JONATHAN CAINER

DEAR JONATHAN, You’ve used the phrase ‘the year is coming to a close’. But you base the readings you give on an individual’s date of birth. Surely my year will end on my birthday. Others’ years will end on theirs. So why stick with the calendar? David DEAR DAVID, Touché, as they say in Quebec and Cameroon. I agree there’s no astrological basis for the conventional calendar. But there’s significant psychological importance in a system of measuring time that millions have been taught to believe in. Astrologers ignore this at their peril.

ARIES Mar 21 — Apr 20 THE world is getting

ready for a festive season. The holidays are coming up, and while some can hardly wait for them to start, others are rushing to tick off items from their to-do lists so when the big break begins, they can feel they have properly earned a rest and a celebration. You are engaged in an activity that is unlikely to reach full fruition in such a short time. This should not be a source of frustration. This weekend, you can only do what you can. How can you do more? NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your year-ahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5601. TAURUS WHEN people want

Apr 21 — May 21 to find fault with others, they rarely need much help or encouragement. They will soon pick upon some superficial aspect of another’s personality. Some say the best protection comes from being bland. Others feel that if they are going to be singled out for criticism whatever they do, they may as well do some truly controversial things. Tread carefully this weekend by all means, but don’t let this deter you from putting your foot down

firmly when enough is really enough. NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your year-ahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5602.

GEMINI May 22 — June 22 ‘THE human mind

is not designed to comprehend the meaning of words such as infinite or eternal,’ say philosophers. They do not compute. We live in a world of finite resources. We, ourselves, fit that very description. Not only are our days numbered, but the hours within any one of those days are numbered, too. You wish you had more time for an issue that could probably carry on absorbing you for ever. This weekend may yet help you reach an arrangement that proves just enough. NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your yearahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5603. CANCER MANY journalists

June 23 — July 23 keep an address book full of pundits. They need to be able to contact those experts for a quote about the latest trend in any field. ‘What is the modern consensus?’ ‘What are most folk moving away from or towards?’ Fashions and attitudes alter significantly over time. None of us want to be social dinosaurs. What might your own inner reporter be discovering, this weekend, about a view you once held dear? Something you once dismissed as beyond belief is pleasingly possible. NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your yearahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5604.

LEO SEIZE the moment. That July 24 — Aug 23 is the essence of a young person’s attitude, and right now you could hardly be younger at heart. And if you don’t yet feel that way, all the more reason to seize the moment. Grab it with both hands and make it your own. Let it spur you on, but don’t feel obliged to show it who’s boss. Rather, if you really want to make the most of the moment, let it take charge of you. Which moment? This one. The next, and, indeed, every moment that arises over this weekend, is full of opportunity. NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your yearahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5605. VIRGO IF YESTERDAY really

Aug 24 — Sep 23 happened, where is the proof? If tomorrow is genuinely on its way, shouldn’t we be able to see some evidence? We take an awful lot on trust. Even the most dedicated pragmatists and ardent, self-declared realists have more inner faith than they may care to confess. And how much of that faith is ever justified? A surprisingly large amount! The question for you, this weekend, is not how many reassuring signs can you see. It is how many hopeful thoughts you are entitled to believe in. NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your yearahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5606.

LIBRA ‘ALWAYS look on the Sep 24 — Oct 23

bright side of life.’ So goes the old Monty Python song. Apparently, in some parts of the world, it has replaced My Way as the most popular choice of funeral music. Some would say the song is ironic. After all, the context in which it was sung in the movie Life Of Brian could hardly have been more dire. Yet when sung with sincerity, that irony is negated by a sheer determination to place celebration above consternation. The bright side is the only side to look on this weekend. NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your year-ahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5607. SCORPIO HOW big was the

Oct 24 — Nov 22 Big Bang? It must have been noisy! If sound travels comparatively slowly, and if that bang were big enough and we are far enough away (in time and space) from its epicentre, perhaps it is only just reaching us. Maybe that’s why there are days when we can hardly hear ourselves think, or times, too, when it seems as if, no matter how loudly we shout, no one is listening to us. Don’t blame lack of progress this weekend on a confusing cosmos. If you want to make something happen, you can. NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your year-ahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5608.

SAGITTARIUS Nov 23 — Dec 21 YOU were

not designed to lead a humdrum existence. When the cosmos created you, no authority said: ‘This one is suited to a nine-to-five job and a normal lifestyle.’ Indeed, if you have managed to sustain such a thing, it is testimony to your self-discipline. You were made for the spur of the moment. You turn up trumps when others are bemoaning the chaotic cards they appear to have been dealt. This weekend, you will gain from your ability to see the unexpected. NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your yearahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5609. CAPRICORN IF WILLIAM

Dec 22 — Jan 20 Shakespeare had been writing for TV, would he have used so many long words? When Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel, was he sometimes tempted to fudge the face of an angel on the assumption that no one down on the ground could have seen? We do things the way we do them (or at least we do if born under Capricorn) because we care and take pride in our work. Yet this weekend, you enter territory where traditional values need not apply quite so strongly. NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your yearahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5610.

AQUARIUS YOU are a

Jan 21 — Feb 19 gifted individual who has abilities and insights that make you special. You should be proud of these. Those same natural advantages can sometimes be the reason why you don’t excel so easily in comparatively ordinary areas of life. There is more going on under the surface in you than there is in most folk. Even if, this weekend, it seems you are lagging behind in one area of endeavour, you are emerging at the forefront of a more important field. NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your yearahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5611.

PISCES Feb 20 — Mar 20 THIS week, we have been discussing the difference between intuition and imagination. For the avoidance of doubt (as they say in legal circles), intuition is a slight, almost insubstantial, sensation. A momentary misgiving or a vague impulse that we cannot explain. Imagination tends to provide us with a more detailed set of impressions. In comparison to intuition, it fills our inner screen with HD, 3D, Technicolor images. For wise decision-making this weekend, be wary of embellishing the former with the latter. NEW! Want to know what 2015 has in store for you? There’s great news in your year-ahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5612.