IF IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY your year ahead will be confident, outgoing and enthusiastic but also a time to be discreet and push for changes in your home and family life without ruffling too many feathers. You’ll know that luck is on your side with relationships out in the world improving and resources being drawn to you. But certain close relationships will be unsettled and argumentative at times. Be tactful and persistent about insisting that you get the freedom you need.
 | ARIES: You’ll have a more practical approach than usual, an appetite for detail and oodles of common sense. Mates may find you a stickler for everything being just so. You can be careful, rather cautious, to the point of getting gloomy at the moment, perhaps because you are getting bogged down in too many details. Try to keep the big picture in mind. Don’t do anything that is going to really put more strain on your stamina. Just think positively, eat healthily, and sit down more frequently. | |
| TAURUS: You may be ignoring certain details in your determination to see the broad sweep at the moment. But because of your carefulness and long term vision, you can plan well. Just keep your feet on the ground. You’ll be more emotional in the way you connect to people,really reaching out and expecting friendship in return. You want relationships that are quite deep and connections that mean something to you. Just don’t get too wrapped up in your own feelings and forget to ask what others want. |  | |
 | GEMINI: With Mercury at the moment in an emotional area of your chart you will have a more imaginative way of thinking and speaking than usual. You don’t want aggravation today. What you really yearn for is a pleasant, relaxing time. Even if you’re on your own for a short while, it won’t bother you because it gives you a chance to mull things over from the recent past, to get your head together about one or two things and see what you need to do for yourself. | |
| CANCER: You can be sharp in your comments if you speak before you think. But you can also be tolerant and flexible when you have time to consider. No one will catch your attention for long but you will throw out entertaining titbits as you race past. You will thrive on interesting, varied conversations though with your grasshopper mind today, you will not concentrate on anything for too long. Try to be clear in your mind about the message you want to get across. |  | |
 | LEO: You’ll be in a common sense mood, showing practical flair and determination. You may be slow to make up your mind, but you will be absolutely unshakeable when your decisions are made. The Moon in the sign next to yours makes you fickle where cash is concerned, wanting to save and spend at the same time. Pleasuring your senses comes with the Moon, but you will also worry a little bit about leaving yourself feeling insecure if you go too wild. | |
| VIRGO: Your agile, restless mind is coming up with original inspirations at the moment, but you will not always be good at following your ideas through. Maybe you are trying to juggle too many balls in the air at once. The Moon in your own sign always has that ebbing and flowing quality, one moment outgoing and charming, the next moment rather withdrawn. You will not know from minute to minute what you actually want. It’s rather pleasant, but you need more stable, practical people around you. |  | |
 | LIBRA: You will be coming up with wonderful ideas, but you may find it difficult to put your them into words. Your uncanny intuition may be rather fragile, but it will be accurate all the same. Your concentration for detailed or specialised chores is not great at the moment. You want to disappear into daydreams to protect yourself. Don’t feel martyred because your efforts are taken for granted. Give gladly and look after yourself as well in the absence of anyone else doing it. | |
| SCORPIO: Get your original, experimental ideas out into the world. You can make a difference by what you say, and perhaps motivate companions out of their ruts. You may become a little bit jealous if you think a friend is off talking to someone else when you want to be talking to them. Don’t overreact. Within two minutes the situation will have changed again. You will not want too much togetherness for a couple of days. You much prefer to be one of the crowd. |  | |
 | SAGITTARIUS: You have a very clear mind which is capable of grasping ideas and putting them to work at once at the moment. You should be organising well at the moment but need to develop more of a sense of humour. You’re likely to find your feelings more on public display than usual. At work you will be more scattered than usual but also more supportive. Just don’t over react, hear slights where none exist. You’ve got to stand a little bit steady for other people. | |
| CAPRICORN: Maybe you do want to be absolutely truthful about certain matters now, but don’t get dramatic about it all. If you are too scorchingly direct you will ruffle feathers around you.rnYou want to see things in a much broader kind of way, to take the bird’s eye view rather than being sunk in minutiae and detail If you can look into the future and see where life is going to be taking you, then you can put your energy out very constructively. |  | |
 | AQUARIUS: Superficial answers will not do for you at the moment. You want to get right down to the roots of things, and will keep digging and investigating until you find out the answers and solutions which make you feel secure. This isn’t the day to fly solo or do things entirely on your own. You’ve really got to push yourself to make new agreements with close partners where money or emotional matters are concerned. It may take compromise all round, but it will be worth it. | |
| PISCES: Your social chit-chat is even more sparkling than usual, so you will be the general favourite not just with close partners but out amongst your wider circle of friends as well. There could be the odd confrontation through the day, not because you’re assertive, but you just feel a little over-emotional. If you do stir up a problem, just don’t go too far. You will not really want to see it through. You will start something and at the end of it all you wish you hadn’t bothered. |  | |