Horoscope

ARIES: I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path is how the Dalai Lama describes the way he meets each new day - and there's no better way to approach this week. Or the rest of your life, really.

TAURUS: This week's cosmic spotlight illuminates the fixed, stuck, stubborn, entrenched, unbending, rigid, obstinate and unyielding sectors of the Tauran psyche. Which might incline you to opt for a mindset slightly more pliant, negotiable, supple and adaptable. Or not.

GEMINI: Welcome to this week's Scorpioworld, in which trivial pursuits bog down in a kind of X-Files mystery mud, and people get moody and uncommunicative while you're positively scintillating with interesting info... Boooooooring! Call some chatty Sag or frivolous Libran for a long hot goss.

CANCER: Retrograde Saturn, you'll be thrilled to know, presents you with all the things you most resent. Be honest about why you're hanging on to these feelings, whether you're prepared to forgive and move on - and if not, why not? Let go and you'll have a miraculous week.

LEO: No, you don't have to know everything that's going on - which you won't find out this week anyway. Nobody likes a control freak, so stop being a bossyboots and let things be. You can't know what's right for others, only for yourself - even that's not always easy to figure out.

VIRGO: Your workaholic, worryholic, anxiety-driven side could attempt a takeover this week, so activate those antidotes for terrorist emotions: relax, do something totally unrelated to what you're angsting about, watch a BIlly Connolly video, be nice to yourself, get plenty of sleep.

LIBRA: People come into our lives to teach us, and the ones we most want to change give us our biggest lessons. Keep blaming others, and the same situation will keep happening, replaying again and again till you understand it's you who's doing it... Or hadn't you noticed?

SCORPIO: The Great Creatrix gave Scorpios loyalty, tenacity, willpower and magnetism - but overdosed on the seriousness quotient. Black humour's your forte, Scorps, so let off some steam by laughing at your deepest, darkest desires, joking about your failures and making fun of your obsessions.

SAGITTARIUS: This week sees the notorious Scorpio reticence up against the infamous Sagittarian loquacity - iron Plutonian reserve versus the irrepressible Archer's urge to natter. My money's on you lot because no known force in the universe can stop a Centaur chattering...

CAPRICORN: It's the curse of the Capricorn (besides always being right) to know everything - including the fact that nobody can do a job as well as you. So you'll know then not to use your own excruciatingly exacting standards as a yardstick for judging others this week, won't you?

AQUARIUS: This week's karmic scissors are giving Aquarians a pruning. Snip, snip: off with old beliefs. Snip, snip: oops, there goes who you thought you were... Think of it as a new hairdo for your soul - and don't go mistaking change for loss, because the Ministry of Magic's also at work.

PISCES: Your total turnaround mood swings - suddenly morphing from adoring to icy withdrawal, from needing constant approval to resolutely withholding it - gives unPiscean others painful emotional shock waves. Something to remember when you're having this week's fit of Jekyll and Hydes...