Horoscopes
By John Nash
30 October 2009 This week's guide to your personal and professional affairs
Aries
Your sign this week will bring a tendency to be quick-thinking, frank and possibly quarrelsome. It is one thing to want to call the shots, but quite another to expect others to dance to your tune. You cannot expect everybody to share your vision and commitment just because you say so. With things as they stand in your chart, your expectations are likely to be unrealistic and self-defeating. There should be no problems if you take things slowly and give people time to adjust their thinking. Keep your immediate goals modest and take the low hurdles first.
Taurus
Your sign this week signals strange yearnings and gut feelings that could urge you to leave the safety of the field and get away from the common herd. Don’t imagine that you will compromise your image if you decide to go down market and get on with it. Showing you are not constrained by hidebound and ultra-conservative methods can better preserve your position and status. You can still rely on your natural caution to keep you from making a fool of yourself, but accept the need to explore new methods and approaches. Adopting a more dynamic persona will not damage your reputation.
Gemini
Mercurial Gemini is generally on the ball, but frantic cosmic activity this week could lead to an overloaded system of communications and a tendency to be cut off. Not knowing whether things are coming or going does not suit the Gemini who, although quick to adapt to changing circumstances, likes to have a picture of the end game. Getting the right details is important, but don’t subject everything to a microscopic examination. If you persist in being such a stickler for following the rule book, you may slow momentum further and cause a meltdown.
Cancer
This week, you should be able to dig deep into your hidden emotional resources and come up with sympathetic solutions to another’s problem. You have had your fair share of sorrow and disappointment, but know that good times follow bad as day follows night. Your experience has never dampened your optimism or your faith in people. Just by listening, you can transmit your inner strength to someone in need of comfort and consolation. Don’t worry that you’ll come across as soft and sentimental, or that you’re an easy touch for any old sob story.
Leo
 A cosmic compromise is reached this week which may provide the breathing space needed to get off the treadmill and live a little. Unexpected good news should brighten your mood, fatten your wallet and allow you to be more self-indulgent. Your weight is simply not needed at present to keep things ticking over. Your agenda should be free to pursue relaxation and pleasure and if it is not, it should be simple to postpone or rearrange things. You have been on duty so long that it is hard to recognise the signal to switch off. For the moment, relish the lull. Take time off to attend to personal matters.
Virgo
As Mercury wings its way into Aries, the signals are that the airwaves are clear and all lines of communication are open. Those in your world are all ears and ready to listen. So, if you have something to say, some message to convey or even a confession to make, this is the time to be open and let it all out. Apart from applying tact in dealing with sensitive and emotional types or issues, be completely honest and up-front. Keep your manner friendly but businesslike, for your aim is to inspire trust and not to undermine the status quo by sowing seeds of doubt or uncertainty.
Libra
Despite some awkward planetary transits that occur this week, you do not need to let such distant events affect your mood. The entry of your ruler into dependable Taurus is a sign to adopt a balanced approach. Try taking a step backwards and view things from a wider perspective. Lately, you have tended to get yourself up far too close and personal. When you concentrate too hard on minute details, you fail to take in the whole picture and misread and misinterpret the message. Nothing and no one is trying to undermine your position.
Scorpio
A powerful conjunction next Tuesday indicates a time to lighten up and stop taking yourself so seriously. Your dedication to duty and responsibility is admirable, but off-putting. Others may have found you too aloof and forbidding. If you feel any sort of personal or social isolation, it is up to you to clear the path to your door or make the first approach. Precious little comes to those who wait. With Mars in big-hearted Taurus, you should be making friends and enlarging your social circle. There is much on the horizon, including the strong possibility of forming a new relationship.
Sagittarius
Busy planetary activity this week should release the energy and impetus needed for the realisation and fulfillment of secret dreams and hidden desires. If you want to pursue what you have long thought out of reach, the goal is nearer now than it has ever been. Put aside your feelings of doubt and any sense of inadequacy — you are much more capable than you think. With secretive Pluto in retrograde mode, you can afford to be unusually forward, even cheeky, and get away with it. Somehow, your own instincts will steer you along sensitive approaches.
Capricorn
The stouthearted goat has to deal with the frail of spirit this weekend. Personal issues and relationships need prompt, hands-on attention. Apply the doctor’s approach and use diagnostic skills to get to the root of the problem and the source of the complaint. Treatment, however, doesn’t have to be unpleasant. Nothing drastic like surgery or amputation is required, but rather the adoption of an alternative and more holistic approach. You should find that all the vital organs are in proper working order and the ailment is minor and more imagined than real.
Aquarius
Links between self-indulgent Venus and freedom loving Uranus this week could bring out the rebel in you. You might feel an urge to kick against the traces and get free from the restraints that are keeping your hands tied up. The mundane, pedestrian path holds no appeal for you at the moment and you’re bursting to get to grips with something new and challenging. You have luck on your side and an unexpected meeting with the type you do not normally associate with could lead to a successful partnership or a union of like minds. However, you need to guard against being too impulsive.
Pisces
With your ruler, Neptune, highly energised this week, you really are in a strong position to get out of current difficulties and create order out of chaos. However, you need to be certain that you know what you want and take time to consider the many options which are suddenly open and available. Do not rush into anything on impulse or put all your money on the first horse you fancy. You need to use your knowledge of past form and p0erformance to pick a winner, although inside information is worth some serious consideration. If necessary, seek independent advice.
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