JONATHAN CAINER

Hi Jonathan, Can you please explain your perspective on Mercury retrograde. Specifically in regards to signing contracts, the lease or sale of a house, or the acceptance of a new job offer. Is this Mercury retrograde different because of where Jupiter is situated? Kieran Hi Kieran, I don’t think it is different. I simply think that a retrograde Mercury is never the problem that some astrologers claim. I’d happily advise someone to do a deal or take on a job while it is apparently moving backwards. In my experience, it actually creates a beneficial time for all such activity.

ARIES Mar 21 — Apr 20

‘MAKE up your mind to be happy, life is a merry-go-round.’ So sang the troubadour Donovan, adding to a long tradition of songs exhorting the listener to be cheerful. Earlier examples include Put On A Happy Face and If You’re Happy And You Know It. Recently, there’s been Don’t Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin and Happy by Pharrell Williams. Why are such tunes popular? Because sometimes, we actually can hum ourselves into a good mood! Events this week may yet bring such music to your ears. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5601.

TAURUS Apr 21 — May 21

INVARIABLY, some situations will aggravate, irritate and exasperate us. We may try with all our might to avoid such scenarios. We may consciously seek the path of peace and strive to rise above every possible cause of conflict. Our patience will be tested nonetheless. If, this week, you feel as if you are being put to such a test, simply remember that this is a test you can pass. Even if a blip of fury passes across the radar screen of your mind, you can drown it out with the light of hope in your heart. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5602.

GEMINI May 22 — June 22

IF WE try, and keep trying, long enough, hard enough, it is amazing how far we can get. You really mustn’t see success, this week, as elusive or unattainable. Like a piece of lost property that you don’t expect ever to find again, it is very near to where it was last seen. It has been put to one side by a conscientious passer-by who is just waiting for you to go back and claim it. ‘Go back’ may be the operative phrase this week. It is time to have the courage to right a wrong from the past and correct an injustice. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5603.

CANCER

June 23 — July 23

WE OUGHT to be awestruck. If we only understood the full extent of the miracle by which we had been brought to planet Earth, we would surely jump for joy and raise our arms to the heavens in a gesture of gratitude. We are so lucky and blessed, yet we forget so easily and get so lost. We identify with our trials and troubles. We begin to think that these are the be all and end all of our lives. That is such a sad view. This week’s brighter events will remind you of the bigger picture and all that it gives to be glad of. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5604.

LEO July 24 — Aug 23

WHAT are you waiting for this week? Why don’t I wait here with you? Let us prop up the sides of the page by leaning against the borders and twiddling our thumbs. Now, how much time has passed since we started? It feels as if we’ve been here forever, doesn’t it? I’m tired of hanging around here, aren’t you? I wonder whether we really have to wait. There surely must be some way we could set a process in motion or make something happen. Soon you will find that more is under your control than you knew. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5605.

VIRGO Aug 24 — Sep 23

THERE is no cosmic conspiracy. There is no astral argument. You should not fear that you have offended some heavenly power or that if you make a particular move, you will be going against the grain, acting at an inauspicious moment and thus invoking the ire of some disapproving deity. Mercury may be retrograde, but the world is still your oyster. The climate strongly supports every effort that you may decide to make in an attempt to better your lot in life and to solve an old problem. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5606.

LIBRA Sep 24 — Oct 23

PEOPLE often wonder whether events were ‘meant to be’. ‘Could this be part of some heavenly plan?’ they wonder. ‘Am I being shown a sign from a higher power?’ they go on to ponder. I’d be the last to suggest this never happens, but do we sometimes place more faith than we should in the idea that the cosmos always knows exactly where it wants us — and when — and why? If the universe is really this organised, it must have an amazing filing system! That said, you will get good guidance this week. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5607.

SCORPIO Oct 24 — Nov 22

IF YOU suspect that something can’t happen this week, you perhaps ought to ask yourself why. What makes you so sure that a problem is insurmountable or an obstacle is immutable? More often than not, the factors that hold us back most dramatically are, at least partially, psychological. When we believe something is possible, we naturally do our best to make it possible — and almost inevitably, it becomes possible. That law applies equally in reverse! Summon your faith this week. It may be all you need. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5608.

SAGITTARIUS

Nov 23 — Dec 21

BIG, brave, bold choices are the stuff of story books. Tales of adventure. Heroic epics. Gripping dramas. We may love to sit back and watch others make them, but do we really want such decisions to be part of our daily lives? What if they have consequences? How will we deal with those? If we end up with an outcome that pleases us, we won’t ask such questions. We will just be glad of our success and will feel pleased with ourselves. And if we fail? Don’t even consider such an idea this week. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5609.

CAPRICORN Dec 22 — Jan 20

YOU can be so creative when you want to be. So imaginative. So inventive. So clever. We all express our artistic flair in different ways. Some are dramatic and flamboyant. Others are subtle and tasteful. Some make it obvious, some keep it secret. Some are adventurous, others take simple satisfaction in finding ever more ways to be capable, resourceful and effective. You are good at what you do and what you are doing, right now, is good for you. It will yet bring a surprising development. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5610.

AQUARIUS Jan 21 — Feb 19

SOME people think only simplistic thoughts. They steer clear of caveats and complications. Are their lives any the better for this? We must ask such a person, if we ever meet one. There aren’t many around here. Aquarians deal with intricate conflict on a daily basis. Consider the very symbol of your sign. It belongs to the element of air, yet is traditionally represented by a water-bearer. But the water in this urn is supposed to be ‘truth’; the very breath of wisdom. And wisdom is all you need today. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5611.

PISCES Feb 20 — Mar 20

DO YOU happen to know what we’re all doing here? Sorry. Silly question. No one else has a clue, so why should you? It is, though, surprising how many folk have opinions, even if they can hardly back these up with facts. None of us like to feel there are questions that cannot be answered, even if it’s clear that life itself is an unanswerable question. You find yourself, this week, attempting to make sense of a mystery. The best you can make is an attempt. But simply making an attempt will be enough. Don’t miss your 2016 Full Year Ahead Love and Money forecasts. There’s great news. Call 0906 751 5612.