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Here’s some old news: mindful Mercury will soon converge with stoical saturn, repeating the celestial alignment it made when retrograde last year. Meanwhile, Venus and the sun make a tense link with revolutionary Uranus. It’s an open secret that the universe sometimes throws up celestial oxymorons. This is a time when we seem to be refusing to see alternatives, while our hearts cry out for change. But there is a way to get what we want this weekend. It involves being both prudent and progressive.

ARIES Mar 21 — Apr 20

WE LIVE in a crazy world where, if we want to feel an adrenalin rush, we can just sit back and watch a horror movie, or play a scary video game. Meanwhile, we cope with seriously dangerous situations, such as crossing busy roads or controlling dangerous vehicles, as if we’re doing nothing at all. It’s the same when it comes to emotional challenges. We can be motivated by inconsequential matters and let really important issues pass us by. A change of perspective could be inspirational. The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5601.

TAURUS Apr 21 — May 21

HOW do you like the idea of something lovely happening to you this weekend? I have to be careful how I ask this… I don’t want to alert you to something in case you put up your guard and prevent it happening. But why would you want it not to happen? You might, I suppose, doubt the potential for something lovely to happen to you, but you can allow yourself to dream. The meeting of Venus, the planet of love, and Uranus, the planet of unpredictability, suggests an adventure that’s worth exploring. The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5602.

GEMINI May 22 — June 22

SUPPOSE you are out with one of your friends. You turn around to do something — and when you turn back you can’t see them anywhere. You have no phone reception, so you decide to look for them. Meanwhile, they come back, can’t find you and wander off looking for you. In exactly the same way, you’re searching for something which is searching for you. But you don’t have all the facts yet, so you aren’t looking in the right place and are making it difficult to be found. Be patient this weekend. The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5603.

CANCER June 23 — July 23

WHAT should you do when something doesn’t work? Is it worth trying again and again until you have success? That depends I suppose on what it is and whether you think that there’s a way of improving it. Persistence can be a precious commodity. But it’s not always easy to distinguish from stubbornness. This weekend, try not to interpret an issue within a relationship, or a situation, as a reason to walk away. It’s just a sign that you need to think things through. It’s worth another try! The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5604.

LEO July 24 — Aug 23

HOW does the old saying go? ‘If at first you don’t succeed... just give up. Take to your bed and hide away under the covers and refuse to get up. Or head down to the nearest bar and share your woes with anyone who’ll listen, and then do silly things that you can only remember in weird flashbacks, but that you really wish you hadn’t done.’ Something feels unfair in your life at the moment. You need the equivalent of a celestial hug. This weekend brings the chance to change things for the better. The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5605.

VIRGO Aug 24 — Sep 23

I HAVE a surreal question for you today. Suppose I were to ask you what the hole in the middle of a doughnut tastes like. You’d probably look baffled and reply ‘nothing’! Yet when ‘nothing’ is closely connected to ‘something’, it becomes something in its own right. It has an identity which is not nothing. This weekend, your question is whether you’re making something out of nothing. You have the skill and awareness to separate what matters from what doesn’t — and then focus on that. The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5606. LIBRA Sep 24 — Oct 23 THE drama that’s unfolding in your life has an edge of familiarity to it. The circumstances have been changed and the characters are different. But, in one important way at least, this is a replay of a scenario from your past. You’ve had a suspicion that’s the case, but you’ve been uncertain. Now, though, you can be sure. And you can be confident that what happened last time will not happen again. You have wisdom and experience on your side now. The future can turn out very differently. The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5607. SCORPIO Oct 24 — Nov 22 PEOPLE sometimes come out with the most ridiculous ideas and statements that we can’t believe we’re hearing. It’s easy to dismiss their views as rubbish. Yet if we’re too quick to reject their thoughts, we may miss out on an original idea. Conversely, believing without discriminating can lead to a terrible state of confusion. Ask questions this weekend and just keep asking them until you can’t think of any more! Then, eventually, you’ll come up with an answer that you can trust. The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5608.

SAGITTARIUS Nov 23 — Dec 21

THE Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff had huge hands. His reach across the piano keys was such that most modern interpretations of his work require the pianist to cheat, using different fingering to achieve a similar result. As the Sun and Venus link to Uranus this weekend, they encourage a creative approach to a problem. You don’t need to be in possession of great physical resources. A creative approach can deliver a harmonious solution. The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5609.

CAPRICORN Dec 22 — Jan 20

RECENTLY, your life seems to have been a challenging series of ifs, buts and maybes. With so many hypothetical situations, it has been hard to find a balanced and sure-footed path through the start of the year. You need some certainty now. You can achieve this by being less anxious about the things you feel you don’t know yet. Be confident in the facts that you have and you’ll realise you have more information than you think. Or perhaps you’ll discover that you don’t need to know any more than you know! The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5610.

AQUARIUS Jan 21 — Feb 19

IMPORTANT ideas don’t always arrive in ‘ta-dah’ moments. They tend to creep up on us slowly — like the dawning of the sun on a new day. We don’t initially realise how good they are. Then we ‘get it’ and get excited! Next comes the process of working out how to turn the idea into reality; a process which requires energy and emotional investment. As our dream starts to materialise, we start to feel hopeful — and that’s when we’re most vulnerable. Your outlook suggests that your plans will succeed. The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5611.

PISCES Feb 20 — Mar 20

IT’S true that we can choose our friends, but we can’t pick our family. Right now, as the social season of the New Year begins to calm down, the benefits of being a social butterfly feel less and less like gliding from one party to the next and more liable to get you into a flap. As the Sun and Venus both link to Uranus this weekend, you’re not obliged to go out and party. But there’s a suggestion that the nature of your social relationships must progress. Saturn ensures that the important bonds endure. The gifts of the triple conjunction are still yours to claim. For your inspiring guide to the week ahead, call 0906 751 5612.