This is a tricky periods. While everybody has strong views about what’s best, the foundation on which those plans are based is shifting, and far more dramatically than anyone anticipated. While, obviously, this is sudden and unsettling, be patient. When you’re looking back, you’ll regard those changes as timely breakthroughs.

Usually, you’re the first to devise solutions for even very tricky situations. However, currently you’re encountering one unexpected dilemma after another. Inevitably, you’re anxious. Soon you’ll exchange those feelings for a new enthusiasm. This is spurred by the recognition that these issues are linked, and so can be tackled together. By the week’s close, in fact, you’ll have come up with plans that work amazingly well. 

After several months of enforced patience, and being cornered into shedding certain longstanding but increasingly unrewarding arrangements, you’re looking at life from a fresh perspective. Tempting as it is to organise new plans for the present and the future, adopt an uncharacteristically easygoing approach. Explore whatever arises, get to know the people you encounter. But, also, keep your mind open and plans flexible. Why? By mid-May encounters and offers as thrilling as they are unexpected will make it clear how wise this strategy was.

Being ruled by the quick-thinking Mercury, you gather facts and turn them into lasting plans with amazing swiftness. Yet, as a sensible earth sign, you’ll be aware that before you can commit to anything truly far-reaching, you need to review what you’ve done and, even more, your future direction. This is wise. Take it slowly, aware that things are unlikely to come together until the courageous Mars moves into Virgo, on 29 July, to remain until mid-September. By then, both circumstances and your priorities for the future will be clear enough you can plunge in with enthusiasm and confidence. The questions you’ll be asking will also get you thinking about elements of your life you’ve regarded as unchanging. Once, they were. However, doors are opening, in ways as unexpected as, often, they’ll seem miraculous.