Horoscopes

ARIES: Your zest for life and love of expressing yourself from the heart makes you a confident teacher or enthusiastic leader on this week's stage - as long as you're prepared to be a team player and not get too hung up on right and wrong, good and bad, best and less.

TAURUS: Determined, no nonsense and unstoppable - you mean business this week and anyone in your way better step aside. But a one-track mind and too tight a focus has its drawbacks; don't be unaware of what's happening on the periphery.

GEMINI: Geminis always think they have the latest information, and it's true - you usually do. It isn't easy for someone with so much to share to stop talking and really listen - but this week you won't be able to learn anything new till you do.

CANCER: If you're having an attack of emotional acopia - the inability to deal with your feelings - others will step in and cope for you this week. But they'll grumble about it, and they'll make you pay... now don't you feel more like doing it yourself?

LEO: Leos like to be grand and expansive, which this week could be seen as demanding and bombastic. While minimal simply isn't your style, it's worthwhile at least considering streamlining and downsizing - and don't for a minute think lean doesn't suit you.

VIRGO: As you get this week sorted, organised and ordered, others with completely different agendas are doing the same. Then it's going to take willingness, tolerance and compromise getting those agendas to mesh with, rather than mess with, yours.

LIBRA: With the Sun and Mercury in Virgo, sign of taking care of business, this week's pragmatic, just-do-it efficiency is extremely auspicious for tackling something you've been procrastinating about and putting off for the longest time. Something financial perhaps?

SCORPIO: This week's stars suggest lightening up on analysing, rehashing, critiquing and needing to be right. Not taking things so seriously. Being a little more forgiving - more willing to consider other people's points of view. And above all, choosing your allies wisely.

SAGITTARIUS: You immediately see what needs doing this week, but you'll just have to live with the fact that others aren't quite so quick. Keep your perennial enemy, impatience, on a tight leash - it only puts others on edge and gets them offside.

CAPRICORN: Capricorns like money and lots of it. Skillful Capricorns recognise when they have enough and don't become slaves to the comfort zone or victims of affluenza. Or let the tail wag the dog. Or compromise their integrity for dollars.

AQUARIUS: While this transit mightn't be the year's easiest on the nerves, it could be one of the most productive. A week of peak achievement, actually - so long as you don't get too side-tracked with disruptions and distractions.

PISCES: Just when you were thinking things are pretty unfair, someone's likely to stand up and go out of their way on your behalf. This is a week when disputes could be smoothed out, your contribution acknowledged and your services recognised.