Horoscope

ARIES: Aries don't care for rules, and are usually quite surprised if anyone suggests they abide by them. But while you're doing your own thing this week, its worth keeping in mind the Dalai Lama's advice: Learn the rules, so you know how to break them properly.

TAURUS: Balance is still this week's mandate – as in making a conscious effort to balance reason with imagination, sense with sensibility and labour with relaxation – because all work and no play makes Taurus a dull starsign, and that simply isn't what you're about.

GEMINI: Who says you have to plan ahead? What's wrong with just letting circumstance determine your dance steps this week? Absolutely nothing – because with that unparalleled Geminian sense of opportunity, you'll figure out in nanoseconds how to take best advantage of whatever's going.

CANCER: Has your Inner Hoarder decided Planet Water's a dangerous place and you'd better play it safe by fixing your interest and laying in supplies? This is a test of Saturn, Crabs – who's there to help whenever you're ready to let go some of those crippling security issues.

LEO: Been having your say and your way – even instigating little minidramas to get it? Drama eventually gets wearing, and this week you're probably craving its opposite – tranquil stability. And finding it's not as easily achieved as you thought, because peace keeping takes patience, skill and dedication.

VIRGO: Good judgment's often arrived at via bad experiences – which are usually the result of bad judgment. Others need the freedom to make the mistakes required for their personal learning, Virgos. As you do – because making mistakes is the way we earthlings learn. Eventually...

LIBRA: While this week's looking good like Venusians know it should, there's tricky undercurrents bubbling under its surface and waving the Libran invisibility stick won't make them disappear. You'll just have to grit your lipstick and acknowledge their presence – because any decent existential artwork uses all the ingredients.

SCORPIO: Consider happiness, Scorps. You can't earn it, rent it, buy it, borrow it or talk someone else into lending you theirs. But you can have as much as you want, free, any time, to work with, play with and sleep with. You can do what you want with it – because it comes from inside you.

SAGITTARIUS: Doing increasingly more and enjoying it measurably less? Among the hundreds of daily tasks consuming your time and energy, how many are what you really came here to do? Take time off impersonating the Roadrunner to assess what's worthwhile and what's not in your life right now.

CAPRICORN: This week good isn't to do with what you consider right or wrong, it's about what works – so focus on that and forget the rest. And something to start doing that's absolutely necessary Capricorns, is asking for – and then accepting – help when you need it.

AQUARIUS: While socially lubricating Libran influences put you in an outgoing mood, Aquarian nerves might be uptightish this week. If your tension levels start escalating, take time out to still the busy brain, quieten your mind and clear your inner screen. And get busy rescheduling...

PISCES: If your elegant finesse, superhuman sensitivity and tantric sexiness go unnoticed this week don't take offence, feel totally rejected, decide life's not worth living and retreat into doona therapy. Its not personal – just that everyone else is equally as self-obsessed right now.