Your Stars

2018-03-03 -

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Your leisure is another person’s work, and your work is another person’s leisure. From this frame, it’s really not what you do, but the quality of relaxation you bring to it that puts it in the category of enjoyment.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): The biggest winners have failed the most times. The great people have failed greatly. Failure is the best teacher, though a reviled one. Is that really fair? Befriend it instead.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Fate doesn’t like to be tempted, although you’re not one to live your life by the preferences of others, not even fate. You’re curious about what will happen if you hang a temptation in the air, and you’ll find out.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): The confident move is to let people take as much space as they need without inserting your own feelings. However, it should be noted that sometimes the most confident move doesn’t accomplish your aims.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Your instinct will be to make quick decisions. Often they will be fast, sometimes not – and that’s fine, too. Wrong choices lead to right choices for those committed to learning from them.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): This is not going to unfold in the way you expect, but it will unfold in the way it’s supposed to. Interruptions will be lucky and lovely. Extras and additions will be better than the main event.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): There are many ways to expand your creative potential, but the one that will most appeal is the same one you employed as a child: copying the older kids as you played and managed the life challenges together.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. A conversation is only as strong as its most sensitive topic. And a relationship is only as strong as its most vulnerable aspects.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Because learning comes with its own payoff (complete with a change in brain chemistry at that “I’ve got it!” moment), it can be seductive to stay in the education bubble. Step out and apply it.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You’ll be around physical beauty and intellectual beauty, both equally attractive at first. However, over time, intellectual beauty may grow as quickly as physical beauty fades.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You’d rather solve your own problem than appear needy. But people want to help. That’s a need, too. Just ask for the help they need to give.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Plato suggested to his young student, “Time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions” – a fine reason to steer clear of the big topics. The same will apply to you today.

Previous Cryptic solution

Across 1. Scandalised 7. General 9. Grow 11. Tours

12. Pledge 14. Devastation 18. Palace 20. Exact 22. Away

23. Insight 24. Marchioness

Down 2. Consume 3. Ably 4. Erred 5. Agate 6. Sweet

8. Research 10. Plotters 13. Ate 15. Oranges 16. Spray

17. State 19. Llama 21. Midi

Previous Quick solution

Across 1. Depths 5. Rancid 9. Outing 10. Counts 11. Rite

12. Tiddlers 14. Seethe 16. Cycles 19. Dog-tired 21. Yarn

22. Trails 23. Obtain 24. Dreary 25. Secure.

Down 2. Elusive 3. Trisect 4. Sightseer 6. Avoid 7. Conceal