JONATHAN CAINER

Dear Jonathan, I hear two heliocentric Grand Crosses (Earth, Venus, Pluto and Uranus; and Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune) are due in January. What do they mean? C Dear C, You’d have to ask a heliocentric astrologer! Such practitioners draw up charts as if they were outside the solar system in a spacecraft. Their view places the Sun at the centre. That’s astronomically correct, of course, but perhaps like trying to direct a car by remote control from an overhead helicopter. Geocentric, Earth-centered astrology provides what (I feel) is a more useful view through the actual windscreen! ARIES Mar 21 — Apr 20 NO TWO stories are

ever quite the same, though they are often based on familiar principles. ‘From rags to riches’, for example. Or, ‘from riches to rags and then’ (because we all like a happy ending) ‘back to riches again’. But do our true-life stories conveniently conform to those traditional templates? Should you anticipate a pleasing upturn in your own tale, just in time to coincide with the season of goodwill? It may sound corny, but helpful heavenly factors suggest this could yet occur. NEW! Want to know what 2016 has in store for you? There’s great news in your yearahead prediction. Call 0906 751 5601. TAURUS SOME say the

Apr 21 — May 21 definition of consciousness is simply being awake. Many a spiritual teacher, though, would explain that higher consciousness involves more. It is to do not just with being alert, but with being alert to the fact that you are alert! Aware of your own awareness. Cognisant of your own power to recognise. We don’t have to be victims of our thoughts, we can change what we think. We can take power over our ideas and, in the process, gain power over our own future. You can do that. NEW! Your four-minute forecast for 2016. It’s going to be a much better year than you think. Find out why on 0906 751 5602.

GEMINI

‘ASK a silly May 22 — June 22

question,’ they say, ‘and you’ll get a silly answer.’ What if you ask an awkward question? Can we change our experience of a situation by modifying the way we examine it? If we ask a hopeful question, we may get a more hopeful answer, but if we ask a clever question, who knows if we’ll attain valuable information or invite a deluge of distracting complication? You are tempted to phrase a question. The answer to it could alter so much. ‘Not asking’ is hardly an option. NEW! Want to know what 2016 has in store for you? There’s great news in your prediction for the year ahead. Call 0906 751 5603. CANCER IMAGINATIVE

June 23 — July 23 idealists with impressive prescience see the shape of things to come. Mere mortals who follow in their wake may have no such over-arching understanding of an eventual destination, but they find themselves following a path identified by those prophets. During that journey, they often encounter difficult details that those visionaries failed to foresee.

That, though, doesn’t mean they are heading in a different direction. Don’t let a brief, unexpected

wrinkle give rise to a prolonged frown. NEW! Your four-minute forecast for 2016. It’s going to be a much better year than you think. Find out why on 0906 751 5604.

LEO July 24 — Aug 23 IF SANTA can fit gifts for

so many children on his sleigh, and happens to be visiting their homes anyhow, why can’t he bring extra deliveries for their parents? He could deliver solutions to their problems and, as these would be psychological, rather than physical, they may not even add weight to his sack. Perhaps he does. Perhaps this is precisely what some kind cosmic force sends our way each festive season, but we somehow fail to notice it. That may yet be what you get sent. NEW! Want to know what 2016 has in store for you? There’s great news in your prediction for the yearahead. Call 0906 751 5605. VIRGO WE THINK to ourselves

Aug 24 — Sep 23 ‘All I need is this’ or ‘Everything will be fine if that happens’. Yet the solutions we identify are not always entirely appropriate to the problems. We act like illtrained physicians more concerned with treating symptoms than tackling the true cause of the malaise. Many a time, the question we really need to ask ourselves is: ‘Why do I feel that I need this to happen — or that not to occur?’ The most exciting discovery that you are due to make

involves the recognition of a pattern. NEW! Your four-minute forecast for 2016. It’s going to be a much better year than you think. Find out why on 0906 751 5606. LIBRA Sep 24 — Oct 23 EVEN glamorous

models have aspects of their appearance about which they are less than confident. ‘I may look OK from this angle, but I wouldn’t want anyone to see me from that side,’ they think. Such misgivings don’t exist only in the realm of the physical. Many of us suffer intellectual anxiety, too. ‘I’ll be OK as long as no one tests my knowledge about this or asks about that,’ we figure. Such insecurities are an aspect of the human condition. Don’t take yours too seriously. NEW! Want to know what 2016 has in store for you? There’s great news in your prediction for the year ahead. Call 0906 751 5607. SCORPIO IF YOU are the

Oct 24 — Nov 22 greatest, what about those faults, flaws and foibles about which, at times, you are painfully aware? How could you be wonderful if you are ever so slightly less than perfect? Because we are all ever so slightly less than perfect. That’s just the way we are made. When comparing any human with any other human, allowances must be made for downsides and drawbacks. If we start weighing up those one against another, we’ll never stop! You are good — and getting better. Be proud of that. NEW! Your four-minute forecast for 2016. It’s going to be a much better year than you think. Find out why on 0906 751 5608.

SAGITTARIUS WHY let Nov 23 — Dec 21

someone else pose a problem or create stress? What would be the point when you can so easily do it yourself? All you have to do is worry: a concern can be amplified, a fear can be exaggerated, a decision can be regretted or a deadline can be panicked about. We don’t require others to invent these things for us. That’s like getting them to breathe, eat or think on our behalf — with one difference. Those activities do us good! Treat yourself better. NEW! Want to know what 2016 has in store for you? There’s great news in your prediction for the year ahead. Call 0906 751 5609.

CAPRICORN CAPRICORNS

Dec 22 — Jan 20 exude natural authority. People take one look at you and think: ‘This person must be in charge.’ Even if you are unassuming, you still tend to speak in a tone that implies expertise. Folk figure your advice is worth hearing and your input deserves respect. Are they right? Why, the very fact that you are prepared to contemplate the possibility that you might not be a constant source of reliable insight is proof that you don’t let arrogance colour your judgment. All the more reason to trust it. NEW! Your four-minute forecast for 2016. It’s going to be a much better year than you think. Find out why on 0906 751 5610.

AQUARIUS WAS the

Jan 21 — Feb 19 cosmos invented for the sole purpose of allowing humans to make money? Can those who do so be considered successful while those who struggle be seen as dispensable casualties of natural selection? Or are there deeper reasons why we exist? Whether we feel religion or Richard Dawkins can explain how we all got here, we surely can’t assume life is void of meaning. An awakening of profound understanding may yet bring an inspired insight. NEW! Want to know what 2016 has in store for you? There’s great news in your prediction for the year ahead. Call 0906 751 5611. PISCES WHAT do clocks and

Feb 20 — Mar 20 watches actually count while they are doing all that ticking and tocking? Well, yes, we know the official answer: they are measuring the passage of time. But what is time? Time may be based on a rough approximation of the spin of the Earth as it orbits the Sun, but to each living being, time has a different meaning. Dramatic differences in our experiences are common. You may fear you don’t have as much time as you need to accomplish something. But perhaps you do.