YOUR LUCKY STARS
ARIES
This is time to be a mixed blessing. It facilitates plenty, yet it also brings forth a sense of insecurity. People born under your sign are famous for their confidence; they can become deeply self-critical under an influence like this. Happily, it is only for a few weeks, once every couple of years, that such a situation arises.
TAURUS
You have been secretly digging a tunnel with a teaspoon or planning some other unlikely way to leave a “place of incarceration”. You feel trapped. You don’t really believe that you will ever get away from whatever – or whoever – is hemming you in. Still though, you keep entertaining far-fetched plans.
GEMINI
An amazing optical illusion takes place. Mercury appears to change direction. Mercury is all but standing still. By the end of the week, it will be visibly retracing its recent steps. You are retreating from a minor battle in the hope that this will help you, eventually, win a more important war. And you are right. It will.
CANCER
You don’t want or need any more and you don’t have to put up with any more. You are up to your eyes and beyond in a mess. You keep trying your best to clear it up. As fast as you do, along comes someone or something with a new contribution to the confusion. They conveniently dump their barrowful of bother in a quiet corner of your world.
LEO
A new era has begun. It is one you have been waiting for. It is one you have worked hard to bring into being. Why then, do you feel less than ecstatic? What is eroding your enthusiasm or causing you to doubt your direction? It could just be that you are going through a natural process of adjustment.
VIRGO
Something is beginning to baffle you. You are dealing with a situation that makes no sense, no matter how hard you try to figure it out. Life is full of contradictions. You have a special talent for noticing these and then just shrugging your shoulders. The current absurdity though, involves a set of circumstances that used to be stable and logical.
LIBRA You will reach an agreement this week. It will be a proper agreement, not an awkward compromise. Even so, you will tend to feel more disappointed than delighted. You have been half enjoying the negotiation process. It has enabled you to play with ideas and options.
SCORPIO
Finally, you stop feeling like a person who is trying to run up an escalator which is going down. At last, you get a sense of easy momentum and encouraging progress. You also, though, get a moment of revelation. A penny is about to drop. A “eureka moment” is about to arise. For months, you have been wrestling with a complex situation.
SAGITTARIUS
Food manufacturers work hard to ensure that the quality of their product is consistent. Every biscuit must be identical. Whether you buy your burger in Durban or Johannesburg, it must taste the same. When psychologists encounter this peculiar obsession with uniformity in individuals, they explain it as the action of a person who feels powerless, struggling to create an illusion of control.
CAPRICORN
Everyone has a different idea about what summer is supposed to be like. Your own thoughts have altered in recent years – and they may alter once more within the next couple of weeks. Potentially, you have a wonderful time in store. Venus forms a conjunction to your ruler, implying an experience of comfort, closeness, warmth and joy.
AQUARIUS
“Like a bridge over troubled water…” you can create a constructive connection between two distinctly separate worlds this week. Or, at least, you can provide and maintain a degree of neutrality. Beware the temptation to take sides – or to sympathise more with one side of a story than another.
PISCES
What is invaluable to you, may be utterly worthless to someone else and vice versa. The faster you get used to such differences, the better. Some people will support you while others wait and see. Be grateful. Say a resounding “YES” when someone suggests a fun night out on the town, and remember it. Those in authority may target you soon, so beware of traffic cops, government officials and your boss.