. Are you ready for the rest of the month? Your monthly prediction is ready. Make November great! Call: 0906 751 5611.

PISCES THEY say, if we are Feb 20 — Mar 20 only willing to make enough effort, we can accomplish anything. Yet don’t they also say that there is such a thing as trying too hard? There are times when we all push further than we should or become too worked up about matters we would be wiser to relax about. Wherever there is stress or tension in your life today, don’t drive yourself into a frenzy trying to fix what is wrong. Comfort yourself simply by remembering that, sometimes, things naturally work out just as they need to. Remember, remember, we’re now in November. Light up your life! Call your four-minute forecast for the month ahead: 0906 751 5612.