Horoscopes

ARIES: You'll be judged less by what you say and more by what you do and the way you do it this week. So if you're planning on throwing away the rule book (and when aren't you?), best make sure you do it very, very graciously.

TAURUS: Consider exemplary Tauran UNICEF worker Audrey Hepburn, the glamorous screen gamine of elegant form, iron will and enormous heart; her combination of grace, determination and kindness is definitely this week's ace way to go.

GEMINI: Cold country philosophers Karl Marx and Soren Kierkegaard are this week's birthday heavyweights, which gives you an idea of its energetic solidity. Birthday girl Tammy Wynette strikes a lighter note; this is definitely a week to stand by your plan.

CANCER: Been doing too much and not getting enough back? We all have, so don't go there. Tauran transits can make us greedy for things we think we're lacking - but it isn't anyone else's job to supply what we already have. An attitude of gratitude would alter your reality.

LEO: This week's birthday strategist is Machiavelli, the clever Florentine whose name's synonymous with cunning plan. You'll need to be a wily coyote Majesty to get your way with the present energetic force field - as in Total Control meets Attack Of The Majestic Agenda.

VIRGO: Don't get so totally engrossed and caught up in plans and practicalities there's no time this week for small, important joys - like spending time with friends, enjoying something you hadn't planned, spoiling yourself and someone else, ordinary lighthearted fooling round...

LIBRA: This week's blunt and forthright, tell-it-like-it-is types mightn't be your cup of soothing oolong, but the good news to balance that is that this is the time of year you're most likely to attract gifts, inheritances, rewards or unexpected windfalls.

SCORPIO: This week's stars are ripe for a wonderful wallow, and the coming terribly Tauran weekend with its dark Moon rising is just your cup of carpaccio (apologies to Scorpio vegos - if there are any). You'll be monumentally magnetic. And unutterably stubborn.

SAGITTARIUS: This week's doggedly Tauran. There's no sense going against that, so use its unswerving determination to get something done you've been psyching yourself up to for yonks, but kept putting off. If that happens to involve a final phase, forget fireworks - aim for grace.

CAPRICORN: Fiscal constrictions, financial constraints and similar material considerations are on this week's Capricorn storyboard. Your core stability and level-headedness will be stretched - just don't let your tendency to do absolutely everything add extra pressure.

AQUARIUS: This week's the birthday of Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. Which reminds us that while it's sometimes delish to dish the dirt (in your case more from curiosity than malicious intent), whatever goes around inevitably boomerangs back.

PISCES: Taurus time brings certain souls the unbearable heaviness of being. It brings you the opportunity to support someone's lightening up by accessing their imaginative, artistic or spiritual riches - which in turn strengthens your own love muscle and pumps up this week's creative juices.