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TRADITIONALLY, astrologers are pictured staring into crystal balls or casting incantations. These days, though, you’re more likely to find me with my eyes fixed on a laptop screen, muttering under my breath about wifi! In my mind’s eye the process involves a spherical object. But, rather than being clear as crystal, it’s often more like the Fifties fortune-telling Magic 8Ball toy! The words it reveals today are strength and transformation. With the Sun-Pluto link tomorrow, there’s power at our disposal.

ARIES IT’S natural to be Mar 21 — Apr 20 dazzled by the kind of instant transformations a magician can achieve: rabbits from hats, coins from behind your ear. But most everyday transformations take much longer. When we watch them on speeded-up film, miracles of nature — such as the opening of a flower — are just as dazzling as the illusionist’s tricks. Similar power is at work in your emotional life now. It won’t happen in a trice, but, with help from the upcoming Sun-Pluto link, a positive transformation is coming. Give it time. The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your four-minute guide to the week, call 0906 751 5601. TAURUS I AM going to ask Apr 21 — May 21 something of you today. When you get a quiet moment, can you rise above the mundane demands of work or whatever else has a claim on your time? A special kind of power is coming your way soon, and with the added bonus of the upcoming Mars-Venus-Neptune trine, you need to be free of everyday concerns to make the most of it. It’s a big ask, but if you can reach for your most elevated understanding of your role in life today, you will emerge with a clear idea of where you need to go next. The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your four-minute guide to the week, call 0906 751 5602. GEMINI IS IT time to May 22 — June 22 take a stand? For too long, you have let yourself be played by someone — or more than just one person — into living your life to please them, with scant consideration for your own feelings. They know how to pluck your heartstrings and bend you to their will. Their motives are often concealed behind a smile. At one end of this continuum, it is a kind of bullying; at the other, just a mild, yet persistent, feeling that you are being taken advantage of. Enough! It is time to speak up. The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your four-minute guide to the week call 0906 751 5603. CANCER SONGWRITER June 23 — July 23 Caroline Spence wrote Softball about growing up a baseball fanatic and discovering her gender precluded her from playing, while unwilling boys were pushed into the game. The world is beginning to change in this regard. Cancerians may soon find themselves stepping g up to the plate in this transformation. Someone o has been trying to mould you into something you don’t want to be. Don’t compromise just to suit someone’s narrow view. A curveball you throw can change the game in your favour. The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your four-minute guide to the week, call 0906 751 5604. LEO UNDER ‘A’ in the July 24 — Aug 23 book of cliches it states: ‘A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.’ I could leave your forecast there, but that would be exhibiting the one trait you cannot afford now: laziness. Don’t shun an adventure because you fear it will sap you. It might be daunting, but you have the ability. In doing so you’ll be transformed by the process, mastering skills you never thought you had and crossing boundaries once thought out of reach. You have the strength to make it seem effortless. The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your fourminute guide to the week, call 0906 751 5605. VIRGO IF YOU can remain Aug 24 — Sep 23 single-minded, this week should bring great reward. The danger is distraction, provocation even. You’ll have to be at your sharpest to resist being drawn into unnecessary conflict or argument, which would be energy-draining at best — or throw you completely off course at worst. You have a plan you want to advance; stick to it. As the Sun links with Pluto and the Minor Grand Trine forms, you’re in a fine position to deepen a relationship or to forge a new bond. Keep focused for great results! The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your four-minute guide to the week, call 0906 751 5606. LIBRA ONE person looms Sep 24 — Oct 23 large in your life. It could be a new acquaintance, and things have deepened swiftly; or it’s someone you’ve known a long while who is taking up much of your time and thoughts. I am not saying this is necessarily a problem. But, as the Venus-Mars-Neptune trine starts to form, you need to ask yourself what you are getting from this interaction. How did you reach this point? You may be fine, but you need to take stock. Question your priorities. It’s not too late to change direction. The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your four-minute guide to the week, call 0906 751 5607. SCORPIO YOU have Oct 24 — Nov 22 information that someone needs to know. It’s a big responsibility and the way you tell them will dictate how they will react. Pluto represents the hidden, sometimes subconscious, forces or things beneath the surface. So you will have assistance from the link that mysterious celestial body is starting to form with the Sun. But Pluto is also linked with transformation, renewal and rebirth, so the symbolism is clear: negotiate this hurdle and a new beginning is possible. You will make a new discovery, too. The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your four-minute guide to the week, call 0906 751 5608. SAGITTARIUS IN THEORY, Nov 23 — Dec 21 we can achieve anything. Whether it is success in a profession, sport or artistic endeavour, we soon learn what our advantages and limitations might be. Physicality, talent, energy and ambition all come into the equation. But you should possibly reconsider a choice you once rejected. You have experience under your belt now that makes it worth taking a second look through a door you closed (or was closed on you) long ago. The skies suggest you have hidden potential. The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your four-minute guide to the week, call 0906 751 5609. CAPRICORN WE ALL have Dec 22 — Jan 20 weeks where every advance is met with a setback. Is the cosmos sending a message — trying to balance out good luck and bad luck? No, it doesn’t work like that; it just seems that way sometimes! But once in a while, a week comes along where every advance is met with another advance. This is shaping up to be one such week, with Pluto making links with Jupiter and the Sun, and the helpful Venus-Mars-Neptune trine on hand, too. And no, there won’t be any cosmic reversal to cope with, either. The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your four-minute guide to the week, call 0906 751 5610. AQUARIUS WE’VE all Jan 21 — Feb 19 seen the old films where the mind-reader stares into the eyes of their subject and proceeds to reveal facts that astonish the audience. In real life, the only way to be a mind-reader is to be an interpreter of non-verbal signals and hints — and it is easy to make a misreading. For real communication to take place, it’s much better to talk! You are beginning to sense a connection with someone new, but you can’t be certain. Mercury retrograde isn’t helping either. You want clarity. Ask! The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your four-minute guide to the week, call 0906 751 5611. PISCES I RECENTLY tidied Feb 20 — Mar 20 up an old box I found in a cupboard — and was astonished to discover useful tools I had completely forgotten about. That’s the nature of things we accumulate; recent acquisitions can push others into the background. As with objects, so with skills, emotions, feelings and, it’s hard to admit, friendships sometimes. Have you allowed recent ‘acquisitions’ to push into the background others that were once important to you? The skies suggest you have a chance to reconnect today. The powerful trine brings fresh inspiration and hope for the future. For your four-minute guide to the week, call 0906 751 5612.