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This week’s guide to your personal and professional affairs by John Nash

Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 19)

The build-up to a Moon-Mars confrontation on Wednesday may be the reason why you feel grumpy and out of sorts. Feelings of impatience will be close to the surface and if you keep them bottled up, you may find yourself hitting out at whoever comes into range. You will have to remember to count to ten, slowly, lest you say something that you regret. You are quite capable of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person. Save your energy and your breath for cleaning up and clearing out all the trivia and dross that litters your field of operations.

Taurus (Apr 20- May 20)

The cosmic powers of Venus are absent from your chart this week and this could spell lean times. An up-front defensive strategy is needed to offset such a negative atmosphere. You don’t have to adopt a siege mentality or force yourself onto a bread-and-water diet just because you perceive cash flow problems. Just keep yourself busy. Ensure reserves are on hand and the spare tank is filled and you’ll manage to weather a short-lived downturn. Making economies and cutting out unnecessary extravagance or impulse buying is the favoured option and avoid doing favours for fair weather friends who cannot be relied on.

Gemini (May 21 - Jun 20)

You should have lots of reasons to get excited this week as things begin to pick up and get moving. Your ruler, Mercury is set to make contact with mysterious Uranus and new impulses, energies and directions usually accompany this aspect. As you warm to change, you’ll find less time and little interest for routine, everyday matters, so it’s probably time to delegate some areas of responsibility to someone who should be doing a lot more. The strange and unusual might suddenly seem attractive and it might be tempting to invest in what seems like a very crazy scheme.

Cancer (Jun 21 - Jul 22)

A powerful alliance between the Moon and Saturn could make you want to play things close to the chest this week and adopt a covert and secretive approach to getting things done. Your insistence on a private and self-controlled response to events might seem out of character, but you need to prove that you’re not a creature of habit or a slave to your emotions. Although your methods might provoke suspicion, don’t explain your motives or your goals. Remind yourself that discretion deters copycats and enjoy the game of keeping people guessing.

Leo (Jul 23 - Aug 22)

Normally the mighty Sun, the lion’s lord and master, provides a constant source of strength to all it touches. However, this week, its clash with Jupiter warns of a loss of power and illumination. This warns of difficulties directing ideas towards unexplored fields and you’ll need your wits about you. A daunting challenge could present itself out of the blue, and despite the prospects seeming dim and poorly lit, you have the hunter’s instinct to make use of the cover of darkness. A lack of solar power will be no handicap. Your involvement, in a clear departure from your usual interests, may provoke comment.

Virgo (Aug 23 - Sept 22)

Apart from a Mercury-Uranus alignment later in the week, there is little in the cosmos to give you a boost or present a stumbling block. You are thus free to make your own luck and make things happen. Endowed with better brains than most, you do however, waste many chances by being too cautious and pedestrian in your approach. Have confidence in your ability to make strides in areas that you have perceived as being off-limits until now. However virgin or alien the territory, you have always possessed the skills to landscape and shape it to meet your requirements.

Libra (Sept 23 - Oct 22)

The Sun’s clash with Jupiter this week warns of differences between generations. The forces of conservatism are set to conflict with those who favour radical change. There could be a fight between the traditionalists and the modernists or between the old and the young. As a Libran, you are apt to seek the middle ground of compromise. Do note that it is the extremist wing on both sides that is making all the noise and that they are very much in the minority. They can be ignored and it should be easy to persuade the rest to accept gradual step-by-step change.

Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21)

No matter how strongly you feel, there is no justification for trying to exercise control in an area that is being perfectly well-handled by others. While it may be true that you know all there is to know, it would be unwise to discourage initiative. Setting yourself up as a self-appointed armchair critic will cause resentment. You must accept that there are times when people need to learn from their mistakes. There is little sense in throwing your weight around if nothing is learned. Try to remember that this is a joint production and it would only lower morale if you decided at the final dress rehearsal to write a part out.

Sagittarius (Nov 22 - Dec 21)

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