You‘re feeling quite comfortable in your skin this week, and kicking some butt in your element both on the work and home fronts, and even a little on the hobby/creative fronts. You‘ve got a lot on your plate, but you wouldn‘t live your life any other way. You have a need to be needed, but you tend to act perturbed when people ask you for things because you‘d rather offer your help than be asked for it. Maybe it‘s that controlling/stubborn side of you that requires that, but this week, you‘ll be defiant towards authority figures, needing to get things done in your own time, on your own schedule and everyone will simply have to wait until you get to it. That bark might come off as a bite to a few people who will feel emotionally affected by your words, but as far as you‘re concerned, their reaction is their problem, not yours. Be careful how much you dish it out this week, you never know when you‘re going to come across someone who sends it right back and doesn‘t let your petulance fly with them. On Thursday, Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus and this is going to affect you for the next three weeks, making communication with everyone feel like you put roller skates on a moose and sent him out on a sheet of thin ice. Ultimately you‘re going to break the ice with a lot of people, but you‘re going to fall on your butt while doing it. On Friday, Venus moves into Taurus, and this is adding the need for sex into your weekend, but with everything else going on, there‘s a good chance that your mind will get in the way of your heart, and you won‘t say the compassionate things coming from your heart that could lead to intimacy with your partner. Ascendant: So much thin ice to walk on

Having the gift of gab and using it are two different things, and this week you‘re finding yourself stumbling over your words more than making any coherent sense. You don‘t want to admit that you‘re feeling a little off your game, but let‘s face it, when you‘re not as chipper and easy going as you usually are, people notice. Earlier in the week you‘re struggling to make heads or tails about a situation that‘s gotten somewhat out of hand. There‘s so many confusing elements to it, so many differences in opinion and so many potential consequences that you can‘t fathom making a decision. You like it when facts are presented, and everything is streamlined and easy to understand, you usually base your decisions off of knowing all the facts, but there‘s so much hearsay and gossip this week that you don‘t know what the best decision is anymore. That‘s how tangled up your week becomes and it doesn‘t look to be getting better over the weekend. On Thursday, Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus so for the love of everything in the world, don‘t make any decisions on this day. You‘ll end up flipping back and forth, changing your mind and making people upset. Taurus amplifies your organizational approach, so it‘ll help you to go over the details again, to see if you missed anything. On Friday, Venus moves into Taurus which despite the communication failures of the week have you wanting to connect with your partner on an intimate level but also being distracted by other things. We‘ll see if you ever get down to it, but it‘s not likely because of how often you wait things out.Ascendant: Not making a decision is a decision

You‘re feeling swept away by the strong tide and out into the open ocean as the week begins. You don‘t mean to be so all over the place, but it‘s like you can‘t get the simple adulting things done, but all the tougher work problems you seem to have no problem with solving. So you might have been unable to wear matching socks, or you picked an outfit that doesn‘t scream professional to your colleagues, but that sort of thing doesn‘t affect your intelligence or your expertise. People might just have to put up with you wearing business yoga pants to meetings, in some ways if you plan on attending a yoga class later, you‘re thinking ahead more than not being ready for your day. Try to look at it like balancing and multitasking your life to make it easier for yourself. And don‘t let anyone step on your unconventional ways, there‘s a method to your madness whether people choose to see it or not. On Thursday, Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus which isn‘t going to affect you a lot, as a Cancer, most people can‘t understand what you‘re talking about on a good day, you might find some coherence from the retrograde, and you might win some understanding within your work circles. That will go a long way when Mercury goes direct in a few weeks. On Friday, Venus moves into Taurus, which also doesn‘t affect you much. You‘re going to want to veg this week, stay in and watch movies, catch up on some creative projects you have on the go and ignore love because you don‘t have any energy to put into it.Ascendant: Look at multitasking your life

If there was a road map for life, you‘d spend most of your time breaking all the rules and rewriting them to suit your own philosophies. You simply cannot subscribe to the way other people think, speak, or do things. You have to come up with your unique set of values, traits, methods and ethics before you can truly conquer the world. Without that you feel like you‘re living life singing someone else‘s song, flying someone else‘s kite, and driving someone else‘s car. Unless life is GTA (Grand Theft Auto) you really shouldn‘t be driving anyone‘s car but your own. Don‘t make concessions just because you want to get something done and you have an idea and a plan on how it should all pan out. You need to do your thing the way you do it, because that‘s what people are going to gravitate towards. You don‘t have to become well known, you don‘t even need to have followers, but you do have to self-actualize so you don‘t end up becoming a lemming. On Thursday, Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus. This is going to make communication very tough, workwise, this Taurus energy is slow, thoughtful, organized, and your energy is like the fuse of a firework, you only have so much time before it goes off and creates pretty starbursts in the sky. You want results out of short term fuses, but this Taurus energy is going to keep putting out your fire. That‘s going to get old fast. On Friday, Venus moves into Taurus, turning your weekend into a disastrous lovefest. Venus in Taurus and Mars in retrograde in Sagittarius is making you want intimacy very badly, but then Mercury in retrograde in Taurus is making it impossible for you to explain what you want. So expect to be intimate, but don‘t expect it to be what you want.Ascendant: You do you

You really want a break but you don‘t know how to tell people that‘s what you need because these people rely on you. You‘re the one there first, the last to leave, the congeniality person at work (most of the time anyway), and the person everyone sometimes wonders about. I mean those rumors about you being a robot are still going around, but there‘s no proof, so it‘s largely a dead end. Nobody has the guts to see if you are battery operated or not, so there‘s that. It‘s pretty clear that you‘re the person everyone turns to when they need someone, and the person who butts their head in even when nobody is asking your opinion and gives your advice anyway. You won‘t be doing a lot of that this week, choosing instead to live and let live, to hold your tongue, to let people make their own decisions. It‘s not because you don‘t have great ideas, but because at some point you can‘t keep taking everyone under your wing and giving them all the answers. You have to sit back and trust that others got this. On Thursday, Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus, which is going to render all your advice useless as anything you say will fall on deaf ears anyway. The only thing you dislike more is people not listening to your advice and taking it seriously. On Friday, Venus moves into Taurus which is going to have you taking stock over the weekend, deciding if the relationships you‘re in are the ones you want to be in and if there‘s some changes or improvements you can be making to yourself that can make you and the people around you happier. Ascendant: No sense in giving advice to anyone

You want to get back in the groove of things, start living your best life, but the thing is, sometimes you can‘t focus, can‘t get comfortable, and it feels like there‘s some kind of string tugging you in another direction. You don‘t always know what that is, but the lack of focus and attention on the things you‘re supposed to be doing, and all the wanderlust you seem to have going on this week isn‘t making you reach or achieve your goals. Perhaps you need to rethink those goals, perhaps they‘re too rigid and stale for you to complete, and maybe you need to think about what success really means to you. What is a successful day in your opinion? What does it look like and feel like? Who‘s with you? What are you doing? And if the answers shock you, maybe that‘s exactly what you need to get out of this funk and get back to your normal, whatever your normal is (yeah I really did quote the Tylenol commercial). On Thursday, Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus which isn‘t going to let you shirk responsibilities, this is why it‘s imperative that you change your goals before you hit this retrograde, otherwise you‘ll spend three weeks feeling like a failure instead of looking Taurus in the face and saying "I‘m living life on my own terms." Without knowing where you‘re coming from you‘ll let outside forces decide for you and that‘s not going to make you feel awesome about yourself. On Friday, Venus moves into Taurus and that‘s adding passion and creativity to your weekend that‘s a much needed break from the week you‘ve had. Do some of the exploring your mind wants to do and don‘t be afraid. Ascendant: Live life your way

You‘d like to sit back and think that everyone has things handled, they don‘t really need you to point out the flaws in design, you want to trust that they see them. I think it‘s because deep down you don‘t always want to be the perceptive one, the one that sees the worst case scenarios, the bad omens, the signs that something isn‘t going to work. You‘d love to be a positive force that sees things going well and sometimes when things are genuinely going well that is what you see, but sadly, this week you see the people around you making mistakes even when you step back and let them make their own decisions. You hope that they see their own potential pitfalls, but as per the usual you‘re always the one coming to the rescue, sharing your opinion even if people don‘t want to hear it, because every time you don‘t share that opinion, you end up in a worse situation. You don‘t want that to happen, whereby your good intentions of being positive and believing in people blows up in your face. On Thursday, Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus which is exactly why you can‘t keep your opinions to yourself. Even if the worst doesn‘t happen you have to at least warn the people around you that the worst could happen. It‘s like a survival technique of self-preservation. Internally you‘re frustrated with yourself, and wonder why other people can‘t see things the way you do, especially when to you it‘s so blatant. Your vision is like those magic hidden picture things people usually have to squint to see because the colors blend, for you the colors never blend, the actual picture comes out clear as day. This simple makes you unique. On Friday, Venus moves into Taurus, and that will turn your weekend into a downer, mostly because you just don‘t have the energy to focus on the positive and you want to beat yourself up about the way you are. That‘s no fun.Ascendant: Not everyone sees the world the way you do.

You don‘t mean to spend the week being angry, but let‘s face it, you spend a lot of time learning the rules and regulations, you work very hard to stick within certain parameters and when you see someone breaking the rules and getting away with it, or when the rules change without warning, you get super pissed off at the unfairness of it all. That‘s sort of your main tune, fairness, harmony, everyone getting along and working together in perfect sync. It‘s when the balance is out of place that you can‘t help but feel like you‘re being shoved aside, or taken for granted, and all of this is coming to the forefront of your mind this week, except instead of doing the self-pity thing you‘re standing up for yourself, telling people who matter what you are worth, and not letting anyone walk all over you. Your version of angry outbursts don‘t tend to come off arrogant, but well-mannered and very assertive and poignant. People listen to you when you get passionately heated about something you believe in and for a while there‘s a power shift, where people look at you more for advice, direction, and inspiration. You‘re going to have to be prepared for the attention that comes with the outburst, and get ready to share your opinions, get ready to have opinions, they will be valued this week. On Thursday, Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus which is after your epic outburst. That‘s a really good thing because this retrograde has the spotlight on you, communication kind of flips around during retrogrades, so where people didn‘t listen to you before, they will over the next three weeks. I know it‘s a little bizarre, but live with it! You can affect some positive change. On Friday, Venus moves into Taurus and that‘s not going to matter as much as Mars being in Sagittarius, making you more daring in the bedroom, more in control of yourself and what you want out of life. Ascendant: Go for it!

You‘re not feeling particularly motivated to work this week, and I‘ll bet it‘s because your efforts are going unnoticed, you‘re feeling underappreciated or you‘re realizing there‘s more to life than the work you do. Either way, you have a tendency to not know what to do with yourself when you‘re not working, so expect to clean things, the house, the office, you might be avoiding certain things, but you won‘t stop being busy. You might head out and run some errands, be careful of being a bit of a shopaholic this week and spending too much money. True, you do need to update the wardrobe, replace that broken stapler or office chair, but you also need to stick to your budget and not let yourself get carried away. You‘re very good at differentiating between things you want and things you need and going after only the things you need. If you‘re hitting the IKEA for a few things, don‘t go overboard and buy a whole new bedroom set this week. You‘re going to end up regretting that later. On Thursday, Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus which is going to have you hyper focused on fixing everything you think is broken in your life. Be careful how you handle relationships over the next three weeks, you‘re bound to be too callous with your opinions, instead of tapping into your compassionate side. On Friday, Venus moves into Taurus and this makes for a creative weekend, allowing you to focus on your hobbies instead of the drone of work life and love life. You‘re bound to get lost in a really neat project that will make you happy. Ascendant: Life isn‘t all about the work you do

You‘re one angry little water bearer this weekend and if people aren‘t careful you‘re going to be throwing drinks in their faces. You have your limits, like everyone else you have those trip wires that sometimes turn you into the most dangerous thing in the jungle. You realize everyone is afraid of those silly lions, but what nobody realizes about you is that you‘re like those tiny poisonous frogs whose skin secretions will render your victim helpless. In other words, you‘re this hidden danger, you‘re the person nobody expects to go batshit crazy over a situation and put everyone in their place. Most people find you even tempered, easy going, and too likeable. Nobody believes that you‘ve got a backbone and a bite that will have even the sharpest of authoritarians on the rails. You‘re usually about giving advice, guiding people through examples of what not to do, but this week people have pushed your boundaries, and you‘re inconsolable until the problem is rectified. You can bet that swift action is going to happen. On Thursday, Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus which really has nothing to do with setting you off, but it is going to make explaining yourself a lot more passionate. You‘ll be stubborn about sticking to your goals so that people around you treat you right, and get things done in a way that makes you feel respected. On Friday, Venus moves into Taurus and this just compounds that stubborn passion. Expect to have a healthy debate, or to spend the weekend venting to friends or your partner who‘s willing to listen and let you get it all out. Sometimes you have to get angry to make things right.Ascendant: Sometimes anger is healthy

You feel a bit like a referee this week, having to douse fires with that Pisces logic, because it seems like nobody can get along, everyone is too hot tempered, and the only person who‘s still calm, cool and collected about their situation and place in life happens to be you. It‘s weird to think that this week you‘re the one with the level head, the good ideas, the plans that work, the organizational skills and the work ethic that everyone needs to follow. So you might need to put away your dreams of going to Narnia for a visit this week, put the books down and forget about the movies and the D&D meet up and actually help people out. You‘re surprisingly good at this when you apply yourself to the real world. It‘s like all those tactics you‘ve learned from living in your own little world have helped you to figure out the best ways to solve problems between people. In a lot of ways this empowers you, and gives you a sense of identity you don‘t usually feel in the real world. You like the idea of being in control, and influencing other people in positive ways. On Thursday, Mercury goes retrograde in Taurus which because of the wonky communication issues, is going to make people look to you for help and guidance. Be prepared to share your wisdom and creativity with those closes to you. It‘s not often that you open up like this, but it‘s almost like you‘re being called to go on an epic quest and you have to heed the call. On Friday, Venus moves into Taurus, and this is where the quest continues, into a weekend full of you reconnecting with family, friends and partners, feeling like you‘re where you belong in the world, and enjoying every minute of it. Ascendant: Wear those stripes with pride