Horoscopes

ARIES: It would be a crying shame if you were so preoccupied (and you do tend to get tunnel vision when you're absorbed in something) that you weren't available to participate in this week's mad antics, hilarious celebrations and entertaining games.

TAURUS: This sound-around, mega-movement week stimulates degrees of change not entirely comfortable for Taurans. What to say except life wasn't meant to be comfortable? Lack of communication makes it worse, so keep an exchange of information and concerns happening.

GEMINI: If you're content to skim the superficial surfaces of this week, well and good. But unless you're prepared to engage with life at a deeper level, your ability to get up close and personal with others will correspondingly only go so far - and no further.

CANCER: Gemini vibes stimulate your mental/verbal abilities - and also your critical tendencies. You'll probably angst and worry this week when all you really need do is simplify, be clear, slow down, relax, and stop imagining difficulties where they don't exist.

LEO: This information-rich, socially vibrant week unfortunately has everyone talking too much about themselves to pay your Maj enough quality attention. You'd rather spontaneously combust than languish unappreciated, so you'll overdo it no matter what your stars say.

VIRGO: Dismiss this week's merry pranksters as impractical, unreliable and untogether, and you'll miss out on a lot of laughs. Letting the Critic have some time off - it's been working so hard lately - and revelling in a bit of frivolous silliness would actually be a healthy thing, Virgos.

LIBRA: With today's birthday boy the artist formerly known as Prince, it comes as no surprise this week's pulsating with come-hither visuals, emphatic body language and power flirting. No way that agile mind will be overpowering your instincts or undermining your intuition...

SCORPIO: Compartmentalising leads to inconsistency: being great in some areas, deficient in others. Concentrate on personal integration this week - dismantling artificial barriers you've created for yourself, so energy can flow over from one area of your life to others that need it.

SAGITTARIUS: Archers aren't only talkers, as this column may have occasionally implied. You're above all action people - and this week less talk, more action's definitely your best strategy. You'll flash on a dozen solutions to a problem, but only one will be right for the job.

CAPRICORN: Minds that multiply the smallest matter will drive you crackers unless you avoid their machinations this week. Definitely don't give yourself a headache - or let anyone else give you one - over backbiting gossip, stressful hearsay or unsubstantiated facts.

AQUARIUS: This week's Gemini juice has you cruising, schmoozing, and using that brilliant understanding of systems to make your life smoother rather than more hectic. Well, that's the plan: if you're doing it, you're in tune with the cosmos - if not, then why not?

PISCES: Love mama Venus moving into Cancer usually means spending more time at home. Or, since home's where the heart is, wherever home is for you. If that happens to be work, then bring more love to your work or workplace this week.