By Jonathan Cainer

Some believe there is a grey area around the time when one sign is ending and the next has yet to begin. Astrologers deny this. The signs are like rooms. People are either on one side of the door or the other. Yet you can see how the idea has come about if you consider the feeling we get at a time like this when 2014 is nearly over, and the tentacles of 2015 are calling us forward like seafarers’ sirens. Yet, all we can do, during this betwixt-and-between time, is make the most of every moment.

ARIES (March 21 – April 20)
The great popular theory behind a New Year celebration appears to go like this: first we have a wild evening during which we lose as much self-control as we dare then, as we sober up the next day, we summon back all our discipline. Then we proceed, not just to recover from our excesses but to curb all such extreme tendencies from that point forward. Hmmm, no wonder that doesn’t tend to work very well! You can change anything you want to change in 2015 next year but you may need to go at it gently.

TAURUS (April 21 – May 21)
How much is too much? That is perhaps, an unfair question to ask so soon after a festive feast. Yet it may also be a very apposite time. ‘Too much’ tends to come remarkably soon, after ‘just enough’. Indeed, often, it can be the very sense of satisfaction, inspired by the experience of ‘just enough’ that causes a person to lower their guard and allow a situation to go a little too far. The world is on holiday this week, even some of the usual sources of checks and balances are taking a break. Keep an eye on yourself!

GEMINI (May 22 – June 22)
Are you ready to hit the ground running in 2015? Are you keen to make your mark on the brand new year, show it who is boss and start as you mean to go on? Be careful. Ask yourself this. When a person builds up a real head of steam, what is the first thing they are likely to run out of? Your determination is admirable. Your motivation is impressive. If you can only manage to match all this with a realistic appraisal about how long a particular process is likely to take, and pace yourself accordingly, you may yet be truly unstoppable.

CANCER (June 23 – July 23)
‘Oh I wish it could be Christmas every day…’ So goes the song, so popular with those who programme radio shows and select piped music for supermarkets. Yet we don’t hear it much around now. It turns out that perhaps, secretly, we are all rather glad that the whole thing is trundling towards an end. Yet just before those garlands of glitter develop a life of their own and crawl back to the cupboard under the stairs, you have some extra gifts to bestow. Be generous with what remains of the spirit of the season this week.

LEO (July 24 – August 23)
For some, this is the season of hearth and home. For others, a celebration of backyard and barbecues. And for too many, it is a time when the various members of our family become more than just notional adjuncts to our lives, but real individuals with whom we must interact. If only we had remembered how greatly they annoyed us, we wouldn’t have bothered to rush to the shops to buy them all those presents. Yet this week, there is a chance to heal a wounded relationship and get 2015 off to a fine start.

VIRGO (August 24 – September 23)
Have you unwrapped enough presents, hugged enough aunties and eaten enough cake? What? Surely, the festive season so far hasn’t left you with an appetite for more? Be careful this week, lest you find yourself surrounded by others with unbounded enthusiasm for additional celebratory niceties. You have got some serious resolutions to work on, have you not? Actually, you may as well relax and greet a few more distant relatives. A safe, pleasing progression into 2015 appears to be astrologically assured.

LIBRA (September 24 – October 23)
How will you start the New Year? And how will you stop it, if once it gets going, you find it is not quite to your taste? Ought you not to be establishing boundaries and drawing delineations, letting the whole world know that even if you went along with far too much malarkey and palaver last year, you are not going to put up with a ridiculous pantomime in 2015. But when the time comes, with it will come all the cosmic support mechanisms that you require. Tread gently this week. You are automatically going in the right direction.

SCORPIO (October 24 – November 22)
As we approach New Year’s Eve, many of us start to think about the ways in which we intend to take control of our destinies and move our feet firmly away from the path of least resistance towards the golden road of wiser well-being. Your own enthusiasm to ascend to the meritocracy knows no bounds. But need you be quite so diligent? That seems unnecessary, especially when there are others more than happy to do the judging for you. Perhaps you should now resolve to be lighter on them… and on yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 – December 21)
How have you found the time to read this forecast? Aren’t you far too busy? The rest of the world may still think it’s Christmas but for Sagittarians, the return of the work ethic has come all too swiftly – if, indeed, it ever went away. On New Year’s Day, an opposition between Mars and Jupiter sets what may turn out to be the tone of much of the coming year. Get up, get out and get on with it. Remember, this week, that trouble has a strange way of undermining those who seek too keenly to banish it from their lives.

CAPRICORN (December 22 – January 20)
Many believe that the North Pole is quiet at this time of year. After filling the sleigh and setting Santa’s satnav, all those elves and helpers are collapsed in a state of satisfied exhaustion. Not so! This is when the complaints department gets really busy and attention must be paid to all who feel that the festive season brought them a bit of a raw deal. There is something that you would very much have liked to have been given for Christmas this year. Yet apparently it was impossible. It may take the whole of 2015, but you will get it yet.

AQUARIUS (January 21 – February 19)
It is not just shopkeepers who must sometimes wonder why there has to be such a frenzy of seasonal activity and whether the world would be better if the amount of commerce were evened out over the rest of the year. Those who might wish for a fairer distribution of goodwill and charity become similarly inclined to question the ways of the world. You would very much like to feel that 2015 could have fewer ups (and downs) and provide a somewhat smoother journey towards social and material equanimity. That may yet happen.

PISCES (February 20 – March 20)
Mars opposes Jupiter on New Year’s Day, thus the trumpets that will soon herald 2015, are already ringing loud in the ears of many a Piscean. The fanfare, indeed, is so loud, that you can hardly hear yourself think or speak. Next year, is your year. And there is no time like the present to step bravely forward and claim the opportunity that it holds forth for you. Try to remain just slightly cognisant, this week, of the way in which even the most strident soldiers must watch for stray banana skins beneath their marching feet.

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