You feel like someone is messing with you this week. There‘s no doubt that when it comes to tricks in the book you‘re the one that wrote the playbook and know all the oldest tricks, but while you enjoy being the one tricking others you don‘t appreciate it when the tables are turned on you. This is particularly annoying come Weds during the new moon when your senses are heightened and you feel deeply emotional about the roller coaster you ride in life. The week ends with Mars moving into Libra, giving you some much needed reprieve from the feeling that you‘re not achieving enough in your life. You may find yourself slowing down, giving yourself a break and believing in yourself more by the close of the weekend. It‘s a great time for confidence boosters and finding fresh new ways to tackle conflicts.Ascendant: Give yourself the pat on the back you deserve.

There‘s no shortage this week of situations that make you wish the ground would open up and swallow you whole. You want to believe that even when you take a much needed break from the world to do things you‘re passionate about that when you return, you won‘t be ridiculed or forced to hear speculation about your intelligence levels and emotional age. You would expect people around you to act in a professional manner, but this week isn‘t giving you that courtesy. Middle of the week sees a new moon in Scorpio, giving you a lot of thought to changes in attitude you need to make, and how you can shift your perspectives in the right direction to triumph over naysayers. By the end of the week Mars joins Venus in Libra, amping up your need for close contact with your partner, or potentially, a romantic rendezvous with someone exciting and new. Ascendant: Get your priorities in order

Stepping into new roles in life can be tough, especially when those are authoritative and the stakes are high for you to be the best you can be. This week you‘re turning up the Gemini charisma so you can charm the pants off someone who definitely opposes you and needs to be dealt with before they become a bigger thorn in your side. You have a certain idea about the tactics you need to take to win this person over, and this is the time you want to trust your gut and your instincts and go with it. You‘ll have to commit 100% to your plan, because if you show one iota of weakness, you‘ll lose the battle and prove you can be walked all over. With the new moon occurring on Weds, that makes it a good time to have the talk and get it over with. Come the end of the week you‘re feeling an empty or hollow victory, as though you only half got what you wanted. Over the weekend you‘re in a contemplative, introspective mood, needing time to digress from the week.Ascendant: Sometimes doing what you can doesn‘t wield positive results

Life is hard enough without people shooting their mouths off and making your life a lot more difficult than it has to be. This week things at work seem to be skating by but the onslaught of errands, emergencies and other crap hitting you on the personal level seems to resemble a battering ram. You can‘t just rush out of work to handle things that are semi crisis, but something other people could handle on their own. You don‘t need to be called in every time someone close to you has a papercut. There has to be some kind of boundary and level of respect happening here so that you don‘t pull your hair out and people find out how assertive you can be when pushed. You‘d rather spend time being the inspirational, compassionate caregiver you‘ve always been. That role suits you, the high intensity, high energy, come to the rescue in the midst of a crisis isn‘t exactly who you are, and even if it is, you have emergencies you prefer, these ones aren‘t the ones you prefer. Ascendant: Time to teach people how to deal

Your creativity is at its height this week, but it‘s how you use it that‘s key. On the one hand you can apply it to things that make you money and allow you to climb the corporate, or social ladders in your life. On the other hand you could use it to make some very nice macaroni art for your home that even your neighbor wonders about. You‘re not sure if you‘re in a social mood, or if you want all the responsibility of a high intensity job / life. Sometimes you want life to be simple and sometimes you want to reach for the stars. You know Bruno Mars wrote a few songs, in one he sang about wanting to be a Billionaire and in the other he sang about being lazy all day. You really have to pick one, will you reach for the stars or will you stay in bed all day and dream until you dreams come true? I might add, that last thing makes no sense at all, if all you ever do is sleep your dreams will never come true.Ascendant: Sink or swim?

While there‘s always a good chance you‘ll end up doing all the work yourself you like to fool yourself into believing that maybe someone will offer their help just this one time, because it would be nice to know people actually care about you. For some of you it might happen, for others you are lone creatures, traversing the work landscape solitary, and in some cases happier than having help that does more harm than good. For those of you with decent help it‘s increasing productivity by double, and you‘re feeling good about the idea of delegating. For those of you in the second boat, you‘re just happy that you can get through your list in a reasonable amount of time, and when you‘re done you can move onto happier things like playing video games, or meeting friends for drinks and destressing from the day. Most of the time people tend to exhaust you unless they‘re not asking for your advice or expertise and simply want to be company. Over the weekend you‘re hoping there isn‘t a long list to complete on the home front because relaxing for a change sounds like a better idea than raking leaves. Ascendant: When you have to delegate you will

New moons always put you on edge because it‘s another opportunity for fresh starts and you‘re so used to having to uproot yourself, redo something or change the way you do things that you hunker down like there‘s a hurricane on the horizon when one is coming. Earlier in the week you‘re waiting for it to hit, feeling like you‘re in the eye of the storm, anticipating that moment when it‘ll strike. For some of you it‘s not even a new moon, it could be a promotion at work, or bad news from a family member or friend, but it‘s something you‘re prepared for and you don‘t want to face. The unfortunate thing about hurricanes is that once they set their course they rarely move too far from their destined path, and if confrontation is something you were hoping to avoid, Wednesday isn‘t being very nice to you. You can give all the excuses you want to, but if you‘re not succinct, tactical and brave, you‘re going to buckle under pressure and it‘s not going to help you make it up the next step on the ladder. Over the weekend you‘re feeling the fall out effects of the decision that was made, and coming up with a plan to either cope, celebrate or commiserate with others affected. Ascendant: You can take whatever is thrown at you.

You don‘t want to be the one informing other people when they‘re doing something wrong, but when the margin for error is so narrow you can‘t balance a pin on it, you have no choice but to open your big mouth. Sure, you‘re feeling passionate and intense about a lot of things this week, one of those things being that nobody gets hurt or makes a mistake that massively affects a large group of people. It might have you up on the soap box ranting, or you know, facebook, but the people willing to listen to the real message behind all the angry emoticons and drivel will benefit. Towards the end of the week you begin wondering if anyone really needs you, or if you didn‘t stop mistakes what would happen. This philosophical debate is being caused by Mars moving into Libra, and the balancing of the scales this brings. You need to make sure to weigh all your options before making decisions over the weekend.Ascendant: The key is having a good balance

You‘re far more concerned with the social aspects of your life than how productive or efficient you are at work. Making friendships with co-workers and neighbors is an important part of life, but you need to be careful because you have that tendency to be gullible. You open up too much at times, get too creative, and bite off more than you can chew with people. Make sure to balance your friendships, instead of jumping right in and offering to do a lot of things you don‘t have time to do. You have to look at it like baby steps, one step at a time. You don‘t have to be the miss or mister congeniality at work, and in the end, your intentions need to be pure. If you‘re only befriending people so you can get a neighbor to cut your grass, or to make a promotion, that‘s going to blow up in your face faster than you can imagine. Be a friend just to be a friend and you‘ll be a lot more likely to succeed. Ascendant: Make friends for the right reasons.

You‘re one of those people that really feels it before the landslide, the apocalypse or the hurricane hits. It‘s like this inner sense you have that allows you to anticipate the danger or the catastrophe before it happens, and prepare yourself to hang on for dear life. Unfortunately you‘re also very bad at letting it go, which also means if there was a fire, you‘d be picking through your personal belongings, attempting to salvage what you can before escaping from the obvious danger. This week Libra in Venus, the new moon, and Mars moving into Libra has you feeling like there‘s a slight landslide in your life. You want to hang onto the productivity and order above chaos Virgo brought, but Libra is a lighter, more vibrant and loose sign that isn‘t all about work. Libra is more of a party sign, wanting to enjoy the finer things in life, and in the workplace that either makes everyone slack off more than usual, or in some extreme cases it has your boss initiating casual Fridays. Either way, you feel like your perfect work mode has been disrupted, and you‘re not very good at going with the flow, so you‘re going to hunker down and work just as hard as you usually do, regardless of what people around you are telling you otherwise. Be careful you don‘t overdo it, you run the risk of completing work that isn‘t ready to be completed and having to do it all over again when information changes. Sorry, sometimes it‘s like that, take the weekend off and go dancing or play pool. Seriously, there‘s not much you can accomplish.Ascendant: No really all the work is done, you did it all.

You‘re seeing disadvantages to leading by example, and in particular by doing things that others shouldn‘t do and then warning them not to follow your examples. That only works if you don‘t have people who think of you as a mentor and a guide, it begins to fall apart when they start to see that you‘re better at telling people how to live their lives while yours is kind of a mess. On the work front you‘re trying to be there for your co-workers and support them but struggling. On the home front you‘re not even sure you know what‘s going on let alone if you have any support you can rely on. With the new moon you‘re feeling more emotional than usual, and with Venus and Mars entering Libra, all your social problems are doubling up on you, and Saturn isn‘t letting you get away with ignoring them and hoping they‘ll blow over. Get ready for some serious confrontation this weekend.Ascendant: Time to face the music

If your partner was willing to skip work and stay in bed all day with you, or take a day trip to the lake or the hiking trails, you would do that instead of going to work this week. You can‘t even focus very well when you‘re there, everything in your mind is focused on spending quality time with your loved ones, and connecting with the great outdoors. You love the change of the seasons, and the way the world becomes its own fantasy realm with those shifts in pressure and temperature. You want to revel in beautiful things this week, watch the stars when the moon is absent from the sky, and talk about how vast and intricate the universe is. You‘re in a philosophical, and romantic mood, wanting to do things that make your heart soar, and expands your mind. The last thing you want to talk about is what happened at work, and what projects you have to complete over the weekend. You‘d much rather be exploring and learning more about the universe you exist in.Ascendant: Living life to the beat of your own drum