JONATHAN CAINER

Dear Jonathan, One astrologer says stagnant relationships will end, another says it’s not a good time to make important decisions in love. Another says ‘have no major conversations for three weeks’, another says it’s a good time to communicate! What am I to take from all of this? Monica

Hi Jonathan, Is it true that when Mercury is in a retrograde phase, we should not sign contracts? I have to sign a lease. I can’t imagine having to put this off until the end of January. Julie

Dear Monica, Dear Julie, The answer is simple. Stop reading all those other astrologers!

ARIES Mar 21 — Apr 20 YOU can’t do ‘anything’. You can’t do ‘everything.’ There are only a limited number of things any of us can do. Within the constraints of common sense and pragmatism, though, there are often more exciting options and enticing alternatives than we might imagine. Wild, far-fetched solutions to irritating old problems are unlikely to prove relevant this weekend. But encouraging conclusions can still be reached. Determined efforts may prove highly successful. NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611. TAURUS MAY I beg your

Apr 21 — May 21 indulgence, today, as I paraphrase Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? ‘Once we have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever remains, no matter how undesirable, must be the compromise that we are going to have to settle for.’ You don’t, this weekend, need to be a master detective. The clues are all around and few of these are deceptive. There’s one option you can just about bring yourself to take up and another you feel passionately inclined to resist. The former is

really not such a bad thing! NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611. GEMINI SO. This New

May 22 — June 22 Year’s resolution of yours. Shall we appraise progress so far? You’ve identified a factor that needs to alter. Nobody, surely, expects an overnight transformation when they first decide on such a radical adjustment! Do they? Ah, well… you aren’t ‘nobody’. You’re somebody. Somebody special, at that! But if you’re to accomplish a minor miracle, you first need a moment of insight bordering on revelation! Thankfully, that may yet prove attainable this weekend! NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611.

CANCER YOU don’t have to

June 23 — July 23 ‘face facts’ this weekend. It’s more that, as we edge towards a Dark Of The Moon in your opposite sign, you may need to look closely at some statements and suppositions that are not quite as reliable as you might wish. Some things are easier to believe than others — especially when they match the beliefs of companions and loved ones. A shared fantasy is often deeply reassuring to hide behind and dwell on. But if, now, you at least acknowledge what may not be true, it will be easier to see what is! NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611.

LEO MERCURY Entered your

July 24 — Aug 23 opposite sign at New Year. It only just dipped its toe into the waterbearer’s urn and it now turns to go back whence it came, mumbling some excuse about ‘retrograde motion’ and ‘optical illusion.’ As all planetary movements are symbolic we can see this as an allegory for a promise, somewhere in your personal world, which isn’t being kept as it should be. For this, there are reasons. Over the weekend you’ll understand these. That will make eventual progress far more feasible. NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611. VIRGO MERCURY, this

Aug 24 — Sep 23 weekend, slips back into the sign it occupied just prior to the start of its recent retrograde phase. As Mercury symbolises you, your progress and the possibilities you can now expect to open up, we can see here a direct echo of a situation arising within your life. Where, in your world, is there a sense of ‘nearly but not quite’ or the need for an 11th-hour change of plan? Think about all that and consider this. It is happening for the best possible reason which will lead to the best possible result! NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611. LIBRA ‘IT’S crazy but I’m

Sep 24 — Oct 23 frightened by the sound of the telephone.’ So sang the late, great Robert Palmer in Looking For Clues. It was an exploration of anxiety, set to music. Take care not to let it become your anthem this weekend. There are situations you can read several different meanings into and remarks you can take in one of several ways. Give the benefit of the doubt, please, to happy thoughts and benign interpretations. The only thing that need worry

you is your own propensity to worry! NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611. SCORPIO PERHAPS some

Oct 24 — Nov 22 people, over the years, have made so many successful resolutions and given up so much, they are now seriously short of lifestyle changes to implement. New Year is a challenge. They may feel that all they can now do is pick up a bad habit or indulge an unhealthy obsession in the hope that this will provide something to break free from in another twelve months! How our hearts go out to such souls! Count yourself lucky you’re not one of those and go easy on yourself this weekend! NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611.

SAGITTARIUS JUPITER

Nov 23 — Dec 21 goes through a retrograde phase for several months each year. When this happens, despite what some of my more melodramatic colleagues may say on their websites, Sagittarian lives don’t fall apart. People’s travel plans don’t unravel. Noble quests for justice don’t fail. But one thing we can count on, when your ruler ‘changes direction’, is your new enthusiasm for ideas that require fresh perspective and an innovative approach. Expect an inspired idea this weekend. NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611. CAPRICORN SSSSH! Quiet

Dec 22 — Jan 20 everybody! Please! Show some respect! Just look who has come to this page! Oh, I’m so sorry. I was so busy preparing everyone for your arrival, I missed the moment when your eyes fell upon these words. Allow me to make amends by letting you know how special you are, how important, how talented and how capable we know you to be. What’s that? You are suspicious of flattery? So you should be this weekend! But that’s still no reason to doubt how much in demand you actually are! NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611.

AQUARIUS IF THERE’S

Jan 21 — Feb 19 something you don’t need, this weekend, why try to attain it? An odd thing is happening. Mercury, planet of communication, entered your sign about a week ago. Now it has turned retrograde and is slipping back out the same way it came in. Leaving aside all that might concern us if this were literally happening, let us focus on the symbolism of this cosmic optical illusion. You feel as if something has started that can’t yet be finished. Be glad of the respite. It will bring help! NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611.

PISCES STAND to attention

Feb 20 — Mar 20 please, ladies and gentlemen. Prepare to formally salute this weekend’s important celestial development. Greet it with drum rolls, bugle calls and the enthusiastic waving of flags. But be careful where you hang that bunting. We don’t want it to accidentally garrote the top-hatted stilt-walkers who will soon lead the marching band! Jupiter is commencing its annual retrograde phase. This year, that’s happening in your opposite sign. If ever there was a time for you to follow orders, it’s now! NEW! Will you get richer in 2016? For surprisingly encouraging news, call your four-minute, year-ahead finance forecast: 1550 511 611.