Horoscopes

ARIES: You have a more potent effect on those around you than you perhaps realise, so be aware of your energy emissions this week - leaking fury fumes makes people exit your orbit pretty quickly. You may have reasons for being angry, but you won't have much company.

TAURUS: Venus is in the mood for luuurve, Mars is in passionate pursuit and Scorpio Venus really likes Taurus Mars. Hormones are pumping and hearts thumping as spring fever makes the romance zone a rollercoaster this week - exciting, but don't expect a smooth ride...

GEMINI: You can usually size people up in a trice, but this week you'll need to look deeper and really check out what's underneath a good looking veneer. Right now it's fairly easy to be tricked by surface slickness, charming blarney or convincingly schmick presentation.

CANCER: You won't enjoy this week much if you keep comparing it to good times gone by. But this is quite a propitious time for cutting some of those invisible strings tying you to the way things were. To maybe think about initiating a little crab liberation...

LEO: Leos tend to express themselves readily, but your jungle roar can unnerve citizens perhaps unaware of your big mushy heart. Mercury moving into Libra gives you an almost indecent injection of wit and charm, so ask nicely this week and refusals are unlikely.

VIRGO: This week's Virgoan role model is gritty singer Leonard Cohen, scathing social commentator and outrageous love poet. Leonard's unrelenting disdain for the bland, pallid and safe makes an excellent guideline for the choices you make over the next seven days.

LIBRA: A slightly trying few days ahead for air signs, but no real drama if you stay reasonable and agreeable. Venus is a touch petulant, but lowering this week's demands will keep the peace - combined with performing Libra's karmic chore of comforting over-emotional friends...

SCORPIO: Venus is glamour coating your social persona to maxi attractiveness. You'll be drawn to unusual people - and vice versa - because they're the ones this week who'll love your daring to make the commonplace more provocative and the mundane a little bit more mysterious.

SAGITTARIUS: Whatever diligent promises you begin the week with are bound to fade as life takes over. Still, try and squeeze out the last drops of organising Virgo energy to get Sagworld in order and current plans in place before the weekend's party stars kick in...

CAPRICORN: With this week's energy still in the sign of the Fussy Ones, symptoms of the do-it-right virus linger. You're keen to produce works of excellence - that's good. Getting all exacting and demanding - not so good. When you start driving everyone nuts, it's time to ease up.

AQUARIUS: As this week's Virgo energy merges with Libra, style imperatives rule and you'll want to do a particular new spring thing in your own inimitable fashion. By all means enjoy life's worldly surfaces to the max, but don't forget about inner beauty - the bit that really matters.

PISCES: This week's issues are likely to revolve around fairness, equity and the exercise of power - involving lessons to do with integrity, responsibility and respect: people being paid what they're worth and given a fair deal. On a lighter note, love is in the air and artistry in the wind...