Horoscopes

ARIES: You're more interested in the broad sweep and maximum impact right now, secretly thinking: Virgo can look after the details next week... It's a fine line between decisive and pushy, but one you'll have to find and tread if you want this week to work for you.

TAURUS: Interesting and entertaining appeals more than solid and sensible right now, and present transits make indulgence almost mandatory. Your appetite for the rich and delicious is legendary, but over-consumption at this week's feasts and festivities? There's only so much a body can stand...

GEMINI: You might consider it treason to put feelings before reason, but this week's emotional extravaganzas push drama ratings high. Resist the impulse to pressure yourself to perform mightily, to succeed brilliantly - remember simple, ordinary pleasures.

CANCER: Though Mercury's direct again - and what a blessing - we're still in for another week of command performances, so it's politic to use tact and care with your choice of words. People are monumentally touchy and apt to take offence where none was meant.  Or was it...?

LEO: With natal celebrities like Napoleon, Mae West, Sean Penn, Madonna and Bill Clinton, this week naturally won't lack fireworks.  But temperamental thespian outbursts, while undeniably satisfying, could push your adoring audience over their tolerance threshold...

VIRGO: Try not to blindly follow rules this week - any rules, especially your own.  Monitor knee-jerk responses.  Improvise, be spontaneous, stay in the moment and do what seems the right thing for the time.  You might surprise yourself.  You'll certainly surprise others.

LIBRA: Hooray hooray, it's always a happy day when Venus swans into Libra, her favourite homestay. Your skillful mix of judicious flattery, tact and practicality makes you flavour of the week - just don't go deflecting attention from any Leos, or fur will fly.

SCORPIO: An answer you've been waiting for looks like finally arriving this week, but it mightn't be the one you were expecting.  The cheek! Well at least you know now where to go: in a different direction - unless you're going to become an unutterably stubborn supporter of lost causes.

SAGITTARIUS: As the mighty engines of the cosmos reboot, you energetic dynamos could start burning others out. Not everyone's blessed with your formidable stamina, so adapt your voltage to at least be able to interface with more conventional wiring this week.

CAPRICORN: This week you might find time's taken care of a lot of what's been bothering you. Financial and relationship dilemmas start working themselves out, friendship dramas somehow get sorted and you'll feel like - yes!  You'll feel like making luuurve...

AQUARIUS: To quote Aquarian Lewis Carroll: O frabjous day, calloo callay! Mercury's out of retrograde and the world's wheels surge into forward motion once more... Cooperative teamwork will be far more emotionally and financially rewarding than flying solo this week.

PISCES: This week's Venus moving into Libra brings you creative new ways to deal with boring chores you haven't felt much like doing lately. Other people are still exasperatingly self obsessed: hard work and high maintenance, but with spring in the air, do you really care...