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

Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 19)

With your ruler, Mars, on the decline this week, you might find yourself sensitive to criticism. As you’re known to walk on the wild side and can’t account for your whereabouts, you might find the finger of suspicion pointing at you. However, there’s no need to feel guilty or assume responsibility for an accident or omission. Don’t overplay the outraged innocent and storm off in a huff. It will soon be apparent that fault lies elsewhere. You may imagine people are talking behind your back. More people believe in you than you think, but you must hang around to find this out.

Taurus (Apr 20- May 20)

The transit of easy-going Venus into balanced Libra is a good moment to give up aggression, but trying to reach a peaceful solution doesn’t mean that you give in. The compromise has to be mutually acceptable. There’s a limit to the number of times a Bull can be side-stepped or humiliated before it sees red. Fortunately, you are big-hearted and are able to view the whole picture. See your role clearly in the grand scheme of things and shift the blame for things going wrong to where it belongs. When you discover how easy it is to stand up for yourself, you’ll wish you had been less accommodating from the start.

Gemini (May 21 - Jun 20)

Mercury’s move into truth-telling Sagittarius could lead you to experience a twinge of conscience to right wrongs. You personally have little to feel guilty about beyond a tendency to talk too much. You will, of course, have to be very careful of what you say, but you’ll get the chance to reveal all. Make a clean breast of things and wipe the slate clean. While you hate to betray confidences, you can’t keep defending someone whose actions are unforgivable. Keep silent and you’ll be taken for an accessory to the crime. In the interests of justice and to save your own skin, you sometimes have to be a grass!

Cancer (Jun 21 - Jul 22)

You can be too much of a perfectionist, a weakness that often prevents you from making snap decisions. However, this week you won’t be able to prevaricate. Get on with things and bite the bullet. A straightforward and energetic attitude is required to meet a specific deadline and you can’t waste time trying to correct flaws that are invisible to the naked eye. The examiner or potential customer is only interested in the whole picture.Any further fuss or fiddling could spoil things. You wouldn’t want to lose out to some cheaper second class alternative, would you?

Leo (Jul 23 - Aug 22)

Although the Sun’s square with Neptune still casts certain gloominess, there are things coming up to be cheery about. For a start, you can say goodbye to the lean times and penny-pinching that you’ve had to endure for a while. There will be no need to continue to work long hours and the pressure to cut corners or take shortcuts is about to ease. In fact, you needn’t worry about there being no bread when you can be eating cake! A stroke of luck could see you buying the whole bakery. However, an over-rich diet of caviar and chocolate gateaux only makes cats fat. It’s better to be a lean mean fighting machine!

Virgo (Aug 23 - Sept 22)

Your ruler’s transit into Sagittarius will ensure that you won’t be short of ambitious ideas to get a new venture off the ground. Not even the hardened pessimist can dampen your enthusiasm. With your positive attitude, you should be able to bring out the best in anyone you choose to involve in your enterprise. Success is virtually guaranteed, provided you don’t get too carried away. Get a few like-minded people together, who between them command the repertoire of necessary skills. Failure is simply not an option. Keep an eye open for envious opportunists who might muscle in and hijack your grand designs.

Libra (Sept 23 - Oct 22)

The outlook this week can hardly be more promising, as Venus uplifts your spirit and enhances your chances of success. In the past, you’ve looked around for someone else to take the initiative, but just this once, you’ll recognise that you’re the expert and that there’s no one better around. Once you take the first step, the rest will seem easy. It won’t be long before people see you as the talented and steadfast individual that you’ve always been. Once you get going, there’ll be no stopping you and before you know it, you’ll have ‘arrived’ in more ways than one!

Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21)

Although you’re weary, keep telling yourself that you’re almost there and the road won’t seem so long. The end may be out of sight, but it’s a lot nearer than you think. No one would label you a cheat if you were to stop and thumb a lift. It’s likely that you’ve made the undertaking more arduous than necessary by carrying too much weight single-handedly. It’s not too late to offload some of the responsibility. There are ways to lighten the load without losing momentum. You’ve perhaps been too wrapped in self-pity to notice that you’ve got friends ready to back you every step of the way. You only have to ask.

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