If you thought you could sneak by all coy and stealth, think again, this week whether you like it or not, the love bug is going to hit you. True, some of you are all bah humbug about it, getting your grumpy pants on the moment someone mentions romantic weekend plans, but then the rest of you are all hugs and kisses, spreading love to everyone in the office, being the center of attention and letting everyone know it‘s okay to celebrate love in all its forms, which yeah, reminds us a bit of Gay Pride week but at least where I live that happens in June. Either way you‘re two sides of a coin and sometimes you‘re on the negative side, and other times you‘re on the positive. Earlier in the week you just want to get some work done and you don‘t care about your personal life or anyone else‘s at all. By the weekend, Mercury is moving into Aquarius which is like a slap in the face because at least when Mercury was in Capricorn some of you were having a good time. Mercury in Aquarius just means the rest of you happy Aries are heading to the dark side to join the bah humbug brooders. Sometimes you can‘t be an adult in situations that require you to be one, so you‘d rather be alone than do anything with anyone.Ascendant: And if you think anger wasn‘t going to be a problem.

Remember those big plans you had brewing in your mind? You‘re building them up even bigger and better, with more pizazz and fireworks than last week. You might have done some early celebrating over the weekend, put a few little things in motion but the big event is this weekend. You can‘t even focus on work you‘re so excited, brainstorming and getting things right. And even those of you who are perpetually single and married to your work, you‘re bound to do something crazy and romantic this week that normally you wouldn‘t ever dream of. This might involve contacting an ex and telling them how you really felt, or showing up and talking to said ex, or sending them some kind of gift you think is amazing in the mail. For those of you with partners, you‘ll be on pins and needles all week, doing your best to bite your tongue because you just want everything to be as perfect in reality as it is in your wild imagination. Earlier in the week you‘re feeling unfocused and methodical about work, slogging through things slowly as though you‘re made of molasses. By the end of the week however, you‘re so amped up and anxious you‘re like a little ticking time bomb ready to go off. And then Mercury moves into Aquarius on Saturday and fires you up with a dose of wisdom, which for some of you will take the edge off and make you think about the potential pitfalls and for others of you will be like Yoda bursting your balloon. Ascendant: Stay off the diamond trails this weekend.

This week would be a lot easier to handle if it wasn‘t being brought to you by the constellations Capricorn, Aquarius and Scorpio. This combo unfortunately has you wanting to crawl into a hole and disappear, hibernate, build a rocket to Pluto, anything so you can avoid having to go another week dealing with this dose of Capricorn energy. It hurts your brain to feel so worthless, useless, and incompetent. The worst part is that nothing and nobody around you is making you feel this way, it‘s the planetary positions causing you to beat yourself up because the energy combination is one that clashes with who you are. There‘s no room for creativity or free thinking, or individuality this week, you have to hunker down, get projects done and out there, you have to work like you‘ve never worked before, you can‘t take time to even think about your social life, you‘ve got people relying on you. There‘s really no fun in that and earlier in the week you have to drag yourself to work. By midweek you‘re feeling like you‘d like to strangle some of the people you work with, but by Saturday, Mercury moves into Aquarius and that little dose of intelligent thought is all you need to pull yourself out of the massively grounded energies of Capricorn. You hate it when gravity pulls you down. Ascendant: No I‘m not addressing the weekend, get over it.

If you feel like you‘re already tired of being an adult by Monday, I completely understand. I don‘t want to go to work either, so we have something in common. The issue is, most of you have to go to work, pay the bills, do nice things for yourself, for other people close to you, all that stuff. I know it‘s sometimes hard, but endure it for the hours you must and then come home, collapse, read a book, watch some television and zone out for a while. There‘s no shame in having some personal down time, for not being a go getter or an over achiever or anything . . . there‘s no shame in saying you‘ve done all you want to do in life and now you want to relax. There‘s also no shame in not having lofty pipe dreams, or fantasies that don‘t involve glory or power. If your fantasies are about kissing the person you love in a public place, or having someone tell you they love you, that‘s all you need in life. It doesn‘t have to get more complicated than that. Mercury in Capricorn often fills us with insecurities because they really are the achievers in the world, and you don‘t have to follow suit. It‘s not like you anyway. This weekend you‘ll be focused on what‘s really important, and then Mercury moves into Aquarius and the pressure eases up. Ascendant: Do something nice for you.

You‘re also experiencing a two-fold sort of week, where some of you are fighting the good fight, trying to remain positive in the face of adversity, whereas the rest of you are reacting to your short fuse and unable to carry on conversations without losing your cool. The latter isn‘t a side of Leo most of you like talking about, but it happens when too much grounded energy causes you to face stressful situations head on at the wrong times. You need time to assess a situation and cool down before you can properly react, or communicate, sometimes without that buffer zone you‘re sometimes seen as a loose cannon. Earlier in the week you‘re being triggered by a lot of little, petty antics of the people around you, some of you are able to let these go, shelving them for a private emotional outburst, whereas the rest of you are irked and show it in the way you become snappy and irritable. Towards the end of the week you may have a full meltdown, which depending on who it‘s in the presence of may have further consequences. Just hope it doesn‘t end up on youtube, or worse, go viral. The weekend offers some much needed reprieve with Mercury moving into Aquarius. For those of you resisting the pull of the dark side this helps you see the logic in the situation and calm down. For the rest of you, Aquarius gives you a sharper tongue and more colorful insults. Ascendant: Some of you can‘t win.

You‘re doing things more because you feel you have to and less because you actually want to this week. There‘s a difference in going through the motions and working hard on the things you‘re passionate about. Sometimes you have to ask yourself where you lost the gumshoe and the drive you used to have, where your motivation and inspiration went. You‘re going to have a lot of questions in your mind about what you should be doing with your life and whether the job you have is the big picture plan you had for yourself when the year kicked off. Earlier in the week you may feel the need to go back to the drawing board and redefine your core values, once you have those in place you may find that writing a personal manifesto might help you regain some of the ambition you‘ve lost. By the end of the week you‘re not feeling rejuvenated, but you‘re getting the job done and feeling less overworked and underpaid about it. You know that change might be inevitable but you‘re willing to go through it if it means good things are on the horizon. Over the weekend Mercury moves into Aquarius which helps you regain some inspiration. Ascendant: Trust that good things will come.

One of the reasons you always have so many projects on the go is because of your lack of focus, or the inability to focus, and the need to butterfly from one thing to the next. This doesn‘t necessarily mean that nothing gets done in retrospect it means that everything gets done, but all in due time. It might take a little longer since you work on things in a cyclical pattern, but for the most part you‘re not about wasting your time. Your mind simply can‘t concentrate on one thing for long periods and this tactic is a coping mechanism for you. It‘s far easier for you to work on many things at once than one at a time because that has a tendency to sap your strength, stamina and dedication. Earlier in the week you‘re feeling the flurry of things to complete, but at the same time whenever you try to talk to someone about it Mercury in Capricorn makes you feel like you‘re accomplishing nothing. It might seem like there‘s a lot more at stake if you don‘t at least produce results on something. And sometimes that‘s simply not possible. Sometimes the genius in you doesn‘t emerge until you‘re absolutely ready, until the culmination of more than one project is complete. Come the end of the week you‘re ready to deliver partial results or at least talk about where you‘re at in a positive light. Mercury moves into Aquarius on Saturday which makes you take a step back when it comes to your personal life. You need the time to observe and even discuss things before you decide this is exactly what you want. Ascendant: Focus on the positive things

When you‘re backed into a corner all you can do is put your defense shields up and hope the villains move on without detecting your presence. Sure, you‘re used to playing the villain in other people‘s lives whether you intend to or not, but there are still others out there who threaten the very fabric upon which Scorpio exists. You need change to be consistent and calculated, you need people to constantly be working towards better themselves and the world they live in. The problem is that conventional society ruins any chance we have at living in a peaceful society. Days where progress can happen are forgone for holidays and long weekends, which all add up in the end to time when people aren‘t doing the things that drive society to a common, positive goal. Earlier in the week you‘d prefer to work straight through Valentine‘s Day. You‘d prefer not to bother with the cheesy chocolates or the romantic gestures. You want to focus more on bettering yourself and those around you. By the end of the week you‘re frustrated and when Mercury moves into Aquarius you want to take someone‘s head off. You won‘t, opting for a logical approach, but deep down you‘re burning. Ascendant: When there‘s nothing else to burn, set yourself on fire.

If it wasn‘t already clear that Mercury and Venus living in Capricorn this week is making people a lot weirder than they need to be, add your little slice of constellation into it and you‘re feeling like your passive, stay behind the scenes and not get into the middle of the fray attitude isn‘t helping you at all. Things are going to get heated, and you‘re going to act immature about it and that‘s not going to help you on the work front or the home front. At work it‘s a small spat with a coworker over dedication to the job, which frankly you feel you are but to some modest amount. That coworker is a workaholic and a showoff anyway. The home front is where it stings because it‘s family related, and sometimes you can‘t take back harsh words. As a humanitarian you‘re always trying to unite people and be peaceful, so knowing that you can deliver a blow like that even with words is something people don‘t always expect. Sometimes people forget you‘re the faithful Centaur with the bow and arrow, or at least your constellation is. Those arrows can sometimes go directly to the heart, and the people you say harsh things to end up feeling hurt and broken because of the way you dole out the truth. Fortunately, you‘re not messing up your romantic relationship this week but you are tiptoeing around that topic because of the holiday. Ascendant: Don‘t tiptoe just let it all out.

It‘s no secret you want to be master of all things, but can you just lay off the awesome for this week? We know you kick ass and take names on a regular basis, but seeing that normal, down to earth side of your Capricornian nature would be a nice thing. You‘ve got all the time in the world to be an over achiever, to crack the whip, to do the job better than anyone has ever done it before, we don‘t need you showing up everyone else this week. And I get it, you‘re doing it because this week makes you insecure. You‘re so good when it comes to working, that when it comes to romance, or personal close friendships even, you get weird and it becomes difficult for you to have normal conversations. You over think and over analyze and sometimes over do things and then you don‘t let people come to you, sometimes people don‘t want to try with you because you‘ve already done such a fantastic job that they feel inferior to you. Earlier this week you want to be King of the castle (or Queen) and come the end of it you know you have some work to do on yourself personally. Mercury moves into Aquarius on Saturday which has you detaching from romantic entanglements in order to see them from a new perspective. Whatever you do, don‘t analyze yourself out of a good thing.Ascendant: Don‘t think too much, makes you look haggard.

If everyone would stop looking at you like you know what you‘re doing that would be awesome. Second step would be to stop asking for or expecting your advice or opinion on every little thing. When it comes to your job that‘s a perfectly reasonable reaction, but sometimes you don‘t even know what‘s going on, and you‘d like to borrow a clue from time to time. Step three would be for people to stop assuming you know the secrets of the universe, have life all figured out and that you‘re on track to achieving your destiny or enlightenment or ascension. The truth is, your life is a mess and nobody seems to see it because you‘re very good at concealing the parts of it that suck so that nobody sees your flaws. Just because they can‘t see the flaws doesn‘t mean they aren‘t there. Earlier in the week you‘re opening up a little about your foibles to people who seem to idolize you, and by the end of the week you‘re certain that you‘re no longer on anyone‘s pedestal. When it comes to the weekend, Mercury is moving into Aquarius which helps you assert yourself in meaningful conversations, some of which actually entertain you. Ascendant: Nobody has it all figured out, not even you.

Being alone is often more preferable to being around people, especially when you can‘t get the types of interactions out of people that you desire and crave. It throws a whole wrench into your planning and makes you crabby for two or three days afterwards. This week you‘re only interested in dealing with the people you have to deal with due to things like work and possibly grocery shopping. If you can avoid talking to your loved ones about anything, and let the superficial, corporate generated holiday pass you without being scathed by its tentacles that would be great. Who knows you might decide to have a horror movie marathon and if some likeminded people wanted to join you and not talk through the movie you might let them do that. Earlier in the week you‘re doing your best to put up with people, even though it‘s like nails on a chalkboard. By the end of the week you‘re so exhausted you might just sleep for 48 hours, but then Mercury moves into Aquarius and you miss fantastic interaction with people which means if they‘re the right person and it‘s the right activity they‘re proposing you might entertain it for the weekend. It better not involve hearts, or roses, or teddy bears, or singing telegrams though. There‘s a line that better not be crossed. Ascendant: Sometimes you have to state your boundaries.