You‘re feeling bogged down in the land of work this week. Overwhelmed by too many unfinished tasks, your week starts off with the need for coffee and painkillers. By mid-week you‘ve hit the this-is-so-insane-why-do-I-put-up-with-this mode, and getting out of bed to do anything is a battle. On the personal front you‘re feeling more confused than ever before, adding to the inability to function like a normal human being. Towards the end of the week you‘re questioning everything from having a career where you do what you love, to finding someone to love you for you. It‘s a constant struggle that leaves you exhausted. Ascendant: When the going gets tough . . .

You roll out of bed like Monday is the start of a great new life, and you‘ve got inspiration and motivation streaming out your ears like there‘s going to be a party. Unfortunately, it‘s a very boring, long term, takes-you-forever-and-a-day research party. It doesn‘t matter what the rest of the world wants from you this week you‘re tackling the thing you‘re the most passionate about and falling in love with the subject matter and its family, friends, and anything that even breathes its name. Of course the people around you think you‘re a crazy person, but that isn‘t anything new. By the weekend you‘re taking work home with you, so engrossed that you‘re missing out on things, but as long as it‘s not the baby‘s first steps or your son‘s first goal in hockey I think you‘re okay. Be sure to remember the little people when you make the greatest discovery the world has ever seen. Ascendant: Don‘t forget about the little things.

Sometimes you can‘t help it, you have to say it like it is. Sure, the people around you find your crass, uncouth, and a little rude, but there‘s no other way to deliver the bad news than to rip it off like a Band-Aid. You‘re not here to have intellectual disputes about facts that can‘t be changed, even though that‘s exactly what you‘d rather be doing because debates often solve problems faster than dictatorship directions. By mid-week you‘re feeling a bit like Stalin, and feeling the slight care in which people around you step. By the end of the week you‘re ready to spend time with people you don‘t have to manage and can simply be yourself. You‘re not a big fan of stepping into leadership roles, you‘d rather spend the weekend with your loved ones debating who should win the next election, and playing a friendly game of Risk.Ascendant: Even when you‘re not in charge you‘re taking charge

Some fairytales don‘t have happy endings. Sadly, you‘re coming off a weekend of epic relaxation and campfire smoke, and you‘d like nothing more than to walk into work and see it resembling a well-oiled machine but that‘s never the case is it? You walk into a disaster zone and have a bazillion things you have to fix before noon. You enjoy it when your co-workers rely on your patience, diligence and healing spirit to get things done in a compassionate way, but hey even your compassion has its limits. By end of the week you‘re so ready to tear your hair out, or someone else‘s hair that you‘re taking extra moments to be your introverted self before tackling another thing on the to do list. The good news is the weekend is offering you some much needed low key social outings, so you have that to look forward to.Ascendant: Get through it and don‘t look back

There is no shortage of atoning for past failure this week. You know that despite all your best efforts you‘ve managed to do something that screwed something up for someone else, and while you may not be able to salvage that relationship you‘re willing to work your tail off to make it right. If not for yourself, then at least you‘re paying it forward and helping others. By mid-week that guilt is waning, but the workaholic in you won‘t stop for a moment, even to the point of stepping on toes and doing everyone else‘s work for them. You know there‘s being helpful and then there‘s being a work monster. Sometimes you have to give other people a chance and you‘re not doing that. By the weekend you‘re still overdoing it, and not allowing the people who love you to simply love you. There has to be a reason, a motive, or something out of it, or it doesn‘t make sense to you. Calm down and relax! Some people just want to like you for you, you don‘t have to do anything to deserve it, the world doesn‘t always work like that.Ascendant: Shut up and enjoy life

Trusting yourself and taking on gargantuan tasks with grace is the only way you‘ve made it in life thus far. You start the week on a high note, attempting to delegate tasks to people you respect, and believe will impress you and make you proud. The problem is that people drop the ball far too often, and despite your calm demeanor, the rage you feel on the inside is very palpable. You have too much on your plate to begin with because your central philosophy is that if you don‘t do it who will? But this has already caused you to lose out on a lot of personal things you‘d like to do. You don‘t enjoy doing everyone else‘s work for them while they gallivant to concerts and other things you‘d like to be doing. By the end of the week you want to walk away and tell the others in charge to handle it without you. You‘ve got more to care for on the home front this weekend, and you can‘t be bothered with incompetent people.Ascendant: Sometimes you have to hit your limit

You‘d rather be regarded like everyone else, someone who works as hard as everyone else, who has insecurities and worries, bills to pay and people to love, but this is rarely the case. Earlier in the week you‘re being pestered yet again for doing something well when you don‘t think you did a great job at all. You feel sometimes like the people around you are making a mockery of you, or that they have nothing better to do but watch and gossip about you. You don‘t remember being that interesting, or such a hot topic of conversation, but you can‘t stop people from doing what they will do. By the end of the week you have some serious issues on your mind, and the Virgo-Scorpio energy kicking off the month has you twisted up in how you‘ll manage your responsibilities and obligations this month. Sometimes the feelings of inadequacy really shove you into your own hole of despair, and all you can do is ride it out until you come up for air.Ascendant: The key is to be interesting, even during the mundane

The Virgo-Scorpio energy ruling this week has you in intense work mode, tackling those things you usually leave at the bottom of the to do list because they‘re long term, persnickety or quite frankly a bunch of things you don‘t like doing on a regular basis. Earlier in the week you‘re regarding these tasks with a lot of cringing, and a few sighs, but after shooting through a great many awful things you‘re feeling empowered and uplifted, learning that old dogs can do new tricks and that some of the things you thought would be difficult we actually rather easy and kind of fun, like that spider nest you got to clean off the side of the house, spiders are much better than wasps, unless they‘re those Australian man eaters and then I got nothing for you. By the end of the week you feel invincible, like there is no task too large or too small for you to tackle, but seriously you‘d rather spend the weekend having a BBQ, or hunting or fishing, or hiking. You‘re okay with hard work as long as you get a break to do something you love doing on the weekend. Ascendant: It‘s all about give and take in the world.

Pressure, Pressure, Pressure. This week starts with the realization that you‘re not pulling your weight and that people really do expect more than you expect even of yourself. It‘s not that you‘re a constant failure, but it‘s that sometimes your ideals and views of life don‘t match with everyone else‘s worth ethic. You thought it was okay to take a few smoke breaks throughout the day and that the boss wouldn‘t mind, but as it turns out, those very small things are adding up to some very big problems. You don‘t mind hunkering down and working harder than you‘ve ever worked before, but you want to see the point in it. Coming home too exhausted to spend time with your partner, or even being too tired to see good friends isn‘t the way you want to end your days. Falling into bed and crashing the moment your head hits the pillow isn‘t your idea of fun. You need the weekend to veg, relax and recover from the go, go, go, sleep when you‘re dead kind of week you‘ve had.Ascendant: You‘ll be dead pretty quick if that‘s when you get to sleep.

It stands to reason that even though you strive to reach mastery and perfection at everything you tackle in life, that you do not need to rub it in everyone‘s noses when you‘ve done a good job. You‘re bound to begin getting the kind of response toddlers get when they learn to use the bathroom for the first time, some will patronize you with congratulations and cheers, while others will brush it off as though it‘s something everyone can do, why is it such a big deal? The truth is, unless it‘s a big accomplishment you should be saving the congratulatory lap around the field. Yes, it‘s important to celebrate even the small successes, but you‘re not the kind of person to do small things. You take on big risks, you do the things nobody else can do. No need to remind people how amazing you are when all you‘ve done is write up a detailed schedule for the week or reorganized the labeling system in the fridge. When it comes to the weekend, that‘s when you should humbly list off the accomplishments for the week. The people who love you care more than the people you work with. Ascendant: Keep calm and continue being successful.

You realize that it‘s impossible to train people who don‘t want to learn new things don‘t you? That‘s the theme of your week as you try to have intellectual conversations in order to convince people to admit that they could improve the way they did things if they took your advice. The problem is everyone would rather have your personal relationship advice, and free counseling than your professional opinions. The very insult to you as a professional individual makes you want to tear your hair out. Anyone can tell you when a relationship is failing, but when a system at work is hemorrhaging millions of dollars and you know how to fix it, that seems more important than whether your boss‘s partner is cheating on them. Sometimes people have to get their priorities in order, you believe you have yours in order, why can‘t others follow your lead more often? Isn‘t it supposed to be monkey see, monkey do? Oh that‘s right, you don‘t work with monkeys. Life would be so much better if you did.Ascendant: Sometimes a little intelligence goes a long way

There are not enough peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the world to remind you that one day, long ago you were a kid that lived in a perfect world, and peanuts or peanut butter wasn‘t banned from your school, and you could eat your favorite lunch in peace, and you had friends who wanted to sit beside you, and play with you during recess. Unfortunately you‘re in the land of unfair rules, where people get rewarded and promoted despite not doing the best work, where you are forgotten or shoved aside because you‘re misunderstood, and where you can‘t even have your favorite things because they‘re banned or unavailable in the world you actually live in. This is why your imagination is so vibrant, because when you‘re not dealing with the disappointments you‘re creating these fantasy worlds for your family, and making them believe they can do anything they put their minds to. You‘re that powerful and inspirational that it probably doesn‘t matter that you can‘t bring eggs for lunch to work because a co-worker has an allergy. Ascendant: You‘re making someone‘s week a better place