YOUR STARS

Week Ahead Part 2-Love Focus Calls to the numbers on this page cost $1.99/minute and last approximately four minutes. Charges from a cellphone are higher. Calls are administered by cainer.com.

ARIES (March 21 — April 20) Imagine, for a moment, a perfect world. Peace, love and understanding. All harmony, no hassle. Yawn. How quickly we would all get bored. Instinctively, we are each blessed with a capacity to recognize this. So we take it in turns to go out of our way to prevent such a terrible eventuality from arising. We pick fights. We nurture resentments. We feed conflicts. Isn’t that good of us? Don’t feel obliged to contribute to that culture in your own emotional life. Tension needs to be gently diffused, not ramped up.

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TAURUS (April 21 — May 21) “Hello, how are you?” “I’m fine thanks, how are you?” “Oh, I’m fine too.’” “How’s so and so?” “Oh, they’re fine too.” “And how’s...” Well, you know the drill. Polite conversation. So polite that it effectively annihilates all possibility of meaningful exchange. How can you be honest about what you’re feeling and what you’re going through, when you’ve already begun your dialogue by insisting that everything is okay? Don’t stand on ceremony. There is a chance now to deepen a truly meaningful relationship — but this requires candour.

For more, call 900-528-8880. GEMINI (May 22 — June 22) The future starts here. Now, I know that this is always true no matter when you say it, but it is somehow more true here, in this particular now. Your emotional outlook is encouraging. There is an opportunity to fulfill a fantasy — and this, in turn, could lead you to a change that goes beyond your wildest dreams. And your dreams are quite excitingly wild. Should you be worried in case you end up creating the kind of future that later becomes a checkered past? No. You should, perhaps, be careful — but you need not worry.

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CANCER (June 23 — July 23) History is a funny subject. They teach it to us at school as if it were incontrovertible fact. Yet think back for a moment over your own past. Are not several of your memories (if not quite false) at least “carefully embellished” and adjusted? When you talk to someone else who has shared an experience with you, does their version match yours in every respect? All history is, at least to some extent, negotiable and rewriteable. If, in your emotional life, you now want to improve tomorrow, look at yesterday in a different light.

For more, call 900-528-8880. LEO (July 24 — Aug. 23) The world is full of gossip. Who is seeing whom? Who is splitting up? Who is getting together? What right do any of us have to know about any of this? And it isn’t even as if we are merely being informed; we are invited to develop opinions. Yet if we have never met the people in question, how can we possibly hope to know whether a couple is well suited? Your own emotional life may not be making the headlines, but it is certainly drawing comment from some quarters of the community. Don’t let this influence you. For more, call 900-528-8880.

VIRGO (Aug. 24 — Sept. 23) Whenever we take offence, we take a risk. Few of us have immaculate judgment or impeccable taste. We all make mistakes and we all repent, at leisure, for what we have said or done in haste. You have good reason to resent a particular person’s bad behaviour. You have been hurt by this and you cannot believe that all their actions were entirely unconscious. But have you not both now made your points? And might it not now be time for you both to make your peace? Some real healing can happen soon. For more, call 900-528-8880.

LIBRA (Sept. 24 — Oct. 23) Some people can’t see what’s right in front of their nose. A trip to the optician won’t help. The problem is not visual; it is conceptual. They can see only what they are interested in seeing. That’s their prerogative, unless it begins to impinge on your safety or sanity. You now need someone to wake up and smell the coffee or, if they are already doing that, to stop sniff- ing and start sipping. Is such progress likely? Well, the coffee is strong. Other eyes are about to start opening. Make sure you open yours, too. For more, call 900-528-8880.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24 — Nov. 22) The path of least resistance. That’s what we all tend to follow in the end. Even if we set out along some other road, it is only a matter of time before inertia sets in. Why keep doing what’s difficult? We all prefer whatever is (or at least seems to be) easiest. There are times, though, when even the trains that run on the straightest of tracks have to change direction at the points. You can now make a brave decision about where you want your emotional and personal life to go next. The cosmos is ready. Are you? For more, call 900-528-8880.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 — Dec. 21) A while ago you collected up the ingredients to bake a very special cake. You got them all in place and then, for one reason or another, there was no chance to make it. You all but forgot you had made the effort. Here comes a reminder of what has been stashed in your psychological store. Your emotional energy has not gone to waste. A magic moment has taken a long time to arrive, but it has come at last. Within reason, anything is possible. If you reach for the resources you need, you will find them. For more, call 900-528-8880.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 — Jan. 20) Perhaps you are trying to please too many people. Maybe you are making too many excuses for an unsatisfactory situation. Outwardly, this may be keeping things calm — but inwardly it is making you restless. Yet this is no bad thing. There is an issue that needs to be dealt with. If someone’s behaviour is unacceptable, what good will you do by appearing to accept it? Don’t fear change. If you are going to feel intimidated by anything, worry about the idea that circumstances might never change! For more, call 900-528-8880.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 — Feb. 19) In polite society we all use euphemisms. We don’t speak bluntly and directly. We allude and imply. In this way, we dance delicately around the edges of sensitive issues. Then we wonder why none of us fully understands each other. There are times when it is entirely appropriate to restrain ourselves to hints and suggestions but there are also times for straight talking. If you want the improvements that you deserve in your emotional life, it is time to say what needs to be said and to hear what needs to be heard. For more, call 900-528-8880.

PISCES (Feb. 20 — March 20) You keep wondering whether there is really a point in maintaining an attitude or even a routine. You are doing what you feel is expected of you — and someone else is apparently doing the same. But is there any back to this front? Or are you starting to feel as if the street of your emotional life is like a Hollywood film set, where the buildings are just painted boards propped up from behind by wooden frames? Keep the illusion going just a little longer. It may yet turn out to have more substance to it than you think. For more, call 900-528-8880.