YOUR STARS

ARIES

This is a powerful time in your emotional life. You’re going through significant life-changing stuff and you’re not who you used to be. You’re not yet who you are going to be. But whoever you are right now and whatever you are going through, you are on your way towards a wonderfully fulfilling phase of your life. And someone very special will see this soon.

TAURUS

A lot of us spend a lot of our lives trying to figure out what it is that we are supposed to be doing. It does not always occur to us that what we are supposed to be doing is wondering what it is that we are supposed to be doing! Ignore your doubt. Be emotionally spontaneous.

GEMINI

Whenever my grandson sees someone blowing up a balloon, he closes his eyes and covers his ears. He may be small but he is old and wise enough to recognise the risk of a loud, sudden bang. He’s right, too – even the most experienced balloon blowers can sometimes misjudge the amount of air they need. But then, if you want to explore the full potential of any opportunity, you’ve got to risk getting close to the limit of what it can do for you. Be aware of a risk in your emotional world now, but don’t be put off.

CANCER

How far should you push a particular point? You sorely want a certain someone to understand something. This is really much more “for their own good” than for yours. Be patient. Even without your intervention, this person will see the light sooner than you think.

LEO

Think Catherine and Michael. Or Miley and Liam. One moment they’re best friends, the next, worst enemies. Now don’t worry, I’m not predicting any kind of relationship crisis for you. But there must have come a point where, in both of those relationships, things were just about “fixable”. In some area of your life, maybe not even a bit romantic, it is nearly but not yet too late to rescue something that is slipping away. If you want that.

VIRGO

Tourists from every land flock to Paris to gaze at the Eiffel Tower. Parisians pass this landmark every day but hardly spare it a glance. When an item is familiar to us we rarely stop to notice it. People and memories, too, can become “just a part of our landscape”. You are about to gain a fascinating and helpful perspective on an aspect of your emotional life.

LIBRA

Sometimes we try too hard to be too clever. We think too much. And in the process we cast doubt on the validity of our deepest feelings. You are now beginning to wonder whether you really have a right to the emotions that surge through your heart. You cannot deny them, but you can subject them to such scrutiny as to make them seem silly or worthless. Yet they deserve to be honoured and acknowledged.

SCORPIO

Before I can give you your forecast I must ask you some security questions. Can you confirm your name? Are you quite sure of that? Do you have proof? No, I’m sorry, I can’t accept that document. You could have just fooled the people who issued it to you. No, I can’t explain why we need all this information just to give you an astrology reading. Or rather I can – and I would be happy to but only after we have established your identity. Frustrated? Breathe deeply. A similarly silly situation in your emotional life will resolve itself soon.

SAGITTARIUS

Let’s have a secret code. If I say the words “three-toed sloth” you can assume that I am referring to “you-know-what”. If I say “pink with green stripes”, that means “you-know-who”. By developing this a little further, we can communicate safely about the sensitive matter that’s now arising in your emotional life. Nobody else will know what we are on about. Not that it matters, for your secret is not actually as explosive as you fear.

CAPRICORN

What’s most interesting now is not your ability to fulfil a particular aspiration; it is your inability to reach another attractive objective. Why is this proving so difficult? Might there be a lesson to learn here regarding your emotional life? It is as if you are being kept away from something you think you want but that you really do not need – so you can be led to something far better.

AQUARIUS

You can’t get far in the modern world without taking orders from one electronic device or another. Cash machines, answering machines, computers and now even washing machines . . . all insist we do things in a certain sequence or they won’t co-operate. It’s easy to forget real human beings and in your emotional life now abandon formality and put aside protocol. Just communicate honestly.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20)

If at times you can be your own worst enemy, then it stands to reason that at other times you can be your own best friend. The two are much more closely connected than most people seem to think. Almost always, enemies are people who once were friends. Never mind who else is on your side now, just make sure, for the sake of your emotional stability that you give yourself the support you deserve.