You‘re not ready for the peppermint latte‘s, you‘re still not done with the pumpkin spice. You‘re demanding a recall, someone turn back the clocks (we did that already) or something to bring back all the comfort of your pumpkin spiced latte. You don‘t like change and this week is chock full of things you wish weren‘t true, like cutbacks at work, downgrades in pay, new people you don‘t like, old people you didn‘t like to begin with being forced to work with you, etc. On Wednesday Mercury moves into Capricorn giving you the first kick in the ass you need in order to stop acting like a whiny three-year-old and deal with the hand you‘ve been given. You can turn these lemons into lemonade if you can acquire the right ingredients for the job. Part of that might mean turning up the honey, and being nice to people you‘d like to smack upside the head. Sometimes it‘s about being the bigger person and taking the high road. Your personal life isn‘t much better, the need to hold your tongue is a theme this week. The new moon hits on Friday, leaving your weekend up to chance. Your weekend is brought to you by the Wheel of Fortune, it could go either way. Ascendant: There‘s no shortage of a need to change yourself this week.

You‘re coming down from an emotionally charged weekend when you have to be expected to put the personal baggage away and jump into the proverbial fire. You‘re hoping you don‘t get fried alive or end up being the guy in the red shirt (Star Trek Reference) because you actually like your job and working it really helps you do things like pay bills and shower your partner with lavish, unnecessary gifts. You realize that without a job you‘ll be back to struggling and you don‘t want this to be the theme in your life. Come Wednesday you‘ve put the snarky attitude in the bottom desk drawer and you‘re back into work mode, ready to be the most valuable person at the company. You know you might not win any additional perks or rewards, but it‘s not always about that. You are just thankful you have a job that you‘re good at. On the home front there‘s some avoidance happening, which is honestly a good thing for both of you. Come the weekend and the new moon you‘re mellowing out, allowing yourself to see that you need to have a work/home life balance in order to feel truly successful. Ascendant: It‘s that sharp tongue that gets you in trouble the most

Some weeks are made for practicality and hard tasks you can‘t wrap your brain around. This week you‘re feeling the pull of tenacity, forcing you to do whatever you have to put your mind to. It‘s not always easy being the chameleon, having to flip from one task to the next, having to make people trust you when you haven‘t always been a trustworthy person. You‘re doing your best to atone for the mistakes you‘ve made both with people you neglected at work, thinking you didn‘t need them and realizing that their skills are actually necessary. On the home front you‘re in the doghouse with a certain person who had paled in comparison to various other shiny things, but you‘re seeking the comfort only they can provide. It‘s quite a different ball of wax when Mercury enters Capricorn, forcing you to be more conscientious about the people who are in your life for fundamental reasons like finances. Come the weekend you‘re facing another new moon which has you shifting into another side of your layered personality, compiling the mess inside your brain and attempting to present the best version of yourself. Ascendant: Put your best foot forward

You don‘t like having to get sick in order to stop working, but hey, when people won‘t stop taking advantage of you a little rhino virus and a few days hugging the vitamin C, Nyquil and Neo Citran never hurt anyone. You seriously need a day off, or two or three of them and you‘re aware that you‘re running yourself ragged and that it‘s only going to result in a full blown bronchitis, because you‘re just susceptible to things like that. You hope that once you‘re finished working your loved ones will get the point and do the house work themselves, because you‘re finished with pulling doubles, one at the job you get paid for and one for the job nobody thanks you for. Wednesday brings Mercury in Capricorn and you‘re learning how to be smarter so you can accomplish everything. It involves some light reverse psychology, and a little white lie, but it‘s better if you have a chance to rest and relax. Come the new moon on the weekend you‘re feeling a little more like your usual self, ready to visit the other world inside your head and dream about things you have to look forward to like real vacations on sandy beaches with turquoise/clear waters. Ascendant: Do what you have to do to delegate the work.

Some days you‘re not good at leaving the baggage at home. Good or bad you have an honest streak in you this week that has you airing your laundry (clean or dirty) to anyone that will listen to you. Some people take you as a braggart over the good things that seem to only happen to you, and others are jealous of the way you can conduct your life like it‘s a symphony in perfect harmony. Come Wednesday Mercury hits Capricorn and you shut off the verbal diarrhea like a switch going off. You become cautious about what you say to people because you know anything can come back to haunt you. During those intimate personal moments, you‘re cherishing the time you have with your partner, and making the most of the time alone. You want them to feel like you‘re not all work, all the time, even though sometimes you get roped into projects that take up more of your personal life than you‘re willing to give. When the new moon hits on Friday you‘re ready to make work a thing that lasts only during certain hours of the week and the rest of the time you want to dedicate to things like experiencing life, enjoying hobbies, going on dates with your partner that doesn‘t always constitute dinner and a movie. You want to expand your horizons and you believe now is the time to do that.Ascendant: It‘s never a bad time to learn something new.

If you thought you spent the entire weekend working on company projects instead of doing things like taking out the garage and fixing the porch or mowing the lawn yep, that‘s what you did. I wouldn‘t be surprised if you missed a family dinner or shopping day in the midst of living in your own little world but it‘s Monday and you‘re buzzing with ideas and readiness for the work ahead. Your ideas are always taken with a grain of salt because they often need to be workshopped before they‘re ready to be set into motion. You‘ll likely face your adversaries on Wednesday when Mercury hits Capricorn and if the crazy things inside your brain seem logical and doable (to be fair you have a lot of ideas that range on the scale of impossible) then your company will get you working for real. You‘ll be back to having some kind of a life on the home front Wednesday night when you‘ve either struck out or landed the project and you can shift out of work mode into life and family mode. This becomes a trend as the new moon hits on Friday and you go from improving the work front to learning about all the little things you missed on the home front. There are issues you have to deal with in a nonjudgmental way which won‘t be an easy task this weekend. Take a lot of deep breaths, and remember to be fair.Ascendant: It never fails, turn your back for five seconds and all hell breaks loose.

It‘s not too often that Monday resembles a foreign planet but you‘re not even sure you‘re on Earth anymore. That‘s what happens when you let the things you‘ve had bottled up explode. You‘ll be attempting to slide back into your usual routine but it‘s going to be hard to face people because you‘re not sure if the verbal diarrhea is over with or if there are co-workers and friends who might get the tail end of hurricane Libra. By Wednesday Mercury is moving into Capricorn, this doesn‘t do a lot to help you, it makes you more judgmental and if you thought you were done telling people off, think again. Before the new moon on the weekend you‘ve got one more person that needs a piece of your mind. Thankfully it‘s over by the weekend and you‘re taking time to pull closer the people who actually mean something to you all the while looking for validation for your outburst. Ascendant: Healthy piece of advice? Don‘t look for justification.

Even though you don‘t always like other people, you are constantly fascinated by the choices they make in life. You are in pure observation mode this week, marveling at the little nuances between co-workers, the things people say to you at the post office and grocery store. You want to know more about how people interpret the personality you project, almost making the world your mirror. You want to know if they see a grumpy, jaded, judgmental catalyst, or a grounded, down to earth, benevolent, humanitarian. It‘s sometimes important for you to get outside input on the type of person you‘re projecting. Come Wednesday Mercury moved into Capricorn giving you a methodical approach to your work. If you completed projects slowly before, expect that production time to be cut in half. You‘ll be over conscientious about your work and hyper-focused on tasks that don‘t necessarily take a lot of thought. For instance, you may stare at piles of dirty dishes for an hour attempting to figure the most efficient way to clean them before actually cleaning them. Come the weekend you‘re in introspection mode, preferring time alone over outings and get togethers. Ascendant: Sometimes the methodology matters.

You‘re living on a dose of immense confidence as this week begins, not allowing anyone to walk all over you, treat you like garbage or criticize the things you‘re doing with your life. You‘re ready to pour yourself into the job you‘re doing and make the best of it, all the while managing a much more stress free personal life. The best thing about this week is that you‘re making your thoughts and feelings known to everyone who will listen to you. If they don‘t want to hear you, then you know those people aren‘t worth your time. Come Wednesday Mercury in Capricorn makes you a little more careful about who you disclose information to. There‘s always one person who ruins it for everyone else, and when you hear things you‘ve said in confidence being repeated, you‘re done telling "just anybody" your business. You‘ll work to be smarter about it in the future. The new moon hits on Friday, giving you a weekend to think about what else needs to change before you can be in your happy zone again.Ascendant: Sometimes you have to watch what you say

You‘re always trying to move on to bigger and better things, whether it‘s a new challenging project, a job change, or various other things in life that motivate you and make you feel like you‘re achieving and giving something back to the world. That being said, this week is one where you hunker down and get to work, more than dream big about the next thing. You‘ll be in the trenches of accomplishing something new, and come Wednesday when Mercury moves into Capricorn you‘ll be experiencing frustration. It‘s all about working out those kinks within your plans, not letting easy tasks seem harder due to over analyzing, it‘s sometimes about stepping back and seeing the bigger picture for just that project, not your overall goal for world domination. Little, baby steps this week, and when we hit the new moon on Friday you‘re ready to slow down a little and let life take you by the horns. I feel like making a bad joke here about how in Soviet Russia, hamburger bites you, it‘s an internet meme, look it up. The point is that this weekend you‘re going to let life lead you and see where that takes you. It might be nice giving up control for a change.Ascendant: Sometimes you have to work out the kinks.

You‘re all kinds of bah humbug this week and if you don‘t watch it, three ghosts are going to show up at your house and take you on a mysterious journey to your past, present, and future self. Or you‘ll end up being forced to watch that movie and reflect upon your own life in relation to it. I know how much you love intellectual pursuits, and sometimes exploring your own thought processes is the most interesting thing you can do this week. Don‘t forget to do regular people things though like go to work, and feed the dog. I understand this whole holiday aversion, the way it kind of makes you want to throw up in your mouth just a little because while you‘re trying so hard to be normal, you also kind of like the magic. By the end of the week some of you have taken up the "if I can‘t beat 'em, join 'em" motto while the others of you are still resisting. Resistance is futile, tiny little dancing Santas will find you no matter where you shop I promise. Unless you‘re shopping in Kazakhstan in which case I don‘t know what will find you. Your weekend is filled with either joy because you‘ve embraced the holiday spirit, or bitterness because you haven‘t. Happiness is a choice, which one will you make?Ascendant: Resistance is futile, you will comply

Someone might want to take your dial and turn down the happy just a notch. You‘re like all of Disney World crammed into one tiny body and while I can respect that we have an entire universe within us, your co-workers will not enjoy your overly chipper attitude. This week isn‘t going to be easy work wise, you‘ve got a lot on your plate that requires thinking, and you can‘t smooth things over with a spoonful of sugar. You‘re going to have to take out those big boy pants and learn to negotiate like the best of them. It‘ll be hard, but being passionate in life is something you‘re good at, and as long as you don‘t secretly want to get bitten by a werewolf so you can turn into one and rip your boss‘s face off, you should be able to channel that passion into something feasible. Wednesday brings Mercury in Capricorn giving you a bit more diplomacy in your arguments, while the new moon on Friday turns your weekend into a dose of reality. You‘ll survive it. Ascendant: Sometimes you have to use your angry voice