JONATHAN CAINER

In early January, I explained that new year is rarely the right time for a fresh start. There are many other dates which might be more suitable for dropping old habits. If you’ve been following your forecast since then, you will have already seen me point out such times. More good opportunities are due in the next few weeks. I’m particularly excited about the rare transit of Venus on June 6. But while Mars is just picking up momentum after a long retrograde phase, right now is a fine time for anyone who seeks to summon more self-discipline!

ARIES Mar 21 — Apr 20 IN THEORY, life gets

easier now Mars is moving in the right direction. In practice? Well, the first thing it does on this new leg of the celestial journey is to form an antagonistic angle to Mercury. That is why you feel so aware of an argument you can’t win or a conflict you can’t resolve. Stop looking for perfect answers. The best you can hope for is an arrangement that just about works, even if it isn’t ideal. Your chance to attain something better comes next week. Now, please keep reading. I’ve recorded your new, four-minute forecast. I want to tell you how you can change your week. . . and your life! Call 0906 751 5601. TAURUS FROM tiny acorns,

Apr 21 — May 21 mighty oak trees grow. But even if you cover them in fertiliser and bathe them under sun lamps, they don’t shoot up overnight. In movies, we often watch a speeded-up version of some much slower process. Even films where the drama appears to be unfolding in real time are the result of a lot of careful editing. Many takes, recorded over many days, are discarded by the director. Try not to make artificial comparisons. You need to go gently.

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GEMINI NATURE abhors a May 22 — June 22

vacuum. Where there is a space, she will attempt to fill it with something. So when we fill our lives with plans and activities, we make it harder for nature to work her magic. This is fine as long as our lives happen to be full of the things we enjoy. But if we’ve got stress and struggle, it may be wiser to drop commitments and create gaps. What form of craziness is now eating up too much of your time? Perhaps it is time to be brave. Let some of it go. Now, please keep reading. I’ve recorded your new, four-minute forecast. I want to tell you how you can change your week. . . and your life! Call 0906 751 5603. CANCER YOU are up

June 23 — July 23 against something difficult and demanding. For longer than you care to remember you have been wrestling a problem. Every so often, it looks as if you have beaten it. But then, like the mythical Hydra, it grows another head and comes at you again. Every so often, you begin to feel sure it has beaten you, but then you are granted a reprieve. The process is tiring. It explains why you have begun to lose heart. It is time to try again with a sharper sword.

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LEO TIME passes more quickly July 24 — Aug 23 when we are tense. We lose ourselves in an argument and the next thing we know, hours have gone by. All the more reason to avoid conflict. What we really want is that state of supreme relaxation when we notice the magic in every minute, and relish the tranquillity of existence. In this way, we can slow time down. Can we turn it back? We can. We can become so mellow we are able to return to an event and see it differently. You can do that today. Now, please keep reading. I’ve recorded your new, four-minute forecast. I want to tell you how you can change your week. . . and your life! Call 0906 751 5605. VIRGO NOW Mars is moving

Aug 24 — Sep 23 through your sign in the right direction, you are regaining energy, but experiencing tension. This influence is challenging, but it is doing you a favour. In bringing to a head a series of live issues it is causing you to see how many sources of stress there are in your world. You won’t become free of them by wrestling with each in turn. You will achieve liberation by learning to shrug your shoulders and walk away from arguments that are not worth having. Now, please keep reading. I’ve recorded your new, four-minute forecast. I want to tell you how you can change your week. . . and your life! Call 0906 751 5606.

LIBRA PRACTICE, they tell us, Sep 24 — Oct 23 makes perfect. That depends on what you are practising. If you are trying to refine the art of mistake-making, then the more you do it the more imperfect you will become. Now why, you may wonder, would anyone want to do that? Consciously, I’m sure they would not. But hidden agendas are funny things. Sometimes, we inwardly set out to scupper opportunities. If you want something to change today, don’t do what you have always done. Now, please keep reading. I’ve recorded your new, four-minute forecast. I want to tell you how you can change your week. . . and your life! Call 0906 751 5607. SCORPIO ALL small children

Oct 24 — Nov 22 go through a phase of asking: ‘Why?’ They meet every answer with another question, regardless of what they have just been told. Most of us grow out of it. We realise it is futile to keep going round in the same old circles. We learn to accept. Sometimes, we swing too far to the other extreme. We don’t even bother looking for explanations any more. But right now, you need to scrutinise an assumption. Look beyond the obvious; listen to your instincts. Now, please keep reading. I’ve recorded your new, four-minute forecast. I want to tell you how you can change your week. . . and your life! Call 0906 751 5608.

SAGITTARIUS Nov 23 — Dec 21 WHEN we

are young we are taught behavioural codes that we must adhere to. How to speak to people. How to present ourselves. And there are some things we are told we must never do. We cannot have two names or two identities. We must be, today, the same we were yesterday. And if we change our minds about a matter, we need to apologise for this inconsistency. Yet where, in all this, is there room for growth? Some rules may need to be broken. Now, please keep reading. I’ve recorded your new, four-minute forecast. I want to tell you how you can change your week. . . and your life! Call 0906 751 5609. CAPRICORN THE world Dec 22 — Jan 20 can seem most unjust. It even becomes easy to imagine some vengeful cosmic force seeking humans to hurt or disappoint. Have we really been put here for the amusement of such malevolent entities if, indeed, they actually exist? Most often, when we have a hard time, it is because we value our own invented agenda more highly than we trust the presence of some benign, divine plan. Yet the universe believes in you right now. Try, in return, to believe in it! Now, please keep reading. I’ve recorded your new, four-minute forecast. I want to tell you how you can change your week. . . and your life! Call 0906 751 5610.

AQUARIUS WHAT do you Jan 21 — Feb 19 really know about your situation? You can look at all the technical details that seem beyond you and you can decide to worry. You can feel confused because you lack information, or because you do not have the experience to follow a line of argument. Or you can focus instead on what you do know — and you can realise that this is more than enough! Don’t worry about questions you can’t yet answer. In time all will become clear. Now, please keep reading. I’ve recorded your new, four-minute forecast. I want to tell you how you can change your week. . . and your life! Call 0906 751 5611.

PISCES SOMETIMES when Feb 20 — Mar 20 athletes complete a race, they have to keep on running. They can’t just stop at the finishing line. Sometimes, too, when people are engaged in an intense debate or a passionate argument, they may carry on squabbling, even after the main issues have been resolved. It is difficult, once you get into a way of being, to shake off a mood or an attitude. Might someone now be carrying forward something that it is perfectly safe and appropriate for them to leave behind? Now, please keep reading. I’ve recorded your new, four-minute forecast. I want to tell you how you can change your week. . . and your life! Call 0906 751 5612.