Your Stars

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Someone is behaving in a way you don’t understand. They may be complying with needs and desires not obvious to you. They may not want to reveal their motivations. Observe to get more information.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): The stoics focus on temptations resisted and passions opposed. Not fun. When you want something that’s good for you, all of those things happen naturally as you focus on wholesome desire. GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The path to fulfilled wishes is littered with practical impediments, barriers of psychological resistance and other annoying limits to contend with, all of which you will rise up and over.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Be careful not to equate rest with laziness. They are not the same. Laziness is a decision to underachieve. It’s driven by fear. Rest is a necessary part of achievement’s cycle, driven by nature’s maintenance system. LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Exemplifying his typical humour, your sign-mate Andy Warhol claimed to be a “deeply superficial person”. You’ll relate today as you bring a solemn level of attention to what some might consider a trivial matter. VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): It’s easier for some people to say yes than it is to say no. Consider the first yes a false answer. And gently press further into the conversation. It’s not a real agreement until the third yes.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): If you can’t do anything about it, it’s not a problem, it’s a circumstance.

Deal with problems, and the circumstances may or may not change. You’ll have the satisfaction of doing your part.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You’ve a secret that helps you move through events with grace, and the secret is this: Change itself doesn’t hurt. What hurts is our resistance to change. We can always choose not to resist. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Defined relationships make everything go according to plan. However, the more intimate a relationship, the harder it is to define. With the closest relationships, definitions are practically absurd. CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Frustration shows you exactly what’s not working and to what extent. The level of frustration you feel directly corresponds to how far off the mark the situation is from your expectation of it. AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Imagined problems can have as much impact as real ones but imagined problems can be solved the instant you change your mind about them.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Your project is a project.

But to someone else it might be a learning opportunity, a social experiment, a way of gaining leverage in a situation. Be aware of what everyone is getting out of the situation.

Across: 7. Tape recorders 8. Blood vessel 12. Winner

14. Tapped 16. Catnap 18. Attain 19. Scaffolding

23. Sleeping pills

Down: 1. Lamb 2. Demo 3. Welder 4. Potent 5. Odes 6. Oral

9. Lunatic 10. Explain 11. Eden 12. Wick 13. Era 15. Ant

17. Puffin 18. Allege 19. Sale 20. Awed 21. Iris 22. Gull

Across: 7. Straight-laced 8. Prologue 9. Eats 10. Closed

12. Ironic 14. Eon 15. Adds up 17. Gloomy 19. Anti

21. Training 23. Necessitating

Down: 1. Startled 2. Callus 3. Agog 4. Steering 5. Make do

6. Best 11. Deputise 13. Imminent 16. Seizes 18. Ornate

20. Need 22. Alto