By Jonathan Cainer

As a glorious Full Moon shines down on us all, Mars aligns antagonistically with Pluto and Venus opposes Neptune. This is a week for dreamers. It is also a week for rebels, eccentrics and iconoclasts. It is a time for all who can see the possibility of positive change to communicate their ideas to those who might be normally inclined to resist such suggestions. Is it therefore, also, a time of potential conflict? Not if those who most passionately seek to stimulate a move towards change are wise enough to persist gently and delicately. And that can yet occur.

ARIES (March 21 – April 20)
There is really nothing wrong with beating a retreat. Far better, surely, to step back from the fray and live to fight another day than to charge on recklessly into the jaws of failure. Where is the shame in stepping back or stepping down? Unless, that is, you are actually doing the right thing and if you carry on, you are likely to emerge triumphant. If that’s the case, why stop? Don’t let emotion or pride colour your judgement this week, and resist unnecessary negativity, too. The odds are in your favour. Only just but that’s enough!

TAURUS (April 21 – May 21)
If you’ve really got something to say, you need not shout it from the rooftops in order to make sure that it is properly heard. Nor need you bellow into the ear of someone who is, apparently, not listening. If the vision is compelling, if the message is true, if the aspiration is justified, there are more subtle ways and means to attract attention and gain progress. Remember, this week, that a few gentle gestures, reflecting true sincerity, are worth far more than a thousand dramatic expressions. What’s right will come right.

GEMINI (May 22 – June 22)
When it seems as if someone doesn’t properly grasp a complex situation, we may say that they have, ‘got hold of the wrong end of the stick.’ How can we avoid doing that, even inadvertently? Perhaps every time we pick up a stick, we should just keep twirling it in the air like a baton at the front of a marching band. If you are not hanging on tightly to that stick, it doesn’t matter so much how you hold it. Keep an incomplete picture in your mind’s eye this week. As if by magic, you’ll end up with the perfect understanding.

CANCER (June 23 – July 23)
All too often, we overlook the obvious. We get so caught up in what we can’t do, that we forget about what we can. When we allow frustration to infuriate us, we cloud our consciousness. That’s when we say goodbye to clarity and hello to confusion. From then on, even the easiest things begin to seem difficult. How do we turn all that around? Simply by wanting to. If you seek an awakening and a cheerful change in your situation, you will find it makes its way to you this week, simply because you have reached out for it.

LEO (July 24 – August 23)
How irritated do you want to become? How much of your precious time and energy do you want to invest in a situation that is only likely to get worse, the more you put into it. There is an old saying, ‘When you are in a hole, stop digging’. That’s especially true if, by standing on the end of that same spade, you may be able to reach the top of the hole and pull yourself out. The old and the familiar will bring you no surprises this week. But the new and unexplored may yet supply you with an experience of great delight.

VIRGO (August 24 – September 23)
It is easy to make comparisons but not always so easy to make them stick. All similes, metaphors and efforts to measure one thing against another, must eventually unravel. Yet still, we cannot resist the urge to weigh, balance and assess. This is probably most counter-productive when it comes to our efforts to see ourselves as better or worse than other people. Or to see why one situation is like (or unlike) another. During this week of a Full Moon in your opposite sign take what you’ve got at face value and appreciate it.

LIBRA (September 24 – October 23)
Sometimes, it is hard to know whether the pain of an injury is decreasing or you are simply getting used to it. As with physical stress, so with emotional discomfort. Over time we develop a tolerance. We find that we can take more of what we could once stand only a small amount of. Do you suspect that this is what’s happening this week for you? Not so. You are not seeing more clearly because your eyes are adapting to the lack of light in the tunnel. The explanation is far more inspiring. Daylight.

SCORPIO (October 24 – November 22)
A learning curve is always steep till you grasp the essence of the issue you are trying to understand. Or till a little switch flicks on in the back of your brain. This week, you can reveal the answer to a puzzling question. You just need to deepen your appreciation of a surprisingly simple situation. What’s really going on? You can’t see it till you let go of a fear. You won’t make progress while you’re imagining a more complex explanation than the one that truly applies. Coming this week for you? A eureka moment that alters everything!

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 – December 21)
You did not come to this planet so that you could ‘fit in’ with what was already happening. You were not born to conform. You came here to question convention, stimulate thought, explore alternatives and participate in a process of evolution. Some people are less than delighted by your current refusal to accept what’s expected. You must do your best to be kind, considerate, gentle and sensitive in the way that you explain yourself; but you can’t just meekly go along with something you need to stand against.

CAPRICORN (December 22 – January 20)
Where’s your permit? Who has given you a licence? Is it up to date? Is it stamped and certified? You’ve got a lot of confidence. What if we were to stop and ask you a few tricky questions? Would you bat them back with ready answers? Or might you crumble and collapse? Perhaps you fear that you’re vulnerable in one key area. But we all have our weak spots. Where it counts, you’re clear now. What you know, you know beyond all doubt. Print your own certificate. And allow yourself, this week, to stride out in style.

AQUARIUS (January 21 – February 19)
Some people just can’t bear to be criticised. Others seemingly revel in every opportunity that they can be disagreed with. Or so, at least, we must assume from the way that they forever seem to be doing or saying things that incur opprobrium. You, though, are not looking for an argument this week. If you’re engaged in one, it is because you’re seeing something that is being accepted too easily when it surely needs more thought and attention. Keep asking questions. Eventually, you’ll awaken the right awareness in others.

PISCES (February 20 – March 20)
You wouldn’t set out on a long drive if you were feeling really tired. You wouldn’t choose to hold a sensitive conversation if you were ravenously hungry. If you were angry with someone, but you knew that you ought to avoid a row, you would wait until you had calmed down. None of this means that you aren’t capable of driving, negotiating or explaining. But there are moments when such things come easily and times when they are tougher. This week’s Full Moon urges you to do now only what you feel you are ready to do.

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