Horoscopes

Your future in the stars:

ARIES

Avoid rivalry about who’s right or wrong as the week begins. There’s no point in trying to score points about unimportant details or letting others wind you up. It’s time this week to keep your attention on what you enjoy doing most and to schedule in regular time for doing it.

TAURUS

Wednesday’s new moon is a signal to look at what you’d like to achieve at home and in your family circle over the coming six months. There’s plenty of inspiration around so don’t let ideas pass you by. Midweek is best for working out how to get what you want and to act on it.

GEMINI

Don’t overreact to any changes being proposed, especially if they affect your neighbourhood. A friend could help you get your facts straight and you should find things are much better than you think. A new phase opens on Wednesday, helping you better communicate with relatives.

CANCER

Finding some kindly words to help a friend or to pour oil on troubled waters around midweek could pay off in unexpected ways in a few weeks. Wednesday’s new moon in your resources area invites you to check out whether you’re using your talents to the full and, if not, how to do so.

LEO

Wednesday’s new moon in your sign calls you to review the past year, pat yourself on the back for achievements and use your imagination to conjure up new scenarios for the coming six months. Don’t worry if communications with some are difficult now. Patience and kindness will solve everything.

VIRGO

The month before your birthday is your annual retreat time for slowing down and listening to your dreams and intuition. These will keep you on track better than any to-do lists. After Mercury and the Sun move into Virgo on Thursday and Saturday, roll up your sleeves and get active again.

LIBRA

Honest discussions with a partner or close friend may be called for this week. Keeping a cool head will boost this great opportunity to increase understanding and respect all round. New ideas put forward now may take you out of your comfort zone at first but could be well worth following up.

SCORPIO

You could realise now that you need to think more carefully about how to achieve what you’ve set your heart on. Trust your intuition and back it up with hard work and perseverance and things should work out better than you imagine. Your focus of attention turns to friends and group activities from midweek.

SAGITTARIUS

You could be itching to broaden your horizons and explore what’s outside of your familiar world. Finding an activity that stretches you mentally or physically just a bit beyond what you’ve achieved before could be what’s needed. Career or community life calls you from Saturday.

CAPRICORN

Someone in your home or family life could be a bit prickly these weeks. While there could be good reasons for this it could also just be blowing off steam. You’re well placed now to suss out other people’s motivations so think carefully before rising to the bait and pick fights (if any) shrewdly.

AQUARIUS

Listen carefully to what others are saying this week, without getting defensive, and you could learn a great deal to your advantage. Wednesday’s new moon in your partnership in area gives you the opportunity to deal with any old issues that you’ve been bottling up, and then move on.

PISCES

Part of you just wants to be comfortable and enjoy yourself but another part knows it’s time to get down to the never-ending tasks that are piling up. How about compromise? Alternate some work with treating yourself to whatever it is you fancy. Making it fun will get it done.