You already know there‘s nearly no point in stepping foot into work this week but if you have to you‘ll endure it for the few days before the New Year‘s festivities begin. Regardless of the fact that Mercury is in Capricorn until the 1st, which usually makes business communication smooth and simple, you know that nobody is interested in negotiating anything more than a great sale over the next few days. I suppose if you‘re lucky enough to work in the retail industry you‘ll be busier than a beaver, but for the rest of you it‘s a great week to take it easy, and enjoy the paycheque that comes from doing little to nothing. Your New Year‘s plans aren‘t set in stone either, by the weekend you‘re taking the best opportunity that comes your way, and leaving your options open so you can drift from one party to the next. Expect to hit at least two different places, and keep your spirits high, you never know what might happen. Ascendant: What is this work thing you speak of?

You‘re pretty determined to make the most of the short work week, mostly because you don‘t care about holidays and things that throw off the work balance you have going on. Throughout the week you‘re experiencing varied energy bursts, some of which come from Mercury in Capricorn and others which are instigated by Mars in Libra, forcing you to pay attention to the nitty gritty details. Venus moves into Sagittarius on the 30th which amplifies your plans to make it a New Year‘s to remember. You know when it‘s time to put work away and pull out the personal ideas that will take your weekend from a two to a ten. Sagittarius helps you to be creative and thoughtful at the same time, which even if you don‘t have a partner is a good thing, you‘ll be treating your friends to a night on the town come the weekend, and making as many memorable moments as possible. Try not to get too caught up in the details, and when one of your friends embarrasses themselves, don‘t let it ruin the whole weekend. Ascendant: Don‘t turn mole hills into mountains.

You know as well as I do that you‘re not going to work this week. You‘re calling in sick, or making up some excuse because you‘re in dire need of retail therapy. Whether that involves being somewhat practical and buying those end of season priced riding lawn mowers, or if it‘s just about shoes, you need to scour every mall, department store and for some of you thrift shop to find the things that will accent your life. Mars in Libra is giving you this eye for beauty you‘re unaccustomed to, while Venus in Sagittarius is making sure you budget accordingly. I mean I could probably drop a couple hundred bucks on POP Vinyl figures too but you should exercise some form of restraint. When it comes to the dresses, or that snow blower that‘s 70% off however, all bets are off. You can pay those credit cards off later. As for the New Year‘s weekend, you‘re not sure what you want to do, some part of you is fascinated by chestnuts roasting on an open fire, with hot chocolate and possibly a good bottle of champagne where others of you want the biggest, craziest party you can find. Whatever you choose to do, you‘ll enjoy yourself, throwing caution to the wind until the clock strikes midnight. And then you might regret all the debt you have to climb out of in the next year. Oops.Ascendant: Party like you‘re gonna die young?

You‘ve got this terrible conundrum going on this week. On the one hand you want peace and quiet, you want work to be slow, you want to be able to go home, feed your cat, dog, fish, rabbit, hamster, etc. and you want to binge watch shows you haven‘t caught up on, or anything that‘s new on Netflix (maybe some Netflix and chill *wink, wink*) but you also want to brave the stores and the craziness. Part of that has to do with the fact you‘re always sick of hearing everyone you know talk about the great deals they got while you were being a chronic homebody and the other thing is, you want to treat and pamper yourself. By midweek you‘re likely going to gain the courage to go out there and do your worst. For some of you it‘s a quick and painless process and for others of you it‘s as torturous as you assumed, can‘t find something that looks flattering on you, can‘t figure out where things are, and the directionlessness really irks you. Come the weekend you‘re not sure you want a New Year‘s festivity. You‘re most likely going to stay home, watch a ball drop on TV, catch up with some of your online friends and maybe make yourself something yummy. *shrugs* It‘s all about creature comforts. Ascendant: If you could hole up in a cabin in the woods without it being the beginning of a horror movie.

Do you work? Do you play? Do you shop? You‘re feeling a little lost this week, unsure what to do with yourself because yeah part of you wants to work but that‘s dependent on other people who want to work, you might need to wait for others to do their part before you can do yours. This leaves you wanting to do things other than sit around and wait for work. You might occupy yourself with Netflix or running errands during work hours, or taking an afternoon off. You don‘t see the point unless there‘s something to actually do. Wasting your energy is not something you‘re willing to do. Come the long weekend you‘ve hit the land of introspection. You might go to the party you were invited to, but your mind is a million miles away, thinking about all the things you have to do, your status in life, what you like and don‘t like about your life, what things you want to change. You‘re making this mental check list of goals to work on but they‘re not resolutions, just things you need to think about. Ascendant: Don‘t be too hard on yourself, think about the good things as well.

Once again you are left holding the bag, doing all the last minute work, seeing that even the smaller maintenance items have been neglected so you‘re stuck scrubbing toilets, doing dishes, and attempting to organize many things before taking off at the end of the day. You know there‘s not a lot of real work to be done, which irks you but the fact that there‘s always something to clean or organized keeps you busy. You‘re sometimes too dedicated to what you do, and that has a tendency to make people think you‘re a robot. You‘ll be making alternate plans to go out in the evenings and see friends who seem to constantly need your advice about their own work environments. You like being the person people go to, because having to express your concerns about their life without them asking is kind of exhausting. Come the weekend you‘re focused on what‘s important, immediate family, maybe an outing with friends but not on New Year‘s Eve itself, and you‘re feeling pretty neutral about another year coming.Ascendant: You seriously need some mistletoe to spice up your week.

You‘re like the energizer bunny of communication this week, from all the online communication to your phone blowing up every ten seconds to how effective and efficient you are at work, it‘s like you spend almost every minute of the day this week communicating. Mars in Libra seems to have given you the gift of gab where Mercury in Capricorn (our usual planet of communication) is helping you keep all the details between people straight, you know so you don‘t accidentally text something to Joe that was meant for Sally and that you remember what George said about going to the grocery store later for stamps. It‘s nice that so many people want you involved in their life, and sometimes it‘s exhausting but mostly it‘s nice. You‘ve already sorted out your plans for the weekend, which was really some epic feat that could win you a spot on one of those Got Talent shows, because you have somehow managed to figure out how to make everyone in your life happy all at the same time, while also making yourself happy. You might not sleep and you might explode from consuming too much food, but you‘ll get through it like a champ.Ascendant: You can sleep when you‘re dead.

You spend most of your week paranoid about the possibility of terrorist attacks. You realize your work place probably won‘t be hit but you don‘t know if you can take the emotional turmoil of another attack that tears the world apart. You know it‘s only a matter of time before it hits close to home for your personally, if it hasn‘t already, and you can‘t take the feelings of intense hatred for the people doing this and then intense sorrow for the people it‘s affecting. Your work week is a little skewed to begin with, so being paranoid and emotional seems to be a better use of your time anyway. Scouring internet sources looking for trouble however is not a good use of your time. If it‘s important enough, the news will find you. In the meantime, it‘s a far better use of your time to remind your friends to be safe during New Year‘s, and to possibly volunteer to be the designated driver, even if that means having to make a few trips to a few different parties to make sure your friends get home safely. You can do your part to make the world a better place right? Ascendant: You want to be the hero when you can be, right?

Remember when Shia LeBouf stuck a paper bag over his head with the message, "I am not famous" on it? Minus the message you‘d like to be wearing a paper bag this week. You sometimes wonder why it‘s perfectly okay for other people to leave work early or skip out on their shift, but the moment you try to so much as leave even fifteen minutes early so you don‘t miss the bank closing, everyone is flipping out at you. You‘d like to comment on the unfairness in the universe, and why whenever the spotlight is on you it‘s because you dripped sauce down your shirt, but really, you don‘t need this. Constantly having to take control to either stand up for yourself so you‘re noticed in the first place, or having to tell people they‘re treating you with double standards is exhausting. Why can‘t people be decent to you in the first place? You might be taking a personal weekend, forget New Year‘s, if people can‘t treat you the way you want to be treated, you‘re not going to put yourself into a potentially disastrous situation. Ascendant: Sometimes avoidance is the best medicine.

You‘re likely working straight through the week, even if you‘re just getting some of the long term items out of the way so you can start the year with a clean slate, and no back logs. Sure, you do give yourself those back logs most of the time, but let‘s face it, you‘ll feel better if things are done. Some of you want to change up your routine a bit this week and do something fun and corny, like glow bowling, something completely off your usual motivations, whereas some of you want to continue running on that hamster wheel, coming to bed super late, not paying much attention to the great things you need to hang onto in your personal life. The long weekend for you is about too much rest, a chance to not work at all, and to have a movie marathon to end all movie marathons. You know you‘re probably the only person who will want to sit through the nine hours of bonus footage with director commentary, but if this is what you love, then this is what you should do with your time. Don‘t let anyone tell you otherwise. Ascendant: Don‘t be afraid to tell people want you want to do.

You‘re having a weird week of failure and disappointments, but you don‘t even think it‘s your fault, it‘s just a series of unfortunate events. I wouldn‘t be surprised if you‘re experiencing all kinds of bad luck from vehicle issues, to offspring emergencies to partner arguments, to getting to work only to be given very odd instructions from your boss that don‘t at all fit your job description. If you wanted to say you lived in the Twilight Zone for a week this would be the one. You cannot catch a break but you don‘t know what you did to incur the wrath of karma. Your weekend plans are going to change thirty times before settling on something you‘re not even sure will work. It would be easier if people would be straight with you but you seem to be this wrench in everyone‘s plans, or the single cloud overhead that won‘t stop raining on you, and anyone that comes into contact with you. By Saturday you‘ve decided that you might need some extra sleep, and that might help you find a way out of Wonderland. You certainly want to come back to your regularly scheduled life. Ascendant: All this weirdness can hitchhike across the galaxy as far as you‘re concerned.

Slaving away is the best way to describe your week. It‘s always so hard to transition from times when the world seemed like a magical place to this depressive, normal, uninteresting place. You can‘t help but be a bit sad that people can‘t be the way they are during the holidays throughout the whole year. You enjoy the fantastical decorations and the spirit of giving, and you really want the world to resemble the dreamland you‘ve created in your mind, and sometimes it nearly gets there, but then it‘s all taken away again. So you‘re in the doldrums at work, avoiding going shopping because you know the decorations will be gone, and you don‘t want to be depressed at how abandoned and barren the world looks. The weekend is another story altogether because you can submerge yourself into a fantastical party land for one night, find yourself a good place to dance, take a close friend who enjoys the sorts of things you do and still relive the magic before it goes away for a bleak January. Ascendant: It‘s all about clinging to the dream.