Horoscope

ARIES: Aries usually bring out the best or worst in others - guess which, when you're stressed or overstretched? Pisces time's always a mystery dance, so why get aggravated because you don't know what's going on. Who does? How much do you ever really know anyway...

TAURUS: You Taurans like taking your time and hate being hurried, but right now Mars and Venus don't want you bogged down and stuck in a rut through some stubborn refusal to change your ways. So their mandatory mantra for you this week is: Just Do It...

GEMINI: This week's must-do list: Not get seduced by time-wasting diversions and excursions. Give in gracefully. Practise deep listening. Spend intimate, quality time at Maison Gemini. If possible listen to old time Gemini prophet Bob Dylan singing How Does It Feeeeeeeel...

CANCER: This week you might finally understand that nobody ever makes you feel anything - you're the orchestrator of what you experience. And you have the ability and responsibility to create an environment in which everyone, including yourself, feels nurtured and secure.

LEO: Dramatic mood swings feature in the Theatre Of This Week, with your Majesty objective one second, passionately irrational the next. Feeling either reassured or ignored is your choice - but letting emotional fluctuations escalate into full-blown histrionics will be painful all round.

VIRGO: This is as good a week as any to address your most defeating beliefs about yourself. You know the ones: I'm doing it wrong, I'll never be good enough, real Virgos don't make mistakes - they do everything perfectly the first time. But good human beings aren't perfect. They're real.

LIBRA: Piscean transits do aggravate Libran indecision, so when you start weighing up a dozen different alternatives set time limits on your decision-making and when your deadline's up, take the best available option. Then, like Pats in Absolutely Fabulous, don't question it.

SCORPIO: You're the zodiac's soul warriors, Scorpios, and when the dark lords wear their biggest blackest jackboots, the light forces need your support. The old is morphing into the new and the reality isn't slick and filmic - but the more you're able to let go, the less messy it gets.

SAGITTARIUS: All sorts of fascinating information is bubbling up from the depths and flooding in from the ethers this week. But to access it you'll need to switch from transmitting to receiving mode - or have you convinced yourself you can talk and listen at the same time?

CAPRICORN: Fire signs like it hot, water signs like it wet and air signs like it floaty - but earth signs like things solid, which this week isn't likely to be. So it's a good week for research - what you do when you're not sure what you're doing.

AQUARIUS: If this week's insights aren't useful, discard them. If they are, use them. For example, an astral flash about Elvis' spiritual teachings: Love me tender, Please surrender, Return to sender... Useful, because it's advising you to be loving, stop resisting and send negativity back to its source.

PISCES: The pull of your private dreamworld's strong, but don't let it float you off to la-la land via the Secret Life Of Pisces On Planet Romance fantasy. Use that fabulously fertile imagination to create something rather than escape from something else.