Issue 718

Uh-oh! This week Mercury's merciless in the sign of talking fast and forgetting to listen, retrograde Mars in Sagittarius picks fights with Aries Venus, and it's a good time for all good water signs to come to the rescue...

Aries: If things don't happen instantly, you always assume the whole world's turned into one of those frozen-immobile street buskers. But frustration's a great dharma teacher, fast and furious ones - learn to take advantage of the pause that freshens.

Taurus: Lunching and munching, vibing and imbibing out there in the empire of the senses, Birthday Person? The sole serpent in this week's earthly paradise is that green-eyed demon jealousy - try not to let it spoil your enjoyment.

Gemini: Wordmaster Mercury certainly lends extra weight to your powers of persuasion and a whole lot of oomph to your street cred this week. But do remember to let others have a nanosecond of airspace occasionally - say every half hour or so.

Cancer: Some people hoarding stuff causes corresponding accumulations in the physical body. This is a good time to get rid of whatever doesn't fit your current reality - especially old attitudes that don't really work for you anymore.

Leo: An amber light kind of week - meaning proceed with caution because Venus is twitchy and irritable, huffy and easily ruffled. Pacify her by playing the lover, not the warrior - negotiate pleasing treaties and disarm her with charm. You know how...

Virgo: This week's people could promise you the moon - then forget all about it in the next breath. But it's an entertaining gameplay if you can lighten up and let go of trying to do it right. And expecting everyone else to behave at the same time.

Libra: This week's existence could give you quite an exciting ride along fluctuations in the social ebb and flow, rouge currents in the to and fro of emotional ping pong, an unexpected changes in the give and take of domestic finances...

Scorpio: Yes, you're busy. No, you're not impressed by wimps. But this week needs all the emotional healing it can get, so don't be a loner - share some of your water energy with some of those not fortunate to be born a Scorpio.

Sagittarius: With troublemaking retro Mars, Master of Mayhem, spreading discord and disorder, frankly this may not be one of the years easiest weeks. Humour's usually the smartest survival tool - providing it's not at anyone else's expense.

Capricorn: Don't get so engrossed and caught up in plans and practicalities (particularly during the weekends Capsicum Moon) that there's no time for the really important things like kindness, friendship, ordinary light hearted fun and fooling around.

Aquarius: Rather than advise you quieten your busy minds this week, I suggest using them instead to discriminate very carefully between what's really of value in your life, environment behaviour and attitudes. And what's fairly obviously not.

Pisces: This weeks dry and torrid climate is conducive to Fish feeling fabulous - except possibly by giving others caught up in worldly concerns what they really need. Which is the loving understanding and watery wisdom of your sensitive, sensual Piscean perspective