Horoscope

with Lilith

With this week's Sun in the sign of cute but complex crustaceans, its time to raise a celebratory pint of claret in memory of founding Echo editor and quintessential Cancerian Nick Shand - swashbuckling community mover, lover of life and the goddess, generous friend.

ARIES: Aries rules the head, as in headlong and headstrong, but this week requires softer options than Martian directness. Treat others the way you love being treated yourself - with velvet gloves instead of the scrubbing mitt.

TAURUS: Everything centres round home this week - the comings, goings, to-ings, fro-ings, stayings, leavings and happenings at Casa Toro. Its a time when family matters - in all their difficult, delinquent, delightful and demanding splendour - really do matter.

GEMINI: Cancerian transits take us diving from the lofty sphere of ideas into a seething sea of feelings. We're all in the emotional zone now Twins, and your Inner Feeler's coming out of the closet - ready or not.

CANCER: Cancerian security issues round family and finances, home and possessions are up front and personal this week. But before you go all frantic and panicky why not relax and trust existence - hasn't it looked after you so far?

LEO: Don't be quite so quick to dismiss that biblical thing about loving your enemy as mere wimpishess. It actually makes selfish sense, and intelligent insurance for when friends let you down - as they're occasionally known to.

VIRGO: Like oysters with painful sand particles, Virgos can transform life's irritants into precious pearls of wisdom - by viewing them, not as hideous hindrances, but opportunities for your evolution. This week offers plenty to work with.

LIBRA: Partnerships and family - those sources of pleasure and pain, amazement and betrayal, delight and strife - are in focus this week. Problems can't be solved by Libran logic either - they require the wiser language of the heart.

SCORPIO: This week your forensic x-ray Scorpio vision penetrates beneath everyday affairs, behind the mask everyone wears, to what's not being talked about or acknowledged. Whether you use this classified info for control or liberation will be your integrity test.

SAGITTARIUS: Despite his name and believing it unlucky to sleep thirteen in a bed, Sagittarian Noel Coward bragged: I don't believe in fear, I find it limiting. An appropriate mantra for this week's Archers in the anxiety-prone time of the Crab.

CAPRICORN: Most astrologers agree that Goats are born old, then in some sort of astral compensation, never seem to age. Like wine, cheese and Capricorn Marlene Dietrich, they keep getting tastier as they mature. Best times this week are with Cancerians.

AQUARIUS: Cancerian transits act as emotional canopeners. Aquarians and feelings go together like oil and. Waterpourers - but you could try locating your emotions by pretending they're a strange, unexplored planet in another galaxy. Actually, you don't even have to pretend.

PISCES: The idea of Uranus in Pisces for the next seven years might drive you into testing whether the road of excess really does lead to the palace of wisdom. It may - but how many travelers survive the journey?